September 2006

yeah man. I don't like doing this but oh well. yes it's the last day of september, which is why I don't fancy doing this very much. but after a while, I don't quite care anymore.

just checked my exchange account, to find a flurry of new things for the new week to come. I have to find like a bunch of things on monday (they asked me to find something on campus by monday. how?!), and have 3 tutorials on monday. ARGH. and then my philo tutorial is going to start on the republic. and it has to be that thrasymus felle. I hope I spelt it right. whatever.

listening to kra now. they don't sound bad to me thus far. okay it's only been 2 songs? AHAHA. and anyway keiyuu sounds like an isshi with more air. heh. and the song I'm listening to now sounds vaguely enka-ish. which is hmmmm. oh whatever.

besides philo and nm stuff flying into exchange, two little mails from 毛毛 aka harry aka vio2 came in as well. the first one seemed bad, because it was about the upcoming tutorial, which reminds me painfully that I still have not done my 1 page assignment. and also, his wonderful tutorial comes with hell lot of readings. 6 in total. UGH. what's with my tutor?! I haven't a clue.

Lastly, I would like to thank those of you who have sent me the write-up on your group's presentation regarding the Middle East conflict. Yes, I know who you are. As for the rest who did not, I wonder why?

okay the bold words weren't really in bold. and then I'm thinking OOH nobody in my group seemed to have budged. or at least there wasn't any mail that came in from anybody saying something like 'hey we've got to do this writeup thingy, how?" sort of thing. but knowing good and nice ben, he might have done it. or janice and shiqi may have saved our arses. either way. I hope it's done. hiaks. come on seniors, we love ya.

and then he was saying that he hadn't any inspirations for our next tutorial. unfortunately, that was on the 13th of september. today's the 30th. and he has happily spent 2 weeks of his life scourging for stuff. which has produced things like 18 page word documents and 9mb pdf files for readings. oh and not to mention 3 youtube videos. so happening ah, my dearest vio2.

and he really took 2 happy weeks, because the email to inform us of our shitload came in at the wee hours of a friday morning, with our dear tutor happily still awake at 0124h. and then he forgot the youtube links and so in came another email 4 minutes later to tell us about those little online snippets. and so I went to check the links out.

now he's made us all look like we're going to be educated on our gender. watch before going for your gender class! just in case you realise you're in for more than you hoped for.

I'm so tired suddenly, thinking about school. so tired. and then stupid gabriel comes telling me his promos are over and they're going for class chalet. shoot him.

oh and just discovered that I have yet another mac program on my computer. I never knew, but now I do. VLC player is actually the mac default player. what a wonderful idea! it plays like double the number of codecs windows media player does. I've upgraded my wmp to v11.0 already, but my vlc plays way more than that. and now I've a pretty flv player. it's quite nice, really.

and kagerou's really split for good. which is awfully sad. just after 4 little albums. and daisuke was beginning to really look good. oops. had spa at jon's today, and then we went on a youtube video loading frenzy after we were all done. and I showed them miyavi's selfish love PV. they were on the topic on cool and mad and oh-my-gosh-how-did-he-do-that guitarists, so I thought ooh the little instrumental piece meev does on the PV is cool enough I suppose. and matt was like AH he is my new idol!!! AHAHA. silly little boy. and they watched the front part twice, because they simply couldn't understand what meev did. neither do I really. but I'm the guitar idiot (not entirely but certainly not even amateur), and these are the guitar boys. and when I happily told them oh yes he's using a simple accoustic guitar matt threw his hands into the air and said

gosh I burst out laughing. yes meev is violent and all but NO it won't break like that. but meev is not quite destructive. I'll never forget watching toshiya smash the bass against the monitor speakers, which successfully broke the neck from the body, and as if that weren't enough, totchi pulled at every string to make sure they came right out of the tuning keys. boy must that have hurt. bass strings are so THICK.

"I married a younger man. Ten years younger than I am. I figure it like this: If you can't find a good man, raise one."
--Unknown

on.

anyway. sister says her atspace account is working while mine isn't!!!!! ARGH! this is irritating man. there's something screwed about it. and I'm not sticking it out in livejournal again. I have layouts waiting to be used. miyavi. AGAIN. oh dear the last time it was also miyavi. ahaha. oops.

and then and then. I'm tired. or rather, I'm mentally tired. my sister is bored. so am I. but I have things to do. so I'm not bored. I'm just procastinating. oh dearie me, right? right.

looking for someplace on atspace.com to complain. not really complain, but ask for technical help. I've been doing this like half my life. stickling it out for hours on end over the phone waiting for pacnet, waiting for whoever for whatever stupid service all these years.

seems like they allow ftp. let's see if this works then. if it does then that's better than going through this motion. although the motion's worked for so long. argh. I like using ARGH lately. hmmm.

finished watching kill bill vol.2 last night. oh boy is that one mad show.

AH YES! ftp WORKS!!!! WOOHOO!!!

oh dearie me. watching battle royale is like watching lost. in my opinion. you know, a bunch of people marooned on a deserted island, with no help, people are getting killed, people are killing each other, everybody's going crazy, and then and then they have flashbacks of their life before getting on this stupid hell of an island, the crap they did, the people they missed, their weirdo pasts.

sounds like lost, doesn't it? I think so. I didn't watch much of lost, but it sounds close enough. but of course, these people KNOW they're going to get killed, because they've been TOLD to kill. because if there is no one survivor, the dog collar they wear will self detonate.

I'm beginning to wonder who came up with this sicko idea.

oh and there's a guy on the island who signed up for fun, by the way. so he's got this killer streak. freaky. I was hoping mitsuko would kill him (seems like shibasaki kou has a demented mind too), but she failed. so sad. can't stand that fellow really. he's weirdo. no, freako.

and yes shibasaki kou could have acted as murderous yuki yubari I suppose. but just murderous, because she loses out to kuriyama chiaki for madness. after all, as the bride describes gogo yubari,

"what she lacks in age, she makes up for in madness."

and oh boy is she one nutcase. but she wasn't a nut in battle royale, which was the original role which shot her to fame in the first place. in fact, the role is so small. chigusa doesn't appear much, and doesn't appear for long. she dies so fast. before dying she's a little demented but not really either. but as gogo she's seriously what you would call SOMETHING WRONG. and then in kagen no tsuki she's this silly clueless girl dragged about by hyde. hmmmm. this doesn't seem straight.

but oh whatever. I like demented chiaki. heh. and I prefer less murderous shibasaki kou. she was much better to watch in sekai chuu and good luck. phew. she's got really huge eyes though.

and you know, my butt really hurts from sitting down at the computer for such incredible hours a day.

AHAHA that was horribly random. anyway, my kill bill vol.2 has completed and I'm trying to watch it. the stupid part was, the subtitles I downloaded initially weren't a proper transcript. not even a poorly typed version of it. it was simply horrible. the english was bad, the words used were weird. like when bill said he'll try to be sweet, the subtitles actually read something like I'll try being good candy. my goodness I nearly fainted.

and then while searching for better subtitles, I saw one of the searches with this text: subtitles for the hearing impaired. ooh so I've made myself into a person with hearing problems. well I suppose that's true, considering the horrible volume at which these people speak in the movie. sheesh. like it would kill them to speak louder. and then when I turn up the volume, I get a rude shock when the violent parts come and then suddenly the volume surges. gosh.

but I like the part in the first volume when the bride had finished killing off every single member of the reinforcement oren ishii had called, except for one. she had been fighting the last few in the dark, and when there was only one left, the lights came on, and revealed that the last one standing was actually a pretty young boy, who kept his life thanks to his own fear. and so uma thurman had that "oh my gosh you really shouldn't be here" look and then after she successfully sliced his sword into a few pieces, she pulled him by the collar, turned him around

and used her sword side to spank his butt.

AHAHA. "that's what you get for fucking around with yakuza", she said. oh but that part was hilarious. really it was. and the poor boy was really terrified. really good actor chosen for the role. he's got that face pretty much naturally. heh.

read some stuff about battle royale 2. oh gosh it sounds worse actually. because this time round, the survivor of battle royale 1 has become a terrorist against the government, and obviously, the BR act itself. and so a class is chosen to track down this terrorist and kill him, otherwise they'll all die. and they've got 3 days to get the dirty work done. and they still have those silly dog collars which have the ability to self detonate. the next horrid thing about it? your collar is linked to your best friend's collar. so if your best friend dies, you die too...

I think I hear some evil laughter.

just felt like flooding some friends pages. heh.

when my servers fail, or anything fails, I always just fall back on livejournal to keep my thoughts running out and about. I guess not everybody appreciates them, but I appreciate the existence of all this blog crap. which makes me wonder, what would I do without my blog. what would I do. as in would I keep a diary? would I really like get a book and scribble? would I think it too much of a hassle, considering that I type way faster than I write? or do I type this fast only because I keep a blog in the first place. not really. I think I learnt my own system of typing since rather young, which is why I type so fast now.

oh bother. I hate questions which go round and round.

and in the end, I chose the first question for philo. and it ain't that hard. or at least it seems not too bad. thanks to my dear Father above. I guess it always takes us to a point where we give up on ourselves and tell Him that we're idiotic and that we need Him. a point where you realise the futility of self thought. ugh I'm sounding like some wacko philosopher like this. basically, come to terms with human fallibility. yes that sounds better.

I'm so awfully tired. I think I should be able to churn my points into sentences by 4 pm tomorrow. I must, really. I think this draft thing is a great idea. and it's a better idea than going for consultation in school. ah mae has decided to pay atsushi a visit on friday, saying her trip from pasir ris all the way to clementi will allow her 'sincerity to shine through'.

like whatever.

for someone else I might, but certainly not for dr loy. I'm sorry, dr loy. he's a nice teacher, pretty uncle-ish, and really the last person you would expect to teach philosophy. but no. I will not travel that far. I will not go the distance, literally.

went to sparknotes to check out stuff for the republic, but ended up checking out the oedipus plays. still greek anyway. sophocles. and I'm so darn glad mr wee decided against the republic. he's right, it's darn sucky, because I think back then plato didn't understand what quotation marks were. yes there is an issue on when people are speaking and who on EARTH is speaking at any one time. sometimes he falls into this play mode, and then suddenly back into prose. I doubt it is simply holbo's translation.

and I can hear holbo talking through my text. the way he has interpreted plato's works is happily into his own style of talking, and boy can you hear him talk. and talk, and talk. sheesh. holbo. he's cool too, and his little girlie's cute. AHAHA. and she already can say something polemarchus did. and she's only 5. which can prove that either polemarchus' idea is terribly childish, or that the idea is a very fundamental one, so fundamental that even the kids know it.

from clarence's favourite book:

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:

Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap in the afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
Wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.

And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is somewhere in there. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all govenments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to stick together and hold hands.

from All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum

heh it cute, ain't it. well okay stupid livejournal screwed up and then there's this whole chunk that's gone. basically....

I've completed my philo planning, and that tomorrow I have stuff to watch. like battle royale. yep it's completed. 2 demented movies in one day. not too good an idea. and now I'm taking kill bill vol.2, because obviously, the bride hasn't finished her killing spree. yet.

argh. stupid livejournal. it hasn't done this for so long. I should have checked. argh all these things make me paranoid.

sleep!

I've been trying so hard to read my philo text. but I feel like I'm just reading words, and not comprehending. it sucks, really. somehow or another. and I'm wondering if I should just stick to my original decision of writing topic 1. but it seems hard too. ARGH. there's no easy way out, really. but people enjoy thinking there's one.

watched half of battle royale just now. oh sheesh it's seemingly more sick and horrifying than I imagined it to be. makes me wonder about the book, really. yes a volume has been published in english, and it's stinking thick. hmmm. but I suppose there's a lot to write about when there's so much to be seen in the movie. movie moves, yeah. so it's way faster. but books may write about details you didn't have time to catch on the set. and I suppose to a certain extent we don't really need to go there.

and the koichi scans from his latest album are simply beautiful. downloading some of them now. oh they're lovely. koichi looks better and better as he grows older. tsuyoshi is fast turning into a fashion nightmare. I'm sorry ky, but it's true. a pity the paper's probably not too good for scanning, and so the scan quality seems like shit. but I think if it were real glossy smoothie magazine paper, it would have been fine.

oh and my kill bill vol.1's done too. so crystal we don't have to jam at central library and shock everyone around us by watching that gore of a show. what a bloody affair it is. I'm about 2/3 through. should continue really. but my eyes are tired. why is tired pronounced as such. oh crap. sometimes the stuff I learn in school really gets to me. and that sucks sometimes. sometimes.

oh bother. I'm feeling terribly warm actually. and oddly enough, I think this holiday sucks. and perhaps school is actually better.

oh what on earth am I saying.

I have never, NEVER known somebody who works conversely. and I am so going to explode.

this is the wrong way around. no no. this is the WRONG WAY.

oh HELP HELP HELP.

it's all wrong. absolutely. WRONG. and I'm so tired of it. so tired.

I'm taking it to spa. I'm taking it there. I'm taking it OUT there.

oh and it doesn't help that I'm not in the best of moods.

ARGH!!!!!

"a man convinced against his will is of the same stand still."

damn dale carnegie. damn you.

I am so pissed. with atspace, that is. I thought it's going to be a rather temporary server problem. but the dumbass thing is, now my blog.html file has been deleted happily (not really actually) and I cannot upload anything. which is ARGH.

and because I'm feeling pissed I just ranted that. just needed to get it out of my system.

watched the ahem, not too complete subbed version of itoshii hito. one line sticks. and makes me go awwww.

「貴方の為なら死ねる」じゃなくて「貴方の為に生きる」事にしたよ。
"it is not 'I would die for you', but that 'I would live for you' "

oh man.
that's something new, isn't it? it's not so much as dying for your sake, but to live for you.

oh I'm getting emo.

welcome to university holidays. ARGH. why ARGH? because these are NOT holidays. they're school days that aren't in school. which totally sucks. ARGH.

and then and then I just found out that I have a philo term paper that's due next week. that is, when school reopens. and apparently the lecturer put up the paper topics since september 11th. and today is? 11 days later. oh that's like a stinking week later. ARGH.

oh and UGH. same idea right? wrong. ARGH is a sign of exasperation. UGH is a sign of disgust. oh no I'm going bonkers already. what is this. I hate this you know, the feeling when you've got so many things to do and then there's like some time, but not much, and then as the days go by the time trickles by and then you begin screaming all over again. and what am I doing now? wasting time. ARGH and UGH. there's something wrong with me.

oh no there's nothing wrong with me. this is just en route to attaining my masters in procastination, remember? sheesh. oh no, it's UGH.

oh well. one consolation. I finished most of my gek readings already! yes just ONE more reading. ONE more. which is goody considering me who decidedly did all 5 stinking readings in 3 days. sheesh what possessed me to try that?!

and then monday my nm bunch are meeting. that's a good sign. my el project is pretty well on the way actually. so here are some priority settings. oh dear I'm talking computer.

right so actually the most urgent thing onhand is my philo term paper, which is due the earliest. it's due 2nd october, which sucks. then next thing I must do is to study soci, because I have a take home exam on 13th october and due on the 16th. and then I insist on cutting my hair. okay that's totally secondary.

and then next thing is that crystal and I must kickstart our gek project. my nm and el ones are due earlier, but hey at least they're all started and underway. oh gulp. actually my el project's due on the 12th. which ain't too far, actually. then my nm project's due on the 31st. okay that explains why laremy pushed the el project so fast. good good.

then film analysis due on 7 november, and gek project due on 14th november. basically after the 16th I'll feel better. I suppose. oh gosh oh gosh.

it's too fast, really. all this. too fast. and I am so tired today. 8am lectures do stupid things to people. and I am so tired. ARGH. but at least I am not demented anymore. didn't watch kill bill in the end, because crystal didn't hav time. but good too, because spent the time doing my readings and talking to maril.

and I'm going to miss my vio2. crap. and oddly I don't even see him around school. ARGH.

oh and on a MUCH better note, I finished sapuri! yes it's the goody goody ending we all love, but the way they did it was rather nice. and it didn't go over time! which was surprising, as most japanese dramas' last episode always crosses the 1 hour mark. most. this one didn't. but it doesn't matter. AHHHHHH!

okay today I'm feeling more normal. not so demented. not so...weirdo. but it may come back tomorrow. I don't know. I'm feeling the pimple pop already. stress stress!! AHAHA.

so proud of myself! I got the port forwarding done. like finally. I couldn't get into the smc router network for don't know how long, and finally I got the password and configured my router. ARGH. and now my µtorrent is working like nobody's business. which is good, considering some of those files should have moved on a long long time ago. tatoeba, my sapuri episode 11. oh me oh my I'm so excited about it. XD last episode!!! but I'm going to wait until the subtitles come out before I watch it. no way am I going to watch it and not understand half of it. because I have this feeling it's going to be OH SO wordy.

and then I just found the kame daily community. like oh no the turtle strikes back? I suppose. so let me kame here for a little while. skip these paragraphs if you don't like this. wahaha I love these daily communities. they have picspams, and I like picspams. yes yes I know my kame gallery is growing so fast, but hey the other members also have some pictures too okay...in particular the ueda folder is growing quite fast too.

anyway. there was this comment by this person who caps every episode of sapuri (which is good, then I don't have to do it myself) and she said: is it me or does kame look prettier in every episode?

like ooh so I'm not alone after all. and of course there's a whole bunch of commenters who agree totally man. I like that kind of community. heh. anyway I found the link off the place where I originally started watching sapuri, before I began my downloading frenzy. and then there was a link to yuuki, hard subbed by d-addicts. so actually there WAS an english subbed version flying about. but then again, sister has already ripped it off youtube, with chinese subtitles, so we live with that. I guess the quality wouldn't be great, but kame don't look too good in yuuki, but just to watch kame after all. oops. uh, okay oguri shun too. better?

not that bad, right? okay let's get on with it. but then there's practically nothing else left to write. AHAHA not really actually. just made my to do list for my mid-sem break. yes it's like here (after tomorrow, that is), and that's like TOO FAST!! and we thought we barely started school. apparently not. oh dearie me. and we're all in such bad shape. such mess. such disaster.

speaking of disaster, I asked gladys about her soci tutorial. and she said: disaster too. which proves my hypothesis right. that everyone else would be some degree of disaster, because generally I believe that we're all halfway with theories, and nowhere with current issues. or we got them all mixed up. something to that effect. so there. but of course, gladys' class had a saviour of some sort, someone who actually did know what he was talking about. which is good, but certainly not good enough. I think if one entire group did know what they were talking about, that could save the day, really. but if only like 1 guy knew, that's still pretty saddening. but I suppose that's the life of a tutor. especially of an exposure module.

and during one of the less disastrous presentations, this girl finished her presentation, then stood there and asked, "any questions?"

she had that uh okay so what do I do now?? sort of face. but nobody wanted to say anything. so harry gave that amused look and said

*uncomfortable laughter* and everyone looks down and still no response anyway. and then I guess he gave up on all of us too anyway. oh well.

I'm terribly tired from staring at the computer screen for so many hours today. I think I'd better add 'check eyesight' to my to do list. I have this bad feeling about it. really bad feeling. sigh.

just checked d-addicts. the sapuri subs are OUT!! yay! that means the moment it's done, I can watch sapuri 11 already! YAY!!!! wee so excited!! it will certainly be done by tomorrow, really. it actually could get done today, but I want to sleep early because 1. it's early morning lecture again tomorrow, 2. I don't want to be late AGAIN then poor maril will have to save 2 seats by herself again, 3. there's a test tomorrow. ugh. and I think crystal's studying and ignoring me. I did the practice tests, and they're well...not difficult, but not easy either. yes she loves being tricky.

and so tomorrow shall start the day with a big fat bang of my el1101e early morning lecture, el test, then go to the library, pick up my book (should get there by then really), skim through and see if there's anything of worth in there, then probably crystal should be done, then we'll watch kill bill. heh. I think oren ishii is like the shogun really, and then gogo is her samurai, trying to kill off the bride, who's like those rebels. or maybe oren ishii is more like a daimyo. AHAHA. at the end of it, they're all yakuza in some way or another really. all this shogun and samurai nonsense have actually evolved into the oyabun and yakuza stuff really. never really noticed until I was reading some of avenell's stuff the other day, and the parallel was drawn. so interesting. so even though avenell doesn't touch on yakuza per se, he's like doing their history. but then while samurai perform harakiri, the yakuza only do yubikiri. or yubitsume, whichever you prefer.

am absolutely mad over DUTY by hamasaki ayumi. it's such an old song. so old. but it's nice. yeah it's the one when she donned the leopard print suit and had that very fashionable little tail. thereafter she couldn't stop the tail, and the tail got more and more bushy really. and then TMR had to wear one for kouhaku utagassen too. AHAHA.

ANYWAY, back to some form of normalcy, or whatver degree I have of that. apparently kill bill was supposed to feature the yubari sisters, and kuriyama chiaki's the elder one. she's supposed to have a younger one, called yuki (which is a more normal name than gogo really), but she pulled out of the filming. and try guessing who.

oh yes that's another pretty well known name after battle royale. but I don't think she's as demented looking as kuriyama. kuriyama really looks insane in kill bill, or whatever screen shots I've seen of it. she just has that dollface, the porcelain face, the egyptian hairstyle, the glass eyes, the perfect skin.

seriously. like you plucked her out of VOLKS.inc or something along those lines.

and I'm seriously feeling very demented today. and I feel like calling somebody. but I think anybody I call now will kill me. it's a bit...late. well not terribly late, but still late and not too nice. there are just some days I feel like this communication or talking machine and then there are some days where you thought I got a sore throat and suddenly couldn't talk anymore.

and then I had my project meeting today. my el1101e one. and they are ONE funny bunch. of course it's beautiful that we've got laremy, because 1. he does all the work, 2. he knows what's to be done and gets it done, 3. he's year 3 after all. just like another benson. very cool. except that ben's from engine. hurrmph.

AHAHA. and rachel reminds me of somebody. she's that kind who's totally oblivious to whatever's around her, a little klutzy, screams OH I LOVE YOU when you kindly teach her header and footers, whacks you to get attention, speaks nonsense to herself and doesn't make much sense (even though yes yes she didn't sleep much last night but somehow she isn't very coherent to begin with).

and somehow they're horribly different from my nm bunch? okay my nm bunch aren't horrible, they're just a completely different set of people. other than being chinese speaking (okay jiu rong isn't, but she can be if she wants), which is perfectly fine with me (after moe chinese isn't a problem with me really), but they're an extreme bunch. jiu rong is a perfectionist, down to the smallest detail, yingquan ought to be shot because he tries too hard to be lame and sometimes instead of being funny, sometimes you want tos slap him. and then preaw is quite pitiful because she doesn't understand chinese, and singlish isn't much better really. and then sometimes she can't communicate too effectively and nobody can blame her because she's a foreign student from thailand. the fact that she can catch our speed is not bad already. really. yong hui is the more normal one I guess. she's an ex-science girlie and it shows, actually. there's this weirdo difference between the ex-science and the arts person.

I feel like doing another layout, but no inspiration. hurrmph. maybe I should do something more productive. like list what I have to do tomorrow. and list what I have to do for the holidays. oh gosh. it's timetabling time. OH DEARIE ME. and I suck at it. okay I don't suck at making timetables -- I suck at following them. as usual. ARGH.

and I am going to sleep. my utawara episode has finally completed downloading. GOSH it took so long man. and the tracker is TOTALLY down at this hour. so it will take longer. my sapuri episode 11 FINAL is supposed to finish in a few hours, but because the tracker's half dead, it can't even move. hurrmph. quite irritated. hopefully it'll be okay tomorrow. I'll just let it go while I do my el practice papers. oh gosh yes I'd better do them or else I die on friday. yes it's open book, but no way are you going to catch me flipping like a mad nut for 45 minutes. no way.

it's just like reading my stuff for the first time when I bring home my soci assignment over the weekend. I'm not letting that happen. um. be a good girl now.

I enjoy doing this, I realise. I must be stinking bored, you say. not really. just tired and need a stoning out time. and then it's really fun.

found 3 ugly mugshots of daniel. they're all terrible. I'm so glad he looks like what he looks like now. and the photo vio2 submitted looks so much like that guy we got back in moe, the one whom we are so sure underwent plastic surgery. well even though that candidate didn't look radically different from the i/c photo, the difference was huge enough. we had a good laugh about that guy. and harry's reminds me so much of that photo. hmmm.

I assume that's like his dissertation or something to that effect. the site sucks, because you don't really know what's it all referring to. then again, I guess people who read this place never always know what on earth I'm referring to anyway. so I'm just as horrible and shouldn't complain.

and I was right. the schoolgirl whom avenell was raving about in kill bill (the schoolgirl part sounds oddly josh-ish) IS kuriyama chiaki. I swear she is THE most famous battle royale actor. or rather, battle royale has shot her to the highest stardom.

and something struck me. perhaps crysie and I should do a stereotype on asian women. hmmm. sounds good? I think it does. it sounds better than the stereotype that all visual rockers look female. AHAHA. that was like the first topic that popped in my head.

there's a million and one things to be done over the holidays! yes the hols are almost here. and there's so much to be done. ARGH. mostly school stuff, and some personal stuff.

and I just discovered that we're going to have a take home exam in october for soci. and we'll have the pretty weekend to do it. so that means I really must start studying for soci before that dreadful thing comes along, because I'm not going to stay up all night reading my theories to smash them all into an essay of 1200. no way. that not good. really.

I'm beginning to talk like crystal. I'm picking up her weird grammar and she's picking up my 'that's nice to know'. oh dearie me. rubbin' off each other. and then we're off to tutorial together tomorrow. so that's crystal for day 3 of the week. AHAHA.

after looking at 2 million pictures of chiaki, I'm beginning to wonder what she does with all that hair of hers. yes it's HER famous hair, but gosh it's real hair raising to see it dead straight, and freaking long.

and I'm feeling horribly tired and drawn out. so when I'm done with that horribly long long thread of chiaki's, I shall go sleep.

ah my yoshitsune episodes 35-36 have completed!! woot!! and yes it's FINALLY the right set! but really really drama. and the woman who took the prince out of the ship to show yoshitsune wasn't his mother -- it's his sister.

and guess who? goto maki. gosh her makeup is so WEIRD. they've turned all the women geisha-ish with that killer amount of foundation. man. and tomorrow we're watching a samurai film! better go buy some popcorn before lecture. and banana milkshake! then can enjoy the film. literally. HEH. ENJOY! I can't remember what's 'have fun' in japanese.

stupid yahoo mail is taking two million years to attach a file worth only 24kb. and I don't believe it. I just need to push that survey stuff and go. heh chuan did one for me. so funny. and then still complain (oh no according to life! it's compRain) about my survey questions. not my fault okay, they're partly given by my lecturer. serious.

I think I can watch episode 36 of yoshitsune and it's still not done. HURRMPH. and the last episode of sapuri has been broadcast in japan. AHHHH!!!! I want to watch!!! it seems as if sapuri just started. then again, I watched the first 5 episodes at one shot. so basically I kinda missed half the serial in the first place. then I began watching episode by episode slowly. but then I get to watch it faster this way than waiting for RanP. she does a good job because she edits the soft subs, since dancestar24 does it in such a hurry she has two million typos, but slow. and ifilm may not load properly either.

the weather today's good though. goodie good. and this week's the last week of school. before the mid sem break, that is. and thursday I'd better post-it my english text. test on friday. argh.

harry, my vio2 has kindly asked for those who got an A to give him their assignments. OOOH people DID get an A huh. I wanna see! even though I'm done with half the one page nonsense. but to a certain extent I think one page thingies don't work too well with me, because I'm this stinking longwinded kid who writes sentences which are too long for herself, for example, the one I just completed. ask me to explain and apply a theory in 300 words? oh dearie me. but I guess I must learn, since some essays insist on their word limit, and while there's no less, there's no more too. which sucks in a way and good in another.

the stupid yahoo mail is still attaching. I don't believe it. I think it's faster to actually send the mail and upload the file elsewhere. like just throw it on my atspace domain or something. ARGH. I shall do that.

hurry hurry I want to sleep. I'm so tired today. but I'm so proud of myself today, because I completed 1.5 readings today. which is an amazing feat, considering the last time I completed reading 5 chapters of my english text to prepare for the test on friday, plus half of my gem reading. then I completed the rest of that reading and the next one today. and tomorrow I think I should complete the last one. or the rest, if my brain can take it.

and then and then. and then I need to read my nm stuff like for once, I need to quickly write another blog comment soon, and hopefully complete them all these couple of weeks, because I need to add them into my term paper. and then I need to squeeze a project out with crystal by the holidays, study my soci by the holidays, finish my nm and el projects by the holidays.

and I must sleep. the thing finally attached and sent. my eyelids are winning. better get the computer shut down before I fall on the table.

there's something really screwed about this month's blog entry page. it keeps editing my font styles. sometimes it's big and sometimes it's smaller. and it doesn't remember my old styles and keeps creating new ones! argh! oh did I make any sense? oh bother never mind.

my yoshitsune episode 28 is finally done! so I can watch it without it stopping at weirdo poses. well it does catch takki in the funniest poses though. and my sapuri 10 is done! and I've watched it twice already. once with subs and once without. and it's oh so terribly cutee. kame rocks!

anyway, downloading the peace & smile carnival tour! okay I'm horribly late but HECK. I'm getting it anyway. the backstage is coming along good too. and I finally got a good program which compresses dvd files! so looking at the compressed diru concert files, I think the 4.35gb version I took is correct. just that I don't like that file splitting thingy that happens with the dvd compression. ripping straight would produce this, but I prefer it in one file straight. but that might also mean that a dvd player may not read it properly. which is stupid again. ARGH. I'm full of contradictions.

and I finally got my umbrella today! sister's great recommendations. apparently mother went to the same shop and was staring at the exact same umbrella but didn't know whether to get it or not. but she was thinking that I might like it. and in the end I got the same one she was thinking about! cool huh.

you know somehow I hate projects. but yet I foresee that my entire uni life will revolve around them. as in the projects won't stop coming, and we'll be constantly in our fuddy little groups, frantically doing surveys and writing minutes and doing research and trying to pull our resources together. ugh, it's like PW all over again. which is sucky. and I think we're all sucky at it overall because most of us faked PW anyway. which is a bad confession to make at this point of time but it's horribly true. oh well.

Please give me feedback along the way on how to improve tutorials or anything that have to do with our classes, even ideas on what you want to do for certain topics. You can do this by emailing me. Don't worry, I will not 'hate' you if you are critical of me. In fact, I welcome it because I love pain... joking! Also, if I have neglected you and you want more attention, please let me know also. Haha. Anyway, enjoy what is left of your weekend.

that came in the mail. exchange, that is. from my very intriguing one. AHAHA VIO again! oh dear maril it's happening again! it's happening again!

but smack in between the scale, hitting between clarence and the vio, it's freaky. how did so many smart idiots appear from?

and it's really time to sleep. gosh. ARGH bad tutorials tomorrow. bad bad bad. but then again, they're all kinda bad, really. (except soci, to a certain extent. gladys I'm joining your club soon!) and lectures rock! (uh, except say philo?)

I suddenly thought about it. yes, suddenly. my soci lecturer is daniel goh, and my tutor is harry tan. dr goh and mr tan. buddy, familiar or not?

oh dear. it's so funny. but fortunately for me, in my personal opinion, MY dr goh and mr tan look better than your set. AHAHAHAHAHAHA.

there are just some things I like to suddenly say. especially when I go through times like now, when there's so much to do and and so little time.

How much are you like Miyavi?

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Redundant much? Which Miyavi PV are you??

You are the Are you ready to ROCK? PV! You're not hard to figure out at all. You love to rock out. You love to have fun. You love good music. You tap your foot vigorously and dance when everyone's looking. You also think those are the cutest boot/shoes you've ever seen in your life.
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What side of Miyavi resembles you best?

You're Miyavi's Rocker side. ROCK ON! Power to the music. Maybe you don't quite like rock, but whatever music you like you "rock" to it. You just love it and will defend it if needed. You don't care what others say, you like what you like so there! No is gonna tell you what music is good or bad. You have your own preferred style, so what? Miyavi not only loves rock, he has created songs for all sorts of taste from rock, to acoustic, to techno, and even a small ballad, he's done it all. Whether your music style is set to one or two styles or to just about all styles there is a little something Miyavi can give to you.
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haven't taken quizzes in ages. and I suddenly decided to do these quizzes. heh. they're all funny results, by the way. really funny. I mood swinging today ah. oh whatever.

yesum meevie boy turns TWENTY FIVE today! okay, it's not quite japan time but the day's right anyway.

and in celebration of that, I've downloaded miyavi's latest album, released just yesterday, and also uploaded my FIRST torrent! which is miyavi's latest PV! woot! yay for miyavi piracy!! oh dearie me. AHAHA.

and looks like crystal's successful with her tutorial swapping after all. she finally went to see joseph yesterday after he returned from his 4-6pm tutorial to ask if he had such a slot from 12-2. and he said no. and it turned out that both the wednesday 12-2 slots, even AND odd weeks are taken by avenell.

WAHAHAHA. lucky ass I am, really. poor crystal has to go through the trouble. hiaks.

beyond that. I wanted to talk about yesterday, and wanted to start the entry another way, but meevie's birthday was staring out at me (I like to put my online birthday as meev's, and so one of the forums wished me happy birthday via email and I remembered), so I didn't. well let's see:

okay hair, same top from 2 weeks ago, simple blue jeans, rather dirty same navy blue pair of converse sneakers (they were much cleaner 2 weeks ago), very tired look, red eyes (you know, when you wear your contact lenses for too long?), a little stubble (hmmm) and a left earring.

seriously. I didn't ask gladys if harry looked such a mess the day before, since she has tutorials on tuesday apparently. but then again, knowing gladys and her adrenaline rush about harry, she probably couldn't care less.

ah but yesterday's soci tutorial was a disaster anyway. all of us were smoking like mad through the entire tutorial and the whole class was pretty restless because either we didn't really know what exactly about the theory we were talking about or we didn't really know what was happening in the middle east in the first place. which was both bad. and then we tried to help each other by shutting up and pretending that we're listening and understanding when we're actually not, and then harry couldn't stand it and insisted we ask questions because he knows that we know that we don't understand a single word.

so he actually began like calling names to ASK questions. and then all of us were pretty trapped. so after a while some of us tried screaming something to save each other and then oh well in the end I guess when we wish to die, we'll all die together. oddly enough my soci class has some sort of dynamics and we can literally "look at one another for moral support", as harry pointed out. ouch.

but anyway after that sucky tutorial, I took my 1 page assignment and walked out to call crystal. he gave me b-. wail. although he said he's a strict marker, I still think it's an ouch. so I think I ought to study my stuff first, then if I have any questions, bomb him, then demand why it's a b-. I think that's a good plan. but plans are useless if you don't carry them through. hurrmph.

he says we'll have fun the next tutorial. and I believe him. after eating insects at our first tutorial, and looking at some of the stuff he's been giving us, the youtube links and websites, I guess it's gonna be okay after all.

crys and I went to munch at munchie monkey after that, because I insisted on going to yih. and anyway vicks was there too. so just nice. crys was screaming about her english tutorial, because her el tutor sucks so bad, he can't spell the word 'happily'.

boy did that incur crystal's wrath. AHAHA. she was like WAH LAO EH he can't even spell a word like that?! it seems that he wanted to use that word as an example, and meant to write it on the board. but just before the marker could touch the white surface of the whiteboard, he turned and asked the class:

talk about a bad move. but anyway then I told crys about my soci tutorial and what a mess harry looked. crys was like WAH your tutor go clubbing yesterday ah?! ahaha. but honestly, this week must be pretty sucky for him, because I personally and sincerely believe that none of the other tutorial groups would have done any much better than us. I doubt it. maybe a couple of groups or some people may salvage the situation in some classes, like my class had a couple of pretty good people. but other than that, 95% of the class would have probably ended up as clueless and disastrous as my class did.

is it self consolation? I don't really think so. but it don't matter. and then crys was asking me if harry was smart. I told her yeah you bet. and so she asked if he was clarence smart or vio smart. I thought a while, then I told her:

and she was like WAH LAO EH (again) you get the good tutors! no fair! which probably inspired her to finally get her ass to as4 and demand that her tutorial be changed to mine, with avenell. oh well. I guess it's like that. sometimes you get sucky tutors, and sometimes you get good ones. my nm tutor ain't the greatest either. but I guess she's good in her own little way, like being anal about stats and certain facts and sources. she does poke out some stupid things we say and important ideas we left out.

and then anyway the long break comes, my 4 hour break before my soci lecture. yesterday it became only 1.5 hours, because I had lunchie with crys and vicks, then I went with crys to look for joseph but he wasn't in. so she went for class and I went to library and found xiao wei sitting there waiting for meida and mae. but the three of them hadn't eaten, and wanted to go to the canteen, as well as to discuss a project. so I stuck around in the library instead.

which was good really, because I got to stone a little while (I moved too much earlier around with vicks and crys and I banged into wall as well, don't ask how I did that please), and then I finished my song! which is actually due tomorrow really. heh. and then 15 minutes before I went to the deck to get my dosage of banana milkshake (I swear the auntie puts something in there...) and headed for soci lecture.

and then it was about race and ethnicity, and so daniel decided to be funny (he screwed up lah, yesterday), and threw in a couple of personal anecdotes, personal observations, and finally threw in a scan of his own i/c. nobody taught him how to well, cover the picture first. so he ended up clicking for the i/c scan to come out, then only these ugly brown boxes appeared upon the next click to cover up the ugly picture (oh yes it's really horrid too), his i/c number, and very amusingly, his birthdate.

as far as I can make out of pixelation, it should be either the 30th of may or june. but it's certainly 1973. which makes dear dr goh 33 only. ooh that's pretty young. that's the same as clarence yeo. AHAHA. avenell's 37, and when he said that you could hear the shock through the lecture theatre. including crystal's. AHAHA.

funny thing about us huh. students love to dig such stuff from our teachers. age, especially. it's so fun, really. I think it is.

but one thing he didn't cover was his chinese name. and that's something I was wondering about for some time already. I have this strange thing for chinese names. just like lily. we used to like looking at the different files that came through us and think of what their chinese names would be. we would have to first decide what dialect group they were from and then predict from there. it was so much fun too. but the funniest was of course, yook meng's name. but then lip sing unveiled the mystery and so we were pretty satisfied too.

daniel. as far as his dialect name goes, I predicted something like this: 吴培雄. I mean, guy's name right...but of course it turned out not to be. so what DID it turn out to be?

like eh, that sounds like a girlie's name man. and then I was telling mother about it, and she said that there's a chinese superstition where the parents would give the son a girlie name so that the devil would think that the child is a girl and won't take the child away.

1. that's stupid, in my opinion, because if the devil were so stupid we won't have to worry

but it was still funny anyway. I've heard of that superstition before, but didn't think of it at that point of time. AHAHA. maybe he comes from a family of sisters. sounds plausible. looks plausible too.

and speaking of dan, vicks read the essay I kindly printed for her. and my suspicions were confirmed. daniel indeed wrote on her church, and talked all about the residents of bedok. mainly chai chee area and a bit of opera estate. apparently dan infiltrated the church and sat in for everything possible. jialat. I was telling vicks last night,

AHAHA. but ANYWAY. yes so if I'm ever done with my readings, I'll go read that 31 page thing. technically it's like 26 pages, because the rest are all biblo.

WAH just read ky's blog. looks like it's someone else's birthday today too! AHAHA it's ky's mum's birthday, and ky wrote a chinese poem for her. but I think her mum's poem is more pro! oops sorry ky. HAHA. but I think it's cool that they write chinese poems to one another! and the mum's one is really cool.

but ky ah, are the chinese words meant to be so BIG or are they big because of the encoding you use? it's really huge, especially when you compare the font to the usual font size used. gosh.

hugging my ever cute krabba crab chair pad. heh. it's so cute!!!!! mummy bought it from ikea. it's so much smaller than we thought it would be, but mummy bought it anyway. and I can't really bear to sit on it. I did for a while just now, and it's pretty good to sit on. well duh, it's a chair pad for crying out loud. if it weren't good to sit on, ikea should stop selling it as one. but it's super cute! if not for the legs and the funny pincers, it actually resembles a fish more than anything else. and now mummy says she wants to buy the same krabba, except it's the soft toy version. oh dearie me. heh. but I think the yellow one isn't as cute as this orange one. the orange one looks COOKED! which is good stuff really. hiaks. but mummy says the yellow stuffed toy is fatter. hmmm.

and of course there's that huge kame in the catalogue. but it's ugly. I like the one that's in sapuri. speaking of which, come on episode 10! gambatte!!!!! just an hour more! it'll will happen! in fact I can already watch it if I really want to. at 92.9%, it's pretty decent to watch already. I tried at 77% or so and it sucked so bad, really. it stopped to jump over pieces every other second. my sister would have screamed me to pieces if I'd made her watch it like that.

ooooh I feel like watching it. heh. even though I don't understand a single word they're talking about. except the front part, where ryo walks in with eita and the imaoka-san (enjoy oji), and talks about some stuff, and somehow it leads to ryo speaking chinese, something that goes along the lines of:

like huh? something like that. and then when eita goes over to talk to itoh misaki about something, ryo suddenly comes flitting past them from behind and says 我们结婚吧! again! which is seemingly ridiculous without the context, since there are no subtitles. hopefully the subtitles will come out soon. but of course the more dancestar24 rushes, the more typing mistakes she makes. ranP tries to get rid of some of the mistakes when she hardsubs the episodes, but there are still a few that she overlooks. but oh heck. it's not as if I don't understand those little mistakes. just that it's ugly, really. I wouldn't allow that if I were the subber. personal issues.

and I made a new layout today! after I saved that matsuda shota picture the other day I've been thinking about it already. so here goes nothing:

oooooh there goes nishikado soujirou. AHAHA. apparently hana yori dango 2 is going to come back in january 2007, with a spanking 15 episodes! oh my they've earned enough to make so many huh. and yeah I think he's the only one with real good skin. gosh oguri's is terrible, and matsujun's is seriously horrible. the face next to this text has been immensely powdered and photoshopped and taken under extremely bright lights.

ah well. I think I shall go bathe. oh and miyavi's is horrid too. and I downloaded this clip of from the peace smile carnival tour. oh my it's so funny. it's featuring meev and keiyuu, the vocalist of kra. now I really can't stand kra (they're like multiple copies of aya from psycho le cemu, and I can't stand aya!!), but keiyuu's quite good so fine. but those two were decked in santa suits (well psc tour was around christmas), and then they were wearing these terrible HUGE bow ties which totally looked like the one roy brought to thailand to use for our 2nd skit!!

and there's miyavi in full view. oh and miyavi has colourful colourful hair. and for crying out loud, they're performing itoshii hito! and at that time there was only the very quiet, solemn and heartbreaking itoshii hito ~beta de suman~ version, before the more upbeat and prettily arranged itoshii hito vers.2006 came out. and then those two clowns made a real joke out of it.

the first part is kinda boring, because meev sings 3 verses, and it's all very guitar plucking sort of thing, and so it gets a little lullaby-ish for a while. the chorus is very drama, but the verses take a long time to finish. so after meev is done with the 2nd verse, he snorts. literally, like when a snore is cut short? yeah he snorts loudly into the mic! gosh. and then after the 3rd verse he does it again, but this time he snores into the mic! much to everyone's amusement, of course. so after 3 verses the song is supposed to get a little faster and build up to the climatic chorus.

but miyavi continues plucking away, like he's going to sing one more verse or something, and so keiyuu goes closer to the mic, and clears his throat. like AHEM it's supposed to get more drama, hello, miya-san??! meev smiles and clears his throat too! oh dear this time it's really tickling the audience. but of course after that they get down to business and plays the song proper, and sings it proper too. so no more snorting and coughing. AHAHA but it was hilarious.

really tired. somehow. perhaps it's the hormonal imbalance. oh whatever. feel like talking to someone but it's kinda getting late. and then stupid msn isn't working, so I can't sign in at all. oh and I bought my notebook. it's the one I wanted, the one that says:

cool right? I'm just slightly deranged. and the soci tutorial preparation is driving me up the wall. yes yes harry's a wonderful and splendid tutor but guess what? the stuff he gives is absolutely driving me up the wall. and I think he just might have this thing for marx and weber and durkheim and that whole gang. he seems so into it. but seriously can we skip the politics...AHAHA obviously not.

and since we're on soci. crys and I went to midlink to get the el textbook reproduced. and since it will only be ready by wednesday, and we were in the vicinity (that somehow don't look right), we headed for the national library.

confession: today's my first time there. and oh boy does the air con work so well. today's really hot, so I was glad for the overwhelming air con's blasts of cold air. but if it's like that on a cold rainy day, I think everyone who goes in can't come out, because they would all be turned into ice cubes not long after they enter the library.

and then crystal was raving about the 'automated' escalators. I thought like duh, escalators move when you turn them on, no? then she said nooooo these escalators are SMART, they only move when people are nearby and ready to step on them.

that crystal chin. anyways we made our way to the 7th floor, to the reference library. dumped our bags in the puny 20 cents locker and went in happily.

15 minutes later, still couldn't find what I wanted. so I went back to the OPAC to read the catalogue carefully once more. the location said RSING. hmmm. so I asked the information counter and she told me

and where was I? 7th floor. great. so we took crystal's favourite automated escalators up 4 stinking storeys and finally got what I wanted. tee hee. I think I enjoy doing stupid things now and then.

AHAHA. what a horrid argument it was. we were fighting over that in philo. or actually, my brain was pretty dead by philo tutorial, because I used so much of it in el early in the morning. sheesh. I think el always uses so much of my brain. so painful. and I think I'd better go make a list of all the el terms.

just had a long long talk with victoria. still talking about moe. crap. and I should sleep. really. and I must remember to buy those wheelies so crys and I don't starve to death in samurai lecture.

I'm really tired now. really. and I barely know why. I suppose because there's suddenly more things to do than I thought. I'm starting my delusionary act again. that state whereby I've got stuff to do, I don't want to do them and I behave as if I don't have anything to do, or that I've done them already.

argh. and it's maddening myself. I always trap myself in this disgusting hole. I think it's time to do what I always do to get out of the hole before I hit the bottom with an unwelcoming bam.

the one in my handphone is no good. so I must go get myself a notebook and do that sort of thing. co-op is brimming with notebooks. AHAHA. I love that place now. we're forever in co-op. we can't stop going there. perhaps it's the air in there. something. like there's some drug in banana milkshake, such that crystal and I can't stop drinking it.

I should have turned chuan's monitor upside down already. he's ignoring me. fine.

and I ought to sleep. yes I hate mondays but guess what? it's already here. so here we go.

I'm very tired actually. just finished the powerpoint slides for tomorrow's presentation. sheesh. well it wasn't too hard to do, I suppose. just some glitches because I haven't done real madness powerful powerpoints for some time already, and I've forgotten where is what. so it took me some considerable amount of time. hurrmph.

anyway the ayumi torrent has completed, so now gackt has a new rival on my itunes! ahaha, yes his own good buddy, hamasaki ayumi. I don't know why, but I like her pretty much actually. hmmm. oh well. things like that happen.

well things with the spirit flux project are going okay, and I need to get timelines up, deadlines up, and meet my darned deadline of 15th september myself. and I feel like re-writing my song. sheesh.

oh my gosh. I'm so sorry for the pukish pictures, really. these are taken from a POTATO issue in 2000. yes it's just 6 years ago, when kame was 14, and jin was 16. okay that's just like 6 years ago, right? but trust me, that was when those two were really really small. and shorter. they started shooting up a little after that. true, they didn't shoot much, but they did, anyway. but koki really shot up. I think I should go back and save that cutee picture of him. it's so hilarious, even though I don't fancy koki.

actually I don't really know what to write. there seems to be this block these days. hmmm. well met up with a lot of people today. great way to start a 630am day, really.

met maril for el lecture this morning. then sam tsang was behind us. crys came in late and refused to come to sit with us. don't ask me why. then after that maril and I went to central library to meet maril's friend. nice girl. quite funny too. heh. then maril needed the computer, so she borrowed my matric card and then when we were walking to our terminal, we spotted meida. and then later meida was done with her computer and joined us.

then at 11 crys said she was done and asked our location. and so since crys and mae's tutorials are the same, they came together. so we had 6 people at perk point and boy we made loads of noise. heh. not really loud loud noise, but we weren't exactly the most quiet.

and then and then. and then I don't feel like continuing this report, because it all seems so meaningless. sis said she read this place, and read last month's (because she couldn't stand seeing matsujun's huge face staring at her apparently, like hurrmph), and complained about the same thing as ky.

ky's going to snort. I can hear it coming. ahaha. checked out yuuki, and it's not quite a drama per se. it's a one episode special. sounds pretty much like the kindaichi thingy kame did. and according to drama wiki,

A drama about friendship that spans ages. Based on a true story, "Yuuki ~ Sekai de Hachibanme no Tatakai ni Katta Otoko no Monogatari" which chronicles the life of a man died at the age of 23 after an illness that started with the partial collapse of his cranial bone, and a subsequent battle with seven types of incurable diseases.

and who's yuuki? kame loh. OUCH. oh well. found the torrent, pretty healthy one too. but no subtitles! wail! and I'm lazy to request for any. I'm quite sure there's a place for that on d-addicts but lazy. oh well.

oh and since oguri shun's in yuuki, we'll talk about him. WATERS is in town! yes the silly oguri shun movie on hosts. according to imdb.com, WATERS is the international title (like DUH, the japanese title is uo-ta-su), and singapore is the only idiot place that calls it gigolo wannabes!!!! ARGH! what is this?!!! technically, they're called hosts. I haven't a clue why it's called WATERS, but it is. so there. hurrmph.

and since we're talking about oguri shun, we'll talk about yoshitsune! yes crystal, your favourite samurai. no not avenell. YOSHITSUNE. my 28th episode is nearly done, so I decided to just watch it in the whatever pieces it's in. and OH MY SO DRAMA. but I'm so upset because they beheaded yoshitaka. and it's because yoritomo was afraid that he would grow up to become just like himself and yoshitsune and turn against the genji. but yoshitsune was so upset too, because yoritomo hadn't realised the other perspective, that yoritomo can happily sit there and execute people simply because kiyomori had let tokiwa's sons live in the first place. yoritomo, yoshitsune and yoshiko should have all died, really. especially yoritomo and yoshitsune. awwww. and apparently because of all the emotional trauma, the oohime ended up having mental illness. this drama supposedly based on true life story is beginning to sound too drama.

and I think I'm still way off. knowing the characters and how they fit now, I read the sypnosis again, and I think the standing broad jump practice only begins somewhere around episodes 34-36. so I'm getting the 35-36 torrent and see how. so currently I'm taking 28-30, so I ought to just fill up in between as well, right?

right? AHAHA. naahhh. I won't get the entire thing. it's so tiring. and it's so drama. thank goodness they only have 1 episode per week. but also because of that, there's always this summary bit in the front now and then. which wastes time, in my opinion. but what to do?

so from kame to yuuki to oguri shun to waters to yoshitsune. right. and I'm feeling kinda sleepy. just now I fell asleep on the bus. and boy was it one violent bus. as it turned out of kent ridge terminal and back into nus, I tell you, I just got on a roller coaster ride. the bus flew over the humps and you could hear the entire bus go WOOOOOAAAAAHHHH!!! so fun right. okay bad sarcasm. but I dozed off at bukit timah, and then was awoken badly at macpherson. yes I crashed my head against the right window where I was sitting. the lady next to me had such an alarmed face.

then soon enough the lady next to me alighted, and then another lady settled down beside me, and then the stupid bus went mad again, and I was dozing again, but this time I went forward and banged my head against the handle bar in front of me.

I don't blame them. I was too sleepy to look alarmed. but I think if some girl kinda like banged her head twice I would be alarmed. AHAHA. and I think I frightened the girl in front of me. luckily I didn't bang into her head. I mean, that's supposed to be better. but then again, perhaps not. I think the handlebar's rubber casing is softer than someone else's head. hmmm.

and I think I shall do the gek project myself. since we're barred from grouping across tutorial. stupid crys and I. we should synchronise our tutorials next time. how silly we were, to a certain extent. I guess it's good that we learn independence, so we won't feel like the world is lost when we enter a tutorial or lecture without knowing anybody inside the room. but in a way it's sorta wasted, knowing you could have had a familiar face. but perhaps that's also because other people have a familiar face about them.

and perhaps I have learnt to ask difficult questions after all. questions I used to hate. questions that dig deep in your mind and pricks at your head so irritatingly and yet importantly. it's usually a lot of 'why' questions.

and I think it's time to sleep. the 630am thingy is taking its toll on me. and I have to like get my soci tutorial stuff done this weekend. oh and do my el tutorial stuff. and check my nm tutorials. oh and very importantly, read meno. sheesh. but meno sounds better than euthyphro. and I need to check out that blog nonsense. if I keep procastinating I'll never get those blog comments done and then it'll continue to burden my mind. argh.

hmmm. I've been lucky thus far. and let me tell you why. muahaha crystal is going to keeeel me for this. my english tutor IS the lecturer, and she's nice, she's funny and she's really cute. oh and she's good too, which is more important that anything else. my philo tutor is alright, he knows quite a lot, and is a pretty deep fellow, even though he looks like an uncle. really. philo phd okay!

and then my soci tutor rocks, because he's cool, and he knows exactly what he's talking about. he spells everything straight, and pronounces everything well. and he tries to make class interesting and it works! so he's good, and gladys thinks he's good too. but good looking more than anything. hey what about dan?!

and of course, my samurai and geisha module tutorial was today. crystal followed me to class (we were talking to one another on the handphone and we literally walked into each other on the corridor) and then there were these few guys sitting behind me, discussing our chances of getting the lecturer, avenell. I didn't pay much attention, because I was messaging vicks, then suddenly those guys started saying

like o_O. an immediate sms went to crystal to kindly inform her that I got avenell. hiaks. well apparently, the only other tutor for that module is joseph tan, and mae and meida say that he's terrible. one of those who talks to himself, so it seems. one of those.

watching sapuri again. oh dear. I'm just like clicking random episodes and watching. my goodness. but kame looks too good here. and dancestar24 hasn't come up with episode 9's subtitles yet!! oh noez!!

and actually I'm horribly tired. I don't know why, but I couldn't quite sleep on the bus. usually I doze off without knowing it, but today I just stayed awake. hurmmph. not a very good sign, really. oh well.

but I want to finish the ayumi torrent. yes I'm downloading ayumi. ahaha avenell's been following the forum thread alright. today in class he told us that for the film analysis paper, we could watch dramas as well, instead of film only. and he said

which was like SNORT. oh well if you want to know, that's me. crys said perhaps he'd peeked at the namelist and discovered the idiot pirate on the forum was in his wednesday even week 12-2pm class. double snort. oh well.

argh I don't think the ayumi torrent can finish. because the speed suddenly went down and refuses to go back up. idiot tracker. d-addict's one is a little wonky today too.

argh I'm really sleepy. I keep typing all wrong. sleepy sleepy. oh and just before I forget. if you've the time and in for laughs, here you go:

in case you were wondering, the man on the right IS indeed matsumoto jun. it's a scan taken from the lovely livejournal community, boys_paper, and it's a page out of arashi's latest album, ARASHIC. no I'm not promoting that album, but I suppose proper credits are good. the line in japanese says

and that was said on matsujun's show, utawara. and that line was NOT said by matsujun. instead, it was said by akanishi jin, because jin was so irritated that matsujun was always bullying him. in fact jun has bullied jin for quite some time now. and it doesn't help that kat-tun are resident guests on utawara...

and apparently there's some new johnny's unit coming up, and it's supposed to be the strongest and best unit they've ever had in johnny's history. members include yamapi (NewS), matsujun (arashi), takki (tackey and tsubasa), murakami shingo (kanjani8), yamaguchi tatsuya (TOKIO), ikuta toma (johnny's jnr), koichi (KinKi Kids), and this curious guy called satou atsuhiro. and what I can find out about him is...

and that's darn frightening. DO YOU KNOW HOW ANCIENT HIKARU GENJI IS??!!!!! oh my goodness. I'm like going to faint. anyway this unit's been around since june or so, but nothing's really confirmed. they're calling themselves NO BORDER and it's supposed to unite the different groups together, and so I guess we await the representatives from kat-tun, v6 and smap. did I miss anybody else? toma is the present leader of the whole gang of johnny's jnrs, so that's one huge chunk settled. hiak.

and rumour has it that the kat-tun member will be akanishi jin, considering the akanishi x matsujun conflict. AHAHA. I made it sound like history or something.

I hadn't had the time to get the layout up and all so finally today I decided to get it up once and for all, otherwise my blog might suddenly suffer a bout of silence. the comments link is still up there, at the top right hand corner of this textbox. as well as a link to august 2006, for those who missed those last entries. after all the archive page ain't up yet.

I'm so darn sleepy. woke up so early. because uncle stephen hadn't the time earlier this week for rehearsal, so this morning was literally well, nearly on the spot. we literally ran through the songs and just tried a little here, a little there and OKAY. and then after that was the brainstorming workshop, and due to miscommunications I didn't have a mic and I couldn't use my powerpoint presentation so I had to start screaming. gosh haven't spoken so loud in a long long time. as in really really so loud that it kinda echoed off the walls. I guess I was a little pissed too.

getting some inspirations for my piece. hmmm. couldn't get whatever aileen wanted though. I guess I don't write her type of music. I'm so drama mama and so minor key and runny notes that she can't take it. and I don't blame her. I suppose she does have to go back to lian sze then. lian sze writes happier and jumpier songs. to a certain extent they're kinda similar. oh well. but songs written by the same person tend to be the same.

oh and I printed my nm tutorial and realised I actually have homework. oops. and actually I have el homework too. apparently. ARGH. I guess mondays won't be pleasant days for me. homework time. AHAHA. okay I'm supposed to like FIND the homework earlier before monday, yeah?

but I guess now I have something to do while waiting for vicks. she asked me for lunch tomorrow, and I said no problem, but I finish at 11 and she finishes at 12. so now I have something to do in between. and she wants to go to as7. fine. so I just hang around as5 and then tumble down. then I suppose I might end up helping her with photocopying then it's arm exercise time again.