C'est bon!
J'ai une semaine agréable. Je télécharge un film, "La Belle et la bête", c'est en le français et c'est tres sympa! J'ai un autre film, "Le Dîner de Cons". C'est une comédie mais, je ne comprend pas. :( Je souhaite que mon français est meilleure!
Les nombres, ils sont un peu difficil. A écouter et a parler, c'est tres difficil aussi. Mais a lire et a écrire, c'est un peu plus facile. Je suis desolée, je ne suis pas bonne en français maintenant, mais j'espere pouvoir améliorer rapidement. :)
Labels: Francoblog
@ 7:36 PM
Regarding current affairs
As stand-up comedian Dylan Moran said before,
Why do I need to read the papers? Keep myself updated about current affairs? But I'm CURRENTly living now! How "current" can this get?
Well, something like that. You get the gist. We don't need more matters to screw our minds with since we are living in the now, the present, and one nanosecond ago is history.
But of course, that is just a parody, a joke made out of everyday things.
As for me, I don't like reading the papers. Yes they are short snippets of information that is bite-sized, but it's precisely because they are short snippets, that we can't get much useful information from there. It's biased. I don't have a problem with that, no, it's out of human interest and we are non-immune to mistakes anyway. But it's not fully useless though; it's still a good source of one-sided viewpoints and filtered facts to feed the cursory browsing and not-so-suspecting readers' minds, those who just wanna know what happened in the world or locally, and not really give a damn about it. Pretty much you see those who take the news seriously are people who have an active mind and they think and question about various aspects of it rather than absorbing everything and squeezing them out when they're done.
Given a choice (of course, choices are everywhere for you to take), I would choose watching debates. The trickier the topic, the more interesting it is. Yeah, apart from the kick one gets when you watch them squabbling. But from debates we can see two or more viewpoints, we can learn more about the interests of each party, and then based on our own judgment, decide for ourselves whose stand we choose to take. I don't know, I just feel happier watching a well-thrashed out debate rather than the news. I am not too fond of reading the news.
So unless they are announcements on fully factual and objective events or the like (for example "there will be a concert at xxx theatre this sunday at 3pm" -- but then even that may be prone to typo as well), don't assume that everything the newspapers say is right. There is no right or wrong.
@ 6:22 PM
Last day of holidays
There is one thing I must take note: never put something till a later date/time. Because in the meantime I would either forget about it, pretend to forget about it, or simply not do it at all. Strange thing is that I might get it done in the end after all, but it's still not a very good habit eh... in the end I would be rather half-hearted and without the initial vigour.
And there's one thing about msn nicks, facebook statuses and tweets. What is the point of them, exactly? I fall victim to them as well. People post wonderful quotes from some famous dead person, emo statements about how sucky their lives are, random stuff like "I'm wearing my tweety-bird PJs now", song lyrics, "I need to do this. Like now." I mean, yeah well, that's a nice quote, your life does suck but so does mine, just face it manz, who cares about your pyjamas, what is that song for, are you singing it, and okay, do what, go and do it for goodness sake! It's quite funny when you really think about them now, because if that is a platform for you to tell the world your thoughts,... well it's just rather funny anyway. Actually eventually, no one really takes such things seriously. We log in to facebook or twitter, we see our tens or hundreds of friends (some we never even talked to in the past 10 years or so) posting snippets of their lives (alright, I don't give a damn, but let me post mine now too!), and then we realise there ain't no notifications for today, then we log out. Probably something big-sounding happens, like "Oh I am so sad today" and when people comment or IM you asking what happened, the reply goes "oh it's nothing, i'm fine. Really."
But like I say, I fall victim to that too. Lol.
Anyway! School is starting tomorrow, after only one week of holidays. But it's actually alright after all, because I slept more, finished my report of around 50 odd pages after staying at home and gluing myself to my macbook for two whole days, cleared up my room a bit, met up with old friends, learnt how to cycle a bit, got my back and arms burnt under the hot sun, and entertained my baby cousin! Hahaha... It was a rather nice week and I wish the break was longer (I really dread going back to school, ugh). I love waking up when the sun is bright and high in sky instead of when it's barely rising!
Labels: Updates
@ 11:24 AM
New hairstyle for the new year
I cut off my long hair! It's short throughout now, but just to make a note, this is my ideal style of hair:
Cool right? xD
@ 12:10 AM
R.I.P. The Rev, Jimmy Sullivan
It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we tell you of the passing today of Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan. Jimmy was not only one of the world's best drummers, but more importantly he was our best friend and brother. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jimmy's family and we hope that you will respect their privacy during this difficult time.
Jimmy you are forever in our hearts.
We love you.M Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance and Johnny Christ
From http://www.avengedsevenfold.com/
You will be missed...Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan. Born February 10, 1981. Died December 28, 2009. Rest In Peace.
From http://www.mychemicalromance.com/
One of the world's best drummers, indeed. He is a great talent. That is without a doubt. He died at a very young age of 28. He was my one and only idol drummer ever, and he inspired me to an enormous extent to want to learn drums, though I haven't started to learn it yet.
At first I saw it on Frankie's twitter messages, and I thought it was a short form of someone else's name. I totally forgot about it soon after. Then today after I got home I had a nagging feeling, so I googled "The Rev" to view some of his drum solos. Then I saw on the very first search result: "James Owen Sullivan (February 10, 1981 – December 28, 2009)", did a double take, and launched an entire search for the news. It was real.
The cause was unknown, but it was a coroner's case. (http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-9259-Celebrity-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m12d29-Jimmy-Sullivan-The-Rev-found-dead)
In any case, A7X will be very different without him. He was the heartbeat of the band, he wrote awesome songs, and he completely changed my perception of noisy metal music.
Here is a song written by him:
Like walking into a dream, so unlike what you've seen
so unsure but it seems, ’cause we’ve been waiting for you
Fallen into this place, just giving you a small taste
of your afterlife here so stay, you'll be back here soon anyway
I see a distant light, but girl this can't be right
Such a surreal place to see so how did this come to be
Arrived too early
And when I think of all the places I just don't belong
I've come to grips with life and realize this is going too far
I don't belong here, we gotta move on dear escape from this afterlife
’Cause this time I'm right to move on and on, far away from here
A place of hope and no pain, perfect skies with no rain
Can leave this place but refrain, ’cause we've been waiting for you
Fallen into this place, just giving you a small taste
of your afterlife here so stay, you'll be back here soon anyway
This peace on earth's not right (with my back against the wall)
No pain or sign of time (I’m much too young to fall)
So out of place don't wanna stay, I feel wrong and that's my sign
I've made up my mind
Gave me your hand but realize I just wanna say goodbye
Please understand I have to leave and carry on my own life
I don't belong here, I gotta move on dear escape from this afterlife
’Cause this time I'm right to move on and on, far away from here
Got nothing against you and surely I'll miss you
This place full of peace and light, and I’d hope you might
take me back inside when the time is right
Loved ones back home all crying ’cause they're already missing me
I pray by the grace of God that there's somebody listening
Give me a chance to be that person I wanna be
(I am unbroken; I’m choking on this ecstasy)
Oh Lord I'll try so hard but you gotta let go of me
(Unbreak me, unchain me, I need another chance to live)
I don't belong here, I gotta move on dear escape from this afterlife
’Cause this time I'm right to move on and on, far away from here
Got nothing against you and surely I'll miss you
This place full of peace and light, and I’d hope you might
take me back inside when the time is right
Hope he finds peace in afterlife.
@ 9:36 PM
It's Xmas eve!
Half day of work today! Was able to go home at 12.30pm and it's such a nice feeling to be home at this time on a weekday. xD Imagine everyone squishing around doing last minute shopping while people like me are slacking away at home... the weather is cool, there'll be music later, and NO WORK TOMORROW! Awesomeness!!!
Haven't had the motivation to blog much recently. Don't ask, it's a come-and-go kinda thing, one moment I'm on a blogging spree and another I'm not. Swinging back and forth. Anyway, tummy still isn't in the best of states, head isn't either, I'm just lacking of energy everyday and losing concentration every minute. Sounds bad eh? I think it's the weather. Never mind. I've decided to not mind the ipod touch issue for now, it works as long as I don't turn it off, just put it to sleep mode. On top of that, I still need to finish writing my french notes, which have been left off because I didn't have time to complete it last week (and once something is left off, it'll be quite a while before it is resumed lol). Then there's a card to make, a report to write, music to think of, boxing day performance to settle.
Speaking of which, it was the first time I jammed till MIDNIGHT on Saturday!!! It was really fun, the entire volunteer room to ourselves, just making music, so on and so forth... I wanna do that again! Anyway IMH isn't exactly very far from my place. It's rather secluded yes, but if there are people to walk out with me / send me home it'll be pretty feasible.
There are movies to watch too! In cinemas, at home... a colleague's sent me some nice movies which I haven't had the chance to watch yet. And there are so many new movies showing now. Hmm... will I have the time to watch all of them? xD Besides I need to fill up 3 more movies to be able to auto-renew my GV card for free! But there are only... 7 days left! :S
@ 2:56 PM
A problematic ipod touch
Okay I encountered some problems with the new ipod touch. Firstly, the applications sometimes can't load: when I press it, the load screen comes out for less than one second and disappears, and poof! I'm back to ipod home page. Yucks. I found solutions online: download a new application and install it, it'll work fine again. Sure I did that, and yes it worked. BUT!!! It couldn't connect to wireless@sg at my workplace so the entire day, from the moment I woke up all the way until I got home again, i COULD NOT USE ANY OF THE APPLICATIONS I DOWNLOADED!!! Boohoo... Both the app crashes and the wireless problem thing seem to be a problem for a few other users as well, and yeah it sucks. I've emailed an Apple reseller for help and I'm waiting for a reply. Hope to get it fixed, if it's fixable. But I won't say that Apple products suck just because of this problem; it's probably a bug that they haven't gotten around to fixing yet (iphones don't seem to have such problems though... weird).
@ 7:22 PM
