'TV's the best dad there is...'

This is a unicorn cloud. It's a cool picture I found on the internet. I like clouds, & I certainly like unicorns (squeeeeeeeee.)

Also, I'm spending way too much time watching telly. It's a guilty pleasure. Any more pop culture references or science-fiction series or NBC comedies, and I might end up morphing into a female Abed haha #community #sixseasonsandamovie #okbye (I also spend too much time on twitter)

Fast & Free

Summer is here!

The days are longer and hotter, and the summer dresses and tank tops are back. I'm eating more ice-cream than ever and meeting friends for brunches and buying flowers for the Beatrix Potter vase, even thought they wilt every two days because of the heat. I listen to the Beach Boys & The Young Veins all day, because even music is seasonal. Wayne & Libby Huirau from Parachute band has come and gone, and it was a fabulous weekend of fun and learning and music, and appreciating our brief brush with fame (well, sort of).

I watched the season finale of Grey's Anatomy and felt a little bit sick inside. It came out last Friday and I was in the office, sobbing like a whale in the studio during lunch hour over Lexie Grey's VERY untimely death (and Mark crying and saying We're going to get married... we are meant to be. TOO MANY EMOTIONS). Shonda Rhimes has made me emotionally damaged for life. She seems to be very very fond of killing off my favourite TV surgeons and leaving the crazed fan base in agony with her cliffhanger season finales. Recall: Hospital shoot-outs, roving buses and people getting hit by them, cancerous melanomas, unexplained absences from multiple episodes etc etc. I know, I know, it's just TV! I tell that to myself every time I watch an episode, but it's not that easy, is it? 


Speaking of TV, Parks and Recreation renewed for season 5! Kristen Wiig has left SNL. Ted's wife still unknown (it better not be that asshat, Victoria). 

Work has been good so far. Tomorrow is Breakfast Birthday Party Day & that means waking up an hour earlier to make savoury pancakes for seven people. Last week, while cataloguing our music database, I stumbled upon a fabulous Christian Band, Rend Collective Experiment, a combination of Fleet Foxes and Mumford & Sons and Edward Sharpe. They are creative and inspiring, and best of all, they are in love with Jesus :)

And yes, USA for Bethel School of Worship! I cannot wait! Hello, California! I am blessed beyond words.

This post is a little self-indulgent... I won't do it again for a long time, I promise. It's been an interesting couple of weeks, and if I don't write it down, I forget!

Recently on the Vampire Diaries

Excuse me while I cry over the hotness which is Paul Wesley. Hey, at least it's not twilight! Twilight should actually learn a thing or two from the vamp diaries. Like actually casting a good-looking person, just ONE, that has more personality than a wooden pencil.

Officially a vampire diaries convert and not slightly ashamed of it.

Sixties & Seventies

This is what has been playing in my head the entire day. Ughhhh... Don't get me wrong, I love Pete Townshend & Jim Morrison, but it's not exactly a great mix for a throbbing headache. In fact, this is basically what the next month is going to be like. The assignments are piling and there's a particularly vicious 2000 word essay on bilingualism & cognitive function + bibliography (I know!) that I've been avoiding for too long. Not to mention exams in a couple of weeks. Gotta get my game face on!

If there's one thing that triumphs assignments & stress in terms of numbers, it's distractions. More specifically, online telly. Two Broke Girls (Kat Dennings & that bimbo whose name I don't recall) & New Girl (Zooey Deschanel's new show) are hilarious sitcoms that go on the list. And... Tumblr. It's pretty awesome. I've always been behind when it comes to trends, online sites included! Anyway, you can follow me here and look at an endless slew of The Beatles gifs & random quips on why I don't like The Vampire Diaries. You have been forewarned.

Who doesn't love lucy?

Watching I Love Lucy clips makes staying at home, with nothing but an impaled foot for company, a little more bearable.


Speaking of excellent telly shows, new 2011-2012 line up of American sitcoms include Parks & Recreation, Modern Family & the Office; All out this week! I never tire, of the mockumentaries.

Life is rock n' roll

A few things!

1. The university life has begun! I can't remember if anyone has told me, but apparently, you can be invisible in college and still survive. Made a few friends, ate lots of lunches, so school hasn't changed much since, well, ever.

2. TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB. Phenomenal. They rocked it, period.

3. BROOKE FRASER. She did not rock it, on the account that she had bronchitis and cancelled the show a mere hour before doors opened. Us, being a five-minute walk away from TAB and pleasantly dining @wendys, were not amused.

4. Finished watching Parks & Recreation last week. It is seriously the most hilarious sitcom I've seen since the Office, and that is not easy to beat. Amy Poehler, and the rest of the cast, is gold! Also watched a lot of As Told by Ginger, and that too, is brilliant.

5. My book depository order arrived on Saturday and I've been too busy reading John Green, Sylvia Plath and Homer to start on any readings. The thought of opening my linguistic texts now, as compared to the poetic genius that is Plath, disgusts me.

And that is all, for now :)

Tributes & a Reality Check

Writing posts and reminiscing about Europe is all well and fine, but I thought it would be good to talk about real-time stuff for a bit. Life, unfortunately, does go on. Uni life starts next week and I have no idea how I should feel about that. Mostly, ambivalent. Anyway.

Besides watching lots of The Office & basically bumming around a lot at home, I've been catching up with old friends through lunch dates and movies and sleepovers. Which is nice :) Caught Bridesmaids, which was so hilarious even though it got so much bad press here in Singapore (Sure, The Hangover is fine but when women do it...)

Finally managed to watch the final installment of the HP series today! It was wonderful, except for the bit at the end when all of them returned as middle-age versions of themselves. Drawn-on crows feet does not make Emma Watson an old lady, just saying.

It's more than amazing to see how these characters and the actors themselves have grown; more so because we have grown up with the books and the movies. I remember receiving the first four novels as a gift from an aunt in the late 1990s, who had bought the set abroad and sent it back to Singapore, where it wasn't popular yet. From then on, it's just been one long, wizardry craze. Reading the subsequent novels in single sittings, doing HP trivia with friends, or watching the movies with the same friends and crying our eyes out. Or worst of all, remembering the feeling I had, upon not receiving my Hogwarts notification when I was 11.

Harry Potter has and continues to be a great part of my childhood and without doubt, millions of children and teenagers across the globe today. As J.K. Rowling said in her speech at the premiere, the legend that is Harry Potter does not end with this movie, but lives on in readers' hearts forever.

It's been a great ride, potter heads! Mischief managed :)

Buy me an ice-cream?

Today whilst looking at furniture at IKEA, the entire family (except mom) started fooling around with the random household appliances, as usual. This resulted in dad accidentally pushing against the emergency fire-escape door handle and setting off the alarm, holding two embarrassingly large lampshades in his hands.

Needless to say, we all proceeded to briskwalk to a ten-metre radius distance and laugh.



4:12am and I'm watching The Office episode where Michael attempts to force Meredith into going to alcohol rehabilitation. I don't want to go to work tomorrow :/

A Very Glee Spiel

I admire anyone who is able to carry off a sheath tube dress without looking like a frump/slut. Afterall, Françoise Sagan once said that a dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off you (cheeky!)

Inspite of how much I'm SUPPOSED to loathe Glee with its impossibly drab script and lack of musical originality, I don't. I hate to admit that instead of watching 'intellectual' TV series like CSI or The Mentalist, I pretty much followed the Quinn/Finn + Quinn/Puck + Quinn/Sam drama from start to end! Who can hate such good looking people with good chops?! (most of the time...)

What can I say, hearing Lea's voice gives me the chills. And I can't wait for the season to continue :)

On 1950s' ladies swimsuits

'Some things are better left to the imagination.'

Bill Compton
played by Stephen Moyer
in True Blood

Sometimes you can still hear the ringing

I've been reading my The Clash Biography the past few days (the original price sticker said 45 quid, but I bought it for twenty bucks at a booksale) and this pretty much sums up their music. Joe Strummer and Mick Jones wrote some pretty controversial punk music in the 1970s, along with the the Ramones, the Smiths and the Buzzcocks. How I would love to alive half a decade ago and go for non-commercialized gigs which didn't blow a hole in your pocket. Where you could still smell the sweat.

The era of the Runaways, Velvet Underground and Patti Smith!

Anyway, this whole spiel on 1960s/70s music comes from what happened earlier today, when I was cabbing home from a 'study' sleepover with tag team Dayna and Clare. I was obviously half-dead from 'studying' all night and looking like death in my crumpled Rolling Stones magazine shirt (which sported a mean shot of the Eagles), and thinking about how my mouth tasted like a skunk had crawled innit and died when the raw power of Iggy Pop started to blast through my cabbie's stereo.

Pretty epic.

So anyway he was pretty impressed with my shirt and I checked out his dashboard decals. There were magazine cut-outs and old album covers all over the place. And we had a rather heated debate about whether the Clash or the Sex Pistols were better (as a devoted Clash fan, I gave it my all, but the Pistols have Sid Vicious. No fight there. After all, they were the ones who started the whole scene...) and other stuff which lasted the time it takes to get from Thompson to Bedok.

Turns out I was short of two bucks, which he waived off. And even gave me a Rolling Stones b-side!

I'm just really glad that even in Singapore, there are still people who are big fans of the 60s punk scene and are willing to fork out moolah to get original records instead of bootlegs. It really made my day :)

So I declare this week UK PUNK MUSIC week. Will stop myself from raving on about bands that have widely faded in the memory of people today and fall asleep to the riffs on Honky Tonk Women (thank you cabbie!)


I end abruptly here.


Now you can see why I don't study much at all

Miss you madness

Well if you're asking,
yes I do think back,
back to the days
when it was you and I
and to the special place
we reach for inside.

So you ask,
hey honey, don't you miss it?
A flicker,
here and there,
my love.

Candy-coloured skies
dancing on the green
I remember a time
where people used to dream in reverse

So well,
if you're asking,
yes I do miss you.

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I have only one thing to say.

The Office, is just about the best show EVER.

Well, after SKINS and Little Britain and Glee.




Haven't been jamming, doodling and having a life lately with exams. I am just so relieved that ELL and CSE are over (I swear I almost suffered a brain stroke from the 6 hours of worth of papers in sweltering hear) and there's only GP left before holidays. Hell yeah!

And there's cycling tomorrow with the class! A way to get fit and also more a photography trip. Hello polaroids, kodak vintages, blackbird fly and the good ol' diana.

By the way, I'm all for Team Bowersox. Sorry Lee, it was a great run.


That's definitely more than one thing. Goodnight everyone :)

JAM. (rocking out, not the sandwich spread!)

ed westwick sexwick.

Today was the official last day of school, so its all rainbows and sunshine for people like Yiwen, who takes neither PW or Chinese. For the rest of us, its a long long way to go D:

I sorta crashed MJ's 'This is it' movie with liz, estella and cassie. It was legendary. Amazing. Not a dry eye in the theatre (or at least I admit, mine weren't)

Also went to parkway to hang out with Mel while she did her job at borders. It was quite hilarious. I jostled with a young twat boy over the computer search engine, and I lost. Tsk. Dinner with luki at NYNY later and made life hell for Yiwen HAHA.


11:15 and exhausted. Boy, I feel old.

Colour my life with the chaos of trouble.

Haven't you heard?
The sky's the limit
and we can make it or blanket,
the stars put on a show for you tonight.
Pour me a glass of that love
beneath the paris skies.

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Post-promo week was enjoyable. Ironically more tiring than EVER, but hey, I'll take it over mugging any day.

1. MOTHER TONGUE CLINICS. - one word, ewww. Well I guess I should have seen this coming, from the E grade during MYEs and the S grade for EOYs. Funny thing was that when all the chinese failures were asked to assemble at the flag pole today, 90% of SACians were there. Some things, never change.

2. IT'S A CAT JOB. - started going to my Uncle and Aunt's house to help them feed their cats while they go off to USA last week. It is not easy, at all. Considering the massive size of the bungalow alone and the uncountable places, it takes eons to find all six cats. Even then, they are too lazy to lift their stomachs off the grounds and lumber over to their bowls. Diet of grilled prawns and smoked salmon, what do you expect?

3. THE ICE-CREAM DEBACLE. - Met Clauds at Eastwood while she was walking Sparks and we stopped by Ice Cream Gallery for, well, ice-cream. Two minutes later, Sparks had knocked over both our ice-cream cones and we were laughing our butts off. Stupid but irrestibly cute Jack Russells

4. UNEXPECTEDLY AWESOME JAZZ CONCERT - Henderson Trio came to town, so Nick Luk and I got cheap, nosebleed seats just the night before. Dinner turned out to b a dismal affair, when I dropped an entire tray of food in Soupsoon, and we left the tickets on the table, only to turn back and get the staff to burrow through their trash to find it. Turned out to be really great, since they let us move up to frontrow seats!

5. FIRST OF THE HALLOWEEN CELEBRATIONS. - Well pictures of pam's party are all over fb. Highlights included the not-so-slutty-nurse-costume, trying to make 'LOVE' with our bodies (HAHAHAH you'll see why) and Nat being retarded, as per usual :D







My guitar becoming a prop for the night



HAHA CLARE!


testing our the fake-jump theory.



6. NEW HIDEAWAY. -jammed all day on Saturday & Sunday at Fontaine's. We need to get a camera, pronto (too bad none of us are all up for photos). Mom got into a hissy fit cause I came back pretty late, or early. COME ON, its post promos!

7. HARD-ROCK-IN' CAFE. - interview yesterday. Tiara picked me up from Tanah and her dad drove us to Orchard's HardRock branch (with Suat and Kieran in tow). The place is AMAZING. Guitars from Nine Inch Nails, Steve Vai and Joe Satrini... mindblowing. And the signed autographs of the Beatles on the walls. Hope everything works out :D

8. PROMOTIONAL RESULTS. - nerve-wrecking, to say the least. Got GP back today and it was pretty good... but I don't have a good feeling about tomorrow. Whatever happens, happens.

9. PW. - SHINGZ. I hate hate hate PW almost screamed during the four-hour stint of Oral presentation today and discussion. It doesn't help when half your team mates don't come up with good ideas. Sometimes feel like you're having a conversation with yourself. LAST LEG!

10. um okay out of things to say but '10' seems like a nice enough number to stop.



Catching up on GG, HIMYM and Grey's. Also watching too many Oh! Mikey vids, and laughing alone in my bedroom like a maniac. Well life's is hectic for now and the pressure can bust a pipe, but we hold it together.

Wordy post! Good luck for tomorrow, everyone :D

if i were in your shoes, i'd run a thousand miles.

just to be with you.

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Its been a few days of falling into bed at 4am every morning, and tonight will be an excuse because dad is leaving for macau at 430am. Why? Its those damned tv series that need catching up on. Apparently 90210 is just another one of the shows that try to make up for its predictable-ness by injecting an extra round of bitchiness and what not.

Tuesday i had a dental at 230 and also a 'date' with six other people to catch HSM3 at night, which was a TAD ridiculous so i suppose i owe lizzie a humongous THANK YOU for coming all the way to town to hang out for a few hours. Dragged her around and didnt buy a friggin thing because she gets oh-so-critical.

Did take another I.D photo tho :D (they are all the rage!)

Left at five plus to meet mel at starbucks and the un-enthusiastic lee brothers, who looked less than overjoyed to be catching an overrated, soppy musical for 7.50. Except for mark of cause, who was getting all excited.

Luki and ains came later and we all went.
Well im not going to spoil it for all who havent watched it, but expect the... unexpectable. Too much singing and not enough dialouge, too much troy and gabriella love scenes, too much drama! We were hooting like hell at the bad parts, and this little kid got so pissed off at us she actually turned around and did the shushing thing. Oops. Well what did you expect, a theatre full of middle-aged fogeys? Unlikely.

Went to look for masks at spotlight.

Got so loud that the spotlight lady ran to the aisle to shut us up. and here goes, you'll know why.

No, i didn't think he looked gay either.


we were trying to cut off the phantom's breathing supply.


okay NOW luki you out-gayed yourself.

i dont know what that is!
someone just shrunk his hat!
Went home with luki and mel.

Next day was out with the usual! THey just had chinese paper and came over to change. geraldine INSISTED on changing in the wardrobe but started banging all over the place and almost broke the wood apart. of course no one wanted to 'go in' the makeshift changing room to save her so it was quite a bizarre situation. Met judy and sarah ee and went to try and get some prom shopping down. Ah.




as emilia pointed out 'what a range!' it is an apt name, none the less.

will you believe this dress cost half a grand? it is also geraldine's (secret) dream dress.





its not everyday someone gets to wear a 700dollar mink coat.
Minced around every single shop in wisma atria and taka in search for something to wear on prom, but in vain. So the last half hour was spent eating some overpriced gelato and chicken sticks, satisfying! Headed to church for drama practise. it was HILARIOUS.

i must say i carry off the role of the drunk girl very well. although i dont see why i have to hold ben's arm YELCH kel and mel were laughing all the way. So while all the drama[literally] is going on, jennifer is a.w.o.l and i am left alone to get punched in the face by an over-enthusiastic actor. It was a horrific experience.

But not as bad as getting a ride in kelvin's car. Now you know why we have to wait till 21 to get our licenses!

Today just went to emi's, and then simei for her to try on contacts. I have to say im privileged to be able to see emilia cry [well it was just a tear, but it still counts!], 45 minutes poking your pupil isnt all that fun. snapped a few secret pictures for fun.

renee's to do MCQ questions and watch heroes! It was nerve-wrecking. i might die from a heart attack simply for watching one of those episodes.

Season 3 was confusing.
Tmr im going out with mom to get shopping done once and for all, good grief.

So goodnight all, happy studying!