Just had a terrible/great weekend, how so? I woke up on saturday morning on 6am after sleeping for 5 hours++ to get to metropolitan college for SAT subject test. And to tell the truth, that is my first time taking a whole test in the specified time. Much to my surprise, the test that I really rushed (like finishing the last 20 question in 10 minutes...) is actually chemistry which I have most confident in. Ah~ life is unpredictable T.T... The only thing I can do now is pray hard for my result.
Then after the test, I went to lot 10 (it's a shopping centre in Bukit Bintang, where those high class people hang out at) to perform in the opening night of the new actors studio. Many VIPs like officials from Australian Embassy, Japan Embassy, Singapore Embassy and all those Datuk(s) and Datin(s) came. The best part is I got to perform on the same stage with some of the best artists in the country~ All those bad feelings from SAT disappeared after that. But I was extremely exhausted and fell asleep immediately after I went back. That's all for today's brief update. See ya, folks.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
28th Post: Madness
It's been a long time since I last updated. It's been freaking busy, and I mean it. Just hope that everything will go well for October and things will start to calm down a bit. So what sort of mess I'm getting myself into? Firstly, all those cumbrous university application stuff. UCAS(UK) and Common app(US) early decision deadline's one month ahead, and I haven't even started my personal statement for UCAS nor finish my essay for Common app... Then I have to prepare for the SAT Subject tests as well. Actually I didn't plan to take the subject tests as the US colleges to do not require me to. Ironically NUS do and it even made me take 3 subjects. Well, life is not a bed of roses after all. The test is 2 weeks ahead and I just finished half of the dictionary-like Physics textbook, how the hell la I'm going to get myself well prepared in just so little time left. For those who don't understand what the rubbish I'm talking about, it's just some rant about how cumbersome overseas university application process can be. But these stuffs would not be enough to get me THIS frustrated, not until I add in all the other activities.
My Young KL Singers upcoming production is in early November as well, and the rehearsal is getting more intense with 3 hours long practice thrice a week. Further more I have to spend more than 1 hours just to travel to the rehearsal venue, gosh~ Then I've foolishly got myself involved in the stage play organised by our college as well, which would be in early December with 2 hours practice twice a week. The play is George Bernard Shaw's 'Man and Superman' and man, it's just damn wordy that I dunno how the hell I'm going to memorize it. All of these add together = CRISIS!! I seriously dunno how to divide my time to complete all of them in the best way possible. Well, first thing I gotta do is to put this blog on short term hiatus, till the day we meet again...
My Young KL Singers upcoming production is in early November as well, and the rehearsal is getting more intense with 3 hours long practice thrice a week. Further more I have to spend more than 1 hours just to travel to the rehearsal venue, gosh~ Then I've foolishly got myself involved in the stage play organised by our college as well, which would be in early December with 2 hours practice twice a week. The play is George Bernard Shaw's 'Man and Superman' and man, it's just damn wordy that I dunno how the hell I'm going to memorize it. All of these add together = CRISIS!! I seriously dunno how to divide my time to complete all of them in the best way possible. Well, first thing I gotta do is to put this blog on short term hiatus, till the day we meet again...
Friday, September 4, 2009
27th Post: BalloonS
After procrastinating for such a long time, I finally bring myself to update this dilapidated blog... Well, today I just watched UP by Disney and Pixar. The show starts off with a short animation clip 'Partly Cloudy' which is exuding charm right from the beginning till the end even though it's just few minutes long. The story is about clouds creating babies for different living beings including human, dogs and cats. I won't spoil the story to you, but for those who have watched, my favorite is the balloon-like crocodile.
Move on to the main part, UP is definitely one of the best animation to come from Disney in recent years, I would even use 'epic' to describe it. It was not just a commercial cartoon which tell its story in a plain vanilla fashion and try to inundate us with the overwhelming cuteness. Those animations may have made a lot of money, but at the same time it was also forgettable. That wasn't to say that UP isn't cute, it is indeed VERY cute, especially the chubby little boy. But there was more to its superficial cuteness; beyond the hilarious adventure by the duo(the other being the stubborn old man), I can clearly feel the theme of undying love and lifelong dream, and what made it great is that the animators were able to capture such profound theme perfectly in an animation which main selling point should be cuteness and jokes. I wholeheartedly recommend UP to everyone, children and adult alike, definitely not to be missed!
Move on to the main part, UP is definitely one of the best animation to come from Disney in recent years, I would even use 'epic' to describe it. It was not just a commercial cartoon which tell its story in a plain vanilla fashion and try to inundate us with the overwhelming cuteness. Those animations may have made a lot of money, but at the same time it was also forgettable. That wasn't to say that UP isn't cute, it is indeed VERY cute, especially the chubby little boy. But there was more to its superficial cuteness; beyond the hilarious adventure by the duo(the other being the stubborn old man), I can clearly feel the theme of undying love and lifelong dream, and what made it great is that the animators were able to capture such profound theme perfectly in an animation which main selling point should be cuteness and jokes. I wholeheartedly recommend UP to everyone, children and adult alike, definitely not to be missed!
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
26th Post: Black Tuesday
Not in the mood to blog lately, but heck, I'll do it for the sake of doing it. Decided to go back to Kuantan yesterday, so I went to Pudu to buy bus ticket at about 3pm. Once I arrived there, I got dragged by a Malay to buy the ticket from Sutra Liner (supposedly that's the name, couldn't bother less to remember that lousy bus company's name) even though I originally wanted to buy my ticket from Transnational. Didn't think much about it as I thought it wouldn't make any difference. (which I'm proven wrong later)
Anyway, the bus is scheduled to depart at 4.30pm, so I waited there patiently. However, the bus still hasn't arrive at 5pm. So the other passengers and I were told to wait upstairs. Suddenly all the passengers swarmed to the company's booth and so I followed them soon after, then we were told that the bus break down and would only arrive later. Apparently the Malay worker had a quarrel with one of the Indian passenger about the refund stuff and they almost fight, it's not my business but that took up a lot of my time to get my money back.
A friendly Malay passenger told me that I can get a 6.30 ticket from Transnational, but by the time I got there the ticket for 6.30pm was sold out and the next bus would be 8.30pm. I wandered around and asked all the other booths but none has earlier bus to Kuantan. In the end, I gave up and bought the 8.30pm bus ticket. Buying the ticket from the Sutra Liner is the profoundest mistake I've ever made, I curse that freaking company sincerely: hope you'll bankrupt soon. And so I waited at the Pudu bus station from before 3pm to 8.30pm and reach Kuantan at almost 12.30am! I almost choke from all the carbon monoxide there, one of the most miserable day in my life. I shall affirm my stand again: Curse you, Sutra Liner and I'll never buy another ticket from your company again.
Anyway, the bus is scheduled to depart at 4.30pm, so I waited there patiently. However, the bus still hasn't arrive at 5pm. So the other passengers and I were told to wait upstairs. Suddenly all the passengers swarmed to the company's booth and so I followed them soon after, then we were told that the bus break down and would only arrive later. Apparently the Malay worker had a quarrel with one of the Indian passenger about the refund stuff and they almost fight, it's not my business but that took up a lot of my time to get my money back.
A friendly Malay passenger told me that I can get a 6.30 ticket from Transnational, but by the time I got there the ticket for 6.30pm was sold out and the next bus would be 8.30pm. I wandered around and asked all the other booths but none has earlier bus to Kuantan. In the end, I gave up and bought the 8.30pm bus ticket. Buying the ticket from the Sutra Liner is the profoundest mistake I've ever made, I curse that freaking company sincerely: hope you'll bankrupt soon. And so I waited at the Pudu bus station from before 3pm to 8.30pm and reach Kuantan at almost 12.30am! I almost choke from all the carbon monoxide there, one of the most miserable day in my life. I shall affirm my stand again: Curse you, Sutra Liner and I'll never buy another ticket from your company again.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
25th Post: Eye Candies
Thought of updating the blog, but nothing to write about, so I'll share some pics in this new post, from the exciting 'Alice in the wonderland' movie by Tim Burton! First up, posters for the characters:
Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter
Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen
Anne Hathaway as The White Queen
Matt Lucas as Tweedledee & Tweedledum
They look nothing short of fantastic in their meticulously crafted costumes and make-up. And here's some eye-catching concept arts for the movie:
Alice and the talking flowers
Alice and the HUGE rabbit
Alice and the enigmatic twins
As a bonus, here's a snap shot for everyone's favorite Chesire Cat XD
I'm so looking forward to the movie, being set to premiere on March 2010 tentatively, don't forget to mark it down on your 'to watch' list!
Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter
Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen
Anne Hathaway as The White Queen
Matt Lucas as Tweedledee & Tweedledum
They look nothing short of fantastic in their meticulously crafted costumes and make-up. And here's some eye-catching concept arts for the movie:
Alice and the talking flowers
Alice and the HUGE rabbit
Alice and the enigmatic twins
As a bonus, here's a snap shot for everyone's favorite Chesire Cat XD
I'm so looking forward to the movie, being set to premiere on March 2010 tentatively, don't forget to mark it down on your 'to watch' list!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
24th Post: Crabs
Do you like to eat crabs? No, this post isn't about me eating crabs or how delicious they are. I recently came cross news about protecting crabs. Apparently, laws to protect animal generally only applies to vertebrate(don't throw away your bio just yet), but then there are moves to include the laws to crabs and lobsters as well(yup, the ones you eat at seafood restaurant) in the European countries. The reason for them to do so is because they found out that crabs have nervous system similar to us, so they deduce that they would experience pain as well.
Imagine when you boil the lobsters alive, they would scream like: OH~~ OH~~ my meat, my delicious meat is excruciatingly painful because of some ravenous human being who boiled me to fill their stomach!! So they think they can torture us like this just because they are some human being!! OH~~ OH~~ this is so inhumane and they still call themselves human being!! OH~~ OH~~ Can't they imagine the feeling of being boiled in such hot water of 100 degree celcius? Don't they have any intelligence at all and yet they still call themselves human being....
Ok, let's stop here. I'll leave the rest to your imagination but I guess you would have understand by now.=D But would a crab really experience pain just because they have the nervous system? Crabs can hear too, but do you REALLY think they know how to enjoy opera(by Sarah Brightman)? Some proposed that crab would not feel pain because their nervous system would fail at 25 degree celcius, so it would be a mistake to include them in the welfare laws. Well, what do you think?
Imagine when you boil the lobsters alive, they would scream like: OH~~ OH~~ my meat, my delicious meat is excruciatingly painful because of some ravenous human being who boiled me to fill their stomach!! So they think they can torture us like this just because they are some human being!! OH~~ OH~~ this is so inhumane and they still call themselves human being!! OH~~ OH~~ Can't they imagine the feeling of being boiled in such hot water of 100 degree celcius? Don't they have any intelligence at all and yet they still call themselves human being....
Ok, let's stop here. I'll leave the rest to your imagination but I guess you would have understand by now.=D But would a crab really experience pain just because they have the nervous system? Crabs can hear too, but do you REALLY think they know how to enjoy opera(by Sarah Brightman)? Some proposed that crab would not feel pain because their nervous system would fail at 25 degree celcius, so it would be a mistake to include them in the welfare laws. Well, what do you think?
Monday, July 6, 2009
23rd Post: Emoness
It's been quite some time since I last blogged, just not in the mood to do so even right now, just doing this to keep the blog alive. I wouldn't really associate 'emo' with me usually, but somehow I got kinda emo plus stressful lately thanks to all those terrible essays topics that I need to write for the university application. All those topics are like wanting to dig into the deepest core of my soul and find out what's really hidden in there. I have to ask myself all sorts of abstract question that test me on my understanding to life and myself. At this rate I will be bald in a few months time... Ok, time to give this emo person some time to calm down...
p/s: OMG, I just thought that it is a coincidence, but one of the university I'm applying to, Colgate University actually have a strong tie with William Colgate, the maker of Colgate Toothpaste!
p/s: OMG, I just thought that it is a coincidence, but one of the university I'm applying to, Colgate University actually have a strong tie with William Colgate, the maker of Colgate Toothpaste!
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