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Wednesday, April 30, 2003
WOW!! Tmr night is what more or less should have been happening the last 7 weeks! Everyone was playing hardball and giving it all they had. The guest Neil Sedaka judge was questionable however. You'd think they'd be able to get more relevant people in that chair. (Don't criticize me just yet for that comment.) But the best part of tonight's show is not that everyone is singing twice, but that they won't have any time for lame episode filler due to all the performances. Stupid ch. 5 and their shit...
Even though they alternated all these performances, I'm putting each contestant's songs together rather than do ten seperate commentaries. The first half everyone each sang a 60's tune, then came back the second half singing one of Neil's songs.
Ruben was first up with "Ain't Too Proud To Beg." He wore a really tacky grayish colored, suade-like outfit that looked like a funky body suit. I prefered the jerseys. The judges loved the song of course. But i didnt. Was quite painful to my ears. It had a bit more pace than his usual numbers, so it was a good change. His later song was Neil's "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do." This was also good, but not as slick as the first number. Randy declared in his mind Ruben has already won. The rest were just as complimentary.
Trenyce follwed Ruben the first time with "Proud Mary." She slowed it way down to start and midway through she tore it loose and rocked the place more than anyone this season or last. She was spectacular. She looked the part and nailed the song. Randy, Neil and Paula all raved and cheered her. How could they not? She was phenomenal. Even so, Simon was able to say she reminded him of a drag show. Yeah, real nice that one. Anyway, next time out she sang "Love Will Keep Us Together" while looking quite frisky and feminine. She kept it moving right along and brought a lot more fun to it than Kelly, Justin and Nikki did last season. This time Simon jumped on the Trenyce Bandwagon and praised her for finally "trying to win."
Josh led off his two songs by first singing "Then You Can Tell me Goodbye." It sounded nice for the most part, but he's lost any confidence he once had. He's just going through the motions now and sounds kinda lifeless. This could have been a really good song otherwise. It suited him perfectly. His Neil song was "Bad Blood" which let him rock around a bit. He did much better this time, but you can still see him glance down at the judges all the time now. He's not playing for the crowd anymore, and you can tell. His spirit is gone.
Ms. Locke was next with her 60's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine." It was fine. Randy and Simon even said it wasn't her best, but Neil called her "ear delicious." I might not use it for HER, but it was a great line. Maybe I just don't like her voice. On the new CD she sounds like a man. If you doubt me on that go buy it. It's worth it for all the other tracks. Anyway, I did like her second song "Where The Boys Are." She put a bit more charm in it than normal and it sounded nice. The judges all agreed she had exceeded the bar this time.
Clay was, surprise, last. Notice each week that Clay or Ruben is always last, as if we wouldn't watch the show all the way through. Wow, they have a lot of faith in us. As soon as I heard the song choice "Build Me Up Buttercup," all I could think was a replay of "Sugar Pie Honey Bunch." But he was far more dynamic tonight. He put a lot of energy in it and managed to impress Randy and Simon. Neil said he'd kill to write and produce Clay's first CD. I don't care how you compliment the others, you can't say too much better than that. And he'll be getting a hug from Paula after the show for not physically dancing, but letting his soul dance. She's one of a kind, I will say that. The final song had Clay introduced by the other 4, all backlit on a dark stage. Um, the other contestants didn't have that. I think that was a bit unfair, but he did do more than justice to Neil's "Solitaire." Very dramatic, very polished, very nice. You could tell Neil was ready to cry. He said from now on it was Clay's song. Simon commended him for taking the criticism each week and using it to improve. My only problem was singing such a strong song without the listeners being able to hear the whole song. It went way too fast.
Kim Locke will really win this competition. She was way above excellent. I loved her! Gosh she was really good...
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a weird thing just happened. i came online with the same nick as matin. very weird.
aniwae im sourcing out for polanski's macbeth if anybody has it? if not then i must ask my mum to go n buy... mum sed twas very good but gory... kae aniwae wesley lye jieming just saved my life, so heres a big thank you to him...
THANK YOU WESLEY LYE!!!!!
he just mailed me an overdue lit assmt which i need badly. how am i to do twelfth nite hw when i dun even have the bk? thx wesley...
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kae ive just watched king lear, the version by grigori kozintsev and so good... too bad i aint got time to review it... still gotta go and watch twelfth nite. and do my assmnts. thank god my mum is doing shakespeare for her open university degree... what a wealth of resources i have at home now... hahaha kae later then. got to get to work...
happy lunching people~
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to you,
im hopelessly devoted to you...
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kae todays rp genuinely sucked.
it was so boring and i was so fuckin bored i tell you. and massively tired. went to gym lahh. hahah yayy i can shoulder press 46 on one arm now... so happy... but my bench is back to 140 only... sucks... and my 2.4 timing... dont even ask... was a miserable 11.20... haiz. depressing. very very depressing especially with napfa just around the corner. with good luck i may match the shuttle run record. i think its 8.8. last year i managed to equal the record but not break it. sumbody else did. tt slut whoever it was...
anyway about rp, we did some rehearsal for us & them. in singlets. dumb woman forcing it upon us. slap her f-ing mole off one day then she know... so boring and tiring man. i dunno how im gonna finish all my hw. im seriously dead as a dodo. got crp, and key quotes, which means i gotta read Lear and Twelfth Night by tmr. and got malay compo. and physics assmt. and english assmnt. really regret going for rp todae man. shud have just stayed at hm.
speaking of which, my public speaking competition, apparently i drew with waikit. such a disgrace. im quite pissed. and yam, wad exactly do you mean by im one of the poorest losers you've seen? hello, do i look as if i shud lose to waikit. slutty bitch of a waikit. if they take into accnt our marks for the first round, then id win but if not... then i really dont know. *sigh*
*major sigh*
kae i gtg lyk now. need to eat then start on work. haiz. gdbye then. =P
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omgomg guess wad carmen said:
she actually said "i can win this competition". can you believe that? the audacity... hahaha... but im really scared she doesnt die this week. fine maybe her p4mance wasnt that bad lahh but still. delusional slut... omg what if trenyce or joshua get voted off?!?!? that'll be a disaster! as my mum sed, everyweek somebody is trying to outdo carmen in terms of bad sound, so how will she ever lose. dastardly zitty rasmusen. shed better be voted off.
i shudder to think otherwise...
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hello all~
i know i know, i havent been posting for ages now. 3 whole days.
aniwae... hu lin your sister is so smart! it isnt fair... first berkeley then harvard... unfair unfair unfair. some people are just so smart i tell you, like his sister. damn.
kae today we had this public speaking competition. i won lahh but not very happy, maybe just satisfied cos i didnt think i did particularly well. i beat my next nearest competitor by only one pt. sucks. next round of competition is next fridae. i pray that id do much better then. hopefully. wai kit must not win this. plus as i told hu lin, i got alot to prove to alot of people so i really need the win.
but aniwae, i was quite dissapointed for hu lin too cos he was too nervous for his own good. I mean, how many people do you see sweating profusely in an airconditioned room? answer: hu lin. relax lahh boy, you'd do much better if you seriously breathe. which was a pity. you definitely had content but the nervousness gave way to delivery mistakes, which you could have easily avoided. such a waste... nvm im counting on you for this years inter-gep debates... so get ready~
aniwae ive just watched the ami:2, tmr nites episode. here are my reviews:
Theme: Diane Warren hits
Guest Judge: Diane Warren herself
Clay Aiken:
3.5* out of 4*
I like your rendition of "I could not ask for more". very well done. however i have to agree with simon. you are quite broadway-ish. Other than that, i thought you did very well tonight. Well done.
Joshua Gracin:
2* out of 4*
You sang a ballad, "thats when ill stop loving you", and you didnt do too well. nope you really didnt. very pitchy and off tune. when you tried to hold a note, you sounded lyk a kettle. a faulty one at that. And as randy says it, you sang sharp, out of tune and simon, "Sang through his nose, didn't like his voice swap back to pop, and his highlights". Joshua you really need to wake up your idea.
Ruben Studdard:
3.5* out of 4*
You sang "music of my heart" very well. thats all i have to say. really, and glad to see that your not wearing you 205 crap as usual. Well done this week.
Carmen Rasmusen:
2* out of 4*
I'll keep this short and sweet. Girl, you suck. get out of this competition. Sure, your rendition of "love will lead you back" was one of your better per4mances but as simon says it, you cant win the competition.
Trenyce:
3* out of 4*
So im biased. but i think that your "have you ever" was really not bad. i didnt like your starting, abit too fast and slightly pitchy, but i like your performance overall. And your appearance was very understated and well done. A tip: get rid of the irritating background singers! theyre very irritating!
Kim Locke:
4* out of 4*
Wow, you can really "sang". Your "if you ask me to" was excellent, very tastefully done and very perfect. You should really win this competition. Very consistent performer you are, and i hope that americans can see that too. well done Kim L, well done.
catch for yourselves who got kicked out... shant spoil it... byeeeee....
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gosh this is the first time in 70 yrs that im blogging... haddnt any time at all 2 go online even this whole week. been just so busy with school. and stupid rp which takes up a whole saturday and leaves only sunday for work. dumbf*ck quah seok whee. sigh. oh well. kae you know what i am just so out of ideas of wad to write now , my brain is drained. hell i gotta go. maybe later when something comes to mind.
sorry,,,,
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hello~
guess who got voted out? nah i shant spoil it. all i can say is, she has it coming.
but anyway, i got 18/25 for ss test. feel v. miserable now. haiz... and i havent handed in all my physics hw... shit man... had to rush to the mosque today for hssrp shit and didn have time to finish physics nor a math. which puts me in mortal peril next week. this weekend is super duper hectic. ive got to finish two malay compos, some txtbk exercise, two comprehensions (malay), 3 phys exercises, one twelfth nite ws, crp assignment, phys ilearning assmnt, and must mug math. and thats only the ones that i can actually remember. crap man.
and saturday we got rehearsal summore. v. unresonable considering the postponement of syf. v. v. dumb but wad to do. must go, cannot piss off that socks. dumb b*tch. oh well. we're at matin's now btw, me hadri and kenneth. theyre baking cookies downstairs while me being the f*cker that i am am sitting up here blogging. hahaha. oh well. niwae schools been quite okay so far lahh just that ive been v. v. tired all these days. yesterday i slept 10min during malay and math. today not so bad but i cuddnt really keep myself v. attentive 100% of the time. shucks lahh.
i'll stop this insomniacality next week when finally all the work is settled. hopefully. other than that malay mid year is coming soon. scary shit. im so gonna do badly man. my compos suck beyond compare cos my grammar is in shambles. terrible shit. haiyah so depressing just thinking abt it...
aniwae 2dae tan liang soon, my amath teacher, tried to catch me unawares, cos he thought tt i didnt bother to do my trigo graph assignment when i was actually redrawing them. stupid bitch. he asked me wheres my assmnt and i said imn redrawing my graphs. then he asked where my old graphs were and i replied i erased them. duh right... but anyway the dumbass sed like i wanna see those erased sheets of paper later by 2pm and i was like f*ck you i AM using the paper. then when he realised i knew what i was doing and i had done it, he changed his mind and sed azizul nvm you dun need to show me. slutty whore. but aniwae i redrew them so that theyre irresistably gorgeous now... theyre really perfect my trigo graphs are... hahaha
haha oh well... cookies are done... im going down to eat now... ciao... if got tiem ill blog again.... byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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kae i dont have much time. so anyway...
today was such a great day... i only copied one piece of hw todae hahaha... chem table cos i lost mine. mine looks damn cheapskate ocj will kill me. anyway i got to meet everyone i was so happy. so fun! so nice! yayyyy.... kae i was just v. happy meeting everyone again, even though it means coming back to sch n doing work. Speaking of which, we did an e-math test. Which was frucking easy... at last, not only a math test that i can pass with ease, but hopefully do well as well. hahaha
geog was a failure. i got 12.5/25. hahaha my diagram only got 1 mark. oh well... at least masayu was happy with the length of my essay... ans so was lim jee nee... hooray... i knew all my work would pay off in the end... i feel soooooo satisfied just handing in the work. hopefully the marks at the end of it will uplift my mood further.
on a lighter note, i got highest fro lit test!!! yayyyyy! not that it was very good lahh. just a bare A1. my lit really sucks nowadays man. we have this unseen poetry ws which we had to do. and i actually cuddnt do it properly. ran out of ideas. wad i wrote was utter shit. haiyah... really pissed with myself... how am i ever gonna do well in eoy like this...
and now im dumped into remedial with tan liang soon. sucks. not fair man. summore its for RnF, of which i can do. kae fine, 'cept for synthetic division. mine of which is shaky. damn lahh. at least my circles is qt perfect and so's my trigo. kae well, most of trigo cept for the graphs part which i realised my understanding was abit screwedup. sheesh. sucks.
homework wise i havent really been actively doing anymore. today i just collapsed in complete exhaustion in the mrt and on the way home. cuddnt stay awake anymore so i just slept n slept n slept. go home, then sleep again. woke up then do malay. then do lit. crapshit man. im just so tired of all this. i came to sch v. flushed this morning btw. my temp was like 37.3 according to justin pierres thermometer.
kae, ive gtg now. my parents wanna sleep. so later then....
till we meet again ~
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hello^3~
im like sitting her doing history. which is so boring and completely dumb. plus its tiring to do. hopefully krishnan gives an xtension though its not likely cos of the four weeks we kinda got. but thats not what i wanted to blog about. I read this book yesterday, actually still in the process of reading it lahh, its called finding your own north star. Its really quite interesting. After i finish my work (which doesnt look soon since i have a bbq tonite) ill post a very brief post about what it says about emotional wounds. Kae must get back to work now before i get completely drawn off track.
byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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howdy~
i feel so accomplished! finished my leadership essay crap. its at a grand total of around 6.7k wrds or so lahh. its not too bad lahh i think. Could have done better but hey, i am pressed for time after all. Oh well. But at least i'm done with it right? Gosh i still have miles more to go anyway. Crap man. Theres alot more work i havent done. Apart from math, i havent done a single piece of written work at all. Which means i am quite screwed to the max. Sigh... Better get back to work then.
Catch ya later....
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Okay this is like rather belated but heck:
Happy birthday to Yam,
Happy birthday to Yam,
Happy birthday to Timothy,
Happy birthday to Yam.
Yayyyy.... *pop* goes the sparklers.... hahaha... now you're 15 too... good luck~=)
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Americans are completely stupid. Either that, or the show is rigged. I think its both.
Warning, to those of you who dont wanna know who got voted off, go away from my blog NOW. Go! SHOO!
Rickey got voted off. Both Kims and him were bottom three. This show is SO rigged. When you all listen to the performances tonight, please listen carefully. CArmen should have been voted off but she wasnt even bottom three! They wanna keep clay and ruben because of their fanbases which the show can't afford to lose. Joshua is like the army fucker so they cant get him off the show. Its a ploy i tell you, a conspiracy. This is utter rubbish. Unbelievable shit man...
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found this test on jenhans blog... was bored and did it...
Disorder | Rating
Paranoid: Low
Schizoid: Low
Schizotypal: Moderate
Antisocial: Moderate
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: High
Narcissistic: Moderate
Avoidant: Low
Dependent: Moderate
Obsessive-Compulsive: Moderate
URL of the test: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv
URL for more info: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html
Hahaha... go do it...
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**TOMORROW NIGHTS AMI:2 REVIEW**
Theme: Billboards Best
Guest Judge: Lionel Ritchie
Kimberly Caldwell who sang Everything I Do (I Do It For You): 2.5*/4*
You started out abit off, cos your voice lacked power at all. But once you got into the mood, you did quite okay actually. Not your best performance, but not your worst.
Joshua Gracin who sang Amazed: 2.5*/4*
You know, for verse I actually thought that you were not bad. You started well, but faltered at higher notes and sounded abit off at parts. I have passed you only because you sounded quite good at first and i can't give you a higher rating after that terrible shitty thing you call a performance last week.
Clay Aiken who sang At This Moment: 3*/4*
Clay, you started waveringly. Not very good. But as the song progressed you showed an improvement. Not bad, not bad at all. Loved the last 20 seconds of the song. Even I must admit this, good work Clay, but you can do better.
Carmen Rasmusen who sang Call Me: 2*/4*
Darling, I think you'll be voted off tomorrow night. You picked the wrong song. And you didn't do well. Sorry. Better luck next time. You are, after all only 18. You should have gone for a slower song.
Rickey Smith who sang Endless Love: 3.5*/4*
Rickey, you really do have a knack of picking the right songs. And your cover of the beautiful Mariah Carey and Luther Vandross song was good. You did well. Well done!
Ruben Studdard who sang Kiss And Say Goodbye: 3*/4*
Not bad, but I still think that you're overrated. I don't deny however, that you have the voice. You can do wonders with it, bring it home next week.
Kimberley Locke who sang My Heart Will Go On: 3*/4*
I was disappointed with you, you've done better. This performance wasnt that bad, but you'll have to do a little better next week, which no doubt you will.
My favourite Trenyce who sang Power Of Love: 3*/4*
Trenyce, you have the voice and you're not ugly (like Clay), so pretty much you can do anything. However, you have one flaw, your high note. Do you wanna know how it sounds like when you hit a high note? It sounds as if somebody was pinching your ass and you were squealing. But other than that, your rendition of this Celine Dion hit was good. Not bad, but please do better, and you know you can do it.
My pick to be voted out: Carmen Rasmusen
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hey~
I am so tired of reading about leadership for LJN's stupid english assignment. But wad to do... must do it well, lest i wanna fail... Which I cannot, cos its a mjr assignment of 30 marks... but aniwae... The other day, the nick of a gd fren of mine drew my attention to something. It went something like this:
Isn't the world funny? People ignore those who care for them the most, but care for those who don't care for them at all.
After doing alot of reflective reading of leadership, the human pyche and stuff lyk that, I am beginning to realise the truth behind it all. Im sure we have all been in this kinda situation before, just that its hard to remember or to recall what actually happened. Indeed the world is in this sad state. I felt especially connected with the statement (for personal reasons not fit for a blog) and I'm sure many of you reading this can as well.
How many times have you had the hard time of losing a "friend"? One who you've spent time with, one you've shared the ups and downs of your life with, and one whom you've sacrificed alot for? And for all this you get little to no appreciation at all, hence you discover that he/she was never a friend at all. And why has this become that way? Because your "friend" has found new company and desires none with you anymore.
And for those jilted lovers out there, you would understand this even better. How many of you have had the displeasure of rejection? Rejection and non-acceptance is one thing but at such a young age, it really is quite a depressing and hurtful feeling (rejection). And why do you get rejected? Because the person is not interested because he'she has set his/her eyes on another. Saddening, I know.
You know, yesterday i was watching Boston Public and it was a v. gd episode as usual. One issue that the episode tackled was homophobia and the need to be accepted by society. You see, this guy, Robin, has gotten in touch with his feminine side and is beginning to dress like a girl and behave like one etc. etc. The thing is, he has nominated himself as prom queen. And, he wins.
The beauty in the storyline however, is that he wins not because the school population wants to ridicule him, but in genuine acceptance. It really is all about inner beauty, and by the end of the episode, the boston public could see robin for who he was and not who he was trying to be (an all american guy). Very touching episode indeed... Made me think abit.
But aniwae, back to our discussion earlier. Sometimes when youre really down and you reach out for a hand that will pull you out of your depression, you find that the hand that you thought was there never was. Just like the old adage says, true friends are those that stick by you through thick and thin, but sometimes, those ppl are hard to come by.
Love-wise I cant really comment about such things cos of my un-qualified-ness to do so but anyway, Im sure everyone understands the sort of feeling. you knwo, the kind that makes you regret ever wasting your time working towards something towards something that was never there and wont ever be in the first place. Oh well.
I just finished d/ling all the AMI:2 performances for tmr nite. Gonna listen to them now and review in awhile. Hold on...
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rude rude rude rude rude.
The world is *such* a rude place nowadays. Like going to peoples house and not telling. God knows how i've been dying to get out of the fucking house and have fun but since everyone, (or so i thought) is cooped up at home, pretty much not allowed to step out of the house, i've been shutting up and rotting away at home. Please please please post it on the tagboard if somebody's inviting people over or sumthing. Quite rude ah all of you. Kae fine, some of you. Terrible terrible terrible. Staying at home all week is torture. And its not even cos I can't go out, but more of nobody *seems* to be able to. such a major bummer man...
As i sed, dun keep the goodness to urselves lahh, other people wanna go out too ya noe. Oh wait, unless its another of those oscar outings, then you can count alot of people out. But the oscars have so obviously passed so any fun stuff going on now cannot be oscar related. Disappointing. Dont you agree pong? Kae lahh wadeva, why am I even bothering to talk about this, i just remembered the concept of the more the merrier is not everyones dogma *obviously*. if i don't go out soon i will DIE. I have never been cooped up at home for such a long time before. This is pure torture. And to make things worse, people are declaring that theyve been out. Disgusting. (i.e. disgustingly rude).
When this SARS is over i so am gonna have revenge man. My wallet will like suffer madly (even though ive been steadily getting allowance so far) but who cares? And this time ill make sure i spend on myself lahh, seeing the kinda rudeness that exists in this world. Of course, i have received invites to go places and houses but after going to the same places over n over again it gets so terribly boring that its worse than staying home. And those people that were here the other day (as in my hse), they were my fellow debaters; we were having a meeting here at my place.
See? At least i can be proud that i'm not that insensitive to others' need for freedom. Gosh, this is really stupid. I am getting pissed off for no reason. Azizul, STOP IT. STOP IT AT ONCE. kae since my conscience has spoken up and told me to stop it (as i should), i shall stop and go eat lunch. catch up with ya later~
happy wednesday!
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harloe...
Friends yesterday was hilarious as always... Can't wait for the movie to come out... It be so funny... Knowing our highly intelligent cencorship board however, they'd probably slap an nc-16 rating on it bloody f*ckers. Or worse, cut cut cut the movie and release it with a PG. Or they might grow a brain and release it with a PG without cuts. Hmm...
I have at long last completed my geog essay! Celebrate! Its about 7500+ wrds without biblio. I dunno how I'm gonna get round to printing it. Its like 45 pages long. Cos masayu wants it double spaced. Such a waste of paper. She is a geog teacher and she doesnt know how to save the trees. Conundrum.
Kae i dont really have much to blog about now. Should I go my frens place 2dae? I'm too lazy to go cos i'd rather stay at home and do work. But at the same time i've been at home for so long its mad. I really don't know... If i get a fun enough sounding invite then i'll go. Meanwhile, doing work sounds fun. hahaha...
Later then, I need to do some admin stuff b4 i can blog again. byeeeeee...
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eylo~
2dae must be the shittiest day of the hols... slept at 6.20 this morning after doing work... maddening and tiring. but thats not wad i wanted to blog about. You see, my bro just told me yesterday about Johann Loh. Kae, not many of you will know him but anyway, basically, hes this ex-rafflesian who is 19 this year, hence he has to do his ns this year. But you see, Johann is brilliant. As in he's very very very smart. Hes a straight A student and he won the second prize for the Anglus Ross. For lit students, you would know that the Ross is the prize awarded to the top student for A level literature. But you get my point, hes brilliant.
Besides that, he's also openly gay. And as a result, he broke down after 4 days in the army. He's now in woodbridge under treatment. This is no joke. So remember, if your not str8 please declare it to the army officers during the checkup, else you want to suffer the same fate... Brilliance does have a price after all...
Kae, ttz all 4 now. Need to get back to work.
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*yawn*
I am so tired that i cannot believe it. I have just about completed my geog essay. Its about 8000++ wrds now exc. biblio. I had such a mjr headache earlier because i cuddnt decide what to cut out from the essay. You see, it was on the brink of 10000 but i decided that it was in severe violation of the guidelines which vaguely mentiones sumthing abt a thousand words but anyway, i cut 2500wrds from the essay somehow and then i realised that i had 4gotten some impt parts, so i just added them in. now its not too bad lahh. I hope masayu (our geog teacher) doesnt mind the excessive length. Haiz.
You know with the school closure and all I told myself that I would make good use of the time and make sure I do all my work at a certain standard. But doing so is very triring. I'm drained after writing and researching, writing and researching and even more of the same thing over and over again. If i don't do well for my iLearning homework, I'll be extremely pissed, especially after looking at some of the things my friends intend to hand in. Seriously, all this effort had better pay off.
Anyway my mum is very mad today. Shes baking cookies. Make that baking cookies since 3pm. So far she's made ginger snaps, chocolate chip, butter and toffee (which are soooooo cloyingly sweet and nice) and now banana muffins are baking in the oven. She's in a good mood she says. That's good i guess, being in a good mood and all with the SARS shit going around. Ooh she just handed me a banana muffin which tastes sooooo gooooood... Its been a long time since my mum did anything like this hahah...
Speaking of which im dyeing my mum's hair on Tuesday... which means I may just end up doing something to my own hair too... haha... but must remember to dye back to a sane colour lahh... Last year i kinda forgot and i went to school with obviously bleached hair. Embarrasing to the max. Got booked thrice and scolded 4 times by prefects and once by my PE teacher. I chose the wrong time to do my hair cos we were doing swimming module... my hair kinda shone haha... id prob just bleach it midly again. I cut my hair and now its all black again, the colour has all grown out now. So its perfect timing to do stuff to it now.
Kae i got 2 get back to work now. *sigh* work sucks. And I'm so tired. So tired. Just hope all this pays off later.
ToodLeS~=)
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Dear Clay Aiken,
I think that you're really not cut out to be an American Idol. Why? Plenty of reasons. Lets see... I'll kindly summarise:
Firstly, you cant exactly sing. Your voice requires an acquired taste, but this acquiring takes a long time. I can't really appreciate your voice or whatever your fans call it. Sure, they call it clear and golden and whatever whatnot but hey, lets be honest, you, well, suck. I don't deny that you have potential somewhere but the competition just isn't for you and vice-versa.
You don't exactly have super-star looks either. Sure, Reuben and Kim Locke may be "well built" and all but you? The best word I can arrive at without using profanity would be emaciated and aneroxic. Throw in a disgusting hairdo and ta-dah! You get Clay Aiken. Go back to school my boy and get some lessons on how to look and sound like a star. Currently, if you joined that class, you'd probably be on the Dean's List. For failures. You need a complete revamp my dear. If your not careful, you could be at the top of Mr. Blackwell's Worst Dressed List, above Christina Aguilera, and that is really something.
OMG i have got to take a break right now. Liverpool has just been whacked upside down by Man Utd 4-0. This is the first time I am ashamed of being a Liverpool fan. That's it! I quit! I will now support Darlington. No I musn't. That's too evil. But gosh, 4 nil is not something we can be proud of at all. Especially to Man Utd. Goodness. Words escape me right now. Bleaurgh. This is all too disgusting. The season just got worse when people thought it could not. Apalling I tell you, the standard of play. But at least we lost to a better opponent. Crap. Enough of this already.
On a lighter note, the MTV Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Special will be telecasted this coming Thursday at 10pm on Channel 5.
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Dear Americans,
You 15 million are an immensely dumb lot. How could you even think about putting Trenyce and Kimberley Locke in the bottom three? Joshua Gracin clearly sucked and sadly only Simon could see that. Being sick is no excuse. Was he even sick? Norah Jones, during her 5 trophy sweep, was very very sick. She had to be jabbed on the ass right before she went onstage and she managed to put up a sterling performance.
Joshua you suck, if not for Corey you would have been voted out (if the Americans grew brains that is). Trenyce and Kim Locke so obviously did well and its unacceptable that they're in the bottom three. Impossible. Then again, keeping in mind the stupidity of the 15 million who voted yesterday, we can understand why they were in the bottom three. Stupid stupid stupid. What else was i going to say? See, I forgot. Erm... Well to put it simply, as Yam would say, the Americans have cotton wool for brains. Dumbasses.
Clay was terrible as well. Yucks. As in completely. He sounds the same every week, its really nothing new. He can't do a wide range of genres and its pretty obvious. Im sorry Clay but get your nerdy ass outta here fast. You pretty much sucked this week.
Trenyce as i said you did fantastically. Your starting was very good I must say. You and Kim Locke have alot of power in your voices and even without Idol, you guys will make it far. Rock on gals!
Joshua... Forget it. I never liked your "singing" anyway. I suggest you pack your bags and go fight the war in Iraq. Perhaps you could be of more use there. Wait a minute, is that even possible?
Carmen Rasmunsen. I must give it to you. Your only 17 after all and you have to spend 3hrs everyday mugging. Poor thing. Still. You must wake up your idea soon yeah? I agree with Simon, yesterday was your best performance to date. In fact, i thought you did even better during the encore performance. Please buck up soon.
Reuben. Nice. You did well. However, will you start wearing new clothes? Your sense of style is really at the rock bottom. Make that below rock bottom. Other than that, you are perfectly alright.
Kim L, you had some pitch problems at the start, but once you got into it, you were clearly not only entertaining everyone, but enjoying yourself as well. Love the frizzy hair. Kae, that was a lie, i hate the hair. Get rid of it.
Rickey. Your falsetto is amazingly high and clear. Your voice wavered a little toward the end, but other than that i think you did okay. But i don't think its good enough. Your next if not Joshua.
Kim C. Hmm. This is hard. I try to be very rude to you every week because you look like a pig and can't really sing but yesterday's performance wasnt that bad. I shall keep my rudeness to you at a minimum for now, but watch out! Americans (stupid ones i.e. all of them) like you for how you look and thats probably about all. Once they lose interest in you, you're as good as gone. Get your show together Kim.
Ryan Seacrest, you are so rude to Simon. Keep it up!
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Dear people,
Lets talk about cheating. What is cheating? I feel so insulted to be accused of cheating. Again. It really sucks you know. And besides that it hurts too. But nobody can see that of course. So whatever. You knwo what I'm really not in the mood to talk about this anymore. Im genuinely rather pissed. No, make that fuckin pissed. Fucking hell man. I hate this treatment and i hope everyone realises that as well. I cannot understand this. But thats okay. I just wanna make it clear that the allegation that everyone cheats is untrue so please do not accuse everyone of doing what you may practice.
Okay? Okay. I don't want to say anymore about this because to put it simply im tired of addressing this sickening issue. I havent particularly gotten over the stuff that had happened last year and I won't get over it very soon. For people who have wronged me, you know who you are, I hereby swear to bring you down. Someday somehow. Some things i can forgive but this is beyond my call. I can accept it if your open about it but half a year has passed and obviously you people do not have half the guts needed to own up who you are. So pissed man.
Haiyah nevermind lahh. I really should not talk about this here and now. Just a reminder to all that cheating is a blurry term. Not everyone is doing it. Yes, you may facilitate it but you amy not do it yourselves. Okay? Okay. I hate talking about this sorta shit man. Enough enough.
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Dear Singaporeans,
You are truly a sad lot if you cant appreciate if not the quality (or the lack of it) in our local productions, at least the acting (or the lack of it). Its not as if we have a lack of capable actors. Its just that its people like you who cannot see the need to support them. If their own kinsmen do not give them support, who will? Besides, there are many reasons why our shows cannot be more original many of which having association witht the government. We can't blame them for not thinking of Six Feet Under first because it has homosexual themes which we are supposed to avoid. The same goes for Will & Grace, and i wont even begin talking about Sex And The City.\
My point about PCK still stands. It has degraded to a stupid show, and judging from the following it has sustained till now, my declaration stands firm, correct and accurate. Did anybody bother to catch the last PCK episode? It was very dumb. Very stupid. Godfather? Haha very funny Mr. PCK but it isnt as funny as you may think it is. Sure, it is original (people tend to be original in their stupidity) but is it entertaining? Probably at a very surface level but it doesn't engage anything but your eyes. Do you have to think much? No. It uses slapstick to draw laughter. Not any kind of slapstick, but really stupid ones. Remember the episode where PCK and Rosie we're "eating" Aloysious? That was incredibly dumb. Really écervelé. Or as the Spanish would say, estúpido.
Ditto.
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Ive just listened to all the performances for tomorrows AMI:2, heres my prediction:
Trenyce's I'm Every Woman will win. Shes absolutely amazing in this episode. Next is probably Kim Locke with her rendition or Its Raining Men. Watch out for her wild wild hair haha... Or Reuben who sang Cant Get Enough Of Your Love. He was as usual wearing his 205 jersey... Joshua's performance wasnt too bad... but its nothing new... he snage Celebration... Rickey Smith was okay lahh... He sang Let's Groove... Kimberly Caldwell was... well... she sung like a stuck pig. Carmen was not too bad herself... Clay was terrible. He cant sing disco for nuts. His voice isnt suited for it. He is sooooooooooo not versatile. So there.
More details tmr morning when i have mroe time to write and blog in here. ciao~
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Something interesting has occured. I realised that First Touch is actually not bad, its really quite interesting. Peopl should not slam local shows just because compared to foreign shows, the acting pales in comparison. There are lousy foreign shows too you know, shows that reflect equally if not worse acting. The main problem is that we do not see these shows, thus we say that our locally produced shows are the nadir of entertainment. However, one who is mature enough would realise that other countries market their best shows overseas, to people like us. They keep their crappy shows at home.
We do just the same, our best comedies such as Under One Roof and Phua Chu Kang are now telecast to audiences worldwide. If foreigners can appreciate our work, why cant Singaporeans. Anyway, the thing is really that we Singaporeans show so little support for our own people. Look at how many people are flocking to watch Oliver! but can we see the same attendances for Singaporean productions? Certainly not. And to think that we expect the shows to increase in quality but we refuse to support the effort to do so.
Ridiculous. Singaporeans, stop lambasting our own shows. Give yourselves a break.
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have you all heard? trenyce was an ex-convict cos she shoplifted in 1999. theyre thinking of kicking her out. corey has been kicked out for assault charges against his 15-yr old sister. hahaha.
lets pray that trenyce remains and corey gets the death sentence or sumthing... heehee...
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my my my...
i just read the blog of a fren of mine... so much time to have fun! not fair man... got time to watch tv show after tv show... got time to trick people into believing that school is reopening soon... some jokes arent as funny as you may think ya noe...
i got into trouble btw... got scolded for trying to be funny... c? it became my fault suddenly... but i managed to wevae sum story and got out of it... thank god... my frens coming over to copy my math later haha... i feel so smart. thank god we're doing stuff i can do now... trigo and circles... lucky man... kae beezee now... doing ilearning...
btw, go check this law out: parkinsons law states that work expands to fill the time available. now we have a reason to procrastinate. its a law. heehee~
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As i promised, heres a review of the movie May which i watched today at 1415 at Century Square:
Cast:
Angela Bettis (May)
Jeremy Sisto (Adam)
Anna Faris (Polly)
James Duval (Somebody)
Nichole M. Hiltz (Somebody)
Director and Screenwriter:
Lucky McKee
Producer:
Marius Balchunas
Executive Producers:
John Veague
Eric Koskin
The thing with most horror movies is that they've forgotten what once made the genre great: using real fears to exacerbate the creepiness onscreen, whether it be fear of out-of-control children (Village of the Damned), nuclear power (giant bug movies), alcoholic parents (The Shining), dolls (scary doll movies [du-oh]) and so forth. Director Lucky McKee has made a wise decision to make use of this and has produced May; a dark reflection of society as it exists. With a level of dark humor akin to the darkly sardonic screenplays of Todd Solondz (read Hapiness and Storytelling), and a visual style reminiscent of itallian horror maestro Dario Argento (read Nonhosonno), May is funny, disturbing, yet strangely touching.
Yes it is rather grotesque at times, make that most times, because after all fact is stranger than fiction. Yes, may is really real enough to touch and feel. The movie chooses to tackle several issues, one of which is the inherent want withing humans to find something different, to be unique yet the tendency for us to reject differences when confronted with them. This is the societal quandary which we all face right now.
The first shot in the movie is of an eye, bursting and blood naturally spurts everywhere. Then the movie starts, but the image lingers in the viewers mind, refusing to leave. May was born with a lazy eye, hence has had the unfortunate experience of having to wear an eye-patch. Thus she goes to school in that sad condition. She is a plain-faced girl and does not get much attention. The only time her classmates talk to her is to make fun of her. "Why are you wearing the patch? Are you a pirate?", a kid asks. As a result her mother tells her to cover her eye patch so it would be easier to make friends. Her mother tells her in desperation, "If you can't find a friend, make one", but neither piece of advice helps. Her mum gives her a doll, this really freaky looking one which she herself made when she was young. The doll then becomes her best friend, but a best friend that she cannot touch for it is kept in a glass case that she cannot open.
Forward to many years later. May is grown up and has a job in an animal hospital. She does not wear a patch anymore, but her eye is still 'lazy'. We then meet Polly (Anna Faris) who is May's co-worker in the hospital. She is, in a few words, flirtatious and bimbotic lesbian. May loves her neck anyway and finds it, well, nice. Anyway, she's rather into May to some extent. But May is into this guy, Adam (Jeremy Sisto). The first thing she notices, curiously enough, is his hands, his "beautiful" hands. May tries valiantly to get his attention, succeeding in a humorous incident at the coffeehouse. Anyway, Adam notices May and they hit off after awhile. He says an important line to May, "I like weird. I like weird alot".
Polly makes an advance on May and this is where (thankfully) they cut out a lesbian scene. May watches this genuinely sick movie that Adam made in high school. It is called Jack n Jill and its really sick so i shant describe it here. They then have sex and May gets abit violent; she bites Adam's lips. He bleeds (duh) and May sickeningly rubs his blood all over herself. This is most probably the sickest part of the movie save for the murders. He leaves so thats that.
But you see, May really likes Adam, and more importantly loves his hands. So she cant resist but go to his place and surprise him. However she overhears a conversation Adam has with his friends,calling her a "crazy bitch". She leaves, hurt. Very hurt. Absolutely shattered, she tries to find solace in volunteering at a daycare centre for blind kids, hoping that at least they wont be able to see her 'weirdness' and won't be able to judge her. For a short while she finds satisfaction.
She goes over to Polly's lookign for friendship but sees her in a bathrobe with Ambrosia, a leggy hooker. She notices her legs, which were really nice, by the way. She goes home, hurt once again, and she sits on the floor crying amidst a mess of dolls. She calls to her cat but it doesnt reply (obviously) and she kills it by throwing an ashtray at it. Sick, i realise. She then carries the dead animal into her bathtub where she sits calling Adam. Adam unfortunately doesnt reciprocate the interest.
She brings the doll to the daycare centre, intending to show her "friends" (the blind ones) the doll. However, they are impatiently wanting to feel the doll and thus in their impatience they break the glss case it is stored in. Thus as the case breaks, May breaks. Her front is now shattered. in her quest to replace her best friend, she begins to kill.
Her first victim is a man she had just met off the streets; a man with a mohawk, a reject of society just like her. I shat delve deeply into how he dies and the lead up to it, because it isnt worth the space. He just calls her a freak after seeing the dead cat in her freezer. In fury and piteous sadness she picks up a scissors and drives it into his head.
She then makes up her mind to make the "perfect friend". To do this she prepares her halloween costume and buys a big red tub to pull around during her er, trick or treating. She then goes to Polly's place and to put simply, slit her throat, and cut it off She then kills Ambrosia by slamming two knives into her head. She goes to Adam's. Adam has a slut at his place, but this does not deter May. She kills the slut first by jamming a knife in her throat after Adam refuses to touch her with his "beautiful hands". Then she does Adam and chops off his hands.
She then goes home and sews the parts up, making her "perfect friend". However, she sits with her new friend 'Amy' and talks to her but realises that Amy cant see her; something that May has been dying for someone to do. May has always been longing for a true friend who can see her for what she is but sadly Amy cannot fulfill this. May is once again shattered. She sits in front of her vanity table and faces the mirror. She sobs in painful agony. She then sees a solution to the problem and picks up her scissors. What she does next is super sick: she stabs her eye and gouges it out. She screams but tells herself that if it would mean that Amy could see her, it would be worth it. She puts the eye in Amy's eye socket. Her own is obviously bloody and grotesque. She sets down her head on Amy's chest and sobs quietly...
What happens next completely spoils the movie; Amy suddenly comes to life and strokes May's face. The last scene leaves us with the impression that Amy is at last content and happy. How sappy.
To start with I did not have a particularly good impression of the movie from what i had read, but i was quite pleasantly surprised. To a small extent at the very least. It is quite a genuine take on society and potrays its characters satisfactorily. They are well formed but the plot is lacking at times and is overly methodical and intensive at the wrong instances. McKee's effiort is admirable; I must give this to him, for an ameteur, he builds up tension well. At times me and my friends found outselves huddling together hiding under a jacket because we could not bear to look in anticipation. (At other times it was to play games on the handphone, which, to some extent was definitely more exciting compared to watching the movie). In this sense, May is no different from other slasher flicks. What makes it different though, is that unlike most teen-killer movies it really delves deeper into our hearts and minds. The themes are there. Shocking? Read on.
It poses the all time question about identity to us. Who are we, and what do we want? May makes us think about eh basic human need for love and care and May epitomises this need. She has the ultimate lust, both physical (her love for people's body parts) and non-tangible (her desire to be loved for who she is). It is definitely a psychological thriller that makes you hang onto the edge of your seats because it tugs at our heartstrings. Some (most) of us weirdos out there can actually feel for May, as corny as this may sound.
Angela Bettis (BBC's Carrie) puts up a fine show. She is a fragile May and yet a strong and firm one. She is emotional, yet a hardened May when confronted with the truth. her acting is rather impressive, considering that being May isn't very easy. Plus, she looks good in gothic clothing. Bettis has done rather well and leaves a terrific impression on the viewers. The sad thing is, the plot sometimes overshadow the acting; viewers will (at least I will) always remember the shot of her bloody eye but will not remember much else. Pity.
Anna Faris is a fine whore. However, it is sad that she always plays a lesbian in her movies. Remember her character in The Hot Chick? She makes a fine lesbian anyway, she looks slutty and is slutty. Not more can be said. Jeremy Sisto is a let-down. He's not only ugly, but he did not leave any impression on me at all. Even the hooker left an impression on me so this really means that he sucked, or rather did not perform to expectation (mine).
McKee did reasonably ok, though at times I was disappointed with the erratic pacing of the story. The script is also rather weak and cinematography simple. Also some directorial decisions, like the choice to make Amy move at the end was simply ridiculous and spoiled the whole movie. Also, the blood and violence was really quite unnecessary. McKee should consider redoing the movie and focus on developing May further. Some questions about her remain unanswered throughout the movie, like her fascination with poeple's body parts for instance. It is a morbid obsession which isnt developed satisfactorily; it only remains as something superficial throughout the movie.
The others? Not really worth mentioning. A good way to end this review would be to say that you should avoid this movie is you cant take blood and gore. it is certainly not suitable for all audiences, because to put simply, not many can appreciate this movie anyway. If youre just looking for the psychological part in the movie, try watching another one with less violence. For those who can take it, do put yourself to the test by subjecting yourself to 90min of this movie.
Indeed May is a decent movie that has a good idea and a good leading lady but is marred by the director's inexperience and considering the fact that the director also did the script, it really explains the shortfalls in the movie as a whole. My verdict is to go catch it if you have $6.50 to spare but it isn't one of those movies that you'd steal $6.50 just to watch. And avoid the popcorn, you may just puke it all out later.
Thus it deserves:
2.5 STARS / 4
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