My Way
約束
堂本剛 - しるし
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
OneRepublic - Stop And Stare
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

i really hate 2005. for making me suffer. for all the difficult questions, demanding labs (they made me buy two log books) and horrible homework. hai. around a month more to exam. and im still at lecture 3 for 2005. how. how. will die. it's 3am now. and im deciding to sleep or to read up on 2005 or it will be another day of copying again. which i dread.

itunes' playing YELLOW. and it just reminds me of bryan wong.

must.work.on.study.plan.stop.procrastinating.




was talking to cwx about going to outram to study after finishing 4th year. i guess it's healing hands that brainwashed me or something. that engineers wont ever be like them. going to pub after five. and to talk about men, women and the world. such an atas lifestyle la. but apparently my dad said that it should be of the opposite. engineers after a day of doing hard work will go for after five. while those healing handers cant drink in case they get called back for work in the midnight. true hor.

haha.

i just want an atas lifestyle la. hahahaaa. and at the same time i want to prop up my leg to drive, wear slippers and shorts to work and to spend 6months a year overseas. that's all. hahahaaa. okay. and also atas la.

maybe that's why the song that came to me this morning in lab was ji ba ban. my grey matter genius.



tvb hor. really leh. part two people complain no michael miu. so they bring back in part three. now people unhappy laughing gone, then they make him reappear. haiyo. but i kind of like tin gor too. any supporters?

halfway through ian's syd field book.
a lot of ideas in my head.
nothing on paper yet.


a lot of childhood memories. to remind myself that yes i am not that old yet. hah.

upcoming nuSTUDIOS production. aiyah. just watch the trailer la. tiam. and let it convince you. hahahahaa.

time really flies with alex tan. haha. it's like yeah it's the finale!! oh no. it's the finale.. if u have been to my fb, you will realise that i was rooting for win cheong. yes. because he really really convinced me the last episode that he will be a better guy than alex tan. i mean isnt alex tan very ya ya this season, like he thought michelle chia will confirm stay with him? and also when he starts to get jealous. oh my gosh. it's like the perfect man suddenly showing all his flaws. and win cheong had this something that alex didnt. (maybe it's his ever glowing pink in health cheeks) so yah. for a whole 24hrs i was rooting for win cheong. but hai. the last episode. okay la okay la. alex tan you win.

actually before i came home i was still thinking of something which i really want to blog about. people who you have a love-hate relationship with. you know there are some people in life that are so good you hate them? hahaha. like how they are always better than you, like flawless one leh, but you know they are just like you, a normal human being, but yet they can be so much.. better!! i mean i really hate these kind of people. but at the same time i really love them. it's like i dont know how to feel when i see them. hahahaha. but i guess they are very impt in my life, because they are mainly the ones who propel me forward. like how i am still lagging, i can do better because obviously these people are better than me.

and so maybe that's why i sort of felt for win cheong la. like 'i am always the number two' because there is this stupid alex tan in my life. but it's very difficult to not like alex tan. so when he left for US(maybe this is when he becomes chun li's dad. hahahahahahaa), i kind of felt quite sad for win?

but ya. perfect cut 2. didnt disappoint me at all. you know like how sequel tend to be bad? or somehow they seem to be inferior, or a gimmick to suck more out of the first season's fans? at least i felt perfect cut didnt la. i love season one (but i only started watching during the repeat) because they dealt with so many controversial issues and those very hush-hush kind of stuff. that it felt so shiok. it's like finally we are free, we have the freedom of speech in this society. while season two is a totally i love the story kind of drama. it's a very typical japanese kind of drama format. 13 episodes. one story in each story while the main characters grow along the way la. actually this was the reason why i was attracted to japanese drama, and it remain my favourite format of drama till today.

season two of perfect cut dealt a lot with ethics: what is right? what is wrong? alex tan plays the angel here, the doctor with a soul (did you see the magazine cover of him? it has the words 妙手仁心 on it) while win cheong the bad guy la, who chooses to operate on someone if it is challenging or it pays him well. and with each story, we see that people are not what they seem to be at first. even for those chinese ladies who go round cheating ah-pek's money.

but one thing i was quite surprised in the finale was the one on 没有Alex的第___天. oh my gosh. isnt this from my favourite abalone show? it's almost completely the same la. but i guess this is the best way to show how michelle chia felt in that 4-5 months when alex was gone. and the part win cheong was knocked down by the motorcycle? i thought it was a little forceful. and a little cliche. but the rest of the 13 episodes - perfect.

like i say la.it's very hard to find a really good singapore drama. esp after the brain drain a few years ago when quite a few hongkong directors left. yes it is getting better recently. but perfect cut is really one that is like thousand years difficult to meet one. and if u want to watch, i currently have all 26 episodes. can lend la, but must be gentle. if you break i will angry till explode. haha.

oh talking about that. all their 口頭禪s:
犯人
..到爆炸
依然嬌艷

haha. i just love emily tan leh. she is so funny. and wa. she found clement and sean tee. haha. yay. i was really rooting for her. u know in season one, alex is always the fierce one, and then you will see sky and her feeling scared when he scolds them? haha. super funny.

now i just feel rather down. no more alex tan i guess. unless they decide to go into season three. highly unlikely.




actually watching perfect cut reminds me a really old drama, back in 1999, which i doubt many watched. it's SNAG, or 新好男人 in chinese. starring wong hei and jeff wang. it was shown at those 11pm kind of drama. i really loved it then. but cos i was still in primary 5, and kids cant sleep so late,so my parents had me record with the vhs player and then to watch the next day la. and this show's the kind, even if i have only 5 min to spare the next morning, i also must spend my 5min to watch it. i have the ost now at home, very good ost also.

but apparently when it was shown, it didnt get that much viewership, despite wong hei very famous then. maybe it was shown too late. and at the same time, it's format is very very much similar to perfect cut, people could not accept it. it dealt with mainly on love. with wong hei as a bachelor and how he hopes to get a girlfriend, or at least some love la. very modern. too hip to be accepted then i guess.

i mean now people can accept perfect cut (okay. there are some 食古不化 people out there. will talk about it later on), i think if they choose to show SNAG now, it will get at least more acceptance than then. it is also largely those one episode one story kind of format. with each episode we see the character of the episode explore what is love? what does it mean by love?

and wong hei referred himself to as this volleyball position. but i cant remember the exact words now. urgh.

and hor. talking about people who still cannot accept perfect cut. i saw this short message that someone wrote to iweekly la. complaining why perfect cut 2 is such a big hoo-har when it's a superficial drama about plastic surgery. what the hell. you never watch then talk so much. superficial drama about plastic surgery? siao ah. u want not so superficial one go watch little nonya la. crazy. and then another person's tag i saw on a rather famous mediacorp high ranking guy blog la, something like 'i am not a superficial person, so i dont let my family watch perfect cut blah blah.. this society is full of superficial people..' hai. yet another lost sheep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXXXrlMafOk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjfu7ki-NE4

i didnt really care about star awards for the past like 8-9 years other than to gossip about who got into top10 and who didnt. i mean singapore dramas? i gave up after primary5. but last year, i dont know whether age got the better of me or spore dramas are really improving, i have to admit out of the 6 nominated, i watched 4, finishing 3 out of the 4.

and of course i am rooting for the 3. but aiyah. mediacorp. everyone knows which drama is going to win la. boring. boring. woo. boring. give out pork. confirm those i like one wont win. one got too many non-自己人, one seemed like a filler, the shomingeki one is like forgotten by everyone else?

and talking about the one with too many non-自己人, did anyone watch the last last episode about fate and supersition? haha. i saw our friendly bank teller la. hahahahahahaa. asking for a larger nose, wider brows and a mole. har. now i know why she sounds so familar. her lo mai gai and xiao long bao. unforgettable.

http://uperfectcut.blogspot.com/

hahahahaa. i just love billy bong and his ultra coolness. despite how high he wears his pants with his maroon polo tee, no one could beat his coolness la. i mean everyone who went through 1109 will know that he's better than that alcoholic drink or the one who resembles a certain malaysian prime minister. he who brings strange plastic/rubber tubes to class, making us bend rulers and to ask people to demonstrate breaking of chopsticks.

and yesterday, after crashing the medicine [haha. i am so deprived. hai. i think it requires people to reach a certain level for maturity to realise why everyone else longs to go into medicine. it took me 4 sems.] talk i thought i should just walk into the engin talk and to see who was giving the talk la before walking out after 3 mins. and right on stage was billy bong. and we sat there for another 20min.

and the best line from him 'of course we cannot be one-dimensional technical people.' hai he knows. he knows how the rest of the school sees us. the 1D technical people. technical? that is like worse than geek. now i know why people continue to look at us with the 'oh you engin people' look despite i swear the science people are more chui. technical!! har.

and also the abbreviation of AM for angmoh. hahahahahahaa. who uses that?

maybe it's time he should bring his fishballs to lectures. haha.


i cant be a lawyer or doctor anymore, so "i will be a chief executive officer".

watching alex tan only makes me realise im becoming more and more like him. impatient, fierce and insensitive. really sorry everyone. i hate LCB-P, but i am becoming more and more like her too. cold emails and smses, intolerant of mistakes.

suteki no otona ni naritai.

gambarimasu.

Hairy bun hairy bun. i love breadtalk's hairy bun.

i am turning crazy soon. hahahaha. despite sleeping more this weekend, school work is killing me. lalalalala. hahaha.

hi you all happy people. ElvinNg, JulianHee, XieShaoGuang, ChenHanwei, QiYuWu, Narimiya, ThomasOng..


how to survive.. 0:28.. hahahahaaa.

sian.

i want a re-re-run of part 1. this drama is so.. sporean-ish!! all the inside jokes, sacrasim, so intelligently spore. (which we seldom see in our dramas..) maybe that's why they are not selling it out of spore. unlike you know the one which they sold to tvb..

from newpaper:

Even The Little Nyonya can't compare to top TVB dramas
MY love affair with TVB dramas began with the magnificent Man In The Net - a serial about filial piety, righteousness, love between family members, love between friends and love between man and woman.
By Maureen Koh
02 February 2009

MY love affair with TVB dramas began with the magnificent Man In The Net - a serial about filial piety, righteousness, love between family members, love between friends and love between man and woman.

There's a good chance that people reading this would have watched it or recognise the title. This despite it being a 1980 production.

And many will be able to name the lead actor and actress who became household names not only in their native Hong Kong, but also in Singapore and other parts of the world.

Yes, they are Chow Yun Fat and Carol 'Do Do' Cheng.

And that is how the magic of TVB dramas work: Weaving the skills of the scriptwriters with fine acting from an often stellar ensemble.

It's a skill that MediaCorp has apparently yet to master.

Yes, not even with The Little Nyonya, even though one in four Singaporeans followed it, making it the highest-rated drama in 15 years.

To be fair, not all TVB dramas are compelling and I'm certain there have been some flops with porous plots.

So what is it then that makes the dramas more compelling than our local fare?

Top on the success list has to be superior content - and here is where the Hong Kong team excels.

TVB dramas are usually - if not always - made for family watching. Like last year's mega-blockbuster, Moonlight Resonance.

Viewers - such as myself - will swear in indignation at the injustice suffered by the protagonist, and laugh till our sides ache at the hijinks by the unwitting joker.

Or cry in anguish at lovers torn apart by misunderstandings, jealous rivals or just plain circumstances.

Goosebumps

If you ask me, its formula did not differ much from Man In The Net. Yet, nearly 30 years down the road, it still strikes a chord.

Which is something that I can't say for The Little Nyonya, though I do like new Ah-Jie Jeanette Aw.

I found myself snorting at some of the impossible scenes. Remember the famous - or is it infamous - parting scene between Chen Xi and Yue Niang at the railway track?

Well, some of the lines raised more goosebumps than tears.

Scorpio East's chief operating officer, Mr Lim Teck, said: 'TVB is very good at reinventing their dramas - be it through the themes or even, the artistes.'

Again, the Hong Kong team shines here. Veterans and established stars are given roles which suit them and match those of the young and more popular ones.

And when veterans return to the screen after even a decade, they still look wonderful.

Think Michael Miu and his wife, Jamie Chik, Ray Lui and Yueh Hua, even Gallen Lo.

Another of TVB's strengths is its theme-dramas. The extensive genre ranges from cops to cooking. Last year's serials included a tombstone-making trade and the current one is on the salt business.

Sure-win formula

Last year's top three dramas - Moonlight Resonance, Forensic Heroes 2 and D.I.E - attest to the sure-win formula.

Such dramas are the reason that despite Scorpio East's best efforts, viewers still resort to pirated DVDs because they just can't wait to catch the next episode.

It makes me wonder whether there will come a day when MediaCorp serials can command the same fervour?

even our good friends on tudou cannot tahan this show.

finally. a weekend. for me to really do all the nitty gritty things that u have put aside for weeks. my study plan. oh man. it's like almost 1.5mth since the person email me to send the study plan. hai. i just hope i'm not too late and they are still sending me to tw. i mean circus, i want to meet u all!! haha.

and renewal of my passport. my passport has officially expired. im not so in a rush now, since they rejected my hk trip request. but im still gonna go anw, so yesh, a new passport.

my gst credits. faster sign up also. in case i forget and bye bye 400bucks from government.

marketing presentation. finally. it's here. prepare prepare.

my stripping party!! i have not started preparing.

next weekend open house. duty at sc booth. hai hai hai. come visit me if u can. haha. everyone. if u are in school. and of course to kope the goodie bag. anw interested to kajiao some ee prof can jio me too. 'i thought electrical is pull wire and fix light bulb only? why need a bachelor?' hahahahaha.

and of course studios stuff.

everybody loves waterboys.

the bitterness of rejection. hai hai hai hai. engin rejected my application as an exchange student for summer school in hk. hai hai hai hai. why... i am already regretting not choosing hk as my sep destination, and now u are denying me from going there..

okay. now the only option is to apply straight to the hk uni, but that will cost us around US$750 more, which is like 1,158.19 SGD. hai. a single special sem mod is 650bucks and now we have to pay twice.

how. but i am still so tempted to go. it's like if i dont go now, im not going to go anymore. year 3 summer i'll most prob be in tw (and if they are not going to kick me out) and year 4 they will still allow meh.

and if i am not going. what shd i do this summer? VIP? but that is like a whole 12weeks of work. plus our supervisor is going to write a report to our mentor. i dont want. production+camp? but this will be like last year. and i felt i was wasting my summer last year.

hmm. maybe i should organise our own overseas trip this summer.

my wish for this week. to become more 醒目. i dont know why but after entering uni im totally bak qiu tia stamp. everything also cannot do well, im not as smart as how i was when i was working during that 7mths. and im really worried that if i go on intern the people there will just hate me because im not responding smartly enough. wake up and be less of trouble to others!! and i jolly well know that adults tend to hate me (i am not joking. seriously. out of 10 adults i meet in my life, 8 of them will hate me when they first see me. i dont know whether it's how i look or what. or i just am so bak qiu tai stamp that i cant do anything well. i know the k one hates me right. all because of the stupid incident. and jiaolian too. and so many others.), i need to outsmart them. and work 2 times more efficiently.

okay. back to my report.

the second on my to-watch list. how should i start. this isnt a film which made me fall in love with it straight away. there are some films like sanchome or spirited away which make me love them all the way from maybe 15min into the film till days and days after. films which i cannot stop thinking about even after finish watching them.

i expected okuribito to be like this. not talking about oscars, but 10 japan accademy awards? wow. maybe i should not have went in with this idea. haha. not that i am expecting a lot from this film, but went the credits roll, i thought they had more to tell me, and i want to know more. there's a certain part of me which was not satisfied yet.

it is a good film. simply put it is a very typical simple japanese style melodrama with tinge of humor. some parts are rather predictable, maybe a little less predictable than our takeshi kaneshiro god of death story.

but i couldnt totally immerse myself into the film. in yogisha x, my eyes were following Shinichi Tsutsumi's every move. i was practically staring at his strands of white hair, his scarf, because it made me want to remember all the scenes. but somehow i could not really relate to daigo (haha. nice name. hi tiga). and yes i was still staring at him esp when he was at work, but somehow i had this certain distance from his character. and not to talk about the scene at the climax.

but everyone in the cinema was like *sniff sniff* *sniff sniff*. haha. esp how the film uses a lot of scenes without background music, so the sniffs became really loud. i could feel it was sad, but not to the extend in galileo which i feel really sad (omg. my bad english. haha) for Shinichi Tsutsumi's character. this film will make your nose turn sour, but galileo will make u think 'why? why? stop doing this!!' haha.

like always, i read iweekly's review on the film right after finishing it. and it made me see the many things i overlooked during the film. what the director was trying to say. in the process on focusing all on daigo's job and worry, i sort of neglected everything else that happened. the bath house. daigo moving back to yamagata. and salmons swimming against the current to go back home. people are all chasing after the newest, the best, and forgotten about where they have started from.

and the ceremony is so solemn yet beautiful. and how many people only come to terms at one's death. there's so much said, and i only neglected them.

and the funny thing is. the more i think about the minute details of the film, the more i love it. i am only starting to like this film 4hours after viewing? haha.

hai. now i want a second viewing.

and not to forget joe hisaishi's music. still so so so good.