Monday Couple moments

8 - the first hint of Gary's crush on Ji Hyo
10 - the couple awkwardly spend time together for the first time
12 - Gary lets Ji Hyo escape during Hide and Seek
14 - HaHa and the show dubs them the Monday Couple
15 - Gary raises Ji Hyo's heart rate; Joong Ki kisses Ji Hyo
16 - Ji Hyo officially declares that "on Monday, I have a man."
18 - In a pairing game, Ji Hyo chooses Gary; they have a "Titanic" moment during Hide and Seek
20 - While strapped to a lie detector, Ji Hyo admits she finds Gary attractive.
22 - The Monday Couple go "Christmas Shopping" during a game.
25 - Park Bo Young shows her support for the Monday Couple.
28 - Ji Hyo and Gary hold hands during Find the Guest; they're teamed up together with an awkward Kim Jong Kook for a karaoke game.
29 - Ji Hyo and Joong Ki betray Yoo Jae Suk, and Gary is dejected to not be on her team. The cast fills out their profiles, and Gary reveals his aspiration to be Ji Hyo's boyfriend; Joong Ki jokes that Ji Hyo should be Gary's wife.
32 - Ji Hyo and Gary go on a Valentine's Day "date" and have some cake together. They parody Secret Garden's coffee mustache gag.
34 - Ji Hyo and Gary have lunch at an Indian restaurant in Hongdae.
37 - Ji Hyo and Gary parody Secret Garden's sit-up gag.
39 - Gary declares he's tired of the Monday Couple and would rather be teamed up with one of the SNSD girls.
42 - Gary heroically saves Ji Hyo from Kim Jong Kook; Gary and Ji Hyo face off against each other as the last two survivors of the Survival Game.
45 - Gary and Ji Hyo compete against each other in the fashion model game.
46 - Gary and Ji Hyo join in in the "Office Couple" game.
48 - Ji Hyo betrays Gary in the National Treasure hunt.
52 - Ji Hyo and Gary spend lots of time together during Running Man Hunting.
54 - Ji Hyo puts lotion on Gary and spend lots of time together during the preliminary games.
55 - Ji Hyo and Gary are paired up during the preliminary games, which includes a piggyback race.
56 - Ji Hyo and Gary are paired up for the entire episode.
59 - Ji Hyo betrays Gary as part of the hidden spy team.
60 - Ji Hyo and the others prank Gary for the "True Gary Show."
62 - Ji Hyo pulls a surprise attack on Gary and the others.
65 - Gary and Ji Hyo are paired up for the episode--Ji Hyo is still not feeling well, so Gary lets her sleep in the car as he drives.
69 - Gary and Ji Hyo message each other while each is held hostage in separate rooms.
70 - Gary and Ji Hyo are teamed up together.
74 - Gary and his "lollols" protect Ji Hyo during the Survival Game.
81 - More Monday Couple quality time during the Gary Knows game.
82 - The loveline is officially declared over with the revelation of Ji Hyo's real relationship.
90 - The Monday Couple's awkward reteaming.
93 - The Monday Couple briefly team up to try to take Kim Jong Kook down in the first round of the Survival Game.

Source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120506134051AAZGGSM

Monday Couple 2

Ji Hyo officially announced her real-life relationship on episode 82. On episode 90, Gary and her were the last two people left in the couple race selection and became paired up. Don't know whether it was scripted or not, but they looked awkward around each other, which breaks my heart... :(

 

Why...? T_T

But...

See? Everyone knows they're the ones for each other!

Monday Couple

I was watching episode 56 of Running Man yesterday, in which Jihyo chose Gary as her partner. Somehow in the middle of a race they had time to rest in a pavilion (hehe), and Jihyo applied this balsam dye to Gary's fingernail. Jihyo was saying that the dye should be applied with alum, but Gary misinterpreted it as rice and got so confused, and then Jihyo was just smiling patiently. So sweet right? The scene draws to an end with the above caption, which sounded so cryptic and poetic to me, so I went to do a google search.

According to the Korean tradition, if the balsam dye remains by the first snowfall, you will marry your true love.

:(

This is supposed to be sweet, I guess, but because I'm watching the past episodes so I know that Jihyo is actually dating the CEO of her management company in real life, so this scene felt bittersweet to me. I know it's just a variety show (heck it's not even "We got married"!), but Gary and Jihyo look so good together, and I treasure their scenes together as I countdown towards the end of the Monday couple...

I think they will announce the relationship in episode eighty-something? And then it's the end of my beloved Monday Couple... T_T

I had a long weekend to clear my work. But I'd spent it watching 2 episodes of 'The Walking Dead', 5 episodes of 'The Big Bang Theory', 4 episodes of 'Shinhwa Broadcast'.

I'm so dead.

School has been so very very busy. I feel so drained. I've never felt so busy, not even during my FYP days. I guess it's just the numerous assignments that got me stuck deciding on which to do first. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

Watched 3 episodes of runningman over the weekend because I couldn't take it anymore (not to mention the extremely long dry spell of ShinBang T_T); I'm going to pay the price this week...

Today marks the first time I drank 2 cups of coffee in a day.

I have never liked coffee.

What has sch reduced me to?

“All men have the stars, he answered, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You, you alone, will have the stars as no one else has them.”

—	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (via calaire)

I've been so busy recently, weeks just seem to fly by. It's been like, 6 or 7 weeks already, I think? I'm so not used to so many assignment deadlines, maybe because  in NUS I always avoided those project-based modules.

So much to do, so little time, and I don't even know which to do first!

Just a few days ago (I think it's Monday), I commented to my mom about how I couldn't remember the last time I fell. I wondered if it's because I'm a cautious person or if I'm just lucky.

Now you know I'm not a superstitious person, but this morning as I was chasing after 179 at Pioneer I fell off the steps. Was it embarassing? No, I care more about the pain ( and my poor laptop which fell along with me) than my face. Of course, I'd missed the bus and ended up being late anyway. So silly of me to chase after the bus. I guess I did that because my classmate was running ahead of me. You know, I saw her at the train station, we chatted briefly, and then she just started running after the bus without a word. I guess it's understandable. She got onto the bus in the end.

I felt sort of pissed, but I don't think I have a reason to be so. It's just so foolish of me... Let this be a lesson to you, teekaywhy, to choose your words wisely.

SPEED on wordle

Sigh, I was supposed to be clearing out the HUGE pile of assignments, but I got distracted by Wordle and created this for my favourite J-pop band SPEED:

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/5684484/SPEED_discography

It's pretty fun... Pity it doesn't accept punctuations though, I had to modify some of the song titles

《花样人间》

This is the song that 周初明 played on the erhu in the show, usually when he's missing his wife. Quite a sad song... Watching this show makes me miss ≪福满人间≫ terribly. That one is still the best.

插曲（三）：永远的微笑 作词/作曲：陈歌辛 编曲：郑凯华 主唱：王心如 片尾 主唱：王芳 制作：麦如丽 OP: EMI Music Publishing Hong Kong SP: EMI Music Publishing Singapore
 心上的人儿 有笑的脸庞
她曾在深秋 给我春光
心上的人儿 有多少宝藏
她能在黑夜 给我太阳

我不能够给谁夺走 仅有的春光
我不能够让谁吹熄 胸中的太阳

心上的人儿 你不要悲伤
愿你的笑容永远那样

Graduated exactly one year ago. Comparing where I am then and now, am I exactly where I want to be now? What a complicated feeling.

good old Dobby

Dobby's lip trembled and Harry was seized by a sudden suspicion.

"It was you!" he said slowly. "You stopped the barrier from letting us through!"

"Indeed yes, sir," said Dobby, nodding his head vigorously, ears flapping. "Dobby hid and watched for Harry Potter and sealed the gateway and Dobby had to iron his hands afterward”—he showed Harry ten long, bandaged fingers – “but Dobby didn’t care, sir, for he thought Harry Potter was safe, and never did Dobby dream that Harry Potter would get to school another way!”

He was rocking backward and forward, shaking his ugly head.

“Dobby was so shocked when he heard Harry Potter was back at Hogwarts, he let his master’s dinner burn! Such a flogging Dobby never had, sir….”

Harry slumped back onto his pillows.

“You nearly got Ron and me expelled,” he said fiercely. “You’d better get lost before my bones come back, Dobby, or I might strangle you.”

Dobby smiled weakly.

“Dobby is used to death threats, sir. Dobby gets them five times a day at home.”

He blew his nose on a corner of the filthy pillowcase he wore, looking so pathetic that Harry felt his anger ebb away in spite of himself.

~Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, page 176

Shinhwa The Return 2012

16 June 2012. The day I went for the first concert in my life. No it's not SPEED :( Unfortunately SPEED won't come to Singapore, but it's another band that I hold just as dearly in my heart.

Shinhwa.

The first song that I heard from them was "Perfect Man", from watching "My MVP Valentine", but it wasn't until I watch "X-Man" that I fell in love. Turns out that besides their charismatic performance on stage they also have this adorkable side :)

24 March 1998 to present. 14 years, it really hasn't been easy. SPEED had debut earlier in 1996, but sadly they disbanded in 2000 (although they returned in 2008!). So to me it's really amazing that Shinhwa has stayed together till now. How many idol groups can accomplish this feat? Faced with many challenges from members doing solo projects to military enlistment to differing popularity levels of members, it takes a great deal of determination and hard work to stay together.

I had rewatched their guerilla concert in 2001 before yesterday's concert. (Go read the youtube comments for the backstory.) Thinking about that day in 2001 on that stage when they had cried so hard after their blindfolds were taken off, and looking at the six of them shining so brightly on the stage in front of me, I feel really touched. Our boys have come a long way. It was tough, but they had done it. They remembered their promise to their fans, and 4 years after their 10th anniversary concert, they have returned.

신화 창조!

Cannot rotate this picture :( Cat A tickets sold out so I got this instead. I was in the last row so I pretty much stood throughout the concert. Wootz!

The giant poster for chanjos to take pictures. Damn I didn't bring a camera -.-

The very nice folks at http://2012shinhwathereturnsg.wordpress.com/ distributed these mini-banners and flags (see below) for fans.

Shook it too hard, it's kind of tattered...

The black shirt is nicer but was sold out by the time I got there! T_T

Just had this horrible dream in which Shinhwa's concert was shifted to a school auditorium. I was so angry in the dream, and I was arguing with the concert director. It all seemed so real, I'd even quoted the price of the ticket! Then I rmb what Dom said in 'Inception':
Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

Freaky...

아무렇지 않은 척 (Act Like Nothing's Wrong)

I like the live version a lot better than the studio one. Has more emotions to it, and it feels so raw. Dedicated to his ex... Oh T.O.P.....

To quote the words of another blogger (happiebb.com):
me thinks somewhere in that delightful 4D-dinosaur-slide-playing near-perfect specimen of a guy lives a sensitive soul who can pen very beautiful lyrics.

Big Bang comeback

~Faints at explosion of T.O.P charisma~

Blue is such a, well, blue song, and Fantastic Baby is such a fantastic song for concert. Darn high!

I'm going for Shinhwa's concert!!!

My first ever concert. Not my concert, actually, but my first time going for a concert. I wish it was SPEED, of course, but I don't think they will ever come to Singapore. *Cries* But Shinhwa's good too! I'm so happy that they're back after their national service. It must have been tough, facing so much uncertainty, persevering and finally they have returned to meet their fans! :D

My final hope is dashed... None of the fruits made it to maturity and now the plant is no longer flowering...

Watching Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on TV now. All of them are so young and pudgy and adorable! Listening to 'Harry's Wondrous World' just makes me swell with happiness inside :)

Premature passion

One of my passion fruits fell off prematurely. I performed an autopsy (hah!) and there were no seeds inside. Sigh so sad...

Inspired by 张晓/马尔泰若曦 (^^)

My passion flower has been fruiting, but I dont think it's doing so well. The fruits are starting to wilt but they are not falling off so i don't think they are ripe yet.

So I got them the Gro-Plus for flowers (supposedly for the potassium) as well as Horti Seaweed plant growth stimulant. Just applied both just now to my passion plant and my mom's mint. Hoping to see new flowers soon :)

步步惊心

终于看完了《步步惊心》。天啊，我觉得我快瞎了，今天哭了好多好多。这部戏很好看，但到了后半段整个变得太凄惨了，看得我一把鼻涕一把泪，半个垃圾桶都是纸巾。我觉得四爷是最可怜的。之前读剧情的时候觉得他的手段很绝，但看戏时就能体会他的身不由己。在发现若曦提醒八爷提防四爷以及两人的过往情时，因为爱得极深，所以痛得也极深，最后如若曦所愿送她出宫时，心里也是极其痛苦的。最遗憾的是因为十四爷而未能见若曦最后一面，睹物思人，吴奇隆演得痛彻心肺。最后，连十三爷也走了，让他无限唏嘘。他是寂寞的，除了十三爷和若曦，还有谁能懂他？在网络上读到，雍正是积劳成疾而驾崩的。因为登基之事疑点重重，身边除了十三爷外又没有可信之人，加上八爷党的人处处刁难，想必做起事来必定心力交瘁。最后一幕张晓在展览厅里遇到一名与四爷长得极像的男子，男子竟不认得她。太伤心了，四爷之前不是说过不管若曦去到哪里他都会找到她吗，怎么不认得她呢？难道真的缘分已尽？T^T

(之前本来觉得十四爷最可怜，皇位和若曦原本都是属于他的，却都被四爷抢去。现在反而觉得这样的结局也好，十四爷乐得清闲。当皇帝高高在上，高处不胜寒啊。。。）

Planted another batch of chive seeds. Hope I won't be disappointed again.

This week is orientation week. I'd thought that having no lessons would mean I would have more time to do my stuff, but turns out that I was wrong. I was assigned to an og, which was kind of unexpected. Hmm, busy week ahead, but hope it would be fun!

Happy Chinese New Year!

It's the Dragon year! Again!

突然心血来潮，而且刚好已经有材料了，做了 kuey bankit. Don't have the mold so it's squarish, and think I made it too thick and ended up burning it... :p Dont have the melt-in-your-mouth texture of Bengawan but at least the coconut taste is there. Hahah

Laika

I just found out about Laika from a comment on a 9gag post. She was a stray dog from the Soviet that became the first animal to orbit the Earth as well as the first to die in an orbit. :(

Before the launch, one of the scientists took Laika home to play with his children. In a book chronicling the story of Soviet space medicine, Dr. Vladimir Yazdovsky wrote, "I wanted to do something nice for her: She had so little time left to live."

Laika likely died within hours after launch from overheating, possibly caused by a failure of the central R-7 sustainer to separate from the payload... After approximately five to seven hours into the flight, no further signs of life were received from the spacecraft.

Sputnik 2 was not designed to be retrievable, and Laika had always been intended to die. 

Seriously, what happened to the dog was completely unacceptable. I don't know if it is justifiable to compare this to animal testing, but I feel that all lives are equal. If you don't know whether it is safe to send a human into space, then don't, for goodness's sake. Just stay on Earth. Why send a poor dog out there? I can only imagine how frightened and confused the dog must have been, being trapped in the small spacecraft and heating up with no means of escape. Damn.

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika)

Masks

I thought this was so beautiful, I just had to share this. Reblogged from deathtoallclones

My sunflower seedlings have all died. I really don't know what went wrong. One day they were perfectly fine, sprouting leaves; the next day they were drooping and turning brown.

I just went and got myself another two packet of seeds from fairprice. Hopefully these will fare better.

Day 11:
Ok so I accept that the other two seeds are just not going to germinate. The other seedlings are doing pretty ok. They are starting to grow their true leaves, but crowding is an issue and I'm afraid transplanting might kill them. :(