Beautifully Imperfect.

That would come in handy. I wish I could pull of one of those. No, but seriously speaking, you really need to check this one out.

Chris Daughtry - Cover of Lady Gaga's Poker Face


Can you just say MUSIC. GOD. Wow. He does Lady Gaga stripped better than Lady Gaga herself.

It doesn't matter if he's singing about Russian roulettes and folding 'em, the twang of guitar strings always make me feel better. Plus, he's attractive as hell.

This post was supposed to be about how happy and well I'm feeling but it's strange how you can go from one extreme to another so quickly. Oh well.

Here's another pretty interesting remix for the road. You'll love it, especially if you're a Twilight fan since it's actually some Twilight fanvid. But the song, that's Taylor Swift's Love Story mashed up with OneRepublic's Apologize. Makes for a great dramatic Twilight Edward/Bella video, strangely.


Aww.

Ohohohohohohoho. This is funny.

Through my whole blog-span, I've only had one (or two, as she claims the later ones weren't her - doesn't matter) insulter-cum-chatterbox- abuser on my poor flooble chatterbox (who's since been laid to rest since I traded her in for my new spiffy tagboard who doesn't PMS as often). Turns out I actually knew who she was and turns out she was actually dumb enough to use one of my best friend's computer to spam, who obviously did some super-sleuthing and traced it back to her.

Unfortunately for her, I tend to remember these acts of stupidity very well.

And now she wants to be "friends" on Facebook. Whatever for is beyond me. I've started to not add people I don't know all that well because Fb's getting rather personal at times anyway. But for some reason I'm finding this funny. :P (Ehhh finding this funny is a lot better than going all high-school-Mean-Girls-bitch, right.) Just a little ironic, I thought.

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On a very random note, why is Chris Brown's voice so sexy? Case in point: Superhuman feat. Keri Hilson. It's already been on repeat for almost a week, gosh. If I wasn't supposed to be studying right now, I'd youtube him to see if he sings as well live. Because come on, sounding awful live is such a turn-off.

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My blog is being so black and white so far that even I am surprised.

OMG. All of the following is happening in Week 7, i.e. Big Bad Week after Easter Break.

Accounting Info Systems & Financial Modelling assignment due on Monday.

Cost Info for Decision Making mid-sem exam on Wednesday.

Money and Capital Markets assignment due on Friday.

If my name gets randomly picked tomorrow, then I will also have my Cost Info presentation that week, on Thursday.

Shoot me now. Someone.

Someone start choosing what you're going to write on my grave, thankyouverymuch.

Edit: The beats of Timbaland, Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake's Give It to Me are ringing in my head and are keeping me from doing tutorial work. Go away, addictive song. Shoo.

How many of you remember Elliott Yamin from last season's American Idol? Siokkwan, remember him?


Cute pic. The top four from last season. Elliott, Taylor, Katharine and Chris.

I was rooting for Chris and Elliott all the way. Shucks. Neither of 'em won. You know, the person I root for NEVER wins American Idol. Ever. I definitely was NOT rooting for Fantasia. I liked Carrie, but preferred Bo (but Anthony Fedorov was shoooooo cuuuuute). And then in Season 5, Taylor won. Darn. How did that happen?

Anyway, while the other Idol contestants from his season came out with albums, Elliott sat in the sidelines, apparently waiting for record companies to sign him. I, personally do not understand how he was not snapped up immediately. I love that Chris was signed almost immediately, but Elliott should've been too! If Kellie Pickler can get a record deal, so can he.

Come on. He's such a genuine, sweet guy. I'm saying this like I know him personally, but how could you watch Idol and not like him? He and his mother seem like the sweetest people ever. I cried like a little baby when he got voted out. Because there's just something in him that makes you see that he wants it so bad. The passion, the love for singing, the awe that America voted him that far, it's all so evident.


Aww.


Why is it that he can post like that and not look lala?


Debut album!

But anyway, that isn't the point. The point is, he FINALLY has a record album out. And I love his voice. It just has that silky-yet-raspy (although don't ask me how that is possible) quality to it.


Elliott and his new song, 'Wait For You'. Go listen!

*Wendy melts away into a little gooey puddle* Guhhhhhhhhhh.



Psst, Elliott! You need a haircut though. Just sayin'. Look at how much better your hair used to look.

And since I'm on the topic of Idol, lemme gush somemore about Chris Daughtry. Happy sigh.


Chris Daughtry. OMG. I think this was when he sang that Bryan Adams song. *melts somemore*

How is it that this guy finished fourth on Idol is still beyond me. He has everything it takes to be an American Idol. The entire package. The look, the voice, the talent. Everrrrrything.


But maybe it's better for him that he didn't win. Who knows what the producers would've done to him? They may have manufactured him into some bubble-gum pop tearin'-up-my-heart dancing guy. Which is very shudder-inducing. Yes, he would have made the Idol single his own, and made it awesome in his own right, but do you really want to hear him sing Taylor's 'Do I Make You Proud'? Cheese-fest.


Chris' It's Not Over. Have to say I prefer this video over Elliott's debut. Hey, does that girl in the video look like Theresa from the O.C. to you guys? Also, umm, hellooooo leather pants.

What makes me happier than just Elliott or just Chris?

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Chris AND Elliott singing together! :D *squees like a little fangirl*


The both of them giving a Nickelback song some love.


Gah. Duets are love. And yes, you all probably already know how I feel about guys and guitars now. :P


And since I'm posting pictures...


Wackiness.


Doesn't it make you happy to know that you're not the only camwhores in the world? Lol. Hee. They're so adorable.


More hamming it up for the cam.

Don't you just love pic-spams? Not if you're on dial-up, but still. :D

This is what happens when I'm all the way here without MTV or Channel [V] and when Youtube is my only source of music videos. Layan a bit lah.

In other news - presentation for Money and Caps went okay today. Phew.

Lol. Am I the only one who finds it so funny that I love my reality tv and can ramble on about it for so long and only have one line to write about my day? HEH.

Till then, I love you all long time. =)

The Internet is co-operating today. It's not up to optimum speed, but it's being slightly better today. So, random thoughts, here we come.

It is damn bloody hot today. Omg. You would think I would be completely used to the heat, being a Malaysian and all, but it is crazily unbearable today.

I think I'm going to melt soon, and that my clothes drying in the backyard will soon start a bonfire. It is THAT hot.

I miss fans and air-cons and my house's marble floor downstairs, where no matter how hot it was outside, it would still be cold. :(

HOT. It was so effing cold on Tuesday and I was in shorts and five minutes into the walk to class, it RAINED. And now, just a few days later, it is hotter than Malaysia.

I swear, the weather here PMS-es very regularly.

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Eve, a.k.a. the Tai Soh, told me that she sold the Honda Civic. *throws a tantrum*

The super sexy black Honda Civic which all the guys, without fail, drool over everytime they come to my house. Which she said she would keep for me to drive when I came back.

SOLD. SOLD. How cannnnnnnnnn?


Bye bye, Honda Civic. It was fun while it lasted. :'(

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Looks can be deceiving. Do not judge a book by it's cover. Nothing is ever what it seems.

And... I am a bigger bitch than you think I can be. Do NOT push my buttons. Friends back home can vouch for this.



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YAY, going to go see Ching tonight! Gone are the days when I could just pop next door. So it's to the Melb Uni night market first, with Serena and the rest, and then over to Ching's place. *is excited*

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Do you all find Patrick Dempsey-slash-Dr. Derek Shepherd-slash-McDreamy on Grey's Anatomy hot? I... am kinda mehhh about him. I was watching Entertainment Tonight on our crappy, fuzzy tv yesterday and apparently he topped their list of sexiest men on TV.


Dr. McDreamy.

I mean, he's ooooooookay.

But I can probably list you five actors off the top of my head who are sexier than he is.


Justin Chambers who plays Alex Karev, also on Grey's.

Give me Dr. Alex Karev anyday.

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I cooked spaghetti last night. :D

And the night before, we had lemongrass chicken and stir-fried veggies.

It was too good, that I didn't have any time to take any pictures. :D

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I have Money and Capital Markets presentation next week. And it's so hot that I can't even bring myself to open the textbook. How is anyone expected to STUDY in this heat?

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Random new song recommendations:

Landon Pigg - Great Companion
Stefy - Orange County
Youngbloodz - Imma Shine
The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
The Spill Canvas - Sunsets and Car Crashes
Secondhand Serenade - Awake
Anything by Chris Daughtry :P

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Some of you might remember that I used to write for the school mag and the college mag. Some of you Sharm might remember that I used to write fics. Hee. Some of you will also probably remember me wanting to be a journalist before I chose business and commerce.

The point is, I used to love writing. But now, I can just open up a posting window in Blogger and stare at it for ages, the blinking cursor mocking me.

Have I lost what little flair I once possessed for writing? Stringing words into sentences that do not sound like they have been written by a ten-year-old seems like a chore sometimes. I sent in an application for a spot on the student union committee, which I probably won't get anyway, and just answering 'Do you have any previous experience in student representation?' took me a whole twenty minutes.

Inspiration for little stories used to come to me, but it doesn't visit anymore.

Inspiration has forgotten all about me. :(

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Evermore performed at the Australian GP last weekend. John Mayer is coming in April. Ben Kweller is performing soon, I think. Nikola Sarcevic just played a couple of weeks ago. and according to Cath, Rachael Yamagata will be in Singapore soon. Okay, not that it really affects me in any way since I'm all the way here, but I just wanted to throw in that little fact. Lol.

So many musical acts, so little money.

I am broke. POKAI. Empty-walleted.

Why oh why, did I go buy those two dresses?

My little voice in my head says: Because they are really pretty and you will be kicking yourself if you don't buy them.

I hate you, little voice in my head who justifies shopping.

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That's enough random-ness for the time-being, no? :) Send my love to everyone, guys.

Edit: Spoke too soon; the Internet is now misbehaving again. Bluek.

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!

I am smelling the air of freedom and non-existent classes and exams. Hee!

Quick, quick update on what I've been doing thus far:

Sleeping. You just cannot get enough of this after exams. I'm paying my pillow back for all the lost hours of sleep. It has missed me dearly.

Precious TV time. One Tree Hill. Grey's Anatomy. Both of which have amazing new seasons. Should go watch. I'm trying to burn OTH for you, Mary and Suki, but there's something wrong with my craptulent CD burner. Healing Hands III! Heh. Amazing Race. I'm going to try to download Veronica Mars and Prison Break because everyone tells me it's oh-so-fantastic, but we'll see, because I'm kinda running out of disk space.

Buddies. I have missed hanging out with everyone so much. I spent over three hours just sitting with Siokkwan at a mamak and catching up with just about everything under the sun. How many people can you just sit with for a long, long time and still not run out of things to say? (Don't roll your eyes and say that I could never run out of things to say, okay? Heh. I can, too.)And then, we went out after that with Jo and Mary and Nick, got a couple of beers and just chilled. I'm going to miss little things like this if I go to Australia next year.

More buddies. Caught up with Sharmo, Manda, Karen and Mun Fong a few days after that. We went to watch this play at KLPAC. It's called 'The Odd Couple' and it stars Bernie Chan, Samantha Schubert and Elaine Daly, and a few other people which I'm ignorantly unaware of in the Malaysian performing arts scene. If you haven't been to KLPAC, it's actually a very pretty place. It's in the Sentul Park, which is a really gorgeous big landscaped park. It was raining, or else there would be pictures, but really, go check it out. It's really gorgeous at night, all lighted up. The insides of the centre is really pretty as well, very cost-minimal (words out of Mun Fong, the Limkokwing design student, so you know it's correct-lah) and very modern-looking.



I enjoy watching plays and musicals and stuff like this, so it was good to be able to go. It was just okay, IMO. The ending was just rather strange, and abrupt, and could have been different, I suppose. Elaine Daly was rather good, I must say. And before you look at the poster and think 'oh, how lesbo-looking', let me clarify and say that it's not! LOL.

Karaoke. Zhen Han, Mel, Bryan and I left straight to Pyramid after the Law paper for lunch. Went to this place, whose name kinda eludes me right now, but they have really good authentic Indian food. Almost like the stuff I had in India. Atmosphere's quite good. Comfy cushions and water running down one wall, and invert-comma salt and pepper shakers. Heh. Don't ask. Met up with Aaron after that and we went to Red Box. I have converted these people into Red Box lovers. Hee. We are a muhibah bunch. Everyone sings English songs. Zhen Han and Aaron can sing Mandarin songs. I sing Malay songs. Mel sings Japanese songs. Bryan, to round things up, put on some Bollywood song. LMAO. So, on the 2nd of November, there were five sesat people geleng-ing our heads to some Hindi song called 'Hey Brother!'. Omg. Hilarious stuff. The best songs to sing in a karaoke are the old school type though. You know, Backstreet Boys, Westlife, Spice Girls, Boyzone, stuff like that. Singalong classics. Everyone knows those. This time it was Aaron's turn to solo (When he wasn't too busy looking at the pictures behind the words, that it. you know what I mean!), because Darren was still having exams. :D

Clubbing. Went to let loose in Maison's after our last paper. It was like a Monash reunion there, let me tell you. Saw Pohyee, Caryn and gang outside, and inside we met Shawn, Kar Wai, Joy and more Monash people. Met Diane and Eugene, who was having his 19th birthday on that day, there too. And a lot of other familiar faces. Always seem to bump into Diane at clubs, actually, come to think of it. =P Awesome fun. It always is. Ladies night too. Came home, bathed, and just collapsed.

Babysitting. Little Amelia is so adorable. Her hair's grown longer, so it's not as spiky as before, and is all curly and pretty now. Hee. Have been playing board games with the boys. Their favourite is 'Who's the Boss', which a little like Monopoly. I don't think they quite mastered the whole idea of giving money and receiving change.

Me: Okay, you give me 50, 000, so I have to give you back 5,000, okay, Joshua?
Joel: Yerr, why Joshua so good one? Give money and can get back money one?
Me: (goes into a long-assed explanation about change)

*ten minutes later*

Joel: Nah, Wen Kor. 30,000.
Me: But it's only 10,000, boy. (tries to take 10,000 dollar note from him)
Joel: Dowanlah. Give you this one, because I want to get back money. So good.
Me: -_-"

*goes on until my bank runs out of small change*

Entertaining, I tell you.

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My dad is being anal about letting me use the car. I don't understand why. I had a huge fight with him that other night over driving. Why is it that he doesn't let me take the car out? Why is it that he doesn't let me drive to college? He always gives me lame-assed excuses about needing the car, or some other crap and it's honestly bullshit. My sister has this theory about him wanting to still be involved in my life, and him possibly feeling left out or something like that. I mean, I can try to understand that. I have possibly a lot of freedom when it comes to going out compared to a number of people, but all I'm asking for is the ability to get around myself sometimes. During the freaking day. I'm not even asking to drive at midnight, because I know my mother will be worried sick. Just in the day. I'm tired of asking people to give me lifts here and there. I feel bad for always hitching rides from Jo, Ching, Siokkwan, Sharm, Manda, Zhen Han, Darren and everyone else. I feel bad, and I'm sorry.

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I am a dork... because it isn't even mid-November and I'm already in the Christmas mood. Heh. Listening to Christmassy songs make me all happy. Let me spread the joy with some songs; uploaded some Christmas songs by some mainstream & indie artists.

Copeland - Do You Hear What I Hear
Jack Johnson - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Avril Lavigne & Chantal Kreviazuk - O Holy Night
Bright Eyes - Blue Christmas
Eisley - The Christmas Song
Mandy Moore - Walking In a Winter Wonderland
Ron Sexsmith - Maybe This Christmas
Low - Just Like Christmas
The Used - Alone This Holiday
Emery - The Last Christmas
Plain White T's - Seasons of a Lifetime
Leona Naess - Christmas
Kelly Clarkson - O Holy Night
The Ravonettes - The Christmas Song
Barenaked Ladies & Sarah McLachlan - Christmas Medley
Smashing Pumpkins - Christmas Time
Aly & AJ - The First Noel
Aly & AJ - We Three Kings
Eve 6 - Noel
Relient K – I Celebrate the Day
Sufjan Stevens - We Three Kings
Dandy Warhols - Little Drummer Boy
Dido - Christmas Day
Jewel - Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
Sixpence None the Richer - It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Something Corporate – Forget Christmas
Death Cab For Cutie - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Hem - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Gavin DeGraw - Silver Bells
Gavin DeGraw - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Jimmy Eat World – Last Christmas
The Perishers – Blue Christmas
Tyler Hilton – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Rachael Yamagata – River
U2 – Christmas (Please Come Home)
Keane - White Christmas
Matthew Ryan - Little Drummer Boy
Fall Out Boy - Yule Shoot Your Eye Out
Coldplay - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Sense Field - Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
Switchfoot - Evergreen
Vanessa Carlton - Greensleeves
Eels - Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas
Sheryl Crow - Run Rudolph Run
Sheryl Crow - Blue Christmas
Phantom Planet - Winter Wonderland
Jimmy Eat World - 12.23.95
Pilate - Fairytale in New York
Jack's Mannequin - The Lights and Buzz
Belle and Sebastian - O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Snow Patrol - When I Get Home For Christmas
Rooney - Merry Xmas Everybody

Sarah McLachlan also has a gorgeous Christmas album out called Wintersong. Try getting it.

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Till next, Wen loves you. =)

Sundays always seem kinda slow, for some reason. It's that day where you kinda get the afternoon to yourself, but somehow you always get this niggling feeling at the back of your head that there's class tomorrow, isn't it?

I should be burying my nose in between the pages of my irritating-to-read Marketing textbook, but it's kinda chemical-ish stinky, and it makes me wanna sneeze. Annoys the hell outta me. How am I supposed to study like that? My mid-sem is on Tuesday, no!

I'm waiting for my lecture notes to download from the Monash Online site, but it's taking me almost forever, and it'll probably take me another decade to print them out, because I swear my printer hates me. It's so darn slowww. My comp likes to pause on me too. My brother says that I might need somemore RAM, whatever the hell that is. I'm so un-computer savvy that it's not even funny.

I found this short song by an artist called Rosie Thomas, called You and Me, and it's just so simple and beautiful. It's just her pretty voice, a piano, and a little production. Not too much, but just right. Try the link. A shame when people like this aren't making it, while all Paris Hilton has to do is prance around in a bikini with her digitally altered voice and sell records.

No, the stars aren't blind, they're just deaf.

Paris Hilton on her (hopefully one and only) album: "I, like, cry, when I listen to it, it's so good."

Excuse me while my eyes roll to Kelantan and back I change the topic.

On a different note, Man Utd won their third game in a row last night. Idiot commentator noted that they also won their last three games last season, and lost the next three. Choyyyy, touch wood.

The slides have finally finished downloading, so I best be going. Be back soon.

Okay. So I'm a football-watching, screaming, shouting, cursing person. That's the beauty of football, lol. It makes my blood pressure race. And there's this great adrenaline rush.

Watched two matches yesterday. Chelsea vs. West Ham. And Man Utd vs. Arsenal.

Talk about football, man.

Both title contenders started off pretty badly. Chelsea only played better after they lost one man, and Man Utd finally got back into the game after Arsenal made a very fluid start.

The games were great to watch in the essence of football. Even though it's very clear that I'm not a Chelsea fan, I am still perfectly capable of watching a good game of football and appreciating talent as they come.

I hate, hate, hate people who can't seem to do that. The only good players in the world play for the club they support, and everyone else sucks. Puh-lease. Get a life. The world does not revolve round whichever flavour of the week you're supporting.

Did you ever realise, how many new fans have sprouted up since Arsenal and Chelsea have started winning? I have never seen these people openly supporting these teams of theirs until they started winning. And they talk, like they're like 'oh, my team's all that', when in all fairness, they don't even know what the hell they're talking about. Like, come on.

I don't detest Chelsea. Okay, or maybe I do. But there was a day when I did like them. Back in the day when Gianfranco Zola and Eidur Gudjohnsen were still wearing blue shirts. Whoa. Those were some players. Now? It's all about the circus, man - acting and theatrics. Football's not about all that. The great Chelsea player now for me? Hernan Crespo. Crespo definitely deserves more first team time than he's getting. He has more talent that the entire Chelsea bench put together. The rest I couldn't really care about except the fact that Terry and Lampard are England players, and that del Horno's not bad for completely shallow reasons altogether.


Something del Horno. Mary, I can't remember lah.

I don't know what it is, but there's just something missing in Chelsea for me. They play good football, they score goals. But something, that extra oomph and pure English football passion's just not in it for ME. Note that I said, for ME. Don't come and whine and pout and give me a bazillion reasons why they're better than United and how I'm so totally wrong and blind. I'm entitled to my own opinion as you are to yours.

I loved watching the United match. Arsenal are at the top of their game and they gave me little heart attacks throughout the match. Honestly, the match could have easily went both ways. Very, very easily. I thank god for Rooney and Park. Park is just amazing. The way he holds up the ball, the way he has relentless stamina and the drive he has. Good buy. Ming and Xue reckon that in years to come, footballers in the EPL are going to start drinking ginseng =P


Powerhouse, all right.


The players congratulating Park Ji-Sung on his first ever EPL goal.

I still think it would have been different if Henry had started for Arsenal, but hey, that's football.

Don't kill me. Just my two cents on football this week.

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On a very different note for those of you who are probably bored out of your mind with my boring football talk: We shall talk about musicccccc. My lurveee.

One of my friends was looking through my MP3 players [which by the way, I'm slowly becoming very dependant on] and remarked that I listened to very, very weird music.

Lol.

It ain't weird. It just ain't mainstream.

I think I am a music junkie. I really think I am.

So, let's play a little game. I'm going to put down some artistes that I always play on my mp3 player, which are not exactly mainstream yet [i.e. doesn't play on average charts often, no exposure on MTV], and you tell me how many of them you would have actually heard of, if you hadn't already seen me mention them on here. It'll be easy, I promise. Then, you can tell me on my chatterbox how you fared. No right or wrong, just to see how many you've heard of. Xue, you should do well.

Jack's Mannequin
Anna Nalick
Jimmy Eat World
Josh Kelley
Michelle Featherstone
Aly & AJ
James William Hindle
Ashley Parker Angel
Something Corporate
Aqualung
Story of the Year
The Weepies
Lori McKenna
Rebecca Blaylock
Forty Foot Echo

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The song of the mo- Ashley Parker Angel - Let U Go.

Thought of the minute- How come, I have tons of stamina when I play netball but I can't jog to save my life?

Wish(es) of the day- Hmmm. I want a billion bucks so I can waste it all on some football team like some Russion bazillionaires so that more little children and starving humans can suffer even more.

Thing(s) I should do- Go to class now! Gulp.

Thing(s) you should do- Take a shower.

My favourite quotes since the last time I blogged:

*lift doors open, and we see Mr. Lee standing inside the lift. we don't go in, cause it's going up first*

Bryan: Everytime we see Mr. Lee, he's like so busy.

Zhen Han: Not really, he wasn't doing anything just now also.

Bryan: Got what. He was holding a pen.

Us: -_-" ??

=D!

Urgh. Being a girl is tough sometimes. Even though I love being one, but bloody hell, the hormones just get to me sometimes.

Felt so emo last night. We were all just sitting in my parent's room, watching American Idol and then they started talking about me choosing my major. I know very well that they were giving me advice for my own good; but for some reason, I just felt like they were pressuring me into choosing something which I don't have all the interest in the world for.

I mean, fine, it may have a lot of potential in the future. It's a field where it doesn't have many limitations; it has tons of opportunities for me to be successful. Sure. But it doesn't interest me.

I know of people who get stuck in a job that they hate for their entire life. I know people who choose to major in something that they don't particularly enjoy.

Is it wrong to actually WANT to do something that I enjoy?

I think that I think too much sometimes. It should really be easier than this, shouldn't it? I don't ever want to grow up anymore. I just want to curl up in bed with my favourite Enid Blyton books and watch Captain Planet cartoons or something.

My song of the moment: Delta Goodrem's The Analyst.

"Re-living the mistake she's made,
Not a moment for the curious girl;
Free her mind, she's always the analyst;
Silent space, the culprit, the catalyst;
Trying to make sense of this life,
Digging around, breaking it down;
Neurotic thoughts,
Burning the ground,
Every sight every sound;
She's always the analyst."


Damn those PMS hormones.

I'm back. In case you guys were wondering why I hadn't blogged in what seems like AGES for my standards, it was because my home comp was being a pain in the arse and not letting me access Blogger. So, I'm sitting here in college typing away. I can see the girl next to me typing in her Blogger account too. Almost 50% of the population seems to blog.

Anyway. I don't know what's the deal with my idiotic comp at home; it's misbehaving. Tsk tsk.

So, what has happened since the last I blogged?

We went out for a big group Valentine's Day dinner. Jo gave us girls chocolates. Awwwh. Thank you, Jo.

I'm missing work and my three hilariously fabulously amazing colleagues! Erica, John and Gan! What are you guys doing now? Still lepak-king around the office, drinking chococino and bodekking the mamak man for papadam, I'll bet. How many Symantec backup servers you guys sold yet? =P

Went shopping. Aaaaaah. Love the feel of new shopping through my fingers. It's like therapeutic.

Started Monash orientation this Monday. Boring with a capital B. Walked out halfway the first day, and only stayed half an hour through the second day. And I realise only the MUFY people are doing these kind of things. What horrible people we are, huh?

Classes officially start next week, and I've yet to finalise my timetable. I swear, the Monash Allocate Plus system hates me. It won't let me finalise my timetable! Urgh. And the dumb helpdesk people are out for lunch. Grrrr.

And guess what? Mary AND Wenxue both conned us that they failed ONE paper EACH for their finals. Not funny, guys!

Okay, I know this is like the most random, off-point update I've made thus far, but well, I'm just typing what comes to my mind, really.

And I order you to download Michelle Featherstone's Go On My Child. It's a gorgeous song. If you follow One Tree Hill's Season 3, it's the song that plays in Episode 14 during Brooke's scene with the taxi driver. It's just a beautiful song, that you need to be exposed to.

Anyone wanna watch Walk The Line soon? I just bought the DVD.

Till then, loadsa love, and muacks from me, the now official uni student.

We're all mad in our own way
Colours fade the grey away
Different people all the same
Each reveals the meaning
We're all mad in our own way
Fill the sky with different shades
Read the story on each page
Each reveals the meaning

»We all bring different splashes of colour to the scene. It just wouldn't be the same, would it? =P