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Going to Tioman in a few hours’ time but I guess I am feeling rather down now.

Perhaps its the non-stop listening to Sun Yan Zi’s 當冬夜漸暖.

Perhaps its my exercise and diet regime and the no-effects.

Perhaps there is really something weighing on my mind. It’s a feeling so familiar but also a feeling that I have not been experiencing for many years. Then the lyrics of the song starts to realise:

当冬夜渐暖 当大海也不再那么蓝
当月色的纯白变得阴暗
那只是代表快乐不再那么简单

the time when i feel that i haven really been heartily happy ever since I entered uni. Like there is a mask. Like there is always something at the back of me. Worrywart.

Will it affect CD?
wat else have i been procrastinating for CD stuff?
Is this applicable to CD?
Will laoshi they all feel uncomfortable?
Can I sustain myself?
Will I be able to pursue my other interests?
Am I spending enough time at home?
Studies?

I dunno if all these are making me less appreciative of everything that is happening around me. Thats why people ask me treat them food etc, I definitely ok. Studies and CD are definitely stuff that are manageable for me. Afterall, I have been doing these for years! How can I be not proficient at handling such stuff.

I believe problems come in when there are people’s feelings to take note of. when my feelings are in recycle bin when others are on desktop. Just like 那只是因为悲伤从来 都不会有答案. when you cannot let loose yourself and your feelings.

Perhaps I also do not understand the feelings of people around me.

I always wondered why are we less united even when we are the minority, when we are less popular people. Shouldnt things be like what we studied in books, when people are the minority and when they feel threatened, they become like many many chopsticks?

We are still like tt spilled sand, sticks that are not tied together. Some people even fight to be the good guys, to be the bringer of good news when it clearly doesnt represents. i hope 重要的是 我们如何 爱过那一段

Still, all these are still not the things that are weighing on my mind. It is once again just something deep down that has been made to resurface in me despite lock and key.

Weather outlook: overcast sky to remain for a few days

Dance Inspiration UNI 2011

Find it rather good that almost nobody is reading this now. Liberating sometimes to find that you can say alot of things without someone judging you.

Talking about judging, I kind of immediately thought of the recent Dance Inspiration production, UNI 2011.

In terms of choreography, I got to say that the end product is, as usual, very different from what I had set out to do. But this is ok, because my dancers are not people whom I have worked with previously, are people who are not used to each other. item-wise, I seriously don’t care what the people in the studio thought of it. And I seriously cannot be bothered when people keep telling me the item is too dark to be video-ed. Why do I need my item to be video-ed? I did not choreograph something for the sake of being video-ed or rmbed many years down the road. Why? Because with all the videoing done in the previous few years, I never got a copy of the video. So the point about archiving and portfolio-ing is void. Not that I not receptive to comments ok!

I am not very experienced in choreography and so it would be scary if my choreo turned out to be too good, right? I am at such a stage where I still can do experimental stuff. Not that I can’t do those in future, just that I can do it now with less judging and a little more courage. Perhaps 10 years down the road, I would have lost the balls to say ‘who cares what the audience think!!’. At least in my own view, it is a move from UNI 2007, much more movements, a little too much dance. Choreography perhaps is like playing the violin. the more you spend time at it, the more you do it, the better you become, the more you understand the ever-changing audience.

My only concern was the dancers. Would they mind being shrouded in darkness? KH was perpetually complaining that it was too dark towards the perf dates, the last person whom I want to hear the complain from actually. Some people came over and complimented the item but I brushed them off, because they are my friends and to a certain level, they are rather obliged to say tt. So dun bother asking me if the perf is nice next time. I will always say it is, because my friends are inside. If any of my dancers felt that they were short-changed because they cannot really be seen, I am really really apologetic about it (hence the treat!). It is really not as dark as you all think.

Production-wise, like all other productions we have done, there will always be endless hiccups, bumps, unhappiness, grumbles and people who wants to claim credit. Lets move on from this experience and tell ourselves that when the time comes, the most crucial thing is to put aside all the unhappiness, trash out the issues like matured people. GET THINGS DONE FIRST. Nobody can do a show by himself and no teachers are flawless. Accept that and learn from it.

Hopefully, more new blood volunteer to produce the next series. God knows when but I am certain it will come and I hope the team will be brand new in terms of planning.

See, point proven. There will always be endless grumbles.

Road Mileage: 10km
Lap Mileage: 50
caf 14/6/2011

Why it makes sense to go out NAKED? by 8days

As requested by yijiaren:

HAPPY NUDE YEAR! Or so it seems because of all those naked people turning up in the news recently. Why are Singaporeans suddenly baring themselves?

1) The heat, lor. Ahbuthen?

2) So people won’t notice my lousy hair cut.

3) Now, on the bus, no one will pat my chair after I stand up.

4) No way is that @#$* in HR going to wear the same dress as me again.

5) Let’s see if my colleagues still steal my pens after they see where I keep them.

6) Sorry, kids. I know it’s Flag Day and I’d really like to make a donation, but as you can see, I don’t have any money with me.

7) Anyway, where would I stick your sticker?

8) I’m showing the country I can afford to go to the same tailor as the Emperor.

9) The discipline master told me he wanted to see my ass in school by 7.30 sharp. Okay, sir. Don’t say I never listen.

10) Helps promote our country’s population growth! No? Aiyah.

The above content is koped from 8days!

Surrogates – 2.5/5

Howdy people!

Almost forgot about this movie (not a hint) which I watched on Monday with the platoon peeps after the formation anniversary celebrations at Vivocity!

Most of us were quite interested to watch the movie because we saw the trailer showing the entire street of people (realised they were surrogates in the end) fainting (realised they were going offline in the end).

And so the story started intorducing us to the world of our future, where we will control our replacements or surrogates at the comfort of our home to work for us. These people can be made into our preferred faces, height, skin colour, clothes et cetera. Plus, they will never fall sick/die!

The action picked up when a rich man’s son hooked up a girl from a club and was snogging the girl when a human with a deadly weapon murdered the rich man’s son and for the first time since the liberalisation of the use of surrogates, the death of the surrogate killed the controller as well.

Hence, this single lead-in resulted in the police’s involvement and begin to expose the complex relationships behind all the surrogates.

One tend to get confused during the movie because of the use of surrogates to replace the supposed actual actors. In essence, it is actually a case of a mastermind who has fallen from grace wanting revenge.

Some of you guys out there might like the action-packed bits of the movie as surrogates in the police can jump like human frogs et cetera. But the movie has much less action if you are comparing it with the likes of G.I Joe. Surrogates has much less CG, handsome dudes and pretty girls.

Nonetheless, Surrogates has something that G.I Joe doesn’t, and that is rationale that nothing can replace humans. Or so Bruce Willis felt it that way in the movie because the wife didn’t want to let him have sex with her .

Perhaps for now, there is really nothing that can replace humans, especially when humans are made not to live alone and to face that emotional stress alone. But we cannot deny the fact that we are still moving in that direction, getting robots/surrogates to replace humans to do things for us. This movie would be a good reminder to humans as to how far should robots replace humans in our daily life.

All in all, I believe surrogates should only replace 2.5 parts of human work out of 5!!

(500) Days of Summer – 3/5

That’s right! Went to watch this movie with Koon Hui, Esther and Jan yesterday because Mr Koon Hui loves this kind of ‘boy like girl’ movies. LOL

And so, as I have just mentioned it, this is quite a normal ‘boy like girl’ movie. Just that the difference betweent his movie and the other ‘boy like girl’ movies is that the girl didn’t fall in love with the boy in the end.

Anyway, just some things to note:

Firstly, the word ‘Summer’ in the title actually refers to the female lead’s last name, and not the season.

Secondly, the movie doesn’t move in chronological order because it is actually a recap of the 500 days Tom had from meeting Summer to finding his second love, Autumn. Personally, I find it a better of bringing the audience into the plot than to just show it in chronological order. But Esther thinks it is very confusing. LOL Let the tree beside the number guide you if you are confused.

Generally I think the movie is rather average. It has a fairly simple plot, livened by random humour and love between the ‘couple’. What could probably make this movie stand out from the rest in the genre is that Summer has a very unconventional mentality about love. And that sucks for Tom because he is an idealist regarding love.

For people who has studied literature at JC level, probably you will like this movie because you should be able to relate to some literature references occasionally during the movie. The way the director shot some scenes to symbolise some hidden meanings et cetera.

Therefore, if you only had 10 bucks in your wallet and you want to watch a movie, I will only recommend this if you love lovey-dovey movies or have already watched all other movies. Still, I wouldn’t say this movie is a waste of money if you are watching with your loved one.

All in all, I think I will give the movie 3 shots of vodka out of 5!

P.S: I realised this review is really short. I guess I have nothing much to write about when I started. LOL

P.S 2: The moral of the incident which happened yesterday at Fish & Co is do not fart and always try to control! HAHAHAHAHAHA! I will remember this for life!

Whiteout – 2.5/5

Hi again!

Just watched this movie 4 hours ago as suggested by my dad because he saw the trailer and felt that it is quite nice.

So anyway, here is the summary of the story. There is this group of people on the Antartica doing their research. And the people doing research is divided into camps of their country at different places. As the Antartica plunges into 6 months of darkness during their winter, they realised that there is a murderer on the loose in their camps/on Antartica. So they went on a ‘hunt’ to look for this asshole.

The summary sounds rather good and interesting yeah? However, the movie isn’t that well-done.

There are many parts of the movie where story can be developed further to make things more interesting. Just to name one, make one of the good guys more suspicious and be like the mad killer. So there will be more of the ‘OMG so the killer is that random guy?!?’. Plus I guessed who is going to be the antagonist in the movie right from the start. It was kinda of too obvious because no normal human will say a death is no big deal. And the first attempt to kill the policewoman can include more suspense.

Most importantly to myself, all good movies must an ending that draws the curtain with a click, that makes viewers satisfied. The last fight in the midst of the snow storm felt as if the fight was a random one between the killer and policewoman and the random UN agent, building up for the finale.

Alas! That was the ending and the killer knocked his head and died. What follows after that is clearly to reveal the intentions of ther mastermind all these while: to retrieve packets of 50 year old diamonds that was supposedly buried when the dumb Russians in the show had an internal strife, on the plane somemore!

All in all, good idea of a story but poor development. Links are kind of lame sometimes. Suspense not strong enough to twist your stomach.

‘It is a forgettable movie’ -Brother

‘Eh, why so smelly?’ -Mum

So with that, I shall give it 2.5 little fingers out of 5! Passed because of the develop-able story!

P.S. My mum asked why so smelly because the cinema(GV Tiong Bahru) really had a bad stench. She said it smells like someone stepped on shit outside and came into the cinema. She asked the question really out loud halfway during the movie.

Oh yes, the cinema was only 1/4 filled. Everyone chose their own better seats in the end. LOL

The Time Traveler’s Wife – 4/5

Howdy!

Just watched the fresh-from-oven’s Time Traveler’s Wife and have decided that I should blog it down NOW!

I was really a little skeptical about watching the movie even before I read the book itself, after having so much bad experience with Harry Potter series. But Kim Yein and Adrian decided that they shouldn’t force me to watch Final Destination 3D again so we ended up with TTW.

Generally, the movie is rather slow but not to the extend of boring because of the main actor’s weaving in and out of the current time frame. This weaving would later be the main driving factor for causing some questions and solving them later. And the insistence of the time traveller’s nudity after he travelled is not unfounded: should he go back to 20 years before, he would look like an oddball running out from bushes or alleys, though being nude doesn’t really help much.

What captured me is the patience and trust that the people in the movie have. As I base my opinions on the movie solely, I felt that not many people would have the patience to wait for a disappearing man to marry her(the TTW) in the future. The dad was also very patient with the TT and his daughter etc. Moreover, The TTW could bear not having the TT around suddenly, though they had a tiff in the movie.

I like the way the story is weaved together by the appearance of the TT. At least it is done unconfusingly. Although Adrian told me after the movie that there are missing scenes from the book, the story still managed to close with a click, not letting movie-goers feel that the ending is a sloppy one.

Anyway, I really wondered why it is called The Time Travelor’s Wife. The focus of the movie is mostly on the TT throughout. Only till the ending does the TTW really hold up the story.

All in all, it is a nice heartwarming story with some degree of humour and not confusing for most even when time frames change quite frequently.

According to Adrian, some of the missing scenes include:

1) The TTW’s dad asking TTW not to come out when he realised that he had shot TT while hunting.

2) TTW telling TT when he was going to die that she remembered her dad telling her not to come out after the dad shot TT

3) Young TT and old TT caught on bed by TT’s dad

So without having read the book, I will give it 4 gunshots out of 5!

Super Juniors – Sorry Sorry

LOL I was recommended by my platoon mate to the catchy dance moves and phrases in the Super Juniors’ Sorry Sorry MV, after all the irritating hype about Wonder Girls’ Nobody. Hope Sorry Sorry will not upgrade itself to being people’s pet peeve, though it is not as catchy as Nobody.

The largely black-and-white video might be a good strategy by the producers to keep the viewers from being distracted by the possibly different colour of the clothes.

Kinda sucked when I don’t really understand the song. Can only listen to the rhythm and watch the dance. Perhaps there was an economy of scale when they hired such a large group. Wouldn’t it make profit for individuals very diluted?

ANYWAY,

Below is the Taiwanese Sorry Sorry parody. Darn funny as you watch to the end. Enjoy!

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I loved it when the entire presentation of the parody is so well done, especially when there is a lead back into the focus of the presentation, that is the Sorry Sorry dance.

Plus the people performing are really a joy to watch. I don’t know if they are naturally talented at this, but I really like the effort and and and, I guess, the X factor. LOL.

And when I mentioned parody, most might probably think that they are going to mess up the entire dance and laugh it off like how some Singapore’s variety shows do it. I am sure you are surprised by how well Chen Han Dian learnt the dance and even Na Dou could do it quite well!

That is the reason why everyone loves Taiwanese variety shows!

Am I not right??

Dedicated To All Drivers Out There

Saw this video under the ‘Recommended Videos’ section in 8Days and went to watch it online.

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LOL I am joking. Although the 10 sec video may seem incredibly cool and unimaginable, it is totally imaginable what will happen if it crashes into the cars crossing the junction.

And the main video that I want everyone here to see is this: Reckless Driving Kills

Truly, it is an advertisement that is very well done in trying to promote safe driving. By showing the viewers censored videos, it can portray the tragic consequences of reckless driving yet is subtle enough for all to digest.

The heart-wrenching feeling I got after this video is the same when we watch some poor animal die in movies, like the loyal dog in I am Legend. Leaves a memory in you, especially when the focus of the video is on causing others to lose their loved ones in accidents.

I agree with the poster’s suggestion that driving centres should let everyone who obtained their driving license watch this video.

What do you feel about this video?

Cheese Fries’ MAYONNAISE

In response to my previous entry of gore in the movie review of Final Destination 3D, I feel that I must share a great video that I have found on Youtube with all my friends. Please watch it to the end after you have mustered enough courage to watch it.

*BEWARE! GORE and SHOCK in video*

Watch finish before you read my comments!
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Can you believe it??? They actually squeezed the dumb zit for like 4 minutes and the amount of semi-solid pus is still coming out!!!!!!!!!!! And I gathered that the guy must be drunk. How can someone (his friend!!) cut him up and he don’t feel any pain when they are squeezing the the dumb slit. Plus the girls are so fascinated yet disgusted by the amount of semi-solid pus there is in the zit.

Maybe westerns don’t have many small zits but one darn big zit. At the back of the neck somemore.

Imagine the ooze and blood is on your beloved cheese fries. Totally resembles the Mayonnaise and chilli. HAHA! Think twice before you eat your cheese fries in future. LOL.

Maybe stores selling cheese fries employ many people with large zits at the back of their store. So when you order 1 cheese fries, they fry the fries then cut the zits up and SQUEEZE the semi-solid pus hard to get all the DELICIOUS MAYONNAISE that you might possibly need.

Oh my, I feel like vomitting myself. HAHA!

Moral of the story? Eat healthily, no mayonnaise.