Don't mind the sudden question, but the Epic Critic Club is in dire need of help. Permanent help, temporary help, any pair of willing eyes, hands and brains.
So, if you're interested, you can reply below and ask me, '<dd>, I wanna help. What can I do?'. If you can't, go ahead and make a note too I guess.
Popping quickly in and out. Hopefully will get some help somehow.
-<dd>
I just realized that BZPower's back. Am I very late in this news? I'm sure I am!
Well, the period the board went offline was as long as I needed to get ready to go. I'm heading over to Boston - tonight! On the AirBus A380 no less!
Yet, I feel many pinches of sadness about the people I'm leaving behind: Family, especially the old folks, my wonderful boyfriend (we're going to make this LDR work!), and the friends I've made through secondary school and polytechnic. And, of course, Lucky. I f
Has anyone tried to Google their name?
I tried. I always found it amusing when new search results show more mentions of my name online. It's a real reminder of how the Internet has really connected everyone together.
Like, how I dug up an online letter my sister sent to the animal and food safety people of the government, because we had pet chickens and Indonesia had bird flu, so the government officers came by and took them all away. It was even funnier to see that a doctor (most likely b
I saw it yesterday.
I almost cried.
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «Not because Optimus Prime died again.
But because...
MICHAEL BAY! You killed my childhood!! (Or what's left of it!)
*goes to a corner, takes out her Makuta and Takanuva and plays quietly by herself*
-<dd>
I can't wait to watch Transformers 2! I know it's released, but I finally have the tickets - my dad won them, but didn't want to watch it with walk-in tickets. He wanted to book us all down. Good thing he knew a Transformers fan living in the same house as he did.
I'm doing sound for a production called Short + Sweet, an international playwright competition of 10 minutes a play, and I'm helping the Singapore leg of this competition. The stage manager for this event is my little sister's best
6 hours and...52 minutes from now, it'd be the 20th anniversary of the birth of <dd>!
If I may steal some limelight and be very obnoxious ( ), all good wishes can be posted here.
I already got some gifts. My good friends have surprised me with a Tascam audio interface - perfect for the Berklee dorm room emergency recordings, if need be. And my twin got me a pink LEGO Pirate shirt! Big yay on that one! And my good friend got tickets for me to watch Video Games Live next week! Front
My company had a photoshoot for the boss who's getting married this December, and offered to take some fun graduation pictures for me. Here's one, hehe.
Gosh, graduation was so fun! Part of the fun was because I was, remarkably, the top of my course. *bragbragbrag* So that got me a few awards and a bit more money too! On top of that, I was one of two valedictorian speakers! Well, I was the reserve at the end of the day, but the other guy got all the fuss and stress while I sat behind him an
So all the hype and hoobla of me going to Berklee is dying down. Good - I haven't been giving that much thought, anyway, because I've been running from school to school, placating kids and admonishing kids - all in a day's work.
But last night brought the whole incident back into thought.
I had a really 'bad' dream about Berklee.
I was already in Berklee. In fact, I was in a classroom in Berklee, doing a proficiency test or interview - it was not very clear. What I did know was that a r
Who needs to say anymore? BERKLEE! BOSTON! MASSACHUSETTS!
Currently doing up the sums and conversions for how much I've to pay for Berklee! I had seriously no idea that I'd get in. I thought I flunked the auditions very badly. XD
Oh, and what am I doing now, musically-wise? I'm trying to rush out a project with Imogen Heap's vocals in her Twestival participation. She released vocals she never used before, and now I've got her in a daydream land (hahaha!), swimming in clouds and all th
Anywho, me is sadded. My results came back, and they were dismal. For my final performance, my GPA fell from a 3.9 to a 3.8 (3.865 but I'm not rounding up), with 4 B+s outweighing the A and Distinction. At least my Final Year Project got the A, so I'm happy for that bit. Ah well.
But, at least I did myself proud for the two-and-a-half years before this. My lowest grade was a B, and that was just one in a mix of As and Distinctions. That was my lucky scrape, I guess. With 23 of 32 (flip-flop!
Time for a very good reality check.
School's almost out for me. Imagine that - 3 days, 3 more days, and I'm unofficially out of the polytechnic. The only next thing for me is part-time work at my past internship company (They found a nice Japanese restaurant near the workplace and promise me a trip!) and waiting for the dreaded results. I've the feeling I've done poorly for this semester, but I put full faith in my effort that things would come out all right.
More things - I'm now a *someh
I don't really know the meaning of 'Yuletide', though.
Merry Christmas, everyone! My MacBook has been returned from repairs, though I still suspect a few things still need to be tweaked.
And now it's Christmas - on this side of the globe. And I have a small present count, but that's okay. And today, the cinemas released a movie that I reallyreallyreally wanna watch: Ip Man! Kung-fu fighting on Christmas!
Right, now's time for the Christmas church service. Hope that everyone has a goo
Yes, I know I'm posting this on the night of Halloween. Everyone of you should be out there trick-or-treating, or at a Halloween party of sorts. I, on the other hand, am at home suffering a bad cold.
No need to pity me, but if anyone has Hack sweets, I'd love one or two.
I've only two things to offer, in celebration of the day of spooks.
Manai's Adventures: A while back, I wrote a line of short story thrillers/spook-tales about an Onu-Koronan girl named Manai, daughter of a trader nam
School's a pain. A seriously bad pain. The assignments are piling up, my final year project is due in 3 weeks and I still have nothing. My inspiration has dried, and I feel the loom of a comatose ready to swell over.
BUT - life isn't all that bad. I've finally taken an order in my non-existent order by using the 'Getting Things Done' system - and it's been working wonders. I'm actually getting things done!
I also had fun during the holidays I had. I went on a 3-day outing with my boyfri
There was once a time when my whole family was in a LEGO craze - at least for my brother and me. The BIONICLE sets (Olda and Nuva) came, and went. My brother made a horrible MOC of Gali Olda with brown arms, green legs, a clawed foot and 6 arms with weapons attached to her chest. I dismantled that piece before the nightmares could start.
There were other pieces too - some Technics parts (and I don't recall any of those!), some rather old LEGO parts (you know, the City kind and the old ones th
Finally, as of today, after a year and 4/5 months of waiting, I've finally moved back into my old - now new - home.
Even though I walked my rounds around the place over and over, I still am trying to get my bearings down straight. The house doesn't feel smaller, even though it is the result of the old house being halved. Adding a pseudo third storey made this place seem a lot bigger!
During the house-moving, I managed to get permission to sleep over in this gargantuan house between the two
Heeheehee.
I'm sure we're aware that the staff/Moderating Crew are getting their names constantly...renamed. By really fun themes.
But I burst out laughing when I found Omi as Unicron.
And Janus as Laserbeak.
And HH as Moonracer.
And Dr. B as Wheeljack.
Who are the rest? I want to see more Transformers around here! XD
(For those not in the know, I am a TF fan too. Wrote some fanfics for it too, mostly of the humour genre. Kee!)
(And for those not in the know, my holiday
My birthday just had to lie in a time where I was flooded with work - 9 assignments, gasp! - and was stressed to a breaking point.
The general wisdom is that, it's your birthday, it should be a happy day, you should be happy - others are telling you to have a 'Happy Birthday', aye? - but, I don't really feel it.
I felt spent and tired. The gifts did help - got a bottle of Estee 'Super Eau de Parfum' from my mum, a Queen CD from my sister, a tube of seaweed bath gel from a friend of Mum's,
I'm terribly moody in this recent period of time. Been thinking about a recent event that happened in the household of Kevin's that is related to my own.
His grandmother is in her last stages of lung cancer, like my own, but... her family isn't doing much good about it.
While my grandmother underwent treated care, his grandmother opted for pallative care. That's all right by me -
But when I heard that the family had dragged her out of her bedroom and made her stay in the unventilated l
It's been two short nights - really short nights. I had been sleeping at 2, past 2 sometimes, to rush out the first phase of my final-year-project.
I feel a nice, large headache coming my way, and it'll hit me hard the minute I submit this assignment. Even now, I feel groggy...
Who's Janice?
-<dd>
My grandmother has passed away peacefully - just as we hoped.
I've just survived the harrowing graveyard shift, watching over the premises of the wake site and all the flower wreaths. Staying up all night and not partying is not so fun, but the remaining relatives who stayed behind as well made good chat - until I K.O.ed halfway through the conversation.
I'm fine, and am providing support for my family as well. I'm past the bereavement stage, and I hope things can get back to norm soon.
I haven't been able to go online as frequently as I'd like to - I do miss coming here daily.
But, I felt my conscience drift to another matter, of greater importance and worry for me.
My grandmother, a patient of lung (and brain) cancer, has lapsed into her final days. I can feel the gloom hanging above her literally - she's silent, and hasn't taken a sip of water or a piece of food for... a while.
I feel a rant coming on, but it won't help my grandmother get any better.
We thought
Looking at the laptop screen at 1am at night, I was wondering why on earth was I going to such extremes for my results.
The exam results were released by email on Wednesday, but it seemed like everyone else had the same idea as I to start logging into their account at the stroke of 12.
And hence I was still trying to log in at 1 in the morning.
But, truth be told, I was nervous. Dead nervous. I recalled my lecturers taking me aside and telling me that either, 1) My performance was up t
I came, I saw, I conquered. In short, I had a blast during this year's Chinese New Year - there were lion and dragon dances this year, something the previous year didn't have. I visited more people - my boyfriend's aunt and her family for one. That was nerve-wracking, but it was fun in the end. And the hongbao (red packet) collecting, and the mahjong-playing.
I wish I could go into more detail, but now's not exactly the earthly hour.
But, just for a record:
Hongbaos collected: 28 (as of
