jukebox playin'
bright lights - matchbox twenty
unwell - matchbox twenty
seems like ages since i last blogged properly.. haha. YES i am disgruntled. there are a LOT of things i am disgruntled, disappointed and upset with. One of these is the anugerah results last tuesday; in what seemed to be the most unjust ruling ever heard in a competition this year, norazmeen & azamullah had been eliminated from the semi-finals. if THAT isnt a good enuff reason to be disgruntled, then i dont know what is!! *sigh* the other two contestants who got axed were nordiah (memang padan muka) & suhaimi (like who??).. i think the judges were crappy. they couldnt have had followed the competition; if they HAD, they would NOT have kicked out norazmeen & azamullah. dont they know it's absolutely VITAL to follow a competition closely first before judging it so that you are able to observe the overall progress & talent of a performer rather than base yr opinion on just ONE performance??? not a single praise was uttered fer any of the competition favorites namely both of the latter & eka mairina... Instead, compliments were heaped upon fairoz (!!) & shariff sah (!!!!!). in my opinion, these two are a tie for the most-intolerable-to-watch-contestant award. and here i thought initially that having maizurah hamzah as a judge was an auspicious sign. how wrong i was! Certainly, sumone who credits fairoz as expressive (more like so OVER actually) isnt competent enuff to be a judge in a prestigious competition. but then again, maybe anugerah isnt a prestigious competition... WhAtever the case, eka mairina had better win next week or else... i'm gonna kill myself!! muahahahhaha
predictably, my mood was dampened sumwhat fer the next couple of days. (i cant abide any form of injustice in this world! ;p ) however, i wasnt about to hole myself up at home. so on wednesday, i went fer a shopping trip wif fizzy & tjay in town. actually, fizzy was the one shopping; i was simply window-shopping. hahaha. i did BUY a tshirt frm topshop though.. a peachy colored one, no less!! it was a rather impulsive buy, goaded on by tjay but one of the main motivators to make that purchase is the peculiarity of the color; i've always wanted sumthing peachy! i'll get a pinky one next! hehe.. Bumped into a number of frens too.. only i cant remember who rite now. the last stop on our shopping itinerary was plaza singapura, and there, we met ZOE!! she was so surprised to see us that she made a little jump and latched herself around me! so cute/sweet!! ;) But shopping trips can be such a drain; both mentally and physically~
thursday, (yesterday) was pretty mundane. didnt do much except fer read the papers & watch tv. from 9pm onwards, my eyes were practically glued to the screen til 11pm. but then, since i was watchin artscentral, i must admit the night had been pretty enriching! LOL. i chose to forgo andrew firestone on tcs5 & watched the ways of the matriarch instead which i think is a cooking-show disguised as a sitcom. (bytheway, did i get that rite?? -- cooking-show???) after that, there was a local documentary about the deepavali firewalkers; very interesting stuff. but the one thing that really puzzles me is why such a significant majority of them have big bellies. & i mean Literally BIG bellies. is it a prerequisite or simply mere coincidence??? :P
it's thundering & raining heavily right now. ample excuse NOT to go mosque later! haha.. but i'm not a kid anymore; i know my responsibilities! but let's see how long the rain lasts first ;p... i wouldnt consider myself a devout moslem at all though. moreover, frankly speaking, i believe that to entrench your faith out of fear of committing sins that would ultimately damn you to hell is not a good enuff reason to practice yr religion. to me, certain religious practices are adhered to because you believe in their relevancy; believe in their rightness.. not juz becuz it's deemed compulsory or watsoever. but i guess those JI terrorists can be considered VERY devout by this definition.. now, if only their convictions arent so twisted... hmmm.. i better stop before i get too sacrilegious... the last thing on my mind is to be accused of being irreverent or a heretic. worse still, to comment upon stuff which i am ignorant about.
on wednesday, china became the third country in the world to put a man in space. hurrah! however, THAT wont stop me frm name-calling pple "cina-bukit" when the occasion calls for it LOL. oh well, too bad there isnt a live broadcast of the launch or of the astronaut's doings in space (or taikonaut in this case). if there was one, we'd be treated to the sight of a mata-sepet guy in a spacesuit chomping away at "eight treasures" rice served with shredded babi wif garlic sauce & spicy kung pao chicken. i wonder: did space hero, Lt-Col Yang Liwei have a bath prior to his launch??? ;p
in a dialogue session at the World Economic Forum on monday, SM LKY tackled a wide array of topics ranging frm arnold schwarzenegger's governorship to the north korean nuclear threat. however, though i had some difficulty following what he was trying to say most of the time, one comment caught my eye;
"I once said i watched MTV.... and I said in a speech that I didnt quite understand why they (i.e. today's youths) are watching this. And my younger generation just laughed at me. So obviously, they are attracted to something which i find anodyne but that's the way life is. But then that's the reason why i'm 80 years old!"
anodyne - Definition: [n] a medicine used in to relieve pain [adj] capable of relieving pain; "the anodyne properties of certain drugs"; "an analgesic effect"
i know i'm just being a tad too fastidious but i think the word 'anodyne' is used inappropriately here. maybe LKY really meant to say that he finds MTV-watching an escapist activity. a pain reliever. but that's the whole point of watching, isnt it??? so why does he find it so hard to understand why??? *confused*
okie.. so maybe i'm not a genius in the english language. maybe i'm the one who's in the wrong.. maybe i'm deliberately trying to find fault wif our gracious manjen leader... (what am i anyway but juz a jobless, penniless & embittered nus graduate??)... but my guts tell me LKY has commited a language foul!!!!!! LOL.. SO wadever lah me..
Quoteworthy
"It feels good to be in the universe. The view is beautiful," --- China's first man in space, Yang Liwei, describing what he was seeing to his wife.
PS: I'm sure the view is splendid frm UP THERE, but frm down HERE, it can get pretty dreary. ;p
