National Day Weekend

Hiking on Friday kick-started a good weekend.

Saturday:

YOG training in the morning, which involved discussion about Inception! Lisa pointed out something I hadn't noticed - how people in the movie seem to be directing their own movie. Leo is the director, and they've got set designers (Ariadne) and producers (as always, the one with the money..) and so on. Such a layered movie.

Class in the afternoon. Got pulled into Academy Day AGAIN, despite protests. Oh well.

Lalit's arangetram at DBS Auditorium in the evening. Interesting, especially the last bit (with Shiva on the bass guitar!). Saw some of the gang. And Lakshmi too!

Caught the last bit of the movie The Eye once I got back home at around midnight. Cos of the three-day free access to a lot of channels with Starhub.

Sunday:

Lazy start. PA rehearsal in the late afternoon, which is always fun if the right people are around.

Back home to home-made spaghetti, Undercover Brother and You Got Served. I HAVE to watch both those movies again.

Omarion looks really small! And I like the song =D PUMP, PUMP, PUMP IT UP!

Monday:

Finally got to read more of First Words, which is a selection of works by young writers in Singapore. Will be quoting in the next post.

Watched Men In Black II, and now I wanna watch the first one too.

Watched the fireworks from my balcony as usual in the evening. And saw Mr Koh on TV!

=]

Playing music while I work sometimes gives me an indication of how fast/slow I'm going.

And speaking of music, Fan Of A Fan is pretty darn good.

"Aviator shades, I ain't lookin' at you."

Tracing the old Malayan Railway tracks.

Friday, 6th August 2010. Hardcore trek.

We took:

- Big bottle of H2O

- Big bottle of 100PLUS

- Water

- Orange juice

- Plasters and antiseptic, which we didn't need

- Energy bars and Michelle's sandwich

- Mosquito repellent and sunblock

- Change of clothes and slippers

We took a wrong turning into King Albert Park, which had all the expensive huge houses. Tried to bash our way through an overgrown valley, hoping we'd meet the old rail, but it was too steep and too dangerous. Plus, the lady in the last house was spying on us, I bet she thought we were illegal immigrants. Herrick was in army uniform, though!

Aha! Finally. The sign to the station.

Inception moment!


Right after Tunnel 1. Tracks submerged in the kinda mud that pulls your feet in.



Tunnel 1.

Rickety Bridge 1.

Rickety Bridge 2. We saw a guy trying to cycle over this.

It was a long bridge.

With nice scenery.

Resting on the tracks after we got near the Park Connector, under a flyover.

On a slope, under the flyover.

Graffiti near Tunnel 2 (the dangerous tunnel). Sad to see people living there. They had vegetable plants though! Chilli, brinjal, papaya, other stuff.

Phew, done at last.

At long last, changed out of muddy clothes and shoes. Waiting for a bus.

We're gonna go back! And take our time to look at everything. Plants and stuff. I'm gonna take videos of the trip, photos really don't do justice, plus we didn't take photos of the more interesting things.

January 21st 2010

1. Hat Day.

2. National Hugging Day.

3. Squirrel Appreciation Day.

How awesome is that.

From chucknorrisfacts.com:

Chuck Norris doesn't know about this website. If he did he would have just deleted the whole website.

There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.
Outer space exists because it's afraid to be on the same planet with Chuck Norris.
HAHA.

Collected my YOG accreditation pass and uniform and other paraphernalia yesterday evening, meeting Halim there at the same time. They gave us a little tube of sunblock too! =D

Seeing all that stuff is really exciting. Especially the VISA card.

Went to Tampines this noon, along that 31 route that I like, to watch StreetDance! With Vaishu, Simran and Saranya. I haven't watched Step Up or Step Up 2, but I'm sure this is just as good as those were. Was particularly excited because Flawless and Diversity, from Britain's Got Talent, were performing too! The other dancers were just as good as the people from those two groups though. And the music was great too. I would watch this again if I could.

And I needa watch Step Up and Step Up 2 The Streets too.. Before STEP UP 3D!

Code Word: ROACH! =D

"Swear to shake it up if you swear to listen."

At Niagara Falls

A pine cone I found on the floor, which made me feel all Enid Blyton-ish.

This is the Bridal Veil, so named because it's a single stream, like a veil. You can climb up to certain height (next photo).

Hurricane Deck! The highest point you can get to. It was painful. But fun.

The American Falls.

The Horseshoe Falls (On the Canadian side. We approached this on a boat - the Maid of the Mist.)

Okay the rock was much bigger than the picture suggests.

"Here is the church and here is the steeple,

We sure are cute for two ugly people,

I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else,

But you."

Ahh Juno.

After I'm done studying.

When I was young, I seriously considered the following jobs:

- Road sweeper. The kind with the rakes, who sweep up all the crunchy brown leaves.
- English teacher. I used to think this only involved correcting homework. (Homework in P1 and P2 was fun.)
- Poet. I used to write 'poems' when I was in Kindergarten. Dunno where that book is now.
- Storyteller. I used to spin some fantastic tales. I use 'fantastic' in the sense that no one ever believed my stories. In fact, no one ever believes my theories and explanations now either.
- Bus driver. Preferably school bus driver.
- Skyscraper window cleaner.
- Housewife. Why have a job at all?
- Construction worker. I like manual work.
- Gardener.

Professions I've considered in more recent years:

- Farm owner. Most farms have horses right!
- Counsellor at a place like The Bronx. Home to some of the coolest people on Earth.
- Writer. The kind who writes from home.
- Explorer. Discovering the world on foot.
- LIGHTHOUSE OPERATOR. I really really wanna do this.
- Dreamer. I don't really know what this means either.
- Joining a hermitage. Going to live in a forest after renouncing the world. And I mean it! Not saying this as a joke. My sister has expressed very very strong objections to this already. But oh well. You never know.

I don't even remember what I talked about the last time I came here.

So here are some random things I've been doing:

Going for கலை கதம்பம். It finally had interesting stuff about architecture. And idiotic emcees.

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Going for Ronnie's play with You Ying, meeting Lester there and catching 7 other mini-plays too; that was one cool night.

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Watching விண்ணைத் தாண்டி வருவாயா with Dhevy at home.

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Meeting Shiva, Reuban and Sharrvesh with Dhevy, after ages.

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Meeting Sundar and watching Inception with some of the gang. Cool stuff..

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Going for Sheela's reception and meeting school friends and family friends. There were so many people to talk to that my friend complained that he talked more to my mum than to me. -_-

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Hiking from Macritchie to Bukit Timah with Fadilah, Herrick and Michelle. That was fun! I told Fad that I really like Ne-Yo's song Miss Independent (it's my message ringtone when the phone's on General). Soon after, her phone's music player accidentally starts playing the same song! MLIA.

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Meeting RnB with Dev and Dhevy and Jared (for a bit), I'm still amazed at how it all worked out on the first attempt. Good day. And I finally learned what those things that hang from escalators are for, thanks to Dev =]

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Last Saturday was crazy - YOG Venue training in the morning (met Alejandra again! who hates being associated with Lady Gaga). Had class at SIFAS in the afternoon. Rushed home after that, then rushed again to Parkway to pick up a cookie cake I'd ordered the previous night, then rushed as much as the traffic would allow (t'was the night of the NDP Preview) to Ion, for Mike's and the twins' birthdays. Couldn't stay long there either, fun though it was, cos I had to rush off again for a crazy sleepover! At Shy's and Shal's house, after ages.
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PA rehearsal as usual the next day, yesterday, then went to see the gang again cos Simran's back! Watched My Name is Khan at home after that. Really good movie.

Okay I gotta go email some profs.