Christine. 22. Wants to live a simple and boring life.
Amanda Li Ying Meng Kiat Tonggab Yi Wen Yi Xin
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My future is destined to be a melting vanilla soft cream on a waffle cone and eaten by a girl who isn't even that pretty. Oh how cool. I'm just so looking forward to being just that.
An eleven year old taught me something today. Saturday, February 21, 2009 @ 11:39 AM Thanks to Liying, Amanda and my chance encounter on the tv I'm now hooked on boys over flowers, and as I was trying to find the video on youtube I chanced upon this video titled "Brenden Foster died Friday 11/2/2009". On the thumbnail was a very young boy, and I clicked on it.
One look and you'll think he's just any overweight boy that likes to eat Macdonalds and play video games all day. But he's a boy with leukemia, and you know those kind of make a wish foundation whereby the grant the wishes of children who have terminal illnesses? Guess what wish he made.
Bloody hell he made a wish to save the homeless! How many people would even think the homeless they are told by their doctor they have 2 weeks to live? Oh I tell you I really cannot believe how brave this boy is, and how matured he thinks. He makes me feel like I'm a primary school student. Its as though he's possessed by a 1000 year old sage from the mountains. I feel ashamed watching my silly boys over flowers drama with a growling stomach and only thinking of what to eat for breakfast and that Soo Yijung is goddamned cute with his dimpled smile. Oh oh oh the shame! You know what? This boy even thought about bees!! Bloody hell! Bees! He said the bees were dying off without the flowers so volunteers started planting seeds around. When asked about facing death, he said "It happens, it's natural". Imagine that! I wonder if the whole thing's really staged. I would pray to guanyin when I was 11 for me and my family to live for a 10000000000000 years (although I don't now).
What made my heart ache was him saying something everyone us would find so cliche was "never give up, follow your dreams".
I've never felt such such heartache for a complete stranger, and no eleven year old boy has made me feel so bad. He really moved me, really inspired me.
But for now I think I'll go back to watch my drama first.
Mmmm uuuMai! Wednesday, February 18, 2009 @ 11:27 PM I had okonomiyaki for the first time in my life today! Liying was so shocked that I've never eaten okonomiyaki. ^^''
That's not a photo that I've taken. I kapok from wikipedia one. I forgot to take photos, AGAIN. -_- Anyway I think the environment made us a little uptight. I mean there's only us two customers! There were a few awkward moments where the chef and the waitress just stood there and watched us and I was like errrrr they only provided chopsticks and I was trying to cut my food into bite-sized pieces and I had to restrain myself (I failed though) from cutting them with the chopstick seperated and held in each hand. Actually I saw Liying doing it so followed suit. No shuai ges around anyway...oh oh oh but the okonomiyaki was niceeeee~! I didn't know it tasted like er, takoyaki actually. But the okonomiyaki the shop made was pretty good, there was a lot of the "liao", every bite you could get a bit of octopus or prawns. =) The pile of mayonnaise made me a bit guilty though.
Liying really very pro. We ordered a glass of this CHU HI or some funny named drink, its a mixture of peach or grape juice with a with of shochu, and had only 4% of alcohol, and the lady was like "you won't feel any effect one!" But Liying was ahahahahahah!! Her WHOLE BODY BECAME RED UNTIL LIKE SHE KENA SUNBURN LOL.
Today's night sky is so beautiful! I don't remember seeing so many stars in singapore ever before, and below my block too! It was so nice, I almost knocked into a tree while I was walking when I faced right the sky, and the wind was so shiok! =D Great compensation after having a traumatic experience when I was doing my project today. I almost would have been killed by the toppling wardrobe. Good thing the only thing that fell from the top of the wardrobe were styrofoam boards, if not I won't be talking to you about how good okonomiyaki tastes like. Thank you guanyinma, namo amitabha.
Spring Cleaning! @ 12:01 AM
I know its a bit late...
Clearing my room is always fun. I always discover things that bring me down memory lane. Ahhh~~
Lol I cloned away the content. Too embarrassing thats why. It was a self-promotional poster done for com skills in year one. Can't believe I wrote that kind of bhb crap... -__-''
This is how I sort my room, I take out all my crap first, then slowly sort them out. I chucked A LOT of stuff away today! This is not even messy, its only the start of my cleaning and I decided to take a snapshot.
Ahhh my physics notebook! I threw a lot of my old secondary books three years ago but I kept some of them because I just didn't feel like throwing them. Today I decided to throw all my secondary school stuff out. Well almost. I didn't throw away my English compositions. It seems like a big part of me was in it.
Huh I didn't even tie the omikuji from the Asakusa shrine during my last Japan trip. By the way I totally didn't understand what it's talking abut, even the english translation. But you know fortune telling is always like that. The 吉 is like quite good luck la, while the best is 大吉 and the worst is 大凶. A bit like our shang shang qian and the xia xia qian lor.
Lol I don't really like to show my drawings but...hahahah omg sucks like hell. The shadow looks like crap. I do remember putting in quite a bit of effort though.
I almost forgot we had to do these kind of collage for one of our modules!
No the pencil is not bent. Its just the paper. This is like one of my earliest drawings, made before I entered the course. Ugly.
My colour wheel lol what the shit man. Till now I still don't get the meaning of doing it! We don't learn colour theory this way!!
My first French essay, about a Japanese enka singer Rimi Natsukawa. Lol any person who understands French would lmao.
Hahahahah familiar?!
Till now I still haven't help to design the club tee shirt. Ignore the sketch, I remember doing it for mocking purposes. Whoops.
My first studio project! LOL How I suck at digital painting!! But oh I remember this was pretty much hell for me back then. Try digitally painting at A3 300 DPI on Corel Painter on a old computer with 512RAM. Oh well I didn't know how to paint with photoshop back then.
My room looks pretty neat most of the time, but when you open the wardrobe ahahahaha.
MY GOD anybody who says he or she sucks at drawing can look at this. You'll feel 893233478364 times better. I remember doing shading for the first time, in secondary 2. My god did I really go into DMD?! What guts I had back then, with such horrible drawing skills!!
Lol I cloned away the content. Too embarrassing thats why. It was a self-promotional poster done for com skills in year one. Can't believe I wrote that kind of bhb crap... -__-''
How about cleaning your room too? Maybe you'll find yourself looking through your old stuff instead of cleaning though...
Oh yes by the way anybody knows where best to sell comic books at? I've got a few American comics, those superman justice league stuff (yeah I used to read them), and manga also. I'm going to sell my Bleach series away! Not reading them anyway...next time I'll be more careful when I buy comics.
I'm selling my old novels as well. Some of them I gave them up halfway reading through because it was damned boring. Like the time traveler's wife. No idea how it become bestseller. It was yawn! If anybody wants memoirs of a geisha I'd happily pass it to them to. The book was already bad enough, and the movie is even worse, who in their right mind would go find actors with a mandarin accent and figures like sticks to act like geishas. I've got unfinished tales one and two, the hobbit and the lord of the rings by JRR Tolkien. I finished LOTR and hobbit, but I couldn't finish unfinished tales because I got a little tired of Mr Tolkien's flowery prose.
Hurh...lets see what more do I have...spiderman (novelised version of the movie), eragon (the first book), charlie and the chocolate factory and the glass elevator. I'm trying to give away some of my old japanese novels as well to anyone who wants it. Its not a lot, though. And for some reason a lot of them are filled with rather RA stuff although the story is not anything like that, except for the Japanese version of "the child called IT", I read it halfway and couldn't continue anymore because I really think that a lot of the stories are made up. One look at the author's photo told me that I couldn't trust this man and he's just an attention seeking prat. Perhaps he was abused but..I don't know, something tells me not everything is true. Anyway its too cruel to create any motivation to read on.
I think I'm a really picky reader. Shouldn't buy, should just exclusively borrow from the library.
Don't do this next time you miss a flight. Monday, February 16, 2009 @ 1:52 PM
I suppose many of you might have seen this liao, but ahahahaha.
Hahahaha!! Thursday, February 12, 2009 @ 11:08 PM YES YES YES ITS OVER! And I'm not dead.
I suppose I'm considered a graduate of my course now, though for some reason I don't feel particularly happy. Now I have to worry where to go from here.
Hahahahaha you guys reacted so strongly at my last post. Its just my portfolio review, and usually we'll kena shoot by our tutors until you literally can see us deflate. I tell you the last three days of my life has been one of the worst. I didn't sleep a wink and my eyes were glued to the computer and butt stuck onto the chair. My legs were numb from all the sitting that I did that if I didn't move my legs every so often I'd have got deep vein thrombosis.
I'm just glad its over, though I swear I'd never wear those court shoes of mine again because they hurt like hell.
I watched Valkyrie today! I think my expectation for it was too high. But I'm a sucker for war movies. Sometimes I don't like how hollywood movies are made like. The bad is bad and the good is good. One very distracting thing I found was the strange mix of accents. Tom cruise spoke in american, a lot of british, and hitler would be speaking in a thick german accent. So weird lor. In fact I didn't really feel for tom cruise's character. I wanted to watch red cliff but only got weird timings laaaaaaaa!
Yes I am ready. Wednesday, February 11, 2009 @ 8:03 PM *straps on a dozen layers of bullet proof vest*
WISH ME LUCK TOMORROW!
*salutes*
Cadet Christine, OUT!
You know something... Sunday, February 8, 2009 @ 2:13 AM I just realised it now. I think it sounds rather sad. It seems like so of many of my recent posts has got something to do with kendo. I don't post anything much if it's got nothing to do with kendo. This means that I've got no life what am I gonna do I've become 梅菜 number II...
Portfolio portfolio portfolio screw you ah. You wait. I shall get my revenge. Some time.
Recently I have to keep reminding myself if everything goes well I'm going to graduate soon. 3 years, it feels as if yesterday I'm still in the claustrophobic animation room and laughing at Zhang Min's foot when she stepped on the zipper on Joyce's sleeping bag. I almost felt like going back to those days, but I still feel relieved that this three year course is almost over. How much of my eyesight and sleep and my youth and my brain cells has it costed me (okay la I'm partly to blame with my really healthy habits also)!
If I were to regret anything, it would only be that I should have worked a little harder during year one and in Kendo. I don't know if you guys already know but there was one time where I felt really afraid of kendo. It's silly now I think back of it, and I some how want to make up for all the lost time. If that day tonggab never preached me I swear I'd never have looked back and just gone on my way on the super no life path. Year 2 was really quite a crappy year for me. I was rather obsessed with earning money and I couldn't really find anything that I really liked. It was only in year 3 that I began to take life a little easier, and in kendo also. It felt good you know, wanting to really become good, I didn't really felt that in year 2 or 1. And the friends! Oh it made everything so much better. But damn the last year's assignments I can't even fork out time for training and when I saw this year's youth tournament I was almost exploding with the need to join them at the moment. I don't know how I would feel in the future but I really want to train properly after all this crap is over.
It might be the music I'm listening to or my PMS but I really want to thank the 10th batch for making my life in NYP so much more fun. You might even think we haven't been through much, but your company has been really...great. Pfttt...excuse my eloquence.
Yohhhhhhhh I've been planning the trip to Japan. If planning for a 10 day trip air ticket cheapest one I can find online so far is $715 round trip, plus around $450 for lodging, total $1100! How's that sound? You guys do the maths for food yourself, then feedback to me again. =)