Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Ahhh Chinablack again. It rocked, but somehow I just wasn't really into it as I was on the 4th. It was good that's for sure, but the drinks were so diluted that I couldn't really feel its effects, so I just kept drinking and drinking (stupidly) till everything hit me all at once on the last drink. Shiiit. I shouldn't have done that. I was gone the minute I started downing them in gulps. Now I remember bits and pieces of yesterday night, and argh is all I can say. I will watch my drink intake more carefully in the future man. It was damnn crowded and hot as usual. The dance floor was especially packed and the moment we waded into it, we were covered in sweat. Everyone was pushing here and there, fighting for a space on the dance floor and trying to dance at the same time. What can I say. I really admire those people who managed to use their asses to dance and yet at the same time bump people out of their way so they could retain their space on the floor. Hah. David was nice enough to help us get in through the guestlist cos I lacked the necessary id and all, thanks for that.
Anyway, danced continuously the entire night till my thighs and calves started feeling cramp-y. The boots, you see. Dancing in boots for 3 plus hours can make anyone skinny man. Not to mention the fact that I'm already skinny enough. Ahh. Saw loads of old friends and mg girls. It was great seeing everyone, haha. Okay, I'm too lazy to finish up. But I'm just glad everyone had a great time. School's starting in a few days time. Holiday work is still untouched. As expected. Oh well, what's new huh. I don't want the new year to start.
Shu at 11:58 PM
Saturday, December 20, 2003
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Shu at 8:55 PM
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Shu at 3:05 PM
Happened to catch Vanilla Sky on tv the other day for the second time. I missed the first part of the show again though. Argh. Anyway, it was wayy complex, but a good show nonetheless. The kind of show you have to watch at least twice before you can actually appreciate it. Brilliant narrative for a slightly dark film with bits of uplifiting parts, especially at the end. The ending was bittersweet and tinged with a touch of melancholia though - Tom Cruise realized that the love of his life was just a figment of his imagination with the help of artificial intelligence. His dream woman was just a relative stranger in real life, if I'm not wrong. All the while, he was thought he was living a dream, when he was actually lying semi-dead of sorts in a cold metal container..only able to think and dream because of A.I.
The music really plays a really powerful part in the show. Somehow, it actually gives insight as to what're the underlying tones and feelings in each scene and amplifies them so that they are brought across individually. The music at the last few scenes on the rooftop before he jumps, especially, is just beautiful to accompany. Sad, yet hopeful. You'd have to had watched the movie to appreciate the music though, because it's the sort of music that reminds you of scenes in the show everytime you hear it. Joan Osborne's 'One of Us' is one of those songs. It plays throughout the main scenes and because of the frequency of its occurences, you either hate it or love it. There's lots of minute details in this movie that you have to look out for, if not you might not be able to understand the ending when it's finally unveiled.
Here's a clip of it's trailer. Quite confusing at times if you haven't read the synopsis or such. Oh well. You have to right-click on the pop-up and zoom in so that its full screen if you want it to be clearer.
Shu at 12:52 PM
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Whoaa tired. Had a choir performance at the Esplanade today and the MFA this morning. Realll shagged now.
Would someone please, for the love of God, teach me how to snap my fingers and sing at the same time? Sigh.
I look damn retarded everytime I do it, cos I don't know how. Argh. The simplest of all things and yet I just can't get the beat right.
You really should see me man, I seriously look like a smiling mannequin with a prosthetic arm that moves and snaps sporadically.
Haha, I'm a lost cause, aren't I.
Shu at 12:55 AM
Monday, December 15, 2003
I have to watch Jeux d'enfants.
Love Me If You Dare.
It looks to be an interesting film. In french, too. It's a pity most people I know don't fancy watching foreign films.
Only thing holding me back from watching it now, though, is the monetary factor, of which value is held at approximately ZERO and has been ZERO for the past few days. Sigh.
I'm up for sponsorship if anyone's kind, and in the spirit of giving, enough.
So..Hear ye! Hear ye! Please kindly part with a nice sum of money just so this poor girl here can watch a film in a language she does not understand. Thank you. :)
Shu at 1:11 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2003
Rodrigo Santoro, hottie of all hotties. Recognize him? Heh.
He does bear a likeness for Orlando Bloom in a way, don't you think.
Shu at 9:07 PM
Friday, December 12, 2003
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Heh, Unique Greek God, eh. Cool.
Shu at 10:34 PM
Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Haha yesterday was way off the mark from what we had planned. Was supposed to go to Centro with Ang, Tris, Van, Bert and Joel, but when we reached, we spent ages trying to decide if we should even buy tix to get in cos we weren't sure if we'd be able to get in for certain what with not being 18 yet and all. To make things short, we managed to get ids thanks to Gerald and even bought tix but then we decided not to go in cos the queue was so bloody long by then. We figured by the time we got to the door, it'd prolly have been like 130 and we'd only have one and half hours left to dance. Not worth 16 bucks there, eh.
So yep, we returned the tix and then decided to just hang out at the One Fullerton area since we were already there. Sat down at the riverside and laughed like shit over Bert and Tris' stupid actions and imitations. Then Ang, Tris and I went back to his place to crash. We were all engrossed in our own little worlds at his place, with Ang reading her trashy novel on the bed, Tris playing LOTR on PS2 and me listening to music on his comp, singing along haha. Talk about different interests man. Oh well, after that we all ended up watching Samurai X or some anime show that Tris recommended, it's okay la, just kinda bloody though. I got too sleepy after 2 chapters of the show that I just crawled into the bed and tried to sleep. Tried to sleep is the key word. Tris refused to let us sleep in peace, he switched on all the spotlights in his room and kept making typical loud Tristan sounds that sound vaguely like animals dying/mating. Sigh. Haha after a while he gave up cos we stopped laughing at him and fell asleep. Usual order of things again the next day, that started approximately at 230pm. Man. We ate, then watched yet another dvd in his room, some french werewolf film called Le Pacte Des Loupes. Damnn nice. Ahh, we sound like pigs don't we. Heh.
Ang and I went to Expo the day before cos we wanted to check out the warehouse sales. Some spontaneous decision-making there haha, so we ended up leaving the house at around 830pm or so. Spent so much time scouring through the books that we didn't have enough time to check out the rest of the sales, like the John Little one. Bought 4 books each, man. I can't really remember the titles of the ones I bought, but one of em was this book about travelling. This guy who jets around the world to all sorts of countries and writes about it. I figure since I can't travel now, I might as well read about it eh. Sigh. The other's a book called The Dream of Scipio. Haven't had a chance to read em yet though, too busy these days. They were good buys though; each one was 5 bucks each only. Haha. Feeling satisfied with my buys now.
Shu at 9:43 PM
Saturday, December 06, 2003
I would give almost anything to live the life that Ian Wright lives. Ahh, whoever heard of getting paid to trek round the world, to walk the roads of oblivion in places long forgotten or to taste of life in all it's transcendence and yet be able to savor the ephemeral pleasures of it all.
I pity the people who can't appreciate that which lies beyond their eyes; their lack of imagination only hinders them from using all their senses in relishing the transient bliss that one enjoys when chancing upon new places one has no prior memory of. It's that short-lasting feeling of novelty that you get when you first reach a foreign country, the feeling that maybe, just maybe, the myriad of unfamiliar faces and places will be enough to convince one's subconscious that it's alright to let go of the burdens of the past to make way for the formation of newer and more deserving memories there; that these places provide a blank canvas for one's mind to paint whatever it so desires without having to worry that previous memories will taint it because these are foreign lands that one has no previous experience of. The brief hope that one would be able to enjoy the foreign, and therefore unique characteristics of each place, in the spirit of someone with no burdens at all, and at the same time be able to replace certain memories of long ago that are somehow still plaguing one with more memorable ones of the present.
If only that feeling would last.
But somehow it only whets my appetite for more.
The road to quenching the wanderlust is a long and never-ending journey, don't you think.
Shu at 11:21 PM
Friday, December 05, 2003
Chinablack..woohoo. Damnnn nice party, or at least in my opinion, kudos to Jayne for organising it. Was kinda lost at first when we got there cos I got separated from the rest due to some millenium model scout thing. I'm still not quite sure if it's some legit company or what but they told me to come over to write down my details and that they'd gimme a call. Needless to say I was way shocked. I mean, the minute I get there, I get strangers pointing at me and -wham- a pen stuck into my hand with a form placed in front of me. To make things worse, Ang and the rest had already went into the club itself without me, unknowingly. Was lost for quite a bit cos I couldn't find them amidst the crowd and all but ah well, after that things went quite well. The music was good other than the occasional glitches but whoaa, was the sound loud. I must have killed my ear drums with the 100 decibels kind of music that we were subjected to last night man. It was really, really hot too. Everytime I brushed against someone, I came back covered in sweat - of my own or someone elses'..I'm not too sure. But everything just added to the atmosphere in it's own way, I guess.
After the entire thing, we ended up hanging around outside pacific plaza till around 5am just talking and mainly stoning. See, stoning seems to be some standby mode, of sorts, for people like me after periods of vigorous activity. Ang and I ended up talking to Shaun most of the time cos he was the only other person there who wanted to just go back and sleep. Of course, I wanted to eat too. Haha. Joel was dying somewhere and Tris went back early cos he wanted to play gunbound. Oh the horror. See what gunbound has reduced perfectly normal human beings to? Heh, though I'm not sure if he was perfectly normal to begin with. ;) Ahh that aside, we sat around with some of the ruggers, waiting for someone to take the initiative to go home, and just watched the long queue of taxis waiting for us to decide when we'd make up our minds to leave and hop into one of them. They prolly thought we were a bunch of hooligans or sth from the way we were all just sitting around. Yep, so we finally got back and I just conked out on Tris' bed man. I slept continuously till the next day and we spent the rest of today just hanging out in his room, playing Tekken 4 and Soulcalibur or whatever it's called on PS.
Tired as shit now, but I still feel like going out. But no one seems to be free..argh. Oh well, it's good to be back home though.
Shu at 7:29 PM
Thursday, December 04, 2003
Gahh. New layout as can be seen, but know that this was all done reluctantly. Very reluctantly, seeing how much a lazy arse I am. I accidentally deleted my old layout and everything else went with it, including the links. Gargh. Tried to rectify it but yeah, I'm gonna leave it as it is - incomplete, till I find the motivation to update the rest of the links and all. Tag-board's gone too for the moment. Till then.
Shu at 6:33 PM
