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*swoon*

Universe says, Screw you!

You are never right when you dream of the best and you are always right when you imagine the worst. I think it's funny how things turn out. It's like the universe is just waiting for you to make that choice and then it screws you over. Like those storybooks with options for you to choose that leads you to different endings.

No Masters degree whatsoever is going to make any difference. In this world, that piece of paper gives me hope that I can venture out into something new. But really, people don't give a flying f**k and neither do I. It's stashed somewhere in that closet of old books. 90% of the time I don't even remember that I have one.

And then the wheels start turning and everything from the past & present starts changing drastically before your eyes. And then I feel like I have pummeled down a sink hole and yet sometimes I feel like I'm riding a wave, smile on my face, the wind in my hair and then suddenly a shark pops up and rips off your ankle. People usually say don't regret anything. Well, people who are successful will say that. I'm not getting any younger and my target line is already closing in on me. Looks like I need to shift it further.

Everyone's got to have passion in life. I don't have one, I can't find it. Do you have passion and what is your passion?

P/S: I just played with an app called Mood Analyzer test and it deemed me Useless. WTF?!

Another milestone

Here we go again. Another birthday just around the corner. This year seems less of a celebration but more of a 'gawd, is it back again?' Maybe as I grow older I dread it more, or maybe I'm just in a bad mood. Or maybe coz I dislike the feeling of the end of a long weekend where I accomplished nothing, not even a bit of relaxation. Weather was hot and humid, plagued with incessant headaches. And it's back to work tomorrow. It's a busy morning with back-to-back meeting/conference call trainings and more and more things to worry about. If there is a pill that I could take that would make me chilled and cool and calm. I want it.. Who am I to complain about work anyway? I'm sure other people have much busier days...but screw it. I'm not other people and I'm grumbling to myself anyhow! I'm totally entitled to it.

What's more is that I've finished watching Glee Season 2. I've finished HIMYM and Modern Family. I'm almost done with latest season of Bones. I would say I'm having Glee/Bones/HIMYM/Modern Family-withdrawal syndrome. Meaning of life is slowly but surely seeping out of my soul once more and I'm going to be stuck with dull-coloured NCIS and Criminal Minds re-runs for the coming weekends. Furthermore, I wish they would stop showing White Collar and Burn Notice. It doesn't attract me a teeny bit. So it's a waste of time when they show it and I have nothing else to watch. In the end, I get so desperate, I watch The Kardashians. Come to think of it, sounds more like I have no life at all.

Well, it's been a long long ..whatever. I wish I can sleep the week away, have a nice long dream where I'm flying peter-pan style or wrestling with sharks. I'm not tired, I just don't really want to face the days. Maybe I'm just a bum. I am a real bum. Music helps me sleep but lately I've been listening less and less eventhough my list has grown longer and longer. People say that when you are lying in bed getting ready to sleep, you shouldn't think at all or re-cap your day in your head. I'm guilty of that, I end up getting all worked up and can't sleep. I've started playing Angry Birds recently. It's cute and it gets my eyes tired that I need to shut it and sleep comes. I never understood the draw of Angry Birds. I tried it once many months ago and deleted it. I tried it again this week and I got hooked. Damn..

Kinda hooked

I hate to admit this but Britney Spears's new single "Till The World Ends" is head-bobbing feet-tapping infectious.... good comeback.

Artist of the year???!!!

WHAT THE *toooooooooooooooooot* ???!!! Justin Bieber!? Other than the Baby song, what in the...huh...why...gawd....I'm speechless. I'm almost disgusted...

On a separate note, an NKOTB/BSB performance in the AMAs? I wouldn't have guessed. Boyband days are so over, but tell you what. This was hot! Joey McIntyre!!! Woooo....
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfq14j_211121224728_webcam#from=embed

Live It Up

Last season's American Idol was so darn boring, I could have watched my fingernails grow while what's-his-name or what's-her-name blurts out songs on stage. But I like Lee Dewyze, although not as enthusiastic about him as much as some of the contestants in the past seasons like a certain Adam Lambert...was that too obvious?

I didn't expect to like Lee's album. But I'm pleasantly surprised, I like it. The pace of the music is nice, suits him, thank God he didn't go bubblegum pop. The album's not great but it's easy listening.

Entertainer Of The Year

One of my favourite country crooners, Brad Paisley is CMA's Entertainer Of The Year. Long wait is over.

It's a drug

Why am I still toying with my dad's old iPhone 3G after more than a week eventhough the phone is already cranky and unstable?? Why does Apple products have this odd draw that I can't seem to put it down? Don't get me wrong, I still love my Nokia N97 and it is in top condition but I can't put down the iPhone just yet to switch back to my N97. It is unexplainable...annoyingly unexplainable. It's like a drug.

I totally pray for you

Excerpt from Jaron and The Long Road To Love song "Pray For You" (except the last word).

I pray your brakes go out running down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the head like I’d like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you’re flying high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know where ever you are, I pray for you ..

BITCH!

Random thoughts

Hey, Mr No Balls....did your wife eat your balls for breakfast? Oh yes, she totally did!

Tyler Ward

Tyler Ward is this really cool singer who apparently made his name via Youtube and is pretty much an online sensation now. He has his own band, he does concerts, you can find him on Facebook, he looks awesome playing the guitar, voice is hot, and he even released his own albums via iTunes. I don't have them anyway. But he has done some really de-wait for it-lightful acoustic cover versions of quite a number of songs like Justin Bieber's Baby (sounds even better than the original), a number of Taylor Swift songs, Katy Perry's Teenage Dream, Goo Goo Dolls, Taio Cruz's Break Your Heart (this one is awesome). Check out this one below, you'll find all his covers on Youtube.
Justin Bieber's Baby - Tyler Ward style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh83c_UImD8

Short note

It has been a turbulent couple of days. Throw in my volatile temper and it could have turned out to be an explosively vulgar situation. I'm happy I have people who love me who took time to steer me away from the pain and somehow made my days a little brighter for me because god knows what I might have said or done (I would NOT have regretted anyhow) which may have caused further complications. But it's not over, I'm still going to need a whole load of self-restraint to get through the next 1-2 weeks.

Meeting a celebrity

Today marks the first day I have ever spoken to and stood inches so close to a celebrity. A Hong Kong celebrity and I didn't even know his real name until I googled it a minute ago, his name is Chris Lai. All I know is he is one of the cute actor that I have seen in a few TVB drama series. See if you can recognise him? :)You can't? Well I know it's too dark. This is the BEFORE photo that came out too dark, unfortunately. But with my extremely limited Photoshopping skills, I managed to make it a little bit viewable in the below version. Maybe now the face can be seen. Any Photoshop 'experts' willing to lend their skills to improve the photo, please let me know.

I think I should explain in order how it came to be me taking photo with Chris Lai (Yeah..now I'm tossing his name about like I know it so well) Ding and I were having buffet lunch at Hard Rock Hotel because he won a voucher. The food wasn't really good and variety was limited but well it's almost free, so what the hey right? Anyway, we were halfway through our meal (btw, the cafe wasn't packed at all, 2-3 tables tops at that time after a big group left) Then I started noticing 2 bodyguard-ish type of fellas standing near the glass door just watching the space. Not that they look like bodyguards, just they were in black and had earpieces so they looked like they were there for a purpose. There was another small group of 3 person that were seated a couple of tables away and I figured this group is probably the one the 2 guys are watching over. But I couldn't make out who they were. One lady held a walkie-talkie so she's not the star. The guy with his back facing me turned out to be Chris Lai shown above. When he turned around to greet another Hong Kong actor whom I don't know his name also but appeared in a number of shows before, maybe my eyes popped out. Then I got excited and told Ding, I finally know why there are security in the restaurant because I recognised this guy as one of the actors in Moonlight Resonance & Heart of Greed. We were chatting excitedly and joking about taking pictures with them but were afraid the security would tackle us to the ground. (they looked unfriendly) They were watching the door not letting anyone come in to disturb the actors having their lunch. And I said, let's do it, let's take photo with them. Ding waved the waiter over and asked if we could take a photo with them, the waiter proceeded to ask the security, the security says we should ask the actors ourselves after they finish eating. So we waited...and waited. Finally I asked Ding to go settle the bill first then we will approach them. Then Chris Lai was getting ready to leave and I was thinking "Oh Shit, he's leaving", I scrambled up and signalled to one of the unfriendly-looking security that I would like to take a photo.. what happened next was a bit blur to me. All I know was that Chris Lai passed by and I blurted out to him asking if it is ok that I take photo with him, which he so kindly obliged. OMG, his skin is so smooth and I am so envious and he is so tall. So there you go, that's how it came about. (The other actor, he somehow disappeared but never mind).

** Btw, when I came home, my dad was telling me that there were some Hong Kong celebrities at Gurney Plaza earlier today promoting something. And I showed him the photo and said, does one of them resemble him? Hahaha... ok, he wasn't sure but the look on his face was precious when I explained who the person in the photo was.

Olly Murs

I think most people wouldn't have heard of Olly Murs. I didn't before this until I heard his new single on one of those music blogs. He came in 2nd place in X-Factor 2009. We don't have that shown in Malaysia so I went to check out his performances on Youtube. Man, this dude has got some moves and apparently mentored by Simon Cowell in the X-Factor show (wikipedia says so). He is super super cool and so is his name. I love his new song "Please Don't Let Me Go". Check it out below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4S9gQb9PjM
(To add on, it is from this X-Factor performances that I found out what Cheryl Cole looks like because she is one of the judges on the show. She is pretty... Does Ashley Cole rue what was lost?)

Before Sunrise

Before Sunrise is an old movie from way back in 1995. I've read of it occasionally but never watched until now. It's a love story between Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) whereby 2 strangers meet on a train bound for Vienna and then Paris. The whole movie revolves mainly around these 2 characters and their conversations. Normally I wouldn't continue watching but I persisted because I needed to know how it ends though some parts were a little boring. Definitely not something I would swear to watch again and again, worth watching but once is enough. It helped that Ethan Hawke was so hot. Something about the simple interaction between these 2 was captivating that I caught myself smiling at times. Jesse, an American visiting his girlfriend in Madrid to find out that she no longer loves him decides to travel Europe for a couple of weeks after the breakup. Then he meets Celine, a French girl heading back to Paris who broke up with her boyfriend 6 months ago. Jesse somehow manages to persuade Celine to get off at the Vienna stop to spend a day with him just sightseeing before he leaves for home. The way he persuaded her was adorable. Their relationship as 2 total strangers that struck up a conversation in a train revealed the magic of such easy conversations, no pressure, just 2 regular people talking about their lives and eventually falling for each other accompanied by the scenic backdrops of Vienna. Even their teasing fake phone calls were so mushy...yet, so sweet.
******SPOILER ALERT : Don't read any further if you don't want to know how it ends because I'm so totally revealing it ******

As they only had until the next morning to be together, growing more and more fond of each other the more they talked. There's a dilemma between trying to see each other again or take this as their final night together, they decided and made a vow that this will be their last night together so they are going to spend it enjoying each other's company. No emails, no phone calls because in their own words, it's too depressing. They know they will only write once, call once in a while and eventually lose touch because it's never going to work being so far away. When time came for Celine to take the train back to Paris and Jesse to take the first flight back to the US, parting words were so much harder to say compared to a couple of hours before. In a desperate spontaneous moment, they decided they will meet back here in 5 years (no, Jesse says it's too long), 1 year...no....6 months on this very day. So they agreed, hugged and kissed a tearful goodbye. Celine: "Goodbye". Jesse: "Bye". Celine: "Au Revoir". Jesse: "Later". THE END
Did they meet up 6 months later? I don't know but this movie has a sequel Before Sunset which is set 9 years after this event (which I will watch).

World Cup Winner

SPAIN ~~!!! :)

Awesome!!!! Euro 2008 winners and NOW, the World Cup. History made for Spain. This is a good good night/morning! (I still like the Dutch team though, but I love Spain, ain't nothing gonna top that) :D

What's with the darn oracles?

First you got Paul the Octopus from Germany predicting football match winners, then you got another wannabe-oracle from Singapore...some bird, and another octopus called Pauline or something from Netherlands. Now, you got elephants predicting winners. What the f**k, it was something real cute when I first heard of this Paul the octopus but now everyone seems to want their pets to predict world cup winners. It totally gets on my nerves already. Think about it, how far wrong can they be? There's only either option A or option B, 50-50 probability and a dash of luck. It's not rocket science for goodness sake. Why don't I get my dog to predict World Cup winner also? It has become silly and annoying.

ECLIPSE

I caught Eclipse on the first day of its opening in Malaysia, 8th July 2010. It was good., what do you expect a Twilight fan to say? I can't say anymore other than it was so good, it had funny moments too, Jacob talked too much and too slowly, Bella is still a bitch and Edward is to die for. Hey Peen, promised you I won't reveal anymore than this. :P

Dream Final

Worth it. All worth it...staying up for the game. Never would I have guessed both my favourites will be playing each other in the World Cup 2010 Finals. The Spain-Germany match was really frustrating. Spain had most of the possession, their passing was almost impeccable, mesmerising to say the least but Germany looked dangerous too for just fleeting moments only anyway. They were so shut out, so much for all their big talk. *laugh* My reflexes were in overdrive tonight. I practically jumped out of my chair when Spain scored. Spain emerged the rightful winners and they'll be meeting Netherlands in the finals of my dreams. I am so happy that I don't need to watch a team that I don't like in the finals. :) Now the problem is how am I going to get any sleep, it's already 4.30am.

On to the finals Oranje

It's inching closer, Netherlands have gone to the finals of the World Cup with a convincing win albeit tense last couple of seconds. Now if Spain can whip Germany's butt in their match, it would setup my dream final. Final scoreline:

Netherlands 3 - 2 Uruguay