Monday, June 29, 2009

許哲珮 - 美好的


第一時間買了這張專輯。

對2007年《許願盒》專輯 非常喜愛,對她的全創作才華深深吸引,對她的概念專輯當然不能錯過。這次雖然只有7首歌(因爲不久之後又會再發行秋冬專輯),但音樂作品上是多元化的,也有一定的新鮮感,音樂不再沉悶,不會再“方程式”,不會boring。

喜歡類似《古德奈先生》的風格,很好玩的感覺,雖然專輯曲風走孩子氣歌路,但至少歌聲適合,不會覺得很假。專輯也有《美好的》和《你在我心上》典型慢歌,唱的時候也很有味道。

聼聼《日光戀人》也是很不一樣的感覺。

其實有時候就是期待像這樣的驚喜,就是很意想不到,但又不致于難聽或太非主流而引起不了共鳴。

如果不喜歡太另類的曲風,聼聼比較安全的《美好的》和《你在我心上》,畢竟是真的很討好!

Rating: 4/5

曹格 - 超级4th场


“超級”系列來到了第四張專輯,歌曲依然精彩。

聼曹格唱歌,是在尋找很有趣的曲風,也期待驚喜,精彩的音樂。這次,我覺得《寂寞先生》的風格很適合。這首歌有點黑暗,單聼編曲就感覺很灰灰的,有說不出來的寂寞及傷感,默默承受著,是有點悲哀。

雖然很曹格的歌曲如《借我一輩子》和《入戯》,但專輯依然精彩和有一定的新鮮感,曹格的唱腔獨特,已成了經典,對於他獨有的曲風就如和周傑倫一樣,雖然靠著方程式,但是音樂依然是動聽又給人耳目一新的感覺。

和別人不一樣,音樂道路才會走得長久。

聼聼在六月份當中音樂比較豐富的專輯吧!

Rating: 4/5

Sunday, June 28, 2009

SCAMP 2009

Yes, i just came back from science camp 2009 from 22th june to 26th june. The 5D4N camp was indeed very enjoyable with a lot of interesting and fun activities packed together to have endless laughter and joy. It was tiring because we did not have enough sleep all the time and sometimes we behaved like zombies but all in all, the seniors did a good job in coordinating all the activities and making them happen and running things smoothly.

I am lazy to post all the details from day 1 to day 5 but generally the water/dirty games (played in day 3) and the beach games (played in day 4) were the best activities in the camp. The games were thrilling and even though there was competition between different OGs, it was more of a friendly competition, nobody really wanted to win that badly that kind, which was good actually so wun 撕破臉, although our OG lost most of the time haha, so when we won any games, it would be great morale booster haha.

On day 2, we went for amazing race throughout the singapore island and ended up in alohi chalet and the night activity was to explore some blocks of abandoned buildings in OG level. Some of the games were rather demoralising because without lighting it was rather irritating to try to play some games and when the difficulty of the games was rather high, it was sian when we kept on failing to complete the task. Since we could not just give up, we lan lan have to complete it somehow and this process could be very sian diao at times (joel should know what i am toking - i have tried my best to HOLD IT so i wun BLAST OUT ALL THE TINY DETAILS OF THE "GAME" we talked about with Jann HAHA!!!!!!)

And yes, the camp was fun. Meeting new people, meeting nice and fun people and doing stupid things together to have fun. Looking forward to Science Orientation Week to meet more chemistry major people :D

Photos of SCAMP 09 can be found in my facebook account.

Brooks Republic Run 2009

Went for this mass public run event (knew this event through hwachong EMB) with jun hao - 5km run which is a pretty good warm up practice run for the Singapore Bay Run on 16th aug (10km) haha. Anyway, morning dunno why but i OVERSLEPT. Lucky jh called me to wake me up so i can ZB down to republic poly in time to start off the run.

The distance was rather short so in no time the run was finished, but everyone was waiting for the lucky draw - 1st prize being a Chevrolet car and 2nd/3rd prize was 42" LCD TV with lots of other vouchers, but it seemd that most of the prizes went to all the aunties who participated in the fun walk.

Today was supposed to register and book the genting trip in mid july but gum wanted more time to deliberate so didn't book in time...dunno what would be the outcome.

Tmr will be starting work again - invigilating block test papers. Hope it would be smooth haha.

第20届金曲奖得獎名單

最佳演唱組合獎
南王姐妹花/南王姐妹花同名專輯/角頭文化事業股份有限公司

最佳編曲人獎
Martin Tan/As Love Begins to Mend《Start From Here》/臺灣索尼音樂
娛樂股份有限公司

最佳年度歌曲獎
稻香《魔杰座》/杰威爾音樂有限公司

最佳音樂錄影帶獎
魔術先生《魔杰座》/杰威爾音樂有限公司(導演:周杰倫)

最佳樂團獎
五月天(阿信、怪獸、瑪莎、冠佑、石頭)/後青春期的詩/相信音樂國際股份有限公司

最佳作詞人獎
巫宇軒/電車內面《甲你攬牢牢》/阿爾發音樂股份有限公司

最佳新人獎
盧廣仲/100種生活/添翼創越工作室

最佳作曲人獎
盧廣仲/100種生活《100種生活》/添翼創越工作室

最佳單曲製作人獎
王治平、郭文宗/眼色《神秘嘉賓》/華研國際音樂股份有限公司

最佳專輯製作人獎
陳建年/南王姐妹花同名專輯/角頭文化事業股份有限公司

最佳國語女歌手獎
陳珊妮/如果有一件事是重要的/大樂音樂企業社

最佳國語男歌手獎
周傑倫/魔傑座/傑威爾音樂有限公司

最佳國語專輯獎
不想放手/上華國際企業股份有限公司

張惠妹 - 阿密特


出道多年,在音樂上求的只是另一個突破。

這張專輯讓我聯想到ayumi hamasaki的next level專輯,走比較另類非主流路綫,嘗試和以往不一樣的曲風,爲了是給聽衆驚喜和在音樂作品上有些突破,給人一種新鮮感。

這次張惠妹玩起搖滾風,和以前妹式情歌差很多,雖然沒有以前的抒情情歌來得討喜,但唱了那麽多年的灑狗血的催淚情歌,是時候挑戰自己了。

還好沒有《也許明天》那麽不討好,這次搖滾風夠勁夠味,阿妹也算稱得起這類曲風,畢竟是天后級的唱將。

《分生》由姚若龍作詞,鄭楠作曲,是專輯最討好聽衆的歌曲,也適合阿密特主題,《黑吃黑》有一定的態度,大聲地唱"bullshit"別有一番風味,是不錯的嘗試。我也對鄭楠的創作感到蠻意外的,畢竟和之前寫給華研旗下歌手的歌曲和這首《分生》差蠻多的。

《掉了》由吳青峰词曲,風格有點周傑倫的影子,但琅琅上口,是專輯另一首比較主流的歌。

《相爱後动物感伤》搖滾得也很有味道,值得一聼。

《OK》由張惠妹以阿密特之名寫下曲,編曲方面讓整首歌加分不少。

說了那麽多,其實整個感覺是有的,很搖滾的專輯,也不會太吵鬧或太刻意,凴阿妹的歌聲也能讓歌曲表現出很有個性的態度和對音樂的熱忱

Rating: 3.5/5

Thursday, June 18, 2009

欧得洋 - 起飞 EP


自从欧得洋露脸之后,神秘的歌声已经得到了答案,但似乎听众在意的是他的真实面孔而不是他的歌声,总觉得有些可惜。

歌声洪亮又吸引人,是欧得洋的优点,而歌曲走温情派路线,也相当讨好,不会一味地说我爱你你爱我。

《起飞》EP收录了两首新歌,而新加坡的版本封面应该和其他地方不同,毕竟我google了一下,发现网上没有新加坡版本的封面。

而我post的封面是本地发行的EP封面,当然是因为我买了他的EP专辑啦!

其实还蛮自豪我有他前三张专辑的,他的歌曲既耐听又温暖,符合我听觉上的口味,虽然歌曲风格相似,没什么变化,但与其做不符合自己风格的音乐作品,倒不如坚持自己的风格品牌,满足听众的瘾。

这张EP专辑第一首歌《起飞》打着“振奋人心最新单曲”字眼,的确如此。很励志的歌,作为专辑的开场白也不错。

到了《我和你从未分手》这首典型欧得洋风格的抒情歌曲(其实是潘裕文之前唱过的歌曲,就装着不知道吧),就是整张专辑的卖点和精髓了。对我来说,这首歌和以往的抒情歌曲有点不同,不同在于它本身的感动度很高,而也是很温暖,很小男生的歌,听时格外地舒服。

Bridge过后的副歌方面把“我和你从未分手”的“手”拉音方面也恰到好处,似乎更加确定心里的感觉从来都没有失去爱过,心里的呐喊就这样表现出来,随着音乐的高潮起伏,让整首歌听的时候显得很warm,也容易引起共鸣。

期待欧得洋的正式专辑!

Rating: 4/5

My Workplace

Decided to take some photos of my workplace at the Science Research Centre in Hwa Chong high school section. Not bad right the workplace? What i like about here is the spacious environment, wun feel so cramped and knock onto others.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

宋念宇 - 就站在这里


專輯似乎很小角色,就是不大肆宣傳,但默默地做好專輯,對得起聽衆和自己。

聼過專輯之後,感覺其實很溫暖,有誠意的作品容易引起共鳴。

《就站在這裡》,《練愛》和《愛上》旋律很討好,記憶點也很重,接二連三的好歌,就已征服聽衆的口味了。

《說分手之後》和《Why》也相當不錯,而衆多歌曲也加入了一些對話,短短的字句讓歌曲輕鬆,好玩,有不錯的效果,其實聼音樂本來就是一種享受,而小宇的歌確實是一種享受。

到了《一颗苹果》,《漂亮女孩》,《Every Time》和《换换换》,就見仁見智了,很明顯的,這些歌曲和前幾首不大一樣,音樂比較豐富,但不是典型的“市場歌曲”,想玩音樂是好事,希望能夠遇到懂得欣賞的聽衆最重要。

Rating: 3.5/5

Alisa 高以愛 - 同名專輯


真沒想到她是冠以「星光血滴子」的封号,2008年曾在《超级星光大道》第二届凭猫王名曲的remix版本「Hound Dog+All Shook Up」和莫文蔚的「爱」而踢馆成功,打败众人看好的梁文音和魏如昀

以我看,號稱專輯是林夕和阿弟仔联手打造,但真是比想像差太多了。

電音舞曲在華語市場畢竟不討好,如果沒有萬分的信心和表現,很快就陷入很cheapskate的感覺。《Rock Your Body》和《我不是坏女孩》撐不起Alisa想邁向“下一個Rihanna”的目標,反而給人很吵的感覺。舞曲我也覺得沒什麽突出,只不過在華語市場少見罷了。

想走電音路綫,第三首歌突然又深情地唱《如果没有明天》起來,有點突然,畢竟曲風差太多,至少像Lady Gaga唱《Paparazzi》時雖然風格和其他舞曲不同,但不會顯得唐突。

其實專輯前幾首歌還好,還算可以,尤其市成名曲《Hound Dog》,別有一番風味,但到了《非你不可》就這個評價就跌入谷底了,第一次了解慢歌也可以那麽難聽,歌曲拿捏得太誇張了,而唱法很莫名其妙地over起來,聼得時候異常地辛苦,連斗音也很故意又不唯美。副歌方面唱高音時有顯得好像在走音,最大敗筆是歌曲的bridge和最後升key的部分,簡直是整首歌的disaster,太over了。

而爲什麽有《鉄蝴蝶》這首歌,跟之前Jolin的《花蝴蝶》歌名相似,炒新聞?而這首舞曲副歌歌詞簡直是cheap到不行,一直repeat同樣的歌詞,唱不sian聼都sian啦,ah woo...ah woo的,不懂整首歌想表達什麽。

縂覺得電音舞曲太過重了,很不討好,想表現動感一面,但專輯又“怕死”,收錄蠻多慢歌,想討好以下市場,所以最後出來的作品是要電音還是實力派歌路?而所謂的電音,只不過是吵鬧和顯得很廉價的feel,一點也不夠撐起整張專輯,而方向感也賠上了。

建議Alisa在唱腔上收斂以下,太過over的把全部聲音blast出來未必是實力派的表現。

Rating: 2/5

Thursday, June 11, 2009

自我為中心

“自我為中心”的意思很簡單,其實就是做什麽事情往往都會考慮到自己,自己有沒有獲得任何好處,有什麽收穫,無論是錢財方面還是為以後鋪路。我覺得多多少少每個人在做決定是都是想到自己的,而不是身邊的人。

難道是自私嗎?可是又有誰那麽偉大,100%地幫助別人?以前做的CIP,都是爲了所謂的portfolio,學生時期參與的活動,雖然以慈善名義,但還是不是100%真心的吧,多多少少是爲了portfolio多出來的印象分,爲了是以後獎學金的申請,鋪好路。

其實也沒有錯,事實本來就是這樣,人本來就是有那麽點私心,本來就不完美,何必去追求完美呢?只是覺得有點可惜,因爲如果對別人的想法一直都覺得有居心的話,生活真的很累,有時真的應該就算了吧。

所謂“自我為中心”,我想是不是有些人對朋友也是這樣呢?

也就是我稱它為superficial friends,就是停留在表面的朋友。很多人說自己有很多朋友,認識很多人,其實認識很多人和很多朋友是兩回事吧,朋友應該是可以掏心掏肺的知己,談得來,又會在生活上與你分享喜怒哀樂的人,而不是停留在表面功夫,找個topic或滑稽的東西來硬聊。

其實我很不喜歡聽到人家說“我認識很多朋友”,因爲我覺得朋友不可能有很多,因爲友情需要經營,不是突然之間變成朋友,然後人間蒸發,突然又來sms的那種感覺。

而往往說“有很多朋友”的人應該想自我提高地位吧,就是想證明自己很受歡迎,而最可笑的是故意認識一些大人物朋友,爲了以後鋪路“用得到他們”,像是醫生律師的,以後有discount,又划算。所謂的social networking,有時覺得很假,就是好像要爲了利用別人而去討好別人,很自然地稱爲“交朋友”。

說真的,世界上只有可以對父母有100%信任,而對朋友不能有100%的信任,雖然這句話很重,但我覺得是事實,也應該如此。當然,好朋友可以分享多一些私人秘密,但不至於分享你人生大大小小,不爲人知的秘密吧,每個人心裏一定有不可告人的秘密,最可惜的是跟錯人說,以爲是“朋友”的人,卻不知可能對方只是利用你,儅你是superficial朋友,和這些人說秘密,等於歇下防衛,任人宰割,把弱點暴露出來,有時真的是自打嘴巴。

不是我對友情灰心,畢竟身邊有要好的朋友,也知道我一些私人秘密(不是故意說的啦,只是機會和時機成熟),但他們知道對我來説沒有影響,但這些東西不能對每個人說,而認清誰是真正在乎你的人很重要。

如果對每個人都那麽客套,那麽表面的話,我覺得是蠻可悲的,到頭來生活其實都是一個人過,因爲從來都沒有真正要了解別人。

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

藝點心思

I managed to watch the 1st episode of this variety show after pushing my tuition forward to 6pm in order to rush back home and watch it. When the 1st season aired on channel U i was too busy to sit down and watch it on TV. I think i shall try to watch those interesting episodes as a way to relax myself after a long day at work + tuition.

雙子星 is also hooking me quite hard. Can't wait for the next episode to come actually.

Now trying to clear away the remaining work I have left in order to make time for me to play FF III on DS. Thinking of making good use of my time at work :D

PS2 collecting dust

Oh well...so much for being a big fan of Final Fantasy series.

I borrowed PS2 from kk hoping that i could get my hands on FF XII. Apparently my priority is now trying to meng suck money from work+++++++++++++++++++ and also DS games (since they are relatively simpler and portable), i kind of neglect the PS2 to an extent that IT IS LITERALLY COLLECTING DUST!

HOOOOOOO! The whole room got DIAMOND DUST la! Shiva come out already.

Planning to return back to kk in case the whole machine got spoilt, though i spent 24 bucks to buy a new memory card to save my game. Too bad la, FATED NOT TO FINISH THE GAME.

I wonder when will i be free again to borrow again the console. June is out of the question.

Or juz keep the machine until i collect ONE WHOLE PILE OF DUST. The bag of dust give back kk la.

67 compliments no more...

Well yesterday i was walking down the super long runway walk in hwa chong, the typical curly runway walk at the track there to the bus stop and 67 juz ZOOMED past me. Too bad the 1 min compliment is gone and then the next bus comes in about 5 min. Not so bad, but apparently i have missed the feel of it coming 1 min everytime lol.

And dunno why i will ALWAYS miss my bus stop to alight near the phoenix LRT station. Coz it is confirmed that i will fall asleep in the bus and sure enough when i wake up i will by pass that bus stop by 1 bus stop!

Why can't my brain tune in to WAKE UP 1 bus stop b4?

Nvm, the only consolation is to go and do inspection at lot 1 popular HAHA! Inspection whether got penny album released or not even though it seemed that penny's album is not going to be released in singapore (dunno why - rather bring in TING ZHU than penny).

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

67

I was thinking why 67 is so frequent nowadays haha! When i go to school, i juz need to wait for not more than 1 min and ZOOM, it WILL COME! haha.

When i go back home from school, just wait for 1 min, ZOOM, 67 confirm come. Some more normally is the black bus. Super cold + comfortable, but most of the time full house so need to stand all the way.

But for the past 6 years in hwa chong, 67 is like a SUPER RARE BUS! Always need to meng wait for it to come.

Now not student liao, meng come...

Not complaining la, but...like WHY? lol

Sunday, June 07, 2009

徐佳莹 - 首张创作专辑


第一時間買了她的專機。

雖然徐佳瑩不會樂器,但這張專輯確實全創作,詞曲包辦,能夠想像有多難,誠意方面已經贏了,曲又那麽好聽,歌聲又有爆發力,曲風又有個性,和別人就是不一樣。

聼聼《喔伊细》,雖然可能會太過甜,但符合歌曲的意境,到了《圓舞曲》就可以聼得出徐佳瑩的魅力。

音樂風格不僅僅是慢歌,聼聼《VIP》這甜甜的歌曲,到《失落沙洲》和最出名的《身骑白马》,就知道她的創作是多麽versatile,而記住,她不會樂器,靠自己心裏的感覺哼唱出旋律,也未免太厲害了吧,重點是旋律還很討好,又主流。

我是從她在《康熙來了》唱《身骑白马》的LIVE對她的歌聲深深吸引住,也知道是她的創作,對她的才華非常欣賞。

支持有誠意的音樂作品吧!

Rating: 4/5

张栋梁 - 沉默的瞬间


有時歌手選對了歌,踫到好的曲,自然而然就贏了一半,儘管本身歌聲沒怎麽樣。

張棟梁的歌聲算是蠻空的,沒什麽感情的注入,以前是這樣,現在也是這樣,沒有情緒上的起伏,所以高音就沒有共鳴,也説不上是實力派的歌手,但很幸運的是,這次踫到好歌,能夠為專輯加分不少。

張棟梁的賣點是他的K歌,而唱片公司也熟知這點,所以儘管想要尋求突破,做不同風格,但多數歌曲還是典型的K歌,高興的愛去KTV的聽衆。《低調》,《我們都有錯》,《不要再聽他寫的歌了》是很好的例子。

《就是愛》是和郭采潔合唱的作品,可惜的是,和郭采潔專輯裏合唱的《天生一對》一樣,沒有火花,沒有感覺,就是把它唱完就算了的感覺,也不突出,不能成爲賣點。

還是喜歡《Sempurna》和《沉默的瞬間》,和以往風格不同,但是好的嘗試,特別是《沉默的瞬間》帶點搖滾的味道,和《王子》相比,《沉默的瞬間》突出許多了,曲寫得好,自然就加分不少了。

喜歡K歌滿天飛的專輯,可以聼聼張棟梁的K歌。

Rating: 3.5/5

Tank - 第三回合


我其實很喜歡Tank音樂上的風格,雖然這張專輯是很tank的風格,説不上什麽突破,但他的玩法對我來説是appealing的,很喜歡他強烈有punch的音樂。

第一首歌《綳帶俱樂部》就很有punch,也延續了上兩張的"fighting"風格。《生還者》也對準主題,音樂也算豐富,只是這次慢歌方面太相似,有點一樣一樣的感覺,而卻沒有以前《給我你的愛》和《專署天使》那麽討喜,但這張感覺是有的,《是誰》和《再做一個夢》也很好聽。

可能是前兩張的素質不錯,這張就顯得沒什麽,比較average,但我覺得可聼度是有的,但距離成爲下一個天王似乎跟曹格還差很遠,有待加強。

Rating: 3/5

Science Centre Visit (Babysitting students)

Besides working as a research assistant during the June Holidays, Mrs Sow asked me to babysit some students to visit science centre for national chemistry week.

Well…at least there are only 20 people so it was rather manageable. However, the package was nth interesting actually. The hands-on workshop was a bit too easy for the students i suppose – one on electrolysis of water and the other on testing for sulphur dioxide in food.

The next is on a Green Chemystery talk in the maxwell auditorium but i guess the target audience was more of the really young people coz the speakers are really childish to try to bring up the atmosphere. The concept was also too simple and made kiddish to let the small children understand better.

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The supposedly “爆點”of the show. Lighting up a candle flame and poke a soap bubbled infused with hydrogen gas – to create this flame which i caught it with my HP camera haha.

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This is supposedly showing how ethanol, a renewable fuel, can burn. It was not very successful coz the speakers use a little bit of ethanol only, i guess they dun want to create some kind of explosion but the amount used was a bit too little such that the burning of the flame was not very big enough to create another climax of the show.

Staple Bullets

Like WHY would I run out of STAPLE BULLETS when i need them to staple some stuff?

I THOUGHT THIS KIND OF WEBE THINGS ARE ALWAYS AVAILABLE AND NO NEED TO PURPOSELY GO AND BUY TO TOP UP!!

And pens are foreva missing and spoilt. Decided to buy more quantity of pens (for my tuition) than quality pens which are really expensive.

Super funny names

I was toking to gum and jun hao on MSN and damn stupid, while we are toking about the names on the list for jh's pharmacy camp, we started to make fun of people's names and create some stupid names by ourselves using words commonly used by us.

Examples:

xxx LENG CHANG (Hi I am XXX. I am scared of Leng Chang)

YEW DE JIAN
(Gum's own creation. Super funny la this one - I WONDER WHO REALLY HAS THIS NAME!?)

LEE ZHI BEN
(Supposedly the name of my "son" since i am always "zhi ben-ing" to places)

Thursday, June 04, 2009

很random的想法

最近心情很暴躁,常常在家裏發脾氣,瑣碎事就讓我很煩,情緒會有時莫名其妙地激動,看到煽情的畫面,對看多電視情節的我,有時會莫名其妙地掉淚。

最近在看《雙子星》,看到方宋喬小時候被母親趕出家門,雖然拍攝手法本來就很煽情,但真的無法忍受,像我的性格,一定在有能力的時候,第一時間走人,在家受氣做什麽?走人啦!又不是養不起自己。

可能是講到孩子的情節吧,真是讓我無法忍受,孩子本來就是天真無邪,在小時候若留下不好的回憶,對以後是有傷害的,而多數是心理傷害。

生活上演活生生的例子,最直接。所以我才會體會到靠自己的重要性,因爲只對自己負責任。

有時我看到戯裏的愛情故事,就覺得很莫名其妙,什麽我愛你,你愛我,天長地久,感覺好假,好虛僞。真的會愛“一輩子”嗎?愛真的天長地久嗎?將來的事本來就很難預料,爲什麽會做出這樣的承諾?安撫對方?

一會兒男女之間愛對方,一會兒搞離婚,說有危機,結婚不是應該永遠地愛對方,直到生命結束嗎?如果承諾可以不遵守,那結婚來幹嗎?

突然之間,感覺很假。

Hwa Chong Culture - 可爱鸡

Working back in hwa chong (high school side) is just like re-living the student life again, in the sense that you get to go to the 经典 hwa chong places like Coronation plaza to eat the 经典 可爱鸡. Then as usual, it will be flooded by hwa chong people from their respectively CCAs. And as usual, order the 经典 lemon chicken rice.

Other than this, where can you go? Curry work? Prince? If good enough go serene centre? KAP for mac? 6th avenue? all these are actually part of the culture of typical hwa chong students but 可爱鸡 is really 经典 coz i dun think anyone from hwa chong will graduate without going there once b4 in his/her entire hwa chong student life, either in high school, JC side or both.

If so, then really very sad, coz miss out an important signature of what defines a hwa chong student.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Soul-less

I was feeling quite tired after a day of work at school. Maybe at home too much already when not working so not used to it. When i came back from school it was really tiring and I still have to teach tuition. This is when my patience level not very high and when they make lame mistakes which i cannot stand, i would not really tolerate. Not blast vulgarities la, but i would be rather impatient about it.

Zombified.

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Work work

I started to work on monday this week, though is only half day because of my driving test on monday afternoon, and also 1st day of work is more of getting used to the environment and settling some admin matters. Anyway, i am helping mrs sow in the chem research lab at SRC at hwa chong high sch side to try out some experiments for students' research projects and to help prepare reagents for the students. I was doing titration this afternoon and it was the iodine titration that we normally do in JC. Haha, haven forget la and also got the luxury of time to do as accurately as possible so as to set the benchmark of results for the students to compare in future. Quite fun la but haven got to use the chim chim instruments yet, hopefully in future will be using the machines since i will also be studying chem in uni, would be good to explore such machines 1st and getting used to it. I kind of like the environment though, super spacious and big with air con everywhere. The main thing is SPACE la. I remember when i was doing SRP in NUS, doing some biochem project, the space was super cramped and the table was shared with a lot of scientists so no personal space one. Here in SRC, flooded with table space.

蕭賀碩 - Stay


只覺得幾首歌好聽罷了,但好聽的歌至少撐得住專輯。

最不喜歡《Stay》這首歌,歌詞一直強調Stay這個字,未免太過over? 有些煩人,聼時不舒服。

還是比較喜歡《來不及》和《太溫柔》,討好又耐聼,歌唱得又好,比較容易讓人留下印象。

Family 和《自在存在》也是我推薦的歌曲,相當不錯。

覺得幾首好作品只能剛好撐過專輯average的表現,需要多幾首很棒的歌曲來突出蕭賀碩的實力。

Rating: 3/5

Driving practical test...ENCORE

Well NOBODY IS SHOUTING ENCORE la, is me who 不要臉 want to encore myself for the driving test which i passed. Passing it at the 5th attempt makes me have every right to pen down what really happens in the test so i can "hao lian" that YEAH I PASS.

Actually the test wasn't smooth at all. The 1st screw up was the stupid slope. I did a circuit practice b4 the test and it went so well and then during the test, STALL ENGINE!! Lucky the word is: 鎮定. Never panic. Do the correct procedure, and restart the engine and try again. I thought the drama would be STALL ENGINE AGAIN. And maybe ROLL DOWN ALL THE WAY KNOCKING ONTO SOMEONE la but besides setting the record for the number of attempts for the test among my frens i guess there is no more drama and climaxes to 期待.

And yes, i strike kerb again in parallel parking. I was too kiasu to meng reverse and then it hit onto something. I felt it myself and hoped the tester nv felt it but too bad la, he also felt it. But i know -4 points only this time coz 1st test last year oct i also made the same mistake. Not like knock down pole -10 points super heavy.

Lucky no more stun la. Public driving i was driving a lot slower than usual, trying to wayang by checking blindspots. Turn the head until super 酸 but juz 堅持.

When i was about to turn back to driving school he actually already kept his computer inside already. I was thinking: either too lousy fail ardy no need to see liao or pass liao. i was thinking: i never made major mistakes on the roads should be able to pass bah. This time round the feeling is totally different. Is more confident of passing that kind.

So as usual, i am the lao jiao in the waiting area already having visited it for 5 times. Grab a corner sit, wait for the tester to come. He showed me the paper, i took a peek and realised it was quite a long list of mistakes but luckily in the end he only minus 18 points, giving me chance because actually some points he wrote down the mistakes but he did not minus.

So happily, i went down to see the video in the room for all people who pass. Then waited damn long to get my temp driving license (paper) and go home.

Well...finally i pass la, after spending $N dollars in practising and doing circuit training.

Ugly Betty - Season 3


Ugly betty aired its season finale episode on 21st May 09 in the United States and I must say the finale ending was a bit boring. Well...apparently some drama must happen in Betty's love life, if not what else could go on? Of all time, Henry would appear when Matt and Betty were about to move in together and bring their relationship to the next level and another drama is that Betty kissed Henry and Matt saw it. Apparently the next season, Matt will be Betty's new boss and I would wonder how she is going to survive the awkwardness. Also, Wilhelmina is still trying to secure her position in Mode and she is trying to track down Conner (who took away Mode's money) so that she could kick Cal out of the picture as Cal and Claire are on the same side, threatening her existence in the company. Amanda and Marc were the series' 靈魂人物and it was them who made the show very funny, esp amanda with her stupid remarks and stupid actions coming out from a bimbo. Though the series were enjoyable, I am not sure why the ratings for ugly betty were not very good actually.

Monday, June 01, 2009

Driving practical test...PASSED (finally!)

Woohoo!!! Finally passed my driving practical test!!!

Back to work

Monday would be back to work again...back to chinese high to work in the chem research lab.

Back to hectic working life and busy life again.

Might be buying a new com soon...see how.

Wish me luck on monday.