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Omg. I have only just started to notice this trend. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't noticed much suggestive videos in Youtube in the past, until the past few days. You know when you go to the Youtube website, and on its homepage, the very first line of words you are going to read, appropriately placed below the search box and somewhere at your eye-level are 'Videos being watched right now...' and a line of videos below, which keep switching every few seconds.

And some Japanese people are uploading them, and people are watching in the thousands, by the second. Flag those videos, people! How to do it? click on the video, and below it, there are 4 options, the last is 'flag'. and select a reason for flagging. geez. Do you know kids who haven't even started attending school know how to navigate their way around a youtube site? First-hand example? My lil neighbour. She can barely reach for the mouse, but she deftly knows how to type her favourite show in the searchbox, click the start, and the pause button. And the mum says she watches Youtube vids all day. *shudders* These videos will only cause addiction and social ills. and I'm not being paranoid here. What we all know about Youtube is that it's accessible & quick to load. If the people running the site don't clean up these videos, I don't know what to say. Anyway, it won't be soon before long. Linking this with Christian beliefs, stories, theories, hypothesis, whatever you call it, it will only...get worse. It's just a matter of when. The world is, degrading very quickly. lolz. I'm not getting emo, it's just, I see so many things going on around me and the world, and slowly but surely, things are happening as predicted. And as I'm on the news team for my club, I keep a close watch on what's going on with Israel. It will all take place at Israel in the end. Just wait and see. Many many people (Christians) strongly belief things will come to a head in the next few decades or less. and personally, I feel I won't live till 40. Haha, only time (argh, it's so defined) will tell.

Anyway, moving on, I won 2 tickets to My Chemical Romance on 11 December. I'm not fans of them, I think they're like, a 'japanese-band' wannabe. They don't sing, they screech and wail in most of their songs. But I like live music, so I took part in the contest. Who knows, I may find some good in them after the gig. hee...and I need some action for my upcoming holidays! It seems like I'm always attending concerts with complimentary tickets in my hand, which is good. Lolz, this is the life man. Why pay for concerts when you can get tix for free? Especially if you're not sure whether the performer is good 'live'. And I think concert tickets are always too highly-priced. I'm just a student. Besides, watching from afar is never good. trust me, if you're not willing to pay for front-row/mosh pit tickets, you might as well buy a concert DVD of that artist. It's like watching a musical through binoculars. -_-. And muscials are meant to be a sensory, not frantic-through-the-looking-glass experience.

and now, on to talking about my exam today!! Arrrrgh! I've learnt that, cramming is so not good! You get all your facts mixed up and you second-guess yourself all the way while answering the questions. Never have I did so shitfully in an exam and know it (cuz I reviewed all my shitty answers, we were allowed to bring the question paper home). However, I shall not dwell on what is past. I shall reflect insightfully on this experience and move on and look ahead. Hey, it's getting published, I can set this reminder in stone, on the net.

I have one week in front of me, till my last paper!!! Hopefully, I won't use 'shitty' to describe my answers for that.




Yes, Johnny Depp really sings. Anyone wanna watch this movie-musical with me (I think it'll be released in Singapore only next year)?? I love musicals!! Aah!! Can't believe my favourite actor's starring in one. Someone who can sing, dance and act all at the same time, deserves being paid attention to.

All you Johnny fans and haters, watch the clip. He teams up with Tim Burton (director of Edward Scissorshand & Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) again. Johnny embraces his emo-goth side. This trailer was just posted in the official Myspace movie profile two days ago.



You go, Johnny! You deserve all this, being the humble star that you are. Want me to load you all with my 'Japan Pirates premiere in May and seeing Johnny in the flesh' story again??





Oookie. I am online for a short while. And to explain what I am doing. I am uploading Memory Music onto my ipod. Music which relaxes my mind, putting it in the alpha mind state-relaxed but focused. The music has to be ideally 60 beats per minutes. Thanks to my dad, I dug up these Cds from his collection :D



^These will last me for my whole week of revision ahead. I am prepared.

Also, kudos to my dad for his piano performance yesterday. It was his first time performing 'professionally', up on stage. Though it was for charity, and kind of a casual event, it was a sit-down affair, in an auditorium. And he said it felt nerve-wrecking having all those eyeballs focused on you, especially as most of his colleagues were present and they were sceptical my dad could play the piano at all. He played Bridge Over Troubled Water and the chairman of the event, which is his longtime friend too, sang to it. My dad was quite happy a Clarivona piano was specially rented for his item. and which he raved sounded better than a grand piano. My dad said he had a few propositions offered to him after his performance, but he rejected them all. He told me it was too stressful. He had practiced BOTW over a hundred times for his performance, and still made minor mistakes at the event.

However, he said he will continue tinkering on the piano at home till he drops dead. He has a diploma in Piano, by the way. Way back, from The Royal Schools of Music based in London. I shall try to learn how to read piano notes & scores from him this holiday. Just see me try. :D





so on Thursday I had my club duties as usual and I am proud to say, I finally managed to fill almost the whole show with Jason Mraz songs. Yeah. The thing is, since I'm a newbie, I don't want to break the rules by playing songs which are not included in the DJing computer. And since there are NO Mraz songs in the computer, I included quite a few 'live' songs of Jason (cuz 'live' songs are not really copyrighted you know?). I played The Remedy first, cuz people know him most for that song. It sounded really good. And my partner was so efficient in switching to play the next song, I'm Yours, near the end of The Remedy, cuz some Ang Moh DJ speaks at the end of the song. Kudos to Nigel. The last song was a a fantastic live version of his song 0% Interest with a medley of Our House (madness cover), Where Is the Love (black eyed peas cover) and Mi Casa Su Casa (a spanish song cover). And I'm starting to notice that his songs are very spiritual-sounding & world musical-ly 'live', which so rocks (sorry, I had to say this, cuz this is my personal J music experience.)

Only 3 songs were played, cuz the show is only half an hour, and we had two talk-sets in between. So yeah. I think Jason kicked ass out there on the airwaves on Thursday. I bet he really got people's interest in just those 3 songs. Jason is all about 'live'. It's one of his specialties (don't get me started!). I wish I could play only Jason songs for every show, but I guess I'd be irritating people, overloading them with too much Jason. :P So instead, I'm deciding to end off the show with a Jason song every week.

Anyway anyway, moving on to how my day went today. I got back 2 tests. The first was my Sociology MCQ test. I was anticipating to do pretty well in it. Considering I spent 45 minutes doing it and another 45 checking over my answers (I really wanted to score well)on that test day. My teacher gave back the test results to us in alphabetical order, in the pretty packed lecture theatre. And the girl beside me happened to get her paper back earlier than me. I saw she got 41/50. Whao. "That's a good score. I think I'll get a similar grade", I thought. Well, when I finally got my result slip, it was ok, just not like, a super mark. And I felt a little crushed. I smsed my friend my result and told her how I felt cuz she knew how much hope, correction, how much faith I had in this test. And then waited for the teacher to finish giving out the results to everyone else. He took quite some time to finish. And all the time there, i was fidgety over this unexpected transition time. Remember those books I borrowed from the library? Well, the Time Management book talks about Transition Times and making use of them. What especially struck me about what it said was, if you consciously add up all your Transition Times in a week, it's a lot. Lecture soon ended and I went off to look through my answers for the MCQ test. When I looked through all the answers I made, i didn't feel so bad, cuz my grade is what I am, it rightly is like this. Then I got the reply from my friend, she said, "Don't worry about it! Cuz you know you did your best right?" And it is soooo true.

It's just like the result for my German test I got back a little later on. I did only marginally better than the previous German test. This is my standard, it's cuz of how much I studied or didn't study, that I got what I did. Anyway, I wasn't too bothered about my German cuz I'm all about interested in the learning process and experience & progress when learning languages,hence I'm not so much hung up about test results and such.

And then I met up with my friend too. And like she commented, "Girls can talk about anything." SO true, we talked about anything and everything. Haha. Our lunch took so long, and those bored hawkers kept looking at us -_-. and then, we went jogging! There's such a nice park and jogging track behind my friend's house...and we were talking all the way, no matter how freaking out of breath I sounded while jogging and trying to speak...it was nutty. Yay, at least I've thrown in exercise this week.

Alright, today also happens to be the last day of school. I had 3 lectures today, I'm glad I didn't skip any. It's late, i should be tired, but for some reason I'm not. Ah well, it doesn't matter. I can fall asleep in a snap. I Heart Naps, didn't you see the bumper sticker in my Facebook?

Affirmation to self: I will, make good use of tomorrow onwards.

I hope you have a meaningful weekend too :)It's time to relax, if you don't have exams coming up like me. Just to let you know, I never ever study much during weekends. But only for the 'major-exams period' of course, but THAT'S it. Don't be a workaholic. ;)

In the meantime, check out this vid my friend showed me today!! Kittens in earthenware pots. One of the cutest thing ever.








My English module is not going so well. It's supposed to be the most slack, and hence easiest to score, but it's so fucking not. I don't know if it's cuz I'm lazy (complacent, whatever you call it), or plain dumb. I'd like to think I'm just lazy. I didn't study for it, and therefore, don't know how to draw a fucking proper tree. I wouldn't be taking this module, let alone attending university in the first place, if I were that dumb. Also, the 2 only mini tests that were conducted for this module, so far, I have failed it. It's cus of those fucking trees. They're just trees (tree diagrams), how hard can it be right? They.are.really.confusing.in.reality. Ok, I'm off to practise drawing tress for the next hour or so.

I cannot fail this compulsory module. I really have to buck up, and pull up my socks for the final exams, which makes up 60% of the overall grade.

Anyway, I just learnt today that we are given 9 semesters to complete 6 semesters of school. But I do not want to waste time re-taking moudules. I have better things to do with my time & life than studying. Life's too short than to spend extra time studying, come to think of it, than to spend up to this point, almost 15 years of my life studying-but that's a whole issue altogether.

It's time to get serious.




I wish I were a Writer's Guild of America writer. Do you know how influential you can be? Imagine this, you write the dialogue in a drama, the drama of which is produced in a country which monopolizes the world's media? Essentially, you write for the world. And, you write for the hottest dramas like Heroes. Or, you write for 'the next big thing', like Gossip Girl. Or, you write for a culture-in-the-making. Or a new catchaphrase. Summarily, you are in the heart of popular culture, as it constantly evolves or is being maintained. How hot is that? Also, you get to work with like-minded people, and bounce ideas and lines off each other in the office everyday. It's like playing a game of 'continue-the-story-in-one-line'. Screw dreaming of writing a novel. I rather write short stories which actually get played out.

For more info, read here.




I just saw this on Yahoo Korea's website a moment ago (It's my PC's homepage, thanks to my mum -_-)!!!

It's a promotion the snacks company is having now, till the 11th of November. Something significant about 11/11(= 1,111 sets being sold) to them *shrugs*......I can't understand much Korean, though I can read. All I know is that they're slashing the prices, and that the snack is called Peh Peh Row (which, translated from my mum, means 'thin sticks')




The pictures brought out the inner child in me. I was attracted by the bright colourful biscuits in the ad *squeals* :D I am so going to get these when I'm in Korea. Watch this space.

Look at some cute animated ads for those snacks here! Scroll all the way down, on that webpage..hee..




I only saw these on my school's website today...

I would so sign up for this sking camp in Korea, in a heartbeat!



I would have mountaineered in Mt Kinabalu, earlier than them, if there were tour agencies out there which organized proper vacations to that spot!! My parents had fervently sourced various tour agencies just a week or two ago, to null results. It's just not a popular holiday option among Singaporeans.



So, I'm waiting to see if there are any student-organised Bali trips (I cannot irritate you enough with my yearning to go visit that place..sighzz)...don't tell me it'll come in the aftermath too.




Wowza. It's the first offical week of November. And exams are coming 'round in exactly 3 weeks' time. I have a strategy plan in mind (yes I try!):

1) Eat healthy.

2) Slot in Exercise whenever. Cuz it freshens the mind and builds the body's immune system. Right now, I exercise whenever I feel like it. It's pretty erratic but totally suits me.

3) Plan a proper+kickassly detailed timetable and stick to it dammit!

4) Cut down on using the internet. It's such a bigbig distraction & timeeater.

5) Remind self to not to do things all at the last minute.

6) Sleep reasonably early.

7) Above all, thy shall not be stressed under all circumstances. Take it easy and Thou shall breeze through this period.

Yeah!




This morning, a start to a healthy week. Brewed myself a cuppa green tea-and I learned something new. Green tea, is not green in colour.

I ate the last of the Granny Smith green apples in the fridge. At least I know apples can be green, sweet&sourish and juicy. That's what counts.







If you can't hold your liquor, then quit drinking! don't get drunk, or semi-drunk and shoot your mouth off. You only toxicise those around you. Oh, it's a Saturday night. It figures....but when will you learn?





Today has been a looong day. I woke up at 11am, considering I slept at about 1am the previous morning, that's about...you do the math. I felt giddy when I woke up. Too much sunlight and of lying down.

It was all too soon before it was my date with my friend. As I took a 10-minute walk to meet her at the busstop, my legs felt very muscular and strong. Yeah! Just one session at the gym, and I can feel the difference. Now I know what the term 'power-walk' means. Whee...I almost felt like I was floating on the ground. I felt invincible. and youthful.

Anyway, we bought KFC, popped by for one second at McDs, and then headed to the park. Found ourselves a very nice spot, with colourful candlewax on the floor. It seemed like a mark of territory at first glance, but on second glance, it was a show of that person's good taste. My date commented it felt like we were in another country. What with the maginificent view in front of us and an eagle soaring overhead. Had a conveniently sinful mini-picnic, check out our spread below. We only had a a grand total of 2 ants come crawling into our cheese fries...stamped on one and poked flat the other. We both took turns to do the honours of course. We got to talking about kitties, their dumbness when young, how they always pounced at things, at people's feet among others...how they mindlessly banged their heads into anything and whatever. Anyway, this kitty quote on my facebook pretty much summed up what a kitty life is all about:

"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there." - Agnes Repplier

Also got to listening to Paramore, a kickass band+female lead singer. And a lil' of Jason Mraz. Me date agrees he can sing (yippee). Ah...that's a good sign. I'm going to slowly corrupt her with him :P If you know what I mean. Anyway, there was a point where an old man on his bike hanged around our spot, then went away after a while. And then another old man came, stared rudely at us, strutted in front of us, smoked after strutting his skinny self, stared rudely some more, and finally sat down when some more old mans on old bikes joined him. -_- We soon left after snapping some pictures. We didn't want to overstay ourselves on obviously, this old man's territory.

By killing time (while waiting for my dad to come send us to another place with his car), we went on a cat hunt in my neighbourhood. And failed miserably. No cats in sight on this sunny Saturday afternoon. No cat oohing and ahing and Serotonin-filling. Only harassment, by the oneandahalf-elbow man. Who sat down beside us, when we were resting after our fruitless cat search. Whom asked us whether we were from China, who boldly asked our ages and when we stood up to leave, who asked aloud if we were dating. Of course we were, darling. You had so obviously invaded our privacy, you pervert. You spoiled our otherwise perfectly fine date. My date and I found us another safer spot to rest, under my block. And we got to talking about the numbness, emotionlessness, dumbness and the craziness of the opposite gender.

Later on in the day, I went shopping. Necessarily of course. I have been on a guilty-free shopping mode for a long time now. Having one's wadrobe bursting at the seams is a good disciplinarian. Anyway, back to the topic. I went shopping and bought...1,2,3,4 sweaters and one woolly black jacket. Yippee! I accomplished all my winter tops shopping today. Yes, I'm going to have a wintry late december+Christmas. I'm going to Korea. But that's another story. This is all for tonight.

My legs are aching, but for all the right reasons.

Look at our cosy spot for those precious few moments!



Looking at the spread from higher up + half a thigh.