I am very bored and have a lot of free time. So this is what I do.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="384"] in case you missed it, my reply at the bottom says 'Nothing in JENeral'[/caption]
I know i know. I am the lameness ultimate x 99.
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Thursday, 8 November 2012
A Snowy Fantasy
One of my childhood dreams, just like probably every child, was to experience snow. Snow sounds like such a mystical, fairy-tale concept for me as I come from Singapore, a tropical island with only sun and rain. Snow only appears in TV shows and movies and dreams.
Last week, I got my first ever frosted breath. This is simply when you exhale and you see the misted/smoke thingy - once again, another mystical, fairy-tale concept that I always saw in TV shows and movies. I was happily playing with it like a little kid and my friend was shaking her head wondering how I could be four years older than her. But I didn't care. I was happy. I was fulfilling a fantasy.
Today, another one of those fantasies was fulfilled. I was walking to the gym after class, and the weather forecast predicted it to rain so I was holding an umbrella to shelter myself from the seemingly light drizzle. After a while, I noticed something odd about the rain - it wasn't falling like normal raindrops - it was.... floating sideways. And the raindrops appeared more like specks than drops of water.
After a few more meters of walking and when little ice specks landed on my jacket, I suddenly realized that IT WAS SNOWING!!!
My thoughts were verified when I saw some girls running somewhere and one exclaimed 'It's snowing!!!' capturing the same excitement I had in me. I took out my glove I had on to catch a snowflake - a mistake because the biting wind almost froze my hand and I had to keep it inside - but I continued admiring and gushing at the multiple snowflakes that began landing on my clothes.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="344"] A huge ass snowflake[/caption]
The next thing I did was to pull out my phone and post on Facebook - I think I was one of the first few to realize it was snowing because I was outdoors at that time. I was quite surprised to get quite a few likes on the simple status : "IT'S SNOWING!!!' I guess snow is just something magical for many of us - somewhat of a mystical entity that only appears once in a blue moon (i.e. if you travel elsewhere)
Snow is really beautiful. I don't know what it is about falling snowflakes, but it's the swirl of the snowflakes in the wind and the way they dance as they fall. It's nothing like rain which just takes a straight projectory down to earth - no, each snowflake swirls and twirls in the air for quite a while, carried by the wind currents, before it finally descends to the ground.
I was in the gym for the next 2-3 hours as it was snowing, and I didn't realize the extent of the snowfall until I came out :
And this was cute:
The streets were covered with snow, which made it quite slippery and scary to walk around, so I was shuffling slowly in my basketball shoes. I hope my Timberland boots do fine in walking (they're not proper winter boots). I was admiring the snow-covered streets/cars/trees/vegetation - everything basically. It was so beautiful. Words can't describe it.
This reminded me of another time when I was just left in awe - at the MBS Light Show. This was the same feeling. I just wanted to admire the beauty of the white landscape, and watch the helter skelter snowflakes begin their gradual descent to the ground.
I shall end this post with a picture of me happily basking in the snow. Ok I'm not really basking and I'm actually wincing abit because at that point of time a gust of strong wind was blowing at me and smashing little ice bits into my face lol.
Snow <3
EDIT:
I was posting on Facebook saying how I wanted to throw a snowball at someone for fun, and after chatting with some friends we decided to go out to play with snow! :D
We took many pictures which you can see on Facebook, and I really like how the snowflakes that were still falling were captured by my camera! Gives it a more snowy feel hehe.
Melody's a very nice friendly Californian girl who has cousins in Singapore and thinks Singlish is very cool LOL. She wants to learn my accent which is like whaaat. She built this little snowman and I brought some M&Ms which we used for the eyes and nose. She managed to apply the blush by smudging the red M&M! Clever!
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="576"] My ugly fail snowman haha. Must try again next time.[/caption]
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="432"] Pretty tree :D Everything with snow looks so pretty!![/caption]
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="576"] The lovely people I went out with :D[/caption]
Last week, I got my first ever frosted breath. This is simply when you exhale and you see the misted/smoke thingy - once again, another mystical, fairy-tale concept that I always saw in TV shows and movies. I was happily playing with it like a little kid and my friend was shaking her head wondering how I could be four years older than her. But I didn't care. I was happy. I was fulfilling a fantasy.
Today, another one of those fantasies was fulfilled. I was walking to the gym after class, and the weather forecast predicted it to rain so I was holding an umbrella to shelter myself from the seemingly light drizzle. After a while, I noticed something odd about the rain - it wasn't falling like normal raindrops - it was.... floating sideways. And the raindrops appeared more like specks than drops of water.
After a few more meters of walking and when little ice specks landed on my jacket, I suddenly realized that IT WAS SNOWING!!!
My thoughts were verified when I saw some girls running somewhere and one exclaimed 'It's snowing!!!' capturing the same excitement I had in me. I took out my glove I had on to catch a snowflake - a mistake because the biting wind almost froze my hand and I had to keep it inside - but I continued admiring and gushing at the multiple snowflakes that began landing on my clothes.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="344"] A huge ass snowflake[/caption]
The next thing I did was to pull out my phone and post on Facebook - I think I was one of the first few to realize it was snowing because I was outdoors at that time. I was quite surprised to get quite a few likes on the simple status : "IT'S SNOWING!!!' I guess snow is just something magical for many of us - somewhat of a mystical entity that only appears once in a blue moon (i.e. if you travel elsewhere)
Snow is really beautiful. I don't know what it is about falling snowflakes, but it's the swirl of the snowflakes in the wind and the way they dance as they fall. It's nothing like rain which just takes a straight projectory down to earth - no, each snowflake swirls and twirls in the air for quite a while, carried by the wind currents, before it finally descends to the ground.
I was in the gym for the next 2-3 hours as it was snowing, and I didn't realize the extent of the snowfall until I came out :
And this was cute:
The streets were covered with snow, which made it quite slippery and scary to walk around, so I was shuffling slowly in my basketball shoes. I hope my Timberland boots do fine in walking (they're not proper winter boots). I was admiring the snow-covered streets/cars/trees/vegetation - everything basically. It was so beautiful. Words can't describe it.
This reminded me of another time when I was just left in awe - at the MBS Light Show. This was the same feeling. I just wanted to admire the beauty of the white landscape, and watch the helter skelter snowflakes begin their gradual descent to the ground.
I shall end this post with a picture of me happily basking in the snow. Ok I'm not really basking and I'm actually wincing abit because at that point of time a gust of strong wind was blowing at me and smashing little ice bits into my face lol.
Snow <3
EDIT:
I was posting on Facebook saying how I wanted to throw a snowball at someone for fun, and after chatting with some friends we decided to go out to play with snow! :D
We took many pictures which you can see on Facebook, and I really like how the snowflakes that were still falling were captured by my camera! Gives it a more snowy feel hehe.
Melody's a very nice friendly Californian girl who has cousins in Singapore and thinks Singlish is very cool LOL. She wants to learn my accent which is like whaaat. She built this little snowman and I brought some M&Ms which we used for the eyes and nose. She managed to apply the blush by smudging the red M&M! Clever!
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="576"] My ugly fail snowman haha. Must try again next time.[/caption]
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="432"] Pretty tree :D Everything with snow looks so pretty!![/caption]
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="576"] The lovely people I went out with :D[/caption]
Monday, 29 October 2012
Halloween in the USA!
This year has marked a lot of firsts for me - first time staying in hall, first time going to the US... I won't make a list as it'll go on forever. It is also the first time I've attended a Halloween party! It wasn't my first time celebrating Halloween though, that was last year:
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="423"] Halloween 2011: Went to USS with the gf, bestie, and gwynnaho[/caption]
Anyway, back to the present. This party was organized by a Singaporean girl studying full-time in BU (well technically 2, they are housemates), and I kinda got the invite last minute but WHO CARES at least I got to go right haha.
So we went to the costume shop, and when I laid eyes on this, I knew I HAD to get this costume:
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="272"] Ghostface from Scream![/caption]
Now the first reaction from some people will be like 'boring!', 'overused!' , 'childish!', and I say I DONT'T CARE. You must understand one thing - Scream was my favourite childhood movie. Like really absolute favourite, the kind where people ask you 'Favourite Movie?' and I will SCREAM! (pun) (I didn't really scream.) And it's really childhood movie lor, 1996 was the first Scream!
I even wrote a review of the lastest (and probably last) of the franchise, Scream 4, over here.
Thus, to go as Ghostface can be said as one of my childhood dreams even? Though that's probably overstating it because I didn't really have an childhood dream of dressing up as anything at all haha. I did try to look around the shop a bit for other costumes but... nothing came close to this.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="319"] Check out her knife 'wound' on her neck![/caption]
The party was about 10-15 minutes walk from my dorm, but I took the train there because I wasn't sure how to get there. And guess what - I wore my costume all the way there and back, mask and all! It was pretty fun, like on the train I saw this old lady trying to sneak a photo of me from afar, and I turned to her and sportingly raised my knife to pose and she laughed heartedly. At that moment, I felt the joy that all mascots/costumed characters probably feel when their 'audience' responds to their playacting in their roles (e.g. at Disneyland)
When I came out of my dorm and was heading out I also walked past a group of Chinese girls who were slightly freaked then as I walked past them I turned my head slowly towards them it freaked them out even more haha.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="229"] Something like this. And I never knew cats could rotate their heads 180degrees[/caption]
So amusing random passerbys aside, I think the whole fun for me was taking pictures with other people. I'm not a get drunk and go crazy kinda person so I don't know what else I can do at a party hahaha. Besides catch up with long lost friends... but I didn't know most of the people there so it was semi-awkward.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="312"] A downside of my costume is I have to remove my mask to be identified haha.[/caption]
My friends who sportingly posed afraid were my favourite pictures:
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="576"] BatGirl is afraid of Ghosface![/caption]
For more photos, you can head over to my Facebook album hereIt was a fun experience overall, but it further reinforces the fact that parties/clubbing isn't for me. I mean, I see most of what they were doing was just zi high (translation: force yourself to be high, and hope it perpetuates), which was kinda lame but I guess your judgement of lameness is impaired when you are intoxicated. Some examples are singing very loudly and doing outlandish actions to the songs. It can be fun I suppose... like singing along to a popular song. But I can only last that long before it gets old.
Sometimes I wish I was born with the gift of the gab instead of being smart and handsome (I'm kidding) (About the being smart and handsome part). I mean, someone who is a smooth talker can easily win over strangers even without being attractive (Of course, being attractive, you make people subconsciously like you more. Hey, proven in studies so all of you in denial, shhhh), can easily make more friends, etc.
Oh well. I should be glad I am born normal, with all my limbs intact, with normal intelligence, and can function normally. And I do already have some kickass friends. And blog readers.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="423"] Halloween 2011: Went to USS with the gf, bestie, and gwynnaho[/caption]
Anyway, back to the present. This party was organized by a Singaporean girl studying full-time in BU (well technically 2, they are housemates), and I kinda got the invite last minute but WHO CARES at least I got to go right haha.
So we went to the costume shop, and when I laid eyes on this, I knew I HAD to get this costume:
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="272"] Ghostface from Scream![/caption]
Now the first reaction from some people will be like 'boring!', 'overused!' , 'childish!', and I say I DONT'T CARE. You must understand one thing - Scream was my favourite childhood movie. Like really absolute favourite, the kind where people ask you 'Favourite Movie?' and I will SCREAM! (pun) (I didn't really scream.) And it's really childhood movie lor, 1996 was the first Scream!
I even wrote a review of the lastest (and probably last) of the franchise, Scream 4, over here.
Thus, to go as Ghostface can be said as one of my childhood dreams even? Though that's probably overstating it because I didn't really have an childhood dream of dressing up as anything at all haha. I did try to look around the shop a bit for other costumes but... nothing came close to this.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="319"] Check out her knife 'wound' on her neck![/caption]
The party was about 10-15 minutes walk from my dorm, but I took the train there because I wasn't sure how to get there. And guess what - I wore my costume all the way there and back, mask and all! It was pretty fun, like on the train I saw this old lady trying to sneak a photo of me from afar, and I turned to her and sportingly raised my knife to pose and she laughed heartedly. At that moment, I felt the joy that all mascots/costumed characters probably feel when their 'audience' responds to their playacting in their roles (e.g. at Disneyland)
When I came out of my dorm and was heading out I also walked past a group of Chinese girls who were slightly freaked then as I walked past them I turned my head slowly towards them it freaked them out even more haha.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="229"] Something like this. And I never knew cats could rotate their heads 180degrees[/caption]
So amusing random passerbys aside, I think the whole fun for me was taking pictures with other people. I'm not a get drunk and go crazy kinda person so I don't know what else I can do at a party hahaha. Besides catch up with long lost friends... but I didn't know most of the people there so it was semi-awkward.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="312"] A downside of my costume is I have to remove my mask to be identified haha.[/caption]
My friends who sportingly posed afraid were my favourite pictures:
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="576"] BatGirl is afraid of Ghosface![/caption]
For more photos, you can head over to my Facebook album hereIt was a fun experience overall, but it further reinforces the fact that parties/clubbing isn't for me. I mean, I see most of what they were doing was just zi high (translation: force yourself to be high, and hope it perpetuates), which was kinda lame but I guess your judgement of lameness is impaired when you are intoxicated. Some examples are singing very loudly and doing outlandish actions to the songs. It can be fun I suppose... like singing along to a popular song. But I can only last that long before it gets old.
Sometimes I wish I was born with the gift of the gab instead of being smart and handsome (I'm kidding) (About the being smart and handsome part). I mean, someone who is a smooth talker can easily win over strangers even without being attractive (Of course, being attractive, you make people subconsciously like you more. Hey, proven in studies so all of you in denial, shhhh), can easily make more friends, etc.
Oh well. I should be glad I am born normal, with all my limbs intact, with normal intelligence, and can function normally. And I do already have some kickass friends. And blog readers.
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