THE VINTAGE CLUB.

Tuesday, June 03, 2008 ; 3:17 PM

This is really a very sad entry...

I'm in Ngee Ann Poly now.

Ha-ha-ha.

Alright. Tell you something. I JUST FINISHED A BOOK!

It's a romance novel called "Sex, lies and online dating" by Rachel Gibson.

It's an entertaining read I tell you. A little erotic I would say, but if you can imagine.. Hey, you'll find it both hilarious and romantic at the same time.

Go buy it. It's good.

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I would really wish that I could whine as much as I want in my blog, because this is MY SPACE. However, whining... doesn't solve much problems. In fact, it add on more problems, more burdens about other people. People come to my blog for stress relieve because they are mostly happy reads.

As many would have guessed, I'm not happy with my current life.

Though I led a quite fulfilling, stressful-but-happy lifestyle in school, I think I'm no happy man inside. Everyone who is a regular reader of my blog knows what is my passion, what I really like to do.

To be able to have the talent to act, to pretend even for just an hour is a joy to me. I get to relax myself totally when I used to go back to Drama or BUDS. I like there because it's like a second home to me, I get to do what I like to do without caring much about anything. Even though the days were stressful enough for you to tear all the hair from your head, those days were the most happiest days of my life.

I guess I can never do the same again. 2 days ago, I finally return back to BUDS because I'm finally free from school work. But perhaps that session is trying to tell me to give up my passion for 5 years. I experienced my first ever blanked out on stage, the kind of feeling I never had. I can't think, I can't wack a scene out of anything. Because of that, I cried.

"It's no big deal," you said. To me, Drama means alot to me. It is a starting point of my life, somewhere where I met so many good friends, those that don't mind how I look, how I speak, how I react. I feel good there because of them, and many teachers who have helped me over the years have taught me many good values on how to be a better person.

I believe I have a talent in this area. During these years I stay on and fight. I've came so far, yet I lost it all because of my hectic polytechnic lifestyle. Many a times I felt like giving up, yet I stayed on because of something, something that makes my life complete. Now this time I really feel that I should give up. Perhaps this road was never meant for me. Again and again I've met so many obstacles. This one is the biggest. I can never revert back to the same again.

I really miss the old time, the times I stayed up late in the night because I'm doing things for Drama. Compliments are always there to keep me going ahead, and friends are there for me when I feel vulnerable.

Who can I turn to at this point of time? Everyone doesn't look the same to me anymore. They looked distant, and I'm sure they feel the same way as I did when they all look at me.

As for my current course, I'm happy to fit in there because I remembered saying something like if God wants me to fall into that pit of shit, then I shall.
I'm glad I can survive in there, and new coursemates have been very supportive of me. However, it just feels different. I keep a distance away from everyone, not that I'm like some arrogant bastard and stuffs but I just tend to be cautious. I don't think I will be able to pour out my heartfelt words to them anytime soon not because I don't treat them as friends. It's just different. When I can say anything under the sun to a person, that means I know them well enough to pour secrets. However they aren't that close yet, we don't have much topics to share about, and I certainly don't have any hobbies that interests them. I find it hard to communicate though I've tried. I'm happy to fit in, but not very happy because I only fit in and not totally be in it.

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Oh btw, sorry for not replying to any tags since god-knows-when. I've been rather busy the past previous weeks, and I'm feeling rather down lately.

Till then.

Labels: drama, misc, reviews

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 ; 12:28 PM

Cheung Gong 7 Hou / CJ7

I watched CJ7 on Monday!

CJ7 is cute tho! :D

At first I was quite shocked to see that CJ7, because when it first appeared it looked quite ugly. But after awhile, it's acutally quite adorable. Sean said that there should be a CJ7 toy for people to collect. If that really happens, I WANT A CJ7 TOO!

Trivia:
- The "Buddha Palm" scene in Kung Fu Hustle was featured in CJ7
- The boss/contractor in CJ7 was previously acted as the Bone, Stephen Chow's sidekick in Kung Fu Hustle
- Dicky in CJ7 is actually a girl.

Unlike Stephen's previous movies, CJ7 actually stirs up the emotions. Be it how mean Dicky was to CJ7, or when *spoiler*Stephen Chow's sudden death*spoiler*. You would also be "ugh-ing" about the super big fat ugly girl in the movie, and the rich kids/teachers who despise Dicky because he is poor.

I must say that all Stephen Chow's movies are good. It's funny and lame as usual. However, there is still quite a huge gap between his previous movie "Kung Fu Hustle" and this CJ7. It's recommended to watch if you want a good laugh, but I suggest you not to buy the DVD/VCD of CJ7. Not worth to collect/keep.

Trailer:

Labels: pictures, reviews, videos

Sunday, February 03, 2008 ; 10:56 PM

茗香菜馆

Yesterday I went to celebrate Sean's Mum's birthday at Beng Hiang Restaurant (ming2 xiang1 cai4 guan3) which is situated at Amoy Street.

The parking lots in Amoy Street are pathetically little, so we had to keep turning in and out of this one way lane.

Since I'm quite a fan of chinese food (dont really like western restaurants, too much dinning etiqutte that I cannot remember), I can tell you that the food they served there are D-LICIOUS! Yum-yum.

We had: (I give you the most exact dishes' names here, cept the fish because I have no idea what fish was that. I'm not a fan of fishes.)

Long longevity paus
Cold dish Combination(leng3 pan2)
Doubled Boiled Superior Shark's fin w/ Pig's Tail
Crispy Suckling Pig (thumbs up for this)
Fish
Asparagus w/ scallops
Braised Duck with Sea-cucumber in claypot
Long Longevity noodles
Dessert (not sure what dessert, but it taste good)
Kong Bak Pau
Cake (from Choc.a.bloc I think)

Hm.. this is the first time I ate a little from every dishes. (was thinking that I should not be too choosy when eating out with them) And Sean's Dad kept telling us to try the Kong Bak Pau from this restaurant because its quite famous.

Oh and I got 2 blisters on my right foot due to the rubbing between my toes and the peep toes wedges. *cries*

Today I joined the Buds Youth Theatre for a workshop! Yayyyyy~
It's located at The Substation.
The session rocked.
I played new drama games.
I meet new friends.
I'm going for a second session after CNY.
I love Drama.
Yayyyyyyy~

Labels: drama, reviews

Friday, August 10, 2007 ; 3:39 PM

Yesterday was National Day!

I know I'm late for this banner, but it's National Day week. So whatever.

Went out with Weepeng & Ryan (Weepeng's classmate a.k.a the Adidas watch man a.k.a Mr Piano Canon-in-D Man) yesterday to watch the showcase of a drama competition organised by the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). I'm amazed by the fact that the theme of the competition was Singapore History and the showcase was on National Day itself!

The showcase was held at National Museum and this is the first time I went there. You know I'm not that kind of person who will visit musuems to look at fake stuffs right. The gallery only had one thing that interest me: A stone called Chocolate (it was named after the smell of the stone!).

So yes, before we enter the museum we saw people getting some FREE goodie bags from the FOH (it's the open house of National Museum). And just look at the queue! This is what I call Typical Singaporeans:

ALL THE WAY TO THE OPEN SPACE CARPARK!

I don't understand why they can stand the heat, and continue to queue up for worthless goodie bags. Well I guess it's because it's free right?

So back to the showcase. The showcase had 2 catergory, the lowersec 1st - 3rd winner schools and the uppersec 1st-3rd winner schools. I tell you, the lowersec winners' plays were all so horrendous. Now I think that our school didn't participate was quite a pity. Our juniors could win them so easily. But the uppersec was not bad, because Raffles Institution got first, Hougang sec got second and Tanjong Katong sec got third.

Overall, RI made this trip a worthy one.

Since we are at the musum why not take a trip to the shop inside? Things will be expensive definetely, but who cares if you find something nice there. And the things we bought are six packets of White Rabbit milk candies (da bai tu nai tang)! With different flavours! We didn't know that our childhood favourite actually exists in 6 different flavours.

After that we walked to Cathay House and ate at QuickBite. It was yummy, and the softshell crab is just darn delicious. Worth every single cent in my pocket.

Oh oh oh, next we walked to Raffles Hotel. How many Singaporeans actually went there before? Not me definetely. I don't even know its existence.

Took some pictures with the two men!

(photo courtesy of Ryan)

Me "sitting" on an empty base chair.
(Photo Courtesy of Ryan)
Something wrong with my phone. I guess it's because i didn't turn off the night mode before handling to Ryan.

Brokeback Mountain

BEST PICTURE EVER! Hahaha. Ryan looking at the top of the fountain.

Best acting partner. Hahah. I SWEAR I DIDN'T CLOSE MY EYES!
Photo Courtesy by Ryan
And lastly,

THE GAY HINDI DANCE! =DDDD

Oh, I saw Mediacorp Celeb at the hotel! You know Zhang Yao Dong? Yup, I saw him and a girl... prolly his girlfriend. HAHAHAHA.

After that we kept walking and went to landmark for a visit. Didn't stay there quite long as Ryan and Weepeng kept walking out from the shop. LOL. Gave a packet of Chocolate bunny sweets to the Aunties and left for APPLE STRUDELS!

I ate two strudels! Apple and Mango. I love the apple strudel so much. Weepeng ordered peach strudel and Ryan ordered the apple strudel. Burnt a big hole in my pocket, but they are definetely worth the money! Gonna try the durian strudel next time. :P

Oh, visit this for more of our funny yummy day! ^^

EDIT:
genpeew says: EEEEE
gengeew says: DONT TRY DURIAN
eilav says: HAHAHAHAH
eilav says: DURIAN RAWKZORS
genpeew says: NUUUUUUUUUUU

HAHAHAHA. I SHALL TRY DURIAN STRUDEL INFRONT OF WEEPENG! :P:P:P

Labels: birthday, drama, pictures, reviews

Saturday, June 23, 2007 ; 11:32 PM

Here's what I owe you guys

Right... so I better get down to blogging before school reopens, then I have no more time to blog!*cries*

I have so much overdue stuff to talk about. Wong Kar Wai Dreams, Camp, shopping trip on Thursday.... sigh.

Should I seperate into 2 posts then? Better not.

So I'll talk about Wong Kar Wai Dreams first.

It's your loss if you didn't went to watch it! And for those who hates The Finger Players, zip it before I sew up your mouth with toothpicks.

So it was 2 weeks ago, on Friday 15/6/07. Weepeng, Sze Siong and me went to the National Libarary (Bugis) 's Drama Centre to watch that play.

Wong Kar Wai Dreams is about a lady, named Ling, who lives with her bestie (Trish) & her bestie's husband (Bernard). Ling often dreamt about Wong Kar Wai (one of Asia's most enigmatic film directors alive today) dreaming of her...

In the play, the quote that prolly us three will remember forever is this (bearing in mind that this play is not R21):

Bernard: Ahhhh! Stop biting my nipple! *gets off the bed*

Ling: I thought you like it? I see most girls in porn doing it.

Bernard: What kind of sick porn have you been watching?

And:

Trish: Ling, you need rampant sex.

After the show, we ate in Terra Cafe in Bugis Junction. The food there is so-so. But the services are excellent! (perhaps because I'm a girl)

I ordered their Roast chicken pan-fried something (the name is too long, I can't remembered). It is $11.90 (excluding GST) with soup and a small cup of icecream for dessert. As for the drink, 1 bottle of Iced Ice Mountain cost me $1.50 (with a glass). It's a darn rip-off for the drink. =(

Finally when we leave, us three took some photos on the MRT. WhEe~

From Left: Weepeng, Me, Sze Siong

Our shoes.
From Left: Sze Siong's, Mine, Weepeng's

Us again.

Drama Camp 2007
Wahey! Finally can come back and chat with Scott.

He said I have to mention his name somehow in my blog post, here's it is! =p

To tell you guys the truth, Drama camp this year isn't really fun. With all the limitations and I've been cooping myself inside the Dance room for almost every hour, it's not really.... fun. (except for ghost hunt *smiles to myself*

One of the station for ghost hunt is to piece a puzzle (which everyone hates).

How difficult can piecing a puzzle be?

Well, the solution to this station is a 2-step one.

Solution:
First step: Piece the puzzle of the school logo. We designed this puzzle in this way that you have to used up EVERY single piece of white spaces. When you finished, flip it.

Second step: There are 7 numbers on the back puzzle. Take out your handphone and text the following number: 5427279 and you will get "Library".

Solved. :)

When leaving, I forgotten to bring my thumbdrive, makeup kit and my holiday assignments back home! I tell you, I'm dead. I don't even know where I left it. :(

Shopping trip
I went to Far East plaza on thursday with someone. Initially I didn't know what to get for myself. But as I go along, I realise I needed some accessories. Clothes can wait.

In Ice Lemon Tee, stupid someone kept singing Fergalicious. See la, now it's installed in my head. :(

I bought home a pair of black Aviators shades for $9.90 at He & She! Also a pair of square biscuit ear studs for... 4 bucks, a yellow clip and a red clipper (for hair) to prepare for school reopen!

After that we went to catch a movie at ~~Heeren~~Orchard Cine (gosh, I didn't realise I made a mistake until today!). It is called The girl who lept through time. Jap anime.

I realised that I owe you guys a movie review on Men in White. But I don't think I'll be watching that. So let me replace it with another movie review.

Highly recommended for this movie!!

Ratings: 4.5/5

Duration: 100 minutes

Plot Summary: When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of her and her friends.

The movie is so funny yet sad at the same time. Initially I had reservations for the movie, but after watching I feel like watching it again!

Sometimes I wish that I have the ability to stop time or go back to the past. Don't you guys feel the same way? This anime hit the right spot!

After that saw Kevin and his girlfriend.

And now for the picture of my new shades:

Today
I watched 200 pounds beauty today! I know I'm slow, but that can't be helped. Waiting for DVD to be out is like this one.

I cried like hell and laugh like hell for this one!

And ended up searching for the song on the net after watching. It's in my imeem playlist now. Hear it. :)

Labels: drama, pictures, reviews, school

Monday, October 16, 2006 ; 11:49 PM

Updated

I've finally updated my blog's content. The wishlist on the sidebar is gone, because I'm too lazy to update it... therefore, I deleted it. MUAHAH.

Updated the "today's topics" as well, with my latest post of "What's IN and what's not". I've added a few new links, namely Si Min and Valyn. LOL.

Lastly, I've added both September and October 2006's links to my archives. Yay.

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Went to Vivocity today, Singapore's largest shopping mall ever.

Well, to all those rich kids... this is the place for you to shop. And for the not rich people (like me), you can only walk outside these shops.

So far there's nothing nice there actually, except for Starbucks Coffee and awesome Cinema. The Cinema seats are really awesome. Very nice, comfortable and classy. I like the outdoor scenery however, though the haze made it difficult to see. One look towards the sea, you can't really see Sentosa Island. Saw the Brani Port Terminal, and was looking at the containers to see whether is there the USPC Company container in the port. LOL.

Overall I would give it a 3.5/5 stars.

P/S: I look forward to the grand opening in December though.

Labels: reviews

Sunday, July 09, 2006 ; 12:39 AM

TFP

Oh yay, I went for the puppet play called "First Family" by The Finger Players.

Casts:
Tan Beng Tian - The Minister
Oliver Chong - Youngest Daughter
Karen Tan - 3rd Daughter
Jean Ng - 2nd Daughter
Goh Guat Kian - Mother
Low Kah Wei - 1st Daughter
Ong Kian Sin - 4th Daughter
Claire Devine - 5th Daughter
Julius Foo - The Prince

I loooooove the play too much. Talking about the backstage, the blending of the shadow puppetry and the actors are like damn well. I LOVE the lightings as well. Personally I feel that the Lightings designer, Lim Woan Wen did a great job for the lights design. The part when they used damn strong lights and shine it on the audience is freaking well. Ying Wuen told us that that thing can be quite tricky. If you play with it well enough, the audiences like it. If you dont, they will hate it. So yea, thumbs up for the lights designer.

Those people who didnt get a chance to watch it, it's your loss. Because Darren Ng, the sound designer for the play, is doing the operating the sound LIVE. It's always nice to see theatre plays where the sound is designed by Darren. I love the sounds damn loads. I have to say that he is awesome. I LOVE DARREN.

If I'm not wrong, the playwright, Chong Tze Chen should be CT. So, as for the story plot and directing, CT does a great job... as usual. The fighting scene between the Prince and the Mother was indeed very funny and the idea is perfect. Because if there was only the opera fighting alone, the whole show scene will be boring. It's good to add in Waltz, 1980's Dance and the scissors paper stone thingy. But during the quarrel scene among the 6 daughters, the atmosphere wasnt there. CT's set designs are also very simple, yet they can bring out the effects and nice blending effects.

Overall performance comments for the actors: I love it. Among all the actors/actresses, I love Kian Sin and Oliver the most. The 2 guys were acting as ladies! Kian Sin and Oliver didnt dissapoint me. Their acting were better than the previous show. Beng Tian's chinese is very good, and she acts as well as the other TFPs too. I love Goh Guat Kian(mothe), but I prefer her acting in the prev show. Julius Foo, another great actor that I must comment on. His role as the evil scheming prince is damn nice. He acts very well, but could be better if he pronunce his chinese words more properly. Great job guys!

The play is definetely worth of your money. 30 bucks, not wasted!

So speaking of the TFP, Ying Wuen have came up with another puppet show for the TFP. The branch of "Pigs can fly", this coming play is called "Miss Mouse". I'm definetely going to watch this show. Can't miss any TFP's plays, especially it's pure puppetry.

Miss Mouse
Performance Dates & Time:
20th July (Thurs) - 21th July (Fri)
24h July (Mon) - 28th July (Fri)
10 am & 11.30 am Daily

22nd July (Sat) - 3 pm

Ticket Price: $12 (excluding $1 ticket surcharge)
Concession: $10

Venue: Drama Centre Black Box

Interested parties feel free to contact me for more details.

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So, I heard from Weepeng that Oliver have a solo play coming up this Aug. I'm going to watch that too. July and August are the months that loads of plays are coming up. YAY!

Labels: drama, reviews

Thursday, July 06, 2006 ; 8:33 PM

Re-cycle

Went to Orchard Cine to catch Re-cycle with Kevin and Justin today.

It's been 1 month since I went to Orchard road.

I waited for them like about... 1 hour? During that 1 hour, I took in loads of second-hand smoke. Tsk, not good for health. And so they finally arrived, both wearing white.

Not so important. Skip that part.

So we proceed on to buying the tickets. And to our horror, the counter do not have the change. Wo0~ So yea, we stood there at the counter for so long just to get our change back. J got so excited when he got hold of the tickets. He was like dashing to the theatre while Kev and me just walk in. Thinking back now, his actions was so drama. Ha-ha-ha.

So yea, the movie... it was quite bad actually. It wasnt scary at all. In fact, we laughed through out the whole movie. Their movie plot wasnt that bad, but a lil... not logical and stupid. I dont really understand the ending of the movie either. The only thing that I liked about the movie was the special effects and the make-ups. If it werent for those, I think this movie is totally un-watchable. Well, I kind of expected the movie to turn out like this before I watched it. Because it's rated PG. You cant expect much from PG rated horror films. Wasted my 8 bucks. -.-

And yes, I love the way how Kev speaks. He has got this very nice American accent that I always love. I was so afraid that I can't catch what hes talking at first. Overall, I think Kev is a nice and friendly person. ^^

Of course, I enjoyed my day today despite that lousy movie. =)

Labels: friends, reviews

Saturday, February 26, 2005 ; 11:59 PM

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hmpt.. time for bloggin.

wad tu sae? hmpt.. recently.. my grandmother got a mild stroke.. haven seen her recently. wonder how she's been doin.. hope she's alrite.. suppose to visit her in the hospital todae.. bud perhaps cos too late so canot go.. hope i can visit her tmr..

wad else.. today is quite of a boring day for mii.. lalala..

hmpt.. suddenly realise smthing.. i nid to plan my goals.. fri dat nite yl asked mi wad i wan to go after streaming.. hmpt.. i dunno. should i take up pure science or combined sci?? perhaps go to the cls i am best suit for is best for mii.. hmpt.. i wanted to go poly. go republic poly study info and communication? perhaps.. see how well i did for my streaming first before i plan i should go where...

happi birthday to zhenhao.. hope its not too late to wish u a happi birthdae. =D its 11:59. NOT LATE AT ALL.

and lastly, DONT WATCH HIDE N SEEK. its isnt as scary as u thought it might be. there isnt ani ghost, so it isnt a ghost story. i should say that it is a sci fiction/ horror movie. Not excatly horror, bud muder i should say.. and.. it involves alittle bit of physological things inside.. so consider a lil bit of sci fic story. though the poster or commercial for this movie might have interested u alot, bud dont watch it. it's quite boring. though some parts scares mi quite alot. =p as for those interested people who dont mind of watching even though it is boring, u might consider the below contents before u actually watch the movie. it is the movie review of that story:
A widowed man found his daughter copes with the fact that her mother was killed by telling things to an imaginary friend named Charlie. Things get weird when Charlie turns out to be real...

If you want the HIDEandSEEK trailer, u can found it in msn.com or u can get frm mii. =)

Labels: reviews