Glitz

Great, great day, although it's 3am and I'm still not feeling sleepy, which can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your point of view.

Glitz.

Every year it seems, our college holds a sort of talent-singing-dancing competition.

Glitz.

Tons of students sign up...ok not tons, but still quite alot. Four or 5 categories in total, and the winner of each category gets 500 bucks, except for the band category, which gets 1000.

Glitz.

One of my friends managed to pass the preliminaries(unlike me) and went on to the finals. Which ended [about]2 hours ago. Congrats to her for getting third place. The entire event lasted for about 5 hours, from 8pm. For 10 bucks.

Glitz.

However you look at it, 10 bucks, for 4 or 5 hours worth of music.... not a bad deal. AT ALL. pity to all the people who didn't want to go. As is the case with events such as this, there will be lousy performances, even embarassing ones, but there were WAY alot more good to outweigh the bad. The bands were good but I only managed to catch a few of them because of my role as the driver for the day. Dinner. Or Lunch, my friends wanted to have. I did manage to catch a pretty good rendition of Sova's Biarkan aku, an indon song, which rocks, and also a pretty bad cover of Aeroplane, RHCP. For me though, the highlight of the night has to be when a bald girl called nicole and some other guy did an absolutely FANTASTIC cover of The Rolling Stones - I can't get no satisfaction. There were a few performances which I thought deserved a standing ovation. True enough, this one more than desreved it. By the time they were finished I could say almost half of the people in the hall was on thei feet, giving their wildest applause. One girl, one guitar, one fucking amazing song. And truere still, they went on to win the first in their category, which was duets.

Interesting facts for the night....

One girl did this belly dancing thing and actually danced off stged to the front of the judges. I shouted CHEEBAI at the top of my my lungs. Daniel had nothing to say about it.

Interesting cultural performances of the night. Iranian music. Dance, play, drama, performance art. Whatever. Although I've heard enough Iranian music to last me a long time at the Rainforest World Music Festival some time back, this one still came as an interesting show as the performers incorporated all of the above triats(Dance, play, drama, performance art. Whatever) into their.......performance. They were filed under dance group though. Even though they only had one dancer and the other two were playing a sitar and a.....dath i think.

The emcees sucked. Ass. Badly. There was this bald guy. Persian, or Iranian, I think. Annoying voice and accent. Agrees with anything anybody says and likes everything everybody performs. Punch imminent.
"Do you know Kris Dayanti?" asked one of the performers.
"Oh yeah sure I do.. I Love them"

rrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggghhhhhht.

Asshole.

Buit then again he was just doing his job..... or trying to look cool. Or something.
Bah.
Still wanna punch him.

Met Rina there. Not really surprised to see her there, but still feel glad as I managed to get her number, which I lost, along with my phone 2 days ago.

In closing.... a VERY inspiring and happy night. (I spent the rest of the day photo shooting and playing indigo prophecy on my ps2. note: gotta write about it next time.)NO regrets at all.... well maybe a little bit when i walked out during the bands. But If there's such a thing as glitz next year, I'll make sure to be there. OH.. and I'll try to make it past the auditions next time. :)

Ciao.

My printer ran out of ink.

AAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH

Things come in fuckin threes.

' Things come in threes' I read in a book once, I think it was hearts in atlantis by stephen king. Things come in threes. If this is true then I'm going to have another strike sometime soon. How often is it that you lose your phone and bang your car in the course of three days? It's been a rough week, and holding on to the 'threes principle', Im expecting another strike. Maybe it's my car again, maybe it's my computer, or maybe it's someone I'm close to. At any rate, losing my phone has been a great shock, first of all I don't really know how i lost it. I probably dropped it somewhere on the road. I remember putting it in my pocket and walking to the nearby laundry and on my way back it was gone. And all the while I was kidding myself saying that I must have left it at home. Imagine my surprise when I called my number and all I got was 'The person you tried to call, is unavailable.' That cold, mechanical female voice. As if it was mocking me. Lousy piece of shit. Sonnova bitch.

Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.

Sigh.

Its been a rough week for sure.
I'm expecting it to get rougher.
Friday's the submission of our packagings.
Tomorrow I've got a sketch book due and I've done zit.

I guess I can't help but feeling depressed. Not because of losing my phone, but technically it's also because of that, but of feling how many stupid mistakes I've made in such a short span of time. Of course to make mistakes is to be human, but I'm becoming to think I've been making a shit load of not only mistakes, but stupid mistakes in a short span of time. Ah well. I guess dealing with it is part of life as well.

On a brighter note, I'd like to believe that after so much bad shit happening this week, I hope next week and the week after that to be slightly better. I have this weird theory that life goes up and down like a swing, so I guess I'm at the lowest point at the moment.

Newsflash.
Thing's DO come in threes.
One of my friend has been hospitalized because of the recent dengue epidemic in malaysia.
Best wishes to her. Get well soon. Cause there'e always more people who care about you than you know.

All in all A VERY shitty week, I give it a 1.......out of 5

I'm rambling. nonsensically. don't read.

hmm. I think I really should be doing work.
I got a journal due in a few hours and I'm barely halfway through.
Last minute.
Students Life.
Or is it the same everywhere?

Loads of shit happened in the last few days.
Which would kinda go on to explain why I was slacking off so much these few days.

Stomp.
Man that was good. Even though I went in an hour late and got the worst seats available it was still good. Supposed to meet jocey but shit happens, and the rain falls, spewing jam all over our faces. Those damn cars. And while I'm at it screw them fuckin city planners as well.

Regardless, It was still damn good. Stomp. 77 bucks well spent. Even though I only caught less than half of it. Yeah. SO...... yeah
go watch it. If you're anywhere near Singapore. Next. Right.

Oh she's online.
Oh good she's set her status to busy...
gotta refrain from messaging her...
gotta control.
Bitch.

Something Evil this way comes.
Land of the dead.
Good, but somewhat dissapointing. Zombies galore.

Daniel.
Bastard.
Sometimes.

Khin.
Journal.
Argggh.

Work.
Start.
Now.

Worst.
Post.
Ever.

Batik.

Right.
Batik. The traditional art form handed down from generation to generation by the locals.
Batik. The Patterns that have mesmerized those ang moh kau for a long time.
Batik. Highly stylistic, highly colourful and extremely marketable.
Batik. The torture felt by each and every graphic design student in linkokwing for 3 semesters with no signs of slowing down.
Batik. Where's the FRICKIN LIGHTER!!!???

Advent Children. Khin.

Final Fantasy VII:advent Children was leaked a few days ago. Not really a surprise, but exciting nontheless. I downloaded it the other day and watched it. I'll just say it's gonna please most of the Final Fantasy VII fans. Too bad I wasn't too happy with it. Moving on.

Lots of work to do. My sociology and design lecturer still sucks. Today we were supposed to have a lecture on visual literacy, semiotics, and some other stuff. But by the way she's teaching coupled with her horrendous slides...I'd give her marks for effort. The whole lecture sesson consisted of me trying to listen to what she's talking about. You see, she has this thick, chinese-cum-cantonese accent going on. Aproved becomes aploved and actually becomes actuarry. Her powerpoint slides are the champion though.

"Cradle-Cradle design is the awareness in the product design as it impluse the concept for sustain the future better life for our next generation. The ecological protection is vital for our life as we do not own the world but we borrow from our children."

Now to be fair, it wouldn't be as much a problem if she would just let us READ THE FUCKIN SLIDES. I'm sure those things move at lightspeed, click click click she goes. Damn.

She then proceeds to upload all the slides onto a yahoo group she created and which we are all a part of. In pdf format. And we're supoosed to print it out. Nice going. I just lost the motivation to go to the rest of your classes for th rest of the semester.

At the end of each class she gives us a 'one minute paper' and tells us to fill it in. It would contain a few questions like 'what is the question that remains at the top most of your head?' or things like 'summarize the lecture topic today'. Normally I'd fill it in like a good, obedient student, because no matter how confusing her lecture sesson was, i always managed to learn something.

Today, I filled in the 'what is the most important/meaningful thing you learned today?' question with 'umm........' And I filled in 'what is the question that remains at the top most of your head?' with 'uh....... please use less complicated english in your slides next time. I am trying to learn. Thank You.'

I hope she notices.

blogdrive sucks

I switched my host.
not that it matters to anybody who's reading it, but yes I switched my host by suggestion of my cute, petite little cousin sister, who sure as hell knows alot more about blogging than me, and posts more frequently too, unlike the lazy ass that I am. Or maybe she justs posts more often.

Thanks jocey.

Should anything go wrong with blogspot, i know who to blame :p

It's half past 1 am. I'm only doing this because I promised myself that I would this afternoon. It's part of the 'jingwei reformation process' that I am currently conducting, or rather always have been conducting. Just wanna do things when they should be done. Everything in my life's going WAY behind schedule now. Assignments are going late, desperate-for-love-level went through the roof a few days ago. The emotional bombardment that I received yesterday pulled it back down to bearable levels, and I predict that the emo-bombs that I'll be dishing out in the next couple of weeks will bring it to an even lower level, regardless wether or not she feels it.

Starting this blog again, I guess there's really not much to say about myself, if you're here then chances are that you already know who I am. If you're looking to get to know me better, I do not think that this is a very good place to do that. In fact, I know a perfect place to do that. It's called the real world. But if you don't have the chance to meet me in this'real world', then trust me.... You really aren't missing anyhing much. :)

Alright.

I think I have tons more to write but if I dont start work soon I'll be in deep shit. Deep deep shit. In closing, I look good in red. ciao.