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A PLAYLIST
(For when you're stoked about your worst nightmare
called A levels ending in a little over 12 hours)

Phantom Punch - Sondre Lerche
Music when the Lights go out - The Libertines
You only live once - The Strokes
I Feel it All - Feist
The Bomb - New Young Pony Club
Blender - The Pretty Reckless
Hysteric - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Rollercoaster Ride - Belle & Sebastian
Rock and Roll Party - Iggy Pop
We're on the Run - Gold Motel
Dance into the Night - the View
Animal - Neon Trees

The time of wine red

In spite of Gold Motel's summer-y pop tunes, I can't help but miss the quartet. WHY HUSH SOUND, WHY.

I didn't come out of a cereal box

That is ridonkulus. Wait, donkeys? THAT IS IRRELEPHANT.

I don't know.

On borrowed French adjectives

Today I learnt how to say 'Bourgeois' properly. It made studying language variation for Linguistics paper next tuesday slightly more rewarding; I like what it means, the way the word sounds, how it rolls off my tongue.

Sometimes I watch old French movies and am appalled by my apparent lack of an accent. Or, the ghastliness of my Singaporean one.

Currently listening to You, Me & the Bourgeoisie by the Submarines


7 more days before this madness that we call the A levels come to an end!

Early in the Advent

Christmas fest last week (actually it took up the better part of the months of october and novemeber) which was pretty fun :D cheers to tagteamsisterfromanothermother dayna who came and poor clare who tried to but failed because of her fail domestic helper life.

Dinner with the ling family afterwards! Sashimi @wahiro and gelato @cocogelato. Surrounded by intense atasness, enough to make you faint!

Today marks the start of intense studying! Makes me wonder why I'm online looking at mean girls spoofs and watching backdated episodes of GLEE.

Sweet Disposition and the Fury

Catching Temper Trap

Excuse my inexplicable violent tendencies towards shrill, whiny groupies. Shame!





First, impromptu dash to catch a Temper Trap acoustic show at Scape on Tuesday! It was wicked because they let us into the studio. Not that there was even many of us, one wouldn't expect hordes of fans for a lesser-known Melbourne band, but it was still nice.

They didn't play Science of Fear, but Fader was great!

Even as an advocate for Brit music (60s beatles pop, 70s angsty punk, and forefront on most good indie music), kangaroo-agogo-land does have pretty good listens! Kudos to jillette for the tip! An excellent preview to Laneway Music Festival 2011.

something always told me us two would be serious

Nothing beats listening to the igg-ster (and his stooges) on days like these.

A take away show

Phoenix's music, along with the French music site La Blogotheque pretty much got me through last week's hell. The Eiffel tower, the back of an open-aired bus, the echoes under a bridge... Paris is where everyone wants to be.

La Blogotheque hosts The Takeaway Show, a simple concept which entails following indie English acts such as the Kooks or Bloc Party, far flung American-based bands such as Vampire Weekend and home bred (and internationally well-known) groups like Phoenix, for as long as a whole day. And this doesn't only happen in Paris; The Takeaway Show brings it's thousands of subscribers to San Francisco CA for a day to catch Lykke Li belt out 'Somebody's baby' with El Perro Del Mar, or as far as Bamako (Mali) to see Sidi Touré walk through the streets of Western Africa with his acoustic guitar. Postmark-international, indeed.

It's a simple yet beautiful idea, which showcases artistes in the most ordinary of places, capturing them in all their spontaneous glory. Acoustic sets, percussion on elevator walls combined with beautiful Parisian scenery is hard to beat. Especially when it's Phoenix :)


You can watch part 1 and part 2 of Phoenix's Paris Sojourn here.

Blindingly Inspirational

You are
An instant-mix of joy
Add water
and enjoy

You are
ice-cream in summer
A catalyst
for lovers

You are
the finer things
that life will
ever bring

but most of all,
You are mine

We are Rockstars

Simply cannot get over this feeling of amazement for getting through this entire week! Mainly math. Thanks to dayna who managed to slap me back to chill state after I went ballisticimus before math paper 1, and Clare who was nice enough to wake up at 5am to wish us all good luck (even if it was just CLB for me... haha!)

Four more intense arts papers. Yesterday's lit-mugging session stayover degenerated to nothingness as per usual, except for Clare, who did a lit essay and wrote her resume for Awfully Choc. Besides that, we drank orangina, played ukulele and played alot of Resident Evil on Wii.

Also discovered my exceptionally 'cui' skills when it comes to playing Mario Kart. What is wrong with me?!?!? I need to play poker now.

Have a (decent) rest of As!

Knee-deep in definite integrals

Oh amelie. I can relate. Tomorrow will probably be the hardest day of my life (so far)... the only thing keeping most of us going is the prospect of never doing math ever again. Ever. Again.

Now I feel slightly better :/

Hello, propaganda

Also, if you're a fan of the of the original British 'morale' slogan, you can have a laugh looking at these. I must say, November is particularly true for me...

More here.

How the British do it.

Very applicable to pre-As jitters.

You're a cannibal and I'm afraid I won't get out alive

Nothing cures the exam-sweats like a hot plate of bacon&pepper aglio olio and a movie. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, to be exact. Absolutely digging Kate Winslet's blue-do... a post-A-levels look? Hmmmm.

Graaaahhh. After Friday, we shalt have a bonfire to burn math notes.

The Book Depository

I can read in red. I can read in blue.
I can read in pickle color too.
I can read in bed, and in purple. and in brown.
I can read in a circle and upside down!
I can read with my left eye. I can read with my right.
I can read Mississippi with my eyes shut tight!

There are so many things you can learn about.
But…you'll miss the best things
If you keep your eyes shut.
The more that you read, the more things you will know
The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

If you read with your eyes shut you're likely to find
That the place where you're going is far, far behind
SO…that's why I tell you to keep your eyes wide.
Keep them wide open…at least on one side.

Dr. Seuss

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Flipping through pictures on friend's tumblrs can sometimes urge me to do stuff I should have done long ago... like organize the volumes stacked on my bedside table/stuffed in hat drawers/on the floor.

It's not as neat, but still, a start.

I like to read :)

After the hours and hours of mugging(!) I find it best to dive into a new paperback novel, with a steaming cup of hot tea (I also like tea). Lately, I've been reading the classics; Fitzgerald, Wilde and finally, Jules Verne. Now, there's a writer that was way ahead of his time. 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, heavily-ridden with scientific terminology as it is, is still pretty fantastic.

Also, after reading Jane Eyre, I definitely prefer Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights any day :/ Although Charlotte did craft an entirely new and (more sexy?) hero. Oh, Mr Rochester.

Just realised what an absolute nerd I am. Book fiend, anyhow.



Sigh, back to Thomas Hardy and poor old Tess.