like silent stars in the cinema...

what a week! haha. it has been really physically fulfilling BECAUSE i've been attending some fitness classes at the gym plus salsa class and i just went for argentine tango trial class today which was...eh hem, pretty interesting. i'm just not used to such contact so i guess i must loosen up a bit la huh. it was pretty fun though although at first the vibe was kinda weird as if sakina and i were strangers with the entire class coz the entire class seems to know each other. but after a while it got better. woo hoo, i'm one step closer to realising my argentine tango dreams! (:

gym classes have been entertaining to say the least. the instructors are quirky especially the one who conducted both cardio shape and body combat classes. he has the corniest lines ever which made nadia and i look at each other in a "what-did-he-just-do" look. like going "oh oh oh oh oh oh" to beyonce's crazy in love which was one of the songs he used for the workout. HAHA. funny. i think i will be going for his classes from now on AFTER I RETURN FROM...JAPAN! :D

i watched LOTR: the fellowship of the ring yesterday and it was pretty slowmoving though i still like it. the hobbits are really funny, esp pippin and merry. GANDALF is cool. and this is one of my favourite lines from the movie-

Legolas: Lembas, one bite and it is enough to fill a grown man's stomach (i think this is the line..or somewhat like it) -turns away
Merry (to Pippin): How many did you have?
Pippin: Four.

HAHA (:

okay then bye bye!

meant to blog i guess about the week or the past 2 weeks but truth is, i think my memory is fading or i just don't feel like blogging about them at all. but i do want to share a good song with y'all!

To the Winter
By Brett Anderson

Called you on your private number
left a message on your mobile phone
even tried the operator
when i call, no one's home
trying just so hard to reach you 
try to keep this thing alive
you are the woman i need to speak to
didn't you know there's a monster inside

if you're gonna carry on then deep inside
i'll give my heart to the winter
if you leave i'll take this blade and carve your name into my ugliness

so i went and sat in crystal palace
by the plastic dinosaurs
in my pocket there was a piece of paper
and the writing look like yours
started picking thru our conversations
kicking thru the rotten leaves
never realise the implication
didnt you know there's a monster in me

if you're gonna carry on then deep inside
i'll give my heart to the winter
if you leave i'll take this blade and carve your name into my ugliness....

the lyrics are incomplete, lazy to type somemore. haha but brett anderson is a genius though it doesn't feel the same as when he was with suede.

i still love him though! woot. 

i wonder where i should start. quite a couple of things have occurred since the last time i blogged. just came back from malaysia yesterday and did a bit of shopping by getting the things i want-- bags, shoes and i did a slight diversion by getting a top. haha. shoes-- i got 2 pairs of heels which i shouldnt have, but oh well i like them and they were relatively cheap so hey. (: i'm still tempted to get those melissa pumps from novo since its on sale and that should stop me from spending anymore money, be it my parents or mine. although most of the time it's my parents, heh. :/

i can't seem to remember what happened last week but today was A GREAT DAY I FEEL GOOD. haha. that is because i handled a car for the first time in my life!!!!!! (: i touched the wheel and turned it, played with the accelerator and brakes woot. my instructor was a nice person, cheerful but at times he reminded me of my dad. which he shouldnt because he's pretty young but in any case, he only reminded me of my dad because of the way he told me about my turning. "DON'T TURN SO SLOW, TURN FASTER, YOUR SPEED IS FAST SO U MUST GO FAST!" okay not so dramatic, but its that "i'm anxious" tone.  i think i almost hit two cars because of my inattentive self. boy, driving needs a whole lot of attention and constant attention especially which can be half bad for me since i drift off sometimes. but not to worry! it's my first time. i hope i can drive to school soon. (:

following that, i had my 2nd salsa class which is getting slightly more complicated but i can still manage. it's pretty fun, getting to dance with older ppl and i do mean pretty old, maybe 10 to 20 years older than you kinda people. and i guess i do learn a bit here and there from the older ppl who have danced salsa before, i.e my original partner mr... i don't really know who but who was pretty serious yet helpful. there's this other man who's pretty experienced and helpful but sometimes too helpful to the extent of annoying. there's this OTHER man who's also new..walao super annoying. i dont like dancing with him when theres a switch of partners. *shudders. heheh. 

my bro and i bought the new, well not so new, edition of tenchu-- tenchu: fatal shadows. FUN. ninja! but i dont like the new character, maybe it takes some getting used to. in any case, ayame is still my favourite. i think the game glamorizes the whole ninja thing coz in ancient japan,being a ninja was considered dishonourable but here, i think it's cool. hehe. another game we got is LOTR: return of the king. we played that before but we didnt own the game so now we do and i like playing it especially 2 players. wah damn fun. i'm not much of a gamer but when i find games i enjoy... that's a different story. i also chose this game called rayman- raving rabbits. it's damn silly and mindless. which is good, just for a laugh. 

i wonder what it's like to be a dog....
hmm. (i only think this because i'm looking at my dog brownie. yes the foxy dog in the pic. the demon dog which i love to hug and irritate.)

turrah.
NINJA!

aah iron man... i wasnt very keen on the movie at first, but i did want to watch it and it was a pretty cool movie. i shall refrain from saying that i think robert downey jr is hot although with that sentence i already did. he kind of reminds me of johnny depp. talented, handsome, bla bla bla...(okay i just googled him since sakina did, and he does not look good on google so dont try googling him, just watch him on ironman) but i have a question-- why isit that when superheroes don a suit or become super huge or sth, their voices change? to something much deeper, sometimes cooler or if they're villains, it goes super sinister and weird. it's funny coz they're still them, u know? 

AND WHY IS IT THAT
there are no female superheroes that have the privilege of being captured on the big screen? even in such an industry, there is sexism. TERRIBLE. but of course there isnt a lot to choose from. the only 2 female superheroes i can think of are hawkgirl who i detest so very much and wonderwoman. if they do a film on hawkgirl, i think they'd better not do it at all. she's such a waste of superhero space. i'm sorry to all hawkgirl fans but she is by far, the most annoying and useless member of the justice league.

i bought two dresses today for 11.50 and 32 dollars. i need to stop spending and i think i will since i already got what i want. i'm just left with getting shoes and a bag for school and tadah i'm done. i refuse to believe or think i am a shopaholic. NO. and i dont know why nad thinks that shopping is a defining feature of me "growing up" or "being a girl". TSK. i have to stop being materialistic. 

i'm trying to come up with more philosophical stuff for this blog instead of talking about my pseudo-adventures here in urban singapore but i havent been exercising my brain that much. i can't wait to start thinking again and i can't believe i failed 3 outta my 6 etrials. proof that either my brain is starting to malfunction or e-learning isn't as informative as it is. i'd like to think its the latter. i have this weird idea for a story, something about a postman. i need to work on that. 

au revoir!
(why is happy not one of my listed moods?!)

something happened yesterday that made me slightly ashamed of myself. i was on the train on the way to work and i heard this mewing sound. i thought it was some kind of trick at first, y'know what with all the handphone technology. but it didn't stop and it grew incessant, so i look out to my far right and there i see a boy shaking this plastic bag which i guess the kitten was in. i wanted so badly to help but i didnt know if it was appropriate or i was just scared. if i'm correct, the boy was actually asking for help, which even the lady sitting right next to him didnt give. so when we reached the pasir ris stop, he got off and walked off frantically and i saw why the kitten was mewing, it was clinging to the plastic bag from the outside. 

and i didn't even do anything about it. :( 
i still wonder why the kid didnt just put the cat back in the bag, coz i mean it's so small. i feel ashamed because i mean, it's such a singaporean thing to do, just sit there and stare. if only i were brave enough....

in other news, there isn't any work today, i'm so happy! 

in MORE other news, i've been watching the friday night project hosted by none other than ALAN CARR and justin lee collins which is sooo fun to watch. go to youtube and check it out people! it's especially funny when they do the segment called friday night news where alan brings out his topical barometer. hehe. 

i can't believe the amount of time i have on my hands but yet i'm not doing anything much about it. i'm working--that's a check but i'm not doing enough to earn me enough money to get me going around the world or sth, y'knw? and then i wonder, why must my free time come now coz when i start working thats when im gona get the real money but then, i wouldnt have the time. gah. so i'm just trying to make the most of what i've got-- learning things that i want to learn. LIKE THE ARGENTINE TANGO! it is like the hottest (or one of the hottest) latin dances, its so cool but i don't have a dancing partner and no, i haven't started learning either. poof.

:/

today was a day at work and it was okay, it got better after a while. some kids should and must be shot or smacked so that they will know their place. SSS is not a place for your karaoke sessions, your chit-chat tea sessions or for me to babysit you. and when i say get out, i do mean get out. i don't want your (its a plural) faces here because its a waste of my time and the other people who want to learn. disgusting. 

God bless those who are motivated or willing to learn or even a wee bit disciplined. it really helps.

well, this entry IS dedicated to the man on the train. i was hungry and i was sitting in the corner seat of the train eating my hotdog bun. i wasn't littering, i wasn't dropping any crumbs, i wasn't even disrupting anyone (because i don't chew with my mouth open) and the train hadn't even left the station yet. But this man (i will not insult him) tries to get my attention by waving his arm at me which i happen to see from the corner my eye and when i showed him a slight hint of acknowledgement, he points to the "NO FOOD AND DRINK" sign.  so what did i do?

i nodded slightly and went back to eating my bun. (: 
thank you, purveyor of the law, for bringing to my attention to what i already know. i was just really hungry, so give me a break. i didn't disturb anything. 

 I SEE that this blogging thing seems kind of fun. but then again, it's new and people get excited with new things before dumping it in a corner after getting used to it-- so i guess you know where this blog is heading. haha.

some interesting thing happened in the past six hours. my mum's birthday celebration! i realised how my mum would organize and make things so called "in order" for our birthdays but when it comes to hers, she has to manage it herself. We gave her our decoy gift because she was expecting (although she denies it) air supply concert tickets. so it was an air supply CD with a card. she was obviously waiting for her tickets in the card because we were hanging around her room too much it was getting suspicious. but TOO BAD we weren't going to give her the satisfaction. i/we came up with a lil lie saying that the tix were sold out so this was the best of air supply that we could get and after reading the card, she looked defeated and was about to grumble to my dad -- i could so tell-- until my brothers came in and went "surprise"! 

She wasnt surprised. She looked like she was recovering from some shock because we, in her words, "kill her joy"-- we make her sad then happy again. she wanted a surprise that was more of the unexpected kind but how to do that when she was already like sort of in the know of us getting her the tickets?! so this is the best alternate surprise we can give her which unfortunately, must involve some pain.  hey, it's still a surprise.

tenchu, the video game, is teaching me real stealth. that is, if i were a ninja and were in a video game. i played it with my brother and it's been about four years since we last played it. it's pretty good, requires the brain to think. well, okay maybe in select missions but i'm not complaining, it's fun. 

here are a few thoughts or maybe just one: why is it that when a poly student excels, it goes into the news? i mean its good and all, but it gives me the impression that its as if we dont expect poly students or other ppl to do as well as those who naturally get into uni. Does background really matter? if you do good, you do good. that's all. 

OKAY OFF TO MORE ALAN CARR.

bye bye!

i just typed an entry and then it disappeared coz i pressed the "Back" button to re-do something.  walaoooo!!!!!

ok i will re-type everything to the best of my memory.

this is my first entry after my run-ins with blogs or anything related and because nad wants to read "something interesting"-- she's like an almost muse with a knife. HAHA

anyways, i was talking about shopping in my almost first entry and how i have to stop because i hardly shop and decide to remain that way. and then i said how shopping bonds my mother and i together because we talk about how i got ripped off, coz we argue about why she must always spend on me and why my things are usually expensive (but i hardly shop, so it kind of offsets things doesn't it?), coz we share where to get reasonable/cheap/nice stuff. another plus point would be when she gives me things which she mis-bought and i can wear. :D
i guess we dont always have to disagree with our mums.

i've discovered another comedian who i like. his name is ALAN CARR, hes damn gay and so damn funny. okay in my almost first entry i tried putting the link to one of his clips, so i will attempt to do it again. CHECK THIS OUT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKwH58H7esU and in case i mistyped anything then just go to youtube and type "alan carr chats with the queen" and voila! hopefully you guys (i'm assuming there's more than one person who's going to read it haha) will watch it but if you dont, then whatever la, i tried to share something "beautiful" with the world. 

i also did, in my almost first entry, illustrated the evolution of my mood while working at prps. it went in a flowchart fashion, i was EAGER---> WILLING AND WANTING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE---> GETTING A LITTLE BIT ANNOYED BUT STILL LIKING IT---> GETTING VERY ANNOYED AND NOT REALLY LIKING IT--->  GETTING SO ANNOYED TO THE POINT THAT I'M LOSING MY ENERGY---> LOSing my energy, getting kind of jaded ---> i give up.  so here's to another 2 weeks to that school and the brats. i'm only there for the money now and the occasional motivated kid which is like a needle in a haystack.

so here's as far as my first (or 2nd) entry will go
TURRAH.