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January 18, 2008

foot. switch.

Why is it that when you’re lying in bed at night, and you’re having these (relatively) profound thoughts swimming in your head, and you figure those would be cool things to write and blog about, but when you finally sit down and try to write them out, everything just leaves you?

They abandon you so that all you can do when that “create post” page is open is rave about the wonders of (insert favourite thing) and bitch about one thing or another.

This being one of those times, I’ll just go on to say that for the past week I’ve been counting down the days to —– SWITCHFOOT concert!

Gah I’ve never been more excited!

Given the nature of their songs (inspirational lyrics, beautiful music, not-too-loud sort of rock), I think it’s the perfect chance to recharge and re-discover yourself. Even better is the fact that it’ll be held in Hall 4 at the KL Convention Centre, which means it’s small and perhaps it’d feel more personal.

I love Switchfoot. I forgot how amazing they can be.

Their music is one of the most inspirational, not a la Joey McIntyre “Stay The Same” kind of way (which is cheesy when you listen to it at the wrong time of the day), but more of the U2 “Beautiful Day” way.

Their songs aren’t as distracting (and not as bashing loud), which made them my most played during those horrid long hours of study during PMR.

And you know what else is exciting? Chinese New Year!

The most most most most exciting time of the year!

You go to any mall right now and the there’d be all the red decorations up and all that dong-dong-chiang songs would be playing.

They’d have all these modernized versions of that “mei tiao da jie xiao xiang” or that “he xin nian, zhu xin nian” song playing. The other day I was at 1U, if I remember correctly, and they played this weird song that was really an English song and a Chinese song merged together.

They forget, of course, that most times, the original remains the best.

Obviously I haven’t got a whole lot of things in my life to particularly excited over right now.

Er right I’ll go off now, to have a bit of doughnut.

Stuffed under Music,Quick updates at 7:27 pm

January 17, 2008

Twenty minus One

Here, I have a declaration to make – At the time of writing this, I am officially 19 years, 1 day and 13 hours old!

But for all my 19 years of age, I am totally embarrassed by how childish I acted yesterday.

Not childish-fun, but childish-bratty.

I procrastinated (again), had to pull an all-nighter just to finish my essays (submitted an hour before deadline!), and pissed everyone off for being pissed at everyone.

Sorry la everyone, I hadn’t had much sleep lately.

So anyway!

I didn’t even realize it was my birthday (really!), until I got the first SMS greeting at 11 p.m., because I was very pathetically glued at the computer, staring at the blank white of a Microsoft Word worksheet.

Still. I think with birthdays you get a bit of blessing, because Chooiyen was at her most prolific last night! Finished four $^&* essays in a single sitting!

As a result, was too tired to do anything else after that. I dropped my mom off in the morning, ’cause I thought I’d need the car for my appointment with Fui later, but I was in a daze on the road and was pretty much an accident waiting to happen.

I called Fui to cancel (and I think spoke in a very bad-mood sort of way), but eventually took the bus to Subang anyway.

I was surprised! By a buncha people coming in from behind with a cake and singing ‘Happy Birthday’!

LOL was not expecting it at all, ’cause I thought I was just there to help Fui with something, and frankly up until I left my house I was still debating on whether I should just push it to another day.

And so, back to the apologies part. I’m so sorry for acting so whiny!

I was supposed to meet her at 2 p.m., ended up reaching there at 4, and I think I had such a storm on my face that Fui was worried I was mad at her.

LOL for the record, I think at that point I was mad at everything in the world, even the old lady on the bus who sat with her leg bent at the weirdest angle. Dunno, it just annoyed me.

Anyway, I found out people like ZiHui and Midge had been waiting since 2 p.m. Double the guilt!

You know, I was particularly touched because even I myself had somehow just let things go, kind of like, “My birthday today. So what. Don’t care la. Very lazy to do anything.”

So when I found out people cared enough to plan something, I was obviously surprised. And grateful!

Especially since the fact that it was my birthday was completely pushed out of my mind (because I was too tired by then), so much so that when they sang ‘Happy Birthday’ from behind I was actually confused, thought it was a different table celebrating.

I have to say though, EngFui, you are one heck of an actor! Haha!

You know, I had dinner with my family that night, and two other people were having their birthdays there!

Quick wrap. Thanks everyone who remembered! To that wonderful bunch of people (especially for staying on even though I kept wanting to cancel), and also to the text message-greeters!

LOL it is pretty funny, birthday text greetings, you realize?

When you’re 17, everybody says it’s a milestone, you can finally legally drive.

When you’re 18, they say it’s a milestone, you can finally go clubbing. (And I still remember one guy congratulated me ’cause I can finally “commit adultery”. I don’t think adultery is okay for any age? LOL.)

When you’re 19, almost everyone tells you you’ve got “one year till 20″.

It’s like a trend or something.

So when you’re 20 they’d tell you you’ve finally hit the big 2-0, and when you’re 21 they tell you you can vote.

And by 22 no one knows what to say any more hahah.

* * * * *

On a completely different note.

My brother just gave a canoe tour (probably part of his campus job) to, guess who?

Prince of Terengganu! And His Royal family and bodyguards la.

I wonder how much the guy had to spend to get all of them to Hawaii. One-way plane ticket alone costs RM6000.

Anyway, my bro will be off on his 2-year missionary trip soon, and he’d finish his final year in university after that.

Seeing how things are, by the time he’s done with his degree, I’d be probably halfway through mine. Which is a lot to say since the guy is 5 years older than me.

I feel like my intelligence level is decreasing by the day or something. That’s what happens when you’ve got no school to go to, no university you’ve enrolled into yet.

No other friend of mine has such a long break.

Job? Too lazy.

Which again contributes to the degeneration of my brain.

I need something to stimulate my thinking cells!

Stuffed under Significant Days at 2:12 pm

January 12, 2008

Err Facebook.

There is nothing, and I mean nothing quite as confusing as Facebook!

There’s like a gazillion things in there!

I accept applications, and hardly know what to do with them.

I feel so noob-ish.

Stuffed under Ramblings at 10:40 pm

January 4, 2008

YOU WILL NEVER BELONG TO ME!

Hoo. Got news got news!

Switchfoot is playing here next month!

Switchfoot Live In Malaysia
Date: Saturday, February 2, 2008
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre – Hall 4
Doors open: 6.30pm
Opening act: Love Me Butch
Ticket prices: RM120 (pre-sale), RM 140 (at door)
* All ticket prices exclude RM3 processing fee
Website: www.onearmed.net

KL Convention Centre hall is a very weird venue for a concert indeed (not a large capacity, I presume), but nevermind, I’m not complaining.

Can you see? I’m already excited.

Now I just gotta find someone who likes them enough to pay to watch them.

Anyway. This is going to sound so typical-girly, but I think Grey’s Anatomy is The Best Show Evarrr.

I mean, sometimes I forget, then I watch an episode on TV and I’m once again reminded how awesome the show is.

Drama, tears, Life Lessons. Every single episode.

And occasionally during the show, I’d have the urge to become a doctor, just so I could have med interns as cool as Christina and Izzie and George. Not Meredith though, she’s annoying as heck. Her relationship with McDreamy is annoying as heck.

But oh how I like George.

Then I can have witty, sarcastic conversations, and I’d have a gazillion chances at clever comebacks, which all make life so much more interesting.

This post is so filler-ish.

Actually no la, I just wanted to highlight the fact that Switchfoot tickets are selling out fast, ’cause the venue isn’t Stadium Merdeka or anything huge like that, and it says so on the site that the tickets are selling fast.

Task accomplished, now I shall leave. Bye.

(In case you wondered, the post title is very random one. Nothing to do with anything.)

Stuffed under Quick updates at 12:05 am

January 2, 2008

010108

Very late liao, but nevermind – Happy new year!

Err I almost chose to forgo new year celebrations. Which is the most stupid thing to do, multiplied by 10.

It was so wonderful, that night.

We were at a somewhat non-strategic place when the clock struck 12, so that we didn’t even realize it was 12 until the fireworks went off and people started screaming.

(Dunno who, went, “No la! Not yet 12! See my watch!” and poked at her watch. Who again ah? In denial sial.)

I was a taaad disappointed we didn’t get to countdown (for we had noisemakers and glowsticks and poppers and all that jazz, given to us free by the restaurant we ate in).

So that very moment 2007 became 2008, the bunch of us were sitting on the pavement, marah-ing The Ling for wasting one of the poppers. (Those were weird poppers that don’t work anyway. They failed on me also, those take-guna things.)

So I had on this “Aiyoh” sort of look on me, then The Ling went, “Nevermind what. At least we had each other when it happened.”

Which is so, so true!

So. Much later in the night, right, Fui sent me this text message, cheering our 6 years of friendship.

Imagine! Since form 1 eh. Somehow I’m no longer worried about us going to US/Singapore/Aussie next year because I know know know what I can count on is that these people will never leave me behind. We’d still be as tight as ever!

I went to this Chinese wedding dinner last night, and there were these two Ah-Poh, trying to relive their younger years I think, they started singing with the mic on stage. And they danced.

They sang very horribly, they danced like drunken monkeys, and no one at my table was paying them much notice, except for myself.

‘Cause they remind me so much of us! Especially during our er, karaoke sessions.

I remember there was one time, we turned off the lights so it was almost completely dark save for the glow from the TV screen, and started singing to ‘Nsync’s Bye Bye Bye, and trying to dance like ‘Nsync what the heck!

Then everybody got really high and crowded in front of the TV. There were a bunch of us, but only 2 microphone, and I was sharing one of the mics with somebody.

But like I said, too high, right? So people started getting really possessive of the microphones, ’cause everyone wanted to scream into them, until one girl had her mic snatched away from her, and in a fit of rage (or she just too blur la, I dunno which) she went ahead and pulled the microphone’s jack out from the TV.

Damn funny, man.

After the song was over and the lights were turned on, the girl who did the snatching of mic went, “Eh? Mic come out already? No wonder no sound la!”

She said she realized she couldn’t hear herself sing.

Who is who, your guess!

I don’t really know what I’m talking about I’m just typing as I go pardon me.

* * * * *

In all geng-chao-ness, I stayed up all night, just to finish off my applications.

Emphasis on all night.

As in come back from wedding dinner, bathe, go straight to work till 12 noon the next day.
(12 noon because the absolute deadline is 12.59 pm our time, i.e. 11.59 pm US eastern time. I am such a last-minute person!)

Can you believe ah?

This basically comes from unchecked procrastination, and from wanting to go ahead and enjoy myself even though I know perfectly well my app essays are not done yet.

And also from applying to 11 colleges. (Not kiasu. Quite on the contrary. Too insecure to apply to less.)

Made it in time for Jan 1 deadline, now there are colleges with more essays with Jan 15 deadline die die die I haaaate.

I don’t care la. I’m applying to Singapore Unis. Applying to US is too cumbersome, might not get accepted somemore, what’s the point.

Did you know for National University Singapore, you just fill in an online form (simple form, no CommonApp shit) and send in copies of school transcripts (no counselor rec, teachers rec, school reports what shit what shit)?

Hoo.

After-effects of serious lack of sleep. Pardon me.

My biological clock is as screwed as a cork in a wine bottle. For the past month I’ve been sleeping at 5, 6, 7 am.

I cannot help it – it’s the only time I get a little peace and quiet at home.

Most other times you just get a Mother nagging, a Father watching Astro with the volume turned up too high, plus a Sister watching NTV7/8TV while talking to the (characters in the) television.

Damn noisy la my house.

I absolutely love how quiet it is when everyone’s asleep.

Screwed up sleeping pattern doesn’t bother me though, I don’t have school to attend.

I repeat, NO SCHOOOOOL!

So while everyone is preparing for college/exams right now, all I do is go “no school no school” and give an annoying smirk. Oh and write @#$% essays, of course.

Stuffed under Family and Friends,Significant Days at 2:50 am