Updates

I'm suppose to go to my aunt's house at 4+am on Sunday to get ready. This is like OMG. We are suppose to reach the groom's place at 7+am because of the "auspicious" hour made by the groom's parents.
Too much of a hassle.
When it's my turn next time, I would want keep traditions at a minimum but also depending on which tradition appeals to me and such. I really don't like all these tradition stuff. It sounds so old-fashion and strict. You have to do this and that or can't do this and that. So restricting.

On another note, I'm going out tomorrow. Going with a friend to buy stuff to send to my friend in USA. I think I will be sending a card only.

I went to exchange Breaking Dawn for another book at Popular today. The staff is really helpful. Disappointed that there's not too many books to choose from, so I got "Can you keep a secret" by Sophie Kinsella who also wrote The Undomestic Goddess. Hope it is a good read.

Choices... Gah, I'm confuse as to what to choose for my diploma. Business or Logistics? Actually, I already sort of made up my mind but I'm open to options and is in denial. Really, regardless of what I choose, there's a 90% chance that I will regret it somehow. Human nature?
Furthermore, what I choose now, doesn't mean that I'm stuck with it through my life. Of course, I can always take something else for further studies.

Till then

Ponderings

Long and tiring day.

Seems like a busy week ahead for me.

Tomorrow, I'm taking the Breaking Dawn my brothers and I bought for my cousin to see if it can be exchange for another book. If not, I'd just probably keep it, but should be alright, because I still have the receipt and have not open the plastic covering yet. And, it's decision making day. Which diploma to take?? That's the BIG question.

School ends early on Wednesday and I've been dying to eat lunch at the coffee shop near to the former Yishun Library.

Thursday, starting OB project. The mere thought of projects makes me sigh as it means long hours in school and such. Of course, I'm hardly in the position to complain because I should be happy that I'm with my original group members. Many things had happened and I'm not going to talk about them. Anyway, this is my blog so I can do whatever I want here.

Hoping to go to the newly open Yishun Library @ NorthPoint on Friday night. I can hardly wait to borrow books again. After a stressful day, what better way to unwind than to tuck yourself up and read a novel?

Saturday is for doing homework and Sunday will be the wedding of my cousin from my mother's side. Having mixed feelings here because while I'm excited about the whole thing, I'm also a little apprehensive about the bridemaid's dress.

I should think that by Wednesday, my entry about the characters from Twilight the movie will be up. I'm done with the draft and found most of the pictures. It's just about when is the "right" time to put all that together. Looking forward to this. I'm actually planning to seek permission for taking those pictures but the website didn't state anything, not even an email. So, I will put up a disclaimer and credit the website.

Having a question that I've been pondering. What is the difference between sunset and twilight? As in, the difference between the pictures of both. I search the image web and they didn't look any different to me. When the photographer put twilight in the description, the photos are showing the colours of sunset. So, does that mean I can use a photo of sunset and use it as twilight? Would that be fake?

The making-my-own-banners-and-avatars issue has hit me again. Once again, I've this strong calling to design my own banners for Twilight. All those beautiful and artistic banners and avatars made by people in www.twilightlexiconblog.com are just amazing. I pretty envy them for the skills. Moi? I can only use existing photos and add quotes to them.
Anyway, I'm going to use the photos I take with my camera and develop them into banners. What I want now is a nice picture of sunset/twilight (preferably mine) and put in the quote the Twilight.

Updates

OK, halfway there to making that post (refer to Hmm...)
I've the draft out and found most pictures.

Yesterday, went to Causeway Point and got myself another dress for the wedding dinner next week. This time, it's a deep, dark red dress with a red ribbon. The other is a simple, silver dress. Almost makes me wish that I could wear something better for my secondary school Prom. I guess that during Chinese New Year 2009, I can wear the dresses, if they still fit me.

That's about all.

Hmm...

I've been thinking of making a post about about the upcoming movie event of the year: Twilight the movie.
There will be movie stills, photo shots with my thoughts in it. I'll also be giving my opinions on certain actors/actresses chosen to play the beloved Twilight characters.

I, myself, look forward to typing this entry.

But, in the mean time, time is quite scarce. So, probably by next week, it will be up. I want it to be near perfect so I'll be doing drafts 1st.
This may be one of my best entry yet and I want to be proud of it.

(I've already did my thoughts and views on the rumoured New Moon movie, plot of Breaking Dawn, Twilight newest trailer, movies based on books, etc)

Let it be a tribute to the Twilight universe.
IY Twilight saga ~

US presidential race 2008

Today is the big day, for the world and especially, USA. Obama is now the 44th president of USA.
"Change is coming", he promised. But I do wonder how much can he change.
I don't know who said this but "taxes will be cut" sounds too good to be true. This may make citizens happy but is it really going to work? No country can afford not to have taxpayers.
I have no idea why I'm so interested in this election, most people don't even care since it's not us who are voting. I guess it concerns the world so that's why. It had been quite overwhelming to read about the presidential race and watched it on TV. Things that overwhelm appeals to me, or so I think.

However, I'm hardly keeping track of all the stuff McCain and Obama talked about.

One needs the wits, charisma and dare I say, some white lies to win.

Appealing to normal

citizens seems like the most important thing to do.
Well, as an individual, all I can hope is that the world will be a better place with the new president of USA.
Disclaimer: All the opinions here are mine and mine alone.

Everything (Part 1)

3rd week of school term. Let's sum up everything about school.

Marketing tutorial is "boring" and we did not really have early dismissal. The teacher only go through the tutorial questions sparingly and spend most of the time focusing on the activity sheets. Not a very good thing. Marketing lecture is actually interesting at some points in time but unfortunately, I'm hardly paying attention to most parts.

Business Accounting 2 tutorial is kind of alright. Nothing much to say, except that the teacher is quite OK. Business Accounting 2 lecture is another thing altogether. The lecturer is strict and is the 1st lecturer who make full use of the 2 hours. Very, very tedious for me. Her teaching is not bad though, but as I say, I don't pay much attention during lectures.

Organisation Behaviour is just a replica of POM. Memorising work. The tutorial, again, does not emphasize on tutorial questions. Rather, he just go through them and revise the past chapter. As a result, the class will end early, not that I'm complaining. OB lectures are, boring. Copying notes and hardly listening.

I can't really judge Macro Economics tutorials as today is the 1st time he came to class. But, he was very fast and steady in what he taught. In 50 minutes, we're out of the class. He says it's not his style to provide answers. Instead, he just go through it and you have to catch what he's saying. Not sure I like it but the short tutorial is very welcoming.
I still preferred my Micro Economics teacher last semester. He's the best teacher so far.

Business Stats lectures are quite long but ok because most of the time, I'm just tuning off. Bad, but what can I do? Stats can be easy but very, very tedious. There are so many weird formulas so it's a good thing we're having open-book tests and exams.
Stats tutorials are also ok, I suppose. Sometimes, we need to do some class assignments besides from checking our homework.

French lectures are actually fun and interesting but it's spoilt by the large amounts of inconsiderate people who don't know how to shut their mouths. The whole lecture hall is already full of people and yet a sizable amount of them are making so much noise.
If I can't stand it, I don't think the lecturer could. However, since it's only 1 hour of lecture, they can't possibly stop every few minutes to scold them. Instead, the lecturer just carry on. Yesterday, the new lecturer said this is the worse lecture ever. He don't know how are we going what he's is saying amid all the noise. I could tell that he's really frustrated. Well, I'm not happy too.

All in all, I think the lecture halls are giving out some vibe that makes me lost concentration and feels sleepy.

Mother's bday & twilight-related stuff

Went to Changi Airport Terminal 3’s Earles Swensens to celebrate mother’s birthday on Saturday. This was the parents’ 1st time going to Earles Swensens while it’s our 2nd time. The 1st time was to celebrate one of my cousin’s birthday.

Earles Swensens is a more high-end outlet than the normal Swensens. The courses there are more expensive and different and there’s a salad bar too.

After that, we went to Harris bookstore. My brother was a newly-convert of Twilight! By me and my cousin, apparently. He was the subject of all my ramblings about everything Twilight- related for a long time. That must have piqued his interest. Furthermore, my cousin started reading Twilight (or should I said New Moon); he said he got tempted to read it too. I or rather, he, bought Twilight. I’ve been waiting ages for to complete my collection so its killing 2 birds with one stone.

Anyway, I was a little a miffed at the fact that the cashier/salesperson think that I don’t know about the Twilight saga just because I picked up and got excited about Twilight (1st book). This did not happen to me only once. Do I looked like I’ve been living under a rock all this while or that it was because of the upcoming movie that made me want to read it? Please, I probably have more knowledge about Twilight saga, Stephenie Meyer and the movie more than them or other people in general.

See, that's why I don't like something to be so publicise. It spoils the whole feeling.

I know they are doing their jobs, by recommending books. In other circumstances, I would greatly appreciate that, but just not in this case.

HSM3 & Twilight guide

The Twilight saga: The official guide High School Musical 3

First of all, the cover of the official guide for Twilight saga is beautiful. I particularly like this cover. It sticks to the theme of red, white and black from all 4 books. Unfortunately, the release date for it will be push back to 2009. No special Christmas present this year. I was so looking forward to it.

Watched High School Musical 3 with my brothers and cousins today! Went for lunch at Long John Silver. As there's still lots of time left, we were talking about a lot of stuff, though most of all was about Twilight. What else? My life has been revolving around the Twilight saga since forever. Got my cousin addicted to Twilight. I can be an ambassador for promoting the Twilight saga. Before this, I introduced it to my close friend too. I've never feel this "crazy" about a book before, not even Harry Potter, I think.

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HSM3 is as wonderful as the first 2 movies. I found the songs in HSM3 not as catchy as before, but maybe it's just because I only watched it once. I need to watch it many times, like what I did with the 1st 2 movies, to get the songs in my head and sing like a pro. Haha

Until now, the songs from HSM3 I like, are " Now or never", "Can I have this dance", "A night to remember", "High School Musical", etc.

Ahh, I wanna watch it again... Anyway, have to get HSM3 when it's release on DVD. Most probably, I won't buy it in Singapore as it's so expensive. Will have to save the money for Twilight DVD. Twilight gets the priority, need I say?

1 movie down, 1 to go.

Twilight the movie on Dec 18th!

Pain

Very busy these days, particularly this week, due to Monday's Deepavali. We have make-up lecture and tutorial for marketing from 4-6pm. I've been reaching home very late for the past 2 days.
I'm feeling rather pathetic lately. It may be due to several factors but one thing for sure is the constant ache in my left shoulder blade or scapula. It is really bothering me, sometimes the pain can be very bad.
I've been checking out more info about this and it seems it's largely due to poor posture. OK, I'm guilty of that. Furthermore, I've suffered from slight scoliosis otherwise known as spine curving. I don't know if it has anything to do with the shoulder blade ache.
But, since I have been in school for a large percentage of my time, it can't really be due to sitting in front of the computer for too long. (Yeah, the pain is extreme when I'm in front of my laptop typing this.) One of the reasons may be my hunching for long periods of time when in lectures and tutorials. Another reason can be because of the way I carry my bag which is on my right shoulder. However, I try not to put too much stuff in my bag, usually, I just carry the notes in my hands.
What to do?

New HBP trailer

New trailer for Harry Potter HBP was out! Though, I think it was leaked as the date of release is this year, which wasn't. Watched it here: http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/harry-potter-and-half-blood-prince/feature-trailer
New scenes and dialogue was inside this new trailer. Great trailer as usual and the ending scene was quite funny. Hope there's not too much humour in HBP because it is not suppose to be a comedy. HBP is a book full of angst. Have to re-read HBP soon, as I've forgotten much of the plot.
Was actually looking forward for HBP this year but due to WB's "greediness", us fans have to wait for summer 2009.
Nevertheless, there's Twilight and High School Musical 3.
Watched Pride and Prejudice and Enchanted these few days. Wonderful movies! There's Hairspray left to watch.

Twilight in First Mag

Bought First Magazine November edition yesterday. Why? Because the cover features Robert Pattinson and Kristen Steward as Edward and Bella respectively.
I only bought First Magazine twice, once was when Daniel Radcliffe was on the cover page as Harry Potter and the other time was this. I've said before, as long as that something is worth supporting for, it will have my utmost support.
Pages of interview with Robert and Kristen with some stills provided. Only did I feel that reality is slowly but surely setting in. Less than 2 months away from Twilight's release in Singapore!
Meanwhile, I'm checking www.twilightlexiconblog.com and www.twilightsingapore.wordpress.com diligently everyday for news updates. The latter is the website dedicated to Twilight fans of Singapore.

I wish they should stop comparing Twilight to Harry Potter, it's making those die-hard Harry Potter fans so angry. Twilight is completely different from Harry Potter. The whole story plot is different and the characters are different too. I don't understand why people like to lump them together.

Watching High School Musical 3 on Thursday with cousins. Not confirm yet, though. This later part of the year is filled with so much good stuff.

3rd anniversary!

Missed my blog's 3rd anniversary...
Anyway, 3 years had passed since I 1st created this blog. Many moments were captured in here and I hope to continue writing for as long as possible.
All I wanted to say is,
Cheers!
P.S: They better not shut down the site, and I need to backup the whole of my blog soon.

French

3rd day of the new semester.
Went for French tutorial today. I was the only one in my class who got into this French class but one good thing was, there are many people that are also on their own.
The French tutor was kind of alright. She started speaking to us in French and I don't understand one thing. After a while, I caught what she was saying. She would 1st introduced herself then asked for your name. You've got to reply her in French like this, Je m'appelle ( insert your name here). We also learnt to speak about our nationality and the French alphabet. It was funny to learn all the alphabets but in a different kind of pronunciation. For example B is pronounced as "bay" and X as "eeks".
I know some very basic French but I'm sure a lot of people do as well.
Quite interesting and since I was the one who chose this CDS, I had better live with it. I have always shows great interest for foreign languages like Italian and Spanish and this is a good chance for me.
Actually, I wanted to learn Italian or Spanish more as I listen to some Italian and Spanish songs and try to memorise the lyrics. I've yet to encounter something French.
Anyway, till next time

Bridesmaid's dresses

Yesterday, I went to try out bridesmaid's dresses at Marina Square as my mother's side cousin is getting married. Not many choices to choose from as it comes with the whole package.
The dress is white, with a ribbon, very simple. Not forgetting, it's also tube which means no straps.
This is my 1st time wearing a tube dress so it feels weird and I kinda wonder if it will come loose. I'm not very comfortable wearing tubes in general.
There was this other lady trying out wedding and evening gowns and every one of them was so beautiful.
After that, my mother and I were joined by my father and brothers. We went for an early dinner at Dome. The food is not very nice but so expensive. I bought a wallet at The Wallet Shop and got a jacket at Fox. My brother or rather my parents were looking for clothes for him to wear during the wedding.
That's about it.
School's starting tomorrow at 2pm. Coincidentally, my father will be leaving for Philippines that day too and coming back on Wednesday. Which means that on Tuesday, I have to wake up very early and go to school myself.

Meeting with friend

Went out with my primary school friend today. It's been such a long, long time since we saw each other.
Met up at Orchard MRT and had lunch together. It's a good thing we went out today because my holidays are coming to an end. Her promos are just over though. We exchanged news about our JC and Poly and talked about life in general.
After that, we went to Borders at Wheelock Place. It's great to be among so many books. Took time browsing and finally bought one novel, Highland Knight by Cindy Miles. I can't seem to find the other books that I want though. Thought Borders should be well-stocked with books... Maybe my expectations are just too high? Oh well, think I'll visit it again during Christmas season.
Then, we went to Far East Plaza and window-shopped. It's really tiring to just walk around. My feet were killing me and my shoulders ached from whatever stress I put on them.
We parted our ways as she was meeting another friend.
It's fun today, just meeting up with an old friend. Hoping to meet up again soon, during the December holidays.

Rumoured NM movie with my thoughts

Thought I'd give my opinion, about the rumoured New Moon movie.
Here: http://themovie-fanatic.com/exclusive_articles/film_focus/new_moon_twilightsequel/

Summit Entertainment should definitely filmed New Moon as a movie seeing as Twilight is going to be a big success. Without saying, Eclipse should definitely be included. It's my favourite book in the saga and it will be great to watch with all those emotions floating around, intimacy to a new level and not forgetting the battle at the end where enemies became allies. I'm not too sure about Breaking Dawn though. There are just too many things that will not do justice to the book. Read it and you will know what they are. If Breaking Dawn is made into a movie, there may be scenes that people will not quite accept especially those who are new or not fans of Twilight saga.

Back to the point about New Moon, it's a "hard" book to read, too much emotions. Separation does not do Bella or Edward any good. Majority of the book is about the relationship of Bella and Jacob with Edward returning near the end. New Moon is my least favourite with the exception of Bella and Edward's reunion. Every time I read the book, I will only read that part. But, there's much potential for New Moon being showed as a movie. For instance, we can see what separation does to Bella and Edward whereas in the book, we only saw Bella's point of view. The Volturi scene in Italy will be "fun" (in a weird sort of way) to watch.

However, Summit should be filming them soon or back-to-back because that's when they will be riding high on the waves of success. Also, the actors/actresses are going to get older every year. Not a good idea to wait for too long as vampires aren't supposed to age at all.
Besides, which fan wants to wait for ages to watch a sequel? Like Harry Potter HBP, Warner Bros' not wise to put off the movie to 2009 summer when it's suppose to debut on November 21st 2008.

As a Twilight fan, I, of course, have high expectations for the movie as well. I, like most fans, are protective of the world created by Stephenie Meyer and would not like to see it being made into a laughing stock or scoff at by other people. I know that movie is entirely different to a book but I can't help feeling that way. Typical people will group the saga together with the movie. If the movie is not successful, people who are new will not and may not read the books.

I don't know if I wrote it in here before, but I chanced upon Twilight in a special way. I was randomly picking books in the library back in 2006 and found it accidentally. I was attracted to the book's glossy black cover and after reading the tiny excerpt, borrowed it. From then on, I was and still am a fan of Twilight saga. During that time, Stephenie Meyer and Twilight was still relatively unknown, at least in Singapore. It's a good and bad thing about her being now a worldwide best selling author. Bad in a way that it's too publicise and that special connection with the books is lost somewhat.

To conclude, indeed, even if Twilight the movie and the movies to come are not that successful in terms of filming, I'll still watch them loyally like what I did with Harry Potter. That's right, I fall in the "typical people" category. Not proud of that fact though.

Timetable

School starts on Monday. Got my timetable and am quite pleased with it in general. Thursdays will be quite tedious though, until 7pm due to the French CDS I'm taking. But, there's a long break before the lecture starts, sooo, what am I going to do during that few hours of break?
There are 3 days in which my classes will end at 4pm, that's what I'm pleased about. However, I think there's only a short few weeks that I can fully enjoy going home early as I'm sure we'll be burdened will projects soon. The mere thought of projects makes me sigh.
Speaking of French, I'm a little apprehensive about it. It's an entirely new thing to me, of course. Then there's the whole going-to-class thing. Ok, I have to admit I have no idea where the classroom is. Even during semester 1, I would go to classes with friends, most of the time. This time though, at least that's what I think, I'll be going to French tutorial on my own. We'll see...
Going to work hard, especially for French.
Till then

Twilight Trailer 2

Have I mention how much I love Twilight's latest trailer? I've watched it for 5 times and counting and still can't enough of it.
How am I going to survive this few months before the movie is released in Singapore? Reading all those comments about the trailer makes me feel like part of this worldwide fan-group, what with most of them squealing and swooning. Besides, it's not just the girls that are all hype-up about this, even guys read, watch and love the Twilight saga.
Definitely must-watch!

HD version from myspace: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=44287812

Youtube version:


P.S: Myspace version is recommended, much clearer and everything.

Twilight Posters

Poster 1 (When you can live forever, What do you live for?)

Poster 2 (Nothing will be the same)

Poster wise, I like the 1st one better. The second poster is the newest though I do not know which they will use.
Don't comment on the guy's (Edward) face because that's what he is supposed to look like. He's a vampire.

I wanted to post this entry together with the previous entry but the pictures can't be placed there.

Twilight Trailer

Yay! Twilight latest and final trailer is out. I don't think there's much changes to it compare to the previous version. No wonder it looks the same to me, that trailer haven't change at all when I 1st post this...Sorry
Now, it's countdown to the day Twilight the movie comes to Singapore! The latest trailer is just beautiful! I'm so excited for it! December 18th 2008 just seem so far away compare to the release date (November 21st) in US.

Do check it out here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6kcVYod4w

Twilight all the way! The most-anticipated movie of the year.

Typically, movies based on books aren't very good and they don't seem to do the books justice. One good example is Harry Potter series, it was a downward slide from book 3 onwards. I was so upset by it because PoA is my favourite.

In my opinion, I will give Twilight the movie a chance. I will definitely watch it in December but it still remains to be seen if I really like the movie. There are already scenes in it that I'm not too please about. What's with the 'spider monkey' comment anyway? And then there's the tree-scaling scene. I don't think I can bear to watch them making a fool out of a really good book. One thing to note, vampires can climb trees but that scene is not suppose to be in the movie at all. There's no such scene in the book. I'm one of the many fans who are not happy about that.

I know for a fact that there can be no exact replica from the book to a movie. Either the book is too long like Harry Potter and Twilight or some scenes in a book are just too boring for a film.

All I can hope is that not too many original scenes will be cut away and replace by "action-packed" scenarios or one of those scenes that they put in to make it "interesting". Most of the time, it will be counter-productive. Fans will not like it and people who watch just the movie may think what a joke it is and not read the books at all.

Still, movies based on books are great in general because they appeal to the masses who are "too busy" to read a book. In a book, one have to imagine the scenarios which the characters are in. Sometimes, it is really hard to do that even if you have an active imagination. That's when the movie comes in. You will then have that "Eureka!" moment.

Spirited Away by Cindy Miles is one of the many books I want to watch as a movie. I think it will be sweet and beautiful to see the whole novel comes to life.

One tip, always read the book 1st, then go watch the movie. One will know what they have been missing all these time and find out that perhaps books are greater than movies or vice versa.