studies. (les etudes).
Today my sister and jie fu came to pray for me for A levels. It was much needed and I think with God by my side I will get back to studying and doing the best that I can in studying. I guess He answered my call for help yesterday. Thanks to the Lord!
Spent the past hour practising Ryan Cabrera's True. The pre-chorus is really tough -.-"
Here's some funnies:
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Aujourd'hui ma soeur et son mari ont prie pour mes etudes et les examens niveaux A. C'etait vraiment necessaire et je crois que, avec Dieu a mon cote, j'irais retrouver ma motivation pour l'etudier, et faire mon mieux (soit disant tout ce qui est possible) pour l'examen. Je suppose qu'il a repondu a mes prieres d'hier. Merci a Dieu!
J'ai passe la derniere heure en pratiquant True par Ryan Cabrera. La "pre-chorus" est vraiment difficile... -.-"
Voici quelques blagues.
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勉強 (haha this is really funny! this is the japanese term for studies!)今日、姉と夫がＡレベルのことを祈ってくれた。それは、大変ありがたいのだった。神様に守られているなら俺の勉強に戻れることになり、一生懸命にがんばらなきゃ。昨日助けを求めることに応じたかも～ 神様、ありがとう！
この一時間で「True」というライアン・カブレラの曲を練習していた。コーラス前のところが本当に難しいな！
笑わせるもの：
losing motivation. (manquant la motivation).
whoots copy and paste suddenly works on this computer.
are our blogs for sad things? for unpleasant things? for laid-back, breathy proclamations of the simple things in life that make us happy? i don't know haha. the above pretty much sums up my friend's blogs.
listening to all the old songs that weren't deleted with the reformat of my hard disk. Spent the post-6 p.m. hours on waiting for dinner (il piccolo was disappointing today... food took forever to come and it was TOO much. Like I said do not underestimate the power of a small tupperware of pasta.) since we missed the time camping at the canteen to be the first in the queue -- and the pain of standing in the back when in the past we laughed and munched on our food while everyone was still queuing was too much too bear. Yea without jiening/lynette no reminder sia. And then after dinner gossip a bit with Jon and Hwee. Then when Hwee was making out with the DS me and Jon started doing our repertoire from Tapestry and some other songs like OGL song... Which was really nice.
Mugging... I don't know. Hwee Leong has planted the seed of sloth in my head. He says that his smart friend told him that after prelims ended the friend stopped wanting to study because no matter how much they study they will get A. The thought, the philosophy, is so temptingly simple that I'm close to taking it up, even if I can't say it applies to me all that well. But damn, I wish I were that smart, that A's were just another wipe of the ass.
And yes, I need to say this: To YOU who might have heard talk about me crushing you (yes, you who are a commando) I need to tell you this: that I do not crush you. I simply appreciate the fact that you have a body to die for and I would gladly die if I could lie in my coffin looking like that. That's all. Hrrrgh.
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Le copier-coller marche soudain a cet ordinateur whoots.
est-ce nos blogs pour les choses tristes? pour les experience desagreables? pour les proclamations lachees en voix voilee des choses simple dans la vie que nous aimons? je ne sais pas haha. Ci-dessus decrivent les blogues de mes amis.
je suis en train d'ecouter les chansons vieilles qui ne sont pas supprimer apres le reformater de mon disque dur. J'ai passe mes heures apres 18 heures en attendant pour le diner (aujourd'hui il piccolo etait vraiment decevant... Le repas n'est que arrive apres tres longtemps et il y'en a TROP. comme j'ai dit ne sous-estimez pas le pouvoir d'une petite morceau de pate.) Puisqu'on avais manque l'occasion de rester dans la cantine pour etre les premiers dans la queue -- et je ne peux pas supporter la douleur d'etre debout a la fin de la queue tandis qu'auparavant nous riions et nous mangeons pendant que les autres etaient encore dans la queue. Ouais sans Jiening/Lynette il n'y a pas personne pour me rappeler. Et apres ca, j'ai bavarde avec Jon et Hwee. Et puis quand Hwee commence a embrasser le DS Jon et moi nous revisitions notre repertoire du "TAPESTRY" et aussi quelques d'autres, par example la OGL song. C'etait vraiment genial.
Les etudes... Je ne sais pas. Hwee Leong a seme la semence de la paresse dans ma tete. Il m'a dit que l'un de ses amis intelligentes a dit que des que les prelims sont finis, cet ami avait perdu tout sa motivation pour etudier, parce qu'il gagne un A sans tenir compte du niveau de ses etudes. Cette philosophie est si simple que je voudrais prendre cette position, meme si elle ne s'applique pas vraiment a moi. Mais putain merde, j'espere que je sois aussi intelligent, que les niveaux As soient tellement facile.
ah ouais et je dois dire ca: si vous avez entendu parler que j'ai un beguin pour vous (oui vous qui serait un commando), il me faut vous dire que non, je n'en ai pas. Tout simplement, j'apprecie ton corps cisele. C'est tout. Hrrgh.
full moon (la pleine lune).
I've wanted to blog about it for about 3 days, everyday before I unlock the gate I glance at the beautiful beautiful moon which lightly highlights the strips of clouds that surround it in the sky. It's the kind of sky you imagine to see when you are in the middle of an African savannah at night... Wow sometimes it's beautiful things like this that convince me "only a God can create something so beautiful". Yea and I like the way the moonlight narrowly shines through my window onto the ground... Such a rare sight.
Scandals were the topic of the day (or at least for the last few days of my life). Not very fun, especially with those that I really just want to be friends with, and be really good friends at that. Are we at an age where we see closeness/niceness/appreciation as a yearning for a relationship (or worse, something further than that)? Arrgh. And Hwee Leong rule #1: if you think that someone has got a body you would kill to have, don't talk about it, lest you be thought to be crushing him.
Here's a wonderful song, it's called Belle by Garou and some others (haha I guess Garou is the most famous) but it's in french, so the real lyrics will be in the translation and the translation is here ><
BelleBeautiful
It's a word invented for her
When she dances and when she unleashes her body
A bird that extends her wings to fly
Then I feel hell opening itself below my feet
I rest my eyes on her flamenco dress
What good will it do to pray to Notre Dame
Who is the one to throw the first pebble at her (huh? but oh well.)
He does not deserve to be alive
Oh Lucifer!
Let me, only for once, run my fingers through the hair of Esmeralda...
Beautiful
Is she the devil incarnated
To turn my eyes away from eternal God
Who had placed in my being this carnal desire
To prevent me from looking towards the sky
She carries in her the original sin
Desiring her makes me a criminal
She, who seems to be a girl of joy, a girl of nothing,
Seems to suddenly carry the cross of humankind
Oh Notre Dame!
Let me, only for once, open the door to the garden of Esmeralda...
Beautiful
Despite her big black eyes that cast a spell on you
The lady is she still a virgin?
When her movements make me see mountains and wonders
Under her skirt in shades of the rainbow
My lady love leads me to be unfaithful
Before you, almost led to the altar
Who is the man who will turn his eyes from her
To avoid becoming a pillar of salt
Oh Fleur-de-Lys!
I am not a man of faith
I am going to pluck the flower of love of Esmeralda's...
Haha yep enjoy. Should do a style article soon! Taiwan trip is coming quite exciting.
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J'ai voulu publier un billet sur ca depuis il y a 3 jours, chaque nuit avant d'ouvrir la porte chez moi, je jetais une oeil a la lune super belle, qui donne un reflet aux nuages environnantes dans le ciel. C'est le type du ciel qu'on imagine a voir dans le milieu d'une savane afrique au soir... Quelquefois, les choses vraiments belles comme ca me disent que "personne sauf Dieu peut creer tout ca". Et j'aime aussi beaucoup la facon avec laquelle les rayons de lune trouvent une voie d'atteindre mon sol, quelle spectacle rare.
Le sujet d'aujourd'hui c'etait les scandales (ou au moins pour ma vie recente). Ca ne m'amuse pas, surtout a l'egard de ceux avec qui je voudrais etre amis, les tres bonnes amis au fait. Est-ce qu'on est a un age ou on prenait la concerne/l'appreciation/intimite pour le desir d'etre ensemble avec lui/elle? Arrgh. Et regle numero 1 de Hwee Leong: si vous avez un garcon avec une visage ou un corps formidable, n'en parlez pas de crainte de donne l'impression d'avoir un beguin pour lui.
Voila une chanson excellente, appellee Belle performee par Garou, Patric et quelqu'un d'autre (haha je crois que Garou est la plus populaire parmi les 3). Mais c'est en francais, donc alors les paroles francaises sont ici et la traduction ici ><
Belle Belle
C'est un mon qu'on dirait invente pour elle
Quand elle danse et elle met son corps a jour
Tel un oiseau qui etend ses ailes pour s'envoler
Alors je sens l'enfer s'ouvrir sous mes pieds
Quel est celui qui lui jettera la premiere pierre
Celui-la ne merite pas d'etre sur terre
O Lucifer!
Laisse-moi rien qu'une fois
Glisser mes doigts dans les cheveux d'Esmeralda
Belle
Est-ce le diable qui s'est incarne en elle
Pour detourner mes yeux du Dieu eternel
Qui a mis dans mon etre ce desir charnel
Pour m'empecher de regarder vers le ciel
Elle porte en elle le peche originel
La desirer fait-il de moi un criminel
Celle qu'on prenait pour une fille de joie, une fille de rien
Semble soudain porter la croix du genre humain
O Notre Dame!
Laisse-moi rien qu'une fois
Pousser la porte du jardin d'Esmeralda
Belle
Malgre ses grands yeux noirs qui vous ensorcellent
La demoiselle est-elle encore pucelle?
Quand ses mouvements me font voir monts et merveilles
Sous son jupon aux couleurs de l'arc-en-ciel
Ma dulcinee laisse-moi vous etre infidele
Avant de vous avoir mene jusqu'a l'autel
Quel est l'homme qui detournerait son regard d'elle
Sous peine d'etre change en statue de sel
O Fleur-de-Lys!
Je ne suis pas homme de foi
J'irai cueillir la fleur d'amour d'Esmeralda
Je pose mes yeux sur sa robe de gitane
A quoi me sert encore de prier Notre Dame
Quel est celui qui lui jettera la premiere pierre
Celui-la ne merite pas d'etre sur terre
O Lucifer!
Laisse-moi rien qu'une fois
Glisser mes doigts dans les cheveux d'Esmeralda
Haha amusez-vous. Je dois bientot publier un billet de style! La voyage au Taiwan est passionnant.
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just in time. (toute juste a l'heure).
whoots just in time to watch Les Bleus, but I missed the starting 2 minutes or something. It's a really great show, I laugh so much when I listen to them talk. The lines are great, the storylines of each episode are great. And the overall storylines of the main characters are excellent too. I'm not talking about depth or intellect, I'm saying it makes for excellent excellent entertainment. Like today there's a new capitaine, and apparently he keeps pimping the hot girl amongst the girls, and last episode one of the other rookies and that girl started kissing, so he's damn jealous. Haha and Laporte the gay guy kept staring at the new capitaine lol it's super funny.
However, it's entertainment I don't believe I deserve considering that today has been a rather dismal show of mugging. But I will mug as I watch, right after this post (with its translation).
Had to rush my shower because I was back late taking an alternative decision to take 156 instead of the shorter 157 or 93. (OMG le commissaire just told laporte that he is in love with laporte's mama!) But it was nice to be able to catch up a little with Hwee... Haha really laugh like siao like last time.
(and the hot girl almost kissed the new capitaine! and moreno just came and interrupted it LOL too funny)
Maybe I'll post more later, I can't multi-task.
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whoots (c'est ca en francais aussi? mdr) juste toute a temps pour regarder les bleus, mais j'ai rate les premieres quelques minutes. C'est une emission vraiment formidable, je rire beaucoup quand je les ecoute. Le texte est aussi genial, et l'histoire de chaque episode est genial. Et l'histoire generale des caracteres sont aussi tres formidable. Je ne parle pas du fondeur de l'intellect, je parle du divertissement vraiment excellent. Comme aujourd'hui il y a un nouveau capitaine, et apparamment il aime la fille la plus chaude dans l'emission, et dans le dernier episode Moreno. l'un des autres bleus, l'aurait baise (c'est-a-dire avec ses levres, pas avec son bite), donc aujourd'hui il est jaloux. Haha et Laporte l'homme homosexuel ne cesse de regarder le capitaine nouveau haha c'est trop drole.
Pourtant, c'est un divertissement que, je crois, je ne merite pas considerant qu'aujourd'hui etais un jour d'etudes lamentable. Mais j'etuderai apres ce billet (avec sa traduction).
Je ne continue pas je dois etudier haha desole a ceux qui prendre temps de lire cette partie.
tired for no good reason (fatigue sans raison valable).
I was really tired today I don't know why. It may be because I dispensed a large of my energy to figuring out that wretched question in the math TYS and another sizable amount to the subsequent madness after finding out that there was a typo and that I couldn't have ever figured it out. I spent 3 hours on that I think. I am very very behind on my schedule as of today. I don't know I have a strong feeling that I will not finish by A's. What to do right now I've decided to dao the prelim papers and do TYS only. Good for the morale and cover my basics VERY WELL before I move on to the tough stuff.
Sorry to everyone today, was being slightly cranky. Mandy, you are welcome and welcome again (since you'll see your name once again surrounded by french words now).
I'm pretty motivated to start working out again (yes, I've tried to gain some of them mooskles before) for a few reasons:
1. Brother Weiyuan said we (as in the boys) need to exercise in this period of mugging so that we don't die in NS.
2. My dad said I was too skinny to be a soldier -.-"
3. I want to at least be halfway to that guy in my last style post.
4. I don't want to die in NS.
5. Running helps me to sing better for some reason.
Yea... OK so motivate me ya!
Alright to translation. I really hope that blogging won't become a chore for me because of the translation.
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J'etais vraiment fatigue aujourd'hui et je ne sais pas pourquoi. Peut-etre c'est parce que j'ai dispense la plupart de mon energie a trouver la solution pour la question damnees dans le TYS de mathematiques, et aussi une autre partie signifiant subsequemment a me faire damner apres avoir me rendu compte qu'on a fait une erreur dans la question et que je n'avais jamais quand meme trouve la solution. J'y ai passe 3 heures je crois. J'ai un sentiment fort que je ne finirai pas ma revision pour les niveaux As. Ce que je fais maintenant, j'ai decide, est d'ignorer les copies des examens preliminaires, ne faisant que le TYS. Bonne pour le morale et aussi a penser a tous les bases avant de continuer aux questions difficiles.
Desole a tout le monde d'avoir une tete drole aujourd'hui. Mandy, je te dis encore "de rien", et "de rien" encore (puisque tu verras ton nom parmi ces mots francais encore).
Je suis maintenant plus motivee de m'entrainer (oui, j'ai jadis essayer de prendre du poids) pour quelques raisons:
1. Frere Weiyuan m'a dit qu'il faut que nous (soit disant les garcons en generale) commencions de s'entrainer afin d'eviter la mort dans la service nationale.
2. Mon pere a dit que je ne suis pas assez muscle d'etre un soldat -.-"
3. Au moins, j'espere devenir un demi du homme dans mon dernier billet de style.
4. Je ne veux pas faire face a la mort dans la service nationale.
5. La course a pied m'aide a chanter mieux pour quelque raison.
Alors a la traduction! J'espere vraiment que la publication de mes billets ne deviennent jamais une tache lourde.
a change (un changement).
I've decided to implement a new rule here, that will take effect at least for the next three weeks leading up to the French A's. I will be typing here in English, then followed by a translation into French. I don't know if I can manage it, but here goes nothing. It (hopefully) will help me to improve my written language, and also act as an incentive to be short and sweet.
Alright another big change that happened recently: RI(JC). Hahaha I don't know what to say. I ought to ask my HC friends what they felt when HCJC and HCS (wait was it called that I can't even remember) merged to form HCI. Whatever it sure feels weird to me, and I wonder, what about the RGS girls? Won't they be feeling left out when they step into RJC? Coupled with the pretty inexplicable renovation decisions that have been effectuated in school recently (e.g. the staff area aka "Raffles Zoo" for a brief period today), I'm not sure I'm taking these changes all too well.
Thank you Mandy for being my first "appreciator" of the style section of my site! I hope I'll see some for my food section too lol.
Wow this works. I don't even feel like posting about the day anymore.
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J'ai decide de mettre en place une nouvelle regle ici qui prendra effet au moins pour les 3 semaines amenant aux niveaux As de francais. Je taperai en anglais, et suite suivi d'une traduction en Francais. Je ne sais pas si je reussirai a le faire, mais ah bon je vais l'essayer. Ca me permet, avec un peu de chance, d'ameliorer ma langue ecrite, et aussi d'etre plus court dans mes billets de blog.
Alors un autre changement qui est arrivee recemment: RI(JC). mdr je ne sais pas ce que je dois dire. je devrais demander a mes amis de Hwach de leurs sentiments quand HCJC et HCS (attendez, c'est ca le nom ouais? -.-") ont fusionne. En tout cas, ca fait drole a mon avis, et je me demande, et les filles de RGS? Ressentent-pas elles exclues des qu'elles entrent dans la JC? Allie aux renovations inexplicable partout dans l'ecole (ex. la partie de la cantine consacree aux enseignants alias Le Zoo pour une period bref aujourd'hui), je ne suis pas sur je les supporte bien ou pas.
Merci a Mandy d'etre ma premiere <
> de la section du style sur mon site! J'espere voir ceux pour la section de la cuisine.
Ah ca marche. Je n'ai pas meme envie de poster les evenements de ma journee aujourd'hui.
mug mug mug.
haha my blog post titles are getting less and less relevant to the actual blog posts.
OK, stretch out your palm. Fingers stretched out. Go on, just do it.
I just had a chicken drumstick the size of that, plus a chicken wing and a cup of melamine. I am so full right now I think I will die from shock of the nightmares I will have later.
Speaking about dreams, I must tell you about the dream I had this morning that caused me to wake late. It was really odd, and even odder that I can't even remember the most important detail: the person who I was married to (at age 18, I think). I'm pretty sure it's someone I know in this life, but I can't remember how we knew each other, how we decided to marry each other, and stuff like that. All I remember is one scene where I'm hugging the baby and there's someone else on my lap (a guy, I think -.-") and we are all shouting at her and the baby's crying cuz she's holding a knife running against my knee -- though this may be my maid whipping me with some cloth to wake me up, i'm prone to that sort of reality-illusion link -- and next we are in some part of town, shopping, and I'm holding the baby, and being the hen-pecked husband that listens faithfully to the wife's instructions and waits for her quietly to finish her shopping. Rarr it was bad the overarching feeling throughout this brief period of holy matrimony was regret. Bachelorhood
may after all be a good idea. I think I need to read Sigmund Freud soon.
I admit that after discovering blogs like Nick's and Ngiam's, I'm reminded of my old blogger self, albeit slightly, just slightly more on the suicidal side. Haha it's quite a startling reminder of where I came from when I was back in secondary school.... I reflected a lot more, thought about life a lot more, made many life-changing decisions that I probably didn't have the maturity at the time to make... And I admit that I wanted to start that again. But I'm not sure if I like this me. Sometimes I feel like this me is shallow and ignorant to sentiments; people used to talk to me about problems, now I feel like I don't have the capacity to absorb all these heavy thoughts and words in my skinny frame. And sometimes I feel like I like this me, because I'm so much happier as life gets simpler in my mind: less caring about what others think of me, getting step-by-step closer to God and discovering Him in my every day life, learning to love my parents and overlook their short-comings, etc. It's like a maturity that tells me that immaturity is the way to go, and with this immaturity I've learnt to let go of all the binds that tied me down to my emotion. When was the last time I cried? Perhaps I should try to post some of those thoughtful entries just to get back in touch with the tender side of me. Must look for inspiration like hole-punching, or mugging, or typing, or filing- wait damn that's taken.
Having said that I am still quite bewildered by Ngiam's uncanny ability to inject so much emotion into the economy of words that he bothers to use. His blog posts get under the skin.
New speakers whoots, and quite cheap too 15 dollars (philips beat creative in that aspect). What I don't understand is how something about 15 times the size of a handphone earpiece can cost half the price of the latter. And sometimes I'm exasperated by the people in our workforce:
Me: [taking out my spoiled earpiece to show the heavily-foundationed salesgirl smsing] Um do you have this?
Foundation Girl: Uh yes. [stares]
Me: Uh well could I take a look at it?
I think she must have heard my snort of wtf. And she told me that if I used Visa I had to pay 3% more. I think she's just scamming my ass and I gave her the "uh-ok-I'll-let-you-have-your-way-since-i-don't-really-know-how-to-give-a-box-to-your-face
-and-get-away-with-it" look as she swiped my card.
College applications are confounding to say the least. Weiyuan said I don't want to do mugging more than these forms but trust me, I do. Tomorrow I'm going to ask Mr. Lee about college apps to be done next year haha wish me luck. Cuz if he says cannot then US is pretty much of the list for me. I'm so lost with all these UNI apps.
Mugging update: not bad. Created a NEW plan, sad to say though that within the first day of it's creation I've already fallen behind by a Math Paper 1. But researching Education for redaction was fun... Very interesting. Wanted to post emo entry about me and my dad (emo meaning emotionally charged, not sad) and a style icon of the week, but i better sleep I've got a Chem paper 3 tomorrow -.-". Maybe next time.
FOOD REVIEW: Il Piccolo @ Toa Payoh/Bradell
Rating: 8/10
Location: Near Botak Jones near RJC, behind SPH
Haha my first review. Looks horrible but oh well let's see how far this idea of mine goes. Does anyone know how to like group the posts into some segments like how some sites put under "Videos" or "Pictures" for those blog entries with those?
Yep Il Piccolo. A small stall almost like a normal hawker centre one, except that the eatery itself is filled with people drawn to the large portions and sumptious food of.... Botak Jones, 2 stalls to the left of Il Piccolo. But there's no reason to overlook Il Piccolo, since it serves authentic Italian food (where authentic means delicious, since I haven't tried real italian cuisine before). At least not as much as Kim Chi La La or Ah Gang Seafood, stalls coined "sad" by Auyong as he remarked their desolate shopfront.
The best thing about this stall, and this specially for our friends in school slogging for As who might want something other than the daily exciting RPA menu for dinner, is that they deliver. The food arrives in less than 10 minutes, which means you get it hot. And don't be deceived by the small portion: pasta can make you really full, especially if it's couple with their delicious cream-based sauces. The number can be easily found on their website, or ask me for it.
Today I had the Quatro Formaggi, which is penne very generously doused in a rich sauce that boasted of 4 different kinds of cheese and cream. I may not have been able to tell what cheeses these were, but I definitely tasted the cheese. It may be a personal liking, but for some reason such sauces (think Al Funghi at Pastamania) keeps whetting my appetite for more with every mouth I take -- something like Pringles. And this one was very well done, no discounts on the cheesiness.
Friends (namely Jiening and Lynette) had chicken and beef lasagne, which was touted by Jiening as "even better than my mother". In my context I can't really gauge how nice it is, but usually if a food is better than your mum's it's pretty awesome.
Pizza was good too... If I have to pick one good thing about the pizza is the soft crust. Not overcooked, and once again the toppings were generous, with the pepperoni just the right degree of softness. Not hard or brittle. Garnishing blended well together (though huge chunks of onion and olives may not be everyone's favorite).
Do try it, it's not that ex either. Be prepared to pay about 7 dollars for your pasta (ranges between 5 to 8 thereabouts) and remember to get the pizza to share (costs about 8 dollars for a 7" one). If you're a sucker for taste, then this is definitely value for money.
my rather warm and humid day.
Wow first up thanks to weizhong for fixing my photo problem haha sometimes I am really blown away by people who can make sense of all the words and letters and punctuations in computer things... I've always dreamed be able to be like those hackers you see in movies, the screen scrolling up at 10 lines a second and his eyes just looking through all of it and figuring out what the right thing to type is... That's actually how I envisioned the guy who hacked Mr. Andrew Lim's account haha. Anyway, thanks weizhong -- but how did you find my blog anyway -.-"?
Today was unbelievably warm. It's getting warmer I swear. And decided to wear my stupid green Open House shirt that allows zero air to pass through. Rarr. Haha but our dinner was great will put up a review for Il Piccolo next!
Haha brother.
Hmm. Wow nothing to type le. Other mundane stuff that i scared I type then a certain someone (name start with J, end with IENING) will say I talking to myself :( The stuff I have to go through to do a blog.
Today was quiitee productive I think except I decided to take the route everyone is taking and do the TYSs, but I'm not sure if I will benefit. All I know is I'm zooming quite fast through it and I hope it will be as easy for the real thing... Can anyone tell me?
Oh and you know the weather being so hot, I think somma the milk must have gotten in between the crevices in the floorboards... You can imagine how it smells like. Not the right smell to greet a sticky, tired, hoarse boy anyway.
Not sure how many has seen this:
Backstroke of the West The only thing that I can sit in front of the com myself and laugh till tears come to my eyes.
cool menshealth style article.
wow here's a really cool look I wished I could pull off:
But it'll prob take me another 5 years of working out intensively at the gym and about 5 operations to look half as good. Haha self-esteem issues.
But do check it out, menshealth.com does have several great articles, but some of them are very US specific or do not expand enough in my area of interest.
ARRGH.
Alright firstly, when I turned on my cranky computer, the bloody keyboard wasn't working, and so i bent over to try and jiggle the connection, and when i bent back i knocked my f***ing glass of milk onto the floor. It got every bloody where and such a bitch to clean up. Got onto the hardest places to reach and even splashed on my posters. I am sooo pissed off.
But today, was fun. Like Yelin said, it was a good get together, it meaning the Wan Joo belated birthday celebration at Fish & Co. AMK Hub. For some reason I'm not sure why. Maybe because I was dressed in something non-school related? Maybe I was really enjoying myself without thinking of studying (which unfortunately isn't the most apt of attitudes)? I don't know. But yea it was really fun! Haha Hwee was talking about hypothetical marriage situations, and the other side was talking about families, and how we matured to love our families, or parents in particular. Wow and enjoyed talking to Yelin he truly is one of a kind ("then cannot make suit la" was his reply -.-"), I don't think i'll ever meet someone like him again. But got this anal woman kept looking at us from her table with disapproving glares... I guess she's just jealous. Luckily no repeat of the Curry Udon incident in Central the last time, where the manager complained to the principal that we were being very noisy, leading to an announcement one morning during assembly to behave ourselves in public in our uniforms... >< Good luck Jiening for LNAT.
Haha yes and "Futility" has got to be the highlight of the day. Here's what happened:
Zhiying: So how does this work?
Auyong: Oh you just press the grey button there.
Zhiying: This one? (proceeds to press it)
Auyong: NOOO --
And his mouth, gaped in the shape of the NO he screamed, became immortalised in a polaroid picture, a disembodied mouth that belonged to only the bottom half of a face. We put it in a frame, and we had this crazy idea to put it up with the Art Exhibition pieces (which were really very cool, great job Ben I loved yours!). And Auyong decided to stay behind and introduce people to his piece we entitled "Futility".
"Yea this is a piece about the futility of human life, human endeavours. For example, this subject is screaming out for something to happen, or rather to stop something from happening, and yet we must admit that there no longer is a chance since he is forever trapped in this moment of the deed happening or not happening and we can never hear his scream. The lack of identity of this picture signifies the lack of identity that many of us live our lives with. The surrounding white space brings a sense of claustrophobia that enshrouds our lives, the despair, the emptiness of our lives... This is our best piece of art, we believe, after our last piece 2 years ago about The Impossibility of Death in the Minds of the Living, where the medium we used was formaldehyde. The piece is starting at 800 dollars. Personally, whenever I look at the picture, I can't help but tear a little at the strong emotional messages it brings across." Alright haha good job zhiying, auyong and ye wei. My role was... agent agent lol. When we left we were at a highest bid of 10 000 dollars, and the next highest at 70cents by Lorraine. Thank you for the support!
That wasn't our only artistic venture of the day. I had the genius flash to make a giant art attack out of the ubiquitous (lol John Cheo and Auyong congratulations!) and numerous supplies we have lying around in the room. We also dug up all the random cloth which were lying outside in the council canteen lol, and we made a GIANT ART ATTACK in the form of a Jewish, Aladdin-esque, closet alcoholic, polka-dot wearing, feathered calvin klein underwear worn on the outside wearing, Elvis haired boyfriend named Abu for Wan Joo's birthday. Haha it was funny go see jiening or mandy's blog (wait does she have) for the pictures! It's hilarious.
Farewell assembly was today. Was fun, except for some items in the programme (ask me personally for the details) which were exasperating/disappointing. Jon Yee was.... rofl to say the least. Kept kar-chiauing me. My only grouse is that 6R was completely segregated, and we never even got any picture up in the opening montage cuz we never sent any. -.-" Rarr. Even the after event photo-taking had only a handful of people present. Which sucks. Oh well. 6R was enjoyable while it lasted... And there are definitely memories I can take away from it (like our cycling adventure!). Maybe we can meet up more often eh?
Oh wells but mugging wise still bad. Marked like 3/4 of my physics paper I did 2 days ago. MARKED, mind you, and I hardly did any mugging. Tsk I feel so terrible.
brother brother brother brother. Will upload photos on laptop no wire or bluetooth for this desktop.
mes parents.
almost felt like i've wasted the past 2 days away, considering US apps, which was the toughest I've had to decide on since a looong time. In the end, Jiening help me decide that I should Liberal Arts, then do a masters' in Hospitality or Business Management, effectively pushing back my decision till 3 years later. Which I think is a very effective idea, and that in Liberal Arts I get to do like philosophy and whatever else.
The only problem was deciding which US schools to apply to. There were so many: CMU, Cornell, Yale, Amherst, etc. and I simply was at a lost as to which was good, which was bad. I had a good time laughing with Jon Yee in the Student Affair Centre about where we were headed, and I decided that I would entrust my tertiary education in America (if all else fails, since America is at the bottom of my list) to him, i.e. I will apply to whatever he applied to. This led Kevin Sim (who is... nvm) to believe we had a thing going on, and he even said I want to marry Brad Pitt -.-"
Jon Yee: So should we apply to a lot of schools? If we only apply to one doesn't that show that we really want to get in?
Sim: Do they care?! I mean, if you really wanted to marry Angelina Jolie, and he (referring to me) wanted to marry Brad Pitt...
Haha I should have taken offence, like kevin laporte in Les Bleus when Capitaine Duval insulted his sexuality. Oh well it'll be a long and arduous journey for people to convince my friends that I ain't all that into guys. It's gonna be especially tough when I find good friends and other people tend to easily assume it to be a relationship, touting "ah it's always like that/it always starts like that" as some form of immature take on the issue. I think it's so stupid to completely ignore the possibility of good friends between two people. I admit my actions may suggest otherwise (and this with respect specifically to Ko Ko and addressed to my dear readers who are also culprits) but my prior actions have also suggested that I might be rapist, molester, flasher, murderer, cheater, racist... Does that lead you to believe that I may be any of the above? Wait, alright don't answer that.
Maturity brings me to talk about my parents. Tonight I went with my folks to have supper, and I tell you it's so fun. I thank God that my sis spoke to me about my father (and probably spoke to him too, after she was done with me) in London, and that totally revolutionized the way I lived in the family. It was fun to know that I was loved by the two of them, and that I truly care for them. And although we were awfully silent at times, had conversations which were uneventful, I still loved the little time I get to spend with them like this. And this goes out to everyone who reads my blog: LOVE YOUR PARENTS PLEASE! I know in some cases it may be hard, but... In the end it's so much more worth it if things work out. And things won't work out at all if you decide that they won't. Right.
Past two days were unproductive fretting over college apps. Not great. And I anticipate tomorrow to be a happy decadent day celebrating Wan Joo's birthday, all with my first A level paper in less than 2 weeks. Good job ye wei.
Anyone read Outlook? Haha it's quite cool, and who decided they should send it to my parents? Lol.
AHHHHH.
omg omg omg my desktop is working again! WHOOTS I JUST SIGNED IN. THIS IS LIKE THE FIRST TIME I'VE USED IT IN MONTHS!! And you know what's the best part. ALL MY SONGS ARE INTACT. as well as my files. what really does reformatting do anyway haha?
Whoots this is too great. Though I really should be sleeping now. I NEED SPEAKERS ANYONE WANTS TO SELL?
il faut devenir une frere.
Haha jiening double post in a day again. Yea the rest of you mind taggin my board with you addresses so I can follow your blogs? So far I've only know jiening's blog address lol and she doesn't link anyone.
OK the most exciting thing just happened. I was at the track right, then I looked at the field, and there was this GIANT heart made out of candle-esque lights (what a cheat) and just as I was trying to make sense of it all, in comes a guy and a girl to sit at the top of the stadium steps! Haha I tried to see who it was, but most of the time I was just trying to leave without making them embarassed. But if anyone knows who these two lovebirds might be do let me know!
Yep. Today was imba productive. that table is MINEEE.
OK gtg Dad's here. Bye bye. Now I won't have to blog at home go straight to playing guitar!
je suis un frere.
alright ye wei think short think short.
got a confession that i wanna make, but too wuss for it right now. maybe later.
it's still a bitch to type on my brother's mouseless com, and then have to clear up the history WITHOUT THE MOUSE to make sure he doesn't know. maybe I should blog in sch next time before I come home.
prav found a piece of white hair on my head today! what does this mean? too stressed? dormant hair ailment rearing his ugly head?! arrgh not good at all.
my leisure subsumes to: guitar at home before sleeping. and reading the bible and Max Lucado (if you know who that is). When will I ever go to church? the reason i haven't been going to church isn't altogether my dad, actually... it's partly me also. there's too much change for me to learn. strike that. too much for me to learn, period. i'm not sure how to take it. so far Shuli has offered me to go to her church, and edith has sent me a nice message asking me to consult her should I have any questions/problems. please pray for me to find the courage to make God number 1 in my life.
alright that's all. if I keep coming home this late... I'm gonna die. Wanna blog about GP but oh well short short.
reprise.
Moved back to school today. Lugged my chem notes there, and the feeling I got when I realized that I was going to have to nest in that place was pretty disgusting. But I've got to do what I've got to do eh.
Missed Taiwan outing today! Hope it was fun... I didn't do much work, but I can almost feel my momentum slowly returning.
Had a semi-emo talk with Jiening once Lynette left today. Wow gave me feelings I've almost cut myself from. Those pensive, emotional thoughts about your friends, your life, love etc. Haha whoots it was fun though. All I need now is the rain to fall down.
Visited some blogs in the mean time too. Danny really is a devout christian and like Jiening, I really pray that I can become like him some day. I got to start by going to church... Arrgh, but my parents ar...
Jiening told me I should shorten my posts. In fact today I feel like doing just that because it is already 12 mn and I really should be sleeping to keep to my 7 to 12 mugging routine. I've really got a lot to do since unlike the rest I have 18 -- no, wait, 17 days -- to the start of my A levels. Yes, I'm part of the minority that the school overlooked when they distributed revision schedules that claimed that A's start on the 30th. And furthermore, I'm now actually typing on my brother's computer (without permission I might add, which is why I'm typing in the dark haha but it's cool cuz he's a gamer and his keyboard has a blue light to illuminate slightly but sufficiently the keys -- my only grouse is his lack of mouse where the heck did that go). Yep. As you can tell I'm
still learning the ropes of the game called blogging. Jiening said she started to get lost in my post, and that they were boring. Oh well.
Anyone knows how to fix my scrollbar? I can't seem to scroll the.. whaddamacallit, the scroller down from the very top.
Good night. Have heart Lynette, you are smart! Ko ko sorry for disturbance today. It's all Jiening's fault.
Saw 5!!
For the people who have been awaiting it's arrival, here's the first trap in Saw 5:
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/bdtv/2106I like this site, since I am a big gore fan. This site gives you all the information you need for all the gore movies you want! Turns out they say that Friday the 13th (with Jason the Hockey-Masked Serial Killer) is having a remake... Which I think is cool.
random but really fun day.
Today went out with PWNZY (namely my mentee group Ping Fang, Wen Jian, Natalie Ong and Zhijie (i.e. Isaac a.k.a. Ho Ho a.k.a. Caasi a.k.a. guy whose fan club died in a day)) and was quite fun. Went to 珍发活海鲜 and it's definitely a recommendation. When you go there, every person is entitled to a portion of prawn and a portion of crab. We didn't enjoy the crab too much (it was already dead and quartered), but the live prawns caused many shrieks within the restaurants because the courageous prawns fought to keep their bodies from turning bright orange in the boiling soup in front of you. So they jump out of the bowl they were served in, and we had a lot of fun picking them up and putting them into the soup to cook. Then after they were cooked, we had a competition to see who could peel the prawn the fastest after it was just taken out of the pot. I swear I could feel blisters burning and I couldn't even get the head off when Cassi would be mocking me by sucking on his freshly peeled prawn. But yes the prawns are really fresh, as you might imagine, and the food here is a good standard. One good point is that you don't have to cook the food yourself, you can pass it either to the grill or the teppanyaki. Much better than Sakura definitely. We ate ALOT and me and Caasi compared the size of our "pregnant" tummies ahha.
I want to make my blog a food recommendations site! Haha cool cool. With movie and band reviews (perhaps shows when I start again (arrgh I still have Dexter Seasons 1 and 2 to watch)).
PWNZY is definitely is fun, and is definitely very closely bonded. We took a photo today (lazy to scan) and it was quite cool. It's like we went to Cold Storage and found fruits and stood at the potted plants section and posed for an "explorer" shoot. Haha then we went around and posed like the models on the various product covers (even those like Kellogg's cereals haha) and blocked a lot of way and made a lot of noise. Then we went to Udders which is another place that is pretty good. The alcohol ice-cream is something to try because the alcohol content is very very high. Don't try the chocolate mint though (I never did like mint, but this was really bad). Yep.
Oh and united square (is it?) has a very cool fountain that is really pretty. We took a dp-worthy shot (as I called it). Look out for it, it will replace A7X on my DP.
Which reminds me: should I go for A7X concert?! It's happening on 24th October, which is 2 days after my French paper and about 8 days before the start of my A's. But like Sean said, if I don't go I'll regret it. Rarr go listen to some of their songs:
Dear God The song that Ko liked and he sent to me, reminding me of how much I like them.
A Little Piece of Heaven (Lynette likes this too! I like the story too but may be a bit too sick for some)
Bat Country The song that made me like A7X in the first place.
Gunslinger Siang Huat and Jiening said this song was not bad. It gives me goosebumps. (Oh dear the Jarhead version has been deleted! It was a good substitiute for an MV...)
Afterlife The song used to promote their concert, as I saw on the big screen at Toa Payoh today.
Scream I love this even though, like its name, is very metal. The sounds are just... wow.
Seize the Day The acting was horrid in this, but the song is very cool. Weiyuan likes this!
Somma my faves. I'll be going with Macey if I do... So should I should I should I? I really think they are damn cool and that the lead singer is ultra cool! I even want to learn scream-singing. Haha. He actually took lessons to learn that! What I like about them is that they actually have musicality in their songs, so there's actually a tune unlike those songs that Ko sent me, by some weird growling band that sang about sex in the graveyard at night -.-". And their lyrics are very very good and very interesting! Rarr I really, really do like them. And not to mention they accompany me very well when I study. And they use their real girlfriends in their videos! Their really sweet to their girlfriends too. You should like them too!
Oh and oral today was a killer.... It was completely ten notches above (in terms of difficulty) above the prelims. I got Family as topic of general conversation for prelims, I got ethics of human cloning for A's. Like WTF. Well at least the speech questions were easier. Heidi was damn pissed haha she got something about Radiohead and about Sarkozy's speech on "work more earn more" and inflation and all that. And the fact that Yeong Qian got Hobbies didn't help. Rarr the worst thing is I forgot to bring my board in RARRR that's damn stupid but it's behind me so i'm fine. I hope it went well for everyone (how about you Jon, who is reading this on your RSS? lol)
Argh I missed Les Bleus today and Mathan is here to tell me about it -.-". Thank you Tv5 for having reruns every Wednesday! Haha.
PWNZY didn't stop reminding me that I should start mugging hard. Maybe I should take their advice seriously, but there's T'aiwan outing tomorrow ARRGH i think I will not have enough time I tell you. But like Ping Fang said it's been soo long since I've seen the T'aiwan peeps. And I was listening to Jay Chou (his discography is now at 90% whoots it's really every album and every song even the live ones this rocks) and all the feelings came back to me. I miss them loads, Serene, Hong Xiu, Andrea, Kevy, Kiat Wee, Tat Chern, etc. They left so much in me... Can't wait to go back to Taiwan end of this year with OComm (when are we getting it done!!)
Still learning the ropes of this blogging thing. Sigh. Oh and some guy/girl just sent me an email in French asking me about Orale. I need to know if it's some creepy stalker guy again, I hope it's just M. Gilbert, my French tuition teacher, using a different e-mail.
My DP-worthy pic:
From Natz! Who says she is "the happiest girl in town". Cool right?! And I realised that the picture affects the scrolling on the right haha.
"so if you want to aks me a question, aks me in english"
Today has been productive. Somewhat. Better than previous days though. Although I do have to practise my orale (A levels tomorrow!) for tomorrow, so wish me luck.
Haha as the various members of the Cok family must know, Ye Wei here is embarking on a strange journey into the blogosphere, where I am merely an adolescent venturing into an ensemble of friends who are seasoned bloggers, namely Hwee (since sec 2 he has had an illustrious career), Jiening (who inspired this restart in a sense), Nick (and his philosophies), Sarah, Ben, Lynette (!), etc. etc. Haha today saw me learning the ropes of this unfamiliar creature called blogs, and also me being laughed at for my ineptness (sp?) in blogging. Haha rarr. It really is tough to do this when I know that a few days later my posts will come under scrutiny by my friends... Oh well I'll just see how far I can go.
I made several promises to blog about stuff that happen over the short span of dinner tonight, but I think Jiening might be right that I have forgotten most of them. I might need that blogger notebook after all HAHAHA.
1. I was the slowest eater of the night (as usual) and I had to quickly stuff chunks of LJS fish into my mouth as my friends watched in disdain.
2. Zhuoyi came! haha Hwee Hwee.
3. They tried to make me eat the fry that fell onto the floor, that I almost put into my mouth... And Minqi (sp?) here's your space: thanks for saving me from the evil of these people.
4. Jiening wrote "Yewei is a fat ass", and later changed it to "Ye Wei is a fat ass" after pointing out the space in my name.
5. Was supposed to scan the LJS sheet as well as Jiening's tissue lol.
Haha Hwee Leong was telling me alot tonight on our way home. I really do think he shorted something up there (more than 10 seconds to do a chem problem!) haha but aw we still love him anyway. And he told me about HAZardous but I'm not sure if I want to propagate that image of him here hahaha. After I'd left him I smiled all the way to my home thinking about how ridiculously strict my blogging has become. Haha I don't know what to make of it.
Alright, for all those who had to endure the pain of my various Lauren Cooper impersonations, in addition to those I posted yesterday, here are some more you should watch... They're really funny at least to me and 6R:
Are you gay, sir?English LessonDumped at the Altar (dinner people this is the Celine Dion line!)
French LessonBeyonceTony Blair (must watch haha)
Spittin' Lyrics (haha i just found this I like this a lot Mathew Horne looking ugly/cool in there)
Omg I'm finding more haha. Oh well I'll be rewatching those that I love, like the Altar one and the french one haha. Omg I'm finding so many I think I'll be posting more of her videos in the next few posts...
Ok good luck frenchies, good luck jappies (especially Jon who was practising to me today with Huixiang and Desmond with their running translations, and Jon who has his friends blogs on RSS feeds (!)) for oral tomorrow! Wish me luck!
PS: Haha Ko and Weiyuan went to my mum's place to cut hair today, came out with almost the same hairstyle hahaha it was super funny especially to see Ko with his new hair. I mean, it's really amused me that he looked so different (and that I hope is the case for lynette and jiening too) but it's a good look. I think it's cool.
back again from the back again.
The most annoying thing, the thing that pisses me off the most about my life is the fact that I have completely lost my momentum to study. That's the biggest thing I want to angst about, that I feel can fulfill the expectations for Ye Wei, the angsty blogger (if the readers do expect that). And I haven't written in prose for 20 000 years or so it feels, and it's kind of tiring. It is 0048, I have accomplished close to nothing today, and I feel like I might as well just give up.
Oh well not gonna give up though. Might have to reinstate myself at the Cok residences hahaha.
In any case, here's a treat for the returning readers!
Catherine Tate TranslatorLauren Cooper Burger BarThe problem about Lauren Cooper is that a lot of her works work on the prior fame of her "Am I bovvered" lines. That means that there are jokes that build on that that people will not get (as is with the Burger Bar one). It's like how I showed the video to my French tuition and MOELC French class and everyone just stoned. It might be the accent too I think. But no worries, the Translator is accessible for all haha.
In any case I think Mathew Horne (the dude in the Burger Bar) is super cool haha I want to be like him. I've just got the History Boys to see if I can pick up a thing or two from him haha. He's ugly but cool that's where I'm headin' haha.
Has anyone pre-ordered the new Jay Chou album? Damn I missed it cuz I haven't been chatting with Yan Jie. But he updated me with the new song:
稻香 Not too bad, it's what I like about Jay, can't wait for the new album though.
Oh and I found, at the same time as starting this blog, all the past blogs that I've been part of! It's terribly exciting. There's my
cardSGarage blog, my business venture which I hope to take off with Jon Yee (who has decided we will explain to Mr. Lee that we won't be able to submit our peer/self evals tomorrow, today, whatever) (me loves the cards all big and nice like that); my blog with Shane and my
O.G. blog! Haha although they were all kind of dead.
Serene came and told me that she visited my blog just today, when I had just restarted it! Haha it really is pretty freaky. Does she have an LJ now though saw it in her nick. Taiwan outing this saturday, PWNZY outing this friday oh what am I to do.
Night.
back again.
it's almost... laughable. That i'm here again. After, what, a year? Haha well it's nice to look through my old messages and realise I didn't stop just because I left YTWISILU behind. I left other things behind too.
I guess I need to revisit this age-old topic of YTWISILU. It's over, I was stupid, I don't ever wish to have anything to do with it anymore. Maybe I shan't post about my love life anymore.
Hmm. Need to change some stuff about this template. I don't even remember what the line there is saying haha. My wants is kind of... true but left behind too haha.
But not tonight. There's a lot of work to be done, and my tenant needs to use the internet for somma her NAFA work. Cool huh. And I got to do my self/peer evaluation (which Jon doesn't want to do for me!)
I think I know why blogging got tiring for me. I like to say almost everything. It's like my "Last Episode on Ye Wei's Life". Rarr it's tought it's tough. To have to cut things down.
Oh wells, congrats to me on being back on the blogging scene (you know the number of councillors who blog amaze me).
