when bats aren’t as cool as batman (who actually isn’t too cool, really)

•Tuesday, 10 November 2009 • Leave a Comment

Well I was reading that book I got recently, Love Walked In, and the girl suspected her mother was infected with Rabies, so I decided to find out more about the disease.

And it’s pretty scary.

In humans, the course is similar. After a symptom-free incubation period that ranges from 10 days to a year or longer (the average is 30 to 50 days), the patient complains of malaise, loss of appetite, fatigue, headache, and fever. Over half of all patients have pain (sometimes itching) or numbness at the site of exposure. They may complain of insomnia or depression.

Two to 10 days later, signs of nervous system damage appear, hyperactivity and hypersensitivity, disorientation, hallucinations, seizures, and paralysis. Death may be sudden, due to cardiac or respiratory arrest, or follow a period of coma that can last for months with the aid of life-support measures.

http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/738/main.html

And all that thing about bats and all, kinda freaks me out.

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once a week isn’t enough.

•Monday, 9 November 2009 • Leave a Comment

I can’t stand my lazing around,

I spent almost the entire day in front of the laptop.
If not I’d be on my bed, or on the sofa, probably reading.
In front of the laptop I’d be reading too,
it’s funny how I suddenly would rather read instead of play Sims.

Haven’t touched the game in nearly a week – or maybe even more than a week, I’ve lost track.

Life has been rather boring. I’ve been intending to
1) memorise OP script, practise, practise
2) prepare for OP questions
for the longest time but I just haven’t gotten round to doing it.
Blame the laziness.
And the assurance that I’ve got time,
when in fact I’ve only got two days
and I certainly don’t want to be preparing just the day before.

So tomorrow it shall be,
I shall wake up at a decent hour (by this I mean before 9, I hope)
and prepareeee.

All the best to Zhen Ping, Vanessa, and whoever else who’ve got their OP tomorrow! :)

Well so, back to reading. I suddenly remember why I don’t like reading a few stories at different paces at the same time. As in, starting on another story when I haven’t finished one. I’ll mix the characters up – don’t we all? Please tell me it’s normal to do so. I’ve been reading random one-shots and other multiple-shots (mostly below ten) on Fictionpress and when I went back to my actually tangible book I was trying to recall the situation one of the main characters was in, her social status and all. S:

I can’t wait for tomorrow, not because there’s anything particular that I’m looking forward to but because I’d wasted the whole of today away (although it’s the best form of slacking I can think of. I mean, reading isn’t as bad as playing or sleeping the entire day away, right?) and I need a new day.

Why do I have so much to say when there’s so little in content?

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fire, wood, music.

•Monday, 9 November 2009 • 2 Comments

Sometimes dreams help me appreciate life better, appreciate things and people I take for granted, kind of.

Well last night I dreamt that it was late at night and I wasn’t sleeping yet, so somehow I went downstairs, walked around at the void deck, saw weird and strange people like I always do in my dreams. And then I finally decided to go back home, so I took the lift, and suddenly there was some burning fire thing behind me. Like a patch of the lift walls was on fire. And then in front of me, at the left corner of the lift where the buttons are, there was a face of someone, and it was moving. Just the face, and part of the neck I think, protruding out from the lift wall. It was pretty strange, everything felt weird.

Lift reached the floor which I live on without stopping due to the fire thankfully, and the doors opened and I saw two police officers. Or at least they seemed like policemen, with the uniform and all, but they didn’t look it. I told them the lift was on fire (sounds quite stupid). They just laughed and said it’s okay. Wth?

So I walked along the corridor to my house, and from afar I saw that the exterior of my house was blackish, and there was fire. Somehow I was too far from the house to run in there to look for my parents and my brother, I don’t know, but I called my home number instead. Nothing much, and then I saw them exiting the house, and right then in my dreams I thought that I’d blog about this incident (I somehow knew it was a dream) and how it helps me appreciate life and people better.

After that dream there were a few others. Dreamt that there was some Fac Outing thing at school, and other weird school-related stuff.

When I was having breakfast I was quite disturbed by the amount of plastic bakeries/confectioneries use. I mean, one piece of bread in one piece of plastic bag? But after thinking about it for a bit, I realised there might be no real solution. There can’t be a Bring Your Own Bag Day for breads, right? Putting the breads in plastic containers won’t help too much either, and paper bags might not do as well. S: Oh well. And then it led me to thinking about those shops and companies which print out flyers. One reason why I take those flyers people give out is that the people who’re giving out the flyers count on finishing their stack to make a living (this doesn’t include young punkish people who just want to make more money without the real need of it). But as I take the flyers I wonder if I’m encouraging such wastage of paper. I mean, when I was at Orchard MRT I received that flyer, and back in Tampines I received the same one. If there were 10 stacks at every train station, how much paper would that be? Someone should campaign against this, heh.

Alright that’s enough thoughts and typing for the morning, I feel so lazy. Bye.

Oh, I’m listening to NYCB’s Overture No. 2 for Wind Band now, and have I mentioned that it sounds amazing? :D The first note of the band was good. And the horns sound so togetherrrrr, I’ll never be able to do that phrase well on an individual standard, what more with the section. Had an msn convo with shark and wen ting last night, will post excerpts of it in the next post or something, ask me for password :D It’s regarding uh, band stuff, duh. Hahah.

abcdefgheadachedcba

•Sunday, 8 November 2009 • Leave a Comment

New header! :D It’s a bit laggy, I think? Will probably revert back to the car one after concert or something.

Today was alright, I learnt a bit from sermon, and then I went home and had lunch and slept through the afternoon because of an infuriating headache

… Which wasn’t chased away by sleep, unfortunately. These days I’ve been having lots of action-packed dreams, most of which featuring people I know (dreamt of Mdm Chen and Mr Loo last night, I think.) and also including lots of running around (I think I’m exercising more in my dreams than I am out of them).

Dinner, and then I used Flash for a while, and thus the header :D I think it looks a bit weird (esp. when it ends with the announcement thing) but whatever I’m kinda lazy to change it already =/

magic eraser

•Saturday, 7 November 2009 • Leave a Comment

Hello.

Well for the past 1 or 2 hours I was playing with Adobe Flash,
and it got a little irritating because I couldn’t erase something =.=
Haha sorry, it’s my first time using it! Or did we use it in Sec 1? Okay I think we did. :(

Yeaah but I got the animation there already and everything was fine, except the stupid ugly white background.

I’m going to sleep, goodnight!
and it sucks knowing the next time I’ll be seeing you
is quite a long time away.

the train’s pulling in

•Saturday, 7 November 2009 • 2 Comments

Hello!

So today turned out to be a happy day, minus the moodswings.

After being at my grandparent’s place and being really sleepy and bored, we left the place to fetch my brother and went to Thomson Plaza for Sushi Tei :D With my grandparents and my aunt. Had a good time and a good meal (who wouldn’t?). My brother and I were sitting facing a rather long mirror, and it was difficult not to look at the person in front of us while eating. Feels weird though; who actually stares at oneself while eating? Granted, there’s a mirror in front of the dining table at home as well, but we seldom eat at that table. Haha S: Bet if I went there with friends we’d camwhore quite a bit.

Why are my favourite dishes the most fatty? Salmon, beef. Grah. :(

Walked around a bit after that, and then it was homeee.

I’m addicted to Orient Express. I was quite sick of hearing it on my phone/from the laptop for a short period of time last month or something, but now I’ve been listening to it quite frequently again. Heh :D I like all the slow melodies, esp. the sax solo part heh. And oboe? I’m not too sure. And the fast part before that. And of course the Horn 1/Clarinet?/I don’t know what other instruments, with Eupho/Sax counter melody part.

Haha okay whatever, much as I like the piece I still cannot play it properly S: Oh well, bye, early day tmr (piano lessonnnn:() gah.

I just realised Orient Express is the fourth most-played piece on my laptop S: First being First Love/Addicted To You, then it’s Climbing The Walls and then New Divide. After Orient Express it’s Circus and Paparazzi and Croatian Rhapsody and You Belong With Me hahah.

cheese on pizza

•Saturday, 7 November 2009 • Leave a Comment

Hello :)

Okay around half an hour ago I was in quite a bad mood. Mood’s fluctuating like crazy, it’s not even stress or anything. Rah I’m feeling really irritable >(

Hm this morning left the house pretty early, sent my bro to camp/went for breakfast with my parents, went for Band! Was rather early but thankfully the band room was open already. Warmed up for a bit, read a bit, band prac.

Almost the whole of band prac was on Orient Express, which is currently running through my mind like a train with no train stations. The piece is rather addictive haha. But I cannot really play, cannot pitch, cannot distinguish the dynamics well, cannot anything.

Did a bit of Flight to the Future, which was kinda messed up for me because I haven’t really practised that piece. Anyhow, it’s a rather nice piece.

Had a meeting with high school comm and Mr Leng after prac. Discussed ticketing matters as well as the repertoire, and had pizza during the meeting haha. And once again I didn’t go for lunch with them, and I always regret that decision don’t I. If only I didn’t live so far away, if only I could go home by myself every day. Sorry for the rhyming, it sounds kinda cheesy.

HCImpressione I
28 November 2009
7.30 p.m.
HCI (College Section) Auditorium
$8, Free Seating

Combined concert; HCI (High School and College Section) Bands, featuring:
Orient Express
Japanese Graffiti XIV
Flight to the Future

& more!

Yeppp. Quite sad there’s no Noel, no Sec 4s from NY, no Christmas atmosphere. Nevertheless, it’s our first concert since Noel 08! I haven’t performed in any band concert since then. SNYS doesn’t count, because band concerts feel different. They’re more fun. So although it’s not exactly Our concert, I guess it’s something to look forward to anyway. :D

the bear is stripping

•Friday, 6 November 2009 • 4 Comments

Hello :D

I woke up at 730+ this morning when I could have done so at 9. I woke up from a dream =.= Apparently I was a guy in the dream (hahaha) and it was as though it was taken out of a KDrama scene or something. Forgot lah (or actually I do remember but it’s kinda gay), but anyway I woke up from that and went back to sleep but shortly after woke up again because of another dream. This time I was in India, in some McDonald’s outlet.

(I’m in school now, Jomain’s group is presenting, and Jomain is playing with the HCStrings bear ahh so cute. The bear I mean. :D It’s climbing on the table like some army bear doing an obstacle course hahah:D OH yeah Parker appeared somewhere in my dream, I’m pretty sure.)

Oh right, the other day after comm meeting we were in the band room and I finally saw the BandBear. It’s not as cute as the Strings one though, Idk why. Maybe he’ll be cuter after a bath.

Okay I have nothing much to say. Bye :)

a hundred miles an hour

•Thursday, 5 November 2009 • Leave a Comment

Hello :)

So I didn’t Sims, and I ended up drawing on the laptop case. It’s pretty screwed up but I don’t think I regret… Yet. One thing good about fabric paint is that you can wipe it off before it’s fully dry. Thankfully I used it instead of the markers I’d wanted to initially heh S:

How do I make my OP script more conversational? I tried, it’s weird, I prefer presenting in that formal report-style. Gah oh welll I think I mightn’t get an A for PW because of the indiv components. D:

I really like the theme song from Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence :D Okay I think I’ve said this before. But anyway I like it but playing it hurts; why can’t my fingers be longer.

Going back to school tmr, holidays are here, where do I begin?

in the wrong direction