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Friday, December 25, 2009, 11:55 PM
All i want this Christmas,
As the years went by, Christmas stopped being Christmas, the whole magic of sitting in front of a tree with a hot cup of chocolate with the people you love the most, singing till your throat tingles. All of that kinda just, dissolved. a 6-year-old me used to say that Christmas was the best time of the year cos it's when everyone's in love. No kidding, i wrote that down in a little notebook i carried around with me. And i guess, i'll never stop believing that. Call me a fool, a fool who's played santa 3 times in a row now, the fool, who, for one fleeting moment in time embodied the hopes and dreams of thousands of little kids around the world just by putting on a big red suit and going "hohoho." Such a stupid little get up. But hey, it got those kids believing. I put on a pyramid hat, a red jumper suit that looks like it could've been a careless cardio-thoracic surgeon's OR carpet, and a whispy white beard that looks like a badly glued collection of fur from the pubes of a polar bear. But dozens of kids in a dinky little function room believed i was santa. Anyone with any sort of basic cow logic would know it's me and would so quickly discard the idea of "Santa." I dunno bout you but, who's the stupid one here? The idiots who let their adolescence go like a thriving bucket of fish into the ocean and let logic destroy the magic of Christmas? But i mean hey, we're not kids anymore. Everyone grows up. Everyone knows there's no Santa, or reindeer. (or snow in Singapore for that matter) (and there never will be so we can all just stop hoping for it cos the day Singapore snows is the day we all DIE.) But really though, i miss being stupid. I miss thinking some old fat guy was gonna jump into my house and throw gifts under my christmas tree. Everyone says it doesn't feel like Christmas anymore, and i guess that is true. With Noh series rehearsals flanking the pre and post Christmas weeks, it doesn't feel any different from any ordinary day. Hell, it could be the month of September right now and i wouldn't feel any different. Despite all that, Christmas is Christmas, no matter how old you are. No amount of turkey, ham, beef, chicken, mince pie or eggnog can change that. Today was a pretty good day, this was a good Christmas. I just wish i could've spent every second of it with you. I dunno bout you, but i'm gonna sit by my Christmas tree with a cup of hot chocolate and sing, at least for the next 5 minutes that's left of Christmas day. There's 5 minutes left to Christmas, and i think i've said all that i can say. Saturday, December 12, 2009, 11:52 PM
Just one of those things
I had a good birthday. Definitely one of those i'd remember for the rest of my life. Thank you everyone who wished me, who took me out, who gave me things. Thank you Joan, Ken, Jiyin, Thara, Cassi, Doug, Igs, Ling, Gerald, Liz, Mom n' Dad, Granpaw and Granmaws, I can't even list all of you cos it'd take me all night. Spent the 9th and 10th with Ken and Joan hopping around the entire flippin world, buying stuff. Used birthday money to get myself a new wallet from Topman, got some supplies from Body Shop (men's section) and in the night, Mom took me to buy my new Ipod Touch, 32gb. At first, none of the stores had stock, but then on my third check with every single shop looking pathetic and annoying, a staff from Challenger dug real deep and found a reserved Ipod touch 32gb for some bloke named Randy. Well sorry, Randy, but he sold it to me on the spot cos he was gonna go collect the only 32gb left in the entire chain of Challengers from funan the day after and give that to Randy instead. God bless that man's soul. The ipod touch is probably the single coolest thing i've ever owned next to my macbook. If there was an apple fanboy club, i'd be it's creator and president. On the night before the 11th was ACFF. Kudos to Alyssa and the whole ACFF team for putting together the entire thing, really impressed at how the pulled it all together and made it so kickass. Fire away! Samson was solid gold as usual and Stella Story was pretty awesome too. Spent the rest of the night at the Supperclub for the after party. Danced and went high on the floor and left slightly after 1. Thankfully, there were empty cabs lining the road so me, Ken, Joan and Audrey grabbed them and sped off home cos we were tired and i was itching to play the games on my itouch. Spent the afternoon of my birthday with jiyin, ate at some fancy French restaurant and hopped round orchard, grabbed John Mayer's Battle Studies from borders cos i couldn't resist and i still had some birthday money that granmaw gave me left. Jiyin gave me the best of Sound Stage DVD, a book and a reindeer pen. Jiyin if you're reading this, let me re-iterate and say how awesome you are. In the night, Mom N' Dad took me out for dinner at the NUS guildhouse. It is the most amazing BBQ place i've ever had dinner at. I need to take people there some day for a good kickass dinner. Today was Lizday. Spent the day with Liz around Singapore, from Tampinies(god knows how you spell this flippin word) to PS to city hall. She bought me Jamie Cullum's The pursuit. (holy god) Been putting the entire album on replay the entire night along with Battle Studies. It is too good. Thieving, talented bastards. Listen carefully to the double bassist on this one. He is crazy swingy. Extremely tasty riff. Hooked onto this one so badly. Grittier and grundgier version of Cream's blues classic. And i'm loving his SRV type solo he licks in towards the end. Awesome piano-ing as usual from Cullum. Classic cullum heart-melter. I've been hooked on this one for weeks now ever since i heard it off the itunes preview. Alright, i'm off to go get lost in musicland. Seeyuh. Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 11:51 PM
Memories i'll never find
Crazily Jetlagged, my body clock's having trouble adjusting back this time for some reason. It wasn't so bad for Vienna, but this time seems to be worse for some reason, although the time difference for both Vienna and Egypt are 6 hours. :/ Egypt. Well, you'd think it's some luxurious country with gold paving the streets or something, but it turned out to be a third world country type of slum. The streets and roads are 50% cars, 30% donkey and horse, and 20% dead things. There were dead things lining the road, blood guts and all. The river looks like a sewage pipe cut open, there were 3 dead cows i spotted overturned in the river as i drove along it, and the water shined in several different shades of green and grey. And i swear, every single person in that place is a money-faced scheming asswipe. Every chance they get, they'll try to get money off you. The whole place is a rude scam place. Everyone tries to sell you something and they literally pester you to buy something from them even if you say no, and they're aggressive when they sell too. They'll come up to you when taking a photo, pose next to you, and when you take the picture, they charge you money for it. It's a real scary place to be. And all the toilets have the cleaners standing outside charging people money to enter the toilets, and charge more for using the toilet paper. And s'not like the toilets were clean or anything, you could take a big dump in the middle of the place and no one would notice. Seriously, if i could, i'd go back to the place with a lightsaber and saber every single person who tries to sell me something. And the service they give is complete and total bullshit. You might as well be served by monkeys injected with several different kinds of brain de-generative drugs. But all in all, it was pretty awesome to see all the pyramids, temples and what not. And the weather was lovely. Although honestly, after the first few days, everything started to look like nothing more than triangular rocks and sand. But, i did have fun, so that's what matters at the end of the day, right? The Egyptian sun left me with this badass tan, and since i was wearing a pair of aviators the whole time, i have a sunglass tanline around my eyes. I feel like a raccoon. I've been bored shitless the entire day, and i forsee this shitlessness lasting for awhile. My stupid birthday's coming up on friday, and i dread it like i do every year. Don't ask me why, i can't explain it either. Don't get me wrong, i love birthdays, they mean something to me, but it's just that every year, i have expectations for some sort of surprise or at least a well spent day or something, and it never quite happens. Pfft. And this year, everyone's gone away, no one's around in Singapore. Cassi's prolly got her own plans already, so i guess i'll just go some place and vegetate. Hah. Been listening to Muse a lot. Love this one, it's got a nice Jeff Buckley feel to it. At the beginning, his distortion pedal and overdrive hints of Steve Vai's Bad horsie. Love their versatility and style. I'm gonna go find something better to do now. |
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