what would my mama do | what would my daddy say
They’d probably tell me that a smile and a laugh do not solve everything. I should start being my age. And I should keep reminding myself about people and their bubbles. Being caught up in an age (or pretending too much to be in that age) during which I don’t think I fulfilled anything much is dangerous anyway.
A random quote: “You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.“ - Margaret Drabble
Okay. Stupid weather is driving me nuts as well. Nap.
tik tok on the clock but the party won’t stop woah oh oh oh
And I’m supposed to be sleeping but I can’t bring myself to sleep yet. Somehow. Weird lei. And I need to wake up at 5+ to do readings for tmr’s ICL if I wanna have breakfast with hall buddies @ 8 and to follow other hall buddies to Careers Fair @ 10 and meet law buddies for lunch @ 12. Sich is the life of a student. It didn’t help that I marginally understood today’s lessons on Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” (there was something about how society dealt or deals with inadequacies if different ways or something) and IRS (we went through a cheem treatise on EU and EC law and their interaction with international conventions and how EU states have to grapple with both domestic obligations with international conventions and how the community can completely trump that). And I’m bloody sleepy. It seems that I will need 2 cups of teh peng to survive tmr’s ICL.
Anyway, Amplitude 09/10 was yesterday and I had a ball! It was soo fun – my last Amplitude so I was actually pretty sad – been in Amplitude since Year 1 lei. But I wanna form an Alumni acca group thingy so we can join them next year to perform at Amplitude or at PhoenixFest! Wheeee. We did Enya’s “May It Be”, Emmy Rossum’s “Slow Me Down” and “Sing Me to Heaven” which were all well received whee 
It does show that numbers do not really matter as long as you do it slow, steady and very well! I’m gonna miss choir loads when I leave hall and embark on a mind-numbing legal career. Argh. ><
Anyway, true to my fashion of trying to spice things up, with the help of C, I came up with a script that was intentionally cheesy to the max!
Once upon a time, as all stories begin, there lived a group of students who chose to live in a land of books, labs and assignments. these students would always be stuck in a book or to their laptops, oblivious to everything. One day however, these students became tired of living their lives this way and all alone. With this in mind, they began a rousing prayer.
<<Enya – May it be>>
Then lo and behold as if by magic, many found another with whom they could share their lives with. They’d spend hours reminiscing and sharing deep philosophical thoughts – like why plastic bags flew in a circular motion on a windy day, as if blown by some unknown force which understood beauty in simplicity. Some however began to doubt: Was this the right person? Things are moving way to quickly – Slow me down please?
<<Emmy Rossum – Slow Me Down>>
Once however each one of them knew that this was right and that feelings were mutual, they kept on with their promises and married that very girl or boy that they met that fateful day – when they stumbled upon their shoes or when a book fell on their feet or when by some freaky chance, they got to sit next to each other in a module that had assigned seating. At one of their weddings where each of them vowed to live with each other through sickness and in health till death did them apart, they sang a tune to each other that further sealed this sacred bond between them. This is that very song.
<<Sing Me to Heaven>>
And yes you guessed it. My favorite line has to be about the plastic bags flying – it just somehow always intrigued me when I was a child. Till now still actually. Haha.
And so I’ll miss you Choir! We have one more thing coming up – PhoenixFest and then it’s adieu till long. Argh. I don’t want to go to work. Okay – SLEEP.
time together isn’t ever quite enough
Heard this on the way back from crubbing on I’s car. Been listening to it for ages ever since K intro-ed me to Owl City. This, together with Dear Vienna and Fireflies, were the songs I’d listen to day in day out during exam prep. I love the simplicity and earnestness of all the songs. I have to see these guys live I think. And my favourite line has to be “We’ll turn out all of the lights and set this ballroom aglow” – this conversation between them is soo sweet and lovely. I wish I had conversations like this.
Back to IRS assignment - BAH.
Saltwater Room by Owl City
I opened my eyes last night and saw you in the low light
Walking down by the bay, on the shore, staring up at the planes that aren’t there anymore
I was feeling the night grow old and you were looking so cold
Like an introvert, I drew my over shirt
Around my arms and began to shiver violently before
You happened to look and see the tunnels all around me
Running into the dark underground
All the subways around create a great sound
To my motion fatigue: farewell
With your ear to a seashell
You can hear the waves in underwater caves
As if you actually were inside a saltwater room
Time together isn’t ever quite enough
When you and I are alone, I’ve never felt so at home
What will it take to make or break this hint of love?
We need time, only time
When we’re apart, whatever are you thinking of?
If this is what I call home, why does it feel so alone?
So tell me darling, do you wish we’d fall in love?
All the time, all the time
Can you believe that the crew has gone and wouldn’t let me sign on
All my islands have sunk in the deep, so I can hardly relax or even oversleep
I feel as if I were home some nights, when we count all the ship lights
I guess I’ll never know why sparrows love the snow
We’ll turn out all of the lights and set this ballroom aglow
So tell me darling, do you wish we’d fall in love?
All the time.
Time together isn’t ever quite enough
When you and I are alone, I’ve never felt so at home
What will it take to make or break this hint of love?
We need time, only time
When we’re apart whatever are you thinking of?
If this is what I call home, why does it feel so alone?
So tell me darling, do you wish we’d fall in love?
All the time, all the time
Time together isn’t ever quite enough
When we’re apart whatever are you thinking of?
What will it take to make or break this hint of love?
So tell me darling, do you wish we’d fall in love?
All the time
i had a little bit too much | all of the people start to rush by
And so. I am finally back in my room.
Awesome night out with friends (and a new friend too!) – Happy birthday B! I love evenings like this when I really don’t have a care in the world at all. And I care zilch about what happens the day after – haha actually i do lahr but yeah you get it.
Thanks guys for an awesome evening out It was really really fun!
Awesome shit
Yesterday’s hall exchange between Raffles Hall and Hall XI was some awesome shit Awesome way to start off a horrendous semester of school again next week. Haha… Did Dirty Little Secret + Insomnia + Bad Romance for Unplugged/Band – a small part of my fave songs in my head haha. Really awesome and fun day throughout.
Anyway, some more awesome shit!
I love the music and I love the graphics. I love especially the centrality of TV causing the detriment of everything else haha Enjoy.
We wiishhuuuu … a happynewyearahappynewyearahappynewyear!!!
Ok right this is a really really belated post for the New Year’s but anyhoooo – HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone.
(taken from Cl’s facebook – sorry sorry!)
Well well well. 2009 was a rollercoaster of sorts – it was mad. it was crazy. it was zany. it was fun. it was intense. it was a lot of things. i made a lot of very important friends. i think i may have created enemies along the way too that will make life a bit harder when work comes along. but 2009 was a year to remember. like all the other years of my life of course. but 2009 was somehow special in its own way.
As I sat in the chalet that night on the thirtyfirstofdecembertwoohohnine and looked to the heavens filled with stars and a beautiful cloudy sky where the moon was still beautifully visible, I looked to my left – I saw a big group of teens having a ball of a time creating a club in that tiny chalet of theirs and getting pissed drunk (coz the guys were taking off their shirts and puking all over the place), I looked to my right – I saw another pretty big group of friends barbecuing and getting drunk too haha and as I looked around me in the chalet, I saw all of my law friends with whom I had decided to join at the spur of the moment thanks to much cajoling on Ch’s part (thanks Ch!!!) – they were all smiling after having gotten drinks and having partaked in some really random drinking games. I was happy being there. Very very happy and I was glad that I was able to spend New Year’s with these bunch of people – friends with whom I’ve made acquaintance with throughout my life in law school which is sadly coming to an end in a semester’s time.
As a few of them started going around taking snapshots of people smiling deliriously and shouting happy new year abruptly at random moments, I felt a pang of regret for not having taken a million shots of life in school and hall with the disgusting books and notes and cases only made better due to the company of friends I’ve made in hall and in law school. *As you can see, this post does not really have a point but I shall ramble on coz I can’t seem to sleep even though it’s four friggin morning and I’ve got to be up by 10 in order to meet up with the guys at Ion at 12. Ya – okay I should have taken more photos but the few that I have I will treasure for life. It’s not the end yet but it is coming come the end of this semester and I’ve no idea if I can meet up with all these wonderful friends again once P|LC and the feared Training|Contract begins (the horror! – eepsss!) so I better make full use of my final semester with these wonderful people and spend proper quality time with them – I’ll miss you all so much when school ends!!! Shit. Why on earth must school end? Ok yes reality is supposed to smack a big wet stinky fish on my face after graduation but shit can’t it come a bit later? Dammit.
Anyway, I have decided (which was something I should have done eons ago) to not make up a list of stuff I wanna achieve by the end of this year coz chances are given my track record, they will not happen. Instead I shall write down things that WILL friggin happen.
- Take a gazillion photos with friends
- Get my butt down to Australia and New Zealand for grad trip and visit friends down under
- Find joy (in whatever degree that will be in) during P|LC and TC
- Party and work hard like there’s no tomorrow this final semester – it’s the final lap so I must friggin do well – last sem was pretty good by my standards.
Randomly, I never actually noticed how much greenery there actually is in RH. Randomly too I rarely notice people when they talk to other people – how their body language changes with the person they’re talking to. Randomly too it seems that I have forgotten to smell the grass and morning scents that come with the dawning of each new day – sounds terribly optimistic and harkens gay (as in happy gay) villagers romping (as in dancing and singing) around on mossy green fields of vast areas but I recall someone saying that lawyers are the most pessimistic of us human beings – I beg to differ (naaa-uhhh and swings fingers Elle style in Legally Blonde). Maybe I should seriously take note of my surroundings from now on. A bit late yes but I swear that’s why random insects enter my room all the time – and that includes *&^*&$*%^* mosquitoes that can’t seem to leave me and my blood alone. Bloody bitches. Maybe I should add another thing to the list – to exterminate every single blardy insect that DARES enter my room uninvited. But I know I can’t do that – the moment a cockroach enters the room, everything seems a blur.
And so with that, twothousandnine ended with me being in the company of awesome friends shouting at the top of my hoarse voice “five four three two one happy new yearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!” and then twentyten began like any other year, full of hopes and dreams and memories of events and people who have somehow crossed paths with me and filled a part of my everyday life, no matter how small. I thank you all for being there and being part of me in a way. Fate has a strange way of working but when things like this (and other things of course) happen, who should we thank? Fate? I don’t know. But am I truly grateful for everything’s that’s happened? Yes. By golly I truly am.
How did it go again: I eat you eat shit lobster? And what was the rule again: that you have to put up your hand to speak at all times?
Woots! – Happy new year people and may all of you (yes every single one of you) have an awesome year ahead. Wait. You WILL have an awesome year ahead. This year will be our year – we’ll make it that way.
Korean blast :)
Oops I got back to hall a bit too late to make it for choir prac – no worries. I shall go borrow the scores from Jerome later to go and learn the rest – I alr know them, just need to refresh them haha. Here are a few new Korean songs I discovered while studying for my mad mods this sem – ENJOY.
I shall write abt Bali tonight! I hopeees.
die cred sec die – a pre-exam post
Die cred sec die – wherefore art thou such a pimple in my life?
Go forth and pimple-fy other lives, not mine.
Arghhh… I should never have taken credsec – it’s the type of module that I vowed never to take ever again – after which I promptly found myself taking it this semester. blardy hell. It’s almost over. A week of torture (as if conflicts of law was not enough) will be over TMR. I will feast on life tmr and paradise on a little island thereafter! Sich is life. Suffer now, enjoy life later. I hope work’s not like this – it will be but there’s always this thing called hope.
This is what I look like right now and what I think of credsec.
Die credsec die. I just can’t wait for this paper to end.
Till tmr, and hello guarantees, pledges and performance bonds – oh how much i love you all.
think i’m addicted to your light
dedicated to the one (and anyone else) who’s emoing right now. it will be all right – the sem’s almost over! jiayous.
i haven’t teared for the longest time but this was too touching not to feel anything. 
beyonce’s so sweet. she fulfilled that girl’s dream.
