魔杰座

Woots~!!!!

SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO!!

:D :D :D

9th OCTOBER 2008~!


*I love his fingers la.. so long! Just look at his pinky~

Abstract from JVRMusic.com:
近來不斷深入鑽研魔術的周杰倫，已經預言了自己的新專輯將與魔術有關，即將在10月9日推出個人第九張 專輯「魔杰座」！本是摩羯座的周杰倫，以音符和創意，變出星空中的新星座「魔杰座」，這個令星座專家摸不透的神祕星座，形狀有時是撲克牌上的騎士，有時又 變成鬼牌上的小丑，變換不同的形體和曲風，在新專輯的預購海報設計上就以撲克牌的設計概念，呈現出魔術師與小丑的頂尖對決！

最新專輯名稱「魔杰座」，代表的是音樂與魔術的星座，「魔杰座」有多個層面的意義，除了周杰倫原本就屬 於魔羯座之外，他變魔術讓音樂變幻無窮，除了有一首專以「魔術」為主題的歌曲，其他音樂內容更是相當豐富，多樣曲風令人目眩神迷！而超乎感動的全新「杰 作」，每一首都是他的精彩「傑作」！也讓喜愛周杰倫音樂的人重新歸類自己的星座。即將在10月9日推出的「魔杰座」在包裝上將推出兩種版本，分別有「鐵盒 酷炫版」與「紙盒珍藏版」，「鐵盒酷炫版」加贈騎士卡貼紙（悠遊卡size等卡片可使用），讓歌迷有不同的收藏選擇。

HaPpY

I seem to have a rather cheery mood these days.
Two moods I noticed I have been carrying this week: Either I am too tired to react, or I am happy.

For some reasons, which I don't know what these reasons are, I am feeling less stress.

Maybe it's because...
-Recess week is just around the corner!
-Aunt and grandma is coming back tml from Hainan.
-Holland V Lunch after lesson on Friday.
-Waseda Seiran Sai on Sunday.
-I have less a tutee to worry about.
-Kuishinbo Dinner.
-Beijing Prof extended our deadline from 29th sep to 20th oct.
-At peace with people around me.
-HM's 21st Bday Party.
-Brainstorm session with the gang for HM's party.
-etc.

Thanks to HM, we are going to dress up ridiculously for his OUT-OF-PLACE theme party.

My logic: Since everyone is wearing out-of-place-ly, wearing normal on that day will make u out-of-place. Ha.

Still, HM had stated that he would love us to wear it as a form of present for him.. so, I am going to wear something that is not very me.

Some ideas....

Maybe I can dress up as a lion with a golden mane, since i am a Leo, and I had a new hair color.

Or I would cosplay Chun Li, as suggested by Al and WK. But still, i totally find myself no resemblance to her. The gang "promised" to put up a cosplay show.. Hmm.. Then maybe I should become Doraemon.. or something like that.

Or let me dress as a punkster. Some dark gothic make-up that makes ppl recall the band My Chemical Romance..

Or i can dress up as a guy. I sometimes wondered how will I look like if I am a guy. Maybe I can wear something like wat Leonardo DiCaprio wore in his Titanic Outfit. Those rugged, English boy look with a hat that I can try to hide my long hair into.

And since WK suggested he wanted to be L, I can become Misa. Or Light.

How to define Out-of-place? HM emphasized randomness...

Maybe I can just mix my mom's oversized pyjamas with my dad's working pants, and pillow's bib as a hair net.

Hmm..

Still, looking forward to the party~ :D

I wonder how everyone will dress.

Format

I formatted my comp once again.

I wonder how viruses managed to find their way through the loop holes of my much reliable security settings, and what these stupid viruses did was blocking me from surfing websites.

Had a torturing two days for not able to get online and do research!

So, out of desperation to survive for my assignment deadlines, i resort to formatting.

Not a bad decision. My comp is now running in perfect condition again. Everything's new and uncontaminated by viruses and spy-wares..

Kudos to my "new" comp~

and Pea, here's the promised Domyouji for you~~
[Matsumoto Jun]
why can guys be so pretty?

回乡

最近的晚上，我自己睡。好久没有自己睡觉了。

阿姨陪婆婆回乡。婆婆从来没有回过海南岛。
婆婆的妈妈在世时，曾经交待过她，有朝一日，一定要回乡一次。
婆婆和公公的感情不是很好，所以只有作子女的可以带她去了。
婆婆的子女都结婚了，除了住在我家的阿姨。
因此，唯独我阿姨能够放下手上的事，好好地陪婆婆来一趟九日的回乡之旅。

海南之旅的计划有些马虎。婆婆和阿姨从来没见过海南的亲戚。
婆婆一直都已通信方式和他们保持联络，就连照片也都没看过。
相会的那天应该就是以写在纸上的名字和书信来相认。通讯发达的我们这一代一定很不解。
难得去了海南一趟，阿姨顺路买了“海南五日游”的双人配套[组团形式]。
到了海南的第六天才去会亲。
不知是好事还是坏事，最近报纸常常写海南岛会有大灾难。
还有预测家预测9月13日会有恐怖的空前大地震。
所以，到了海南岛的团队只有导游和阿姨婆婆三人行。人数少，独享的机会也当然多了。

回乡探亲就好像是要带很多很多钱回去的样子。
大人们都把回乡看作一种任务，看作一种面子问题。回乡好像很复杂。
不知道回乡的感觉是如何？不尽回想起：“少小离家老大会，乡音无改鬓毛衰。。。”

自己睡觉是挺恐怖的。XD
就让我继续累，累倒不省人事，一觉到天亮。。

HYD

TGIF!! (Thank God it's Friday) [again]~!

Will be having my last tuition with Radh this afternoon. I don't know if this is going to be the last, cos my tutee's mom was so desperately asking me when will I be free again. I had given the reason that I had to cope with my "Final-Year-Project", so I gotta stop the tuitioning. I believed I didn't lie, cos I AM in the final year, and I AM busy with projects. XD

**

Catched the movie : Hana Yori Dango (Final) with pea, MY and MY's fren ahS.

Finally, it's FINAL. Looking back, there were so many memories about this *流星花园*

First, I wanna make myself clear that I love this story as a plot, not that I love F4. Who cares about Taiwan's version of F4? [no offence, but i seriously have to admit that the only person who kind of looks like F4 among the quadruple is Hanazawa Rui (花泽类) * I don't even remember that TW guy's name, now that I thought of.]

I wasn't someone who sit by the TV everyday. It was once when I had a little black box TV in my room (during my sec 2 years), that I happened to channel surf on a particular weekday's 6pm. Maybe it was fate, I happened to be watching the first episode of Hana Yori Dango (Anime Version) on the TV. Though the graphics are not totally superb, it had captivated my interest from there.

Since that day, I made an effort to follow the anime series every week day at 6pm. Sometimes, I have to miss the show cos I used to have netball practices. I recommended the show to Pea, and I duno if she did catch it everyday as well, but not long after, I noticed this anime as a manga series in comics connection. It was only available as TW's imported version, so each book cost like $6.30. The manga series was already selling its book 26th. On my 14th birthday, I got the whole series (book 1 to 28), from my family as a birthday present.

Seems like everybody is starting to notice the series, and someone in TW actually makes it into a TW drama, using 4 TW guys and someone whom I dun think resembles 杉菜 (the female lead) at all. Soon, the whole street is full of Taiwan F4 fans. Herr... I think the whole plot is more like clouded by those "err..-pretty-guys"... I duno what they see in their beauty.

I have to admit I hate the song “流星雨”. Those guys cannot sing la. How does it feel when something u like actually gets so superficially commercialized and criticized? Anw, they didn't had enough, they totally change the story again, in TW's version HYD's season 2. Thank you. Which I didn't bother to watch.

Anw, the manga series sort of ended at book 36. I was wondering if the author of HYD actually gets pissed off and decided to just stop drawing. After so many years, I finally decided to watch the Jap's drama version of HYD. Ok, at least IT IS better than TW! At least, I felt that this is what the story is about, and 道明寺 really looks like 道明寺. After two seasons, the story sort of abruptly ended too.

Only now, they decided to make a FINAL movie to this Jap drama. So it was a must-watch. And just few weeks ago, I saw book 37 of the jap manga on the shelves! Haven't got the chance to watch it yet though..

By the way, the manga version looked like this:
The jap version looked like this:
But the TW version looked pathetically like this:

Something was very wrong with the society back then when so many girls chased after this version of HYD. Must have been an epidermic that blurs the sight and confuses the brain.

Anw, it was still a good story. And I realised so many years had passed since I saw that first episode of its anime on the TV.

小忙

最近渐渐忙了起来。

有时还真难控制自己的情绪。

黑黑的脸是我最近常戴上的面具。也好才我替头发染了新颜色，显得有精神一点。

如果可以的话，我想借着凉爽的天气过“冬眠“。懒猪最近爱上“借眠消愁”。谈到睡眠，我最近常常做梦。梦到什么？都不记得了。但是，梦里的情景很逼真。就好像过平常的日子一样。记得了，记得了。我记得在梦里，我在print notes!

时间还是依旧冷漠地奔跑着。追着时间赛跑的人们，加油！

Piano Teacher = Jay

周杰伦当钢琴老师~！

有这样的老师好好~。

1st week of Sept

Given the wee bit of time, I managed to get myself into something other than school this week.

I finally caught Wall E in the theaters on Sunday! It wasn't a really fun-filled animation, but I can say the graphics are superb and the plot is sending out a strong signal of environmental awareness and anti-trash abusing. Had the movie at cine with Pea and Al, and as usual, it was raining.

I actually took many pictures with Wall E over the months. (Something I'm rather surprised with)

~My Wall E Collection~

Wall E took such a long time to show, I bet at least one third of the people in SG have took a picture with that WallE-Eva-Cardboard-Chair.

After the movie, it was dinner time at (oops i forgot the shop name, somewhere in Taka). Anw, I ordered a black pepper chicken noodle thingy.. it looks very oily.. but it tasted nice.

Al ordered some 生面 thingy.. I like the mushrooms..
and Pea ordered some Char Siew noodle thingy..
After the dinner, there was some mooncake fair at the central area of taka basement.. I gotta help mom buy some mooncakes and as I would be having a Jap student interview the following day (we are required to buy some stuff for the students), I decided on mooncakes as well. Finally settled on my mooncakes, we moved on to Kino for a short walk.

Okay, Pea had herself a boyfriend!! Her boyfriend is an angmoh, and he's rich and he's famous. Pea took a picture with him in Kino, and I shall not post the pic here. Let pea do the announcing XD Check up on Pea's blog sometime..

Anw, Al found a very interesting japanese version of "Twilight".

Join the two books and you get this image. Quite a good idea. Too bad I forgot to flip the pages inside and see how they translated the storyline... =_=

***

Monday, had an interview meeting session with students from Aichi Shukutoku University. They were sociology majors and they are here on a study trip of Singapore and Malaysia. There were around 20 people from their side and I was pretty amazed that they were so PRETTY! Be it guys or girls. There were three particular girls whom I was so bedazzled with their beauty when I entered the room. By chance, Tam, Car and me paired up with them. Anw, there arent many japanese guys present, but I already had a fair idea of how dazzling Tokyo could be.

My partner was a girl called Chisa. She was 20, from Nagasaki and she was so CUTE! I can imagine how a guy will bleed from his nose if he got a chance to talk to the three of them. These girls attracted many gazes from almost every guy as we walked along the way to the forum. Jut jut jut.. GUYS...

Had a group photo at the cafe near centre forum.
The Jap girls (from left): Chisa, Itsuka, Lisa..
I have to admit with this photo, NUS girls are CMI.

Too bad, I hav that Beijing prof's class, gotta say goodbye to the girls. Was rather glad that I had made three japanese friends again. :)

***

Tuesday, after the gem class, moved on to arts canteen to meet babe for lunch. Had always enjoyed my Tuesdays with her. It's hard to find someone whom you can joke and laugh so comfortably with. After the lunch, we went to some place to sit and "study".

This is how NUS year-three students look at week 4: *Pathetic*

Had Adrien's first tutorial, and I love him for letting us off early. Rushed my way to Bugis, cos gotta meet up Al, Al's sis, Adw and Pea for Beethoven's concert at NAFA.

It was raining, but I managed to reach there within an hour. Didn't have time for dinner, we moved on to Nafa.

It was my first time there despite Ray's several invitation before that. Okay, it was a place where you will love if you are an arts student. Can imagine how life is, if you travel to a pretty place to practice on the piano everyday. Wa....

Concert time~
Al, 妹妹 and Adw..
Was very fascinated with Adw's I-phone. I didn't know phones can be so powerful these days!
妹妹 also very cute ^.^
Al was very "cold". XD
and pea and me..
pea was dressed up as a yellow princess..
and I was hungry and tired and oily.
Anw, totally enjoyed the concert.

My favorite "Pathetique" was played.. :D
Moonlight sonata, Pastoral and even WTC in C major's prelude were played!

Felt rather peaceful after the concert.

妹妹 and Adw went home, so the three of us went to the hawker centre under Allson Hotel to have dinner. :)

I noticed when u start to play, you crave for more...

Learning how to LOVE

For some reasons, I'm learning how to love someone, or say, growing fond of someone.

I'm trying very hard.

I say I'm learning how to love, because...

I'm learning how to love him.

I'm learning how to accept his accent.

I'm learning how to love his actions and gestures.

I'm learning how to appreciate how clearly he talks about the project.

I'm learning to see the better side of him.

I tried not to judge people by looks.

I tried not to judge people by nationality.

I tried to work harder and remember what he have to say.

I tried to make myself look forward to the next time I'm seeing him.

All for the sake of...
not failing my beijing prof's class!!!!

I CANNOT BELIEVE I SUFFER MORE IN HIS TUTORIAL.

omg.

the more we get together~

"The more we get together, together, together,
The more we get together, the happier we'll be.
'Cos your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends,
The more we get together, the happier we'll be."

I quite like the lyrics of this traditional song.
It creates a warmer image when children sing it.

I wonder if the initial intention of this song was created to educate children how to socialize.

If it really was, I would have thought that it had failed.
Most people now, (especially adults) would not have remember these simple concepts.

The more we get together, the happier we'll be.
And everyone are friends.

Simple as that, yet it seems to occur to most human brains how complicated it is, like the concept of the birth of the universe.

Maybe the song could have also taught people how to maintain friendships. XD

***

Anyway, I am starting to enjoy life once again.
Not much things to look forward to in the near future. Yet, I think being at peace with people around you was just as lightening.

~with smiles :)