Sunday, April 29, 2007
Last Tues, Amy, Syl and I decided to head off to the city to watch the annual Melbourne Comedy Festival. As I said in my previous entry, we went to watch Wil Anderson (Australian) and he was pretty damn funny. And pretty damn hot too.
Since we were in the city at night (which is pretty rare because it takes us an hour to get home by public transport so we can't go back too late), we decided to take in all the night lights and action that was going on. Melbourne's night scene is beautiful. Funny that I hadn't really noticed before.
If you stare hard enough, you'd see Syl and I in that very dark pic *lol*.
When in the city, it's hard to pass by the neoprint shop and NOT take neoprints. So we did.
Oh by the way, one of my favourite boys from Hana Kimi, Danson Tang Yu Zhe, has an album out soon I believe. That's his song playing on my blog at the moment.
He's not a very good singer, but the song is nice. It's titled "最爱还是你".
Can't believe I have uni again tmr. The weekend just whizzed by for me. But it was SUCH a fun weekend. WEEK 9 everybody!! Gambatte!!
Yinny was Joshing around @ 10:32 PM
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Because of the lack of new Chinese pop, I've been listening to...
I love Aya Ueto.
She's super pretty and super cute and she sings and acts very well.
And she's as YOUNG as I am. And she has 7 albums so far. Pretty impressive.
Darn it.
She acted in this show I really like (Attack no.1).
She's probably my only favourite person in the Japanese music scene at the moment.
Next up is Mika...
His 3 singles, "Lollipop", "Grace Kelly" and "Relax, take it easy" are all very nice. I love "Lollipop". It's such a happy song. You can't listen to it and not be happy.
Ordered my Josh Groban concert DVD from Sanity today. Hope it'll come soon!! *grinz* :D
Was up late watching soccer (Man U vs. AC Milan - a.k.a clash of the titans). It was SUCH a great game. Both sides were quick and equally good. I only watched it for Kaka' and C.Ronaldo. I know that they are very different people (character-wise) but in the soccer world they are equally brilliant. I just realised that Syl is damn good to watch soccer with. She can't stop cursing at the tv screen *lol*.
Tonight is Chelsea vs. Liverpool (they never frigging show Arsenal!!). Have to watch it. Will be rootin' for Liverpool. Can't stand Chelsea (or as my brother would call them, CHEATsea) *lol*.
Last night Syl, Amy and I went to the city to watch Wil Anderson (Aussie stand-up comedian) perform in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (an annual affair). We went last year for Stephen K Amos but Wil is by far better. He's so funny that he could be saying absolutely NOTHING and still be funny. Highly recommended.
Pics are coming later!!
Yinny was Joshing around @ 9:44 PM
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
My friend just made my day.
I was staring at my pile of work, hoping that somehow by staring, I'd be able to set it on fire and claim insurance and then no more work for meee!! Tough luck, nothing seems to work.
Anyways, I was chatting to a friend and we were talking about how people are all different and what they bring to the group (in terms of characteristics). And then I said, "I don't think I have anything to offer". And in response he said, "You don't have to. You are our glue. You're the one who brings us all together."
How could you not smile at that.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 2:27 PM
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
Seems like I've been blogging pretty frequently lately. Blogging's my outlet. Somewhere I can channel my excitement and my sorrow. It doesn't matter if people never read it. I read it and feel happy. The only thing hard about blogger is that you can't really spell out situations exactly or name people cuz others are reading, so sometimes I get stuck.
I blog because the people I know don't share the same interests as I do. When I get excited about something and I feel that people are not interested in what I have to share, I blog about it. It's no big deal. Although I'm still waiting to meet that cool person I've been praying about, who shares all the exact same interests as I do *lol*.
When friends my age are going clubbing, shopping for cool clothes, talking about buying cars, going paintballing, watching Korean dramas, learning cool languages like Korean, Japanese and French and doing all the cool things friends my age do, I'd rather be stuck behind watching soccer, listening to Josh Groban, thinking of which soft toy to buy next, dreaming of the latest hot Taiwanese artiste, learning Spanish and sewing. I can't help it. I'm weird.
When I like someone, it eventually turns into an obsession (really quickly). It's pretty scary. I live, breathe, think and talk that person 24/7. Kindda annoys the people around me (sorry!). If you all thought I was just kidding around, I'm actually pretty serious about it. But it sucks when you like someone and you know nothing will ever happen even before anything even begins cuz it's just tOo frigging impossible. How frustrating is that?
Shall take it out on a game of baddy tmr with the gang.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 1:55 AM
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Friday, April 20, 2007
It's funny. I screwed up my bedtime by getting 4 hrs sleep for the past few days. My bedtime would be 6am and I would be forced to wake up at 10am. Someone would either call me or some noise would wake me up. And this has been going on without fail for the past 5 days or so. Now that my bedtime is screwed I want to sleep now (2am) but I'm wide awake. Dammit.
People around me are starting to burn out. I can feel it. I see it. I hear about it. People are stressed, tired, angry and even a little resentful. I went to uni yesterday and already 3 people were telling me that exams are coming and asked me to form a study group with them. I'm just wondering...since when did people start getting so stressed this early?? We used to only start getting stressed in week 11...now it's only week 7...people are a whole month early this semester!! What's wrong???
I took a day off today. I shouldn't have but I did. And I know I may regret it but I feel oddly calm so I may not. Assignment due on Monday but I feel like I don't care. What's wrong???
Emotions have been running high these 2 weeks. I was just telling Syl that I felt frustrated. Frustrated because no matter what I do I am being criticized. I already have a very critical family (extended included). I don't need it from other people. I feel like everything I say and do is just wrong. Somehow or other, people will ask me to keep quiet, or not say that, or say something else, or ask me why I said that. It makes me feel like a bad person, and then I begin to doubt myself. And I hate that feeling. It's really frustrating.
I don't want to be someone I'm not. But somehow sometimes I have to pretend I'm someone else for other people's sake. It's very tiring. I just want to be myself. Who can accept me for myself?
Maybe I am really a mean person. Then why bother being my friend? Just leave me alone.
Sing me to sleep Josh. You're all I have now.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 12:04 AM
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
JOsh...you rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dK_TOg1KRM
How do you do it??
"You're still you"
Through the darkness
I can see your light
And you will always shine
And I can feel your heart in mine
Your face I've memorized I idolize just you
I look up to everything you are
In my eyes you do no wrong
I've loved you for so long
And after all is said and done
You're still you
After all
You're still you
You walk past me
I can feel your pain
Time changes everything one truth always stays the same
You're still you
After all
You're still you
I look up to everything you are
In my eyes you do no wrong
And I believe in you
Although you never asked me to
I will remember you
And what life put you through
And in this cruel and lonely world I found one love
You're still you
After all
You're still you
"You are loved (Don't give up)"
Don't give up
It's just the weight of the world
When you're heart's heavy
I...I will lift it for you
Don't give up
Because you want to be heard
If silence keeps you
I...I will break it for you
Everybody wants to be understood
Well I can hear you
Everybody wants to be loved
Don't give up
Because you are loved
Don't give up
It's just the hurt that you hide
When you lost inside
I...I will be there to find you
Don't give up
Because you want to burn bright
If darkness blinds you
I...I will shine to guide you
Everybody wants to be understood
Well I can hear you
Everybody wants to be loved
Don't give up
Because you are loved
You are loved
Don't give up
It's just the weight of the world
Don't give up
Every one is to be heard
You are loved
Yinny was Joshing around @ 3:11 AM
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The Socceroos are playing the Lions on the 21st June.
Australia vs. Singapore lah.
How frigging exciting is that!!!
I mean we all know who will win.
But still. :) I love them both.
I'm sorry for all the people lost in the Virginia Uni shooting and for all their families. Peace be with them.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 2:13 AM
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
I am currently listening to...
Josh Groban's latest album (Nov 2006), "Awake".
I love Josh Groban. I can hear him sing all day, all night, till forever more. I'm so totally in love with him and his voice. He's gorgeous. What a beautifully magnificent voice. I can't get over it. It bowls me over. Ever since "You raise me up", I've been under his spell. He even sings in Spanish in this album. I love him. One of his songs from this album knocked the wind out of me. Literally. "February song" is the one. It's just soooo....I can't even describe it. Beautiful. His voice brings tears to my eyes. His voice sends shivers down my spine. The lyrics are so beautiful too.
The lyrics of his songs are about beauty and love and hope and faith...and it's just so pure. Unbelievable.
He has other songs from other albums like "You're still you" and "To where you are" and "When you say you love me" and "Believe" etc. which are soOooSoOo good as well.
What I would give to sing like that. To be blessed with the voice of an angel. This must be how angels sound. Gorgeous. I want to marry him. His voice makes my heart stop.
Just lie on your bed, close your eyes and listen. Drift away in the soft bliss of his enchanting melody.
Just perfect.
Just Josh. :)
Yinny was Joshing around @ 11:16 PM
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I had a good time tonight. I actually felt useful for once *sniggers*.
Chris cooked dinner for the 6 of us today. I helped to prepare some of it!! 2 simple Asian dishes with rice. We even had white wine and red wine to go with it courtesy of Emi-san and Yoyo. And we chatted and laughed over dinner. And Chris even did all the washing up.
All that just over a small, tasty meal with great company. How the simple things in life can bring so much joy to us. :)
That dinner was such a great reward after a long night of just staring at the computer doing research for an assignment that's due next Monday. I admire people who do research for a living. Cuz you can never pay me enough to do that. It's too frigging monotonous (personal opinion, no offence) and you just go on and go without any results. I want to see results and I want them quick!!! My eyes nearly popped out from a whole day of staring at the com. I NEED A BREAK AHHHHH!!!!
Hence the dinner. :)
Yinny was Joshing around @ 7:48 PM
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It's already Week 7. Time sure flies fast. It doesn't even feel like I've been here for 2 months.
We had our 1 week Easter break last week. Today we were supposed to be back in Uni but "unfortunately" there was a blackout throughout the whole of Uni and classes were cancelled today and for tomorrow too!! WHOOOHOOO!!! Extension of Easter break!!
Some unfortunate souls had to have lectures in the dark...or in the open fields...but they were medical students *sniggers*.
I'm supposed to have a test tomorrow but I don't know whether that will be postponed. Perhaps I will head off to Uni to check it out tomorrow.
This is so super awesome.
The only unfortunate thing is that I don't get to see my fave. lecturer tmr...also that I wonder how our poor lecturers are going to replace the lectures and tutes that we're going to miss.
I love Uni...or whoever caused the blackout *muaks*.
2 poor souls tried to repair the problem but got electrical burns instead and had to be rushed off to hospital. Luckily they are now in a stable condition.
I wonder what happened. And how inefficient they are at fixing the problem. How long is this going to last for???
This makes me think of the less fortunate people in other countries who have no electricity and water. I don't think I can live without water. Having no electricity would maim me but having no water would kill me. I don't care about drinking water, I just need to bathe!!!
Yinny was Joshing around @ 12:08 AM
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
With just one whiff.
With just one whiff of the aroma of that coffee and a thousand memories came flooding back.
Every time I smell and taste that coffee I’m being transported back to olden days when we were still kids. We would take the car and drive up to Taiping, Perak, Malaysia…sit up late at night in the house we fondly called “Green House” (cuz it used to be green *lol*)…all the cousins and aunties and uncles would sit around in the lounge area with the big red sofa and olden day coffee table…kids on the floor and adults on the sofa…and we would just lounge and listen to the adults talk about family whilst eating nonya kueh and drinking black kopi after dinner. I remember how adult I felt when I was allowed to have a whole cup of black coffee on my own. The adults would sit up and talk late into the night and it would be so quiet, all you could hear were the sounds of the crickets mating. And I’d try so hard to stay up but my eyes would gradually get droopier as time passed. Then we would be put to bed in one of those beds with the mosquito nets whilst the adults continued their conversation outside.
Ahhh…what fond memories I have of Taiping.
I used to say I want to retire there in the future. I want to go back to Green House and spend the rest of my old age there. Taiping is my mom’s hometown. It is like a small ulu village where the people ride bicycles/drive old clanky cars, neighbourhood kids run around barefooted and there are chickens in the backyard. The chendol, lor mai kai and wanton mee are awesome and the chicken pow is as big as your head.
I miss it. All that’s left now is an empty house because everyone has left for KL and have families of their own in separate houses.
Where did the good ‘ol days go when I was just a kid and there was not a care in the world?
I should really do a commercial for this brand of coffee. I seldom drink coffee, but this brand I can drink forever.
As a sidenote, look what I got for Easter!
I love the Lindt bunny so much that I can't bear to eat it. It even has a bell around it's neck lah.
Tonight I started thinking of my future...because I'm reaching the point where the roads come to a cross in my life and I have to choose which direction to go and I'm not sure which way to move, which route to take and which path I'm destined for. I believe God will guide my path so I just have to keep praying for guidance. Whatever happens, I believe that God has chosen me for great things, just like He chose so many other of His followers to do great work in His name. You know the best part about it all? My parents support me no matter which road I choose, and God will be walking right next to me. I feel so blessed.
I'm so happy tonight because I've never felt so clear and at ease about my life. I have things to do but I'm not worried, not stressed and not fearful as I once was. Once you realise that worry and anxiety are not going to make matters any better, you'd just have to take it as it comes. Sometimes you feel inadequate and insecure as compared to others so you keep seeking confirmation and feel influenced by what others think of you (it's ok, you're human), but in the end it's not people whom we live to please, neither is it ourselves, it's God. Only His opinion matters.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 11:54 PM
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Saturday, April 07, 2007
I only did this quiz cuz my piggy brudder tagged me. So I am doing it to humour him.
6 Weird Things!
*Each player of this game starts off by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names.*Here goes:
1. I take pleasure in other people's pain sometimes
2. I have OCD - I am a neat freak
3. I get super irritated when people pronounce words wrongly, or speak in broken English, or write with broken English so I tend to correct them all the time - I got this from my mother - so did my brother
4. I HAVE to make sure I am satisfied with the way my hair looks before I step out of the house or else I MUST wash and blow dry it - I can't live without my hairdryer
5. I would like to own many towels in different colours and many pairs of socks in different patterns (I'm getting there)
6. I want what I can't have - on purpose
I'm gonna tag Michelle, Amy, Bryan, Eunice, Yuanny & Grace - only if u all wanna do it
Yinny was Joshing around @ 11:56 PM
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Thursday, April 05, 2007
If your name is Amy, you might not be interested in this post.
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I love animals.
I love them all from mice to bunnies to polar bears to pandas to hamsters to cats to dogs to hippos to rhinos to giraffes to lions to tigers to turtles to fish to elephants etc. Though of cos I must admit that alligators and snakes scare me abit.
But in general I love animals (ok you get the point).
I've been dying for a kitten/bunny/puppy for ages.
So you can imagine when Hashbrown came along, I was ecstatic.
And when I saw Wilbur, I was taken.
And when I saw this kitten...I fell in love.
I need a kitten!!!
I should volunteer at the RSPCA.
I may drag Syl with me. She's the only one I know who loves animals as much as I do.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 11:33 AM
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007
It has been autumn for slightly more than a month now, and the weather is getting colder and colder. Time for hotpot!!
Amy, Syl and I went to try this new hotpot (Szechuan food) at the Glen in the freezing cold...and it was not bad lah...slightly out of budget but it's for the experience I guess. But we left with our stomachs full of heat.
We ordered the "yuan(1) yang(1)" soup - half spicy and half herby...it was pretty spicy...and oily! But still very delicious!!!
This is how it looks like before the hotpot arrives:
This is the real deal:
Probably won't go there again cuz homemade steamboat is the best!!!
Yinny was Joshing around @ 8:35 PM
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Monday, April 02, 2007
I see a glimmer of hope because you said you miss my presence.
I see a glimmer of hope because you said you'd be there for me.
I see a glimmer of hope because you said that you believed in me.
I see a glimmer of hope because you said that you were worried about me.
I see a glimmer of hope because you remembered me.
I see a glimmer of hope because you turned something about me that I thought was negative into something positive.
Because of all this, I am blessed.
Such is the power of friendship.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 9:49 PM
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Sunday, April 01, 2007
What are you going to do now when it hurts so bad but you can't do anything about it?
What are you going to do when you want to say sorry to the people you love so badly but you just can't bring yourself to do it?
What are you going to do when you realise that you have begun to hate yourself?
What do you do when you feel like you've always been around for people - maybe too often - until they don't know how it feels like to miss your prescence?
How do you react when both your consciences are talking to you at the same time and you have to make a choice?
Do you know what it feels like to be alone?
Where do you go when you need some love?
Where do you go when it all gets too much?
Do you retreat to a quiet place and emerge only when it all blows over?
How do you escape?
Yinny was Joshing around @ 2:15 AM
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