stolen colours

Lost a fanfic that I wrote once; I guess all the hopping back and forth between hard disks took its toll on my mental organisation. I think I forgot to copy that folder over before I reformatted my hard disk. I searched all my websites, current and dormant, in the hope of finding it in some little folder named ‘temp’, but no. Also lost my dolphin glass handphone accessory from Haruhinkan a few days back.

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I JUST CAN’T WAIT FOR WEDNESDAY!
[gahahaha.]

Was at Orchard today and there were people in Singapore Polytechnic t-shirts giving out flyers (“giving out” is a euphemism for “shoving”) that said “vote for Taufik!”

So I took some, ripped them to pieces, and threw them into the recycling bins. I’ve got nothing against Taufik, but that’s a rather silly promotional thing to do. People who have already decided to vote for Taufik don’t need them; and people who’re undecided will vote only after watching his performance on Wednesday.

It rained so much today afternoon >Hey, Freedom and Justice are at Sitex!

Me: *eyes glint* Where’s Sitex? *calls ivory* (at this point I had NO IDEA that Sitex was an exhibition at Expo.)

Ivory: *with very noisy background* Hello?

Me: Hi ivory! Where are you?

Ivory: I’m at the far end of the hall *describes it* Freedom and Justice are putting on their armour right now!

Me: ?????? (how come models are putting on armour…oh, cosplayers!…wait, there’s a cosplay TODAY?)

Me: Ivory, where on earth are you?

Ivory: Expo!

Me: *enlightened*

Didn’t manage to head to Clarke Quay to search, but did go to Hilton to visit XL at her workplace. Some boutique where the cheapest item is a 3-figure tank top and the most expensive a cool $1000. XL chirped, “We’re having a 30% discount!” $1000 to $700 is really helpful.
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Today was fruitful ^^

Some replies are in order:

To stone: nope, it’s not running in the mornings.

To ryozan: sorry about that! I’ve done as you’ve requested.

To AA: ^^ see you there.

To SteJuste: great to hear from you again! What’ve you been up to!

To everyone else: You’re all very welcome to pop by for caroling. I won’t be performing on the 25th and 26th of December, though. Dang. I’m missing the Esplanade performances for cosplay T_T By the way, I will be attending the Far East cosplay.

Spoke on the phone to Quanyi. Never thought of it that way before, but she’s another person whom I can just talk and talk to on the phone. And the conversation can get either deep or wacky. Anyway…I was really happy when she said that she missed the time we spent in Tokyo. Then got transiently depressed because I would really like to be in Tokyo right now and in a certain manga shop in Ikebukuro.

I have made a really good bargain with my brother: exchanging my pocket PC for his Sony Clio. I want Palm programmes (e.g. the cracked version of bejeweled) and he wants this Pocket PC game. XD

It’s getting harder to motivate myself to do it. I don’t mean studying, but something else. Perhaps I need discipline, but if discipline means forcing myself to do something I’m not that keen to…

The Raffles Ringers will be caroling this December:

18th Dec Sat 7pm Compass Point
19th Dec Sun 3pm Paragon, 7:30pm Raffles City
20th Dec Mon 7pm Compass Point
21st Dec Tues 7pm Causeway Point
22st Dec Wed 7pm Centrepoint
23rd Dec Thurs 7:30pm Raffles City
25th Dec Sat 3:30/4:30/7:30/8:30pm Esplanade (4 sessions)
26th Dec Sun 3:30/4:30pm Esplanade (2 sessions)

Intensive practice from 11 Dec onwards. I can’t wait XD

My PBL group kinda exasperated our dear tutor today such that she didn’t know whether to laugh or cry ^^ But we love her and I’m sure she loves us too.

Played Bomberman in the medlounge today for the first time. I think I hold the world’s record for most frequent kamikaze player T_T

Got back Neuroscience results today. I failed a test for the first time in my entire life. (And not just a borderline failure either.) Surprisingly I’m not as devastated as I think I should be; was making self-deprecating jokes to Addie all the way back from the noticeboard. Nearly laughed out loud when I saw the bar chart of the grades – I can actually point out exactly where (and no I don’t just mean which bar) I’m on it. I did expect that I’d do really badly, but not fail! *lol*

Oh well. This is spurring me on to study really hard, and to find better ways of studying. I now think I work best with blank paper and pencil. I shouldn’t even try to divide the page into columns. No. Just me, an erasable tool and a blank slate. No fancy colours or markers that cause distraction.

(Out of point, but I once watched an Omnitheatre feature some years ago that had snowy mountains. I think, if I were to climb the Himalayas, I’d just feel this urge to fall from the heights into the unblemished, boundless snow. And be buried and then become a snow sprite.)

Today has been rather roller-coasterish.

1. Big issue in the morning that got settled by mid-morning.
2. Little bit of news in the morning. [never mind lah:) I'm still here.]
3. Neuroscience results in the late morning. O.O

HH doesn’t read my blog, but I really really really want to thank him. I once told him about the clinical grouping system, and he gave me a very sound piece of advice. “If I were you, I would want to be with people I don’t know very well, but whom I would like to get to know better. The people who’re already my good friends will always be my friends anyway.” I believed in the logic of that, but I strayed from the path due to peer pressure since so many good friends were going together. Faced a dilemma because of that, but HH’s words came back to me.

I won’t regret it, no matter how it turns out.
Gosh, I’ll miss Addie. And it’s sad that my OG has to spilt up. We talk…nonsense. Really nonsense. Just drop in during our lunchtime conversations ^^;;

I hope the rest of you guys in medfac will work out your groups without too much difficulty or any heartache. Perhaps HH’s advice might help you too.

The extended link has details on the clinical grouping system for those who might be interested.
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Lyrics for Chao Ren in the extended link.
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Lyrics for Sun Wu Kong in the extended link.
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To rie: I’ll get the photos and videos to you, don’t worry. Courtesy of lynn and iris. Also managed to record May Day’s guest stint on 93.3FM on my Zen Touch. I’ve also got a May Day poster for you Come to Singapore soon, dear!

Went to lynn’s today and watched some May Day videos. THEY ROCK!

I’ve added two May Day songs to my radio blog – Sun Wu Kong and Chao Ren. They’ve got a superhero bent, I noticed. I have realised that my favourite songs from this album weren’t composed by A-shin ^^;; the melody, anyway. But I love them because of their lyrics, which were A-shin’s work. (so don’t murder me rie.)
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This post is for rie’s benefit.

Got to Plaza Singapura at 4.40pm after tutorial, but I was already at the back of the standing zone in front of the stage. (The performance was to start at 6.30pm.) Lynn arrived soon after, and then iris and arilce, who could only enter the 2nd zone. The technicians who did the sound check are rather funny guys ^^;; the guitarist/bassist was rather surprised when the audience actually clapped for him after he finished going through a song. Rather cute look on his face, then. And finished it up by doing a Christmas carol on the electric guitar, lol.

May Day is really good live! I’m sooo glad I went to watch them. If not for rie, I wouldn’t have entertained the thought, actually. Also managed to get autographs for myself and rie.

Lynn brought her videocam and we took turns filming selected segments. I managed to capture this beautiful part where both Masa and 怪兽 were doing fancy stuff simultaneously XD I discovered my digicam was out of power there, so I’m relying on lynn’s videos and photos.

Extended link for rie’s benefit:
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