Mind The Gap

It's like I never left, it's like nothing changed. It's like I skipped a season and everything is waiting for me challenging me and also as if two months is two minutes and it doesn't matter and people forget things. And I know even before I leave that I will hate it and you'd think I'd get used to it by now but you're wrong wrong wrong dead wrong because it doesn't change anything it doesn't change that people will move on and live their lives while I live in the past and that will change everything

anyway, less of brooding stuff and more of things that remind me of happier days. Chinese new year aside, I was doing physics a week ago when I suddenly thought of London and I started taking out old photo albums and feverishly scanning pictures and remembering tube lines

If you ask me, the most amusing place in London is between Piccadilly Circus to Leicester Square

sigh gone are the days of seven-year-old selfs :(
chinatown, leceister square and buckingham palace respectively!

and jumping back, I have grown used to not using punctuation marks because I think that's how I talk - endlessly in my mind like that and a lot more exclamation marks because my tone ends that way. Someday I will tell the stories of London but tonight I think I'm tired and I need to wake up early tomorrow!

not a book

I found the most kitsch, gorgeous, little, quaintest shop ever everever! But it was close for lunch yesterday but now it's closed till after chinese new year :(

Mogwai

The opener they played was stunning: the soft build-up leading way to the second song where a guy in the crowd starting bobbing his head to the music I thought he was over excited or something. Then the in-betweens of guitar riffs, warps and grunges of the guitar came only at a corner after gentle strumming which took me by surprise. Then the last song! Batcat. Goodness. Violently edgy with crooks for guitar and drums and then the abrupt silence in the end, chilling. Good songs make me shiver!

We were in the first row on the left side of the stage and there was no mosh! Yay. The autograph session afterwards made me slur so much though I must've sounded silly because I lost my words after "Can you please sign my ieeeppodoodd~"

hello handsome. Because my iPod is named Greg afterall, remember?

That was the pre-concert bimbo night out teehehehe luvluvxoxo! I conclude we're pretty much amateurs at camwhoring because all my shots ended up too yellowish or shaky except for the two you see right now! And also our rock outfits!

I'm feeling really full now after all the consuming of pre-cny treats!

Hannah this one fur you! click and save, yay!

Slumdog Millionaire

The weekend has brought many happy things!

-Watching Dvorak's Symphony No.7 in D minor by MPO last night!

Here I will say I never knew there would be so many cute slash hot guys watching a classical performance! Oh I must go again, even just to ogle. Anyway we saw celloist Han-Na Chang in her solo which I found out afterwards that she was a grammy nominee! And the finale was violently swift and exciting :) And the cute guy in the second violins!

Here's me with a camera phone photo because no recording devices allowed and being patriotic at the same time!

-Reading The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery! I have the version with the most innocent looking illustrations and lustrous paper which glows like a child's book in disguise :)

-Highlight of this post whereby I will sound ridiculously frivolous but

Slumdog Millionarie is the best movie I have seen so far in the last 8 weeks. Or will see. No wonder The Curious Case of Benjamin Button lost to it. And not because Dev Patel (who plays Jamal - main protagonist in the movie) is only eighteen and british (!!!) and stunningly attractive in his ordinary 'chaiwalla boy' demeanour and his painful sympathy for life, and not because Freida Printo who plays Lakita and has to-die-for eyelashes, but because it's about winning Do You Want To Be A Millionaire and knowing the answers because moments of your life has been through those questions!

And you can hear him let slip his slight Brit accent in the movie which is totally forgivable (who would ever mind a brit accent, seriously) while answering who made the first revolver! Really. And not before forgetting to stay true to the true Indian tradition with the must-have dance scene jinggle tinggle in the credits hehehe they looked so cute!

Now I will be serious and talk about the movie itself with dusty scenes of poverty and decay in India that appeared glorifying (despire being ironic here); the brief poking fun at Amnesty International and the distance one travels throughout his entire life before he realises that everything can be mapped out to the past and future.

In all honesty, it is terrible truths that happen in reality that is commandeering the movie; the violence the torture for money the risks you do for money to earn a living, by scraping to stay alive and the entire humanity and its faith is put out there against a status in the world.

And the perfect opportunity is a reality game show, the appeal and lust contending against Jamal's previous life with choices... and love. The cast was superb, the chaiwalla boys were brilliant, and the enemies did as enemies should do. It is now my current favourite movie!

The cast at the Golden Globe's!

End of my amateur opinions about the movie because now everyone must watch it mustmustmust you will love it! And now I need to buy the novel which the film is based on!

As with happy things, there are sad things

-No picnics :(

-Eight weeks and time is ticking

-Soon you’ll forget me you’ll forget that you’ve asked me questions I choose to avoid and you’ll forget me by default not by choice and I will slip away as though I have struck you as memories in an amnesic patient and you won't remember you will forget me

Last thing

-I will now go talk in a sexy Brit accent thank you very much

-Happy Birthday Hsien Yoong :)

This is a point where I want to say something but I don't know what to say!

But on a happier note, I have sourced out the best place to eat pan mee! !!!!

1. Does it matter to you if your boyfriend/girlfriend smokes?
Yes because my nose is a smoke detector and my sinuses will be fucked up. I'm sorry, it sucks hence the cussing.

2. How about drinking?
Not particularly.

3. Do you like someone you can't have?
Sure.

4. If someone liked you right now, would you want them to tell you?
Provided he's hot enough, or something. I don't want some dumb witted guy saying "i like u....." and infinity fullstops

5. What's your favorite sport?
Tennis. I got my racquet restrung!

6. It's Saturday night, and you're home alone. What do you do?
Watch a movie.

7. Do you like roller coasters?
Kinda.

8. When is the perfect time to have a bf/gf?
Trust your instincts, like an animal. Hahahaha no I don't know don't ask me ask Dear Thelma!

9. If you could date any celebrity, who would it be?
And that, is a secret I'll never tell xoxoxozzx!

10. What are you doing this weekend?
Happy things that will hopefully make me happy.

11. What is your favorite restaurant?
Any place with good food.

12. Have you ever hugged someone?
Yes.

13. Ever kissed someone you weren't attracted to?
Nope.

14. Do you like anyone right now?
The funny thing is, people trust answers from these questions so I'll not answer it!

15. What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Funnily enough, eyes and fingers.

16. Which do you prefer, Beach or Mountains?
Beach maybe.

17. What kind of phone do you have?
SE phone.

18. Computer or Laptop?
Laptop. MacbookPro plsplsplspls :(

19. Jeans or Sweats?
Jeans.

20. Which year(s) has/have been the best so far?
The year when I was 14, 2010 (yes I am psychic!)

21. How old are you gonna be on your next birthday?
Old enough.

22. What should you be doing right now?
Going out.

23. What is your favorite TV show?
House.

24. What's been your last purchase?
Markers for decorating letters.

25. Are you attracted to girls/boys that smoke?
No.

26. Have you ever fallen on your butt in front of a crowd of people?
I don't think so.

27. What do you do when you're at home?
Write essays, do chem questions, run around the house... the usual.

28. What is your favorite subject?
Lit and Chinese (because it's easy). And Francais!

29. What's the best thing that's ever happened to you?
By being happy without realizing it, it's kinda like an epiphany when you finally realise so it's all sugarrush rush adrenaline!!!!

What mindless questions.

Tea Time

Here and There

My mind's been stuck for a while, and it still is and it's like this huge roadblock with no detours ladidah everything is kept at bay for the moment and and and here's what I did for the last eight days!

KL KL KL KL KL KL

KLCC - Pasar Seni and back! Central market and chee cheong kai and lots of bags.

The twin towers! They have awesome air-conditioning. Seriously. I want to camp there. Because of the air con. Pocari Sweat tastes mostly saltish and rather like 100 Plus, but then I haven't drank it but would assume so.

Food for the last week: Char Siew Pau's Roti Canai Wantan Mee Prawn Mee Asam Laksa Nasi Lemak Dimsum moremoremoremore food!

We also took the monorail which was pretty cool :)

Now I have to go find something productive to do while everyone else is in college, or something.

Dripping

I need to sleep. Rinse cycle. Wash, spin, dry, repeat. Then what?