Wednesday, May 26, 2004
I feel so stupid. How could I have NOT known. Shit. Sometimes I'm just too damned oblivious to everything that's happening around me. Ignorance really breeds stupidity, huh. Guess it's only right that I should have to face the music now.
Shu at 9:06 PM
Monday, May 24, 2004
Uhm okay, guess it's time for me to start plugging the upcoming choir concert, seeing that I haven't really gotten round to doing it. Just so you know, I suck at online plugging.
-- The ACJC choir concert, An Evening With Friends, will be held at the Esplanade Concert Hall on the 31st of May. Tickets are going at $21 and $27 now, cos all the $17 seats have been sold out. As people keep asking what songs we're gonna be singing, well, all I can say is that our repertoire consists of a whole range of genres and even if you aren't the musically-inclined sort, and the only musical instrument you've ever set your hands upon was that primary school recorder of yours, you can always come just for the sake of seeing your usually reticent friends do 'funny hand actions and sing in weird languages' as someone so nicely put it. Gahh. But that aside, do try and buy the tickets. We've worked hard for this, sooo. You know what to do. Get the tickets quick cos 70%'s gone already. Oh yeah, if you wanna order any, just lemme know someway or the other. OR you could always make your way down to the SISTIC outlets. But I reckon, I'm the better choice, seeing that you can just order it from me in school or sth.
Okay, I've done my bit for the day. Tired now, and headache-y. I need to invest in a lifelong supply of panadol soon. AND. Just for the record, no more laughing at me snapping my fingers during the concert! Arghh. I've had enough to last me a lifetime. Please quietly contain your mirth and count from 1 to 102034023. For as long as it takes la. To help abate your amusement gradually without causing any harm whatsoever to my already sad ego.
Shu at 11:16 PM
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Whoaa, long day. Went to Tris' place after school cos we wanted to hang out first before catching Elephant. Turned out that Mopiko, Tris and I ended up watching this really disturbing dvd in his room. What the hell man. I feel mentally scarred. It's this jap movie called "Battle Royale" or something like that. Just thinking about it makes me uncomfortable. I'm tired so I'll just give you the gist of it.
It's about how these 7th grade kids who were out on a class excursion and got abducted in the process whilst they were on the bus. Placed on a remote island, they were told that their class was specially chosen to participate in a 'game' called "Battle Royale" whereby only the winner would be allowed to leave the island. The catch was, only one person would be allowed to leave it alive. The teenagers were forced to kill each other off one by one with crude weapons provided by the game show hosts, like sickles and knives. And if by the end of 3 days, there was no sole survivor, everyone would be killed by the detonation of the metal bands that were placed around their necks. At first they were all skeptical, but after a few choice killings of certain rebellious classmates made by the game host, they started to freak out. Friends turned against each other, killing one another in ways unimaginable all because they wanted to be the sole survivor. It's sick. You could actually see all the class politics going on, except that it was portrayed in the most extreme sense. Cliques teamed up against others in the macabre killing spree, or turned against each other within. Some refused to play and committed suicide themselves, whilst others killed under the pretense that they were friends. It's really really sick, the way the fear of death makes everyone paranoid and suspicious of every little mundane detail. Most killed each other the smallest things, all because they were mad with fear and jumping to conclusions at every turn. The fear just escalates within till it has nowhere to go but out. Every few hours or so, the game show host would announce which one of their classmates had been killed in the hours that passed in an eerily cheerful manner, encouraging them to keep up the 'good work'. Oh god. Apparently, this whole thing is supposed to be reality tv of the future or something - I didn't quite grasp the concept, but the idea behind it is freaky.
Anyway, I won't give away the ending, suffice to say, I still feel unnerved when I think about the show. Ahh, thank god that isn't the reality we know.
Seeing what a lazy sod I am, I'm gonna just reply the tags in this post.
Denice and Sop: Haha yeahh, glad we all finally went out together and stuff. :) The show really made the day worthwhile, huh? Haha. I bet Sop wants to watch LOTR now just cos of Orlando Bloom! Don't worry Sop, you can always catch it at the discovery centre's imax theatre or sth hahah, just so you know, by then the show will prolly be totally outdated. Doesn't diminish it's quality though, eh. ;)
andrw: Heh thanks, but there're lotsa other people that write better than I do. :)
Yuhao: Hahah, I would! Just that if I did, I'd be skinnedd alive by a certain someone come tomorrow. Haha.
Jason: I'm not 2d and neither am I shumsyy! Gahh. Haha exams were okayyy I guess, quite content with my results so far, kiddo :)
Shu at 9:53 PM
Sunday, May 16, 2004
Went for kt's birthday party last night at his place. Shit man, I have never seen so many drunk people puking in my entire life. Never expected it to be that way. :/ And never have I seen someone drink till he fell unconscious in a pile of his own vomit. Poor kid. Anyway, glad I didn't drink at all, seeing that half the time everyone else was. Poor kt had to take charge, cleaning up everything and everyone even though it was his birthday. Mann. I've lost count of how many people were stripped yesterday too. I have still yet to understand why people do that on birthdays. Ahh the worst thing was that people who weren't even celebrating their birthdays yesterday got stripped as well. Guys and their raging hormones. Haha.
Anyway, everyone was worried for quite a bit when kt slipped and fell in the kitchen cos he was unconscious for some time. Shit man, I was damn scared cos he wouldn't wake up no matter how much we slapped his face and all. He came to after a while though; luckily his mum was there to tend to him cos the rest of us were feeling damn useless. I know I was. Yeps, so everyone started leaving after awhile and there were only a few of us left. A very drunk tzehow being one of them. Argh. Mopiko was kinda gone physically by then, but I think he was still hanging in there metally though. The only sober ones left were tris, yuhao, kt, this wilson guy and I. We ended up playing playstation mann. Haha shiit. But it was fun, I rule at Need for Speed! It was around 1 sth in the morn by then, and all I was wondering at that point in time was how the helll tzehow could keep talking on and on even though no one was listening. Gosh. Never go near him when he's that gone, you'll feel like smacking him upside down. Left after that in a cab with mopiko and tris, and got home at around 2 or so, feeling way shacked. Ah, the comfort of my bed. Spent the rest of the day after in bed, honing my bum-like qualities. Somehow I feel like I haven't been to school in ages. Kinda out of touch with reality, heh. School starts tomorrow though, sigh. Till then.
Shu at 7:22 PM
Friday, May 14, 2004
I have to get myself a much more concise version of The Iliad than the one I used to have. Caught Troy yesterday right after the chem paper with Sop, Denice and Shermain. It's been ages since we've all gone out together, heh, caught up on alot of laughing and talking with them. :) Shopped about and lamented the rate at which time seems to pass these days. Ahh. That's something we seem to do alot when we go out nowdays, lament. Haha. It's not a bad thing though. Really enjoyed talking to them like the old days in mg.
Anyway, Troy is a must-watch for Homerian-lovers and Greek buffs alike. Damn, it has battle scenes, love scenes and even frustratingly cowardly scenes - a la Paris (Orlando Bloom). I swear, I felt like kicking Paris in the head more than a thousand times during the course of the movie. He doesn't fight his own battles, and as a result, his brother, Hector, one of the most honorable characters in the movie, dies whilst fighting on his behalf. Hell, I bet practically three-quarters of Troy died on his behalf. All because of his Romanticist ideals, which were sorely out of place in an era where battles were started over the smallest of things. It was no place for Romantics then. The show only gives the gist of the actual epic poem of Homer's and misses out some interesting scenes, but I guess that's what happens to all works that get rewritten into the movie context. The main part of the epic that they missed out however, was the extent of the role at which the Gods played in the entire story.
If memory serves me right, this whole Paris-meeting-Helen-and-falling-in-love-with-her business started long before, when all except Eris, the goddess of discord, were invited to the matrimonial ceremony of Thetis (goddess of the sea) and Peleus (king of Myrmidons). Note: If you watch the show carefully, you'll notice that Thetis is Achilles' mother and Peleus is his father. In one of the scenes at the beginning, she picks seashells from the sea to make a necklace for him. Anyway. Eris got mad and sowed discord amongst the guests by throwing a golden apple to them and claiming that only 'the fairest' was allowed to have it. Seeing how the immortals of Homer's description are mostly of petty and vain characters, the goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite each stake a claim for it. Zeus, trying to settle the problem, brought the goddesses to Paris, leaving the choice as to who would get the apple with him. The goddesses each offered him something of great value in a bid to get him to choose her - Hera offered him some continent or something, I can't recall, Athena offered him glory in war and Aphrodite as usual, offered him the fairest of all maidens for his wife. As expected, the self-professed romantic, Paris, chose Aphrodite, the goddess of love, which led to him earning the wrath of Athena and Hera as a result. So Paris sets off for Sparta at Aphrodite's bidding and meets Helen, wife of Menelaus, and the fairest of all maidens. From there onwards, you know what happens.
That's a brief background of Greek mythology for you, heh. Anyway, what I described was only a small part of the entire role the Gods played in the whole story - they interferred in the Greek-Trojan battles too and what not. Which is why, if you want the full story, you should get yourself a copy of The Iliad. :) It's really lengthy though. Oh well, go watch Troy instead, it's lighter. Although it makes you feel like hitting Orlando Bloom a hundred times over. Especially at the last few scenes. Brad Pitt's acting was superb as usual in the touching scenes he had, not forgetting the battle scenes. And look out for Eudoras, his second-in-command of the Myrmidons or something, his eyes are just a beautifully intense shade of blue.
Mann, this is the longest entry I've written since the studying started, haha. Guess it's what happens when you watch Troy twice in a day. Gosh. I caught it again that night with Tris and Bert, only because Tris was being uncharacteristically generous by treating (haha, jk la.) AND the fact that the show was great. Next show to catch - Elephant.
Shu at 11:56 AM
