importance of education (Saturday, February 27, 2010 / 8:27 PM)
it just struck me again. the importance of studying...perservering these few years in our youth.. went thru the psb academy degrees ( kinda private institution for those who cant get into local Us i think)
the fees compared to local Us are up to 5-10 times the price!considering the hefty amount of money for uni fees this is no joke.
so if my sis doesnt do well she might have to take up one of these degrees.-.- looks like my education insurance would have to pass on to her...cant use it for my own luxury that would be too much of a financial burden.
MUST MUST MUST get a scholarship! D:
which means:
1)slack part time job to afford time to build up my resume and allow interviews.(maybe during uni i shall work as a bass guitarist in a jazz pub,i heard tt it is super boring and easy,only need to play like 5 bars repeatedly for 3 hours LOL ) 2)hope my A levels and cca portfolio up to standard *prays* 3)do well in uni! which means going to a course i like.NUS FASS seems like the only choice then.unless i wanna consider science.business and law seems really hard.as you can see i am still hopelessly stuck in limbo lol.
Uni open house dates: NUS (13-14 March ) NTU ( 27 feb for the lets talk NTU...no idea when the open house i heard ard the 13th also?) SMU (6-7 March) SIM (12-13 March)
movie reviews. ( / 2:28 AM)
been watching so many movies recently zzz some day i am going to go broke T.T
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
FANTASTIC MOVIE BETTER THAN HARRY POTTER IN MY OPINION.WORTH THE HYPE! finally a decent story based on norse mythology( which is overused btw there is another upcoming movie based on it -.-)
bears some similarities to potter though...the clueless average kid protagonist who has always felt he was "different" and shocking exposure to another whole new world..the goofy best friend..the talented and hardworking girl...the adventurous trio who decide to embark upon their own quest with a somewhat.but if there was a book i would love to read it!
the digital effects were really great and impactful.the 3D creatures were WOW MESMERIZING *_* espc the dragons and medusa turning people into stone.( reminds me of a certain sec sch teacher? hehe)
love the hair! :D the lipstick is just so not flattering though.perhaps a little coral would be nice.
Valentine's Day
silly heartwarming movie..cliched and with a happy /ending..got gay elements so people who are not comfy with that can avoid it hehe.gay is love anyway.the story seems abit too fabricated to be true even though there are alot of big names in it.percy jackson pwns.
going to watch Alice in Wonderland when it comes out! anyone want to watch with me?
woke up EARLY MAXXX for SYC( sunburst youth camp) gathering today.abit disappointed at the turnout but enough to keep the syc spirit going! :) so happy to see my angel huda again.blog about it another day!
(Friday, February 26, 2010 / 5:02 AM)
admira avila! spruce top and gold plated tuning knobs.excellent tonal quality.better be cos i paid 505 bucks for you baby and lugged you all the way from clementi back to bishan in the rain! -.- yamaha sale on for the next couple of days,be sure to go there and grab fast! this admira wasnt my first choice guitar,i wanted the CG 201s yamaha one at first but then someone bought it like in the morning wth even though i went on the first day of the sale.
and still got scolded by some auntie who whacked her umbrella rudely against my guitar because she thought it was blocking her way. ugh i hope you rot in hell and die and hades will stab you eyeballs with chopsticks while eating chow mein.if there is chinese takeaway in hell,of course.i hate pmsing aunties.
results coming out next friday! im looking forward to it though i dont know how it will turn out.
im wondering if i should jus put NUS FASS as first choice and leave it.CIRCLE LINE TO BUONA VISTA PLEASE FASTER OPEN the smrt website says it will open in 2011 i still have to endure a few more months of ungodly long travel to the school.
or maybe SMU business is gd as well?( also nearer to my house hahah) HMM priority is that i can get a scholarship to ease the financial burden on my family now tt my sis got herself landed in poly.
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i am thinking of changing my blogskin.i get an unsettling feeling that itas my looks gay every time i look at it -.-
got bombarded by uni letters and brochures..nothing as drastic as my sister's though,i dont know how polys can afford to give each prospective student bags and full organizers and guidebooks about each specific course,on top of luxurious facilities.
been doing some soul searching about what i want to do in uni.hmm.business is practical but not really my cup of tea,media and interaction related is not really well paying i heard the industry is kind of dying in singapore.my stepbro told me architecture is very volatile,one moment you are swamped by jobs and the next moment you are quite jobless.
and yeah went out to the yamaha sale today ( WAS SO TEMPTED BY A PINK BURNY LES PAUL OMG I SHALL GET MY FUTURE HUSBAND TO PROPOSE TO ME WITH IT) and got a spanish guitar! yay the tone is really nice and the bass and treble is really up to standard,a bona fide solid top concert guitar.though i dont like yellow hued guitars -_- ill sacrifice for the sound..it cost around the same price as the ibanez.my paycheck barely covers those plus amps :x
sorry i couldnt resist ending off with something guitar :P
please listen! it is not rock but something ballad-ish.petrucci is great with more touching songs.to think i didnt want to listen to him at first because i felt he was too gay with his long hair and big muscles!i much preferred him in 07 when he was more slim built with short hair.
hermit days (Tuesday, February 23, 2010 / 9:07 AM)
after a few days of casual job searching and some job offers from friends i have decided to stay happily un employed where i will venture out of my cave only for guitar lessons,pleasure trips to meet my friends,donuts and bubble tea :D
meanwhile listening to loads of guitar music since im going to pick up the electric i might as well know what im getting into right i dont want to end up in a power-chord rut playing pop songs and power rangers,i have an ibanez for god's sake =(.from my limited hearing experience i think..
i think most guitarists abuse the whammy bar to make the WAH-WAH sound.haha it includes steve vai...i prefer music from his semi virtuoso days,now the collaborations he is doing..plus branching into singing..
do you like it?it is not too bad,but i tink he should stick to jamming on his electric jem.:D some musicians try to deviate too much and in the end sound like crap.like a recent straits times article about the collaboration with SCO and a violinist?( i tink it was a violinist,correct me if im wrong) which has quite bad review as the instruments did not complement.which leads to me thinking about Vai's "For the Love of God" collboration with an orchestra ( he transcribes orchestra pieces like how talented is that :D),wouldnt that be slaughtered by our local press? but then that would lead to quite a huge backlash by the american community who love vai.
one of the guitarists i hv really grown to worship is joe satriani.really humble guitarist..which is really contrasting sometimes with my own teacher who never fails to insinuate how good he is LOL all in good humour though.i think one of his interviews where he was really inspiring,where his mentality is that it is his honour to play for his audience rather than "it is an honour for the audience to hear me play therefore i must make them pay exorbitantly ridiculous tickets which is not really fair to judge the musicians as it is really the fault of the money sucking companies" .check out his surfing with the alien video,love the attitude and bling.... damn he is married.
i wish i was born in the USA like 10-2o years ago.i feel epicly stuck in the wrong era. dont you get that feeling sometimes? no? you are weird.
RANDOMLY...
i feel very bloated from all the suan mei,sugar, penchant for condiments,imported bubble gum that i have been bonbarded with recently and work has got me the habit of drinking coffee.alas,random googling has informed me that all these habits lead to water retention,which is NOT GOOD as i drink loads more water than most people cos im more thirsty and hence toilet frequencies also increase,which is unhappy when it is in the middle of the night so i have to wake up to go pee. so i have researched on the solution called the Waterfall Diet online which mildly reminds me of diarrhea.ok im just kidding about the diet you have to pay to buy it online and it sounds sooo dubious.
where wild things are (Saturday, February 20, 2010 / 8:34 AM)
life is good*teneh neh neh neh neh neh * (hums badly out of tune)
im not satisfied with my life,but at least im not complaining right now.have found new people to inspire me over the past year..so many things that happened..to tell you the truth results worry is the last thing on my mind right now.perhaps it is arrogance because i always took care to maintain a certain standard in my results *paiseh* but i always think there are more important things in life la.
pursuing my love for music again.something i tried to deny but cant run away from,now ill embrace it and do my best..if i end up to be a talentless person,then it is just too bad.still got my brains to rely on! in the midst of drawing up a regime incorporating vai's 10 hr workout,combining sensitivity and technical skills before i can elevate to adding emotion. meaning extreme discipline in the first few hours before playing whatever crap u like towards the end heh heh i guess it reminds you of why u picked up the instrument in the first place.
my wallpaper!mine is on the right! but i am traitorous i keep looking over to the left! D: so sorry ibby-chan.
and randomly! went out with cheryl!
and today went out with jonathan to visit and laugh at kaijie who was working at the Dating Fiesta. he was one hour late as usual and hurried home to play maple seriously he is a stupid gaming idiot bwahahah.no photos cos we never camwhore.come on how to camwhore with a couple of idiots.kaijie looks like he is on PMS when he is working,reminds me of the anti PMS pills advertisement long ago...about Typhoon Annie ( a middle aged working professional with unfashionably curled hair and flared nostrils in ill cut business suit,remember?)..but somehow comparing my second-best friend to a 50 year old saggy female was kind of disturbing so i immediately arrested the idea.as my guit teacher nick said,sometimes it is best not to think so much.
we were in the shampoo section.i have no idea what i was looking shiftily at.most probably i was awed by cheryl's beauty whilst she was gazing dreamily in the mirror at me =)
another step,organizing new goals and putting my life in check.
so much time really gives you alot of newfound responsibility doesnt it?i am sooo glad for the long holidays and i wish it was longer but not too long or else our brains will rust when uni comes.
meanwhile,a level worriers take heart! it will be okay! if it is not okay then too bad! really u cant do anything about it besides retaking a levels,killing yourself,killing someone who scored better than you(preferably not me) and killing yourself or killing a teacher and embark on a 100 mile escape from the local police and afterwards find your Inner Zen and subsequently retire into the Alps as an apprentice of the Tibetan monks.
zen of guitar (Sunday, February 14, 2010 / 9:00 PM)
got laughed out loud at my guitar teacher for getting some tempo wrong last week-.-was a bit annoyed but oh well he has the right since i might suck,it is just something i wouldnt do if i were a teacher lah.but he got me thinking why i would want to try and pick this up though i have an obviously weak musical background..no it is not for the money or for the cool factor,it is cos i like the music that the instrument is able to create..i dont want to play for anyone but myself.
decent amt in hongbao considering least no. of places visited so far...-.- also realized that i lost quite a bit of weight cos of work stress + no time to eat woo hoo giving me more excuse to indulge during chinese new year :D havent gotten over my phobia of pineapple tarts yet though :x ugh shouldnt have taken so many free samples from the taka food fair.
everyone has been giving me loads of different advice about what course to take in uni...everyone has such conflicting views due to their different backgrounds that i am a bit confused as well.this is what it boils down to:
1)be a dentist.the patients cant complain when you scold them for not brushing their teeth cos their mouth is under your mercy.plus as a dentist u can earn so much moneyy.1k in 20 minutes plus attractive assistants of your choice ( as seen by my orthodontist,wonder what opinions his wife has..)
2)work in finance/accounting,like an investment professional in GIC...ooh then i will be working under kuan yew's offspring,hsien yang O.O never liked govt political prats.LOL.i tink i would avoid govt jobs but govt is the most stable in singapore,unlike the private and creative sector.
3)psychology and media...very subjective as it is closest to my interests but the most "useless" degrees,cannot really earn much or get far unless you are specialised.and print media is dying,everything is moving into the virtual world...and psychology is really second rate to psychiatrist i might say and i am not sure i am up for the 11 years of study before specialisation to be a medical professional.
4)CAAS if i get the scholarship.viable option and same working place as my mom LOL.except she will be in customs and i will be in the control tower or overseas or in boardrooms liasing with international representatives.so cool to work in one of singapore's national monuments.
5) BANKING AND BUSINESS AND RETAIL IS NOT EASY.not only do you have to kiss ass to loads of people you also have to fight with a thousand other wannabes and you really need passion and dedication to do this.so it is absolutely out of the window for me as the money driven aspect appalls me-.- still remember my manager at my workplace always pushing sales,like the underlings are mechanical sales robots,hello it is also dependent on the frequency of ugly middle aged patrons that flood the store like vain cockroaches trying on thousands of hideous outfits despite realizing the amount of effort salesppl have to go through to fold every single piece,stuff it back into its original packaging and put it back on the designated shelf,in which we are not careful the entire stack of clothes would come tumbling down and smack us right in the face.i though all forms of work was this shitty until i realized after snooping around i was placed in the most fucked department.like seriously i will never work in a cheena boutique again.
owell.this has turn into a i hate my job rant.LOL.time to screw my life right back on track.
ALLIIIIIVEEEEE (Saturday, February 13, 2010 / 5:44 AM)
after one and a half months of working i am officially umemployed! :D woohoo.my appraisal didnt go so well ,im jus an average worker in terms of productivity and attitude but considering i despise doing sales im ok with it.plus i already resigned and embarked on a second career,collecting ang pows for chinese new year! no time to shop for cny clothes at all considering that i was serving aunties with the hideously expensive cny stuff all the way sigh.
really stuffed from reunion dinner x2.a buffet yesterday at my dads side and at the restaurant today at my mom's side!was so bored waiting for food during the latter that i walked outside to the nearby caltex to buy cleo,some bimbotic female magazine showing 50 eligible bachelors hmm better than last year but the guys this year are so superficial.
and yeah this year's reunion dinners more fun cos:
1)didnt feel overstuffed like the previous years cos i finally learnt how to refuse food gosh i haate the taste of sharks fin i will never provide sharks fin if i ever marrry ewww why kill the good sharks and throw them back into the sea to die of starvation jus because you want their puny fin.
2)talked to my stepbros gf about my future.my stepbro insisted that a dentist is the best job cos the patient cant complain LOL but then contradicted himself later by telling me it has one of the highest suicide rates as it is a stressful job,but then i think every job is stressful in its own way so dun really matter.my stepbros sis really gave me insights into the media industry...i tink it might not be so good for me better to get a degree non media related in order to learn something substantial,must do my research and think a bit in the time being!
3)early ang pows!woohoo hoooooooooooo
and my colleague commented that it was funny that most of the people who showed up to encourage/laugh at me at work were guys,even though im pretty sure my girl friends> my guys friends.i dont know what to think of this,was pretty surprised myself that people would turn up jus to laugh at me haha.
