Finally I get to write

Finally! I get to write! Hehe. Sorry for not writing. I was just damn tired that I fell asleep once I reached home. Plus the past two days I've been reaching home quite late so... Yeah. Anyway here I am now! Gonna talk about my internship! Not gonna talk much, just how I feel and how my days went hehe.

Anyway so the day of my ITP started on Monday. It was really good seeing all my friends again even though it was only: Vithya, Huiwen, Yiyin, Jesslyn, Chjia How and Ashley. But met some of my other friends from other course too! It's so awesome, finally get to meet them again! Really miss these people after two months of holiday haha. So it's good seeing them again.

The first day wasn't much, I was introduced to my colleagues and given some journals to read. And also doing my read up on some article and topic. And for the past 3 days yup, lots of researching and article reading cause I'm very new to the field. But all's good! I'm just hoping to get to know more, talk more and interact more with the people in my ITP office hehe.

Well I have to say this but... I really don't like the transition of school to ITP. I mean well maybe I'm just not used to this. But imagine for 2 years of your poly life, you go to school for classes, surrounded with friends, taught by lecturers, scribbling down notes, going for breaks, all the laughters joy and fun (especially the past one year with 5 of my awesome friends). Basically: Student's life.

Now it's a drastic change where I'm interning alone. I don't talk much, no one talks to me much everyday. No lecturers to meet and no classes to attend. No friends around you, no laughter nothing. It's just silence, work and... Emptiness. But oh well I just have to get used to this I guess. But the fact that I'll be interning for 7 months kind of worry me. I have to change my mindset man.

Switch mode switch mode!

Anyway yesterday was awesome cause...

I WATCHED WICKED WITH VIVIAN!

Yes Wicked the Musical! OMG it's a dream come true and it's a wish that happened! To watch Wicked! It's just beyond words. I enjoyed every moment of the musical. The awesome songs (DEFYING GRAVITY!) and I discovered more songs of course, the graceful and hip dance moves and of course, all the characters and musicians! Everything is LIVE. Even the music. It was so good. Spectacular beyond words! Must go there and watch (sadly it's the last show and next week's show is sold out). Well in the future I guess!

After watching Wicked I'm just so inspired to watch more musicals! They're so lovely and nice :) Love it! Who wants to go to musical come and ask me ok! I might be interested (unless the musical is not something I like heh). I really wish Phantom of The Opera to play in MBS! I think it's awesome man. And more musicals please! Hehe.

I'll be going back to band tomorrow (Oh yes!). Miss band a lot. The feeling of playing with fellow musicians are just awesome. I really hope I can still play the clarinet well. If not, more training and practice it is then. Well if you ask me why I'm going back to band. Firstly, I didn't quit band. Get that first. I just sat out for MD (our concert last January) due to some reasons. Secondly, it's simple.

I entered SP, and I joined band. I want to graduate from SP, and graduate with the band. I don't want to just leave halfway and not leave SP and leave band at the same time. Band has been part of my poly life and I just don't want to let it go halfway through the course of my studies. Plus being a photographer for MD, and not someone sitting on the stage playing was really... "Heavy". Feels so different :(

Anyway talking about music, I just made a piano cover of Corrinne May's new song "Beautiful Life" which is from her newest album Crooked Lines! Check it out. I finally got my hands on the CD and yay, now I can listen to this awesome song everyday. It feels good to listen to this song every morning when I go to school! Reminder for me how beautiful life can be.

Here is the song! Hope you like it. Pardon the mistakes I made :P




And sorry no music sheet cause I played this by ear hehe.

Smile everyone! It's a beautiful life~

Back in Singapore

Okay I'm currently very sleepy... And tired... Just reached Singapore like 2 hours ago and when I reached home all I did was to lay down on my bed. Too tired. I'm going to bathe now and sleep! Very tired and I have to wake up early too, maybe get some breakfast.

Today was alright I guess. The flight back was awesome. I love Lufthansa's new fleet! Damn nice and neat. It's an A340-300 and it's so nice. Somehow the plane was really empty. Well it's the end of poly holidays but not school holidays so not many people go back I guess. Really nice plane, I like it! Hehe. Maybe I'll switch to Lufthansa again hehe.

Tomorrow will be the first day of my third year. Put it in a way...

It's the first page of my last chapter in poly.

Lets make my first page a beautiful one!

Nights. I'm damn sleepy

Holiday went poof

 Days of the year going by, gone.

As the title says, I just can't believe that well, this almost-2-months holiday has finally come to an end. I'll be going back to Singapore tomorrow and start my ITP on Monday. Time flies huh. February feels like it was yesterday. I really had a good holiday, that sometimes I forgot I've spent the entire month of March. With the inclusion of the US trip and so on. It's very good.

Sadly I didn't get to do all of the things I PLANNED to do in the holiday. Okay lets recap. This is what I wrote on the 24th of Feb before I fly back:

- Decorate my room (all photos printed etc!)
- Take more photos (praying for good weather)
- Do a timelapse (tripod checked!)
- EXERCISE (I've always failed in this one but lets see...)
- Eat and enjoy! (Miss my hometown food :/)
- Do my "projects" which consist of both videos and photography
- Write more poems (target: 2 per week?)
- Write more
- Compose more songs
- Play a new piece perhaps
- Relax and rejuvenate myself
- HAVE FUN! :)

Legend: Things that are crossed are accomplished. 

I didn't do a timelapse and I brought my tripod for nothing meoooww. But that's cause of the weather. It's been raining here almost everyday. How to take timelapse! Haha. Exercise... We'll leave that. No comment. My "project" umm only one of my desired one was done but not the other. No songs composed but I've been playing Adele and Corrinne May songs ^^

But not bad I guess. I get to do almost everything. Writing more is really a nice target accomplished. I've been writing on my diary everyday here. And thanks to Kikki.k's Journal Prompts (you can find this on their website or FB page), my Kikki.k 365 journal is filled with lots of interesting posts hehe. I love writing, it's a chance for me to go back to myself. And I truly enjoy it. I hope I can continue this habit back in Singapore. Which usually I... Don't.

My room is decorated as you can see from yesterday's photo hehe. More space to be filled with more photos! Shall print them more soon and bring it here and zoom zoom to decorate more. Poems wise... I did write a few. Most are written when I was in the US. And I like it. Haha :P

So well yeah. I guess this is all for my holiday. One well-deserved one to celebrate the end of my year 2. And I did enjoy this holiday very much. Though the weather in my hometown wasn't really much of a supporting thing (since it's raining almost everyday here). But it's always good to be back home. My family, my favourite food, my home and my hometown. Who doesn't love to be back in one's hometown right?

I think most of you don't know this but the US trip is really sort of a last minute plan that's not even in my agenda this year. And I didn't tell anyone about this trip until a day before my departure. Cause well... I just don't wanna tell the world (not necessary right?). But I truly enjoyed my time there. It's really an experience and an adventure I'll never forget. I'll be back for more, definitely. Maybe next time alone or with my friends. By myself, by ourselves.

As usual I feel that time always fly too quickly. Feels like year one happened last year. I guess it feels like as if year 2 just flashed by in the blink of my eyes. Perhaps the difficult times I went through, and the busy schedule of my research life. And also on the fun side, the happening aesthetics like my Green Desert Project, SPSB Korea trip and SP LEAP Mt Kinabalu trip. When fun and stress meets, time flies like a lightning flashing in the sky.

I came up with a line that goes like: Time is like a flowing river. When you put stones into this river, the area gets smaller and water will flow faster. But when you take the rocks and stones and pebbles from this river and make it empty, the larger surface area will make the water to flow slower. Okay sounds damn physic but the main thing is, when you put things into time, it will flow faster and when you don't have things in time, it will flow seem to flow slower. But time, is a constant. It can never flow faster nor slower.

So I'm wondering. If my 2 years in poly flow so quickly, won't my 7 month ITP seems even faster? Well... Not sure to that. But I'll definitely make the best out of this experience. It's going to be something for me, to be attached to a company and sort of "work" right, you can put it in that term. It'll be interesting. An experience in life not everyone can get.

So here I am ending this post with my line for year 3.

Year 3. It's now or never

Last 30-day challenge! Finally!

Day 30 - A picture of somewhere that you've been to

A picture of somewhere that I've just been to

  To New York

For a Friday is a Friday

 Visiting childhood through food

Finally got myself a haircut after like 1.5 months! Haha. Call me weird but I love to keep my hair short, nice and simple. Quite funny how I can't stand my hair up till a certain length. I'll feel the urge to go and cut it when it reached that length haha. But anyway urgh I feel my hair is very... Hmm a bit weird now. I think it's not spiky enough and it just doesn't look right. Will get it fix tomorrow.

I went to the tailor shop today too to get my pants sorted out and cut shorter and tighter. I think with me losing weight my pants have all become loose. Well better than buying new ones, I just get it fixed to make it fit! Hehe. Today was a rainy day in my hometown. Rained quite heavily in the afternoon and yeah. Good I guess, it's been cloudy but it never rained. So the rain helped to cool the weather down.

Sigh, I'm once caught in the middleman situation again. I guess it's inevitable. But I'll just tell myself that whatever choice I made, is made with a reason. Every choice I make and how things will evolve from the choice will happen for a reason. So yeah.

It's quite unbelievable how much time has flown. Tomorrow will be the last day of my holiday here and I'll be going back to Singapore on Sunday. So fast huh! It's been a month plus already... And I'll be embarking on my 7-month ITP journey. Whew, and I'm graduating soon.

Anyway moving on, time to go to 30-day challenge!

Day 28 - A song from your favourite band

My favourite band is... Sigur Ros! Haha. As you know it. And the song I choose this time round is Inni Mer Singur Vitleysingur! I really love this song cause of its upbeat and very cheerful and happy feeling it has. Very nice for a morning song to get you going. When I'm down I love to listen to this song cause it makes me happy again! :) Here's the song!




Day 29 - A song you want to play at your wedding

A song I definitely want to play in my wedding is hmm Joe Hisaishi's Merry-go-round of life! I think it's a perfect song for the event, like you know wedding is a part of life, a part of this merry-go-round we're living in! And if possible I want to play this song in my wedding haha :)

Photo wall

Right~ Today I finally did what I wanted to do this holiday. One of my target to be done. And that is to decorate my room! With all the photos I've printed and the frames I've bought from Ikea hehe. Still have more room for more photos but I'll save that up for my future travel heh. More adventure awaits! :)

My photo wall~ (Y)

Today there was nothing much either. Still having headache apparently argghh. Please, I really hope it will stop before my ITP begins. It sucks.

Anyway, back to 30 day challenge! I'm finishing soon! :)

Day 26 - Your earliest memory

Memory is a funny thing. Especially when you realised you've grown up, it's pretty difficult to remember the things that once happened when we're young. Even though at times, flashes of these memories would happen in our mind, but the full thing will never happen. Will never replay in our head. I guess we're too young, for our brain to fully record these memories that happen to us. When we're adults, we remember better I guess. Hence it's pretty hard to remember my earliest memory.

But, there's one particular memory, a particular and familiar scene I have in my mind. Me, on my mum's lap being fed with baby food. The taste, the smell, the texture. Somehow I can remember that. I remember on which seat my mum would always feed me. That corner of the table where cans of milk and baby food will always be placed. I can't remember anything else, but just that sight of me, delivering spoons of baby food into my mouth. The rest, are just blur images I couldn't remember.

Funny huh? :)

Day 27 - Your favourite movie and what is it about

Favourite movie... It's very hard to say a favourite movie. Harry Potter is one, LOTR is one, Three Idiots is one, and more! But I would say... My really favourite movie that I really enjoy watching is Inception. Nothing beats the joy of getting you mindfcuked (sorry for the vulgarity). But really, I love movies that play with your mind, that makes you think hard and deep to follow the story. I think Inception did it well. And I really love everything about the movie. The plot, the characters, the action and most importantly, the theory and the story!

I remember a quote from the movie of how we never remember entering a dream, and that we always end up in the middle of it. This is very true isn't it? There are more quotes from the movie but I can't remember, but this theory above is what really makes me applaud inside my heart. At first I didn't get what the movie was about (the Japanese castle, the beach, and the plan stuff). Then as the story goes on, and the movie plays on, I went oooohhhhhh and damn I love that feeling! Haha.

Alright that's all for today. See you soon tomorrow! Can't believe school's starting... I mean ITP's starting on Monday, and that I'll be going back on Sunday. This is just too fast! :/

Pray for Sumatra

 In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of

There's nothing you can't do~

I was so shocked to see retweets from my friend of the earthquake near the coast of Sumatra! It's a 8.7 magnitude so it's VERY huge. I really hope the situation there is fine and everyone is safe. And I really really hope that there's no tsunami! I don't wish 2004 to happen. It's like a nightmare for everyone so I hope it will not repeat itself 8 years later.

Anyway today was a normal day. My jetlag is getting better. Still having headaches but thankfully the nausea is gone. Sort of. I just had it again just now -.- But anyway I think it's getting better so yeah hehe. It was a rainy day in my hometown. Super duper heavy downpour and yeah. The weather's weird but oh well.

Okay moving on the to 30 day challenge~

Day 24 - Your zodiac sign and if you think it fits your personality

I'm born in July so that makes me a Cancerian! And I'm proud to be one. Okay I've read some of the character traits of cancer individuals and I think what speak to me the most are that: we're "closed" people, we forgive, but never forget and overemotional. Well there are a few others but I'll only talk about these eh? Hehe. Cause the list will really be long.

What I mean by "closed" is that we tend to keep things to ourselves. Which is both good and bad, good in a sense we can be more "independent" and be less a burden to others. But bad cause we'll be the victims of our emotions. Honestly, yes, I'm someone who loves to keep things to myself. They say it's our sign (the crab) that signifies this. We have a shell not many can break, and we always go back inside our shell (AKA we keep things to ourselves).

Forgive but never forget. This is very true for me. Well a lot of people say "don't we all forgive but never forget?". True in a sense but some forgive AND forget. Some don't forgive but forget. I think well forgiving but not forgetting is different. It's like this. Lets say you did something to me which makes me angry. Well honestly speaking yes I will forgive you, and in the future when we meet, I'll be as per normal to you, like as if nothing happened. But I'll never forget what you did to me and, again as a Cancerian, I will be on my guards with my awesome claws MEOW! (no link but I love meowing).

Last but not least overemotional. Well I'm not saying we're drama queens and kings but we tend to be emotional (over) and moody. I have to be honest but I'm someone who can get moody. I know I sound crazy but I call it my that-time-of-the-month. I'm not a girl, I know, but well sometimes (or in fact most of the time) I always have a period of a month where I'll feel moody and sad and emo and emotional for no reason. I'm sure it's the work of the hormones but yeah, just like to call it my PMS period heh. As for emotional wise I think we tend to use more emotions in most situations. Which brings my next point that we're intuitive people. Which really is true for me! It's kinda bad, cause intuition are not 100% right. Hehe.

Yeah I guess these are the traits which how my horoscope fits my personality. I repeat, MY. So please don't think I'm stereotyping all cancer people heh. Cause I know some cancer people who are different from me, and some who are similar to me. But mostly they're kind of similar! :)

Day 25 - Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs that play

I'm not gonna put my iPod but my iTunes. It's okay right? Hehe. So here goes!

#1 - The Nutcracker Suite - March of the Tin soldier by Tchaikovsky
#2 - Invisible Movies Part 1 by Adrian Enescu
#3 - W.O.W by Architecture in Helsinki
#4 - Prelude in G Minor, Opus 23 No. 5 by Rachmaninoff
#5 - Pictures at an exhibition - The Old Castle by Mussorgsky
#6 - The Sweetest Girl by Lil Wayne feat Wycleff, Rihanna, Akon  
#7 - Suite No 2 in B minor - Badinerie by Bach
#8 - The Gypsy Maid by Maksim Mrvica
#9 - Letting Go by Ryan Farish
#10 - Invicta by James Swearingen

So now, you should know to what kind of songs I love listening to :) Hahaha but don't worry this is only 10 songs. But yeah I love classical music. Nuff said.

Back from USA

 The bean at Millennium Park in Chicago!

My Favourite place there. I love it.

Hello everyone! Finally I'm blogging. Oh gosh I've not been feeling well since I got here. First was jetlag, I went KO when I reached home on Sunday. Similar to Monday as well. I've been feeling unwell since I got back. Feeling nausea and having headaches. Search the symptoms and these two are part of jetlag symptoms. No wonder. But the feeling's horrible really. Hope it will be gone soon!

Anyway I'm back now, the trip was really awesome! 2 weeks there and it was really fun. I went to New York, Washington, Boston and Chicago. Didn't expect to go to so many places but well I did, and it was really fun to explore USA. It's really a beautiful country and I love the urban vibe there (especially New York and Chicago). But I did drive by beautiful sceneries from the countryside. Best of both worlds!

I really love Chicago and New York. Well it's been a dream of mine to travel to New York and it came true! Walking through Manhattan and Broadway did it. And Times Square! It's like... They're screaming to me: NEW YORK! And I got it. I love walking through the streets of Chicago as well. It's nice and the city has a warm vibe to it that I love. And I really enjoyed walking through Millennium Park! I love the bean (Y)

It was a good trip and I'll definitely be back there. New York especially. Not enough! :P

I've decided to do a post on each place I visited. So it's going to be nice and easy, instead of just blogging about the whole trip. Plus you know me, I don't like blogging about my every detail of my trip but more of the thoughts and experience of it. It's gonna be interesting. One by one I'll clear them off. But now I need to clear my blog challenge and promised! :)

Anyway I'll be uploading the photos to Facebook so you can check them out first :)

I'm going to clear off some of the questions per one shot! So it's faster! :)

Day 21 - A song you want to play in your funeral

A song that I definitely want to play in my funeral is Ara Batur by Sigur Ros! Also their famous Hoppipolla. Ara Batur is really special. When I found this song, I was listening to it everyday. And whenever I'm sad, I tend to listen to it as well. There was one time when everything felt wrong, I was feeling horrible. So I just sat down, closed my eyes and listened to this song. And I cried! The song is powerful really. That's when I decided to want this song to be played in my funeral heh.


And I even thought of like making a playlist before I die to be played in my funeral :P Like well I think make my funeral more musically happening HAHAHA. Anyway here's the song! :) Beware of tears



Day 22 - A song you play when you're happy, sad, bored hyped or mad

To me a good song is one that you listen to when you're happy, sad and mad. Cause it means it can make you happier when you're already happy, make you feel better when you're sad and calms you down when you're mad. And that one song is Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros! This song has been in my playlist ever since I discovered them in 2010 (I know it's damn late, but I'm damn grateful that I discovered this song thanks to my friend Joel! :D). It's practically the song for every situation I'm experiencing! Go check them out at Youtube cause I've put this here for a couple of times heh.


Day 23 - How you found out blogger and why you made one

Okay actually I first made blogger when I was in sec one. It was so.... Arggh I don't wanna remember it cause it's very "childish" hahaha. I think it was called adhianto-my-blog or something like that. And all I post was "today this happened I ate this and that" or "today I went to Mac with my friends" or "OMG tomorrow got 听写 or tests and I never study!" then it goes on and on. But then I somehow neglected it and stopped blogging till... I don't know when. I chanced to blog at Windows Live but stopped as well.

Then something reignited me again to blog in sec 3, in September to be exact. One reason was I was tempted to blog thanks to my fellow friends who blog as well (Annabel if you read this, you're one of them! Heh). And also I was reading this article of how people blog to improve their English. With O Levels approaching I used this opportunity to blog as well, hoping I can improve my English as well.

And last but not least, I feel it'll be a great platform for me to express and pour my emotions out. It feels good to evolve from my blogging. You can read it from time to time. I think I've matured through blogging. And you can see from the words I used, the things I blog about. If you want to express your feelings, blogging is really a great platform. You can try it out, there's no harm really. Here are my first two posts. DO NOT LAUGH HAHAHA.

Monday September 1 2008

First post!!!

Ok... Here's my first post... And I don't know what to post... Enjoy...

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Life's symphony...

New Blog New Life?

So here I am with a new blog! I don't know, I blogged in Messenger Live before and it's kinda boring but enjoyed it anytime. So all credits thanks to Annabel for helping me create this blog! Thanks a bunch! Ok, I may not post as many posts as I did in Messenger before since I gotta be used to it yeah? Ok hope there's no prob in my blog (better not) and hope you guys enjoy my boring blog...

Testing.... Testing...

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