Beautifully Imperfect.: movies

Oh, Saturday.

day out Sunday, December 05, 2010

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Bloodied Crash Slam Bang Bang.

movies Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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So, today’s Monday and I am suffering from a severe case of Monday blues-itis. After only three hours of sleep Sunday morning, my body has not felt the same way again. This means I’m old, right? Blah. How can I not even be officially twenty-one and already have aching limbs from lack of sleep? I used to be able to function on four hours of sleep a few days in a row, no problem. These days I’m like this 50 year old woman who wants to lay in bed all day and cross-stitch and eat chocolate chip cookies for tea. Boo :’(

(Oh wait, I’ll probably have diabetes by the time I’m 50, so no chocolate chip cookies for tea for me. I’ll probably have to end up having sugar-free gluten wheat crackers for tea or something un-fun like that. Double boo.)

But, I digress.

I was randomly reading some Wikipedia page and somehow I ended up on Jordin Sparks’ wiki page and there was this part that mentioned Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic wrote her latest single Battlefield. Since Wiki links everything in their posts anyway, I clicked on Ryan Tedder and then clicked on Jesse McCartney from there because there was a paragraph on them co-writing Bleeding Love for Leona Lewis.

But no, the point of all that was not to share with you a rambling of this morning’s clicking trail on Wikipedia. The point of that was from Jesse McCartney’s page, I then saw this…

ZOMGGGGGG ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL! HOW COULD I NOT HAVE KNOWN THIS WAS COMING OUT? THE POSTER IS SOOOO CUTE!

Alvin and the Chipmunks was soooo awesomely cute. Especially fat little fluffy wai-sek Theodore whose nearly every move instigated loud “awwwww”-s from the females in the audience. I kid you not. I went to watch it in the cinema with Siokkwan and Sukkwan and I swear we awww-ed ourselves crazy. (And with every aww, there were groans from the guys in the cinema HAHA.)

Though, its due for release during Christmas this year, which is ages away. Oh but look, they even have new characters. According to what I gather from their wikipedia page, that bald (or rather, I think I remember him being bald) fella who exploited the poor adorable Chipmunks has now escaped from prison and tries to take revenge by making his new find, The Chippettes, famous. Ooooh, I wonder if they’ll have love interests now.

Hello boyfriend, so will you feel tortured if I make you watch this with me? :P

Okay this is wrong. I’m turning twenty-one in less than two months time so I really shouldn’t be getting so excited over a Chipmunk movie and devoting an entire post to it. Wtf. /shy

So... let's be a bit cooler and anticipate say, ~~Josh Duhamel mmmm~~ Transformers 2? Heh.

Shia LaBoeuf (LaBouf? LaBeouf? Uhh okay) looks so much buffer and scruffier in the new trailers compared to the first movie.

No seriously, I can't wait to watch Transformers 2 either. The little boys forced me to watch their DVD after I came back from Melbourne and shoved all their cool Transformers toys in my face explaining about this robot and that robot and somehow I got hooked too. Nowhere near being those hardcore Transformer lunatics of course, but still I really liked it. The other day while waiting at my pre-employment medical check-up, I picked up The Sun which had nearly a five to six page write-up on the movie. Reading it got me all excited (Which leads me to wonder, why do I excite so easily these days? Is work sucking all the life out of me?). And of course, the fact that my older brother talks about the movie and shows me downloaded trailers on a weekly basis isn't exactly helping either.

Of course, it helps that now that it’s only two days away! Not like we’d ever be able to get tickets to watch it so soon though; the front row ones are probably already all sold out and the crazy fans will probably all go to watch it twice. Anyone have premiere tickets they want to share with me? /puppy dog eyes

I think that’s enough excitement for today – back to reviewing boring documents blah. Ikea meatballs to look forward to for tonight yeay. :)

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Xoxo, We Love You.

day out Tuesday, March 24, 2009

I’m blogging at work into a Word doc to look a bit more inconspicuous at my cubicle. Stealth, ain’t I? Hee.

Yes, I’ve got a full time job already. But no, I don’t think I’m going to be talking about it much here. The Internet, as much as we frequent it and Facebook with it, is a scary tool and I’m pretty sure I don’t want my boss googling the company’s name or a project we’re working on and be led to my blog from searches. That would be scary. Especially if I’m being extra bitchy about things. Heh. And I certainly don’t want them to see my innermost (Well, as innermost as the blog gets anyway.) thoughts, hosts of pictures of what I do in my personal time…and camwhore pictures. :-S How bad would that be?

So what’s been up? Work has been very routine thus far. I keep on telling myself it’s just a matter of time before I manage to adjust from a twelve hour per week class schedule, to four month bumming-about holiday, to now an 8:30 am – 6:00 pm day, five days a week. I surely hope so. The first week I was constantly tired straight after work despite doing nothing, but now it’s a lot better.

And some people may think I'm nuts, but I miss Monash. Crazy as that sounds.

The weekend yesterday and the day before was crazily tiring but very fulfilling. The best friends and I slaved away Saturday morning onwards right through to the wee hours of Sunday morning and stood around for about eight hours for xoxo.chic at the 3K Inn Bazaar. I kinda don’t want to look at our stock for about another week or something like that, but the experience of our first offline sale at a bazaar was all very exciting. It was all worth it in the end because customers looked happy with their purchases, people walking past and saying how pretty our stuff were, and after the first very emo and slow hour, I think we all were really having fun with what we were doing. Extra thank-yous to Ed the full-time mirror boy, Adam the part-time mirror boy, Josh the name card boy and Sarah, the sweetest ever voluntary helper we could have had. And Yin, Kim, MT and Laura who dropped by :)

xoxo.chic's little corner. (Which got so crowded during peak hours! And which of course, made us very happy. Oh and I would also like to proudly mention that the three of us independently assembled our very-sturdy-racks all by ourselves without any male assistance :P)

Mary and Siokkwan hard at work.

Our double rack which holds the dresses and dressier tops.

Part time mirror boy who enjoyed his work a lot more than he should have. Ahem.

Haha! Ed still proudly carrying his mirror even in group pics.

There we go, that's better.

Siokkwan. And Ed's table clothes. :P

HAHAHAHAH BIL

<3.

Mary's parents came by when it was our busiest yet so he got tons of pictures for when our booth was packed. The above ones are during times when we were free to take a breather, laugh about stupid things and try to bargain with our next door neighbours on discounts for tee-shirts. Heh.

So nights this week are going to be for me to slowly catch up my TVB EU drama, get enough shut-eye and nurse my poor sore throat. Of course this is whilst the boyfriend works his five-day work shifts, possibly even gathering enough anecdotes and oddities to be able to write a book called The Memoirs and Pains of a Tray-Wielding Part-Time Waiter or something along those lines after all this is over; and whilst the best friends and I take a well-deserved break from the clothes in our stock. Haha.

This came in the email recently cause I think I'm on their mailing list. It's so rare to see Bobbi Brown not in neutral earthy tones. Such happy-pappy colours! I wantttt. Should I splurge on this with the first paycheck? Eep. Then again, maybe not. That's one whole large chunk gone. Maybe it'll have to wait till I pamper myself after a year's of working or something. :(

And since I'm being self indulgent, I also want to watch this! Movie adaptations never really quite work out as well as they'd all like and even though it's chick-lit there was so much going on in this first book that they'll never be able to be true to it. Will they even manage to portray the endearing ditziness of Becky Bloomwood and the mega perfect strapping tall dark handsome amazingly perfect Luke Brandon properly?

And because it would be awful to force a guy to watch two chick flicks in a row, I also want to watch this one. I watched the very first one with these original four on some crappy DVD from pasar malam (Yes, it was that long ago.) and then skipped the next two cause they looked really stupid. Heh. Second brother kept on replaying the trailer to this one that other day so now I'm excited to see it.

I think have to work this weekend cause it's the half-year closing stocktake...so I can now only look forward to next weekend sigh :'(

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Pretty Pretty People.

fangirl moment Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Now that school has once again reopened, I spent most of the afternoon helping Joel with his tatabahasa homework. My BM isn't the greatest but its still good enough for Standard 4 tatabahasa, thank god. Heh.

After finishing his homework, he turns to me, beams in appreciation and goes:

Joel: THANK YOU WEN KOR! You're such a princess, you know that?

Me: (kembangs for a few seconds, thinking wow, this kid sure is good with his compliments) Huh? Why?

Joel: Because you're not married yet la!

I blinked and stoned at him for awhile. Honestly, I love the way children minds work. It doesn't get any more o.O than that.

Oh well, means when I get married I will be the queen. MWAHAHAHAHAH

Sorry, getting a bit carried away with being royalty for awhile. Heh. :P

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Adam showed me a youtube vid the other day of this hilarious, stone-faced comedian doing a mime to Natalie Imbruglia's 'Torn' (which I nearly killed myself laughing at - the mime, I mean, not Natalie Imbruglia's Torn) and it is so SO SO hilarious. I watched it a few more times after that, still laughing, sent it to Josh and laughed about it somemore over MSN. Hee. I also sent it to Drew and he says it's an "old thing" but pfft, I'm a bit outdated. So if you haven't already seen it, give it a go.

"I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn..." *insert tearing motion here* HAHAHAH :D

Ahh, powers of Youtube.

The Internet is a great tool, but I think I do spend too much time on it for my own good. One thing leads to another and another and another and poof! your whole afternoon may be gone.

I was just randomly looking for a Twilight shot to put on the sidebar the other day and then I stumbled upon this huuuuuuge collection of gorgeous Robert Pattinson shots (For those of you who don't know, Rob Pattinson is the actor who plays the main character, Edward Cullen). And he's really quite the looker. I think it's the brooding, mysterious look. Classically good-looking, if you may.

I'm quite liking the book series. Twilight starts off really painfully slowly and trudges through a lot of trivial things, but the second half was arguably far better. And then things get better on from there on. I wouldn't say it's great great because it's not the page-turner I expected it to be, most definitely not like how I read Harry Potter from day to night non-stop, but it's still pretty good. At the heart of it, its actually essentially romance. With action and suspense and a dash of gore. Just a dash.

The movie on the other hand, was a pure disappointment. I know tons of people who love the movie because they haven't read the book, so it's one way or the other, I guess. It's love the movie and hate the book, or love the book and hate the movie.

BUT. THE. CAST. IS. GORGEOUS.

They're painted as such gorgeous creatures in the book, these vampires. They have flawless skin, and they glitter when they catch sunlight, have great hair and bodies and glide along gracefully. There's supposed to be this aura about them that's perfect.

They did a great job with casting, but then the movie didn't do their beauty enough justice, Rob Pattinson aside. I recognised Elisabeth Reaser from Grey's who was Esme but had no clue to how the other actually looked like sans thick vampire make-up. Look how pretty these people are.

See? And they all look like one big happy family. The human and the soon-to-be werewolf and the good vampires and the vampire baddies.

Haha, so cute.

Grrr I wish I could also spend my afternoon frolicking around in some field taking pictures for Vanity Fair and look as good as that. Instead, I'm wrestling with some stupid online job application system right now which won't work. Wtf.

I bet you didn't think James (played by Cam Gigandet who is the guy lying down), the vampire who bit Bella actually looked as good as that without the mean I-want-a-bite-of-you streak and his greasy, mangy looking ponytail right?

Hot boy sandwich. That's Kellan Lutz on the right who plays Emmett, Edward's brother whom ZH tells me is also on 90120.

HAHAHA damn funny. Rob Pattinson with the rest of the Twilight guys.

They actually do look really good together eh? Now if only they'd have more chemistry in the movie.

Oh well, as pretty as they are, I still say - read the books. And even if you want to watch the movie solely for the pretty? Get the DVD because the cinema version is so censored and choppy.

That's it for tonight, I'm going to go continue reading Breaking Dawn now :)

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On a Rainy Afternoon.

kids say/do the darnest things Friday, November 21, 2008

(Exams are finally over and Wendy Tan is a happy ~~wtf very very very busy~~ girl. But of course, it's a good kind of busy to occupy herself before she starts panicking about results in a week's time. Okay okay, I'll shut up now.)

It's been pouring and pouring and pouring. I vaguely remember loving the sound of rain pattering on my windows and the whole house just being dark. And then I'd go snuggle up on the sofa surrounded by pillows and daydream. Now, it's not that it's any less therapeutic, just that as you get older, realism seeps into some of those little vices.

Rain... it's still therapeutic, but not when it hinders bright and sunny afternoons perfect for shoplog photo-taking, not when it gets so heavy that I can barely see the road when I'm behind the wheel, and most definitely not when lightning fries up my modem. Which happens quite a lot, and it really annoys me to no end.

Mary was over for our usual photo routine but of course, this time the kids are all on school holidays which means we get an additional four rambunctious kids running around and hovering over us. I go upstairs to grab my camera and come down to Joel looking like this. So obviously, we had to get Josh in it too and voila! Two very glammed up, Jedi-gone-satin-looking kids.

HAHAHAHAHAHA. Obviously they had to have the lightsabre in there too. They're not the floral satin Jedis for nothing, you know. Heh.

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Yes, yes, I know. I'm a really boring blogger. There's a lot of things I want to jot down; end of exams, almost the whole world getting older in November, upcoming stuff, my fears of what's to come after this. I don't foresee any of those getting done. Heh.

I don't try to write for people. I don't try to think up interesting posts. I blog on a very superficial surface level; hence, there's really not much juicy stuff if you're looking for insight on me. For the friends over-the-seas who are looking to my blog for a form of update on my life, you really won't be getting anything at all. Maybe I just don't write with the same fluidity that I used to after three years of slogging through Accounting and Finance numbers. I whole-heartedly blame Monash for torturing me like that. Or maybe I'm just getting boring. At twenty! Geez.

On a different note, ABBA songs have been ringing and ringing... AND RINGING in my head for the past two days or so. I completely blame Mamma Mia!. (Okay, Drew, I'm sorry for all the shit I gave you about liking it so much because...oh well, it's ABBA and it's freaking catchy. Aiya, but you forgive me right. Hee.)

Of course, the strangest part is seeing Pierce Brosnan in a shiny, glittery jumpsuit...thing that looks like it has been painted on with a neckline reminiscient of J.Lo's plunging green Versace dress from many years ago. And ooh boy, when he opens his mouth to sing? Let's just say rewatching Bond movies will never be the same again. Much like how the vision of a padded-up singing John Travolta in Hairspray will always stay with me.

So, I came back and gave my Ares a good workout, downloading all the ABBA songs I could find. Happy-fying music. The older sister-in-law came into my room late that night while they were on repeat and gave me a funny look. "Errr Wen, why are you so old-skool tonight?", she asked. Heh.

But then of course, I told her why and then we spent the next five minutes talking about the movie and merry ABBA songs. She says I'm born in the wrong generation. -_-"

"Gimme gimme gimme, a man after midnight!" *sings*

Yes, and guy friends can just stop offering themselves to me after midnight on MSN now thanks. It's ABBA lyrics! HAHAHAHA.

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And on a side note, Bethany Joy Galeotti (also known as Haley on One Tree Hill) really has one of the prettiest voices I have ever heard. I've always thought so, but I just have to say it out loud because it's amazing. Sucks that she got dropped by her record company; I'm guessing it's because she's not commercial enough. Thankfully, the producers of OTH are letting her sing so much this season.

I don't know why I'm keeping up with OTH while abandoning all my other series. I'm way behind in Heroes and Grey's and what not. But not with OTH. Comfort zone, I reckon. Strange, isn't it?

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The TV Addict.

australia Monday, July 09, 2007

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Manic Monday.

birthdays Monday, April 02, 2007

...or not. Heh, got you there. I've been such a bum that it isn't even funny. Woke up past noon, bummed around, watched Music and Lyrics, which is such an awwwwww movie. Not a very productive Monday, I'd say. Definitely going to go do work tonight. MUST. Start. NERDING. NOW. Heh. Classes again tomorrow through to Thursday, not forgetting the very dreaded four-hour straight lectures in the same LT on whacked-up Wednesday, which is made a lot more bearable with dear Tricia.

So Thursday and Friday nights last week were spent crazily with the whole extended bunch of Clayton ppl because it was G-Mun's twentieth birthday! :) Thursday night was dinner at this Chinese restaurant in Springvale, and the Friday night was dinner at an awesome Italian restaurant called Sofia in Burwood, and then off to G-Mun's place for drinking and games. Vodka shots. Yumm. ;) Which was what inspired me to that drunken post that other day, really. I think I might have drunkenly key-smashed a few grammatically-incorrect sentences to Drew online, and left Nick a couple of others, and had a tipsy conversation with Bethany about Gary Neville. Oopsies.

Pics and all to come later, since I've since realised that my camera really, really, really sucks and because there are so many camwhores around, there definitely aren't a lack of photos. There's just a lag in between the event and when I actually get them all.

Ooh, umm, what else? We're off to Grampians during easter break. Road trip, whee. That should be loads of fun. I think almost twenty of us, if not more. It's like a mountain range-cum-national park in Victoria, which probably means loads of hiking/trekking? Uh oh. I haven't done anything like that since Leo/PBSM leadership camps which was more than two years ago. Gulp. Doesn't matter though, the company will be good, and that's what matters. Su and my brother told me that Grampians was a 'must-go' place when I'm here, so hopefully that's true.

Oh, speaking of Su and my bro, they're coming to Australia at the end of May to visit. YAY. Okay, so maybe not primarily to visit me, but that's partially it. Su's parents also stay here, somewhere in Clayton, so they're coming to visit them too. Awesome, because I miss them like crazy, and also because they have tons of empty space in their luggage which is going to be filled with MY stuff from home. *does happy dance* Never mind how I'm going to bring all my home stuff + new shopping stuff home at the end of the year. And I'll get to see the lil rascals. Joel, Josh and Amelia, who I hear can already stand and dance. Eeeee. She will be sho cuuuuutte. I'm so excited, you can ask Serena just how many times I have said, 'when my brother comes in May...'. LOL.

Oh, and one last thing. Remember that application I was talking about awhile ago? The one where I applied for a spot on the Welfare Committee of Monsu Caulfield? Well, yep. I got it. :) Maybe because no one else applied, but oh well, wish me luck. This will be good for me, help me to meet even more people, because I'm sure as hell going to make the best of my year here. Without failing anything, might I add. Heh.

I know my posts have been so boring without pictures and stuff. Sorry people.

Psst- A very, very, VERRRRRRRRYYYYYY happy birthday to Ms. Loong Sheng Mae. Sheng, I'm so glad that we both went to the Leo leadership camp and got to know each other better there... things wouldn't have been the same without you there, eating your fish so clean that the cat wouldn't take it, breaking our McKynders raft into half, and screaming so much on the rope-thingy activity that it was so funny. And of course, I'm just as grateful as you for being the Leo I.U. Director to my fussy, frazzled, frantic self. :P May you have a wonderful year being twen-teen, babe! See ya soon :)

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Movies, Music, Weddings & Randomness.

family Friday, January 05, 2007

Bundled off to 1U today with Sharmin, Manda and Karen, for a movie, Night at the Museum. Heh, I thought it was pretty hilarious. Started off a little slowly, probably establishing stories and what not, but it was damn funny. I don't know if you'd like it if you don't like Ben Stiller, since a lot of people tend not to, but Owen Wilson and this other actor, who plays Octavius, will probably make you giggle. And oh, Robin Williams is in it too. Probably one of the better comedies I've seen recently.

Give it a try.

We had sushi for lunch, finally satisfying my crave for sushi since New Year's Eve. Yumm. I love sushi. We just kept on taking the dishes off the conveyor belt like it's free. It's bad for the wallet, because people just tend to keep on taking, and taking, and taking, not realising the colour of the plate, which indicates how much each dish is. Take first, pay later.

Not to worry when you have Ms. Karen Lim a.k.a. future super accountant around.

Karen: Right now, each one have to pay about 11 to 12 bucks each.
Sharm: Let's eat until 15 each lah. *pauses* Wait, tax leh?
Karen: (very as-a-matter-of-fact-ly as though she does it all the time - wait, she probably does) I already included it in.
Us: Omg, Karen!

Went off to Toys R' Us to walk around, looking for the Taboo with the new cards, but it was all sold out. Darn. We all wanted to chip in and buy one, since we managed to finish all the cards in one day, both the green and purple sides. Madness. It was fun, looking at the toys. Reliving our childhood days. We found out that Karen hated Barbie dolls when she was younger, hee. Tossed a couple of balls around, messed with the styrofoam swords in the middle of aisles and debated about the many different kinds of water floats, while Sharm checked out the ~~male~~ models on the cover of the water float box. I'm sure the people at the counter, watching the CCTV monitor, would have been very amused. :D I sure would have been.

Came home, and the kids were still around. Joel and Aaron were having a cold war because Joel didn't give Aaron the toy even when he asked nicely and Aaron boxed Joel in the chest. LOL. It sounds so funny typed out like that. They wouldn't eat in the same rooms, or talk to each other. I don't know why, but I just found the whole thing so amusing.

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*phone rings and Joel answers*
Joel: Hello? Who do you want to speak to? *pauses* Sandy or Wendy? *pauses again* SAN KOR!!!
Sandy, my sister: Huh? My call?
Joel: (asks again) Who do you want to speak to? *pauses* SAN KOR!!
Sandy: Huh? Who's that? (meaning who's that on the line)
Joel: (gives her a -_-" look) YOU LARRR! Your name is San Kor wat!

Bwahahaha.

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Ming wants a Star Wars themed wedding. LMAO. I can't remember what he will be, but Ching is supposed to be Amidala, Ching's dad will dress up as Darth Vader. And their wedding vehicle will be a Starship thingy. And the priest will be Yoda. "Kiss the bride, you may." Heh! And the little ringbearer and flower girls will dress up as Ewoks. And even more fittingly, we already have been calling one of his groomsmen Jar Jar Binks all this while ANYWAY.

Mary, Siokkwan, Suki - this is our bridesmaid outfit.

Instead of your usual run-of-the-mill rose bouquets, the bridesmaids get to carry these. Fun, fun, fun. If I don't like the groomsman I'm paired with, I can zap him. Bwahaha.

Ringbearers and flowergirls.

Jar Jar Binks will be Ming's groomsman. That's you, Mr. Tan Wenxue! :D

Ching's wedding gown. :P

The father of the bride. LMAO.

The priest. "Dearly beloved, gathered here today to witness the holy matrimony of Lee Ming Hao and Tan Chia Ching, we are."

Ching's so not gonna marry him already. :P

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Just for fun, thought I'd do a list of my top few songs on repeat at the moment.

In no particular order,

1. Saosin - You're Not Alone (Awesome, awesome song)
2. Katharine McPhee - Over It (Her first single off her album post-American Idol. Chris Daughtry says 'It's Not Over', while she claims she's 'Over It'. Okay, okay. Lame, lame, I know. Hang out too much with Nick already)
3. James Morrison - Undiscovered (Enough with the James Blunt comparisons already. I like Morrison a lot better.)
4. Jason Mraz - The Beauty in Ugly (Catchy, as always)
5. Frankie J feat. Mannie Fresh & Slim Thug - That Girl (Clubbingggg. :P)
6. Evermore - Light Surrounding You (Pretty, pretty song)
7. Take That - Patience (Their comeback song, heh. Like Sharm says, they must be dead broke, hence the comeback)
8. Teddy Geiger - These Walls (He surprisingly sounds like Gavin DeGraw here, which is why I like it so much)
9. The Dandy Warhols - We Used To Be Friends (Theme song to Veronica Mars - which btw, is an awesome show)
10. Something Corporate - Me and the Moon (Piano-driven rock; Andrew McMahon, who fronts Jack's Mannequin, this is his other band.)
11. Vega4 - Life is Beautiful (Has a very Snow Patrol sound)
12. Smith Point - Goodbye (Good alt rock song)
13. The Veronicas - I Could Get Used To This (More catchy melodies)
14. The Perishers feat. Sarah McLachlan - Pills (Awesome.)
15. The Spill Canvas - Staplegunned (Obscure band in Malaysia, but pretty big in the States)

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Awww, K Vin just messaged me three long text messages because he thought I was leaving on the 8th of January! It's okay, K Vin, I'll save those awesome messages and read again when it's February. ;)

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Going to get laptop and new specs tomorrow. Purchasing things with money that doesn't belong to me is always fun, no? :D

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I don't think I'm very good as this new Blogspot labels feature because I'm so random, and trying to label my entire post will be a headache, LOL. Look at how many labels I've put for this post!

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