Protected: Christmas morning

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Password:

Food for thought

It’s funny, every time I see someone eating something on TV, I’d suddenly get the craving for it. I was watching Everybody Loves Raymond and the dad was eating chocolate cake with whipped cream. I suddenly felt like eating it. Thing is, I’ve had chocolate cake and whipped cream in my fridge for quite sometime. Tonight, there was no cake. Tonight, the whipped cream ran out. Such is the tragedy of my evening.

An ode to a legacy

In this day and age, everyone’s talking about their latest gadgets and gismos that have super high processing capabilities or touch screen functions and what not. This post is a tribute to my mobile phone.

It does not have wifi  or a touch screen (maybe it does). It doesn’t come with a gps system or some fancy application system but it’s loyal.  It has been through so much, from the great falls of the dizzying height of my jeans every other day to the depths of the porcelain bowl. Yet it has survived, albeit heavily wounded but still alive. The colours of it’s keys are withered with age and discoloured, the camera has apparently committed suicide, the speakers work only when it feels like it and the number 9 button has evolved to be touch screen sensitive.

But these are the battle scars that gives it character. It scores a perfect ten for loyalty and i score a miserable zero for looking after it. Yet it has come through, after 2 years of Kavee torture, alive. And no i have not lost my marbles. In 2 months i am going to save the world in the army for 2 years and i’d have to leave my phone for another without a camera. I think the world would be a very sad place without my trustee sidekick and this is a tribute to one who is as special as you have been to me.

Wounded

Working with files and paper all day has made me lose lots of skin from paper cuts. I need skin grafts.

Uneventful awakening

It’s 2 pm and i just woke up. Really cranky because in actual fact, i woke up at 10 to the drilling going on, on the level above mine. It’s mind numbingly irritating! And it’s still going on. I wish i had a gun to shoot those irritating buggers out to ruin my sleep. I even dreamt of drilling and i’m all disorientated now. But it’s kinda cool being disorientated, being all confused and dazed.

Kinda reminds me how i thought marshmallows were coolest thing in the world in kindergarthen cos of how soft and white it was. It was like a dream, a cloud and partially cos i never ate it before and really wanted to try. There goes the drilling again. The worst part is, i live on the top floor. These idiots are fixing the roof. 7/11 should totally sell guns and i should totally figure out why i’m so bitchy this afternoon.

From rags to riches

Throwing fishes across from one river to a little enclosed water catchment area, it is for the future. All to pay off for a house. The little area grows crowding with sea critters. One day, I spot tortises with red streaks on their shells and found their eggs. I am told that the eggs were worth loads of money by my father. How much I ask. Millions he said. The eggs are in the colours of easter egg wrappings, all shinny and glittery. When i brush off more of the dirt in the water, another bigger whitish egg appears. This gets my father even more excited. I put my hand in and get bitten painfully by a crocodile. Then, I wake up.

Once you pop, you can’t stop

I should be sent to jail. I have horrible self control. There was a packet of tapioca chips on my desk, I kept telling myself each piece was going to be my last. The last piece left turned out to be my last. Now, I’ve got a can of pringles on my desk. I keep telling myself each piece is going to be my last, it’s not really working. So I’m posting about trying to stop eating it. Well, back to my pringles. hehe cheers!

Eulogy

Spot me if you can! I’m an extra in this tvc. It’s a television commercial by MCYS that “celebrates the beautiful imperfections that make a relationship perfect.” Directed by Yasmin Ahmad, the tvc takes an uncanny approach in portraying a beautiful relationship. And I think it’s simply brilliant.

On the first day of the shoot, the extras were put to listen to the same dialogue throughout the day and naturally reactions were hard to come by. The day was filled with a lot of waiting and takes, retakes and more retakes. Such is the meticulous nature of the director.

The next day was a prompt 2 hour shoot. That day was set aside solely to capture the raw emotions and reactions from the extras. It was amazing. The talent just told us stories about herself. Some made us laugh, some made us cry. Before we knew it, it was all done.

I was invited by a friend to attend the first screening of the tvc at The Picturehouse, The Cathay. Watching the tvc on a big screen felt completely different from when I was on the set. The editing was well done, you couldn’t tell that the reaction shots were shot separately. I did, however have some issues with the camera work. There is this shot of an elderly couple and I can’t help but notice the pan was rather poorly executed.

But enough of the shots. I think the commercial jolts you into realizing that the little imperfections in a relationship makes it oh so beautiful. That little concept sends goosebumps running through my spine. It’s so simple these little things, that we overlook all the little delightful drawbacks that make you adore your loved ones oh so very much. And the sad fact is, you don’t know it. You take it for granted, so much so that it irritates you sometimes. But when you do lose them, it’s these little things that makes you miss them so dearly.

The 3 minute long commercial goes by so quickly you barely realize it. The message it sends out is strong and clear. So I urge you to treasure what you have, before it’s gone forever.

Zombies and what not

I got a free hair cut at Kim Robinson today because they were giving away free hair cut to SP students. The shampooing was so awesome. So much so i wish it’d last forever. The haircut wasn’t so great though. The guy dropped the comb twice and after finishing the cut he practically emptied a bottle of wax onto my hair making as hard as steel. And it looked like something out a Japanese anime comic and it was bloody painful when he was styling it. But after washing off all the gunk i think it looks pretty okay. haha

I’ve been recently introduced to the game, left for dead and it’s pretty fun to be honest. Who’d think mindlessy killing zombies would be fun, but it is! You have work as a team and shit. I think it’s fun cos everyone’s shouting ehhhhh save me! ehhhhh help me!! hahaha give a try. It’ll surprise you! Cheers.

Quite pointless

It’s 6 am. I’m quite sleepy and yet I’m posting this. I have no idea why. Yew Tee point’s opening soon with LJ, KFC, BK and a shit load of other food places. HAPPENING OR WHAT! hahahaha and I’m really excited about it for some reason. Makes me feel like a kampong boy seeing a computer for the first time. Some novelty within, I think. So today.

Today I went in circles, looked at the same thing too many times, too differently. Today I  discovered hidden behind obscurity was something so timeless. Today I scratched benefit the surface on something already grazed. Today I stared rubbish in the eye. Today I toured the streets oh too freely. Today I was free. Today?

I need to find something meaningful to do in my life before NS. Like water plants, stare at yew tee point or walk around aimless for hours. I think doing things utterly and completely randomnly at will and on impluse will be my new hobby. I also think that monologuing is very underrated. I need to sleep. Good mornight.