2 gigs down, no more to go!! XD

hahaha im really glad gigs are finally over. no more stress abt being afraid my throat'll be in a bad condition on gig day, no more restraining my diet (i swear this is the worse part), no more drowning myslf in honey water and pi pa gao, no more praying that tenants will be out so i can practise at home... woohooo no more stress! XD from this side, at least. haha. but i have a feeling i'll crave jamming again very very soon :P

anw, thanks again to the ppl who came down to support! :D whether u just happened to pass by or specially came down to watch, thank you thank you!! :D

was damn suay ytd cos the tenants "refused" to leave the hse once again, and i was left with no choice but to go to jane's hse to prac hahaha :P aiyah, she nid to prac her keyboard i nid prac my singing... might as well prac tgt mahhh~ :P gd thing she stays quite near. but we left her place quite late lah.... haha. ohwells. its almost always cab with jane ard :P

would say the gig was quite gd had it not been for all the soundman problems =x but ahh its over alr, and i guess its quite a gd performance based on audience response? :] haha. was nice having zad as our guest vocalist too! and definitely great performing with xcjjj again :)) hopefully this band'll continue! wahaha.

macdonalds and french fries (no nuggets) after tt. woots french fries hadnt tasted so gd for damn long u knowww XD had fun throwing fries ard cos we're sitting on different decks, and throwing fries just seemed to be fun :P hahaha. love hanging ard with the crazy bunch! XD

but that said, gig's over, so its time to focus on other stuff. am gonna take a break from jamming and all for a while.. (hopefully not too long though haha :P) take a break from my non-stop schedule, get more time for myslf and bf and frens etc, take a breather, and hopefully get back more recharged and POWER than ever >=D hahahaha ok tts all crap. i just figured i needed a break :)

and apparently my body figured tt out too, cos i "finally" fell sick. but im sooo glad i didnt get the flu ytd u know?? =x can u imagine?? falling sick on gig day... =/ haha. but still, very very sorry to weijie for pulling outta the promoter thingy when i told her i can replace her today.. hope the in-charge wasnt too mad at u! >.<

yes so im gonna be gd and slp before 1030pm tonight, so hopefully i'll be well enough to work tmr. i finally got a day shift isnt tt GREAT!!! XD feel happy for me pls hahaha :P yep! looking fwd to a healthier, recharged, money-making, and welcome-back-to-band day tmr :))



oh yes. go watch transformers everyone!!! its like one of the best movies i've watched this year or sth. love all the action and humour and robots! yes ROBOTS!! omg. i nv thought i'll ever love them hahaha. they really look so damn cool when they transform lah! XD wont mind watching again, but money's really tight now - plus i didnt work today :((( - so maybe i'll just wait for the vcd/dvd to be out hahah :P wooohooo! now i cant wait for ice age 3 to be out on 1st july!! am totally still in the audio-visual tv-movie kinda mood~~ XD lols.

alright. bed time! :)


haha. got this from an email.


The Lawyer and the Chinese

A lawyer and a Chinese are sitting next to each other on a long flight.
The lawyer is thinking that all Chinese are so dumb that he could get over
on them, easy. So the lawyer asks if the Chinese would like to play a fun
game.

The Chinese is tired and just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines,
and tries to catch a few winks. The lawyer persists, and says that the game is a lot of fun. I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me only $5; you ask me one, and if I don't know the answer, I will pay you $500, he says. This catches the Chinese's attention and to keep the lawyer quiet, he agrees to play the game.

The lawyer asks the first question. 'What's the distance from The Earth to
the Moon?' The Chinese doesn't say a word, reaches in his pocket, pulls out
a five-dollar bill, and hands it to the lawyer.

Now, it's the Chinese's turn. He asks the lawyer, 'What goes up a hill with
three legs, and comes down with four?' The lawyer uses his laptop and
searches all references he could find on the Net. He sends e-mails to all
the smart friends he knows, all to no avail. After one hour of searching he
finally gives up.

He wakes up the Chinese and hands him $500. The Chinese pockets the $500 and goes right back to sleep. The lawyer is going nuts not knowing the answer. He wakes the Chinese up and asks, 'Well, so what goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four? The Chinese reaches in his pocket, hands the lawyer $5 and goes back to sleep. Don't mess with the Chinese.


lols. cool. i hope someone plays this with me on the flight to amsterdam HAHA :P

***
had a great day today!! :D lunched with dear at jp before going for flute tutorship. wanted to try jia xiang mian but the menu is err, kinda pathetic... =x haha. so we ate at subway instead. met up with him again after lesson and headed to town! :D wanted to watch transformers and called to book but it was alr FULLY BOOKED. blardy hell... >=( nehmind. we watch tmr~~~ haha :P

walked ard and eventually stone-ded at wheelock starbucks, where we sat and stoned for 1+hr waiting for time to pass before i meet ntmb mates for dinner. stoning hr was great! haha. its really the company tt counts :)) so ahdear, we shld stone more tgt!! HAHAH :P

saved the monster who got lost in orchard and headed to hard rock cafe tgt for our dinner! :D 1st time eating der. quite ok i think. sad tt i cldnt eat the brownie dessert though :(( I SWEAR i will eat everything and anything after gig ends on 27th MUAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA~!!! >=D

wanted to leave and go home, but some of us still wanted to sit and chat so headed to mac instead lol. its been quite long since we all sat down and talked! :D hee miss their company so much~~

alrights im kinda tired. shall upload photos when i get them! :D

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since i cant get the song on my player, i'll post the video here. damn nice!!! XD



and the live version. omgggg love his live!!!


--> song starts from 3:22 onwards :) love the way they play until so kimochi!! fwoooo!

hahaha. im in hyde mood all over again~~


:))

im glad i finally got down to doing what i've always wanted to do for my mom and dad. i cant believe it took me so long to get down to doing sth so simple, yet sth that i know -ok. i hope, will bring a smile to their faces.

life's little pleasures, as they put it. :) i hope this is the first step to me becoming a better daughter :)



and weijie, ur blog entry made me tear. in a gd way :) im really happy to hear that der are really ppl who are proud of their fathers, even though he may be just another ordinary being to everyone else in the world out there. im sure that if he read the entry, he'd be very, very happy to know that his daughter is so proud of him, and wld feel that all he's given for the family these years is really worth it. at least he has a daughter who appreciates him and looks up to him. im really glad he's your hero :)


i am seriously mood swinging recently, cos i feel much happier again! lols. but i think the mr men and little miss series played a big role in lifting my mood :) just look at how cute mr greedy looks sitting in front of my speaker! XD



hahaha. thank you ahdear~~ ^.^ and to my mom for buying the capsule with me hahah. she's so cute XD yep so we haf ms chatterbox, ms sunshine, mr small (DAMN CUTE) and another mr greedy now! :D

and thanks to my fav ahbond for giving me the mr greedy hp accessory!! its reli furiggin cute being so fat and holding the cake XD hahahaahah. i thk i haf this fetish for fat stuff~~~ LOL :P

mr greedy aside, im vry sad to announce that greenie is dyingggg :((((

my mom was keeping the laundry one day and accidentally dropped one end of the bamboo pole after she brought the clothes in, and the pole just nice fell onto greenie which was happily sunning near the window [whyyy did my mom not shift greenie away...] and **CHOPPP** its stem BROKE and it was only left connected thru this TINY bit of tissue :( it wasnt even a break-halfway-still-can-save! chop lohhh. the cut was so near the soil level!! >.< sobs. but i was still hopeful and thought maybe the stem will reconnect back if i put it back tgt.... lols. im still hoping :)


---> greenie and crutch *look at those fallen leavessssss :(*

but haix i really thk greenie's gonna turn yellow and wilt soon :((


okokok. no sad things. hahaha :P

jamming on sunday with mr hyde was goooooddd. lols. and im glad my own songs are more or less stable.. lets just hope they stay stable on sat too! :)

work on sunday was GREAT. 1st time i see everyone work with a smile on their faces sia~~ hahaha. but sad tt so many ppl are quitting :( only like a few left from the original crew when i joined... sad horr?? :( im gonna miss working with the fun bunch a lot mann haha.

shopping on mon! :D haha supposed to shop for dear's stuff but in the end became shopping for my stuff =x but but, i got a new pair of shoes!! hahaahah. didnt get the design and color i really really wanted (all no size!! knsss) but thk it looks quite ok :) woots so happy to haf new shoe! lols. but heh i reli must stop shopping. its dangerous to get into shopping mood now >=(

hmm. haha yeah so i guess its reli work and retail therapy tt got me back on the 'happy' side of things. and of cos, my mr greedy :P somehow, im looking fwd to tmr's jam. haf a feeling it'll be gd and will further boost our confidence for sat's perf... hahaha. we shall see ;)


crappy. why is the feeling back??

band wasnt exactly taxing, but somehow i just felt very tired on the way to jamming. doesnt help tt der are so any "IDR"s on nel train and along the streets of farrer park. and they seem to thk they own the shophouse corridors cos they just refuse to give way and love pushing ppl to get through crowds. this irritates moody ppl u know?

jamming was ok, but i reli thk my kuroi damn chui. can a miracle happen so ppl cant hear my flaws on sat? :( 1 wk left, and only 2 more jammings to go. make it 1, since its shared. haix. god save me.

had a bad feeling abt work nxt wk, and "congrats" it came true. if only this happens for lottery too... -.- im only working 3 shifts again nxt wk.. fine its better than my 2 shifts this wk, but still.... garrr i reli duno whether i shld be angry or sad at this. sucks tt "ppl" thk its becos u dowan to work, not cos u cant. seriously, she would do the whole world a gd deed by being more understanding.. at least then i wldnt feel lke its my fault i cant work more shifts than my current 3. its reli not becos i dowan u know? who the hell doesnt wanna earn more money..

was surprised to see my mom's still awake when i came home. we're both free in the morning tmr so we'll be having breakfast tgt before i leave for jamming. then she asked me, "how much time do u haf tmr?" :(( was reli quite saddened to hear tt question.. suddenly i see wad my life has turned into, and i dun thk i like it tt much. its been real long since i last felt like my life really sucks.. all of a sudden, everyone's asking me for more time. u know how much i wish i can split myslf up and give everyone that time they're asking for? :( some stupid quiz i did long ago advised me to cut down on trying to be everything to everyone. maybe it was a little true back then, but now i dun thk im even worth to be "something" to anyone. even my mom's starting to feel like she's unimpt to me. seriously, wads the pt in achieving everything else if u cant look back on having given at least time and attention to the ppl u love? i just wish... ok im wishing for far too many things. god cant and wont grant me all.

.. its week #4 now, and im not looking forward to week 5..


:)))))

happy month-niversary to my dearest boy! :D hope u like the one-and-only-in-this-world present i got u! :P and i sincerely hope the chocs didnt melt too badly =x u know when they say "store below 30degrees" for wadever thing its just impossible nowadays?? weather's so blardy hot tt its SO hard to find a storage place tt stays below 30degrees >=( but anw, hope you love the presents, and thanks for giving me another great day!! :D

had dinner at this esplanade restaurant called 7atenine ("7-ate-nine") and the food is GOOOOOOOOOD XD the calamari was nice and the 7atenine platter is *1000 thumbs up* i totally love it!!!! :)) but they werent filling enuff so we ordered chilli con carne and OMG IM ADDICTED TO THAT DISH!! the restaurant i work at sells this too and i've always been wondering wad it tastes like, and now i've finally tried it! ITS JUST DAMN NICE. with bread somemore. WOOTS. can i haf another serving of tt pls??? >.<

finished up most of the chilli con carne (with no complaints) cos ahdear doesnt like to take too much spicy stuff haha. and we completed our dinner with 2 desserts! :) a very coffee one which really felt like sth "from the sky" (heavenly), and a citrus-y one which is kinda too sour =/ but anw, we're both filled up satisfactorily! :D which is gd. food makes me happy~! XD

der was this band performance at the esplanade outdoor stage just now too. haha reminds me of the perf WV and Quis had on the same stage that time :)) anw, the 2 bands we watched were quite gd! enjoyed their music quite a lot. haha somehow, it makes me wanna perform der one day too. it has nv crossed my mind, but today it finally did. lols. we shall see lah :)

alrights i shld go slp. long day tmr!


bf therapy in addition to the 2 htht sessions i had previously worked wonders! :D haha. depression mode's gone and im glad im feeling a lot better today~ ok maybe it was just my hormones acting up for the past few days lah haha but i wont deny the taxing 3wks played a role too =/ ohwells. im welcoming my happy-me back! :D

maybe its good i have a lot of rest-days this wk cos of lesser work. today's the 1st time i got to rest at home the entire morning and afternoon! haha. feels gd to just sit and while the hours away, singing songs just for fun and best of all, discussing my europe trip with my frens!! XD

yeah, despite the (rather big) money problem, i've decided to go ahead with extending my holland trip so i can tour europe a little :] yes some ppl are gonna scold me for making this decision when im not even confident of getting enough money for expenses, but i did think long and hard abt it, and i've decided i wont let the chance of going to europe at a vry cheap rate slip through just like tt. since i'll alr be flying all the way der, might as well just tour the place properly right? :) i know the money problem is still der, but im reli hoping i'll get it settled soon! :]

money aside, im very very excited abt the trip!! hahaha. was asking zhenqiang (planner) for trip details, and he told me we'll be going to prague after our competition in amsterdam, and then to vienna/salzburg, paris/italy, belgium, and back to amsterdam for our flight back. woots! being able to travel to so many places in sucha short period of time is really "wow" XD ahahah. hopefully we'll get to sufficiently indulge in every place's scenery and uniqueness before we move on to another, cos time's a little tight haha. but i haf a feeling its gonna be a great trip! definitely one to rmbr :)))

europe aside, met up with peiwen and emerson for movie today! :D well, supposedly for monsters vs aliens, but when we got to vivo, we were told der're only the front row seats left! X( garrr. didnt expect this for a tues nite and CARTOON movie... but then again, its the june hols =/ hais... ohwells. watching tmr! :P

no movie so we treated ourselves to good food instead! :D dined at modesto's and de food's GREAT!! everything from the complementary bread-with-olive-oil to the sinful tiramisu was lip-smackingly good~~ *are u drooling now?? :P* the salad was really nice (although they gave us the wrong one but its ok. blessing in disguise!), the amatriciana pizza was HEAVENLY and the shrimp pizza was not bad too, although it've scored more pts from me if i didnt dislike the shrimps so much =x haha. definitely worth the $16 we each paid! :D dun get conned though. when it says "dinner set meant for two", they really mean "dinner set meant for three". cant imagine one person finishing one regular pizza! x( hahaha. gd thing emerson was der to help clear a bit :P slurps. totally satisfied with today's dinner. no monsters vs aliens nvm. we haf modesto's!! XD thank you peiwen for bringing us to that place! :))

haha ok. im supposed to slp :P looking fwd to a gd band prac tmr!

***
Seconds hours so many days
You know what you want but how long can you wait
Every moment lasts forever
When you feel you've lost your way
What if my chances were already gone
I started believing that I could be wrong
But you gave me one good reason
To fight and never walk away
So here I am still holding on

With every step you climb another mountain
Every breath it's harder to believe
You'll make it through the pain
Weather the hurricanes
To get to that one thing
Just when you think the road is going no where
Just when you almost gave up all your dreams
They take you by the hand and show you that you can
There are no boundaries
There are no boundaries

I fought to the limit you stand on the edge
What if today is as good as it gets
Don't know where the future's headed
Nothing's gonna bring me down
Jumped every bridge I've run every line
I risk being safe, I always knew why
I always knew why
So here I am still holding on

With every step you climb another mountain
Every breath it's harder to believe
You'll make it through the pain
Weather the hurricanes
To get to that one thing
Just when you think the road is going no where
Just when you almost gave up all your dreams
They take you by the hand and show you that you can

You can go higher
You can go deeper
There are no boundaries
Above and beneath you
Break every rule cause there's nothing between you and your dreams

With every step you climb another mountain
Every breath it's harder to believe
You'll make it through the pain
Weather the hurricanes
To get to that one thing
Just when you think the road is going no where
Just when you almost gave up everything
They take you by the hand and show you that you can
There are no boundaries
There are no boundaries
There are no boundaries
No boundaries
Yeah, there are no boundaries..


meaningful lyrics, and an amazing voice :)


like wad i've told a few of my frens, i've been rather depressed recently :( woke up this morning not feeling much better... which isnt gd =/ as a psy student (or maybe its just common sense), i do understand tt everyone gets depressed some time or another. its just a matter of how fast u get over tt period and become ur usual cheerful self again. im not saying im not cheerful now though (i still am, right?), just tt im reli wondering how long more i'll stay in depressed mode. it isnt exactly "exciting" to feel sian more than half the time and boring everyone with stories of wad u're feeling so sian abt, u know? so sorry to anyone who had to endure my lengthy msn chat logs or listen to me whine abt everything. i promise i'll get my usual self back soon :]

met up with dearest weijie last nite after work :) thank you so much my dear girl! i know its been a long day for u too. really appreciate u meeting me just to hear me talk when u gotta wake up early next morning for ur interviews :)) hopefully things will be fine on ur side too yah? for mine, i guess i can really just hope for the best bah haha. but still, thanks for everything :))

thanks to emerson too, for the exact same thing, but in a more impromptu fashion lols. hmm, maybe if i rant the same thing to diff ppl over and over again, i'll eventually see the situation so well tt the solution will pop up! :D haha ok too optimistic. but im hopeful. :]

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went to kbox with youwei congzhi and yiting ytd before work. actually, didnt reli wanna sing alr cos had been singing quite a lot the past few wks for gig preparation and all, but have been postponing the session for quite some time le so... :) voice was quite "bo lak" throughout tt 2hrs but still, it was enjoyable meeting up and singing with them again :)

dun thk i'll be having more meet-ups soon anw.. so sorry to all :( my schedule's really screwd up now, and it doesnt help tt my work just gave me more crap *those whom i've talked to will know how ARGH this is*. honestly, i feel like i barely have time to breathe. all of a sudden, 7days really seem insufficient. i really wish i can have just one more day for now so i can haf time for myslf, to just sit down and disconnect from everything. really really very sorry to everyone who wants to meet up these few wks. i really cant :(

tsk. such an emo paragraph. and i was still saying i gotta get my usual self back huh? >=(

ok im gonna stop here. less den 2 wks and just 3 more jammings to 27th gig. wish me gd luck in surviving just 2 more "un-breatheable" wks yah? i've survived 3. but i reli duno how long more i can continue.


cheers! Streetfest D'J Party is finally over!! XD reli one big load off my shoulders mann. haha. one more to go on 27th but, lets not worry too much abt tt for now lah yah? :P

anw, glad to hear tt our performance today was quite gd! :D hahaha i really am not too sure abt how viable "quite gd" is, but it was definitely :D to hear tt ppl enjoyed listening to it etc. hehe. im a little scared to see the videos, as always, but i also cant wait to see them too xP



*was distracted halfway thru, and i've lost the "blogging momentum" =x ok i'll update again another time. v tired also. lols.


peiwen's right. just like last year, i once again have too much on my plate, and its tt feeling of being overwhelmed both mentally and physically. for now, i just hope i dont fall sick, cos i know i dun recover that quick.

taken from gossip girl:

like anything else, you just have to make it work for you.

im really trying my best. for streetfest, for band, for work, for you. i cant wait for my gigs to be over too :)


i was blur enuff to thk i haf work on wed so i went on wed only realise i dont have work on wed but on thurs instead -.- but since i realised tt only after my shift ended, they just took it as i changed my shift from thurs to wed lol. rahhh hopefully this kinda thing wont happen again~ haha.

flute lesson ytd evening! its been eons since i last saw lao shi =x and eons since i last prac-ed my flute properly.... heh =x but lao shi's as motivating as always so im inspired by her to prac hard again! hahah. i hope i will :P

supper ytd too! its been real long since i had that and stayed out til so late! lol. met up with aemi peeps for supper at jalan besar dim sum shop *omg tt place is so jamming lah lol* and headed to ECP after tt. wld've been real gd if my stomach didnt make me feel uncomfortable! >.< maybe i ate too much, hungry too long, or simply had too much soy food for supper haha. either way, it was no good but at least it felt better after a while lah :] and it did not make me hate tt dim sum shop too, cos the food is still nice! XD

heh i ate so much fried stuff recently. i hope my throat'll stay well =X

anw, going to ECP at midnite is quite fun! hahaha. the wind is nv-ending and its not tt noisy ('cept for the ppl at the bench beside ours) so its like a perfect place to nap~~ haha but we just talked lah. went to meet shuying at her block after tt cos she stays just opp ECP, and had lotsa fun riding the "rocking horse" at her playground (which turned out to be a t-rex and not a horse) haha. i love tt playground mann. so much more fun den my hse here one laa X( lol. its been real long since i last saw her too (and everyone else) so its reli nice to sit and chat again! :D

we wld've stayed on longer, but we realised everyone had sth on the next day so we left early. at 3+am :) hahaha yes tts reli "early" rite lol. gd thing my day shift today's cancelled so i can slp in. if not i'll be waitressing with my eyes closed~~ but tts quite cool if i can do tt rite? o.O

ok enuff of crap. time for breakfast! damn hungry.


my new found love: ADAM LAMBERT!!!!!

dear sent me the mp3 of "mad world" and subsequently adam lambert's live cover of it. OH.MY.GOD. i just love his voice can!!!! its been quite some time since XJT tt i've heard a voice i could reli feel and tt brought lotsa goosebumps to my listening experience. really love his voice!! <3



--> best heard using earphones ;)

he's like the ang moh version of xjt laa lols. ME LOVES!!! XD

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Gary Jules - Mad World

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for the daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere

Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles its a very, very
Mad world, mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen

Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me, what's my lesson?
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles its a very, very
Mad world, mad world, enlarging your world
Mad world


haha i've been listening to nobody but you so often tt im SO TEMPTED to go learn the song properly lol. tsk. stupid emerson lah send me wad rainstone remix >=( hahaha. but the song reli vry nice XD

i wan nobody nobody but chiu! *clap clap*



im totally addicted~~ XD

***

anddddd... we finally took photo ytd :)


*we just happened to be wearing yellow top and black bottoms tgt lol*

--> yeah meet the unlucky guy who has to tahan all my nonsense 24/7 and is not allowed to complain! :P

hahaha just kidding lah. u can complain ok! :P

bf aside, im gonna go meet my long-lost sai sai for lunch~~ ok lah not long-lost. i just saw her 3 days back but it seemed so long ago lol. ok im off! ciao! :)