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  • r 1:56 pm on November 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    400: baby go crazy (break the rules) 

    the litany:

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  • r 9:35 pm on November 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    397: living in a rhythm where the minutes’re working overtime 

    rm719c

    I feel like I’m running around in circles. I’m probably just panicking for no good reason, as I always do, but it’s weird to care and not care at the same time. Just like how I feel 半桶水 about most things nowadays; can’t decide which way to go or another.

    I feel a bit guilty sometimes, that I’m never 100% anything. But I get the feeling I don’t know how to. Some part of me’s somewhere far away, dreaming of a time where I can get away from here.

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  • r 3:35 am on November 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    396: we are always running for the thrill of it 

    You don’t know about the little things that we do without, when that whole mad season comes around.

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  • r 10:02 pm on October 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    395: reason #2358435 to do corporate law instead 

    The best kind of judge —

    Picture 4

    — is the insulting kind of judge.

     
    • nj 12:34 am on October 31, 2009 Permalink

      be glad you dont have to read like 50 pages of this:

      The Caliph’s transcendence figures as an energy yielding a force which acts, by the violent means of nature, upon human nature in order to produce culture, but yet remains beyond this culture as a reserve of untrammels nature ever producing and maintaining culture: The Caliph is the untamable tamer and the savage domesticator, continuously exercising the corrective primal violence with which chaos was subdued in primeval times…

      much love,

    • r 1:28 am on October 31, 2009 Permalink

      this judge is awesome. i love reading this kind of stuff, it makes my case reading so much more enjoyable haha.

    • nj 4:42 pm on October 31, 2009 Permalink

      haha i read it while doing my own reading above and was like… crap… should have done law… at least you are USEFUL TO SOCIETY. -hug-

  • r 4:56 am on September 7, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    381: insomnia 

    Thoughts that appear at 5am in the morning;

    • The sooner you learn to accept people for who they are, the less trouble you will have with yourself. Why is everyone so worked up over things they cannot control?
    • Why does this happen every week? I shouldn’t have drunk that coffee.
    • I think I might be in love with the Eurasian guy who appears on 超级星光大道 to PK the contestants. But obsessions come and go, anyway.
    • Something I read while filling my time with reports of serial killers (don’t ask): There are Mr. Rights, and then there are Mr. Right Nows. Mr. Right Now is the guy you think you’re in love with when you’re seventeen. Then you get knocked up and are forced to get married and suddenly it’s too late, when Mr. Right comes along. (And Mr. Right Now may just kill you if you leave.)
    • There’s really just no way I’m ever going to appear in the morning bright and chirpy and eyebag-less. It’s a chronic failing. I like sleep. I like to have my own time. I like mornings. But to have all three is kind of impossible.
    • I want to sleep now.
     
  • r 12:04 am on August 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    376: if it’s too loud, you’re too old 

    Happenings of the past (last) week of holidays;

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    • n 4:28 pm on August 14, 2009 Permalink

      omg munchkins. i -love- munchkins. there’s munchkin fu, which is like the asianized version. totally hilarious~

    • nurul 4:28 pm on August 14, 2009 Permalink

      oh that was me btw. i realise n might be lots of people!

    • r 5:16 am on August 15, 2009 Permalink

      nah, i knew it was you :)

  • r 2:01 am on April 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    362: and do you know what you’re doing to me 

    I hate the way I still prac-crit everything you say even though my English is better.

    I know I keep asking, so you and me, babe, how about it under a convenient streetlight. I wish I could serenade you, step out of the shade. And you’ll reply from the top window, just like in the song. Everything’s happened; it can’t un-happen itself. You and I — maybe we’re only brief encounters, nothing else. 

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    • yanj 9:23 am on April 12, 2009 Permalink

      looking pretty babe!

      x

  • r 3:57 pm on April 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    360: don’t you count on me 

    Whoever said that law didn’t involve mathematics is a liar.

    snapshot-2009-04-01-15-59-34I want to faint and die. What the hell is this? Comparative Corporate Governance, pfft, go die in a fire somewhere!

     
    • danmok 5:36 pm on April 6, 2009 Permalink

      OMG I DID THIS LAST SEMESTER.

      bad memories.

    • r 6:08 pm on April 6, 2009 Permalink

      why did you have to do this?!?!

    • gery 3:32 am on April 8, 2009 Permalink

      i’m suddenly glad i’m not doing law. i told the law interviewer that my math sucked and he assured me math was hardly necessary. bluff!

    • r 1:15 pm on April 10, 2009 Permalink

      technically, he wasn’t wrong… i didn’t bother trying to decipher that, though. numbers are for accountants and economists and engineers !

    • danmok 2:41 pm on April 11, 2009 Permalink

      cos i took the same module hahaha.. comparative corp governance.

      though i skipped all the math and jumped to the conclusion which didn’t involve any numbers or symbols.

      those O with the curly thing on top and sub-scripted alphabets are so STRANGE.

    • r 2:46 pm on April 11, 2009 Permalink

      eek how gross. yeah i just treated that entire page as non-existent hahahahah :) eh you take ACCA why still say numbers and symbols strange!!

  • r 7:21 pm on March 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    355: in the mood for love 

    (Don’t walk away, then turn and say “I love you,” anyway, / you come for the week to love me, and then you up and leave next day.) 

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  • r 11:33 am on December 20, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    337: and where are the deep shelters? 

    I have been probably pushing myself too hard. There are things that I don’t need to do, but I have been doing them anyway. This includes stupid things like reading articles and cross-referencing them, putting in citations in my own paper that cite this article which cited that article on this page under this footnote, and drawing an insane number of mindmaps for that last International Company Law exam just so I would remember everything, which I didn’t, in the end. The last three weeks have been crazy and mad, and I’d like to say I’ve barely had time to think, but the truth is I’ve been thinking a lot (and maybe too much), and I don’t like what I come up with. Everything I write does not make sense, now that I read it again, and even though I passed my exam, I am still somewhat unhappy with the results. I want to do well, even if I don’t have to, and this bugs me. Am I asking for too much?

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  • r 12:59 am on December 16, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    335: she’ll take a tumble on you 

    The semester is almost over. As usual one is struck by how fast time flies, and the way in which it has flown. People have already gone home, to wherever they came from, and one recalls the tears that I find myself unable to shed. Maybe it was because I was not the one leaving; maybe I did not have sufficient connections with these people. There were lovely people, people I wish I’d known better were I not caught up in my own drama, but three months and meaningful friendships are hard to sustain. One is aware that this is not an excuse and that I could have, if I tried, or bothered to try. That being said, maybe next semester will be different, and one can always hope for the best. Making new friends, sustaining them, remembering why I am here in the first place, living for myself. The world is now and forever waiting for me to explore it. For once I will try not to be defeated by my own inaction. 

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  • r 12:11 am on December 11, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    333: fireworks in lake michigan 

    As usual, I have not done anything (much) today. I have an exam on Monday but I’ve barely started studying. This would be better if it were actually graded so I could feel more fear, or written so that I could feel less. As it is, it’s an oral exam. I’m scared shitless and yet not, and my brain is continually pushing waves of apathy towards me. 

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  • r 4:10 am on December 8, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    332: where’s the fire, what’s the hurry about 

    … we’ve got so much to do, but only so many hours in a day. And we can dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.

    I have decided to update this post everyday for a week with the things that make me happy everyday. It is time for some POSITIVITY! Also, strange how they say people only blog when they are either 1) very depressed 2) very free 3) very busy. I suppose this must be true, because I do it all the time. 

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  • r 2:52 am on December 7, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    331: we can stick around and see this night through 

    I told someone before that there was no way I was going down the same road again, but it seems that I am, anyway. I’m not making excuses, and who knows how long this will take, and it saddens me a little that I was arrogant enough to think I could overcome it. Because I have, before, and why not this time, right? It’s true; I’m a proud person, and perhaps insanely so. I’ve been brought up to believe that I can do anything, and by extension, if I must do something, it should be something I can do alone. It is perhaps part of being alone all your life; you learn to do things by yourself, or you remain at the bottom of the well. 

    Because there is no point in continually dwelling on things I know I cannot change, I am going to try and make myself happy as I possibly can. And yes–there is no point dragging my cumulative luggage with me, though that takes a while to sink in and I probably have to keep telling myself that a million and one times, possibly to no avail. It is hard not to lapse back into the past when I honestly cannot remember the last time I was alone. But on the other hand I am only blind if I do not want to see. I have been talking to K a lot recently, and I am glad he is here; few people are as honest with me as he is, and after all these years, it’s funny how we can pick up where we left off. 

    So, the things that made me happy today:

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    • cheryl 12:14 pm on December 7, 2008 Permalink

      your mother sounds like an amazing person. i was inspired just reading that (:

    • r 12:40 pm on December 7, 2008 Permalink

      she is :)

    • ruizi 8:12 pm on December 7, 2008 Permalink

      haha you know what? today i was also thinking of tattoos. because of mok (:

    • ruizi 10:05 pm on December 7, 2008 Permalink

      (i just realised mok has a tag of his own haha.)

    • r 1:40 am on December 8, 2008 Permalink

      haha yeah it was because of mok :) finally galvanised me into making the decision, even though i was thinking about it for very long already…

      now i just need to decide whether i want to get it in holland or amsterdam/london or wait till i get home and then decide again. but i am damn gian to have it done asap :/

      yah from the last time we celebrated his birthday. this michelle also i think! why! you want one is it!!! :)

  • r 6:00 pm on November 29, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    326: look what love gave us 

    These few days have been better, but it might have been all the alcohol.

    Everyone is going home soon, and it’s hard to fathom that one semester has already passed us by. In these three months so many things, good and bad, have happened, sometimes changing our lives irreversibly. Whatever it is, whether it’s the people we’ve met or the people who have left or are leaving, this exchange year is shaping up to be an unforgettable one.

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    • rui 8:45 pm on November 29, 2008 Permalink

      looking lovely my dear!

    • clarisse 11:16 pm on November 29, 2008 Permalink

      ♥ ♥

    • danmok 3:59 am on November 30, 2008 Permalink

      YES THE SEMESTER WENT BY DAMN MFCKIN FAST.

      as per all other sems.

    • clarisse 5:18 am on November 30, 2008 Permalink

      it’s like that one la. even exchange… is not even a year!

    • mystika387 6:33 am on November 30, 2008 Permalink

      i know! i leave egypt in like, 3 weeks! ahhhh! will send you some je stuff, because well, i cant actually be there and watch stupid things with you in person. want anything in particular? omf i realise in every je group there will be at least one person i get totally mad for. (okada! OMG!) except hsj, which is like… paedophilia. i hate leaving and all these goodbyes and shit. its so. terminal. anyway, dear, you do look really good, very kind of shiny. is this what alcohol does to you? haha. take good care of yourself! -hug-

    • clarisse 5:03 pm on November 30, 2008 Permalink

      you can actually get je stuff in egypt?!! or are you going home to singapore before you come back to edinburgh? no i don’t want anything in particular… i just pre-ordered the QOP concert dvd which will arrive after the new year! YAY! and surprisingly, the one in V6 i like the most is nagano – i just think he’s cute, don’t ask. -_- and i’ve realised that takaki is actually not that young, so it’s not that bad to think he’s cute.

      i know what you mean. i hate goodbyes too, which is why i don’t send people off unless i’m sure i’ll see them again. and yet, there’s still something terminal about them, like something will still have changed imperceptibly despite everything.

      i don’t know if it’s the alcohol! haha but thank you ♥ take care of yourself too!

    • mystika387 4:30 am on December 1, 2008 Permalink

      no lah crazy no je stuff in egypt. although! there is a sortof anime channel which has all these not-bad animes fully dubbed in arabic! and proper, formal, arabic! not slang! even the songs are dubbed! which is HILARIOUS. i consider watching them as homework. =)))

      omf you’re going to have the QOP concert dvd?!I AM TOTALLY COMING TO VISIT! or bring it when you come visit me!(you are coming, right?) there are direct flights from schipol to edinburgh! and if you bring it when you come visit me i will cook LOTS OF THINGS TO EAT while we watch pretty boys! promise! =)

      takaki (yuya, right?) is the same age as my sister. therefore. NOOOOOO. its like how i thought someone was pretty fab, realised he was my YOUNGEST sisters age, and nearly fainted. nagano is totally cute, i agree. he has such a nice scrunchy smile. but okada is like. hotness. like seriously. have you watched any gakkou e ikou? i cant find any subbed ones.

      ive been watching arashi shows. dont kill me, theyre actually really good. -shock- have you watched any arashi no shukudai kun? its taking up like…. 50G in my harddrive… im watching my boss my hero with nagase. its pretty funny. i was a bit surprised that sorafune was the theme, though!

      in some ways, i dont mind not seeing some people again, because when you both change and then meet again its hard to talk then, and for that not to ruin what you had, if that makes sense. everything is damn terminal these days. sometimes i think thats why we’re so addicted to stupid things like shows and je boys, because we arent doing the things we know we could have done.

      haha no laaa i think you just look nice. your hair, esp! very pretty! =) be well, love.

    • clarisse 6:20 am on December 1, 2008 Permalink

      haha yah i was wondering about that… like how is it possible!!

      yes it’s going to arrive after the new year – about mid january? haha yes i might come up to edinburgh if i’m free… i have kaizokuban, real face, and ctkt as well (: i only brought the ctkt dvd over though, because i couldn’t carry all of them :/ ahahhaaha.

      takaki omg. in my mind your sister is still this cute little thing. i cannot believe we have known each other for 10 years. where does all the time go?! nagano doesn’t actually do anything, though!? okada is cute but he is kind of aloof and weird. i dunno. he doesn’t smile enough!!!

      i haven’t watched any arashi shows except for the ones where toda erika appears in them for ryusei no kizuna promotions – i’m waiting for the whole drama to be over before i watch that too. i heard my boss my hero was good, yeah – sorafune (: and kame has a new drama, did you hear?!?! EXCITED LIKE SHIT.

      i know what you mean about that too. it’s just awkward after awhile. i guess that’s why you know that someone’s really meant to be your friend when you’re separated for really long, but when you get back everything is still the same, or not that much has changed that you can’t talk and laugh about it. i think about all the things i could have done, too, and that depresses me alot. so whatever. to hell with that.

      YAY (: i just cut my fringe the day after myself though. it turned out less of a disaster than i expected. heh.

  • r 9:25 am on September 10, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    311: cos i’m coming home again 

    All this cycling home half-drunk is bound to take a toll on us one day.

    For the less experienced among us, I have already crashed into a wall and fallen off trying to mount a kerb with my bike while trying to bike home while high just now.

    Apparently this is quite a common occurrence. That I only ended up with a bleeding shin is a blessing in itself.

     
    • idesiree 1:05 am on September 11, 2008 Permalink

      Woman dies after falling from bike

      She was not wearing helmet when she was flung going down a winding slope

      http://www.straitstimes.com/Singapore/Story/STIStory_276978.html

    • clarisse 1:20 am on September 11, 2008 Permalink

      wah lao des you quite nice, show me this kind of bad news!!

    • idesiree 2:21 am on September 11, 2008 Permalink

      concerned for your safety! think its best to walk and not cycle :)or wear a helmet!

    • danmok 6:15 pm on September 13, 2008 Permalink

      was it me or my imagination that you had one long post written in chinese after this one which doesn’t exist anymore?

    • nurul 1:53 am on September 14, 2008 Permalink

      dont drink and drive, woman!!!

      omg there was this bike accident in edinburgh early one morning where this guy got crushed under a truck. everyone saw it because it was like just before the exams for the day started. horrific.

      get a taxi!!!

  • r 8:39 am on September 3, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    309: see your shoes and your spirits rise 

    Before we all know it, I’ve been here for more than a week. Over these few days there have been so many happenings, so many parties, so many exciting things to tell. From the first week of meeting new people and crazy random parties with lots and lots (and lots) of drinking, to cooking totally random food in the kitchen, we’ve also changed our housemate. He used to be an American who smoked weed all day and stayed on the top floor, but he moved out because of the rent and now we have a new Iranian housemate whose wife is coming to stay with him starting sometime this week. He is also Muslim, so we are having to deal with all this at one go. 

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    • nurul 11:21 am on September 3, 2008 Permalink

      ahhh! it looks amazing! im definitely coming to visit you next term. =)

    • clarisse 5:14 pm on September 3, 2008 Permalink

      come, come! yay!

      are you in cairo yet?

    • neek 4:41 pm on September 4, 2008 Permalink

      zomg! i want to visit toooooo sulk. mm beer! :D

    • nurul 10:31 pm on September 4, 2008 Permalink

      nope leaving on saturday. come visit me in cairo! haha. zhen’s coming early dec with parents, i think. eh are you coming back for xmas? no right? omg seriously ian’s xmas party is like not going to be fun anymore. =((((

  • r 9:08 am on August 26, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    307: all your stereotypes 

    Americans are noisy, Spanish girls are hot, Japanese guys are super hot, the Germans think Erdinger is good shit, the Chinese are fucking everywhere, and omg. OH MY GOD.

    HOLLAND FUCKING SMELLS OF WEED.

    (OK. That was my update. Other than that orientation’s been fun. But there is so much alcohol, and especially when it costs 1-2 euros a pint, everybody drinks like crazy. At orientation functions beer is FREE, and it’s pretty good beer, the pubs are everywhere, people are happy, and omg the weed. Today there was an impromptu party at the hostels near the university, so everyone went down to the lawn and brought down couches and like 5 cases of beer and a couple of bottles of wine. So many people turned up, from everywhere, and it was so good talking to everyone. The weather was great and it wasn’t cold at all, we were warm from the alcohol and talking so much nonsense, and Sharm has just stumbled off to bed. On the bad side it cost us $20 (11 euros) for a cab ride. Yesterday there was a welcome drink in the city centre and everyone was just. Drinking. And drinking. And drinking again. Tomorrow there is another party. Everyone is crazy and high and it is kind of funny listening to them talk. My liver is fucking going to die.)

     
    • nurul 3:51 pm on August 26, 2008 Permalink

      take pictures of cute boys pls. haha. glad you’re having fun, dear. -hugggg-

    • Shuks 3:48 pm on August 27, 2008 Permalink

      omg you sound damn high. O_O

  • r 12:01 am on August 20, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    305: 天下无不散之宴席 

    Last Friday–my last Friday here in a year. 

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  • r 2:44 am on August 10, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    302: ten thousand years 

    Remember what you have is right in front of you, is the thing they always tell you when they want you to be content with everything you’ve got, even the things you don’t have. Everybody is after all only given so much, and we make the best use of it as we can. Over the past week things haven’t been turbulent as much as they have been eerily quiet; brief spurts of aborted activity in the day slowly give way to the plodding routine of the night. This week things have been different and yet the same.

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  • r 12:50 am on May 1, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    276: when she’s sad, she comes to me 

    I thought about it and I thought it would be better if I left it like that. Hours later I’m still wondering why I didn’t pick up the phone. Strange? Maybe yes, maybe no. I keep having to pretend I’m not there or that I forgot about it, or that I completely missed it. It’s selfish to start thinking about how I shouldn’t have to be dealing with this right now. 

    Endless phone calls? How old are you, six?

    I don’t even understand why there is all this bitterness on my part. This doesn’t even have anything to do with me. 

    I, we. There’s no doubt about it.

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    • nurul 12:25 am on May 2, 2008 Permalink

      be well, dear. and all the best for exams!

    • supermango 5:01 pm on May 4, 2008 Permalink

      thanks babe
      exams are over!!!
      JOY!

      p/s: kurosagi is opening in singapore in june. :D

    • nurul 1:03 am on May 6, 2008 Permalink

      arghh! last paper tmr. political theory. grrrr.

      yayyy okay consider yourself choped for watching kurosagi, ok. do not jack me. i will be very sad. -hugg-

    • supermango 1:47 am on May 6, 2008 Permalink

      i will wait for you.

      political theory sounds daunting!

  • r 2:09 am on April 28, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    274: so you and me, babe 

    Isn’t it strange how music tastes change all the time? Some songs are still my favourite songs, even though I haven’t played them in ages, and others that I love don’t get as much playtime. Some songs just can’t be looped, if you know what I mean. There’s only so many times you can play a song that’s 11 minutes long, and yet that’s got to be my favourite one. Yet, everything seems to be me, and everything you play– you don’t know it, but it tells me who you are, too. 

    A few years ago I would not be caught dead with Asian music on my playlist. Yet I’ve been watching Music Station since I was 12, and I listened to Jacky Cheung in the car, before anything else. I’ve watched more Channel 8 and TVB serials than I can count, and yet I’ve never watched Sex and The City, or Gossip Girl, or Heroes. 

    I would say I’m not an English language person, but we all know how that would mean I’m lying. To me they’re just different. My favourite songs in English have beautiful lyrics, things that have meaning, that need you to uncover them like some treasure. There is often a guitar somewhere, and a haunting voice. It speaks to your mind or awakens some memory. My favourite songs in Chinese are all raw, who have simple lyrics that could mean so much more, who tug at your heart strings in a uniquely Chinese way. Like thinking of searching for your face along the street you’ve walked 9 times to no avail, or having your first love buy tickets to a concert you can only think about years later when you’re married and your husband sleeps silently next to you. When I think of English songs I imagine walls must be torn down; Chinese songs speak to you, through those walls. It’s okay if they’re up, so long as you understand them. And they hear you right back.

     

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    • dandelionwine 8:58 am on April 28, 2008 Permalink

      how about it, now.

    • supermango 9:09 am on April 28, 2008 Permalink

      my top 25 playlist is really totally random.

    • dandelionwine 9:11 pm on April 28, 2008 Permalink

      mine has 15 songs from the national, none from dire straits and k’s choice nor josh rouse because my itunes resetted itself.

      and catpower tops the list rofl.

    • supermango 9:15 pm on April 28, 2008 Permalink

      oh. yeah that happened when i changed my ipod… before that forever love by x japan topped the chart at 400+ times and next came take it easy. my parties used to be played 300+ times.

    • nurul 5:57 am on April 29, 2008 Permalink

      orange range is amazing. i dont know. i listen to a lot of things not in english, i have random french rap on my zen. it sounds better when i dont understand what theyre saying, really. and love songs sound the same in EVERY single language. seriously.

      much love,

    • dandelionwine 9:12 am on April 29, 2008 Permalink

      haha i love orange range as well; the opening they did for code geass is quite impossibly catchy.

    • supermango 12:02 am on April 30, 2008 Permalink

      yes. orange range ftw! :)

      i think it always sounds better when i know what they’re saying. love songs – the image i have of the person singing is very different according to which language it’s in. it’s almost like an MTV starts playing in my head.

    • dandelionwine 9:30 pm on April 30, 2008 Permalink

      rofl that’s like the brilliant green for me.

  • r 3:20 am on April 22, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    271: i cannot swim in this sea of semantic exercises 

    When you are totally bored and don’t want to do any work, weird conversations with your friend call out to you.

    This is how we spend our time talking about totally irrelevant things.

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    270: for nurul hur hur hur 

    Because I am totally bored, its 6am and I can’t sleep, I’m still studying public law, and there are better things to look at.

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    Don’t you think it’s amazing how people can change from this…

     

    … to this?

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    • nurul 1:13 pm on April 21, 2008 Permalink

      really, do i look like i NEED more reasons to be obsessed?????

      omg the first 2 pics of jin! SO CUTE AND SMILY! what happened?!

    • supermango 1:43 pm on April 21, 2008 Permalink

      he got sexy…

      actually no la, he still smiles like that now. so cute right
      omg i’m obsessed

    • supermango 4:45 pm on April 21, 2008 Permalink

      GOKUSEN 3 IS SHOWING. omg so fast

    • nurul 5:20 pm on April 21, 2008 Permalink

      haha yeah tell me about it. i clicked on your blog page and went “oooooooooooh” for about like, 10 minutes. ya omg the smile is killer! are you actually watching gokusen 3? not sure if im going to bother.

      okay im going to reply the longer comment here because its a pain to scroll down so much.

      yah seriously. if i ever learn japanese that’ll be the last you see of me. it wasnt even a rock tt ueda used, it was like, a traffic cone or smth. i find ueda actually freaky. like he is SO WEIRD. though the whole him and kame getting into a fistfight during a concert and then coming onstage and singing some best friends song is actually quite funny. but ya! hes sooo strange. yeah they said nakamaru looked like a mascot on some interview show! and theyre always making fun of his age. so poor thing.

      hahah im never in school because i hate the library. its old, ugly and depressing. i just borrow books and bring them home. evidently youve been watching the old 13 video! hee hee hee.

      there’s actually a crows zero shirt: http://directstyle.world.co.jp/webshop/item/W000112627053.html

      yeah okay! so wait, does tt mean you’ve already watched kurosagi the movie? if not, then we watch together if its still showing when i get back, ok? omg i will need someone who understands the fangirl-ness. hahahaha. all the best for exams! get some sleep occasionally, ok.

      haha thats like on cartoon kat-tun with horikita maki where one of kame’s first comments is “hey, this is the first time i’ve seen you with make up on” or smth like that. yes omg she looked SO BAD. but im really glad they kept it quite realistic la. if it was some wacky love triangle it would have been so weird. haha i love the episode of cartoon kat tun with her, not the least because kame is cooking on it…

      hahahaha you’re going to jp with him right? omg he’s got to be prepared!

      love,

    • supermango 8:15 pm on April 21, 2008 Permalink

      no i’m not – anyway no one is subbing it now (it just aired on saturday) so i’m not going to bother. they’re promoting some new johnny’s junior now and the rating was 26.4% which is CRAZY.

      yah i remember he just took the traffic cone and put it there and said “pretend this is a rock” and everyone is just like WTF?? ueda … is the only one of the members i’m apathetic about. but i suppose he can be quite funny if he wants to too.. hahaha. anyway years later when they debuted they talked about that fight and kame said he actually wanted to quit after that.

      i hate the library too but i have to go to school or i just won’t study. staying at home is so distracting with th bed whereas here you kind of feel like you have to study because everyone around you seems to be working hard. erp.

      when do you get back? i’m away from the 12th to the 27th but i dunno if its still (or ever) showing in singapore. i’ll watch it with you sure!!!

      i just rewatched the maki episode and it was so funny. partly because everyone was trying to make themselves appealing to her and junno and jin just kept saying irrelevant things. ahhhh.

      yup i am but it’s all good. ahaha :)

    • nurul 6:08 am on April 22, 2008 Permalink

      quite frankly, i dont understand the rating system at all!

      i dont know. i dont really like koki either, to be honest. but at least he seems quite… nice..? ueda’s just a bit of a freak. goodness. though i dont understand why -kame- wanted to quit, since it was ueda who was getting flak, right?

      eek i get all freaked out in the library then i cant focus. too many stress cases. i just go to my living room. anyway, i tend to be alone in my flat alot so as long as i stay away from my com its okay la.

      im back on 15th may. yayyy! okay excellent. well, lets just meet and do something where we can gush to the fullest extent. haha.

      i know! omg theyre all sooo funny whenever a girl appears. its like !!!!, ATTACK!!!

      have you seen this, btw? http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x361vx_ann-cut-220207-mtsujun-shun

      much love!

    • supermango 6:55 am on April 22, 2008 Permalink

      oh. ratings are just basically the percentage of people in the region that actually watch your show. so a rating of 26.4% means roughly 1 in 4 households is watching gokusen 3 at that particular time. that’s really quite amazing considering how many people there are.

      i used to think koki was weird but i guess he’s okay now. he postures alot and tries to act gangsta (haha) and stuff but he’s actually pretty smart (he writes all the rap and goes to university etc etc) and he gives off a teddy bear vibe. hahahah. kame wanted to quit cos nakamaru made a mistake and ueda was the nearest one, but he didn’t cover for him. after that the other members told him about it and he apologized but kame was out of the room and didn’t hear anything about it, so when kame got back he got pissed and went to confront ueda and basically screamed at him. ueda – naturally – got pissed too – and they started punching each other. so kame was all like OMG i can’t do this etc etc

      they talk about this fight alot even now. it’s quite funny (:

      i shall look at the clip when it’s not 7am in the morning. hur hur

    • dandelionwine 11:16 am on April 22, 2008 Permalink

      you guys are damn scary.

    • supermango 2:02 pm on April 22, 2008 Permalink

      you haven’t seen japanese fangirls who take knives to concerts yet ;p

    • nurul 5:13 pm on April 22, 2008 Permalink

      haha what japanese girls that take knives to concerts? for what? to get blood off the idols? eeeeek!

      oh! okay NOW i get it about the ratings. i was like, why is it in percentages… shldnt it just be like, #1, #2, etc etc… omg that is crazy for gokusen 3. there’s a fangirl in every other household, apparently.

      yeah i was reading something abt how he actually wanted to quite kat-tun for uni but johnny was like “NO!”. quite sad ah, how all their lives are run by some uber rich guy who basically owns them. haha gangsta teddy! i MUCH prefer him without hair. him with hair just looks odd. i know! it must have been seriously emotionally traumatic or smth. they keep bringing it up!

      its basically oguri shun’s radio show with matsujun where they call inoue mao at like 1am in the morning. its quite funny la.

      and pak, just think about it. we could be worse!

    • supermango 5:20 pm on April 22, 2008 Permalink

      no, it’s to stab other girls who like a member they don’t… it’s quite fucked up really.

    • nurul 1:16 am on April 23, 2008 Permalink

      ARE YOU SERIOUS? WHAT?? where? did it actually happen? omg okay risse, im glad we’re so sane in comparison!!!

    • dandelionwine 6:48 pm on April 23, 2008 Permalink

      … they’re not even that hot.

      OK I THINK I JUST SET MYSELF UP TO BE GANGKILLED.

    • supermango 7:05 pm on April 23, 2008 Permalink

      yah you probably did

      cos you haven’t seen them dance yet omg
      i am so weak.

      ps after their latest single leaked yesterday the pre-order for their latest album sold out within 4 hours … and i caved in and bought it ahahhahahahaaa

      omg talk about retail therapy. its not even coming out till june

    • nurul 1:47 am on April 24, 2008 Permalink

      you have bad taste, pak. seriously. go and watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6rlFfk1bbc and whatever else comes up when you youtube kat-tun. they are like, HOW HOT. okay at least akame… but that is more than enough…

      omg yes, risse. haha. what!!! ahahahahahahahaha. i am very very amused. thats a brilliant marketing strategy though. omg now they can have another pre-order and it would definitely sell too! ahhhhhh!

    • supermango 2:21 am on April 24, 2008 Permalink

      oh. yah. thats how they sell 400,000 in the first week because EVERYONE’S preordered it omgggg
      but i heard the new song and i really really hope the PV is good.

      much as i liked kame with eyeliner i prefer them dancing so every live lips performance didn’t really do it for me:

      http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1090395bheEEXsw?searchId=601823141841548915&rank=15

      this is an example of how hot they can be
      omg every time i watch it i die a little inside.

      hahahaha

    • nurul 1:22 pm on April 24, 2008 Permalink

      what’s the new song called?
      hahahahah! see. the only problem with that song is that there is NO KAME. [and that its called PINKY] though yes. i understand. hahahaha. jin’s smile = killer.

    • supermango 2:11 pm on April 24, 2008 Permalink

      Don’t U Ever Stop.

      yah, complete with the misspelt ‘u’

      here’s the link: http://www.box.net/shared/dln0d39cww
      they played it on radio last friday and it made it onto the internet that same night hahaha i love crazy fangirls!

      yah when i first saw the title i was like WTF? JIN? but that was before he went to LA so i have high hopes his english has drastically improved by now. the lyrics to pinky are super suggestive but zzzz it’s not like anyone can stop watching it though i agree it’d probably be 100000x hotter if it were kame dancing with him instead.

      but it is not that i am really complaining

    • nurul 1:03 am on April 25, 2008 Permalink

      haha. as always. japlish is pwnage. mmm. i like the song!

      ohhh what would the world do without crazy fangirls? life would be so boring! hahaha. seriously, okay. with all the energy tt goes into fangirling i think we could solve world poverty.

      haha obviously the rabid fangirls would watch it because its super suggestive… though the way kame dances is occasionally a bit the slutty, dont you think? not that im complaining… i find it amusing tt on youtube theres like a dance he does tts labelled 18+. ahahaha. and theres this MASSIVE amount of screaming involved!!! omg its so funny!

    • supermango 4:03 am on April 25, 2008 Permalink

      what video is that! yes i like the song too. i like how all their singles are so different from each other but somehow they can still pull it off. probably an image thing… compared to the other JE groups they are really different. like they don’t give off the squeaky clean scandal free image but something just draws you to them… hahaha

      but i like kanjani8 though – they are really funny. like comedic funny. they do stand up comedy shows during their concerts and stuff. a few of them actually contemplated being comedians before they got whisked off to johnny’s instead. it is really amazing.

      i was just talking to my junior last night and we figured there is really no way kame can ever be straight. i mean, he is, i’m sure … but somehow imagining him with a guy is much easier than being with a girl?! maybe it’s because he looks kind of feminine (even now) and is totally … omg. haha is it just me!?

    • nurul 8:02 am on April 25, 2008 Permalink

      i realise its also known as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ__GDNVOcE&feature=related which has an AWFUL title. hahaha.

      i think it might be because they are actually quite hot. i mean like, look at arashi. you cant really go crazy over their looks or anything, though they are talented. kat-tun has the benefit of being hot and insane.

      ooh i havent watched kanjani 8! seriously i didnt realise tt johnnys took boys at such a young age. like 10 or 12, its like omg, their lives are seriously owned by the company la.

      hahahahaha nooo i think the problem is thinking of kame with just one girl. i cant imagine him with just one girl. i can imagine him with lots. i mean like, hes what, 21? and obviously thinks hes quite pretty. i think he seems a lot more enthusiastic about the guys he works with, perhaps. hahahaha. i want to know what the “…” after the “totally” is! yeah a bit la. lots of them look slightly feminine. i think its the ridiculous skinniness.

    • supermango 2:01 pm on April 25, 2008 Permalink

      omg i just watched that in full view of the study room. hahaha and yes…

      alot of people think arashi is hot though! for me they look okay — they just have this homey look. like the boy next door kind of look. sakurai sho is really smart though!! i guess it’s partly because kat-tun took so many years to debut that they really had so much time to perfect their image. there was one episode of shounen club they did just before they debuted and they watched old videos of themselves and they were like “man, i’m so glad we didn’t debut in that state” cos they all looked weird and awkward and young.

      yeah it’s probably the ridiculous skinniness. which is why i’m happy that yamapi actually has a sizeable chest (for his size anyway) and a 6 pack and doesnt really look anorexic. but other than that… well some of them are really good looking. like nishikido ryo! (kanjani8/news)

      you must admit the whole business strategy is very good. and it works out for both parties since johnny gets backdancers for all his debuted groups and the young boys get to train up and become stars. ahhh. he is really a genius (even though he does look like a bit of a pedo)

      kame had a 40 year old girlfriend! from then on, it has never been the same. he did say he liked mature women and i think that’s very true for his character and so i cant imagine him with like some cute japanese thing. or anyone his age. its just a bit weird. which breaks hearts of fangirls everywhere around the world. hahaha

      slutty. the word is slutty.

    • nurul 4:28 pm on April 25, 2008 Permalink

      ahahahah! its impossible to stop watching once you start, i dont blame you! i hope everyone else appreciated it.

      hmm. ya i guess tts true. but like, arashi doesnt have tt like… sluttiness about them tt might just be due to the akame factor in kat-tun… though perhaps this is just due to me finding the whole idea of matsujun being slutty really really gross. yeahh actually the fact tt they debuted quite late is a good point. i didnt think abt that. though also its not like they were working together a lot beforehand right, weren’t they just random backup dancers for one of their senpais?

      okay you say tt and ive just watched stand up! in which, im serious, you can actually see yamapi’s ribcage. though he must have been quite young in it. still. its REALLY SCARY. its also got oguri shun and nino from arashi. its okay la. good for exam time.

      i actually havent watched anything with nishikido ryo in it yet. whats good?

      his genius is undisputable, but seriously, man. its all a bit mad! and its so sad if you like, work for years and years and never really make it.

      hahaha well think about it. we’re okay with chicks and older guys. im just quite amused abt it. though ya! seriously, i was quite shocked tt she was like 40! i mean, 30 wld be a lot more acceptable. haha well, fangirls can take it. there are always more hot guys out there.

      slutty is such a good word for kame, dont you think. hahaha. and i mean it in the BEST way possible!

    • supermango 7:48 pm on April 25, 2008 Permalink

      hmm no actually it was pretty surprising they debuted so late because they were so popular. like they started out as a backdancing unit but eventually they became so popular the following year they held concerts already. and that was a pretty big thing for groups who hadn’t debuted yet. and they keep working and doing stuff and dramas and things, and they were still holding concerts all the way up to 2005 (twice in a year, two different tours) even though they still hadn’t debuted or released a CD.

      so even though they were pretty unhappy about seeing 3 groups formed after them debut before them, they were like… oh well… we still get to do concerts and stuff so it’s not too bad. but they were seriously thinking of giving up just before debut time i think. around the nobuta period because of the seishun amigo thing and i think kame got a lot of shit for that from kat-tun fans.

      it was pretty bad for awhile, esp a few months after they finally debuted, jin had to go run off to LA. so its been a rollercoaster ride for them, i think. somehow i wonder whether johnny deliberately delayed their debut just to hype up the popularity. their debut concert was in tokyo dome!!! NEWS _just_ performed there after debuting for like 5 years!

      i know what you mean about the slutty. hahaha

  • r 6:58 am on April 19, 2008 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , burning midnight oil, , , michelle,   

    269: お誕生日おめでとう! 

    It takes a special kind of person to stop coming home drunk after a party. It takes a special kind of person to ignore the flashing lights, the booming music, and the leering eyes. A sea of white shirts wherever you go, squeezing through bodies to get to the toilet. Resisting glass after glass and bottle after bottle of whisky. You think maybe you’d be better off with a beer, or two, or none. A Coke, maybe. Then you think about how there is still work to do tomorrow, Equity and Public Law waiting for you, their siren songs turning to unpleasant wails in your head. Still, it’s a road that must be taken. And still you smell of smoke.  It takes a special kind of person to forget about all this, to let go, and just be happy. As if there is nothing on tomorrow, as if nothing is the way it was yesterday.

    We got lost on the way home. It was raining and I couldn’t see anything and I knocked down a cone outside Zouk and the security guard screamed at me. It was mildly unpleasant but somehow it was funny, when everything was a haze. I probably shouldn’t have been driving. 

    To the special person tonight who abandoned tomorrow and lived for today, here is your very happy 21st birthday. I know you will remember it forever and ever, even if you can’t really remember anything tomorrow. We are always here to remind you. Hur hur. :)

    So the sky turns from black to purple to orange, and still the clock ticks on. When it turns blue we will wake up and life will start again.

     
    • ruizi 2:15 pm on April 19, 2008 Permalink

      haha im amused at how you tagged this entry ‘michelle’.
      anyway, “life will start again”? hmm, maybe not.

    • supermango 2:56 pm on April 19, 2008 Permalink

      i meant like real life. not Life. hahahah

    • mich 9:09 pm on April 19, 2008 Permalink

      i got selective memory. only can remember the parts where i was dignified and graceful. hahah. THANKS ANYWAYS! :D

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