Mindstruck

I'll just jot down my ideas here in some weird language that no one understands.

" Slice according to edge. Shifty Lavand style. "

I'll let it grow for now.

Today was quite a day by the way.

*I zoo I dance We own*

Double dose of Rose

It feels extremely uncomfortable to not watch a movie in such a long time. I believe the last one I saw was Scream 4. Anyway, common test is over and I resumed back to my slacker-waking-at-noon-midnight-movie-watching-and-all-that mode.

Spoiler alert

X-men First Class

The 5th X-men movie. A prequel to the prequel of the three sequels before which I found out later had nothing much to do with the sequels so that makes it actually just a prequel to the prequel, which I'm not too sure if it was even a prequel to the sequels.

Anyway. Basically depicts how Professor X and Magneto met, became comrades, agreed to disagree, and went on with their separate paths. An interesting movie in the sense that it answered a lot of questions. Which makes the X-men series made a whole lot more sense. But again, the whole thing felt like a hole filler as in every scene made a point to explain certain things and some parts are just there just so there is a link to what that is going to happen. Which can be a bit redundant if you look at it as a movie on its own. Kinda hard to understand but once you've watched it believe you'll get what I mean.

Though some of the questions that we were all wondering were answered in a pretty-stupid-what-the-hell-that's-it? manner.

How did magneto get that cool megaman helmet thingy?
He stole it.

How was Professor X paralysed?
Accident. It happens.

How did Beast became blue?
Needle incident. What to do.

How did the name X-men come about?
Random suggestion by random fling.

The acting was good. Considering that I don't recognize half of the cast. Of course the problem I had was that there wasn't too much of a depth towards the acting and emotions and stuff but meh I don't expect much of any of those from an action movie. Oh oh and of course, the main foucs. The mutants. Darwin, Angel, Havok, Prof X, Magneto, Mystique, Guy-who-looks-like-hell-boy's-uncle, Banshee, Beast, Energy-sucker-dude, Diamond blonde, Tornado guy etc. They were all pretty cool.

Best scene : Wolverine.

Other than the wink-at-audience joke scenes and some cheesy lines. Overall I enjoyed the movie a lot. Fun. Exciting. Just what I needed to get over my screwed up Engmech paper.

7.5/10.

Insidious

I watched this online just today morning. At about 2am. I was quite excited for this as the makers were the same people from Saw and Paranormal Activity, which I have to say is one of the best horror film I've seen. Like I said in my previous posts, my friend told me that Paranormal Activity was real footage real story, therefore I thought the movie was real and couldn't sleep for two hours. Only to realise that it was all acting. That horrifying experience was priceless.

The cast also made me look forward to this. Patrick Wilson's a great actor. He did a tremendous job in Hard Candy. And of course Rose Byrne. Oh who was in X-men by the way. I first saw her in Get Him To The Greek. So yea the cast caught my attention.

Insidious is basically a mix of supernatural and pure horror. Talks about astral projection. Meaning the soul leaves the body when it is unconscious. So you can travel and fly and stuff. Pretty cool huh. Though the little boy in the movie lost his way and ended up at a realm called The Further. Demons and tortured souls wants to take over his physical body and his parents are to save and rescue him.

The first half of the movie is scary. Where the mother's just doing her motherly duty and got the shit scared out of her. And the ladies in the movie all believed her while the father was like 'What the hell people are you serious.' The second part when the father went saving his son got a bit weird. It became like one of the episodes from Nightmares and Dreamscapes. Haunted house, green light, red light. The mood changed and it wasn't as scary as before but it was still good though.

Though I must admit the demons are kinda funny looking. The first demon behind the curtains at the cradle looked like dude-who-look's-like-hellboy in X-men. And come on, we all know the scary boss demon or something is Darth Maul from Star Wars okay. And the rest of the demons were just zombies from MJ's Thriller.

I love the fact that the movie is shot like in the 90s' or 80s' fashion but of course in high resolution. The jump scare scenes were AWESOME. The *bam!!!* and *smile with eyes wide open* really got me. I didn't enjoy the ending though. I kinda knew that it was going to end in some bad way once the second part started. And it did. And Elise just had to die didn't she. I thought she was gone after the gas mask scene but she got another extra 30 minutes of screen time. And it wasn't the boss demon who possessed Josh, it was just some random lady ghost. The ending was rather weak.

Top 5 Ughhh-hell-that's-creepy scene. If you watched it already then you'll relate to this.

#5 : Dancing guy. (The song rather than the dance)
#4 : The blink.
#3 : Single lady jump scare + smile.
#2 : Family jump scare + smile.
#1 : Darth Maul behind Josh.


7/10

* Please let this holiday be what a holiday should be*

Strings and skates

Spent quite an interesting friday night with Japheth, Ruiqi, Weilin, Xinhui & her bro, Clarissa & her bro, Sam and Annabelle. Funny story behind. Belle invited me to her church service. Japheth who was sitting beside me in class at the time, saw that message and told me that he and two of the powerpuff girls were going too. So to please them, I went.

First time at Suntec City. Didn't know it was that big. Apparently my theory of calculating girls' walking speed by using the formula for total resistance in a parallel circuit does not apply to the two girls.

The whole thing seemed to be pretty big. A queue, a crowd and all that. We got seated and they started to play games. Some milk squeezing and burping contest. No offense but I find it incredibly odd. Oohh then the service started off with a few numbers by the live band. The music was decent. Though I later told Japheth that it got to a point where the music just continued on and on and on and on. Repeating the same verse over and over and over and over. Longer than the pause in MJ's I'll Be There's last line.

Pastor Dan was giving the service. He explained a few verses from the Bible. Alamakite, Ephod, David = Beloved, pool = blessings etc. Pretty interesting to listen to. Could see that he's really passionate about it. Told a few stories about how terminal illnesses were cured and lives were changed. Then it ended with another few songs.

Japheth then asked me if I had accepted Christ and Ruiqi asked me to go to her church again. They were being really nice and kind, I do appreciate it but some part of me in my head went 'Here we go again...' I don't blame them though. It's a natural thing to want to let others understand the truth that you see.

Trained home with Weilin. To sum up our chat on our way back, all I can say is 'Two weeks, no way'.

*Common test is within the next 24 hours. That only means one thing. HOLIDAYS*

Comprofile

On my left is someone who likes Japanese, Korean stuff and the nyan cat.

On my right is someone who blocked her blog so I can't read it.

Right in front of me is a bass player who tweets in Japanese as often as Loke saying F.

On his right is someone who turns the classroom into a gaming centre during lunch breaks.

Behind me is someone who has a mispelled noun for a name.

On her left is someone who dresses as an intruder to our school.

On her right is someone who uses only two fingers when doing an impression of rushing programming assignments.

* Pfft we have more lives than a cat *

When the day met the night... and all that crap

I'm having my common test the Monday after the next. Hm honestly I don't feel tense or anything. I don't know. I used to take 10 subjects. Now I have only 3 modules to deal with.

That should be a piece of cake shouldn't it. We'll see.

Anyway. Life's good. Very happening. I somehow got into the dance club. I'll be busy with CCA, ES commitee and magic.

I wanna blog more and I will. But first, study!

*This shall not fall part, so shan't we.*

I like cocoa better

Hey peeps!

I guess I'll stop apologizing for being here so much less often than before. A lot has been going on lately. Though I don't believe that there's such a thing as 'no time'. 24 hours is enough for everyone.

It's not about how you use it. It's about how you sacrifice your sleep. Haha.

Anyway. Other than classes, CCA has taken up most of my time. Cocurricular activities. It's quite important I would say, as in these achievements definitely help in your applications for university. And of course it's hella fun.

My school has I think more than 100 CCA clubs. No joke. The range is pretty wide. Dragonboat, french, inline skating, astronomy etc. You name it. Pretty much anything you can think of. I, being the one who's interested in random and different stuff, joined a few clubs just to see what I'll get.

Aikido

Ahh the training itself is 1 hour. The overall travelling takes about 2 hours. I feel that it's not that worth it. Yes George sensei is very experienced and skilled. Though I don't really enjoy the ambience of the training. I don't know. See how it goes.

Chess

As a nerd who's into chess. I find the chess club not too bad. The players there are good. I'll definitely learn something new. Just that I have a feeling when my classes gets tough I will wish that I had that 2 hour of chess time to do something else. For example, SLEEP.

Magic

Ahh I'm so excited when I saw this club. It's actuall the Entertainers' club. Under it there's magic, beatboxing, balloon sculpting and one more other thing which I couldn't be bothered to remember. I went through the magic audition. Performed Bill Malone's version of estimated aces. Went well. Got in. Met lots of talented people. And I sessioned with my new mentor. Mr Sherman Tan! He is crazy good. He knows Lennart Green in person, saw him do the beam deal with the whole freaking deck, and he gave lectures in Holland. Enough said.

Dance (Probably failed my audition)

Actually today was the audition. Ummm we learned a dance routine and practiced it for a while before going into the audition room. I wouldn't say I did too badly but I think I don't stand a chance. There's like over 300 people trying out and they're taking in about 120 I heard. For someone who has no dance background whatsoever, I'm just glad I got this over with. No regrets. =)


Common test is in 3 weeks.
Quiz next week, or the one after the next.
Proposal due the week after the next.
Presentation project due in about a month.
Let it rip.

* Lennart Green plaese don't die before I meet you in person *

Highlights at the weekends

Bright. Red. Beautiful.

Like I promised. Here I am.

I'll start at the very beginning. If I can remember all of the thing that is. Anyway last week was the orientation programme for freshmen. NP is the only poly that made its first week as an orientation week instead of starting class right away. Not sure if its a good thing but meh I had fun.

Day 1.

Ice breaking. Involving macarena chicken dance and stuff. Played rock-scissors-paper evolution edition. Which is incredibly stupid and exciting. Some talks. Get to know course mates. Get to know lecturers. More talks.

Day 2.

Played games with BME (Biomedical Engineering) and the whole ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) division. There's this balloon game and, long story short, I got to perform card magic on stage. In front of the whole 600 700 crowd! Clutch by Oz Pearlman. Pretty damn amazing experience. Later people come up to me like 'Hey you're that magician right!' Then we had to do a sketch and design our own mascot. The other groups were rather risky. Let's just say that it's all boobs and balls.

Day 3.

Fusionopolis! Some place in Singapore that I've never been to and probably should have. It's a state-of-the-art technology research exhibition center. I kid you not the whole place looked like it came out from Tron, Terminator, and Star Wars. There was this translator like when you speak into it the thing translates it into perfect Chinese and Malay. And the kitchen whereby the touch screen shows you what ingredients are in which drawer and the expiry dates etc. And display recipes and if lack of any you could sms via the machine your friends or family to get it. Girls' love that. I would. And got this hospital bed that detects heartbeat rate and pressure sensors and stuff to see if the patient's dead or something. Then the best had to be the brainwave technology. My friend put on the headgear and when he concentrated, the character in the game starts to move and speed up accordingly to his concentration level. MAD AWESOME.

Day 4!!!

GLAM NIGHT.

Glam night was held at the same time as movie night. Movie night's cool although I didn't join. Some 200 300 people lied on a big piece of plastic in the middle of the big grass field and enjoyed a movie played on the wide screen.. screen. I went of glam night. Basically a party. A real party. A prom. It's like a Linkin Park concert except with a DJ. Scratching pop hits and sick beats. My friends and I went together and she dragged me right in front of the speakers. My heart was literally going BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. Freaking high and everyone's fist pumping the air. Then there's a circle in middle of the crowd with dancers doing their solos. It's all too high man. Everyone's partying like there's no tomorrow.

I'll let the pictures talk.

High

Higher

Highest

So yea that's basically what you've all been missing out on. Not trying to make anyone jealous or anything.

* Seriously I came out of the hall half deaf *

Go getchar

Ah sorry guys. Or rather girls.

I've been away for almost two weeks.

Life's busy. Tiring. Amazing.

I promise I'll blog this weekend.

I'm currently in the library.

Kinda like my 3rd home.

Having Physics class later.

Gosh I forgot to eat my sandwich.

See ya.

* I repeat. Performing magic is not to get girls. *

Lock and load

Okay this'll be a quick one.

I'll be heading towards Singapore in just a minute. Poly starts tomorrow. Some have class some have orientation. I'm looking foward to it.

I'm staying with my uncle and aunt at Sembawang for the next 4 or 5 days. So till then, I probably won't be online often. Or at all.

Food for thought. Singapore isn't that small.

Say smksp is 200m x 200m.
That makes it 4 hectares.
NP is 35 hectares!
SP is 38 hectares!!
NTU is 200 hectares!!!
Stanford U is 3300 hectares!!!!
Singapore is 71000 hectares!!!!!

Doesn't feel so small does it. Psychological misdirection is the true magic.

All the best, own the rest.

* Student pass better pass *

A layer of dust

Oh dear.

Sorry to have left this blog desserted for more than a week.

The past 7 days was kinda hectic for me. Yes I am still figuring out some stuff regarding my future studies. For now I enrolled into Ngee Ann Polytechnic for Diploma in Engineering Science.

Tuesday I went to NP for the international students' orientation, which more like a 1 day intro to Singapore and NP. It was okay. Hosted by two NP students. A few talks by the lecturers. Hm they just have this singaporean aura going on.

Surprisingly there are a ton of students of China. Like almost half of those who came were from the Mainland. There were also quite a few Burmese, Filipino, Thai, Vietnamese, Indon, I heard there was one from Nepal, and there could be a korean. Malaysian not so many. Or it could be that they all ponteng.

The guy who sat beside me just so happens to come from JB as well. Stays in Casa Almyra. Though he has been studying in Singapore since young. The funny thing is he too is into card magic. Though he just started not long ago and can barely do a DL.

The girl beside him was from China. I met one from Fujian, Guangdong, ehh I forgot. It was really interesting. Then there was this talent showcase thingy. A few dancers were there. Looked fun. Maybe I'll pick up dancing...?

Anyway, I'll be moving in with my uncle this Saturday. Orientation starts next week. I'm looking forward to it. Hmm I'll probably have less time to blog and even less time to stay in touch with my friends here.

Right. I'll try to update as soon as possible.

* As sorted out as it seems it is still in a mess *