'Cap'n! What gives? We don't care about your jar o' dirt or money, we just wanna see the ship!'
The aforementioned man, in his leather hat, billowing white shirt and tanned pants, swayed slightly aboard the ship, and took another swig from his bottle of rum.
'You,' he started, staggered slightly and caught himself from tumbling overboard, 'ain't steppin' on this deck.'
'We don't want your ship either,' the other girl beside the first one added in.
'Ya ain't comin' up.'
'Well, watc
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
In an accident while deleting obsolete programmes, I deleted Adobe Flash Player from my laptop.
Wise move, I can't watch online videos unless I download them and I do not need to lose space on this laptop. I may need a larger hard disk for this laptop.
But, it was a blessing in disguise.
While everyone else in class was browsing the video sites and watching young music talent surpassing their own talent, I found myself unable to do that.
Instead, during that break, I took up a note
When I step into deviantart, a bombload of pictures greet me. Nearly all of them have one thing in common.
They all have been processed through a high-end digital image renderer of some sort. It could've been Painter, or MS Paint (for dot-dot pics), or what I've just acquired - Photoshop.
My twin discovered my recent upgrade of personal technology gadgetz, and we went a little crazy with some slipshot work.
Pic 1
Then we found an old picture.
Pic 2
Then I plucked up a little co
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
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
Intellectual Property - the laws of copyright and moral rights - should never be taken lightly. My 'Business of Music' lecturer made sure we knew that - by giving us our toughest assignment yet.
He made everyone in Never-Ever Land downright criminals, stealing the melody motif (Mi Re Do) of 'Three Blind Mice'. It somehow got so twisted that at least 3 songs have been produced out of it: 'Gold From Straws', 'Gold-i-locks', 'Climb These Locks', and all the planned cover versions of those songs,
Lord Survourlourde still hates me.
This is my sixth attempt, I think, to post up a blog post. And as you may've seen, I double-posted on the last round.
The server renewal is a good thing - but it is not a good thing for my account.
That, and I can't send PMs out.
Nasty, this. Nasty.
-<dd>
Maybe you all can help me stop brooding about this bit of life's ironical trivia.
Right now, there's an obessesion around the world about one particular culture - Japanese culture. Cultures maybe, seeing as it branches off into more categories than I have fingers.
As far as I know, it's literally taking the world by storm. My friend, who digs anime and manga, got me a Death Note notebook as a present (I didn't tell you about that, did I?), I love Japanese cuisine to bits, I do know some an
I don't know if I oughta be happy or worried.
It all started with that first 'Epic critics club' made by a member who had lost interest of BZP in a matter of weeks and disappeared. Acclaimed authors and total new faces to BZP's writing scene joined in as critics, and were left in the lurch.
Many of them left the job altogether. I did as well.
Until someone, by the name of Twenty-Two, restarted it.
I still had interest in such a venture in the Library, so I expressed my interest to he
A while back, I blogged about my late grandmother's passing. Sympathies all around.
Now share with me the rage!
My mum finally broke it to us - my grandmother died of complications from the speech therapist. She insisted that it'd be fine that my grandmother spoke, her head tilted backwards. Well, water rushed into her lungs due to that treatment and led to a high fever. In fear of her fever my mum starved my grandmother, complications arose and then she died. Of that. Not of her cancer. S
Music Theory is a chore
It's way much worse than a bore
To read each note in the score
Like staring at ants on the wall (and you can't squish 'em)
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Don't ask. Ask my lecturer who was smart enough to load us all with music theory exercises. With the current assignments that are bearing us down, this one is the heaviest and most urgent for now.
But... but... music theory! Egads, you don't know how painful it is until you sit down for one hour straight just to work on it - and only be an
I'm finally old enough to drink in America. But that's not important - I don't like drinking anyway. Birthday was a little meh, until I had dinner out and romped around town with my boyfriend, taking in the sights and sounds of the places my previous age wouldn't have let me close to. Now I realize it's not as much a hoot as others make it, so I'm happy, curiosity satisfied, and amused by a techno-didgeridoo player busking on a bridge.
As for birthday thoughts, there's just one reflection I
When school kick-started again on Monday, I think my brain gave way.
Because on Tuesday, a few events that could be related to senility occured to me.
When I got to school, I knew that I had to be at a class by 8... but I forgot which class that was.
I assumed it was Subject X, and went to the classroom.
It was housing the juniors.
Taking my leave, I tried to think of what was that class I had to attend to, but my mind was blank.
I grabbed an ice lemon tea and sat at the f
So that was why they made me person-in-charge of Publicity's stunt in Co-Curricular Activity Week.
To make me suffer for the brunt of problems coming from the higher-ups.
A day away from the deadline, and everything went haywire and crosswire.
The previous day, I met up with the other member whom I assigned Poster duty, and we both hand-drew three posters and took up the whole day doing so, in the process nicking my wrist with a blade that was unlawfully placed in the open, having a b
Yes, if you are working, for the first time, in an intensive office job.
There were a few rules that I had to learn and iron out into my schedule and attitude. Here are a few that I found most positive.
1) Never mind if the staff and people around you are apathetic and cold. They're scared of you. Really. They won't talk to you until you've passed The Second Week mark. How I discovered that? After two weeks did the guy who sat behind me in the office cubicle offer his tapioca chips to me,
Many tourists come to my little home, and leave after seeing every single thing in the tourist map and being the least impressed, along with a nasty sunburn from wearing khaki shorts and Hawaiian-shirts.
They often miss out on one feature that we have and America doesn't have - a night market.
No, really. Of all markets, this is the oddest one of them all. The pasar malam (Go look up the Wiki.) is a special occurence. One just opened near my grandma's home - today being Saturday - so I pop
Something sensible came into mind. It's just a question, BZP-related, Library-related, but oh so interesting...
Do you notice that the number of reviews can never overtake the number of views, and reviews mean :
'People who viewed and had something good and sensible to say'?
Yes, I'm STILL bored. (It was so bad that I thought Tuesday was Monday.)
Well, the day's fast approaching for many to keep the cobwebs, to find all the black and orange paint, to find large pumpkins and prepare a good stash of candy to give trick-or-treaters or to give your haunted house a good prep and run-through.
I don't celebrate it, but I find it really fun. Even if I miss out on the action, and Singapore really doesn't dig Halloween so much as some big exams occur right after it. (For those in the know, it's the A Levels and O Levels, all important to get y
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 have two things to be relieved about.
Firstly, the co-curricular activity (CCA) project has been cleared. With direction, we managed to solve the problem just today! I spent my entire day on the laptop and finally came up with the solution, and insurance. Insurance.
Secondly, my holidays have come to an end. Tomorrow, I finally return to a NORMAL life: Lectures, tutorials and a lot of music-playing and composing.
What I accomplished over the holidays were, surprisingly, satisfying: I
Nothing gets to me worse than being an office zombie. Sure, I can think of worse things to bug me but being an office zombie bugs me.
Three of five days of the week were spent in an office, cold and chilly no thanks to the central air-conditioning system and monotonous in flow.
It's a fact that often, office job holders get a big lot of cash and their temporary staff too.
I decided to give it a go.
For the record, I've timed, in 3 days, a little more than 15 hours. They charge a good
Slowly but surely, the weary girl trudged along, surprisingly ahead of the companion who was with her, but it was no real surprise if the companion was your grandmother.
"The place is closed! The door's closed!"
The girl looked up at her grandmother's Mandarin comment, her head slightly bobbing at the door. The clinic was closed, wasn't it?
Oh no, she saw the crop of some nurse's head bob around through the glass panel on that door.
She hated the clinic, but she could not dismiss
Yesterday was a day of achievement for me, and it was not just the SSC#4 Honourable Mention.
- I got my results for two major tests. Both clinched ‘A’s.
- My 'students' passed. One even cried his thanks out loud, with the teacher watching on.
But, now... oh gosh, the electone exam's a-coming, in 6 days!
I should be practising right now, but there're people my parents invited over downstairs and they're discussing in the room where the electone is.
That and my electone is a safety
