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Fish Meal
This might going to be my last blog before exam, which is 9 days away.
Yet, lots of thing seems to pop up at home. sai lou got his enlistment date, that is 1 week after his exam end. On top of that, his PC is goner, and is behaving rather anal retentive at home, brooding not being able to play his favourite game...
In campus, I just return from a campus concert of Fish Leong. The show asides, for it's the gist, and I want to leave to the the last. I went for it with that girl "whom I don't want to see again".
Anyway, I was suppose to go with someone else (i.e. china gal), but 1 rejected the offer from a friend and don't want to make it look bad, while the others got the ticket already. So I messaged to people I know outside my OG. I was more intended to invite my comrade in poly, or my childhood friend, but all of them reply too late, at least later that that girl. My comrade advice I go with her, and make it a chance to show my sincereity (or it's her miss that she din choose me...). So, I've got myself someone to talk to, a free muffin, look good in front of others(?) and better seats, in exchange for one of my this week's bun and the extra ticket.
The concert, rather short, as usual (hello... it's free...), but the quality of Fish performance is definately there. She is like those vocalist that sounds 99.9% like record during live shows. She can perform sougs without background, and sounds better too (due to the lousy sound system with lousy bass), they are definately better than her new songs with background. She had also diverse in her genre, and sang very band-sound pieces by David Tao and Ah Shin from Mayday. The audience were also at high, and urged her to stay on for more, and we got what we want: two older, yet more widely played hits, performed without background. BEST!!!
Anyway, there was a autograph session after the concert, and not much people knew about it. If not I found the selling booth, and I was in a mood to, I would lend that girl the money and see Fish upclose.
Anyway, what a Fish meal. One last treat before the exam.
// sprinkled by wing_0 @ 10/25/2004 10:11:00 pm
Showcase
I read an article about cyber culture on the Internet. One comment was that people who blog are some what exhibitionist, opening up our life to complete stranger.
I disagree, at least at my level.
I only give my address to people whom I know, and trying to let them know me better about me. If anyone whom is stranger to me is interested, I am OK with it, unless they start spouting crap on my tag-board, like a few weeks ago. This is especially enraging as that someone uses one of my comrade's name as disguise. Disgusting.
Call it what you want, but this is my very own piece of space on the Internet I call my own.
// sprinkled by wing_0 @ 10/22/2004 11:47:00 am
deng... deng deng... deng...
About 5 minutes ago, in a quite Wednesday afternoon, I was taking a nap, as part of the rest for revising Material Science later in the evening, I was most unwillingly woken up.
No, not my alarm, not my phone or any other things that create noise.
The noise came in the form of the title of this post.
It came to me, as usual, my super inrritating, obnocious neighbour, playing his favourite song, putting max on the bass. So, depsite you don't hear what song he is playing, you hear something 1000x more irritating than that.
And did I mentioned he sometime do that in the wee hours of the night?
I mean, listening to your favourite music is never a crime, even playing at high volume. BUT, do you fucking hell pok gai have to play it with a lousy big bass? Some people just force me to play my roomy's collection of Mozart at max volume.
And you know what reason he gave? He don't ducking now how to switch it off on his PC.
Hey, it's only a matter of amateur setting on the synthetiser. What sort of cock is he?
But, as a friendly neighbour, I will definately offer my help. If he ever do what he did just now in the nights to come, I will offer him my help by... smashing up his whole PC!!!
// sprinkled by wing_0 @ 10/20/2004 04:09:00 pm
Almost Perfect Cup Of Bitter-Sweet Camomile
I attended my long-awaited concert of Fujita Emi, Lullaby of Camomile. One of the best vocal performance I had heard so far, and it sounded 99.9% like it was on the record. Fujita-san was giving a very delightful and friendly performance, something only matchable by Oda-san, but better by Emi's command in English (eg, she quoted it's ok to sleep in the concert, as this concert titled Lullaby). Everything she said in between songs sounded just so melodiously soothing, including the before-show-start announcement she made by herself. And of course, the response of the audience was so good that an extra encore of her famous hidamari no shita (backing track of j-drama hitori yane no shita 2, starring Sakai Noriko), after the initial 2 encores. The Esplanade staff were unprepared for that also, and poped up when the 2nd encore ended.
But funny thing about all good vocalist in Japan (including Nakashima Mika, who did the same even on TV music programmes, anywhere, even in her Shanghai showcase), is that they perform 'live' not wearing their foot wears. Emi even left her heels on the stage after the whole concert had ended.
However, this was done at a price: my study time and my friend's 21st birthday celebration.
This is made worse by the fact that I was invovled in the rag-&-bone session for YEP. For two days, 8 to 5, I was out in the street collecting old newspaper & clothes. This time could had been used for my revision.
All these actually, rather suicidal for my exam revision, which is 18 days away.
And the celebration, is rather important. This friend of mine is one I was closest guy in the group to her, and I feel really bad that I had missed out such an important event in her life. Even I messaged her a long SMS to convey my joy of her birthday, I still feel a lump building up in me.
It went up on me, so much so I bought one bunch of Japanese movie leaflet to destress before the concert (my undesirable way to destress... spending money...)
Just hope this cup of camomile can put me to rest, and rest for the hard days ahead.
// sprinkled by wing_0 @ 10/17/2004 11:56:00 pm
Fellowship
Admist my time for study, I managed to pull sometime to look around my fellow blogger's blog. The number of them seems to be increasing each day. 1 more comrade had started blogging, even though the content is rather corny at times... (sorry, just a comment, no ill intention)
Another older blogger wrote how through his blog, his classmates got a better touch with him. Something I had exprience in school so far (it's like no one really care even I told them to read my blog...).
Then, there are those who gives update of their lives, which is a easy way for me to know what is going on at their side.
However, why we blog in the first place?
I belong to a group of more romantic people. I see myself being too emotional at times, but showing them out in other's view just insn't right. This blog gives me a space for this kind of ler out. We, for me at least, wanted to keep these events that invoke our feeling to be reminded of.
Let say, we are... lonely? No, we have a fellowship.
// sprinkled by wing_0 @ 10/12/2004 10:58:00 pm
Tempo
Ok, I had not written anything for two weeks... Here are what happened so far:
I find myself getting more involved in my orientation camp commtitee. After the meeting on Wednesday, I had dinner with the same group on Satuarday. If not I have Inter-School Games training today, I will find myself attending the improvise interview for some new candidates.
I also went for the fund-raising function for my YEP. This time, we are doing Rag-and-Bon in Ang Mo Kio, but only in the estate nearer to the central, and that is nowhere near where I lived back then, or my roomate's place, or my childhood friend's place, which is in Neighbourhood 5. Also, as one of my closer friend in JC was pulled in by me, I find myself in danger of beinging crowned as Auntie, the nick my primary school friend had for me, and continue using it in JC. I mean, being called by the group of girls in my class by that name is alright, as I do have this side of me towards them. But in front of a new group of co-workers: not quite the way I like it. It was made worse by the fact that my friend had been calling me that way rather convinently that way sometime, instinctively...
Anyway, exam is less than a month away. Most people's lab lesson had ended, and lectures are nearing the ends. However, I am still not that confident wtih some of the subjects. I ending up going home asking sai lou for help with Maths. What a great way to call myself a university student...
Maybe, it's time for me to stop whining, and get to the tempo of my life.
// sprinkled by wing_0 @ 10/11/2004 11:05:00 pm
Cost X Benefit
The study of economics is illustrated in today.
I skipped the lessons of today, all of them. This is the cost.
This is done, to take on a job of tour guide for Japanese students, and are the benefits:
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However, as you can see, there is a gamble involved, and I obviously lost the gamble. I took photos with the guys more. Why? I was assigned to am all guys group, while the other 3 of 4 friends from JAC got a mix of girls or all girls. Hence, I 'borrowed' the girls for a photo.
But, all these are within my reservation. I was surrounded by people that are at least interested in Chinatown more than Orchard Road. They were willing to take on the adventure of a trip into the Chinatown Market, seeing all the stuff they never seen before. One of them requested to bring him to a place that sells stone stamps, and I ended up bringing the group to Yu Hua.
In fact, my group find it boring walking around Orchard Road. They were interested in bookstores. Somethin I can't infer from their looks.
What a revision of Econ for next week's quiz (^_^!!!
// sprinkled by wing_0 @ 10/01/2004 10:20:00 pm
