60th Emmy

I realised I hadn't blogged about the Emmy's. The highlight for me is definitely Josh Groban's medley of TV themes. I thought the Law & Order solemn gong was damn funny. Ha.. I definitely didn't know he was this talented and funny.



Oh and I was very happy that Lee Pace from Pushing Daisies was nominated for best actor. =) I was clapping away. Ha.. But I don't mind Alec Baldwin from 30 Rock winning the award.



When I saw Kristin Chenoweth from the show I was reminded that I wanted to check her height. When I rewatched the series my first reaction of her entrance was that she looked super short beside Lee Pace (who is very cute =)). Anyway, she is the same height as me. So now I know how short I'll look beside Hollywood people. Ha.. Anyway she looks much better in short hair, in my opinion. Oh, can you believe she's 40 this year? Do short people look younger? Anyway, that makes her the same age as Billy Boyd. Just one month and 4 days apart.

Surreal

I was having trouble falling asleep last night because of this stupid cold that's been bugging me all week. Damn irritating. Anyway I was still awake at 6am so decided to listen to Morning Jam at power 98. I must be a little delirious from the lack of sleep because I smsed in when they were talking about graduation songs. It was SO surreal hearing Joe read out part of my message. Ha.. But I think it was read out only because the three of them wanted to say 小虎队 xiao hu dui in unison on english radio. Ha.. When I was in p1, or actually maybe p2, I had a classmate who was crying so tragicly because the p6s were leaving. Eh, didn't know why she was so upset.. She was the only one upset. Maybe few others also cried because she was crying. A p6 senior was trying to console her saying they would visit etc. I remember I was drawing on the blackboard. Anyway they were using this 小虎队 song for their graduation but I can't remember the name.. I remember it's a very sad song but I can only remember the dragonfly song now. I'll put it in the music tab when I find it. =) So funny hearing them get excited about saying 小虎队 on radio. Ha..

The Saturday Night Live Tina Fey as Sarah Palin skit, if you haven't seen it yet

This is so funny. I'm embarassingly ignorant of current affairs but I still got the jokes. This is really funny. My god if they win..I wouldn't know whether to laugh or cry. I would definitely be disgusted.

Clip can be found here.

"Hilary": I believe global warming is caused by man.
"Palin": And I believe it's just God hugging us closer.

I can't believe there are people who don't believe in global warming! It's one thing to not care but to think it's some conspiracy or godknowswhatthey think. It's beyond what my pretty little head can comprehend. I didn't even think that there are people who don't believe in global warming until I read in dooce about her very mormon mum not believing in it. I'm thinking of something about mormon that's rude. I don't want to risk getting in touble for writing it here. But I think americans like to make fun of mormons anyway. In That '70s Show Red sometimes says in exasperation that he feels like a mormon because the kids are always in his house. (Mormons have many children.) Ok never mind.

Here are some SNL clips with Michael Phelps. =)



This is a spoof on the T-Mobile ads about who are your favourite 5. Almost didn't recognise Michael Phelps.

http://www.leschoristes-lefilm.com

I saw the web address in the credits of the film and just checked it out. After the success of Les Choristes they had another film by the original cast, or at least 3 of them that I see, in a new film coming out next week. The website is all in french so I don't understand.. Je ne comprend pas. But the pictures are nice and sharp and big(slideshow). The music is nice too but I hear only Paris...Paris...Paris... Not just because I don't understand but she repeats it a lot.

Les Choristes

This was the french film on Arts Central on Sunday. It is damn nice. The singing is so beautiful. And the boy is cute too. Ha.. The video is not of the best song scene in my opinion but it's the only one I could find on youtube. It's La Nuit, which I think means The Night. I think.



The boy is holding the score because he can't sing to save his life. Note 1:03. Damn funny. When the teacher was delegating parts, he heard him sing and told him to hold the score: "I name you 'music stand'." And he tapped the baton on his head. So funny.

I'm putting other clips of the film I found in my BRAND NEW TAB. =)

Postsecret



-----Email Message-----
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 9:45 PM
Subject: RE: prep for suicide

I want to clean my mess of a room before I commit suicide. But I'm a huge procrastinator. And so the mess just keeps piling up.

I laughed when I saw that because it sounds exactly like me. I was reading the papers about the 2 boys who fell/jumped couple weeks ago. Last Monday I was at Guang Ming Shan for my grandma's 49th day and waiting for some relatives to arrive when a van drove in for cremation purposes. It wasn't the first I've seen since I've been there several times but I was a little shocked to see the photograph was of a teen boy. I didn't realise it was one of the two boys I heard in the news until I read the papers today. Eh, my aunts and uncles were discussing about it after and they didn't really know what happened too and the conclusion was to read the papers. My cousin said they very kaypoh. =P It was quite sad because the parents and elders of the Chinese boy couldn't be there because of Chinese traditions and only a few siblings and maybe cousins could be mourning. The undertaker had a person to guide them. But there were many classmates and schoolmates there at the cremation. I only saw one girl crying and her friend was comforting her. I was a little surprised they didn't look very upset.. But from the picture in the papers maybe the commotion happened mainly outside but I was inside so didn't see.

I wonder if the other Thai boy has people taking care of his affairs because he lives only with his grandmother here. I remember when I was in Pri 6 a schoolmate committed suicide too and her parents asked reporters not to report it too conspicuously because they didn't want to upset her grandmother and didn't want to tell her. I think they intended to tell her she went overseas to study. So sad.

Oh and I read about this stupid Hongkong tycoon who was trying to claim a piece of land where an 86-year-old elderly lady raised her family with her husband and still currently working on the farm. A frigging 14-year litigation. Excuse me, you're a frigging billionaire and you bugged a poor old lady and her small family for a piece of land that is their life, and which is like a stick of gum to you. What the hell is wrong with you? At least the old lady won. I don't understand why it took so long though. Dumb.

I LOVE this song ---------------SO--------------- much!

Official music video (Embedding disabled)

This is "It's the way you make me feel" by Steps. And it makes me feel happy! I've been trying to remember this song for AGES. I only remembered it came out the same time as Bardot when we were in Sec 4 and I vaguely remembered "Steps" - not knowing if it was the band name or part of the song title. I finally googled "steps" and after snooping around I finally found it! Hoorah! The reason this song makes me happy is because it reminds me of my happy Sec 4 times, hanging out with friends, at Christina's place or wherever. I think mainly Christina's place. Heh. And we would watch this music video, amongst others and including Bardot's. After 'O' levels was like the happiest time of my life! No homework, no need to find job, just play, play, play! I'm sure I was bored at some point and unhappy but I don't remember that. Sigh. I miss school... I can't believe I even miss P.E. But at least we could play several different games. From pri to uni I have tried soccer, baseball, tennis, volleyball, badminton, swimming (which I didn't like), floorball, hockey (I think), fencing, and other non-descript games. I think one of the best things about school is being able to try many different things. I definitely don't regret not having any other ECA that is not band because I really like being in the band. But I do wish I could have played some sports more. I'm quite sad I couldn't try archery and shooting in school.. =( I wanted to try archery in uni but the time always clashed with aki. =( I think aki deprived me of a uni life. Damn. But I got a unique experience in aki ba. At least I got to try fencing in uni. It was fun. =) But the suit was damn hot. Maybe it's because we were taking turns to wear the same suits. I wouldn't mind taking it up again. =) Kinda miss olympics. =P

Oh I found this.



Forgot Michael Jackson has a song called "The way you make me feel". I like this song too. No idea when and where this performance was at but must be a long time ago because Britney still looks good. Ahem.

I think I just saw a guy in the Olympics with green hair. I feel like colouring my hair green too. Hmm.. I like Joker's green hair..

Oh just saw Michael Phelps on TV. Yes he is very cute. Just went chalet with family and my cousin's boyfriend is so obsessed with him. Funny. And that cousin really inherited the family's love-to-scold-people genes. Every frigging single time I see my grandma's children they're either scolding people or badmouthing people. I feel like gagging their mouths or just screaming at them. One day I'm going to explode. There will be casualties. At one point at the chalet where there were no grandma's children around, somebody pointed out that they were always scolding people and everyone immediately agreed that every single one of them had the same traits! Eh I kinda assumed it must be my grandpa's genes because he passed away 12 years before I was born (Years of the Rat - actually I realised the date was quite close to my Chi birthdate) so I didn't know him and erm it was easier to blame him. =P Sorry.. And because I've never seen my grandma scold people loh. But my aunt said grandpa was not like them leh. But then, I think she said she's never seen him before. Maybe she heard from my uncle. My mother said grandpa was very strict with them but I don't believe a word coming out of her mouth. Oh, actually my theory is that my grandpa had too many children (he had a first wife whose family is still in China) so his good genes were stretched too thin. And he was 20 years older than my grandma so maybe the good genes not as strong liao. Horrible things survive in poor conditions right? Case in point - cockroaches. I'm not being mean here k. All my cousins and aunts-in-law can't stand them. Ooh Phelps on TV again.

I wonder...

...if Tao Li is sick of people mispronouncing her name. I'm so happy Singapore won a medal. But I'm still feeling sluggish..

And I'm wondering if China made Jingjing the Fuwa the cutest because of Guo Jingjing. =P

Update

In case some of you still don't know, my grandma passed away a few days before the last post. And I feel like punching the lights out of some people. I so want to move out and away from all this shit.

This is the year good people die

My Daily Tarot Card on fb

The Tower

The Tower represents sudden and unexpected change. It signifies the destruction of something that was not built on a solid foundation. With this change comes a time of disorder and chaos, but from this comes great improvement and newfound strength. This is an opportunity for you to start over and right your wrongs.

I think I just righted a wrong.

Kitties

Today 2 ladies in the office building told me separately that some moron complained about the cats and they're going to send them away. The first lady told me at noon somebody sent an email telling them not to feed the cats. The second lady told me in the evening that she called the moronic man about it and the man was quite rude. And that she was told the SPCA will be putting them down. What the hell? The second lady is really nice and she feeds the cats everyday. She told the moron, who said that because we had been feeding the cats, they had been pooing around. I have never in my life seen cat poo around. Is that moron hallucinating? Because he said there's another yellow cat around and he's the only one who's seen it. That freak is disturbed. The nice lady said the cats have been around for a long time and they've never bothered anyone. She even told the stupid man she's willing to go around to pick up cat poo. So nice. She might be bringing the cats home. I hope she does.. In case she decides to leave that dumb place who lets one single moronic freak take away two innocent cat lives. The lady works on the ground floor where the cats are so I think she'll protect them. I hope. I didn't see the bigger, blacker cat at all today. I'm so pissed off with that bastard. I hope he sees me feeding the cats and confront me so I can personally verbally abuse his sorry ass.

Reality's Dark Dream

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge


I know 'tis but a dream, yet felt more anguish
Than if 'twere truth. It has been often so:
Must I die under it? Is no one near?
Will no one hear these stifled groans and wake me?

"Do You Think I Know What I'm Doing?"

by Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks


Do you think I know what I'm doing?
That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself?
As much as a pen knows what it's writing,
or the ball can guess where it's going next.

Richard Cory

by Edwin Arlington Robinson


Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich, - yes, richer than a king, -
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.

The Stranger

by Charles Baudelaire
Translated by Louise Varѐse


Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, your mother, your sister, or your brother?
I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother.
Your friends?
Now you use a word whose meaning I have never known.
Your country?
I do not know in what latitude it lies.
Beauty?
I could indeed love her, Goddess and Immortal.
Gold?
I hate it as you hate God.
Then, what do you love, extraordinary stranger?
I love the clouds ... the clouds that pass ... up there ... up there ... the wonderful clouds!

Poetry

I borrowed a poetry book for my student and I read a little of it. It's called I Just HOPE It's Lethal: Poems of Sadness, Madness, & Joy. Eh ok it might be a little depressing but my student is a little unfeeling so I need to knock some emotions into her. =P Anyway, will be putting some poems here that I...understand.

A new month

The chatty cleaning auntie who comes in the office to take away rubbish and who fed the cats is not working there/here anymore because they changed cleaning companies and the new company hired their own people. Lucky there's another lady who feeds the cats. But I wonder if they're hungrier than usual. I accidentally fed them quite a lot just now. Oops. And I had to stand there to stop the fatter cat from eating the other cat's share. So greedy..

The boss wants me to set up my own company so he can engage my "company" to do drawings for his presentations. And because he wants me to hire prison people because he can't contact them himself. (Something to do with the top people.) An ex-colleague is working with the prison in the yellow ribbon project so she told him she has people who can draw. So i'm supposed to become a boss. What joy. I feel like it's forced down my throat though. I don't want to bite off more than I can chew. I hate people who want to do too much and mess up everything. When you bite off more than you can chew, you choke. What one wants to do with themselves is their problem but when it affects others it's just irritating.

Epiphany

Some people are so dense it's like talking to a wall. But then again, why did I even bother talking to a wall? I should accept the wall for the wall that it is and not bother. My bad.