Saturday. It can be very different for different people. For some, it is a day to be so looked forward after 5 days of hard hard work. For the others, it is a dreadful day because they still have to work. Some find the serenity they need at home, and some find the pleasure hanging out with friends. For me, it was spent at home, to find the peace I need. Ok. I spent the day surfing the net, TRYING to arrange a song, and recuperating at the same time.
These are what I have found on youtube. Beats all the Superstars contestants in Singapore hands down.
The formal got my goose bumps all rising, and the latter almost made my tears ooze out from the eyes, and of course the goose bumps.
And they also have kids to beat our own campus superstars. Although they are not as good as their elder counterparts, they are still quite good for their age.
Finally, my poor body couldn't handle the recent late nights and lack of vitamins, it broke down and I fell sick. Fortunately, it wasn't any serious illness, just minor sore throat, slight feverish and mild headache. Took the day off from office to rest at home.
I hate the feeling of being sick. It made me think of sad things. It made me feel that the bright sunny day was gloomed by the dark clouds. Maybe it was the medication, that ignited the dark sadness within me. I tried to think of unhappy thoughts, but they somehow overflowed.
So to take away the gloom, I increased my skills in a recent game I downloaded a few weeks ago but haven't had the chance to play. O2 jam. It's a game to test your rhythm and musical skills and it reminded me of an old arcade game, keyboard mania or beat mania. I also watched the final episode of Heroes, finally. It was somewhat a little disappointing as the end happened rather abruptly. Just don't expect much if you haven't watched the episode.
Work for the past week was alright, I guess. Got to be out of the office for a couple of site visits, which made the internship a little more interesting. There's this water testing for one visit and the other involved noise monitoring, in which the latter required me to stay at the site till 1.20 am. It was a cool experience to have but it got me a little sick after that.
Me and Edd, the other intern, were discussing about stuff during work the other day. (The seating arrangements which had all the interns siting at the hot desk, which is a cornered area from the main office. And that's why we could chit chat while doing simulations.) I brought up the topic that as we grew up, although we had more friends, but it seemed that the friends have less time for each other. There are less times spent for movies, gatherings and even simple dinners. He agreed, bringing up the point that at this age, people spent more time with their beaus instead of their friends, and that was mainly why so many were not available when there're gatherings.
Maybe I should really consider getting attached soon. The problem is, it's not that when I want to find that special someone, she will just appear in front of me. And who would want to get an ugly boyfriend like me.
I was looking at Taiwanese news a few days ago, and they were reporting about a Talent show in the UK, Britain's Got Talent. The reports were on this video on youtube which showcased this very ordinary guy, who has amazing hidden talent. See for yourself.
My hair literally stands when I heard him sing. You can see that a few from the audience secretly wipe off their tears when they heard him sing. You can imagine how you would feel if you were live hearing him sing.
As many say, if you are good, you don't have to look amazing. But the thing is, you have to be THAT good, which I think is not that easy.
As my age slowly ascends, I have realised that somehow the determination and discipline to accomplish something plunges. For instance, the discipline for me to finish me work on time and with great precision seems to be missing somehow. I am now so easily distracted by the things happening around, by useless thoughts which left me day dreaming half of the day, accomplishing naught.
Maybe that explains the not-so-fantastic results.
School's starting in 2 months time and my final year project will be commencing in the next month. I haven't decided what topics to consider for balloting yet. I have 2 more weeks, but I am more concerned if I have dinner dates for the evenings instead. I really should stop doing other things and start focusing.
Talking about determination and discipline, I happen to chance upon this youtube video on how this a cappella group carries out their practice routine. I have no idea the realibility of their 'training' activities but they sure sound rather impressive in the following video.
Been watching movies and videos online. Some of them have really amazing quality, given that these videos are streaming videos. I don't want to get caught by sharing the websites online, but if you all are interested, can message me privately and I have a few websites to share.
Finally, I have conquered the crowds at PC show on Sunday, returning home with my products of victory, a 160 gb Maxtor One Touch Mini III external hard disk, a SanDisk 2gb flash drive and a SanDisk 2gb Micro SD card. Total damage: $243.50. Satisfied with my goods. My external hard disk works well, at least for now, and I can at back up my documents, files, music and photos into my external hard disk with just a touch of a button. (Ok. It is not that simple, but still it is rather easy as the software included make the backing up process less complicated.) After conquering the crowds at PC show, I made my way to the national library to do some reading while waiting for Derek and Wailun for dinner. I picked up 2 books in the end, one is a compilation of fairie tales, and the other is "The mambo king plays songs of love". Still reading the former. Then I made all the way back to City Hall to meet the guys (Yes I walked) and one of them decided to have beef noodles near Bras Basah Complex. So we walked all the way back again, and not for long, I realised I was near the National Library again.
I think I was cursed for that day, or at least The Almighty realised I need to do more walking. Anyway, the issue was that the beef noodles only sell beef with kway teow, beef with noodles, everything with beef. There's nothing I could eat at that shop, so I went across the street to get myself some noodles. And once again, the trio walked back to Raffles City to catch Tic Tac Tone in action. (Edmund was doing VP for them, so we went to support.)
The sound system at Raffles City was really bad, as the A cappella group sounded as if the sounds came out from an old, baseless radio. Besides the mezzo, the VP and the bass (sometimes), the rest were barely audible. Sian Ying and beau was there too as they knew the group was performing, so I chatted with them for a while, in which after the performance, some kids came up to interview us for their 'school project' on our feeling for the performance and the Arts Festival as a whole.
So that was how I spent my lazy Sunday that wasn't that lazy after all.
Laziness. Pure laziness has taken over me and that's why I haven't updated my blog for quite some time. Laziness is the main reason why I did not do a lot of things. Anyway, some updates:
1) Watched Pirates III finally with Charm, Derek and Azi at Cineleisure on Fri. First part's a bit draggy but the later half is much better. Suddenly I realised how old I feel, hanging out with all the young punks at Cineleisure.
2) Raffles City gig finally ended on Monday. Not the best ever. Maybe one of the worst. Well, some will blame it on the bad, echo-ey acoustics, but its the lack of the ability to handle such situations well enough and look comfortable on stage render the gig not a good one.
3) Went to the PC show on Thurs. It's super crowded that I almost can't move an inch at certain areas. Intending to get a external hard disk. Going there again to get my disk.
4) Hanged out with Yan and See Teng on Wednesday night Cafe Cartel at Marina Square. Chatted the whole evening and enjoyed half-priced cakes at the cafe.
I hate to be alone. Tend to be down easily and think of stupid things. Always need to be involved in something so that I can get my mind filled up with stuff and not wonder into nowhere land. And sometimes, if I have spare time on my hand, I tend to waste it unnecessarily. I just need to stop wasting my time and fill my time doing meaningful stuff. It's not that I have nothing to do, but sometimes I just don't feel like doing.
