or otherwise known as The Blog of Requirement.

Friday, December 28, 2007

School starts in about 5 days time.
Last minute homework completion ends in about 5 days time.
Next big event(s): Student Council Investiture (Second day of the start of school)
Sec 1 Orientation Camp
Student Council and Sports Leaders will be combined into Student Leaders. But this fusion en't gonna happen that soon. I don't mind SC joinining with SL. Hope the competition between both groups die down.
Woah! I don't know the story and i loved the previous one. So the sequel better be a hell lot better with more bucket-loads of action than the first. Here's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian for ya! Hooray for war sequences!
Also watch The Invasion. Its thrilling. You get to Nicole Kidaman and Daniel Craig together... AGAIN! And damn are they a good-looking couple!

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Happy Christmas! o<|]:D China was more fun than i expected. It was a tour with two other families. A couple (Allan and his wife) and a family of five (Mr and Mrs Ong, Nicholas, Keeran and Clara Ong). Took some sub-average airplane under China Eastern Airline. It has no entertainment facilities but I didn't need any anyway cos the flight to China was early in the morning. Toured KunMing, LiJiang and DaLi which are located in YunNan. Did plenty of sight-seeing. Scaled mountains and scurried around in shopping centres. It's winter in China from December and January, so it was freezing cold. The temperature could go as low as 0 degrees celsius. Piled myself with layers of clothing. We saw not-so-ancient villages, chunks of ice at the side of roads, The Stone Forest etc. At tThe 3 Pagodas, there was a lake called Nine Dragons bathing Buddha. Haha, steamy. There were different minority groups. In each cities, the citzens were adressed differently. In KunMing, the women were called'Ah-Shi-Ma'. In DaLi, the women were called 'Jing-Hua' and the men were 'Ah-Peng'. In LiJiang, the women were called 'Pang-Jing-Mei' and the men 'Hei-Ge'. It really depends on which minority group it was. It is legal for China citizens to spit phlegm and blow their noses relieving it of snot on to the streets. Most my time walking on the streets was spent dodging spit and snot puddles and the occasional horse poop. There are loads of pirated items sold in China. Like fake jade and even phoney-baloney herbs! There was on herb which look like a toasted caterpillar with a tiny twig as a tail, the fake ones were either real roasted caterpillars with tooth picks stuck through them or lead sticks. Pretty sick and deadly. If fooled, you'd be harming your body instead of healing it. The food was okay. Some were good on some days. The public wash rooms were seriously gag-worthy. There was one where this guy was squatting, smoking and excreting in an open-run down-cubicle. There was a cool DVD store though. Not sure if the DVDs were pirated, but they give really good picture quality. They were alsocheap too! Wanted to see the fmaous Golden Monkey of YunNan but didn't get a chance to. Wanted to take a picture with one and claim it as me Daemon. Hehe. The journey home was terrible! It was Christmas Eve. The flight was scheduled at 9 pmbut it was delayed till 2 am the next day due to engine failure! Took them 5 hours to come to their senses and change to a new plane. The holding area was really uncomfortable. The seats were metal benches, so it was painful to sleep on. Most of the passengers on the flight home were Singaporeans. A group of rowdy ones started repeating 'We wish you a Merry Christmas (x2) and a Happy New Year' over and over again in a loud out-of-key tune at 12 am. Those were the only line of lyrics they knew! This annoyed the hell out of us instead of spread the 'Christmas cheer and spirit'. Reached Singapore at 4-5 am. It was certainly quite and interesting China expereince. But I'd like to visit other cities and provinces for obvious other reasons.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Didn't get to go to the Zoo cos it was raining. Stupid rain. But we did watch The Golden Compass at Vivo GVMax. Second row from the back. Exhilirating movie experience.
I've finally read the entire His Dark Materials Trilogy! Woohoo. It took me a long time to finish Amber Spyglass cos i wanted to slowly absorb the story and also cos i'm just slow at reading books. :P To make my day more Golden-ey, Subtle-ey and Amber-ey, I bought the Golden Compass OST. Can't say its really good. The scores sound like suspicious rip-offs from Lady In The Water, King Kong and etc. But its still listening-friendly. They used loads of strings.
Something weird is happening to me. I'm starting to actually like the News. It's become an everday television programme. It's interesting though, like the mouse who got part of its brain removed making it fearless towards cats. But i think that shortens its life expectancy by half.
They don't really sell TGC merchandise in Singapore. Unless you get a kida meal at BK. Hope they sell stuff at Popcorn.
Gonna have to buy Christmas presents real soon cos i'll be away in China from the 19th to the 25th.

Saturday, December 08, 2007

I'm going to the zoo with my family tomorrow! Woohoo! And watch The Golden Compass after! Yea! Watched the Golden Compass with Jessie, Serene, Syaheera and Rebecca on the 5th as well. It's really cool. The CGI rocks! But the story is really choppy and lots of scenes have been removed and altered compared to the novel. So go watch the movie first so that the Golden Compass movie experience is not ruined. Read the book after to know the FULL story. Yup. I know the book promotes atheism but the movie has really mild down the whole idea of 'killing God'. Yea. Just watch it as a movie. You get to see polar bears fight! :D

Watch the JUMPER trailer! Its about this guy who can teleport like Nightcrawler, just that he en't not blue. Starring Hayden Christensen.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/jumper/trailer/large.html

Stephen King's THE MIST. Supernatural and S-C-A-R-Y.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/themist/trailer2/

27 DRESSES is about a distressed bridesmaid that plans weddings for her friends but not for herself. Her life gets more depressing when her sister is engaged to be married with the one she loves. A romantic comedy starring Katherine Heigl (Knocked Up) and James Marsden (Enchanted).
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/27dresses/trailer/

A thriller about a murderer who sets up a website for all to see his victims. The more people that visit the website, the faster the victim dies. Watch the UNTRACEABLE trailer.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/untraceable/high.html