Heaven's Sword

On my way back from school,

I saw a huge shining bolt of lighting strike in bright daylight.

So scary.

天下恶人小心被雷劈哦！




Oh its raining!

突然好想淋雨。but 不想不小心被雷劈 so better forget it.

BeeLine!

I know i always make a dash for the finishing lines after spending a good half of the race walking and talking with my friends.

Which is why.

I handed up my report late. at precisely 9pm.

The first thing Dr Chua said to me when i entered the tutorial room for tutorial was
"So diya, have you submitted your work?" But she said it cheekily.. to which i replied rather embarrassedly "Er... No?"

But Dr Chua's really nice. She said she would have to deduct some points because it wouldn't be fair to the others, and perhaps as a consolation so i can enjoy the tutorial without feeling shitty told me it wouldn't be alot of points and i shouldn't worry.

Oh but i still worried, because I'm not above average in writing term papers AT ALL! And the few points might be crucial! but aiya, I deserve the punishment la. sigh. Already not good student to begin with, join SUPERstar, become SUPERnotgoodstudent.

so not SUPER.

Tomorrow's end of FYP! I'm going to keep spirits up today and do lots of cam-whoring while rushing to dump out the project file and working on the final report. I want it to end, and yet at the same time I don't wish for it to end.

I do hope we get a chance to screen our documentary in some public screening ground without having any part censored by the ever vigilant MDA(media development authority). That would be our proudest moment.

Yes. I would feel damn proud. Super pleased with self. Super Thankful. And Super Pleased. wee.

The end is near.

Less than 12 hours to term paper dead line, less than 1/4 of the paper done.

3 days left till end of FYP. More than 3/4 of the process completed.

Get me through, one thing at a time.

S-pop was great though. Although i didn't get to camera whore much because i was busy hiding away working on term paper while i could have been idling at the corridors and springing sneak attacks on my favourite singers and my friends' favourites.

What a star studded night it was.

And what a terrible rest of the night this is going to be for the rest of us film students... not so Bolly Jolly eh mono? Heh...

-update: 11.43am Monday morning-

My brains are fried. Let's just say I do not Not have enough research done. The problem is in choosing what fits and how to make it sound all logical and intelligent. All in one and a half hours. And I'm not even half way there yet.

Please Dr Chua, read my email and give me a few more hours to work it out. Sigh...

2.6666666 more days to liberation.

And then maybe 2 days to sleep it out before my final lap towards FYP oral defence and examinations.

"Smile and the world smiles with you. Weep, and you weep alone."

Oh why didn't i do my essay on Old Boy when there's like a wealth of information out there and such a worthy quote to boot?

I think cuz Taegukgi made me cry buckets. Had to make sure the buckets of tears are worth it. Won Bin rocks.

Ok becoming random. See. Told you brains were fried.

*takes deep breath before plunging back into abyss of Korean national cinema*

Ok Bye BAi-EEEEEEEeeeeeeeee (voice slowly fades off as i fall deeper into black hole.)

Boo.

So jealous. Just visited Leb and Jon's blog and the pictures they took in krabi are so nice! With the sun setting and giving the horizon a nice orangey colour to it.. All of them glowing with a healthy tan. I'm so jealous. Haha... I should have been there, but i wasn't.

What a year this has been. So much has changed.

Anyhow, their pictures are making me wanna visit krabi again. The last time i was there with Daren, it was a bore because we didn't have time to do anything... only to eat and sleep and do a LITTLE bit of sun tanning at the local beach instead of the offshore island ones. Sigh.

Anyway, the story was that we bought dirt cheap 2 way tickets for Krabi 10 months ago at 79.90cents. And it was supposed to be a group of 10 people who were supposed to go... but due to commitments, the arrival of a marriage(and a baby!), and other personal family issues and a looming FYP.... 4 of us couldn't make it. So yeah, we wasted 79.90cents but that's really a steal don't you think?

Hopefully there'll be another chance like this. I'm longing for a nice long break somewhere in the Maldives or something... for now, my 4 years in NTU is soon coming to a close!

冲啊！！！

Goodnight everyone!

p.s Hello Qin Yuan *waves*! No lei, not performing at the Gala, but will be there and will be on stage for like a split second. So keep your eyes peeled, I'll try to wave ... haha...

Whoops.

Sorry. I seem to have gotten everyone worried over my previous post... no worries. I'm still healthy, alive and kicking. Heh. And well, we all have screwed up days don't we? Just that I think I had quite a major booboo screwed up day. But no moaning and groaning here about it since its over!

Today wasn't a screwed up day, in fact it was packed to the brim with activities and things to think about. "Downstairs" is still in the making, and oh how i wish i could start all over again, there are so many things to think about so many things to consider in the making of a 18min documentary. I enjoyed the process but i think i've learnt so much from it all i wish i could start again and make it all perfect.

very inspired to pick up all sorts of instruments suddenly, but i believe its a phase that like the rainy clouds will move away very soon. Damn. That's my problem. 三分钟热度. Bah. I need to change. At least push it to 五分钟。 so 三分钟 plus jay chou's "再给我两分钟" will make five. AHAH!

Anyhow, today was busy like a bee day and yet fun day for me. I even had time to make it down to the National Museum for an hour in the afternoon! And that's definitely not enough. Suyi says you need at least half the day to finish going around everything. Shit. I want to go back again... like spend one entire day with nothing on my mind to bother me listening and reading the boards loaded with information about our national artefacts, and also take a walk down memory lane and get my history facts right(i failed history in secondary.. haha.) No time now la.

Didn't even make it down for Daren's big day as Mr. Most Eligible Bachelor. I think he'll win. Haha. Just because.

Soon soon. Soon i'll have time for all this. Let me make a list so i don't forget...
1. Spend entire day in National Museum feeling arty-farty and taking mini tea breaks at the 'atas' cafe's. 2. Learn the world's instruments. 3. Travel the world
4. See Daren win Mr EB again someday...

Okie. List is non-exhaustive. Woohah.

Its late, i needa sleep... waking up at 7.30am tomorrow to devour products at a sale in the morning. Haha! So not me lor. but aiya, should be fun with the company i'm tagging along with! Ok nitey nites...

With Ein Ein!

Hrmph. Blogger is having some problems with the uploading of pictures. Its been a while.
Hrmph. So only one picture. Grrr...

Screwed Up Day!!!

ARgh.

Tired but Happy!

Its been a tiring weekend, mainly perhaps because i was sick and eating antibiotics takes some steam out of you. And although its been a busy weekend, I had quite alot of fun amidst everything! Stacey got married yesterday night and i was there at the wedding with my mum.

Stacey's my age... and she's getting married! Hmmm.... She used to a really good friend, we were very close and according to my mother, we bathed together in the same bath tub. But as we grew older and stacey's family left our church for another, we drifted apart because we never made an effort to keep in contact.

At the wedding yesterday, it felt surreal.

My best friend when i was 4 years old is getting married. She's all beautifully dressed in a bridal gown, looking absolutely stunning and glowing and here i am still a struggling student trying to balance both work and play. Stacey used to be a siao char bor, like me. Which is why we clicked and became good friends. I remember spending nights over at Victoria's house where we would have VJ club meetings. VJ meant "Victoria and Jonathan" who were like the two big kor kor and jie jie's of the clique. Stacey and me would follow around, laugh at everything they did and look up to them in everything we did.

We did everything siao char bors did and close to 20 years later, I am still as Siao and it seems Stacey has matured into a woman of a fine character. She's not siaocharbor stacey to me anymore. If we had talked about this 20 years back, I'm sure we would have laughed at the possibility of any of us getting married so early in our twenties.

But funny how two siao char bors grow up to take on different paths in life...

Life's just one big storybook of twists and turns. You try to author your life the way you would author a fairytale and then realise there are many other co-authors out there penning your life too!

I'm not a complicated person but i complicate myself into complicated situations sometimes. Get me? Haha... maybe that's why i enjoy the company of kids. There's nothing complicated about them, unpolluted and unpolished. I love the little children.

And speaking of which! I brought three little ones(Ok, 'little' is rather rhetorical here.) to watch disney on ice last Friday after school. Tickets complimentary of beloved Mediacorp. Some of the great perks of being a mediacorp artiste that i will miss very very soon! BOOhoooo...

I was pretty excited because ever since visiting Disneyland at Tokyo and spending like a month's internship wages on buying products of my childhood fantasies, I've been looking forward to having a chance to relive that experience once again! The stories of Disneyland are so magical, easy to understand and yet often have such strong moral truths!

BUT! Bringing three kids to watch disney on ice is really one experience I will never forget. The indoor stadium wasn't fully seated which means there weren't really that many people hanging around the foyer but when we went in. But children being children, they seem to walk around in Brownian motion fashion. In random particle movement fashion. They NEVER walk in one straight line and they NEVER look at where they're going. So you have kids walking into each other everywhere! ANd can you imagine trying to keep your eyes on three kids walking into other kids walking in random fashion????!!!

I think i almost turned cock-eyed. @_@!!!

And I spent the rest of the show feeding the kids with cotton candy, flavoured ice balls, drinks, cleaning matthews hands because it was all sticky and trying to make sure they were all comfortable. So now when people ask me "So, was 'disney on ice' good?" I ask them "You mean from an adult's perspective or a child's perspective? Becuase i was too busy taking care of the kids to enjoy the show..."

But don't get me wrong. I enoyed myself thoroughly. The whole point of me bringing the kids is so THEY can enjoy the show. Not me. But just before you start pitying me... I did enjoy the who very much. Especially when it was Peter Pan and The Little Mermaid... I felt something tingling in my bones that made me smile uncontrollably.

There really is something magical about disney... that makes it so popular till now.

I wanna be like Peter Pan.

I feel little again. I like.

'Pan, who and what art thou?' [Hook] cried huskily. 'I'm youth, I'm joy,' Peter answered at a venture, 'I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.'

Its coming back to me...

The want/need/desire to blog is coming back to me! I think that just means I've been running left right centre, experiencing all sorts of emotions, going through the ups and downs for far too long without coming here to 'pen' it all down!

Ainanda! I missed you!

But anyhow, its far too late to update anyone on New Year, on my Oyster-worm scare, on my nintendo wii parties and on my turmulous FYP mid journey. Haha...

Really quite tired and I'm falling sick again. (Maybe that's what made me think of my blog.. cuz my friends have said "You're always sick!" And when i say "No ok, only once in a while. I'm very healthy one!" They'll say "No lor, I read your blog ok. You're always sick." *speechless*)

In school now, with Mono and Helmi. We've locked pix! Which means we're not going to do anything with our structure or change anything visually anymore, and now we have to decide what we want for the sound bed becuase we're sending it in for sound cleanup and sound composition tomorrow. This is not the end, its just the beginning of another chapter for our FYP journey, but its definitely not as crazy now. Yayness!

Yesterday i spent the the last two hours of the day with two crazy girls crazy over mayday. Ok, not exactly CRAZY. But they are great admirers of this talented band especially the band leader Ashin. Haha, it was fun although i was nursing a splitting headache and i had just come down from a day of making FYP decisions, rushing homw to help my mum with her blood testing kit and then zooming down to meet them.

All in all, very fulfilling and fun. All work and no play makes Diya a dull kid you know.

But then again, all work and all play is making Diya a sick kid.

And yet there are still so many other portions of my life screaming for much needed attention. In a few months, I'm going to be a graduate. Or rather, an unemployed graduate. Haha, I'm looking forward to taking a good break from it all and perhaps following my dad around on his trips to china. Hee hee hee!

Which is so ironic. I have ads on my blog by recruit.net. As though reminding me about the impending change in my status in a few months. So sad can.

Ok, gotta get back to doing FYP now.
Heh... jobless or not. FYP first la...

Over the weekend, managed to make it down(late)
for Nigel's birthday party!

I found a worm in the second oyster I ate at Mezzanine at Hyatt.
It was a bad scare. Beware, at the very least. Look carefully before slurping
the Oyster down whole. That's what i did for the first Oyster and i ended
up coughing and choking for a good 5 minutes although i have no proof
that anything wriggly went into my system.

Funnier times with FYP mates. Haha.
This parking space can usually fit 3, but then a particular
Sports Car "Mr Ass" always comes and parks right in the middle of nowhere
making it impossible or difficult for a third car to squeeze in. So inconsiderate.
Huimin's white Suzuki is only halfway into the lot.
"Mr ASS" is now SCI's favourite car to hate.
So pls be careful parking anywhere near us owner of "Mr ASS."
(The car model is "Mr S.")

Signing off! Tata!

Dark Shadows

What a gloomy day it has been. Dark clouds from Bishan to Pasir Ris and over the heads of quite a few people around me. Our documentary is visually 99% complete. And amidst all the comments we've received for it, I suppose today is one sad day.

Mono said she showed it to her parents and a friend called Momo and they all only had bad things to say about our documentary. Mono said she almost wanted to burst into tears. I wanna burst into tears to. Its such a loser thing to work your arse off on a project and get bad reviews.

I feel for you, Jack Neo.

But on the other hand, I think I've learnt something. Its really up to you to believe in and be proud of your project. I'm proud of my project. And i believe in the stories that are presented and the messages that I myself got from it. I have enjoyed every moment of production. I have made people sad, made people angry, argued with my group mates, laughed and joked with the same group mates, traveled the island from one HDB estate to another and met so many different people from different walks of life.

I believe in my documentary.

It may not revolve around a subject matter as poignant as death, but it revolves around subject matters that matter to us(to me, at the very least) while I'm still alive and kicking. I've fallen in love with the subjects I've interviewed. I've put in more personal feelings that i expected to put in and all I can hope for now, is that people see this documentary in a non-complicated light. Its a montage of life downstairs the very place 80% of singaporeans live in and pass by day in day out.

making this documentary makes me want to live in a nice humble and cosy HDB estate. And if its not too greedy of me, I hope the documentary will make you all take a second look at the space downstairs and put a smile on your faces just before "downstairs" vanishes beyond the closing lift doors and the lift brings you back up to your sacred comfort zone.

I love you "Downstairs". And no matter what the world says, you'll always be my baby.








P.S. Dear Lord, Please soften 'Tempeh' Auntie's heart so that she'll grant us permission for use of "tempeh".
Thank You. =)