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lost count.

was looking through punk/rock/emo and came across these few references for this sat! haha. okay we have a silly theme. sorry for suggesting it.

anyway, here are some uber emo pictures.



okay, i was just kidding.

ok here goes:

right i put this up just because lee hyori is too pretty. AHHA okok

how about these dolls.

at least the right side one.


this photo looks like sg outdoor stadium... haha. anyway, dig the belts!

dolls again.
can't seem to paste the picture. click on the web itself.
punk dolls


ah now some more feasible ones...

!!! striped stockings!

uber black eyes.

black nails, hand accessories.

pretty asian. okay la the below is uber scary.
whoever does that, i applaud you for your karage.









ng meiting, you said you wanted to wear suspenders...







lastly, for our ya zhou,
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okay, i seriously don't mean it.



anyway,

- black hair plus red [bring red hair spray!]
- black black eyes [ bring black eyeliners!]

rahhhh.

see ya.

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2 lives

weekend aliens- photo by J here, de-faced by me

For various reasons, it was much harder to empty my mind of work this weekend. The thoughts lingered and festered stewed. The air laid its humid weight on the skin. And it was no surprise that the newspapers brought ill news of far larger scale.

So if, like me, you too need a powerful dose of distraction to empty and clear the mind before the start of a new week, I would recommend:

(1) A swim in a public pool, where the colliding bodies of old men/women doing the backstroke in circles and the schools of children at stage-1 buoyancy, will certainly chase out all other voices in your head. But there is something else very therapeutic, even hypnotic, about doing front-crawl/freestyle laps. The need to focus on each stroke and stretch, the thrill of overcoming resistance and those dancing lines of light on the tiled bottom of the pool, that play of light, medium and motion.

(2) A visit to the newly-opened Peranakan Museum by the Asian Civilisations Museum. . The materiality of the Peranakan culture makes it a perfect for a museum presentation, where there is little need for complex digital devices. Instead, the object that exists in time and space alone - its beauty, its physical witness - suffices.


birds and the bees on a Peranakan table cloth

The Peranakan Museum is the old Tao Nan School on Armenian Street off Stamford Rd, located right beside the Substation and across from the Singapore Management University. Take the train to Dhoby Gaut or City Hall. It's a 5-10minute walk from either station.

Dominic and I will now give you guys an update on class stufffffs! :D

Basically, we have many many things to settle:

1. GEMS
-coming soon!
-ideas we thought of last time included things like (hairstyling, wakeboarding,windsurfing,bungee jumping-.-) u get the idea
-therefore must think of more feasible ideas!

(will settle during random times andor CT period)

2. FAC OUTING
- pls confirm attendance by TMR.
-bring money and pay dom or i by tmr or tues! (DEADLINE IS TUES)

3. CLASS TEE! :D
-gygi has come up with main design.
-she'll bring to class some day and we can all can kao and give suggestions!
-must confirm asap so we can go make quick!
-make quickly = wear quickly :D

HEE HEE <3!

oh and go post on econs blog! :D hahahahah!

<3
mama

HI 6V! :D

FAC OUTING! PLS LET DOM OR I KNOW WHETHER YOU ARE GOING OR NOT GOING BY TMR. PLS CONFIRM OVER TODAY AND GIVE US UR ATTENDANCE TMR :D

IF YOU ARE GOING PLS BRING $16 DOLLARS EITHER MONDAY OR TUESDAY. TUESDAY IS THE ABSOLUTE DEADLINE. NO MONEY ON TUES = NO TICKETS!

DOM AND I WILL SEND OUT SMS REMINDERS! PLS CHECK AND RMB TO PAY UP ASAP IF YOU ARE GOING! :D

THANKS!.

mama

HELLO! This blog is so dead! These few weeks have been really busy. :O

Who's going owj's house this Sunday! Play wii! haha :D Actually I think he's quite nice. He gave us hersheys. x)

Activity: Play Wii
Venue: OWJ's house
Date: Sunday 27.04.08
Meeting time: 10AM
Meeting venue: AMK MRT

:D

owj says that only 7-8 people can go because his house has no space. But the more the merrier! So we should all go! :D

Aiya I don't know what to blog about. I don't know how to blog interestingly. We have 4 people in the class running for APOLLO FAC COMM! :D dom, jiamin, reginaliew and lisyn! JIAYOU! hahaha hope all 4 get in or something. [/edit] Oh mark too! :D

Next Sat is FAC OUTING! Regina! Jonsoh's band is performing hahaha. ;D Our fac prince and princess nominees are LISYN & JINLONG respectively. hehehe GO GO! [/edit] After today's discussion in the fishtank, TIONG has expressed interest in being fac prince. "I don't mind. Play games only." hahaha. I think he's secretly thinking "send me send me!" :X So another alternative is TIONG (prince) AND JINLONG (princess). BUT. We have decided to send in REGINALIEW AND LEON. :D hahahaha. How happy regina must be now. x)

JIAYOU FOR PHYSICS SPA TMR AND GPP. (((:

guess who i am!

flowers' city

bubble city - image by J

There is nothing correct - politically speaking - about Saint Jack, the 1979 film by Peter Bogdanovich based on Paul Theroux's novel of the same name.

A Chinese shopkeeper repeatedly refers to the American pimp Jack Flowers (Peter Gazzara) as ang moh, and eventually gets chided by the deadpan Jack "hey, you don't want me to call you chink" (or something like that). The British colonial castoffs in Singapore get drunk, prance around in their undies, mumble some cynicism and sleep with the prostitutes Flowers pimps. The Americans are horny Michael Fays off to Vietnam or men in cowboy hats and big cars. And of course, our favourite Asian men are either loutish gangsters with no style even when they swear, a dwarf, grouchy suspicious old men in a shophouse (or behind the bar counter), or a pimply teenage male prostitute along Tanglin Road. The first Indian woman the camera has any interest in is a Ceylonese "black" beauty who later unravels her sari and becomes Flowers' bedmate. And there are plenty of Chinese tarts with hearts - for Jack the saint, of course - even his Ah Mah loves Jack enough to nag him to eat everytime she appears - "if don't eat you will die."

But despite or maybe because of all this, the film is not dishonest about its essentially white/caucasian, male view of this island in the 70s. And while the writer/director may intend for the island to be the other character in the film (in a pointed scene, Jack Flowers tells a British visitor the Sang Nila Utama story - and how he named the island Lion City after seeing Tigers - yeah), the truth is that this island, its people and its context, is but a backdrop for what is essentially a story about an American middle-aged drifter in the tropics who is both trapped and redeemed by his romance of being an American middle-aged drifter in the tropics.

The title "Saint" and his surname Flowers is therefore both innocence and crude irony - all the "de-flowered" women and boys. When the island gangsters capture and tatoo cheap insults all over both his arms, he goes and tatoos flowers over them. Hearing one of his prostitutes lament about her boyfriend, he promptly removes his watch and gives it to her for her to appease her man. But he is, after all, her pimp. Paid handsomely to take photographs of an American senator in a tryst with a male prostitute, he in his final "redemptive" act, decides to destroy the photographs (and in doing, destroys his lucrative business contract providing "R&R" to visiting GIs) - but we also see him walking back into the squalid streets of this island to pimp some more.


image by J

Even if you live on this island and watch only action/thrillers/horror flicks, Saint Jack will be enjoyable simply for the scenes of the old Seletar airport, Bugis when hawkers would walk by and place dildos for sale on the table (or so the film portrays) and prostitutes (transverstite?) would sport big white afro wigs a la a Wong Kar Wai character, the relatively unchanged Raffles Hotel, a Shangri La hotel that is seemingly set in the wild... bum boats carrying goods in the Singapore River and a grotty Clarke Quay before it was disneyfied for tourists and yuppies. Heck, so what if all this only perpetuates the idea of the seedily "exotic" East and our own sad, distorted nostalgia!

It's a surprisingly watchable film and Ben Gazzara's portrayal of Jack Flowers so effective attracts and repels.

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p/s Saint Jack is available on DVD at HMV or your regular video store.

Mid April o.0

Life continues. and we now have pw lessons.

Presentation by the groups on their GPP.



My favourite photo. Managed to capture the same look in the 2 of them ^^

Okay, anyway. Loads of wacky events were to follow. 6v would never have expected them..

While many of us are exposed to the ultimate technique of closed eyed singing-teaching, there are many others who are desperately trying to emulate this sacred method.




Mrs Tan tries so very hard to follow. you know who. Sorry Mrs Tan! You are like nowhere there la :(




Proof 1. Daniel and ziheng sleeping.. Ziheng too goodboy le lah! sleep still must fake read homework!




Proof 2. Lllllllleon is asleep.



Proof 3. Even pple in Math Lecture turn off lights to go sleep



Proof 4. It created a bloody strife between you know who's fans and his rep.
"More More MORE!" they demanded. But his rep could not promise that.
Too bad cidong. Go and die. WE WANT ENCORE

And so... Everyone was very sian




More sleeping..




And even more sleeping :(




Jiamin was about to zisha on a dozen eclipses.
"My biggest regret in my life was not being able to watch *youkknowho* encore performance..."



While our 6V[ictory] clinic was able to save jiamin's life, god knows how many else have died waiting for the next appearance

Quick! My star! My sun! My god! My sky! My tantalising.. whatever please give us a miracle! Save us from this misery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111121211111oneonetwo



Huh what you looking at shuzong?




Whats with Mdm Ong's UBER happy expression?




Why are all of you sooo stunned!



And you two too?



报章报道：王威溅即将在4月底主办另一个眼唱会！有兴趣的人可以到sistic购买门票，献完为止。 前8张门票还有特别优惠， 在来临周末可有机会到威溅豪宅玩一整天的nintendo wii。 您还在忧郁什么? 不如现在购买一张门票吧！



"YES!" Dr Ang clenched her fist in happiness




Hee I rather go for his concert than CHANGE ^^




A satisfied fan shows her V




What better thing to boost ego now after he lost his hair?




连老天爷也流下感动的泪。。

(translation for tim: even oldskygrandfather flows down touched tear)

hopeful

SOTA student recital - phone camera pic

When you've been buried in your work for a while, take a step back.

It's simple enough. Everyone knows.

Step1 back
This afternoon, I took some time off work to be at the School of the Arts, Singapore (SOTA) and caught 15mins of a short recital session by a few of their young music students. Watching the 13 and 14 year olds take their art seriously and interacting with teachers who, I think, are not only developing their students' skills, but in performing alongside their students, demonstrating the values of the arts - I came away hopeful about this island.

The value of an arts education is not a career in the "creative industries" or even being a "well-rounded" individual. It's a whole bunch of other stuff - discipline and persistence, confidence, openness to new ideas and (contrary to all the stereotypes of self-centred artists), respecting others, whether the artist for your audience, or the audience for the artist.


Q&A after keronchong for pak bakar at sinema - phone camera pic

Step 2 Back
The SIFF this year did not yield any real gems for J and I. But last Sunday, after watching this film, its simple lyricism was refreshing - as was a short chat we had with a friend on the grounds of "old school" about films and what seems, to me, possibilities.

When you've been buried in your work for a while, take a step back. Even if that step brings you to places where it's, arguably, still about your work. It's simple enough. Everyone knows. The need to see alternatives, sense possibilities, realise that there's still space - around, ahead - behind.

reginaliew blogs XIII: french speaking day

ripped from a blog.


French Speaking day- 14042008

origin: math lecture test 1

ok i admit i started this whole thing.
i mugged for 2 whole days daoing all my hw. and the math test absolutely killed my day. so being pissed as can be, while walking out from the audi all the way to B218 where we had our math tutorial [see, math tutorial after a f-ing math test], regina was swearing all the way. yes, to meiting who heard all sorts of permutations the F could be used.

this phenomenom continued during math tutorial when reginaliew sat at the extreme back right hand corner to emo. timothy tay and daniao who were sitting infront of her also kena her swearing. not to forgot tiong weijie who was sitting beside meiting who was sitting beside reginaliew. apparently, the 3 guys seemed quite amused.

the french speaking didn't end there. still feeling f-ed up, reginaliew proceeds to lag at s77 ct bench. and markcheng came over. and while he suddenly turned and did the f sign to reginaliew, she simultaeneuosly asked him how was math test. lol. both of them then continued f-ing away. timtay was nearby and he told reginaliew, "eh don't use that word anymore la."
As paradoxical as it may seem, regina looked at him and he looked at her and after a short pause, he said "f". HAHAHAHA.

then i forgot what happened, reginaliew tried to defend herself for being so f-ed up, so the excuse she used was that she was saying william farquar. and it became french speaking. lol. markcheng told reginaliew after that that farquar in french was supposed to be pronounced as "farker" which gave reginaliew an even more solid reason to say the f.

power of math test gave rise to french speaking. and we never know how influential french speaking is you know. many 08s6v started f-ing the whole day. people included thiamjiamin who suggested that we have a frenchspeaking day every month. HAHA.

right then at home, tantalisyn was having a msn conversation with reginaliew and she finally openly unleashed her grievances with the expression of f.

abstract:

F*** U LAH..woah..SONG!
HAHAHA!
this is the first n only time i can type it out loud and capped!
AHAH!
AHHAHAHAHAHAHA

*please note that as the french speaking day is over, all vulgarities are censored.


witness the power of french speaking!

tictoc time is ticking. it was 11+pm on the com clock and markcheng and reginaliew were still talking. notice the time.

11:55:58 PM rahhhhhhhh
11:56:04 PM sleepiness is settign in
11:56:07 PM its 1155
11:56:11 PM no now 1156
11:56:12 PM im still typingtyping.
11:59:38 PM ohno
11:59:49 PM i just wake up from infront of my co
11:59:51 PM *com
11:59:56 PM you have one more minute to swewar
11:59:57 PM swear.
12:00:06 AM oh ok no more.
12:00:46 AM OHNOOOOOo
12:00:48 AM SHIT
12:00:50 AM ITS OVEr
12:01:26 AM haha it was fun while it lasted.
12:01:36 AM hahaha indeed

lol. however, the power of french speaking is just to great to resist. demand cerve is inelastic as consumers get addicted to it just after one day. many of them are having slight problems trying to recover from french speaking today. this is what we call withdrawal syndrome.

people, let's work hard towards getting rid of this! lol.


* point to note, since the french speaking day is over, regina shall not spell it out but i think everyone gets how the f is supposed to be read.


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ㄅ ㄆ ㄇ ㄈ ㄉ ㄊ ㄋ ㄌ come on let's fall in love

Special Coverage

大家好。
真的是很不想做此塞工，不过真的没办法。其他两人一直不上网。由于这也算是时下新闻，所以本人决定冒着自己的生命危险，带给大家最劲暴的娱乐新闻。

for the convenience of timothy tay, i've decided to translate the above:
hello everyone.
i really don't feel like being the saigang warrior, but i am left with no choice. the other 2 people are always not online. As this news is considered a current affair, there is a need to blog about it asap. so, i've decided to risk my own life to bring all the most groundbreaking news.


！注意- 以下的照片可点击放大。
! click on the photos for larger images.


黄金龙的贴身日记簿 ：

由于它是我们班的welfare rep，记下同学的生日是他的责任。不过，请问!!
怎么xxx的生日篇那么特别?!?!?!
In contrast with Phua-pause-yan-pause-qi's birthday reminder which only filled a meagre 3.3cmx3.2 cm worth of space, tanlisyn's birthday reminder has extended way beyond her 27th june box.
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brief description: there are 6 heartshaped orbitals around the centre heartshaped nucleon. 附加 a kiss and a "muack" with 3 mini hearts and a smiley. tags: 我的爱人, my heart's deepest desire!!

2x zoom


6x zoom.

people may debate over the different handwriting but in fact, they are written by the same person, who is the owner of the diary himself.
to make it seem as though this is the masterpiece of 3 other people, he has smartly differentiated his handwriting and used different coloured pens, but not smart enough to deceive eyes of the public.

Lastly,

a poem he has written to express his heart's deepest secrets entitled- My Love. [cliche title indeed]

My Love
You are my
sun,
my moon,
my star,
my heart,
my soul,
the air i breathe,
the water i drink, [!!!]
the food i eat, [??!?!?]
everything I
need to survive.
Because you are
my one true
love, Lisyn.

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Author's words:
祝有情人终成眷属。

Editor's words:
To protect the identity of the author, this post shall be kept anonymous.

MAMA:D

The 7TH LUNAR MONTH's come early this yr, at least for 6v! :D

hee hee! while waiting in the LT 30 minutes before math lecture even started (mdm ong why didnt u +5!!), shiyu somehow passed on to the other world and came back haunting 6V with her devillish smile :D

enjoy :D

yay! :D and so here are some of the pics we took! :D

shiyu, our ghost.

yanqi, mama, tim, and annie in TIES! :D [mama and tim are accomodating t ht]

another pic of us! [in order of ht!!! ]

yay rest of pics are uploaded on PHOTOBUCKET :D go checkem out! :D

LOVE

mama!