Inception

cute geek from pvkk.

I FINALLY watched Inception yesterday. It was good, yes, but not as mind-blowing or evocative as I thought it would be? It was sooooo totally like Simon's lectures from last sem. He spent one lecture explaining how we'll never really know if what we perceive is real because all we're ever going to experience is our own reality, which may not be real, then he finished off by telling us not to think too hard about it or the floor might crumble from under us. I'm pretty sure he'd love the film.

Anyway, after taking psychology, I've been spending way too much time pondering the reality of my reality and various other things. I'm particularly distressed that whenever someone mentions a colour, I start thinking non-stop about how words describing colour are so arbitrary and we'll never really know if you and I see red the same way. Maybe if you were in my head, the particular wavelength of light that you call "red" is perceived by me as what you call "purple" because "red" is just a label. And then, this train of thought leads me on to how language in general is arbitrary and how amazing it is that we can understand any words at all because to explain words, we use other words. And the train doesn't stop there! It just keeps chugging on steadily deeper into the tangles of the unknown unless I intentionally stop thinking about it. URGH life is all academia now.

SO after Inception and dinner and bridge and 3-people bridge and a really long reminisce about school days, I got back to my place at 6am. Roomie and I wanted to stay up for the sunrise and see the hot air balloons so we played 2-people bridge until the sky started getting bright. But then we realised that there was too much cloud cover to see anything much then went to sleep at about 7 15am. And now it's 2am! I'm going to crash soon srsly. Good night.

The World in Six Songs

Hurrah I've started reading my prescribed text for Music & Health. And I've gotten up to page 7 WOW. I stopped something like 10 times trying to get there. GOSH I'M SO ADD. It's by Daniel Levitin too which is quite cool since I've actually heard of him and read his other book (though I didn't finish it because I left it in Singapore for my dad. I think I left 1 and a half chapters unread). It's actually really interesting, but I really have issues with reading books.

Omg and I'm so smart. I walked into a freaking physics for biomed lecture today thinking it was my calc 2 lecture and sat down. Can't blame me though! My previous two calc lectures were there and it's really easy to misread Redmond Barry as Richard Berry okay. Not to mention ALL of my classes apart from psych and bio lectures are held at either Berry or Barry. By the end of my 4th year, I'll be really sick of Redmond Barry cos the entire psych department is housed in floors 7-12 or smth like that.

the second day

I'm feeling more homesick than usual, which is strange, considering it should be decreasing with every semester spent here. Okay, maybe not exactly homesickness, more like emptiness I guess?I feel three quarters full. But that one quarter that's empty, is helluva lot of empty (yea man, true blue pessimists don't need halves to prove anything). No worries though, I'm sure once I'm further into the term, my empty will be full of scrawling lecture notes and calculus assignments.

Can't wait till foty comes (: soon soon soon omg!

Oh yea did I tell you that we'll be dissecting squids during bio prac this sem? It totally reminds me of home ec, and then I remember Mrs Fern calling Nicole Ng a donkey and I have to stop myself from lol-ing lest people think I'm mentally unwell.

Oh oh and I was regaling roomie with tales of SC chem prac. When the slice of sodium Mrs Yogee put into water spontaneously combusted with a BOOF and smoked up the lab, and then the time Beng Hwee broke a conical flask. HAHA. SIGH I really do miss school sometimes.

And I miss AWC and my twin and woohoo (WHOSE BIRTHDAY IS TODAY BECUASE IT'S NOW 12:12AM MELBOURNE TIME HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARAH) and all sorts of other people who don't really read this space or do actually but leave no trace so I shan't list.

Now I'm going to be totally random and say that I enjoy listening to JET quite a lot. haha. okay bye I'm going to play angry birds or faerie bubbles or something.

bad beginnings

So much for neatness and eating less,
Resolutions are hard to keep I must confess.
A tub of ben & jerry's gone and my table's cluttered,
Guess what, term hasn't even started.

cory cory cory

omg baby finn = cuteness overload. His smile has not changed.

speed read

I need to finish reading my book before I leave omg I'm not going to finish it shit I really need to learn how to read faster and stop my attention from wandering.

Oh and I realised that my blog font is really small. I should really do something about it soon. It hurts my eyes.

The Crazies with foty.It was pretty good but inevitably somewhat predictable. Omg the sound of a bloody pitch fork being dragged on the floor is totally chilling. I think foty and I swore a lot throughout the whole movie haha. Thank goodness the theatre only had 4 other people in it, all of whom were sitting alone and not in the centre (so strange no?).

foty and I agree that it wasn't too freaky because it wasn't ghosts. I think I only really freak out when it's ghostly/paranormal can't-be-explained-by-science stuff. Like the time my dad and sis were watching the ring in the living room, I happened to walk past at the part where sadako freaked out a sleeping person whom she was floating above and then I walked past again when she was climbing out of the tv. x10 freaky? I couldn't sleep that night. I'M A WIMP.

I went to Gattopardo for dinner. Mmmm cheese and parma ham and melon and lobster pasta and suckling pig pizza and chocolate sorbet.

HELL YEAH I LOST HALF A KILO HAHAH. I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT WENT BUT I DON'T WANT TO FIND IT.

toilets

GOSH MY MUM SAYS I MUST START PACKING TONIGHT. I FEEL STRESSED.

Okay so a bit about china now. Expo! Of all the pavilions I saw, I liked the Spanish one the most. It featured Nadal HAHA (but that's just a btw thing. they had really innovative film displays). The Singapore one, unfortunately, was immensely boring. I swear, it's embarrassing to acknowledge being Singaporean after seeing it.

Let's examine the flaws shall we?
a) The facade
It was grey and round with weird shafts sticking out of it. My sis said it looked like giant sim cards. The pavilion guide said that the pavilion was supposed to look like a music box and the shafts were the little metal thingies that make the sound. I have to say, my sister's description seemed more apt. Apart from failing to be please aesthetically, I don't think a music box particularly represents Singapore.

b) The inside
So little effort seemed to be put into it. On the second floor of the pavilion, they put up these really plain tiny signs which stated Singapore's GDP and proportion of nitrogen in the air over the years. SC open house looked so good compared to that. And they had these strange small projections on the ground of things like the merlion and whatever, but they were too small for anyone to see clearly so it was just really ugly and dumb.

c) The propaganda
One entire section of the first floor of the pavilion was dedicated to DBS.
Oh and the best thing was the 8 minute video of mm talking about how Singapore is "The City from the Sky" because of our water shortage and blah blah rain blah blah singapore river blah blah clarke quay blah blah people urinated in lifts blah blah world class citizens blah blah. Seriously, this is not going to impress ANYONE. AT ALL. EVER. NO WAY.

The only thing nice at the Singapore pavilion was the roof garden. But even that wasn't enough to redeem the rest of it.

I saw the Iran pavilion, a bit of the African pavilion and also the Italian one. Obviously Italy was impressive with all their fashion showcases (all the armani, versace, prada) and the vespas and ferraris and they had a wall of pasta! There was pasta shaped like lions and elephants and turtles and there was pasta shaped like trains and cars and boats. Too cute too cute.

Okay now I must tell you about the most retarded thing ever. I stayed at some posh posh hotel on my last night in shanghai. 6 stars apparently but cos my dad had a discount, we were paying less than half the rack rate. So while my dad was checking my family in, I went to the toilet in the lobby. As I walked towards the cubicle, the toilet lid suddenly flung open energetically and lit up with a kind of eerie glow. I got such a shock I screamed and ran out of the cubicle. My sis just gave me the "why are you screaming haven't you seen this kind of toilet before" look. Anyway, yarh so I'm a country bumpkin who hasn't seen expensive toilets before.

Then when we got to the hotel room, I went to wash my feet. There were two shower heads, one movable one and one fixed to the ceiling. I didn't realise that the same knob controlled BOTH the shower heads. So when I was turning off the water to the movable one, I turned it a little too far the other way and the fixed shower head soaked my entire back with icy cold water. Yes, evidently I do not belong in posh places that use posh bathroom fixtures.

I finally watched toy story 3! Though I missed the first 10 minutes or so because of inefficient crowd control at cine. It was awesome. I love El Buzzo.

THANK YOU KARYN YOU'RE A LIFESAVER OMG IOU TTM
what would I do without the AWC seriously.

bye changi hi changi bye changi

I just unpacked yesterday and I need to start packing again soon. This is so not fun dudes.

China was fun but I'm not really in the mood to write a long post or upload photos so I shall do that some other time.

purple line

I WATCHED DESPICABLE ME TODAY! It was so funny. Love the lehmann brother part haha.

Anyway, that leaves toy story 3 on the agenda. Anyone up to watch it when I'm back from the land of my roots?

Oh yea I went to see the doctor today because my mum was worried that I'd get a sinus infection. I was prescribed 4 different types of pills and just in case, a nasal spray. Gosh, the amount chemicals I'm pumping my body with. When I was about to take my antibiotics after dinner, I was thoroughly amused by the pill because it had "STD" on it. Okay yea anyway, cheap thrills.

See you on the 19th

dykes

So, while walking from wisma to plaza sing (so hardworking right!), bitch started his routine would you rather. Bitch asked if foty and I would rather date an ugly guy or a hot lesbian. And we both said, without much hesitation, "HOT LESBIAN".

There are two ways of interpreting this!
a. We are so superficial that we'd rather change our sexual preferences than date someone who urhhh.. doesn't appeal to us aesthetically.
b. We are so okay with lebianism that this isn't much of a hard choice. (I blame being in a girls school for 10 years)

haha well whatever. I think there's sufficient evidence that girls make better boyfriends.