Lost memories

Year of the dragon...time to watch some movies.

2012-01-28T13:27:00.002+08:00

Disregarding the blog title, which had no relations to what I wanted to blog, just a quick recap of the movies I'd caught this year.

1. Contraband

Trying to wash his hands off drug trafficking, John had to once risk again, this time in counterfeit bills for his useless brother-in-law.

Action packed, though I was a little distracted from sms-ing.

Interesting enough, but I won't watch it again.

2. Jack and Jill

The type of movie to watch during CNY.

Jill is like this annoying twin sister of Jack, always pissing Jack off in all matters.

Funny but not witty. It follows the typical plot of a pair of twins where one of them is like permanently pissed at the other, but after a series of events, finally realized that the saying 'blood is thicker than water' is true. And they hug and live happily ever after.

Watch it if you want a good laugh.

3. The viral factor

This is supposed to be the first movie of the year.

Simply because Jay Chou starred in it.

Extremely action-packed, because 90% of the movie concentrates on fighting, throwing grenades, firing off and trying to integrate viruses together to make a new virus to spread to the world.

My mom loved this, because it's action packed.

On the other hand, I kinda dreaded this movie when I saw the opening that this is produced (I think) by EEG (where Nicholas Tse is under), because most of the movies under that are crappy (or rather, those that featured Charlene Choi is bad).

Luckily it was alright.

And I loved the guys that played Jay's ex-superior and current superior (he acted in Point of entry, Channel 5) because of their english, which is super good and the accent!!

I could faint from that.

Jay's english... I can understand.

Also, the movie is international.

Tse speaks in Cantonese, and Jay speaks in Chinese. Jay's superiors speak in English. And that's how they communicate throughout the movie. This is epic.

Irresponsible people

2012-01-21T21:58:00.002+08:00

Nothing really irritates me as much as people backing out at the last minute.

Was selling my textbook last week, and a girl (I assumed), wanted to get it.

But she wanted to meet like this Monday.

Monday came, and she said that she couldn't make it, pushing it to Thursday.

The day before Thursday, she just sent a message telling me that she's dropping that class and don't want the book already.

I didn't even text her back.

Hello.

If you already had the intention to drop the class, don't freaking make me hold the book for so long!!

And I specifically asked her if she's confirmed getting the book when she wanted to delay the meetup.

There's like several people looking for that book as well, and because of this girl, I turned them down.

Luckily, there's another girl from NUS who messaged me the same day that irritating girl sent me that message. So I sold it to her instead.

There's another incident.

I got my ticket to SS4 (Suju's concert).

It was supposed to be Row 17, Blk 222, which is not bad, cause that's the sixth row from the terrace.

Deal was made pretty fast, and we settled on the date to meet already.

Then she messaged me the next day, saying that her cousin changed the ticket to sit next to her and her friend, and the ticket's now in row 231 (which is not facing the center and far away).

Of course I told her no.

It's not fair you make a deal and then you change it.

So I got my ticket from someone else.

Row 25...a little far, but at least the block is 223, facing the stage centre.

I'll see if I can trade with anyone else.

What should I do?

2012-01-18T10:56:00.000+08:00

LOL!!!!
My appeal got in for 'beauty and the myths'!!!
But now I'm tempted to keep both this and korean level 2...and that may means suicide because there's 21 AU!!

Dilemma...

點解阿Sir係阿Sir

2012-01-14T16:34:00.002+08:00

I didn't expect it to have 30 episodes.

But the story, as with most TVB dramas, is fast moving.

A mixture of school youth problems (more on drugs) and gangsterism as well as involving a teacher-turned-undercover.

陈豪 is one of the actors that I pretty like from HK, and Ron Ng is super handsome as well.

It started off funny, especially when 陈豪 was trying to enforce his own rules on the students, to control them before educating.

The interactions between him (as an undercover) and his superintendent were the funniest, parodying the scenes from Infernal Affairs (where the undercover and his boss will meet on the rooftop), telling him that the first meeting is on rooftop to allow him a feel of being an undercover, then asking him to leave soon after the meeting because another sir is having his first meeting with another undercover soon.

LOL. And the seriousness in the future meetings, and the matching outfits.

And the ex-gangster turned good guy is one of the funny characters as well. Super love how he acts and his utmost concern for his son.

2012-01-13T14:58:00.000+08:00

I hate camping.

Please don't say...

2012-01-08T01:49:00.001+08:00

OMG Eunhyuk is so shuai!!
Honestly I want to touch his hair :(

School...

2012-01-03T23:34:00.000+08:00

Saw course slides and outline being posted up already...

sigh.

人在穷途

2012-01-03T11:50:00.002+08:00

A china production.

Where a businessman was trying to go back home for New year, and he's torn between his wife and the 小三.

Unfortunately for him, it seemed that he's not supposed to go home. Because the plane that was supposed to fly off returned back because of the weather, the train could not proceed because the road in front was destroyed, the bus broke down, the van he managed to won overturned because of one person.

The one person is also going to the same place as him, following him everywhere like a 冤魂。

Always saying all the wrong things, but like a typical 乡下人, very innocent.

The movie's quite funny, and it leaves you pondering about your own life, how you're been living so far...

2012

2012-01-01T00:32:00.001+08:00

Are you ready for 2012?

1314: Sunny

2011-12-30T15:51:00.002+08:00

Caught this on my flight back from Hongkong to Singapore.

Heard of this while I was watching We got married, thus I decided to watch (and it had pretty good ratings).

The story is really simple, with a woman who accidentally found one of her friends in the hospital due to a terminal illness, and upon the dying friend's request, decided to gather the group 'Sunny' one last time.

The young actresses protraying as the younger selves were charismatic and adorable, and the ending was quite touching; I shed some tears.

Watch it!

Funny videos...Suju!

2011-12-27T10:21:00.002+08:00

Gah! Donghae's too cute!

Random kids who never seem to grow up LOL.

Seriously think it will be interesting to live with Siwon, he's so drama!!

I replayed this so many times and still I can't stop laughing.

Sungminnie <3

Oh 台湾美 Part 2

2011-12-25T15:51:00.003+08:00

So I come to Part 2 of this post...kind of overdue.

The weather was cool and it's almost like an 'air-conditioned' nation (LOL) except that you can't turn it off. But it was nice. Imagine the chills you get that you never get in Singapore.

The tour guide was very knowledgeable and quite interesting, much like Jacky Wu, though Jacky Wu was more funny.

He talked quite alot about politics (since they're electing a new president now and it's not compulsory for them to vote), about karma and names.

And 13 strokes in a character apparently is very good. (Think Super Junior. Think Only 13!)

萬歲萬歲萬萬歲 is the best example.

9 and 4 too. (皇上)

Too bad my name don't have this configuration.

But the place he bought us to offered a free reading of name, and the lady said my name is a good name.

To put it in her words, 小妹有一点stubborn。很聪明，但是做事情往往半途而废。大福大贵可是生命里会缺一样东西，我也看不出是啥。

Super accurate, and now I know why the hell am I still single till today.

Haiz, it's fate.

I really, really like the architecture there, the flooring, the ceiling and the buildings.

Everything is like a piece of art.

So pretty, and the main reason why there really isn't much pictures with people inside, because that would blur the point of the photo. (though it would seem that I might have took the photos from internet without actually being there haha)

My favorite place in Taiwan...is actually 7-Eleven and Family Mart.

Because it's very cheap.

One bottle 600ml of malt tea in the chiller column cost only TWD18..which is around SGD$0.80!

Seriously, you can't find this in Singapore (the drink and the price).

I could buy from 7-Eleven everyday if it's cheap like Taiwan's.

The only thing I didn't get to try was 关东煮. ( I'm listening to that song now lol)

Food was awesome, and I love shopping in the night market (夜市）.

Bought many clothes, a wallet, a bag and a pair of shoes.

And they are all so pretty.~~

TV programs are even better, they have over 80 channels?

Each channel has its purpose; for entertainment, for news or sports etc.

The thing is, it's like having Mio/Starhub cable except that it's free.

So jelly of the Taiwanese.

4,5 years ago? When I visited Taiwan for the first time, everywhere was playing Jay Chou's songs ( As he just released his new album...十一月的肖邦）

Now?

'Hey, I'm Mr Simple!'

Korean songs dominate the streets, even on the day of my visit was T-ara's arrival.

The power of K-pop.

LOL.

But I still do hear Jay's songs in some stores.

Taiwan is awesome!

又进步了！

2011-12-22T00:07:00.001+08:00

好开心！！
虽然还是没有跨过2nd upper class 的门槛，可是已经在前进了。

Oh台湾美！Part 1

2011-12-19T22:12:00.012+08:00

On the plane. sitting on Cathay Pacific.

Spot my love?

Hey I'm Mr Simple!

Finally got the chance to drink Americano.

Added two packets of sugar and a tiny cup of milk...

Still bitter.

Lucky I didn't take it at Starbucks.

HongKong International Airport at dawn hours.

Sat there till 9 in the morning due to flight delay =_=.

Part of my meal on the plane.

The ice cream's so hard that I could write my name.

LOL.

The number of people waiting for me at the airport!!

HAHA.

Actually they're waiting for T-ara, a Korean girl group.

But I didn't manage to catch them :(

So envious of these fans.

It's like impossible to see K-pop stars so close in Singapore.

And the arrival area there was less big, so easier to see them.

Alot of food and clothes.

Good place to shop.

克丽饼。

好吃！

Delicious!! Though I can't remember the name.

Nothing special.

But the cactus plants are so cute!!

薄荷绿茶。

冰冰凉凉的magic!

很美吧？

可以在那里呆一整天。

女皇头。

鲁肉饭，综合鱼丸汤。还有面。

饿了吗？

九份。

Like this photo alot.

The flooring.

It's very pretty, so I took it.

Another place with lots of stone.

You know why the river's black?

Because it's in mountain area and been raining for more than 3 days.

Knowledge gained from the tour guide.

The waterfall.

打死我也不会回去。

听说不太干净。

还好我们都没有遇到，也感觉不到。

超讨厌它的厕所的。。。以最快速度冲凉。

听说可能是最后一次可以在台湾放天灯了。

因为太危险。还好今年我来了。

在旅巴上拍的。充满艺术感咧?

我拍的。

有没有想起叶问？

皇上驾到!

Took this using fish-eye effect.

So pretty.

六合夜市。

泰国虾。饿了吧？

采茶叶！

虽然我分不太出来到底啥是茶叶。

讲解员，也是老板的儿子。叫着林正城？

满搞笑的。

高山茶。

在‘伍角船板’ 里用餐，也是唯一像样的一餐。

餐厅的设计是美的咯.

里面的装潢。

又是地板。

天花板。

不是故意要拍这些扳的。。。

真的很喜欢台湾的每一座高山，建筑。

换兵仪式。

桃源飞机场。带着不舍的心情离开。

饭店准备的早餐盒，因为是早班的飞机。

Reminded me of the hotel I did my internship at.

But the box provided there was the plastic box you get if you takeaway at Foodcourt.

Super no class.

Hotels in Taiwan have more class lol.

回到现实的那一刻。。。一句话形容 --- 不要啦！:(((

2011-12-13T05:36:00.001+08:00

In Hongkong now...transit.
So excited!!

I say eunhae, you say Oppa!

2011-12-12T20:40:00.001+08:00

It's official.
SM ships Eunhae.
I ship Eunhae.
Eunhae ship themselves!!

크리스마스에 눈이 올까요?

2011-12-11T00:13:00.002+08:00

Will it snow for Christmas?

Actually, I remembered it as the drama airing after 'my girlfriend is a gumiho',(which I had yet to finish) but the title didn't seem interesting enough to watch.

Till now, I don't really get the title.

I mean, there's no emphasis on Christmas at all, unless you count it that the drama aired near that period.

But I really like the cast.

Han Ye Seul and Go Soo.

Because they look good.

And the actor and actress acting as their younger self.

The drama, is typical of k-drama, with a love square and many problems breaking the couple.

Firstly, the girl caused the guy's pendant to fall into the river, and the girl's brother helped to find the pendant, drowning in the process.

But they decided to ignore the fact and got together.

Next, the guy's mother and the girl's father were in love long time ago and the two accidentally discovered it.

Then next, the guy's mother and the girl's father decided to elope, but back out in the end. However, because the girl's father had cancer, he died.

Meanwhile, the girl's mother knew all along, and for some reason, set fire to the house.

The guy rescued her...and she lost parts of her memory, and thought that the guy is the son (sister's dead brother).

HAHA.

It's like some Taiwanese drama.

But it's very nice.

And I cried buckets.

Zoo...the place for school children, tourists and 3 people who refuse to grow up.

2011-12-08T16:45:00.007+08:00

So we went to the Zoo.

Oi Shan, Eugenia and me.

Sounds ridiculous because it's the kind of place that I don't want to visit since

going to it when I was in primary school.

But maybe it just tells me how much I'd aged.

This is my favourite photo.

Though I don't recall the name of this animal at all.

But don't you think it's well-taken??

So pretty.

The highlight of the day.

White tiger.

This is the most alive animal I've seen whole day.

Pacing restlessly while the others received enlightenment and zen whole day.

Sleeping.

Lazing around and perhaps looking at their prey?

Or waiting for their husband?

More lazing around.

And more.

The rabbit which looks like a mix between a dog and a cow.

The second highlight of the day.

My friend.

Shy and reserved.

I really wanna touch its mane.

But I think it will bite me.

Last picture of the day.

The serial killer who wears a white hoodie over her head to hide her identity, wedges to zoo and uses the umbrella to kill.

Already famous.

2011-12-05T00:24:00.004+08:00

一炮而红．

庄米雪和黄鸿升．

本地电影．

但我要看的是黄鸿升，台湾人．

有点失望，因为他沦为男花瓶．

虽然说有笑点，但仅此而已．

You are the apple of my eye.

2011-11-30T19:04:00.002+08:00

Super Junior!!!!!

2011-11-29T22:52:00.000+08:00

They won 3 awards at MAMA!!!

Looking back

2011-11-26T11:00:00.002+08:00

Had nothing better to do (though I should be studying for AA203), so I went to look at some of my older posts, back in 2006.

OMG.

I spotted some grammar mistakes.

This is so annoying.

And there's one post about me knowing someone for only a few months and she asked me if she is my best friend...

Now I don't remember who's this person.

I don't even remember knowing anyone new at that time.

I thought I'm just in my own world, sleeping everyday in class.

LOL.

Or could it be during english class ( I think I remember the classes being split up according to standard of english)?

HAHA. I don't know.

This is so crazy.

Forever

2011-11-25T18:08:00.002+08:00

Is it a good word?

When I hear people say 'forever 21', there's a bad connotation to it.

Like you're forever 21 because you don't make it past to 22.

We got married

2011-11-21T18:04:00.005+08:00

I rarely watched this, even if I do, I usually stop after few episodes (aka Seohyun and Yonghwa).

But these 2 are super cute!!!

Leeteuk-Kang Sora couple.

So terribly awkward but at the same time so funny to look at.

Super Junior held SS4 recently (actually on 19 &20 Nov) in Seoul,

and she was there!!

Squealing like those fangirls when he started playing the piano.

I so knew it that he's gonna play that piece from 'Secret'.

And he serenaded Kang Sora!!

I officially ship this couple.

Now Kang Sora needs to come to SS4 Singapore!

Back to the memories

2011-11-19T22:24:00.002+08:00

Jang Woo Hyuk <3
But it's not a dance song!!

And I found an old video...

Omg.
I heard that song like when I was in secondary school?
Or was it in primary school?
But this was one of the songs that I really like by JTL, though this only features J-Jang Woohyuk.

3 more to go!

2011-11-19T20:25:00.002+08:00

Had my first paper today.

And it's IT.

Alright, though I didn't manage to finish drawing the flowchart.

But at least it's over now!!

Anyway I mentioned that I've been dreaming these days.

The dreams now extend to reality-like situations.

I had a really terrible dream, that today is the day for my IT exam (which it really is) , but before that, I had to attend some school assembly...feels like some church service (or aka PHS).

Halfway I had to leave, because it's gonna be one soon, and my exam starts at one.

Then like some horror film where the character keeps on running, but forever stays at level 13.

I walked round and round, but never seem to be able to find the exam hall.

asdfghjkl.

So I went to school early, and reached at 12pm.

And I realised the dream was perhaps some kind of warning.

My other friend reached Pioneer at 12.10pm, and the shuttle only came at 12.40pm.

Wah.

Lucky me.

那些年,我们一起追的女孩

2011-11-18T00:28:00.006+08:00

也许在另一个平行时空,我们是在一起的.

是女生的话，总会希望生命中有那么一个柯景腾。

一个肯花那么长的时间去喜欢一个人的笨蛋。

虽然从没在一起过，但暧昧的感觉显得更加珍贵，美好。

初恋，好比柚子，苦中带点甘甜的味道。

就算最后的情人不是十年前的初恋，但初恋永远都是最特别的。

人生有几个十年？

幸运的话，可能7-8个吧。（虽然可能也是不幸。）

青春，就像绽开的花，纵使美丽，却太快凋零。

热血，疯狂的事，你会很想做，却提不起勇气。

在九把刀的人生中，却经历过。

故事里的各个主角是活着的。

现实生活中，要活得像个人，很难。

电影中穿插着有趣的对白。

周杰伦《三年二班》开头的 ‘训导处报到，训导处报到，三年二班周杰伦。马上到训导处来！’ 也被用了。

虽然我想说，那年1997吗？还是1999？

三年二班是2003耶。

还有很振奋人心的《双节棍》。

放天灯的画面很有感觉。

就在觉得他们快在一起时，幼稚把他们拆散了。

我只能说刀大的小说真的很好看。

就像方文山填词的功力一样厚。

有欢笑，当然也有泪水。

现在真的很希望刀大也可以把《功夫》拍成电影，然后当作贺岁片，再适合不过。

忘了说，柯震东很帅。而且每一次他讲话时我都想起周杰伦。

情癲大聖

2011-11-16T11:51:00.002+08:00

Caught this last Saturday on Channel 8.

Honestly speaking, though I didn't really like the idea of a monk falling in love.

Cause it kinda ruined the story of Journey to the West, and the idea is wrong in the first place.

But because it's so ridiculous that it's quite entertaining to watch.

And the part when he realised that the girl lied to him and left her was very sad.

I can't resist.

2011-11-14T01:21:00.000+08:00

Super like!!!
4 more days.

my internet speed

2011-11-13T10:36:00.002+08:00

Anyway, I went to some speedtest website, and it says

that my download speed is 3246kbps, upload speed 319kbps.

What's that mean?

Oishan, help me do course registration!!!

The rum diary

2011-11-12T13:18:00.002+08:00

Em... never once had I tried to concentrate so hard on watching a movie.

Really trying to listen to whatever they're talking about... because there's no subs!

Hell, I even look at english subs when I watch chinese movies.

Imagine what a torture it was to watch some english movie with no subs.

The plot, according to Oi Shan, is about corruption.

I didn't notice.

Duh.

Half the time I was trying to keep awake.

1 more day

2011-11-10T22:56:00.001+08:00

Till I get my hands on Jay Chou's new album!

2011-11-09T13:35:00.000+08:00

Dreaming everyday sucks the life outta me.

Dreaming.

2011-11-05T10:05:00.001+08:00

I've been dreaming for the past few days.

One of it involves me watching some drama.

And the story's not bad.

One day when I have time, I might write a story.

That is, if I still remember the drama by then.

One more week.

2011-11-04T10:57:00.001+08:00

So fast.

I can't wait for the week to be over.

But that would mean studying for exams again.

HAIZ.

Sleepwalker

2011-10-30T17:47:00.002+08:00

I watched another movie again, Saturday night at 11.30pm.

It's only $6 per person, since it's part of Halloween Weekend special at Shaw, and Nex is like 10 minutes away.

Taken from Shaw's website:

Yi (Angelica Lee) is an ordinary woman living a mundane life. Over the years, she has been bothered by a repeated dream, in that dream she stands alone on wasteland with a doubt of the mystery being buried underneath.
One day, Yi meets a handsome young man, Eric (Li Zong Han), when he comes to Yi’s garment alteration shop to hire a service. The two lonesomes are quickly drawn together, particularly after Yi shares with Eric about the tortures from those strange dreams.

On the other side, Sergeant Au (Huo Si Yan) desperately purses a kidnap-murder case, she never pushed any harder as it is her nephew the missing hostage in this case. Ransom has been paid, but the kid’s whereabouts is still a mystery. Tortured by extreme anxiety, Sgt. Au’s sister Peggy (Charlie Young) turns hysterical, she radically accuses her young sister of her incapability of tracking down the culprit. Their relationship turns bad but Sgt Au sympathizes with her sister and she vows to bring the kidnapper to justice by herself.

Eric’s effort still falls short to comfort Yi, the details of Yi’s nightmares are getting more and more sophisticated. Sometimes she finds her bedside is stained with mud in the morning. She can’t help thinking that she would really walk on that wasteland and kill someone there while sleepwalking…

Sgt. Au crosses path with Yi when she visits Yi to investigate missing case of Yi’s ex-husband, Ming. Yi is in absolute shock, but she quickly jumps to a conclusion that she kills Ming as from the bottom of heart she hates this unfaithful man. During interrogation, Yi tells all the details and confesses that she would murder in her sleep.

Following the clues hidden in Yi’s dream, Sgt. Au leads her team to the crime scene, however, the body claimed to be buried underneath is no where to find….

The movie's alright, though I won't categorize it under horror, but rather mystery.

There's really no ghost, though the sounds may seem terrifying at first.

There was a comic scene, but that's about it.

It's serious and rather sad, when Yi tries to find her daughter (who was dead 2 years ago).

Paranormal Activity3

2011-10-26T13:24:00.002+08:00

I'm watching quite a number of films recently.

There is no summary for this film.

99% of the scenes is inside the house, in different parts.

There is no meaning to this film.

But I did like the way the movie was shot, using handheld and video cameras.

The ending would be shock and then bewilderment, like why?

It's a prequel to the first 2 movies, but I doubt I would understand more even if I watch it.

Anyway, God must have hated me.

2 seats away from me sat a group of kids (though they should be technically over 16), making a ruckus before, during and after the movie.

Someone from the adjacent row shouted to them to shut up and get lost.

Good Job.

But the kids can't keep their mouths shut.

I keep hearing 'Oh my god! Oh my gawd!'

My eardrums hurt. -___-

The thing : A short review

2011-10-24T00:01:00.002+08:00

At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson.

-Credits to IMDB

Ok, as per Eugenia's request, a summary of what 'The thing' is about.

LOL.

There's a girl called Kate, who was invited by the scientist Dr. Sander to visit Antarctica with him and his assistant, Adam (also Kate's friend) to find out a thing the research team there found.

Apparently it's dug out and contained in a huge block of ice. There's always a know-it-all (aka asshole) in these kind of movies who want to do things his/her way, and later cause a lot of trouble.

So the asshole here is the Dr. Sander, who insist on drilling a hole into the ice to get a fragment of the thing to examine it, despite warnings from Kate and there is no sterilization equipment. You know what happens next.

The thing later broke through the ice and starts attacking, killing one of the research teammates.

Using fire, they burnt the thing, but the guy's dead anyway.

The asshole is a scientist, so even though the thing killed one of them, he thinks that they should bring the thing (now burnt and killed) in and dissect it before it disintegrates.

The head of the teammate is inside its body, and Kate finds a metal rod inside, which belongs to the victim because he had some kind of injury previously.

Later, when Kate looks at the cells under the microscope, she discovers that the thing's cells are still alive, and it's imitating the victim's cells.

OMG.

This means that one of them might have been killed already, but is posing as one of them, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

You get the drift.

Running, trying to escape and burning those infected.

It's actually not too bad.

Watch it!

The thing.

2011-10-21T21:03:00.002+08:00

A movie that I would categorize it under the same genre as Contagion.

Only that it's better, and there's actually tension where there ought to be, unlike Contagion.

The only problem is, I watched it with my mom.

Not that she's bad company.

Ok, she is.

When she shouts and 'ah' at the movie, for example, when the creature suddenly jumped out.

If she's not my mom, I would have ask her to shut up already.

Ok. I told her to keep quiet.

LOL.

I think I actually prefer watching movies alone.

With no distractions.

Unless you're talking about my bladder giving me problems in the midst of watching.

周杰倫《驚嘆號》

2011-10-21T20:51:00.001+08:00

JAY CHOU IS RELEASING HIS 11TH ALBUM ON 11.11.2011!!!!

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!

PRE-ORDER STARTS 26.10.2011.

I'M SO GONNA GET IT.

AA201

2011-10-18T11:56:00.000+08:00

So depressing.
And it's like the core of the cores.

I need a miracle.

fear

2011-10-16T12:08:00.000+08:00

“We're frightened of what makes us different.”
― Anne Rice

Asian Horror Film: My assignment

2011-10-14T15:42:00.002+08:00

With only 4 days left, I'm in a desperate rush to complete this assignment before it's due.

Spend a day watching Ringu, and 3 days watching Momento Mori (because I was watching it online).

Actually, there are other movies which belongs more to horror, but I chose Momento Mori.

It's the least scary, and the fact that I had to watch it online with the monitor near me... means that it's better not to watch something scary.

I didn't really understand the movie when I first watched this.

But I didn't really want to watch the other movies again.

Now that I'd watched it again...it's actually quite understandable.

And really sad.

I can't believe I cried over it.

Anyway, while I was researching on Ringu, I tend to open several tabs at the same time.

When I switch to one of the tabs, it was showing the scene of Sadako crawling out of the well to kill Ryuji, and the time I saw it, she's already out of the well, and walking towards me.

I closed the damn tab IMMEDIATELY.

Next week's movie Bangsal 13, which means 'ward 13'...

Sounds kinda familiar to me as well, but I don't think I've watch Indonesian Horror yet.

I get that thought sometimes.

2011-10-11T10:30:00.002+08:00

When the world is against me.

When I'm alone and it's really me alone.

When I see happy people around me.

I feel like crap.

Sometimes, I get the thought that the world will be better without me.

Moving and staying.

2011-10-10T08:35:00.000+08:00

The world is moving.
Ahead without me.

Missing.

2011-10-06T17:18:00.000+08:00

I hope that Mr Kouk Leong Jin can be located soon.

I saw the devil 악마를 보았다

2011-10-01T01:28:00.006+08:00

악마를 보았다.
Directed by Kim Ji Woon.

Since I'm not longer 20 and below, I decided to watch this.
There's an international version and a Korean version.
Apparently the Korea Media Rating Board forced Kim to recut the film for its theatrical release, objecting to its violent content. Otherwise, the film would have gotten a "Restricted" rating, preventing any sort of release in theaters or on home video. (imdb)
Surprisingly, Singapore didn't cut any scene out.

The story begins with a woman driving in the snow, and halfway the car broke down.

Then a good Samaritan came along, offering to help.

Of course you don't really trust this guy.

So she tells him it's ok, the technician or what is coming over.

He stares at her..and left.

But the van in front doesn't move.

Out of curiosity, she turns on the car lights...

Watch what happens. (around 20s onwards)

I hope you watch what happen.
Because I watched that, and I jumped.
There's another scene at the back that made me jumped,pretty much similar thing except the victim is this victim's sister.

There's a lot of blood and gore.

Reminiscent of HK category III films, especially 'The untold story' starring Anthony Wong (that won him the best actor award and he was famous for that).

So anyway, the serial killer hit her repeatedly with some kind of weapon till she's unconscious. (this form of hitting on head happened quite often during the movie).

The next scene shows her bathed in blood and naked, and the serial killer (Kyung Chul) looks at her passively while she pleads him not to kill her, and that she's pregnant.

He raises his knife, pulls out her arm, and chops.

Later, a boy near the river picks up a black plastic bag, and digs out a ear.

asdfghkl.

The whole of police turns up and starts searching the river, eventually locating her head.

Ewwwww.

Her fiance, a secrey agent, vows to take revenge for her by making sure the murderer suffers as much pain as her.

The action begins.

With the woman's father (who is a police chief) giving him (Soo hyun) 4 photos of those who has been accused of committing similar crimes before. The murderer is the third one.

Speaking of which, I feel sorry for the first two which Soo Hyun tracked down.

Especially the first one.

He's in the midst of watching some porno movie, when the switch gets plugged out.

Next, we see Soo Hyun tying him up and hitting him.

And upon confirming that the guy knows nothing...

I mentioned he's watching a porno movie, and he's in underwear.

Soo Hyun has a hammer in his hands...and sorry, it hits his private parts.

asdfghjkl.

When he finally located Kyung Chul, he beats him up till he passed out, and forced a tracking device (like a pill) into him, so he can find him when he's about to do the same thing to another woman, and beat him up again, make him bleed, but not killing him immediately.

It's a cat and mouse game.

So at one point, Kyung Chul goes to his equally perverse friend's house, I have no idea what's his name is, but we see the beginning scene of him eating a plate of red meat, which 2 woman behind me assumed that it's raw beef or something...

Until he says 'Once you start, you'll get addicted to it.'

It's freaking human flesh.

Holy shit.

And there's a scene of him going to prepare his next meal after finishing his dinner.

Opening the fridge, and we see parts of body inside.

He sulks, because he's finish eating all his favourite parts. Then he drags out a woman he caught, gonna slaughter her up for his next meal.

Then the hero enters.

(Seriously, whenever Kyung Chul or his friend closes up on their prey, I always hope that Soo Hyun will appear at any moment to stop them, and he did. Though it means more bloody scenes.)

The ending ended with Kyung Chul trapped, with a rope tying him to the door, and some sort of metal thing on top of him. Soo Hyun supposedly called Kyung Chul's parents and his son, and they tried to open the door to the room where Kyung Chul is.

The door is forced open, his head gets chopped off and flies to the door.

This film succeeds with visual aspects, and the intensity (as compared to Contagion).

Which by the way, Contagion is fail (for a Hollywood (?) film that talks about some kind of virus invading the human, and usually films like this should be exciting to watch.) But Contagion is just fail.

In his pursuit of Kyung Chul, Soo Hyun himself turns into some kind of predator or devil, though there's a reason to sympathize with him, unlike Kyung Chul who just kill for his pleasure. The whole movie is pretty intensive, though it's quite long , 144 minutes. But the seats at Orchard Cineleisure are really comfortable.

I'm a new fan of Kim Ji Woon.

This is a movie that will earn at least 4/5, and I like the BGM too.

The only downside to it is that I chose to watch this on Tuesday, and some of the audience inside the theater are just plain irritating.

Firstly, an uncle's laughter (I think it sounds like an uncle) throughout the show.

He laughs when in every perverse scene, when the first suspect's private parts get hit, when Kyung Chul hits his victims and kill them, when Soo Hyun gets angry because Kyung Chul's friend laugh (at his dead fiancee for being sexually assaulted by Kyung Chul) and forces his mouth open, giving him a permanent smile on his face.

My god. Is that uncle crazy or what.

He's like some psycho.

Secondly, the two woman behind me. They entered late, and a particular scene whereby Soo Hyun found his fiancee's ring at Kyung Chul's place, confirming that Kyung Chul did kill his fiancee.

The woman went 'What's that?'

'It's a ring.'

'What?'

'The ring.'

'WHAT??'

WHAT THE HELL. SHUT THE HELL UP WILL YOU.

The guy beside me is pissed off and went 'SHHHHHH!'

LOL.

Awesomeness.

But women can't be stopped.

There's still whispering (maybe not, since I can hear them) throughout the show.

I feel like telling them to get the DVD and watch at home.

But this can lead to a possible fight, or if they are immature, chair kicking.

So I tried my best to ignore them.

One of the scenes, where Soo Hyun confronts Kyung Chul, Kyung Chul's cannibalistic friend and the girlfriend.

21st birthday

2011-09-29T14:32:00.003+08:00

So...I just passed my 21st birthday.

Which was like how I passed my previous years.

Nothing big, just a family dinner, including my aunt.

I'm very thankful to those who remembered, because you bother to remember me.

Thankful to those who wished me on Facebook, though you may(or may not) remember or even know, you logged on and saw the notification on your page, and wished me.

Sihui is my good friend.

To be honest, I would be very surprised if she even manage to wish me on my birthday itself, much less being the first one to do so. It's like double shock.

We are friends.

Friends, that I have not seen for years, despite being in the same university now, wished me.

Janice, my lab partner!

Chingay friends from NTU!

NYP and NTU peers.

The L_sers Gang.

Then there's one who never wished me till the last minute.

Seriously, if she really forget my birthday, I'd already made up my mind to forget hers next year.

And then post a belated birthday message on her facebook, the ultimate social media where everybody are friends.

Yes, I'm petty like that.

Lucky she did remember, or I will call her up and nag LOL.

Oh ya, not forgetting the carlorino bag that Eugenia and Oioi got for me.

Apparently it's costly.

My mom also said that.

Actually I never heard of the brand before.

LMAO.

Because I'm a cheapskate.

My samsung mp3

2011-09-25T22:28:00.001+08:00

Ok. I bought my red Samsung mp3 back in 2008.

And I only realised how awesome it is today.

I turned it on, and it said 'Happy birthday!' on the screen.

This is so cool.

Happy Birthday!

2011-09-25T01:23:00.002+08:00

HAHA.

I just heard this song for the first time.

And I also just realized all the other songs called Happy birthday I heard over the years are never really happy.

This is one of the more happier music, or at least, doesn't sound depressing (aka Epik High's Happy birthday to me or Jay's version of Wishing myself a happy birthday)

How to stop the Sadako curse

2011-09-25T00:50:00.002+08:00

I took an elective 'Asian Horror Film' this semester, and one of the films showed was Ringu, the original japanese version of 'The ring'.

Basically it's about a cursed videotape that will cause your death exactly in 7 days after watching it.

It's unstoppable, and the only way to escape it is to make a copy and pass it on.

The ones who watched it died of shock when she crawls out of the TV.

How do we then stop it?

Only 13's guide to breaking the curse

1. Place a mirror or anything reflective in front of the TV. She will scare herself to death (again).

2. Get out of the house, where there's no TV set. If you happened to be at Orchard Road where there are large LCD screens or inside the cinema, at least you won't be(die) alone.

3. Place the TV facing out the window.

4. Seal the TV up with tape, so you have more time to run.

5.Hopefully you're blind.

6. If you can't break it, copy it to someone you really dislike or to the fish that you gonna cook soon for dinner.

GAH.

I'm so random.

Should be reading my tax notes.

I'm not an adult!!

2011-09-24T23:35:00.000+08:00

Let me spend my last 25 minutes of being 20 watching Super Junior.

Happy Birthday Key!

2011-09-23T11:29:00.001+08:00

我很忙。

2011-09-19T22:30:00.002+08:00

My OTP: Jongkey

2011-09-12T23:45:00.001+08:00

This is the part I mentioned earlier!!
HAHAHA.

Shinee World Concert: The (Key) points

2011-09-10T23:39:00.002+08:00

Because SWC is too awesome, I decided to post a part 2 to it.

1. Cameras and Security

I must say, they were still lax in checking bags.

Did the routine, using a torchlight and a stick to see any suspicious items.

My camera remained safely with me.

But throughout the concert!

I have to say, the security there were really performing their duties.

They walked around, catching people and warning them not to use their cameras.

Fortunately, every time they passed by my area, I happened to have put down my camera, saving myself from any potential embarrassment.

Though this also meant the secretive taking of photos, and less than satisfactory results.

2. Lightsticks

I would say the Shawols are more unified than the ELFs.

They all held the same color of lightstick (as seen in my earlier photo of greenness lighting up the whole stadium.)

On the other hand, I seen red lightsticks during SS3.

Hello, this is Super Junior, not Dong Bang Shin Ki.

3. Jongkey

Being a Jongkey (Jonghyun + Key 'couple') fan, I am trained to watch out for fanservice from them.

Of course they forgo the 'ready or not' fanservice back in Taiwan, but there was a part where Jonghyun sang, and a part of the lyrics went 'saranghae' ..... he was facing Key!!

And the water splashing on Key as well.

The mentioning of Key's upcoming birthday.

Little fanservice but I am still very happy.

I think there was some Ontae fanservice, but too bad; not a fan.

3. Singing
It was fantastic! Fantastic elastic elastic.

Especially evident in the slow songs they sang like 'Quasimodo', 'My name', 'Romantic' etc.

4. Dance

Just watch one performance from them and you know how uniformed they were (are).

A pity was that they performed 'Hello' the jonghyun-injured style.

Sitting on chairs and dancing alone, with Jonghyun just singing in the center.

Is it really that bad?

Jonghyun ~~oppa~~ (haha I forgot he's the same age as me.) , you were injured last October...it's been almost a year already.

I want to see you dance to 'Hello' as well.

5. Solos

Not that I'm bias or anything, but here's my rank.

1 - Key (My first kiss by Kesha)

2 - Minho (OMG by Usher)

3 - Taemin (Romeo & juliet by Shinee) / Onew (Nessen Dorma)

4 - Jonghyun ( I have no idea, some english song which I don't think he performed previously at other SWCs)

Key put up a wonderful stage, utilizing the WHOLE stage (and the only one, the rest performed only at the main stage) with Taemin, who featured as the girl.

It was colorful, fun and two very animated members dancing and running around.

Minho's was slick and all the while I was itching to do the dance for OMG (which was part of the dance routine in Chingay 2011 under PAYM). I think he and Key are actually on par, in terms of dancing, just that Key show off more blatantly, in the form of girl group dances.

Taemin was placed third along with Onew because that was one of my favorite songs from Shinee, and the dance break in the middle was way too cool.

Onew should have been placed no.1 with his stunning performance ( I swear watching it live really makes it more heart stopping), but he was at the center of the main stage, which is like so farrrrrr. I can't even see him properly.

Jonghyun, had the same problem, choosing a slow english song, that he attempted to show off high notes, but I was fearing more that he might crack somewhere, singing in such a high key throughout the bulk of his solo. But it was beautiful when he sang in his normal, lower key. And the fact that he stood at the same position as Onew, makes it less awesome.

(I think he really doesn't like Singapore fans that much, since Shinee had a bad impression of them being too hyper. He sang 'Girls' in Seoul/Japan, which I wish he did here, because that's an awesome song from Wheesung.)

6. Young, energetic fans

I had a good seat.

The girls behind me probably had to.

A malay girl (not trying to be racist, but her voice tells me she's clearly not chinese, and the head scarf (??) that gave it away.)

Screaming throughout the whole concert 'ONEWWWW!! TAEMINN!! SHINEE!! MINHO!! KEY!! JONGHYUN!! AHN-DWAEEEEEE (Cannot)!!!'

What cannot?

It's just some freaking video they showed of a girl with Shinee which was never truly identified while they changed and prepared for the next song.

Whatever it is, we have NO chance with any of them.

Not even the SM trainees or the back up dancers.

GOD.

Everytime she open her mouth, I mouthed the words 'Shut the hell up.'

Ok lah, girl.

You are very excited to see them, so am I, and the rest.

But please be quiet when they are talking or singing slow, nice songs.

I want to hear their voices.

7. Replay

This deserved a point alone because I said so.

Their debut song, and I was so afraid they would sing the remix version.

Luckily, they sang the original version.

My most favourite song from them.

8. Bouncy Onew and Key

Onew is the leader. And I can see why, even though he seemed tired at some point, he's always up by the next moment, jumping around and making cute faces.

Same goes for Key, and I think he seemed kinda teary at the end. Perhaps he was touched.

9. Shinee Fashion

Some of the clothes they wore are really nice!!

Especially the red sweator on Onew.

The purple long sleeve shirt on Key.

Actually whatever they wore are nice.

I want all of them!

10. SWC in Tokyo

Before I overrun this... presenting to you , SWC from Tokyo!

This was actually broadcasted in Japan.

Lucky people.

But solo performances were not shown.

You can find the other parts on youtube.

11. Bonus! Key's solo.

For some strange reason, all the fancams are more Taemin focused, even though it's supposed to be Key's solo stage.

I think the ones that took it are all the nunas and the hyungs.

Pedos.

12. Aftermath

Around 7.30pm, I started looking at my watch.

Torn between wanting the show to extend and wanting it to end.

...

I really want to go toilet.

I blame it on my mom who made me drank the winter-melon drink she made.

And god knows how long the queue was when I finally rush to toilet after the concert, at 8.40pm.

1 more minute and I'm seriously gonna pee in my pants.

13. Comeback

Actually, this was supposed to end after point 12, but my obsession with '13' made me wrote this.

Come back soon, Shinee!!

In releasing a new album , but please come back to Singapore like 3 years later.

Like after SS4 in 2012, Jay Chou in 2013 and SHinee in 2014.

If Super Junior and Jay Chou came at that time.

Shinee World Concert: The best after SS3

2011-09-10T22:37:00.016+08:00

This is my original ticket which I got it online from someone who kept buying all the Pen A ticket.
I suspect it has something to do with winning a iPad by using Mastercard lol. And it's a guy.

But it's a standing ticket.
And god knows how I cannot stand for long hours, and certainly not standing at 1.9m where I can see above EVERYONE.
So the search for a new ticket began.

When I arrive.
The stage layout.
Not as awesome as SS3, but good enough.
(because the extended stage is directly in front of my block!)

I think they were singing 'A-yo' at that time.
I can't really remember, but it's one of the rare photos where I could capture everyone and it's not too blurry.

Again, some slow song which I wasn't sure.
(because they sang a number of songs while sitting like that)
Such a pretty scene to take photo but I'm not near enough and they were so far away =_=

To make up for the lack of a clear Taemin, Jonghyun and Onew solo pictures.
Onew rarely came to my end....and when he finally came!
My hands were too shaky!!!!!
Walieu.

I cannot say enough how proud I am to take this photo!!!!
By the way, Key was the first one that appeared in my area!!!
And he is my bias!!!!
HAHA LOVE HIM TO THE MAX!!!!

Minho is a 'priest-like' robe.
LOL.

I think they were singing Ring ding dong at this time.

So prettyyy~~

How amazing Shinee World or the Shawols were.
I feel almost bad for not having a lightstick.

Towards the end of the concert when they were coming to my area and bowing.

I love the head stuff they wore !
Cute~!

On my way back.

Look at the number of people!!
But this is nothing compared to last year's KPOP concert.
(People were standing on the bench of the escalator!!)

This is what I had managed to change.
And I certainly do not regret changing it to this!!!

SWC: D1

2011-09-09T23:45:00.005+08:00

Oh my god.

Less than a day to Shinee's World Concert!!!!!!

I can't wait to see Onew and Key.

Jonghyun too (since he wasn't here for last year's KPOP concert and those friends of mine who saw him all say he's very handsome!!!!)

I'm so excited that I can't help adding '!!!!!'

I wanna love you

2011-09-01T22:32:00.004+08:00

Did I ever share this?
I doubt so.

But check out the performance!!!

Omg Eunhae~~~

HAHA.

(I can't breathe~~)

Actually the main point of this post is that I just wanna share a gif that is so funny.

IT project = doom

2011-08-31T21:03:00.001+08:00

AC213 is killing me.

I really don't know how to do the project when I can't even secure a company to interview.

The world is ugly

2011-08-31T14:08:00.002+08:00

The world is ugly.

Trees are dying thousands by thousands.

Warmer and warmer.

Air-con on full blast.

And the situation's not getting any better.

Yet today, I continue to use the computer and contribute to energy wasting.

You too, as you read this.

There's no point in talking if no one's gonna take action.

Humans are ugly.

Heechul oppa

2011-08-29T11:12:00.002+08:00

사랑해요 김희철!
기다리게 김희철!

Flexibilty

2011-08-27T15:46:00.003+08:00

As if challenging myself to dancing wasn't enough, I had signed up for slimming yoga at my school.

$20 for 5 lessons.

A good deal.

My first class began last Thursday.

One hour.

And my thighs hurt till now.

I had underestimated the inflexibility of my body.

Seminar and homework

2011-08-25T21:22:00.002+08:00

Been preparing diligently for my seminars nowadays.

Perhaps it's because all the familiar faces not with me.

Can't slack no more :(

It's not a bad thing.

At least I bother to try and try and try till I get it.

NAAT recruitment

2011-08-24T17:13:00.002+08:00

Just when I thought they had rejected me, I received an email from NAAT (NBS auditing and assurance team) today.

Should I go?

Superman!

2011-08-22T21:39:00.000+08:00

Love this song.

Hello?

2011-08-19T15:04:00.001+08:00

Just wanna share an incident that happened on National Day.

My boss called me in the middle of the day, asking me if I'm working in the evening.

Which of course I said no, because it's National Day...and obviously busy.

HAHA.

Then he told me that there was a guy who called up the restaurant looking for me.

My boss thought that maybe there was any service issue.

Turned out the guy wanted to know me? -________-

OMG.

Though I cannot deny that I am very much flattered, but calling up my workplace to find me is kinda creepy.

So I thought my boss was joking, just crapping around before he hanged up the phone.

Then when I returned to work a few days later, my colleague and my lady boss brought up the matter again.

Omg.

So my boss wasn't just crapping.

P/S: I heard he's called Goh or Koh or something.

Hell: Level 1

2011-08-18T11:13:00.002+08:00

Introductory presentation is one hour's time!
Gah.

Waking up at 6.15am every morning is taking its toll on me.
And it's only week 2!
I can't wait for 228A to be over..so I have my wednesday free after 12 hours spent in NTU (and 3 hours of travelling time).

The shuttle bus is making it worse.
Previously, I had to arrive Pioneer at 8am to get to 8.30am class on/before time.
Now...I have to arrive like 7.50 or 7.55am to be able to board the second bus, or I will be late.
I took the second bus today but was still late by a couple of minutes because the venue for seminar changed to another block, which is further away. -__-

Where's the lift?
I want to get out.

The joy of school

2011-08-15T01:21:00.000+08:00

Is when it ends.

Suju Mr Simple on music bank

2011-08-12T23:23:00.002+08:00

Eunhyuk's not wearing yellow today :(
But he's still the most noticeable with his white shirt :)
They cut the rap part (Why?)
But it's still awesome (Because it's suju!!!!)

Pull up your socks! But I don't wear socks ;(

2011-08-12T00:34:00.002+08:00

I am so determined to pull up my GPA.

I will start by wearing socks and pull them everyday.

Fistful of stances

2011-08-10T13:06:00.002+08:00

Finally done with fistful of stances, 鐵馬尋橋.

Story summary as follow:

Au-Yeung Wai-Lan, owner of a martial arts training school, is reunited with her long-lost son Ku Yu Cheung after years of agonizing separation. On his return home, Yu-Cheung is shocked to find that his younger brother Koo Yu-Tong has been critically ill and that his father was murdered long ago by Wing Tak , the existing director of a pharmaceutical company and a bitter old foe of the Koos.

Pinning all the family hope on Yu-Cheung, he later learns a special set of kung fu skills, and register for the Seven States Martial Arts Championship Tournament. Out of the blue, Yu-Cheung's opponent in the final turns out to be Wing Man-Kwan.

After the tournament, Yu-Cheung and his family found evidence to prove to everyone that Wing Tak is guilty. Wing Tak began to use cruel ways again to save himself.

Cr: Wikipedia

Particularly like the fighting scenes..though it's predictable that who will win eventually.

My favourite character had got to be Koo Yu Tong, though he's kinda rash and use extreme ways to get people to listen to him, even for good reasons.

If there's a module called 'Asian martial art film'... I confirm register for it!

Samsung Galaxy Ace

2011-08-09T21:59:00.002+08:00

Finally changed.

CS8200

2011-08-05T16:23:00.000+08:00

I got Asian Horror Film as my elective.

Gahhhh I want to change lah.

But lucky still got friend pei me.

Mr Simple

2011-08-04T15:19:00.001+08:00

Blow your mind.

Pre-test

2011-08-04T10:06:00.001+08:00

Pre-test assignment is up already on edventure.

This is so sian.

dramas, dramas.

2011-08-03T22:55:00.002+08:00

Following 怒火街头, I'm on a HK drama marathon currently.

Watching a few HK dramas at the same time, 真相，秋香怒点唐伯虎 and 铁马寻桥。

Also following a korean drama, Spy Myung Wol or 间谍明月.

These shows are damn awesome!

Anyway... I recently notice that Kevin Cheng (鄭嘉穎) is super handsome!!

Which is part of the reason why I wanna watch 铁马寻桥.

But it's a good show, I assure.

Then again, HK is good at making dramas, as long as they are not romance...best at crime/police/lawyer and traditional days dramas.

Spy Myung Wol, on the other hand, is a romantic comedy..though so far more of comedy than romance.

The lead, Eric is super hot!!

And I like the second male lead also... how he's so stiff in the drama..acting like a professional north korean spy.

But the funniest are always the side characters, which in this case, the 'parents' of N Korea spy, Han Myung Wol (the female lead).

Two old spy coming up with all sorts of plans to get Myung Wol closer to Kang Woo, the hallyu star, make him fall in love with her, get married and make him move over to North Korean voluntarily.

Far-fetched plot. But I like. HAHA.

A letter to a cinema

2011-08-02T11:41:00.002+08:00

I recently wrote a feedback + complaint letter to the cinema in my neighbourhood.

Content of the letter:

Hi,

my parents bought a pair of tickets for a friday 29 July 3:40pm show 'Twisted' under the pasion card promotion. Since the movie starts before 5pm on a friday, the price should be $6.50 per ticket. However, the staff there charged them at $9. When I went down today to ask about it, the staff first told me that because friday is not included.

When I told her that shows falling on fri/eve of PH before 5pm should be $6.50 and asked her to check, then she told me because it is the opening week for that show.

Previously, I had watched a movie 'Four' on 7 July thur also at the same place, and it is a show after 5pm as well as the opening day. I had enjoyed the $6.50 rate. The terms and conditions for using the passion card did not state a term citing not valid for first week of screening (unlike eng wah). Also, using the staff's argument, it is obviously flawed. If I can enjoy a $6.50 rate on opening day itself, why can't I get it on friday before 5pm (which is a day after opening day). It is a mistake on the staff's part but there was no apology at all. This is very disappointing.

On a side note, I wonder if the staff is aware and clear of the promotions the company have? Because the staff handling me obviously is not clear about it.

I hope to get an answer from the management soon. Thank you.

Regards,

Lynnette

I send the letter on a Saturday afternoon.

A guy called me early in the morning (I just woke up) and promptly assure me that it is definitely not my fault and they will look into the matter appropriately.

And they gave me a pair of complimentary tickets as a form of refund (and of course asking me to return and continue to patronise them).

But what matters to me most was that he apologized on behalf of the staffs' mistake. Which I think it's important, especially so when it's obvious they had make a mistake, instead of covering up with excuses.

SUPER JUNIOR 5 JIB TEASER 1

2011-08-01T13:22:00.001+08:00

I CAN WATCH THIS WHOLE DAY.
I NEED THE SECOND TEASER NOW TO LAST ME ANOTHER 2 DAYS BEFORE THE FULL MV RELASE.
EUNHYUK IS FREAKING HOT!

School is scary.

2011-07-31T19:19:00.002+08:00

With one more week before my vacation ends...

I am feeling the anxiety again.

There's so many things to do, and with all my modules conducted in seminars instead of lecture/tutorial, I have even more to prepare now.

The best thing is, one of my modules (communications), has a pre-given given online in the orientation week, and to be submitted on first day of school.

Then I will need to do an introductory presentation lasting 3 minutes in the second week.

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

God save me.

I know nobody in that class at all.

This is really introductory.

SWC

2011-07-30T10:36:00.002+08:00

I'd mentioned wanting to go to Shinee's concert.
Ticket sales start today.
I didn't went to queue.

I tried to look at sistic earlier...and once I managed to book a CAT 1 ticket (which is one of the best).... but I don't have any credit card.

..dot

Anyway, I decided to try my luck in Facebook.
This is the time when FB comes in handy.\

Wish me luck.

怒火街頭

2011-07-28T21:03:00.002+08:00

无意之间发现到 ‘怒火街頭’这个DVD，躺在桌子上。
没啥干的（因为很闲），所以就开始看了起来。

花了两天时间看完，第一天就看了十二集。
一方面，故事就很港式，fast tempo 啊。
想知道他们会怎样打赢/打输官司。
还有郑嘉颖属于帅哥性的因素，或者还是keep得很fit 的 uncle.

故事大纲是这样的：

《怒火街头》，香港电视广播有限公司时装电视剧，剧情概述曾利用法律为自己争名逐利的罗力亚（郑嘉颖）跟表弟米佐治（林子善）及好友丁家富（李璨琛）在深水埗成立了民间法律谘询中心。他们因经常以出位手法协助草根阶层争取合法权益，成了深水埗的人民英雄，并一改法律只属有钱人专利的想法。

以前有许多警察，律师，法医片。
但和其他国家的电视剧相比，还是港剧最得我心。

没事干的话，不妨试看。

Before things turn UGLY, let's Hope for no War.

2011-07-28T15:24:00.003+08:00

Not a fan of 2NE1, but I want to introduce this song.

Probably the first and last song though.

Just a thought, ugly does not mean you look disgusting or nobody will love you...because You Gotta Love Yourself before anyone else does.

It's been long since I listen to cantonese songs..anyway, I was searching for the theme song for 'Ghetto Justice' when I came across this song by accident.

希望就在我的手中.
Lyrics are interesting and real.

Which reminds me of another song... War by Edison Chen.

So how did the 'interview' went?

2011-07-26T20:56:00.002+08:00

The interview was scheduled at 2pm, Bugis.

Well, the male manager who contacted me didn't tell me anything about the company, though he asked if I had any questions over the phone.

I'm like rushing out of the house to eat steamboat because my family are already there waiting for me...so I forgot to ask anything.

Just in case the place's hard to find, I decided to arrive earlier.

And I prepared answers for interview if they ever happen to ask me to talk about myself.

1:50pm.

I called the girl, it was supposed to be a female manager but the male manager sms-ed to tell me to contact this other girl instead.

Girl picked up the call, sounded irritated.

And young.

Ok. So I managed to reach the meeting place at 2pm.

And she's not there.

Had to call her again to get her to KFC at Bugis Village.

She looked nice in person, and had a outgoing personality.

So, maybe not so bad.

Then she lead me to the company.

Name?

Premium Pure.

The first thing she did?

Showed me the products that they're selling...and I thought this sounds damn familiar.

Like an 'interview' I did with Yenju around 2 years back.

And I was right.

Moving on, she proceeded to show me the hall of fame, all the high achievers, with some of them still studying in Poly or waiting for enlistment.

Next, there was a boy (since he's only 20 going enlistment soon) seated next to me, and the brainwashing session began.

They got a long hair guy to introduce the product, some magnetic pillow pad, the benefits blah blah blah.

Then it's back to the girl (who btw was only 19 , having completed A levels and not going further to university), explaining their business model, or profit system to me and the boy.

Complicated system, but you earn $80 for each deal you close, so if you are hardworking enough, you can easily earn more and get promoted to the next level. In fact, you only need to close one deal (selling queen size magnetic mattress pad) to move on to a sales agent.

You get the idea.

After some time, the A level girl brought in an associate manager, someone who apparently owns 2 luxury cars ( I don't remember what brands though) to continue this brainwashing session.

Well, I mean some of the things that he mentioned about makes sense, but basically he just says that sales and marketing jobs are the best in the market now, because if you have awesome communication skills, you can be indispensable to the company.

The whole ordeal lasted for 3 hours.

I wasted 3 hours of my life, and perhaps an hour preparing for the interview and make up (because I don't do make up).

Finally they released us after the guy left.

The A level girl asked me if I can go down for training tomorrow.

I lied and say I have work.

But it will be too weird if I keep saying that I am busy and not have time for training, so tentatively (or actually one-sided) , it's gonna be on Thursday , 1 to 4pm.

Like hell if I will ever go.

Anyway, right after the boy and I walked out, we started chatting in Chinese.

Seem like we are both more chinese lol.

I told him straight that I will not go and shall ignore all calls or sms from them.

He didn't seem that enthusiastic about the 'job' too.

Plus, he's doing catering, which earns $8/hr!

But the factory is at Jurong, which is a tad too far for me.

If I had asked the company's name in the first place (which I only remembered after hanging up the phone with the male manager and googled about it) ....

I won't even turn up for that 'interview' or rather, sales pitch + brainwashing session.

Not to mention the blisters I had from wearing heels.

I had wanted to interview for a sales and marketing assistant job, which is like an admin job, with flexible hours. Pay-wise, not expecting much but should be reasonable.

But in all it was a lie to get you to go down for their brainwashing and didn't even dare to mention in their advertisement at all that it is a MLM , or network marketing company.

Grr.

P/S: The company name is Venture Era (the first one I went to and have since closed) and Premium Pure (which is in fact the reincarnation of Venture Era with the same director Simon).

PP/S: Google 'Venture Era' or ' Premium Pure' to find out their doings. There's too much negativity out there.

Why on earth did people invent interviews?

2011-07-26T00:13:00.002+08:00

Job interview tomorrow.
Taking a step forward.
Hoping for the best. >.<

Optimism

2011-07-24T00:55:00.002+08:00

There are people who told me that I'm a optimistic person.
The first one (I remembered) was my form teacher in secondary 4.
Not that she told me in person, but her comment for me in my testimonial.
Makes me wonder how she inferred that?
When she don't even teach me anything (because she teaches English and my English is too lousy to stay in 4 Faith to study).
The only time she probably saw me was when she has to take attendance in the morning.
Which by the way, I held and is still holding a grudge for her because of my not perfect attendance in the final semester.

I WENT TO SCHOOL EVERY SINGLE DAY.
FROM SECONDARY ONE TILL SECONDARY FOUR.
THE ONLY THING I HAD SKIPPED WAS CO!

Anyway, from then on, I will consciously or sub-consciously take note of what I think, if that's positive thinking or not.

The conclusion: Perhaps I am, or just in denial of whatever shit that happens. LOL.

麥烝瑋

2011-07-22T17:42:00.001+08:00

昨晚听了YES 933 才知道有这麽一首歌。
好听！
虽然歌词有时诡异，有时搞笑。

First love

2011-07-21T21:29:00.002+08:00

First love is one of the most important people in your entire life.
It's the first person you had romantic feelings for, and in certain ways, guide your future taste in guys/girls.

Therefore it's important to find a first love that you do not regret liking ever.

Harry Potter in 99 seconds

2011-07-21T16:03:00.001+08:00

In case you don't have time to read all 7 books or watch the movies...
here's a super summarised version of Harry Potter all in 99 seconds.

Freaking awesome.

忍，是为了走的更远。

2011-07-20T12:04:00.003+08:00

忍一时，风平浪静。
退一步，海阔天空。

Easy to understand, but difficult to execute.

The head chef at my workplace just left on Monday.

Because of a quarrel with the lady boss...over side dishes (my friend's saying it's mashed potatoes).

So ridiculous right?

He's a nice chef, though sometimes he can get angry all of a sudden and start scolding (only limited to kitchen area).

Sometimes I arrived late, and he will cook me tofu stew (because I like that) for me as dinner.

And my Malaysian friend also leaving soon, perhaps next month or September.

Haiz...

The team is getting weaker.

Seunghyun

2011-07-18T11:35:00.000+08:00

Someone stop this crazy boy.
ROFL!

Wait!!

2011-07-17T01:59:00.000+08:00

Nice!

When a stranger calls

2011-07-14T17:02:00.002+08:00

Because I had nothing better to do.. I watched ' When a stranger calls'.

It's a thriller at its best, so thrilling that I want to sleep.

83 mins.

I could have spent it doing something more productive.

3/4 of the show is just the phone ringing and the girl's one-woman show.

When the killer's finally revealed, it's sorta anti-climax.

One main issue with the show is that the building of the story takes too long, that it's physically and mentally tiring to wait for the real action to take place.

Lucky I never watch this in the cinemas.

Awesome timetable

2011-07-13T15:28:00.002+08:00

A 10/10 timetable.

(Insert 2PM's 10 out of 10 song)

But no one I know with me.

T_T

STARS WARS

2011-07-13T12:54:00.000+08:00

So anxious now.

Hope to get the indexes I want!

SHINEE CONCERT

2011-07-11T21:50:00.001+08:00

SHINEE IS COMING TO SINGAPORE FOR THEIR SHINEE WORLD CONCERT!

WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I WANT TO GO!!!!

BUT NO ONE'S WILLING TO GO WITH ME :(((((

WHYYYYY????

IT'S A ONCE IN A LIFETIME CHANCE MAN.

FOUR

2011-07-10T16:11:00.002+08:00

Had wanted to blog about it a few days ago, but I didn't have the time.

The main reason why I watched this was because it is a horror/thriller film.
But it's more of a thriller than horror.

The first story is about human holocaust.
Looking at it, it's probably done in a day.
3 guys meeting up to talk about global warming.
Will you meet up just to talk about that? And how humans are the cause for this situation?
Probably not.
So that's a flaw in this piece.
Enter the noob cousin who followed his cousin to the meeting.
And he turned out to be the one killing all the people, with a phonecall.
The idea of human holocaust is pretty interesting, though the beginning was a little dull.

I like the second story the most.
The gift shop for people you hate.
The lead is shuai (see 0.35)!
Basically, this guy got a promotion and everyone is happy for him, except one guy.
And while shopping for presents for his subordinates, he came across a gift shop, selling presents for people that you hate.
The owner is kinda creepy, and he warned the guy that someone had already bought 6 presents for him.
Then you watch the guy getting freaked out, his cat killed by a ipad...all the while thinking that the guy who's not happy is the one who got him the presents.
But because this kind of ending is too typical, you will be likely to guess that it must be someone else.
Well, this is a twist.
But it's really the guy who's not happy that wants to harm him, though the intention of the gifts is just to make the promoted guy kneel in front of him. Because he got together with his ex-gf.

I'm not sure what to make of the third story.
It's 2 brothers and a friend, plus a gun in the story.
Why would the friend betrayed the 2 brothers and went off with the stolen loot is confusing.
Perhaps for greed?
Or maybe he secretly hates the 2 brothers. I don't know.

The last story starts off scary, then funny and last heartwarming.
See from 1.47.
That grandson is super funny, dancing to nobody whenever he gets scared. LOL.

This movie is not what I had expected, but it's a interesting movie.

If I were to keep a dog

2011-07-07T22:31:00.004+08:00

If I were to keep a dog, it would be a Pomeranian.

So freaking cute!!!!

I want to carry and squash it~~~

I remembered my babysitter had this kind before, like at least 20 years ago.

It looked exactly like in the photo above.

If I (and my mom) can conquer the fear of dogs first...

Speaking of which, the block next to mine has a mama shop, and the owner has a big dog.

But the big dog (I don't know what breed) is very kind looking and handsome!!

Also the kind of dog that I will like.

I think he looks like this, but less hairy~

Single eyelids.

2011-07-06T10:59:00.002+08:00

Occasionally I wonder if I'm my parents' child.
Maybe the hospital mix up or something.
Both of them have double eyelids but I have single eyelids.
Not that I prefer double (I kind of like my own single eyelids - just like my single status LOL), but this doesn't make sense.

Haha.
And this post doesn't make much sense either.
Though I didn't inherit the double eyelids, I'm sure I absorbed all their flaws.
Like keeping old stuff, bad temper etc LOL.

客人就像便秘。

2011-07-05T17:46:00.001+08:00

客人就像便秘。
一点一点的，当以为应该没了，有多一陀了。
永远没法子一次过来。
令人烦躁。