Ekkusu no Studio phase 4.1.
Happy 44th birthday, dearest Yoshiki ♥!!
The last time i updated my skin was on Yochan's 43rd birthday, and a year had passed. I'm glad that his surgery went fine and i hope he's recovering well. Don't neglect your therapy, Yochan, and hope to see you next year in China ^^
God bless your abundantly!!
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A fan of JRock music and bands. Most favourite band of all time: the legendary band, X Japan.
Loves its leader, drummer, pianist and main composer, Hayashi Yoshiki , usually called Yoshiki.
Loves one of X's guitarists, Matsumoto hideto, or usually called hide, and
one of the best vocalist I've ever heard, Deyama Toshimitsu, or usually called Toshi.
A list of favourite bands and artists/singers:
Versailles Philharmonic Quintet
(members: Kamijo (vo),
HIZAKI (gt) ,
Teru (gt) ,
Yuki (dr), ,
Jasmine-You (ba) ,
Tohoshinki or Dong Bang Shin Ki or TVXQ
(members: Xiah Junsu (mid-high), Micky Yoochun (mid-low), Youngwoong-Hero Jaejoong (lead), Choikang-Max Changmin (tenor), U-Know Yunho (bass))
SKIN
(members: Yoshiki (dr, pi) , Gackt (vo, pi), Sugizo (gt, vi), Miyavi (gt))
Lareine
(members: Kamijo (vo) , Mayu (gt), Emiru (ba), Machi (dr))
Kamijo (vo)
(bands: Lareine, Versailles
HIZAKI
(bands: HIZAKI grace project, Versailles )
Mana
(bands: Moi dix Mois, Malice Mizer)
Raphael
(members: Kazuki (gt), Yukito (ba), Yuki (vo), Hiro (dr))
DuelJewel
Dir en Grey
L~Arc en Ciel
Janne da Arc
Psycho le Cemu
GLAY
Luna Sea
Rentrer en Soi
Siam Shade
Was part of management committee of Endless Dream website and
ScreamingKIAI International forum, dedicated to Yoshiki and his music.
Alumni of the following schools:
Jakarta, Indonesia:
TK Genesis
SD Tarakanita III
Penang, Malaysia:
Chung Ling Private High School
Singapore:
Kent Ridge Secondary School
St Margaret's Secondary School
Pioneer Junior College
St Andrew's Junior College
Sunday 29 April 2007
... was what i wanted to talk about.
looking back at my archives, last year about this time (to be more precise, 28th april 2006) i was in the middle of processing application to LASALLE and appeals to NTU and NUS and feeling, definitely, not very good about life.
now, i can gratefully say that i'm happy with life.
no, not because i've completed the assessment. THAT too made me happy, but more importantly, i've seen larger world than just my tiny sphere of school and academic-result-driven vision. who says i can not get a cert in Bio once NTU and NUS rejected my application? i am actually taking the path that Cara and i were talking about, waay back in sec 4. we said, we wanted to get to JC and after that pursue an art cert for about 2 years (and anyway the boys are in NS) and then after that go to uni.
well, i am pursuing a cert in arts now, and i've not lost the sight of the bio cert yet. how i'm gonna accomplish that, i have no idea. but i know that my choice wasn't wrong. and i'm happy with the choice i made. if not, i wouldn't have met people who've broadened my horizon about life and about what is important in life (NOT just academic result and the ability to get to good uni).
oh shoot, obachan and nanny are waiting for me at vivocity...
blog later~ jyaa~
ps: teehee, couldn't help myself. scrounge up some more old posts from 3 years ago (hey, look at the the title of this post!) and i found myself giggling and laughing ^^ PJC held some of the best memory of my life.
http://hanaatsajc.blogdrive.com/archive/8.html
5:54 pm
ever watched an anime that made you feel like you've gone through 30 minutes of hell (and a very bad, lame and pure cold one at that) while in fact you've just watched for barely 8 minutes? Labels: manga anime
this is one anime that nobody should watch. unless you're hopelessly bored out of your mind with strong and keen desire to watch pure rubbish.
i said before that i won't say any anime or manga is bad coz they're all hardwork of a mangaka? but i'm really sorry to say that there IS an anime that i WILL say bad, coz it IS really bad, and, though i still holds to my earlier statement in the paragraph, i'm sorry to say that there's NOTHING that can make me say something is bad unless it's TOTALLY, HORRENDOUSLY, IRRITATINGLY, SUPER-DUPER bad.
and this anime is, THE KING OF ALL BAD ANIME.
how does this sound for a plot: a clumsy and cute female teenage ninja who's still learning how to use jutsu came in contact with a normal teenage girl and the teenage girl started to get exposed to her world of ninja consisting of a flock of adult ninjas and a weird round and yellow creature as a leader who could fly about and sprout wings. sounds good and interesting enough? i thought so.
and man, i've never been more wrong in my entire life.
if you're expecting to read anything about ninja or ninjutsu, you'll be crying for the wastage of bandwith used to watch it. nothing beats Naruto in regards to anime about the ninja world. and this pure garbage is definitely not worth the time to be watched.
if you're expecting to get a little bit of a laugh, you'll be cursing at yourself for the time wasted to watch the entire episode of this anime. 30 minutes down the drain!! there are sooo many good humorous anime out there, Ouran Koukou Host Club, or even School Rumble. this trash doesn't even belong to the funny genre. now if there's a specialised genre for 'totally boring, lame and cold and trying-to-be-funny-but-not-the-tiny-weeny-bit-funny-at-all-damn-it' genre, this anime would be the champion for that category, trust me.
i was yawning and started to look at the time just barely 7 minutes into the episode, expecting the episode to be almost finished coz i felt like i've endured a full half-an-hour of crap, but i was astonished to see that the time bar showed that i still had to endure another 2/3rd of the show...
when a few minutes feels like half an hour and you started to yawn and kept glancing at the time, wishing the time to get faster and the story to get finished, you'll know that you've watched a super bad anime.
and with the whole series at hand, i still feel reluctant to click on the rubbish bin button. thinking of the bandwith i've used to get it. sheesh, what's wrong with you hana?!?!?!?!?! stuff that crap into where it belong already!!!
oh alright, i won't so mean right to the end of the post. of all the characters, i do like kaede the most, coz she's the most level-headed and the one usually brings out a little bit of normality and lessen the lameness in the atmosphere. and i do think that shinobu is cute, though terribly stupid and pretty annoying in the slow way. art wise i've seen worse..have i? no, but it's not too bad.
however since i read manga and watch anime for the story (unless you're talking Hana Kimi in which i read just for the sake of catching a glimpse of Umeda-sensei) and since this anime offers no story other than the lame excuse to show boobs and perverted yellow-ball getting excited over boobs and sissy ninjas behaving like tranvestite prostitutes and more of those repeated all over again, i'm sticking back to my original comment. this anime is bad.
rating? *bleh* like hell i'm gonna give it a rating. i'd give it a -5/10 rating when i'm in good mood, but it's really actually a minus-ten rating. however, since i'm tryng to standardise my rating system with no minuses, i'll give it a fair, lenient, big-hearted ONE. ----> 1/10
if you ever watch anything bad, that it sounds more bad that this anime, do recommend me and i'll tell you if it is indeed worse than this.
2:52 pm
Saturday 28 April 2007
what can make you, or me in this case, laugh harder than a joke site?
listening to my sister trying to sell MLM stuff.
L! O! L!
i told her that i'm a very stubborn non-buyer, i always see MLM stuff with a raised eyebrow and i'm a terribly sceptical person.
add that to the fact that she speaks with very funny words sometimes ('irritating skin'???) equals to me trying to contain my laughter behind a straight face
LOL!
oh well, those who know her well, do listen to her sometime. some of the stuff that she's selling might be good, some does sound good it's just that i'm not interested, and maybe you;ll become her customer.
12:47 am
Friday 27 April 2007
yesterday went to surprise mira at her house. today's her birthday, so me merry and joyce went to her house at 12 bearing a birthday present. ohhh her doggie is completely, absolutely adorable!!! a 2-year-old Shetland Sheepdog by the name of Aristotle. teehee, yep, that ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle. cool name, huh? but he's really very clever!! aww i feel like kidnapping him to my house xD mimi always said he's a mini Collie, but when i saw him i said, "this is Shetland Sheepdog, isn't it?" coz he's too small to be a miniature of Collie, which original size could be on par with Golden Retriever, and his snout is not as long as Collie either. he's super smart, i tell you, and super obedient. whatever written here http://www.dog.com/breed/Shetland-Sheepdog.asp regarding personality, i think mimi could testify to that. he's polite, obedient, curious (but not too much so) and rather shy and oh so handsome, like the best dog i've ever seen and pat!! *hugs Totle*
enough about the doggie ^^ let's talk about the birthday itself. me and merry went to get her birthday present at simlim sq. due to the fact that she's very scared of thunders and during thunderous day she didn't dare to on television or other electronic devices because scared they'd be off by their own, we bought her MP4 player so that she could stuff it at her ear and block out all sound. thanks to Hikaru and Haruhi who inspired this gift ^______^
merry went to mimi's house before, but she couldn't remember her way to her house. and i've never even been there before, neither have joyce. but mimi had told many stories that tell about her house, the story with the cat that waits for her every night, the story about her scary ex and where she hid from him, and others. and once we were in a cab and i drop her off nearby her house before getting the driver to drive me home. add that with the knowledge of the bus number that she took home and the full address i have in my handphone, we somehow managed to find her house rather easily.
5:10 pm
what would happen if you combine Azuma Kazuma of Yakitate! Japan with Inuyasha of Inuyasha? Labels: manga anime
you'd get Peacemaker Kurogane ^^
a few days ago i started watching Peacemaker Kurogane from episode 1. it wasn't my first time watching, but before this i always focused all my attention on Okita Souji. so when i watched the 1st episode and started watching other characters, the first thing that came to my mind was: "now where have i heard that voice before???" when i heard Tetsunosuke's voice. when i have one of these "i know that face/voice/situation before!" feeling, it would almost always mean that i HAVE had seen/heard it before. but, i spent quite a long time to remember. every several minutes i kept asking hany, "i know that voice like the back of my hand, it's so freakin familiar to me! but who?!?!?"
sadly i didn't manage to recall it on my own. after the 1st episode, i looked out for the voice casting and searched the internet for a name that (i know) is so damn familiar too: Kobayashi Yumiko, and i found out that she's Azuma Kazuma's voice actress v.v my brain hasn't stepped up its speed even after assessment *sigh*
however, when Shinpachi arrived, i could immediately tell hany, "he sounds very like Inuyasha" and after checking the voice casting i realised that he IS Inuyasha, Yamaguchi Kappei. and i found out that he also fill in the voice for Saotome Ranma (male) in Ranma 1/2, which is no surprise since both Ranma 1/2 and Inuyasha are by the same mangaka and they share reealllyyy similar character. but what shocked me like mad was, he's in Death Note the anime too!! and he's filling the character, prepare yourself for this, of L!!!!!
*faints*
if you ask me "what would you get if you add Inuyasha with L?" i shouldn't be able to answer you until the year is over -_-'''
but oh well, i've not watched Death Note the anime yet. so maybe Yamaguchi-san could suit the role of L (though if i recall how Inuyasha always speak, i can never imagine how he could be chosen as L................................)
anyway, going back to Peacemaker Kurogane. what made me interested in this anime, besides wanting to know more about Shinsengumi and the era around Meiji Restoration period, was because there was one episode, when i watched in Arts Central, in which it was so damn funny it made me laugh til my stomach hurts. but i always thought that this anime is more serious in nature and the joker episodes are seldom and rare in between. however i found out that this might not be the case. humour is often present in the anime, though none of the episodes that i've watched so far have managed to laugh like that time.
however, i think that the music for Peacemaker Kurogane is not really well managed. unlike Ouran which background music choosing, placement and timing is absolutely perfect or even Inuyasha, Peacemaker Kurogane made me felt a little bit, "eh?" sometimes. it is not so bad as Eyeshield 21 yet, which made me cringe the whole time because of the unsuitable background music (on top of the unsuitable voice casting) and ill-placement and ill-timing of it. Peacemaker Kurogane is o-kay, though it could be made better and made the whole anime even better than already is.
i've watched only up to episode 5, together with hany, and so i couldn't comment too much. later will continue.
4:30 pm
Wednesday 25 April 2007
assessment is over.
what do i do now? haha...
slept like a dead person just now. yesterday slept not long after blogging, then woke up at 12pm this afternoon and went back to sleep and woke up at 6pm. like, 19 hours of sleep?? shoot! i know i should've slept some more. i would've broken the 20hours sleep barrier!!
anyway.. i went back mapling just now. met leader and xiaoDK and 93strongelf and quite a number of new mates. gunblage was missing, heard that he's currently at another guild. guess what, my leader has a blog! will set up a new section under gatherings for maplers.
so. assessment is over and i don't know what i should do. merry called just now, asking me to accompany her house-hunting around boon keng. unfortunately i was still fainting ermm sleeping, so i didn't meet her. next plan in agenda would be to visit palm garden and have an X night with lin. i'll bring my The Last Live DVD as well as Yoshiki Symphonic 2002 and other X stuff i have. we are X!!!!! wahahaha!!!
okay i'm not right in the head..
just yesterday i felt weird. it's like, i'm not using my head to my fullest potential. like, half of my brain is idling even when i'm under so much pressure. how do i use my brain to the fullest working capacity?? o.O
plan with mira: sewing. i wanna make gown for hany and me for my cousin's wedding.
plan with merry: house-hunting. not really a plan, but i wanna follow her house-hunting ^^
plan with joyce: making cosplay outfit. no, i'm not gonna be Light. light is NOT fat!!! >.<
plan with mira, merry, joyce, caiyun: Suki sushi buffet dinner and KBox-ing!!! and working!
plan with lin: The Last Live DVD watching!!
plan with cat: an outing?
plan with jay and Jawry girls: an outing!
plan with ScreamingKiai: finalise draft and plan for yoshiki birthday project 2007
plan with Saints Chorale juniors: watch their Viva Vox II at St Andrew's Cathedral
plan with my manga and anime collection: continue reading hana kimi, continue reading fruits basket, start watching naruto, try watchign rozen maiden, start watching peacemaker kurogane.
plan with mangadownload and anime-eden: get more!!!
blog later. jyaa~
9:45 pm
Tuesday 24 April 2007
assessment is officially over.
mode: supposed to be jubilant
current mode: blank
i've been in a dazed mode for weeks due to lack of sleep and the pace of things that i couldn't really comprehend... it took me so long to understand that, once i left D405 room, i'm free for the whole 3 months. even til now my mood is still *blah* ...
dead tired.
blog later.
9:35 pm
Sunday 22 April 2007
take a break and have a few good laugh from http://www.flin.demon.co.uk/humour/gcse.htm:
This was circulated as a compilation of actual student GCSE answers...
...But similar collections have been in circulation for decades. The absence of hilarious howlers about genetic engineering, and the childishness of the mistakes, leads me to suspect that they long predate the GCSE.
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Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked, "Am I my brother's son?"
Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.
Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.
The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.
Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.
Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.
Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."
Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.
Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.
In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.
Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.
Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah."
It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.
The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet.
Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe.
Later, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called Pilgrim's Progress. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.
One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. Finally the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand.". Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.
Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.
Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy.
Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.
Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German half Italian and half English. He was very large.
Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened and catapulted into Napoleon. Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't have any children.
The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.
Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. She was a moral woman who practiced virtue. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.
The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men.
Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.
The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.
my favourite was the Louis Pasteur discovered cure for 'rabbis' and Charles Darwin who wrote 'Organ' of species and 'madman' curie who discovered 'radio' xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
for those who didn't take Bio, charles darwin wrote 'Origin of Species' =PPPP and those who didn't take chemistry, Madame Curie discovered radium. and (for the next line) those who didn't take history, first world war started by an assassination of an arch-duke which triggered angry responses and sparked the first battle that would become world war I.
sometimes when you wrote something, it sounds right to you, but turned out to be horrendously wrong, it's pretty scary =P
that website was fun. thanks, mr yeo!
*rush off to school* i'm laaateeee
2:24 pm
finally after dunno how many hours of labouring and hesitating to colour and being scolded for not daring to colour and learning how to colour from my newfound 2 sensei from 2 different schools of illustration, my illustration is DONE!!! Labels: school
HOORAAYYY~~~~ *pops champagne*
now left the equally tasking and labouring task of making the illustration board.. arrghhh!!!!>.<
i seriously need a really good scanner. and printer too, for that matter. the quality of my illustration dropped significantly once it's being scanned! and it proved detrimental to my already-not-good illustrations!! arrrghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
going to go to school soon after finishing this... gotta finish my final garment!! >.< post photoshoots later~
jyaa~
btw thanks lin for updating. can update more? xD a short blog entry won't take you more than 5 minutes tops! ^^
1:33 pm
arghh see what have i done for several hours just now... instead of doing illustration, i went to blog hunting, as per normal when i'm stressed... and now i'm several hours behind schedule.. Labels: school
ah well, i'll live on til tuesday and survive this assessment, hopefully...
after assessment: add one more stuff to my to-do list: go to palm garden and bring The Last Live DVD for lin ^^ yaay! finally someone to watch the dvd together with!! usually i always watch alone, laugh, grin, squeal and cry alone too. lin, let's do the X jump during X!! XDD
i'm also planning to lend mimi my Yoshiki Symphonic 2002, seeing that she likes Nicole's voice when she sang I'll Be Your Love. nicole!! come back from pussycat dolls and sing for yoshiki againn!!! ;___;
i'm broke. koko haven't given me pocket money for dunno how many weeks... tomorrow (i mean later) planning to go school and finish my garment, then go to print my illustration boards, moodboard and photos. i need the money...
hopefully by the time koko gave me my full pocket money i'll have enough to buy Blue Blood Special Edition with original backtracks for every song! i'm not too interested in buying Jealousy Special Edition, despite the fact that it has my most fave song, coz i have most of the backtracks, including Silent Jealousy, seeing that i own the B.O.X. (Best of X) album, but what i want from this special Blue Blood is the backtrack of Rose of Pain!! aaaaaaa i want ittt!!!! better still if one day yoshiki release the special edition for Art of Life complete with backtrack!!!!
after assessment... how i love that phrase... if only i can add two more words in front of it: "now is"... it'll become my favourite phrase in the world..at the mo
oh, yesterday's alex's birthday! happy birthday 21st birthday lex!
and, aini, i don't have all the seniors' contacts, but i'll ask around if they wanna come ^^ and, i already book a tix with a junior, so no need to reserve for me ^^
still more to blog, jyaa~
6:33 am
*revised entry due to a certain finding that only hany knows*
oh i got gastric liao. or more like symptoms of gastric. see what half a year of not eating regularly can do to you v.v all because of the new semester's crazy workload!! >.<
more to blog later~
12:38 am
Saturday 21 April 2007
it's that time of the year again when i'll be blogging every so often coz i'm stucked here to do all my work and stuff and arrghhhhh Labels: school
by the way, i have extra 1 more day than what the counter says, coz my assessment is actually on tuesday instead of monday.
last night was dead tired my mind was asleep while my body woke up involuntarily. was supposed to sleep for ONE hour, i even set up 2 alarm clocks to make sure i can wake up, 1 handphone and another traditional alarm clock, and told hany to wake me up. then, when the time comes, i snoozed my handphone repeatedly (very like merry) and went on sleeping. the other alarm clock which was set up as a guard against me not waking up turn out to be spoilt, it doesn't ring at all! and hany saw me switching off the handphone and went back to sleep and thought that i decided to sleep and didn't wake me up.
arghhh!!!
woke up this morning by a call from merr. she sounded as half-asleep as me, we were grunting and murmuring to each other! LOL! xDD two sleepyheads calling each other!! and seeing that she was asleep too, i went on sleeping. later on joyce called me, and this time she scolded me and refused to let me sleep some more. "wake up! no, cannot sleep again. now you stand up. stand up!" after several times telling her "30 more minutes" and after getting as many times "no! cannot sleep anymore!" she finally relented, with the promise that if she call me 40 minutes later i'm still asleep, "you will get it, ahz"
ah well, after an argument i can't go back to sleep anyway =P
thinking about this, i guess our body can switch on that system whereby when our body need rest so much, our mind will continue on sleeping even if our body respond to activities outside. like last night, my switching off of alarm. hany said i did it like so many times, and i didn't even remember a thing about it, honestly. and similar cases happened to mimi and merr too.
i've witnessed that phenomenon with merry for so long. during my slaving nights at her house, she can be totally deaf and totally unable to feel. imagine me putting her loudly ringing and vibrating handphone against her cheek with the speaker nearest to her ears, and it continued ringing until it went to snooze on its own, and she still asleep. but more astonishingly, she could wake up, turn around to look at me, and i told her to sleep more and i'll wake her up later, and when she woke up later, she remembered nothing of it. the same was observed with mimi 2 days ago. let me recall what happened since wednesday, it was quite funny. we had not been sleeping the day before, so wednesday night/thursday morning was our 2nd night of not sleeping and we were very tired.
2am i went to sleep, mimi slept with me on the table. 3.30 merr woke me up. mimi woke up too, but she climbed another table and continued on sleeping. then it's merr's turn to sleep. 4.30am the air-cond came back alive and blew the cold wind straight at mimi. she woke up, saying "so cold" and climbed another table and slept on. 5am i woke them both up forcefully and they went to toilet. when woke up, mimi said, "eh? how come i'm here? i thought i was at that table previously??" =P no memory of climbing up another table.
by 5.30am the two of them had fallen asleep again. 7am onwards i started calling them to wake up. oh man, i can vomit blood trying to wake the 2 of them up. i yelled "mi bangun!... merr!... merr bangun merr!.... udah jam 7 lho!... mimi!... merr bangun!..." i don't know which was worse, merry who grunted "hmm?" everytime i call her name but not waking up nonetheless, or mimi's plain pure silence but not waking up either.
by 7.30, or was it 8, they woke up FINALLY, and mimi confessed that my voice had become the most hated voice, coz i was disturbing her sleep. LOL!
more stories later =P
*goes back colouring*
10:31 pm
thursday post: last time slept (more than 3 hours at a time): Tuesday night - Wednesday morningnext expected time to sleep (more than 3 hours): Friday night - Saturday afternoon Labels: school
now: current standing, friday night: haven't slept
next expected time to sleep (more than 3 hours): after assessment -_-;;;
i'm so tired body and soul that i don't feel tired anymore. instead of being on 'tired more', my body had switched to 'screen-saver mode' which means that when i'm iddlying or doing something repeatedly for more than 3 minutes, the screen saver would be on (blurred vision, lost focus of eyes, dropping of eyelids) and after that the 'sleep mode' will be turned on. be it when i was standing waiting for bus, of sitting down doing gatherings for my fabric, this theory still holds.
how tired can a fashion design undergrad be? only goodness knows...
someone in the school is rampaging again. last semester we've had thief(es) who stole sketchbooks and artworks. this semester we have psycho(s) who steals garments(!!!) and destroy them.
a year 2 work, 4 pieces of garments for final black collection was missing. another student's garment which was put on mannequin was slashed. and now my pleated fabric was gone.
i've confirmed details and crosscheck facts with some friends and i deduce that it was lost during friday's peck leng's lesson in which there were also some year 2s wandering about and there was quite a ruckus. no use crying over spoilt milk, or stolen fabric, though, today went to get the replacement. thank goodness paul's such a nice guy. he made my special sunray within a few hours. though, of course, i need to pay extra. but the work was good and i need it anyway.
12pm went to arab st with joyce
12.20pm went to gim joo to buy fabric
12.30 paul called, confirmed that i would go there by 3pm and deliver the fabric.
12.40 reached school. realised that gim joo uncle gav me wrong fabric. so pissed! >.< merr and mimi helped to pin the pattern!
12.45 cutting fabric
12.50 started hemming
1.40 finished hemming 2 pieces
2pm took cab to go paul's pleating company
6pm paul called saying pleated fabric's ready
6.30 went to get pleated fabric
really fast, isn't it? i used to spend 1 hours just pinning pattern and cutting it v.v but with mimi and merr's help it was done within a few min! cool..
anyway. i gotta blog some more, but my eyes can't take it. shall take an hour's nap and wake up to finish illustration. promised joyce will ganbatte. ganbarimashou!!
hana: feeling dazed, almost fall asleep typing....
3:07 am
thursday post: last time slept (more than 3 hours at a time): Tuesday night - Wednesday morningnext expected time to sleep (more than 3 hours): Friday night - Saturday afternoon Labels: school
now: current standing, friday night: haven't slept
next expected time to sleep (more than 3 hours): after assessment -_-;;;
i'm so tired body and soul that i don't feel tired anymore. instead of being on 'tired more', my body had switched to 'screen-saver mode' which means that when i'm iddlying or doing something repeatedly for more than 3 minutes, the screen saver would be on (blurred vision, lost focus of eyes, dropping of eyelids) and after that the 'sleep mode' will be turned on. be it when i was standing waiting for bus, of sitting down doing gatherings for my fabric, this theory still holds.
how tired can a fashion design undergrad be? only goodness knows...
someone in the school is rampaging again. last semester we've had thief(es) who stole sketchbooks and artworks. this semester we have psycho(s) who steals garments(!!!) and destroy them.
a year 2 work, 4 pieces of garments for final black collection was missing. another student's garment which was put on mannequin was slashed. and now my pleated fabric was gone.
i've confirmed details and crosscheck facts with some friends and i deduce that it was lost during friday's peck leng's lesson in which there were also some year 2s wandering about and there was quite a ruckus. no use crying over spoilt milk, or stolen fabric, though, today went to get the replacement. thank goodness paul's such a nice guy. he made my special sunray within a few hours. though, of course, i need to pay extra. but the work was good and i need it anyway.
12pm went to arab st with joyce
12.20pm went to gim joo to buy fabric
12.30 paul called, confirmed that i would go there by 3pm and deliver the fabric.
12.40 reached school. realised that gim joo uncle gav me wrong fabric. so pissed! >.< merr and mimi helped to pin the pattern!
12.45 cutting fabric
12.50 started hemming
1.40 finished hemming 2 pieces
2pm took cab to go paul's pleating company
6pm paul called saying pleated fabric's ready
6.30 went to get pleated fabric
really fast, isn't it? i used to spend 1 hours just pinning pattern and cutting it v.v but with mimi and merr's help it was done within a few min! cool..
anyway. i gotta blog some more, but my eyes can't take it. shall take an hour's nap and wake up to finish illustration. promised joyce will ganbatte. ganbarimashou!!
hana: feeling dazed, almost fall asleep typing....
3:07 am
Thursday 19 April 2007
last time slept (more than 3 hours at a time): Tuesday night - Wednesday morning Labels: school
next expected time to sleep (more than 3 hours): Friday night - Saturday afternoon (<-i'll be so dead by then)
currently, i'm afraid of closing my eyes, unless i'm in the bus, coz once i close my eyes i won't be opening them again for a very long time. most stressful period of time has come again. my assessment will be on tuesday next week, and before that day comes my sleep will be haunted by nightmares of unfinished work.
last semester i wasn't this stressed.. but then i wasn't closely acquinted with 2 of the more perfectionist girls in the class v.v blessing in disguise? i hope so.
gotta go back to school in about an hour's time for Nic's. came back just to bathe, change clothes and bring the work that i need to do overnight TONIGHT for Peck Leng's tomorrow... must finish my garment tonight and don't disappoint her anymore! she had despaired enough for the past few weeks, now her best class shouldn't let her down! ganbatte!
anyway a piece of news that brightened my days. seems like there's gonna be another performance like 2005's Evening of Sacred Songs in Saint Andrew's Cathedral. perhaps it was like last time, to prepare the choir for the SYF. the good news is: it falls on may 5th which means that i'm FREE already and can go and definitely would like to go. the bad news is: i don't know anyone who might wanna go with me... last time edmond, sbass, hany and harry came to watch me sing, but this time edmond's working, sbass not here, and i don't think hany and harry would wanna watch if there's nobody whom they know singing...
anyone wanna come and watch the choir performance with me? -_-...
ps: ever thought that you really like someone, and something, and found out that you actually don't mean that much to him/her/them? or, you think that you're more dedicated than some people, when in truth other people do not think so? or, you expect someone to at least care a little about you, or talk about you, or mention you in expected conversation about something, but you heard none of the mention of your name but there were a lot of other people's names?
*sigh* i don't know if i'm being egoistical or what, but it does hurt me.. coz i know i care, and i know i'm dedicated, and i know i tried hard, but when someone, whom i thought know more about these things than others, never even mentioned me, i feel so...hurt. i mean...not that i NEED the acknowledgement, but, yeah maybe i DO need the acknowledgement, but more importantly i want the assurance that what i'm doing is right, and worthy to be mentioned in expected conversation...
i think i AM egoistical... oh well...
sometimes when you care about someone, it's hard to take in the bad points of him/her, what more realising that he/she doesn't even care about you enough to talk or mention you -_-;; it does hurt...
oh, ever have the feeling that you care for someone of the opposite sex so much, but you know perfectly clear that it's not love? it's a funny feeling.. like wanting to protect him and doesn't want him to be sad or suffer, or feel sad when he's sad and want him to be happy so you try to cheer him up, but it's not love (for i know the feeling of love and it was dedicated for someone else *winks*) but i'm scared the other party misread the signs and grow afraid of me.. *sigh* it's hard to have strong, but rare, emotions for someone...
11:16 am
Wednesday 18 April 2007
i still remember when i was in JC and some of my juniors got 'called up' by the mrs lim because they post, err, something like defamation entries against some teachers in the blog, and the student had to remove it. during that time, i took down my juniors' blogs from my GATHERINGS section for some period of time to make it harder for school to read our blogs =P i know they still can google or yahoo it, but at least it's one or two more step more tedious than just simply coming here and clicking away at the list of students one by one =P Labels: school
at that time i didn't think it's possible for school and students to share a common view on blogging. students would always find faults in teachers (i still do, even now), and when they are much angered it would be translated to a blog entry (goodness only knows how sorely i was tempted to do this when i was in school and was mistreated by some really rash and rather blind teacher who accused me of dyeing my hair brown while i never even touched a single bottle of hair-dye in my life. yet) which would be deemed as inappropriate by the school, and the school would order it to be taken down while some bloggers absolutely resent the idea of revising their entries, what more taking them down.
but i guess i didn't take into account the possibility of students having a civil tongue and teachers being open-minded enough to share a blog account and updating it together =) true, students still have their own personal blogs (i wouldn't say private anymore, coz they aren't), and teachers too, but once they're in one single blog, the updates as well as the tagboard entries can be quite unique, not commonly seen in personal blogs in which all entries were from a single person, and all tagboard entries were done by the friends of the blogger.
when there's a student-teacher blog, entries made would be polite (and most of the time, more english than singlish) and tagboard entries done would be tactful while at the same time trying to be witty enough to generate smiles (or laughters) but yet not offensive.
it would be a good way to exercise students' use of the english language to be polite and at the same time to be daring in expressing their views and be funny, don't you think?
if only the choir blog was as lively as this when i was there.. *sigh* good job, juniors, and teachers too ^_^
updates on this side. 4 more days to assessment week. was up all night 2 days ago, and yesterday's sleep was barely sufficient enough for me.. hopefully it can sustain me til the end of the week. tonight's another non-sleeping night and so will tomorrow be. ganbatte!! only 4 more days!! towards free~~~~dom!!
10:59 am
Monday 16 April 2007
-_- when i need to do something, i'll drag and drag it while doing completely different things, and it's always when i'm busiest that i became most regular in updating my blog, i think i've said it before...
anyway, on the topic of opposites attract by obachan. ehhh.... is it true??
an old friend from penang days, yenche, has a knack of 'guessing' which guy i like in a boyband during those era when boybands were a rage. her theory is: a person would always fall in love (or perhaps have a crush, or simply just like) another person who share a similar feature to him/herself. and she proved it to me by guessing correctly which member of many boybands that i prefer among the other members, and 90% of the time she was right!
but i think she was referring to the facial or physical features, not characteristic or personality. in terms of personality, i dunno about that...
i think it might be true to a certain extent (goodness, i'm writing a GP essay after 2 years....). human by nature is not perfect, and there's a small part of us that always want to be different from what we are, to be a better person, or simply just NOT to be what we are. which is why in chatrooms there are so many people who pretend to be whom they actually aren't. i've read somewhere long time ago about some experts saying that there are 3 types of chatroom goers out there, basically people who:
a) pretend to be someone with personality that they WANT to have and so they adopt the attitude of someone whom they actually aren't in the real life. shy people became bold, timid people became jokers, like such.
b) pretend to be someone whom they WISH to be, like pretend that they are university professor when in actual fact they are normal worker, or a great singer or a local celebrity, or things like that.
c) goes to chatrooms as they are, meaning: no pretence. rarely people do this, though..
tadi lagi ngomongin apa si... kok jadi ngelantur gini..?? o.O oh, opposites attract! yeah, so basically what i wanted to say is: people might get attracted to someone who has certain qualities that they don't have, it's natural i guess... but of course the quality must be something that is deemed good by that person. i mean, i wouldn't get attracted to someone who is a drug taker, or someone who is very narrow-minded, coz i'm not interested in such traits. i guess it's different for each person...
then again, they might not get attracted to people with opposite character because they might be completely happy with who they are and wish to have someone who share the same character too... like, i'm not attracted to guys who are very into the R&B culture, hip hop, rap, those kind of thing, coz i simply don't like it. it may not necessarily be categorised as a character trait, but hey, what a person listens to define his/her personality, that's what Mr Apple told me once and i believe it's true...
fundamentally, i think doesn't matter whether a person likes another person who has opposite characteristic, or share similar features (or doesn't, in that case) with him/her, it's the chemistry that's most important. remember, 'beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder', and when you fall in love, you just know it =)
12:37 am
Sunday 15 April 2007
was reading my hanaatsajc.blogdrive.com blog, the days when i was blogging about A's... now that i'm thinking about it again, no, my studies now is not more stressful than A's. true, it's 10x more tiring, but my stress level then was much much higher, and that was in a bad way. but why i felt like now i'm more stressed? perhaps it's because i pushed the feeling and all memories about A's sideway and out of the way and i buried it deeeeeep inside my heart, never to resurface again, save for occasion like just now when i read old blog entries...
A's is the mother of all exams. yes, now i recognise that it is STILL the truth. for me, at the very least.
i can't even imagine the despair that i felt, the feeling of impending doom, the level of stress that was so high that i covered it with a blanket and forced myself to feel like everything's fine...
those were dark days.
thank goodness now i've found a source of light. yes, i've failed in A's, but i'm not giving up on my future, nor am i gonna give up on Bio. i've said i still want to learn Bio, and i mean it. i'll show my teachers that eventhough i've failed in A's doesn't mean i'm going back home jakarta to be a housewife, or work somewhere brooding about why i didn't work hard enough for A's.
and now that i reflect upon the direction that some of my friends have taken, i feel that my bad A's is nothing serious. i'm taking the path that i like, and now i'm really quite enjoying it, while some other friends are taking the path that they didn't really like eventhough they have much better A's than me. and, i've said if before and i'll say it again, i feel that i'm more fortunate than them.
no no no, i'm not below them. yet. whatever comes in the future will determine that, ne? =) dark days of A's, i think i need to revisit them often so that i can get motivated to study harder. ganbarimashou! =)
7:19 pm
this post is in err, response to nata's phantom blog update. Labels: performance
1st thing 1st: I FORGOT ABOUT THE CHANDELIER CRASHING SCENE!! didn't i? *checks blog* yes i did forget about it!! errghhh how could i??? it crashed like within 3 metres from me and i remembered it landed with a loud CRASH. i'm sure i jumped again then v.v
then, the lake scene, oh man i totally missed watching the full effect because of the smoke, didn't i? >.<
oh, i know the castings and the full name of the characters because i bought the programme booklet ma^^ i also bought the opera glass. can u imagine? i didn't know that i was sitting at 1st row!! some years ago when i watched Miss Saigon (i think at kallang theatre...) i remembered the distance of the first row to the stage was quite large also, so i thought that if i sit at the 2nd row, i could still do with an opera glass. i mean, hey this is a one-in-a-lifetime experience to be able to catch phantom of the opera, the next time they come might be 10 years down the road? or perhaps never again?? i don't wanna be missing on things just because i could see clearly, ne? *kiasu...*
THEN i found out that i was sitting at 1st row, within 2 metres from the stage... i told minghui, "seems like i only need to use the opera glass to check on the make up of the actors/actresses, see the cracks on their makeup or what...." coz i was just too freakin close to the stage. i did use it once, and it was blur o.O i was 'inspecting' the stuff being put on top of christine's mirror at the backstage, just before she was visited by raoul XD
about the orchestra, i couldn't actually see the orchestra all the time. i could only see them if i lean forward about 1 metre and peek on top of the barrier. the conductress is a female..how could you get a male conductor?? o.O see this is what written on the programme book:
musical director: vanessa scammell
associate musical director/keyboard 3: craig renshaw
assistant conductor/keyboard 2: vincent colagiuri
keyboard 1: katherine gillon
percussion: richard gleeson (that one-man percussionist o.O)
if u got a male conductor, it would be either the associate musical director or assistant condutor..ne? anyway, the conductress was so cool ^^ i like it when she's smiling, either to the orchestra member or the actors/esses on the stage. like so pretty ^^ she wore long dangling earrings, long pale-blond hair tied in low ponytail with a simple black scrunchie, simple black sleeveless top with caved in armholes. next you might ask how much time i spent looking at the conductress instead of the stage... xP
regarding the singing, it was absolutely 1000% done LIVE. come on man, this is world-class production, they wouldn't be able to sell $160 worth of tickets is they aren't singing live!! and they do have microphones on them, coz no matter how powerful or good singer you are, there's no way you can deliver clear speeches in a form of song through to the last corner of a theatre as big as esplanade v.v maybe you can hear the voice, but i really don't think you'll be able to catch the words at all, without mike. there's this small black dot on the top of their forehead, just on their hairline, about 5mm in diameter, that is the microphone. so the quality of voice that was transmitted is not disturbed by sound of rustling of cloth (if the mike is pinned on clothes) or disrupted if the singer turn his/her head left or right. i guess it must be secured very tightly to their head, coz it doesn't move at all no matter how vigorously they move or turn their heads, and i don't know to where did the microphone was connected to...
tentang pemeran christine, minghui bilang ke gw bahwa kita lucky bisa dapetin rebecca pitcher, leading role, padahal matinee session, soale temennya dia pergi ke show yg sama ana marina dan katanya 'ga bagus. christinenya ngga klop ama si raoul sama sekali' katanya, kayak ngga ada chemistry gituw o.O tapi waktu gw nonton sih rebecca ama si john udah kayak pacaran beneran deh ^_^ bener gtuw nat, lin? o.O gw kemaren juga liat blog orang yg dah pergi ke phantom show, dan dia dapet ana marina, dan dia ngga terkesan banget ama show nya.. tapi katanya gara2 musiknya =P gw juga kaget si dapetin rebecca, soale biasanya show yang siang2 kan dimaenin alternative nya...ne?
nat, ayo nonton lagi sama gw!! we take tuesday or thursday show k? then can catch oom phantom after the show XD i'm eyeing CAT E circle 1 box D or E!! =D haahaahaa i've watched the really close-up performance, now all i need is the bird-eye view of the whole stage, and to be able to 'breathe above the lake' during the kidnapping scene -_-;;
by the way. yesterday just went to check on screamingkiai and realised that yochan had blogged again. this time...his blog made me curse him the fact that i'm not living in the states, that i'm not in LA... he's gonna be organising a freakin jrock concert in LA just 3 days after my birthday, damn it!!!!! and the people that are gonna be there? alice nine, mucc, depairs ray, kagrra,, dual jewel, vidoll, miyavi.... and he's gonna be announcing the 4th member of THE band there!!!! oh goodness me... and miyavi's gonna be there too.... arrghhhhhh!!! what if it's really him!???!?!?!! double arrghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hany would certainly be happy.. but i don't know if the rest of us would find it amusing or not.... yoshiki+gackt=too good to be true. yoshiki+gackt+sugizo=heaven!! yoshiki+gackt+sugizo+miyavi=?!?!?!?!??!?! *sweatdrop* geez...what are you aiming for, yochan!??!?!?!?!
4:48 pm
Saturday 14 April 2007
Labels: performance
6:34 pm
i'm in the middle of trying to influence mira to like yoshiki. Labels: yoshiki
it all started last night while we were slaving yet another night in school sewing our final garment (me: real garment, the others: toile). we were in 402 and there were a number of other students too, like a couple of yr 2s and some yr 1s. they played music continuously, like typical music for youngsters nowadays, i don't even know the genre but i heard a lot of great singers with powerful voice like beyonce.
i was asking mira if she liked those kind of songs and she said she was in the mood for classic now coz stressed.
then, one song appeared, Pussycat Dolls's Doncha. i told her that the lead singer for Pussycat Dolls used to sing for yoshiki and she has reaaally beautiful voice. then i let her listen to I'll be Your Love english version with Nicole Scherzinger as vocalist.
her reaction when she listen to it was like my reaction whenever i heard a new yoshiki's recording or song or something really good: sparkling eyes, hands securing the earphones (it was inside my handphone and i let her listen through the earpiece) and closed eyes. (well, when she opened her eyes, she has sparkling eyes, u get what i mean?)
"wow! ini suaranya dia???? bagus banget!!! bagusan nyanyi begini daripada yang itu! ini lagunya siapa? (me: yoshiki!) bagus banget.."
{{trans: wow, this is her voice???? so nice!!! she sounds better singing like this (i'll be your love) than that (doncha)! whose song is this? (me: yoshiki!) so nice..."}}
was so happy ^_^ i always feel very happy when yoshiki's work is being acknowledged ^_^
then, since she said she was in the mood for classical, i lend her my ipod and let her listen to some songs from Eternal Melody 2 that i still keep, like I'll Be Your Love classical, Seize The Light classical, Without You and Unnamed Song. others i gave the boot because i just lack the space! (2gb is sooo not enough for me!!)
all through the night she was listening to those songs. she gave comments here and there, like, "ni lagu2nya siapa yang bikin? (me: yoshiki!) wah ni orang romantis banget. (me: sedih!) iya. perasa." *feels like hugging mira for understanding yoshiki*
{{trans: these songs, who composed them? (me: yoshiki!) wah, he's a really romantic person. (me: sad) yeah, sensitive."}}
one of the really shocking comment that she gave was, "ooh Without You, pantesan, gw kayaknya pernah denger. (me: oh ya???) iya, kan gw bilang cici gw dengerin x japan. tapi yang gw denger bukan klasiknya, ada orang nyanyi.."
{{trans: ooh, Without You, no wonder, i thought i heard it before. (me: oh yeah???) yeah, i told you my sister listens to x japan. but the one that i heard before wasn't the classical version, there's someone singing..."}}
i was freakin flabbergasted at that last comment. uhm.. hello? just some weeks ago i was crying because of the prospect of finally listening to the vocalised version of Without You and here she was saying that she had heard of it, and like long ago!?!?!?!??!?!??! i was, and still am, flabbergasted......
but anyway... she asked if there's anymore yoshiki songs inside my ipod. duh, like she doesn't know me.. i then made a gamble. i let her listen to, not only x japan's ballads, but also Art of Life instrumental version.
she's the very first person to whom i dare to introduce Art of Life at the first 'x japan introduction session'. i know that it's not the first time she heard of them, seems like when she went jamming in her high school days, her band mates used to play many x songs, and her sister is a jrock listener too (at least i know that she listens to yoshiki's and gackt's songs). but last time she only know the song and didn't really pay attention to the band, it was the first time i let her really know that 'this song is x's!'
reaction for Art of Life? unexpectedly good! "wah ni orang yang maen drumsnya gila! dari tadi ga berenti2! *some minutes later* masih ga berenti2, hana! *during piano solo* ini yang maen piano juga gila..." to which i replied to both: yoshiki's playing! merry then asked, "if this is yoshiki's playing, and that also yoshiki's playing, then what does the other bandmates do??" haha =P well, yoshiki only played 2 instruments in Art of Life, so the rest of them play the guitars and bass ^^
{{trans: wah this person who plays the drums is crazy! since just now doesn't stop! *some minutes later* still hasn't stopped playing, hana! *during piano solo* this one who plays piano also crazy..."}}
yeah, at any rate, she had made my day by appreciating yoshiki's music ^__^ and just now she sms-ed me, "hana kok aq jadi liat youtube yoshiki sih, jadi ga bikin pr.." XD
{{trans: hana, how come i'm watching yoshiki's youtube instead of doing homework..."}}
i'd say: conversion process => going on nicely v(^_^)v
2:47 am
Friday 13 April 2007
if you ask fashion design level 1 students this year whether they are stressed, most probably you'll get a resounding, almost incredulous "yes!!", a weak, almost-dead sarcastic grin "duh.." or a "yes" followed by 20 minutes description and explanation why we're so stressed.
but if you ask them whether they hate what they're doing or whether they would prefer to create flats instead of garments if they were to make the choice again, the odd is that most would say no and would still want to create garments, though preferably less garments within a period of time.
i enjoyed making garments, and i enjoyed having my creations being realised from a drawing to a real garment. but what i don't enjoy is the constant looming deadlines that always put us on the line of 'do-or-die' (or more like 'do-or-fail').
like what merry said, "i'd still want to do garments, but at least give us more time to finish."
and to which tang said, "in the fashion world, even when you are working, time is always a very expensive commodities. that's why you have to manage your time carefully, if not you'll have like 5 different projects going on at the very same time.. that's why communication and fashion design produces the best people because the students are under so much stress. the people that we release are people who can take the heat."
basically, what had happened this semester is that: there was so much work to do and each week the lecturers wanted different thing from one another and the students were left with the bulk of the stress and a mountain of workload to do, and i'd say it all started with the miscommunication (if there's even ANY communication) within the department that nobody knows what the other is doing and as a result, as tang said, the students unfortunately 'bear the collateral damage'.
we have great lecturers, that is still what i strongly believe (and like merry said, great lecturers are mostly rather *spinning fingers beside the temple* XD) , but the school management is another thing altogether. it's very disheartening to see lecturers disagreeing with one another and getting pissed because of the way things turn out. imo, each lecturer does things for the best of the students, and because this 'best for the student' most of the time means 'a hell of a workload to do', the students got really weary. as a result, we complain, and we complain to the most unlikely lecturer, the one whom always there to help us out and is so approachable we practically go to her for every garment problems, and as another result she got weary and when students started to do things which aren't her things and expect her to help them all the way when they aren't even doing her things properly, and even got the cheek to complain about the amount of work ther is when she was the one who set the lowest amount of work for us to do, she got stressed and pissed too.
i know our class bears absolutely NO responsibility for any complaining done to her, but i still feel so sorry for peck... and i do sincerely hope, as well as all the other students i've ever come across, that she wouldn't leave... and so i hope for the rest of the lecturers too... ina, tang, just to name a few... it's really, really sad to welcome the long-awaited end-of-semester with the looming thought that we might not be able to see some of our dear lecturers next semester...
and all just because there wasn't communication within the department.
*sigh*
we've already lost some really nice lecturer last semester, i'd hate to see more lecturers go... i hope the school would manage to do better next semester, and i hope the students' work are good enough during this assessment that no teachers receive the boot or leave us willingly...
and for the school board, i would like to give an additional comment: i pay the school fee of SGD$7,500 per semester not for nothing, PLEASE GET INA ALL THE THINGS AND MATERIALS THAT ARE NEEDED TO CONDUCT TEXTILE CLASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU AREN'T EVEN WILLING TO GET THE MATERIALS, WHAT IS THE USE OF CREATING THE TEXTILE MODULE ALTOGETHER??!?!?!?!??!??!??? *geez...*
weekend. today i finally feel the drain of lack of sleep for the whole week. time to reacharge sleep for the following week. ganbatte!
oh, tomorrow's my Phantom of the Opera day ^^ expect a review even if i don't have the time to do a long one.
10:47 pm
Tuesday 10 April 2007
last night was the first night sleep i got since friday. saturday night 9pm i went to merry's house and stayed all night to do some sketches for helene. morning came, we went to school straight away (8-9am) and booked some machine at 402 and went off to mcD for breakfast. i was pretty shocked when i opened the door to 405, the place where i usually sew, to find that there were soo many people there, like about 10 maybe, sleeping at odd places like on the table, or on the chairs, or some were awake and was using the laptop or was sewing. it's like last night there was a party (sewing party, more like) and people were dead tired and just slump off wherever they were and sleep. the air was very polluted though. Labels: school
we tried some machine but to no avail. seems like someone had stolen the extension cords again and there were not enough power points to plug the machines. we were told that the machines at 402 were working though, so we went there, and true enough the machines there were fine. furthermore, no polluted air that can make us dizzy and there were even more tables than 405, 402 being the pattern drafting room. so me and merry were so happy there ^^
spent the whole sunday cutting my fabric and sewing. mira came in the afternoon and we sewed all day and night. came morning (monday morning) we went home, slept for a couple of hours, woke up and went to school for ina's class. then went home again to sleep. i need to recharge my sleep so that tonight can draw all night long again. dunno whether mira and merry would be able to though. monday morning the 2 of them looked bloody tired, mira was the worse of us 3, the way she walked back to the bus stop already looked like she was drunk or barely conscious, her steps were small and light and..flying...u know xD
btw thanks for the counter, lin! ^_^ now i don't have to keep yelling at myself "one more week and a few days to go!!" now i can even quote the HOURS left, so fun!
so dead.. >.<
already started thinking of things that i want to do after assessment day. first item on the list is: SLEEP. comes next i think would be mapling =D then comes the odds of 'sewing gown for me and hany' and 'go to Genting with close friends (and their boyfriends if need to be) and have FUN' and 'really start planning the physical work of Yoshiki Birthday Project 2007'. then comes the thing that i've been wanting to do for soooo long and don't have the chance to do like 'joining a choir and sing again' or simply 'visiting juniors and watch their performance (if any) again'...
should i direct link the school song to my blog? i asked mr yeo but he didn't answer... silence=consent? =p i'll just use it. if anyone complains, then i take down =P
2:49 pm
Saturday 7 April 2007
22 hours and 30 minutes of being in school to do work. (21 hours and 30 minutes if minus the time spent at McD's) Labels: school
came to school at 5 yesterday evening to do sewing. realised that i left my sewing kit at home *stupid..* and went back home and to take it. reached school again at 6.30pm. went off to McDonald's at 12am to eat dinner *or supper, some might say, but it was really our dinner* went back home at 5 pm today.
tired...
need to recharge my sleep so that tomorrow can pull another all-nighter in merry's house.
oh i'm having a study camp at merry's house these few days. since we have some days off *plus Good Friday holiday and all, this week i only went to school on monday and went to digital prining company in tuesday and free for the rest of the week* me and merry and mira planned to ganbatte together at merry's house to do all the stuff we need to do for assessment.
so far i've finished the undergarment project for ina (minus the catalogue) and my final garment toile.
sounds very little? i'm already satisfied with my pace now. coz if it's not because of them two, i would be wasting these precious days off to do useless things.
like watching youtube videos or talking in my new forum.
anyway
yea, hana the human battery needs to recharge sleep.
jyaa~ minna...
12:03 am
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JaeChunSu - The... (preordered)
JYJ - Thanksgiving Live in Dome DVD (preordered)
Tegomasu - Tegomasu no Ai minialbum
Versailles - Ascendead Master (mini movies in Limited Ed singles type I,II,III)
Yoshiki - Eternal Melody 1
Versailles Philharmonic Quintet - Jubilee (major debut album)
Jejung & Yuchun from Tohoshinki - COLOR~ Melody & Harmony/Shelter Double A single
Tohoshinki - Stand By U single
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Tohoshinki - Five in the Black album
Tohoshinki - Heart, Mind, Soul album
Dong Bang Shin Gi - Tri-Angle album
Tegomassu - Tegomassu no Uta album
Tegomassu - Tanabata Matsuri
NEWS - Touch
Tegomass - Miso Soup
Yamashita Tomohisa - Daite Senorita
Hizaki GRACE Project - Ruined Kingdom
Hizaki Grace Project - Dignity of Crest
Within Temptation - Mother Earth or Silent Force
Saint Preux - Concerto Pour Deux Voix
Lord of the Rings Complete Recordings
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Complete Recordings
Raphael (Kazuki) - Forever and Ever
Raphael - Raphael Singles
X - Vanishing Vision Album
X Japan - Dahlia Album
X Japan - Art of Life ~mini album
X Japan - Art of Life ~live
L'Arc en Ciel - Smile
Hyde - 666
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Tohoshinki - The Secret Code live in Tokyo Dome
TVXQ - All About TVXQ Season III DVD <--- !
Versailles Philharmonic Quintet - Chateau De Versailles DVD
Versailles Philharmonic Quintet - History Of The Other Side DVD
X Japan Returns Complete DVD 30th/31st December 1993
Versailles - Aesthetics HIZAKI version, with perfume Princess Stairs
Versailles - Aesthetics Kamijo version, with perfume Louise
Hizaki Grace Project - Monsho
Raphael - First
Raphael - Last
Raphael - Raphael Clips
Raphael - Pictorial Poem 2
X Japan - Art Of Life - 1993.12.31 Tokyo Dome
X Japan - Dahlia Tour / Dahlia Tour Final
X Japan - Complete Collection II (which, upon acquiring, will cancel the earlier 2 DVDs mentioned)
hide - Film The Psychommunity Reel.1
hide - Film The Psychommunity Reel.2
hide - Seventeen Clips - Perfect Clips Presented By Hide Museum
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Versailles Philharmonic Quintet - Jubilee (major debut album)
Tohoshinki - Bolero/Kiss The Baby Sky/Wasurenaide Triple A single <--- !the perfect single!
Tohoshinki - Stand By U single
Dong Bang Shin Gi - Mirotic album (Platinum edition)
Tohoshinki - T album
Tohoshinki - The Secret Code album
Versailles - Ascendead Master (Reg + Ltd Ed. DVD Type I, II, III)
NEWS - Koi no ABO single (Reg and Ltd Ed.) <-- i'm selling the regular edition, contact me if you're interested (only for beijing, singapore and jakarta buyers only)
Versailles - Prince & Princess single
NEWS - Color album
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Tegomass - Kiss ~Kaerimichi no Love Song single
NEWS - Summer Time single
NEWS - pacific album
My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
HIM - And Love Said No, The Greatest Hits 1997 - 2004
HIZAKI Grace Project - Curse of Virgo single
Hyde - Faith
Yui - Can't Buy My Love
Versailles - Lyrical Sympathy mini album
Yoshiki - Catacombs Soundtrack
HIZAKI - Maiden Ritual ~experimental edition
HIZAKI - Dance with grace
Raphael - Fumetsuka
Within Temptation - Heart of Everything
X Japan - Blue Blood & Blue Blood Special Edition
X Japan - Jealousy & Jealousy Special Edition
X Japan - The Last Live
X Japan - X Japan on Piano
X Japan - B.O.X (Best of X)
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X Japan - Best Fans Collection
Yoshiki - Eternal Melody II
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Aikawa Nanase - ID, Best Album
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Every Little Thing - Every Best Single + 3
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My Chemical Romance - Threee Cheers For Sweet Revenge
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X Japan - The Last Live
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v457/arsenalx/ekkusuphase32c.jpg
featuring: Yoshiki
about: Yochan underwent a surgery to correct his spine, a problem that had persisted since 1995, when he finally started to feel numbness in his fingers. the surgery went fine, thank goodness. hopefully he will recover completely and it doesn't affect his piano playing. as for drums...don't forget your neck braces everytime you drums, yochan!
etc: read below xD i've made too many layouts featuring Yoshiki i don't wish to repeat myself =P
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v457/arsenalx/?action=view¤t=ekkusu3.jpg
Featuring: Versailles
Background: formed in 2007 by founding member Kamijo (ex Lareine) and Hizaki (ex Sulfuric Acid), they released their debut single Revenant Choir which tells a story about a clan.
Just as like Kamijo's past works, Versailles tells a story through their symphonic metal music and extravagantly elaborate costumes inspired from antique European era.
Members: Kamijo (vocals), Hizaki (guitar), Teru (guitar), Jasmine-You (bass), Yuki (drums)
etc: Versailles beautiful music managed to win my heart totally. saddened by the loss of Jasmine-YOU in 2009, but i hope the 4 of them will still make great music from now onwards. rest in peace, Jasmine-YOU, and watch out for the guys from up there...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/arsenal_x/ekkusu2.1copy.jpg
featuring: S.K.I.N.
Background: Formed in 2007, performed first during Anime Expo at the States in May.
Members: Yoshiki (drums, piano, guitar), Gackt (vocal, piano), Sugizo (guitar, violin), Miyavi (guitar, shamisen)
etc: ekkusu phase 2.0 was lost because i didn't save it in photobucket (because it refused to upload it properly).
and so, from now i'll start my skin from phase .1 instead of .0
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v457/arsenalx/ekkusunostudio1-3.jpg
Featuring: Hiruma Youichi
Model's background: manga character (Eyeshield 21)
More about the model: quarterback of Deimon Devilbats, The Commander From Hell;
the backbone and the brain behind Deimon High School's American Football Club, The Deimon Devilbats.
Icons: various facial expressions of Hiruma, the maniacal, elven-faced leader of Devilbats ^^
Etc: Eyeshield 21 is a sports manga about American Football and it's one of my current favourite.
My rating for them is:
hilarity 10/10
excitement: 9/10
intellectual level: 9/10
drawing: 7/10
characterisation: 9/10
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v457/arsenalx/?action=view¤t=yoshiki56trialwithrollovercopy.jpg
Featuring: Hayashi Yoshiki
Model's background: leader, drummer, pianist, main composer of legendary band X Japan (1982-1997); leader, drummer, pianist,
guitarist, composer of band Violet UK, debut coming soon.
More about the model: Yoshiki in the early X Japan era in early 90's when he still has long curly locks.
Etc: YOSHIKI IS MY HERO AND IDOL!
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Featuring: Hayashi Yoshiki
Model's background: leader, drummer, pianist, main composer of legendary band X Japan (1982-1997); leader, drummer, pianist,
guitarist, composer of band Violet UK, debut coming soon. Born in Tateyama, Chiba (Japan) in 20th November 1965 and currently living in Los Angeles, California (USA).
Head company of Extasy Records, Extasy Japan and Extasy Records International (now defunct). http://myspace.com/yoshiki
More about the model: the faint background picture of Yoshiki was taken in the recent years when he's already cut his hair short and
started the habit of wearing sunglasses.
Icons: pictures taken from Yoshiki's house in LA: his front door, piano in the middle room, dining room and swimming pool.
Etc: I can write essays on Yoshiki, but let's just keep it simple and straightforward: YOSHIKI IS MY HERO AND IDOL!