From what I heard (as I don't know for sure), Ngee Ann Poly starts their new school term again next week. From experience, I know that the roads to work are going to be congested again!
For some really strange reason, it seems like the congestion on roads is caused by poly and SIM students. Of course we know that many of SIM students drive, just look at the cars parked on campus everyday! But does it also mean that poly students drive to school too??
The world is changing! The kids these days are so pampered and living such a good life!
Albeit they have to attend tons of classes teaching them about phonetics, speech and drama, art and craft, piano, violin and the list goes on but they get to choose! They get to choose which kind of stuff they like and their parents will send them there. Over time, they can also choose to give it up if interested had waned and parents will pull them out of the class, willingly or grudgingly.
When I was young, no such things. Piano lessons were sort of forced onto me. Even when I attempted to tell my parents that I don't want to learn anymore, I wasn't given a choice. Well, its alright because they are all in the past.
Anyway, I need to justify my reading speed for my current book. It is close to 1 month since I first started on this book! It's terrible! And to think that my new year goal was to read more books. BUT, there is a reason for this lethargy! There is ALWAYS a reason.
Contrary to the book synopsis which looked pretty interesting, the actual storyline is sadly not. It is not very engaging or compelling to read. There is no hook in the story to entice me to fervently plow through it. In fact, I find that it is actually quite a chore to pore through the book. I can't really wait to finish it and start on the next book.
And of course, there is the external factor/distraction of the new Ace Attorney game on my Nintendo DS.
And also, these months have been busy and pretty hectic. Last month had all the school events and so on, this month is the turn of performing arts.
On 10 Apr, I'll be attending Liao Zhai Rocks, 17 Apr is the Mayday concert at the National Stadium, 22 Apr will be the day for Chicagoand last but not least, Animal Farm on Labour Day, 1 May. If Sistic has some sort of loyalty reward thingy, I'm sure I'll be up there somewhere.
The period when I have many concerts to go to is here again!
I've attended 2 concerts (or strictly speaking, 3) so far that I have yet to blog about - Mayday DNA Concerts and the F1 Rocks Concert last Thursday. They were all great!
And coming up is the William So and Ronald Cheng concert in October. Probably not exactly the type of concert that I would attend but I really like William So and Kutu likes Ronald Cheng so yay, she is my new concert kaki! She claims that I'm a bad influence to her, always tempting her to go to concerts but I deeply believe that it is she herself who wants to go for them. Like the F1 Rocks concert, she was the one who told me that she wanted to go. So, who is the enthusiastic one? :)
While reading some entertainment blog this morning, I found out that Lee Teng had brought in Ashin's brand, Stay Real! So now I don't have to go to Mayday's concerts really really early to buy the merchandise but I can get it from a shop in Far East Plaza! For those who are interested, here is the link. I'm obviously advertising for the shop and I don't usually care much about Lee Teng but for my Mayday, I'll do it. :)
Ok, obviously concert merchandise is different from the brand merchandise but at least I can have something of Ashin that I will actually wear or use for normal days.
Yay. I survived Pulau Ubin on a healing sprained foot and 4 hours of sleep. The strange thing was that I said "I survived Pulau Ubin" as my facebook status and an application friend asked me where was Pulau Ubin and if it was tough to survive it... -_-" I guess sometimes exaggeration gets taken a bit too seriously.
I love this sign. It looks creepy. And I love the sky-clouds there.
And I love this tree. It looks surreally out of place.
Their love-hate r/s.
Saturday was grandma's 79th birthday and we went to a restaurant in Tiong Bahru Plaza for dinner. According to wisely, the restaurant is moving out soon, not that I'm bothered much by that; the food was only average. Oh, and through this dinner then I realised that I do not have that bad shaky hands after all! All the photos I took were clear but all the rest taken by others were blurred. -_-" I guess anti-shake don't work for really shaky hands after all.
寿桃, compliments of the restaurant.
Sunday was Mayday's free outdoor concert at Stadium Green, which was packed. There were even people who queued overnight just go to be right in front. It seriously makes no sense because it is a very big area and even when we only reached at 6+pm, by the time we got into the field, we can still see everything clearly from the back.
Monday was their autograph session which was also packed. Seriously, I never knew that there were THAT many fanatic fans of Mayday around! I guess there must be some free event in order to find that out. Well, all the photos here are not exactly top quality but make do k..
Oh, and my phone is spoilt. I can't hear the other party over a call but at least I can still send and receive messages. Since I was having blocked ear these days, I even made my sister confirm that it was really my phone that was spoilt but not my ear that is deaf. Fortunately (for my ear but not my phone), she also can't hear the other party over the phone. So I'm convinced that it is a sign telling me to get a new phone! And I got myself this phone.
It's pretty but I don't really like the screen inside, it's kinda small. And the colour selection is next to non-existent. There was only Black available. And the worse part was I walked around AMK looking for this phone but there was only ONE store in the entire area that still have stock for this phone and they have only ONE piece of it left. Seriously, is this phone really that hot that everyone has grabbed one, or is it so lousy that the stores don't even want to bring in much of it? That is a question left to be answered by myself. Time will tell.
These weeks have been very fruitful in catching up with people and *ahem* presents. Heh. Last week was Christmas week and I only had to work 1 day out of 1 whole week. The benben got me a DS Lite but as expected, he forgot about the games. -_-" But it was okay because I made him go buy me a card reader sort of thing so now I have games to play. And now, my mum seems to be happier than me because she is seriously addicted to Bomberman. I think my entire family has something special for Bomberman. I used to be rather addicted to the PC game and now it is on the DS.
Also, met up with loads of people last week for lunch, dinner and shopping. Had dinner and drinks with layhoon, lunch with Titus, dinner with the primary school gang, shopping with my mum, sister and aunt and spent time with benben. More meetups to come, hopefully.
Over the weekend, we went to queue for the Mayday concert tickets at Central. The queue was really really really long although we reached the place at 11am, when the exchange was at 2pm. By the time we got there, we were already queuing outside Starbucks and the queue was already snaking around the shopping mall. 10 minutes later, the queue extended beyond Cheers and nearing to the exchange time, the end of the queue could not be seen anymore. Nevertheless, we still managed to get the tickets and that is all that matters. :)
This week is the New Year week in which I only have to work 1.5 days out of the whole week. Just came back from yijia's place, had A drink and a poker game with her brother, and his friends and yili, and chenyang, and benson. Won 1 dollar after playing for some time. Well, the game was not really that exciting. I guess it was because I was pairing with someone else. Oh, and the chips set that we played poker with apparently has a story behind it. A rather unbelieveable story though. Someone was asking how much does it cost and the person who brought it along said that his friend picked it up somewhere. When they opened the box, there was a card with the owner's name and phone number. So, they called him and found out he was foreigner. And the amazing thing was he didn't beg them to return the set to him. He told them finders keepers and told them to keep it. !!! Will any local do such a thing? Anyway yijia was saying that maybe it is a suay box set then the owner had wanted to get rid of it. Hah.
And I'm going to Pulau Ubin to cycle in 7 hours time, but I'm still awake now. Hope I'll not fall to my death in Ubin due to lack of sleep.
Oh, and it is my grandma's birthday on Saturday so we are going for dinner and Sunday is the Mayday concert, and a driving lesson after a long hiatus. Hope I'll still remember things that I'm supposed to. *cross fingers* Either case, Sunday is the big day because we will be seeing Mayday!!!!!!! Yay!
Ok, enough rambling. Now for the customary-and-useless-and-not-going-to-come-true New Year Resolution. I resolve to........be less lazy.
Woohoo, I survived the badminton! Other than having soft limbs and a few blue blacks here and there, I'm still pretty much jumping around. Like these fellas below.
Well, it may not be a very good week after all. We didn't manage to get the Mayday tickets. Bleah! We shall try again tomorrow!
And I'm finally going to play badminton again after a very long hiatus. I hope I won't fall or die out of breathlessness or something. If I do die, please mourn me. :(
But I can't die.. I finally managed to complete all the driving lessons after 3 torturous months of going for classes after work, I must at least have something come out of it right..
And I'm on leave on Friday, making my weekend super long, extending till Monday (that is if I do not have to come back to school over the weekends).
I think its a sign. The radio station is playing a song by Beyond. I think it is telling me to upload Beyond's concert photos. I shall, soon.
Well, there have been some hoo-ha about my cookies. But hey, those who ate the cookies are still very much alive and very much busy. Hrumph, I will make the cookies again and be generous and offer them to everyone else! To prove that I DO know how to bake the cookies. Just that whether I eat them myself is another matter.
Moving on!
Saturday I went to a concert, Lee Guitars Concert. So many groups of artises were there and of course, there was my Mayday. And yesterday I got one free ticket to the Bird Park. And I bought a new game. And today if nothing goes wrong, I'll get my tickets to Mayday's free concert in January.
Saying that I love 五月天's new album is an understatement. It may be by far the best album by them, though someone told me they sound more commercialised now. Anyway, they have many songs with interesting lyrics, and I love this one..
Since I just attended another concert the previous saturday, I cannot blog about it till I clear my "outstanding posts" regarding the other concerts, namely the Sodagreen one.
Erm, from my long-lasting memory, the events of that night are still prominently etched in my head, really! So, he didn't really sing very well on that day but he was still being his lame and funny self. It was also an upgrade in location since their last concert was held in Republic Poly's auditorium, and now it is at Expo. I guess many of their fans are Mayday fans too, I am one example!
Anyway, Qingfeng was full of rubbish as usual and as blunt as he can be. He commented straight out that encores are just part of the show but still told the audience that they still had to play the part and scream "encore", if not the encore may not happen! He did many other funny and stupid things too, which will not do justice to him if they are written down. Some things are better appreciated live. =)
While waiting.
The acoustic guitarist, A-Fu.
Qingfeng in person, or rather in screen. Electric guitarist, Jiakai. Bassist and guitarist. Singing with all his might.
Strumming with his might too.
Moon! Well, they have interesting visual effects on the screen but its a pity that it had lousy resolution.
Erm, blurred photos of the keyboardist-cum-violaist-cum-dancer dancing. But it's ok because...
We can see his dance moves on the screen. And he diligently danced accordingly!
Finally enough of the fun and madness. Pure singing, and piano accompaniment.
Ok, that is 1 concert down. Next post will be for the benefit of mx. Jam Hsiao. Then I can finally move on to Misia. =)
And I love the sky-clouds there. 
And I love this tree. It looks surreally out of place.
Their love-hate r/s.
Qingfeng in person, or rather in screen.
Electric guitarist, Jiakai.
Bassist and guitarist.
Singing with all his might.
Strumming with his might too.
Moon! Well, they have interesting visual effects on the screen but its a pity that it had lousy resolution.
We can see his dance moves on the screen. And he diligently danced accordingly!
Finally enough of the fun and madness. Pure singing, and piano accompaniment.
