Wonderfully Simple

Okay, in order to prevent this blog from further degradation into a graveyard yet again, I shall blog! Har! Sigh... nothing much happening of late, aside from some stupid things thought of by yours truly. Too much thinking is hazardous to mental health sometimes, don't you think?

Well, I guess I'll go through 3 CDs that I purchased not too long ago.


First up,

A Fabulous Adventure - Cheer Chen
Favourite Tracks:
1) Self
2) Hua Li De Mao Xian
3) Hua De Zi Tai

This is the bottom right CD with a blue cover... Most reviews I read gave at least 4 stars, which is an impressive feat by itself, but after listening to the CD through and through, I think it's well deserved. Save for one track, the tunes and vocals are exceedingly soothing and melodic. The singer, Cheer Chen, released this album after a hiatus of nearly 3 years, and I must say that while this is my first time listening to her, I am more than satisfied with my buy =) One gripe I have though, is the English track, Sentimental Kills. The way she enunciates the words is so exaggerated that it kinda ruins the song...

November's Chopin - Jay Chou
Favourite Tracks:
1) Shan Hu Hai
2) Yi Lu Xiang Bei
3) Ye Qu & Fa Ru Xue - I can't decide which I like better

Ok, to call this album anything but good would probably offend a million people, but it's justified, not 'cos of the proliferated popularity of Jay, but because the album is good. Sure, he didn't really venture anywhere, but this album is rock solid in the genres he's so familiar with. As my friend said, this album is more ballad-ish, which I find much to my liking. The faster and rappy tracks aren't too far off that I can't appreciate them too, and they're catchy, like Lan Se Feng Bao that has a handphone tune in it, so that's a plus haha... As you can notice I'm biased towards slower songs, hence why I chose Shan Hu Hai over the more popular Ye Qu.

Do The A-Side - Do As Infinity
Favourite Tracks:
1) Yesterday & Today
2) TAO
3) Tangerine Dream
4) rumble fish
5) Tooku Made

F.I.R sounds quite a bit like them, and I like F.I.R's music so damn much, so this shouldn't be too far off, which is the case. Again, I find myself liking the slower tracks more, but most, if not all, of the pop-rock tracks are of my taste too, so I really liked this compilation, which is the only album of their's that I bought, seeing that I wanted a good collection of their songs anyway, and this was their last album before they officially broke up. ( Whew, what a mouthful.) Which is sad, 'cos their music is great.

So, I recently read about another local singer (Kaira Kwong) that sounds like Stefanie Sun and Tanya Chua AND Kit Chan... so I might check her out sometime soon... Like maybe when I get my pay next month, 'cos I'm pretty broke for now =(

Anyway, everyone's partying now that they've finished all their exams... And I feel left out =/

I hate NS.

Weird? Why?

Whoa. Yet another fact dawned upon me today. Not only do I write in such a different style now, more disappointing is the fact that my command of the language has deteriorated. Sadness. SADNESS!

Anyway, I was looking through my archives and I found some stuff I thought I'd like to share...

My Question
When friends don't seem like friends
When they seem like acquaintances
Is when it can hurt
Is when it can spread gloom
But who is an acquaintance;
Who is a friend?
I can't find the answer,
For I've yet to master
The intricacies of life.
Am I a lonely soul?
One unable to communicate well?
Or just someone everyone loves to hate?
I feel ignored
Yet that's because I might be demanding too much.
Is that right of me?
I ask thee.



This was written back when I was still... in the pits of emotional lows. Personally I find it quite poetic, and more importantly, it kinda embodies the personal issues that I face. That is, whenever I'm with a friend, I tend to want the attention of the person, which sometimes feels very selfish, yet concurrently makes me wonder if the person regards me as someone of importance.

That being said, I treasure friendship a whole damn lot, which sort of keeps the other psycho control freak side of me in check. I want my friends to be happy. Then I'd be happy.

AND STOP HARPING ON THAT ALREADY =/ SHIT HAPPENS!

Now whoever said i'm another person. You know as well as i do that i am merely the repressed wacko at the depths of your modest self. Consider me the voice of antithesical reason, the libido to your ego. Remember that time you let me out for a bit?

Ching:Darn i'm bored.
Ching lesser:Go, connect those battery terminals
Ching:But i'm a quiet guy! That would be so noisy.
Ching lesser:You know you want to. There'll be pretty sparkles.
Ching:Sparkles....

*zap*

((in retrospect, i so feel the sting of a sweaty palm the next time we meet for having written that...))

You know, I went through some of my older posts, and I realised that I wrote waaaay differently back then... It was so much more... erm... carefree and naive I'd say, whereas now it's mostly well-thought out, and alot of the smaller events that happen in my daily life are omitted from the posts... And I never realised when this started happening.

Well, to those that know me, I'm usually one who doesn't speak up much, but when I do it's (usually, and hopefully) something meaningful and thoughtful. Mostly this translates to me being a pretty quiet person... Which isn't a bad thing altogether, but I figure that some- erm, most of the time - it makes me such a boring person to talk to, since I don't really go, "Hey that looks really really nice"... It's more of "Hmm. Not bad." I tend to filter out anything remotely superfluous, so usually, what you get is an honest, concise opinion from me.

Associated with this is another fact that I don't outwardly express my emotions. Simply put, not alot evokes emotions in me... Haha... I'm no sucker for those K-dramas, nor a horror movie-goer. I think, after watching the uncensored version of The Exorcist, which didn't scare me at all, nothing compares... Haha... Well. Maybe I should go watch some new (and good) horror flick, and see how things have changed eh... Back to the point, it leads to me rarely getting angry or surprised or . Which again, makes me a less interesting person outwardly.

So anyway... I guess my primary and secondary education days did alot to shape alot of who I am and how I think about things, and in the end I'm still pretty happy with myself, though insecure about some issues. But everyone has their own, don't they.

P.S. To the other guy squatting on this blog: If you want a blog of your own, let me know =/ I didn't quite plan this blog with 2 people in mind ya?

And so it was, that i took my nights off to spend doing something special. An old aquaitence and i finally sat down for dinner, and after a hectiv day in the army it was nostalgive enought to make your heart ache. Or perhaps it was just mine? My lovely dining partner my beg to differ. And yet - what company! Such a breath of fresh air from the crude moronity one gets in camp. After the meal a quiet stroll down an all too familiar road rounded up the perfect evening. Ah my love, my coy mistress, my valkyrie... too soon that the night had to end.

$4 pasta, you rock my world. Now if only that crazy australian woman wasn't there.

p.s. Honestly i could have rattled for a good page or two, but some of us need to defend the country.

Welcome home Danielle!

Friday night was all a blur... Haha not quite, was still sober (enough) to remember it all... To kick it all off I had to wait almost an hour for Tham and Seah to actually appear, then we went to go get some drinks before finally heading to Seah's sister's house to chill out and get WASTED!. We took a cab there, which came up to about 4 bucks. Cab #1.
Joshua and Zhenyan joined us at the house.

I brought along a bottle of Bailey's, and Tham brought Henessy. Seems like Bailey's is a favourite of everyone's =/ My bottle was almost emptied by the end of the night. Anyway, we ordered KFC and pizza to go along with the drinks, and basically all night we just drank and ate and sang Jay Chou songs and took pictures of ourselves just having a good time (pictures which I'll post later when I get home).

By 11.20 I was starting to feel a little light-headed... Yeah I know I can't hold my liquor. So anyway we headed home shortly thereafter... Cab #2, $4 'cos I shared it with my friend.

Saturday morning was my unit's family day, which was held at Escape Theme Park. Dreading having to take a lonely and buttache-inducing train or bus ride, I decided to take a cab with 2 of my friends... Cab #3, $4 each. Upon reaching there, I realised that I forgot to bring the bloody receipt to claim $150! SO. I left my bag with my friend, and - Cab #4, $12.50. THEN, after reaching the doorstep to my home, I FORGOT TO BRING ALONG MY KEYS, WHICH WERE IN MY BAG. In the end I had to go down to town to find my mum for her keys... No cab here, I took the MRT. Taking a taxi to town on a Saturday is suicidal for your pocket anyway. In the end I managed to retrieve the keys and - Cab #5, $12.50.

By the time the dust settled it was around 11.20 and the event was well underway... It was pretty relaxing and fun to see the guys playing all the goofy telematches. There were stage performances which were more family oriented (Read: for kids) and all in all the event was successful.

At the end of the event I was already pretty tired from all the drama that played out in the morning, and as you can already guess - Cab #6, $6.

Money WASTED! on cab fare - $40

Ouch. What a weekend.

It has come to my attention that Ching no longer has admin powers on this blog so...

Ahem.

*Throws all that rotten nonsense out of the window*

All mine now.

Hmm ok I never would've expected that Mr Ryan still bothers to visit this graveyard lol... And the passage below is not entirely true -_-

What a nice surprise though.

Is this thing on?

After reading the title, i guess the casual reader would be be somewhat suprised at such a bizzare title coming from "The Andrew We All Know (or shall i omniously add, knew)". Where is the tone of innocent enquiry, of harmless musing? Well, Anrew himself can answer this rather quickly, for i'm sure Bear, that you are still as smart as your slaps to my sore back are painful. But please, i'm sure the mystery is being enjoyed by a curious few, so lets not spoil their fun. Not to mention that several may already be calling their lawyers with regard to a new defamation suit.

To all the friends of Ching that i happen to be adressing, i could tell you an endless list of the silly things that Ching has managed to pull of. Like how he nearly electrified himself with some batteries. But ofcourse, i am not that mean and so i'll only mention about how he makes all sorts of funny noises while running. Having said all that, i used to think that in our rather bizzare friendship, I was the Upper, the empowered. And yet, in a lonely night in service of our country, i find myself thinking of Ching, and all his friends. In a totally non homo-erotic manner ofcourse. In fact as i write this, another friend of ching watches me with a bemused smile. He likes to talk about sex, alot of it. When he gets bored, he tells stories about aliens. And usually, its a bizzare mixture of the two with theories of the apocolyspe thrown in for good measure. But i digress.

Ching, as i was saying, is one of those few Great Guys out there. If you blur your eyes a little. And no matter how romatic the lonely cloud may be, having friends around makes for a smashing storm on some unfortunates in sounthern tip of India. And with all this said, i wander further into the blue skies - rather lonely i might add, but with the giant, corpulent image of Ching always near by.

Sons of a nation,
Scions of servitude.

p.s. Buggery hell, i can't figure out to turn off the signature. Talk about a short lived secret. If YOU, reader, still can't figure out who is this, you seriously need to consider some medical help.

Let's see... I'm at home, blasting my computer's speakers so I can listen to MP3s as I do *gasp* housework. One of those rare times haha... Well my mum's still in KL, and she hasn't told me when she'll be back yet... I'm beginning to miss home-cooked food now.

Today marks the end of my 9 day break from work... Which was a relaxing time really... Though I think I spent just a little too much time at home in front of my CRT monitor... Doesn't help that I can't find anyone to go out with either =/ Uni people are having their exams...

My brother's out to meet some clients, and my sister is keeping her hand on a Subaru... So I'm all alone at home, feeling pretty bored (probably evident from the fact that I'm doing housework).

Think I might do another post later... Ciao for now.

P.S. To anyone that visits this place... Do leave a tag behind... At least I'd know who comes by every now and then...

Part 2, Scene 3: The Mystery

Hope you guys enjoyed the day, as well this bit of humour from me!

Okaaay... So I'm guilty of not updating this page regularly enough. Sue me! Really... I NEED to keep it filled with tidbits of my sad, sorry life if I actually want to keep it going... -end rant-

I was on leave for the whole of this week~ So lemme recap, beginning from the Sunday *yawn* guard duty... I was on sentry duty for quite a stupid reason, and that led to 8 boring hours scattered through the totally uneventful day... Nothing much to say. Guard duty's not always so... Nostalgic? Haha...

Well, guard duty pretty much left me sleepy on Monday, so I didn't do much, sans gaming. Somehow, I'm finding it hard to tell people I'm still playing Warcraft 3 and CS... It's like ashamed of it, somehow lol. But I do play those games with mods, so I guess it's not old or anything. Nevertheless, I think it's time I pick up something new, or go back to an old game... like WoW... Hmm.

Tuesday was fun... Celebrated Brigitte's and Victoria's birthdays together with the class =) We played badminton in the mornin' then headed over to Pastamania at TPY Central for lunch and yummy cake, and in between all that was all the catching up and the random interrogation of Neo lol... Fun times... Friends and food are 2 things I can't live without in this world (Friends != Food. I'm not THAT hungry). I'll post pictures shortly.

Anyway, after lunch and the chocolate truffle cake we went on to play pool. Brigitte showed off (well, not quite) her new cue given by her friends. Jealousy! So fortunate to have such nice friends =/ Haha... My pool skills still leave much to be desired, and my shots are as inconsistent as an air particle in Brownian motion still =( Maybe I need to play more?

I stayed till 6, at which I walked home to shower and change to go out with my siblings and my cousins to eat at Marche. Pork Knuckles = good stuff! But it's a little on the steep side at $18... Still worth it, IMO, 'cos half a knuckle's quite a large serving for a single person. I still can recall the time where I tried to finish a WHOLE knuckle by myself... Note to everyone: That is suicide. Kids, do not try it at any Marche outlet. I also had crepe with caramelized bananas and ice-cream. Sweet, sinful goodness! Gosh I just realised I ate alot of good food that day. Alot of rich food. Oh well. I live to eat!

Anyway, we caught the Legend of Zorro after that... Maybe it's because I haven't watched a good movie in quite a while (the last being... erm...), but I found it surprisingly good. Good humour, riveting plot, and a family-oriented subplot to boot... Nice package, I'd say. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants something to watch. (Sidenote: Do NOT watch Doom. To watch it is to doom your money to being wasted on a lousy film.)

I went over to my cousin's house to stay for a few days... Heck, I just got home not too long ago X) Spent most of my time on his brand new PSP. *Drool* I'm seriously considering getting one man. PSP + 3rd party software can transform it into a multi-platform portable gaming machine. Amazing.

It's been a lazy but fun week so far =)

I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You - Tina Arena & Marc Anthony
Moon so bright, night so fine,
Keep your heart here with mine
Life's a dream we are dreaming

Race the moon, catch the wind,
Ride the night to the end,
Seize the day, stand up for the light

I want to spend my lifetime loving you
If that is all in life I ever do

Heroes rise, heroes fall,
Rise again, win it all,

In your heart, can't you feel the glory?
Through our joy, through our pain,
We can move worlds again
Take my hand, dance with me (dance with me)

I want to spend my lifetime loving you
If that is all in life I ever do
I will want nothing else to see me through
If I can spend my lifetime loving you

Though we know we will never come again
Where there is love, life begins
Over and over again

Save the night, save the day,
Save the love, come what may,
Love is worth everything we pay

I want to spend my lifetime loving you
If that is all in life I ever do
I want to spend my lifetime loving you
If that is all in life I ever do
I will want nothing else to see me through
If I can spend my lifetime loving you

loving you...