Snapshots of my life

2011 - The Year Of Firsts

2011-12-31T03:56:00.014+08:00

Every year, things happen - good things, bad things, boring things, exciting things. For me, 2011 was the most interesting year of my life. So, so, so, so, so many things happened to me that I can't even believe it myself. With every new year comes new experiences and for me, 2011 was an exceptional year with so many new experiences (what I call as 'firsts') that I felt that I must compile it all, as explicitly as possible! Okay, so explicit isn't a word with very positive connotations, but it's meaning is as close to the word I'm looking for as possible.

So, here goes nothing:

My List of Firsts (Things that I did/happened to me for the first time in 2011)

1) First time I worked/had a paying job

2) First time I chose to have a meal by myself in a foreign land (Japan, when I wanted to eat stuff my family didn't want to eat - curry)

3) First time I signed up for a language course!!!!! :D (한국말!)
(That's my Korean teacher~!)

4) First time I went for a facial (haha)

5) First time I had a drum lesson! (It's been 6 years since I first wanted to learn drums, and I was glad to have learnt a wee bit this year!!!)

6) First time I was in charge of a whole comm (okay, not that I had people under me, but in YAWA comm, it was kinda like you had to take charge of the whole thing, which was sorta new to me, to conceptualise, plan and execute. Previously, I hadn't done the conceptualise part)
(No nice pictures of me at YAWA, so, yeah, no picture for this one)

7) First year in a long while that I ....... didn't do ushering AT ALL. THE WHOLE YEAR. :O (Okay, this is a lousy one, but I just wanted to put it there for remembrance)

8) First time I went to China (did you know that 3 out of my 4 grandparents directly came from China to settle at their respective countries? No wonder people sometimes mistake me as being from China. T_T)

9) First time I travelled out of the country unsupervised (like, without my parents or school teachers. The feeling of freedom was exhilarating, I must say!)

10) First time I went on a mission trip (this is especially significant to me, because for so many years of my life, I didn't get a chance to/didn't want to go on a mission trip. So, finally, I got to go)

11) First experience of being a teacher/teaching dance (still a funny feeling to think of people calling me as "江老师")

12) First time I had to wash my own clothes - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (good experience, if I should say so myself!)

13) First time I travelled around on a mountain (really, really cool - although at times, nauseating. The scenery is SO good and it's totally a free roller-coaster ride, without the upside down bits. It was cool to be in the 凉山 Liangshan province!)

14) First time I made dumplings (饺子) / glutinous rice dumplings (粽子)

15) First time I took part/played a part in choreographing a dance item ^^

16) First time I took an aeroplane by myself!

17) First time I allowed more than one person (in a sitting) to hear one of my songs (memory-jogger: at YA, when Kim lead worship on one Sunday, after we'd both come back from our respective mission trips, we sang a song I had written after I came back from YAWA in Malaysia and before I left for China, i.e. within those few hours I had)

18) First time I went for an actual dance class (not school-based)

19) First time I performed a hip hop dance item without a school context (at PlayMax)

20) First time I put on make-up for other people (I still remember when I was in dance club, the seniors/other people would always be the ones putting on make-up for me. So, at PlayMax, when I was putting on my own make-up, and even going around helping the dancers to put on make-up, the feeling sure was a refreshing one)
(Have posted this picture before - sorry, no other picture)

21) First time I sang as a support singer in worship at main service (ooooh~)

22) First time I helped out at a Cornerstone event (for Children's Day)
(The letters below were designed by yours truly! :D)

23) First time I tried out puppetry (same event as above)

24) First time I helped out at a children's day camp (Saddle Ridge Ranch, KPC's first Vacation Bible School, where I helped Auntie Mui Hong with the worship session, teaching the kids how to dance to the songs taught) (Never have I imagined that I would do something like that, because for the longest time, I couldn't stand kids - especially the ones that screamed, but wow, I did it!)

25) First time I did a session (or rather, four sessions) for kids (at Saddle Ridge Ranch, where I was at the Missions room, and I had to share with the children about missions in South America and Africa. This took me a lot of courage, because firstly, this was a subject that I wasn't familiar with, and secondly, I had never done this sorta "teaching" before)

[No pictures from Saddle Ridge Ranch too, 'cause Tate didn't post any pictures online...]

26) First time I went to Punggol (okay, in all honesty, I've never been to many parts of Singapore before. I'm ashamed to say that, as a Singaporean)

27) First time I was THE choreographer of an item (whoot whoot!!!!)
I'd always wanted to choreograph my own item while I was in dance club - okay the latter part of my time there. However, I never got the chance to, because I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to do it. I mean, I could freestyle at home, but I could never remember my own steps. So, I thought that I would never be able to do it, to put up a full-fledged item. The chance to be a choreographer - the main one, not the one contributing a few sets of "8s" here and there - at Celebrating Christmas In Singapore (CCIS) was truly a dream come true for me. The best part, was dancing for God, not for my own glory. And I'm truly thankful for that opportunity.

28) First time I was a group leader at youth camp (scary scary, but I'm glad God gave me the courage to take it on)

29) First time performing my own song - not just singing, but playing the piano too - in "public" (well, it was at camp, but it was quite a big crowd to me, okay!)

This last one is my favourite - you know, save the best for last! ;D

30) First time a guy ~~(I thought was cute)~~ has ever told me that I was pretty

(I know I look crap here, but the fact is, I woke up at 5.55am that day, having slept at 3am+, so not enough sleep + just woke up + just showered = unglamorous)

Frivolous? Yes. Important? YES.

Judge me for all you want, but yes, I admit that I am an insecure person and that things like that make me happy. DEAL WITH IT.

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If you actually read all 30 of them, GOOOOOOD JOB! I salute you, soldier!! :D
If you read the first one and just skipped to the end, well, thanks for visiting my blog anyway. :)

Okay, it is too early in the morning to state. I should get to sleep now!
(Pictures were limited, some of these special moments weren't captured, but oh well, it's as good as it gets!) (And yes, I did take some off facebook)

♥ Out!

요즈음 (Recently)

2011-12-23T02:21:00.002+08:00

So, I was using my tablet the other day, uploading the songs from the Korean albums Dawney & Cass (from the YFC dance team) brought back from Korea for me into my iPod (which is synced to my tablet, fyi). Since I was bored and had nothing else to do, I thought I'd draw!

So this first picture you see is how I've been feeling this past month or so:

(Yes, I was inspired by the 2NE1 song of the same title)

With the youth camp and CCIS being so close together, I felt like as if I was up to my neck in "work". It was just me being pure busy busy busy busy busy! Which was kinda bad for me, 'cause it affected my relationship with God :( But, well, lesson learnt...don't say "Yes" so easily? Haha, nah. I'll still make decisions based on feeeeelings (and not my schedule - somewhat). ;D

This second picture is well, what I've been feeling a lot this year. This feeling of course, has been escalated recently. I'll leave it for you guys to interpret. (After all, I did put the 3 full stops there for a dramatic-ish effect):

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CCIS is finally over, as with almost all the other projects I've been busy with this year end period, and it's great to feel free. Well, sorta. I mean, it IS sad that after all these months of training...BAM! It's over, just like that! (This feeling hit me on the bus ride home!) However, it's great to feel that sense of relief that I no longer have a project with the deadline creeping nearer and nearer.

I've enjoyed myself these past 3 months, working with Kim & the team. As choreographer, the feeling is so different from just being a dancer, because you kinda have to make all the final decisions and a huge responsibility is placed on your shoulders. But, I'm happy to say that this was certainly a challenge that I was thankful to have taken up! ㅋㅋㅋ

Well, now, my current challenge is settling Christmas presents. After that, it's time to look forward to the new year and see what new challenges God puts in my way, as well as which direction He wants me to go.

I hope I can post a "round-up of the year" post before the year ends, because this year was certainly a very exciting and interesting year for me. Till, then...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

(because I know I'm too lazy to post on the day itself :D)

♥ Out!

Prayer

2011-12-03T03:04:00.006+08:00

I've been keeping the blog of Leslie Ludy, author of "Authentic Beauty", as one of the tabs I always have open in my Firefox sessions. Because I figured, if I get bored and want to read something, I might as well read something that's related to God than something that's not/meaningless.

And today, it's worked.

I read THIS entry (random side note: posted on 제 생일 2 years ago) and felt spoken to. Titled "Spiritual Determination", it talked about how our determination to always make God our number one priority should never wane.

To quote a quote from Andrew Bonar in the post:

O brothers and sisters, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper – and sleep too – than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.

What a quote! This is one of the stupid excuses I give myself lately ("Oh, it's too late, I need to sleep. I'm sure God knows that I need to sleep.") so that I don't feel so bad about slacking off in spending time with God. Sure, God knows that I need to sleep. But I should've thought of spending time with Him, before wasting away the other hours of the day.

Sigh, still plenty many things for me to work on!!! But, I'm glad that the Lord reminded me of this!!! Came at an appropriate juncture in life! I must remember this now and apply it to my life!

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Of course, life isn't all frolicking around the internet, lately. Been really busy with all those things that I mentioned in the previous blog post. Yes, I still waste time on the internet & at the TV, but I am doing a wee bit more now, such that I can't say I'm loafing around at home all day. Hah!

Am still too lazy to dig up pictures to post... Okay, how about I post a cute wombat picture?

Awww.. I ♥ wombats!
Okay, I have to get back to work. T_T

Bye! ♥

Creativity & Perseverance

2011-11-20T23:36:00.003+08:00

I was gonna title this post as "Creativity & Success", but then today's speaker mentioned that we shouldn't be focused on attaining success in the sense of the world, which I agree with. Anyway, I'm having trouble trying to explain what I mean by my sense of success, which I assure you, isn't similar to what the world defines success as. Hence, I changed the title.

So, anyway, I find these 2 videos really encouraging to me.
The first one is for people who are pursuing stuff in creative industries! For me, I'm not a story-writer, but I write songs - so when the video talks about writing stories, I sub it with writing songs... Hope this encourages those who are pursuing creative careers! :D

As for the second second video, I only like the first part ('cause the second part doesn't apply to me, lol). I've been so busy lately & I'm feeling kinda tired & drained (ironic for a gap year slacker like me, eh?), so I feel lazy (or burdened) to do some things that I'd previously enjoyed doing a lot. And this reminds me to enjoy everything I'm doing, especially if it's related to what I love, which is singing and dancing. Don't be lazy & get going with the stuff you need to do, Angeline!

So, if you're wondering why I'm so busy here's a breakdown of the things on my plate at the moment:

1) Am choreographing for a Youth For Christ (YFC) Celebrating Christmas In Singapore (CCIS) dance item. I didn't struggle as much in the beginning, when it first started, but as time passed, the need to constantly squeeze out choreography has been making me feel very drained. But I'm encouraged by Steve Jobs, so I will remember to enjoy this & be thankful for this opportunity to choreograph!

2) Am studying Grade 6 music theory, because the school I'm planning to apply to requires that qualification for music students. Anyway, I'm so glad that I'm studying it now, because it has been a LONG, LONG time since I last touched theory (of which I stopped at Grade 5, thankfully). Gosh, the first lesson was SUPER embarrassing, realising the extent to which I'd forgotten my basic theory concepts!! Haha, thankfully my piano teacher is nice ^^

3) Other random miscellaneous things, including preparing for Saddle Ridge Ranch and starting work on the Youth Camp (Camp Justice) Camp Booklet.

The former is the Vacation Bible School for kids that KPC is holding. GOSH, my FIRST TIME "working with" kids! I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE I SAID YES TO IT. Haha. Can you imagine? All those years of my life, saying that I hated small kids & never wanted to do anything related to them - AND HERE I AM NOW! 정말!!! (Okay, I stopped hating kids recently, as a first step, 'cause I figured, IF I'm gonna be a mother next time, I'll need to love my kids. So, best to start loving/liking kids now!) Fortunately, I'm doing Worship, which is singing & dancing and teaching the kids the songs & dance moves - my safe zone. One baby step at a time yeah!

The latter is self-explanatory, no? Anyway, initially, I thought that this would be the first year that I wouldn't attend Youth Camp. I was so wrong. Guess God wants to continue pushing me to do more things that I wouldn't normally do, to help me to grow more! 'Cause, I decided to agree to being a group leader. Gosh. Cannot believe I'm doing this as well! Sigh, hopefully things go okay & I won't lead the group astray (from the Truth)...

Okay, gonna end this off here and get to sleep! No pictures this time as I'm toooooo lazy to dig 'em out and post 'em! More proper updates soon? Keke

♥

Stronger

2011-10-14T00:30:00.003+08:00

When I was in Australia, my dad rented a car, so that we could drive around Tasmania. And when in a car, what do you do? You turn on the radio! Whilst flipping through the channels, my mother found a Christian channel. (So cool huh? Australia has Christian radio channels!) One of the songs they played there was called "Stronger" and I liked the tune together with the fact that the chorus had lines that all ended with an "-er", which I thought was cute + clever writing. Also, the song was meaningful and nice, as Christian songs are.

However, after I flew off from Tasmania, I'd completely forgotten about the song.

Today, while I was looking for a song for the dance item (unfortunately, no fruits yet, so, still searching), I found the song.

And I knew that I wanted to post it on my blog and share it with anybody who happens to be reading my blog, lol. It's a nice song, so, take a listen! :)

♥

(Still sorting through my Australian pictures, so I will post about it another day, when I am free-er and have finished my current #1 task)

Chinese music.........

2011-10-10T03:57:00.003+08:00

With all these Taiwanese dramas that I'm watching and all, I think I'm turning...cheena.

Sorry, I know the term is very mean and derogatory, but if you knew me growing up, I never was interested in Chinese/Asian music and it seems so out of character for me. T_T

Do you truly know how I got into Korean music?

Betcha don't really know right?

Well.
It all started with Boys Over Flowers. A drama. And being "crazy" over it.

Bet those who know me will be going like, "Wasn't it Big Bang and TOP?"

Well, yes, they were the biggest reason why I liked Kpop. BUT, the reason I even bothered listening to Kpop was because of the songs in BOF.

I think I've established enough how I love music, right? Well, for a song with a nice melody and tune, if I hear it enough, I will want to find it and listen to it again. Want to guess which Boys Over Flowers song I loved the most and caused me to search it up online? kekeke. I'll put the video of the song at the end of this post. (Try to guess before scrolling down!!)

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Anyway, at this point in time, I'm following 3 dramas:

醉后决定爱上你 (officially) "Love You" (unofficially) "Drunken To Love You" (direct translation) "Choosing To Love You After Getting Drunk"

阳光天使 (officially) "Sunny Girl" (unofficially) "Sunshine Angel"

시크릿 가든 (officially) "Secret Garden"

I've mentioned the first one before and well, this is the drama that is causing this change. Now, don't get me wrong, because I still love my Korean music, as how I still love American/English music, but it can only go down from here. T_T As I told you my backstory about how I fell into Korean music (which was completely unplanned when I thought about this blog post initially), this will probably be how I start falling into Chinese music as well. T_T

Okay, I mean, that drama is not the sole factor in this mess! It started with opening my mind to Asian music. ('Cause after liking Korean music, I was able to bring myself to admit that I actually did like "童话", when I'd previously said that I didn't know ANY Chinese music - I sound very lame and elitist, right? SIGH.) Then, that was built upon with me going to China, probably, where I listened to Chinese music there.

And then these dramas. Fine, 醉后决定爱上你 is not the first Chinese drama that caused me to look for OST songs - it was Van Ness Wu's "下一站, 幸福" - but it was only one song. (Just like how BOF wasn't the first Korean thing that caused me to look for a Korean OST song...ooh, new backstory. Sorry too lazy to talk about it now. It's 4am, hello?) But, I like quite a few songs from 醉后决定爱上你's OST that I'm thinking of...buying the album. IT CAN ONLY GO DOWN FROM HERE. T_T

ANYWAY. The video below is my favourite song from the drama. I LOVE the tune used for the chorus. LOVE IT. It's so nice!! The last chorus is the BEST. It starts from 4:33.
The starting of the song doesn't really interest me, which is, oh well. The song has a very strong chorus, but I feel that the verse falls short a bit. :( If the melody of the verse & pre-chorus was catchier, I would love the song more! I still recommend a listen!

Oh and my other pet peeve with this song is the way the artist pronounces some of his words. (It's not just this song - the other song he contributed to this drama has him pronouncing "谢谢" (thank you) in what I call as the world's most messed up manner. Don't hate on me, 'cause this is just my opinion! I like people to pronounce words correctly, whether it's English or Chinese, so when I pronounce a word incorrectly/funnily, I get irked by myself, 'kay!)

Okay, I'm done! Time to sleep! :D

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Kpop "quiz" answer:

Did you get it right? ♥

Baaaack!

2011-10-01T18:37:00.002+08:00

Hi guys!
I'm back from Australiaaaaa! With a bad rash on me hands. As usual! T_T Cold weather and me just don't gel very well! And okay, I should not be lazy with moisturising when I'm in a dry country. FINE. I'm just so used to the high humidity that Singapore has... SIGH.

Anyway, there were too many pictures taken and I'm still slowly sorting through them T_T When I'm done, I'll post some highlights, 'kay! :D

Anyway, I joined the SBS Kpopstar Audition. If you're interested in watching, here's my audition clip:

Unfortunately, not the best effort I could've done, but it was already the best for the day that I filmed, because I was [and still am] slightly sick (ironically, after a vacation, right?). But oh well, I'll hope for the best and whatever happens, I'll leave it in God's hands! :)

Okay, that's all! &hearts:

Vague Update..?

2011-09-20T00:27:00.005+08:00

Life is mmm, not very exciting now...
The past week was a series of meeting various people - meeting Avelyn again, meeting the dancers (for the last time before Sarah flies off!) and meeting Naomi (for the last time before she flies off!).

Meeting Avelyn is always something I look forward to, because I know that when I meet her, I'll be reminded to put more effort into my relationship with God! Am thankful to God for blessing me with the opportunity to meet someone like her, who is able to get me and is able to look out for me! :) We didn't take pictures this time, so, no picture to post!

As for the dancers, it was great to meet up with them again and hear their thoughts on PlayMax! Just a short sidetrack, am grateful for the chance to have been in PlayMax through the StageMax segment. Dancing in StageMax came at a really good time for me because it gave me a chance to serve God in a different way.

Ever since I "graduated" from Youth/Faith Factor, I'd been wondering how and where to serve God. I started the year with joining YAWA comm, which was just nice for me, because I didn't get to plan 2010's Youth Camp. So, it was a great excuse for me to design another camp booklet and also plan programmes as Programmes IC! (Am super glad I didn't have to do devotions - thanks for offering to do so, Melvin! :D) Then, after going to YAWA and China, I was kinda left with nothing to serve God in...

Then, came PlayMax and Kim 언니's request for dancers! So glad that I decided to join it and not get too caught up with planning for the future... haha~ When I joined the item, I didn't think about it a lot, but, it was only after PlayMax and when I was reflecting that I realised that PlayMax was another venue God gave me to spend my time serving Him with. I also later realised that a lot of the time, when people asked me, "Hey, what're you doing at this point in time?", I'd always shrug and say, "Nothing...", when in actual fact, I'd have the PlayMax dance practices every week!

I'm also thankful that 언니 let me handle some of the choreography - not much, but still, it was fun! My second time choreographing for an item! :D The first time was in Zhaojue, where I helped choreograph parts of 'Baby' (yes, we taught the students there that JB song) and '一步一步爱'. Even though, in all honesty, I would occasionally be a bit frustrated with the item, but at the end of the day, I'm sincerely glad to have been given this opportunity to serve God in this super unique way and to have met like-minded people!

We didn't take pictures at the dinner, but here are two pictures I have of the dancers (sans Hannah :( ) -

(L-R) Sherlyn, Kim, Sarah, Shu Zhen, Me, Leanne, Venus
Taken backstage..I think while StageMax was in progress (haha, 'cause us dancers only appear in Scene 4)
Also, I forgot what the concept for this picture was....

(L-R) Me, Leanne, Sarah, Venus, Shu Zhen
Random selca we took outside the Auditorium at B2 in between shows! Um, not sure where Sherlyn & Kim were (fixing make-up?). Hannah had probably run off for her other item at DJMax.

Anyway, the dancer meet-up was a little bit of a fail, because Venus and Shu Zhen weren't able to go for it in the end. T_T It was supposed to be done so that everyone could come together for the last time before Sarah flies off back to UK for another semester at uni, but oh well, stuff does crop up last minute...

Like Sarah, Naomi will be flying off to UK soon for her first semester at university! SO, I had to meet her for one more time before she flew off (& well, before I fly off for my holiday, more on that later)!!!!! For those not in the know, Naomi is my friend from primary school! And, thinking about it, it is pretty cool that she is like, the only friend from primary school that I kept in contact with! (Angeline, you're not really counted here 'cause we had TKGS and TJ and church!)

We met at Hong Kong Cafe and had lunch there before adjourning to my house for a mini/vague tour of my house! It's super cool that we live so near each other now! Last time, it was a few bus stops, but now it's like, hm, a 10 minute walk away? Haha, nice! It's sad that she's flying off now - just when we're both free & have nothing to do! And also when she'd only had one opportunity to come to KPC! OH WELL. Will look forward to her coming back again (just as I always look forward to my overseas friends who come back *coughAngelinecoughPriscillacough*)

Gotta take a picture! Last time I'll see her 'till 2012~!
Please ignore my funny-looking hair. I just cut my fringe and I didn't do a good job T_T

Yeah, so that was the past week! I mean, other than PlayMax and meeting friends, I don't really do much at all. Just sorta like becoming a fb addict of sorts >:( 'Cause I have nothing to do, I'm constantly on the computer, checking fb, surfing the web randomly and also reading VC.com articles... sigh. Okay, I AM taking Vocal Lessons at Academy Of Rock, a music school that recently opened a branch near where I live. (It's super convenient - no need to take the bus or anything dumb like that for lessons, just a short walk and I'm there!) kekeke. Oh, but the lessons aren't that great, so I don't really recommend my teacher. :/

Avelyn challenged me to finish reading the whole Bible, like skip the first 5 chapters because they're very dry (+ I have read through them before thanks to the Bible Reading Programme KPC had years ago) and start reading from Joshua to Revelations. I think I shall do that, so that I can distract my mind from getting bored and running to the computer! Of course there are appropriate and productive things that I can do on my computer, like research on music production and other related things and making good use of Garage Band, but um, my lack of self-discipline is very glaringly obvious when it comes to the computer. T_T

Other than that, I'll be flying off to Australia for a week to attend my brother's graduation ceremony! We'll also do a short trip to Tasmania during that week! Can't wait - I haven't been to Australia since 2005! Also, I'll be having a sleepover with Priscilla! Heehee! :D I was also thinking of shopping (since they have Supre there!) but then, I just bought stuff from H&M and I feel guilty for it, so I'll try to stop myself from looking at clothes! (Furthermore, I don't actually need anything at the moment) (Except maybe a swimsuit top - my current [and only] one just got spoilt after a swimming session I had in Malaysia when I was there for my cousin's wedding. If I find a reasonably-priced, nice one, I'll get it!)

Okay, I'm done talking rubbish. Gotta go pack now before my mother comes back to nag. Again.
Does anybody actually read my blog? I don't even know anymore! Feels like I'm talking to myself. LOL.
Out!♥

Of Conspiracy Theories, the Invisible Government and Microchips

2011-09-08T05:05:00.002+08:00

The world is screwed up. Like, very screwed up. :(
It's a scary, scary world that we live in, because we don't even realise the extent of propaganda in our lives... I myself am not too sure how propaganda has fixed me, but I know for sure that it is changing us day-by-day.

This whole week is seriously characterised by this whole "Invisible Government" / Illuminati nonsense. Not that it's nonsense, because it's very real, but it's just so ugh, nonsensical, I guess. This topic has been on my mind the whole week and it's been making me re-think the choices I make - what songs I listen to, what I read about/see on the internet and so on... So many things these days have the devil's fingerprint in it and yeah, it scares me.

If there was to be a site of the week, VigilantCitizen.com would be mine. I mean, I hate reading through the articles, especially those about music - which is close to my heart, because I'll never look at certain songs/artistes in the same way again. Plus, knowing about all this stuff is seriously scary, like, to realise how messed up this world is. But, if I hadn't read them, I would still be living in bliss, not knowing all this shit that's going on behind-the-scenes, unbeknownst to the general public.

I've just finished watching the video below and boy-oh-boy, it's scary to know that microchips are now no longer some sci-fi scenario but is actually happening in the world now. WHY??? Why do we live in these times? Why are these things from Revelations all starting to come true... T_T

I know that I can trust in the Lord and that I am in His hands, but it is still scary. What a world we live in now.

I really do hope that I will not live to the day when microchips become a part of daily living, where everybody NEEDS to be implanted by microchips. But we never know when that day comes and sadly, it will come, since the Bible said so.

If you have the time to watch the video, I REALLY DO recommend that you watch it. It's long - crazy long - at 1 hour and 15 minutes, but I promise you, you will never be the same again. It will open your eyes to a whole new world that is taking place, albeit underground.

Watch it to be informed. Sometimes, ignorance, unfortunately, is not always bliss, and information like this is good to have - as compared to the next facebook status update of your friend.

I'll admit that it took a great deal of effort to sit through it - especially at 4am, when my body is dying to sleep. But I did (okay, with a few pauses in between to surf other sites) and I'm glad I did.

Predictive Programming and the Human Microchipping Agenda from John Smith on Vimeo.

But, if you still can't bring yourself to do it - I recommend that you go to VigilantCitizen.com and read some articles there. The stuff there will blow you away (not necessarily in a good way). Search for Lady Gaga articles - those are the scariest, but most informative.

Okay, enough talking. It's like, 5am and I NEED to sleep now.
PlayMax is tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday! It's finally here! Pray that God will anoint us to dance for His Glory!

♥ Out!

(I would've drawn a picture to accompany it, but, I am now officially on my Macbook, so, reaching for the tablet is not something I would be doing often anymore T_T)

Engrish

2011-08-27T00:18:00.000+08:00

This is gonna be just a quick post. Haven't had the chance to take a picture of these bits of Engrish I encountered on my trip to China till recently!

These are not as funny as some of the stuff that can be found online, like at Engrish.com, but they have a special place in my heart 'cause they're from Zhaojue, which well, has a special place in my heart. (My vocabulary has become very limited... I should be in school... T_T)

Mmm, persident... Interesting job...
(But you have to admit the quote is cute)

Also, have you guys ever wondered what a Sower's cap looks like? Probably some straw hat right? Since you know, a sower is probably someone who sows, aka a farmer?

Well, I guess China thinks it's made of plastic and should be given to all hotel guests.
Okay, so I didn't have a chance to take a picture of it before my camera's battery died. (And I have yet to charge it) But you all should know what I'm talking about, eh?

♥

Quotable Quotes (Artist's Edition)

2011-08-26T04:18:00.000+08:00

Okay, so this post is super delayed!!
I've been meaning to post this for the longest time, but I couldn't because I had problems uploading these pictures from my camera! It's so frustrating when your computer just simply couldn't be bothered to read your SD card. T_T At least my mum's netbook does that task effectively. :/

ANYWAY, so I went to the ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands on 4 Aug (see how long it's taken me to post this? :/) We went there mainly because there was some special offer for locals - you know, typical Singaporean. ;D

Okay, enough talking, on to the quotes!

This quote and the one below are both by Salvador Dali. I like this quote because it reminds me to have ambition and to not give up on my dreams. :)

This is my personal favourite. For obvious reasons. ^^

This quote is good. I mean, I'm really quite the perfectionist, so it reminds me that perfection cannot be achieved on this Earth and that I should not let the fear of not producing something that isn't "perfect" stop me!

Nice quote, 네? Certainly is heartwarming - no pun intended!!

Here's my version: A well-written song is equivalent to a good deed.

Yes, why?

Certainly agree with you, Mr Shaw! Why not?

I was ehm, a little lazy to adjust the brightness & contrast settings, but I hope you can still see even the smaller font ones!!

So, here's a shot of the sign outside! Very nicely done, I must say! Unfortunately, I only took this at night, when we were done viewing the 3 exhibitions that were going on at that time, so, please ignore the blurriness of the picture!

My favourite exhibition was without a doubt, the Salvador Dali one. All the amazing sculptures, the interesting paintings and the funky furniture! Man, this guy is blessed with such a creative mind! I mean, of course, there were some that I didn't like and a lot that I didn't fully understand (because, you know, I am superficial & not deep enough & surrealism is ... complex), but I still thoroughly enjoyed myself in the Dali exhibition!

This guy just screams eccentricity! Nobody can beat his signature, not even CL the baddest female! (Yes, she literally writes the phrase in her signatures, which is cool, okay!) I mean, who draws a crown and draws such a pretty twirly thingy like that when he signs? WIN.

You know what was not a win? The Van Gogh exhibition. The stuff outside, which consisted of Sunflower crafts and iconic Van Gogh pictures + Van Gogh quotes pasted on the walls, were WAY more interesting than the stuff inside the exhibition. I won't say anything about it, 'cause I don't want to run the risk of being called out for defamation.

BUT. I would certainly not recommend it to ANYONE.
(The last exhibition, which was on Tang treasures found from a shipwreck site, is not bad. Not as cool as the Dali one, but certainly miles better than the Van Gogh one)

I like his painting of sunflowers. Apparently, he did many paintings of sunflowers, so I'm not sure which one this is based on. But yeah, I managed to convince my mum to get a fridge magnet of his sunflower painting so that we can have an teeny-weeny bit of Van Gogh in our house. ㅋㅋㅋ

Anyway, nestled somewhere amongst the amazing sculptures in the Dali exhibition was a row of mirrors. You know, the type that have concave & convex bits and alter your reflection in the mirror?

Well, I couldn't resist this one.
(My skirt is NOT as short as it seems here in this picture)

♥Out!

Time 2 Pray

2011-08-16T03:36:00.000+08:00

7/3 Sunday Sermons from Joyful church on Vimeo.
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Just saw this video of Jason Ma.
And I was really inspired by it.

It was so long to sit through!! Omo! I listened/watched to it in parts, because I have a short attention span like most kids around these days. :P But it was totally worth it. (Okay the last 10 minutes were especially hard to sit through cause I was getting sleepy + I'm not a very charismatic-ish Christian, but nonetheless, the earlier parts of the video are inspiring)

I totally identified with him about the "getting back to to the city" thing. It was the same feeling after I came back from Zhaojue. Okay, not so intense as feeling as if I'm in "hell", but definitely the feeling that all these modern gizmos and all were not necessary for me. Yes, the internet in small doses is fine - which was what I had in ZJ. Just the very occasional short 'trip' to the Internet to read emails, read yg-life & Gaga updates (guilty pleasures...) and read some news about the world. It was short. And not excessive time ~~spent~~ wasted on the net, as I do now. *rolls eyes* I MISS ZHAOJUE!!!!!!! (and that lifestyle I lived there - partially developed, but mostly undeveloped, simple area)

Anyway, when he got to the first part about praying for a revival and all (I'll admit, he kinda gets repetitive after a while, but of course, it's all for emphasis), about how sad the state of the Korean Church is now (and well, I guess in general, also the Church in many developed nations), it made me realise how important praying for the world is.

Sadly, I mostly pray to God about my own problems and also occasionally, I pray for my friends and family. I'm not proud of this fact, because I know that I should (A) Pray more frequently and (B) Pray for others more often. And that video has truly reiterated this point so clearly. Praying 8 hours a day sounds so crazy and well, I guess, hardcore! But it is important!! I mean, there's really so many problems in the world these days and all of that stuff needs prayer.

Anyway, I am ashamed to say that I have not really properly prayed for the world/the Church before. And I'm glad that God gave me this reminder to pray for it! Pray pray pray pray pray. So many problems in the world, so many issues with the world. And it was at that part that I decided to pause the video to draw this picture:

I cannot draw hands properly for nuts, so to be able to draw praying hands like that, is good enough for me. Don't judge my lack of artistic abilities OKAY. D: (And yes, you can see that I clearly have a lot of influence from David Horvath & Sun-Min Kim's style of drawing)

I think that to sum up the video, and make it less Korea-centric, it tells me that Now is the time to pray, now is the time to act/do something for God, now is the time to give our lives to Him & let Him use them for His Glory. And similar to how that statement started, it all begins with prayer. As Jason Ma said that Paul said, Never stop praying. Whenever we can, we should pray.

And my cute little bear up there is reminding you/me to pray. So, let's go pray and do something for God, yeah? :)

♥

Bye, bye, Tagboard

2011-07-30T16:38:00.001+08:00

Just a short one.
As the title says, I have removed the tagboard.
Because nobody I know really uses it anymore. Angeline agrees on this!
If you have anything important to say, you can write it in the comments. :)
I'll try to reply if I see any (that requires a reply anyway).

Out! ♥

Random update

2011-07-30T15:39:00.004+08:00

This week, I've been madly following the Taiwanese drama, 就想赖着你, it's English title being "Down With Love".

To sidetrack, I REALLY don't understand how they translate titles of Taiwan dramas... Like seriously, the Chinese title & English title are often 2 different things, y'know what I mean? Like 就想赖着你 in English should be "(I) Just Want To Rely On You". Soooo, how come it's "Down With Love"? :( At least, for Korean shows, when they translate it to English, you get the same thing. It makes more sense that way, I feel. I always cannot get why they like to make the English title different from the Chinese title.... 아잉...

Anyway, back to what I was saying... Man, this drama is DAMN ADDICTIVE. I love it. I LOVE IT. It's so good. Like, the scriptwriters are good. SO SO GOOD.

Previously, I didn't really get why girls can become fangirls. Like, with the Korean thing, I was always very normal & non-squealish. Like, I didn't feel a need to get overly excited. I mean, I love my Kpop stuff, but WOW, until this drama, I never knew what it's like to fangirl.

Now I do.

It's pretty crazy and sometimes I wonder how I became this way... :( My mother is always telling me to control myself and always asks me why I must act in such a manner whenever we watch the drama together. I ALSO DUNNO WHY, 'KAY. It's just that when I watch the drama, I lose all sense of cool-headed-ness and become some crazed, easily-excitable girl who squeals at every other thing. AS SUCH, I conclude that the script is DAMN GOOD. Really good stuff. I LIKE. And maybe the acting as well. Good job, people. And of course, Jerry Yan.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

He's really good-looking, y'know. Only that I think that his forehead is REALLY HIGH. But still, good-looking. ^^ And like, 제리오빠 너무 너무 너무 멋있어요!!!! ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Best expressed in Korean, I feel. The other day when Charis came over for us to share our Korean notes, she was exclaiming that he's really old and all. But you can't deny the fact that he's good-looking.

Also, on a random note, he's the same age as Milo Ventimiglia. HMMM. How come? ;D

But the point of this, is that this drama is taking up a lot of my time. T_T I'm watching it on Tudou, because I don't want the English subs, and MAN, Tudou takes FOREVER TO LOAD. Each episode is 45+ minutes long and there are 28, but I'm only still at 18. I still have 10 more to go. I mean, I'm also watching it on Channel U, which is several (I still dunno the exact number) episode ahead of me, but this is REALLY frustrating!

I want to finish watching the drama so that I can go and do more productive things in life, but NO, still. stuck. there. :( I've tried searching for other options, but unfortunately, there aren't any others unless I want to have the English subs there. Which I don't, because I'm trying to improve my Chinese here!! If there were English subs, I'd have my eyes glued onto them, because I'm naturally drawn to English things. But without them, even though I don't get, maybe, 25% of what they're saying, at least I'm using my Chinese skills!

Also, random fact: After watching a coupl'a episodes of Taiwan dramas, I always feel like using Chinese to talk (to myself). AS SUCH, I conclude that before I go to China again (hopefully I WILL be able to go to 昭觉 again!), I must watch some Taiwan dramas so that I can be in the habit of using Chinese.

When I went there, I didn't use it very often, which was why my Chinese language skills didn't improve, which was a pity. But now I know! ;D (Anyway, the reason I didn't use Chinese very often there - often choosing to remain silent instead of talking - was because I was still very uncomfortable with speaking it. All thanks to a CERTAIN CLASSMATE whose name starts with J. I know I shouldn't be affected by it. But when you have had something being laughed at/mocked about constantly for a few years of your life, you begin to feel very conscious of it okay. >:[ Stupid guys.)

Okay. Back to my drama. Hopefully I can finish it ASAP. It's dragged on for tooooooooooo long!!! :(

Here's a picture of Bossy Bear.

"Mine!"

♥

Inspired

2011-07-22T23:55:00.003+08:00

Today, I feel very inspired.

Inspired by one50 dance:

If your goal is to be like someone who's a great [dancer], sure, that's fine. But don't forget that your ultimate goal is to become like Jesus. And that's the best person to emulate.

NOT exactly what they said, but something to that extent (memory... failing... me...) (Also, I put that square bracket there, because not everyone wants to be a dancer, so you can put your occupation of choice in there & it'll fit, yeah? :D)

Inspired by David Horvath:

"Last SDCC (San Diego Comic Convention) the LA Times asked me if I've ever failed.
I told them the only true failure is not starting, so no."
(Off Google+)

'Nuff said. The capitalised words speak loudly enough for themselves. (On a side note, I'm glad I'm on Google+, 'cause David's so active there! Happy~)

Inspired by Brooke Fraser:

When she started singing, I started having goosebumps up my back.
Halfway through, I started crying. I don't know why.
Maybe it was something related to ZJ? I dunno.
But I just felt inspired.

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Kel (from one50 dance) said that if we have a dream in our heart, especially if it's a dream that's from God (those types stick around for a while), we shouldn't ignore it or put it aside, no matter how silly it seems. She said to keep submitting it to Him daily and He will do whatever He needs to do.

During the whole session, every time they talked about reaching for their/your dreams, I just kept thinking about mine. I felt like God was reassuring me (like He wanted me to hear those words), but I'm still so confused and I still don't know whether it's just some silly whim I want, or something He has planned for me.

Why is my dream so specific? Am I crazy? Am I greedy? It's impossible, right? :S

Anyway, I came home from the one50 workshop and told myself that I wanted to change my desktop background. (Even though I'd just broken the casing of my tablet pc by banging on it one too many times. I'm not lying, dude, my anger issues have reached a new level with this tablet. There is a crack next to the mousepad area) I had this sudden urge to draw a ballerina (yes, I always create my own desktop backgrounds & I often do drawings) and include the words you see in the picture below.

And then I felt like uploading the picture here. I dunno. I don't usually show people (upload) my backgrounds (online) since I believe that nobody would be interested in them.

Anyway, it's about just.. you know, not stopping, to keep moving till you get there, to your goal.

Beyonce, in her Year Of 4 video, said something that resonated with me, that I agree with wholeheartedly:

"There was nothing that could stop them from dancing. And I love to surround myself with that type of energy. It's just, that's the reason why you perform."

It was about the Tofo Tofo guys, whose style of dancing she really liked. And in the video, when you see them walking down the streets of America (they come from Africa), they're dancing and just doing their thing, and I identified with that. It's kinda like me at home, where I just suddenly unconsciously start dancing as I'm walking around the house. (Oops, that was supposed to be a secret. Ah, pretend you didn't read that ;P) And when Beyonce said that, I was like, "Yeah, why stop performing/dancing when you can do it all the time?"

Feel like spending some time with God again.

Night♥

Zhaojue

2011-07-22T17:37:00.005+08:00

I was bored and started searching up Google for stuff related to the YC in Zhaojue.
Next thing I know, I see this blog post from some random person about their trip to Zhaojue & what they'd done there. Not everything was the same, because we (the girls anyway) hardly went to the farm & we barely helped out around the farm.

But what hit me was the experience and the impact God had left on the writer. Even though she's from Canada and is so much older than me, her feelings towards her trip to ZJ was almost identical to mine.

Never once thought of going on a mission trip.
Suddenly called by God to go, and not really sure what we're doing, we just go, expecting to serve God & help others.
Went there and was amazed and humbled by everything on the trip - the scenery, the longtermers, the students.
At the end of the trip, we feel like as if God has done so much more for us than we thought we were gonna do.

I started crying partway through the Farewell section of the post. And continued crying till the end. I really, really could relate with this girl and I totally understand what she's saying.

Lord, I really want to go back there. But, is it too greedy to ask for that and also be able to achieve my dream?

Anyway, this is the link to the post: CLICK HERE! (link opens in new window)

It's a REALLY, REALLY long post, even longer than what I can do. OMO! :D But, it's so good. If you want to know how I truly felt about my ZJ trip, you can read it. But I've already warned you, it's a long read. (But of course, you can just skip to the Farewell section & read from there)

Quotable Quotes

2011-07-22T01:30:00.005+08:00

FROM AVELYN.

Spent a good part of yesterday out with Avelyn at NEX and we talked a whole lot!

So, out of the extended conversation we had, I have two quotes to share!

#1

The purpose of a fast is to create space for God.

AH, so now I know what a fast is for.
Like, when you fast from something, you have that extra bit of time away from it and that time that was freed up, should be spent more wisely, like, with God! And like, not be substituted with other things (like watching one too many Lady Gaga videos T_T)

As they say, ignorance is not always bliss, so yeah, now I know, I will do something about it!!

#2

Brokenness is realising that God is all you have.
Joy/Happiness is realising that God is all you want.
Peace is realising that God is all you need.

I think that this just encapsulates everything nicely, eh?
I shan't bother explaining it, because for one, my explanation skills are just trash and for another, I would just go around the bush, expanding on this and not actually explaining anything substantial.

That's for not being an arts student! ;D

On the other hand, I think that I'm quite funny. As in, funny in a weird way, not haha way. Like, I'm a science student by nature, 'cause that's how my mind works, but I enjoy doing artsy stuff like drawing, photography & writing music. Funny how God makes us humans to have such interesting personalities huh?

Yeah, just a short post today. My mind's not working very well & I'm trying to load a Taiwan drama on tudou. And it's taking forever T_T

(PS - I'm too lazy to look for a picture to post & too lazy to connect my hard drive to the tablet to use pictures from there. Too bad!)

Out! ♥

Music

2011-07-19T00:57:00.006+08:00

Years ago, back when I was 12 (how time flies T_T), I did the Spiritual Gifts test at church camp. At that time, the gift I got was 'Music'. At that time, I thought, hm, o-kaaay. I mean, I wasn't doing much, music-wise, back then.

I was learning piano, yes, but I couldn't, for the life of me, even decipher what the musical notes were in the songs I listened to. (On a side note, this desire to know what the notes to a certain song are, arose only after I'd heard Britney's "Everytime") At the same time, I didn't play the piano at church, because I sucked at it anyway, and I wasn't doing anything musically to serve God, so it felt silly to have this gift.

Basically, I brushed it off and went on with life.
I thought little of this "gift" I had and thought it was phony. I didn't even really consider it as a real gift.

But, fast forward 7 years and here I am, thinking about this and realising how this gift is showing up in my life now and how it HAS been in my life all along.

I mean, looking through my first diary, I realise that I actually wrote my very first song when I was 11, but at that time, I didn't realise what I had done. Before I knew Lady Gaga, before I knew Big Bang, before I knew what a singer-songwriter was, before I wanted to be one, I'd written a song. It was really silly, called "Crush On You", and musically-wise, it wasn't very good, 'cause it didn't have proper structure, but it was still my first effort (and yes, I CAN still sing it, but I will NEVER let anyone hear it, 'cause it's really silly).

Eventually, over the years, I improved in my piano/music skills. I started being able to decipher notes on a piano, the first song being "Kookaburra". It was a simple tune, but it was an accomplishment for me, to just suddenly be able to play a tune I'd heard. It happened towards the end of a piano lesson and I was so surprised that I could do that. I guess, that was the start for me and it enabled me to have the confidence to try to decipher the notes to other songs that I'd heard and liked. I'm still not very good at it, because I only know how to play the right hand to such tunes and am not able to play the accompaniment on the left hand, but I'm trying hard to learn that...

Also, I continued to write songs after that first song, not a lot (in fact, they were few & far between), but they did improve in structure. A little. ;) Of course, I didn't realise how that was benefitting my life until my desire to be a singer-songwriter surfaced, which was after I started liking Lady Gaga and Big Bang.

I mean, I learned about what a singer-songwriter was when I read an article about Avril Lavigne when she first debuted on the music scene. But, it never made such an impact on my life until I knew that the artists I liked wrote their own songs. And so, inspired by them, I started writing songs. The first official song I wrote was written in Nov 2009. It was called "Plunge Into The Unknown" and it took me about one and three quarts of an hour to write this. I remember that fact only because I was surprised that Gaga said she wrote her songs in 10-15 minutes and I wanted to know how long I took. And to clarify, no, I cannot write songs that fast. I'm just not that fast!

I can't remember how to sing most of it now, other than the chorus, sadly, but I really like the lyrics. And lyrics are really important. Especially when you write a song that's about God, or as I call it, a Christian song. (I guess most people also call it like that, fine) My first Christian song was written in sec 2 or 3 (I'm not sure 'cause I wrote it in a notebook), at night, hiding in one corner of my bedroom in the old house, using the light of the moon & street lamps to write it. And as I like to say, "The shit I wrote at sec 2 is better than some of the shit I write now."

That's me being negative about my self, as usual, I guess, but yeah, I believe that those lyrics are from God. Why? Because I still remember so clearly that there was one line in the song that I didn't even understand the meaning of and I had to ask Dawn to explain it to me later on when I realised I didn't properly understand it. Funny, huh? Writing stuff you don't even really know what you're writing about.

Anyway, to stop rambling on and on, I'm realising now that the gift of music is something that is real in me. It's not phony or something to be brushed aside, as I thought it was, previously. I'm surprised that I turned out this way and that I am at this point here, in life. I guess God wasn't joking when He put the gift of music as my first gift in that first Spiritual Gifts test I took.

Who knew that I'd grow to love music so much? Who knew that music would become such an integral+important part of my life? Who knew that I'd be writing songs on a regular basis? Who knew any of this stuff?

God did.

Interesting how He brought me to this point. And I'm interested to know where He brings me in the future.

As usual, a photo to end off the post. This time, I'm not posting a silly one.

(You can click to expand it if you want. This link opens in another window.)

This is a picture from my archives. Okay, I took this on Jeju Island when we went to Korea in early 2010, so, not very archive-y, fine. I love it because it shows the Sun's rays shining down onto the Earth.

My favourite part of nature, other than flowers, is the sky and I really love looking at it, because I feel that it's great expanse and beauty really showcases how great our God is. My favourite is when the sky is really blue (but unfortunately, that's when it's also VERY sunny :/), but I also love the night sky a lot, especially when there are stars. *-* (does that look like an emoticon to you? I think it does!)

♥ G'night!

Edge Of Glory

2011-07-16T23:59:00.000+08:00

I was looking through my pictures of my toys and I saw this one that I hadn't seen previously.

I thought it would make a nice Desktop background. ^^

And yeah, I couldn't think of anything else to write, but I thought that the title was quite apt cause Jake's kinda on the edge there... ;D

I was going to write another wordy post, but then I decided against it, because I didn't like the topic I was thinking of writing. SO, yeah. Nice & simple blog post, the kind Angeline (Madjukie) likes. Unfortunately, not enough pictures cause she likes loads of 'em, but, too bad! I only feel like posting one!

♥

Just Breathe

2011-07-15T15:03:00.003+08:00

This is one of my all-time favourite songs.
Introduced to me by my cousin way back in 2007 or 2008, I've always enjoyed listening to it.

Firstly, the melody is amazing. Yes, I love my hip hop and I love my heavy, thumping beats, but sometimes, a nice, slow and simple song is what I need. I believe everybody is this way? :)
It's got a nice, soothing tune that I really enjoy listening to and also, being a piano player, I love hearing the piano in the background. Sadly, I'm not talented enough to decipher chords yet - I can only decipher single notes - but maybe one day I'll be able to..? ^^

Secondly, I enjoy hearing her voice. I mean, I'm no Anna Nalick fan, because I'm too lazy to do some research on her and to find out what her other songs are (Okay, I've wanted to and have had thoughts to do so, but, not enough impetus I guess!) Her voice, to me, is kinda country-ish, but at the same time, very easy to listen to and very easy to like! I wish I had a nice voice that is easy on the ears like that, but oh well, not everybody is blessed the same way... Of course, her voice (together with the melody) is probably the reason why this song is classified as "Easy Listening" ^^

Finally, and most importantly, lyrics-wise, this song is just, wow. It's true that I can't really identify with the first 2 verses, but the rest of the song is really, really well-written. I wish I could write sensible songs like that! Good grief, I look at some of the songs that I write and I just shake my head. (Okay, but then, of course, if you want to reach the mass market, you have to write some mindless songs like that)

I mean, the pre-chorus is SO true, isn't it? Look:
'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, girl.
So cradle your head in your hands

It's so well-written. I mean, the imagery is simple and to the point (unlike Gaga's T_T I never understand 99% of it, I suppose, because I'm not deep enough T_T) Furthermore, it makes sense to me because it describes life very accurately. We're all running on a track, the track of life, and we can't jump from it. God's planned everything already and even if we try to turn from it, eventually, God will put another turn in our way and we'll be back on the path He's planned for us. I'm not saying this is in a bad way. You can look at it in a positive light, because if you're worried about not doing His will, there's no need to worry, since He will always direct us back to His Way.

And about the hourglass and rewind button, how true is it? Whatever's done is done and you can't go back and fix it. Once time is wasted it's wasted and you can't turn it around and try to "un-waste" it. It's a good reminder to everyone that we should use our time wisely and make the most of everything in life! (Complete opposite of how I've been leading my life, wasting the seconds and minutes and hours away on the 'net when I could be doing more positive things. Oh wow, that's quite the ironic statement, considering what I'm doing now!)

And the bridge:
There's a light at each end of this tunnel,
You shout 'cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
And these mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you'd only try turning around.

Quite interesting, huh, for the last 2 lines of the bridge. Food for thought!

And finally, the last thing I want to highlight, the last verse:
2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me,
Threatening the life it belongs to
And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to

You have no idea how it feels like to have a song inside of you that you want to finish writing, but it's not coming out. It's quite frustrating, because it's dying to come out, ("threatening the life it belongs to") and it's not. But thankfully, it does come out, eventually. (Sometimes it takes a few days T_T)

You have no idea how many times, also, I have stayed up to find myself still awake, writing a song at 2am, or even later. Somehow, the quietness and stillness of the night inspires me. I guess, without any distraction from people or from the surroundings (usually lesser cars on the road at night! ~~Obviously~~), it's easier to find the emotions needed to write a song. (Oddly enough though, I write my Christian songs in the day and most of my other songs at night, haha)

My favourite though, is the last line. How apt is it? People love using lines from songs as quotes, be it in blog posts, on twitter or facebook status updates or even in real life! I find it interesting, how she captures the feelings of songwriters in that line. People can use these lines in any way that they want, it can be positive, it can be negative, but once it's out there, it's a "free-for-all" for everybody. So, yeah, I felt this line was very clever.

Haha, one whole bunch of words again! I'm not gonna bother putting any pictures in between there, to make it interesting, because I'm not good at that! (Plus, I'd be too lazy to have to do all the credits and stuff like that) So, because I'm kinda weird, I'll end off this post with ANOTHER random picture again! Haha, I'm nutty.

Just breathe, just breathe...

Out!♥

I'm BAAAAACK!

2011-07-14T17:37:00.002+08:00

It sure has been a while since I last touched this blog, last posted here. Wow.
I mean, dude, I haven't even posted since Nov 2010!!!! That's sad, considering how A Levels are over and I was supposed to be freer.

How wrong.

I mean, okay, NOW, I AM freer, but previously, WHOA, so many things to do!
At first, it was a schedule that was jam-packed with meeting friends. Then, I went to Japan (again). Then, I started working, which took up a HUUUGE chunk of my time and caused me to be too tired to touch the internet. Finally, I went to YAWA (in Malaysia), followed by China. Which meant, I was B-U-S-Y from the moment A Levels truly ended. My goodness.

But, I'm free now! Free to update this silly place! BUT, then again, when you're free, it means you have nothing much to say and nothing much to talk about. Omo. :(

On a final note, before I end off this first post of 2011, I want to mention that I made some VERY OBVIOUS changes to my blog.
Firstly, I changed my title a little. Previously, it said "Best viewed in Mozilla Firefox", but ah, who cares!
Next, I changed this text box and the text box on your right. Previously, they had set heights, but for the longest time, I have found this irritating, so today, I have FINALLY changed this and have removed the "height: 'value'" from my code! That way, your viewing won't be limited to a puny wittle box. ^^
Thirdly, I removed the "Links" page. I guess a lot of people have stopped using their blogs as well and I dunno, I guess it looked silly, so well, I removed it.
Finally, I increased the width of this text box as well. A YouTube link from my last blog post was causing an unnecessary scrollbar in this box and I wanted to remove, so I kept expanding it. UNfortunately, it is still there. And I don't want to keep on increasing it!!!! Omo. It's so huge already!!! As such, my final fix to it, is to just keep posting a little bit more in order to remove it! Yay! So, I'll be flooding this space for a little bit the next few days. Hehehe.

Yup, in essential, I have actually done a lot in this one post. I have updated (very briefly) on my life and I have updated about the changes made on this site. My work here is done! Toodle-oo!

Okay, I now e'rbody hates a word-y and text-y post, so I'll just put a random picture hereeee!

Japanese curry is bloody good. I miss it!

Out!♥

My (long) commentary on Mnet Asia Music Awards 2010!

2010-11-29T00:55:00.006+08:00

Okay wow, I just watched Mnet Asia Music Awards 2010 live again! Thank goodness for live streaming on allkpop.com, since I don't have cable TV this year -.- Sigh. Anyway, wow wow wow wow wow wow wow! I'm so overwhelmed! So many amazing things!

2NE1 winning 4 awards again! (+ Park Bom unni winning Best Digital Single!!)
Taeyang oppa winning Best Male Solo Singer!
Gummy unni winning Best Female Solo Singer + Best Solo Vocal Performance!

And then, 2NE1's epic stage!
And most importantly for the show, Taeyang + GD + TOP 오빠들's super freaking amazing stage!!!

Okay, I was very happy when 2NE1 won Best Female Group + Best Music Video + Artist Of The Year, but when they also won Album Of The Year, I was just overwhelmed! I mean, whoa! 2 daesangs!!!! (highest award in a Korean award show) That's seriously amazing!!! I was really happy for them!!

2NE1 really had an amazing comeback this year, sweeping the charts with their triple title song promotion for so many weeks! They really deserved the awards they won! I mean, yeah, people may say that SNSD deserves Best Female Group, but who wins a Triple Mutizen AND THEN a 4th Mutizen straight after that? AMAZING. I know I'm biased but yeah, BEST FEMALE GROUP IN KOREA YEAH~!

Best Digital Single:

Best Female Group:

Best Music Video:

Artist Of The Year:

Album Of The Year:

(I love how Yoon Eun Hye unni was like "Ke, I'm a fan!")

Um, Taeyang winning Best Male Solo Singer was a slight surprise for me, 'cause he didn't exactly lead in that category in online voting, but yeah, still, congratulations to him! I was hoping he'd win Best Solo Performance, but yeah, oh well, I guess Rain does deserve an award because he did do really well this year in his promotions!

And Gummy unni! I was so happy she won Best Vocal Performance!! She was leading loads in the online voting and I'm glad she won the award! I really love unni's voice and I really enjoy listening to her songs!!! :) I think that she really deserves this award because her vocals are DEFINITELY amazing! ^^

Best Vocal Performance:

Allkpop reports that Gummy unni won Best Female Solo Singer, but um, yeah, they didn't show it >:( Angry! I think they missed it out? :( I'll just assume that Allkpop reported correctly! :)

Anyway, on to the stages!!!! 2NE1's openinng was a little mmm, weird, with the whole Chinese drums thing, but yeah, I didn't mind it. I was thinking that it would be them when I first saw the starting bits, but the drum beats threw me off till CL unni said "Bbbrrraaahh!" and I was like, yeah 2NE1 fo'sho!

I liked that they performed 날따라해봐요! It's a cool song!! They did a good job of performing it, introducing the girls before their respective parts! Not much dancing, but yeah, loved it! Their outfits here was nice, but yeah, my usual gripe of "I miss the old stylists." I know the concept is darker this year, but the clothes didn't have to neccesarily be so dark. Man, what happened to colour and standing out? SIGH. Sorry, I just really miss Han Gaeng oppa and Daniel Sexy Lee.

Image Source: Seoulitude

See? So many colours!

Follow Me:

Then, the random martial arts break was funny but cool - saw some taekwondo moves! The leads (I'm assuming are the Kwon twins) were mostly in sync for the most part, save for a few moves that were off, but yeah, still coool~! And after that, 2NE1 came back with 박수쳐...looking like Lady Gaga when she performed Bad Romance on Brtain's X-Factor... Gareth Pugh-inspired much? Totally not the best outfit for dancing to, but okay, they pulled it off. (But again I say, MISS the old stylists TTM)

Clap Your Hands:

Image Source: The Daily Mail UK

See? Just like Lady Gaga with her Gareth Pugh outfit!

I don't mean to be hating on the new stylists, but I still wished that 2NE1 wore different outfits, because that's what made them stand out. :( When they all wear the same outfits, it makes the performance a little lame-r, because their outfits stand out less and the performance loses a little bit of its amazing-ness TO ME. Oh well. Then, finally they did Can't Nobody, switching up the choreo in the second bit! When you see them really enjoying the performance (especially at the last bit when the song switches up), you feel really good! You see them smiling and totally enjoying the stage and you feel happier too! Energy UP! :D

Full stage:

ALL IN ALL, really enjoyed this stage loads!

But you know what was the highlight of MAMA 2010? Big Bang's super cool 14 minute long stage! Seriously, the coolest thing ever to watch them perform and really bring the energy level of the entire arena UP UP UP! Taeyang oppa started with Break Down, which I enjoy listening to, before going into I Need A Girl, walking past many girls along the way...

Then, he went to Dara unni! Aigoo, she could've acted more surprised! Bommie unni acted more surprised than her! CL unni was laughing like mad <- Totally hilarious! Ah, but you can totally tell that Taeyang oppa likes her - kekeke! Dara unni was quite awkward on stage...:/ I guess it must've been a hurriedly decided thing...Like their interaction lacked a little something - unlike when Dara unni performs with GD oppa...

Break Down:

I Need A Girl:

Anyway, after Dara unni was shot, TOP oppa came on stage! YEAH THAT'S RIGHT, performing Turn It Up!! Ah, but ugh, I hated the concept when he first came on. With the white cloak and whip...totally evoking the Ku Klux Klan. -.- Sigh. Sigh sigh sigh. Okay, but when the cloak came off and the whip thrown away, in his cream suit, he did look very very very good. Even with that OTT white hair. *shakes head* I enjoyed Turn It Up! I mean, no I don't agree with the lyrics, but I like the music. Keke and the best part was when he did the Bingu dance at the end! Very cool! 오빠 너무 멌있다!

And then, omo omo! Taeyang oppa appears on stage and points a gun at TOP oppa at point blank range! At least TOP oppa acted really well! He really did look scared! He totally deserves his Best New Actor award yeah! ;D To which, GD oppa, fly as usual, appears on stage and whoa, shocks me by performing a new song! I didn't think YG would let them do that, but wow, they really pulled out all the stops to make MAMA 2010 really cool!

After GD oppa's short solo, he and TOP performed another song off their to-be-released album!!! I liked it a lot!! Very, very nice to dance to! Strong beats + catchy hook = Big hit! :D Man, I totally cannot wait for their album to be released!!! It's almost like the TOP album that I've been waiting for, only that there's GD oppa in it!! Whoop! Can't wait for their promotions yo! ^^ EXCITED!!!

Finally, they end off the performance with Hallelujah, released last year. I love the song! Ah, but because I haven't been listening to it a lot recently, I couldn't sing along very well! Time to listen to the song more! :D Anyway, whoa, the Hallelujah stage ended with the trio pointing guns at each other! Omo, totally reminds me of the YG Family Famillenium album...all those guns everywhere! Ah, but yeah, violence is not good okay!

Image Source: YG Bounce Ancient Picture Wednesdays archive (Link has more pictures of guns & YG Family circa 1999!)

Guns guns guns galore!

Whole performance:

And the best part? They revealed that the High High MV would be released 15 Dec! Can't wait! Okay, a bit apprehnsive because of the white hair TOP oppa has and the pimp-ish image that Big Bang has been sporting recently (sigh)...BUT STILL, OKAY, THE FANGIRL IN ME CAN'T WAIT! :D Knowing that it's GD & TOP oppa, in my opinion, the people with the strongest visuals in the group, I know that it'll be cool. :D

As for the rest of MAMA, 2PM's stage was cool, but not very stand-out-ish for me. Wondergirls looked like they had trouble with their trapeze rope thingys, but okay, the remix of their songs was not bad!

Um, iMe (Chinese group) & Perfume (Japanese group) looked like they were lip-synching. The former did a much worser job of it, while the latter...I'm not too sure actually (but I'm assuming they did because they can't possibly sing with an auto-tuned song like that)

Chemistry (Japanese group) and Huh Gak (SuperstarK2 winner) were really good! Their vocals were amazing!! Huh Gak's story is also especially touching!

OH MY GOODNESS I JUST REALISED I FORGOT GUMMY'S STAGE!!!!
Ah, how can I forgot YG Family's Female Vocal!
Anyway, her performance was amazing! Fantastic vocals! She started with Because of You, from her Loveless mini-album, before going into an amazing PIANO SOLO! WOW! I didn't know she played the piano (because of lack of info about her online), but it was just daebak!

Because Of You:

Then, after the solo, she continued playing the piano for 月亮代表我的心! She sang a Korean version, which was really cool to listen to!! Her vocals are amazing - man, I wish I were as vocally talented as her!!! Then, Chinese vocal 张杰 joined her and sang the original, beautiful Chinese version, to which Gummy unni joined in at the last bit! Fantastic! I really loved it! I loved that she sang the song, because it's one of the few Chinese songs that I'm familiar with (because my mum loves the song & I do too)!!! :)

月亮代表我的心:

Okay, I think I covered everything! Phew! I'll tell you that MAMA is always such an experience thanks to YG Family! I always love watching their stages! Last year's one with 2NE1 and GDYB was amazing, and this year was just as cool, or even better (because of having TOP oppa in the mix :D) Haa, I am a very satisfied VIP/Blackjack!!! I'm so glad I caught MAMA live and that there was a delayed telecast on Mediacorp's Channel U as well, the latter being that I can watch MAMA in 16:9 dimension and vague HD! :D

Yup, okay, enough rubbish from me! I have to go study Computing now! After this 마지막 paper, I will be free!!! And I can do a proper update on my life. And keep this blog alive. LOL!
♥ Out!

Happy Bithday TOP oppa~!

2010-11-04T13:35:00.002+08:00

IT'S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN!!!

IT'S TOP OPPA'S BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!

KEKEKE.
생일축하합나다, 최승현 오빠!!

Okay, I know I haven't been updating the blog lately! :( My mum has actually begun to restrict my time online :( :( It all started before prelims and after a grace period of a few days after prelims, she went back to restricting my time online again. GAH. And you might ask, how does she do it?

Well.
She hides the internet modem somewhere in her room.
And I still haven't figured where that stupid hiding place is. ㅠ.ㅠ

So, because I have limited time online, updating the blog becomes a super low priority, because between checking my email, updating Twitter and catching up on Kpop news, MAN, I really have no time online to update this blog. ><>work sleep first. I haven't slept yet, remember? 8/ (My dark eyecircles are really bad now. I think I'm even developing eyebags as well. Oh someone help me!)

T/N: As mentioned above, I spent the whole of last night doing Maths, not TOP oppa's card. I spent Monday night doing that. Heh. BUT not the whole of Monday night kay. Probably, um, 5 hours? HEH, WHOOPS. (I also want to add that it wasn't easy photoshopping the card, ESPECIALLY THE BLACK & WHITE PICTURE from the Turn It Up MV. That was a pain, thanks to the Black & White-ness of the picture :( Also difficult was the ring, because like that other Black & White picture, I had to manually erase-off the background :/) I think I always go overboard when I do things that I like :/

Okay okay, enough rubbish from me!!!
Till I next update!
♥

The Great Update

2010-07-03T22:17:00.000+08:00

It's been a superbly long while since I really updated this space with my life story and all the crazy/mad/tiring happenings in my silly, silly life.

Sooooo, after putting it off for just about, SO LONG, I have pulled myself together to produce this uber long post about my life sinceIlastupdatedthisblog :D It'll be like, a quick summary of the major events that took place in my life since mmm, about February like that :D And because Angeline (Madjukie) likes 'em blog posts with piiiictures, I'll try to include as many as possible and ATTEMPT to not be long-winded about eeeeeverything (almost impossible, this task is) ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ ;)

(But please bear in mind, this is more for myself, of course! It’s to make sure that the memory of whichever event it is stays with me!)

First up, the FLYING FOX!
According to the pictures I'd taken there, Annabelle & I went on the 'Fox on 24th Feb, which was a Wednesday.

I remember booking a time slot the moment the Outdoor Activities Club (OAC) people announced that the Flying Fox was open. So kiasu right? ;) For me, I'm definitely a heights-elements girl. Not a scary-twisty-bendy-360-degrees-flip-roller-coaster sorta girl, but a let's-do-something-that-suspends-me-in-the-air kinda girl. No flipping around, just give me heights THANKS.

Ever since I saw (can't remember who) "flying" down the 'Fox in TA1 to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of TJ, I'd been dying to go on the 'Fox and now, finally, in my final year at TJ, I am granted this fantabulous chance! Whoot whoot! Nana signed up for a session with me as well, so here are the pictures!

The main set-up!

So basically, after we stop "flying", the metal thingy in the foreground would be moved towards us and an OAC person would unbuckle you from all the straps etc & you then have to help man it for the next person.

It REALLY is quite heavy & isn't easy to push!

So that's basically the scenery you get!
Quite cool actually, to see the school from a bird's point of view ;D

The picture above shows the "runway"! Basically, you sit at this ledge (the wooden thing next to the thick metal wire) after they buckle you up with the safety harness/caribana(or whatever it's spelt. It's those clicky things) & go through the various checks (which are the same ones that you go through when you belay someone/rock-climb etc). Then, when the all-clear signal is given, you're good to go!

Nana getting ready to take off! ;D (She's on the 5th floor, I'm on the ground level!)

Finished! :)

How was the experience?
Okay, so-so. I mean, I will always love the thrill of whooshing down a Flying Fox, but after going to OBM, this really can't beat it. I mean the 'Fox at OBM was so long and had such awesome scenery and was suspended much higher, so nothing in Singapore can beat that, I suppose! But I'll always still love going on Flying Foxes! :) :) :) ㅎㅎㅎ
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Second on the list of important-things-that-happened-in-my-life-since-I-last-updated, is the March Common Test.
(I was going to end off the sentence with an exclamation mark, but er, this one is more serious & a little disappointing & not bright n’ happy)
This took place from 22-25 March for me, which was the Monday-Thursday of that week (some people had to come back on the Friday of that week, 26 March, though)

I would have to say that this was quite a badly done common test. I really didn’t study hard enough, being distracted with the Internet & watching TV. This is mainly because I didn’t have the 24-hour surveillance of my mother as my parents were both away on holiday. To make things worse, I had my TV-addict aunt stay with me, so I was just watching TV with her all-day-long. :/ I mean, I love my aunt and all, but wow, bad influence when I should be studying for my exams :(

I’m supposed to learn from this experience, but judging at the rate I studied for my JCTs... UGH, nothing to say of myself. I wonder when I’ll learn, I wonder when I’ll learn...
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Thirdly, a happier (sorta anyway) one this time, was the Reverie V concert! :D :D
Once again, I came up with & did the advert for our ticket sales. ㅋ This year’s ad was more successful AND was much more fun(nier) than Reverie 4’s advert. Plus, I liked the concept more :D Have got to thank this video!

On another note though, we had more time to prepare for this concert, firstly because we started preparing the year before (unlike Reverie 4, wherein preparations only started in January) and secondly because it was held on April 17 (unlike Reverie 4, which was held on March 22 or 23 – can’t quite remember)

As usual, with all concerts, this one was also very tiring, draining and absolutely time-consuming. :( Even though I’d only chosen to dance 4 items this time, the time that I had to spend on them was still as much, but maybe slightly lesser. Either way, I was glad I took lesser items this year I suppose. As usual, I joined a Hip Hop item, together with a Zaki item & a Miss Wee item. The only difference this time was that there was SYF to perform. The costumes this time was much better. At least no crazy stunts like the previous concert... I suppose the worst was SYF ‘cos we had to show our stomach, but still better than that other item. Heh. As usual, also, I started lagging behind in homework. Like, a lot. In fact, I’m still lagging behind in my homework now. -.- I suck huh? OH well.

Anyway, this time, instead of the Drama Centre, we performed at Republic Polytechnic. The theatre, like the Drama Centre, has a rather warm and cosy feel, but is bigger in terms of size. Backstage-wise, I think that the Drama Centre had more space. Some of the dancers had to share mirrors, but fortunately for me, I was in a place where I got my own mirror to myself ㅋ No behind the scenes pictures, because I didn’t bring a camera along, but anyway, there wasn’t much exciting things backstage.

My performances... I felt that they weren’t very good this time. I messed up a little in Miss Wee & Sabrina’s items and I bumped into Lutfi during the SYF item. My best item would’ve been ‘If The Boy Can’t Dance’. I think that it’s cos I forgot to pray hard before the concert started, which was probably why I messed up. :/ Which was why, by the time I got to ITBCD, I prayed really, really hard. Prayed that I wouldn’t mess up, that the rest wouldn’t mess up and that we would all have fun. AND I think it worked. I really enjoyed myself in the last time. ;) I had a lot of fun dancing to the last item and I should think that I didn’t make any mistakes...

Picture time! These were all taken after the concert, duh. My dad actually took pictures of the items during the concert, but none from the items I was in, cos he was busy taking videos. Because he didn’t realise that it would be filmed by the AV Club for us. OH WELL.

Ashley! ;D (See those blue flowers in her hands? She asked her friend to help her get normal coloured roses, not outrageously-coloured ones like blue, and her friend got her blue. 8D But blue flowers are cool! They stand out a lot!)

Pretty girls Ann Yi, Pearly and Zhi Xin! :)

My dance “seniors” (ie same batch as me, but older than me)!!!! Miss them big time! So nice to see so many, many of them :D

KPC kias! Thanks for the huge elmo balloon guys! It rocks! (Elmo ran out of gas after 3 weeks. But either way, I had a lot of fun with it!)

With my parents and all the stuff I got altogether! :D
See the luggage my dad is holding? That’s where I kept all my stuff this time, instead of a cardboard box. So much more space to hold my stuff! ;)

Zeng An, Nicolette, Denise & Shu Fen! (Not sure what happened after um, Justin & Andrew played with the DSLR, but it stopped auto-focusing on the main object after that, so this and the next picture are blur)

The 17/09 guys! Yuan Song, who I got to know from Heroes Camp. Ying Tai, who I got to know through Tate. Glen, from Computing.

And below are the flowers I got!

I’m very thankful to everyone who came down to support us! RP is not easy to get to and I’m grateful to the people who took time to make the uber long trip down to watch us! :D
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Next, number 4 is my birthday! Whoo-oo-whoo-oo!
I know I partially blogged about in on the day itself, but …
Just to keep things short, I’ll just talk briefly about the family celebration/party, since I don’t usually like going on about the details of such parties (if you have seen my previous posts about my birthday) I’ll also keep photos to a minimal for this ‘un.

We decided to hold the party on the Sunday before my birthday itself, 25 April, as I would be going off on a short trip the next weekend. My birthday outfit, ie the outfit that I wear on the day I have birthday celebrations, was just as last minute as the previous years. I ended up buying it on the Saturday before the party! Partly because I’d been busy with Reverie 5. SOOO, here’s my outfit!

This is my leopard leotard, which is supposed to be 2NE1 style yeeeaaahhh~ Did you know that if I bend my body around, the leopard’s expression changes? ㅋㅋㅋ

And my birthday rings below! (ie the rings I wore that day) The middle one is the ‘birthday ring’ (ie the new ring) :D
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The fifth thing on this list is the Geography trip we had to KL and Kuantan!
It lasted from early 30 April till about midday 3 May, which (thankfully) was a public holiday, so we did not miss too many school lessons :)

It was definitely a fun trip! It’s definitely got to be the only school trip overseas that I’ve had! Outward Bound Malaysia is not really counted in my books as a school trip cos it’s more physical stuff and less learning stuff. So yeah. 8)

We went to a lot of places and did a lot of exploring, which was definitely my kind of thing! I’m a nature girl, the kind that loves hanging around nature, so it was pretty up my street! It’s not everyday that we get to see such cool natural stuff! Nature in Singapore is all found in the West etc, ie very far from my home, so I don’t get to enjoy it often :( I took like 200 over pictures at the trip, but obviously I won’t be uploading all! That’ll be insaaaane! I’ll just chose a few to talk about. As you can see, this post is getting, um, pretty long. HEH.

First, we went to KLCC, where the Twin Towers was!
(Cool picture huh? So vivid, without me even editing it! The awesome power of the sun!) I’d been there before, so it wasn’t too exciting. Plus, there really isn’t that much too see. Not like the Seoul Tower in Korea. Oh man, that one’s a million times awesome-r (cos you get to go much higher than the level at the Twin Towers Observatory Deck and you see so much more!)

Charis :D She & Rachel were my room-mates for the trip(:

Do you feel the awesome power of God shining down on us? :]

After that, we went to Putrajaya and Cyberjaya, which weren’t, um, very exciting because they were pretty dead and there wasn’t anything cool to take pictures of. Except maybe the streetlamps, but I was too lazy to do so. Those were really cool, cos they had all these snazzy futuristic designs on them! ㅎㅎㅎ Blah blah blah... Anyway, the picture below is of Miss J, Charis and I. We took the picture in front of the tallest flag post in Malaysia (I think).

I look quite ugly here :(

Fast forward to the next day, where we visited some caves! Those were situated near oil palm plantations, which Eileen says that Angel/GNat will love because they were all in straight lines & “following their blocking” :D

The pictures I took in the caves we went into was pretty lame/boring. Nothing exciting. OH EXCEPT that in one cave, a bunch of us climbed up (almost) to the top! It was so cool, to be able to climb so high and to feel so accomplished when we’d made it! See?
Imagine, that’s us and below, all those little specks of colour are normal-sized people climbing into the cave. NOT BAD HUH? (I took this picture, so naturally I wouldn’t be in it) We wanted to climb up even higher, to where people had spray painted and left their names there (including one AHMAD ALI), but we couldn’t because it was an almost vertical climb. Rachel concluded that those folks made it up there before the rocks had crumbled away...

Nice scenery by the caves huh?

Then, we went to the beach. The sun there was awesome. So darn awesome, I’ll tell ya! It totally made the colours of EVERYTHING look just about a million times prettier!

Whoa, like island getaway right?

Rachel, my roomie, and I, with our newly bought ~~fake~~ Ray Bans on top of a rock we’d climbed ;DㅋㅋㅋAfter this beach, we went to another, before retiring for the night

The next day, we did river studies! It was the day I had the most “casualties”! We tried measuring river speeds and all that AND I also fell into the super shallow river. And I got my butt wet. :( We also visited a waterfall that was near the river (ok lah, it flowed into that river)! I love waterfalls because I think that they’re really pretty, but yeah, this one had people bathing in it, literally. From brushing their teeth to washing their armpits, the area below the waterfall was totally their public bathroom. -.-

Either way, so pretty huh?

And I also got stung at the waterfall. When I was innocently trying to take a picture of a pond skater. WHAT WAS I DOING TO THAT DAMN BEE? You jealous I wear yellow isit? Cannot I wear yellow and you are yellow colour isit? HUH. In case you were wondering, here’s the picture, below.

Then, we visited a rock quarry, which is apparently the result of people trying to get granite rocks. Another awesome-sky-moment!
All those rocks are pieces of granite. Now we know where the material at the sinks in my house come from ;D

It was also superbly hot there, because there was no natural foliage to shade us from the fury that is the sun. Awesome pictures, but hot sun, oh well, nothing in life is easy to get.

Random rock-hills.

Random pretty flower :)

Then, we went for dinner and the next day, we went home. By the bus. It was a 10-hour journey, but fortunately, I was accompanied by my iPod, while Charis, Rachel, Lynn, Chelsia, Myran, Yijun, Pandora, Eileen & Zhujun took turns at playing bridge.
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Item number 6 would be Napfa test 2010!
You know you know you know, after 11 years of being in this education system and after 8 years of taking Napfa tests, this 9th year of taking Napfa marks my last year of taking Napfa tests ever again! (‘cause I’m a girl) It’s a little sad…

This year’s Napfa test was brought forward because we’re J2s & we need to better spend our time in Term 3 studying & not doing Napfa tests then. My 2.4 test was held on 13 May & all J2 girls had to come back to school (on a Saturday!) for our 5-items test on 22 May.

This year, as was my goal in primary 6 and as I had achieved last year, I had wanted to get the full 30 points. But, for some reason, my fitness levels this year are pretty low, so I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to achieve it. For my 2.4 run, I was very pleasantly surprised to get my A and even improve on my timing, especially at a time when I thought that my running was de-proving. I guess I only have God to thank ;)

As for my 5 items, I’m glad everything went as per normal. Okay, so I turned up late on the test day, but hey, at least I didn’t miss out on much thanks to all the waiting time the class had to go through! Am pretty satisfied with my standing broad jump score and my inclined pull-ups score! As usual, I suck at sit-ups but thankfully I manage to scrap through with an A :D I really do wonder why I get tire easily when doing sit-ups, but I guess you never can have everything, eh?

SO ANYWAY, I’m just glad I got me my 30 points, and have been consistently achieving a Gold award since primary 4! 8) I’ll miss having Napfa test! I always have so much fun doing it! Oh well. (I will also miss doing Long Jump during Sports Day! Long jump is the best! ;D)
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After this, comes MARDI GRAS, which is the number 7 on the list!
This year, it was held on 27 May (Ruth’s birthday!) and I decided to go as CL of 2NE1!
Furthermore, a bunch of us TA4s performed a Kpop item!
Charis + Denise + Justina + Rachel + Ryan + ShiYan + ShuFen + Me = TJ ShiDae (티재시대) awesomeness! Whooooot~~

It certainly wasn’t easy rehearsing for Mardi Gras! Having to learn all those dances, teach it, clean it... If I’m having it that hard, then it must’ve been worse for choreographers (at Reverie 5), because they need to CREATE the steps themselves! I was just copying steps man! Boy, I sure am not cut out to be a choreographer...HAHA.

I would definitely say that it was pretty draining to have to have all those practices, and there were even some times when I wondered why I bothered to suggest such an item to my friends, especially with my mother being SO encouraging. But anyway, I’m glad we persevered on, through the “hardships” (if it can even be called so), through the teachers being two-faced and through all the frustration, and had a successful “debut”! Tee hee! Watch the video below to see (if you haven’t already lol)! ;)

(Sadly, because my camera, even though it’s a Nikon D90, doesn’t know how to focus properly when someone uses the zoom function, the whole video is blur. Plus, the last section was cut off because the D90 only allows people to take 5-minute-long videos. Stupid camera. ):[ )

The picture below is one of my favourite pictures taken of me when we were performing. It was during the Fire segment. This is grabbed from Facebook ㅋ

Halfway through the night, I went off to do my emcee-ing duty as well. So, I had to change out of my CL outfit :( But it was okay, I had fun! The last time I’ll ever get to be an emcee in school hehe! Ironically, the 티재시대 item was the first item and my emcee-ing slot was the last slot, so I opened the show at the ‘Fringe At The Atrium’ and closed it as well :) ㅋㅋ

And below, as I did the last time we had Mardi Gras, is a photo collage of all the pictures I’d taken with other people. Yes, I included those that I was tagged in in Facebook, that were not from my camera, as well.

DO YOU LIKE MY MAKE-UP? I LIKE IT VERY MUCH YEEEAAAAH! It’s my CL make-up haha! Copied from the Etude House endorsement pictures that they took :D I did the right side and Ashley helped with the left side because I cannot draw the same thing twice ㅠ.ㅠ
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Finally, to end this list off, is Angeline’s departure to study in America.
She left on 23 April, on some ungodly hour flight (cos it’s the only flight avaible to her destination), to go to College in Michigan. So, sadly, I wans’t able to send her off! :( But, at least, I was spend one day with her before she went off! It was also my first time visiting her house! She totally lives in a mini-jungle -> FUN. ;D

But yeah, hats off to her for living in such an uh, rather, ulu location. I mean, the moment you enter into the compounds, it just totally feels like a whole new world, a totally different place from elsewhere. I wonder if it’s the same thing for Tate... hehe.

Anyway, I’m glad that I could spend one last day with Angeliney before she went off to 미국! I hope she’s doin’ well there! Even though I'm here in Singapore, I’ll always be there for you, dearest bestie!

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Well, I’ve finally come to the end of the post!
Initially, I wanted to split it up to increase my post count (haha, retarded right!), but I thought that it was pointless because you would still have to end up reading both & since I’d slowly worked on this, you might as well read it at one shot. BAH HUMBUG!

Other random things to include!
We did a guest item for Meridian JC’s dance concert, Ellysium 2. (15 May) That was quite fun, but it was a total waste of time, because we really just sat around doing nothing/putting on make-up. Good thing Noelle brought her laptop (& I was next to her), cos I was able to surf the net & catch up on heh, Kpop news.
No pictures for this one, unless you really need me to grab a picture off Facebook & stick it here, which is quite pointless/useless/uncalled for.

My army of Dunnys!
What grew from one...

Slowly became two...

Then, eventally became three!

Oh yeah ;)

Okay okay okay, Really Finally Done!
굿바이!
♥

Nuffnang-ed!

2010-06-13T20:51:00.000+08:00

Back in July/August 2008, I was feeling broke and really mad at my dad for constantly fining me for the stupidest things. As such, inspired by Justina and Xiaxue, I decided to sign up for Nuffnang. I wanted to make some money back for all the money that went to my dad.

For all those who are scratching their head, wondering what I'm talking about, here's a little summary.
Nuffnang is basically a "blog advertising community". Like Google Ads, you put an advert on your blog and money is generated when people click on those ads. The more people who click on your ads, the more money is generated.

It's taken me almost 2 years, but finally, all that waiting and relentless clicking (with loads of help from friends(: ) has come to fruition.

Hmmmmmm? ;) ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Though, it's not a lot, but I'm really thankful/glad to be able to cash out my FIRST NUFFNANG CHEQUE! :D
You may notice that there's a smiley face on the picture. THAT's because if you click to enlarge the picture (I would suggest you press the 'Control' button while you do it 'cos it will take you away from this page), you'll notice that the cheque was written on my birthday. :) Such a nice birthday gift eh? Awwww...

Life is good ;D

♥ Out!

Irony (말도안돼)

2010-06-13T19:14:00.000+08:00

Ah, the irony of life. *shakes head*

When David Horvath secretly gave me a Red-Tooth Wedgehead at STGCC last year, he said that it was a rare action figure (which I myself knew).
I bought myself a set of 12 Uglydoll Action Figures as well, hoping that my box contained a White-Tooth Wedgehead so that I could have a complete set.

My box contained a Red-Tooth Wedgehead.

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I also bought myself a Glow-in-the-dark Icebat Action Figure at Comic Con, hoping that it'd be purple. It turned out to be blue, which I was still fine with, because Icebat is cute purple OR blue.
This year, for my birthday present, Beiyi bought me a glow-in-the-dark Icebat Action Figure as well! :D And I hoped it'd be any colour but blue.

It turned out to be blue.

Am I seeing double?

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Oh life, how you make a mockery of me.

But still, thanks Beiyi! :D :D :D :D
♥

Toys are LOVE ♥

2010-06-02T21:58:00.004+08:00

Buttercup

Saddle up for fun and let Buttercup lead your child away on a magical adventure! This cuddly unicorn features velvety-soft, snow-coloured fur with sparkly gold and pink accents. He sports a signature mythical golden horn and a fun-to-comb mane and tail. Buttercup’s durable plastic eyes are both charming and scratch-resistant. Hypo-allergenic. Ages 3 and up.

Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear

Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear is a jumbo, extra-soft teddy bear with a pink and white plush body and a velvety purple nose. This lovable bear stands fuzzy heads and shoulders above other teddy bears because he smells like sweet strawberries! With a smile that will light up your child’s face and a belly just asking to be hugged. Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear is sure to become a bedtime necessity. Stain-resistant. Spot clean plush surface with a damp cloth.

Why did I not have these kinds of things when I was growing up?
Ooh I love me my unicorns & teddy bears!
I want a Buttercup & Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear now!
:(

MUST WATCH TOY STORY 3 WHEN IT COMES OUT MUST WATCH TOY STORY 3 WHEN IT COMES OUT MUST WATCH TOY STORY 3 WHEN IT COMES OUT MUST WATCH TOY STORY 3 WHEN IT COMES OUT MUST WATCH TOY STORY 3 WHEN IT COMES OUT MUST WATCH TOY STORY 3 WHEN IT COMES OUT MUST WATCH TOY STORY 3 WHEN IT COMES OUT MUST WATCH TOY STORY 3 WHEN IT COMES OUT

(This is not to psycho YOU, it's to psycho me to remember to watch it)
♥

meme

2010-05-14T01:09:00.003+08:00

Got this off uisceros.livejournal.com
I love reading this blog - I don't know why. But I like her opinions on stuff. (As in, she's American and would obviously, have a different take on stuff & would live a different lifestyle) And her random updates of her life, Kpop and Cpop. Plus, she's into Big Bang! Wheeee~

Either way, on to the meme, which is about Kpop! KEKEKEKEKE I HAD TO. YOU KNOW I HAD TO ;d

Favorite boy group?
Big Bang. Without a single doubt. :D Need I explain myself?

Favorite girl group?
2NE1 all the way! I love their 'Power Girl' image :)

Favorite Pairings from the stated groups, or any other Kpop artist(s)?
Um, not really. But I'm definitely against pairing anyone with TOP :(

Favorite Solo Artist(s)?
I don't really like anyone else either than Big Bang and 2NE1 really, but if I had to make a decision, I would stick with YG Family and go with Gummy. And maybe Lee Hyori (even though she's not from YG), 'cause she's quite cool.

Favorite Songs right now?
HMMMM. I would have to say that I'm HOOKED onto Gummy's "사랑은 없다" (There Is No Love) because it's a song that's really amazing. Love the big vocals and love the emotional aspect of it. As an added plus, I've always loved sad(ish) songs with a super nice melody that has strong beats in the background. GREAT for dancing to hehehe. (Like for this song, you can do Contemp/Lyrical 'cause it's so emotional and you can do Hip Hop, 'cause of the beats. Versatility~ ;D)
And to some extent, Gummy's "남자라서" (As A Man), 'cause it's quite catchy too.

First KPOP song ever?
"Lollipop" by Big Bang & 2NE1

First KPOP music video ever?
"Lollipop" by Big Bang & 2NE1

First KPOP love (group/solo)?
Big Bang, always and forever more :D I'm a loyal person yeeeaaah.

First variety show?
I don't really watch variety shows, 'cause I don't have the time for it, but I do watch excerpts/episodes if Big Bang does appear on it. Honestly speaking, I think I've only ever watched Family Outing and Strong Heart (Kang Shim Jang), if we talk in episodes. But yeah, I suppose the first variety show I watched was Family Outing, TOP's episode.

Any dance you can do (from a MV)?
Haha, this was totally the question that convinced me that I HAD to do this meme.

1. I Don't Care by 2NE1 (intro, chorus)
2. Fire by 2NE1 (intro, chorus, Sandara's part, bridge, ending)
3. Nobody by Wonder Girls ... the whole dance. Wow I really know how to waste time
4. Tell Me by Wonder Girls (intro, 1st verse, chorus, bridge)
5. Wedding Dress by Taeyang (chorus)
6. Try to Follow Me by 2NE1 (chorus)
7. Mister by Kara (latter part of pre-chorus, chorus)
8. Abracadabra by Brown Eyed Girls (into, 1st verse, pre-chorus, chorus) No I do not know Ga In's solo bit & I do not intend to learn it!
9. Sorry Sorry by Super Junior (chorus)
10. Gee by Girl's Generation (intro, 1st verse, chorus) [cause of my Mardi Gras item]
11. Oh! by Girl's Generation (chorus) [also cause of my Mardi Gras item]

Mmm, I can't think of anything else, but I suppose this is it? Haha, if I can remember anymore, I'll add it in :D
Can you believe how much time I've spent learning all these dances when I could've done something more productive like studying? Wow. I really am messed up/weird. :(

A song you always/usually listen to EVERY day?
I don't listen to music everyday. But if I do turn on my iPod to listen to music, I like to listen to my K-pop playlist, which consists of Big Bang, 2NE1, Wonder Girls, Brown Eyed Girls (2 songs) and Baek Ji Young (1 song). Unless I feel like listening to English stuff. But yeah, always gotta have some Big Bang y'all!

Your favorite music video?
HMMMMMMM...
- Definitely Lollipop. That video/song will ALWAYS ALWAYS have a special place in my ♥!
- Mmmm, I really enjoyed 2NE1's Try to Follow Me! Very colourful with very cool costumes! :D
- I also really like Haru Haru. It's like my 2nd favourite BB video.
- OH OH, Sunset Glow too! It's so fun + happy! Good stuff, good stuff!

I dunno. I guess I like most of Big Bang's videos, maybe except How Gee (but I like the song :D) I think. But the above are like, my most favouritest videos I suppose? :)

Any of your friends into kpop and who?
Haha, so many! Listing 'em all here would be very, very, very tough/time consuming!!!

Which group/artistes can you see yourself being dedicated to for the rest of your time into Kpop?
BIG BANG ALL THE WAY BABY! NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!!! 빅뱅 화이팅!!!

Okay, okay, I'll get back to work. I WILL.
♥

//PS- I think that I can only update about my life in the June Hols. So busy now! With Mardi Gras preparations & all! :( ARGH. Plus, I'm still so behind in my work! And look, I'm wasting time on the Net again! AIGOOOOOOOOOOOO~~~

감사합니다

2010-04-29T20:52:00.000+08:00

I decided to dedicate a post to the people who made my day special! Aw...

A big thank you to the following people for sending me a birthday message via text message:
(According to time received)

Marianne Hui (First person!)
Iyn Yi
Charis
Wei Xin
Naomi
Ruth
Amanda
Priscilla (all the way from Aus!)
Dawn
Annabelle Lim
Andrea
Rachel

Love you all loads!!

A big thank you also to Ashley and Iyn Yi for getting me a cake! Aw, you guys never fail to make sure my birthday is not cake-less!

I know that a lot of people sang and said 'Happy Birthday' to me and I'm thankful to each and every one of you for it, but because it'd be too long a list to list out, I'll have to skip on this one! :/
HOWEVER, I know that the first rendition of the song was at the assembly ground (ie some of the TAs from 01-04 (: ). Then there was a second one after Maths lesson, which were some of my classmates :) Then, I think the third one was the dancers at the studio after PE. I also DO remember that Charis and Zhi Xin attempted to sing '생일축하합니다', which was a good effort yay~ :)

Also, thank you to Mag & Charis for wishing me Happy Birthday on Twitter :)

Basically, Thank You to everyone who helped to make my day nice/speshul!
Yes, even the 2 of you, even though you guys probably don't know I exist.
Love y'all!!! ♥

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Anyway, I know that this blog is super un-updated! :( :( :(
When I come back from my Geog trip to Malaysia (!!) I will do a mega post on the various things that have happened since the last official update on my life! With more pictures and less words (the way Miss Madjukie likes it kekeke)!!

Okay, my mother is getting mad at me for spending too much time on the net -.-
She will never understand my passion for Kpop/dancing :(
♥Out~

HAHA FAIL

2010-04-27T22:34:00.002+08:00

I know this is a little late, but I hardly check my gmail account, so I'm only posting this now...

But

ISN'T IT SILLY TO ASK MYSELF TO WISH MYSELF A HAPPY BIRTHDAY?

HELLO LIVEJOURNAL, AREN'T I littlemoxygirl? PLEASE CHECK YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM/PROGRAM CODES AGAIN TO MAKE SURE THEY WORK ACCURATELY.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

18!

2010-04-27T20:32:00.000+08:00

Today, I turn eighteen.

Today, I am able to

Drink alcohol legally (Don't like the taste of alcohol, so this doesn't apply to me)

Get a tattoo without my parent's consent (I THINK) (MUST NOT GET TEMPTED TO LOL)

Watch M18 movies (I haven't even watched NC16 movies, please -.-)

Buy TOTO and 4D (Haha, this was according to Iyn Yi, but yeah, I'll never buy the aforementioned things)

YAY?

Have changed my age to be extraEIGHTEEN.

"WHY extraEIGHTEEN?" you might ask.

Well, that's cause this being my 'A' Level year, I want to remind myself to be EXTRA HARDWORKING and EXTRA DISCIPLINED.
(although I have been failing to do so since the start of the year :/)

It is also to remind myself that I cannot afford to be EXTRA LAZY or EXTRA SLACK and that I must WORK HARD.

Yeeeeeeaaaaah.

♥!

Quote of the Day

2010-02-27T16:30:00.003+08:00

Was reading Life!, as I usually like to do on Saturdays, when I noticed this very good letter that a reader had written in about how insanely cold some INDOOR places in Singapore are.

There is such a thing as "tropical hypothermia" though it sounds like an oxymoron. (Agreed!) A rapid and sudden change in temperature does harm the body. Some elderly persons take two to three days to recover. Nature prevents this by allowing 90 days of autumn.
- Nitya Mitra (Dr)

I liked the sarcastic ending of the letter, by contrasting humans with nature.

Other good ones include... (these are just excerpt from the actual letters)

... One woman from Shanghai said that the indoor temperature there (i.e. in Shanghai) is maintained at a comfortable 25 - 26 deg C in summer, and that includes offices, shaopping mals ad public transportation. Even now, she dons thick clothing when she travels on MRT trains, something she does not have to do in Shanghai.
Traditional Chinese Medicine research shows that the flow of bio-energy in the body(qi) is disrupted when the temperature falls below 25 deg C...
- Lee Hunsen

To all you people who drop your jaw when I say that I put the temperature of my air-conditioner at 25 deg C, TAKE THAT! SEE? I'm not that crazy/weird after all.

In my office, people wear scarves and gloves to keep themselves warm. I come from London and I find it ludicrous that one has to put on layers to go indoors...
- Shanjani Shah

I can totally identify with this person because I have SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED bringing gloves to school whenever we have Computing Lab sessions. (The only reason I don't, is because I often forget to search for them the day before)

It's really crazy, you know, how cold the Com Lab can get sometimes! I mean, if you think about it, temperatures in (a not so cold) WINTER are about 16 deg C AND people wear thick-ish coats then. Imagine us, 14 students plus 1 teacher and one (cold-lovin') technician, in that computer lab, some wearing jackets, some not... ARE WE NOT A SAD BUNCH? Okay, except Mr Technician, who refuses to let us adjust the temperature. :(

Is it truly necessary to put the air-conditioner at 16 degrees on a normal day? I'm not even talking about those super duper hot afternoons where temperatures can reach to about 34 degrees Celsius. I'm talkin' about those normal days where the hot weather is still very much bearable! I can understand if say, you put the temperature at 16 deg on a 34 deg day (but as we've read above, it may be harmful to our body), but honestly, not a normal day! It's such a tremendous waste of electricity!!!

This is why I sleep with the fan every night, save for a few nights a year, when it's a self-declared "special occasion" and I'll switch on the air-con. I mean, everyone talks about global warming, but what are we ourselves doing? I know that I waste a lot of electricity when I work late into the night, but still, it's important to save on electricity as and when we can, right? If everyone just contributes a little, won't it amass to something larger?

SIGH.

Another thing that I noticed is that WHILE the TA block has air-con now, nobody bothers to properly shut those classroom doors! I walked into a classroom for a lesson on Friday, the air-con blasting at who-knows-what temperature and the classroom door is just left wide open like as if the air-conditioners were non-existent. What sort of culture are we having here in TJ? One that does not care about the environment? And mind you, these are TA1s, TA2s and J1s who use the classroom - what WILL they grow up to be?

I worry for our future. As Ms J, my geog teacher always says, "I'm glad I won't have to live through that." Unfortunately for us, we are still teenagers in our prime and STILL have a very long way to go. CAN WE ALL DO OUR PART TO MAKE OUR LIFE ON EARTH LESS MESSED UP? :(

SIGH.

♥ OUT.

I Love Sesame Street

2010-02-19T16:10:00.002+08:00

Yes. Without a doubt, I do.
Annabelle introduced me to the Sesame Street Youtube Channel & I'll have to say that it's awesome!

I ♥ Abby Cadabby!!!!!

She is the bestest character on Sesame Street. Ever. :D (With Zoe & Elmo too, fine)

Okay, out~
♥

I don't care

2010-02-16T18:18:00.003+08:00

Shit, I've got to stop reading through my archives. Man, it's so addictive.
My all-time favourite archive post has got to be when I was doing the "Quote of the Day" series & I was quoting funny sentences from people. Okay, yes it was a little mean of me to keep on laughing at other's mistakes, since no one is perfect, but you've gotta admit, it's fun to hear funny sentences.

As said, the all time favourite post is this one:

"ARE YOU LISTEN?????"--- Mdm Seah on the class when we ask redundant questions.

Awesome stuff. I laughed when I read it just now. I'm sorry, but this phrase just won't grow old. (PS-Mdm Seah was my art teacher in sec 1 and 2)

Okay, I've just posted 2 videos on 'How to Dance 2NE1's I Don't Care (chorus)' on Youtube. Feel free to watch it & learn :D I broke it down nice & slowly ok! (I have a reason for doing this video ok, it's not that I'm bored and have too much time ok!)

I know I look retarded/ugly - deal with it!

IT ALSO TOOK ME A SHIT LONG TIME TO FINISH because after ~~several~~ many failed attempts at first downloading a video editing software that reads .MOV files followed by downloading a video conversion software, I was only able to finish it this afternoon. And I'd started last night ok. URGH. What a great waste of my precious time -.-

IF YOUR CAMERA IS STUPID LIKE MINE & RECORDS VIDEOS IN QUICKTIME (.MOV) AND YOU WANNA CONVERT IT TO EDIT IT IN (the uber lousy) Windows Movie Maker,

You SHOULD download the QUICKMEDIACONVERTER from download.com

It's free & converts your videos for you into a variety of formats, including avi, flash and formats for your iPod/PSP. Totally man. Every of the other conversion software just, simply, sucks. Windows Movie Maker is just plain annoying, especially when it keeps jamming up on you & closing, but it's only saving grace is that it produces low quality videos that don't take trillions of years to upload. Adobe Premiere is the exact opposite, so, yeah~~

Okay, enough from me, I've got a huge mountain of homework to do, thanks to this video & thanks to Starhub's free-for-all 2-day feast on all channels. TV. IS. SUPER. ADDICTIVE. Ugh.
♥

날 따라 해봐요

2010-02-15T22:42:00.002+08:00

Post started on 13/02/10, 01:12am

Hi hi! I was supposed to start blogging on Korea & do K-pop tomorrow. But one listen of 2NE1's 날 따라 해봐요 (Try to Follow Me), and I was hooked! All plans for the night were immediately (mostly) scrapped and I jumped headfirst into K-pop news. HEY HEY HEY, before you go judging me about my Kpop Obsession, I have to clarify that I was supposed to strictly blog tonight and do K-pop stuff tomorrow. BUT, since I did K-pop stuff today, I will blog now & start straight on work tomorrow KAY.

I'm not sure how many times I've already listened to Try to Follow Me (TTFM), BUT I know it's a lot of times, cos I kept repeating the song. I REALLY HOPE that they include this song + all their solo songs into their full-length album! If not, how will I ever be able to stick it into my iPod without feeling guilty!!!

On the topic of downloading, I have to give kudos to YG for revamping his sites + the sign up process for a YG account. The sites are much more neater & more user-friendly, while the sign-up process doesn't have that irritating (lousy) application to upload your ID photo. The app is A MILLION TIMES better now & I've successfully signed up for a YG account. For now, all I can do is to await their approval of my account, and then I'll be able to sign in, everytime I visit the YG sites :D :D AND I MAY EVEN BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD THOSE MUSIC RECORDED* VERSIONS OF 2NE1'S SONGS (if I can persuade my mother to let me...)
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*Music recorded = The track that is used when the artists perform. It usually consists of the music + some additional background vocals that can't be sung when performed live. Usually abbreviated as MR.
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Anyway, the reason I'm blogging now, is because dancing to 날 따라 해봐요 made me really tired & it made me feel like blogging, so, I'm here now! :D :D On to today's activities!

Today was Road Run Day! 3.6km of M-A-D-N-E-S-S.
This was the first Road Run where I didn't have homework that was due and that I had to rush to finish it. So, after the girl's run (which is the first race :D), I pretty much just slacked around.

I also managed to get a position card - as opposed to last year! Came in at 129, which is pretty lousy, but I'm okay with it, because I just can't do long distance runs for nuts. I'm just lousy like that. Me = NOT Sporty Person.

Annabelle also brought her guitar, to amuse herself during the entire Road Run, since she wasn't going to be running. We sang a bit of Apologise (which she figured out, since she didn't bring any music sheets) and attempted You're Beautiful (but I didn't remember the lyrics properly). After that, I joined in Dawn's Birthday Celebration! How funny that the 2 Dawns I know are both born in February, and so close to each other! :)

After Road Run, was the CNY Carnival, which was an epic fail, in my opinion. First, I'd initally planned on eating lunch at the carnival, but then, any form of solid proper food that I found out about, was sold out before I could order any. Secondly, the song dedication booth didn't finish playing the dedicated songs towards the end of the carnival. My request of Abracadabra was cut off 3/5 through, but then again, Noelle & I weren't familiar with all the steps, so like, yeah. Whatev.

Ah, anyway, I didn't really enjoy the CNY Carnival. Period. It's totally not my thing, especially the whipped cream & water bomb booths. Super, ultra, messy stuff. UGH.

Today actually seems quite boring, now that I'm blogging about it -.- YAY ME. Had dance practice after the carnival (where I felt that I was a little 'off'), before going home to slack in front of the TV. Watched Music Bank, but really, it's totally not exciting unless a YG artist performs on it, sorry. Can't wait for Taeyang/2NE1/Dae Sung/TOP/Big Bang to start promotions. Meh.

Dinner was at Jumbo Seafood, which is a really lame place to go for me, since I don't dig seafood, but yeah, it was bearable.

SORRY, I JUST SUDDENLY GOT REALLY BORED. LET ME GO INVIGORATE MYSELF WITH KPOP. BRB.

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Wow, okay, I'm such a nag and a long-winded person. Meh. Either way, that was my Friday. I never went back to finish up my post, cos I um, went to sleep really late. REALLY late. Nuff said. Anyway, the rest of my weekend hasn't been any better.

Saturday, I stayed in & had Reunion Dinner at night.

Sunday, went to grandparent's place after church & watched loads of TV. Before my brother started acting up -.- Irritating. EVEN MORE SO when I'm in the middle of a Big Bang performance marathon grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Monday (today), I stayed in to film a 'I Don't Care (chorus) Dance Tutorial', which I now have to piece together thanks to my short-term memory + lousy batteries that just don't last long enough. Then at night, went out for dinner with the family. Raffles City has never been this dead lol.

Also, Shokudo has some nice stuff! I highly recommend it! :D (This coming from a person who doesn't care much about food, kay)

Okay, okay, I think I've bored you enough. I WILL get to work on that Korean trip post soon. Seriously. Once I get my head back in the game & out of holiday mood. (Urgh, stupid school holidays in the middle of nowhere)

안녕! (Yay, I'm getting used to the keyboard for Korean letters ㅋㅋㅋ~)
♥

Medicom x Uglydoll Part 2

2010-02-15T22:10:00.004+08:00

(Photo from David Horvath's Facebook)

MOST.AWESOME.STUFF.EVER.

Next to Big Bang and the Wage Bearbrick.

AHHHH! WHEN WILL IT COME OUT! YOU KNOW THAT I WILL DEFINITELY WANT TO BUY IT OH MANZ CAN'T WAIT IT TOTALLY ROCKS.

Apologies for the lack of punctuation marks, but yeah, it's so totally kewwwwl.

Okay, I will continue in my previous update. I actually started a post on Friday but I got bored halfway through... (yes, life is indeed boring lately) Also, apologies for the lack of updates! Schoolwork + Tiredness is not helping at all.

Out! (for now!)
♥

Of Bearbricks, glue and other things

2010-01-30T17:38:00.004+08:00

Hi! I almost wanted to go annyeong haseyo again, but I thought I'd save y'all the agony. I still haven't finished all my overdue homework (coughcomputingcough coughgeographycough), but soon! Soon I will! I really have no willpower to do Geography, but I really plan to finish Computing tonight. And yes, when I finish, and get up to date with my homework, I will post the pictures from Korea! I am itching to talk about my happy happy happy experience at Lotte Star Avenue ;)

Anyway, I was feeling bored and decided to post a few pictures. Yes, this IS gonna be a short post.

The first one is taken last year, but I'd never got round to posting it on my blog. Partially because I forgot/was too lazy to upload it from the camera and partially because I've been putting it off. So, let me get round to explaining it.

Back when Big Bang were having their Koe Wo Kikasete Campaign, where VIPs could submit videos for Big Bang to watch (I wonder if they DID watch through all seven minutes of mine...), I went to buy my first Bearbrick. That was the 25th of November. The main reason I bought it was because I wanted to have one myself, but the side reason was that it was also to serve as a decoration in my video.

Anyway, I got the normal Hello Kitty one from Series 18. Wanted Spongebob or the tokidoki one, but I was a-okay with Kitty. So, that Sunday, I brought her to church to show Angeline. Unfortunately, in the process of showing Kitty to Angeline, I dropped her. Kitty, not Angeline. And her leg broke off. BEFORE I could even film my video.

So, when I got home, I put UHU glue on her leg to temporarily fix it and she was able to be a part of my video response. Anyway, in December, I was checking her leg again, and because UHU glue sucks (or at least my UHU glue skills suck), her leg came off again. -.-

The solution? White glue!!!
This picture below shows how she made her recovery! (aka when the glue was drying)
Supported by none other than her fellow Bearbrick friend, Wage! Awwww! (I took her arm out so that Wage could support her properly, not because I am a meanie!)
On top of that, she is being entertained by Action Figure Wage, with his Christmas hat :D

Together, Wage Wage decorate my desk, while Kitty hides in her box because I don't need anything worse to happen to her!

Okay, I am done with my story! On to other things!
Big Bang is having their concert currently! It should be starting soon in Korea! Their concert is from 29th to 31st December, 3 nights of non-stop fun! Wish I were there, but yeah, school first! Hopefully they'll come to Singapore one of these days! It'd be so cool!

I miss Korea loads! The snow, the cold, the fun of it all! :( Hopefully my parents will let me go next year with Charis, Rachel and Justina (if they go) Haha, I should work after the As so that I can go to Korea and shop? HOPE SO!!! MUST LEARN KOREAN YAAAAAAAAAAAH.

BASKIN ROBBINS THIRTY-ONE! ;)
This is the most silliest thing I bought in Korea, but I LOVE IT YEAH

♥

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2010-01-24T01:56:00.002+08:00

I was looking through my Picasa album, of all the pictures I'd posted on Blogger from April 2007 ('cos that's when they started posting pictures from Blogger in Picasa)
Suddenly, I'm feeling very nostalgic.

Wonder if anyone remembers this...?
Where did all the innocence go? Missing the good-old, carefree days...
♥

A very Ugly Christmas

2010-01-24T00:20:00.004+08:00

안녕하세요!!!
I have loads of homework left but then, I really want to post here on my blog WHICH is really dead. Anyway, I promise myself that once I catch up with my homework (aka finishing all my overdue holiday homework and current assignments), I will get down to posting about my Korean trip. I AM DYING TO BLOG ABOUT IT because it was one of the best holidays evaaaaaar. After going to America. It was like an ultimate 한류 (Hallyu/Korean Wave) overload for me. Happy happy happy :D :D

So, basically, life has been like this: Go to school, try to finish homework, dance practices, don't go on K-pop websites, sleep sleep sleep. I keep sleeping so much these days!! I don't know why :( I'm such a sleepy pig. oink oink grrrr. I need to stop sleeping so much cuz I need to do more work each day! Argh. My lack of self-discipline is really getting back at me this year.

Anywaaaays, back to the main purpose of this post....
A very Ugly Christmas!

Not ugly in the sense that it was bad and horrible, but Ugly in the sense of Uglydolls! Ever since Christmas, I've been getting Uglydoll-related Christmas presents! By this, I mean that not all came on Christmas Day itself. It's not a lot of things, but this girl is happy with the stuff she got uh-huh, uh-huh!

So why the sudden urge to post this? Because the latest Ugly present just came in the mail yesterday & it was from none other than my fellow Uglydoll fan friend, Priscilla! Whoot whoot! (When you come to Singapore for a visit, we should take an Ugly picture yeah!) (AND Ugly means unique & special ok!)
Isn't it the coolest??? This has GOT to be the funkiest calendar I've ever had in my entire life! Oh, lousy freebie desktop calendar, you are really sad compared to my super fly Uglydoll calendar!! (The only problem is finding a place to hang it & a thing to hang it on. I've got a place in mind in my room, but it's a little far away from me :/)

It's super duper colourful (as with all Uglydoll books) AND comes with stickers that are just as yummy!
Furthermore, Toodee pops up in the calendar in March saying "I shall return" -> OOOOOH~~ (This, I have no picture of currently, but I'll post it again in March when March comes...) The best part of the calendar is in April. Initially, I thought that it would just be Babo for the month of April, but then, it turns out that Moxy also makes an appearance in the grids of April. I will post the best part on the day itself ;D You should know what I mean ;)

The next Ugly present also came recently! Like, last Sunday! It came from Kim & Amanda and it's a OX Journal! Really, really adorable stuff, especially with the squishy covers! :D
There are 3 or 4 different pages inside that are repeated throughout the book. One of the pictures in the book makes me realise why OX & Moxy are siblings, but yes, I am too lazy to get the camera to take a picture of that.

Last, but not least, is my Wage Be@rbrick from Angeline! This came on Christmas Day itself.
Now, if you know Bearbricks, you'll know how difficult it is to get a specific Bearbrick that you want from a series. That's because it comes blindboxed, ie tightly sealed up so that you can't see the contents of the box until you buy it & open it. When Angeline bought me the 2 Bearbricks for Christmas, she didn't know what she was buying. Fortunately for her (& me), she'd picked me the Wage bearbrick, which was the bearbrick I really wanted to have.

For me, this bearbrick symbolises 2 things.
One, being the combination of my designer toy interests. I really love Uglydolls (or rather, David+Sun-Min items) and I really love Bearbricks. So, this Wage bearbrick was the ultimate mash-up of my 2 greatest toy loves! It's so cool and I can't wait to see what else they have up their sleeve next. (David Horvath hinted on his blog of a future project) *coughBossyBearBearbrickpleasecough*

Two, is of God's grace to me. God controls everything and anything, which I believe, includes whether I get the Wage bearbrick or not. He could've just given me some other random Bearbrick that I couldn't care less about and leave me (& most probably Angeline too) feeling sorely disappointed. But He didn't and He allowed me to have this bearbrick.

WHICH is he's on my desk. To remind me of God's love & to amuse me in my bored moments hehe. He's with my Wage Action Figure. And together they're..........

WAGE WAGE!

Hee hee. Okay, somehow, this post feels very incoherent and random. Apologies for the weird grammar/sentence structure/line of thought, but I think that my mind is fuzzing out. I need to sleep...

BUT I STILL HAVE THE GP PROJECT TO DO! Argh. :/

Okay, back to work now!
화이팅!

♥

//Yes, I wrote out the Korean words myself (except Hallyu). I didn't copy & paste ok! After the 'A's, I will go & paste the Korean characters for the keyboard on my keyboard. THIS is so that I don't have to use the 'Tablet PC Input Panel' every time I want to write in Korean. Okay, so this is my secret to writing Korean. Heh.

Twitter Widget

2010-01-11T18:02:00.003+08:00

Hi guys! This is a super short update because I am now swamped with holiday homework that is either overdue or is due tomorrow.

Firstly, a very HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!! I can't believe that it's 2010 already and I am actually J2 now. S-H-O-C-K-E-R. School today was great, because Mrs Lam let us off at 10.15am and then we had dance practice for Sab's item, which was all re-capping the steps. Practice ended at 12+, so I came home for lunch hoot hoot.

Also, as a side note, I betcha didn't realise that I am actually the oldest girl in Faith Factor now? Wow, can't believe it. SCARRRRY. I am growing old at such a fast rate. I'm a little freaked out yo.

Secondly, being J2, our timetable this year is GREAT. GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT. Mostly anyway. Tuesday is the worst day, with PE ending at 5.30 and me having no free periods, save for one last Econs free period before PE -.- Totally not helping in my rushing-last-minute-work thang. (Okay that is a bad attitude & a totally lousy habit. I AM trying to get rid of it ok) Thursday is the stupidest day, but is very happy-happy-day as I end at 12.30pm and will be able to go home for lunch. ^^ However, I come to school for 3 periods only. GRRRR. -.-

Thirdly, I recently came back from Korea with a huge truckload o' pictures. I DO VERY MUCH want to blog about it, but I'm not sure if I have the time. I hope I do. I bought all the Big Bang albums I wanted and man am I a happy-happy girrrrl. Anyway, eventually, I want to get round to do short blogs about each day of those 7(+1 airport day) gloriously happy days. But as mentioned, not sure about free time. WHICH brings me to my last point.

As I was listing out all the things I have to do, I realised how crazy/mad/busy J2 is SO gonna be. As such, I've decided to finally, finally, finally put in a Twitter widget into my blog. So, if you don't follow me on Twitter, don't want to & can't be bothered to join Twitter, you can read my tweets from my blog now :) (Haha, I'm acting as if people want to read it lol)

50-75% of my tweets are about Big Bang, btw.
WHAT? I CAN'T HELP IT IF I LIKE 'EM.

Ok ok ok, I'm done. No pictures for this post because, yes, I haven't even been able to upload those pictures from the Korean trip yet!!!! I've been busy um, heh, um, heh, catching up on Big Bang + Lady Gaga news, so now I have to do my homework.

I AM ALSO SO BEHIND ON WATCHING IRIS >:( GRRRRRRR

ANGELINE! PRIORITIES! HOMEWORK FIRST!
GAH
♥

Really long overdue update.

2009-12-29T18:22:00.005+08:00

Hi! Wow, this blog sure is beyond dead!!! Sigh, been so busy lately, having my internship, then church camp, then preparing for the post-camp event and finally, Christmas. At this very moment in time, I am trying my hardest to finish all my holiday homework before their deadline/before I go to Korea. Of course, I am failing miserably, but yeah, I'm just trying my hardest to clear it all. GAAAH.

That's for leaving it till the last minute...

Anyway, the internship was blah. I have no comments about it and I don't wanna say anything about it because I don't need any stupid legal issues, obviously.

Church camp was fun! Didn't have much responsibilities for the camp this year, which was good because I didn't have to prepare much. Was in publicity com, which (um, heh) was kinda slack. Other than the two videos I made, nah, didn't do much else. :/

Then, in the camp, I acted in the Role-Playing Skit as a calefare, my roles being the mother of the 3 main characters and the love interest of 2 of the main characters. Also, I did the Nobody dance with Kim during Clubhouse. That was the highlight of the camp for me and yes, I spent the day before camp learning it. I proudly declare that I can almost dance it fully, save for one set of the chorus and half of Yoobin's rap.

The speaker of the camp was good. I liked his tone and I stayed awake for the most part. His sermons were also good and were good reminders for me about my Christian life too. Furthermore, his point about God wanting us to enjoy our relationship with Him really struck me & yes, I will be remembering that from now on.

Considering the massive amount of pictures Dawn took during Clubhouse & Linda took on the last day of camp, I will post only a few below.

The Angelines!

We were in the same group this year, like ohmygoodnessyouwon'tbelieveit! :D :D I was so elated that I called Dawn 'unni' for the rest of camp. It's not often that good stuff like this happens. ;)
With Wan Jun! (or as I prefer, Junjun, or as others prefer, Jun jie) She was our co-group leader with Yao Qi and was loadsa fun! I've just realised we didn't take a group picture! :(
Melvin officially became the Camp Camwhore. Well, at least on Clubhouse anyway. As mentioned, Dawn took a truckload of piccys there & Melvin had a grand total of 9 pictures of himself. Most people had 1 or 2, some 3, but him, NINE. Whoa, nelly

Okay, I'm a lil' lazy to post any more, soooo, next topic!

OH OH, because I hadn't had time to shop for presents, I went to Orchard Road on the 24th to get it.

YES. The camp video took Angeline & I 4 days to deal with. Day 1 was half-wasted 'cos I couldn't get the videos Angeline had taken to be uploaded into my computer. But we spent it looking through the pictures & deciding which to use. Day 2 was spent going to Annabelle's house to convert those videos into digital format (since my computers didn't work & Anna's one had worked back when we did Lang Arts filming). Day 3 was spent properly putting the video together, of which I only finished at 5am the next day. So, Day 4, Angeline came over to review it & bring it to church for burning.

Anyway, back to Orchard Road. YEAH. WHOA. OH MY. It was packed maaaan! I went to 313@Somerset first, then Heeren, then back to 313, then to Plaza Sing, then back to 313, then Ngee Ann City and finally 313 again before heading home. Set off at 4plus, where I dropped Anna's hard-disk back at her house (borrowed it for the vids), and reached Somerset station at around 5plus. Everywhere was packed to the brim. The MRT, 313 (ok, not so much of 313) and walking along the pavements of Orchard Road too. UGH.

The latter was the worst experience ever & I really reccomend to you-who-read-this to NEVER EVER EVER GO TO ORCHARD RD ON CHRISTMAS EVE. Ever. Sometimes you would just literally be standing there on the pavement, waiting for the people in front to move. I had NO IDEA why jams like that form. Okay, given that some people like taking pictures of the light decorations, BUT COME ON. NOT EVERYONE TAKES PICTURES OF THE DECO RIGHT? ]:( Grrr.

Also, some people can be very inconsiderent. They squeeze their way into any hole they can find and end up causing courteous people like me to spin one round. This is because my bag got caught in their fat arms/fat shopping bag while they were squeezing past & because I didn't pull hard enough, got spun by them as they surged forward with my bag still caught.

YAH! YAH! YAH! (must pronouce it the Korean way kay)

]:(

Anyway, I got most of my presents (except Dawn's ): ): which I will be getting at a later date), bought my Christmas outfit (a nice earthy-toned adjustable bubble dress from Pull&Bear for a FANTABULOUS price of $19.90) (Oh how I ♥ Sales) and went home at around 10ish-11 to have dinner. -.-

I went to 313 so many times that night, it was insane. But hey, they've got good stuff there (ok not really, but their range is not bad, I guess) Even though Forever21 had 4 stories of clothes, I couldn't find a nice neutral-toned top/dress to go with my Aldos. Oh the irony.

Christmas with the family was the usual. Dinner, a round of Taboo, talking, then home. Even though we'd hosted Christmas last year (last Christmas at Duku Lane, awww), they decided to combine House Warming with Christmas, so this became the 1st Christmas at the New House.

Also, David Kang that stupid boy tried to take out Turtle's (Bossy Bear's friend + my Christmas prezzie from my Aunt) shell. HELLO MY DEAR OLDER BROTHER, IT IS A VINYL AND THINGS LIKE THAT DON'T HAPPEN UNLESS I SHOW IT TO YOU. OH GOOD GRIEF. I almost died.

The poor dear. :/

Some people just don't know how to appreciate designer toys.

Yes & I'm also talking about that incident with poor Wedgehead when I brought him to schooL. Shi Ling tried to pull off his legs at his action-twist waist line, thinking there was something inside. My brother did the same thing, only with Turtle's shell.

I could just die.

Aye aye aye, I've talked too long. Time to get back to work. Ugh.

Annyeong!
♥

//Image credit: David Horvath's blog

Camp!

2009-12-16T03:40:00.002+08:00

Hi hi!
I have so much to update about!! Life in general, the internship etc... Argh! But I have no time for now!
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Cos I'll be at camp till the 19th! :)

So, hopefully I can update the blog, plus send some much-needed emails after that!

Gotta go now! (and sleep! :/)

♥ Annyeong~

(I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED CHRISTMAS PRESENT SHOPPING :/)

MAMA recap!

2009-11-21T22:17:00.003+08:00

Hello everyone!
I'm on a super high now! Just watched Mnet Asian Music Awars, also known as MAMA (:D), on Channel V. Yes, I GOT BACK MY BE-YOOOOOO-TIFUL CABLE TV.

I'M TELLING YA, I think I'm shaking now. Man. I'm feeling so happy & so proud of the YG Family! MAMA was loads of fun, but I bet haters will start saying once again that YG Family dominated and all - ahhh whatever. :S I had a blast watching it, and no less, twittering like nobody's business, as I did with yesterday's Music Bank!

If there's anyone who follows me & is reading this blog, I apologise for spamming your twitter pages with my constant rambling about MAMA (that's 40 tweets), especially when 2NE1 & G-dragon/Tae Yang performed. It was epic.

I am lovin' Cable TV y'all.
Too bad my dad will only let me have it for 3 months. But, yes, A LEVELS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN KOREAN POP, ME!

Anyway, back to MAMA. So, the awards show started as per usual, with the Best New Artist award and 2NE1 won it! Which is totally true, because they ARE! They won so many awards for their 2 hits, Fire & I Don't Care! I can't wait for their album to drop seriously! I hope it comes out before I go to/leave Korea man! I know it'll be good baby! The next award 2NE1 was nominated for, Best Dance, they didn't win, which I was pretty sad for. I really like the I Don't Care dance. I think that's quite obvious. KARA won it with Honey, which I thought wasn't as cool as I Don't Care, but oh well.

All the SM artists didn't win anything, which I'm pretty sure is because they refused to go to MAMA and boycotted it. I'm quite sure SuJu/SNSD would've won Best Male & Female Group respectively. They've got quite a fan base! Oh well, their loss.

Something something something...
The performances were all very good. OBVIOUSLY I enjoyed the 2NE1 & G-dragon+TaeYang performances the most, but the rest were all also pretty good!
The Brown Eyed Girls + KARA collab was interesting, but I didn't like the BEG song, Sign, with the orchestra. I thought it was a little over-the-top. Another cool performance was the Girl Rappers one. Very fierce! Lol. I didn't recognise any of the songs, but I did think it was cool. The concept Freedom of Women was also very cool - I liked the concept! I thought the striped costumes the girls were wearing was quite nice. :) At first, I was trying to figure out who T was, but from allkpop.com, I found out that she's some rapper extraordinaire. Yeah, she can rap really fast!!

I wasn't too into Ivy's Touch Me, it was a little too...much. Haha, but seriously, even though I'm sure they rehearsed, Nickhun of 2PM looked really, really freaked out when Ivy came near his lips / him in general. I'm not trying to be mean & all, but I really think his face was classic. Oh, but I liked the lead-in to the 2PM performance of Heartbeat and Again & Again. Quite well done :) 2PM's performance was okay :)

I don't really have anything to say for the other performances. They didn't really leave an impression on me. Now for the YG performances!!!! :D

2NE1 did like a musical, a combination of I Don't Care, and their solo-ish songs, Dara's Kiss, Bom's You and I, and CL+Minji's Please Don't Go. (Hope all these 3 songs are included in the 2NE1 album!) I really liked the set! It was totally cute! Club Kiss & Bom Flowers! Hee hee. Although they didn't perform the original version of I Don't Care, it was still pretty nice! I think it was along the lines of their Reggae remix.

So the storyline is that the 4 girls all like this guy, and they're all dating him or something like that, and after all the solo songs, they find out that he's four-timing them & they finish off the I Don't Care song, bringing out the true meaning of the song through the musical performance! :D
(People always think the song's about girls pretending not to care to get the guy's attention, but no, it's about not caring about the guy after he keeps on cheating on the girl. Do not get confused!!)

So, all of them rocked the stage, both for I Don't Care and their 'solo' songs. Dara looked cool, wearing a similar outfit to the one she did in her Kiss MV (but yes, I'm still prejudiced against her!). Bom looked very sweet and cute and also looked very pretty. She SHOULD keep her hair down! CL & Minji, were fierce & fabulous...mostly. :) I wasn't digging Minji's top, but I did love CL's outfit - very pretty! (Also liked her hairstyle!) I like their song, very different, but still essentially dance-able! Yeah. Cool performance!! :D

(when I find the full performance in on Youtube video, I'll post it here)

And GD + TY's performance! WHOA. Epic. GD had all these G-dragon "look-a-likes" on stage in rows with blond hair & GD masks. It brought to mind the image of terracotta warriors. :/ He floated into the all-white stage in an all-white outfit, looking kinda freaky. Then he burst into his hit, Heartbreaker, revealing his yet-again new hairstyle - a black mohawk. Which is still okay & acceptable. Phew~

After that, Taeyang rose up onto the stage & burst into Where U At, dancing by himself, rocking it, but sounding a little soft at times. :/ I guess it comes with having to dance so hard! When he finished it, I thought it was gonna be the next song, but he burst into Wedding Dress (by far my favourite YB song!). I was a little stunned, but yeah, he pulled through! He's got stamina man! Those are 2 dance-heavy songs! So, yeap, good job Bae!

So after YB was done, out comes GD again, this time on a podium, like giving a speech! Haha. He didn't sing the censored line. Good. Anyway, forgot to mention, YB was in black, with GD in white, hence there was this contrast between the 2 best buds. Black&White yeah! Korean Dream takes time to grow on me, but I'm okay with it now yeah! :D Oh & then halfway through, GD went to do some DJ-ing. Turns out the podium is a DJ turntable - pretty cool stuff! :) YB then had a dance break during that time, before they finished off the song, with a chest bump at the end.

(Um, the performance was quite long, so when I find a HD video, will post here keke)

Aw, how sweet! Nice to see some GDYB love yeah! Best performance of the night totally!

So anyway, 2NE1 went on to win Best Music Video for Fire, hehe yeah! I agree Mnet! ;D Then, they also won the Song of the Year for I Don't Care, which just further proves their status as Best Newcomer! I mean, Song of the Year is pretty prestigious kay! Oh & at the Red Carpet, they'd won Music Portal Mnet Award. 4 awards! Good job girls! (One award for each of them! ;D)

THEN, GD won Album of the Year, which is once again, another prestigious award! So happy for him man! I think he deserves it man! I think it outsold SuJu's album, which was released earlier than his. Yeah, so at least the YG artists all go home happy with one award each! (Except Taeyang, but then again, he wasn't nominated though) MAMA was great yeah ;D

Okay okay, I know this post has no pictures or anything else exciting in it, but yeah, I HAD to talk about MAMA! I'll post about the behind-the-scenes making of the Tchoukball video another day. Have got to go now! :D

//Watching [V] Countdown now as I did this post! Big Bang & 2NE1 on it yeaaah! They're playing Gara Gara Go! in the background as the VJ speaks. Cool ;D BigBang down to #4 with Gara Gara Go! (still okay by me!) and 2NE1 up 2 spots to #2 with Fire!! Yeah baby!
//Whoa, after [V] Countdown, they play Beyonce feat LADY GAGA's Video Phone! Yeaaah~ (Or as B goes in the video, uh-uhh)

♥ Bye!

:D

2009-11-18T20:32:00.002+08:00

Eh eh eh eh eh (Stop telephoning me)

2009-11-17T19:21:00.002+08:00

Haha, I know the title makes no sense, but I'm listening to Gaga's Telephone now & it's so catchy!! It starts with the harp, sounding very soothing, a little oriental, then the beats kick in, and whooot, another instant hit yeah! Hehe. As I mentioned on Twitter, my 3 favourite songs from Gaga's The Fame Monster are Bad Romance, Telephone and Alejandro! Okay, this is mostly biased because I've only properly listened to those 3, whereas the rest are previews, but Bad Romance is interesting, Telephone is funkkky and Alejandro is fascinating (plus it's got a Spanish tinge!).

Can't help it, I love pop.

The Bad Romance video was so epic! All the fashions and monster-esque details and crazy dancing. Whoaaaaaa. Plus anyway, the song is really nice to listen to! I think the funniest part of the video is the part when they put "Bath Haus of Gaga" Which was hilarious because Gaga's company is Haus of Gaga & they put a Bath in front of it. Ah, I can't really explain it very well, but, you know what I mean right? Just watch the video maaan.

And, as with all Gaga songs, they grow on me. I like all her songs anywaaaay.
I don't particularly like 'Video Phone' though, which is by Beyonce and features Lady Gaga. Okay, maybe I should correct that. I like Gaga's bits, but not Beyonce's. Or maybe I'm just biased that way. HOWEVER, I do really like Beyonce's Halo. It's just so calming and happy.

Can't wait to get my hands on The Fame Monster seriously! Lady Gaga is really talented and always churns out great songs. :D (But of course, some of the lyrics...)

Image Credit: Interscope Records

Yeah, so I haven't finished "revealing" CSJ yet, but I will soon! Part 3 practically shows him in his entirety, but yeah, part 4 will be a proper & nice shot of him yeeeeaaah. (Not that anyone cares, I think. My blog is always so dead ): )

Anyway, don't think I purposely left this blog to rot & die for the past week (or more, fine)! I meant to leave the TOP birthday post on for a week, but then I was kinda busy after Wednesday.

On Thursday I went over to Ashley's house. We were supposed to go to the beach, but her parents aren't letting her go out, so I decided to go over instead to accompany her :D We ate food that Ashley cooked (Yum) and then we went to watch IRIS on mysoju.com. :D IRIS IS INDEED GOOD. Hehe. Previously, before Thursday, I'd only watched the TOP cuts from IRIS, so it was good that I was able to watch the rest of the show. We watched till episode 3, which is not bad and quite strategic, because...

I MAY BE GETTING BACK MY LOVELY, LOVELY CABLE TV
*PROCEEDS TO SCREAM & GRIN HAPPILY*

Whoot whoot OKAY. My mother was mostly convinced when I told her that she could watch her Korean dramas before they air on Channel U on KBS World which COMES FREE WITH ALLLLLL CABLE TV SUBSCRIPTIONS. kekeke

It'll probably be installed by Thursday, which adds up nicely because IRIS's episode 4 is broadcasted then. :D I can't wait to watch IRIS on the nice(ish) 40-inch TV at home and not the puny tablet screen yeeeeeah!

Anyway, Friday I was catching up on my K-pop & Lady Gaga news, Saturday was the pre-camp event and Sunday was spent blogging for the Pre-camp event on the Faith Factor blog after my cousin's birthday party. WHICH, took me a superbly long time because I had to edit all the photos that I was posting. Of course, that's my fault for wanting to post pretty pictures. I coulda just posted the pictures normally like that, but NO, Angeline is a perfectionist and a freak and must post pictures that look cutesy.

-.-

I don't even do that kinda treatment for my own blog posts, so why must I do that for this? Ugh. I'm glad that I don't do that for the pictures I post here though. I think I could spend an entire day blogging because of that. As it is, I spent at least 3 hours blogging that post. And it had very little words. Because it's not my own personal blog & I know people hate words, I try to keep my posts there as free of words as possible.

Anyway, at least the post turned out pretty :D I like pretty things hehehe. Oh yeah, my cousin has Wii, so I was able to play Rayman's Raving Rabbids! It's so cute, so adorable and so totally squish-able. I totally wanna squish all those rabbits. *squish* They're totally lumps of cute, good fun ;) Plus, it's good exercise for my flabby arms! Between the DS Lite and Wii, I think I prefer the Wii ;D

Image Credit: Balance Board Blog

AREN'T THEY JUST SO ADORRRRRABLE??? ;)

On Monday, we went back to school to collect our results slips, which I felt was really pointless. Okay, so there was a cohort meeting and all, but yeah, go to school at 7.30, go home at 9. YAY. I totally went to sleep after coming back from school because I'd stayed up late to finished the aforementioned blog post. After that, I had to go back to school for Dance.

Miss Wee's session was good. I mean, tough, but it was good for my out-of-shape body. The occasional dancing to Big Bang/Tae Yang was nothing man. I guess, reflecting now, I kinda miss dance. But I was glad(ish) for the extra free time. Because, um, I got into Kpop because of that. MEH.

Came home & I had to edit the Night Frisbee video from the Pre-camp event. Reached home at 7 and immediately started editting the video from then. :/ I totally had to prepare for it, you know! The video I took was FIFTEEN MINUTES AND FIFTY-ONE SECONDS long and I sat through the whole thing for at least 4 times to get the sequence I came up with. See? (That was done on Sunday)
Yes, you will also note that I got sidetracked along the way after hearing someone utter 'Annyeong Haseyo' in the video. I went to write my name using Korean letters, based on the sound. (Charis's name was scribbled there on Monday because I was messaging her about her item :D) (I wrote it based on SOUND yeah, not English letters, just to double clarify)

Yeah, been trying to learn Korean lately! Since the Chinese 'A's are over, I am free to go learn Korean yaaaay! I can recognise at least 10 of the 24 Korean letters (I'm too lazy to count now) but yes, it takes me a while before I can read a Korean word out. I'm still new to it hokay! Will be trying to remember all 24 characters :D I mean, English has 26! 24 isn't as bad! Haha. I think learning the Korean alphabet isn't that bad, because it's like English, but with funkier letters! I bet Korean is easier to learn than Chinese. It's totally like English! Ish. :)

Yeah, so basically, after at least 4+1 hours of editting, 1 hour of rendering and another 4 hours of waiting for YouTube to properly finish uploading & processing the video, I was finally done and able to post the finished product on the blog at 5 plus. Humph. My poor computer has been on since 7pm yesterday. What a great humungo waste of electricity. MEH.

Also, after this, I still have to edit the Tchoukball videos. Yeah, took 2 videos, but these ones are 1:16 and 0:53 minutes long, which is totally okay, as compared to the 15:51 video of Night Frisbee. -_- I have a concept already, but um, HM, dunno if I should carry it out, because THAT, ONCE AGAIN, may take just about many hours to churn out. GRRRR.

And if you were wondering, actually, I'd finished editting the video in about 4 hours, but then I'd wanted to add in music in the background, so that took me another hour. I KNOW RIGHT? Pathetic. A simple task like that can take so long. Pfft. Also, I fell asleep waiting for the video to render, which was why I couldn't post the video earlier. Humph.

Just for the sake of promoting the camp :D I'll repost the post I did on the blog here ;) Below this post. So that you can read all the fun behind-the-scenes rubbish before watching it. KEKEKE.

Out! ♥

The Ultimate Frisbee video post

2009-11-17T19:03:00.000+08:00

YES. YES YES YES, it is finally up!!!

After about 5 hours of agonising video-editing, 1 hour of waiting for the file to render (ie, the file that contained the video being edited to become a proper video file) and 4 hours of waiting for YouTube to upload the video, it's HEEEERRRRREEEEE

Because I filmed at night, the lighting was really lousy, so I got the video-editing programme to do Auto-Contrast on the video clip. Which is why some bits are brighter than the rest. ANYWAY, I apologise for the lousy (pixelated) quality of the clip. Life's like that.

REMEMBER TO TURN ON THE SOUND WHEN YOU PLAY THE CLIP :)
It's quite funny to hear what people say when they play Frisbee. ;D

I wanted to post this yesterday, but, as you might've observed from the amount of time spent on this video, it can only be posted today. I'll try to have the Tchoukball clips up today too, but no promises.
But, if you check back tomorrow, the Tchoukball clips should be there yeah!! :D
(It should require less editing :/)

Kay, I'm out!
♥

(And yes, I edited the time to make this post appear below the previous one)

CSJ Part Trois

2009-11-17T18:06:00.003+08:00

♥

Happy Birthday T.O.P

2009-11-04T11:04:00.002+08:00

:)

♥

/PS-I know my Photoshop skills suck. And that I'm not very artistic. But I already tried my best. It's the thought that counts anyway :)

/PPS-I see why they say "Never Trust Wikipedia". Dramawiki gave me the wrong name for TOP -.- >:( I HAVE FIXED IT ;D

생일축하합니다, 톱

2009-11-03T23:06:00.006+08:00

It's 12am in Korea now, sooo...

Happy 22nd Birthday to the oh-so-(insert word of choice because I have too many) T.O.P from Big Bang! Happy 23rd, in terms of Korean age, nonetheless.

It's been uber cool getting to know Big Bang & you, Mr 최승현, although it's been some pretty weird & messed up months, but yeah, I have enjoyed myself very much tee hee!

(I have been waiting all day to be able to officially wish TOP a Happy Birthday!)
I was supposed to post a picture here to commemorate his birthday, but I didn't have time to finish it today :( :( Will be continuing work on it today & posting it up as soon as I'm done. Am rather disappointed by my slowness & lousiness with Photoshop. Sigh. I wish I had Photoshop at home :/

Posted!

Be back with better stuff
♥

CSJ Part Deux

2009-11-03T20:05:00.000+08:00

♥

Kekeke

2009-11-03T03:44:00.002+08:00

Also, a three sentence post!

T.O.P's birthday is TOMORROWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW (i.e. Nov 4) and I'm going to try to find time to prepare an image to post here!
Koe Wo Kikasete also comes out then, so I'll be prowling around Popular etc to see if they have the single, hee hee!

♥

Bearbrick update!

2009-11-03T03:10:00.004+08:00

I also forgot to post this just now, but anyway, guess what?
Bearbrick Series 19 is coming out in December! According to the website anyway, which has this date on the page for it: 2009 年 12 月 and then some Japanese words that I don't recognise. So, I'm guessing it should come out in December :D OH, but then I see the word 定 at the end of the Jap phrase... Does that mean that Series 19 can be pre-ordered from December onwards? (Currently Series 19 is in the Preorder section of the website)

Yeah, so this is the picture they have there, which I took a screen capture of! :D

Of course, the first thing you will notice is the nice n' big UGLYDOLL sign there, which is SERIOUSLY the coolest thing kay!! This is totally what's hyping me up for Series 19 - it's gonna be epic! (Okay, I'm exaggerating mostly) But I know I'm definitely looking forward to getting my hands on it!!!

By the way, the little square-shaped image next to the word SERIES19 was pasted in by me coz I thought it was cute! If you squint hard enough, you will see that it says TOP SECRET in red. Just like what I've done. I thought it was a cute concept! Hehehe.

Anyway, I've been waiting & hoping for David Horvath to collaborate with Medicom to produce some uber cool Bearbricks ... and finally my wish comes true! YAAAAAAAAY! I can't wait to see what those Uglydoll Bearbricks are gonna look like!!

Also, I am wondering whether I should get 100% (i.e. wait till they are not blind boxed) or whether I should just jump straight to 400%.
But then, at 28cm, 400% does seem a little too big for my liking... how? Waiting for the 100% boxes to be de-blindboxed may take a long time, but 400% costs so much more & are so huge! Argh.

I think my mother may flip if I continue wanting to buy toys at this rate.

I mean, other than wanting that International Love Hearts Bearbrick at 400% (yes, I am insistent on buying it hokay), I've got these guys here that I want as well! Sigh. I need to stop being so materialistic!!!

Maaaaan, life is tough. :/ Why do I always desire so many things in life >:( I need to stop this bad addiction to toys & materialism. After all, what did I learn on Saturday? To live within my means and be satisfied with what I have, making do with whatever I have & making do with whatever I don't have. ANGELINE, YOU DON'T NEED SO MANY TOYS! :( :( :(

You see the crisis I face?
Sigh.
Out ♥

CSJ

2009-11-03T01:14:00.000+08:00

Hello hello!

Today I just did my very last Chinese paper ever. Am feeling many emotions, of course.
There's the relief that finally, I have taken my 'A' Level Chinese paper, but then there's also a tinge of sadness and nostalgia, because it is, as mentioned, the very last time that I will be taking a Chinese paper. I mean, as a student, I've been learning Chinese from kindergarten, and now, to not have any more Chinese lessons, wow, it sure feels really sad. Which then brings me to the feeling of weirdness, where there's no more Mother Tongue lessons (or rather, CL1) and no more Chinese tuition. So weird. So sad. Sigh.

Of course I'm not helping myself by playing the Acoustic version of Koe Wo Kikasete on repeat whilst blogging, which is half distracting me and half making me wallow more in my emotions. :/ :) I really can't wait to get the Single album for it kay! Ora Yeah, the other song in the album, is way cool. Seriously. Makes me feel like dancing, which doesn't really go with the whole Koe Wo Kikasete feel, but who doesn't love a good get-up-and-dance song?

EXCEPT TOP speaking Engrish at the start. That almost killed the song for me, but the rest of the song saved it. TOP, please, please please PLEASE improve your language skills. You are so cool & everything, but when you speak like that... It kinda ruins the image :( :( :(
[I might have to pretend I'm deaf everytime I start playing the song]
[AT least it improves in the middle of the song, because his Engrish is not so obvious then. :/]

After the paper, I went to the ICA Building to collect my new passport, in which I look so rotund in. I can only wait for 5 years to be up, so that I can chuck this current passport in the bin/to one side and hopefully submit a picture that looks a trillion times better :/

THEN, I made my way down to Chinatown! First time that I'm going to Chinatown by myself! (Okay, same for the ICA Building, but nobody really gives 2 hoots about that) Chinatown has some really weird road drawings on streetdirectory.com, like seriously. Eu Tong Sen St (ETSS) & New Bridge Rd (NBR) run along next to each other, yet they separate them by drawing the MRT station in between them. It TOTALLY confused me. -.- They make it seem like ETSS & NBR are one-way streets, when they could actually just be one road name by themselves. T.T

I was a little worried when I was walking to China Square Central, because I'd never been there before, but I reached there easily after clearing up my initial confusion at ETSS & NBR. -.-" Anyway, it felt familiar, but I guess small shopping malls could have similar layouts/shops.

Finally went to Ozzo Collection! Is good there, is good. But I bet it would've been cooler if I'd gone earlier - the shop seemed a little empty. Maybe it was a sign from God, but I'd accidentally left the house without bringing extra money, so thankfully Anna paid me back the money for Angeline's present. I wanted to buy more (e.g. Treeson & Friends, etc), but I didn't have enough cash, which was a slight pity, but, I guess, life's like that.

I couldn't find the Be@rbrick section! But after reviewing toysrevil's photostream, I realised that it was behind the counter. -_- Oh well, lesser temptations for me to deal with.

And lastly, the catch of the day.
I will be revealing more of this day by day (haha, Haru Haru), but then again, you can see him in his full entirety on the web. ANYWAY, I wanna do things the hard way, so that's my prerogative HAHA.

Back to preparing for OP. SIGH. Is so very boring yah.
♥ Out!

Title here!

2009-10-29T22:37:00.007+08:00

PS - I just added in titles for my post.
Don't laugh at 'em because I know some are weird ok.
It's just that I feel that some titles are quite appropriate to be posted.
So, I have finally decided to put in the code for titles.

The only problem?
I've just spent at least the past half an hour trying to figure out how to make the title link to the actual post itself. For some reason, even though I have put in the right code (ie, the one with the link), the title refuses to be a link.

I have officially given up on that nonsense and will get back to PW/Chinese.

PPS - The lines don't overlap anymore! I got rid of the line-height code and now, everything falls in place nicely YAY.

I will NOT get distracted any more by

K-pop news
Lady Gaga
Toys, Vinyls and Figurine
Blogging

I promise.

现在，我必须要专心地练习和复习我的华文!
哦, 也要完成那个可恶的 PW 的 WR 和 OP slides!
再见! ♥

Obsessed

2009-10-29T21:17:00.001+08:00

Hello you,
Soon you'll be mine.

♥

//Image Credit: Superham

Koe Wo Kikasete

2009-10-28T19:22:00.003+08:00

I know keep posting videos instead of blogging properly, but I will soon okay! Currently me has the Chinese 'A' Level & the PW 'A' Level to deal with cos one is coming up this Monday while the other is coming up next next Tuesday. Ultimate stress. A LEVELS! IT'S THE A LEVELS *SCREAMZ*!

BUT BUT BUT Big Bang's new video is ultimate. A MUST WATCH. Highly biased statement, but I'm serious, it's nice. You know, BOOMS! TOTALLY OKAY.

And then, we have TOP staring at the camera with that look. With that nice hairstyle. And those nice clothes. And the super super pretty scenery. Oh goodness. (The last statement before "Oh goodness" was for the entire video, not just TOP) (When did I become such a fangirl?!?!?!) Anyway, main point, yummy video, yummy TOP.

^GO WATCH IT^

Today is such a happy happy day man. 2NE1's Park Bom video was there for me to watch, Big Bang's video too, plus we got back our overall score (and although I once again underperformed) I'm just thankful to God for allowing me to pass all the subjects I really wanted to pass. I'm also thankful that I can promote safely. I just need to work REAL HARD on my Geog stuff now. I must be a good girl! Cannot keep doing so much K-pop nonsense meh :/

I am glad that I stayed away from Kpop mainly on Monday & Tuesday. Mainly. :/ I HAVE to keep to the Wednesday/Friday/Sunday thing. Anyway, time for Chinese. Sigh. I wanna keep on listening to Koe Wo Kikasete (Let Me Hear Your Voice)! Have definitely made up my mind to buy the single when it comes out - IN THE SINGAPOREAN EDITION because I have had it with overpriced Japanese goods. -_-

I really want this cover:Because the star is so pretty! Plus, you know I have a thing for star shapes! But it's so exxy because it comes with some Taeyang collectible thingy - totally not my thing.

If not, I guess Universal will probably release this cover for the Singapore edition. (It BETTER come with the DVD okay!):

Okay, I am done talking rubbish. Big Bang all the way maaaaan!
♥ Fighting!

//Image credits: Amazon.co.jp - Cover 1 Cover 2

G-dragon's Butterfly

2009-10-24T12:21:00.003+08:00

Hey, I am aching all over & cannot type properly so for the moment, I can't do a proper blog post. :/ Meh. Anyway, just saw G-Dragon's music video for Butterfly & it's so prettily done! :) I thought that I should post it because I really like the song as well... The song itself is very soothing & the chorus, though sung by Jin Jung, is superbly nice to sing along to!

PLUS, see if you are as toy crazy as me (but it's not that hard anyway), you could try spotting a My Little Pony toy in there! Hehe. I LOVE IT when people feature toys. YEAH I LOVE TOYS KAY ;D

Kay. Man. Typing this post was a killer! :( Wants to collapse now. :( :( Right. Hope you liked the vid! I did! It was so magical XD
Cannot. type. any. more.
Out! ♥

T.O.P and toys

2009-10-19T01:07:00.005+08:00

Hi everyone! I know I've been on a long hiatus and bad me didn't even bother updating my blog even after the exams had ended. Yeah the long hiatus was due to the fact that I was supposed to be study8ing for exams, but once again, like EVERY OTHER STUPID YEAR, I have to get distracted by something or another and I end up leaving studying for my exams till the very last minute. >:( I always hate that I always do stupid things. Grrr.

Okay, this post isn't really an update on MY life per se, it's more of an update on my fascination with T.O.P and his toys, kekeke.

Firstly, we'll talk about my newest discovery! Teehee! Was re-watching the episode 2 T.O.P cut from his new drama, IRIS, and I noticed that he was playing with a Rubik's Cube. Being the fanatic obsessed fangirl that I am (yes, I know, SIGH), I had to go search for it, since I noticed that it had a star on it & wasn't your regular Rubik's Cube, but a variation! oooooh~ Don't understand what I mean? It's okay, I took a screen cap of it, courtesy of CodeMonmonSeason4:
Yeap. Somebody still hasn't finished solving it! Hohoho. Not that I'm any better, because I can't even solve a normal one. HAHA.

Anyway, a quick search online led me to find the name of this cool toy! (You KNOW I love the star shape :D) It's actually called the Megaminx! If you read the article: "It has a total of 50 movable pieces to rearrange, compared to the 20 of the Rubik's cube." WHOA, A WHOPPING FIFTY MOVABLE PARTS??!!?! That'll take a million years for me to figure out, being the idiot that I am! Lol. Here's a picture of the real thing, up close:
Credit: Wikipedia Megaminx Article
Kekekekekekeke. Pretty cool if I say so myself. Yes, that was a partially biased statement, because anything that T.O.P has is cool in my eyes. *-* (Those are sparkly eyes)

Except this:
Credit: Texas Toyz
I don't even wanna talk about it. :/

Secondly, is the Be@rbrick that was in TOP's room in Japan when they featured it in Big Bang TV! :D :D :D Initally, before I found out that he likes Be@rbricks, I was interested in them because I'd seen some tokidoki designs on Be@rbricks in PI@Iluma and because I like tokidoki, I was fascinated. Plus, they had a Spongebob design too - who can resist Spongebob? (No just kidding) (Anyway, I'd shown the tokidoki and Spongebob Be@rbrick designs on my blog previously if you read it hehe)

Then, when I'd found out that TOP liked 'em, or rather, they are one of his current obsessions (besides suits and shoes), I liked them even more. ^^ ANYWAY, I've been trying to find the name of the Be@rbrick at his room in Japan, which was this one:
But it was always to no avail, because I have practically 0% knowledge of Be@rbrick maaaan! Anyway, recently, this person started following me on Twitter and I realised that they had a toy blog. Which so happened to be featuring Be@rbricks at the moment!

(Okay, am lazy to keep using the @ sign in Be@rbricks, so will type it as Bearbricks from now on)
Anyway, so I went to ask them for the name of the Bearbrick, but they didn't know :( Awww. But it wasn't so bad, because they directed me to this page, called bearbrick love! It was a site entirely dedicated to Bearbricks - whoa! Mustering up my courage once again, I emailed the guy running the site, Ariel (he's Filipino), and enquired about the name of the Bearbrick, providing a link for this CLEARER BY A MILE picture of that Bearbrick that I'd miraculously found!

I honestly cannot remember how I'd found it. :/ (Hm, memory is failing me!) Credit: Hypebeast

Ah! I half-remember now. I was searching for "Where the Wild Things Are" (WTWTA) (not sure exactly what got to me search for it) and I was led to the Hypebeast site on WTWTA Bearbrick and Kubrick toys. (Really cute!) Then I clicked on the Bearbrick tag and was led to the Medicom toy exhibition, held in July. AH, FUN. At least I'm not that senile yet.

So, Ariel sent me back a reply (real fast) and my search for the name of the Bearbrick was over! It was the International Love Hearts Bearbrick, which was designed by Alexander Girard!!! Which of course, prompts me to scour the net for it!

Being the loser that I am, I wasn't sure what size Bearbrick it was. It definitely couldn't be 100% (7cm), so was it 400% or 1000%??? Basically, I came to the conclusion that it was 1000%, because I assume 400% (28cm) would be pretty small and 70cm didn't seem that big. LITTLE DID I KNOW HOW WRONG I WAS. I mean, it was ~~sitting~~ standing atop some drawers. It can't be that small right? ANYWAY, point being that

1000% Bearbricks can cost up to SG$400-500.

Good grief.

Anyway, went to Plaza Sing yesterday to get Angeline's present and as I was walking past Action City, NOTICED THAT THEY HAD THE 1000% VERSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL LOVE HEARTS BEARBRICK!!!! It was pretty obvious that THAT was the 1000% one, because it was, to put it simply, EXTREMELY HUMUNGOUSLY HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE. 70cm, my dear friends, is not that small. Please do not be as stupid as me.

Unfortunately, Action City doesn't have the 400% size version of that Bearbrick, so I have emailed them to ask them whether they will be bringing in any stocks.

I am so shameless.

If they do, I AM TOTALLY WANTING THAT FOR CHRISTMAS (from my parents) !!!!!
GAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

Okay okay, enough rubbish talk. SEE, SO MANY PICTUREZ RIGHT? Tomorrow, because we don't have any PW meeting anymore, I will start work on my STGCC post (yeah I know, long overdue!), finish watching YG TV and not do anything else related to Kpop, because it's only fair that I stick to the Wednesday, Friday and Sunday schedule. Excuse me while I go watch their Cafe Latte mini-concert now. I have been wanting to watch it since official videos of it were posted online, but was resisiting because I was supposed to be studying for my exams. -.-

Also, I'd just watched T.O.P's bit in the 'The Secret Star: Big Bang' episode. He's such a dear. Aw. Don't we just love toys! They're totally there to keep us company yeah. (; Ah, I might as well stick the video here! For your enjoyment :D

Credit: iBigBangsubs

Off to more Big Bang nonsense whoot! ♥

:(

2009-09-19T18:32:00.004+08:00

Wow okay I just saw this on the net ): (Am floundering between listening to Gaga's Just Dance video that I posted below and doing homework and occasionally poking around the web)

The Fame Monster Edition [Limited Release]
Lady Gaga

Label/Distributor: Universal Music
Format: CD
Number of discs (or other units): 2
Release Date: 2009/11/18 (See more items released this month)
Price: 2381yen (2500yen Tax incl.)
[SGD 36.93] Change Reference Currency
F.S. Points: 71 points
Item weight: 200 g

Description
Deluxe edition of "The Fame" release from Lady Gaga to be advanced released in Japan. Includes four new songs and four acousitc(sic) version of her previous tracks.

Bonus Track: Japan edition bonus track (subject to change)

Source: cdJapan through GagaDaily.com

Now let me point out the point that produces the sad face.
Price: 2381yen (2500yen Tax incl.) [SGD 36.93]

That's right. Lady Gaga's album has TWO CDs with about TWENTY TRACKS and COSTS CHEAPER THAN MY BIG BANG CD. Such is life, such is life. But then again, I have no power whasoever to be able to preorder the album & I'll probably have to ship it over here if I pre-order it online, so YEAH. Will probably have to pass over this one as with all other things I see on the internet, like My Friend Dave etc.

Lady Gaga - Just Dance

2009-09-19T17:46:00.002+08:00

Just found this amazing video of Gaga singing a stripped down, maybe even the original version of Just Dance at this Marc Jacobs/V Magazine party. (She sang Poker Face there too, but it was the same as the other one I posted before)

The chorus is different:
1st chorus:
Just Dance, gonna be ok,
down on the floor
Just Dance, spin that record babe,
been here before so,
Just Dance, when I scream your name
when you don't call
Just Dance...

2nd chorus:
Just Dance, gonna be ok,
da da doo doom
Just Dance, spin that record babe,
been here before,
Just Dance, can I scream your name
when you don't call
Just Dance...

3rd chorus:
Just Dance, gonna be ok,
da da doo doom
Just Dance, spin that record babe,
da da doo doom
Just Dance, gonna scream your name
when you don't call
Just Dance, Dance, Dance
Just, J-J-Just mmmm...

(Deciphered with help from a comment posted by Nick871)

Super sad huh? Was almost on the verge of tearing when I heard it for the first time. It's so good. She's just so talented. :)

♥

BIG BANG BIG BANG BIG BANG ASIA BEST

2009-09-19T11:51:00.009+08:00

Okay, so as mentioned, I have the Big Bang: Asia Best 2006-2009 CD now whoot whoot whoot whoop deee whoop! Hehe! It's got all my favourite Big Bang hits - Haru Haru, Lie, Number 1 and Lollipop - except Last Farewell, the stuff in the Stand Up mini album and Forever with You. AT FIRST, I thought that it had Forever with you (which had Park Bom of 2NE1 in it), but it turns out, what Asia Best had was Together Forever which is the English version of Nunmul which is okay I guess. I mean, Big Bang songs are all yummy to listen to.

Have listened to it only a few times (sadly) so far. But it's been great stuff. There were some new stuff in there that I'd never heard before, like Stylish and So Beautiful that have (obviously) grown on me and made me like them too. What can I say? I like ALL Big Bang songs. OKAY, except How Gee. How Gee would've been okay if the video hadn't been so... YEAH. Totally not into the whole style of it. :/

Anyway, it blew a big (ish) whole into my pocket because I'm already broke at the moment and this made me (pardon the bad English) broke-r. (Haha, I had to put a dash between broke and r because if not it'd look like broker, and I'm not a broke, as in, stock broker HAHA) (I know my humour is really weird, thanks) FORTY THREE DOLLARS you know. FOR ELEVEN TRACKS *stabs* I have absolutely no idea how Bei Yi does it with her Kat-Tun albums. I'd kill myself shelling out so much money per CD!!! Japan is one exxxxxxxxxxxpensive place man. :( How did I survive there again? Oh wait, I didn't like Big Bang last year -.-

Ahhhhhh, also, I couldn't resist taking this picture! Guess where my aunt got the CD from?

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TOWER RECORDS JAPAN!

Pretty cool huh? It feels like Tower Records hasn't been in Singapore for a loooong time, when it's only actually been 3 years. Haha, ironically it closed in 2006 (Source), the year when Big Bang debuted. IN FACT, it closed around the time when Big Bang debuted - according to that article anyway. Aw, Big Bang albums were never seen in Tower Records Singapore. :( Oh well.

On to the CD! Aja! (I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU CLICK TO ENLARGE! MOST PICTURES ARE QUITE CLEAR HEHEHE MACRO)

The super pretty cover! The whole CD is pink-based yeah! Asia Best is totally made for me like seriously. :D :D I am currently using the Asia Best CD as my msn display picture ;D The pink flap paper has some Japanese words underneath. I think it has something to do with joining Big Bang's V.I.P club (V.I.P being the name of their fans) in Japan. Have already asked Bei Yi to translate it for me after the exams :D I mean, I know I can't join, but it'll be cool to know hehe. XD

Opening the CD cover! SEE THE PINKYNESS OF THE CD? HEHEHE. Toldja it's made for me ^.^ (See, am getting influenced by Korean people and am using such emoticons now) Anyway, love the CD! It's pink to the maxxxx! And the background too, with the Big Bang logo in yellow! Whoot, love those colours!

Also, YG put in more pictures of the boys as a group = more pictures of T.O.P, although of course, he ends up being smaller :( Also, I don't know why, but most of T.O.P's pictures are either cut off in some way or another or are a "fail" (in my books anyway) Not all anyway, but most. Oh well, at least I have more pictures to stare at! ;D

The first page! Picture of the Haru Haru music video - love that video because it has so many T.O.P scenes HE HE HE. Am (once again) loving the rings he's wearing! Me want more rings! I have so few :( :( This is one of the best pictures of him. He looks so cool ( and tall) here! ;)

This is apparently a picture of their Stand Up tour in Japan which I had never known had existed. Ah well. I know that it's really uber hard to find T.O.P here, so I've circled him and put an arrow next to the circle to emphasise his whereabouts in the picture :D (Also, see what I mean by cut off? ): )

This is when they'd first started off! See how young GD, Tae Yang & Dae Sung look! Hehe! And in case you haven't figured out where T.O.P is, I've put an arrow pointing to his head. I know he looks different! He'd shaved his head back then. In a different angle, he still looked cute OKAY.

I think this picture is reminiscent of the Stand Up mini album/Remember album. They were wearing stuff like this (at least for T.O.P ANYWAY) in those 2 albums. (Also, see what I mean by cut off again? ): )

Haven't seen these pictures before, so it's refreshing :D TOP looks good ;) Haha, in the two pictures everybody but Tae Yang changes pose. Lol. Also, if you happen to be wondering why you see 3 staple bullets instead of only 2, it's because I pieced two pictures together for this image. Natural lighting was frustrating me to no end by "blocking off" people on the camera screen, so I had to take one side of the booklet first, then the other side for this page. Still, GD is mostly "blocked" by the light. -.-

This is also one of their early day pictures! They had this make-up for the bit they did of the song Big Bang is V.I.P at the end of one of their music videos (okay, I forgot which one & I'm lazy to find) Once again, arrow is there to assist you in finding TOP (Also, see what I mean by cut off again again? ): )

Have never seen these pictures before too! T.O.P doesn't look very glamorous here, but oh well, at least he looks okay! Also, if you click to expand you'll notice that this picture was taken upside down ;D (No comments on GD. Like, seriously.)

As you can see, it is very hard to see dear TOP here. So, arrow to assist you! He is also cut off here. :( So much space between Tae Yang & GD and they have to shove TOP all the way at the bottom. :( Oh well. I suppose the date there (2006 08 29) was the date they released their first single :D

The back of the booklet. If you have not already realised, it's got a reflective surface, so you can see yourself in it when you stare at it (This is another reason why I like the cover haha) (Don't get the wrong idea. I am not so narcissistic that I have to keep looking at myself -.- I just think it's really funky)

The back of the CD casing! It's very clear! You can even read the puny words at the bottom too kay ;) Gotta love macro at its best! Hehe

And finally, for those of you who can read Korean, you can click to enlarge this picture and sing along to Big Bang songs! Woo hoo! For me, I look out for the English words and sing along when it comes to the English words haha (no, I'm not that pathetic. I can sing some of the Korean bits too OKAY)

Ahhh! Reached the end finally. Am a wittle bit squeezed of words to say, am feeling no real inspiration to blog aw :( Life has been boring, nothing much exciting other than the addition of another Big Bang CD to my life. And that I've been listening to too much 2NE1 and G-Dragon (We we we the, we the leaders; you ain't in the game, you just cheerleaders - Haha, love singing along to CL's opening line in GD's "The Leaders"). And I haven't been doing enough work. Oh well.

Sooooo, I guess it's time for me to round off the wasting time session online :/ Need to send a (super long overdue) reply to Pris's email and then go back to work :/ Meh.
♥ Out¬

quickie post

2009-09-15T02:37:00.002+08:00

Okay, this post is gonna be like probably several sentences long.

Point is, my aunt went to Japan & helped me get the Asia Best 2006-2009 album that I wanted

i.e. I officially have 2 Big Bang albums! Happy happy happy! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

The moment I heard the news I was so happy I did my retard jumping and when I went back to my room (after telling my mum the good news), I ended up tearing. I NEED to stop crying so easily (Ahhh, but does this mean that I will have a good chance in a certain career path...?)

Anyway, yes, I wanted to post pictures, but unfortunately, because I wasted my entire holiday away (as per usual) I haven't had the time to take pictures of the (totally) made-for-me Asia Best album. Like seriously. The booklet's cover is SHINYYYY and the CD is PINK. Oh swoon. And as if YG knew what I wanted, every single flip of the booklet is a new picture of T.O.P -YAY. But most of his pictures are either blocked or slightly cut off in one way or another -_- I don't even get to properly enjoy his features RAAAH. YES I WILL POST PICTURES when I have decided to stop feverishly and nonsensically checking up on K-pop news and decide to do work and then actually take pictures of the album.

I AM A RETARD, NO LESS.

And I am officially a fan of 2NE1. Not that they will have more blog space here than Big Bang, but I like their songs! YG has good music writers/producers maaaan. :D I DEFINITELY WANNA GO KOREA (again) THIS YEAR UH HUH. Must buy my two favourite BB & the 2NE1 mini-album uh huh (if they are cheaper there). (And if I can push for it, more more more stuff!) OH OH, I can sing the chorus of I Don't Care. I'm serious! Not just random mumbling, but the actual words KAY. Am also loving In the Club. Fire, Pretty Boy & Let's Go Party are for the high-er days, while Stay Together is okay only.

In other news which is completely related to the above nonsense, I am SO TOTALLY ON BROKE LANE. After the 19.95 on the BB Jap album (am at cycle number 24? 25? 26? I've stopped keeping count because I just keep listening hehe), I COMPLETELY BLEW 43.40 on the Asia Best album. There goes my savings~

Life is bad. I am not living a proper lifestyle. I officially admit that I am addicted to the stupid internet and that I am obsessed with K-pop. This is bad. WAKE UP ME, PROMOS IN LESS THAN ONE MONTH. A LEVELS COMING SOON. SCHOOL IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN STUPID KOREAN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS. ARGH.

Okay, see? I've just wasted some of my time by blogging here -.- Retard.
Yeah, back to attempting to complete computing & chinese.
♥ Annyeong gaseyo!

Musings for today

2009-09-07T18:45:00.002+08:00

(Did this post last monday, but was too lazy to upload pictures from my camera then, so am only posting this now)

I am on the verge of doing yet another stupid thing. No, this one is not as bad as the previous one, but this one has been sucking up all my time (but not so much energy, but still using up energy I suppose). I don't even know why I do the things that I do. My mind is probably too fogged up by Big Bang to even think properly I think. On my way to church yesterday, I had an epiphany. I'd realised that nothing good had come out from me liking Big Bang.

I'm trying to think of something good that has happened to me since I liked Big Bang, but no, nothing comes to mind. Nada, zero, zilch. The school holidays start in a week, but I feel like I'm ALREADY in it. I have not accomplished much work and because I have so much time, I am wasting and whiling it away incessantly. Everyday it's like a routine, allkpop.com, minsarang.wordpress.com, seoulbeats.com, popseoul.com, bigbangkorean.wordpress.com, ibigbang.wordpress.com
And I just keep logging into this madness. Of course, Twitter is no help as well.
I don't know why I do the things I do.

Anyway, on a lighter note, I have found my box of rings YAY YAY YAY! That means that I have more rings to wear! Remember I was saying that I'm into statement rings now, well, now I've got a couple more, so I shall be wearing them yaaaay! In fact, I'm even wearing two of 'em now as I type this out! See?
The red one was bought from Malaysia quite some time ago and I still love wearing it! This is one of the better rings from my crazy-about-rings phase back in primary 3 or so. The rings from back then are rather ... ew now. I feel like throwing them away because I will NEVER EVER EVER wear them again in my life! Like, seriously. :/ Moreover, most don't fit my fat fingers anymore. Which reminds me that I need to lose weight! See? Ew :/
Anyway, the pink star was from a Bratz set that I bought in sec 1 or 2. Back then, if you twist it to either side, it'd have lights, but now, because the batteries have died or something like that, it doesn't work anymore. :( Nonetheless, it is still a cute cute ring! :)

Yeah and to complete my collection of statement rings right now, I want 3 more types of designs! For the first one I'm not even sure if they sell such things, but the last two are pretty common! I wish I knew where to find them at reasonable prices!!!

Image Source: Troll Ring, Kaboodle.com: 1, 2
(Cropped the first picture from the original picture & flipped it around to make it clearer)

Okay, back to work for me!
Must stop staring at things online!

Annyeong! ♥

BIG BANG BIG BANG BIG BANG BIG BANG

2009-09-06T01:23:00.007+08:00

HELLO EVERYONE. I KNOW IT'S 1AM NOW, BUT I HAVE SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT TO SAY.

TODAY IS A VERY VERY VERY VERY EVENTFUL DAY.

I HAD A LOT OF FUN (Mostly anyway :/ )

GUESS WHAT I BOUGHT TODAY?

I BET YOU CAN'T GUESS BECAUSE IT'S UNTHINKABLE.

ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE

TOTALLY UNEXPECTED

OUT OF THE ORDINARY (ish)

HAVE YOU FIGURED IT OUT?

NO? OF COURSE NOT.
I'LL TELL YOU!

ARE YOU READY?

DUGUDUGUDUGUDUGUDUGU! (it's really hard to pronounce this okay. Try it in one breath! You'll end up messing it up! Unless you're Korean. You'll probably do it better. They do this as a drum roll! It's a cute sound, but I suck at saying it!)

(You know that I'm just doing this so that the picture below won't be seen when you first click C :D Oh I love suspense!)

JANG JANG JANG!

I GOT MY VERY FIRST BIG BANG ALBUM!

It's their first Japanese album and their self-titled work is pretty hot on the charts there as well! :D If my memory has not failed me, I think "Big Bang" (yes, I did say SELF-titled) debuted there on 19th August at like 2nd on the Oricon Album Chart :) But a (stupid) check online shows that they are currently in 20th position :( Oh well, I've supported them today!

Ahh, am listening to the album now anyway ;D It's so good!!! The first time I listened to it was via Youtube and I liked most of the songs. I think I remembered not liking a few songs, can't seem to recall which ones. But now, I definitely definitely like ALL the songs. I'm like, WHICH song did I not like?!!?!! [On retrospect, it MIGHT have been Love Club. But it's all okay, cos I love it too now] They're all good! It's definitely worth a listen ok! This is the link to the Youtube channel which has all the songs :D CLICK ME!!

This is my third time listening to it today. The first time I listened to it, it was in full. The second time was for about 6 out of the 11 tracks (because I was interupted by my parents to stop playing it on the home theatre system in the living room -.-) So at the moment, I am at track 7! :)

I shall clear these pictures first before I launch into a monologue about today's happenings! :) Apologies for the mostly blur pictures. I OBVIOUSLY wanted to use the DSLR, but the stupid memory card used there won't load on my tablet. AND my stupid brain forgot that I can use the other memory card -.- (Just realised this) Then I wanted to use the grainy Nikon, but that memory card didn't work too, so I thought that I only had the new GE camera left. The one I won that's only 7 megapixels. :/

On to pictures! Aja!
On the left is the flap cover and on the left is the actual album! I adore the flap because it's so shiny! It's got holographic designs on 'em! The "grid" you see on the flap is actually the shiny bits! OOH SPARKLY!

This is what you see when you first open the album! BIG BANG, BIG BANG, BIG BANG. Yay yay yay!

Opening the next layer, we see the stage names of all the BB members! T.O.P! (Still am not used to calling Dae Sung D-Lite, Tae Yang SOL and Seung Ri V.I. It doesn't feel natural.)

Opening the other side, you see the 2 discs! I love holding the album because it feels so sturdy! So thick and solid, uh huh! The left one is the CD, the right is the DVD. The DVD is 20 minutes long, with the Gara Gara Go! and My Heaven videos and a Making of the Album video. All 3 are good! 'Specially the last one! (Oh TOP and his narcissistic self! Loves it (;)

BTW, this picture is uber clear. Go click on it to enlarge it. You can even read the puny printing on the discs. NOT LYING OK. The wonders of flash + macro!

The booklet inside! (It's hidden inside the place where the names of the BB members are) It's not like those other Korean release ones. NOT ENOUGH PICTURES HOKAY. MORE PLEASE NEXT TIME THANKS. :d But nonetheless good! Has the lyrics to all the songs, but sadly, I don't understand and cannot read Jap at all. Help please, Bei Yi? ;)

YOU KNOW I CANNOT RESIST TAKING THIS PICTURE RIGHT. I had to. Of course this picture doesn't exactly do justice to him - it's partly blur, partly badly taken and partly bad lighting. In real life, the pictures look so much better. :D
I didn't take the other members. There's no point for me, it's only wasting my memory space. The rest look OK, but GD is REALLY UGH with THAT HAIRSTYLE (look below(: )

The back picture! I know this does no justice to poor Tae Yang, but it was the best picture of TOP of the lot I'd tried taking of this last back picture. They HAD to shove him to the furthest end, so I had a lot of trouble getting him to be as clear as possible and with as glamorous an angle as possible. Obviously this picture is once again a failure, but well, it was the best of the lot, as mentioned. :/

We've reached the end! This is yes, the back side of the album. The same shiny holographic print here as well, got to love it people! I love this picture loads coz it's very clear and you can partially see the effect of the holographic print on it! Got to love flash + macro yeeeaah.

But then again, I do hate using flash. It ALWAYS kills the coloration of people and most things. But, no choice with the album, because I wanted to post this post ASAP! Sharin' the love & excitement!

Okay, now that I'm done, I'm launching into my pictureless monologue!
Today, we were supposed to have an FF combined group outing to Wild Wild Wet (WWW), but I couldn't make it because I'd already planned to go out with my mother for this Precious Moments (PM) event. At first, I was pretty sad/upset that I was gonna miss out on going to WWW, since you know how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE swimming. In the end, they decided to change it to a mass mugging session. I'm glad I went with my mum. -.-

The event was at Raffles City and it's apparently this annual affair. Basically, it's literally Precious Moments Event 2009. The tickets to get in cost a bomb (quite anyway), but it came with a new figurine, a goodie bag plus Sam Butcher's book, Sam being the creator of the figurines. It was honestly pretty plain and a very simple event, a complete stark contrast to STGCC, haha. It was nice and quiet and there weren't that many people around, which was pleasant of course. Like STGCC, they had costumed people! In place of Mario, it was a PM couple! So cute! We took a picture! (Broke my monologue, darn!)

YES, I know I look fat here. And with puny eyes. Such is life :/
Remind me to open my eyes when I pose next time

Once again, mother and I spent a bomb on figurines, buying ANOTHER 3. So altogether, we have 1 + 3 + 3 + 1 = 8 Precious Moments figurines. Anyway, after having to exchange one of our figurines because of painting issues on it, we went to queue up to for the autograph session, where we were entitled to get 2 of our figurines signed by Sam Butcher.
(A staff at the event helped us to take a picture with him, cos my phone ran out of batt, will post when she sends it)

After that, we went to Swarovski (stopping over at Stage along the way! Got myself a pair of Steve Madden sandals at 60+% off! Preeetty) to look at crystals. We need to bling up our house! :D They've got really cute tiny animal crystals there! It's amazing what people can do to crystal sometimes! (My parents still owe me one Ballerina crystal MAN)

Then, since my mother was feeling kind and feeling happy with me, she allowed me to go to HMV and Suntec YAY YAY YAY. We stopped over at New York New York along the way for tea break. I convinced her to go in coz I wanted the free candy floss! :) (Gotta love being Singaporean!) The candy floss flavour was apple! :) [My mum was saying that it's a pity we couldn't take it away 'cause my dad would've liked it] We had "Waffles with Chocolate and Ice Cream" and "Fried Mars Bar with Ice Cream" (or whatever the name is). Both were yummilicious! The waffles were thick and full of flavour. Every bite was scrumptious! The fried Mars Bar was really chewy and tasted great uh-huh!

HMV was great. GREAT GREAT GREAT. It is OFF the KIV list and is officially on Angeline's Coolest Shops in Singapore list. Not only does it have the Big Bang album ($19.95 ONLY) [made in Hong Kong, but I'm okay with it, because I'm not blowing 60 bucks just for some Japan-made CD -_- ], it also has Asia Best ($58.75), Number 1 (whopping $72) and For the World ($60+).

PLUS, it has the 3 Boys Over Flowers albums that I want! How coincidentally SERIOUSLY. Original Soundtrack Part 1, Part 2 and F4 Special Edition! Suuuuuper cool! The first one is 22+, the second one is 24+ (i think) and the last one is $32.95. So so so so cool. (I need to stop being so materialistic) But as you guys know, I am DEAD BROKE. As such, I only bought the Big Bang album. Nonetheless, congrats for being so cool HMV! (Now to check out what HMV Orchard has to offer (; )

Finally, we trooped over to Suntec because I wanted to check out Otaku House. The Toy2R products were said to have been launched there on September 1st and I wanted to see what they had to offer. Basically, it was the same stuff, but much lesser. Same price as well, together with the fact that there was no discount on those figures :( I really regret not getting Turtle and Crocadoca back then. Apparently, Turtle sold out & they'd only brought ONE original coloured Crocadoca in. >:( SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THEM ON PREVIEW NIGHT (Really need to stop being so materialistic) Such a pity okaaay!

Such is life. Went home after that, listened to my yummy album, ate dinner, watched BOF - this week's episode featured the Uglydolls! Yay yay! Got to love BOF for including Uglydollzzzz, Ugly Ghost, Uglyworm & Wage! Next up, is episode 22 with Gato Deluxe, but of course Wage appears on her backpack along the way to 22! Whoot. Then, went to do work and went on Twitter after.

Which is where sorrow started. As I was looking through the archives of the people I follow, I'd noticed that David had said "ONE LAST DAVE KAIJU IN STOCK (website)". Since it was posted one hour before I'd checked, I thought it'd already gone out of stock, but when I checked IT WASN'T. I ALMOST DIED THERE SERIOUSLY. My cursor hovered over that Buy It! button for the longest time ever, but I knew I couldn't because of my parents (plus YES, I AM BROKE FINE). At 3000yen, it was a reasonable SG$47 for such a super exclusive Kaiju.

Image Source: David Horvath's Flickr

I totally whined my sorrow on Twitter with like what (checks) 7 tweets in a row. Insane huh? It was totally there, unbought and tempting me for about one hour before someone'd snapped it up. How unfair is that right? I saw it first, had the open chance to even slowly click on it OKAY, but no, I couldn't do it. Couldn't couldn't couldn't. Life is crummy. I love-hate toys. Bleh.

Right, enough whining, it's 3:40 already, am on my 6th round of the album - yes, it's THAT good. I SHOULD have gone to sleep one and a half hours ago, but nope, I was slowly typing out this post. I SHOULD have done more on the WR, but nope, I HAD to waste time. Angeline = Stupid. :( Sigh, time to sleep! Can't stand myself seriously. Stupid + Materialistic + Ill-disciplined = :(

I have this other tiny post (as compared to this one anyway) in Drafts that I did on tuesday, but because the pictures I want to upload are with the other annoying memory card, I have been too busy to upload pictures. Will do it another day! (as soon as I can anyway) (may do it today and post it under this one, this post is a mile cooler!)

Okay sleep time! ♥

Lady Gaga concert video

2009-09-01T19:51:00.003+08:00

This is the official Lady Gaga concert video clip from LAMC Productions!
I appear in it twice! Can you spot me HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The first time is a wittle bit more obvious than the second time, but so much more unglamorous. :( In fact, if you didn't know, you'd only think that I appeared once. But nope, I appear twice! Wheeeeeeeeeee! Hee hee (:

To make spotting me more obvious :D I was wearing a plain white shirt, a vest, checkered shorts and my black Converse high tops! Hee hee hee!

Also, to all the teachers out there,
HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY!!!

And to Naomi,
HAPPY SUPER 17TH BIRTHDAY! (:

♥

Pictures Post!

2009-08-29T16:42:00.005+08:00

I am supposed to be doing work or catching up on sleep, but after going through an all-nighter last night/this morning, I just can't do either.

Basically, after coming back from Bugis last night, I was tired OUT. After watching the 10 o'clock show on Channel U, at the same time unpacking my stuff and packing Ashley's too-messy-to-be-true make-up kit (yes Ash-ash, it's very neat now in my opinion :D), I totally fell asleep on the couch downstairs (where we were watching TV) with my make-up on. :/ Was woken up by my mother at 1+ and went to wash up and pack my stuff. (Yes, life of a neat freak)

A vague attempt to do the proposal for my PW idea lasted in an all-nighter, where I think it took me 2 hours to do the blogpost below this one. This, because I am an ultra-perfectionist and must have the right picture for my blog post. I think it took at least 20 minutes (that means more than that) to finally decide to use the pictures for the Gromit bit. Fussy like that. 8| Of course I had to go catch up on K-pop after that -_- And then I finally replied Priscilla's email. And then after rounding off my Big Bang music session, shut down the computer.

By then it was already like what, 8 plus in the morning? I see why I'm getting so ugly. -_- Then I went to finish up Priscilla's package and to write in my brother's birthday card. He's T-W-E-N-T-Y-O-N-E this year! Finally an adult! (Let's see if he can act like one - TOWARDS ME now)

Oh then then then, when my parents went out for grocery shopping this morning, I went to watch the last episode of the 7pm Channel U show (Likeable Or Not) and CRIED BUCKETS. I LOVE HAPPY ENDINGS. ♥ ♥ ♥ Plus, I haven't been crying much lately, so this was like RELEASE! for my tear ducts. :D Like seriously, I'd cry in every single scene. Everything ended so well, so nicely, I just couldn't help crying. GOOD STUFF.

ALSO, I FINALLY watched the Boys Over Flowers special when Goo Hye Sun was injured! OH IT WAS VERY GOOD STUFF. From all the behind the scenes action to the showing of the NGs, oh I definitely enjoyed myself whilst watching the show! ALSO, I learnt a new phrase! "Han-ga-sim-ni-da" means "Nice/Glad to meet you" :) AND MY FAVOURITEST SCENE IN THE ENTIRE F4 Talk Show speshul:

(Start from 3:45 for the full context, will last about 40 secs)

It's was so good, so funny, I SERIOUSLY rewound and watched the SAME SCENE 5 times because it was too good to be missed. I watched the taped version on TV, but the video I posted above gives a pretty good explanation. I like how they said "Big Bang is a Korean hiphop group; TOP is their hot rapper" - HAHAHAHAHA. Nice choice of words ;)

OKAY I MUST NOT BE BOY CRAZY.
I AM NOT OKAY.

In other crazy news, I myself am clearly so bored at home that I am doing crazy things with my hair. I have this thing where I want to try out different hairstyles at home, no matter how crazy it is. And today, I came up with a creation I call as...

The Hair Lanterns

They're like those Mooncake Festival denglongs, like the traditional poufy kinds. I don't even know why I wanted to tie my hair like this today. (actually, this style is supposed to have more pouf layers, but my hair isn't long enough, so I only got two bits, with the first bit lacking sorely in poufiness) I don't even know why I am even BLOGGING about this. Clearly, I need to get back to work.

YOU WILL NEVER GET TO SEE MY FACE WITH THOSE LANTERNS. I look really spastic now, obviously, but yeah, am in the comfort of HOME. So I can do anything as crazy as I want. I think I need to stop watching Korean Music Videos. Some of the hairstyles in those videos are.... Next thing you know, I'll be doing a Sandara Park à la Big Bang & 2NE1's Lollipop MV hairstyle.

(Park is in the top 2 pictures) Image Source: Seoulbeats.com

OF COURSE NOT. I don't have the time and patience to do such nonsense. Plus, it looks REALLY WEIRD. REALLY REALLY WEIRD. (I've just realised that I've been using a lot of caps in this post. Whooopsie)

AAAALSO, am too lazy to update/edit the previous post, so here's a picture of me in Ashley's geeky specs!
Is it geeky enough? ;) Do I have what it takes to be a geek? Haha. Do I look any different? (I definitely don't look more intellectual though. Not like Tate does when he wears HIS specs)

Okay enough of my random nonsense. I WILL go and do my work now okayyyy. There's like homework for every single subject this weekend! :/ Angeline focus!

♥ Fighting!

Haru Haru

2009-08-29T04:31:00.002+08:00

I'm sitting here, sorting through mail and feeling tired. Got Big Bang playing from my speakers (because I'm too lazy to stuff earphones into my ears) and the song playing now is "Haru Haru", "Day by Day" in English, which happens to be one of my favourite Big Bang songs :D Nowadays, because I've watched all the Big Bang videos in the YG Entertainment Youtube Channel, I just type in "Youtube - bigbang" and randomly scroll through the list to play a video. From there, I'd just click the first video in the "More from: YG Entertainment" box. I like their songs like that ;)

Now I know what Bei Yi meant when she said, "One day I started listening to their songs and I never stopped." True, hers was in reference to Kat-Tun, but it's the same context here. Angeline wonders how long I will think that T.O.P. is cute/good looking. I wonder too, because after all, I don't know much about the true him and who knows what else about him I'll find out. But for now, I shall just continue on in my ignorance. He is just too good looking seriously.
From his latest photoshoot with Elle

Image Source: (My favourite) Big Bang Fansite

HAHAHA

Which reminds me. :D Ashley lent me her "geeky" glasses on Monday! It was funny, 'cause it was my first time wearing glasses-glasses! Of course they were no degree specs - if not I'd suffer a major headache! I took pictures of me wearing it, but I uploaded it onto the Desktop & not in the tablet, so I'll post it when it gets transferred over hee hee. From some angles, I looked okay, but from some angles, the glasses just magnified my humungo eye bags :( But it was good fun wearing it! HEHE

(My Heaven suddenly stopped playing and I thought the internet had jammed up. Turns out the video hadn't finished loading halfway through. Haha) (Yes I know, RANDOM)

Anyway, went for a photoshoot today. I honestly believe that the pictures won't turn out well, because today is an "Angeline is ugly" day. Moreover, the make-up wasn't very thick (especially the eyes), so you know, I'll be looking even uglier. I mean, with make-up, I usually can look okay, but you know, with lesser make-up means a less than okay looking me (if you consider Angeline as ugly without make-up)

Shawn says he will send me some pictures from the shoot, so, hm, if I like them enough and feel like sharing them, then maybe I will post it. Anyway, it's not like you guys wanna see my face right? HAHA. I've got to answer a set of questions, and I'm not gonna mess this one up like I did for the interviews I did with Razor TV and Klik TV. Man that was one bad experience. I SHALL REDEEM MYSELF. Oh and Ashley was telling me to take pictures of the Playworks office, but, I uh, kinda forgot. So, yeah, this post is gonna have very little pictures.

It's quite nice there though! :) They've got those cubicles that people sit in at most corporate companies, but all of the cubicles are decorated with toys and loads of funky stuff! I wonder if it's like that at those corporate companies (or whatever you call 'em) I think it's cool to work in such an environment! Surrounded by your favourite toys even when you work! Woohoo.

My favourite toy there will still be Shawn's wind-up Gromit toy. It's totally adorable, because it's Gromit, I mean who doesn't love Gromit that cutey dog? Also it can walk! It's super funny when it walks, cause it's kinda jerky. I wanted to find a picture of it online, but no, nobody has a single picture of it. I did however find a picture of wind-up Bitzer (from Shaun the Sheep) and it's like the Gromit wind-up toy, only in Bitzer form/colours.

Image Source: KapowGifts.com

And below is an image of Gromit (with Wallace) Essentially the toy looks like that, but without clothes of course.
JoshSpear.com

Anyway, went over to Iluma after that! Wanted to get that Sun Min + David Secret Chase Play To-Fu toy, but yeah, because that's from the new series, it's still blindboxed, so I'll have to wait for a while before I can buy it. Anyway, this super helpful shop assistant guy took down my contacts so that the moment they finally decide to open up those Play To-Fu Series 2 boxes, he will notify me if they find the figure! Whoot whoot. ;)

^The aforementioned figure^ Image Source: David Horvath's Blog

Then we went to have dinner at this Korean restaurant in Iluma. According to the , it's called "Chang Korean Charcoal BBQ Restaurant". Anyway, initially we were trying to find the food court ('cause Mum thought that she'd seen the Banquet sign there), but then I noticed 2NE1's "I Don't Care" music video playing in the restaurant and I was all "Okay I don't care, we're eating at the Korean restaurant cos they're playing Korean music videos". :D

I REALLY WANTED THEM TO PLAY BIG BANG'S VIDEOS OKAYYYYY. BUT NO, they instead chose to play SNSD, KARA, DBSK, BoA and SHINee. ]:( Angry angry! I just wanted ONE BB video, any one would do because I love all of them, but THEY DIDN'T PLAY ANY RAWR RAWR RAWR. ]:( I was so frustrated to the extent that I even wanted to ask the boss there if they EVEN PLAYED Big Bang, but my mother refused to let me -.- Anyway, I said "Annyeong Geseyo" to the girl at the front and I'm not sure if she even heard it -_- So much for trying.

But the Korean food was not bad. Once again I have to order the spicy dish. So reminiscent of my first night in Korea. I ordered Seasoned Rice (Pork), which was really nice, but oh so hot!!! Thank goodness for their soup, because it magically clears the palette! I could be burnin' up from all the chilli in the dish and one spoonful of soup later, everything's a-okay! Coooool. Their kimchi was alright, Korea's one tastes better of course. I liked their "ikan bilis" side dish! Was nice stuff ;D

We had ice cream from Marble Slab Creamery (MSC) after! Yum yum yummy! ~~I forgot the name of the ice cream mix we tried, but it was the popular Chocolate Lovers one.~~ Found the name on the official MSC website! It's called "Swiss Cocoa Buttercup" and it's "Chocolate Swiss" ice cream mixed "with Nestle Crunch® Bar, Reese's® Peanut Butter Cups". And we put it in a Waffle Bowl. DEEEEEEEELICIOUS! :) :) :) I loved the mixture of the Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cup taste, so much fun! No pictures for this, 'cause I don't think people post such pictures online.

The last place that we went to was Otaku House! Not because I'm an otaku (anime/manga/video game-obsessed), but because they sell Toy2R products! Hehe. I half-regret not buying Bossy Bear's Friends Turtle and Crocadoca, but it's like, the money spent on those Uglydoll Action Figures was worth it, I feel. But then again, Turtle and Crocadoca...

Image Source: Little Red Bean's Flickr Photostream (Used this picture cos it has all 3 of 'em inside. My Bossy Bear's eyes look straight forward)

Anyway, the guy at Otaku House, who sold me the Bossy Bear at STGCC (but I forgot!): ), also took down my contact details in case he finds extras for the Turtle and Crocadoca figure. I hope he does!! They're so adorableeeeeeeeeeeeee. (If Andy reads this, ANDY I TOTALLY HAVE TO AGREE THAT TOYS ARE EVIL OH MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN. They are sucking up my resources!)

Okay. It's like 6am now and I still haven't done my proposal for my PW idea. James is SO GONNA KILL ME. ]:( Angeline, where ARE YOUR PRIORITIES??!??!?!?!

As you can see, still no time to do the STGCC post. It'll take me too much time! Just like this post as well. GRRR. But if you were wondering, IF, I spent $374.60 in 5 days, from Lady Gaga's concert and STGCC. Crazy much?

♥ Out!

Lady Gaga Live in Singapore

2009-08-18T19:16:00.000+08:00

The day: August 12 2009
The venue: Fort Canning Park (FCP)
The time: 7 + pm
The event: Lady Gaga Live in Singapore

DJ Inquisitive, who also played at her previous showcase in June, had arrived onstage with some Taeyang-from-Big-Bang-look-a-like person in tow. With his shades on, of course. The guy should really keep his Ray Bans on, because without them, he... coughreallycannotmakeitcough. You'll see why later on in the post. He started playing the latest tracks, infused with pumping dance beats that got most people dancing along to. Me? I didn't really want to, 'cause I'm really not into the whole clubbing scene sorta thing, but there were a few songs that I couldn't help but groove along to. The nice songs :D

DJ Inquisitive in action

He played for a while, before Taeyang-boy (OBVIOUSLY NOT HIS REAL NAME because I don't know his real name, but I shall use this nickname for him) took the mic and started beatboxing. He's really good! (But in my heart, T.O.P. is still forever the best! xD) He had this thumping beat going and he put the mic under his throat and it was really clear to hear. I think the best part of him beatboxing was when he put the mic at the back of his neck and you could still hear the thumping beat. Really cool stuff.

They held the stage for about 30 to 40 minutes, before the curtain came down to reveal the opening picture that is shown for all Lady Gaga concerts. The image below is that aforementioned image:

So, the crowd of Gaga fans waited anxiously for the stage to be set up, and most importantly, for Lady Gaga herself to appear. This time, as we waited, they played those electronic/techno beats. No obvious tunes, just beats. Which is so not my thing. Anyway, we waited and waited and waited. I'm not too sure when DJ Inquisitive and sidekick had left the stage, but the newspapers all claim that we had to wait one entire hour for Miss Gaga to appear. It didn't really feel like one hour, because I began zoning out after a while, and you know, zoning out is a great way to waste time. Unfortunately, I do this too much in real life as well -.-

Since we're zoning out at the moment, let's rewind back a couple of hours and restart the story again. So, after a very harrowing experience at Contact Time (where we were taught all about sexual crimes and the penalties for it), I rushed home & prepared to go for the concert. After going through 3 outfits, I'd finally found one that I felt comfortable in. Seeing as how my wardrobe is in a really sad state, I always have trouble finding presentable clothes to wear. SIGH. Showered and attempted to put on make-up. Like, really basic stuff - mascara and eye-liner. The former was a slight success, while the latter failed slightly.

On this note, I must say that I'm really considering buying liquid eyeliner for its marvelous properties. Only problem is that I suck at using it, and that I hardly use make-up, so it kinda makes no sense to buy it :/ Anyway, by the time I'd left the house, it was already 5ish and I didn't want to be any later than what I was already, so I ended up taking a cab there :( Cost me a good $18.50 humph. Met Nicholas on the way up and we ended up cutting queue because Nicholas friends had been there since 3. :/ Still feel bad about cutting queue, but they were really in front and we snagged really good positions on the sloping hill. :D

When the queue had started moving, we were told that food AND drinks weren't allowed into the area, so we had to throw our stuff away :( Initially, I'd only thrown away my Ribena Pastilles. But because I had to go out again to fetch Ashley, I had to lose my muesli bar as well :( Thank goodness that they didn't find my ba kwa bread (bkb) and 2 buns. The bkb was my dinner and the buns were my after-concert snack. Kim joined me just before the queue started moving and Ashley even later on. In between getting in and waiting for Ashley to appear, I went off the buy a Lady Gaga t-shirt. It's got this metal-punk-rock sort of feel. Loves it!

Cool right? ;)

Yeah, so anyway, it was quite boring whilst waiting for Gaga to appear. I mean, between DJ Inquisitive and the waiting, it wasn't really that great. I mean, okay, I did enjoy the set of songs that DJ Inquisitive played, but ugh, it was hot like crazy and we were all sweating like maaaaad. Anyway, we took pictures! :) Each of us had managed to smuggle our cameras in without them being noticed and we all took turns taking pictures. Oh, forgot to mention, it was Ashley, Kim & I at one spot, then Nicholas, Yan yan, Jem(?), Inez & his friends at another. Picture!

I look SO UGLY it's crazy. HUGE EYE BAGS! :( But this is the only picture that the 3 of us took together that I have :(

While we were waiting, the person playing the music kept on teasing the audience! They'd have the beats seemingly fade out, like as if it's time to start the concert, then they'd play another song. -.- The rest of the crowd got so irritated, that some even shouted "Boooo!" Some fans THESE people are. In my mind, I was just telling myself, well, perfection takes time, so Gaga needs time to make sure the stage is set perfectly. Anyway, the losers who kept shouting Boo were really annoying. Sheesh.

Ok, so fast forward to 9.15pm. They'd FINALLY started playing the opening video that she does for her Fame Ball series. And I caught it on film! But, youtube hates me and refuses to upload my videos, so I dunno what to do with 'em. Maybe I shall try another site :) At this one point in the video, they were flashing these images with accompanying gunshots and I could literally feel the wind hitting me like that. It was a wee bit scary, but I was just trying to focus on taking a good video.

The curtain dropped, revealing Gaga being surrounded in a sort of dome. The usual entrance anyway. She was wearing the mask and she was wearing this wig that I'd been loving since I first saw her wear it! It's wavy, with pink and purple streaks in my hair. It really makes me want some pink streaks in my hair too! (After A Levels, after A Levels :P) As usual, she opened with Paparazzi, bantered a bit with the crowd, then launched into LoveGame and Beautiful Dirty Rich.

After that, she left the stage for a costume change, leaving her live band to entertain us. When she'd re-emereged, she was in a shimmery red glitter/sequins coat and I really wondered what AND why she was actually wearing something that covered her up so much. And my questions were answered when mid-way during the Fame, she took off her coat to reveal a two-piece spiky red outfit. Oh Gaga, you never stop with the shocks. After that, she continued with more banter and expletives and performed Money Honey before leaving the stage for yet another costume change.

The bra top TOTALLY reminds me of this mask that T.O.P. used to wear. See?

In the Remember album. Image Source: Above: uisceros.livejournal.com Below: star-thots.com

This time the dancers entertained us and one of the smarter ones decided to throw his towel into the crowd. I had the unfortunate experience of being right where it landed and almost died when the crazy people around me started tugging at it and trying to get it. FOR ONE, this ISN'T even GAGA's towel, it was a dancer's towel, so I have no idea why people want it so badly. AND SECONDLY, it's drenched in sweat and probably smelly, WHY are people fighting over it? For goodness sake. I was literally getting choked to death as I had people from behind me reaching out and trying to pull the towel towards them as the people in front kept their hold on the towel. Anyway, Kim came to the rescue when she noticed me almost dying and convinced almost everyone to let go except these 2 losers. But anyway, they were on my right & left side, so at least I wasn't in any dangerous position.

Finally, Gaga came back on and everyone's attention turned back to her in her cutesy pink outfit. This is definitely my favourite costume from the four that she'd worn. It was baby pink and it didn't look as obscene. I also love the opening mirrorball outfit, but this outfit it pink, of course it's the clear winner :D Anyway, she did a nice rendition of Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) and Just Dance before leaving for a final costume change. I love her microphone stand to bits! :)

When she re-emerged, she was in her bubble jacket and I knew that her nude-coloured bra would appear soon. Oh Gaga. Anyway, loads of people were hoping that she'd play Future Love, but no, she didn't. :( Aw. I wanted to hear it, because I honestly hadn't gone to watch it on youtube yet. Anyway, she launched into Brown Eyes, one of my favourite Gaga songs because it's got melody and it's got beats (just like how I like I Hate This Part by PCD). Emo, but still with beats. Nice. So, she took off her jacket somewhere in the middle of the song and yeah, loads of people screamed. Sheesh. And the happy happy part, she played the new version of Poker Face in Accoustic. The super nice one that I'd posted here previously when she did it on a Japanese show.
If you can squint and see, she's wearing the bubble costume there, to the right-ish of the picture. She's also got a glittery head-hugging hat (seen below on guitarist)

(This last picture is purely for the bubble piano OKAY. I'M NOT purposely trying to post her butt shot. :/)

After the accoustic version, she launched into the normal version of Poker Face, before taking a final bow, posing and leaving the stage. My pictures for the final bit were very crappy because the people in front of me kept raising their hands and I just couldn't get a good shot.

Adding to the music (noise), Gaga picked up a drum stick and joined in with her drummer as she struck the drums. Of course, being the ever so musically talented person, it was totally in sync with the performance and sounded really good.

This is when everyone, from the 4-piece band to her dancers to Gaga herself gathered at the front of the stage to say goodbye and for everyone to take a last picture of. Of course she doesn't do encores.

Anyway, we waited around for a bit, before deciding to move. We had to get through the throng of people, because as Gaga had mentioned, there WERE TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE at the event and it was hard to move through the masses (literally). Crowded like c-c-c-crazy

We met DJ Inquisitive and Taeyang-boy as we were going out & since I couldn't get a picture with Gaga (obviously), the next best thing were the duo. So, we took a picture with them.
YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN THAT HE REALLY CANNOT MAKE IT SANS SHADES? As Ashley pointed out, he's got these really thick eyebrows and they REALLY SPOIL HIS FACE. Ugh. But mostly, I think it's the sweat on his face. Probably. Anyway, just in case you were wondering why I call DJ Inquisitive's beatboxing friend Taeyang-boy, here's an image of Taeyang from Big Bang:

Image Source: asianpopcorn.com forum (Not recommended to click on this link, got some virus I think)

Do you see the similarity??? Kim totally pointed this out. Man, we are such crazy Big Bang fans - yay! Anyway, when the concert was over, Kim & I walked towards Plaza Sing, where she took the MRT home and I took the bus. Oh oh oh! I took a picture of the Peace "tattoo" that Gaga has that I drew on my arms. I think I really like it, but if I had to get a tattoo, I'd get an inconspicuous one at my ankle. A small little star :) But I'll never get a tattoo 'cause my parents don't allow me. Peace!
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Okay, phew that took so long! I blogged half in school and half at home! Haha, SO WASTE TIME FOR WHAT RIGHT? As if that weren't crazy enough, I have blogged 3 posts today. WOW. Ahhh, I think that I am too lazy to upload my Lady Gaga concert pictures on Flickr. I'll just upload my STGCC ones to Flickr only then. (Anyway, I don't think that my Flickr account will have the space for those Lady Gaga concert pics) Right on! Time to upload more picturez on Flickr!

Also, the STGCC post will probably not come this week. I have a truckload of homework to finish up this week and it's like if I waste even more time on the net, my whole life will never get back into the proper swing of things. Moreover, there's so much to say about STGCC! So many wonderful moments and memories!!! Ugh. Alrighty-o. Time to finish up whatever I need to do on the net & go do homework. I MUST! MUST MUST MUST! :/

♥ toodles! (I realised that I hadn't said that in a long while (; )

weird to the max

2009-08-18T04:08:00.003+08:00

It still feels weird to the max.
So weird.

Am waiting for the interview to come out, I wonder if I look like a complete retard or idiot or spastic loser. Probably did. Probably also looked unglamorous times one million and had my fat face on. Oh we-ell. Also, do you see my ugly teeth in the image? EW.

I know I should credit the source of the image, but until it's formally announced, I won't breathe a word.

ALSO,

THIS ONE'S FOR YOU, MY CRAZY ~~FANS~~ FRIENDS - Angeline, Annabelle and Natty! You guys made my time on stage more entertaining with the constant madness! Love y'all!

♥ FOR GOODNESS SAKE ANGELINE FOCUSSSSSSSSS

Some quotes

2009-08-18T01:50:00.006+08:00

Some recent quotes...

From allkpop.com:
Big Bang recently was featured on the "20 questions" segment of (a) Japanese Magazine titled "Big One." ......

TOP
(JEALOUZ, I always love his rings! Why does he have all the cool rings ): I want some too!)

17. Your current obsession?
Be@rbrick and a lot of suits and shoes.

Ooh Be@rbrick! You mean like
and and
and
Images from: www.killahbeez.com Medicom Be@rbrick Series 18

OH YEAH. I saw them at PI@Iluma and I wanted to get the tokidoki one. Or the Spongebob one. Or just buy one. Ahhh, similar tastes eh. ;) Hehehe. (Haha, now you guys know what I'll be buying next xD xD xD)

Also, I should've bought
It's a David Horvath Qee PLUS it's Be@rbrick-ish (but not the same yeah). ISN'T THAT COMBINING THE BEST OF 2 WORLDS. ;) But it was super exxy! Oh well, anyway, I'm pretty happy with my stuff from STGCC! (more on that later)

"Only friends of Angeline get it (the Uglydoll shopping bag) free."
- David Horvath at the cashier at STGCC, 16 August 2009

HAHAHA. BEST QUOTE EVER I TELL YOU. Iyn Yi, Ashley, Nicolette, Annabelle & I were making our purchases at the Uglydoll counter after my event. When Iyn Yi, who didn't have a bag originally, went to ask for a plastic bag to put the Babo's Bird she bought for Xian Jue in, David gave her an Uglydoll shopping bag, saying the abovementioned quote as the reason he was giving it to her.

David Horvath is THE NICEST GUY EVER SERIOUSLY. I mean, he's like really, really, really nice to me, even though I feel stalker-ish. I keep going to the Uglydoll booth! (Mainly because I like it there anyway. Who doesn't love being surrounded by Uglydolls all day long HUH?) I am sincerely thankful to him! For all his help and for being so nice to me and for being at Comic Con! YAYZ! (more on that another day/later)

"HUH? Like that also want to take?!"
- Shawn Chung, editor of T3 Magazine & IC of THAT competition I was in, after the Finals were over & while Florence and I were taking pictures

AGREED. It's like insane, because Florence and I had ALREADY changed out of our costumes and were in our normal clothes & posing for my dad to take a picture of us. And then people came and started taking pictures of us. A bit er, weird riiiight? I mean if we were in costume, I'd understand, but seriously, normal clothes & people want to take pictures of us -.- Below is the picture in question:
ALSO, this kinda thing happens because my father takes a trillion years to get the DSLR to finally take a picture of us. So, maybe people think we're posing for cameras. -.-

Okay, that's all the quotes I have :D
Singapore Toys, Games and Comic Convention 2009 was the best thing ever to happen to my life other than being a Christian (obviously). It was a blast, it was superbly fun, it was crazy, it was silly and it was the best ever. I officially L♥VE Comic Con. YUM. I've got many pictures from it (that's for going on all 4 days) PLUS I've got those Lady Gaga concert pictures/videos to upload. So many things to do, so super little time!

Yeah, anyway, life's been great this past week. It was the maddest mad, but it was the bestest best. From Wednesday, it was non-stop action for me, but I loved it. I would say that I'm glad that the craziest week of my life-so-far is over, but it's a bit of a pity that it's over too! I miss Comic Con already. Can't wait for next year maaaan!

Also, today, I was watching Razor TV's interview with Lady Gaga. It was of a shock, to see how much she's changed. She was so liberal with her answers in the previous interview and she definitely looked alright, but for this one, she was visibily drained and tired and she flat out refused to answer personal questions. Which is a bit sad, because Lady Gaga the being, is not just about the music, but also the person behind the music. I guess when I'd read that she's on the verge of a breakdown, she really is.

During the concert, she looked so extremely tired, so exhausted, with no energy left to give, but still trying her hardest for her fans. It was nice, but I think that she should rest more. HONESTLY, I was wondering what happened to her break in August. I'd read previously on metrolyrics.com that she was supposed to have the whole August off, with all August events cleared, so I don't know what happened to thaaat. She needs to rest. She's human after all, she needs the break! Oh well.

I did enjoy myself at the concert and this time I have the pictures and videos from it, so I didn't feel so bad after leaving the concert. Back in June, I was really disappointed that I couldn't even get her autograph after the showcase, but this time, I guess I was kinda expecting it, so I didn't feel as sad after the concert. PLUS, I have my super yummy GAGA shirt! Loves it! Will post those pictures in another post because I'm kinda rushing homework tonight/this morning.

Comic Con, as mentioned, was fun to the maximum. MAXIMUM. I've got so many dear experiences from it, so I'm very happy! I have some pictures in my Flickr account already, not much, bhttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=15207897ut some, so you can click on the link in the sidebar yeah. Am very happy and thankful that I was able to go, but I'll blog more about the whole STGCC experience another day as well! Got a LOT of homework to complete tonight :/

Okay okay, I've said a lot already! Must get back to doing homework!
♥ Annyeonghi gaseyo! (because i'm staying and you're leaving haha)

Little Busters

2009-08-11T17:46:00.003+08:00

Since Shawn (guy in charge of the competition) was talking about us having to wear loafers at the event, I wanted to see what shoes my anime character was wearing. I mean, I had roughly remembered it & I thought it was quite nice :D So, I wanted to double check how it looked like.

So, for the fun of it, I tried searching "Anime character girl". Which gave me some lousy results. PLUS it was such a broad category! Then, I remembered that they'd mentioned that COSPA was sponsoring our costumes, so I went to search up the COSPA website, of which I was led to the English site/guide. Which had some really confusing stuff. And like the categories were in Japanese. Which I obviously totally don't understand.

But, thank goodness for pictures, because the next thing I clicked, was of a figurine. Or do you call them dolls? Or sculptures? BACK TO THE POINT. It indeed led to the category for the figurines. Hurrah! ANYWAY, by some superbly fated chance, I noticed this picture of a girl, with really light brown hair (I'm too lazy to post the picture here) in a costume that was similar to the one I'd worn! And amazingly, the title of the series she was in was there! 'Little Busters', it was called!

Obviously, the next thing I did was to search it on Wikipedia! Where I was given a list of the main characters in the show and from there, found out that my character's name was called Rin Natsume! Quite the cute name, y'know. Has a little ring to it. Of course after that, I proceeded to search for the exact figure that I was given to pose with.

Which proved successful whoot whoot! PREEEEESENTING.....

Rin Natsume!

Image credit: HobbyFan.com

I know. That skirt is REALLY SHORT.
Yeah. ALSO KNOWN AS, to me,
THE REASON WHY I WAS POSING LIKE THAT IN THE CLOSE-UP PICTURE:

So, like now, I still need a pair of shoes. Bleh. I've only got my Converse High-Tops, which I think they don't really want cuz it looks too rugged/old. :/ I like Rin's original shoes though! They're super cute and orange! Fuuun.

UH-HUH. Anyway, I think that that was pretty fun to do (searching for the figurine). Rin Natsume! I like saying it. Just like how I like saying Korean words. They're so much fun to pronounce and use etc. Today Charis, Rachel & I went krazy with Korean words! I taught them some of the stuff that I'd gleaned off Boys Over Flowers, Likeable or Not (channel U K-soap opera), some episodes of My Girl and watching too many Big Bang videos -_-

Talking about that. I believe that I have CROSSED THE LINE with watching Big Bang videos! I'm totally crazy. Crazy crazy krazy. Why oh WHY are there so many Big Bang videos online :( :( :( I mean I love watching it, but OH! the time I spend on it. SINFUL I TELL YOU, SINFUL AMOUNTS OF TIME! Urgh. I think the worst part is when I try to learn the Korean lyrics, because I can spend one hour just learning and perfecting, then re-singing the lyrics over and over again. O-B-S-E-S-S-E-D, I TELL YA. THIS GIRL IS OBSESSED.

So, from today onwards, I am making a stand to myself to abstain from all Big Bang activites. Okay, maybe not all, but I'm definitely just sticking to the dedicated Big Bang Korean Fansite, which sufficiently covers all the BB news. I MUST NOT GET DISTRACTED BY ALLKPOP, POPSEOUL AND MINSARANG! (You see why I always seem to have no time to do homework? It's because I'm religiously reading all these K-pop websites. UGH)

And as I read what I type, I just wonder what sort of life I'm living. Like, seriously. I'm just so caught up in the world and like, after this week of madness is over, it's really time to get myself back onto the ground and focus on what's most important in my life. Sigh.

And so, Wednesday marks the start of the craziest week in my-life-so-far, with the Lady Gaga concert. Then, Thursday will be Preview Night at Comic Con, which I STILL can't believe I'm going to. After that, Friday marks the official start of STGCC. Saturday will be Leader's Meeting at church, followed by house-packing at the beloved old home. Finally, Sunday will mark the end of the crazy week with it being the last day of STGCC & also when I will be taking part in the finals of THAT competition.

Phew! What a week it's gonna be! Never in my life have I had such an action-packed week that is not a holiday or at camp. Well, this is gonna be interesting, so, we'll see how I hold up (Probably badly)

Kay, back to finishing up PW. Pw is like this bottomless pit, where you just never stop falling into its deep mounds of work. Ugh. Before I go, here's a web banner for STGCC. Just for the fun of it, because I still think mine looks nicer ;D

Annyeong!♥

PS- Whoooppeee! Singapore is now 44 years old! 44 is like such a happy number, a double of 4, also when added together becomes 8! Yes, I don't know what rubbish I am spouting -> possibly a sign that I ~~am going senile~~ don't have enough sleep.

BIG BANG IS VIP!

2009-08-07T18:02:00.004+08:00

Say B-I-G to the Bang!

And I can't sing the rest of the lyrics 'cause it's in Japanese and I keep forgetting what the words are in English.

AAAAAAAAANYWAY, as promised, I'm here to talk about my latest obsession. Lady Gaga? Yes, obsessed, but no I'm not talking about her, although I have to say that I am EXTREMELY EXCITED about going to her concert!!! It's gonna be oh-so-cooool! But I bet there'll be 2 thousand over people. The company bringing her in recently claimed to have released another thousand more tickets! It's gonna be so crowded! :/ I hope that it'll be okay though & that there won't be weird people. Hopefully this time I will have a chance to meet her? :/ It would be a nice ending to the Lady Gaga in Singapore experience, as I call it.

Back to the point. Uglydolls? Yes, obsessed like cccrazy still, but also not talking about it, although with comic con in what, ONE WEEK, I totally cannot wait to meet David Horvath! And get my hands on some Glow in the Dark icebat! Plus I have a secret mission there at the convention too! No, it's not the competition. It's a secret yeah! Hohoho. I am bursting with excitedness about the whole comic con idea! I really hope that David Horvath will draw pictures! I'd really like some! And of Bossy Bear too! That is only IF he is willing to... Ah ah ah, but this is too good! Must gush somemore after I finish talking about what I'm gonna be talking about.

And it's....

BIG BANG!

Whoot whoot! Yes, it's crazy! How I went from clueless about K-pop to K-pop Krazy! Okay, not SOOOO crazy, but still obsessed nonetheless! Obsessions are, of course, not good, because they WASTE SO MUCH TIME. But then, ahh, they make life SO MUCH MORE FUN.

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ ABOUT HOW I STARTED LIKING BIG BANG, YOU CAN SCROLL DOWN AND WATCH THEIR VIDEOS! IT'S HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! ;) IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ ABOUT BIG BANG, YOU CAN SCROLL DOWN TILL YOU SEE THE DOTTED LINE TO CONTINUE READING ABOUT STGCC/LADY GAGA.

Big BANG! Haha, that's the way they greet in interviews. Someone'll go " We're Big" and the rest will join in with "BANG!" Yeah. Anyway, I love love love their songs! It's so catchy and it's a great mix of good tunes with good beats. Their songs are great for dancing along to and at the same time, they have songs that are great to listen to when you need some slow music yeah!

Anyway, so for someone who doesn't really do Asian music, how EXACTLY did I get to know of this band? 2 places. perezhilton.com and Chue Wei Xin. Sigh.
So earlier on in the year, whilst surfing through Perez Hilton's site, I happened to chance upon this video of Big Bang (with fellow company group 2NE1) singing "Lollipop" (which was actually for an LG CF). When I'd watched it, I was like "okay, it's colourful, but nah, nothing much to see here, MOVE ALONG."

Then recently, like hm, on a thursday in July (can't remember which), I noticed this background that Wei Xin had put on the computer she was using during our Computing Lab session and it said Big Bang on it. I was immediately reminded of the song & by some magical chance, I remembered the tune of the ending bit of chorus and it kinda got stuck in my head. So I went home and searched for it.

This time, I think, because I was paying more attention to the people in the video, I noticed this guy in the band, who looked good! ;) Haha. I liked the song this time around, so I went to play some of their other songs, while searching for them online. Ah the wonders of Wikipedia! I found out that the guy that I thought looked good was called T.O.P (which by the way, was the person in Wei Xin's background, just that I didn't know it then) and with the vast(ish) amount of information available online, I became a Big Bang fan! Woohoo!

(I am re-reading this and thinking to myself that I am extremely weird to be blogging about my turning-into-a-big-bang-fan experience) So, enough of my rubbish! On to some videos!

I personally still love Lollipop:

But now, I also really like Haru Haru [Day by Day] (a BB classic that has a lot of T.O.P. bits):

And Kohjimal [Lies] (another BB classic):

And My Heaven (although there's very little of T.O.P. in the video):

(I couldn't find english subs for this one :/)

And who doesn't love ガラガラ Go! (Gara Gara Go!) It's such a fun, summer hit!

(ALSO couldn't find english subs for this one :/)

And even though this wasn't made into a music video, I also love A Good Man, written by T.O.P. YAY!

As much as I wanted to post all the videos from the original YG Entertainment (their company) youtube channel, I think it makes sense to include the English-version of the lyrics. Hence, these videos have got subtitles. But I must say, I actually really like all their songs, save for This Love, because it's just the leader (G-Dragon) singing in it & doesn't have any T.O.P. in it, but I don't want to clog up this post with too many Youtube videos, so yeah.

Oh Oh Oh and you know, today, I went to Bras Basah Complex for some art supplies and then when I popped into Popular (okay, no pun intended) just to check out whether they had a smaller-sized corkboard, I happened to notice the CD section & went to see if they sold Big Bang! And they do! But only 1 album in sight :/ It's their My Heaven single:
Image Source: yesasia.com And it cost $9.95, which may sound cheap, but it's only an album for the aforementioned single.

Personally, My Heaven is not my number one favourite BB song, so I wouldn't buy a CD+DVD of My Heaven which in the former, has 3 songs and in the latter, has a making of video and the original video of My Heaven, which in my opinion, is not really worth it for me.

The albums that I wanna buy are their first and third Mini-albums, Always and Stand Up, respectively.
Always has "Lies" and "To Act Like Nothing's Wrong", which is a solo that is sung by T.O.P.! Woohoo~

Stand Up has Haru Haru, A Good Man, Lady and Oh My Friend, which are songs that I love love love! Yay :) (Basically, I like all the songs in this album)

Both images from Japanese Music Dream ~ Big Bang Discography page
If they are not too expensive here, like say, less than 20 bucks anyway, I would totally buy them here. IF NOT, hopefully, if and when dearest Angeline goes to Korea AHHH SPAM SPAM BUY KOREAN ALBUMS SPAM!

No lah just kidding. I only want those 2 albums plus 2 BOF albums that are the extended soundtrack to that Korean drama. :) Oh why didn't I like Big Bang earlier? Then, when I went to Korea, I could've bought their albums then (the first mini-album anyway). HAIYAH. Also, forgot to mention previously, Popular also sells the first BOF album!

Image Source: iShare Corner
I officially promote Popular to cool status (in my books, anyway). Other cool stores include Ameba(when they sold Uglydolls anyway),
PlayImaginative@Illuma (for selling cheaper-priced Uglies-yayza),
Juicy Couture (for it's ultra-cute, ultra-pink, ultra-girly decor),
Kinokuniya (for selling Uglydolls & Bossy Bear books),
HMV (for selling Bratz and possibly BB albums - have to check this one out, so HMV is on my KIV list) and
all Quiksilver/Flash N' Splash stores cuz they sell Roxy! (Yes, I still love that brand loads okay! Recently got new stuff from there, so, am very happy!)

Hmmmmmmm... before I end off the Big Bang bit, here's a rundown on who's who in Big Bang, in case you were wonderin'.

Image Source: POPSEOUL! Big Bang Category Archives
From left:
Seung Ri/V-I (for Victory) (Lee Seung Hyun) - He sings. And he's the maknae (baby) of the group. I haven't heard his solo song and am not into it. So um, yeah. He's got big eye bags too. Apparently. Like me :( That's all I know about him. NEXT.

T.O.P. (Choi Seung Hyun) - He's the rapper in the group, he hardly sings, usually providing the background vocals you hear in the chorus. ALSO THE BEST LOOKING IN THE GROUP IN MY OPINION :D He also beatboxes really well ;) He also the oldest and tallest! Whoot whoot. Plus did I ever mention that he looks a wee bit like Lee Min Ho. (The two are almost of the same height! And are the same age at 22!) ONLY THAT I AM SO OVER Lee Min Ho NOW! T.O.P. all the way man, JUST KIDDING. Can't wait for his new drama, IRIS, to air! I wanna watch it on Youtube, then hopefully on Channel U too. Channel U better show it!

Taeyang/SOL (Dong Young Bae) - He's got good vocals and is very good at ballads! I like one of his solo songs, Naman Barabwa (Only look at me) for it's TUNE, because I am SO NOT digging the lyrics tsk. He also dances REALLY WELL. They say that he choreographs some of the steps sometimes. COOL.

G-Dragon (Kwon Ji Yong) - He's the leader in the group. He sings, he raps and he's got the weirdest sense of style. But then again, nobody beats Lady Gaga in different fashion sense. Also, his clothes are worse off than Gaga's.

Kang Dae Sung/D-lite - He sings. And he's got smiley eyes (ie- very small eyes). And uh, yeah. I'm not that into his solo song, which is of the trot genre, so yeah. Also hardly know much about him.

I also forgot to mention that T.O.P. is in 3 other artist's videos, 2 of which, he has singing parts. But yeah, I'll save y'all the agony and enjoy 'em myself :D Although D.I.S.C.O. is very nice to listen to! Here's the Youtube link if you're interested.
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And back to Uglydolls/STGCC. OH MY GOODNESS, whenever I read about STGCC news, I get so so so so so so so so so so so so so excited!!!! Can you believe it, it's already gonna be here next week! At this time, next week, I'll be on the bus, on my way to STGCC! (Time check: 4:30pm) SCREAMZ. I really do hope that I can get the "Flatwoods VS Mothman Figurine" freebie! It looks so cool! Plus you know, it's David Horvatn & Sun-Min Kim! Then, then I hope that I can participate in the Heroes trivia contest! I SO WANT THOSE HEROES TRADING CARDS! Milo Ventimiglia!

Just as a side note, I am so inspired by T.O.P. I mean like he can cook you know! Like prepare dishes! This is DEFINITELY one more thing that I'll be doing in the December school holidays! Also, after much consideration, I have decided to drop the sewing idea, because, well, I wouldn't really need that skill in life. Plus, I'm too lazy to make clothes, be it for myself or for my toys/Uglies. But the Dec hols, must learn baking & cooking! Must must must!!! :) Just for fun, the video below shows T.O.P. preparing a trout dish for breakfast on the Korean variety show, Family Outing (was inspired from this video):

The good stuff starts at 2:27. ;D But I'd watch the whole thing, if I were you, because it's really funny XD

And then at STGCC, I kinda wanna try to get a drawing/autograph from Simone Legno, the creator of tokidoki, which is a brand that I recently started liking. ISH. Cos, you know, it's like expensive and all, so I may not buy anything tokidoki related. But, the stuff that he draws are really cool, so, hopefully! Anyway, things that I want to buy at comic con are now:

- GID Ice bat action figure (1)
- Uglydoll Hangers (preferably all haha)
- Ugly Guide 4 (1, OBVIOUSLY + hopefully they'll have)
- Uglydoll Plush (1, preferably Winkolina)
- tokidoki vinyl figure (1)

I have dropped the idea of buying the other action figures, because they cost $17.95 each at PI@Illuma! Plus they open the boxes up at that store, so it's not blind-boxed & you can get 'em anytime they have stock in the store. Sigh. When I went, they'd sold out, so I don't know when there'll be new stock :/ ALSO, the last 2 items on the list will be bought only if I have extra cash left. Highly unlikely, because after looking at tokidoki's phone charms (ie the tokidoki equivalent of Uglydoll hangers), which cost $5 & were blin-boxed, I think that the hangers MAY cost quite a bit. Pris was right. BUT I HOPE SHE'S NOT THOUGH! Then I can buy more!

Argh. I'm kinda a bit unsure of what to buy now. :( Gr. I'll have to see what strikes me most there and then & plan what to buy then. :/ Ish. I'm also half looking forward to the competition that I have at STGCC. I REALLY REALLY wanna know what I'll be doing there, but then, nobody wants to provide me with information. :( ROAR. I would LIKE to win, but then again, UGLY + FAT = NO CHANCE. I don't even know how to put on make-up, so I can't save myself from looking ugly. ME LOSER. :(
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Mmmmmm. Lady Gaga concert! I don't know what to wear! My previous outfit at her showcase was a disaster coz the shirt was rolling up at the back and making my fat butt look fatter. In fact, when I see the pictures taken, I look fat fat fat! :( I want to wear those shorts again, because my wardrobe is screwed like that, but then I don't know what to pair it with. (When I mean screwed, I mean I have no nice things to wear - no nice shorts other than that one that I wore, no nice tops)

I definitely don't want to wear a skirt, because skirts are not my thing, and I don't want to wear long pants, because I will SWEAT TO DEATH. SO how? nothing left to wear but those shorts :( I shouldn't have bought those ALDO heels back then, because if I hadn't, I wouldn't feel so guilty and would've been able to buy more nicer-looking shorts? :( Sigh. I REALLY REALLY hope that we can meet her! I really do...

Okay okay, I've said enough. Shan't whine on and on about it! She's in Japan now! In Osaka, where I was less than 8 months ago whoot whoot! Lady-Gaga.net recently posted a video of her singing the Poker Face acoustic version on a Japanese variety show! She had an elephant ~~head~~ hair piece on, and in my opinion, her wig was really pretty! She looks very nice with long hair and a side-swept fringe. (The elephant looked very cool & real ok) Also, it's her BEST rendition of Poker Face in acoustic EVER! Very very very nicely sung! WATCH:

Today was National Day celebration. Since they had the red & white theme again this year, I decided to make it my tradition to wear my white OBS polo tee! Which I wore in TA1. And TA2. And now TA3. So, in TA4 next year (hopefully I can get promoted anyway), I will wear it again! :D We had a Maths lecture before going for a Special Civics session, where we were given Singapore Flags for our National Day gift. At first, I felt that giving the flags was a silly idea, but then later during the concert, I realised that it wasn't so bad.

The concert was very short, which was good, so that I could rush off to Bugis to get my stuff & come home in time so that my mother wouldn't wonder where I'd been. First, we watched two videos, one being this year's National Day Theme song & the other being a video from MOE. It was SERIOUSLY the first time I'd heard and watched the video. They SHOULD play it on Channel U as well you know -.- It's the only channel I watch on tv now. -_- THANKS TO MY FATHER PULLING THE PLUG ON MY CABLE TV (and the fact that Channel 5 doesn't have much nice shows airing). Pun partially intended.

That's right, no more Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, MTV or Star World for me. Just "free-to-air" TV. :( Sad sad sad. It's no wonder I'm watching so much Big Bang on Youtube. I DON'T GET ANY OTHER FORM OF TV! URGH. Angry angry. Now, if there's any Heroes promotions/Disney Channel contests, I wouldn't know and can't take part because I HAVE NO CABLE TV.

ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY. Sigh. Ok ok, enough said. Better get back to doing work!
Annyeong!♥
(cannot wait for 'A' Levels to be overr. I WANNA LEARN KOREAAAAAAAAN. And Kim & I can have secret conversations in Korean - just joking)

quickie quick quick

2009-07-29T23:16:00.004+08:00

Okay
I know I haven't been updating this place.
I also haven't answered the emails that need to be answered.
And there's been quite some stuff going on in the daily life.

Such as the fact that the photos from the photoshoot that I went to that one fateful Saturday have been posted online now. I got the magazine a coupl'a weeks back and had meant to scan in the picture(s) but had forgotten to. Anyway, the picture's online now, so it makes my life easier. In that sense. Because I look fatter & darker online. Seriously. I am not overreacting (ok I am fine). Basically, I feel like a retard everytime I see those pictures because:

1. I look like I have a problem with my right eye, what with it being covered up and all in BOTH of the pictures
2. My poses? SERIOUSLY. MESSED. UP. I look SO weird, that I think I am convinced that I REALLY CANNOT MAKE IT as a model. REALLY. Ugh.

Remind me again WHY I decided to take that ~~(stupidly)~~ courageous move to join the contest? WHY? All for the sake of having the chance to go for a photoshoot. ARGH, ANGELINE, REMEMBER UGLY + FAT = NO GOOD FOR MODELLING. WHY OH WHY? Now everyone who is interested in the Comic Con will be able to see my (very) ugly picturez and laugh at me. :( Boohoo. Iyn yi says that I have a chance to win because I look good (uh), while Dawn says that I have chance to win because I don't act cute like the rest.

UM. OKAY. Being the youngest there, and the ugliest (obviously), I have this amount of chance to win -> 0.000001 (estimate, out of 1) As compared to the rest -> 0.1999998 (out of 1 - I calculated okay) There are 6 people, so I minued off my chances and divided the rest by 5. Using a calculator.

Anyway, after talking so much rubbish, and hopefully, making sure that the image is not in the main view when you first click C, here is the result of that photoshoot. I THOUGHT I blogged about it, but I guess I didn't, so oh well, because I don't wanna rack my mind to blog about something that happened on 20 June (too lazy yeah, but honestly, the memory is still very fresh in my mind)

SEE? F-A-T-F-A-C-E. Image credit: Playworks Contest Online
You can go to the website to see the rest and also to find out more about that competition whilst you are there. The latter is not recommended, but the former is, because it'll prove my point HOKAY.

Bleh.

Anyway, reason this blog is so dead dead dead is because I have been hit by the next crest of the K-wave (hallyu) - the K-pop Kraze. YEAP. How it happened? That one I'll leave to the next post (when I have the time - I PROMISE) Anyway, just to summarise it into two pictures (because I need 2), it's because of :

Image Source: POPSEOUL! Big Bang Category Archives

AND
♥Yummy.
Image source: YG Family Official Choi (pronounced "Chay") Seung Hyun/T.O.P page
I had to reupload this picture because the one at the actual site was humungo and I'm too lazy to think of resizing issues.

Okay, 'nuff said for now, will expand on this madness another day because I NEED TO GO DO MY HOMEWORKKKK Now.
♥T.O.P!