New wallpaper for my phone. This is one of my favourite breed of dog, Samoyed ^^ I realise that I have a huge inclination towards animals that are pure white in colour haha! I really like such pictures that give off a feeling of tranquility :)

#randomnessat2am hahaha

Linkin Park - Breaking The Habit

Had to watch this MV as part of the tutorial preparation for my Narrative module. Basically we had to analyse the story and how the story is being presented to the viewer. This was one out of the three videos we had to analyse (the other two being Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" and Coldplay's "The Scientist") and since I find it rather intriguing, I'm going to share more about it here!

When I played the video for the first time, I was like wtf is this shit LOL. I had to replay it a few more times before I could identify a few key points.

Maybe you'd want to try watching the video first (for those who have not already watched this before, like me hahaha) and try to make sense out of it. I shall write out what we discussed during the tutorial session below.



From the beginning, we pretty much know that this takes place at an Asian country (Japan most probably) from the tape used to cordon the area, then we see a man on the top of a car and the recurring theme of smoke brings us to the first verse of the song.

We see three different groups of people - the shag-face guy with a suitcase, the girl who writes 'I'm nothing' and a guy who has tomatoes thrown at him by a woman. At this point in time when I first watched the video, nothing made sense to me at all. I had no single idea what was going on hahaha.

Moving on to the second verse of the song, here is when we get greater insight (well, except the girl I guess, I really couldn't figure out that part) into what the whole video is about. This part is also shown in reverse chronological order. These are what we concluded from the tutorial discussions:

- The girl suffers from low self-esteem, leading her to self-harm. I suggested that she is obsessed with her appearance (because there is a mirror there) and my tutor said that that is a legit point also.
- The shag guy is a drug user, the briefcase contains the drugs and the green thingy is a needle I suppose.
- (This was the most obvious one imo) The guy who is thrown tomatoes at was caught by his pregnant wife on his infidelity.
- Overall, the video can be interpreted as having different plot lines (the three groups of characters who probably do not know each other exists) in one story world.
- I interpret the lead singer jumping off the building as possibly any person in society who is faced with the same situations as the three groups of characters we were earlier introduced to.

We also discussed about the beginning and endings and how MVs can both provide greater clarity and delimit the possible interpretations of a song, but nah I'm going to leave those out haha and just focus on the plot.

These may come across as obvious to some haha but at the end of the tutorial I was just wow-ed by how artistic this MV actually is, contrary to my initial belief.

Adam Lambert - Evil In The Night

Not the usual type of song I will put into my iPod, but it's still catchy ;)

Please let there be nothing wrong. Please.

Otherwise I wouldn't know how to deal with it.

Year 9s?!

I'm feeling so happy tonight ^^ MY HEART IS BURSTING WITH HAPPINESS I SWEAR.

I don't know if it's because I went back to Dunman today haha. Helped out for the year 3 orientation as a station master, was at the same station together with Chester, Leng Yuk and Si Zheng and a year 3 girl called Hui Ling who's part of the orientation committee. Had fun catching up with them especially when talking about how 4G had disappointed so many of our teachers like Ms Soh and Qiu laoshi hahaha. Those were really epic XD Talked a little to Hui Ling and it was surprisingly easy to talk to her despite us being 6 years apart! Maybe she's just more matured for her age.

And omg the sudden realisation that we were year 9s was shocking... We wouldn't even had met the year 3s before because they entered the year after we graduated :O

Nonetheless it felt really awesome being back in Dunman haha! Everything was just so nostalgic. I shouldn't have taken my days at dhs for granted :/  Even walking down the road to school felt so nostalgic so I was walking rather slowly hahaha. I was also reminded of the two or three times I bumped into someone when I walked out into the street from home and how that made my day HAHAHAHAHA. ;) ;)

Ahhh I really miss spending days with Dunmanians... T-T

Oh boy. I just realised that I shouldn't have started the year with my previous post haha. But wellz I have never really seen the point of making a big hooha over the new year since time is continuous; the start of a new year doesn't signify anything special. You don't have to wait till the new year to start making changes/resolutions, that's just an excuse.

Still, I guess I got excited by the fireworks from the new year coundown that I started spamming people with new year greetings XD

ANYWAYS, to the main point.... (This took me 5 seconds to recall LOL) This semester I've decided to make some changes to my activities out of school. For one, I decided to reduce my partipation in cdac because I don't really think it has been effective and, to my second point, I want to do something new and different. Ah but it turns out that it's also not something very new haha. Feeling excited to be playing once again hehe I hope it turns out well! I hope that doing something I like can help to straighten my thoughts out a little and keep my mind sane during the semester. I have so many things I want to do but I can only limit myself to one thing per school term because I really need to buck up in my studies :/

For now, it's time to treasure the last week of the holidays before another horrifying semester!

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It's really very easy to simply blame someone for their shortcomings and neglect the mistakes that you yourself have made.

I'm so damn confused about human relationships ugh.