oh my god! daily just called me! haha so cute. she said she really misses me. she's still teaching english grammar at a language sch in korea and (this is really funny...) she gives her students english nicknames and apparently AMELIA is a very popular name haha. she also uses Alfred, Rae and Zhong Yu (i guess she doesn't realise this isn't really an eng name...). how cute anyways. ah, so proud of her.. my first eng student. it was really nice to hear from her.

there's some fireworks nonsense going on in kings park and its kind of giving me goosebumps. sounds like bombs going off and makes me think bout all those war videos we had to wtach in sec sch. *shudder*

sometimes i get that deja vu feeling.. just like that (<--- click). God knows why...

mais merde alors... kest-ce k'il est banal, le journal de singapour! c tjrs la même chose, hein. et où est-elle, mon action?? on devrait partager l'argent, non? ou a-t-il déjà été fiché dans le cul de qqn? ah?



:: Raphaël - carla bruni

when i'm emotionally riled up the way i am now and have a motherload of sch work to do, i have trouble deciding if the emotions are getting in the way of my work or the work is getting in the way of my emotions. a confusion of priorities.

i know i should be thankful tt i have time to get angry. if you really think about it, not everyone has tt luxury. sometimes being this lucky (blessed?) makes me nervous. will i wake up one day and find it all gone? though if it all went to someone deserving (in a kind of pass the parcel kind of way), i wouldn't be so devastated. or would i?

i hate it when someone says to me "but tt's life, what" in an attempt to make an excuse for why man-made things can't be changed. so just don't help pple who are suffering in the war lah.. tt's life what, no? change unfair government policies? but how to? - tt's just life what?

if someone died of a heart attack and i was mourning and you told me: "but shit hey tt's life". i might beat the shit out of you for your lack of tact but at the back of my mind i'll know you're right; we can try all we could but everyone dies because death does not discriminate. But, if you told me something like i'm dumber cos i'm (insert race/ethnicity here) and that's good reason for you to be racist against me "but tt's life, wat", i can safely say that i will beat the shit out of you and i won't stop until your eyes are hanging out of their sockets and your blood has produced a beautiful piece of impressionist artwork on the ground.

i hope i've made my point. you bloody ass-sucking bitch.

:: Consequence - the notwist

You're the colour,
you're the movement and the spin.
Never
Could it stay with me the whole day long
Fail with consequence, lose with eloquence
and smile.
I'm not in this movie
I'm not in this song.
Never
Leave me paralyzed, love.
Leave me hypnotized, love.

You're the colour,
you're the movement and the spin.
Never
Could it stay with me the whole day long
Fail with consequence, lose with eloquence
and smile.
You're not in this movie
You're not in this song.
Never
Leave me paralyzed, love.
Leave me hypnotized, love.
Leave me paralyzed, love.
Leave me hypnotized, love.


just saw love guru hah. and the funniest part for me was actually justin timberlakes pretty accurate quebecois accent. totally reminds me of fabienne. hah. this song reminds me of ottawa cos i first heard it on radioblogclub one night sitting in my room stoning and fantasising bout weknowwho.

tonight's nice. i got some music readings done in the comp lab just now. only two weeks' worth but a good start i guess. better than no start at all, ya? it's quiet this week, and calm tonight. the last of the credits are rolling off the screen, and i hear malcolm's 'i'm back....'. hah. it's nice here, you know? like, in this set, i mean. i could live like this forever. i've got one younger brother (malcolm) and one older brother (joe), and the part-time brothers geoff and alex. and then there's edward. and then janan. like a happy family. i wonder sometimes why i feel so comfortable hanging with guys (more so than with girls). i feel safe and i really like this, you know? i hope things won't change even when dylan and i get married. i've never actually hung out with the guys while dylan is around. so i dunno how it'll all work out.

God, please protect my baby and keep him safe till we meet again.

ah.. the notwist.

ODD SPOTS. (courtesy of libra invisible regular pads)

Vintage port takes 40 years to reach maturity.

Around four billion litres of petroleum is consumed throughout the world each day.

Blype is the name given to skin that peels off after sunburn.

The largest pumpkin ever grown recorded a weight of 482kg.

A lungfish can live out of water in suspended animation for three years.

Propotionately, Earth's atmosphere is thinner than the skin of an apple.

Road runner has only been caught by Wile E. Coyote once, on 21 May 1980.

Bananas grow on plants that are giant herbs, and are related to the lily and orchid family.



:: the music coming from quresh's and jj's rms upstairs


dylan is reaching land next tues. and then he'll be able to call me. i find myself excited bout this. maybe this is what they mean when they say absence makes the heart grow fonder. i like it how i seem to be discovering all the clichés of what they call true love. it's scary but so addictive. but not addictive in the unhealthy adolescent obsessive or sexual way tt i've only ever experienced before all this. i love dylan. {:o))))


i kind of like this semester even though i don't feel very hopeful bout it academically. lots of events. lots of hanging out with the guys. which is fun and lighthearted but meaningful at the same time. no major emo distractions. a good dose of activities- outside of the usual academic nonsense; and they're all firsts too. yay! haha. like the french play i went for with erika and nadya, the city-to-surf marathon, the 'warming' of our set yesterday, jamming with ze band, being a subject for HM and psyc experiments, learning to play mahjong at dan's, or just being busy round the kitchen making apple chips and other random experiments. and tmr i'm going to ina's place in mt lawley for an oxfam morning tea. haha i'm so excited.





long time no see cheryl and even longer time no see karin. time's passing a lot faster now tt the assignmts have come in and this means good things and bad. i duno wat my point is right now.

i'm looking up applications for busking right now. gotta think of ways to raise money so we can build a music room for the hall. i'm beginning to regret signing up for pilates cos i duno if i'll have time to make my money worth. but then again, there's always time, if you bother to set some aside.

:: I Sing I Swim - seabear (on nad's blog)

let's have a little direction, shall we? i don't realise sometimes how good i have it. the better you have it, the worse it can get; because the higher you are, the further you can fall. i have to do my shit good so i can make time to help others in need.

:: LING 2240 ilecture - john henderson

found some interesting things on the net while busy being distracted.

i was thinking bout my EURO2210 reading on Romani in Europe and i went to search for a meaning of the word and if it could be used as a nice babyname. instead i found this:
50 craziest celebrity baby names

haha.. Audio Science! Camera!.. Jermajesty?! Pilot Inspektor?? wtf were these pple thinking?? Moxie CrimeFighter... wah, win already. i actually kind of like Rufus Tiger, Tiger Lily and Lola Daisy. Tallulah and Lennon also sound pretty cool. these pple make me look normal for wanting to call my kids (last time ok.. not anymore) Rainbow Angst (tt's the girl) and Dandy Ellis (boy). haha.

and then while looking for some essay guidelines frm the music faculty website, i wandered onto this page: The Arts Peacocks. 3 yrs here and i never knew those peacocks actually had names! amazing. i'm so impressed by the unis efforts to take care of the peacocks. it's so australian to do these strange but cute things. i wish we'd get shit like this in spore. i can imagine if they put a peacock in nus or something, they'd start charging it rent. then later evict it for shitting all over the place. not nice.

it's nice how for the most part, australians or at least west australians, don't seem to care when things don't look thaaaat fabulous. like how some parts of uni look a bit oldish and some walkways aren't smoothly-paved and stuff or sometimes covered with leaves, and how in summer tt huge tree in uni drops smelly fruit on the main pathway and pple step all over it and the whole pathway is coated with an uneven layer of smelly fig-like fruit and no one really gets worked up or overly concerned. i remember a big berry tree at bedok reservoir between my blk and another and the berries stained the whole walkway purple and then they removed the tree. i was like OI WHERE'S MY BERRY TREE. and then there was this nangkah tree by the rd in front of my blk and they had to remove tt as well "cos the birds kept eating the jackfruit". er... duh.. you put free jackfruit there who dont want to take? the trees were replaced with small sad-looking lousy excuses of trees tt were hardly taller than my pri sch self. of course, i must consider the fact tt im no botanist and i duno the REAL reasons they removed those trees but still, i can't help but feel upset. progress is good i guess but in spore, it always feels like they keep taking away my past. like as if a bit of imperfection is gonna make pple think less of us or make us less functional as a developed nation.

meh meh meh.

so anyhoo.. cette nuit-la etait plein de distractions. je cherchais de la musique francais-algerienne ou francaise-arabique. voila ce que j'ai trouvé: Amel Bent . force est d'agréer, ça c'est vraiment la mariah carey de la france. quelle belle voix.

oh ya, before i forget- i'm gonna apply for a temp job as english teaching assistant in new caledonia. it's actually offered only to aussies by the french embassy here but i wrote them and told them i wanted it and the guy said he's ok with it, but can't guarantee i won't have problems on the N-C side. so i'm applying anyways woohoo. dylan's excited too puisque la nouvelle calédonie a la deuxième barrière de corail au monde (la première est la grande barrière de corail de Queensland). i hope it all works out. i'm actually quite worried we'll be financially strapped in the near future. then the children how?

in other news, i've been thoroughly enjoying the french lit book for this sem << La vie devant soi >>. everyone who reads french MUST read this bk cos it's just so good. or find the eng version.

just had the best jam session ever. great singing and playing and improvisations, no tense moments, no one getting high and not paying attention, no one talking bout getting high and not paying attention, and a good dose of spontaneity. yay!
i still have to work on remembering the lyrics though- if i don't want to be holding them on stage. we're doing stadium arcadium by rhcp and no, woman, no cry with a bit of stir it up at the beginning. i'm surprising myself. i never thought i'd grasp a reggae song so quickly, cos it's not a style i'm very familiar with. i kind of give my musical background away at a few moments but i think it's kind of cool in an idiosyncratic way so i'm really really happy with today's jamming. yay! though i might just have to sing holding the words. yay anyways. hope tmr is as good {:o)

:: Here in Your Arms - hellogoodbye

i feel an immense emptiness floating round me now that dylan has gone back. i don't wanna go to bed but there's nothing else i can think of to do anymore. spent a productive two hours clearing up my room and throwing out old trash and stuff after getting back from the airport.