Nearly 41,000 views and three years later, I am sad to say that this blog has passed its expiry date. From its humble beginnings as a post-SPM time-waster to the now fabric of my existence, this blog has been through everything; through my transition from SPM leaver to Foundation graduate and current undergraduate, from HELP University College to Taylor’s College, from Manchester United’s 2008 Champions League win to Spain’s EURO 2008 triumph.
To my loyal readers, your loyalty has been heavily misplaced as I have never taken time to read your blog in turn, so I apologise wholeheartedly though I will never change. Penchant for writing but terribly lazy to read, that is me, the master skimmer. And I thank you loyal readers, whose comments illuminate my day (except the joker who actually thought Max Payne was nice) and I hope you liked reading and commenting on my blog as much as I loved writing about random ramblings about my life.
To my friends and family, thanks for sharing moments worth writing about, you are the real gems I wanna keep sealed and locked up; this blog kept the crazy fun and laughter immortalised, and will continue doing so as long as 2012 does not happen.
And so I leave you dear reader with a quote from the immaculate Oscar Wilde’s wildly ironic Phrases and Philosophies For The Use Of The Young:
The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
May we always be over-dressed if only a little over-educated.
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PS: If you can’t get enough of my woeful commentary and improbable musings, here is the link to my new Tumblr, and may the photos there never go missing and never enlarge themselves prematurely =)
PPS: And if you don’t see anything on the Tumblr, don’t be alarmed, I just have not posted anything yet, it’s called procrastination.
Wow, since we stopped having to pass up assignments for a couple of weeks, we have been out gallivanting nonstop, so here is what I have been up to in the month of October.
First, introducing the world’s awesome-st chicken wing (albeit the most unhealthy one as well):
Yuen’s Steamboat boasts one of the tastiest chicken wings I have ever had the privilege to sink my teeth into. The chicken wing was made of fabulous.
Shortly after that, we had another fun karaoke day, sang our lungs out. Can you believe Red Box does not have Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” in their database?
Then duty called when Tash, Akil, Michelle, and the rest of our gang of merry men (and women) organised Cancel Cancer: Just Beat It, a cancer awareness campaign at Taylor’s.
After the hardwork of selling hotdogs and drinks (I was co-Food and Beverages head with Kenneth), Akil, Michelle, Nina, Jervinn, Ami, and I had a shopping trip to the Golden Triangle.
The shopping trip was pretty fruitful, and I actually, by coincidence, found a graphic tee that had the image of my actual Chuck Taylor’s sneakers, the exact model sans in black and white!
And following that, we were treated to a night out at Bangsar for Ai Khim’s 21st birthday. We were all dressed to the nines (thanks to the birthday girl’s strict I-will-kill-you-if-you-don’t-follow dress code), and Delicious was simply magnificent.
The desserts especially, exquisite!
And the crowning moment was during Halloween, when we braved the rain to see the boys from the All-American Rejects at Bukit Jalil Stadium carpark. Tyson Glitter was at his flamboyant best, and we were treated to some of their most popular songs though we had to wait for ages for them to appear onstage. Imagine the show was supposed to start at 6pm when the boys only came out at 9.30 pm; we were so glad we came late.
Tash was cool enough to try to get us into the VIP and Media section, but in the end we got ourselves right at the front, so it was all good. Akil and Nina’s first real concert experience yo!
Nina and Michelle went all fangirl for Tyson, so so cute (them not Tyson).
We even got a meter-ed taxi right after the concert.
And when we got back to our apartment, it was a little into the first day of November which left us reminiscing a past month of glorious fun (speaking of which Inglourious Basterds was epic) and unforgettable moments.
I am so gonna miss October.
What is the most enjoyable new show of the year?
Glee, beyond dispute, has to take the mantle as the funnest new series on television (albeit American television) right now hands-down.
I mean a story about a high school teacher trying to revive the old show choir team might seem like a Mighty Ducks reunion (God I love those Ducks), but any bunch of kids who can perform Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ and Queen’s ‘Somebody to Love’ with such vigour demands attention.
Sure, you might go all ‘haven’t we seen it all already in High School Musical?’, but this show is more the Rydell High gang than the Troy and Gabriella Wild Cats (though the Cheerios cheerleader outfits are almost identical), inserting satirical elements in between all the laughs and musical performances which are top-notch.
Glee has yet to find perfection as the Fox production has never quite found the heights of the awesome pilot episode, but as blissful fun goes, nothing rocks out as much as Glee does in Fall 2009.
As for comedies, wow, Modern Family is funny beyond compare. Though the premise of a dysfunctional family as laughing leverage is not the most original idea in Primetime history, Modern Family manages to tickle your funny bone with memorable characters, dark humour, random jokes and crazy moments.
Think of Modern Family as a cross between The Office and a funnier version of Everybody Loves Raymond (except without too much focus on Raymond). The ABC series uses a mockumentary approach so expect the characters to break the fourth wall (if you wanna be technical) throughout the episode.
Either way, expect to laugh your pants off, especially the pilot and especially as the show revolves around a family with teenage kids, a gay family, and a grand dad with a trophy wife. Comic genius.
PS: Vampire Diaries ain’t that bad. Good vampire versus bad vampire. Good vampire falls for damsel in distress. We’ve read it all before no thanks to Stephanie Meyer, but fan fact #1 is that Vampire Diaries was actually published years ahead of Twilight. Yeah who knew vampires existed before Edward right? Sorry Anne Rice.
Besides, Nina Dobrev provides the perfect tonic for us Sloan junkies since Entourage ended last week.
I mean, where else would we have gotten our Emmanuelle Chriqui fix?
See what I mean?
I meant to blog about this earlier, I swear, but hey even Zooey Deschanel has to wait.
I finally watched (500) Days of Summer, my most anticipated movie of the year, with Nina at Sunway Pyramid last Saturday.
Heck, I even gotta watch it for free, thanks to Time Out KL’s Free Flicks initiative. But I also gotta thank Michelle for telling me about the Free Flicks. So in all actuality, Michelle is the one who should be thanked.
With all the thanking outta the way, I wanna dedicate this post to a friendly foe called Expectation.
I expected great things from (500) Days of Summer; the Marc Webb film had everything I could ask for, Zooey Deschanel among others, references to The Smiths, and a top-notch premise. Hell, any movie with nearly 30 seconds invested in Belle and Sebastian talk be spell-bindingly awesome.
Please don’t get me wrong, (500) Days of Summer, also starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is a magnificent romantic-comedy, probably one of the best in the genre if not the most realistic, but thanks to Expectation, I already knew that the movie would blow my mind away before I even stepped foot into the cinema.
Expectation plays an influential role in (500) Days of Summer as well as life in general. If you go into this film expecting a The Proposal-esque generic Hollywood romantic fare a la The Ugly Truth, you’d be treated instead to a quirky and honest portrayal of relationships and the conundrum of Love and Fate and all that jazz. Tom (Gordon-Levitt) falls for Summer (Deschanel) who does not really feel the same way but goes for the ride nonetheless, which kinda spells disaster from the start. Their story is every love story which should have been told but isn’t. Their story is The Ugly Truth that nobody wants to hear.
In probably the most iconic scene of the Cannes Film Festival hit, Tom goes to Summer’s apartment hoping to reconcile with the girl of his dreams. The portrayal of Expectation and Reality is displayed through a nifty split screen with Tom expecting to get back together with Summer on one side and the reality check of that never happening on the other.
I guess life is all about keeping your feet on the ground when it comes to Expectations because when your Expectations go askew, all your have to face is a Reality check, and frankly, when Reality comes knocking on your door, you better be prepared to breathe in and smile.
PS: We even got a free movie poster which is now hanging proudly in the living room. Woots!
