Beyond the distant star.

flower of anemone:




my deepest condolences.

I know you'll be strong, as you always are.
we'll be there, too.

p.s: flower language for anemone means "undying love".

a breath away's not far
to where you are

babe

points learnt from Promo exam:

1-hubris

the oldest tragedy in the book. an essential factor of any literary masterpiece, from classic Greek to Shakepearean plays to James Bond's villains. the world is not laughing with you, the world is laughing at you now. laugh laugh hahahahaha.

2-God exists

and He hates hypocrites. I got better on my essay than my long argument for KI, even though i believe that my long argument has less language mistakes and better flow in it. My long argument was against "scientific" creationism, and I blasted it to pieces. Richard Dawkins would be proud. and yet I still prayed to God to give me good result.

Sorry, God.

ok, promo done, reflection done, so now is DISCO TIME!!

songs of the day: 

Wild Cherry - Play the Funky Music

Bob Sinclair - Rock This Party

Tom Jones - Sexbomb

La Bamba - Los Lobos

seriusloejon

Se necesita una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia para mi para ti

Gravity.

Ever heard of Gravity?
.
.
no, not that Earth thing,
it is defined as "Force of attaction between two bodies"
so can any couple say they have gravity between them?

maybe gravity can be an excuse for person who come up with this line:

"hey, I'm attracted to you, I can't help it",

and was met with rejection.

even more interesting is its characteristic,
"Gravity is inversely related to the square of the distance between two bodies"
is that why long-distance relationships seldom work? :D

however there is one part that bothers me,
"Gravity is proportional to the masses of two bodies"
or is it, in fact, the ultimate truth? ahahah.

let your soul take you where you long to be
only then can you belong to me

Symphony of wind.

I'm struck by this post-working syndrome.
But since I have no routine work, I'll just call it post-ICN syndrome.

Ever feel that way?
At one time you are wishing for more than 24 hours a day and more than 7 days in a week.
because simply you got too much thing to do, and so little time.
But when that period is over, you just simply have too much time, and so little things to do.
but hey, it may not be true, that is just how you feel.. at least I did.

and that happened last week,
no mood for neither lecture nor tutorials. I shouldn't have bothered coming. hahah.

that was last week,
at least I'm getting them back now, I think.

Okay, guess what I did on Saturday?
indochoir outing, and its agenda? phototaking at Esplanade area.
by far weirdest outing I ever had.

Imagine yourself (or you and your companion, whatever) peacefully spending time in Esplanade rooftop talking, or attending a wedding in Fullerton, or even in a green line MRT ride. Then suddenly, 13 people, all dressed in fancy and different colours come right under your nose starts to take out their cameras (yes, with s behind) and posing, jumping, smiling and laughing endlessly in front of you.

and that lasted from 4pm until about 1030pm, amazing.
surprisingly, I only have 146 photos to show from my camera,
uploaded them here : part1 part2 part3

I'll just show you my favorite from my cam:

this is why I'm swamped right now.
wanted to play around in OH today, but I need some rest.
who says phototaking is not energy-consuming?

for the record, I seldom meet this love-to-be-pictured kind of people.

oh, try listening to James Morrison - Wonderful World, with lyrics.
good for emo people :P

gravity!

But if I had someone I would do anything
I'd never, never, ever let you feel alone

Pandangan Pertama.

yay time to update!

been busy with ICN (Indonesian Cultural Night) last week.

poor me, I messaged 30 people for tickets and none replied yes! lol.

well in the end it was a full house, so I won't complain..

And soo, I joined IndoChoir for this event...

Good stuff first, we rocked! "Burung Kakaktua" was suddenly majestic.

I really thought we just perform for fun based on our messed-up rehearsals. lol.

guess all those time spent dancing was worth it eh? really paid off :D

and to spill the beans, IndoChoir is sooo much of a narcist!
from 15.49 until 22.43 that day, they took 237 photos! (but only 199 was good)
good thing I brought my red camera then, sooo much fun.

I already uploaded those photos on facebook ( 4 parts! my new record, lol)
click too follow the links : part1 part2 part3 part4 rehearsal
yes you are not wrong, there are over 250 photos and dunno how many comments.

I really2 like some of the photos:






I realize I'm not bad at self-photo taking, almost always accurate up until 3 person eh?

speaking of comments, I had over +1000 email from facebook in my yahoo mail.
just 8 hours after I uploaded the photos! tags, comments, everything.
and unfortunately, those comments are either junks or gossips! LOL.

gossipnya parahh siaaa, jgn ditambahin d blog ini yah plis.
di facebook aja cukup, hahahah.
kalo gue punya cewe pasti gue uda digiling deh, unfortunately...

that was how I spent my saturday after MAS110 and MAS112 quizzes,
replying comments after comments or chatting the whole day, soo productive...
must find a way to escape from gossips! argh.

I went Oldham Hall on sunday, cos I got nothing to do.
trying to help those people study, but in the end I think I distracted them rite?
ahahaha nvm, u all looked like u need a break aniwae..

and I took one darn good photo of maura!
I'll just upload it somewhere later... hahahah.

raindrops, should I sleep? lol.

dan andai suatu hari kau jadi milikku tak akan kulepas dirimu kasih.
dan bila waktu mengijinkanku untuk menunggu dirimu.

Happy Idul Fitri!

I've been kinda busy lately, with ICN and all.

to make things worse, I have CS100 on Friday and MAS 110 and MAS 112 on Saturday.

so, guess what I did during Hari Raya? I mug. lol. what a way.

aniwae, sorry for all the troubles I gave to you people.

I'm off to mug!!

I wish myself luck.

peace be upon you

What is really celebrated during Ramadhan is emptiness. But how unsavoury does the word sound today. The streets are jam-packed, the etalages festal, living room chock-full with furniture, the forest shorn of hermits, and people jostling to declare piety through loudspeakers. Fasting is now little more than waiting for the beating of the drums and we have transformed Maghrib into the signal of feasting. In the approaching hours, hunger is akin to 12-hour transit.

However, someone who has read Dao will know that the wise stride with what Ranggawarsita called suwung sakjatining isi: "hollow but in fact full"

For if one would look toward the door, or at the earthenware flask, it is the empty space in them that makes them of value to others.

Therefore, out in the streets, where myriad people meet and fall out, anyone who does not feel pumped up with purity and truth will avail himself as a door for those to pass through. He will turn himself into a flask, so that another wanderer can tend to water for the thirsty.

- Goenawan Mohamad
On God and Other Unfinished Things

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDIL FITRI 1429 H

song of the day: Radiohead - There There

serius_loe_jon

the lady is a tramp

Earlier today,

song of the day: Jason Mraz & Collie Caillat - Lucky

then I sobered up.

song of the day: Metallica - My Apocalypse

the atheists really should listen to Death Magnetic to make them realize that god exists.

PROMO IN 6 DAYS ARRGH
so God help us

serius_loe_jon
Sing us a song
A song to keep us warm
There’s such a chill
Such a chill.

Guess guessing.

1.Apa fungsi ekor monyet?

Untuk menghitung monyet, 1 ekor, 2ekor, 3 ekor, 4 ekor?

2.Tahu apa yang paling besar?

Tahu isi Sumedang

3.Siapa yg lebih pinter dari Einstein?

Orang yang ngilangin bom atom hingga Einstein-lah penemunya

4.Pekerjaan apa yang biasa nyari posisi tempat kering,dan selalu mundur?

Tukang ngepel

5.Apa beda gadis baik-baik (GBB) dan gadis nakal (GN)?

GB hanya punya SATU kartu kredit dan JARANG DIPAKAI,GN hanya punya SATU BH dan JARANG DIPAKAI

6.Dari depan yang keliatan cuma tangan kanan doang?

Petugas jalan tol

7.Binatang apa yg kakinya lima?

Anjing kencing ngobrol sama ayam

8.Mana yang lebih pandai, anjing atau monyet?

Emang elo pernah sekelas sama mereka?

9.Kalo seandainya semua orang yang kaya menjadi miskin, lalu orang miskin jadi apa?

Jadi heran

10.Enak mana beras import sama beras lokal?

Enak nasi. Elo doyan beras?

13.Mata, hidung, telinga, mulut, badan mirip kerbau,tapi bukan kerbau. Apaan tuh?

Gambar kerbau

16.Kenapa lambang apotik ular sama gelas?

Karena kalau gajah, gelasnya pecah

17.Kenapa kapal terbang nggak bisa mundur?

Karena kapal terbang nggak punya spion

18.Lahir di Arab, besar di Arab, tapi ngga bisa bahasa Arab?

Unta

19.Kenapa leher angsa panjang?

Karena kalau pendek namanya bebek

20.Buah apa yang tahu cuma monyet?

Mana gue tau, gue kan bukan monyet?elo kali yang tau jawabannya?

21.Binatang laut apa yang paling tua?

Udang, udah kecil, bongkok, pake?jenggot lagi.

22.Kenapa Air Hujan selalu turun dari atas?

Kalo dari bawah namanya Air Mancur

One Mooncake too many.

I already uploaded the photos from:

NTU Mid-Autumn Festival here

Oldham Hall Mid-Autumn Celebration here

Have to admit that NTU MAF at Yunnan Garden was somewhat romantic.

Candles and Lantern everywhere, a lot of trees, bridges, and lakes.

and those girlfriends were making their own personal lantern for her other half, to twitt!

well, unfortunately, I was there with bunch of guys. lol.

at least I got to make (and eat) my own mooncakes for free!

That was last friday.

On Sunday, came to Oldham Hall to mug my HE101 and HE102

and decided to crash their Mid-Autumn celebrations!

so again, free mooncakes, and this time is actually expensive ones.

some pictures :

I did not get a shot of the mooncakes! nvm, my phone camera sucks anyway.

I shall bring my actual camera more often, along with charged battery.

birthdays are coming, if i'm not wrong, 6 birthdays until end of Sept.

what to do?

Good Luck to me for my quizzes on wed and thurs.

p.s : next week is recess week, yay!

so many things to tell her, but how to make her see?

the truth about my past, impossible. She'd turn away from me

Love Letter

This is a love letter from a boy to a girl....

The girl's father does not like him and want them stop their relationship

and so.. the boy wrote this letter to the girl..

he knows that the girl's father will definitely read this letter.. 

"The great love that I have for you

is gone, and I find my dislike for you

grows every day. When I see you, 

I do not even like your face;

the one thing that I want to do is to

look at other girls. I never wanted to 

marry you. Our last conversation

was very boring and has not

made me look forward to seeing you again. 

You think only of yourself.

If we were married, I know that I would find

life very difficult, and I would have no 

pleasure in living with you. I have a heart

to give, but it is not something that

I want to give to you. No one is more 

foolish and selfish than you, and you are not

able to care for me and help me.

I sincerely want you to understand that 

I speak the truth. You will do me a favor

if you think this is the end. Do not try

to answer this. Your letters are full of 

things that do not interest me. You have no

true love for me. Good-bye! Believe me,

I do not care for you. Please do not think that 

I am still your boyfriend."

So bad!!

Think so? read odd-numbered lines only.

becomes:

"The great love that I have for you

grows every day. When I see you, 

the one thing that I want to do is to

marry you. Our last conversation

made me look forward to seeing you again. 

If we were married, I know that I would find

pleasure in living with you. I have a heart

I want to give to you. No one is more 

able to care for me and help me.

I speak the truth. You will do me a favor

to answer this. Your letters are full of 

true love for me. Good-bye! Believe me,

I am still your boyfriend."

smart and sweet, huh?

staple through the navel

Marian sent me one photo some time ago, after our performance at Secondary Asean Dance at Hilton Hotel. And she was very excited, saying "This photo is SO our first album cover!"
So during my free time, I spent like 2 hours to make 2 album covers from the photo.

And this is it:

INSENSATEZ is the new sensation from the growing jazz scene in Singapore. A side project of Guilty Pleasure guitarist Marian Suwono and drummer Rahardhi Ulinnuha, Insensatez plays lounge jazz music with a Jamaican reggae accent and Incognito's prowess.






Artist: Insensatez
Album title: An Evening With Friends
Songs:
Enough Fajitas for Today (2:51)
Kingston Hotel (3:23)
The Groove Drips Acid (4:11)
(Not So) Deep Water (3:55)


artist: Deus Ex Machina
album: Late Night TV Shows
genre: Industrial Retrospective Rock n' Blues
sounds like: The White Stripes sings Muse while the guitarist is possessed by Jimi Hendrix
songs:
9 to 5 (3:47)
Overcoming The Love of Power (6:12)
Late Night TV Shows (4:01)
A Safer Kind of High (6:52)


OK BACK TO STUDY NOW NOW NOW NOT MUCH TIME LEFT AARGH

song of the day: Radiohead - Exit Music

serius_loe_jon
You can laugh
A spineless laugh
We hope that your rules and wisdom choke you

are you trying to get killed by standing on the streetside?

Few days ago, i was studying until quite late at night when this guy who was studying next to me flipped out his phone and made a call. I was not being a busybody or anything, but he was talking very loudly so I cant help myself from overhearing his conversation. Apparently he was trying to flirt with this girl, and it went downhill from there:

"Hey, would you go out with me on Saturday? I need some woman's advice here to choose a gift for my friend"
(The oldest trick in the book, dude, but it does work sometimes. Good start.)

"Oh you really cannot? Come on, I really need your help "
(Uh oh... Sounding desperate in the first few seconds. Not good.)

Few minutes later,

"Do you remember the quote that I told you last time? You dont? Oh, you should be very pitiful, the quote is very sweet"
(Well, I dont see why she should be "pitiful". You have my pity, though.)

and the coup-de-grace was,

"What? You really think I'm gay?"
(......)

Well, Good Game, buddy. Should have bought you a drink.

One thing that really strikes me was the usage of word "pitiful". I won't pretend that I'm linguistically very inclined, but I found it very weird. "Pitiful" is indeed a synonym for "sorry", but,...
Aiyoh, nevermind lah, like that also cannot meh?

And I'm not criticizing anyone here. Some guys even grow up, get married, have sex, have children without ever making their first call. I appreciate this guy, with all his limitations, he dared to flirt in the language he has not mastered yet.

On the other hand, you dont have to talk all the time.
Maybe you just have to

"slowly whisper I love you
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breath"
- Jeffrey McDaniel

Right, Julz?
Cheers for that particular sleepless night.

song of the day: Norah Jones - Sleepless Nights

serius_loe_jon
gimme fuel
gimme fire
gimme that which i desire

Male Chauvinist Pig.

How many men does it take to open a beer?

None. It should be opened when she brings it.

Why is a Laundromat a really bad place to pick up a woman? 

Because a woman who can't even afford a washing machine will probably never be able to support you.

Why do women have smaller feet than men? 

It's one of those "evolutionary things" that allows them to stand closer to the kitchen sink.

How do you know when a woman is about to say something smart? 

When she starts a sentence with "A man once told me.."

How do you fix a woman's watch? 

You don't. There is a clock on the oven.

Why do men fart more than women? 

Because women can't shut up long enough to build up the required pressure.

If your dog is barking at the back door and your wife is yelling at the front door, who do you let in first? 

The dog, of course. He'll shut up once you let him in.

What's worse than a Male Chauvinist Pig? 

A woman who won't do what she's told.

I married a Miss Right. 

I just didn't know her first name was Always.

Scientists have discovered a food that diminishes 

a woman's sex drive by 90%. 

It's called a Wedding Cake.

Why do men die before their wives? 

They want to.

Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy. 

In the beginning, God created the earth and rested. 

Then God created Man and rested. 

Then God created Woman. 

Since then, neither God nor Man has rested.

September Morn.

Sun's up.
What a shiny day (read: I just woke up).

Hey, I'm not that much of a pig, I had to actually get up very early in the morning to cook.
People in my hall take turns to prepare morning meals, once every three days.
For the fun of it, I took picture of them :D



Today's menu :
A questionable oyster sauce veggies, salty corned beef with rendang sauce, and of course, unconvincing omelette with sausages and crabstick.
Served with steamed rice and orange cordial.

Hahah, it tastes much better than it looks.
Maybe I should cook for blind people.

One thing I don't like about fasting, is that I can't barely play any sports during the day,
and I do tend to overeat after break.
which explains why I often put on weight during these months.

Let this be my schedule:

30 minutes of Interval training, 4x a week

anyone wanna come with?

I have MAS111 : Foundations of Maths test tomorrow, argh.

off to HE101 lecture, I shall not fall asleep.

GOOD LUCK FOR PRELIMS!

Think of me, think of me fondly when we've said good-bye
Remember me, every so often promise me you'll try.

uh, oh, should I join PINTU Idol? what to sing?

Oxford-Singapore Dictionary

So you Angmohs will finally understand Singaporeans.

1) LILY - adverb. extremely, really

"Wah, you lily can sing well ah!"

2) VALLEY - adverb. extremely (same with lily)

"Look! My Versachee belt, valley nice hor?"

3) GORGES - adj. stunningly beautiful, normally found with valley 

"Wah! Ah Beng's girlflan is valley gorges leh!"

4) CORAL - verb. to bicker

"Why, you not happy, ah? Want to coral, is it?"

5) REEF - (normally followed with coral) to argue with "You lily want to coral reef me ah?"

6) ALTITUDE - adjective. a disagreeable demeanour

"Ah Lian Lily got a bad altitude ploblem".

7) CIRRUS - adjective. certain

"You cirrus or not? Dun bruff!"

8) CANOPY - phrase. impossible

"He bought new handphone? Canopy lah! Where got money?"

9) OLDLADY - adjective. completed

"Wah...you finish oldlady ah."

10) SUIT - verb. to project forward

"Suit! Suit! See goalkeeper come out oldlady."

11) SOW - verb. to reveal

"Sow me, sow me your new ting."

12) LOAD - noun. a path normally made up of gravel & tar "We go Orchard Load leh."

13) BLINK - verb. deliver, send

"What you blink for me? Sow me, sow me."

Perseus.

They say a strong person can bounce back from whatever trouble,
I think they need to add a prerequisite : He shan't be foolish.

I need help, obviously.
Please, please send me somebody to make me smile.

Maybe I'm just overreacting.
but, 6 interview rejections should be enough to shoot my confidence down right?

Oh, in the end I got SPMS Publicity sub-committee, so unlike me.
need this to stay in hall, I shall not care much.

uh, oh, I uploaded Sentosa photos here
quoting Julian : "11 creatures sets all hell break loose in Sentosa"
and now I realize I am capable of getting sunburnt, it hurts!

here are few of the pictures:



L to R : Bebek spastic, Aton yg sok manis, dan Fanie Jebay (ga perlu description) :D

Good to meet u people, aniwae.
We should go again sometime, after promos or A's maybe?
looking forward to it. :)

What’s the point of life if risk is just a board game
You roll the dice but you’re just hoping that the rules change
What’s the point if you can’t bring yourself to say
Things you wanna say like "Dance with me tonight"

paradigm shift

an excerpt from TIME magazine dated May 12 2008,

"Last year a new frontier in Deep Brain Stimulation was opened when a team led by Dr. Nicholas Schiff of the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City used it to turn the cognitive lights back on in a man who had spent six years in near coma as a result of injuries suffered in a mugging and had seemed destined to spend the rest of his life that way"

holy poo

on the light of the impending promo exam, this passage suddenly has a new whole meaning.

song of the day: Radiohead - True Love Waits


hold that thought,
when everything is holy
and the Other is no more a miracle

Hundreds of pages, pages, pages forwards

Hi there.

First time I really skipped entire lecture today.
reason? 4 hours of sleep is not enough, I prefer my bed than lecture hall, definitely.

Why is it that sometimes we can remember what we dreamt about, vividly?
Last night was a weird one. Includes me being in a relationship.
Let's just say this one makes me think about someone the whole day.
Not a pleasant feeling, now I'm actually missing her, as a friend, of course.

And so I looked up Dream in Wikipedia:

Functional Hypoteses:

• Dreams regulate mood.
• Hartmann says dreams may function like psychotherapy, by "making connections in a safe place" and allowing the dreamer to integrate thoughts that may be dissociated during waking life.
• Ferenczi proposed that the dream, when told, may communicate something that is not being said outright.
  

Very funny, I know these doesn't apply to mine.
and I don't like to infer that I'm desperate, I'm not.

Let's just change the subject.
I need to go to queenstown area, shopping lists :
- Tennis racket
- Casual AND sport shoes

which, if added together, should cost me around 400 bucks. darn.
scholarship allowance please, please, please come fasterr.....pretty please?
my balance's depleting, uni life is NOT cheap.

and position of NTU does not help, it cost 5 bucks to go to town two-way.
like adit says, NTU should start learning smoke Morse sign.

I have a lot of mixed feelings right now.

was it you who spoke the words that things would happen but not to me
thing are gonna happen, naturally.

Punctuation

I have something interesting from my CS100 - Communication Studies lecture slides.

this is the use of Punctuation, same words:

use 1:

Dear John,

I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be forever happy - will you let me be yours?

Gloria

use 2:

Dear John,

I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we're apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be?

Yours,

Gloria

this is my idea of entertaining lecture.
though I have a feeling final exam will be hard.