《突然好想你》

那天听yes 93.3 龙虎榜，听丁志勇说《突然好想你》的词写得太棒了，怎么会有人写出这么好的词。让我好好奇。阿信的写词功力可不是盖的喔，《倔强》is a good example.

最怕空气突然安静
最怕朋友突然的关心
最怕回忆突然翻滚
绞痛着不平息

最怕突然听到你的消息
想念如果会有声音
不愿那是悲伤的哭泣
事到如今
终於让自已属於我自已
只剩眼泪还骗不过自己

突然好想你 你会在哪里
过的快乐或委屈
突然好想你 突然锋利的回忆
突然模糊的眼睛

我们像一首最美丽的歌曲
变成两部悲伤的电影
为什麽你 带我走过最难忘的旅行
然後留下最痛的纪念品

我们那麽甜 那麽美 那麽相信
那麽疯 那麽热烈的曾经
为何我们 还是要奔向各自的幸福
和遗憾中老去

突然好想你 你会在哪里
过的快乐或委屈
突然好想你
突然锋利的回忆
突然模糊的眼睛

最怕空气突然安静
最怕朋友突然的关心
最怕回忆突然翻滚 绞痛着不平息
最怕突然听到你的消息
最怕此生已经决定自己过
没有你却又突然 听到你的消息

文字浅白，却又能够勾起内心深处的感动。好悲。。。

LOOK AT THE SKY!

OHMYGOODNESS！

right now if you look at the sky in the southwest direction, here's what you'll see (and what I am seeing now):
Venus--bright as ever
a very cute very thin crescent Moon
Jupiter
...and I can barely make out another celestial object with my naked eye...so I went to check it up on Stellarium and guess what? It's MERCURY!!! (the domicile of virgo is mercury, just as the domicile of capricorn is saturn =) )

I dunno why, but seeing this gets me all excited and overwhelmed...and frustrated cos there is no one to share my joy with.

Update at 7.53pm: Haha my mom just finished mopping the floor and went to look at the sky. Her eyesight is pretty good; she can still make out Mercury...hahaha
Mercury is at an altitude of about 5degrees...barely above the top floor of the flat across the street. Argh...demolish that flat!

So I gather I am destined to be an amateur astronomer. Or star-gazer, I should say. Haha I sound like some centaur from Harry Potter world. I like to look at the sky, and wonder, and think about the myths and signs and all sorts of romantic stuff. I'm not really into cosmo and neutrinos and dark matter...

i-candy @ 舞林大道

just watched 舞林大道 on channel U.

It's dancing with the stars part2.

My favourite was i-candy with 杨千霈。 they danced to 《新不了情》and whoa it's really touching...





东谚and千霈 look pretty good together huh? =)

Read his blog entry on the performance here:
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/milk0910/20636601

Garasu no Tsubasa ~hoshi no kinka~

theme song of jdorama Shin Hoshi no Kinka (aka 新白色之恋. watched it when i was sec 2?）:

Konna ni tsuyokute, konna ni yowakute
Mahou ni kakatta setsunai omoi
Kitto ano hi kara nemurenai, zutto
Anata wo omou to namida ga kobore ochite kuru

Aishiteru, aishisugiteru,
aishikata mo shiranai kuse ni

GARASU no tsubasa hiroge, omoikiri kake nukete
Taiyou ni tokasarete, tsuiraku shitemo
Subete wo ushinau toki, anata eto todoke inori
Kiseki wo shinjite yukeru kara

Ichiban chikakute, ichiban tookute
Kitto dare yori mo wakatteru noni
Tomodachi no mama de te to te ga furetara
Doushiyou mo naku itoshiku naru koko ni iru noni

Kizutsuite, kizuteukete iru,
iyashikata mo shiranai kuse ni

Hi no ataru sakamichi de, anata no te no nukumori
Oikakete tsukamitai, iki wo hazumasete
Mou sukoshi no jikan to, sukoshi dake no sayonara de
Futari no subete ga kawaru kara

Fushigi na unmei wo nakushitakunai kara
Mou namida... misenai kara

GARASU no tsubasa hiroge, anata no hoshi wo mezasu
Ginga sae mo koeteku, eien no jikan
Karada wa kieusete mo ikite iku koto no imi to
Anata wo shinjiru tsuyoi kokoro

Shinjiru tsuyoi kokoro...

Retrieved from "http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Garasu_no_Tsubasa_~Hoshi_no_Kinka~"

performed by Hoshino Mari, who's also the lead actress in the show. No wonder I found her quite familiar-looking... She's Aoko in "Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo 2005 "

sucky sem

OMG.
I've just checked the CORS website.
The 3 chemistry core modules I have to take this sem...

10-12: Physical chem
12-2: Organic chem
2-4: Inorganic chem

ALL ON THE SAME DAY!!!

(hello how am i going to have lunch?)

I'm like SOOOOOOOOO totally going to die this semester.

yukan club is nice. light to watch and very funny but not shallow. maybe i'll watch it again (i think i will) next sem break...
my results were out on tuesday. good =) hahaha...
it's christmas today. No festive joy, but the weather is cold...

Yukan Club

Watching "Yukan Club" now.
Dunno what else to watch... Don't want to watch Gokusen 3 cos Gokusen 2 is essentially the same as Gokusen 1 (Yankumi has a silly crush and she's fren with the English teacher who is her love rival and the students of class 3-D (again?) are delinquents who will gradually soften up to her, the students will rant about how they don't trust teachers, they will get beaten up and Yankumi will come to their rescue, the bad guy will ask "Who are you?" and she will answer "I'm their homeroom teacher"...and there's this rich guy in the class(shin and ryu)doesn't it sound familiar?), except there isn't sawada shin :(

And when I watch shows i like to watch those with familiar faces...

Yamapi--I've watched almost all of his recent works: Proposal Daisakusen, Kurosagi, Nobuta wo Produce, Dragon Zakura...code blue doesn't sound very interesting...

Oguri Shun--Hana Kimi, Hana Yori Dango..he's the reason why I wanted to watched HYD..initially anyway... I tried Bimbo Danshi last break but gave up..:P

Matsumoto Jun--HYD and the charity show. Think I'll keep him with Inoue Mao together and not watch any other shows... Domyoji and Makino!!!

Kame--Nobuta wo Produce and Gokusen2... Not sure

Akanishi Jin--I first noticed him in Gokusen 2. He's in "Yukan Club" also. I noticed he resembles Nicholas Tse in yukan club...hahaha

hyd again...

this person wrote quite well... good analysis of the show and comparison of the drama and manga
http://www.dramabeans.com/2007/03/hana-yori-dango/

http://www.spcnet.tv/Japanese-TV-Series/Hana-Yori-Dango-review-r1242.html
Quote:
"First of all, I believed Matsumoto Jun depicted Domyouji’s character more consistently than Jerry Yan. In "Meteor Garden", Dao Ming Si in the beginning of the drama is a totally different person from Dao Ming Si in the end. I understand that Shan Cai did change Dao Ming Si’s character and made him gentler. However, that does not mean Dao Ming Si totally morphed into another person. In Hana Yori Dango, you could see Domyouji changed by Tsukushi. However, instead of changing into a different person, he still maintains his stubbornness, his pride, his impatience, his fights with Tsukushi, etc. What changed was he no longer seems like the cold, heartless dictator of Eitoku. You sympathize with him when he tries his hardest to be patient with Tsukushi, and that is what moves you—when he is still Domyouji, but this time, a Domyouji who is trying to love."

Myu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru

Myu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru (Myu will Give Daddy Her Legs )
Starring Matsumoto Jun as Yamaguchi Hayato (25), a young man who has contracted a rare disease called CIDP which affects the nervous system. It is based on a true story. This show is part of NTV's 24Hour Television charity show (SPEED also participated!). I think the little girl acting as Myu was Rei in "At Home Dad" cos she has the same cute voice =)
It is sad watching this kind of show, and especially sad to know it is real. Why does it have to happen to a young man with a bright future ahead, a family to provide happiness for? Sigh. I cried thrice watching, first when Myu (Yamaguchi's 4-year-old daughter) suggested to Aya (wife) giving half of her legs to Papa so that he can walk again (half because it will hurt...child's innocence); when the family was returning to the hospital after not getting to the mountain top that held special memories (it was where Yamaguchi confessed to Aya) and Myu suddenly stopped in her tracks and stared at a man holding her daughter up high. It was so impactful, that scene...; and there's this festival ( i forgot the name, tadama sth, Tanabata [Altair - Star of the Cowherd-meets Vega - Weaver Girl], where they write their wishes down and tie them to a tree). Myu's wish was to give daddy her legs. Yamaguchi wanted to hold his daughter up high. How can I not cry...

Hana yori dango again...

it's so cool! Domyoji said "According to the horoscope we both belong to Saturn". It's true! It was mentioned in season two that his birthday is in January, and in Hana yori Dango Final the news reported Makino's birthday as (i think) 26December1988. (which kind of doesn't make sense cos later she says she is 22) anyway the astrological sign Capricorn (Dec22 - Jan 21) has a Domicile of SATURN!!! goodness! so cool!

花より男子

finished watching hana yori dango 1, 2 and final. it's really nice, better than the chinese version i would say. the final's ending is great! everything is resolved..everyone came back for the wedding (at ebitsu garden place!) can't help smiling...
watched many videos of jun and mao on youtube... they really make a nice couple =)

how can a person be so damn annoying? and irritating and gross and makes your blood absolutely boil and makes you want to strangle the person and rattle the neck?
why do i have to face that person everyday?
hate to have any connection with her. hate to use her things, hate to play her game. that's why last week i'd rather use my old bag than to use hers cos we all know how it will end up when things turn ugly.
she will dig out all the dirt under the carpet, anything she can think of. this belongs to me, return it to me, she demands. even if that item has been not in use for centuries. she won't be needing it. doing this just to spite me. i hate myself for having to creep timidly around her.
i have dignity. i have my pride. sometimes i can't stand it and i choose to walk away. she won't have it that way. she'll scream and if i ignore her she'll bug me.
it's ok for her to turn the volume super loud, like she's doing now, but not so for other people.
what she likes is the best, what i like is shit.
talk about self-centredness.
why do i have to give in to her?
wish one day i can give her one tight slap.
who the hell does she think she is, anyway?

Galileo がりリオ

very nice show..only 10 episodes though; sad that it's over... fukuyama masaharu is so charming as the physics genius Yukawa Manabu who helps Utsumi Kaoru investigate cases that are seemingly paranormal... he is super logical and says a lot of funny things ("What the hell, I should have watched more anime"). The cases are really interesting..the poltergeist one and the hanging woman one were kinda sad (hmm actually all of them are quite sad. the man who killed himself for insurance money for his family, the boy who made up the tale about visions to go on TV shows because his father was poor, the brilliant scientist who disappointed Yukawa by his obsession with weapon tech, the woman who thought she saw her sister's ghost because she wanted to believe that, a woman who killed her lover because she wanted to keep her daughter..whoa that's like every episode!), but my favourite was the first (hmm and maybe the last case too)one. I liked the twist. Initially I felt sad that the kind Kanamori who volunteered to record stories for the blind made the mistake of comitting murder, but it was then revealed (SPOILER) that it was a planned murder that only succeeded on the 43rd attempt. How chilling...

the soundtrack is AWESOME too!!! very rich and mysterious and grand... esp love track number 7! dunno how to upload it onto this page though...

HOUSE OF SHADOWS

Ned and Kit Light were packing when they received a telegram asking their parents (Mr Thomas and Mrs Connie Light) to go to Mythika, concerning a lost ancestor and a surprise inheritance. So Ned and Kit moved into the new house alone. The house, Hallows Grange, was damp and chilly, full of fleeting shadows. They received a strange message asking for help and were transported back in time, unfolding a tragic story:

Long ago the house and all the land nearby were owned by the Golightly family. They were fair and respected landowners and the house was famous for its parties and hospitality. However, Ebenezer Hubble sent a phony guide with Lord Thomas Golightly on his botanical exploration trip, arranging for him to be “lost”. He then forged the will of Lord Golightly, leaving himself in charge of the estate until the Lord’s son, Edward reached 21 years of age. Ebenezer then tricked Edward into taking money which he thought his father had left him and accused Edward of stealing. Ebenezer was a judge and he sentenced Edward to seven years of transportation to the colonies. He sailed on The Medusa, which sank off the coast of Mythika in heavy seas. Lady Constanza Golightly died from influenza soon after that.

Quoting Ebenezer’s diary:
September 1st 1791
Through my trickery, Edward is safely out of the way now, never to return to reclaim his inheritance. Hallows Grange is mine and yet… at night when all is quiet I miss them—all of them, especially Thomas. He was my cousin and childhood friend—better than me at everything, always liked, master of Hallows Grange and my benefactor… But when the shadows gather, I am afraid—my guilt weighs heavily. Is it guilt which stops me destroying the real will?

Ebenezer tried to get Catherine (Thomas’s daughter) to marry his son Gervase. She refused and tried to escape. With the help of Ned and Kit, she managed to escape, leaving Gervase to think that she had drowned.
On Ebenezer’s death bed, Kit and Ned ensured that the lawyer read aloud the diary of Ebenezer. Amos Goodfellow, Thomas’s good friend, found the authentic will. Catherine returned as Lady Golightly-Smarte, together with her husband Henry.

It turned out that Edward did survive, although he had lost his memory. He was eventually nursed back to health.

dragons of the dry

Quoting okto ad on "Life in Cold Blood":
It takes up to 2 months for him to court her.
But once these Shingleback lizards become mates,
they remain faithful to each other for over 20 years.
In fact, their bond endures even after death.

不良笑花

凌晨看完了《不良笑花》。每次看完一部戏，心里总是很不舍。
很喜欢这部戏，虽然朋友们都比较迷搞噱头的《篮球火》和《命中注定我爱你》。

好笑，真的很好笑，让我笑得好开心。最后一两集，却也能让我的眼泪不停地往下掉。

我想更重要的是，戏里的演员及角色都是我喜欢的。而且中间虽然加了一段“原来X是X的女儿”的戏，但是结局却不是我以为的母女相认。因为怕伤害了小花，所以宁可让她继续相信母亲是一个温柔并且很爱她的女人，相信母亲在天堂守护着她，也要强忍住事实。蒋大树和阿妈对小花的爱非常伟大，阿妈在贾家有感而发的那场戏演得好棒！结果雅安并没有和小花相认，而是以干妈的身份，让小花叫她一声“妈”。我想这大概是最好的结局吧。。。台词也写得非常好。除了那些经典的“毒门唐语”，让我印象深刻的是小花在唐门要她和他一起去德国时说的那一番话：“你不愿意放弃你的梦想，却要我放弃我的梦想。有很多女性等着你为她们改造，但我饰品店的顾客也等我把她们变漂亮。”true, 我从来没想过这个问题。真的要为了爱放弃一切远走他乡吗？那家人怎么办？最后小花追到机场，虽然追上了，也和唐门有了teary farewell plus “安静的力量”， 我很惊讶唐门还是上了飞机。演戏嘛，这个时候男女主角不应该来个大大的拥抱然后开开心心地回家吗？两年后，jojo要贾思乐履行诺言，把唐门找回来。他们重逢的方式都好妙，又是上同一辆德士。

这部戏的人并没有真的很坏。。除了吉诺和那个姓秦的男演员吧，不过他们都是小咔。。



蒋小花-- 一开始非常受不了她的发音和外形，后来就习惯了。善良乐观，对于所有事都以真心对待。虽然我本来很希望她能跟贾思乐在一起，但也可以明白她为什么会爱上唐门。



唐门--毒舌时尚达人，有一双“神奇魔力手”。他很冷漠，说话也很刻薄，但逐渐被小花溶化，展现温柔的一面。觉得潘玮柏好可爱。。他演的是一个冷漠的人，可是却一直NG。。NG片段真的超级喷饭的好笑！！！他和妈妈的那场哭戏，送上亲自设计的婚纱作为小花的结婚礼物并说出残忍的话（虽然这种戏偶像剧常有，但是wilbur and rainie 演却不觉得牵强）还有在机场的那一幕，潘玮柏的演出都让我感动。


贾思乐-- aka贾肥，小花的小学同学。小时候肥得整天被人欺负，只有小花愿意和他做朋友，也只有他不会取消小花的自然卷，因而决定长大后要娶小花。去了日本在好友唐门的帮助下成功减肥变身帅哥，可当年贾肥的阴影依然存在。对于小花“垃圾车有几个灯？答案是九个灯，因为(counting the fingers) 灯灯灯灯灯灯灯灯灯”的笑话不管说了多少次还是笑得很开心，直到小花都觉得他好捧场。他是温柔的，却为了小花与唐门闹翻。中间有段时间我有点不能理解他为何如此执著，小花明明说她爱上唐门了却还约她吃饭，there're also many users on youtube leaving comments saying he's irritating,isn't it clear that xiaohua doesn't love him, etc.. 不过爱情不就是这样吗，难道说放就放吗？他是那么的爱小花，爱得让人为他感到心痛。最后昏迷期间听到小花祈求天神不要让唐门走，终于决定let her go. 第十四集，他们回到小学，小时候一起度过的美好时光历历在目，一起荡过的秋千，一起吃零食坐的板凳，小花讲笑话的platform。。景物依旧，人事已非。小花再次讲垃圾车的笑话，贾思乐也开心的笑。然后是时间让她走了。说对小花的爱只是因为自己没有自信，只有小花不会嫌弃他，要她放手，因为她不会扶他一辈子，要她去追回唐门。。。说最后那句话，心一定很痛吧。一直装出来的坚强，在看着她奔跑离去的背影的那瞬间瓦解。他哭了。


江蜜--贾思乐的未婚妻，只因两家是世交。不明白自己怎么会输给小花，处心积虑的要唐门让小花爱上他。对于她的行为，一开始我不能接受。《换换爱》里充满正义感的江小南怎么变得如此奸诈？但看到她后来明白贾思乐真的不爱自己的痛苦，在贾思乐昏迷时向小花道歉，明白了。。江蜜不是个坏人，老实说她也没有作出什么很坏的事。每个人在面对自己的爱情时都是自私的。当贾思乐昏迷时，她已不再在乎他不爱自己，只希望他能醒过来。看开了，she even sprayed the perfume that jiasile had designed for xiaohua, just wishing he would regain consciousness.


看得出我有多喜欢《不良笑花》吧，花了两个小时打了这么多中文。。。


很喜欢戏的ost.. i'll recommend 同一个遗憾 by wilbur and another guy..
http://www.imeem.com/people/cQpnTOQ/playlist/lhhWxLQK/miss_no_good_non_oficial_ost_music_playlist

《单身看》

adapted from i-weekly

a lifetime of secrets

i'm reading "A LIFETIME OF SECRETS" now.. borrowed it from the school library. It's a really nice book that i strongly recommend. it's made up of many postcards that people have sent in about their secrets. Some made me laugh, others made me want to cry. All in all it tugs at your heartstrings (is there such a phrase?) and makes you think about what life really is...
i'd love to quote all of them but that's impossible, so go read the book yourself!!!

• "I am almost 40. I have average hair, an average body and average looks. As a result, I am invisible. No one ever notice me. Everytime I go shopping, I steal something. (...) I just pick what I want, put it in my pocket and walk on. Because I am invisible, no one sees me or what I take. I live in fear that I will be caught. And that I won't."
• "I eat spicy foods so that it will hurt on the way back up."
• "I write home telling everyone what a great time I'm having... Secretly I've never felt so ALONE in my life."
• "i am afraid to meet people from the internet in person because i photoshop my pics and think they will be disappointed."
• "I am terrified of becoming the Crazy Old Cat Lady. I'm 22 years old, I've never had a real boyfriend, and I have 3 cats. I don't think my fears are unfounded."
• "I haven't believed in God since you told me you were divorcing dad."
• "You tried to find the key to my heart. I was scared, so I left you for someone who I knew would never look for it. I guess it will stay locked up forever."
• I only allow myself to read your letters once a year (9/17). Then, I let myself fantasize how my life would be different if you were still around. Sometimes I find myself hating you because it’s easier than missing you.
• I wanted to be a spy. I try not to tell many people this. I would hate to go to my 25th reunion and have to introduce myself as an accountant and have my former classmates ask, “What happened to you wanting to be a spy?” And I’d have to just smile and nod. And then leave early to go on a dangerous mission to save their lives from a threat they never knew existed.
• I’m eighteen and I’m catching myself living in the past.
• Sometimes I sit alone in the cafeteria… I have conversations with myself on the phone so people don’t think I have no friends.
• Someday, I want to go for a walk, and come home years later, having found myself.
• I still can’t believe you died. So I pretend you are away on a very long vacation having the best time ever.
  
• I wonder if my dad ever thinks “I’m home” when he pulls in the driveway to get me, here at my mom’s.
  
• I save every card, note, letter, picture, drawing, and email my friends send me so that when I am old and alone I will remember how much I was loved.
  
• I didn’t really have a “work emergency”. I just didn’t want to face our old classmates at your wedding.
  
• I wish I could interview your ex-wife and find out why she left. And see if they are the same reasons why I have considered leaving…
  
• I’m glad he isn’t alive to see me as a lesbian. I’m not ashamed… but HE would be.
  
• I lost all my friends because I spent too much time at work. Now I spend too much time at work because I lost all my friends.
  
• I’ve given up hope that my shrink will ever find the right dosage or combination of meds.
  
• My hairdresser of 6 years has no idea I’ve been divorced for almost a year. We still talk like I’m happily married!
  
• I aborted the baby you never knew about. Sometimes I want to tell you. But I doubt you would care.
  
• My biggest fear is not death, but of by chance running into the family of the boy whose heart beats inside my body.
  
• On 10/28/1977 I had open heart surgery at 11 months old. When I am depressed and think I want to die, I think of the doctors that worked to save my life. Thank you for the gift of life, so many times over.
  
• I don’t take my medication… Because it makes my illness real
  
• Retirement: The great thing about getting out of bed…you get to go back in.

I've also scanned some of the pictures..but won't post them here..i hate uploading pictures on blogger it's kind of complicated so i'm posting the link here:

A LIFETIME OF SECRETS

go take a look if you're free..they're really meaningful.. no one in my family seems to appreciate them though :(

miss no good

如果爱一个人，却要她为了迎合你的父母而改变自己，那还是爱吗？

可怜的贾思乐。。。

thoughts after exam

yeah..exams are over..

i'm in the library now using computer...

oh man cannot watch 不良笑花 in the library cos it's just so damn super funny i'm trying like mad to stifle my laughter... haha

The Jet Age

Villagers have been lining the road to Sanjiang, awaiting the convoy's arrival, and now they slip and surge down muddy paths in the hope of getting closer to its head. A vehicle door finally swings open and Donatella Versace — of all people — shyly emerges from her sanctum of tinted windows and tobacco smoke. Standing in blonde tresses and heels, she is a fabulously incongruous sight here in the mountains. But the good villagers of Sichuan have no idea who she is. They are here, instead, to see her companion for the day — Li Lianjie, otherwise known as Jet Li. And when he appears before them, a great roar erupts.

Established in April 2007, the One Foundation is Li's contribution toward that balance, and for its sake he has taken time out from films, becoming a full-time relief worker and traveling tirelessly on foundation business... It is difficult to name any other A-list celebrity, not even Bono, who has made such a total commitment. There are plenty who touch down in Africa between albums or movies, but none has actually walked off the job as Li has done, at the top of his game.

At the age of 11, he was part of a troupe sent on a goodwill tour of America and performed in front of U.S. President Richard Nixon, who jokingly asked the young fighter to become his bodyguard. Li's precocious reply — "I don't want to protect an individual; I want to defend my 1 billion Chinese countrymen!" — was regarded as a great propaganda coup by Chinese apparatchiks, whose darling he became... You can see those sorts of sentiments running through Li's film corpus. In Bruce Lee's action movies, the Eurasian outsider fought for no greater cause than himself (the sole exception is 1972's Fist of Fury, in which he battled the cocksure Japanese). Jackie Chan made the action-comedy subgenre his own, reducing martial arts to a form of slapstick. Li, however, has most often played the sober upholder of national pride.

示情

心有所系，魂也有所牵，寂寞染不上我心田。

回忆说著万语千言，未来原是碧海蓝天。

苦涩酸甜都化做缠绵，悠悠盘旋成寓言。

你的呼吸，你的眉眼，裹住我的冰心一片。

我的祝福你会了解，你是我最想还的愿。

月有盈有缺而爱自成圆，终有一天再相见。

我的依恋你该了解，灵犀相同心相连。

千山万水如千丝万线，一张相思网，织得好密延。

《神雕侠侣》song by fann wong

思念

想要写封信给你，点点滴滴，
沿著回忆，凭著感觉执笔。
总是闭上了眼睛，思念却漫溢，
不著边际的想你。

恨不能，一辈子贴在你怀里，
穿梭时空也如一。
你亲吻了我，绵绵的呼吸，
连空气都充满欢喜。

好想为你唱首歌，熟悉的旋律，
将思念慢慢累积。

the sub-theme song of 福满人间 by 陈毓芸

至少走得比你早

你沒有想過　我會說分手
也許太習慣　我在你左右
雖然離開你有很多理由
可看見你這樣驚訝　也足夠

＊我想得　比你多　
陪你一起更寂寞
我性格　比你強　
怎樣做你的綿羊
我年紀　比你小　
不信快樂找不到
抬起頭　開了口

＃最後我比你驕傲　從此不坐你的牢
想不到你的好　記得和你的爭吵
想到老可到老　可是和你做不到
如果你愛得比我少　至少我走得比你早

你沒有想過　我會說分手
除非以為我　甚麼都忍受
就算你這時候　努力挽留
不過是你不能接受　我先走

重唱　＊
最後我比你驕傲　從此不坐你的牢
想不到你的好　記得和你的爭吵
想到老可到老　可是和你做不到
如果你愛得比我少　幸好我走得還早

轟轟烈烈地開口 重唱　＃

A Lover's Concerto

How gentle is the rain
That falls softly on the meadow
Birds high up on the trees
Serenade the clouds with their melodies

Oh, oh!How gentle is the rain
That falls softly on the meadow
Birds high up on the trees
Serenade the clouds with their melody

Oh, oh! See there beyond the hill
The bright colors of the rainbow
Some magic from above
Made this day for us, just to fall in love

You'll hold me in your arms
And say once again you'll love me
And that your love is true
Everything will be just as wonderful

Now, I belong to you
From this day until forever
Just love me tenderly
And I'll give to you every part of me

Oh,oh! Don't ever make me cry
Through long lonely nights without love
Be always true to me
Keep this day in your heart eternally

You hold me in your arms
And say once again you love me
And that your love is true
Everything will be just as wonderful

Living in a world with less credit

Leverage was the mother's milk of Wall Street — and of Main Street — for the
past 20 years. Leverage meant debt, specifically the number of dollars you could
borrow for every dollar of wealth you had. It meant borrowing other people's
money to invest in something you wanted to invest in, or to buy something you
wanted to buy. On Wall Street, debt funded investments in pretty much everything
a financial firm could bet on, including the toxic mortgage-backed securities
that led the way into this crisis. On Main Street, it meant borrowing to buy a
house or a condo — maybe two — then perhaps borrowing again off the increasing
value of that property to pay for something else: a flat-screen TV, a new set of
golf clubs, your daughter's braces.

The debt binge was fueled by easy money and the belief that prices of assets —
those of houses in particular — never went down; only interest rates did. That
era is over. It will be replaced by what will be one of the more painful, and
consequential, economic chapters in our history: the great deleveraging of
America. On Wall Street, the largest financial institutions on the planet are
reducing their debt and trying to build up capital, which once upon a time was
the seed corn of their business, and now must be again. Retail banks like
Wachovia and investment banks like Morgan Stanley have been so burned by their
own reckless use of debt that only recently — and after unprecedented government
intervention — have they been willing to once again make the most basic
short-term loans to one another. The gradual thawing of the overnight-lending
market, which seemed to begin on Monday, Oct. 20, was the first sign that Wall
Street's credit markets were, however haltingly, regaining some sense of
equilibrium after the previous, harrowing month.

from TIME: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1853129,00.html

dun really understand what all this means, but it sounds pretty scary. i'm taking econs now, find it quite interesting and hopefully it will help me make sense of what is happening now.

Every man is a moon, with a dark side he doesn't show anybody.
~Mark Twain

hard times ahead

Rough Seas

The sculpture of a sinking boat which sits in London's Thames river in front of the city's business center, seemed an apt metaphor for state of the global financial market on Tuesday.

taken from http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1845923_1774401,00.html

Busy busy

Think I must have had another entry with the same title somewhere… but it's really busy. Lab report every week, test, so much reading to do after lessons, esp analytical chem. The lecture is totally unenlightening. I always walk out wanting to throw up. Argh. Econs is quite interesting, I must say, but without any background and with the pace I can't follow.

I'm worried about next semester. Inorganic plus organic, PLUS physical chemistry which I'm really poor at.

Not to mention the all-too-horrible Singapore studies. Bleh.

luck

The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

~Chris Wilton, "Match Point"

touching song 《很爱很爱你》

《很爱很爱你》
想为你做件事让你更快乐的事
好在你的心中埋下我的名字
求时间趁著你不注意的时候
悄悄地把这种子酿成果实

我想她的确是更适合你的女子
我太不够温柔优雅成熟懂事
如果我退回到好朋友的位置
你也就不再需要为难成这样子

很爱很爱你所以愿意舍得让你
往更多幸福的地方飞去
很爱很爱你只有让你拥有爱情
我才安心(music)

看著她走向你那幅画面多美丽
如果我会哭泣也是因为欢喜
地球上两个人能相遇不容易
做不成你的情人我仍感激

很爱很爱你所以愿意不牵绊你
飞向幸福的地方去
很爱很爱你只有让你拥有爱情
我才安心

很爱很爱你所以愿意不牵绊你
飞向幸福的地方去
很爱很爱你只有让你拥有爱情
我才安心

之前听小S说唱这首歌时会不自觉流泪，后来自己唱唱果然如此。好感人。。。
很喜欢刘若英的歌词，非常有意思。说着伟大的爱情，即使你爱的人爱的不是你，也会为他感到高兴。这应该是爱的最高境界吧。。。

oldies

葉璦菱 - 愛我別走
作詞：王建青 / 作曲：王建青 / 編曲：陳志遠
男：哦　為何不回頭　用你那溫柔的眼眸
女：哦　為何不開口　對我說你並不想走
合：哦　為何不停留　再一次緊緊擁抱我　愛我別走愛我別走
午夜的愛難分難捨　午夜的情是那麼火熱
午夜的酒不要太多　午夜的人愛我別走

男：哦　為何不回頭　用你那溫柔的眼眸
女：哦　為何不開口　對我說你並不想走
合：哦　為何不停留　再一次緊緊擁抱我　愛我別走愛我別走
午夜的愛難分難捨　午夜的情是那麼火熱
午夜的酒不要太多　午夜的人愛我別走

在雨中 by 刘家昌 尤雅
(女)在雨中 我送过你
(男)在夜里 我吻过奶
(女)在春天 我拥有你
(男)在冬季 我离开奶
(女)有相聚 也有分离
(男)人生本是一段戏
(女)有欢笑 也有哭泣
(合)不知谁能 谁能躲得过去
(合)你说人生艳丽我没有异议
你说人生忧郁我不言语
只有默默的承受这一切
承受数不尽的春来冬去
你说人生艳丽我没有异议
你说人生忧郁我不言语
只有默默的承受这一切
承受数不尽的春来冬去

《当我想你的时候》演唱：千百惠
当我想你的时候 我的心在颤抖
当我想你的时候 泪水也悄悄的滑落
当我想你的时候 才知道寂寞是什么
当我想你的时候 谁听我诉说

我也曾醉过 也为你哭过
爱情如此地折磨 究竟是为什么
漫漫的长夜 我串起你的承诺
你要我如何接受 就这样离开我

eddie peng

ok..i'm not supposed to be playing, not when i haven't touched my cm2142 textat all, but i can't help it.
anyway i've just watched SHE 沿海公路的出口mv, and i must say, 彭于晏 is super duper hot!!! really, i've watched 仙剑奇侠传 and 少年杨家将, but never really noticed. youtubing him now...hahaha

"Keep On"

Keep On by Ai Maeda, ending theme 2 of season 1 of Digimon

busy week

SUPER DUPER BUSY!!! GRR why do i have to be so busy so near my birthday (n mid-autumn festival)??? 2 analytical chem lab report to do this weekend, 1 spectro report to hand in on thur, analytical AND spectro test on THURSDAY!!! oh my gosh! why do they have to squeeze everything together???
So screwed. And i feel so sick now..think i'm coming down with fever...cryyyy

《勇者无惧》

Found this old fave show called 《勇者无惧》online:
http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_2058731.html
It's very nice.. and terrence cao and fann wong looked so great back then!and tcs likes to go nus central library to film..haha
《掌声》by 文章 (http://www.1ting.com/player/1f/player_195155.html)
给我一点掌声，让我的心沸腾，要比昨天更认真，
不浪费青春，阳光还在我的面前等，我的心不变冷，喔~

好多希望，涌在心头，不再那么没把握，
所有想实现的梦，一步步接近我。
原谅从前，犯过的错，抬头就看见彩虹，
阴雨之后的天空，更容易让人感动。

我不等候，不停留，一犹豫就怕错过。
梦在呼唤，在招手，没什么值得难过，喔~

给我一点掌声，陪我迎向人生，每个见过我的人，都为我兴奋，
不再有太冷淡的眼神，对世界没有恨，喔~

canteen

i usually go for early lunch (really early, like 9.45am) after cm2142 lecture on monday. cos the canteen's not crowded,k=just the way i like it. and i usually eat alone. cos i'm sort of taking the module alone.
And I dun really mind eating alone. Really. Cos I feel kind of pressurised when I have company. Like I'll worry about whether I'm eating too slowly, or too ugly-ly. So it's okay to eat alone, isn't it?
Sigh. Being the unlucky person that I always am, I always end up walking into the path of people I don't want to meet, don'twant to see, don't want to even think about. And there're lots of this kind of people, it's hard to dodge them. Anyway, I was eating me claypot yee-mee quite happily when I saw person z joining his friends at the table next to me. (JUST LIKE that disgusting occasion a few weeks ago when I heard this voice of someone I don't like behind me and decided to keep my head right ahead and NEVER look back even though I'm dying to see if I'm right,and then that stupid person had to join his friend at the table right next to me. I mean, can you believe it? The canteen wasn't even THAT crowded!!!)
Yah, so anyway I tried to finish my food asap to get away, but being the slow eater that I am, of course I didn't succeed. :P So this person got up to get his food and saw me. And exclaimed in surprise, "hi! why are you alone?"
Yah, really friendly. The guy sure knows how to make people feel good. I mean, how is anyone suppose to answer to that question? So as always, when I dunno how to answer him, I gave him a stupid grin.
And I gave up on shelling that two stupid prawns and ran away before he returned.

That's my life. Running and hiding... sucks

ever since school started...

I haven't been writing... no, lijuan, i'm not watching too much tv, i must be suffering from some holiday lag or whatever you call it, cos i'm super tired everyday i could keep my eyes open during lecture. On tuesday i did something incredible. I slept in class. For the first time in my life. Yah, you may find it surprising. I usually stone, but I find it hard to sleep anywhere other than my bed and on a bus.
Which is why I'm writing this entry now, why I'm not meeting my jc friends at changi to send xiaowei off later. I'm just so drained, I can't imagine how I'm going to make it through Friday(today?), I still have cca till 8 plus. Sigh. Feel very bad, but no point forcing anything, right?
I met her for dinner just now. She had said she was busy packing, but I really feel the need to meet her before she flies off. Like to say something. So we had dinner, walked around IMM a bit, then walked to the bus interchange. It was REALLY sad, parting with her at night and walking away alone. Felt kinda lost. On the train I messaged her and she replied with comforting words that almost made me cry on the train. (!) Well, good for her, at least she's not as emotionally feeble and prone to tears as I am.
It's hard to say goodbye.

《后来》

后来 - 刘若英

后来我总算学会了如何去爱 可惜你早已远去消失在人海
后来终于在眼泪中明白 有些人一旦错过就不再
槴子花白花瓣 落在我蓝色百褶裙上
「爱你」你轻声说 我低下头闻见一阵芬芳
那个永恒的夜晚十七岁仲夏你吻我的那个夜晚
让我往后的时光每当有感叹总想起当天的星光
那时候的爱情为什么就能那样简单
而又是为什么人年少时一定要让深爱的人受伤
在这相似的深夜里你是否一样也在静静追悔感伤
如果当时我们能不那么倔强现在也不那么遗憾

你都如何回忆我 带着笑或是很沉默
这些年来有没有人能让你不寂寞

后来我总算学会了如何去爱 可惜你早已远去消失在人海
后来终于在眼泪中明白 有些人一旦错过就不再

永远不会再重来有一个男孩爱着那个女孩

Busy busy...

Argh!!! Where had 3 months of holiday gone to?!?! Counting down to school open and so many things remain undone.

1. I'd planned to watch Gokusen 1 through 3, but I've only finished the first season.
2. Watched the first episode of KO One last night but don't think I'll continue watching.
3. Started reading Harry Potter from the first book. I'm at the fifth book now, but don't think I'll have time to reach the seventh. Wondered how I had managed to read so fast in the past.
4. Think I'll be taking "Principles of econs" this sem. And everyone keeps saying how difficult it is to score, how you will miss your A by making more than ONE mistake. Aiyo so stressing...and school hasn't even STARTED yet!!! omg...

I HATE BIDDING!!! (have I mentioned this before?)

I've been attending my cca's booth at the Matriculation Fair these few days. Very tiring. It was all I could do to keep myself from stoning. Really. You know I'm not good at this kind of sell-your-cca-to-freshies stuff. Like imagine me being all cheerful and hyped up and pouncing on freshies and with a wide smile on my face begin rambling on and on... *roll my eyes* It was quite hard to get through the day. And I could do with better company too. No girls. Nothing much to talk about with the rest of them. Different interests, you see. They don't really talk about trivia, and that's all I talk about. Sigh.

i think this picture is really cool but i can't get it to be part of the template so i'm putting it here:

outing to west mall

just got back from an outing with the old 2B gang plus alice n zhiyu. haven't seen them in quite a long time (except alice, the last time I'd seen her was exam, which was 2 months ago, but sigh she is going to do applied chem and leaving me all alone..boohoo..). i always seem to be absent from outings. sigh. in fact today I ALMOST didn't go cos I suddenly had my period, but I feel very bad cos I've been absent quite a few times already and it'd be really insincere of me not to go. So I went. I was late, but as usual most of them were even later. I dunno what time I should arrive at in order not to wait. Hmm...

We had dinner at this mayin (I think) place, which is quite expensive and the food is not nice. Or maybe it's just me.. I don't seem to find anything delicious..aiyo..and as usual after the latecomers arrived and ordered and finished eating I'm still not done with my ramen. Oh man, how slow can I be...

After that we went to the food court, some space between the MRT station and west mall and finally to coffee bean where we chatted. 我想我们真的长大了，连谈话的内容都变得比较成熟了。like they discuss relationship experiences and stuff, and I feel so noob. Sigh. and 原来谈恋爱不是那么简单，也不止是爱而已这么单纯。还有 lust。*shudders* listening to them talk about being in love, how courting is always the sweetest and after that everything is bland, how guys toss you aside after they get you, how they like to get all touchy-feely without any spiritual connection, how broken you can be when it ends... it's pretty disheartening. BUT I believe not all guys are like that. I'm just not sure if I'll meet the minority good ones, if I'll ever meet any.

Listening to ms talk about her experience, I'm really sorry I wasn't there for her during that trying period. I don't think I'm a good friend. I don't reach out enough.

ok enough 感叹ing. i had a great time discussing baking with ms today! =)

finished watching gokusen some days ago and couldn't get to watching the SP... maybe I'll watch it later.

having an outing with xiaowei and baobao tomorrow. sigh xw wanted to walk the southern ridge trail, but..remember my previous resolution? really don't want to go through that misery again. plus i haven't completely recovered yet. sigh. wish i'll get well soon and then i can go bake my favourite egg tarts!!! =)

grr feeling hungry now.. must NOT eat. must lose some weight!!!

Must snap out of my gloom over the last episode of Zettai Kareshi. I've decided to start a new drama... Previously I'd considered Gokusen, but it seems like just a replica of GTO. But then the Nighto guy is in Gokusen 2 (and so is Kame), and Oguri Shun is in Goku1, so Gokusen it is!

I'd baked a batch of oat cookies with chocolate chips last night because i was hungry... sigh failed again. Not crunchy. Sigh. Very disheartening eh... Keep failing, like only the first time was a success. Aiyo... and today I'm sick le so cannot eat my 精心杰作...

oh gosh. my eyes are totally swollen after watching the last episode. couldn't help but cry thoughout the entire episode. it's just sooo sad. It's heartbreaking watching him pretend that everything is alright and doing everything he can to make Riiko happy even as his main IC power is depleting. And to admit that Soshi loves Riiko as much as he does, to ask him to be there for Riiko when she cries...Night really loves her. He tried so hard to be human, to make Riiko happy, and the final message he left for her was super touching. And it ends with an image of Riiko smiling. Aww.. he's really a zettai kareshi!

I’m now waiting for Riiko to go on our date. Riiko’s
late as usual. But Riiko is probably late so that she can look good for me.
Riiko, I promised to always be by your side. I’m really sorry. I love you Riiko,
in all your forms. Riiko, sleeping with her mouth wide open. Riiko mad, Riiko
laughing. Riiko making cookies, Riiko trying her best. I love them all. Riiko,
be confident and move on. Go to Paris with Soushi-san. If it’s you, you’ll make
it. Don’t cry. Laugh, Riiko. Your smile will surely make others happy. Riiko,
I’ll be watching over you from above. I’ll be wishing for your
happiness.

zettai kareshi ep11 up on cr!

oh my gosh, i just went to crunchyroll and checked, and EPISODE 11 OF ZETTAI KARESHI IS UP LE!!! OMG... argh last episode le... watched a youtube video yesterday which contains some scenes from the last episode, think it's going to be a similar ending to the manga. Sobs...
Going to watch it now. Nighto!!!

my personality--according to bbc

it's accurate :P

to take the quiz, go here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/whatamilike/index.shtml

Pure 19 OST

zettai kareshi clip

argh so sad... can't wait for the last episode to be uploaded... poor Night

from "Exploring the Unexplained"

Stonehenge, like today's most modern telescopes, is our distant ancestors' attempt to see through the veil of the sky--and understand the heavens above.

Nature abhors a vacuum: where facts are few, fables flourish.

No human dream is more universal than the longing for a paradise on earth, a place free of the ravages of time and disease, where the best in nature flourishes while the worst is forbidden to enter. By definition, such magical lands can't be near at hand; they must be remote and inaccessible, destinations to be reached by pilgrimage or a heroic journey. Ancient Tibetan Buddhist texts spoke of just such a kingdom, where wise kings blessed with long life spans await the day when they will take over the world, ushering in a golden age of peace and justice. This mythical kingdom was called Shambala...The myth was essentially hijacked by British novelist Jamed Hilton, whose 1033 best seller Lost Horizon gave Shambala a new name: Shangri-la...In 2002 the [Chinese] government tried to cash in in the ancient mythical land of Tibetan lamas by renaming the western town of Zhongdian as Shangri-la. Even so, the words Hilton wrote in 1933 are truer than ever today: "You won't find Shangri-la marked on any map."

Amid the fray, locals remain calm. In 1961, when French scholars told Himalayan village elder Khunjo Chumbi they believed the yeti was a hoax, he replied, "In Nepal we have neither giraffes nor kangaroos, so we know nothing about them. In France, there are no yetis, so I sympathize with your ignorance."

Perhaps the last word belongs to G.K. Chesterton, the British intellectual of the early 20th century, who wrote, "Many a man has been hanged on less evidence than there is for the Loch Ness Monster."

A stufy of astrology takes us through a whirlwond tour through human culture: Mesopotamian star-gazers gave us the zodiac (and the three Magi, astrologer-priests who witnessed Christ's birth); Egyptians created the idea of the horoscope; the Greeks gave us the constellations, the organizing units of European astrology, and their fanciful, evocative names.

The Bermuda Triangle is one of a handful of places in the world where compasses point to true, rather than magnetic north--an anomaly that could lead to deadly confusion for ships and planes.

Looking for aliens? Take a drive across sunny Nevada along the Extraterrestial Highway...you'll be close to a vast, secret U.S. Air Force installation that takes up some 8000 sq. mi. This outpost in the desert is often referred to as Area 51,though the base is so secret it has no official name.

The psychic bond that twins seem to share has been documented extensively and is understood almost not at all. Sonograms often show twins seeming to hold hands or cling together in the womb. Mothers often report that infant twins sleeping in separate rooms will lie in the same positions, roll over at the same time and be disturbed by nightmares simultaneously. Twins in schools are sometimes accused by teachers of cheating on exams because of their tendency to get the same scores, with the same questions wrong due to the same incorrect answers...The most puzzling and hotly disputed aspect of the twin connection is the phenomenon of "sympathetic pain", in which one twin claims to feel the discomfort of another, even when they are separated by great distances.

Nostradamus focused on life's eternals: kings, popes, wars and disasters. Thus his work never ages: it is a blank slate onto which a willing reader can project anything he wishes to see.

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Behold Mount Ararat, whose summit, often draped in clouds, is believed by many to be the resting place of antiquity's most famous vessel, Noah's Ark. The tale of a great universal flood, sent by an angry God to punish a wicked world, is famously told in Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament, chapters 6 through 9.

...destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman army in A.D.70. This physical center of the Jewish universe was erected on the site of the First Temple, built by King Solomon on the spot where Abraham was said to have offered his son Isaac in sacrifice, only to have his hand slayed by an angel. The temple, which held the Ark of the Covenant and the Ten Commandments, was destroyed when the Jews were exiled into Babylonian Captivity. After the Romans pillaged the Second Temple, all that remained of Judaism's holiest site was one flank, facing to the west, of the retaining wall…this fragment of the temple’s foundation, now called the Western Wall, is more than 100 ft. high and 16 ft. thick.
Islam teaches that Muhammad was borne by a winged horse from Mecca to Jerusalem in a single night during the year 620; he tethered the steed to this wall and then ascended into the clouds with the angel Gabriel, who conducted the Prophet on a tour of both heaven and hell. This makes al-Buraq (and the Islamic shrine that sits above it, the Dome of the Rock) one of the holiest places in the Muslim world. Sadly, Middle East strife has made this site, central to two of the world’s great religions, perhaps the single most contested patch of ground on the planet.

Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once wrote that faith doesn't come from miracles—miracles come from faith.

The same survey, which indicated that more than 8 million Americans have undergone a near death experience, found that many describe the state as "ecstatic", and some find the experience so transfixing that they are unhappy about returning to life. "Why did you bring me back, Doctor?" said one patient. " It was so beautiful!"
...And of course, NDEs may represent a transition stage between life and death, not one's final destination. Still, while skeptics and believers argue over proof, a poet might view beautiful visions at the end of life as nature's final gift—the spirit soaring while the body is falling.

hiragana

i'm playing with microsoft word now, trying to type in japanese. it's really quite fun..hahaha...i'm typing the lyrics of white love, and though i dun really understand what i'm doing the sense of achievement is great!

and zettai kareshi is really great! am still watching. i feel so sorry for night. so typical of human. to satisfy their own needs, to fulfil their own dreams, they create this humanoid robot that is designed to be your ideal lover. this girl riko bought night and then treated him rudely without considering his feelings, and when he says something nice and sweet she'll dismiss it as a result of the programming. some people just don't know how to appreciate what they have. and as night becomes more human it's starting to destroy his system. i don't know what is going to happen to him, but i hope the live action will have a different ending from the manga, cos in the manga he died in the end. Sobsssss... hope it's not another sad story like A.I.

Going to watch Zettai Kareshi (xiaowei's recommendation).

Finished dragon zakura yesterday. The ending is nice, but not too sweet and expected. Not like ch 8 dramas...

And xiaowei is BACK!!! whoohoo ^_^

Tuesdays with Morrie

I've just finished reading "Tuesdays with Morrie". Got me all teary, even though it does not 蓄意煽情. It's sincere and touching. It totally puts life in a new perspective. Will definitely recommend this book to anyone who hasn't read it yet (don't think there are many, though).

"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

watching dragon zakura now. finally found another drama with yamapi that i can find online. i'm not good at searching for sites with good stuff. videos on crunchyroll are always removed at the request at the request of blah blah blah. sigh.

that girl Naomi (Masami Nagasawa) is the Rei in Proposal Daisakusen.. So cute she and yamapi got to work together again... just like Maki Horikita, whom i prefer...yamaki ^_^

my favourite is still yamapi as akira =)

Adidas Stars

They're just so darn good-looking... heheez

Southern Ridge Trail

I slept at ten and woke at ten, so see how exhausted I has been yesterday?

Yesterday Li Juan, Ming Shu and I finally got to go on the Southern Ridge trail after the previous week's attempt was foiled by a heavy rain that lasted all day (we had fallen back on plan B which was to go K --heex). The climb up the entrance to Kent Ridge park was really daunting. Very steep. And we had to cut across half the park to finally arrive at the Canopy Walk. We had planned to meet at Juring East Interchange at 8.30 so as to avoid the sun, but by the time we finished the Canopy Walk it was almost 10am. The sun was super hot. I didn't care if I would look like an auntie or tourist or whatever, this occasion calls for an umbrella. (sigh despite the umbrella I'd still managed ti get tanned. My arms, and my neck, there's a V-shaped tanline!)

After the walk we had to go a long way down to the Horticulture Park, nothing special there. Just a few glasshouses with flowers inside and other exhibits. It was a pity I was in no mood to examine them closely because of the hot weather; I just wanted to get out of that place ASAP.

Next we made our way to the Alexander Arch. It's a sort of metal bridge with holes in the ground, so when I looked down I saw trees dunno how many metres below me and it's so damn freaking scary.

Then we got to the Henderson waves, after walking quite a stretch of road. Actually it's just a wooden bridge with shelters that are shaped like waves. Quite dumb. That part of the journey was spent in complete sunlight with no shade from trees. Bleh.

I'd thought that Henderson Waves was the last station, but I'd forgotten about the Marang Trail. Sigh. Walk and walk, complain and complain, no toilets, no resting stops, until we arrived at the Jewel Box. We sat down and rested a bit. Ming Shu went off to take pictures of the cable cars, while I was busy sticking plasters on my poor toes which were hurting. Now at this point we were (well I was) tired, I was really sweaty and I had RAN OUT OF WATER!!! Argh! It was really tempting to just board a bus that would take us straight to Harbour Front terminal, but with Li Juan's motivation we once again set off. I kept complaining, kept asking "are we there yet?", and at long long last I heard the familiar sound of MRT train. WHOOPIE!!! WE DID IT! ALL NINE KILOMETRES OF IT, NO SHORTCUTS TAKEN! It was a proud achievement, but also, like I've told Ming Shu, one that needs to be donw only once in a lifetime. Really, once is enough. I can't imagine walking through the entire trail again. Maybe I'll return, but only to visit part of it.

You know what's disgusting? The website estimates 1 hour 30minutes for the entire trail and that's really misleading, in my opinion. We took about 4 hours. And honestly all the trees look pretty similar to me...nothing much to see, except for the sea.

Oh yah I'd bought an oven and baked my first batch of cookies. And those who have tried them said they were nice! =) so happy... Didn't know oats cookies with walnuts can taste so good.

P.S. Ghost Whisperer is returning 27 June!!!

与现在牵着手的人相遇的几率，如同奇迹一般，就算走到了光明的地方也请不要放开彼此的手。

~ Nobuta O. Produce

My Sassy Girl

I've just finished watching "My Sassy Girl". It's nice, funny and touching, and the ending is great!

Fate is building a bridge of chance for someone you love.

Just finished "Double Score". It's really nice. Oshio Manabu looks really cute in that show! Tachibana and Kawamura make a really good pair! Sad that Kawamura returned to the HQ in the end though...

What colour heart do you have

Your Heart Is Pink

In relationships, you like to play innocent - even though you aren't. Each time you fall in love, it's like falling for the first time. Your flirting style: Coy Your lucky first date: Picnic in the park Your dream lover: Is both caring and dominant What you bring to relationships: Romance

What Color Heart Do You Have?

At Home Dad

Just finished watching at home dad. It's a nice and heartwarming show.

And i got my results yesterday..did quite badly this time round. was quite depressed last night..need to do things to get this off my mind.

I finally found "Double Score" on crunchyroll!!!! YES! stupid channel 8 won't run it again...

At Home Dad

I'm watching "At Home Dad" now..Funny right, I found out about this show while doing research for my japanese studies paper, cos i was writing on gender inequality in japan.

Anyway, it's pretty nice, and the children are very cute! Esp episode 6, when they staged the Cinderella play =)

bad day

Had a really really bad day today. Sucky sucky day. Let's just say it was an emotional rollercoaster and I'd hoped really hard that I'd just drop and die. Argh.

After releasing some pent-up frustrations I went to sleep. I'd locked my door, but I really needed the bathroom, so I woke up. When I returned to my room I found a most delightful night-sky outside the window. Actually what caught my eye was this really bright object that was twinkling just above the condo. Pretty low altitude, in the approx southeast direction. Dunno what it is. It was twinkling and it was sort of red, but it was WAY too bright to be a star. I went to switch on my laptop and it was gone! Bleh... maybe it's a UFO?!?! Scary...

Anyway, I saw alpha centaurus and the crux again. But the sky was pretty clear for sufficient time for me to identify the centaurus constellation with the help of Stellarium. Heez really cheered me up lots...

Whoa working in this light has constricted my pupils.. Can hardly see the dimmer stars now...

Proposal Daisakusen

A man wants to become a woman's first lover, but a woman wants to become a man's last lover.
~Oscar Wilde

Meitantei Conan

Finished GTO last night. Quite nice.. the DVD special wasn't quite as nice, though, and the movie..I decided to give that a miss.

I'm watching Detective Conan Live special now.. starring Oguri Shun! Heez I think i select shows based on the actors more than the plot... :P

GTO

Finished Kurosagi..it's quite nice. But a bit sad though, like there's this big scar in his heart that can never be healed, and he's closed himself to everyone. So sad when he said "I don't need happiness". And the cool look fits Yamapi really well! =)



The Kurosagi movie was released in March and sigh, hasn't been uploaded on youtube yet..



I'm watching Great Teacher Onizuka now. I think Onizuka and Fuyutsuki really make a great pair. And Oguri Shun was so adorable then! ^_^

Yoz I'm back from the AB... Shan't describe it in full detail again..just wrote tons i the letter to xiaowei.. Let's just say I'm glad to be back.

I've been feeling sort of empty after finishing Nobuta wo Produce, so i went to cruchy roll and watched Hanazakari no Kimitachi e. Just finished it. I like it better than the Chinese version. The plot is richer and better developed, I think, and the ending is more explicit, not like the taiwan version. Although my sis keeps saying Wu Zhun is a better Sano, I quite like Shun Oguri in this role.. Heezz...

Must find something to watch soon...

The much-anticipated final day of exam is finally here. But as always, the excitement fizzles out when that day finally arrives.

I've watching 野猪大改造 the whole day..Sads only 10 episodes. It's really very nice. Full of laughter and tears, very motivational (high school friendship etc).. and Yamapi is really cute! ^_^ really hope nobuko and akira can be together budden sigh...

I'll be moving out of my room this Saturday. I'll miss this place. Much as I've complained about the food and insects and stairs, I've grown an attachment to KEVII after staying for a year. Hmm... I've grown use to my very routine life in hall, will revert back to the sleep-late-dun drink water-lazy to shower days at home. :P

SPEED

i'm watching videos of SPEED on youtube now... feel like crying..really miss them much..and videos made me gain a new understanding of them. Watch it and you'll also love them

ONE more paper to go... and I'll be free... ...for the time being, anyway.

Last paper on Thursday: Heavenly Mathematics: Cultural Astronomy.

Say that to anyone and the typical reaction is HUH? *blank look*

Basically it's observational astronomy plus calendar stuff. It's really interesting and useful, as in you can apply in daily life like predicting when's Easter and CNY (haha) but it can be awfully confusing as well. I totally can't visualise the north east south west and angle thing...

Exam finishes on 8th, have to move out of hall by 11th, then 12th i'm going to Pulau Tinggi for AstroBash. Realise that I always forgot to ask my friends if they want to go. Then maybe will be more fun. Should have asked Fiona right, she was from Astro de... Heezzz

Youtube, 2 more days!!!

!!!

this can't go on..

day 3 of reading week and i'm still at square 1.

NO MORE YOU-TUBING!!!

where's your sense of panic?

never going to finish studying at this rate.

and this time round the exams are consecutive everyday..going to die.

ARGH!!!

facebook

After a long long period of absence I returned to Facebook just now to confirm pin xuan's friend request. Yah..kinda weird to hear from him all of a sudden. Must be weird for those pple that I add too...

Anyway I sort of started searching for people in my secondary school and primary school... and it got me really really nostalgic (and I don't feel like doing my cm1131 tutorial now). I searched for 2B pple, candy's changed, 6AA pple, Charissa looks different, more tame now. Then I chanced upon Yung Joon's account.. ! dunno wad to say.. wanted to add him but it feels REALLY weird esp when u haven't seen that person or had any form of contact in, let me see, SEVEN years??? I viewed his list of friend, and felt emotions well up inside me. Lots of familiar names. pearl, malorie, benjamin tan (i can't see v clearly from tt tiny profile picture BUT i THINK it's that super smart guy who's my computer partner in p3 and then got transferred to some GEP school the following year. lmao.), charissa, nigel, albany low, victor, xinyi...etc. Brings back so many fond memories of the past. Really miss those fool-around days.

Oh ya, I'd noticed that guys like to post pictures of them in their NS uniform. :D

是否人成长心态就会变老？越是害怕不可知的未来，就越紧紧地抱着过去。人的关系是不是会随着时间的流逝而变淡？或许在别人的心里，我也只是个 schoolmate X.

Recently I watched this tv-documentary-movie called 'Longitude' during my heavenly mathematics (yah funny course name) lecture. Hard to believe, but it's a really great show. Michael Gambon (the new Dumbledore that I don't like) is the main character John Harrison, inventor of the Harrison clock (which I'd never heard of before I watch this movie). I think his son really looks like Lupin but my friend says he's not. And then one of the Longitude board member looks totally like Hagrid! Haha...

And now I'm starting to watch 《野猪大改造》because some issue of I-weekly featured some japanese actors and actresses and 山下智久 caught my eye. Haha..he's really cute in the show, but a bit weird and girly..he still looks good nonetheless. And the story is quite nice too, it's about the two guys wanting to makeover this new transfer student(小谷信子） who was constantly bullied. and the parts when she was bullied as a child is really sad and makes me cry cos the child actress looks very cute and 可怜 and when she cries you'll just cry with her...haiz. I was planning to watch one episode then wait till exams finish then continue the rest but seems like I can't stop now... Bleh..

And incredibly unbelievable, but I'm STILL STUCK WITH THAT JAP ESSAY!!! dotsssss... hell it's going to be over by this thursay, but then the forum is going to close too and i haven't posted nearly enough postings and it's going to count 10% towards the assessment!!!!! hate it...

GO

Watched the movie "GO" during JS lecture today. the first part, anyway. It'a really nice movie, or as Dr Hislop puts it, a rare "popular movie that is nice". Has a lot of meanings in it.

Juliet:"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."

I almost cried when Jong-Il died, and when Sugihara was crying when he read the book of Shakespeare's works that Jong-Il had lent him previously. The above dialogue had been circled in the book.

Does it matter what nationality we have, what race we're from? Ultimately we are all the same on the finishing line. And we can all traced back to the same ancestor.

Hiroko & Hitoe's birthday

Hiroko Shimabukuro

Hitoe Arakaki

By the way, Mom came and visit me today. Quite bu she de when she left... sigh

and i'm STILL stuck at the stupid jap essay!!!!!

离别是伤感的

Dad came to visit me in my hall today and just left. So sad to part at night. Walked him to the dining hall there, hopefully he can find his way to the bus stop.

Was planning to complete the js essay today, 看来是不行了。sigh, heck. Had some quality family time mah..

A lot of things happening in the family. What a mess. 真的让你看清人性的丑陋。亲情可贵？未必。有人处心积虑地想骗你，然而也要有人甘心受骗。明知道是陷阱还一头栽进去，受骗也是必然的，不值得同情。最可怜的是无辜的受害者。

March 31. SPEED Disband 8th Anniversary.

I've been faithfully keeping track of this day for the past 8 years. 但已经越来越没有感觉了。看开了吧，天下无不散之筵席。

最近觉得好辛苦，sometimes i feel too tired to carry on. what's the point in all that we are doing? it all sucks. we never know what will happen tomorrow. will we live to see tomorrow?

but i guess there're two sides to everything. we can also live everyday as our last day and live it to its fullest. tt's what i should do. 振作起来！没有时间让你再消沉下去了！

jap studies jap studies jap studies grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

sucksssss

《赋得古原草送别》白居易

离离原上草，一岁一枯荣。 　　
野火烧不尽，春风吹又生。 　　
远芳侵古道，晴翠接荒城。 　　
又送王孙去，萋萋满别情。

Cca points

Went to check my cca points yesterday. 36. Not bad, i guess, considering i'm not really very busy... But not enough to stay on next sem.. Sigh.. nvm, I don't think I can stand the insects any much longer anyway... Yesterday there was this GIANT beetle that scared the hell out of me. BLOODY HELL... I didn't know what to do, there's no way I'm going to get near it and chase it away, so I just opened the door and stood (very stupid-looking i know) outside my room, hoping it will fly out.. But of course it did not. Eventually Jing Ting walked by and saw me. :P I told her what happened and she went in to have a look. She didn't see anything and said it must have flown out. Well, I know insects aren't smart enough to get out when they are not welcomed, so I went in and *GASP* saw it on my towel. Luckily Jing Ting walked past again and she very bravely took the towel out and shook the beetle away. Very grateful to her!!!

The beetle was big, like 2.5cm long. And the usual ones are enough to get my heart pounding furiously, so...you can imagine my terror.

Will be checking out on 11May. Pretty fast. Uni life is fast. Whew and it's gone.

累

好累啊。

eyes open but brain not working.

reading the js coursepack but can't understand a word..it's about language and there're a lot of technical terms like auxiliary verb, case particles, nominative case function..wtf. just skipped that whole chunk.

and weekend need to pia 2 lab reports and gek project and our js proposal got rejected and evt is so screwed.

被一切压得喘不过气。。。

Singapore Police Abduction (wad an interesting heading)

Saw this video on youtube yesterday... I was quite befuddled..dunno what the whole thing was about until I went to check..the woman in the video is Dr Chee Soon Juan's sister Chee Siok Chin , also a member of SIngapore Democratic Party.


Quite interesting.. there's a part 2:



Initially I thought this woman's so strange. I'd thought she was a tourist, why's she so insistent on going into that hotel? 原来是反对党的。。。and any comments on youtube that's against is given a poor rating..bleh

I Shouldn't be Alive

I just watched the first episode of the above Discovery Channel documentary. 很震撼.

It's all just about survival. I can barely imagine the psychological trauma, the physical pain, watching your friend lose their mind and die... And how the survivors cry when they recount those days and are thankful of each single day.

It's good to be alive.

感叹。。。

好闷。不想revise。went to a talk by Professor Jocelyn Bell just now. Saw a lot of secondary sch and jc students. Made me feel sooo old. Made me long for the past. 好讨厌现在，好怀念过去。

and so I went to visit my school websites. RV 的感觉非常陌生。can't remember how the layout was like in the past, just feel that the current one is verey different. 想在网站找一些可以怀旧的东西，但都是一些achievements and links that require you to log in. Makes you feel very excluded. Bleh. 网站上的照片尽是一些没见过的面孔。Feel very detached from RV, and that makes me feel sad. I dunno, the school building's gone, my teachers are mostly gone, girls are allowed to keep their hair long, the school's gone ip... Really miss those good old days...

NJ's site is mostly still the same. maybe because I graduated more often??? Sadz cannot log into KM anymore..haha can't remember how it looks like.. Anyway this has more to explore than RV's. I went to the staff list and looked through every single staff. 有些人没看过（应该是新人吧），有些没有教过我但有见过．．nevertheless felt a surge in feelings when I see their pictures.. Sigh what a short time I'd spent in NJ...　“陈建彬”，“辉哥”，mrs khoo (somehow i'm reminded of copying bio spa answers in the lab... scary) , mrs teai (those days as physics rep), alvin leong, mr chee ( I rmb he taught maclaurin series and one maths s session with the vampire-looking female teacher..come to think of it I didn't see her picture on the site..maybe she's left?) , om mr tan (those days when ming shu andi had to look for him for CL matters..bleh), Ms Phua (haha always shunning her although my attire was perfectly fine..those horrible tales they told during orientation), Mr Simon Tan, Mr Song, Mr Lee (won't forget the day xiao wei and I skipped maths lecture and met him in the library :P), Mr Tan Wei (not much impression, he had a nice bike?), Mrs Cheng (haha...), Mr Wee (form teacher.. his wide and cheeky(?) grin), Mdm Woon...

光阴一去不复返啊！

P.S. Today is 29Feb. Once every four years whoa..

Ancient Greek artifacts on display in Singapore!!!!!!

I went to the National Museum of Singapore yesterday with my mom and aunts to visit the Greek exhibits!!! So exciting.. Think I've been there before when I was in primary school, but nevertheless I couldn't remember the route there..So paiseh had to ask around (ask a foreigner somemore..bleh) We saw Mark Lee and Vivian Lai at the entrance. Haha didn't dare to go say hi..felt so weird.

This is the ticket-puncher used in the past.. this was in the history gallery.. we visited this before hitting the basement for the greek exhibits

This is a funeral lion..

Don't feel very satisfied cos I was rushing..cos the adults walked one round and they were done. When I was still at the first few exhibits. Sigh. And we were all hungry... I felt that something was lacking.. Later then I realised there were no paintings, which I were expecting.

For more pictures, visit http://picasaweb.google.com/tintin.snowy88/NationalMuseumOfSingapore I really took a lot of pictures =)

Was feeling really bored..got distracted from the phy chem webcast, so I began searching online for tattoo designs.

This one looks pretty cool...



...but not on my hand. Looks horizontally squashed... Bleh :P

Saw this poem quoted on someone's blog..Think it's really cool, albeit sorrowful...

枯眼望遥山隔水，往来曾见几心知
壶空怕酌一杯酒，笔下难成合韵诗
途路阻人离别久，讯音无雁寄回迟
孤灯夜守长寥寂，夫忆妻兮父忆儿

儿忆父兮妻忆夫，寂寥长守夜灯孤
迟回寄雁无音讯，久别离人阻路途
诗韵合成难下笔，酒杯一酌怕空壶
知心几见曾来往，水隔山遥望眼枯

disgusting lab partner

this is soooooo irritating.

my lsm lab partner (bleh) magically dropped the vial of TOXIC dye she was holding onto the ground and the dye got on my shoes and jeans. and somehow it missed her.

she didn't apologise. she didn't help to clean the mess on the floor. she just stood there.

and (i know this sounds petty, but whatever) she keeps using my correction tape, eraser w/o even asking. it's nothing much, but it pisses me off.

hate her, hate her, hate her.

hope Coomassie brilliant blue isn't very toxic...

CNY lunch at woonz's house

难得 we finally managed to meet up! =) i was sort of reluctant to go cos it's sunday and i usually return to hall on sundays but i think if i dun go then the next time we meet will be..hmm..in may?
anyway 兜了一大圈，after walking to 2 wrong bus-stops we finally made it to Woon Ling's house. Had a very full lunch (fondue--dunno how to spell--and steamboat) and then we played some cards. indian poker and power99, i think.. the penalty was to drink cups of water, which wasn't too bad, i guess. DUnno if it's luck or what, but my cup was dry when they decided to switch to monopoly. Which I won ^_^ hahaha... all thanks to woon ling who encouraged me to build the hotels....
So sian school reopens tomorrow and I'll be having my first LSM1401 lab..must hand in the lab report at the end of the lab session worz.... *Sweats*
Need to chiong my homework le...sads cannot watch spiderman or i not stupid too..then later got adventures of wisely too....ahhh

CNY movie marathon

The Time Machine (watching for the second time..)
Über-Morlock: We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

《我家有只河东狮》(second time i'm watching this too...and at 1 am too..bleh)
陈季常：老婆，你会不会打我啊？

柳月娥：我为什么要打你啊？你又没有做错事，如果我真是要打你的话，那一定是你做错了事。

陈季常：那请问一下做错事的定义究竟有多广呢？

柳月娥：哦，很简单，那就是……从现在开始，你只能疼我一个，宠坏我，不能骗我，答应我的每一件事情都要做到，对我讲的每一句话都要真心，不许欺负我、骂我，要相信我，别人欺负我你要在第一时间出来帮我；我开心你就要陪着我开心，我不开心你也要哄我开心，永远都要觉得我是最漂亮的，发梦都要见到我，在你心里面只有我，就是如此而已……

Starsss

it's been very cloudy the whole day, but right now it's superb!

I saw Mars just now. I ran back and checked stellarium, and spotted a few others: Capella to the left, Betelgeuse to the right, a tiny star called Alnath slightly above and to the left of Mars, Sirius (!) and the Orion belt!!! Oh migod! I've never expected to see that here! The first time I saw that was at a Sembawang chalet when I was in sec 1 during the drama camp, the second time was during AstroBash, and tonight iis the third time!! I feel like just standing along the corridor and staring at the sky but I'd look weird to other people, I guess...

Sigh..starry starry...

Botanic Gardens

Grr it's really troublesome loading pictures onto this blog, which is why it took me so long. But Shuyu said it's quite easy, so maybe I'm doing it the wrong way.

So anyway, I tried to organise an outing because of Xiaowei's notes and failed quite miserably, as expected. I'm a poor organiser plus I don't hang out a lot. Anyway in the end I ended up visiting Botanic Gardens with Baoyun. Fresh air! Beautiful plants! BUT hot and humid weather PLUS it was pretty crowded because we went on New Year and there were lots of maid-Bangla couples around. Bleh...

Baoyun pretending to be a tourist

Me joining in

the waterfall. I didn't get to see the rainbow that I'd seen last time. Think it's bcos it was too cloudy.

Baoz in front of the waterfall. She wouldn't go into the cave after I told her there were droppings inside.

Our national flower -- Vanda Miss Joaquim. Haha I sudden recall there was this page in my pri sch maths workbook, you know you need to solve like 8=2=6 then u substitute a letter then eventually you'll get a word? One of the words was vanda miss joaquim! LOL

Nice flower

I forgot what this is called (really memory loss). I remember being very excited cos there were some scenes from 福满人间 shot here.

Baoz: 出淤泥而不染

Purple lily!

And then we visited the Orchid garden. It's my first time there. 以前总是因为要买票所以都没有去参观，but now I found out there's actually sth called student price..haha

像神农吗？（haha 气死 Baoz）

In the Evolution GArden...

A journey through time..

This tree was listed as a heritage tree. The flowers grow straight from the trunk, but we couldn't see any flowers that day.

Cactus

Whoa really spiky!

This is a really nice statue called "Passing of Knowledge".

We found the Sundial Garden which I missed the last time I was here. So excited!!! It all felt so familiar. I'd been here with my primary school friends on some learning journey. And it's really cool there are 4 Greek (i think) statues placed at the 4 corners. There is an inscription on the 4 sides of the column supporting the sundial: What you seeketh is a shadow. So cool!!! Like da Vinci code or sth

Actually the leaves were really brilliantly yellow, but as always, couldn't be captured.

Stefanie Sun has an orchid species named after her! Don't think it will sound nice with my name, though... :P






Another meaningful statue

The pitcher plant. We saw this in the Cool House (literally the coolest place in the entire Garden) in the Orchid Garden, does that mean it belongs to the Orchid family?

This was the last picture taken that day. Does this look like the clitoris plant we'd studied in Bio? Insect-pollinated.