The Grand Cathay

I thought I walked into a play instead of the theatre for Marley & Me with Ade today.

The place is beautiful! So are the dogs.

Pity about the rowdy group of school kids who thought they were still in Macdonalds.

Pa was damn funny in the car today:

Example A: “Sometimes I feel so lazy… I just feel so lazy,” when I asked him to cook for tomorrow’s dinner.

Example B: He randomly sang a song phrase on 98.7fm, and asked me if he was using his real voice. I told him to sing again, which he did.

After laughing like batshit, I told him he sounded like he was dying.

That particular song was pretty high-pitched XDD

Quirks and 口头禅s

Today YHerng and I made small talk and she asked me how was life.

I didn’t even get to answer when she replied it for me in a very duh way, “Okay lor.“

Then she laughed and said I always say that, and that Kenken imitates me.

And I went all indignant and protested, “Where got?!“

When realised that I probably say that phrase a lot too.

What other quirks do I have that needs informing?

***

That aside, I had the most horrible nightmare I’ve had academic-wise. I dreamt that I took an elevator to a huge huge huge huge HUGE library, and the elevator zoomed zig-zagged along the tracks to the building, like a roller coaster. That was fun.

The nightmare began when I entered the room and it was filled with people and tables and metal chairs and we were told to complete an animation exam. As in, finish an animation by 3 hours.

There was paper and a pencil in front of each person.

Paper and pencil equals 2D animation right? But apparently we were supposed to choose from a selection of characters to animate, and those appeared in my mind in 3D.

It was so confusing that I went out of the exam room and loitered around the children’s book section in the library, while contemplating on possible story plots with a certain female character and some moon… I couldn’t think up a decent plot despite much brain-shaking.

And then I never did find my way back into the exam room.

Stressful!

Miss You

I think this is the first time I’ve ever found a live to be better than the recorded song. Amazing stuff!

Hello Codan

There were a few familiar faces from ADM in my dream. I distinctly remember 冒冷汗的少年 going off somewhere after that, while I went with a few other unrecognisable faces in an old metal-rimmed car to a mega store which was divided into two- one for clothes and the other for furniture. It was a place where you needed a crane to even reach anything that was at the top shelves.

I wandered around both sections, torn in a dilemma of choosing between two patterned leggings. Finally I loitered around a pale wooden table with Vader. The phone rang, and he picked it up. Then he passed the receiver to me.

“Hi I’m Codan, we’ve talked before,” the unfamiliar voice on the other end said.

His voice sounded very professional, and I started to think that perhaps he was calling to tell me something about a competition result. Holding my breath, and not wanting to embarrass either of us in confessing that I didn’t know who he was, I followed with an, “Uh huh…? What are you calling me for?“

He was about to answer when the line went dead and some voice boomed, “Zhe, Pa is on his way soon.“

It was Ti’s voice.

“Hello??” I said, trying to clutch onto the disconnected line, and then realised that it felt so tiring just to say that one word, because I was saying it in real life.

Ti laughed at me, “You’re sleep-talking! Haha!” he teased.

I responded by burying my head further into the folds of my pillow.

So tired.

I hated all males today.

Holiday!

Today is the first day of the week-long holiday granted by the education board ( I suspect they did it reluctantly) . Of course they call it recess, but with the amount of projects and quizzes due when school re-opens, I think it’s more like the kind of recess where the school tyrant corners you in the playground and starts the bullying.

I can’t wait till Sunday when I can finally rest my butt and feet at home! These few days of the start of the recess is going to be a flurry of social activity – birthday celebrations, baito and dating, FYP meetings…

Perhaps on Sunday I could have the time to contemplate the horrors of what awaits when school reopens.

D:

I miss dog sight.

Yankee Gal

Oh my goodness this is a great piece of animation:

Yankee Gal from Yankee Team on Vimeo.

Although, having just given a presentation on the female body in animation and its sexist portrayal, something in me itches to scold them. But I still love it!

LIBERATION! And Then Some.

On hindsight, it was pretty funny that I was so nervous during the presentation that my knees took turns to tremble. At least they were smart enough to alternate shaking in fear… I would probably have fallen to the floor if they didn’t.

This is not the first time I’ve felt nervous during presentations. But I suppose this is my first time feeling extreme fear during one. I guess it was because (a) I was doing a solo, (b) OSHKOSH had given me nothing but ominous words the day before when we met to discuss about my slides, (c) my classmates intimidate me with their firm viewpoints, (d) I had shut-eye for 4 hours after giving up editing my slides and (e) What I wanted to say for my presentation was hurriedly scrawled on the back piece of paper during the earlier part of the lesson.

I guess it went okay, considering some of them liked what I showed, and no one shot me down because I was the last to present and everyone was eager to leave so no one wanted to comment… OSHKOSH even suggested that I leave out the pornish video I’d spent so much time editing to cut 22 minutes of Boring into 2 minutes of Juice because it was already 12pm, but I suspect other motives (like preserving [what's left of] my reputation??) haha!

I have really weird friends… this time it’s emo!Herbie again doing his usual bout of PMS!sms.

Herbie
I stared at this message window but could’nt[sic] decide. So i’m going to flip a coin to see if i should ask, will you talk again today?

Me
The fuck?
(Okay I know I’ve been abusing the word recently and should stop.)

Herbie
But alas, i flipped too hard. The coin flew too waywardly high. And as i hurriedly reached to catch, i pressed the send button anyway. Won’t you talk to me again today?

Herbie
I pms ing. Tmr got big test.

Me
No i am the one bleeding. Oh good luck tmr! My bloody presentation is over today! :D

Desperate Girls

Kooling
Sigh i wish i cld die. It’s been long enough.

Me
I am having a miscarriage. My ovaries fucking hurt.

Kooling
That cheered me up

Me
You’Re welcome

Zzz Pls

Er, last post was too emo. It was amazing what the sunshine did to my morale the next day.

That, plus scoring some alcohol on Saturday night.

Am still swamped with work though. ttyl.