Met up with my chess camp og today for dinner! It was the first gathering since the camp almost a month ago lol. The group is not very spontaneous so the dinner was planned rather poorly and last minute with 5 people unable to make it. But it turned out better than expected! I think maybe I happened to be in a good mood today so I was more talkative than usual. Or maybe it's just because it's a smaller group.  I can finally foresee the possibility of going to lectures with this group of people :)

Before dinner, I met up with my dear twin lx for a one-to-one afternoon tea for the first time in 19 years. So far we only meet up when our mums have some sort of gathering. Why I call her my twin is simply because we are born on the same day (and same hospital coincidentally). And believe it or not, our lives have had some common points. She's like my fated friend (?) haha. Our mums were good friends since secondary school (which is dhs haha) but they did not contact each other so frequent afterwards. Then a few days after I was born, they met each other at the hospital and realised that both their child had been born on the same day! Haha so since then they kept in touch again and since their children were of the same age group, they organised like homestays and what not during school holidays. Lx has an elder sister too who is 3 years older. So basically, my sis and I grew up playing with them. Even though now we no longer 'play' together, it always feels nice to gather together once in a while. But I always feel some kind of bond with lx no matter how long we have not met haha.

Oh yeah~ I am finally looking forward to the start of the term a little more after looking at all the unrestricted electives ^^ I have plans to take UEs on chemistry, psychology, sociology, japanese studies....... Suddenly university life seems so much brighter LOL.

Anyway I was really confused about all the bidding for modules just now after my friend informed me that the first round of bidding is on 31 July!!! So like a kiasu Singaporean, I immediately went to research on the bidding process and I ended up watching a one hour 15 minutes long video hahaha. But it was really useful and it was considerate of the school to prepare such a video :) So much clearer of how the whole thing works and now I'm prepared for WAR >) hahahaha seriously the whole bidding thing is so scary.

It's coming to the end of July, which means that 8 months have passed since A levels was over. I cannot believe it man, time just passed so fast. Last year at this point in time we would have just gotten back our JCT results. When I think back about how I stayed in school studying at the LC till 9pm before/after prelims, it does not feel that long ago at all. But really, 8 months is a long period of time and now that I think about it, I have actually done quite a lot of things. Many first experiences, stepping out of my comfort zone, knowing so many more people despite it mostly being superficial and short-termed relationships. Nonetheless, I'm grateful for these people who made my life more bearable during the period of time I was with them. I will do a summary of what I have done these past months some time later!

Y'know, it kinda sucks that none of your close friends are in the same campus as you. It means that there's no one to accompany you to join ccas and be a noob with you lol. No one to chill with during common breaks. I know, there's still the people from my og. But I seriously doubt how close we can become. Plus it's always different with people who you have known for a few more years. It's tiring to build new friendships and by this time of our lives most people cannot be bothered to do so.

This could be another reason why I'm not that looking forward to when the term starts, apart from how everyone has been telling me how tough my course is. I'm making myself seem like a kid just about to enter primary school... Oh well.

How do actors develop such huge muscles that seem like they are about to burst??

Went to catch a 10.40am show at vivo just now haha watched Hercules. Actually I felt really lazy to just home just for the show, but the big and empty cinema was just way too tempting for me to not go. It's not often that you get to catch a movie in an empty cinema and not to mention one with a big screen too. Will probably not have the chance to do so again once school starts :(

Anyway, the show was just okay... Not fantastic, just mehhh. Btw just in case any of you intends to watch this show and are hoping that it's about the Greek mythology, don't keep your hopes too high! It's more of a war kind of show I suppose..

A Dysfunctional Little Family

Time for me to finally blog about the stay-over at MBS last weekend haha. Now I will no longer use my phone to blog, lesson learnt from the previous time :(

Met up with Yuxin first on Friday for lunch since the rest were not free. Finally had SMU pasta after hearing so much about it haha. It was really not bad, except that the pasta I ordered (chicken sausage) was a little too salty, but the texture of the pasta was goooood. I generally do not like pasta, because it's usually too hard for my liking so I prefer the thin kind of pasta. But even though the pasta they used was not the super thin kind, I still liked it so yea that says something about it ;) Next time I'm going to try the creamy pasta! After lunch we went to Yuxin's house while waiting for time to pass before we could go check in at 6pm. Watched one episode each of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Who~~ I finally get what the big hoo-ha over Sherlock is all about hahaha. It's like the kind of Japanese detective dramas that I like, except that the filmography is of higher standard and of course all the UK architecture and feelssss :p Gonna continue with Season 3 when I get my new laptop and start learning how torrent works LOL. Dr Who was not too bad either, but I cannot really stand the poor CG effects hahah. Okay fine, considering how the first episode which I watched came out in 2005, maybe the later episodes are not that bad. But I quite like this genre of shows so I may give it another try when school starts, if I have the time.

We then headed over to MBS with our barang barang and a cake that we bought earlier, which we then realised that Yik had a free (atas and nice) cake from her workplace :(

In short, the stay-over was spent mostly on us deciding what to do, otherwise waiting for one another to get ready LOL. Other than that, we watched movies/shows, played bang, ate junk food and simply nua-ed around. AND PULLMAN BAKERY!!! <3 Oh we (except for sz and zq who stayed in the room to watch their game competition) went out on the second night to buy some food and chill in our sloppy outfit wearing school-based tees, shorts and slippers haha. We talked about a few random stuff, starting from the ghost stories in NS, to things like love (lol I can't believe we held a discussion on this) and the death penalty. Anyway, let me just add on to why I cannot see the point in having 3 people to activate the switch for the execution for the death penalty. According to the rest, even though 3 switch will be pressed, but only 1 switch will work and no one will know which button was the working one. So this kind of helps to make the 3 people feel better as they could have not been the one to cause the convict to die. This works I suppose, but only if they always change the 3 people for every execution. I'm imagining myself to be one of the 3 people there. If I was asked to do such a shitty job for only one time, means I have one out of three chances or 33.3% of being the one to kill the guy. Okay so I may not feel so bad because I have 66.6% of not being the one. But if I have to keep doing this for days, weeks, months, obviously the percentage will change and it is highly unlikely that I will never kill a person. Just knowing this alone is enough to make me feel guilty. Okay but of course this is assuming the 3 people are fixed for a certain period of time. No matter what, I can only say that the 3 chosen people must have done something evil in their previous lives.

Okay back to the stay-over. On the last day after checking out hastily because we woke up at 11.50am even though we were supposed to check out by 12pm HAHA, we went for lunch at Ramen Champion followed by a LAN session. It's been a long time since I last went to LAN haha it's only with this group of people. Played L4D2 which I think I kinda sucked at even though it's fun and CS. I guess it's an instinct to randomly shoot people or zombies when you are a noob, no? Hahaha. Afterwards, we went to Tom's Palette for ice-cream and hoping for a place to chill, but NO. The place was ruined by a group of people who made so much noise and were insensitive to their surroundings. Especially that one guy with the super annoying voice and yet still spoke so loud. What a way to end off the stay-over man.

Anyway, although we did not do much, it's always nice just hanging around with this bunch of peeps ^^ It really all depends on the company you have. Once again thanks nic for the MBS rooms! It's seriously a luxury lor, I felt paiseh just telling my sis where I was going to have my "sleepover". My mum even complained that she has never stayed at MBS before and yet I have already done so twice LOL. Next time we can get a chalet instead~

波のゆくさき by The Ricecookers

Love this song <3 The English version is used as the main theme song for SPEC, but I prefer the Japanese version. Somehow the lyrics it just seems to flow better..? The English lyrics seem a bit awkward lol

Went to work for Yuxin's parents/aunt today~ I realised it was my first time doing a job out of office haha I was confined to the office for my previous 2 jobs so this was a good experience despite it being a one day thing. Honestly I would rather have done such jobs rather than office jobs but when it comes to the pay... Hahaha working at a call centre is more attractive.

Anyway, we went to 3 schools (nygh, admiralty primary, rgs) to set up a stall selling chinese books by this author who was giving talks at the schools. I mainly helped out with arranging the books and a little of cashiering. Moving the books from the foyer at rgs to the allocated venue was terrible man lol even though we had the trolley. It was just slopes, slopes and no slopes :o

Yuxin and I had a quick lunch at the primary school but the food was super disappointing :( Our impression of primary school food was that it is cheap and good but NO, the food was horrible (super diluted curry, soggy veggie and tasteless fried rice) and it was not even that cheap. Perhaps primary school food always was of this standard, just that our taste buds had yet to mature then haha. We should have gone to rgs to eat la the food there seems much better!

After we ended work, we walked all the way to Taka specially for the ice-cream uncle HAHA. That's like the best ice-cream you can have please. Cheap and good. (Though the price has increased to $1.20 now.) Chocolate chip ice-cream with breaddddd <3 Hehe.

Yayay looking forward to the sleepover this weekend ^^

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What I have been up to these days

Apart from uni camps, driving lessons, muay thai and occasional meetups with people, I have been spending most of my days at home mainly watching dramas. Not too long ago I remember I mentioned that after A levels I found watching dramas a waste of time and I'd rather do other things, haha but now I'm back to watching them. Just a recap on the few dramas (all Japanese lol) I have watched since I became unemployed close to two months back (in chronological order). I understand if you choose to over-look this post haha!

1. Joker Yurusarezaru Sosakan

The first drama that I watched would have obviously been a detective show haha. Rather than focusing on solving each murder case like most other similar dramas, I would say that the show focuses more on the issue of justice. Whenever a criminal fails to get prosecuted due to insufficient evidence even though it is clear in the show that the criminal is guilty, the protagonist who is a detective will punish them by sending them off to an island for lifelong imprisonment. I know, I was kinda turned off by the plot also lol it seems kinda lame, but it gets you thinking about the issue of justice. If the law fails, then is such action taken considered valid? Spoiler: Anyway it turns out that there's an organisation working behind the scenes, otherwise known as the secret police. I realise J-dramas seem to like plots regarding the secret police lol.

2. Soratobu Kouhoushitsu (Public Affairs Office in the Sky)

This is a show about planes. LOL. I know I am being judged now hahaha. Initially I was really hesitating on whether or not to start on this show because of the synopsis on drama wiki. It did not seem interesting at all, even though I enjoyed hk drama Triumph to the Skies which is about pilots and planes when I was young. But no, trust me, this show is nothing similar to that. Soratobu Kouhoushitsu focuses mainly on the young man's passion for fighter planes (sounds boring right!) and of course some romance and comedy. However, the show was surprisingly not bad. Maybe the starting may seem a little uninteresting, but as you keep watching, the show just grows on you. Oh but the technical terms seriously turned me off haha but my brain just ignored them somehow. The way the show was filmed actually made me better appreciate the planes like the ones used for NDP. The filmography and the theme song (Contrail by Namie Amuro) together just made the whole scene so spectacular. And thus, the blog url haha. Btw, the old man in the show is cute HAHA because he always does some weird actions.

3. Last Cinderella

This show was funny and goooooood. From the picture you can tell it is of romance genre. I have nothing else much to say for this drama except that I would rather the main character (acted by Shinohara Ryoko) end up with the other guy (acted by Fujiki Naohito) :( Partly because of the freaking huge age difference of 17 years between her and the younger guy (Miura Haruma) in real life?!??! It was a little disturbing when I found out their real age but she doesn't look like her age so I guess that helped. Anyway, Fujiki Naohito is good looking despite his age haha he actually looks better with a stubble.

4. Keizoku 2: SPEC

!!!!!! I love this show hohohoho. It's another detective show, plus some supernatural elements. It's a world where humans evolve and people have special abilities called SPEC. It's a little bit like X-men. For example the ability to stop time, predict the future, read people's minds, create illnesses...... Toda Erika plays the role of the protagonist Toma Saya alongside Kase Ryo as Sebumi Takeru, both being detectives. They deal with unusual murder cases that turn out to be done by people with spec ability, or who are known as spec-holders. The show is cool in the sense that it is hard to determine how the murder is committed since it involves supernatural abilities, not to mention how to convict the criminal. But Toma being the genius with IQ over 200, she somehow manages to figure them out lol. The best would definitely be the stand-off against Ninomae (played by Kamiki Ryunosuke). Kamiki really did a good job playing the role of Ninomae applause applause! Toda Erika also did well playing the role of the genius-yet-goofy-gyoza-lover Toma-kun. Hahaha her antics are hilarious man. I have a feeling that some of those antics were ad-libs by Toda haha. Anyway the drama is followed by one special episode and two movies (one of which has two parts, so that's about 3 movies). However, I honestly didn't like the movies mainly because it made things super confusing and the CG was terrible -.- It just made the show seem lame. But yea overall I still love the show because it's the kind of genre I like ^^

5. Umi no Ue no Shinryojo (A Clinic on the Sea)

Another show that looks boring. And it kinda is. Haha the main reason why I wanted to start on this show was because of Matsuda Shota and Toda Erika (the two main characters from Liar Game). Though unfortunately Toda isn't part of the main cast of this show. Nonetheless Matsuda Shota was funny in this show haha it's so different from his role as Akiyama Shinichi. And he looks much better in this show lol in LG he looked a little weird from certain angles :p It's probably because of his hairstyle. Anyway the show is about this clinic on a boat that goes around to different islands throughout the year. Matsuda Shota plays the role of Dr Kota who falls in love with a woman whenever they visit a new island LOL. It's mainly a comedy plus some medical elements.

6. Switch Girl!!

Switch Girl was plain HILARIOUS. To put it shortly, the main character has two sides to her. In school and out of home, she's in her 'on-mode'. So basically she's the Miss Popular and eludes charisma and what not as you can see on the left side of the poster. But back at home, she switches to her 'off-mode' and becomes some weirdass geek who snatches for the items on offer in the supermarket like some auntie hahaha. Kudos to Nishiuchi Mariya for being so daring to take on this role LOL there must have been many embarrassing scenes. And the male lead played by Kiriyama Renn has a pretty face ;) Hahaha I think he looks like Kim Hyun Joong from certain angles. Anyway I recommend this show if you're looking for a light-hearted show! Plus you wouldn't take much time to complete the show even though it has two seasons because for each season, there are only 8 episodes and each episode is only 30 minutes long! 

Whoa finally finished this post. Feels like some kind of review haha but nah it is mainly for my own tracking purposes. It's been a good life :D

Utada Hikaru - First Love

Ahhh chanced upon this song on YT while searching for new songs. It's been a while since I last listened to it haha so it was really nostalgic especially because it was one of my most listened songs. I think it was during my year 1/2 days? Idk what kind of songs people then listened to, probably some C-pop or Western music, but the music I listened to during my primary and secondary school days mainly consisted of Japanese songs followed by K-pop (at that point of time, yes). So it's not a surprise when I have nothing much to talk about when those around me were discussing about the songs they listened to haha it was to the point where I was almost ignorant of  the supposedly popular Western singers. Now I do listen to a few English songs of artists like The Script, Demi, Parachute....... Okay in all honesty I actually had to go check my iTunes LOL. It's just that there's no particular Western singer that I really adore or what so it's hard for me to name them on the spot. Plus I only listen to like one or two songs from each singer. So yeah.



Anyway, below are the lyrics for the song since I could not find a video with proper translated lyrics.

Our last kiss tasted like the cigarette
A sad and bitter fragrance

About this time tomorrow,
Where will you be?
Who will you be thinking of?

You are always gonna be my love
Even if one day I fall in love with someone else
I'll remember to love -- you taught me how
You are always gonna be the one
It's still a sad love song
Until I can sing a new one

The paused time
Is about to move
But I don't wish to forget

About this time tomorrow, 
I'll may be crying,
Probably thinking about you

You will always be inside my heart
There's always a place just for you, so
I hope that I have a place in your heart, too
Now and forever you are still the one
It's still a sad love song
Until I can sing a new one

You are always gonna be my love
Even if one day I fall in love with someone else
I'll remember to love you taught me how
You are always gonna be the one
It's still a sad love song, yeah
Now and forever

Songs like these may be old, but they are classic. Or at least considered as classic in my life.