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30 September 2008

Teardrops on my Guitar?

learning how to play the guitar is like the most wonderful thing that can ever happen.
it is like life's unfounded beauty, something that is waiting for people to discover it.

# posted by Louis : 10:13 PM

29 September 2008

You change your mind, like a girl changes clothes

PROMOS IS OVER. I'M GOING TO DO THE FOLLOWING OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS:

Watch 'Survivor', 'The Amazing Race', 'Gossip Girl', 'One Tree Hill', 'Project Runway', 'America's Next Top Model', 'I Survived a Japanese Game Show' and possibly 'Desperate Housewives'
Clear up the HUGE MESS in my room [It's in a state of chaos]
LEARN HOW TO PLAY THE GUITAR. (life skill)
Prepare Oral Presentation (not forgetting the jap buffet my PW group's gonna have OMG SO EXCITING)
Watch one or two more movies, having watched Momma Mia, which was pretty good other than Pierce Brosnan and Merryll Lynch's singing.
Spend more time with my friends + classmates + people whom i haven't spend much time with
See if there's anything I can do for song&dance heeh.
And perhaps, when all these forms of entertainment are worn out, I'll just revert back to studying.

Amazing Race totally pales in comparison to Survivor. A typical aged couple got eliminated. YAWN. And the number of athletic teams are dwindling, perhaps the producers would like to see an unorthodox team winning the grand prize.

# posted by Louis : 7:03 PM

26 September 2008

Week 36 (22nd Sept - 28th Sept 2008)

GO HAVE A LISTEN.

1) One Step at a Time - Jordin Sparks
2) Hot N' Cold - Katy Perry
3) Time To Pretend - MGMT
4) Make It Mine - Jason Mraz
5) I Don't Care - Fall Out Boy
6) Elephants - Rachael Yamagata
7) Mercy - OneRepublic
8) We Cry - The Script
9) Never Miss A Beat - The Kaiser Chiefs
10) Thunder - Boys Like Girls
11) Be Ok - Ingrid Michaelson
12) So What - Pink
13) Keeps Getting Better - Christina Aguilera
14) Crush - David Archuleta
15) Love Lockdown - Kanye West
16) Take Back The City - Snow Patrol
17) I Will Possess Your Heart - Death Cab For Cutie
18) The Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script
19) Lucid Dreams - Franz Ferdinand
20) That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings

# posted by Louis : 11:05 PM

25 September 2008

Survivor Gabon premiere!

Eliminated today are: The whiney teenager and the slowest-moving human being.

"It really doesn't make sense to me that they decided to keep Gillian, who's like a hundred and five, and me, who's 24, and completely fit.." - Michelle, the whiney teenager on Gillian, the slowest-moving human being as quoted by GC.

Something cool about this season is that it's not shot in High-Definition. Well, as usual, they started off the show by having the schoolyard-picking system, with the slowest moving creature (left. She's called Gillian) and a physics teacher alternating their picks. Right from the get-go, you could see which team is gonna dominate: The team with young, funky, and cool people (Kota tribe) VS a bunch of frumpy dorks and mommas (aptly summarized by Michelle from the Fang tribe).

I highly foresee this being a Koror-Ulong one-sided thing, with like 8 ppl from Kota and 2 ppl from Fang making it into the merge.

Who I think's gonna make it far (clockwise from top left): Charlie, Marcus, Jacky and Corrinne (not in picture. The one in pink's ). I believe this season's gonna be greatttt.

And I'm so glad Channel 5 is still efficient in televising Survivor.

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# posted by Louis : 4:18 PM

21 September 2008

Promos Ponpetti.

Louis is going to type everything in this post over the next week till his Lit paper ends.

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22nd September: General Paper
Status: DONE
Comments: I did Question 2. "A country's sports medals have no value when they are won by foreign talent." Do you agree? =D Compre was about reproductive cloning. I'd say.. Promos started on a good note!

I just checked definitions of the vocab words:

Spectre - According to the Collins CoBuild dictionary, if you refer to the spectre of something unpleasant, you are referring to something that you are frightened might occur. So, in the passage, it means that the people are frightened that human cloning, something they find unpleasant, might actually occur!! [i.e Failure to do well for promos raised the spectre of me having new batchmates next year. Heeh.] P.S Another meaning for Spectre is, in literal terms, a ghost. However, it doesn't really fit well in the context of Passage A. So yep, Lionel. [and i think i know where you heard SPECTRE = GHOST from LOL]
Overturning - invalidating, subverting [I put disproving]
Renowned - distinguished, eminent, FAMOUS, prominent (I put REPUTED ERGH I THOUGHT CAN OK I AM VERY ANGRY NOW.)
Prolonged - delayed, lengthened, sustained, extended [I put delayed]
Copious - abundant, ample, bounteous, plentiful, substantial, plenteous [I put large]
Repugnance - Aversion, detestation, antipathy, abhorrence, loating, repulsion, revulsion, horror, hatred [Oops. I forgot what I put.]

Conclusion: LOUIS IS GOING TO GET 1/5 FOR HIS VOCABULARY AND HE IS ON THE VERGE OF KILLING HIMSELF.

Some important results for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards (This year's results are bad so you don't get to see many here)

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program: The Amazing Race
Outstanding Writing AND Lead Actress for a Comedy Series: Tina Fey
Outstanding Host for a Reality Program - Jeff Probst SURVIVORRR!

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23rd September: Economics
Status: DONE
Comments: Did questions 2 and 3 for the essay. Think I did ok, though my hands were darn painful after the test. Wrote like 10 freaking sides though there were one whole chunk of repetitive stuff.

"Malign me of backstabbing? Well, that's what you get now." Gossip Girl rocks.

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24th September: Mathematics & Geography [DEATH]
Status: DONE (notes burning in the garbage truck)
Comments:

MATH - Ok forget it. In the drain. Poof. GONE. 30% would be such a feat.
GEOG - Mm. Good enough for a pass, not good enough for a A. I might not even scrape B, thanks to weird litho DRQ and my lack of case studies for essays.

Ok, and this colour-coding thing for Othello is pissing me off. My whole book is in yellow, now then you tell me can colour-code? Whatever, not like I'm going to refer to it during the test. I think i'll just flip thru it like twice at most LOL (we only have an hour to write the essay thanks).

Omg, I got to say, Britain's got Talent is way better than America's got talent. Just watched the winning performance by Britain's got talent winner, 14-year-old George Sampson, a street dancer. He is DARN COOL. Like hello, imagine a Sec 2 student dancing like that.

"The only thing worse than one accordion is two accordions" - Piers Morgan

25th September: Literature in English (Paper 1)
Status: DONE
Comments: Do-able! Not stressed out! Happy!

OMG I ACTUALLY POSTED THIS IN MY BLOG IN OCTOBER 13, 2005.

Literature's over for me.
Blah. last day of literature it is today. no more lit anymore in my life.

HOW FREAKING IRONIC. and i think my figure of speech was quite funny last time.

Oh, the trans in ANTM is out. at last they realized she isn't that good after all.

29th September: Literature in English (Paper 2)
Status: DONE
Comments: Uhh, I think I died for this.

AND PROMOS ARE OVER!

# posted by Louis : 10:22 PM

Week 35 (15th Sept - 21st Sept 2008)

1) We Cry - The Script
2) Elephants - Rachael Yamagata
3) Be Ok - Ingrid Michaelson
4) I Don't Care - Fall Out Boy
5) Keeps Getting Better - Christina Aguilera
6) So What - Pink
7) Crush - David Archuleta
8) The Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script
9) Love Lockdown - Kanye West
10) I Will Possess Your Heart - Death Cab For Cutie
11) That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings
12) Thunder - Boys Like Girls
13) Never Miss A Beat - The Kaiser Chiefs
14) Lucid Dreams - Franz Ferdinand
15) Take Back The City - Snow Patrol
16) If You're Out There - John Legend
17) Something Anything - Travis
18) You Make It Real - James Morrison
19) Spiralling - Keane
20) The Shock Of The Lightning - Oasis

# posted by Louis : 12:24 PM

20 September 2008

JACKPOT! = 777th post.

Just when you thought the days of Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunctions were over. Well, she's back to haunt us. Presenting to you... The Triple-Threat.

It gets rather disturbing when you realize that Promos are 2 days away.

It gets even more disturbing when you realize that freedom is just 9 days away.

The most disturbing of all, however, is that Chris Crocker has a new song.

*Covers ears with sound-proof pillows*

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P.S Britney's album's releasing on December 2, her 27th birthday. And I heard a snippet of her first single, Womanizer. Sounds great, she has truly found her niche.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY KORKOR!

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"So for those of you falling in love, keep it kind, keep it good, keep it right,

Throw yourself in the midst of danger, but keep one eye open at night."

Elephants by Rachel Yamagata (2008)

# posted by Louis : 10:09 PM

Another Investment Gone.

# posted by Louis : 12:17 AM

19 September 2008

the woes of globalization

"The worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression forced the Federal Reserve and central banks in other countries to pump billions of dollars into the world's banking system in a urgent bid to stop further damage." - Reuters.

News that the top gun for AIA quit today. Guess that didn't help ease the nerves of the nearly-hyperventilating Singaporeans. The world is in chaos (credit crunch, melamine milk, malaysia/thailand politics) , and watching the news really doesn't help cajole you into sleep. Oh man, why am I talking like a pessimistic modernist.

On a lighter note, Survivor Gabon and The Amazing Race is premiering next week.
P.S. There's a contestant in Survivor who's part of the 2004 Olympic 4X400m relay Gold-medal team. Crystal Cox, wonder if that rings a bell to anyone.

ANTM11 is starting to get exciting, with the contestants undergoing whackadoodle makeovers. There's like one black contestant left in the final 9, something very rare since Tyra usually supports her sistas. The variety this season has been pretty diverse though, I must say.

"He's like Simon Cowell, with a Pulitzer! I can't be Jordin Sparks good; I have to be Kelly Clarkson good, Miss Independent!" - Ugly Betty on her evil lecturer. LOL.

# posted by Louis : 12:00 AM

17 September 2008

Big Brother 10. Anyone?

The guy on the right, Dan Gheesling -- he had an awesome gameplay throughout the entire season [Yes I've been watching the past 29 episodes]. He's an even better strategist than Todd from Survivor: China (whom I thought was brilliant enough). Dan, who became half a million dollars richer, won by a 7-0 landslide victory over his overshadowed ally, Memphis.

He backstabbed some people to advance further, and was even called Judas by some a rather cranky old man who came in 3rd (he ultimately voted for him purely based on gameplay despite their really strained relationship). Despite that, eventually everyone voted for him because they were convinced by the reasons he gave for his sometimes-erratic decisions. Top it with some eloquence, charm and wit, he managed to sway the entire jury to his side. One heck of a player.
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大残金
Watched the 50m swim by our homegrown talent Yip Pin Xiu. Truly inspirational. In fact, these athletes put in as much, if not, more effort than any Olympian. It was a great display of determination and tenacity, and it's even more touching when you see the Singaporean flag being hoisted above the flags of Britain and China.
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Made rather good progress today. Completed Hydro Geog, finished half of Physical Geog, read Othello till Act 3. Shall proceed with Population studies tomorrow. Spending an entire day at home is rather boring, especially when you hear the word 'AIG' surfacing around 74 times on the news, and all the speculation of super-kiasu Singaporeans queueing up outside AIA to cancel their policies. Oh, it was only till today that I realized AIA was a subset of AIG. (heeh)

# posted by Louis : 11:07 PM

This is why some people should stick to what they are best at.

O.M.G
Just listen to the last 6 seconds. The whole stadium booed.
Actually it's pretty darn freaking stressful to sing in front of like 10 million people.
But just look at how Beyonce/KellyClarkson/CarrieUnderwood/JordinSparks/JoJo pulled it off so beautifully perfectly, and you'll see why Kat DeLuna should just 'Whine Up'.

Ok, this is THE BOMB. WATCH WATCH WATCH.

# posted by Louis : 12:34 AM

16 September 2008

Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly.

"He who does not weep does not sing."

"Grief is like the ocean; it's deep, and dark, and bigger than all of us.
And pain is like a thief with a knife. Quiet, persistent, unfair...
I'm jealous of him. Because i see how his absence has afected the people who knew him, so I knew he mattered tothem. I knew he was loved." Haley's student

Ok if you only have time to spare for one show, go with One Tree Hill. Because it is one of the absolutely best shows simply because it is a show dealing with real-life issues, no exaggeration, little sex/kissing/hollywood extremities.

Gossip Girl is like the best complement to OTH. It's a total no-brainer show where almost character gets bitch-slapped or backstabbed because of some character's jealousy of the intimate relationship that couple shares. It's about the friendships that shift almost all the time (you seriously wonder if true friendship is a feasible concept) and it's about the things which people do without thinking that get them into the trouble. As you know, the things that you do have consequences in this really intertwined and complex world.

Visit http://cwtv.com/thecw/style-gossipgirl-c and you'll pretty much get what I mean.
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SPEAKING OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR ACTIONS...

Life's been a bitch recently.

Why can't everyone be compelling enough to do their allocated workload diligently?
Well, apparently some *cough cough hint hint choke choke* people don't share the same POV as others.
They don't realize that people actually do have issues working with them, simply because they don't fulfill the simple requirements of being a good group member!

and now you say you have difficulties finding teammates.
...OH, karma got you. SURPRISE!

Wake up or you're gonna get stuck in those filthy ditches which no one hopes you'll end up in!!!

P.S No, don't get me wrong this isn't happening to me. JUST AN OBSERVATION!
XOXO.
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Week 34 (8th Sept - 14th Sept 2008)
1) I Don't Care - Fall Out Boy
2) Keeps Getting Better - Christina Aguilera
3) I Will Possess Your Heart - Death Cab For Cutie
4) The Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script
5) So What - P!nk
6) We Cry - The Script
7) That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings
8) Take Back The City - Snow Patrol
9) Something Anything - Travis
10) Be Ok - Ingrid Michaelson
11) Thunder - Boys Like Girls
12) Never Miss A Beat - The Kaiser Chiefs
13) Crush - David Archuleta
14) You Make It Real - James Morrison
15) If You're Out There - John Legend
16) The Shock Of The Lightning - Oasis
17) Spiralling - Keane
18) Lucid Dreams - Franz Ferdinand
19) Look Out Sunshine! - The Fratellis
20) What About Now - Daughtry

# posted by Louis : 5:59 PM

14 September 2008

Ok, amidst 'You can do it and score well for promos' emails, I found this!

Oh me! I can't believe how sweet the Nike Run photographers are! I actually received an email from them, informing me that they might have pictures of me in it!

All I had to do was type my Bib number in and VOILA, 3 photos! Happy happy!

I'm like really highly amazed. Like TOTALLY.

P.S How in the world did they do this? Must be freaking painstaking.

P.P.S Go Louis! Mug for your promos as hard as you ran! =DDD

P.P.P.S GO ALL! 15 days more for Lit ppl! =DDD

P.P.P.P.S Don't you science ppl exclaim in jubilation next next Thursday in front of my face. GO AWAY SHOOO.

P.P.P.P.P.S Ok I find pleasure in doing this.

P.P.P.P.P.P.S Maybe I should stop it.

BYE! THEENKS! SEE EVERYBADY IN SCHOOL TOMORROW.

# posted by Louis : 10:53 PM

12 September 2008

Hackin' funny

Lucas Cruikshank is the web producer and creator of Fred, a web-based show on YouTube. The show has received international recognition for its popularity and has led its creator to commercial success
Cruikshank describes Fred as "A six year-old with anger management issues and an alcoholic mom who's not supposed to be using her video camera to post videos." He lives with his alcoholic mother, who is currently in rehab and is never seen, only heard in her manly voice, with the exception of "Fred On Halloween." Fred has a crush on a girl named Judy who hates him a lot. Fred usually says that he and Judy are meant for each other because they both have "great bodies"(even though in "Fred Goes Swimming", he says he is uncomfortable with his body) Judy likes a boy named Kevin, who is a bully to Fred. According to Fred Kevin is fat and stupid/has a short memory span. Fred frequently mentions his "Zipit" personal messaging device and IM's to both Judy and Kevin. In Season 2, his Grandma was taking care of him while his mother was in rehab for a couple of weeks. Now she is back from rehab. Lucas wears the same t-shirt in each episode of Season 1 claiming it to be the only one he has, however in Season 2 the same shirt is now red, due to his Grandma ruining it in the laundry.

# posted by Louis : 7:00 PM

11 September 2008

OMG. I totally lost my appetite EWW.

LOL NOOOO SEB YOU JUST KILLED ME.
THAT WAS GROSS.
BEYOND GROSS.
EWWW.
WHAT THE HELL!

# posted by Louis : 4:03 PM

08 September 2008

Chris Crocker would be so pleased.

Britney Spears - Piece Of Me

Video Of The Year

Best Female Video

Best Pop Video

TOTAL: 3 VMAs for Britney!

"It was the first time Spears had won a statuette at the MTV video awards despite 16 previous nominations." - AFP

It's so great to hear hear speak normally.
You can view her winning speech here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0B52KxzLxs

Other awards worthy of mention:
Chris Brown won Best Male Video with "With You"
Best Rock Video went to Linkin Park's "Shadow of the Day"
Pussycat Dolls snagged Best Dancing in a Video for "When I Grow Up"
The White Stripes received Best Cinematography in a Video for "Conquest"
Death Cab for Cutie won Best Editing in a Video for "I Will Possess Your Heart"
Best Art Direction and Chereography in a Video both went to Gnarls Barkley's "Run"

# posted by Louis : 7:16 PM

07 September 2008

Earth's Last Eden

WOO. SURVIVOR GABON IS STARTING. September 25th. Thank God that's when Promos end (with the exception of Lit Paper 2)

Ok, predictions predictions.
Placing my bets on these two.

1) Ken - Apparently he's a professional gamer, and the current international champion of Nintendo's Super Smash Brothers Melee video game (no idea what's that). So yay, one for the Asians!

2) Charlie - Very much like Todd from Survivor: China. So yeah, I guess he can play the game equally well too.

# posted by Louis : 11:18 PM

Week 33 (1st Sept - 7th Sept 2008)

1) The Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script
2) I Will Possess Your Heart - Death Cab For Cutie
3) So What - P!nk
4) Never Miss A Beat - The Kaiser Chiefs
5) That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings
6) If You're Out There - John Legend
7) Thunder - Boys Like Girls
8) Keeps Getting Better - Christina Aguilera
9) Something Anything - Travis
10) Take Back The City - Snow Patrol
11) Crush - David Archuleta
12) What About Now - Daughtry
13) Lucid Dreams - Franz Ferdinand
14) Look Out Sunshine! - The Fratellis
15) You Make It Real - James Morrison
16) Spiralling - Keane
17) The Shock Of The Lightning - Oasis
18) American Boy - Estelle feat. Kanye West
19) Now Or Never - High School Musical
20) Real - Goo Goo Dolls

# posted by Louis : 5:28 PM

06 September 2008

I can't be moved. I'm the man =D

Presenting to you a compilation of notes of Econs, Lit and Geog. I feel greatly accomplished today.
Right now, I'm only fully done with Econs. Got to start reading up on the different periods (Edwardian, Modern, dunno what else) for Lit, start recognizing which Owen poem is which, read Othello once more to refresh my memory, start memorizing my Physical Geog notes convincingly, and do more Math.

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ANYWAYS, Britney might be performing at the VMAs after all. This is a video of her rehearsing one of her newest tracks "Underground". She certainly looks like she's gotten back some of her old awesomeness.

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Have you seen small kids in shopping centres recently, playing around with the laser-animated thing that's projected on the floor? It's seriously quite entertaining to see them stomp their feet and screaming at the top of their heads as they try to propel cars/destroy buildings/kick soccerballs/create fireworks with their feet.

This form of public nuisance certainly serves as a marginal social cost to sane, civilized citizens like me. =D (yes, I applied an Econs concept LOL.)

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ok this was long due. I think the curve's quite reflective: I was slacking the first 2km, slowly built up with my peak around the mid-distance, and after that I just deflated and died, and when I saw the finish line, I just ran like there was no tomorrow. yeah.

# posted by Louis : 11:22 PM

05 September 2008

What's a political left?

Just watched the premiere of ANTM11. Some of the 14 finalists are rather cool.

You have a French girl who looks like Audrey Tautou when she smiles (Marjorie)

You have a half-Korean-half-Japanese girl who is super fierce, and who's a good representation for the Asian community (Sheena),

And finally you have a transgender. She takes nicer photos than some of the contestants. (Isis)

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oh, and the Lit books which I borrowed from the library are pretty useful. yay!

# posted by Louis : 1:19 AM

03 September 2008

One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl

watch watch watch! =D
ok, I mean... watch if you need a break amidst the mugging. I did. lol.

# posted by Louis : 8:29 PM

01 September 2008

of flying drum sticks and iPod Nanos

I have photos of BOYS LIKE GIRLS!
Stood at the FRONT ROW with farhanah kuoying bryan wenda just to name a few.
It was CRAZY, everyone was screaming their heads off!! Some local bands like The Great Spy Experiment also received much reception. Overall atmosphere was pretty awesome by nighttime, which was rather surprising because everyone's supposed to be as tired as a zombie after running 10km.
I'm lazy to upload the photos here.
Visit my facebook albums link if you wanna see the photos!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=38810&id=727392938

woke up today obviously with a set of aching and retarded thighs. studied math at home, and joined seb and lintong at jurong east for more mugging. we decided that we got kinda unproductive after like many hours, so we decided to catch Wall.E!! WOO. its a nice futuristic movie showing how earth would look like in the year 2700+, and also how people would look like then (fat and immobile)

# posted by Louis : 8:57 PM

Week 32 (25th August - 31st August 2008)

1) If You're Out There - John Legend
2) Crush - David Archuleta
3) I Will Possess Your Heart - Death Cab For Cutie
4) The Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script
5) What About Now - Daughtry
6) Never Miss A Beat - The Kaiser Chiefs
7) You Make It Real - James Morrison
8) Lucid Dreams - Franz Ferdinand
9) The Shock Of The Lightning - Oasis
10) Look Out Sunshine! - The Fratellis
11) Real - Goo Goo Dolls
12) Spiralling - Keane
13) Give It 2 Me - Madonna
14) American Boy - Estelle feat. Kanye West
15) About A Girl - The Academy Is…
16) Pork and Beans - Weezer
17) Now Or Never - High School Musical 3
18) Butterfly - Jason Mraz
19) Living In A World Without You - The Rasmus
20) Are You Up For This? - Craig David

# posted by Louis : 12:04 AM