stolen colours

In which I was in love with a Transformer – a small one, i.e. his head barely touched the ceiling of the room. It was strange to be hugging something hard. Said dream also involved other characters, a blood-sucking snake, the Beckhams, a secret of lineage, and a wish-granting device. I think it’s a result of having watched PotC, Moon Child, robot cartoons and reading the daily excerpts of Beckham’s book in The New Paper. Heh.

Although, in real life, if there was the slightest evidence that I could end up in some romantic relationship, my instinctive reaction is one of repulsion. I guess that part of my brain isn’t quite out of primary school yet *lol* (note: I stress REAL life)

to grey: i miss seeing you around too *sigh*

(masque speaking)

I don’t blame #1 because he/she didn’t know that I minded; but he/she didn’t persist after I said it. #2, #3, and #4 should be ashamed of themselves because I repeatedly and emphatically told them not to. I really don’t see what they get out of it.

Isn’t this fun. I’m waiting to see if #2, #3 and #4 will figure out who they are.
If they actually drop notes of sympathy in my comment box I’ll die laughing from the sheer irony.

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(Spleen speaking)

Studied in the morning, then went out with Shmeen in the afternoon to Plaza Singapura to buy Bianca’s present. It’s functionally a door stopper, but it’s more like a snake. Argh. I don’t know how to describe it. We made the decision on the spot, so we had lots of time left to kill. It felt so good just ambling aimlessly and exploring all the shops in PS. We spent a long time at Watson’s looking at the skincare products and deciding that we really needed the eye refresher thingy… Doing nothing can be the best thing to do, sometimes.

To shuui: nice meeting you on Saturday too!

If I have stated very explicitly that I don’t want you to do what you’re doing, and you ceasing what you’re doing does not harm you in any way, why can’t you just acede to my request? What do you get out of it, anyway? If our roles were reversed I’d gladly respect your wishes.

I wonder if you even realise it.

Probably not. Childish insensitive pigs. You’re not in a primary school playground anymore.

(masque: aren’t you one yourself, to be putting up a cowardic show of spite?)

You. And you.

(thanks shmeen. rest assured that it’s got nothing to do with you or anyone you know well.)

I’m not going to talk to people who don’t respect my wishes.

Made a mistake in an earlier post – thanks K for pointing that out. The English song played sometimes in Moon Child was not by Robbie Williams. Sorry for that mistake! It’s just that I heard rie saying “Isn’t that a Robbie Williams song?” It’s Mr Bojangles by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (quite an old band…explains why the song sounds so good).

I have no lessons tomorrow! Originally there were 2 lectures – one for the going through of CA questions, and one by a clinician. The clinician can’t make it, and we managed to switch the CA lecture to another day – so there’s no school tomorrow!! I wanted to crash Alanna’s sociology lecture again, but she’s having semis during lecture -_-;;;

I saw ephemeral off today. It was rather scary because I forgot her present and only realised it on the way there! So I went to a bookstore and got something else that I’d been considering when I first went shopping. Oh well. The original present was something I really liked myself, anyway ^^;;

Take care of yourself, woman!

I’ll be hosting her, so just watch out for the link.

I wonder what it’d have been like if I’d gone to Melbourne…I’d probably be leaving by myself, without parents or fellow scholarship holders accompanying me onto the plane. Alone. (Xinmin, how on earth did you live through that??)

But it’s a completely different thing, what I’m experiencing now. Medicine is such a small community where everyone knows everyone. There is minimal mixing since people tend to stick in their JC cliques, especially since half the triple science people in RJC are in medicine. I’m glad for Aikido ‘cos I get to meet other people who are really nice. I’m happy that most of the CoRngress is in NUS, and in different faculties.

Bianca leaves last. There won’t be anyone left to send her off except us NUS people ^^;;

I did a lot of driving today ^^ Sent my siblings to tuition; drove Father to a talk; drove back from the airport – where Father actually closed his eyes and rested in the back seat! (Brother was in front.)

Yesterday would have been perfect, if not for the CA in the morning. I guessed more than I should have…and my guesses were wrong. I hope I’ll be able to pass. Sigh.

Well, I drove to school in the morning ALONE! Mother agreed ‘cos the traffic on Saturdays is lighter. Driving is really, really, really enjoyable. I must marry someone who owns a booming car company or petrol company. Or his/her son.

And now… the highlight of the day!!

MEETING UP WITH STEJUSTE, shu, ivory, shuui, and Kevin. (to raydance: you have no idea what you missed!) SteJuste does NOT look her age at all. (actually I think she looks like ailin’s elder sister, if ailin had one.) So cool! So many piercings!! I am going to get my ear (not ears) pierced soon. I didn’t meet them at the MRT, which was rather unfortunate ‘cos I’m the only one who knows what everyone else looks like ^^;; In the end they managed to identify one another after gravitating towards Kevin’s Moonchild DVD package.

Moon Child

Kevin – vocalist of mizeryFree – kindly lent us his Moon Child DVD, which we watched in the Esplanade library. The room’s meant for 10 people and has 3 lounges; but the girls all ended up on the floor while kevin remained up there.

Remind me never, ever to watch any movie staring a cute guy that rie likes with rie. Every move the guy makes (in this case, Gackt) ellicits a hyperactive response from her. I plastered myself to Shuui.

I really pity poor kevin stuck in that room with rabid fangirls ^^;;

For example:
Gackt’s character kisses a woman who we conclude to be his wife.
rie, shu et al: Eek he’s kissing her!
kevin: (through clenched teeth) guy kiss girl is normal.

I leant a new word that day.
Gackt and Hyde alone in a room, where Hyde is ranting.
shu: UST.
us: ??
shu: Unspoken Sexual Tension.
us: -_-;;;;;

My ratings of the movie itself:

Eye candy: 4/5 + 2.5/5 — 6.5/10
I liked Hyde’s looks better than Gackt’s. I cannot believe he’s 30+. I don’t like Gackt’s short blonde hairdo; and in the movie it was even worse ‘cos he had a long, skinny ponytail to go with it. Eech. And they wore such horrible, gaudy, skin-tight tops! Eek. Btw NO FAN SERVICE OCCURRED EXCEPT FOR ONE HUG, for those who are curious. Not that I’m complaining. Subtley rules, as shu said.

Plot: 5/10.
Well, you don’t really need a plot for a Gactk/Hyde vechicle. Almost everything that happened was cliched or pointless. Ending: totally predictable.

Characters: 7/10
I liked Hyde’s more than Gackt’s; but I really enjoyed the scenes where the supporting cast were on screen. They were…more natural. (well, except for Wang Lee Hom) Gackt’s ‘family’ of adorable losers, I liked. The child actor who played young Gackt bears a surprisingly resemblance to him.

Acting: 6/10
Gackt is good at dying scenes; has some fun with comic scenes too. Hyde isn’t natural (okay, he doesn’t have dying scenes) Wang Lee Hom is tolerable; Wang Lee Hom’s sister plays a pseudo-mute so there’s not much problem there. The rest of the cast are seasoned actors, I suppose, ‘cos they didn’t seem out of place or not at ease at all.

Music: 5/10
With a cast that stars THREE singers (songwriters too, at that!) you’d except the movie to be peppered with lots of songs. There are only 4 songs, though 4 very nice ones: 1) Short, soothing duet between Gackt and Hyde; 2) Soothing song by Wang Lee Hom; 3) Soothing song by Robbie Williams; 4) A few verses that the characters keep singing. Grr. I want more songs!!

Queer Eye on the Straight Guy
SteJuste brought some episodes from the US ^_^ We originally wanted to watch PoTC again, but decided to finish watching Queer Eye. (Btw Kevin left before the gay video bit started.) It is the funniest thing I’ve ever watched! It’s a makeover show where a bunch of 5 gays makeover a straight guy so that he can propose to his girlfriend, take his girl out on a date, bring back the romance into his relationship etc. There are 5 aspects: culture, fashion, interior design, food, and grooming. The 5 gays are sooo hyperactive! They just jump and glomp the poor straight guy every chance they get ^^;;;

The transformations were rather magical, I must say. I especially liked what the interior design person managed to do in just one day. He likes candles a lot. *makes note to get some nice un-scented candles to put around her room* Wait…books are more precious. No.

The straight guys featured in the show are sooo sweet to their girlfriends! “I’ve got to do this for her; she deserves it” was their mentality throughout. Ivory was shaking her head vehemently and going “I must let my boyfriend watch this.” I wish Singapore would air the show; but well.

There was also another reality show like The Bachelor, only that a gay is supposed to pick another gay out of a bunch of guys. We didn’t watch that (thank goodness!) ‘cos there wasn’t time; but the contestants were flirting with one another, quite unlike the catfighting that goes on in The Bachelor.

People are going to buy SteJuste blank videotapes so she can tape stuff for us back in the US *gleam*

Dinner at Marche
We went to the one at Suntec. (crossed Marina Square and had a conversation with SteJuste about the mandarin ducks that used to be there years ago.) Haven’t been to Marche for so long! I miss the crepes. I had the icecream with strawberry topping crepe…heavenly! I cannot believe that Shuui, Ivory and Shu have never tried the cold crepes before! That is a crime! In the end we all ended up eating crepe. *bliss* Dinner conversation was what no self-respecting person should ever have to endure i.e. The Worst Slash Pairings in History. (like Legolas-Treebeard…what the heck!) Ivory showed off her beautiful cameraphone. She is such a gadget goddess! *goes into idolising mode* Then walked with Shuui back to City Hall. Aaaah…I really enjoyed yesterday. It reminded me that I do have a life outside Snell and Guyton et al. You guys, please tie a rope around me and yank me out any time I’m sucked into my books and can’t get out.

Btw Crepes n Cream at Bishan J8 is gone…and Black Tea Box at Citylink Mall has now been replaced by a Crepes n Cream restaurant!! Hehe.

Mosquito is down with pneumonia in hospital…please get well soon.

I am now in the medicine library. I know neither which the muscles are responsible for the specific movments of the shoulder not the boundaries of the axilla (and many other things) BUT I DON’T CARE! I can’t get anything else into my head that isn’t already there. Saturation point reached. I’ve been spending the past hour drawing diagrams and colouring them with colour pencils I bought from the co-op. Am going to go for Aikido later. To think that I’d originally intended to stay till 9pm in the library to study today. (Father can only pick me up after he ends work, y’see.)

Anatomy tutorials, to be specific. This is when shmeen and I bring you more anectodes regarding Profs Tay and Bay. Today we got the medicine yearbook for 2003/2004. It has all these hilarious interviews with the various professors; Prof Tay’s was about driving and Alfa Romeos. And during tutorial today we were doing the muscles of the lower limb. So a normal dialogue in class goes like this: (words not exact)

Type A:
Prof Tay: What is the action of the quadriceps femoris?
Us: Extend the knee joint.

Type B:
Prof Tay: Can you see that the gastrocnemius cross the knee joint?
Us: Yes!
Prof Tay: The soleus does not cross the knee joint, therefore it has no action at the knee joint. Do you understand, L____?
L___: Yes!

(repeat many times, inserting a different name after each ‘Do you understand’)

Halfway into the tutorial:

Prof Tay: The propelling of the foot forward is very important for sprinting, and for Alfa Romeos.
Us: O.O
Prof Tay: (in exactly the same tone as before)There is a model called ‘Sprint’. *writes name on board and gives more details* There is also a Grand Tourismo Veloce *writes name on board again*. I don’t drive it; mine is 1600cc. This one *taps on board* is 2000cc. Do you understand, G_____?

And then he also went on to talk about the history of medicine – the first medical school was set up in Italy, that’s why all the medical terms are in Latin; and the Roman conquest of England – the reason why the terms are still in Latin.

We also had a lesson in mythology.

(in the style of Type A dialogues)
Prof Tay: What was the river that Achilles’ mother dipped him in?
Us: Styx!

Wow…I really like Prof Tay, though he goes into so much detail that some of the things he says are not in Snell.

Oh yes. He heads the safety panel as a part-time job, so he’s been busy at press conferences about the man with the SARS virus. He’s rather miffed that the authorities just took a look at one lab (out of 350 in NUS) and concluded that safety precautions were lax.

To teresa: I totally agree about Moore being prettier! Snell has HORRIBLE colour combinations (orange and green! and bright blue!). Add that to the ghastly colour scheme of headings and annotations and you get something that’s so aesthetically unpleasing that you don’t want to study it.