Update!
Omg I enjoyed High School Musical! I thought I was too old for feel-good Disney shows like this. Vanessa Hudgens made me young again
HAHAZ.
I am so proud of myself.
I never once believed that I'll finish the book and ta-daa! after 2 months of reading and one day overdue, I finally completed Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice. Don't laugh at me for taking THAT long; unless of course you finished the book already. I am slow particularly because I needed extra effort to first read the ultra-high standard English and secondly, understand the weird sentence structure and words used in the book.
Obviously, I'm not suitable for such high-level reading stuff, I only tried reading it cuz I wanna test myself. Don't think I'll be trying anything similar in the near phuture.
But I’m overall satisfied with the book; and I must say that this is the first time I read a book and got pissed off by SO many characters. I have this image formed in my head that the 18th century England streets are full of hypocritical, shallow(ironic, when they speak, do and act like they are cultured and smart people) and materialistic people.
I’m quite sure if I were in Mr Bennett's shoes I'd strangled my wife to death long ago; and I'm quite certain Mrs Bennett must be, in one way or another, related to Dolores Umbridge. HAHAZ.
On a separate note, I read this 绘本 called 《一年甲班三十四号》(directly translated to "No. 34 of Class 1A") by a Taiwanese author called 恩佐.
It records the young boy's journey through the rigid education system, all the while subjected to attempts by adults to mold him into what they want him to be. In other words, very much like the journey most S'porean children went through.
I laughed at the innocent remarks by the boy on the adults' weird ways of doing things and despaired with the boy at the loss of his friend and childhood.
Here’s an excerpt which I like:
"穿着制服的同学有着迥异的面孔，却仿佛又是相同的东西。"
"The students in their uniform have different faces, yet at the same time, they seemed all alike."
PS: Guohao is the best singer in CSS2 man.
Nth
Woot. My wife is in S'pore le lehz.
But I'm having Orderly duty tomorrow lah...
Of spoken words
Knowing when and what to NOT say is really a very difficult yet important skill to master when at work. What I've noticed that many people of my generation seems rather incapable of doing that, me included.
I'm not a suck-up person, but along these past few months I've stayed out of trouble by shutting up most of the time. That way, I'm not compromising my principles to stay in people's good books.
That said, I realise that my principles that I have stuck rather faithfully to, which very much has remained unchanged these years, is changing. In what way I don't know.
In time, we'll see.
Enchanted
This is supposed to be yesterday's post=)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is omg friggin' nice.
Quite the extreme from what I've heard from everyone else, but I can safely assume that those who feel that the movie isn't good are likely those who's already read the book.
Why? Simply because watching the movie after you've read the book is like reading all the spoilers before watching it, albeit the spoilers may not occur. Because you already know what will happen, you expect it to happen; this changes how you're watching the movie: you’re watching to see what should happen, and not what may happen. And as of most humane reactions, you feel disappointed when your expectations are not reached.
Which occurs rather frequently in the case of HP:OotP, since stuffing a few hundred pages of detail into 2 hours plus would require a charm of sorts that makes 2 hours become 4 hours or more.
As for me, I am fortunate enough to be too cash-strapped(ahh the irony) to be buying and reading the books, hence I’m happy to say I got the best out of my 7 dollars. The movie gave just enough magic to enchant me and I don't have the prior knowledge of what should happen to bug me.
I totally enjoyed the dark atmosphere; loved how the characters are looking now. I thought Hermione’s losing some of the haughtiness she started with, which is making her cuter*hur-hur*; and oh, Luna Lovegood is gorgeous!
My new favourite! With the light-blonde hair(which really is the main reason) and tastefully-weird way of speaking, she has that... I dunno, unspeakable attraction; I wonder if that makes me a weirdo to like her.
Plus, the fighting between Dumbledore(the old man’s got style yeh~) and Voldemort was just pure déjà vu; like Kakashi versus Itachi LOL.
Oh, and Dolores Umbridge just become the epitome of hypocrisy, to me at least. I think next time I want to scold a hypocrite, I'll just go, "You Umbridge asswhipe!"
Btw, I think I'll abandon plans to read the books. Watching the movie somehow gives me a sense that the characters can be much more complicated, like Transformers, there can be more than meets the eye, very much more. I still wanna enjoy the next two(I hope) movies de leh.
PS: Just for the record, I watched it during none-office hours so I didn’t break any rules eh. Wouldn’t want the Ministry hot on my broom ya.
Nabeh.
I swear, that if i ever see that doctor, who took out my stitches for me, on the street, I am going to make sure I beat him up so badly that he forgets his ATM card's password.
The freaking bastard practically digged at my mouth the same way I would dig at SM1 tanks' small components knn.
I need to propose a system whereby doctors are fitted with sensory-thingys connected to their patients so that doctors feel the same pain as the patients. Otherwise they'll just just do whatever they need to get the job done because it's, well, not their mouth that's being tortured.
Na beh.
BORED
I'm taking out stitches tomorrow! Oh man I wonder how would it go. Somehow, the thought of having a doctor towering over you and using instrument to take out thread that were weaved onto your skin isn't very settling.
I think I'll just scream when the doctor does.
Of course, if Dr Debbie Hong were the one doing it, it'll be a very different reaction from me. Muahahahaz.
On a different note, I was just trying out different hairstyles with my hair(the one on the head la), as short as it may be but still long by NSmen terms, and I realise no matter what hairstyle it just doesn't look good on me. Even botak.
I really should just just lose the hair to spare myself the vice of vanity hur.
Or more practically speaking, lose the face.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
700th post yahoo.
I'm such a geek. The pain just shifted into the form of ulcers and the roof of my throat inflamed(for reasons I do not know). It's irritating but becomes total madness when I eat, even porridge.
The irritating pain kept me at the TV(I've ran out of things to do damn), and to my surprise, they were showing 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'.
As absurd and weird the show, I think it easily ranks as top 5 best films I've watched; and I don't know why. It's painfully nice. Complicated and confusing, but nice.
I'm not talking sense here am I?
Rating
DAMN. I wanted RA or something more.
Update
Day two since surgery and I'm still sore. It doesn't hurt but the ulcers and sore throat is.
Been eating porridge the past 2 days and probably have to continue for the next few days. Actually I can eat other stuff, but taking almost an hour to eat half a packet of char kway tiao isn't very enjoyable.
To give you a picture of how I would look, think Droopy.
No Pain No Grain
GA is SOOOO not fun? Even though I get to see a rather chio female doctor, Dr Debbie Hong, who looks so much like a chio bu I used to see around in JJC.
I felt like screaming with the pain in my cheeks and the heavy head after waking up from GA. Thankfully the pain doesn't last, at least for my right cheek. My left side hurts like hell when I use the antiseptic mouth-wash the doctor prescribed; I had to lie down with my eyes closed to wait for the pain to pass each time.
I remember the last words I heard the anaesthetist said before I fell asleep was, "Eh, why still haven't sleep?".
I think I have natural resistance to sleeping sia.
Bo Liao
Elaine damn chio with rebonded hair!!! The one in Campus Superstar(CSS) lah.
Too bad, JC voters are obviously no match for young, vote-until-don't-care-parents-reduced-to-eat-porridge-only secondary school girls.
And it just occurred to me that Teri may just be one of the biggest lost treasures; she like seng-nang seng-nang can handle the low notes better than most of the others, which was what caught my attention in the first place. Too bad she always like kan-chiong spider when on stage.
Putting that act-cute little girl through just ruined whatever Teresa(also from CHIJ Katong) has achieved and successfully completed CSS's arsenal of top-9-finalists-who-cannot-sing; of course, with Shawn-boiboi being the only singer.
Btw, the 3 contestants: Wilson, Junjie and Xu Bin can form a boyband liaoz. Basically, Wilson can do the dancing, Xu Bin do the album cover(yandao ma), and Junjie can do the falsettos by naturally zao-xia.
I am mean and biased and doing a post on this show because I'm damn nervous for tomorrow can? Ignore this entry~
Goodbye my teeth...
OMG my surgery is tomorrow!!!!
I'm not exactly freaking out, yet, but I have a few concerns. You might think these are just figments of my paranoid imagination, but these concerns are in fact, very real.
Me:*being pushed into surgical room*
Anaesthetist:*injects anesthesia*
Me:*starts to feel groggy, on the verge on sleeping*
Nurse:*speaking to the surgeon* Doctor, this patient is to undergo sex-change operation by the removal of his...
Me: Noooo... *falls asleep*
GG.
I think I must request for Hebe's photo to be placed in the room so at least I see her one last time before I die.
当归
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
"人生"， 其实很简单， 只是"人生"中的‘人’字把人生变得复杂多了。
人潮熙熙攘攘， 日子总是在匆匆忙忙中度过。 我们一直嚷嚷着迷失自己， 但没想过， 当初为何会失去方向？
其实， 会迷失自己，是因为我们总爱拿自己和别人比较。 看着那些驾着名贵跑车的人， 我们想到为何自己没有， 而开始盲目的追求。看着那些登上杂志或报纸的名人， 我们抱怨为何自己不能， 而不顾后果的尝试。
忘记， 是自身的忽略。说迷失自己， 是把责任推卸给外来因素； 其实， 我们是忘了自己。 忘了自己的所长， 忘了不是每一个人都适合走那一条路。
平凡又如何？ 在自己的领域成功， 不管多平凡，好过在一个不合适自己的环境苟且偷生， 痴心妄想地追求不属于自己的虚荣。
人各有成。 在感到彷徨， 快迷失方向时， 静下心来， 好好地重新看看自己。 或许， 会看到， 以前自己没看到的心中的方向牌。
The End
"相思相见 知何日
此时此夜 难为情"
郭襄 say to 杨过, I say to her. HAHAHAZ.
I think I saw this quote before, should be from one of 李白's poems I lazy to go search. So zhun. My saturday evenings are meaningless liaoz. Boo-hoo.
杨过 is like the WMD of Xiangyang. Dunno Xiangyang hire all those soldiers for what. And the Khan die in the most fashionable way lah.
The second best part about this show is that it gets corny to the extent of being hilarious.
Of course, the best part, no need me to say har. Hee hee.
PHAT.
I am a little bit baffled.
Yesterday, I was faced with 2 different comments on the same issue, and the 2 comments were 2 extremes.
Firstly, Zhiyao saw me at the cookhouse and being the bastard that he is, he said that I've grown fat. I'm not exactly devastated at that because I fully understand why would he say that; having 2 canteens near you and 2 tea-breaks everyday does fatten you up rather swiftly.
Secondly, a platoon mate from Scorpion who is only an acquaintance saw me and said 'hi'. He probably doesn't even remember my name but recognizes me because timers in a platoon are rather high-profile. He commented that I have grown thin by a lot.
This is indeed, very confusing. How can two people give 2 comments that are so contrasting? Could it be that Zhiyao hadn't seen me since I've enlisted to be fattened up by Scorpion and OETI, hence he thought I've grown fat? Could it be because that platoon-mate was just being friendly? But saying that I've grown thinner is hardly a common way of being nice among guys!
I think I've found the reason.
It is because...
Zhiyao is a bastard. Muahahahhaz.
O.M.G
OMG it's friday the 13 and I learnt a new word, paraskevidekatriaphobia. No, it is not gibberish. Paraskevi means friday, dekatria means thirteen, so paraskevidekatriaphobia is fear of Friday the 13th! Cool.
OMG Harry Potter is out! I get to see a more chio Emma Watson and a more chio Cho Chang woot. I wanna read the books but I'm too cheap-skate to buy them; any kind muggle would care to lead them to me*gives innocent look*.
OMG blood test tomorrow. Those suckers.
OMG after my OJE ends(in a month's time), I'll be posted to 13FMD! Noooo~ means all my current knowledge of M113 tanks and SM1 tanks will be obsolete and I have to learn new turrets! Knn.
Oh my gawwwwd... I'm outta things to say.
Reflection
Because I was raised by a relatively conservative family, my principles and values are very chee-na in essence.
That's why I feel uneasy and have a tendency to go ewwww in my mind when people flirt and talk about sex-related stuff explicitly, hence shunning away from such people.
In other words, I'm very much a guai-kia through and through.
In this society, guai-kias lose out. The hip and bold guys get the babes, the money and most of the good things. I'm not saying the guai-kias get all the shit. But why is it that since they're following the right path, where right I'll define as the way that an average person living in the 20th century will perceive as right, why do they not deserve the same or even better?
I've seen bastards get their way around life. Sometimes I just feel dumb and angry; dumb that I'm following my so-called principles, angry that I'm letting myself be overlooked.
Or maybe I just haven't live long enough to get a fair view.
Then again, even if I'm not a guai-kia, I'll just be a ugly bastard trying to score chicks. Hahahz.
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Btw, I go ewwwww not because I act innocent and don't want to know about it; but because I feel that it should be left to private conversations.
Clarification.
I need to make this clear do I?
I have a weakness for Dimples on girls who DO NOT, i repeat, DO NOT, excessively act cute.
*slaps forehead*
Dimples
Before I start flaming that Guohao, I shall talk about things I like before I explode. Seriously, him staying in the competition for so long shows one thing; I can be the next Campus Superstar.
I am so in love with Elaine.
No, not my friend whom I have linked at the sidebar, it's the one in Campus Superstar. She's like the only one left in CSS that can sing since the departure of my beloved Shawn(the 13 year-old boy). I think she be rather un-good-looking without make-up in person, but she sing damn well and she has 梨窝(i haven't got a slight inkling as to the english word for that)!
And I love Keely too. She sings rather lousy but the dimples! Made her cute when she isn't very cute before.
Goodness I have a weakness for dimples.
I am such a weak man.
Sunday blues
Insomniac+amnesiac=insomnesiac.
Muahahahahz I am such a genius.
LIKE OMG.
神雕侠侣 ends next saturday! My 郭襄 only come out for 6 days then no more! Noooooo~
Good things never last long, do they? Tsk tsk tsk...
BOOM!
I believe it helps when you don't complain?
I went for live firing as supporting turret technician(actually just stay there rot and learn) since I'm an OJE trainee and must go at least once; usually technicians get a day off if they go for live firing on a saturday, but I was told by my superior that I'm not getting one(dunno why). Because I had other things on my mind I didn't think much of it and hence, I didn't whine here.
As it turn out, today's live firing was simply ammo testing, hence it only took half the time as scheduled; to add on to it, the lunch they indent was not lousy cook-house food, but CHICKEN RICE(buy from outside stall one)! I was thick-skinned enough to take an extra packet of coffee for myself muahahahahaz.
According to my sergeant who went with me, I'm a lucky man. Usually, live firing drags till night, even midnight with lousy food throughout.
It was also quite an experience since I've never seen a SM1 tank fire before despite dating with them for so long; which was quite surprising cuz I thought these lousy things would just ki qia after a few shots.
Btw, while on the way to the firing area, I was on a land rover with the tanks rolling behind, and I managed to scare myself a little(I bored ma). I had two huge metal things with headlights on tailing behind and I'm surrounded by the forest; feels like a movie where the hero kanna chased hor.
The funniest part was when the land rover was reversing with the freakish tanks moving in front of us. Totally theatrical.
Trivial
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAZ.
Kenny Sia's parody on Tansformers is the exact same thing I asked my friends(what if Transformers were made in M'sia) when we were discussing Transformers!!!
It was damn funny with that idea in my head at that time; now it's more hilarious with a picture to go with it.
Shining
I'm sleeping as little as before, but I'm waking up in the middle of the night more frequently than ever. Someone told me it's because I keep too many emotions bottled in me that results in this insecurity, but I've been alone by myself for too long to remember how to let things go.
What are your life's shining moments?
For me, I have to admit that at first I thought I have close to zero shining moments, and what comes to my mind first was all those dark periods of my life overshadow and even threaten to override my shining moments.
But it is all these dark memories that make the shining moments more colourful than ever, and I learn to take even the simplest things, like a simple lunch with friends or family, as being fortunate and hence, be satisfied with what little I have. My shining moments would appear ordinary to others, but to me, they mean the world.
I may seem to be lazy as compared to some of my other friends who work ferociously to build up their circle of friends, but I find contentment in maintaining my current social circle as risky as it may be, because I know they are worth the risk.
不经一番彻骨寒, 焉知红梅扑鼻香; without going through hardship, how can one learn to appreciate the sweetness of life?
I am only 19 years old; my life is bright before me and I am quite sure a few years down the road, I can put up pictures of the shining moments in my life like Kenny Sia did, and be proud of it.
岁月如歌
你的眼睛 蓝色的一面海
总是太安静 像是会有暴风雨
呼唤一个夏季 也许那天都逝去
海面闪着泪 像梦境
I feel like saying my thanks to engineers who made the SM1 tanks in the form of expletives and vulgarities. But getting pissed off about someone I don't know feels kinda dumb.
I shall therefore, talk about people I do know, like popular singers.
This song is sang by 张韶涵, a female singer whom I've always liked because she is pure singing talent, and a Taiwanese band, 苏打绿. This is only a 2-minute version, so I recommend you to listen to the whole song to witness the power of 张韶涵's vocals.
And btw, you didn't see wrongly; the voice really belongs to that guy, the lead singer of 苏打绿.
Here the song, 小情歌 by 苏打绿 which I personally feel that is a great song.
Really sounds like a girl, doesn't he?
This is the new song by Lee Hom! Grossly over-rated, the songwriter seems as if he's trying to follow in Jay Chou's footsteps(or rather, 方文山 who did most of the very nice and beautiful songs) by writing the song in a poetic fashion but turns out the lyrics just feels wrong.
And the MTV is kinda low-level hur. Seems to me Lee Hom tried to surpass Jay by doing acting and directing; and Jay just won half of it.
Last but definitely-comfirm-guaranteed-chopped not least, S.H.E's 说你爱我, lyrics courtesy of my wife Hebe herself.
Her emo look is so... awwww~
Sadly, the first time I read the lyrics I thought Jay wrote it.
Damn.
8 Days, every week~
Reading 8 Days just makes me feel like I belong there. All the sarcasm and witty comments, I might just be able to fit in well there.
Then again, one doesn't earn much from being sarcastic eh. Unless I can get famous from being sarcastic la.
But the world confirm cannot tolerate 2 Simon Cowells de.
Maybe I'll just open classes on 'How to talk to tables'.
Time passing
Tiring day. It's a little bit more tougher to move on with life with one less thing to believe in; especially when that thing is a pretty big deal.
And FYI, although I keep talking about TV and chio actresses, I don't seek solace in watching TV or depend heavily on it. In fact, it saddens me all the time when I need to turn to watching the TV in my free time because TV isn't exactly nutritious stuff.
Neither is book-reading appealing to me because books that appeal to me are rather deficient in numbers and I find it a nerd sport which I only do when I'm emo.
Sports is a great way to pass time, like how time practically flew when I went for my weekly swimming routine yesterday, but usually during the weekdays I'm too tired to do sports.
Maybe I can start learning how to talk to a table.
神雕侠侣
相思无用， 惟别而已。
别期若有定， 千般煎熬又何如。
莫道黯然销魂， 何处柳暗花明。
Omg it's Sunday. Parade tml. I'm trying to not feel sian about it.
To make myself feel happier, I shall gawk about chio bu today. 神雕侠侣 on Channel U is getting nice! I was on the verge on giving up on it cuz like most China shows, it was feeling a bit draggy. But that's not the point; the point is, 郭襄 is DAMN CUTE CAN? Not very chio, but really cute and has that innocent look in her eyes.
Woah.
And after one-and-a-half hour of marvelling at her cuteness on TV, I spend the next 15 minutes after the show marvelling at the complexity of the name of the actress who acts as 郭襄. Her name is 杨幂, where 幂 is pronounced mi4(took me some time to find out the correct pronunciation).
To my utter horror, she is only 20 years-old.
The other chio actress in 神雕侠侣, 刘亦菲，who acts as 小龙女,
is only 20 years old.
What is wrong with all these chio actresses for being so chio? They make Dawn Yang look like an old hag sia.
