Everything's changing, we gotta move on.

2011-04-07T14:20:00.000+08:00

many paths, and i think i chose the one i don't want.

2010-07-19T07:43:00.002+08:00

warped tour.

alkaline trio.

youmeatsix.

sum 41 (who played their old songs. fucking awesome.)

motion city soundtrack.

mayday parade.

everytime i die.

and a bunch of new bands that sound pretty good.

with stickers stuck randomly.

and a tan.

interesting.

2010-07-17T02:33:00.002+08:00

GOD I REALLY REALLY REALLY DO LOVE STARK SANDS.

he is fucking amazing. probably will go see him again. because.

i took a photo with him. but stupidly with a HOLGA. with no idea how the photo will turn out. though he said that my camera was cool. :D

am still insanely happy over meeting him. despite it having been like two days.

and no i wasn't a stalker we could just wait outside the theatre after the show to get them to sign stuff. :)

and you know how american teenagers talk in those tv shows? they really do speak like that in real life.

2010-07-11T23:44:00.001+08:00

american idiot.

wicked.

warped tour.

empire state building.

statue of liberty.

the big apple.

HOLY SHIT.

2010-06-17T21:53:00.003+08:00

maybe people should come with warning signs, just like every other items in our life.

wouldn't a "naturally abrasive" label on a person be better than one of those "warning: can cut people" labels on a knife?

2010-05-19T23:01:00.002+08:00

An old friend was lost recently. One whom I knew quite well, few years back. Then in my usual fashion, we drifted apart. Always thought of talking again, but never did so.

Seems like it's always too late to start making contact.

Regretting that I never ever tried to initiate a conversation in recent years. Didn't keep up with the person's current affairs, but was a fantastic person when we were friends.

Sorry that a wonderful person has left this world, much too early.

2010-02-04T16:22:00.001+08:00

withdrawal symptoms from rise against. bloody awesome show, despite being so bloody short.

and one of the worse pits i've been in. unruly crowds with rude, idiotic people.

spoilt half the show for me.

and got elbowed really really hard in the collar bone.

2010-01-05T16:53:00.001+08:00

seriously, twitter is so easy that i can't be arsed to blog.

but yay for a new ps3 that i don't have to pay for! and might be cheaper than market rates. gotta love a dad with friends who do everything.

2009-12-14T18:30:00.002+08:00

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

I want to buy old movies. lots and lots of them. and disney's stuff as well. kiddie shows!

2009-12-11T21:37:00.002+08:00

FUCK SCHOOL IS STARTING IN LESS THAN ONE MONTH. WHERE HAS TIME GONE?

IF I DIDN'T NEED MONEY I WOULDN'T WORK SO MUCH.

am missing supernatural very much. decided to watch season 4 all over again. which reminds me of purchases that i gotta buy.

and glee's last episode. DDDDD: new ones in april. i want the cd. some of the songs are really really good. and i adore kurt.

matt bomer tomorrow!

i need a way to get american channels.

2009-12-03T23:00:00.001+08:00

Add another show to the to watch/to buy list: KINGS.

funny how i have even less time to watch shows now. work work work. not that i do much anyway. GLEE!

2009-11-29T22:43:00.000+08:00

I've still got invites to googlewave. who wants some?

2009-11-29T20:48:00.002+08:00

in about slightly more than half a day, this year's hell would end.

unlike supernatural, where the end still seems so far away. or not. (if you've watched season 5 episode 4).

am suffering a little supernatural withdrawal. i no longer have anything to do on friday mornings, nothing to look forward to. at least until january 22. what would i do when the series end? go through my dvd collection each week?

merlin and white collar made up for it though.

want to see arthur making a fool out of himself, be really really happy, and act really high? watch season 2 episode 10. this has got to be the silliest episode i've watched in awhile, together with this epic line, "I RATHER FANCY HIM MYSELF TOO." from another king. who was plotting for the failure of some peace treaty thing. i don't really pay much attention to the plot. nobody pay attention to the plot of merlin. (except maybe the kids). we all watch it for its silliness and gayness that is very evident. (i.e. the previous quoted line. we only wished it was someone else saying it.) the writers also managed to throw in a true love's kiss solution. (WTF i hate this solution.) so gwen turns out to be arthur's true love, where like a few weeks ago in episode 4, gwen was head over heels for lancelot and you could see the epic love between the two of them. huh. continuity, anyone? AND the kiss wasn't very g-rated. so i guess the writers are kind of realizing who their main audience is. not that they couldn't because from what i hear about the conventions and stuff lots of adults turn up.

mordred appears in next week's episode. someone mentioned about another work of the little boy who plays mordred, and turns out i've watched the little kid before. remember bruno from the boy in striped pyjamas? asa butterfield is going to grow up to be one amazing actor. not that he isn't now.

and white collar? maybe i saw the preview already or something (can't remember what happened), but knew the girl was undercover. how neal fucked with the both the interpol and the fbi (thouh i wouldn't exactly call it fuck, but it's a little apt in the case of the interpol) was awesome, and the last line? HOLY FUCKING SHIT. the past few episodes were about how peter couldn't trust neal, and now with the last line, neal CAN'T trust any of the fbi. but the in between was still entertaining. neal being so happy that peter called them a partnership, and peter saying that elizabeth places too much faith in the bond between peter and neal or something (i don't know i was staring at elizabeth she is fucking HOT.)

need more money for dvds.

2009-11-24T00:35:00.004+08:00

had a really weird dream a few days ago.

dreamt that i met this old friend of mine, and it took a while to find her. had a very interesting chase sequence (i think i watch too much tv). we met, we talked, and her life was very different from what i had expected.

but in real life, i can't find her at all.

and what the hell is it with all the "IT'S SO DAMN DIFFICULT TO LEARN CHINESE crap"?? that's total bullshit. i can't believe you can actually go through some stupid evaluation at some stupid child psychologist (i'm ashamed of my major) to get some stupid confirmation that you're too inept for chinese, hence you can be exempted from the stupid psle chinese exam. WTF?

this is so fucking stupid. by doing this, you're practically admitting your child is too stupid to learn another language. that or you're too stupid to expose your child to chinese. either way, stupid family.

and to make this tv related, SHELDON COOPER IN LIKE 10 HOURS!!!

2009-11-20T15:27:00.001+08:00

this made me laugh.

2009-11-19T16:09:00.000+08:00

Big Bang Theory was awesome. Sheldon moved straight to second base with Penny WITHOUT meaning to and without any effort. didn't have to put up with all the shit Leonard had to go through. And he PEEKED. Heroes always peek. :D

Leonard: "I hate my name. It has NERD in it."

2009-11-19T15:59:00.002+08:00

wanted to steal brunch photos from ongsuyi but i was too lazy to do it. definitely going to go back there again.

and this week's Glee? the writers definitely hang out where the shipping fans do. either that or they know their audience pretty well. though they kinda made kurt's character a pretty pathetic one. HE CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT.

finn to puck, "Dude. Impulse control!" hah.

2009-11-16T01:41:00.001+08:00

ALEXANDER SKARSGARD IS A FUCKING HOTASS. SCREW YOU IF YOU DISAGREE.

and stark sands is following closely.

2009-11-11T13:42:00.003+08:00

seriously. i have a feeling this blog is going to turn into a place where i talk about all the tv shows and movies that i watch, and want to watch. (because twitter only allows 140 characters).

chionging flashforward like hell. currently now on episode 6. have to say, one of the main reason i'm still continuing the show is to see what happens to john cho's character. and how did the blackouts occur. and random characters who i recognize from other shows (WILD BILL GUARNERE HI!!) couldn't give a damn about the rest, especially joseph fiennes. his flashforward is BORING. so, CAN THEY STOP SHOWING US THE DAMN FLASHBACKS AND MOVE ON WITH THE STORY?? we're not idiots who need to see the same 30 seconds ten times (or more) to remember them. if had a shot for every time we're shown an old flashforward, i'll be drunk by the end of the episode or something.

and i am definitely a person who likes to read spoilers. so, SPOILER ALERT HERE. do not continue reading if you do not want to be spoiled for EPISODE 7. genevieve cortese, who plays tracy in flashforward (and the second ruby in supernatural and i hated her because her acting sucked), had lines in the episode which was related to GENERATION KILL. something like, "Godfather this is hitman 2 we're oscar mike on our ways to killing hajis." (ok not that exact line. but the WORDS like godfather, hitman 2 and others WERE IN IT.) shoutout to nate fick there. :) but apparently she couldn't carry the lines off. not that i expected her to. but its kinda weird seeing jared padalecki's girlfriend in a show like that. (especially after all the fandom bashing.)

2009-11-10T15:52:00.002+08:00

shows to catch up on:
-dexter
-leverage
-castle
-burn notice
-fringe
-flashforward

dvds to buy:
-Life (season 2)
-supernatural (season 4 part 2)
-six feet under
-M.A.S.H.

i'm pretty sure there's a few more, but can't remember them for now. and i've got no time.

2009-10-22T13:36:00.002+08:00

main message: i twit more than i blog. it's easier. and i'm lazy.

hall life is weird. and makes me sleep late and wake up early. EARLY. i woke up at like 7.30. or 8. this morning. and i had breakfast. which is weird.

shouldn't have brought the damn dvds to hall. now i'm doing nothing but watching them. IT'S ENGROSSING. i keep wanting to go back to supernatural season 1, but i JUST have to know what happened next in the wire.

the wire. seriously awesome show that shows you how the fuck do actual politics work. hopefully only in america. because the politics in the show are seriously fucked up. people do things for money, promotions, and FAVORS. and not even favors that are good morally (unless it benefits them in a political or economical way). there's this one guy though. he's always like FUCK THE BOSSES and shit like that, but he's kinda an asshole as well so you don't know how you're supposed to feel about him. anyway, because of his screwing the bosses in whatever ways he can (mainly so that he can work good cases, but also to show off his intelligence or fuck) he's kinda or going to be demoted like fuck. from a detective all the way to some low end cop shit.

and the baddies in the show are fucking good. you don't HATE them, and you kinda understand why some of them do what they do. or not. i don't know.

i guess the main thing the show wants to tell us is that everything's just fucked. unless everyone out there stops doing things for their own benefit the damn world is going to continue the way it is. or just down.

2009-09-13T02:32:00.002+08:00

and that's a still from Were The World Mine.

kinda wanted to do this on facebook/twitter but realized that it might not be possible due to the amount of gushing i'm prolly gonna do.

but seriously. the movie's really good. a little old, maybe, since it came out in 2008. but doesn't matter since practically no one in singapore has probably heard of it. it won a bunch of awards at different film festivals and stuff, but that's not really important as well.

remember high school musical and how manufactured it was? well, to be honest, this movie was kinda like that too. but so much better. the singing's definitely better, for once (the lead actor actually has a band and i'm listening to the music now on myspace, and HELLO NEW BAND THAT I LIKE AND CAN'T FIND THE CD FOR). and the story line's really different.

and umm. gay. though probably this won't be a deterrent to my friends (and if it is IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU ok nvm). so basically the story's about this openly gay guy in high school who kinda gets bullied by others (but he's REAL TALL and quite fit so i don't quite get it) and his teacher (who is totally weird in the omg-did-she-just-step-out-of-some-fairytale way) encourages him to participates in the senior spring play or something like that. and then the guy the gay guy likes (this is the only reason why i hate describing gay guys. it's all he and he and he. bloody pronouns) hears and sees him auditions and apparently auditions as well (together with the whole rugby team. did i mention the straight guy is from the rugby team?) then blah blah blah and gay guy creates some potion that can make people fall in love with the first person they see. and off he goes!

i was kinda upset that the film wasn't going to end the way i wanted it to (FINE I CRIED) but the ending was welcomed. and the girl (the gay guy's best friend) is very very pretty. robin william's daughter, in fact.

the budget for the movie wasn't very big, and you kinda could see where they scrimped on. and the start of the movie was kinda draggy, but later on i didn't really want it to end.

and hi new actor crush but no possible way to fangirl because this is his first feature film. yes i'm talking about you nathaniel david becker. seriously. google his name. pathetic results. although i must admit tanner cohen isn't bad (the lead actor). not that it's easy to fangirl him too. his band isn't even on wiki. and typing "the guts" into google kinda give you the results that you don't really want.

and extremely long and rambling and weird post here because it's the middle of the night, i'm not studying, and i should be sleeping.

psst. i might get the dvd. :)

2009-08-26T19:34:00.000+08:00

lol i just had my 666th post.

anyway, we were watching some jack nicholson movie (he was in a psych hospital. who knows it?) in class. there were some scenes which were supposedly violent, like strangling and someone's slitted throat.

many people in the class gasped at those scenes. i just looked at them (and thought that there wasn't enough blood for the slitted throat).

seems like i'm actually kind of desensitized to violence now.

too much tv?

WHO GIVES A DAMN. SUPERNATURAL IS COMING BACK ON SEPTEMBER 10.

2009-08-26T02:19:00.000+08:00

ignore this if you're not interested in mac vs. pc.

Am currently reading articles written by this idiot who is an EXTREME microsoft fanboy.

he stated, "My advice to Mac enthusiasts: Enjoy your day in the sun while you can. Because the eclipse is coming ... and it's shaped like a giant Windows logo."

a commenter, "an eclipse last for about 6 minutes... enjoy your blue screen in the dark."

seriously. most of his articles have people leaving sarcastic comments on them, and some of the commenters are not always biased towards mac. they just like to call on the reporter's bullshit.

but really, apple seems to taking over gradually. look around you during lectures, in cafes and i don't know where else. notice the number of macs. many people, especially if there's not a budget to be considered, seem to be choosing a mac over any microsoft-running pc. i'm pretty sure that if apple actually have offers during matriculation, the number will jump even more. practically the only thing that turns people off macbooks is the price. (and the small inability to play games. which is improving. but again who gives a fuck about games.) there are people saying that if you want to run windows, buy a mac.

apple is also taking over my house. which is pretty strange when my family had no concept of apple (except for ipods) before me.

why the sudden interest in all these? am considering whether to get the snowleopard/iLife'09/iWorks'09 pack.

2009-08-24T20:40:00.003+08:00

this is so true.

seriously. that's what i do most of the time.

2009-08-14T17:38:00.000+08:00

right. so it seems that it doesn't pay off to be good. at least not for me.

i decided to be good and go to school (when i had an mc). turns out that there WASN'T any fucking lecture. so i went to school for nothing.

i decided to be good and wash my car today. then it started raining once i finished washing my car. well at least i didn't have to wipe it dry. don't really like that part.

seems like my karma is all fucked up. good things come to me when i'm bad. and bad things when i'm good.

fucking runny nose. and bloody twitter.

2009-08-05T22:25:00.000+08:00

for probably the first time in my life, i'm glad to be home.

staying in hospital has got to be the most boring thing to do in your life. rank that up there with long ass flights.

but the food's better than airplane food. :)

2009-07-18T02:14:00.002+08:00

watched harry potter.

i guess i've read the books so many times that i didn't really bother about the plot, only about the stupid stuff that were happening.

like dumbledore PIMPING harry potter to slughorn. seriously.

and if draco malfoy was such a muggle hater, why the fuck was he wearing something that looked like a muggle suit?

and that narcissa malfoy is mrs. damian lewis. (how the fuck did i retain that knowledge when i can't remember anything important??)

as well as mrs. tim burton.

overall, rather boring.

2009-07-17T11:11:00.003+08:00

I've been wrong so many times.
Let's be realistic,
I'm only a statistic to you.
And it hurts so deep inside,
Maybe I'm sadistic,
I can't get myself off of you.
I'm only a statistic to you.
I think I'm addicted to you.
-Madina Lake, Statistics

It's been running through my head for the past few days. And I do actually like it. :)

2009-07-16T21:45:00.000+08:00

the ONE episode without demons in it.

and the humans were even more fucking psychotic that the demons.

interesting idea, supernatural.

2009-07-16T09:13:00.001+08:00

madina lake's latest album is quite different from their first one, but surprisingly good.

lyrics are getting better as well.

if i say i'm ok, i'm also a liar.

2009-07-15T22:52:00.001+08:00

i've been watching so much supernatural, that when i saw the door of the bus shut itself on the show, i thought it was the work of a spirit.

*facepalms*

2009-07-14T15:17:00.002+08:00

there's so much to love about internet geeks.

seriously. who else would have come up with mystery sock?

before you go, "huh?", mystery sock was created by the people of twop, and it's from heroes.

it's hiro's version of mr. isaac. go check out s1. or here.

although, according to others, it's actually mystery sack and some kind of weird kinky thing hiro and ando share. :S

2009-07-14T11:29:00.001+08:00

i just realized.

the birthday presents for the past two years from my parents have been really extravagant.

spoilt, much?

2009-07-13T13:24:00.001+08:00

i'm a strong believer in if you want to do things right, you gotta do it yourself.

i'll never be able to catch up to your standards, and you'll never be able to match mine.

2009-07-11T23:10:00.000+08:00

Life Season 2 DVD comes out only on August 25th.

And i bet it's gonna be hard to find in singapore.

And we wonder why people go for piracy.

2009-07-10T14:23:00.001+08:00

in the show Life, a school was used for the prison scenes. and apparently the producers didn't have to do much to change the look.

how scary is that?

2009-07-08T20:56:00.001+08:00

there's always so many rules to be followed.

-sit up straight
-put your feet down
-sit properly
-don't drag your feet
-stand up straight
-blah blah blah

pfft.

2009-06-30T23:00:00.000+08:00

umm what? the time traveller's wife is coming out in august. definitely going to catch that. rachel mcadams looks good.

and who wants to go watch keane?

2009-06-20T05:41:00.002+08:00

gosh. i haven't blogged in such awhile i nearly wanted to do this either in twitter style or facebook style.

paris is pretty. a nice place to visit, but you end up only VISITING, and not really shopping, since everything is expensive there. we stayed with carmen's relatives, so kinda saved a little there. i'm a little too lazy to post about paris, so i don't really want to type much. went for a river cruise, to the louvre, pantheon, eiffel tower (saw the night sparkles, but never went up, even though we went there like twice because the queue was so freaking long), versailles, and je ne souviens pas. and i had my first cherry picking experience!!! and it was done in the neighbour's garden (which was totally allowed).

am currently in london. staying in this place above a pub, so it's pretty cool. but the room kinda sucks. 9 in a room, and not really a lot of space. why do i need the space? shopping in london is fucking fantastic.

i don't want to go into details about the amount of money i've spent already, but in all, i've bought like 40 items (clothes, shoes, dvds, and cds). Average price of each item is NOT that expensive. and i'm still going shopping tomorrow.

the only thing limiting me now is luggage space. :( and i've already shipped back like 20kg.

2009-06-13T04:55:00.002+08:00

so there the mayor was, walking towards me to give me the french greeting, kisses by the sides of the face.

having not experienced that in awhile, i took a few steps back as he was moving nearer.

clearly defined personal space much?

and we went to this crêpe restaurant for dinner. and you actually had to do reservations. :S

but it was really good. bretagne is famous for crêpes and apple cider, and i had both. they drink cider out of this cup that looks like a big teacup. my host told me cider, in the past, was drank from bowls.

dessert was crêpe as well, and i had this crépe suvette, which is alcoholic. with cognac and something idk. tasted really good. someone should import that restaurant back home.

2009-06-13T00:53:00.002+08:00

when the fuck has skype become some chatting service for random strangers???

2009-06-11T03:11:00.000+08:00

je pense, donc je suis.

i think, therefore i am.

did you know that the origins of this quote is french?

2009-06-09T22:48:00.001+08:00

LOL SPH (the newspaper whatever) is such a freaking liar.

the article they had on generation kill, with an 'interview' with alexander skarsgard?

they weren't the ones who called him. unless it was a mass conference call with people from the philipines papers as well.

nearly everything skarsgard was quoted on was lifted from some philipines article which i read before.

2009-06-09T22:40:00.002+08:00

uhh hi apple i don't know whether to hate you or love you.

the 'new' laptops are fucking fantastic. a 13" mbp. can anyone scream, "i want!"? and faster processors and bigger hard disk drives.

the new iphone's pretty good as well. 32g worth of memory space, with a better camera (though only 3gigs) and runs faster than mine.

eh my birthday's next week. do you need more hints?

2009-06-09T22:28:00.001+08:00

j'adore skype.

a 3-4 minutes phone call back to singapore only costs about 22cents. sing.

hooray for cheap deals. not like the bastard phone companies who only aim to earn money.

new iphone anyone?

2009-06-07T15:58:00.001+08:00

generation kill will be showing on tv back home tonight. on cinemax.

want to know what i'm so crazy about?

watch it. it's worth the time spent. although i have no idea how censored it'll be.

2009-06-07T06:09:00.000+08:00

seriously, sometimes, i think that nus students are one of the stupidest people i've ever seen.

2009-06-07T01:00:00.001+08:00

how sad is it when we can remember the word lunettes but not the word sunglasses?

and yes it's the same thing. just that lunettes' in french.

2009-06-02T23:20:00.001+08:00

OMG i was watching mtv and jason mraz's lucky came on.

then i realized the settings jason mraz was in looked DAMN FAMILIAR. like i've seen it before. the cathedrale, the background, the building, the cobbled streets...

then i saw the statue behind him. WTF OMG IT'S PRAGUE'S OLD TIME SQUARE. and i've really seen it. and was there.

oh hai jason i stepped on the same floor you were turning around. yay?

2009-06-01T16:36:00.002+08:00

angels and demons in FRENCH. without subtitles. in a french cinema. that's what i did.

surfing is bloody tough, but the waves are good. i was like the ONLY asian at the beach though. which was kinda strange.

might be going to another beach for kayaking later. :)

in all, will be to the beach three days in a row. but not very tanned yet. at least not in my opinion. can't really tell. other people might have a different opinion though.

and the food in my host family is really really good. we had cornbread TWICE (one from scratch and one from mix), pancakes and all sorts of things for breakfast. and lots of good stuff for dinner. my hosts can really cook and bake. even the dad.

i even had barbecued food. but DAMMIT I MISS MY SAMBAL.

2009-05-31T01:21:00.000+08:00

Hero Of War

one of the best damn songs ever. or this year. whatever.

2009-05-30T07:23:00.000+08:00

i always thought the view of the night time sky at my house was really good, especially considering that i live in singapore.

however, walking back to my host's house late at night, i realized, the view is so much better here. the stars are a lot bigger, and nearer. and there's a lot more. but again. the street i'm staying in, the street lights turn off after midnight or something. so maybe that helps.

france is pretty smart. turning off street lamps of streets where not many cars will travel at night. why can't we do it in singapore?

2009-05-29T00:25:00.002+08:00

j'avais trés beaucoup le cidre bouché brut. :)

it's been weeks since i'm away from home, and weeks before i head back. does anyone misses me?

2009-05-28T04:26:00.000+08:00

red bull cola contains cocaine.

any one trying it?

2009-05-28T03:51:00.004+08:00

i've been playing massivemusicquiz with my host family. LOL.

and wine and coffee(decaf) at dinner, and coffee (and cooked food) for breakfast. oh france, how you spoil me. can we drink wine every dinner, mummy? i have more than two glasses of wine each night. :D

europeans like their cents a lot. especially the 1-2 cents. hello, you have 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cents, 1 and 2 euros in coins. is it necessary to have so many coins? especially the cents<10. can't you round it up or something? my wallet hates it. me too.

... and singapore has swine flu. and brest doesn't. seems like i might be safer here in europe than back home. that's kinda strange to think about it, isn't it?

2009-05-26T03:14:00.002+08:00

being on this trip, i've learned how to operate the washing machine and the dryer, open a beer bottle with a key, and drink my coffee black.

i am currently in my hosts' house, and it seems like i got lucky on the side. i've got a pretty young couple (compared to some of my friends' ones) and they SPEAK ENGLISH. which apparently not all hosts can do. i'm currently the only student in the house as well.

food-wise, it's fucking fantastic. i've got cooked food every meal (no more damn sandwiches), coffee both at night and in the morning and wine every dinner. maybe because of the kids in the house, but for breakfast there's a huge selection. bread, muesli, scrambled eggs, toast, cereal, jam, butter (damn good butter), nutella and sometimes PANCAKES. yumyumyum. both the parents can cook, so i'm lucky in that sense. i've even got internet, and i'm driven to school as long as the kids are being driven to school. the bed's a queen-size bed, and the toilet is HUGE with a freaking bathtub. no more small dingy looking bathrooms. and the pathetic floor.

i think i love brest. it's bloody comfortable in the hosts' house. and apparently the 12 year old son likes green day. smart him. all i knew was fucking pop music when i was 12.

and i'm curbing my swearing tendency in the house. instead of calling out OH FUCK i called out oh crap when the plate nearly dropped. be proud of me.

2009-05-23T15:37:00.001+08:00

eh huimin my hair is no longer black larh wtf?

2009-05-22T16:17:00.000+08:00

sometimes i'm thinking, why bother?

like trombley said, eat fuck kill, they're all the same, isn't it?

that sort of philosophy could be applied to my entire fucking life.

2009-05-21T05:42:00.000+08:00

god i want to watch movies but the new releases are of such shitty qualities online.

and seriously, by the time i get back to singapore my sleeping hours are FUCKED.

2009-05-19T22:51:00.002+08:00

i haven't seen the star trek movie (which i actually want to because of zachary quinto).

it seems like only now have people realized how hot zachary quinto is or something.

hello? he was damn hot as sylar in heroes. not that anyone agreed with me then.

2009-05-19T21:20:00.002+08:00

alcohol in germany is fucking cheap, and we bought a bottle of bacardi.

drinking ourselves silly now. :D

2009-05-17T02:42:00.002+08:00

12th May

and so starts our journey to switzerland.

to go to bern, we have to change trains in milan. we paid for the reservations, and there were only a few minutes available for us to change the train. to our horror, the first train was late, and when we got off the train, the crowds of people were fucking STROLLING their way down the station, blocking our way. by the time we reached the track, the train happily rolled away right in front of our eyes.

fucking italy. seriously if not for their food, i think i might hate italy.

so we had to like wait an hour or two for the next train. which brought us to arth-goldau, which we had to change another time to go to lucerne, and from lucerne, we changed AGAIN to get to bern. lots of train changing. not good with luggages.

if you guys are ever go backpacking ever do not ever carry a luggage and pack really light. you don't really want to lug a huge bag around too. most places have somewhere for you to wash and dry the clothes, and i guess you can share the luggage load with someone or something. two pairs of jeans and like 5 tshirts or something and the corresponding number of underwear should be enough. :)

first day in switzerland, we arrived pretty late, so it was just walking around in the area nearby and having the most expensive dinner ever. rosti and cheese fondue! i have no idea when i'll ever put the photos up (when carmen choy loads it). the food here's fucking expensive. twenty over francs for a cheese fondue. :(

and then it was shopping! bought another top in h&m. the sizes here are different from germany though. so i guess if you shop in europe you gotta try your clothes or something.

and it's back to the hostel to sleep.

bought a new swiss arm!

2009-05-15T03:10:00.007+08:00

11th May

going to venice from prague's a pain in the ass. we would have to go back to germany, and then to venice, italy. and then we'll have to pass through austria, which our railpass did not cover, so we had to pay extra. it's an overnight train from munich to venice too, and there weren't any seats available, so we had to reserve the couchettes, which was quite interesting.

and here are two idiots on their way to venice.

carmen choy has no photos of the couchettes, and my card reader is fucked, so there's no photos (anyway i don't think i got good photos). but it's this really cramped sleeping area with 6 beds, three on each side, and the beds are kinda like stacked on top of each other in some strange sort of triple decker style. the bed's actually like some sort of platform fixed to the wall, and you end up sleeping on it through the entire night.

in venice, we stayed at hotel vienna, which was off the main island (santa lucia) and on mestre. the hotel... the staff was pretty nice, enduring all our stupid endless questions. and the food was relatively ok. and the laundromat was nearby. that's about the only thing good about the hotel.

in fact, the hotel was ahtiong land, with an ahtiong smell. it's probably run by an ahtiong, and ahtiongs were coming in and out everyday. we witnessed this hilarious conversation with the receptionist and a china tour guide. the china tour guide was speaking in italian, and the receptionist was replying in italian as well. we didn't think there was anything wrong, as the tour guide sounded quite pro. until the tour guide said to some tourist, "我也不知道他在说什么." OMG. that totally had me and carmen in hysterics. i was controlling my laughter, not laughing at all, until we looked at each other and burst out in laughter. it was kinda rude. but seriously. wtf is wrong with the tour guide.

and the hotel room. toilet's fucking pathetic. the shower is this tiny area bounded by the shower curtain, with really poor drainage system. the beds were fine, and the room rather big, but OMG the worst thing was MOSQUITOS. i had like ten bites the first night, and more the second. lucky we only stayed for two days, if not i'll have more bites than i ever had in my life. the mozzies here are fucking big, and different from those in singapore. the bites they leave makes my skin swell up really badly, and they bit my face too. and it's really itchy. i have no idea whether it was venice with the mosquito problem, or the hotel, as we never got any bites other than in the hotel itself. the morning we left, carmen killed two mozzies, i killed four, and there were at least two big ones still flying around. i killed the mozzies by smashing them against the wall, so there kind of are like blood stains on the wall with the dead mozzies plastered to them. hope the ahtiongs cleaning the room notice the stain and do something about the MOZZIE PROBLEM OMG.

We hung out around santa lucia the first day. a super touristy area with lots of gelato shops. we had gelato TWICE in venice and we forgot to take photos both times. oops. i had the cookies flavour, with "bits of cookies in it" claimed the shopkeeper. and she gave me a HUGE scoop. turns out that the bits of cookies weren't bits at all. you know the size of an oreo? well the bits were like half the size of an oreo cookie. yum yum. and it only cost like 1 euro. gelato in singapore is so much more expensive. :(

and we kinda got ripped off when we bought orange juice to drink. 2.5euros for a carton?? the orange must have been plucked by the hand of god or something.

right. anyway, you guys remember social studies classes about venice, the city on water or something like that? yeah well that's only true for the main island, where the only available form of public transport is boats. they have the water bus, the water taxis, their own private boats, and the gondolas. we bought a 36hr travel pass which gave us unlimited rides on the water bus, so we definitely spent a lot of time on the bus.

one extremely stupid incident. our first time on the water bus, we scanned our ticket and crossed the tiny bridge, to what we thought was the bus. we wondered for damn long why the hell aren't we moving yet, before an actual water bus CAME and we realized we were on the station. wtf we are idiots.

the streets of venice are pretty small, unless you're walking out in the campo or something. the streets are kinda like alleys, and pretty hard to navigate, with the numerous turns and stuff. it's quite easy to get lost in it. and we wouldn't dare to walk around at night.

this is me eating a slice of actual italian pizza. cost about 2 euros, and it's SO DAMN FUCKING GOOD. hello gimme moar please thank you. it's a crime not to eat pizza in italy, so go do it or something.

and this is the piazza which venice is so damn famous for. cultural idiot here, so no idea what's the significance of it. lots of pigeons here, and was kinda scared that birds would poop on my hair, so i actually bought a cap before that. but i forgot to bring the cap, and was lucky enough (or unlucky) not to have a bird poop on me. i nearly wanted to say how lucky we were, but was afraid of being乌鸦嘴, so i kept my mouth shut.

there's another church at one end of the piazza, so we went in too. i have no idea why we keep going into churches, seeing how unreligious we are.

after this, we travelled by the water bus to santa maria, another church. same old, same old, photos to see, nothing to describe.

got carbonara and lasagne for dinner, which was at this place which served cheap and good food. yay for the find. also, the sinks in the toilet were pretty interesting. in singapore, as long as you don't see any way to turn on the tap manually you assume it's an automatic one, don't you? well, we definitely thought so. after sticking our hands under the tap for awhile and with no water coming out, we started looking for ways to turn on the tap, including twisting the tap and stuff. turns out there's this pedal thingy under the sink where you step on it to get the water flowing.

and then came my favourite part of the day. cheapo sim and cheapo choy took advantage of the travel pass, and we went to take the water bus with the longest trip, slightly more than an hour. this bus brought us about the grand canal of venice, so we got to see many of the sights we saw on foot. extremely enjoyable for me, seeing how much i love sea travel, but not so much for choy who gets motion sickness at the drop of a hat. on our way back (we took it back and forth), the sun was setting, and the lights were coming on, so we kinda got to see venice at night (kinda because it was still quite bright at 8 plus and we didn't want to stay too late).

and then it was heading back to mestre and our hotel. by the time we reached mestre, the sky was totally dark and the streets were pretty deserted, so we were a little freaked out and walked extremely quickly behind another guy, figuring that no one would rob us with another person nearby (the other guy was dragging a luggage and came from the station, so we assumed he wasn't a robber in disguise). it was definitely a relief to reach the hotel. but at that time, we didn't know about the MOZZIE problem...

2009-05-15T02:37:00.004+08:00

10th May

Went to Vysehrad by taking the metro. we were kinda lost, but i guess carmen figured out the way.

vysehrad's an old castle, with a cemetery with dead famous people and a bunch of other attractions. and the cemetery's damn cool, with like statues and stuff. kinda disrespectful to take photos, so none.

saw this really old pipe/well thing, which wasn't working so i'm guessing it's really old and it's how people used to draw water. hah merlin. except merlin's one was kind of fixed to the wall.

this is the plague pillar, apparently built when the plague occurred and people were looking for spiritual help/guidance/something.

another old gothic church. seriously lots of gothic buildings in prague with fantastic artwork. and like art's painted on the ceiling and stuff.

this really old well, with no water inside. at least i think so. everything was black when i looked down it.

here's the entrance to the gothic cellar, which is kind of like a museum or something.

another interesting site was the gorlice. one bloody annoying thing about the gorlice was that it's BLOODY HARD TO FIND. we walked back and forth the area like twice before realizing where the entrance was. and despite the area shown in the picture below being labelled at the gorlice, it WAS NOT the entrance (it turned out to be the exit). and when we finally found the entrance, it turned out we missed the tour time so we had to wait like another hour for the next tour. so we went back to the exit. also saw this really young couple with a kid, and we were arguing between ourselves whether the couple was the parents or were they siblings or something. but the kid was really adorable, with a bicycle with no pedals (he moved by pushing his feet on the ground) and playing on the merry-go-round, both sitting and pushing it.

here's the entrance to the gorlice. the gorlice is this tunnel thing which leads to this great big hall, where apparently soldiers slept in the past. and it's really cold in there. if i'm not wrong the tunnel was supposed to lead out of the castle or something. so it's a secret tunnel! pretty exciting.

inside the great hall are the old statues from the charles bridge, so i guess this is actually kind of cooler than the charles bridge.

and here ends our trip in prague, as we were too lazy to go to other areas and had to travel to venice the next day. the rest of the time was spent hanging about the hostel and the supermarket.

seriously, we have some sort of obsession with the supermarket. must be the really cheap deals we can get there.

2009-05-14T03:04:00.002+08:00

9th May (continued)

to get up onto petrin hill, we got to take this thing called the funiculum (not sure about the spelling), which is a tram that heads upwards.

here is us in the tram. we're not photo-taking whores, and have taken very few photos of ourselves, so enjoy this one while it last. :)

the station we're leaving from.

midway on the ride. the view's always damn good around.

we didn't want to spend a lot of time at the top of the hill, as we wanted to scrimp on the tickets (one ticket's like usable for a set period of time, so if you take the tram again within the time limit, you don't have to buy a new ticket). there's an observatory on top of the hill, which we went to.

seeing that we didn't go there when it was dark (and it gets dark only like after 9pm), all we could see was the sun. which was still pretty fucking cool. for some reason, when we look into two different eyepieces, one showed the sun yellow (we didn't see any dark spots, and the person said to come back in a few years' time to see them) and the other, red. we could see like little spikes pointing out from the sun though, so the sun that we drew in primary school with the spikes surrounding it? we drew it correctly!

went to the charles bridge after that, which apparently james bond was shot. no idea which one, as i'm totally not into the franchise. kind of lazy to get photos up too, as all we saw were tourists and like little pushcarts/stores thingy. where's the performers and interesting people mentioned huh?

and then it's back to the hostel.

by the way, carbonated water seems to be a lot more popular and cheaper than mineral water in prague. all we drank was fizzy fruit water, like orange, peach and grapefruit. so it's like drinking soft drinks all day long.

and shopping in prague? try not to do so. it's a lot cheaper buying the items in euros/pounds.

2009-05-14T01:27:00.011+08:00

9th May

and we're heading off to the prague castle. or what the locals call it, prazsky vhrad. we crossed this bridge, mistakenly thinking that it is the famous charles bridge, but when we looked down the river and saw another bridge crawling with people, as well as how empty our bridge was, we realized our mistake.

bridge is still quite pretty though.

the grounds of some parliament/european union thingy. no idea what it was, but lots of people inside so we went in too. pretty cool though, lots of hedges around.

to get to prague castle, which is situated on top of a hill/slope/mountain/idk, we have to climb up a really long slope. which again is cobbled. seriously by the end of the day my ankles were hurting from the imbalanced weight placed on my feet. stumbled a few times due to the grooves as well.

the downwards view halfway on the slope

and the upwards view.

reached the top of the slope, just before the entrance of the prague castle. it's so damn high up that apparently you're supposed to feel a sense of accomplishment reaching there on foot. uhh okay. anyway, view out there was pretty good, better on a clear day.

petrin hill in the distance.

and prague's new town/old town, where we were staying.

entrance to the prague castle. they have this changing of the guards thing too, and a quartet playing on the streets outside. the music of the quartet was pretty good, with them singing as well. i have no idea if they played for the changing of the guards, but they were playing some music when the guards were changing.

and here's one of the guards!

looking at all these photos, you'll notice that we've actually captured quite a few other people (tourists) as well. i wonder if we ourselves are immortalized in their photos as well?

gaining entry into the castle. walking around the castle grounds is free, but you gotta pay if you want to enter some of the buildings.

look at the flagpole. it's a spike with a sharp pointy end at the top. hell for a paratrooper (idk what the hell you call people parachuting so i'll call it the army term) to land on. :)

you can see the st. vitus cathedral in the background. (lots of churches to see in europe. kind of wasted on me.)

the square of the castle (no idea of it's exact name).

and here's the st. vitus cathedral. it's a neo-gothic structure dating back from idk when. hi mummy can we have a neo-gothic house? i think i like it.

queuing up to get into the cathedral.

the cathedral is so damn freaking huge that the photo can't do justice to it. seriously. it took us quite long to walk around the cathedral, and we weren't exacting like admiring anything since we don't know what they were about. all we knew was, ooh pretty let's take photos yay!

i don't know if this is common of a catholic church or something, but there were a lot of stained glass windows in this one. and the colours were bloody amazing, and extremely complex. it was kinda disappointing that the sun wasn't exactly shining through the windows, if not it'll be even more breathtaking.

hello lion with a broken sword! anyone knows what the broken sword means? or is it an accident?

and here the guards come from standing stationary at one spot for one hour.

and we viewed a bunch of other attractions in prague castle, but they either did not allow cameras or there wasn't anything much to take, so no photos. the st. vitus cathedral was truly the one most outstanding attraction in prague castle. perhaps that's the reason why it was the only attraction with a queue.

by the way, in prague castle, you can rent this audioguide which tells you about the various attractions inside (which we were too cheap to spend on). seeing people going around with the audioguide was pretty funny, as it was this huge phone-lookalike thingy, so people were going around with them stuck to their ears.

just outside prague castle, we saw a camera crew on the streets. turns out that a toyota advertisement was being shot when we were there. but it's not a model that singapore has. (that or it's a brand new model) but a pretty ugly one.

saw a bunch of kids in idkw costumes. quite adorable. a girl even posed for the photo. :)

we had a late lunch around the area. trying to look for cheap and authentic czech food (we heard about the goulash and potato dumplings) we walked past quite a few restaurants. again, being greedy bastards, we forgot about photos until everything was (half)-eaten.

the dark bread was pretty fucking weird. and hard. apparently germans like bread like that. i'm pretty sure the french like white bread though. the sauce that came with the bread was good though. some mix of garlic, butter and cheese if i'm not wrong.

and ta-dah! our half-eaten/finished meal. we ordered something called the peasant's omelette, which was really good (but choy thought there was too much veggie things), the goulash and the potato dumplings. if you're a person who doesn't like starchy stuff, i wouldn't recommend the dumplings to you. but again. i have no idea if the dumplings were authentic.

and off we go to the petrin hill.

2009-05-14T00:51:00.004+08:00

8th May (continued)

walking through the streets of prague you realize how touristy the place is, with the numerous rides and trips around the city like:

this car

and the horse carriages

and here's the astronomical clock which rings every hour, with a rooster coming out, and death pulling the bell, and a bunch of other stuff which i didn't notice. :) the tower has at least two different clocks on it, one showing the analog time, and another showing the earth's position in the solar system? not really sure about that.

and here's the old town square

and the outsides and insides of a few churches...

and the prague castle in the distance, which we travelled to the next day.

the museum of medieval torture. the people in the past really damn free to think up of such ways to torture people. saw how the actual stocks looked like (hi merlin people you got the stocks wrong stocks are for the feet not head and hands). we signed the guestbook there, so let's see if it's still there the next time one of us ever comes here again.

the charles bridge (which apparently has damn good scenery or something on it).

and that's the end of the day. we spent this day mostly walking about and admiring the sights, not that i'm much of an admirer. i think i prefer my holidays to be doing something, rather than just looking at the pretty. although the pretty is very pretty. yay.

interestingly enough, i'm keeping much better sleeping hours in europe than back in singapore. due to us having no interest in pubs and clubs, we fall asleep at like ten plus and wake up the next day at about 8 or 9. see ongying? i'm sleeping properly.

2009-05-13T15:08:00.006+08:00

6th May

flew off at night. parents were desperate to send me off (not really but they insisted on seeing me into the departure hall). ongying and dawn appeared too, insisting that it was 顺路 (my ass, seeing that i know exactly where they lived). they insisted that they didn't need a ride back, but who the fuck would give up free rides?

7th May

reached frankfurt in the morning, and the plane ride sucked. too bloody long with nothing to do. the movies got kinda boring. not looking forward to the flight back. there was a pretty adorable baby on the ride though.

moved off from the airport railway station to the frankfurt main station. kinda got lost with all the different tracks, but starting to learn how to navigate the station. the train system in frankfurt works on an honest system, so you'll have to be honest enough to pay for your own tickets, as there's no one checking (other than the random train inspector which i did not see any) and sometimes, the locals apparently do cheat on this.

reached the station and looked for a place to store our luggages. they have these huge lockers for 4 euros each which could store my luggage and my bag. though i'm not really sure if my parent's luggage could fit into it. though there's always the luggage counter which someone will look after it for you but it cost a little more (which we went to at first but the person helpfully told us about the cheaper one). got stuck at the locker, seeing that it ate up my money. carmen went to look for some guy for help and he provided me with another locker that i did not ahve to pay for. germans are surprisingly friendly.

so, with nothing to do til night time when we were supposed to take the train to prague, we walked around the city a little. the people in frankfurt dresses damn well, with lots of suits and coats and i don't know what else. shopping's pretty damn good too, with like megastores lining the streets. espirit's a little expensive here, but h&m is wonderful. there's the bargain shelf where everything there costs like 9euros. carmen got a nice jacket for that price. i got a shirt for a little more than that. but keeping in mind that we were travelling to london (factory fucking outlets ftw) we controlled our shopping impulse to the max. and ended up eating a lot. lots of fantastic cars around this area as well. all the mercs and bmws and other luxurious huge cars. they also had the smart cars, which were like tiny little cars that was damn cool. the way they parked the car was pretty funny as well, in the gap between two huge cars (perpendicular parking). wish i had one.

breakfast was this 5 euro thing, with like three freaking eggs. unless my scrambled eggs have been fried with 3 eggs or something, this has got to be the most number of eggs i've eaten at one go.

lunch was at this street market thing, and we had a sandwich each, and this fried potato thing with this really good sauce and pickled lettuce(?). no idea what the vegetable and sauce actually was, but tasted damn good. and of course, we had beer. one light beer and two dark beers. interestingly enough, it was the dark beer with the weaker alcoholic taste. papa would love the light beer though. if i'm not wrong, a glass of beer cost about 2 euros or less. and this was the place i got my first tan of the year. you know how they say that in the desert, standing out in the sun is fucking hot, but once you got in the shade it'll be damn cool? it's the same way in frankfurt (and like all the other cities which i've been in so far). sticking our beers in the shadowed area kept them cool for damn long, even without ice. but with good beer, it didn't last that long anyway. there was also this pretty interesting drink, which was apparently apple wine. tasted like alcoholic apple cider. i liked that a lot. and being greedy asses, we keep forgetting to take photos of our food (this has happened so many times, even in singapore).

dinner... i can't remember what the hell we had. was it mcdonalds? i think so. the mcdonald's in singapore might be better, with cheaper prices and better sauce. and more dessert choices. no such thing as an apple pie here. :(

and we were silly enough to pay for the damn toilet in the station when there was a free toilet for use in mcdonalds. and there was no free wireless. :( well there was wireless, but i'm not very sure if there's a need to pay for it, as you got to get accounts (kind of similar to wireless@sg, except that the wireless is confirmed free).

and because we only wanted to use one day on our travelpass, we had to take a train that was after 12 midnight. 12 midnight in frankfurt is 6am in singapore, and coupled with the nonexistent sleep (well i slept very little) on the plane, this was kind of killing me. what a relief to get up on the damn sleeper train and just sleep away.

8th may

and we woke up to see prague out of our windows. by the way, the sun rises freaking early in europe (like around 5am or before) and sets damn late. which does really weird stuff to my body clock. i'm looking around at the sky and thinking it's like 6pm, but a look at my watch tells me it's 9pm. :S

the view out of the train window was damn good as well. we were rolling through the countryside, with the occasional cities popping out.

got a little confused at where we were supposed to get off. we've got really lucky this trip. before we could get off or make any move, the train started moving, and the next station we stopped at was the correct one. everyone kind of breathed a sigh of relief (other people in the cabin weren't sure where to get off too).

and here's our train station!

it's off to our first hostel!

the streets in prague's all cobbled (even the roads), which makes it a pain in the ass to drag our luggage around. if i'm ever coming to europe again and moving around like this, i'm investing in a damn good backpack. i shudder a little wondering about the state of the wheels on my luggage. (hi huimin if you're reading this you might want to consider getting a new luggage.)

yes all the roads in prague look like this. roads are even worse as the stones are rounder, bigger and more uneven.

the entrance to the hostel's hidden in the little passageway. the arrow pointing into the passage only said hostel, and i was wondering WHAT hostel. umm hi hostel your name is only AZ hostel would it kill you to add the two little letters for poor tourists like us? but the hostel's extremely fantastic for the price we've paid. the people in the hostel's are pretty friendly too, helping out with every single stupid questions we had. not a bad place to stay if you ever come to prague, and it's pretty central in it's area. we were able to walk to the old town square, and even the prague castle (which took us like an hour to walk there. we definitely have the words "cheapos on tour" tattooed somewhere on our bodies.

and some of the sights in prague around our hostel.

and now it's time to go wake carmen choy up so i'll probably continue this later.

2009-05-13T05:40:00.000+08:00

btw, i'm getting fucking tanned in europe.

the impression that europe is a dark and dreary place? totally shot to hell.

2009-05-13T05:29:00.002+08:00

my card reader died on me, so any photos that i may upload will probably come from carmen choy's camera.

venice is rather pretty. though nothing much to do, so eating>>walking about.

bought some 36hr travel pass for water bus and buses thingy, so we took long rides up and down the Grand Canal. Saw part of the night scenery too, but as it was still freaking bright at like 9pm we couldn't really see much of the night scenery. the lights were quite pretty though.

and more risotto/pasta/pizza/gelato tomorrow!

and carmen choy's slippers fucking stink.

2009-05-12T13:12:00.003+08:00

just reached venice, italy.

slept in the couchette part of the train, which was pretty... interesting.

imagine this really tiny room, with 3 beds stacked on the wall on each side of the room. the distance between the two columns of beds was just big enough to stand with a little space left over.

perfect for people who like double decker beds and the close proximity to another person.

and i can't wait to eat later.

2009-05-11T00:22:00.004+08:00

had this fried cheese burger (the cheese was fried, not the burger) this morning.

really good. chewy and warm cheese that's deep fried yum yum.

lots of different kinds of juices here. we had peach juice (finally, after carmen talking about drinking peach juice for so damn long) and now strawberry juice.

the carbonated water here is pretty cool, not the perrier kind. taste like fizzy drinks.

going off to venice tomorrow.

bought a cap (from h&m, which is like ALL over the place) due to the fear of bird pooping on my head.

what's happening in singapore?

2009-05-10T02:20:00.002+08:00

So I'm finally in europe. After barely sleeping on the plane ride and crashing on the train, finally got a proper good sleep on the third night.

I somehow expected myself to adapt quite well to the time here, but still it gets tiring quite fast.

We do massive amount of walking, practically the entire day other than meal times and sitting a lttle while on benches available.

Food's quite good, but the prices are a little high end. Nothing like the good cheap food we have at home.

I kinda really crave chee cheong fun right now.

2009-05-09T02:00:00.002+08:00

europe is pretty interesting.

trying to control my spending impulse so that i can blow it all in london.

and it seems like the highest expenditure is on food.

but beer is freaking cheap and good.

2009-05-03T13:23:00.001+08:00

SCREW YOU, SIM HUI MIN.

fangirling is fucking awesome and people should have a career in it.

2009-05-01T23:32:00.003+08:00

Got the poster from despair.com

added the flag myself. :)

2009-05-01T22:05:00.002+08:00

i saw the merlin commercial for the dvd on tv and i started squealing.

well it didn't exactly happen that way.

i heard the dialogue, realized it was merlin, looked up and started fangirling away. IT LOOKS SO MUCH BETTER ON TV. SHARPER AND EVERYTHING.

and when i repeated "keep the magic secret" together with merlin, my sis called me a psycho. :(

YES. KEEP THE MAGIC SECRET. PLEASE.

2009-05-01T18:36:00.002+08:00

FUCK swine flu.

my parents are annoying me about it.

of ALL times to happen.

and i think i better go study. whee.

2009-04-29T00:06:00.001+08:00

oh YES. i wanted to talk about the twicon (or the twilight conference), which is going to be held in america.

it kinda made me sad when i heard it on radio (damn you 987 for having ryan seacrest's show and making me think that it was happening in singapore).

not because i like twilight.

but because kellan lutz will be there. (he's the older brother of edward.)

and he's one of the guys in generation kill, aka jason lilley.

i'll totally spam him with gk questions. :(

2009-04-28T23:49:00.003+08:00

i... kinda forgot what i want to blog about.

my new table. it's a kid's table from ikea and for me to use my laptop on. (seeing that i never ever use a table)

and a picture on the sticker of a box i bought. umm retarded much?

about a week left to go.

2009-04-27T13:42:00.001+08:00

Hetalia is fucking funny.

It's about the different countries during WW2, and the author actually personalized the countries (it's a manga/anime) and makes fun of ALL the countries. Except maybe Germany. Other than this part where Germany's disguise got shot down. But i've only read like two chapters so i have no idea.

italy is fucking funny. seriously. you just want to shake him and make him grow up. Japan's kinda awesome.

i know i'm talking about the axis powers, who are the bad guys, but seriously. the manga depicts all their mistakes and characteristics pretty well.

2009-04-27T12:18:00.001+08:00

mikey james way follows ian watkins on twitter.

and they chat!

2009-04-25T14:59:00.000+08:00

the french version of fmylife is vie de merde.

which means life of shit. fucking funny, the french.

2009-04-23T19:23:00.002+08:00

shows that i want to get dvds: merlin, generation kill, the wire, oz, supernatural, life

i'm sure the list will get longer.

and regarding oz: not the fucking wizard of oz or whatever crap. it's this hbo drama about a maximum security prison (and ten thousand times cooler and more violent than prison break. prison break's like a pussy compared to this show. and oz came out MUCH earlier. like in the 1990s.)

HBO= my current obsession (though i seriously can't get into true blood. it's too... sissy. although if eric gets a bigger part in s2 i'll start watching it again.)

hbo makes fucking good tv.

2009-04-23T18:39:00.003+08:00

i know i kinda have an elitist mentality towards my music.

i'm a little embarrassed to say this, but i LOVE busted. this band is kinda like my dirty little secret, but seriously. listen to the lyrics of the songs that did not become pop hits. year 3000 and whatever was put out on the radio were certainly not the best stuff they wrote. their slow songs are kinda awesome.

i'm using too many "kinda"s but excuse me i have had four shots of espresso altogether and i'm a little high. not exactly a buzz though. which kinds of freak me out because less than a year ago two shots of espresso in a venti caramel macchiato nearly made me sick.

i am officially either a caffeine addict or something and that caffeine has little to no effect on me unless in LARGE amounts. (because who the hell drinks four shots of espresso just like that??)

2009-04-23T16:04:00.003+08:00

i have a sneaking suspicion that.... never mind.

i seem to blog only when i'm bored. doesn't really help the shallowness of this blog. oh well. who cares.

2009-04-23T14:53:00.003+08:00

bloody fuck. doesn't seem like i'll be able to make it down to either rock am ring or rock im park.

this kinda sucks. and gives me a little motivation to study harder so that i can go on SEP.

but i really hate sociology.

WHAT THE FUCK IS IT ABOUT?!?! it's bullshit. (sorry to sociology majors, but I DON'T GET IT.)

should have fucking stuck to biology.

so much easier.

2009-04-23T12:46:00.001+08:00

i used to study like what, once every one or two years.

now i find myself studying every fucking semester.

fuck you, university.

kinda wish i didn't get into university. i'll go and study to become a tour agent! (or tour guide whatever you call those people)

2009-04-21T22:15:00.002+08:00

crazy marines and their smart mouths.

one incident when Colbert's humvee drives into a sobka field (kinda like quicksand) and they're trying to rescue it under enemy fire, some battalion office runs past and asks him to burn the vehicle and thermite the radios.

Colbert: " I'm not abandoning this vehicle!"

a smartass marine: "we're going to die because Colbert's in love with his humvee."

after that, Fick tells them that the name of a town they went through was called Al Gharraf. And it's getting the shit bombed out of it the same time this talk was happening.

Colbert: "I hope they call it El Pancake when we're through with it."

El Pancake?!?!?! wtf?

Generation Kill (the book) is full of anecdotes like these. It's awesome! reminds me of why i like reading so much.

2009-04-19T16:48:00.001+08:00

bloody fucking hell.

my first car. one that would be nearly a year's old in a month's time. never got into any damn accidents in it, despite the way i drive.

guess what? my sister went into a pillar in it. now there's a part that fell off the car and the front bumper's dent. not willing to stare at it much.

hoo-fucking-rah.

2009-04-15T00:02:00.002+08:00

seriously, all that's running through my head now are things like tv shows and fandoms.

now who gives a damn about the fucking exams?

i really really kind of hate university life.

2009-04-14T04:18:00.000+08:00

hey.

anyone knows where i can buy time turners?

2009-04-09T07:35:00.000+08:00

i forgot to bring my adaptor, pencil case, and keys.

i'm surprised i even manange to move myself to school.

i think i'm losing control of my life and i don't know how to gain it back.

2009-04-08T21:07:00.000+08:00

HAHAHA

ONG SU YI I JUST HAD KOKOKRUNCH AND RUFFLES.

YUM.

2009-04-07T17:04:00.003+08:00

rofl.

right. so generation kill has two directors, where they directed different episodes.

someone noticed that in the episodes where a female directed them, there were NO shots of alexander skarsgard topless. whereas in the other episodes that a male directed, skarsgard usually had a topless scene somewhere. not that he needed to be topless. and not that i'm not happy about it. haha (although wen thinks that he has huge manboobs. :P)

umm gay much?

:D

2009-04-07T15:31:00.000+08:00

it's quite clear that i'm gonna fuck up the rest of this semester.

i need to get out WITHOUT any distractions.

which might not work since i study with my laptop.

i should change this.

but i don't wanna print notes.

2009-04-06T23:26:00.003+08:00

OMG STARK SANDS.

i know you're 30 but you look like a cute little boy you're not supposed to be HOT.

go back to being cute. ok?

2009-04-06T13:11:00.001+08:00

the one movie where i could find stark sands with a relatively leading role in, he turns into a fucking zombie.

WTF??

but he's an adorable zombie who doesn't kill people because he's vegetarian.

that's a pretty good idea. becoming a vegetarian so that when you become a zombie you won't eat humans.

i'm gonna go dig out die mommie die i swear.

2009-04-02T22:21:00.000+08:00

the gorgeous tiny chicken machine show.

it's like watching a goddamn car accident.

i'm not going to embed it in my blog.