Colour my life

♥ Monday, December 28, 2009 ♥

I haven't been initiating talks with some people just because I thought they'd always be there. Not like I ever did the initiating, but perhaps I seem much too far from reach for them already so nobody ends up initiating.

Make an effort.

I remember this. and I don't remember when was the last time I wrote you something. Not that its anything I should be proud of at all. There's nothing else to be said until I actually write whatever I want to. Sigh.

On a happier note, we had fun yesterday.

(If I had the time now I would write all about it cause it was really fun with our whole family and yahui. Not now, gotta bathe soon but hey we all enjoyed ourselves :D)

Yahui, these are for you! Pity the ones with the games and marbles didn't turn out too nice :(

we drank some and tasted almost all of those. & I meant just little sips for some so they're not enough to get drunk, of course. I think there were more chinese wine in the cupboard but we were lazy to take those out.

from Christmas eve:

Love you kaikai & Riane!

Took us forever to find Riane's place that morning with the big giraffe and three macdonald's breakfast meals PLUS it was raining AND we actually forgot her block number.

Christmas lunch with the SRGCE Japan peeps:

(and it wasn't a 5 star hotel, but the food was quite good)

that's our table, there were two other tables and Mr Tan treated us all! :O (the bill amounts to 200)

Off to bathe and do my work.

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The procrastinator hasn't finished her posts about christmas, and spent her time watching movies, selecting photos and clicking away instead. About to start on work soon too.

Allow me to introduce to you JIM STURGESS. (Jude from Across the Universe)

Absolutely charming isn't he?!

♥ Sunday, December 27, 2009 ♥

Watching Across the Universe now, taking a break before inserting disc 2. Loving all the songs in there! A film for fans of The Beatles, as it incorporated like, 33 of their songs in it. I don't have much of their songs YET but I'm already starting to sing along to them!

Saw the disc at the store yesterday and decided get it for I'm far too lazy to search for it online (didn't work on the sites I have).

Got Schindler's list (heard its real good) too! Can't wait to watch In America again, and the few on my "must watch" list of course. I watched In America on Christmas last year (and ended up writing a whole chunk about it if you did read), a pity I didn't do the same this year :( Soon, soon!

As usual, there are a few songs I really love so here you go:

Across the Universe - (prudence) I want to hold your hand

Love this rendition alot, go prudence! :D

Across the Universe - Dear Prudence

The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful and so are you

I found it pretty funny that I was able to guess the next line "and so are you" right after they sang "its beautiful". Its like the influence of too many "roses are red, violets are blue" kind of poems haha!

Across the universe - (Lucy, Jude, Max, Sadie, Prudence, and Jojo) because

Nice harmony.

Its cool how the characters are named after the songs. Like Lucy in the sky with the diamonds, Dear prudence and Hey Jude. Must I add the main characters are very goodlooking too :} More of Jude, Lucy and Prudence!

Back to the movie for me, the above songs are real good even though they're covers (from the film).

& yeah, I'll still talk about yesterday and the day before!

♥ Saturday, December 26, 2009 ♥

Its beginning to look alot like christmas

Christmas can be summed up in 5 words:

ramen, christmas mass, airport, dinner, games

Typed a post with pictures but it isn't complete and I've gotta sleep soon so.. shall combine it with tomorrow's post! Been a great day though :) Happy boxing day to all!

Great day indeed :D

♥ Friday, December 25, 2009 ♥

Bach - Air on G string

Perhaps the only song that's able to calm me down all the time. (okay, debussy I've got loads of classical favourites but this one's really the best. Its the tune I hum in my head whenever I'm neverous, the sound of an orchestra brings you to some other place.

I know most people won't actually click on "PLAY", I think I treat it more like a record of what kind of stuff I listen to at different periods.

Gosh I love this song, I know I'm not the only one who does :D

GOING FOR RAMEN LUNCH WITH JAPAN SRGCE PEEPS SOON! Its supposed to be THE best ramen in singapore according to uncle Roy. Shall see for myself later, but its gonna be quite wallet-unfriendly since its a five star hotel. Ohwell,

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

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Cute boy on Ukulele! - While my guitar gently weeps

You guys might have seen this before, he's just so cute isn't it! Check him out at 1:00 onwards, hilarious! Feel like hugging him right now!!

Cute boy on Ukulele - I'm yours

SO CUTE! but my yukata kodomo is still cuter (L). Alright I'll stop whining about the sd card which was spoilt since we came back :(

♥ Thursday, December 24, 2009 ♥

Sometimes you gotta learn to stop hoping to not get hurt or disappointed. & maybe I've already decided to stop waiting. Nah.

I need to do something like postsecrets.com.
There are a 1000 things I want to write down right now.

If there's one thing you should know, I don't mind telling people secrets. It makes me feel so much better, I don't even need advice, all I need is somebody to tell my secrets to and I'm already feeling a little better. Alot better now, actually. haha.

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Boston pops - sleigh ride (live)

Timeless piece! You gotta listen to it!

Not in much of a christmas-y mood now but I thought you guys would love this. At least I got really high over it yesterday. Correction its kinda making me a little happier already. Not much, but still.

What's christmas without the friends and family and relatives and turkies and candy canes and fireplace and snow and sleighs and puddings and gingerbread men?

On another note, striking things off lists are so fun :D

{EDIT} HOHOHO THIS SONG BRINGS MIRACLES CHRISTMAS EVE AT HOME MIGHT NOT BE THAT AFTERALL A SONG IS ALL YOU NEED HOHOHO {/EDIT}

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own"

"Turn my eyes away from worthless things, preserve my life according to your word"

I got some cards. (in the colours of the quotes)

I feel like reading the bible all of a sudden.
~~I feel like playing the piano~~ DONE!
I feel like drawing.
I feel like completing my assignments now.

and I shall do all those by today

I feel sleepy because I slept at 5 and woke up at 8.

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Penned down some thoughts but decided to put them down, heh.

Don't want to make them seem like empty promises until I get some work done, so yeah.

Christmas doesn't even feel like christmas at all.

Nobody to share it with, anyway. Christmas eve's gonna be a bore.

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To my dearest Kaiying

I hope you'll read this before you fly off to Australia! Have a safe trip there and back, & enjoy your new year over there too (though that'll mean we wouldn't be celebrating together D: ) I'm proud and honoured to be last person you'll be seeing before you fly off eh! We gotta meet up again to chat after your return k, it felt so short just now (and also to make up for all the time we've "lost" this year). & hopefully I'd be a better study partner next year so we can actually really study together (instead of you asking me to concentrate and planning timetables for me).

Thanks for the keychain too! So don't worry I'll think of you everyday in Singapore everytime I sms or use the phone hahah :D Since I probably won't be able to talk to you until next year, here's wishing you MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR in advance! Lets work through the next year together! I LOVE YOU ALOT, KAIKAI!

Love,
Emma

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Philharmonic Youth Winds: Classiques! Extreme

was a great and enjoyable concert :D

Highlights of the day were Extreme Make-over by Johan De Meij and Third Symphony by James Barnes! I especially liked the third movement from the third symphony and yes, the whole of extreme make-over. Some special effects like blowing across the bottles (with pitches!) and percussion ones were quite interesting :D

I salute all the players from philyouth winds, must be extremely tiring to play those pieces!

Anyway, it was supposed to be a band outing thing but it ended up to be only Alif, Nathanael who went cause the rest were either not free or didn't reply. LOL. We had dinner at Raffles city food court and guess what, Nathanael and I bought Japanese food. HAHAH. Must be missing Japan far too much!

So we missed the first piece (but got to watch it on the screen outside the concert hall, anyway). The rest of the concert was truly enjoyable (as I have mentioned earlier), and towards the end, there were balloons falling from the ceiling when a net was realeased!

While the audiences were busy throwing ballons all around, philyouthwinds played Sleigh ride and.. (omg the other song title suddenly slipped my mind). The conductor Mr Adrian Chiang was being really cute by cueing us in to do the clapping. hahaha.

While we waited for Yihao so we could pay up for the tickets (yeah my bandfest sectionmate who performed tonight, great job!), I picked up a few ballons and started getting high by singing and all. Can't blame me, I was really happy then. I EVEN GOT TO BRING IT HOME!

No... wait the balloon didn't survive long enough to see my home :(

It got blew away by the wind while I was busy getting high while walking back to the mrt and landed on the shrubs and then the ground. When I tried to pick it up it burst instantly which left me in a state of shock (while the other two started laughing like crazy)

R.I.P NATALIE!
(I named it after the third movement of third symphony)

Home after that.

Its weird how I always regret not joining band right from the start but when I go home and listen to the choir pieces I'll fall in love all over again and start to get really confused. Its pretty sad that I just picked up an instrument at this age, but my choir life was pretty great too, so.. no regrets. Its never too old to learn so I gotta MAKE MORE TIME FOR IT!

Just listened to kometsuki madara!

♥ Wednesday, December 23, 2009 ♥

If I were to have any new year resolutions, one of them must read "reply to your sms-es and messages immediately and don't procrastinate!"

Sorry if I've pissed anybody off by not replying! :(

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Please, just burn up and die.

& regarding yesterday's post, it wasn't that great a night (morning, rather) at all. Frustrations, Misunderstandings, feeling hurt, what not. My eyes are still swollen, I hate it when I wake up with swollen eyes.

Guess I'll get back to my stuff before I go out again tonight.

I hope the concert would be a great one.

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what is this
suspense.

Its 4:08am now and I'm not asleep.
I wasn't studying.

I noticed a few things about myself:
(learnt from a not-so-great night)

I really dislike/am afraid of taking the intiative
(but haven't asked myself why)

I'd rather sit and wait all day and leave, disappointed, than to be the one to start the ball rolling. It doesn't matter whether I actually really want something or not, or whether its a duty, or a responsibility.

Actually, its not "I'd rather". I'd love to take the initiative but I just don't dare to, or don't know how to. There are exceptions but this it it in general terms. Doesn't matter whether I'm at school or at home. The latter's more about responsibilities.

I also noticed that in a conversation, I can be EXTREMELY quiet if the person does not speak first, but once he/she does, I'll start talking alot. Is that strange or normal behaviour?

I'm very afraid of drifting away from my friends
and I believe time can bridge gaps or wash away ties.

I like people to tell me the truth and what they truly feel,
to hurt me at that moment because of that but at least that's better than sugar coating stuff which won't solve the root of the problem. The truth hurts, but not for long.

I think too much sometimes,
and might even get paranoid from a small gesture or a short phrase.

Its 4:30 am, I'm tired.
Goodnight.

Hanging by a thread

♥ Tuesday, December 22, 2009 ♥

Feeling Christmas-y after watching SnP's christmas performance at Eastpoint mall! Kaikai you did a great job and I'm being really honest here! Pretty convincing acting :D Time to listen to christmas songs and get into the mood whoo!

Passed ashley her Marie compressed towel and she dumped the thing into her WATERBOTTLE cause she couldn't wait to see it expand? (and ended up with a wet towel the whole night) They were quite amazed by the mini cup noodles too haha.

Had dinner with Kaiying Ashley & Jolene (which was just dimsum for kaikai & I) then Jolene went home and the rest of us had IceKimo at Daily Fresh! Eastpoint brings back rather nice memories, we had some sushi picnic thingy there, the three of us always studied at Kobayashi till the shop closes, burger king, eighteen chefs... didn't seem that long ago eh.

Realised I haven't been hanging out with the girls much lately, but kaiying's flying off to Australia soon and Annia is.. somewhere. :/

Here's a song I've been listening to lately:

Making April - Streetlights

Enjoy!

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Playlist for today

Just felt like putting it up here, 40 of them.

Loads more photos I want to post from Japan!
So do wait for them! :D

Queen - Love of my life
Queen - Too much love will kill you
Kings of Convenience -Misread
Corinne Bailey Rae - Put your records on
Coldplay - Gravity
Beyonce - Sweet dreams
Making April - Wide Awake
Making April - Roses and Butterflies
Making April - Safe but Sorry
Making April - Stay the Night

One Night only - You and me
Mystery Jets - Two doors down
Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats
Phoenix - Lizstomania
Gomez - Notice
Suede - Beautiful ones
Take that - Rule the world
Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance
Deathcab for Cutie - The Ice is getting thinner
Deathcab for Cutie - I will follow you into the dark

The Script - Breakeven
Patrick Park - Life is a song
Journey - Don't stop believing
Guster - One man wrecking Machine
The Corrs & U2 - When the stars go blue
Asher book - Someone to watch over me
Joseph Arthur - Honey and the moon
Damien Rice - the blower's daughter
Mae - Tisbury lane
U2 - One

Sarah McLachlan - Answer
Eels - I need some sleep
Radiohead - Last flowers till the hospital
Radiohead - High and Dry
Julie London - Cry me a river
Ivy - The edge of the ocean
Augustana - Boston
Corrinne May - Beautiful Seed
Norah Jones - Don't know why
Norah Jones - Come away with me

As you can see, I'm not in much of the rock-ish mood today.
Like the lyrics from Making April's songs!

Love all the songs up there ^, though there are loads more!

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Bandfest ended with the concert at Esplanade yesterday (20th), and it was great! :D Made new friends, gained some experience and flute techniques. I missed out on two and a half practices cause I was overseas though :/

Hi to Agnes, Yihao, Munsyi and Huda IF you're reading! Plus Sherry our crazy chaperone and the other woodwind girls from Jacob band! I wasn't as nervous during the concert itself, still loads (x infinity) I've got to learn and I'm determined to learn my flute well!

Jacob band flautists with Sherry!

Us with random polish guy (I thought he was the conductor from back view and asked him for a photo HAHA)

Some of us with our Polish conductor!

Some of the woodwind girls from Jacob band!

Some of the SR people with our seniors who came!

More about it in the next post!

We went shopping, watched a movie and had dinner today! :D I got kinda lost while watching New Moon cause I didn't read any of the books, nor have I watched Twilight the movie. I guess some scenes weren't acted too convincingly either, guess it wasn't that great a movie! I must say the cinema at Suntec is really ancient :O Dinner at Manhattan Fish Market was quite satisfying, both dory and salmon platters were cooked well! Yay!

Met up with Kaiying Ashley Anna after that (and was shocked to see a whole bunch of blc peeps there too) at night (simei starbucks)! Haven't met up with the girls for so long!! Briefly talked about a trip to malaysia after our A's which got me rather excited, but I kept forgetting what I wanted to say during the conversations. What was that man. Think I'm going to watch kaiying perform at eastpoint tomorrow! :D

It was Riane's birthday yesterday, I really do hope I'll get to meet up with her soon!! Happy birthday my dear girl :D

Going to do my work now at 2:36. Please let me have inspiration for the art scrapbook assignment!

♥ Saturday, December 19, 2009 ♥

Life's been rather hectic

I swear to God this place is getting so boring I don't even want to look at it. Its just that I don't have the time (due to different commitments) and I'd rather upload photos on facebook cause that's much faster.

Please wait for it, bandfest is ending tomorrow so I can actually tell you guys a little more about JAPAN! :D

and the word for the trip? Enculez-vous! hahahaha. & Japanese girls for the guys, of course. Those photos from the School exchanges are on facebook, pretty hilarious if you asked me.

Thanks Clifford for lending me your DSLR!! No editing done to the photos at all cause I'm lazy, some are cropped though.

A few photos for now:

from the first two days
(more to be added soon!)

Mount fuji - view from the bus
(which explains why it isn't very nice)

The admin group at mount fuji :D

Hell yeah, there was snow and I love this shot.

Jumpshot.

an emo shot.

Took this in a tunnel

Our first meal (lunch) in Japan
(Stuart found a cockroach in his. Lucky it never happened again throughout the trip!)

Our first dinner at the hotel!

ditto (look at the lighted hot pots!)

A few of us girls in Yukatas

Me in a yukata!
(in my favourite hotel!)

Siqin (my room mate) and I!

looking into the balcony

Jasmine and I :D

I thought this looked slightly festive

taken at the same place
(waiting room of a restaurant)

In National Art Centre, Tokyo

Outside National Art Centre

Ditto

Outside the Ghibli Museum

Just one of the million convience stores in Japan

Daniel shared these DELICIOUS strawberries with us

Sukiyaki - what we eat every.. alternate day?
(well this is just a shot of the meat)

Sukiyaki involves dipping cooked meat into raw eggs

It was raining at Shinjuku

almost everybody in japan has a transparent umbrella!

Damn, that SD card is REALLY spoilt so its goodbye to all my favourite shots (and all the ones at the castle the japan peeps wanted). The nice ones I took with Jasmine, those candids.. I dont' even need to think about that photo competition thingy and most importantly-- my yukata kodomo :(

Thanks C for trying to help me with it and for lending me your camera of course! How awesome can a DSLR be, goodness. (PLEASE DON'T REMIND ME THAT THE NICEST SHOTS ARE IN THE CARD)

Had dinner with Steph, Ivan & Jeremy on the 17th at ION orchard (missed you guys sosososo much!!) but two guys are in Malaysia now and I didn't get to see steph either. Didn't have much time that night but it was great nonetheless! Guess we took far TOO long to find Swensen's and ended up having too little time to chat.

we got ourselves an earthquake! :D

Anyway, I dont' have much time to blog right now. Been out from morning till night after I came back from Japan for the JC/Poly band fest. I must say, I didn't get to read the scores at all in Japan and only attended yesterday and half of today's practice cause I was overseas and needed rest the next day (caught abit of the flu). The people in my section seem to be pretty bonded already and I'm just fine. They're all pretty good anyway.

Sectionals with Mr Terence Teow was pretty useful for me, that being my first ever "lesson" -- and he was GOOD. Figuring out on your own won't do you any good, that's why I think I need a teacher. The seniors were far too busy during SYF period then :/

As lousy as I may be at this point in time due to the serious lack of practice (and of course, I hate my tone and the flute's airyness), I've practiced quite alot with Olivia at NIE today while the rest went back and those few hours did me good. I heard my section mate from Jacob band working on his piccolo solo too ;D

So... we're going to perform at the Esplanade tomorrow (20th december) and our repertoire (just Jacob band) would be:

The white eagle march,
Romanze,
Inglesias (The Little English girl) &
From Tatras to Baltic Sea.

Enough about band fest for now. I've to leave house at 10 plus tomorrow so that means more practice in the morning for me :D

HELLO MY DEAREST GIRLS (whom I haven't been talking to much lately) Lets all meet up before kaiying flies off to Australia!

♥ Friday, December 18, 2009 ♥

aplogies for the lack of posts!

I came back yesterday and will be going for band fest tomorrow (till 5 plus) so...

if you're looking for photos and such they'll be on facebook!! Just two albums from japan so far, i've got 2300 photos and one of my SD cards ain't working (the one with my favourite shots!!!!)

till then!