Archive for January, 2008

Aw… So sweet~!

{ January 31, 2008 @ 3:22 pm } · { O.O OMG!, congratulations, events, reflections }
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Bah, long day today… Such a killer. But… AHAHAHAHA! TOMORROW WE’VE GOT HOLIDAY! … Then again… nothing much to rejoice about since we would have a lot of work on LMS to do. =S

Well, that aside to leave much more room for something cool… TAKE A LOOK AT THIS! MUAHAHAHAHA!

TArts Poster Picture of Gua Khee! Aww… So sweet~!

AHAHAHAHAHA! Don’t care about the guy… the main focus is Gua Khee! HAHAHAHA!

So let me tell you the story behind this picture and how I got it.

So, it was after school, after the second TOK lecture I had today because of some screwed up thing about the usage of classrooms and all… and I was to meet Bryan in the SAC. He came, we walked to the old block SAC. Next to Ted was a pillar that had the high-tables right in front of the stalls. I went towards the pillar to go to Ted and when I got a chair out to sit… OMG GUA KHEE ON A POSTER! HAHAHHAHAHAHA!… HAHAHAHHAHAH! HILARIOUS! WOOOO~!

Bored, I took out my handphone and started taking a picture of each frame that was on the poster. My eeevil mind was churning and plotting many scenarios which I could set up to make fun of her… The initial idea was just to show it to her. After a while, I thought: maybe I should just put it on my MSN display picture and talk to her. Then as Bryan and I were leaving the SAC, a brilliant devious plan came to my mind: I shall put her picture on my MSN display picture and change my nickname to hers! That way, people thinking it is her would look and she’d be so totally… laughed at! HAHAHAHA!

Well, now come to think of it, she’ll only be teased of lying her head on a guy’s shoulders… Damn… no kick. Oh well. She changed her personal message and so I changed mine back to my own and changed my display picture to another one. Haix… Such is the sadness of looking back at stuff and find them not up to expectations to the extent of it being lame and un-fun. HAHAHA! But still, I shall remember the hilariousness of seeing her appear on a poster!

UUUHUHUHUHU~! Damn I feel so bitchy. =S

Oh well, that aside, I managed to urge myself to going for a run at Singapore Polytechnic. AT LAST! Haha! I have been procrastinating since I don’t know when, but I guess I finally managed to pull myself to go run. Well, the scary part was chooseing what to wear. I mean, I have no sports shorts, A.K.A. hot pants, and so if I wanted to, I would have to wear the ACS PE shorts, choosing a normal beach pants that I usually wear versus a comfortable running wear like hot pants, hehe, I choose hot pants. I mean, firstly, it is to simulate the actual running conditions and secondly, I prefer comfort over anything else.

So I went down with my green China shirt and ACS PE pants, and then Bryan called me. I picked up my phone then walked towards the traffic light. I crossed the road then second later, a HUGE group of people were heading my direction. I was like SHIT! I mean, it wouldn’t be good if they were ACS people, I know a fair bit of people, good enough to be laughed at for trying when I am like physically less endowed, or such, compared to many of the guys in my class; once again, damn them, sportsmen.

Digressing: I hate it when people especially teachers would go like, okay, why don’t we let a non-sportsman try the pull-up bar? Then the next thing I know, I am the one chosen then he would go like, so what CCA are you from? And I have no choice but to say Band, and he would go like, let’s see how Band does. And then I’ll get all demoralised because I can only do like 2-3 pull ups, and I AM one of the weakest few in band in terms of physical strength, so it is unfair towards the band people who can do so much more and better than me. Hmph. Then, you feel like the people around you start to look at you with a sneering eye, almost jestering at the foresight of you failing so bad. Haix, if only I were stronger.

Back to the topic, those people turned out to be polytechnic people. Of course I still felt the pressure when they passed, but I was on the phone so I tried to act nonchalant about it. It was rather scary when all those people larger than you running pass. The girls were leading the running, which was scary, and the guys had biceps the size of mangoes or little pineapples, which is a scary size, especially when they did not really flex or anything, but run normally. Them being taller than you is also one of the scary factors at that when they run pass you and they are like looking down at you as they pass… (NIGHTMARES!)

So anyways, I ran, with my phone and house keys in each hand; phone being used to keep a lap timing with the stopwatch function, and house keys, so that I can go home later. DUH! I ran and there were like a group of people at the side of the track across the field from where I started doing stretches and stuff.

1 round… 2 rounds… Oops, I forgot to clock the timing. Nevermind… 3 rounds, 4, 5, 6. Finish! At round 1, I saw some sign on the side of the track saying ‘Don’t use lane 1 and 2′. Upon seeing them, I quickly switched to lane 3. Apprehensive, I surveyed my surroundings to see if anyone else was running on lanes 1 and 2. But, there were, yet I just rather stay out of trouble and work a little harder. So I ran 6 rounds on the 3rd lane. I don’t know how much more I ran in excess, but anyways, my timing was 14minutes and 9 seconds! I find that a great improvement from my 13minutes and 30-50 seconds, considering I ran extra. Congrats Jenn Chong! *Pats self on back*

On my way back home, inevitably, there were cars. I guess some had ACS people and I had to wait a long time at the traffic light. Haha! I tried my best to hide behind the post. An ACS teacher caught a glance of me when he was being driven in a convertible. But, oh well, I don’t think we would ever see each other and talk about today.

Well, that’s all, Haha to Gua Khee, Wee to HOLIDAY tomorrow, and Congrats to me on running so fast!

Toodles people! Goodnight! Have fun tomorrow~! HAHA!

A tribute to the late Heath Ledger

{ January 28, 2008 @ 2:44 pm } · { tributes }
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With my Bio practicals done, I shall now pay a little tribute to my favourite actor in my Language Arts appreciation film, Heath Ledger, who acted in the movie, A Knight’s Tale. May you rest in peace in heaven. We will remember you, your works, forever. Enjoy!

-= Quotes From A Knight’s Tale =-

He wanted you to know, he changed his stars afterall.

The poor can marry for love.

I will hurt you, until your insides are out, you outsides are in, your entrails will become your extrails… I will rip apart! You will have pain, lots of pain.

Prince Edward: Your men love you. If I knew nothing else about you, that would be enough.

William: Well perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.

Chaucer: Bed him well, my lady. Bed him well.

 

-= Bloops and Blunders=-

  1. During the scene when William was learning to dance, Chaucer got punched in the nose… so he put a cloth in it to stop the bleeding. In one brief shot the cloth went from his left nostril to the right, then back again.

  2. On the jousting scene where William loses his helmet, he has a monstrous bruise under his right eye (in the late afternoon).  That night at the banquet, there is no trace of the bruise. So far as I know, even a black eye doesn’t completely heal that quickly.

  3. During the last jousting scene against Adhemar, William has a piece of red string tied around his neck. While he is riding down to knock Adhemar off of the horse, you see the string in one shot, but not in another, then it is back again.

  4. At the end of the film, when Heath Ledger has defeated Rufus Sewell, he is seen with a puncture wound on the upper right side of his chest. In close up the wound is seen to be bleeding through a hole in his jacket but in the next shot it is shown just as a red blob on his jacket with no hole in it. And when the jacket falls open you can see there is no wound underneath. In the next close-up the hole in the jacket is back.

  5. When William is in the stocks, the Prince lifts his hood and his henchmen take their swords out of their sheaths and place them on the ground. In the next scene you see the Prince approaching William and one of the henchmen takes out his sword again and place it on the ground again.

  6. In the scene where Sir William (Heath Ledger) is preparing to fight Adhemar (the “bad guy”) he is talking to Geoff Chaucer.  In the background in the stands, you see a figure in a yellow dress (Jocelyn) talking to a figure in brown clothing (John Thatcher).  Jocelyn leans over to speak to John, and then they sit down.   In the next shot, when William is told that Jocelyn had arrived, he looks into the stands, where Jocelyn is again standing, leaning over to speak to John.  They then sit down again.

  7. Just prior to when Prince Edward is Knighting William (after William takes a knee), they do a wide shot to show where everyone is, and Chaucer is sitting in front of the stocks directly in the middle. After he is knighted, Chaucer is sitting to the left of Roland (as you face the stocks) and then at the end of the scene, he is back in the middle.

  8. After William Thatcher loses agains Count Adhemar, he wins a gold jouster figure for best “sword on foot”. Right after that, he cuts it in two with an axe. You can see that the figure is already cut in two, and that William almost doesn’t touch the figure.

  9. In the scene where William is about to fight The Prince, William starts charging towards him. William is already past halfway there when The Prince sets off yet they seem to still make contact in the middle of the stadium.

  10. In the first cathedral, the Bishop raises his hand before he extends it to Jocelyn and we see the underside of his ring. It is obvious that his ring is a costume ring because it’s not closed in the back. This is confirmed on the DVD commentary.

  11. When William first fights Adhemar, Adhemar picks up his lance. Then, he shuts the visor on his helmet with the hand that he held his lance in. The lance miraculously disappeared, then reappears as he rides up to fight William.

  12. In the Paris tournament, when William stops losing and starts winning, the 3rd knight he faces (the one whose helmet he knocks off) sets off with his lance in his left hand, but it switches to his right. Also, in the shot from behind the opponent, William moves his lance away from his adversary as they ride by.

  13. When Chaucer is introducing William at the end of the movie, he stands in between the chairs of Prince Edward and the lady. When it cuts to a side view showing William’s father to the Prince, Chaucer is no longer in between the chairs. Not to mention the fact that the Prince is looking at the railing (where Chaucer just was). The very next shot, he is back between the chairs.

  14. Right before William meets the nude Chaucer, he can been seen riding his horse about 5 feet in front of the wagon carrying his equipment. The camera angle changes to a wide view and the wagon is now in front of him.

  15. When William is training there is a scene when he falls into the water in his full suit of armor. Each time the camera angle changes the bubbles from the water can be seen on different sides on the lance. Happens about 4 times during the scene.

  16. Worth mentioning, because we see it written on screen: in French, Jocelyn is a man’s name — even its pronounciation is different. For it to be a woman’s name, it has to be spelled Jocelyne.

So, let’s see…

{ January 27, 2008 @ 3:31 pm } · { reflections }
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It has been quite a while since I have typed an entry. Noticed that people have lost interest in my blog. I guess I am just such an attention-seeker. Hah! As some of you might have already known and seen, there are new links on my blog! There is the one under the subheading “links” while there are others under the heading “blogroll”. So anyways, I have been wanting to blog on the ones under “links” for a long time now, but haven’t been able to find the time to do so.

So I was bored at night, with nothing to do, after typing in the last entry I think, and went around to read other people’s blogs, then found myself wanting to add on stuff to my blog, finding my blog inadequately done, or so I think, since a lot of people I presume, think that I write too much, too much unnecessary things about the day on my blogs.

Then I wondered to myself, “what is wrong with me?” I mean, I am never happy with what I am, what I have, and even when I finally am, I look at others, and find myself short in certain aspects, and I want to improve on it. In any case, I would feel… I don’t know, envious? Jealous? Angry? Frustrated because I am not as good as others? Well, those are the basic feelings that I get when I am faced with such situations.

I never knew what was it that made me feel this way, never knew, could not even comprehend why I even feel like that, or can’t even comprehend the feeling that I feel. So, I was bored at night, continuing from before, and so I thought to myself, “If other people would search for things other than games and studies, maybe I should.” And so I went to google it.

The word that came to my mind was “Inferiority”. I was expecting a very usual wikipedia definition search results kind of thing, but to my surprise, the first page was entitled “Inferiority complex”. I can’t remember clearly if it were wikipedia, but I went to the page wondering what it was, ’cause maybe it IS what I have searching for, the answer.

I went in, there was a definition, so, I read the definition. And to my surprise, it was exactly what I was searching for. It is queer that I was able to find such an accurate and precise answer right in my face as I have never, in my years of thinking, evaluating my life, anything, been able to conclude so concretely about anything as what the definition of this term had.

I never believed in definitions and words, anything man-made, I could never believe it fully. But this, this somehow just struck me at the pivot of my heart, at that instant of reading, I came to know myself better. A bit? A lot? I don’t know.

Recalling my second TOK lesson, the question was, Who are you? Each of us in our class gave an introduction to ourselves in class. As it came to my turn, when each person spoke, I thought of things to speak on, on the topics of which the person talking was speaking on, yet when it finally reached my turn, I spoke of things which did not make sense, when all I ever needed to say to sum up all of me was “I don’t know myself, I don’t know who I am.” Just as what Marissa did. When my turn passed and it was Marissa’s turn, I wanted to say high-five! But, in any case, that would be silly.

Back to the matter, I don’t know who I really am. When I question myself about myself, I could never find an answer, I look at my characteristics and personality, but they always came into an ending of contradiction. I was always THIS, and THAT, never just THIS only, or THAT only.

This search, was the lighthouse of my life, one of which I do not know if it plays a pivotal role in my life or not, but I know that for now, it lights my path.

Then I think, I think of past times in my life where I felt angry, frustrated, the emotions that I would feel when my complex starts to act up, and then, I wonder, if the resultant feelings like love, jealousy, hate, they were all but just a fluke? Were they really emotions and feelings that I feel totally with my heart, or was it just some chemical reaction in my body that made me feel that way?

But I know for sure, that such feelings, are real, are all me, are all that I feel, what I know I want, what I want to feel, for they are feelings which can’t be just shaken out of me, or voided, or nulled, nor snuffed out by myself or other people. Feelings and emotions are the result of how one is brought up, what one experiences whilst growing up, and it is just but a reflex action. It can be acted, but they will never be real that way.

So, does feelings of let’s say affection in me stirred because of my complex acting up, causing me to feel jealous, envious, wanting, so much so that in the end, I find myself so short, that I rely on that person, I want to rely on that person, thus I feel so? Well, that question’s answer, I cannot really give a definite answer, but I do believe that when I feel that way, the feeling is genuine, and true, and real.

My first post was about me feeling like a star in a milky way. And well, now there is just but a little twist to it; I now feel like a captain-less wandering raft out in the open sea, bound by the horizons, helplessly subjected to the elements and currents to bring me whereever they would.

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