let down..
by my own naivety..
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Sunday, May 27, 2007
stumbling into...
heart don't lead me on..
head don't let me down..
stay on my side..
even as i start to fall..
too deep...
and when i see you then i know it will be next to me
and when i need you then i know you will be there with me
i'll never leave you..
just need to get
closer, closer
lean on me now
lean on me now...
- travis
oh no..here we go again..
head don't let me down..
stay on my side..
even as i start to fall..
too deep...
and when i see you then i know it will be next to me
and when i need you then i know you will be there with me
i'll never leave you..
just need to get
closer, closer
lean on me now
lean on me now...
- travis
oh no..here we go again..
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
malacca part 2
saturday, 19 may 2007
...one-day malacca road trip
...with elise, kenneth and susu
we found the "original" malacca chicken riceballs this time! nicer, but personally, i still prefer the non-ball version! after lunch, we headed down to try the famous chendol along jonker street..it was so nice and colourful! but then, it was also way tooooo sweet! only kenneth managed to finish his, the rest of us barely made it halfway through ours...
next, we headed for our shopping (with a pit stop at starbucks for kenneth to "recharge")..susu went shoe crazy at not one, but two vinci outlets! i managed to get some nice presents for cheryl as well! :)
dinner was at the portuguese village..supposedly renown for its seafood..and true enough, there were hardly any chicken or even vegetable dishes on the menus! when we finally settled down and ordered, the food was only so so and we nearly got ripped off! not a very good experience...
despite going up in a smaller group this time round, the trip was still fun..lots of crapping, eating, shopping and even more crapping! haha..kudos to kenneth for being our nice driver and for bearing with elise and susu's nonsense! :P so when are we going to conquer kl ar?
we miss you too jinxyyyyyyyy!
i promise we will keep the pratas and curries and teh pengs well-preserved for you k? :P
if i put one foot on the mat now..
will you step on it with me..
or will you take it out from under me?
...one-day malacca road trip
...with elise, kenneth and susu
we found the "original" malacca chicken riceballs this time! nicer, but personally, i still prefer the non-ball version! after lunch, we headed down to try the famous chendol along jonker street..it was so nice and colourful! but then, it was also way tooooo sweet! only kenneth managed to finish his, the rest of us barely made it halfway through ours...
next, we headed for our shopping (with a pit stop at starbucks for kenneth to "recharge")..susu went shoe crazy at not one, but two vinci outlets! i managed to get some nice presents for cheryl as well! :)
dinner was at the portuguese village..supposedly renown for its seafood..and true enough, there were hardly any chicken or even vegetable dishes on the menus! when we finally settled down and ordered, the food was only so so and we nearly got ripped off! not a very good experience...despite going up in a smaller group this time round, the trip was still fun..lots of crapping, eating, shopping and even more crapping! haha..kudos to kenneth for being our nice driver and for bearing with elise and susu's nonsense! :P so when are we going to conquer kl ar?
we miss you too jinxyyyyyyyy!
i promise we will keep the pratas and curries and teh pengs well-preserved for you k? :P
if i put one foot on the mat now..
will you step on it with me..
or will you take it out from under me?
Monday, May 21, 2007
scared-ed
why is it this way, that i get so afraid?
frightened of the possibilities that may lay ahead
when it seems like i have found someone who will set me free
i struggle to release myself from this uncertainty
what is she up to? how does she really feel?
what should i do to make this feeling real?
what can i do to win her over?
when should i give up and run for cover?
why all these doubts? what's holding me back?
is it me or is it something she lacks?
i don't know i don't know
i really really don't know la!
haiyoh!
addy's quote of the day:
"geraldine's sweeping (badminton) backhand"
frightened of the possibilities that may lay ahead
when it seems like i have found someone who will set me free
i struggle to release myself from this uncertainty
what is she up to? how does she really feel?
what should i do to make this feeling real?
what can i do to win her over?
when should i give up and run for cover?
why all these doubts? what's holding me back?
is it me or is it something she lacks?
i don't know i don't know
i really really don't know la!
haiyoh!
addy's quote of the day:
"geraldine's sweeping (badminton) backhand"
Monday, May 14, 2007
innocence
leave me out of the games you play..
i am not paid well enough to participate!
i found a place so safe not a single tear
the first time in my life and i was so clear
feel calm i belong i'm so happy here
it's so strong and i let myself be sincere
i wouldn't change a thing about it
this is the best feeling
this innocence is brilliant
i hope that it will stay
this moment is perfect
please don't go away
i need you now
and i'll hold on to it
don't you let it pass you by...
- avril lavigne
i am not paid well enough to participate!
the first time in my life and i was so clear
feel calm i belong i'm so happy here
it's so strong and i let myself be sincere
i wouldn't change a thing about it
this is the best feeling
this innocence is brilliant
i hope that it will stay
this moment is perfect
please don't go away
i need you now
and i'll hold on to it
don't you let it pass you by...
- avril lavigne
Saturday, May 12, 2007
a midsummer night's dream
that midsummer day
priceless
@ cineleisure with marie
i have always wanted to watch a french comedy for the longest time..but for various reasons, it had always been left as that - a "want". funny then when marie asked me to catch "priceless"..and even more funny that like me, this was her first despite having a liking for french shows too! audrey tautou was at her sensual best while gad elmaleh (the male lead) compliments her charmingly as the love struck jean..the script was both smart and sweet and the cast played out their parts so well that at times, i'd forgotten the show was in french! but after all the brilliant build up, the ending was kind of a letdown..that aside, this has been a quite lovely introduction to french fare! :)
that midsummer night
a midsummer night's dream
@ fort canning park with huiling and yili
The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta.
In the opening scene, Hermia refuses to comply with her father Egeus's wish for her to marry his chosen man, Demetrius. In response, Egeus quotes before Theseus an ancient Athenian law whereby a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father, or else face death or lifelong chastity worshipping Diana as a nun. The word in this sense is an anachronism. Hermia and her lover Lysander therefore decide to elope by escaping through the forest at night. Hermia informs her best friend Helena, but Helena has recently been rejected by Demetrius and decides to win back his favor by revealing the plan to him. Demetrius, followed doggedly by Helena, chases Hermia, who, in turn, chases Lysander, from whom she becomes separated.
Meanwhile, Oberon, king of the fairies, and his queen, Titania, arrive in the same forest to attend Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding. Oberon and Titania are estranged because Titania refuses to give her Indian page-boy to Oberon for use as his "knight" or "henchman," since the child's mother was one of Titania's worshippers. Oberon seeks to punish Titania's disobedience and recruits the mischievous Puck (also called Hobgoblin and Robin Goodfellow) to help him apply a magical juice from a flower called "love-in-idleness," which makes the victim fall in love with the first living thing he sees when he awakens. Oberon applies the juice to Titania in order to distract her and force her to give up the page-boy.
Having seen Demetrius act cruelly toward Helena, Oberon orders Puck to spread some of the juice on the eyelids of the young Athenian man. Instead, Puck puts the juice on the eyes of Lysander, who then falls in love with Helena. When Oberon finds this out, he makes Puck apply the juice to Demetrius. Due to Puck's errors, Hermia's two lovers temporarily turn against her in favor of Helena. Helena, however, is convinced that her two suitors are mocking her, as neither loved her originally. The four pursue and quarrel with each other all night, losing themselves in the dark and in the maze of their romantic entanglements.
Meanwhile, a band of "rude mechanicals" (lower-class labourers) have arranged to perform a crude play about Pyramus and Thisbe for Theseus' wedding, and venture into the forest, near Titania's bower, for their rehearsal. Nick Bottom, a stage-struck weaver, is spotted by Puck, who transforms his head into that of an ass (donkey). Titania is awoken by Bottom's singing, and she immediately falls in love with him. She treats him as if he is a nobleman and lavishes attention upon him. While in this state of devotion, she encounters Oberon and casually gives him the Indian boy.
Having achieved his goals, Oberon releases Titania and orders Puck to remove the ass's head from Bottom. The magical enchantment is removed from Lysander but is allowed to remain on Demetrius, so that he may reciprocate Helena's love. The fairies then disappear, and Theseus and Hippolyta arrive on the scene, during an early morning hunt. They wake the lovers and, since Demetrius doesn't love Hermia anymore, Theseus over-rules Egeus's demands and arranges a group wedding. The lovers decide that the night's events must have been a dream. After they all exit, Bottom awakes, and he too decides that he must have experienced a dream "past the wit of man."
In Athens, Theseus, Hippolyta and the lovers watch the mechanicals perform "Pyramus and Thisbe." It is ridiculous and badly performed but gives everyone pleasure regardless, and after the mechanicals dance a Bergomask (rustic dance), everyone retires to bed. Finally, as night falls, Oberon and Titania bless the house, its occupants, and the future children of the newlyweds, and Puck delivers an epilogue to the audience asking for applause.
- synopsis of the play taken from wikipedia...
i agreed to watch this play knowing only that it was by shakespeare and that i had watched the movie version before..but i went along anyway not remembering the storyline, not knowing the time or the price! i found out later that it was a "night out" at the park sort of theme as well! interesting...
when we reached font canning park, the first thing that we noticed was the setup..there was no proper stage, a whole maze of planks and lots of pinic mats strewn all around the park..we were to find out later that the whole play was going to take place on those planks. despite our initial skeptism, we got ourselves a pretty good "front row" seat!
it was a truly unique experience having the actors and actresses stomping up and down the "stage" and playing out their roles right beside you..the concept is just so "wow!" despite it being shakespearean, local and modern themes were used at appropriate moments to liven up the play..like the instance where hermia and helena played "lom chiam pass" or where hermia used a handphone in her attempt to locate lysander! some parts were really quite amusing! towards the end, the actors and actresses pulled random members of the audience to join in the bergomask in a chain dance along sort of thingy and..i got asked to dance by emma yong! so cool! ok so i didn't exactly dance with her but i got to hold her hand (well, more of her glove!) for the slightest moment! anyway, it's still so cool la! :)
at the end of the play, i was still so starstruck that huiling kept laughing at me..oh well, this is one midsummer night that i will remember for quite some time! :))
priceless@ cineleisure with marie
i have always wanted to watch a french comedy for the longest time..but for various reasons, it had always been left as that - a "want". funny then when marie asked me to catch "priceless"..and even more funny that like me, this was her first despite having a liking for french shows too! audrey tautou was at her sensual best while gad elmaleh (the male lead) compliments her charmingly as the love struck jean..the script was both smart and sweet and the cast played out their parts so well that at times, i'd forgotten the show was in french! but after all the brilliant build up, the ending was kind of a letdown..that aside, this has been a quite lovely introduction to french fare! :)
that midsummer night
a midsummer night's dream@ fort canning park with huiling and yili
The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta.
In the opening scene, Hermia refuses to comply with her father Egeus's wish for her to marry his chosen man, Demetrius. In response, Egeus quotes before Theseus an ancient Athenian law whereby a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father, or else face death or lifelong chastity worshipping Diana as a nun. The word in this sense is an anachronism. Hermia and her lover Lysander therefore decide to elope by escaping through the forest at night. Hermia informs her best friend Helena, but Helena has recently been rejected by Demetrius and decides to win back his favor by revealing the plan to him. Demetrius, followed doggedly by Helena, chases Hermia, who, in turn, chases Lysander, from whom she becomes separated.
Meanwhile, Oberon, king of the fairies, and his queen, Titania, arrive in the same forest to attend Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding. Oberon and Titania are estranged because Titania refuses to give her Indian page-boy to Oberon for use as his "knight" or "henchman," since the child's mother was one of Titania's worshippers. Oberon seeks to punish Titania's disobedience and recruits the mischievous Puck (also called Hobgoblin and Robin Goodfellow) to help him apply a magical juice from a flower called "love-in-idleness," which makes the victim fall in love with the first living thing he sees when he awakens. Oberon applies the juice to Titania in order to distract her and force her to give up the page-boy.
Having seen Demetrius act cruelly toward Helena, Oberon orders Puck to spread some of the juice on the eyelids of the young Athenian man. Instead, Puck puts the juice on the eyes of Lysander, who then falls in love with Helena. When Oberon finds this out, he makes Puck apply the juice to Demetrius. Due to Puck's errors, Hermia's two lovers temporarily turn against her in favor of Helena. Helena, however, is convinced that her two suitors are mocking her, as neither loved her originally. The four pursue and quarrel with each other all night, losing themselves in the dark and in the maze of their romantic entanglements.
Meanwhile, a band of "rude mechanicals" (lower-class labourers) have arranged to perform a crude play about Pyramus and Thisbe for Theseus' wedding, and venture into the forest, near Titania's bower, for their rehearsal. Nick Bottom, a stage-struck weaver, is spotted by Puck, who transforms his head into that of an ass (donkey). Titania is awoken by Bottom's singing, and she immediately falls in love with him. She treats him as if he is a nobleman and lavishes attention upon him. While in this state of devotion, she encounters Oberon and casually gives him the Indian boy.
Having achieved his goals, Oberon releases Titania and orders Puck to remove the ass's head from Bottom. The magical enchantment is removed from Lysander but is allowed to remain on Demetrius, so that he may reciprocate Helena's love. The fairies then disappear, and Theseus and Hippolyta arrive on the scene, during an early morning hunt. They wake the lovers and, since Demetrius doesn't love Hermia anymore, Theseus over-rules Egeus's demands and arranges a group wedding. The lovers decide that the night's events must have been a dream. After they all exit, Bottom awakes, and he too decides that he must have experienced a dream "past the wit of man."
In Athens, Theseus, Hippolyta and the lovers watch the mechanicals perform "Pyramus and Thisbe." It is ridiculous and badly performed but gives everyone pleasure regardless, and after the mechanicals dance a Bergomask (rustic dance), everyone retires to bed. Finally, as night falls, Oberon and Titania bless the house, its occupants, and the future children of the newlyweds, and Puck delivers an epilogue to the audience asking for applause.
- synopsis of the play taken from wikipedia...
i agreed to watch this play knowing only that it was by shakespeare and that i had watched the movie version before..but i went along anyway not remembering the storyline, not knowing the time or the price! i found out later that it was a "night out" at the park sort of theme as well! interesting...
when we reached font canning park, the first thing that we noticed was the setup..there was no proper stage, a whole maze of planks and lots of pinic mats strewn all around the park..we were to find out later that the whole play was going to take place on those planks. despite our initial skeptism, we got ourselves a pretty good "front row" seat!
it was a truly unique experience having the actors and actresses stomping up and down the "stage" and playing out their roles right beside you..the concept is just so "wow!" despite it being shakespearean, local and modern themes were used at appropriate moments to liven up the play..like the instance where hermia and helena played "lom chiam pass" or where hermia used a handphone in her attempt to locate lysander! some parts were really quite amusing! towards the end, the actors and actresses pulled random members of the audience to join in the bergomask in a chain dance along sort of thingy and..i got asked to dance by emma yong! so cool! ok so i didn't exactly dance with her but i got to hold her hand (well, more of her glove!) for the slightest moment! anyway, it's still so cool la! :)
at the end of the play, i was still so starstruck that huiling kept laughing at me..oh well, this is one midsummer night that i will remember for quite some time! :))
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Saturday, May 05, 2007
spidey
spiderman 3@ gv tampines with katherine
was supposed to watch the show with marie but she was ill (get well girl!)..spent my whole morning searching for someone to either go with or sell the tickets to..in the end, it was my meimei to the rescue! :)
back to the movie..this was one of the movies marie and i put down on our "must-watch" list..the first two installments had set the bar for the spiderman series and based on the trailer, spiderman 3 looked spot-on to maintain the high standards..however, like most hyped up shows, spiderman 3 disappoints..while the effects are still fantastic, the show does not seem to decide if it wants to focus on the drama or on the action..many characters are built up only to suffer anticlimaxes..even the final fight scene has an unfinished and abrupt feel about it..all these makes spiderman 3 a very long-winded and choppy 2 hours 20 minutes..
got myself a new pair of levi's 512 jeans! really nice! i don't know why but suddenly i am in this shopaholic mode and it is not just cds which are on my shopping list! there is still the oakley shades which i am eyeing, one belt for work, one for casual and i really have been in need of a new wallet for the longest time! of course there are the other cute stuff which fall under my "nice to look at, nice to have but mostly unnecessary" category! :P but then shopping is known to be therapeutic..well, until we take a look at the amounts we have spent!
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
catch up
two weeks have passed and too many things have happened for me to fully put down into words..so here's two weeks in a few words and a few more pictures! :)
friday, 27 april 2007
...company team-building session
saturday, 28 april 2007
...one-day malacca road trip
...with chris, elise, jingxian, keith and kenneth
lunch was the famous malacca chicken rice balls..
famous, nice to look at but not so nice to eat...
jonker walk is malacca's night market..
we basically ooo-ed and aah-ed from stall to stall..
oh and jinx got herself a new "friend"!
dinner was at this ulu zhi char place which chris, kenneth and jingxian stumbled into on their previous trip..
the highlight was the salted egg chicken..which keith got so addicted to he was scrapping the leaf at the bottom for the crumbs! overall, dinner was pretty good and at just 6 sing bucks per person!
we finally made our way out of malacca and onto the highway around 11.30pm..throughout the journey, chris, elise and i self-entertained and self-amused ourselves with lots of crazy talk and lousy jokes (mainly from chris)..rainy weather meant we only arrived back in singapore close to 4am...
kind of wish we had one more day though..but at least it was fun while it lasted! :) a big thank you to our two drivers, chris and kenneth without whom the trip would not be possible!
all pictures courtesy of jinxy...
for "full-er" account of malacca trip, click here...
sunday, 29 april 2007
...blithe spirit
this is kind of a play of firsts..
my first play of 2007..
my first at the drama centre theatre at nlb..
and my first with marie..
well, ok the last point is rather irrelevent but three makes it sound more impressive mah! while it was mostly enjoyable and i quite liked the plot twist, it didn't really connect with me fully (probably due in part to my hangover from the malacca trip!)..all said, it is always intriguing to watch pam oei and selena tan in action..they are just so good la!
for "full-er" review of play, click here...
tuesday, 01 may 2007
...new levi's shoes
this pair of sneakers just shouted out at me the first time i saw them at the levi's boutique in parkway parade the previous day..as luck would have it, my size was out of stock..i was so determined to own them that i made a reservation on the spot (still "the previous day")..and made my way down to the marina square levi's boutique specially just to collect them the very next morning! note: don't expect to see me in them too soon though..i am traumatised..i saw this ah beng dude wear the very same pair of sneakers on the mrt! yucks!
- caught up -
(more or less)
friday, 27 april 2007
...company team-building session
saturday, 28 april 2007
...one-day malacca road trip
...with chris, elise, jingxian, keith and kenneth
lunch was the famous malacca chicken rice balls..famous, nice to look at but not so nice to eat...
jonker walk is malacca's night market..we basically ooo-ed and aah-ed from stall to stall..
oh and jinx got herself a new "friend"!
dinner was at this ulu zhi char place which chris, kenneth and jingxian stumbled into on their previous trip..the highlight was the salted egg chicken..which keith got so addicted to he was scrapping the leaf at the bottom for the crumbs! overall, dinner was pretty good and at just 6 sing bucks per person!
we finally made our way out of malacca and onto the highway around 11.30pm..throughout the journey, chris, elise and i self-entertained and self-amused ourselves with lots of crazy talk and lousy jokes (mainly from chris)..rainy weather meant we only arrived back in singapore close to 4am...kind of wish we had one more day though..but at least it was fun while it lasted! :) a big thank you to our two drivers, chris and kenneth without whom the trip would not be possible!
all pictures courtesy of jinxy...
for "full-er" account of malacca trip, click here...
sunday, 29 april 2007
...blithe spirit
this is kind of a play of firsts..my first play of 2007..
my first at the drama centre theatre at nlb..
and my first with marie..
well, ok the last point is rather irrelevent but three makes it sound more impressive mah! while it was mostly enjoyable and i quite liked the plot twist, it didn't really connect with me fully (probably due in part to my hangover from the malacca trip!)..all said, it is always intriguing to watch pam oei and selena tan in action..they are just so good la!
for "full-er" review of play, click here...
tuesday, 01 may 2007
...new levi's shoes
this pair of sneakers just shouted out at me the first time i saw them at the levi's boutique in parkway parade the previous day..as luck would have it, my size was out of stock..i was so determined to own them that i made a reservation on the spot (still "the previous day")..and made my way down to the marina square levi's boutique specially just to collect them the very next morning! note: don't expect to see me in them too soon though..i am traumatised..i saw this ah beng dude wear the very same pair of sneakers on the mrt! yucks!(more or less)
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