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Friday, January 28, 2011
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Cherry picking, coffee drinking, photo shooting, walking, shopping, EATING!, chit-chatting, sleeping, playing, wakeboarding.
Yup.
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Majulah Singapura
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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Been back home for awhile now and how is it like? Quite a mad rush actually. I'm only back home for 17 days and seriously time really flies. Came back with a friend and been a busy time running errands and frantically trying to meet up with some friends here before heading off to a friend's wedding. Another whole day has been spent hanging out before the dinner and having a really good time over food (so what else is new).
Then came the weekend that we were all looking forward to, the trip to Penang. Or so we thought it would be. Pretty late on, the trip was canceled due to quite a number of people not being able to obtain the proper permissions to go there. But pretty quickly, it was decided that we would all go down to Singapore and just try to have a blast there. 5 days, several skin tones darker and 524,946 laughs later we all went through a lot of things. First and most important of all was the amount of food that we all had. This is the primary reason why I didn't want to travel down to Singapore with my family to visit my relatives. They always go to the same places (mainly Crystal Jade in Taka) and my parents will always complain that Singaporean food is quite bad. After having my eyes opened to the proper good stuff (and I'm sure there are a lot more places where I've yet to explore), I figure I should just go down myself. Anyway, everyday I'm like super stuffed from all the food that we've been having. We could have had even more epic food binges but some of us are quite fail in our timing.
Second were the activities that we did. Despite the really crappy weather lately, Sunday gave us the most awesome day ever. Ever. Sun was just nice, the sky was littered with white fluffy clouds and cool gentle breezes made the day super nice for a walk down the beach with ice-cream. At night, after a super heavy dinner, a walk around Marina Bay Sands added to the already awesome day. Monday was wakeboarding day. Although I've never wakeboarded in my life, it was fun learning despite the fact that I was one of two people who still couldn't get it right among our group. The instructor/boat driver gave us good tips for us plus he has the most awesome playlist blasting in the boat with his insane speakers. And of course there were the other little things like playing Wii, chit chatting into the wee hours of the morning, really funny situations that occur every day to talk about and laugh, trash talking and poking fun at people and many more.
One thing that has come out of one of our many chit chats was a line that a friend has said to me in the midst of ranting that I've never really considered it to be a good thing. It has been said that I, among all the other people, am the most diplomatic person, always keeping quiet and "buat tak tau" (act like you don't know, translated) whenever conflicts happen in order not to stir shit. I see as a sign of a lack of pro-activeness on my part to make a decision on the conflict in question especially between friends, since many times I've been placed in a situation where I had to choose one set of friends over the other. And in all times I have remained silent because I really do not know what to say or act. But as the conversation progressed, I guess there is a little more thinking to be done as there are good credits in being diplomatic (read: buat tak tau) and really shouldn't be that hard on myself for thinking it is a bad thing.
Recently, I've been struggling a lot on how my lack of pro-activeness has affected various aspects in my life. The inability to take initiative has caused a lot of problems for me although most of which aren't visible on the surface. That talk was not only shed some new light into the deep dark complexities of my thought processes and my motivations for action but in some ways, has also sparked interest in actually taking charge and be pro-active for a start. No, I'm not going to start another charity or ask some random hot girl out. Not quite yet. But at least it has got me thinking of doing normal everyday things that I wouldn't be bothered taking any initiative for it. Those were some great talks.
Like the last trip down to Singapore a year ago, it never seems like there is always enough time in Singapore. The 5 days just blitz through like it was just only a day. And it sucks that I didn't get enough time to meet the countless people who I've known and gotten close to in Singapore. I really wanted to visit the family that I stayed with last year just to see how are they doing and also to see their super adorable daughter of theirs. Add that to the throngs of OCFers, both former and current, and the school mates that are there, it seems like I will need 5 years to finally catch with everyone. But I guess better now then later since it seems that quite a number of people are going through some sort of transition in their own lives, be it involved in new relationships or moving in between jobs or even moving in between life choices, where I'm sure that they would probably need their own time and concentration for them to figure out what is their next step in life, myself including.
Time to get back in the grind but at least I've had my fun and hopefully friendship will on go up from here on.
Then came the weekend that we were all looking forward to, the trip to Penang. Or so we thought it would be. Pretty late on, the trip was canceled due to quite a number of people not being able to obtain the proper permissions to go there. But pretty quickly, it was decided that we would all go down to Singapore and just try to have a blast there. 5 days, several skin tones darker and 524,946 laughs later we all went through a lot of things. First and most important of all was the amount of food that we all had. This is the primary reason why I didn't want to travel down to Singapore with my family to visit my relatives. They always go to the same places (mainly Crystal Jade in Taka) and my parents will always complain that Singaporean food is quite bad. After having my eyes opened to the proper good stuff (and I'm sure there are a lot more places where I've yet to explore), I figure I should just go down myself. Anyway, everyday I'm like super stuffed from all the food that we've been having. We could have had even more epic food binges but some of us are quite fail in our timing.
Second were the activities that we did. Despite the really crappy weather lately, Sunday gave us the most awesome day ever. Ever. Sun was just nice, the sky was littered with white fluffy clouds and cool gentle breezes made the day super nice for a walk down the beach with ice-cream. At night, after a super heavy dinner, a walk around Marina Bay Sands added to the already awesome day. Monday was wakeboarding day. Although I've never wakeboarded in my life, it was fun learning despite the fact that I was one of two people who still couldn't get it right among our group. The instructor/boat driver gave us good tips for us plus he has the most awesome playlist blasting in the boat with his insane speakers. And of course there were the other little things like playing Wii, chit chatting into the wee hours of the morning, really funny situations that occur every day to talk about and laugh, trash talking and poking fun at people and many more.
One thing that has come out of one of our many chit chats was a line that a friend has said to me in the midst of ranting that I've never really considered it to be a good thing. It has been said that I, among all the other people, am the most diplomatic person, always keeping quiet and "buat tak tau" (act like you don't know, translated) whenever conflicts happen in order not to stir shit. I see as a sign of a lack of pro-activeness on my part to make a decision on the conflict in question especially between friends, since many times I've been placed in a situation where I had to choose one set of friends over the other. And in all times I have remained silent because I really do not know what to say or act. But as the conversation progressed, I guess there is a little more thinking to be done as there are good credits in being diplomatic (read: buat tak tau) and really shouldn't be that hard on myself for thinking it is a bad thing.
Recently, I've been struggling a lot on how my lack of pro-activeness has affected various aspects in my life. The inability to take initiative has caused a lot of problems for me although most of which aren't visible on the surface. That talk was not only shed some new light into the deep dark complexities of my thought processes and my motivations for action but in some ways, has also sparked interest in actually taking charge and be pro-active for a start. No, I'm not going to start another charity or ask some random hot girl out. Not quite yet. But at least it has got me thinking of doing normal everyday things that I wouldn't be bothered taking any initiative for it. Those were some great talks.
Like the last trip down to Singapore a year ago, it never seems like there is always enough time in Singapore. The 5 days just blitz through like it was just only a day. And it sucks that I didn't get enough time to meet the countless people who I've known and gotten close to in Singapore. I really wanted to visit the family that I stayed with last year just to see how are they doing and also to see their super adorable daughter of theirs. Add that to the throngs of OCFers, both former and current, and the school mates that are there, it seems like I will need 5 years to finally catch with everyone. But I guess better now then later since it seems that quite a number of people are going through some sort of transition in their own lives, be it involved in new relationships or moving in between jobs or even moving in between life choices, where I'm sure that they would probably need their own time and concentration for them to figure out what is their next step in life, myself including.
Time to get back in the grind but at least I've had my fun and hopefully friendship will on go up from here on.
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Still Moving On
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
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1:02 AM
Movie marathon #2. Starting from the top left, moving down and then right:- Flushed Away - Super star studded cast coupled with Wallace and Gromit feel. The singing slugs are just like the raving rabbits in Rayman. Is a bit meh.
- Delicatessen - Pretty light for a "thriller" with some interesting quirky scenes.
- The Hours - Super emotionally intense movie but super good acting from Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman.
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Needed something light to watch after The Hours. Robert Downey Jr. should just stick with quirky characters like in here and Michelle Monaghan is purdy. Quite funny but not that funny.
- Chocolat - Very nice movie to feel existential.
- となり の トトロ (My Neighbour Totoro) - Very pleasant story, imaginative and interesting perspectives with respect to photography. And I want a giant Totoro stuffed toy.
- Japanese Story - Another emotionally intense but a third of the intensity of The Hours, mainly because in The Hours had 3 women instead of one. Pretty good.
- The Seventh Seal - Pretty slow black and white movie but nice cinematography. A lot of interesting questions about struggling with God.
- The Fox and the Child - Breathtaking scenery and fantastic nature filming. Which doesn't come as a surprise since it is the same director as the movie/documentary March of the Penguins
- La Balon Rouge (The Red Balloon) - I love this short film! Super nice children's story.
- The Machinist - I don't like this. Super slow for a thriller, always threatening to shock/twist but never get there, it feels like there is no closure and worst of all is that it tries to be something like Fight Club but it's more like Fail Club. Quite frustrated. Although I must say that the lengths that Christian Bale goes through for this movie is quite epic. Quite sick actually.
- 時をかける少女 (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) - I'm a bit confused about this one. The backgrounds for this is super nice, very reminiscent of Makoto Shinkai but the animation looks a bit dodgy and the soundtrack is pretty good but the voice acting is sometimes quite fake. Story was interesting conceptually but feels a bit loose at the end. Bring back Makoto Shinkai please.
- Cabaret - Liza is a super quirky character and have some nice numbers to it too. Seems a bit like Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Shanghai Dreams - A very slow movie that is not for the faint of heart. Or the impatient. And there's background reading to do.
- 天空の城ラピュタ (Laputa - Castle in the Sky) - Got cheated that this version was English dubbed but then realized that there were some pretty famous people who lend their voices for this animation. Typical Miyazaki storyline. Not necessarily a bad thing.
- Memento - Awesome film editing! Messes with your brain a bit but not too much. Like Chris Nolan's films, not to be watched when you are tired. Demands all of your mental energy.
- My Fair Lady - Super good musical. Another one of those musicals where I question myself after watching saying why on Earth did I not know or watch this earlier. Super deprived childhood man.
A heck load of moving stuff lately that I think my muscles have like doubled in size.
The new year has already started if you haven't already noticed. Barely into the first week and I feel like it is going to be a shaky year even though I've been hanging out with awesome friends since Christmas. Not sure why. Not liking it.
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