Sunburnt on Saturday, September 24, 2005
I think i have finally been given a big welcome session to the life of NUS. Yes i am talking about the 2 tests i had so far. 2 first tests after 2 years in the army. This opening ceremony had indeed been one crushing defeat that makes me question my effort in mugging for these 2 tests. Physics was yesterday at LT 25 in science fac. Computing was today, 11 to 12. So i didn't go for mentoring today.
Physics- I got no time at all to finish. I can only do 3-4 questions. I simply was so stunned during the whole test. Questions were nothing that i had seen or even foreseen.
Computing-- at the end of the test, my head was really throbbing with pain. Pain from the brain juice in figuring out the while and for loops. This was even worse than Maths. Each question lurked a trap that could easily ensnarl anyone of us right there. I had trouble figuring out the logical explanation behind some of the questions.
Am i demoralised. Of coz. But what to do leh? LL right. No point grumbling too much about it. At least most of my frens find it hard too. But lessons told me not to regard any of my fren's comments as ultimate yardstick for my relief in anything.
Studies aside, i find that Fish leong latest album is a bit on the disappointing side. Interestingly, Joi Tsai had surpassed her in many ways. I guess every singer is always singing in that unique style of theirs, but Joi never seem to run of her choice for singing very down-to-earth ballads, ceaselessly striking many similiar chords every now and then. Fish--only her "Lu" is nice leh. The rest is juz so so.
Remember that little girl in I guess I guess variety show in WU ZHONG XIAN show? The gal beside Ah Ya. I didn't know she could sing that well u know. Recently heard her singing during some variety show in promoting her new album. Quite a sweet voice. Sweet not that Cyndi Wang kind of sweet, but really a nice little voice. Polished i should say.
As i am typing this, my mum is playing her mahjong again.
My brother came back from army, and on thursday the day he was back, we talked about many stuff about army. About the combat pt, about his superiors,...bla bla. Erm i find that he grow a bit fat leh. Dunno why.
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If you need help for maths or programming can ask me lar...
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Sunburnt on Thursday, September 22, 2005
Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize - don't patronize me
CHORUS: Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
'Cause I can't make you love me, if you don't
I'll close my eyes, then I won't see
The love you don't feel when you're holding me
Morning will come and I'll do what's right
Just give me till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight
CHORUS: Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
'Cause I can't make you love me, if you don't
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Sunburnt on Sunday, September 18, 2005
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Today went to watch NIGHTWATCH at the great world city. Fancy watching a movie by myself in the early morning huh. Well, it's pretty cool to watch so early. Coz the movie theatre is practically empty,desperately needing ppl like me to go there warm the frozen seats.
Nightwatch. Fantastic movie. Really visually stimulating and captivating. May be u are too used to me praising almost every movie, that u are numb to my reviews and comments. But..as far as my senses could tell me, this is one entertaining movie which i will never regret watching.
Hmm..this movie seems to make other vampire movies redundant and "un-eye-catching".
I like this scene when this lady actually shapeshifted into a tiger and prevent the witch from executing the murder of a unborn child.
This movie is in russian, and it's interesting to note how they talk so fast,almost gibberish to me. But of coz, russian language makes the movie all the more alluring. Seriously. I like the owl.
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Can ppl in this world stop seeing me as a juvenile little scrawny kid who doesn't seem like someone who had gone thru the army? Can ppl stop seeing me thru a narrow opening and start judging me based on my height?
May be sometimes i should learn to be nasty. It's funny when i actually had to work on that. Being nice is no good. I remember once in sispec when my warrant officer told me, "zhong xian, you shouldn't be too kind too ppl". Weird that he said that to me..but it does make some sense to me at times.
You know, i hate it when ppl simply take ur kindness for granted or for that matter, use ur kindness as a weakness against u. Ugh.
Me smiling away doesn't mean that i am feeling good inside. Get the idea?
I desperately need to loosen up.. Haha ktv may be?
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Late in at this hour on a saturday night. I am writing a blog. Pathetically trying to get out of that vicious cycle of mugging for my physics term test. The more i am doing physics problems..the more i felt intrigued by this branch of science. At how sly and cunning the questions are, how absurb the english of my tutors and lecturers can be in expressing some of the ideas within their questions.
There was this time when i was going to sci library to explore with my classmates in D03. All the 3 of them were foreigners. We were at some ground level, and saw a few students squating at this corner with a smell of charcoal in the air. They were barbecuing marshmallow. Boy, were we intrigued by this kind of rare scene in nus. We asked them what they were doing, and obviously they were bored by that kind of mundane ennui nus student life that they have decided to brew and hatch a new conspiracy altogether juz to gain some fun factors. COol huh. Yummy, marshmallow are white as snow...
As usual, my mum is playing her mahjong juz now. And all of us seem to miss that brother of mine. Miss his ceaseless complaining. I dun really miss that stuck up character of his. I do miss juz that presence of him ba. I guess sometimes events in life do make some dramatic change to kinships. My brother had been messaging me almost everynight, asking me about how things were like at home, and how he is slowly adjusting to the rigorous regimental routines. He did make some rash decisions which i am going to reprimand him about when he comes back this coming thursday.
My mum told me she never had to worry about me when it was time to go in. SHe wasn't tactful. She actually told that to my brother as well. She told him that she was worried for him coz she knows both of us very well. My brother is used to ordering people esp his students in primary school when he was teaching them instrumental skills. He even once made some students cry for their misbehaviour.
My mum got worried for my brother cuz she knew that my brother will definitely have some initial difficulty in adjusting.
I did encourage and motivate my brother with watever nice words i can think of. I guess at least we had one additional topic to talk about now.
My mum is cooking all his fav dishes this coming thursday. I had already had my fair share of feast years ago. I definitely knew how he will feel to be back home.
Whiskey company..not that i know much about how sch2 works coz i work in sch 1 where things were simply redundant and nonsensical.
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Sunburnt on Saturday, September 17, 2005
Feel so bad that i didn't go sch yesterday. Oh well..beginning to feel how linda felt in those days when i was in army and how jaded she told me she was. Yesterday went for angie's birthday chalet at aloha and it was kind of like a mini 4a gathering coz i get to see Ling Man...sort of a rare guest in our gathering. Angie was pretty last night, and Kaipeng was busying with himself helping out here and there.
We jokingly mentioned that probably Kaipeng was trying to impress his future-in-laws. Oh well..obvious tactics.
The fengling jiangheng love knots never seem to get out of our discussion, coz it never cease to amaze anyone from 4a.
Oh ya we chance upon Ailing's bf too, who used to be jianheng instructor in police. Yup.
We keep talking and chatting for some time. Took some pictures.
Today at mentoring we have a small little skit about the mid-autumn festival. I was the remaining sun left after Hou Yi shot down the rest of the 9 ppl(9suns). Then after that we go eat mooncakes..and the kids were like desperate to burn away the lanterns...dun ask me why. Kids are pretty sadistic nowadays. Use pencil case and knock ur head lar..bla bla. Yet i guess there will be a time when we ought to be strict with them. Jinting is really hell of a tough case. We barely could control her...
Today jimmy also came along for his mentoring session. I realise that back in TJC he was in his tj mentoring juz that he didn't realise that the mentoring was under the BP sponsorship.
Juz had lunch with the rest of the mentors and we talking about next saturday when most of us are not able to make it for mentoring coz we got term test. SIANZ.
Juz now at mentoring the Stephen asked me to help him think of 15 questions related to the festival as well as the skit that we put up. Forgive me but i seriously run out of questions and i come up with stupid questions:
1. Why call mooncake? Why not suncake?
2. Why didn't Hou yi shot down the moon?
3. What the fruit that we usually eat during the festival?
and bla bla. Sorry kids.
Yeah..angelina is great! Found for me liang jing ru's latest album!yummy! I am easily contented one. Good.
Mugging time for me..but i am freaking down with a bout of flu. SIANZ
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Sunburnt on Sunday, September 11, 2005
MAKING LOVE OUT OF NOTHING AT ALL (Air Supply) I know just how to whisper And then I know just when to dream
And I know just how to cry
I know just where I find the answers
And I know just how to lie
I know just how to fake it
And I know just how to scheme
I know just when to face the truth
And I know just where I touch you
And I know just what to prove
I know when to pull you closer
And I know when to let you loose
And I know the night is fading
And I know the time’s gonna fly
And I’m never gonna tell you everything I gotta tell you
But I know I’ve got to give it a try
And I know the roads to riches
And I know the ways to pain
I know all the rules and then I know how to break’em
And then I always know the name of the game
But I don’t know how to leave you
And I’ll never let you fall
And I don’t know how you do it
Making love out of nothing at all
Making love
Out of nothing at all
Making love
Out of nothing at all
Making love
Out of nothing at all
Making love
Out of nothing at all
Making love
Out of nothing at all
Making love
Out of nothing at all
Everytime I see you, well the rays of the sun are all
Streaming through the waves in your hair
And every star in the sky is taking aim at your eyes
Like a spotlight
The beating of my heart is a drum and it’s lost
And it’s looking for a rhythm like you
You can take the darkness from the deep of the night
And turn it to a beacon burning endlessly bright
I gotta follow it ‘cause everything I know
Well, it’s nothing ‘till I give it to you
I can make the runner stumble
I can make the final block
And I can make every tackle at the sound of the whistle
And I can make all the stadiums rock
I can make tonight forever
Or I can make it disappear by the dawn
And I can make you every promise that’s ever been made
And I can make all your demons be gone
But I’m never gonna make it without you
Do you really wanna see me crawl ?
And I’m never gonna make it like you do
Making love out of nothing at all
Making love
Out of nothing at all...
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Orhhh another week lies ahead of me. With so many tasks left undone..i feel so drained. Nevertheless saturday was a day of fun for me. "Fun". Saturday was the BP mentoring 10th anniversary which was held in SIngapore Poly.
I went to Geylang Methodist where one of the teacher, Mrs lee went with us, together with 7 of the kids, where 3 of them are receiving awards for their improvement academically.
It was a day of testing my patience in handling those kids outside. THEY ARE really very nasty and ...ughh...running about..screaming. BUt one good thing is that they are really very afraid of their teacher-in-charge. :)
I am very happy coz i finally found the song called Making love out of nothing at all, by Air supply...dunno why ppl keep thinking about dirty stuff wheni tell them about this song. Bleah.
While we were sitting snugly at the auditorium for the awards presentation ceremony, Mervyn and Evelyn from Kids central were the hosts for today. They were pretty funny.
In between the awards presentation, there were some games being played on stage. THe hosts start to ask the kids to nominate their mentor to come up on stage to play some hoolahoop game. To my oblivion, there were many fingers pointing at me from behind.....and when i turn around i saw my mentees pointing me from behind. I try to hush them, try to ask them to stop pointing at me. The inevitable came. Together with some students and another mentor from ntu,smu and my nus, we went up to play the hoolahoop thru body kind of game. Silly..but no choice, have to be sporty about it.
The students keep mentioning that my hair will burst all their balloons. Silly.
While i was sitting at the auditoriium. THere is this gal sitting infront of me. Looks familiar. Then i realised she was Qiyun! i call her name, she turned around was so shocked to see me here. She was one of those getting an award for serving with BP mentoring schemes for 3 years. We exchange numbers.. and started to chat about the whole BP mentoring thingy. Wat a weird occasion to encounter an old fren.
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Sunburnt on Saturday, September 03, 2005
I realise that i haven been blogging for a week. Unbelievably for a week. What the hack have i been doing huh? Besides falling asleep on a gal's shoulder..there are far more frustrating stuff that collided with my week.
I guess wednesday that had juz passed was indeed one which i would never want it to happen (linda believe it or not). Yeap, i shall once again narrate that fateful morning when i was so pinned down by that enormity of fatigue that i decided to sleep on bus 151. Yup. As you would have guessed, some poly gal( i know she is poly coz she alighted at SP) was sitting beside me. I actually ACCIDENTALLY. I said for the umpteen times, ACCIDENTALLY fell asleep by resting on her shoulder MOMENTARILY. If that word is not enough INSTANTANEOUSLY. Yes right after that i shot up my head, turn to her and keep apologising...and keep apologising. All i could remember was i was busying apologising. What if she said i molest her...oh no..
Alright i did find her pretty...but that is juz another side track. Oh well yes..i feel so rotten inside after resting on someone's shoulder..oh no..this is so bad. Yes...and guo jun called me "jian nan ren". Teasing me about me being purposeful on that..and bla bla bish.
Oh well on that same wednesday, i went for my computing lab without realising that it was in science fac. I was in engin busying looking for s15 and when i took sneak peek at the map and realise that i was actually so far from computing...and i have only 10 minutes. I rush here and there, run there and there...and got onto bus C and i reach the lab on the dot at 10am. Yes laugh all u wan...i know that i can be blur. But somehow ever since i left the army...that octupus nature in me seem to be getting started all over again.
Thursday. I prepared for the wrong lab. I read the wrong lab manual. And i wasn't supposed to be blame coz the timetable put E3 on my name and i thought that the E3 refers to the venue of the lab...since engin E1 E2 Ea..bla bla. The E3 refers to experiment 3 and is on DC motors...
THis is so shitty... I have to run to forum to photostat the lab manual from my good m'sian fren and then i have to rush back to the lab. SIAN.
I am slacking big time from yesterday till now. Keep sleeping to catch up with that lost sleep hours.
YEAH..Wei lian won!. My mum usually slept at 8 plus on weekdays since she always work super early. However she actually turn up till around 10 plus juz to watch the superstar with me. Then she was so into that frenzy mood about KELLY's appraisal from the judges.. coz she hated KELLY. We shared of coz the same thoughts. It was freaking obvious that the duet section is to Weilian disadvantage. Singing with JJ is like the worst choice ever. "No way no way, you want sandwich go subway". That is what one of the judges, Fang Zhong Hua said to Kelly. Not bad ah...his lameness brings down some of the tension on that night.
Weilian ability or capability to moved his audience is undoubtedly true. He sang that Tong An Ge's song with such angst that the host was moved too. I like his way of singing ballads. Real nice.
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