Monday, December 22, 2008

Let's burn our dreams into the skyline.

Good morning to sweaters and time machines,
I'm struggling from yesterday's hype,
And dwelling in tomorrow's misery.

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Lots of things happened this week. Well in short, the sleepover was meant to be doing Mel's scrapbook/birthday present. IT WAS HORRIBLE, BACK-BREAKING, LABORIOUS WORK. We are never ever doing it again. Well in short, Jenny was going Hitler style and we kept quarreling and she kept beating me up because she has the strength of a man and im weak. Nick kept going back to his computer every five seconds and luki disappeared at 5 for his job, so we lost all motivation in continuing.

But after three days, we finally completed it! Hallelujah.

ALSO, angus thongs was brills.

Aaron johnson was smoking hot. Recommended for every girl who likes sexy british accents and guys with the best hair/shoulders/bod in the world. I swear, we were the most noisy group in the cinema. Sarah G even said really loudly at one point of time 'GOD I LOVE HIS SHOULDERS.' felt quite mortified, but felt compelled to sing along when ultraviolet/ever fallen in love started playing.

Definitely one of my favourite movies of the year.

Went jeans shopping for the lads and to finish up mel's scrapbook. Luki and Nick got Levis and we sat around in starbucks being bums YET AGAIN, while waiting for mel. Went to some steamboat place to celebrate mel's birthday and it was awful fun.

MEL BETTER LIKE HER PRESENT OR IMMA KILL HER.



Christmas service was not too shabby. Although the awkward pauses in between sections were well, AWKWARD. eek. Our jazz piece, artfully named 'NANA' by pastor william was quite a fail. Bah.

The skit and mime was aussome. i think everyone did a brilliant job XP The weirdest thing was that we couldnt change out of our costumes or take off makeup while serving food. Which was horrible in my case because i was a drunk, emo punk. But the most hilarious, by far was luki, who was jesus in the skit and also the drummer of our band.


and suddenly a light shone around him, and the drumset levitated a few feet off the ground.


Last night went to mel's place for dinner and watched some old church videos. Holy cows, it was funneh. Nick was such a cute boy last time and now look what happened. AND JEN OMG JEN WAS FUNNEH.




So there's nothing much to say but its off to chocolate-agogo-land now! Wishing everyone a wicked christmas and an aussome new year! See you all in January. :)

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Stay for a moment! (i promise i will be different.)

Do you feel this like i do?
Today i just can't help smiling,
all this hope is making my face ache,
sign me up for the next heartbreak,
because i know its all worth it.
You know i feel this,
like you do.

I do hope you feel this like i do,
I'm just not the type to wait,
Wait for last year's summer flings,
come alive again.
I'm just not the kind to bring,
pastlives into the picture,
jump the fence and live.

oh yes i'm feeling this
like you do.

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Ola amigos.

I finally got hold of william and he told me how to download video converters for my ipod classic. YAY. So now i've got the whole of Final Riot and some other misc videos to watch on the long busrides to town/to church/to claudia's house(yes on a cab hiatus because of lack of monetary funds.)

Im pretty stoked about tomorrow's angus thongs and full-frontal perfect snogging with the Sarahs and Patti tomorrow. Although i know its pretty much a waste of eight bucks to see something that i can always watch on the flight but its for the CINEMATIC experience. I feel ridiculously happy just thinking about seeing Aaron J's face on the big screen (although his appeal was slighty marred by the hordes of ah lians who have only recently heard of the book/show and been going all gaga over him.)

Anyway, i hope there will actually be tickets for the show tomorrow, which will probably be the case because the same flock of ah lians are probably going to catch Twilight's opening. Wherein i rest my case that all ah lians are blind because they think robert pattison is um, hot. Catching the 11:30 show so that i can meet the lads later and convince them to wear skinny jeans!!

which i think is an apt punishment, because all nick and luki ever does these days are to make a joke out of paramore just to annoy me!


Here's a quiz i got tagged by Sarahbarah to do and it sounds like aussome fun.



1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Tag 10 friends.
5. Everyone tagged as to do the same thing.6. Have Fun!

1. IF SOMEONE SAYS ‘ARE YOU OKAY’ YOU SAY?
Mmm Bop - Hanson [good grief. I forgot i have that song.]

2. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Stay Young - We the Kings [Oooh. Im peter pan! And i love the first line. 'Let's burn our dreams into the skyline]

3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Where we went wrong -The Hush Sound [Better be on the look out then.]

4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Never Knew - The Rocket Summer [SEE. why do you have to know anyway.]

5.WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
City - Sarah Bareilles [Build one? Burn one??! Ah mysteries.]

6. WHAT’S YOUR MOTTO?
Corrupter - McFly [Strange. me and sarah g was just saying how NOT corrupted i am.]

7. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Under my skin - Skillet [Wow thanks, my friends. I'm sure im not that annoying, and shut up Justin.]

8. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
That's What You Get - Paramore String Quartet

9. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Beverly Hills - Weezer [i so do not. but the song IS hilarious tho.]

10. WHAT IS 2 + 2?
The Day that i Die - Good charlotte [HAHA! math=death has always been a well known theory among students.]

11. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Jumper - Third Eye Blind.

12. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Dark Blue - Jack's Mannequin [Hurr. Unless i'm going to be dancing 71-hour marathons, i doubt it.]

13. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Golden - Fall Out Boy [HAHAHA.]

14. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
So Young - The Corrs [I hope this means i don't turn out to be some cradle-snatcher in my later life.]

15. WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Hey Juliet - LMNT [unless my husband's name is Juliet, i dont see how this can happen.]

16. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Grey - Yellowcard [Fitting to the mood, at least.]

17. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Tiny Plastic Cup - Kisschasy [what.]

18. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Clothes Off - Gym Class Heroes [which just goes to show how uncorrupted i am.]

19. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Molly Makeout - Friday Night Boys [hush, dont tell!]

20. WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
Sadie Hawkins Dance - Relient K

21. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Here in your arms - Hello Goodbye [im not that cheesy, but thanks all.]

22. WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Into Oblivion(reunion) - Funeral for a friend



Right. nine hours till angus thongs!!!

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

hush, its The Quiet come to stay.

You sing all your songs
in the key of Heartbreaker,
and i cant help
but to sing along as well,
this enchantment on melody,
im ensnared in its beauty.

But i have to admit,
you're rather good at this.
catching raindrops on streets
and singing,
oh i sing your song.

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Hey all, its been way to long since i last blogged. Its become quite a chore and things have been tres busy. Here are some pictures taken that i havent posted up. Apologies if the events are not in chronological order, i have quite a terror of a memory.

1. Okay first here are some pictures from kor swee cheng's photo exhibition. Of course a) since everything there was being sold at hundreds and b) because we were poor farts, we just ooh-ed and aah-ed over kor swee cheng's brilliant shots and mucked around outside.





The lads have become quite the vanity pack. taking cool photos and all.



jenny took like a billion more of nick. this is getting scary, older sisters should not lust over their younger brothers!!





OH GOODNESS ALEX.


2. Next, the last week was a major baking fest in our kitchen. To put a more homely feel into presents for the church and because we're sick of shopping, mother came up with this brilliant idea to bake cookies for well, pretty much everyone we know. Although it seemed like a really fun idea at first, it got dull and tiring after the hmmm, 1000th cookie??!

No i do not exaggerate. We clocked in a total of 16 hours of baking almost 2000 cookies and packing them into containers and writing endless labels and getting burnt by heated racks. it was mad mad mad work.

Sheri's silver nails (eek.) and the cookie dough.



3. So i pretty much turned sixteen last wednesday. I never really did celebrate my birthdays but this year i was fortunate enough to be granted two surprises! Tuesday night after jamming headed down to Vivo's bakerzin to have dinner with the usual bums. It was fun stuff, the steak and mushroom sandwich was drool worthy.

The best part of the evening was probably when the waiter forgot to bring in the surprise cake.



gerry also announced to all of us that she was going to canada and won't know when she'll be coming back. Wowee. And with no return ticket somemore!

Thanks for the aussome present :) i heard emilia had to hop around and breathe life into the bear or whatever crap the shop people made them do, so thanksmuch for embarrasing yourself!


4. This ridiculous surprise party at my place on wednesday planned elaborately by the youth group. It was quite um, surprising. except mel accidently spilt everyone the night before and i would be lying if i said i didnt expect something weird to happen like that.

What WAS surprising, tho, was the fact that mom was lying to me the whole time. I was under the impression that all the food was for her chinese lifenet but it wasnt. Mom, you are insanely fantastic at lying!

They made me do all sorts of weird crap so i could get my birthday present such as...
a) headbang and do airguitar. the perils of too many people reading your blog.
b) Spaz on the floor like some dying cockroach
c) sing crushcrushcrush and run rounds around my house, which in case you haven't noticed isn't big exp with twenty people scattered around.

and whole lot of other stuff. and they made me rip up a teddy bear too GAH.

4. Went out with shanna to shop for some stuff on thursday if im not wrong. was dead tired.

BWAHAHAHAH. i knew your time would come.

anyway we were walking from heeren (bought twilight soundtrack and kisschasy from HMV, the only place to be!) to far east and it was raining pups and kittens. Like srsly. So instead of waiting at the lobby of the building like all the other cheap bozos, went to get an umbrella from seven eleven. but because we were also somewhat cheap bozos, we only got one and it was hell.

By the time we got to far east, we were freaking wet and cold and laughing our asses off.

5. On saturday me ains nic and luki went to the swee lee sale. i cant remember for peanuts what we were doing before that. anyhoos, it was 50% off and i really didnt expect to buy anything at all. So it seemed kind of a waste of time to cue up for an hour to get to the showroom.

BUT GUESS WHAT. I BOUGHT A FENDER STRATOCASTER. its wicked, and also a dream fulfilled. Plus a hard case and the strap locks (so i can try and swing the guitar around like rockstars do XD) and altogether it came up to about eight hundred dollars. Uncle william was nice enough to pay for it with his american express card when the bleep bleep from the NETS machine announced my account was a few dollars short. So i am officially wiped out.

Well as luki said, better to be poor and happy then to be rich and sad(which doesn't make sense figuratively because it is VAIR hard to be sad if you're filthy rich.)

Nick also bought a fender Jazz bass which cost about 1k plus total. ITS THE SAME ONE JEREMY DAVIS OF PARAMORE USES. absolutely brilliant.

6. Oh i remember what we did. Mom woke me up in the wee hours or dawn (8am, that is) to go to some ridiculous bodynits sale. caught a lift from aunt carol and jen and was whisked off to the factory, still groggy.

The worst of singaporean behaviour, EVER. Aunties were mad. They would push and shove and grab clothes right out of your hands! I heard a couple of the aunties swear in hokkien or some other crude dialect of the sort, and a snatching match ensued. I am sad to say that most of our church 'ladies', including my mom who i have always thought of as quite dignified, became like one of those teeth-baring aunties. Its amazing how good deals can bring out the worst in us.

7. Melahornie's surprise thing after church. we were mooching around because we always mooch around after church, and had nothing to do. Decided not to watch a movie and went to vivo instead to mooch. Went to this exhibition and alex wanted to go into some ice-room with a temperature of -1.5degrees.





So after that boring exhibition went to starbucks a.k.a money extortion coffee branch to hang out. Jennifer whipped out a pad and started to write a list of things to do after church besides being losers and hanging out at starbucks. Jie ains disappeared to get the cake from bakerzin for ONE HOUR and mel kept asking where she was. It was horrible.

The reason: SHE WENT TO THE WRONG STARBUCKS. apparently there are two starbucks in vivo and after getting the cake she went to the wrong one. unbelievable.

So it was sort of an epic failure. But none the less, a cake is a cake, and a birthday is a birthday. hurrah!






8. Dad got a new webcam and my ipod classic (FINALLY! but refuses to give it to me yet since my phone bill overshot.) so that means SKYPE ALL THE TIME. Webcaming is wikkid. Laughing your ass off while daring/watching justin to eat cat food is good. But hearing him say that it tasted, quote unquote, 'pretty darn aussome', is worrying.

perhaps you were a cat in your past life.

9. Sleepover at Jen's. She mauled me around her house as usual. SHE HAS THE STRENGTH OF A MAN. unforgettable moments: Jennifer crushing on some fat doo-da on television and hacking away at the movie itself. Waking up at 8am in the morning to a good american breakfast (aunty carol's homecooked food is brilliant) and snoozing all the way to penin. went to get megan's bass guitar. It was hilarious, because megan is as pint-sized as pint-sized can get, and the bass is huge on her. Imagine a little girl carrying an instrument she's only a couple of inches taller then. now you know.

10. Watched 'Don't forget the lyrics Singapore' reruns today after i knocked out for a couple of hours. HAS ANYONE SEEN OUR SCHOOL cleaner superintendent dancing on the stage?!! Yes he was on the show as one of the contestant's helpline and i called emilia to make sure it was him. It was a horrendous sight because a) He was wearing the same pink shirt like he wears all the freaking time, b) can't dance for his life and c) because he is a fifty-year old man. Fifty-year old men DO NOT go on local television shows and shake it. Its just wrong. and it should be barred, in my opinion.

but it was a pretty good laugh anyway.



Random stuff like that. Tomorrow there's music practise for christmas service and some other stuff before. There's absolutely no more time for jamming and learning/playing dota at alex's house, and that is tres sad. On a lighter note, the Angus Thongs gang are watching the movie this friday!

I can't wait. Walked past Shaw's Humongous Ad screen earlier today and saw Ultraviolet playing and sang along like a nut. Obviously, i was with the wrong people because Nick and Luki couldnt be bothered with 'The Hottest Living Dude on Earth with a Smexy British Accent'. BAH YOU'LL SEE.


Sorry for the looooong post. goodnight all, dawn is near.


P.S HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEL IF YOU ARE READING THIS. i hate choo for those pictures and the video. you are the worst, but you are also mel and so i forgive you. see you soon :)

Saturday, December 06, 2008

You keep pushing and pulling me down.

but i caught myself.

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So here's a quick update before i hit the sack for tomorrow.

These days have been full of music practices and over-shopping. Did i mention i survived bugis street? I just loathe going there, but apparently marilyn knew all the hot spots and i got my jeans quick. PHEW. We ate hella lot. Also, marilyn's new temporary obsession is TENNIS. So we went to look at 200-dollar racquets(is this how you spell it?? Justin said 'its RACKET lah'. you're right, bozo.) and she moaned and groaned and i left for music practise.

Here's a cool panel that jenny drew, which is a common occurance in the renegades music practise. As usual, i'm the otaku-ish looking one in a black shirt and thick glasses, which is a stereotype jen often uses in her drawings. Some things never change.





Its something jen never gets cause she's music-retarded. HAHA sorry but you said so yourself.
Lifenet, more music practise, dinner at maxwells.


P.S. paramore.net is having a 10% sales on almost all their items. i definitely want the twilight package right now because the other paramore song 'I Caught Myself' is wicked and worth the buy(also, we'll be able to get a few laughs out of it from rob pattison's track.)

LOVE THE MERCHANDISE. want it soooo bad.



Thursday, December 04, 2008

Too much to drink, she's a vision in pink.

he asks,
and skips away,
skips away to the beat of my heart,
now you wonder why,
he stole it
and called it his own.

Who is it?
and i want to know.
but he stole all the answers,
and we're left with none to show.

Who is the most beautiful person you know?
I shoot back the question to its keeper,
And its just like him to reply,
Its none other than you.
Well its times like these
that i'm at a loss for words.

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Firstly, some long overdue barbeque pictures.

Oh i must first explain that all those fuzzy snapshots with the neon-squiggly things are a result of Joy's discovery of creating 'Holga-style-pictures' without using an actual Holga. Which is a brilliant discovery indeed for unfortunate, holga-less people. Its a trade-secret!




The first pic when i am very unglamly chewing something. Ang look at the ghost effect of another me at the bottom left hand corner!! creeepy huh!!!?!



OOOOH. holga-style pictures also amplify a whole lot of other things. cough cough.


Joy's evolution into a three-headed creature had us all stunned momentarily.



ah with the right jersey number and all.

Oh i forgot to mention it, but some of us came as the twilight cast. But since the costume-party idea was abandoned, we threw the cut-out faces of bella/edward/james/alice etc etc all around XQ's porch. So dismembered faces on ice-cream sticks were everywhere, which looked extremely hilarious, not to mention grotesque.

Looks like Bella Swan's accident-prone nature really got her into serious injury this time.

AHHA. amanda came as um, a princess.
and she's in germany now, lucky gal.


polariods are wicked.

Yesterday someone suggested that we go play tennis at Jie ains house, and it seemed like a pretty good idea. A rather nice change from being a couch potato all the time, so headed there and knocked some balls around the court for near three hours. I think i'm pretty bad at tennis. I mean, all we did in the first hour was um, serve. But Mel's stupid OH NO dance sure cracked me up(so did luki's reaction everytime he missed a shot. hilarious.) the twins and jie ains were brilliant at the game, as usual. Nick came to sit at the side and mope about his broken arm haahaa.

Dinner at simpang again and mel screaming about cats and what not. Also talked about the fact that we are showcasing the christmas skit to the church LIVE this sunday, instead of just showing the video on the screen. Apparently, the length of video turned out pretty screwed up and there's no choice but to show it. I only hope alex doesnt get a front row seat and make us all laugh in the middle of the play LIKE HE ALWAYS DOES THAT CLOWN.

OHHH i made mel a facebook account. It is aussome, though i do feel pretty bad about putting those unglam photos up. Not.

Went christmas shopping with mom today because she threatened that she'll get me a set of scented candles for christmas if i didnt go with her. Phooo what a drag.

Tomorrow i'm out with Marilyn to go bugis and get ripped off by sweaty, middle-aged shop owners who tout those Little Miss Shirts for their life. Hopefully i'll be able to pick up a pair of black skinny jeans so i don't need to borrow them from Mel everytime we have a full-dress rehearsal. and marilyn, YOU BETTER NOT LAUGH AT ME!!!

Goodnight all.