Bleary Day

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Finally had time to get a haircut. It was a month overdue.

Took a few pictures along the way. I haven't been home for some time and quite a few things have changed. For example, many of those shophouses in the pictures have been converted to cafes.

After buying lunch back for my mum, I crashed out on the sofa till 7pm. One minute I was awake and the next, I was dead to the world. My body goes into this pseudo-shutdown mode occasionally (five times a year?) to help me catch up on all the sleep I have missed.

Time for me to have my lunch now.

Relieving Stress

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After studying continually for 2 months now, I decided to take a quick break on my own by taking out my Giant Yukon out for a ride.

That's one of the pictures I snapped with my camera phone with AUTO-exposure and no focusing.. Overall, I think I managed to get the best out of it.

Here's the photoset I took on my ride.

And most importantly, Liangyi! Jia you!

I Googled Singapore Sucks

Yeah. For some odd bored spark of inspiration, I googled "singapore sucks".

And this came up second on Google's results. It's a "Singapore sucks" petition with 44 signatures as of writing.

Here's hilarious signature #39.

I support this petition because let me tell you sometin brother! You little people in singapore better be shaking now cause the millions and millions of REAL Americans out there are gonna have your asses brother! I'm a real American! I fight for the rights of everyman! Drink coke! Eat hotdogs! Watch NFL! Declare war on all who have oil! We have nukes! We have Battleships! We have marines! We have fighter jets and Nuclear Subs! We are the Red White and Blue brother! America is gonna rule the world!
We fucked vietnam, we fucked Iraq, we fucked Afganistan! We fucked communisim and we are almost through fucking Islam! So what you gonna do brother, when the U.S of A comes crashing down on you! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!

Haha. The part about Islam is really funny.

PS. The hilarious quote above do not reflect the views of this author. Please don't nuke my house. I am redecorating.

I Just Want To Be Lucky

Christopher "Chris" Wilton: The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are often afraid to realize how much of an impact luck plays. There are moments in a tennis match where the ball hits the top of the net, and for a split second, remains in mid-air. With a little luck, the ball goes over, and you win. Or maybe it doesn't, and you lose.

Had just finished watching Match Point. Had to do it in 3 parts because I am so busy. Scarlett Johansson (The Island) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Mission Impossible 3) stars.

It starts off like any pretty face drama then suddenly hits an ace by turning into a thriller. You are caught off-guard and have absolutely no idea how it was going to end.

But at the end of the day, it shows that you don't always win when it goes over the net and you don't always lose when it lands back in your court either. Now that's luck.

I want to be lucky.

Great Music Video

*earworn alert*



I like the song in this music video a lot. The story behind the music video. (Source) The show is based on the old game Xian Jian Qi Xia Zhuan. The song is titled "Yi Zi Hen An Jing".

The story is quite complicated.

Yi Xuan's character is called Lin Yue Ru, the only child of one of Jiang Hu world's most important figure. She's headstrong and stubborn, and never afraid of using force in solving problems. Her father want her to get married so his family would have a heir (what he wanted is so-called "ru zhui", where the husband take the wife's family name, so are their children). But she don't like those men she met, her father decided to open a martial arts tournament, and the man who defeated Yue Ru will marry her.

The main character in the story, Li Xiao Yao (who had a rather unpleasant encounter with Yue Ru before) , had joined the tournament by accident and defeat Yue Ru. He never intended to marry her, but Yue Ru's father wanted to force the marriage. There was a girl called Zhao Ling'er (played by Liu Yi Fei in the TV adaptation) travelling with Li Xiao Yao. It seems there's something happend between them in the past, but LXY had lost about two day's memory, and couldn't remember what. Zhao Ling'er clearly loves the boy but wouldn't say much about their past. LXY always worried he had wronged the girl and hence very protective of her, but he didn't go as as far as loving her, it's more out of some sense of duty.

After LXY and Yue Ru's marriage was announced (but not yet carried out) , Zhao Ling'er left Lin's mansion unexpectedly and in a most dramatic fashion. Some of the servents talked about witnessing a 'snake demon'. LXY went to find Ling'er, and Yue Ru (who already began to like LXY) decided to go with him.

They went throught many, many adventures together, and naturally love developed between the two. It turned out Zhao Ling'er was the 'snake demon', and she's been captured by the Grandmaster of Zu Mountain, who considered her to be a threat to the humanity and imprison her in a tower on Mt.Zu. LXY decided to go into the tower to rescue her. He asked Yue Ru to waited outside, but she insisted on accompanying him. Then LXY promised after freeing Ling'er (so he's done his duty), them two (himself and Yue Ru) together will visit all wonderful places and taste all delicious gourmet until they're too old to carry on (that's, of course, in fact a promise to marry her). But after they fought through the guradians and finally approaches Ling'er, LXY's memory of those two lost days had magically returned to him, and he recalled how he and Ling'er met and married in one day and they've slept together for a night (why all those happened is another complicated story). After Ling'er was freed, the tower began to collapse. LXY and Ling'er was knocked unconscious. Yue Ru pulled them to a place of safety, but after that herself was crashed by falling stones and died.

The above is the plot on Lin Yue Ru in the original computer game, in the TV adaptation they've changed the plot so Li Xiao Yao still loves Ling'er even after lost his memory, and it became unclearly whether he loved Yue Ru (that's one of the reason I don't quite like the TV version.). Also in the game, Yue Ru's death is more accidental, on TV she consciously decided to die for LXY and Ling'er (another place I don't like the TV version). Anyway, the last few screencaps I posted at the beginning of the thread is from where Yue Ru is about to die, and saying her finally words, "I'd never expect I'm already that old", which is a reference to the promise LXY and she made earilier (together they will visit all wonderful places and taste all delicious gourmet until they're too old to carry on). It's not in the game, but I have to say I'm moved.

I'm Back!

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Exams are over!

This MyHeritage result link seems to work.

Just finished watching The Calcium Kid starring Orlando Bloom (Lord of the Rings) and Billie Piper (Doctor Who). "Pretty funny there, mate! Really refreshin' film there. You oughta watch it, aight?"