After two weeks of absence from tabletennis training due to DOTC and Programme meetings, I attended yesterday’s, expecting my right arm to ache badly after coach made me practice my backhand topspin more than usual. But it didn’t… So I guess it’s seasoned already? Lol, come on, I don’t even remember what I did during DOTC (well, perhaps the running about in the studio and ‘diving’ onto the floor once we heard people entering etc) to earn myself very severe body aches. Like the last time I went, there were the new faces, prolly those waiting to enter poly. Then today Tiffany held a birthday celebration at her home in Bedok North, which appeared to be more like a CNY celebration or a “80??” rather than for an 18th birthday. Met Stradford (ex capt) for the first time, he’s been back from OSIP for 3 weeks already.

One week of EleMM class exercises has proven to be extremely annoying =( Hello Dreamweaver, hello Flash(soon, soon okay) and hello TABLES. I am going to hate tables for life. Recently I was surfing the Battle Royale forums again. Although there can’t really be original or fresh topics for discussions, I <3 reading it totally! Yesasia has this free shipping promotion, and a coupon for USD$5 off (CNY special) valid till um, today, so I was thinking of buying the BR Special Japan version DVD which includes the director's cut, deleted scenes, rehearsals, promo vids and a whole lot more! I want it very badly! But then it has no subs, and costs around $70. Anyway, in the future I've no probs shopping online since my debit card arrived yesterday ^^

OMGosh, I think I hang out with Adeline (on msn HAHAR) too much. Her younger brother’s a fan of Farenheit and she was telling me all about the drama HanaKimi. While we were out lunching at @ Pepper Lunch at Dhoby Xchange on Friday, they were showing it outside the vcd shop. And I seem to have caught onto HanaKimi right after that. At eps 5 now. Lol, it was adapted from a manga (as most taiwanese shows were) and I’m sure a Jap version of it would be terrific. At least they could have gotten a better female lead (oops =P) and better extras/minor casts. Oh yah, ??????????94?????? He’s a Woman She’s a Man?????(Anita Yuen)???? ?????????????! I think she did a good job at it too, and I love the way Leslie’s character was so paranoid that he might turn gay because he fell in love with this girlish looking boy. ^_^

You know I keep having dreams and two significant ones I remember from today’s are about my best friends and teeth-dropping. It’s rather vague, the content, but I do recall the ‘scene’ with Grace and Hajar (TP) and in other dream Claudyne and Cathleen (PL, my sec school) where I made Claudyne get for me a tin of strawberry Hello Panda biscuits *ROFL, I haven’t had enough of it!*. The next dream was about myself being in a place somewhat like the new PL auditorium (or some enclosed area) and feeling my teeth and they start to fall. A mouthful of teeth I got afterwards, when I spit them out along with the bloody mess I couldn’t control it still. I read up on dream interpretations and this one about teeth-falling falls under one of the most common dreams people have. Whether it was because of anxiety or assimilation, having your teeth fall uncontrollably is not a very pleasant feeling, I nearly thought it was for real.

Tomorrow is 401, I think I’m going to go on a Leslie Cheung movie marathon. *hearts*

– Quote of the day –

When you see, you forget.
When you hear, you kind of forget.
When you do, you totally forget.
(c) all of us

– Advice of the day –

Find something to laugh about every day, (we have absolutely no problems doing that in Ben’s class.) and start counting your blessings.

(You have no idea how many bad news I received just these few days. As though it’s a spate of unfortunate events that has hit my friends; one comes immediately after another. It’s so hard to sit still and take it in.)

– Message of the day –

(I am currently mad about an incident. Ridiculed by the kid who did something so stupid to my friend. I hereby proclaim that I dislike people with no guts. Especially anonymous flamers. They should be burnt alive. >:P Below is a useful piece of writing on the correct way of flaming.)

Guidelines on how to flame a blogger:
Mr Miss Anonymous.
Firstly, when you want to criticise, insult, scold others, you need to use proper English.
Secondly, you need to reveal your identity. That is basic etiquette.
Thirdly, no matter how much you dislike the blogger, you need to show at least some respect. Vulgarities does not show respect. Please be nice.
Then, before you criticise, insult, scold, get your facts right. You were wrong about her age.
Finally, do not rant like a kid. Be rational, elaborate and explain.
Yes you have the freedom of speech, but no one will understand when you rant and rant like a kid. (…etc)
Please, elaborate and explain, rationally. This time, with your identity. You are given another chance to do this properly.
Remember your objective – to hit the blogger real hard with your criticisms and she collapse. That is your ultimate goal. I am teaching you how to do it properly. So, thank me.

(extracted from -Sean‘s very intelligent and funny brains)

– Picture of the day –

(I see your true colours shining through… so don’t be afraid to let them show ~ I promise you, you won’t want to know who’s the poor guy. Go on, crack your brains to figure this out. Anyway, PROGRAMME ROCKS!)

– Font of the day –

IMPACT
“Use Impact for a greater impact.” (pun intended or not, ask B.ong)

– News of the day –

Nada Sou Sou (Tsumabuki Satoshi and Nagasawa Masami. I have only completed the drama series recently.) opens today! Adeline said the Straits Times review was as good as Taiyou no Uta‘s. Besides this, Yahoo! Singapore Movies tells me that Nightmare Detective (Ando Masanobu x Matsuda Ryuhei! YAY! The last film I saw in which they worked together was Big Bang Love Juvenile A.) and Eternal Summer (rated R21, and it’s only showing after SO long. LS had said it; the story’s kind of flat. The movie’s very different from the novel and leaves an open ending. It’s filmed with a very bluey effect, but as compared to Lanyu, I still think the latter has a stronger and more impacting storyline.) opens 26 April.

– Have a nice day! –

Actual updates may be rare, but it’s never too late for a picture post =) Some happenings in March, hence the entry title.

16 March 2007
Grace’s 21st birthday @ Orchard Swensens.
Quite a bit of planning went into this. We even made an attempt to invite 2000(aka Elmo), the mystery man, to Grace’s party but he had something on (or maybe he was just too shy to turn up) so he wished her Happy Birthday via sms instead. AH, I knew she would be soo touched for the celebration. =D remain a little 12 year old girl always, cousin Avie ^_^

1 Grace and the funny loaf of ‘bread’ / 2 Whee! How happy the birthday girl looks / 3 A special message for her “12th” birthday. 12 FOREVER! / 4 The sms from the MYSTERY MAN. <3 <3 / 5 Karwen, AVIE and OVIE / 6 A bunch of roses from Jac / 7 Macson’s magic trick. As always. / 8 After dinner. Group photo without me, Hajar, Joshua & Daniel.

Project 1 Exhibition, 21-22 March.
Boy, P1 was a huge headache. There’s too much to elaborate on, so I’ll only show you pictures of our booth. Name: Hallucinating Stones. Our presentation was scheduled on the second day at 9.15am. Shirlyn and Gail assessed us and we made sure we wore black/white top + dark jeans for the informal presentation also because of our theme colour.

Design Orientation Training Camp, 23-25 March.

In the picture, we were tired and starving but Moses brought us up to level 7 to cheer. I’ve never been to the balcony before so it was good experience nevertheless. Design oei! Very ‘orientation’-like. Meanwhile, the security guards downstairs panicked when he saw the scene. We left them be :) And I heard from somewhere that two ??s brought their luggages *wink wink* to camp when they were supposed to be on a flight to Japan for a holiday. Or something. LOL. Friday was so eventful — the clearing of our Project1 exhibition; our P1 group’s confrontation (hah, that’s what it felt like at that moment) regarding Daniel’s development booklet; the IMD talk followed by Project 2 presentation by the Juniors; Moses’ talk in the evening followed by DOTC camp. I heard from Hazimah a ghost story on the first night and got scared to death when I had to sit at the empty sports complex toilet at 7 the next morning to wait for Grace and Qinghui to finish bathing. During the course of our 2 / 3-day stay in school, a lot of time was spent listening to Moses, ice-breaking and brainstorming. It’s a wonder we didn’t use mindmaps for that ;) Girls were allocated to the 3rd level, guys the 4th. Station games sucked, for my part, because I hated myself for not being able to address the groups properly / coherently and my station was quite messed up. Sorry Grace for being a nuisance that day!

The highlight of OTC was none other than Nightwalk. Whao, the thrill of scaring others and being scared yourself. I prolly can direct a horror flick very well. After we applied bloody horror make up, it was when I got butterflies in my stomach for being nervous. I anticipated it very much and when it came down to the actual thing, it was BETTER man. Grace and I were situated at the VSC studio and the “evidences” (the bloodied tissue strewn all over, bloody handprints, her *LOL* black crocs) were prepared at the last minute. At the darkest end of the VSC studio…. Grace sat at a desk while I was sprawled beside the desks near the wall. I SCARED THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF THEM! The first group that visited freaked out and ran away when I crawled out. And they were all group leaders; guys and girls alike. Nobody was allowed to switch the lights on. In the dark, I was laughing to myself (and trying very hard to control la!), then someone whispered telling me “don’t laugh leh, suppose to scare them” =.= Screams erupted from all sides of level 5 studios. From the feedback, Froggy and the other girl definitely had done a great job ;) As a freshie during our orientation, I liked the unfamiliarity and thrill from the previous nightwalk, but for now, I’m certain I won’t give up the chance of playing ghost. You just wouldn’t think about how eerie and how dirty the floor is while you’re at it. XD Now Sean and QH want to join us. Wanderers sounds kind of boring ne~

I no longer feel that this camp was a waste of time, just as some people had thought. It was necessary, and there was much more to be learnt. Quality time spent with close friends is as valuable as gold. On the last night, me QH and Grace strolled to Business Sch to get supper (and icecream! yum!) from the vending machines, then afterwards sat outside the library for a hearty session till 3am. WOO ~ they both confessed about wanting to get married at 21 when they were younger. Oops, now they’re still unwed. Mwaha, I still got a long way to go man. Next year we’ll celebrate SAD (Singles Awareness Day) on 14 Feb ;) unless… … la.

No holidays for us during the very short transition from Year 1 to Year 2, which is like, now. Gosh we’re no longer fresh! Turning stale by the days! First day of the sem / block / des year = EleMM. Elements of Multimedia, taught by Ben again. 30 (half of IMD) in our 12-3pm class. Guess what, we’re dealing with websites again! *LOVE LOVE LOVE <3*

I was so right when I said stress can reveal one’s true colours. I believed in my Project 1 group; that got along the best, we were going to make it to the top. I believed in trusting them. In return, I heard about the talks behind our backs. It’s the last thing we deserve. And the last thing I would do to you. Can’t you see the anxiety we’ve laid upon ourselves in hoping to perfect our project? How utterly disappointing. Just because I don’t show that I mind, I still do. A lot more than I tolerate. There are times when I brainwash myself, pretending that nothing has happened, and everything’s going to be alright. The reason is that I hate to argue.

All of a sudden, I find it so impossible to face them the way I did before yesterday. Even when we meet each other now, smiling, laughing, all I feel is the dull numbing sensation and distant words that have burnt their way into my head. Which makes me want to withdraw and stop being so liberal with trust. Just when I thought things have changed for the better, whatever we went through for the past weeks seem to have amounted to nothing.

???????? project1 ?????????????????????????????????????? module ??????????????? ?3????? birthdays!!!?????????????????? ???????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????? pitch and pitch at the lecturers??? ?????????????????? IMD’s ? MOI’s major project for Year 1.

???I received from Angie a link to the song “?????” by ??, the original singer. I am not really familiar with him, but this version was sung by Leslie during his 1988 concert but on a different night as the one recorded for the official concert CD. It’s the mandarin version of “??”released in his 1989 album ????. I listened for the first time and whao, there was this burst of emotions that flooded me.

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Leslie ?????????????????… ?????????????????????????????? ???1989???????????????? ?????????????????????80????????????????86/87????????????????? ??

??80????????1982???????26??????????????? Leslie ??????????????? “????… ????????? ???????????????????????????? …?? ??????????*?*????? ?????????????????????????… ???????????????????? ?????? ????????????? ?… ?? ???????? ??????????????? ?????????? ?????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ??????~???????? ??*?*????????????????? ???????????????????????????????”

????????Leslie???????????? ?????????? ?????

????? – Leslie, 1988 concert

????????? / ???????? / ????? ????? / ????? ????? / ????????? / ????????? / ????? ????? / ?????????? * ???? ???? / ????? ???? / ??????? / ?? ????? ?? * ?? ??????? / ???????? / ????? ????? / ?????????

Credits due here. Read about Leslie’s 1988 concert on Bianca’s website: here.