At the Oscars!

Have been busy doing my assignments, lab reports and studying for my CAs. So I haven't been posting. Supposed to study for my CA tml but was watching the repeat telecast of the Oscars instead. Haha. Ok I haven touched any notes for today, was finishing up my lab report. But I kinda finished half of tested syllabus during e hols... N i haven prepare my cheat sheet! No need to slp again... Nvm i'll be free (or less busy) after tml! Which reminds me I still have alot of movies that i wanna watch!

Watched White Noises e other day. It was OK, not bad. It scares u not cos its spiritual or ghostly but in the sense there'll be some sudden noises or screams now and then. The most unforgettable line was something i felt v sweet, "Daddy, are u gonna be alright?" not anywhere near horror haha. Ok so i'm gonna watch Closer and Hide and Seek. Oh and Ray too! I felt Leonardo did well in The Aviator, it's a pity he din win e best actor award. But Jamie Foxx prolly did better. And after watching the Oscars, I felt Million Dollar Baby and Sideways are quite worth watching. So u see, more addition to my movie list.

Oh and Renee Zellwenger and Kate Winslet look great! Zhang Zhiyi was err... v nervous i think haha.

Ok la muz study now... tml is e day! Oh yah i'm prolly getting away for a few days fr e end of this wk. Not quite sure yet. I know it's abit weird cos it's after e hols haha but well i think i need a break and i cant resist e offer! Lol

=Movies-Money=
Melis

Still in e Race

Mambo-less nite for me. Too tired. Went back to sch for a proj meeting and rushed to 元宵dinner after that. So in e end i took a nap before waking up to catch the Champions League. Barcelona vs Chelsea. Not tt i care. My focus was on Man U vs AC Milan. Aiyah Man U lost!! It mite hv been Leg 1 but they could hv won. I mean of cos i want them to win! 3 wasted opportunities! I felt they din play w much enthusiasm... Like ai mai ai mai lidat, if u noe what i mean. Then at e 78th min, a blunder fr Carroll, who failed to hold e ball and here comes e defeat. Y lidat.... He din hv to make many saves throughout e match, but when he needed to, he din do it well! I noticed he was e 1st to leave e pitch. He prolly realised his mistake.

Finally, I caught Van the Man in action after missing him for so long! But well only after 1 hr into e match. Didn't make much of a comeback thou, prolly cos it was all too late. Sir Alex(being respectful here k) had 4 strikers at his disposal lor n he oni put Rooney up! Argghhh cannot be complacent lah... I dun wan this loss to mark e start of a losing streak for EPL as well... (Thou I secretly hope it is for Chelsea. Haha ok I noe Chelsea fans r gonna throw things at me. Common lah u oso hope for e same for ManU rite! Think I dunno...)

Can only hope for e best when they play Leg 2 in 2 wks time! Oh, in case u stil din realise, I'm a ManU fan. Surprised tt a gal like me watches soccer? Aiyoh dun b so stereotypical again! haha Who says gals dun watch soccer. I've been watching soccer since young and i'm an ardent ManU fan, for almost 10 yrs now. I watched them claim e treble!

=Reclaim e Cup=
Melis

Self-Help Lesson

If u r a gal and take e public transport often, I bet u mus hv encounters those creepy crawly hands. Yes, molesters lest u dunno wat i'm tokin abt. Those who sit real close to u, those who rub their legs and hands against urs and those who stretch their hand from one seat behind from the slit between the seat and the window. What's new! what patterns can they "offer" more? I've come a long way haha thou i must admit i get too paranoid at times. But well just their luck to have met me. Sorry I'm not one who will suffer in silence in one corner, then complain or cry after that. One gf once told me abt how she met one and how won't retaliate... Pls! Gals hv to protect themselves! If u dun protect urself who wud!

This guy sat beside me in bus today, not very close, but close enuf for me to sense something's not right. But i didn't move. U noe how these guys take greater advantage when u shift inwards. He folded his arm in such a way tt his fingers cud almost touch my arm. So i folded my arm too with my hp in my right hand (he was on my left side), so all he could brush against was my phone! haha then when i felt he was gettin abit closer i shifted my body with such huge action that i knocked against him. No more rubbish from him.

Jus to give another example from many tt i've encountered. This dark skin guy was sitting beside me in the bus and he too moved closed to me. I wasn't in a gd mood, so i retaliated, of cos. I turned ard and told him right in his face "Can u dun sit so close? move out more!"(sthg lidat...i think) He went "huh" so i repeated for e second time, only to realise tt e other passengers were looking at me. Well I had my headphone on, so i guessed i must have been loud. Haha who cares! No need to give such ple face.

So dun mess w me hor! Lol This entry is to warn gals and how they shud protect themselves. If u r figuring at how to take advantage of gals... GET LOST! U PERVERT!!

=Only U can help urself=
Melis

That's Life!!

Disgusted by 2 guys in a day(not today).. some of u wud noe wat i'm tokin abt...
"The men don't get it" They really don't.... but then again think they r not yet men...
Haiz Guys!!!

've been flipping thru the pps... searching for any potential jobs. None. None from my related field...Now tt i'm graduating, I hv to hunt for jobs besides worrying for my projs, lab reports and CAs and Exams... Hunting a job means to evaluate its pay, job scope, future prospects etc etc so many considerations... Hard to get a job, esp one of ur interest. Ok it's not as if i'm sooo keen on e field i'm concentrating in (FYI, tt's biomedical sciences), but where r all e promises, e supposedly blooming industry, n e uprising hub? We r supposed to be e pioneer batch. Yah pioneer batch to end up w no job. N they r now offering diplomas, adv diplomas in polys, and increasing e quota of each successive intake in all unis. I c no future. Anyways i mite not end up in this industry. Wat's e degree for den? My ex-boss told me, a degree oni secures u a job, it doesn't determine ur sucess in life. How true! But anyways, a degree doesnt secure u a job now.

Ok so i'm definitely quitting after this sem, my third yr. No honours for me, just like many of my frens in e cohort. Research's not my cup of tea, and to do research, u reali hv to go all e way. Honours wun get u anywhere. Many ple r surprised tt i chose to study life sci, i mean i like sci. But studyin and working's v diff...Ok i noe many ple dun believe i'm a sci student, they say i dun like one. Dun be so stereotypical la... Who says sci students dun dress up and mus look like geeks? My life sci gfs do dress up lor...Forget abt e guys thou.

I've got soo much to do... reports, projs, CAs, rehearsals. But time is up to u to manage, there's nothing called stress if u dun give urself any. Jus do what u hv to. No use frettin and complaining yet doin nothing.


=Big Bucks=
Melis

kitty

Goodbye's tomorrow's Hello

I'm back with a new skin! Not tt i really fancy it alot but well this was e only one tt i seem interested after a very long serach over a few days. And I'm rather proud of myself being able to do all this in html code and even to change the template slightly... U've gotta understand tt i noe nuts abt IT... This skin actually reminded me of a fantasay movie i watched while i was v lil'... It's about aliens and butterflies if i'm not wrong, sthg along tt line... and the area where the aliens/butterflies lived was gorgeous. with e neon lights and wateva... I cant rem it's under e sea or on another universe but e image remains vivid, so much so tt i cant find words to describe it... It's simply... beautiful lor.


Recently, I've made some new frens who became reali gd frens and got back into contact with some old frens. It's a v nice feeling... At our age, it's gettin more difficult. Our social circle is gettin smaller as frens come and go. I may not always be the one who initiate to contact them again but at least i try to make it when these frens ask me out. It's extremely impt...makes me feel i'm not alone, especially when frens ard me r starting to drift apart.

“或许他们曾扮演生命中的过客，你却能延续他们在你生命中的旅程。”

Time for catching up now tt term break has arrived. Check out Keane's album if u hv e time, recommended.


=Everybody's changing=
Melis

The Great Leap

Haven been posting for a few days... mainly cos i dun hv much to say...
I've been browsing thru the blogskins but cud nv get pass a certain pt.. there'r simply too many! N i cun find sthg tt reali catches my eye... Also i hv difficulty downloading the skins which some others also experience.

Talked about miracles over lunch. Miracles never happen without effort.... That's my take...

Anyways have been listening to dave's album recently...For more than a mth to be exact. It wasn't impressive on the first listening but it made an impact on the second. Some tracks reali inspired me. Haven been listening to chinese songs but I certainly won't miss any of his albums.

Track 01: Ghost
There are ghosts all ard us. And there is a ghost in each and everyone of us just like there is evil is all of us. Evil tots, evil deeds make us ghostly. And when we rely too much on technology and are so obsessed with progress that we cannot be bothered with ple and affairs ard us, we'll become ghosts. Just like zombies....

Track 05: The Art of War
While we lead our luxurious lives, with all the recreation and entertainment, we are tearing apart nature bit by bit.... Some day our grandchildren will blame us when there's no more seasons, no more land and what did we do to our earth that leave them with trash. We already have alot but we want more... There are great disparities and u call tt civilization. It's a never ending war with nature and we'll pay for it... one day...

Track 06: Who do you love?
Love and Lust... Check out the MV, a story based on 张艾玲‘s　"红玫瑰，白玫瑰“

Track 07: Susan said
My current fav.... U'll understand the song more if u know "稣三起解", a famous chinese opera. Check out the opera and rap in e song!

Track 09: Sula & Lampa
Read that out loud in hokkien... a very cheeky song. To hell with paprazzi...

I like e rest of e tracks but dun hv much to say abt them.. Listening and liking the tune is one thing.... How I hope ple can also appreciate music for it's orginality and the lyrics and meanings that e song writer is tryin to get across. Der is more to music... But well diff ple have diff taste...U've got to listen and appreciate this album with a new prespective. It's nothing like e previous ones, not as melodic. So if u r a person tt prefers singer to croon in their usual way, music in a single style and not tt receptive to new music concepts, u'r prolly not gonna like this. I prefer changes in every album, in all songs in the album... I'm a person who'll realli hold the lyrics booklet close and scrutinise every detail, for albums that i bother to buy of cos! I'll definitely check out the credits and e thank you speeches, for I wanna know who's involved in e production, who did the backup, the arrangements and who wrote e songs, as well as any other artistes who may hv collaborated. And i like to find out e stories behind each mv... so u'll understand e mv tog w e song. Thou most mvs dun hv any meaning... FYI, he worked with the 12 Girls Band... And there's a tribute to Anita... A song specially writtened for her...

Ok tt's all I have to say at the sci canteen.. haha If u've heard the album share ur reviews too!


=Perhaps, moving forward is not always progress for mankind=
Melis

ReBorn

Do you believe in reincarnation? Children speak of their past lives with such vivid memories that perhaps, perhaps u'll believe in it...There are actually studies and research conducted on reincarnation since many many yrs ago and here through the documentary, the professors take us along their journey....

Case 1: A teenager in a part of Sri Lanka talks abt her "real fmly"(fmly in previous life) in another part of the country. She remembers clearly the place she once lived, the lake, the bridge and the pleatau and how she had drowned in that very lake. A reporter reported on it and 3 weeks later a snail mail sent from the other part of Sri Lanka reached the fmly the teenager was born into now. Their daughter had died exactly at the same spot. N they lived at where the teenager had described. When taken back to where she had lived in her previous life, she was able to direct the driver on how to get back to her previous home. She instantly recognised her parents upon arrival. She cried. And from her behaviour she was so much more at ease and was more willing to communicate. She took the professor for a walk and pointed out where she was pushed into the lake while playing. Everything she had revealed was now right in front of her eyes...

Case 2: A lil boy aged 5, started to talk abt his grandad one day. He was his own grandad. When he was one and a half yrs old, while his dad was changing his daipers, the lil boy said "When you were lil, i used to change your diapers the way u do now" His dad was taken aback. One day while his parents was reminiscing the photos of his dad, his son came along and pointed at grandad " That's me". He couldn't have seen his grandad before as he was born one yr after his grandad passed away and he had nv seen his grandad's pix. And when his dad plays baseball with him, he'll recall how they used to play baseball together, only with roles exchanged. Not only that, the boy had revealed to his dad that grandaunt had died. And that "bad ple harmed her". Until recently dad was told that his aunt was brot to San Francisco and murdered . It had been a fmly secret...

Case 3: A boy aged 6 was suffering from heart disease and he too started tokin abt his grandad. Grandad was a policeman and was shot to death by a robber right in the heart. The boy's defective spot in the heart was exactly the same spot where his grandad was shot. One day when his mum threatened to beat him up if he continued to misbehave he blurt out"You know what, when you were lil, I had nv beaten u up no matter how mischievous u got." He started to tok so much abt his grandad that his parents are now convinced that his was indeed the reincarnated grandad. He wouldn't have known so much...


Coincidences you might say... Or too much of a coincidence u might think... Researchers had tried to find out the probability of how much chance had played a part. They did. Children were told to make up stories and the researchers matched actual characters and deaths to those stories. One came to 90% close. But none was able to explain Case 3, where the heart was involved. Coincidence again u might think... Mayb someone could tell me...What do you think?

The Answered Prayer

Had a hunch. Even had a dream. The first thing i did when i woke up was to check my mail.

Much to my relieve... Thank God my prayer is answered.

I'm so thankful to all those who helped and all those who kept me in their prayers. U r of tremendous help.

I can really have a Happy New Year! N i hope it's a happy one for everyone too!

Am I beginning to sound very religious?


=Everything happens for a reason=
Melis

In love with Mac

I'm a Mac user. N i'm proud of that! But this blog doesnt go well with mac... I wud very much like to share my pictures w my dear readers. But the software is only Windows compatible.

Any idea on how to solve this thingy?

=N I want my ipod shuffle=
Melis

Love Bizarre

Mum was flipping thru my bdae pics... N there she goes again pointing at a guy in the pic.
"He's not bad looking, he's got the height, he's got the build and moreover, he's a doctor-to-be!" She's been tellin me this since my bdae...

Lil does she know that... he's actuali my ex... Hee

Yes mum it's the umpteenth time u've asked me to find myself a bf!

Soon soon.... I hope. Haha

Sweetie Ling sms-ed today with an excitable tone(Yah I can feel it thru the msg lol). She saw my ex-crush.... according to her, still as good lookin as ever. No wonder it lasted 2 years....


=Where is the Love=
Melis

Friends

Friends are not forever. Here referring to close or good friends. Look at your parents, how many of them have close friends? Or even friends?

Friends are friends because their paths crossed, because they need each other, for company and more. Perhaps they share common interests, common goals and ideas. But seasons change, feelings change, life changes and people change. When they share less in common, when they no longer need each other and when they've found something or someone more important in their lives, friends drift apart. Close friends are no longer close. They are replaced by other things in life.

This is inevitable. This is but a phase of life. This is part and parcel of life. This is life.

Ultimately, u r the only person u can depend on. You are your own best friend.


=What are friends for?(literally)=
Melis

The Awakening

After much complications.... and help from a friend, my blog is finally up... U know who u r...
Hence here is a tribute to U!... Thx so much! In the end I solved the problem in sch... Anyways wanna let u noe again that u shouldn't hide your feelings but like I've said, "Do what you r comfortable with"

Actually I have a couple of things to share in my very first entry. Seriously I dun reali care if anyone bothers to read my blog(yah thou it'll be on my msn nick)... It's jus a medium to let out my feelings and to speak my mind(of cos not in every case).

The day started out real bad. Well that was perhaps a problem or a mistake that was around for a few years now, jus that i din realise it up til this day. N it's serious, i can't think of the consequences. Afterall I might not be able to graduate this sem... I dun wana take one bloody module and pay like close to 3K for tt! But I mite just have to do tt... cant think of any backup plans but i shall jus await good news from the helpful lady... *blank mind* dun ask me abt it, dun make me tok when i dun feel like it at all...i've done all i could now so no point worrying about it either...But I cant help it!!

Well met a friend whom i dun contact but will meet by chance. Everytime i see tt fren of mine, i'll get pretty upset, my heart twinges. I'll think of the things he did and the things we did together. Yes I know it is insignificant, afterall he wouldn't know. But suprisingly I wasn't upset today, he was prolly at the back of my mind. Perhaps i was more upset abt the above mentioned matter... But right now as i'm typing i feel nostalgic. God knows... mayb i'm stil affected.

Couple of things going through my head right now... Dun hv e energy to carry on...Leave the rest for next time. Sounds like i'm in a real bad mess for my 1st blog...I guess i reali m.

=I can only Pray=
Melis