Friday, October 19, 2007
Tag, or "How I should be studying instead"
Once again, exams loom over the horizon, like a swarm of locusts homing in on a field of helpless crops. In that sense, I am a cob of corn that's about to get ravaged by the insects.
Metaphors aside, I've found that I tend to blog more often during exam periods. Normally, I'd be far too busy with classes and activities to the extent that I've no time left to blog about said activities. It's a vicious cycle too; as more things happen, the more I have to blog, and the more I have to blog, the more time I must set aside to write about those things.
But now that said things have (almost) come to a halt, the only priorities remaining are exams and choir practices. And as such, I have time to respond to this silly little tag by my friend Kwan Wen Ching:
5 things found in my room
1. A comfy single bed
2. A whiteboard where nothing gets written
3. The computer on which I am typing now
4. Posters and drawings on the wall
5. A pair of dumbbells I very rarely use
5 things I've always wanted to do
1. Skydive
2. Bungee jump
3. Backpack around the world
4. Visit all the Six Flags parks in USA...multiple times
5. Write a novel (heh heh heh...)
5 things found in my bag
1. Di dalam begku ada pensel box
2. Di dalamnya ada pensel (yang besar)
3. My note-filled files
4. Kingston 1GB Data Traveler 2
5. A scientific calculator and a financial calculator
5 things found in my wallet
1. Money (duh!)
2. A post-it to-do list
3. A namecard for a guy who works at WWF Malaysia
4. A namecard for a girl who's a member of Malaysian Nature Society
5. An assortment of personal ID cards
5 things I am currently into
1. Happy thing number three
2. My exams (oh joy)
3. Preparing for the choir trip
4. Downloading House and Heroes
5. Facebook (although its novelty is dying down extremely fast)
5 persons to be tagged
1. You
2. Thou
3. Thee
4. Thine
5. Thingamabob
And I'm spent.
Pointless Fact of the Day:
This isn't a fact, this is a plug! If you're into console RPGs (Final Fantasy and the like), you might be interested in this gem of an independent film by Mark Leung (a Singaporean friend of a friend studying in the US of A) entitled College Saga. You can search it up on Youtube, too, it's brilliant! And it has amazing special effects (for an independent production) to boot!
Metaphors aside, I've found that I tend to blog more often during exam periods. Normally, I'd be far too busy with classes and activities to the extent that I've no time left to blog about said activities. It's a vicious cycle too; as more things happen, the more I have to blog, and the more I have to blog, the more time I must set aside to write about those things.
But now that said things have (almost) come to a halt, the only priorities remaining are exams and choir practices. And as such, I have time to respond to this silly little tag by my friend Kwan Wen Ching:
5 things found in my room
1. A comfy single bed
2. A whiteboard where nothing gets written
3. The computer on which I am typing now
4. Posters and drawings on the wall
5. A pair of dumbbells I very rarely use
5 things I've always wanted to do
1. Skydive
2. Bungee jump
3. Backpack around the world
4. Visit all the Six Flags parks in USA...multiple times
5. Write a novel (heh heh heh...)
5 things found in my bag
1. Di dalam begku ada pensel box
2. Di dalamnya ada pensel (yang besar)
3. My note-filled files
4. Kingston 1GB Data Traveler 2
5. A scientific calculator and a financial calculator
5 things found in my wallet
1. Money (duh!)
2. A post-it to-do list
3. A namecard for a guy who works at WWF Malaysia
4. A namecard for a girl who's a member of Malaysian Nature Society
5. An assortment of personal ID cards
5 things I am currently into
1. Happy thing number three
2. My exams (oh joy)
3. Preparing for the choir trip
4. Downloading House and Heroes
5. Facebook (although its novelty is dying down extremely fast)
5 persons to be tagged
1. You
2. Thou
3. Thee
4. Thine
5. Thingamabob
And I'm spent.
Pointless Fact of the Day:
This isn't a fact, this is a plug! If you're into console RPGs (Final Fantasy and the like), you might be interested in this gem of an independent film by Mark Leung (a Singaporean friend of a friend studying in the US of A) entitled College Saga. You can search it up on Youtube, too, it's brilliant! And it has amazing special effects (for an independent production) to boot!
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
I've Moved It. Now I Move On.
27th to 30th September - Move It!Let me begin by saying this: The YKLS concert, Move It!, was a success! Yeah, yeah, I've been promoting it incessantly, but to all of you who didn't go, it was your own loss; of the five shows, we sold out four of them, to the extent that people were willing to pay RM20 for a seat on the steps! Of course, no amount of description will do justice to the music we made that night... unless if it's done by a professional critic. Therefore, click on this link to read a constructive review by Eddy Chin, printed in The Star.
Alternatively, just take a look at a couple of pictures taken during production week. The resolutions aren't that great (there were all taken off various Facebook albums and blogs), but they'll do.
Getting made up for the program. Observe the monkey-like hair-picking action in this picture.
The YKLS Chamber Choir, sans Tracy Wong.
Boon Dat, Mitchell and I.
The following photos were taken during the show itself by Kelab Shashin Fotografi Kuala Lumpur, stolen from Ian's blog.
The guys during "Sansa Kroma", an African game song.
This is "I'se the Bye" (i.e. I'm the Boy) about life in Newfoundland.
"Light at the End of the Tunnel" from Andrew Lloyd Weber's Starlight Express.
The chamber choir singing "Yang Indah", from M the Opera.
On the Sunday night of every production, the YKLS would head off to a restaurant somewhere for their cast party. This year, we had it at Chef and Brew (as we did last October) and the theme was...
...the 70's!!! And to imagine that just a week earlier I was stuck in the 30's.
How ya doin?
The top candidates for best dressed. The flowers were pasted on us as votes.
Four of us doing the YMCA...
...which led to everybody else joining in the fun.
Everybody knows that I can't dance for peanuts, but what's so great about dances of the 70's is that people were coming up with all sorts of silly dances back then; no matter I moved on the dance floor, I wasn't very far off from whatever they were doing back in the 70's! Groovy!
1st to 5th October - Monash Student Council Elections
I can still recall last year's hell week... Thankfully, the concert coincided with Monash's mid-semester break, and the Student Council elections came only the week after; if both fell on the same week like they did last year I would've died already.
Anyway, for those of you not in the know, I ran again for the Student Council this year. I ran for the School of Business Representative (Male) position last year, winning uncontested under the ticket/party SPEAK. This year, my great pal Darren Ng Peck Yun (I have to keep using his full name because some know him as Darren and some as Peck Yun, sigh) got permission to reuse the SPEAK name, forming a party of 25 people with himself as a presidential candidate. I ran for the post of Treasurer.
Two other parties campaigned as well, BLAZE and VOICE. As you might deduce from the following pictures of us campaigning, our party colour was green, much like PAS, hahaha... And we had pretty cool-looking campaigning T-shirts too! In lime green to boot!
Briefing on the first day of campaigning.
This is how our party board looks like.
Shazeea (Vice President) and I micing up our guest performer, Palki. She's good at the guitar and has a sweet, hypnotic voice; almost exactly like that girl from The Cranberries. She's so talented!
Not to be outdone, Shazeea and I did an a capella duet of Can't Take My Eyes Off You.
The white dog here is unofficially known as the 'Monash Dog' for hanging around on campus all the time. And she's so friendly too. On Monday, we found a green piece of cloth tied around her neck; was she campaigning for us? Heh heh...
On Tuesday, we had the presidential debate. Quite a good turnout, I must add.
The Treasurer, Vice President and President up on stage, with the debate moderator Nigesh looking on. We answered quite a number of relevant and interesting questions from the floor and from our opposition.
We went all out on Wednesday. People love performances, so we delivered; three amps, four mics and one complete drum kit! The first complete rock band(s) to ever play outdoors on the new Monash campus!
There were a total of ten or so people playing that day; here's three of them. All of them kicked ass (compared to what the other two parties came up with, heh heh...)!
We didn't do take too many interesting photos on Thursday and Friday, the latter of which we were only allowed to campaign until 12pm. So now, it's time for the obligatory syok sendiri pictures for the week; of course, despite the serious issues in our party agenda such as student rights and Student Council transparency and whatnot, deep down inside we were all complete whackjobs:
Adam Riff who ran for Business Rep Male, my current post in the council, posing all Spartan-like. Just so you know, we borrowed the "Spartans! What is your profession?" chant from the movie 300 as our party warcry. "Ah-hoo! Ah-hoo! Ah-hoo!"
Hell, we even made a party flag! It's simple, but hey, a party flag!
Shazeea has a friggin' cute hat of that Toy Story alien. And it's lime green too!
No idea what they were doing here.
Joyce who ran as one of the Activities Chairpersons.
Me with an ultra-cool jumpshot!
Thankfully, there wasn't as much drama plaguing this year's elections compared to last year's. In fact, I really did enjoy campaigning for the post; SPEAK was full of interesting, intelligent, crazy and whacky people that made it the whole experience such a blast. I thank all of them (except for a select few that didn't really appear much during elections week; there's always those few deviant characters, sigh). Love you guys!
But the best part didn't end at the campaigning. Results were released at almost 11pm on Friday night, after several hours of vote counting. This elections also marked the highest number of votes ever cast in a Student Council Elections, a whopping 1,300 (exactly!) votes, representing 41% of the student population. Here's the vote tally for all to see:
We were so bloody pleasantly shocked at the landslide victory our party won. Go SPEAK! We friggin' did something right! And thus, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Monash Student Council of 2008:
Happy happy joy joy. I also finally finished my Contemporary Television Studies assignment on House (the award-winning medical drama) on Friday, thus making it three happy things to have occured on Friday.
Wait a sec... Happy thing number one: Won the elections. Happy thing number two: Finish overdue assignment. What's happy thing number three then?
*Cough* *Cough*
Check this spot for updates, people. Oh, the suspense! Heh heh.
Pointless Fact of the Day:
Try licking your elbow Wait, done that already. Well, have you ever heard of the Darwin Awards? It's this website (now a bestselling book series!) which gives out awards named after the pioneering evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin. According to them:
Click this link for an example of a Darwin Award winner. It's the ultimate form of schadenfreude and sadism, but you really can't help but laugh sometimes.
Alternatively, just take a look at a couple of pictures taken during production week. The resolutions aren't that great (there were all taken off various Facebook albums and blogs), but they'll do.
Getting made up for the program. Observe the monkey-like hair-picking action in this picture.
The YKLS Chamber Choir, sans Tracy Wong.
Boon Dat, Mitchell and I.The following photos were taken during the show itself by Kelab Shashin Fotografi Kuala Lumpur, stolen from Ian's blog.
The guys during "Sansa Kroma", an African game song.
This is "I'se the Bye" (i.e. I'm the Boy) about life in Newfoundland.
"Light at the End of the Tunnel" from Andrew Lloyd Weber's Starlight Express.
The chamber choir singing "Yang Indah", from M the Opera.On the Sunday night of every production, the YKLS would head off to a restaurant somewhere for their cast party. This year, we had it at Chef and Brew (as we did last October) and the theme was...
...the 70's!!! And to imagine that just a week earlier I was stuck in the 30's.
How ya doin?
The top candidates for best dressed. The flowers were pasted on us as votes.
Four of us doing the YMCA...
...which led to everybody else joining in the fun.
Everybody knows that I can't dance for peanuts, but what's so great about dances of the 70's is that people were coming up with all sorts of silly dances back then; no matter I moved on the dance floor, I wasn't very far off from whatever they were doing back in the 70's! Groovy!
1st to 5th October - Monash Student Council Elections
I can still recall last year's hell week... Thankfully, the concert coincided with Monash's mid-semester break, and the Student Council elections came only the week after; if both fell on the same week like they did last year I would've died already.
Anyway, for those of you not in the know, I ran again for the Student Council this year. I ran for the School of Business Representative (Male) position last year, winning uncontested under the ticket/party SPEAK. This year, my great pal Darren Ng Peck Yun (I have to keep using his full name because some know him as Darren and some as Peck Yun, sigh) got permission to reuse the SPEAK name, forming a party of 25 people with himself as a presidential candidate. I ran for the post of Treasurer.
Two other parties campaigned as well, BLAZE and VOICE. As you might deduce from the following pictures of us campaigning, our party colour was green, much like PAS, hahaha... And we had pretty cool-looking campaigning T-shirts too! In lime green to boot!
Briefing on the first day of campaigning.
This is how our party board looks like.
Shazeea (Vice President) and I micing up our guest performer, Palki. She's good at the guitar and has a sweet, hypnotic voice; almost exactly like that girl from The Cranberries. She's so talented!
Not to be outdone, Shazeea and I did an a capella duet of Can't Take My Eyes Off You.
The white dog here is unofficially known as the 'Monash Dog' for hanging around on campus all the time. And she's so friendly too. On Monday, we found a green piece of cloth tied around her neck; was she campaigning for us? Heh heh...
On Tuesday, we had the presidential debate. Quite a good turnout, I must add.
The Treasurer, Vice President and President up on stage, with the debate moderator Nigesh looking on. We answered quite a number of relevant and interesting questions from the floor and from our opposition.
We went all out on Wednesday. People love performances, so we delivered; three amps, four mics and one complete drum kit! The first complete rock band(s) to ever play outdoors on the new Monash campus!
There were a total of ten or so people playing that day; here's three of them. All of them kicked ass (compared to what the other two parties came up with, heh heh...)!We didn't do take too many interesting photos on Thursday and Friday, the latter of which we were only allowed to campaign until 12pm. So now, it's time for the obligatory syok sendiri pictures for the week; of course, despite the serious issues in our party agenda such as student rights and Student Council transparency and whatnot, deep down inside we were all complete whackjobs:
Adam Riff who ran for Business Rep Male, my current post in the council, posing all Spartan-like. Just so you know, we borrowed the "Spartans! What is your profession?" chant from the movie 300 as our party warcry. "Ah-hoo! Ah-hoo! Ah-hoo!"
Hell, we even made a party flag! It's simple, but hey, a party flag!
Shazeea has a friggin' cute hat of that Toy Story alien. And it's lime green too!
No idea what they were doing here.
Joyce who ran as one of the Activities Chairpersons.
Me with an ultra-cool jumpshot!Thankfully, there wasn't as much drama plaguing this year's elections compared to last year's. In fact, I really did enjoy campaigning for the post; SPEAK was full of interesting, intelligent, crazy and whacky people that made it the whole experience such a blast. I thank all of them (except for a select few that didn't really appear much during elections week; there's always those few deviant characters, sigh). Love you guys!
But the best part didn't end at the campaigning. Results were released at almost 11pm on Friday night, after several hours of vote counting. This elections also marked the highest number of votes ever cast in a Student Council Elections, a whopping 1,300 (exactly!) votes, representing 41% of the student population. Here's the vote tally for all to see:
We were so bloody pleasantly shocked at the landslide victory our party won. Go SPEAK! We friggin' did something right! And thus, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Monash Student Council of 2008:
Happy happy joy joy. I also finally finished my Contemporary Television Studies assignment on House (the award-winning medical drama) on Friday, thus making it three happy things to have occured on Friday.
Wait a sec... Happy thing number one: Won the elections. Happy thing number two: Finish overdue assignment. What's happy thing number three then?
*Cough* *Cough*
Check this spot for updates, people. Oh, the suspense! Heh heh.
Pointless Fact of the Day:
The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it...