Sorry I’ve been talking quite a bit about Torchwood: Children of Earth these days. Just finished the last episode. IT’S FREAKING SAD!!!!!!! Not sad like Grey’s Anatomy was. This one’s typical me. Super depressing! Poor Jack!!!! He saved the world but lost everything. Literally everything. Tosh and Owen in the last season. Susie in episode 1. Then the hub got blown up. Ianto dying. That was already more than enough last straws. Then he had to sacrifice his own grandson to save the world and lost his daughter in the process. Saaaaaaaad!!! He’s a broken man now. The weight of the world was too much for him. Then Jack got beamed up into the stars to go travelling. Wonder if there’ll be some Doctor Who episodes with him. There’s definitely the possibility. Then he’ll realise that despite all the travelling, his heart is on earth, then come back. *wishful thinking*

Not going to go into Gwen. She’s got her happy ending with Rhys and the baby. I didn’t really like her since the beginning. She was tolerable, but not one of my top characters. I was pretty glad PC Andy made an appearance in this series though. Even though it was an extremely small part and probably there only to please the fans.

I was kind of hoping that after they saved the day and the aliens were destroyed, things would go back to normal, aka, Ianto would come back to life. But no. This is no Doctor Who. Torchwood is grounded and it’s always a sad ending because life’s like that. Which is cool. Just sad.

Ok. Not sure what much else to say. Was reading a blog about it and there was mentioned that some people are pissed about Jack running away at the end. For me, I’m not pissed exactly. It’s normal to want to run, to get away from troubles and all that. It’s just that it seemed so final. I wouldn’t say I was disappointed in the ending. But I’d say that if there was a season 4, I would be disappointed, even though I would miss Jack and the Torchwood team. I’d watch, but it’d be wrong. It’s just… The ending here seemed so final. Like it was the close of the entire series altogether. You know? Like Jack’s never going to come back. He completely excluded that possibility. It wouldn’t be narratively right for there to be another season and I suppose that’s part of the disappointment I have now.

In general though, these five episodes are bloody brilliant. Well written (in my non-expert opinion) and intense. It explores quite a bit of themes, especially politically. Relationships. Sacrifice. I was watching the Torchwood panel at Comics Connection on Youtube and that word came up a lot. The Torchwood series has a lot to do with sacrifice and loss and having to make choices. It’s brought out so poignantly here. (Go watch the Comics Connection panel interview btw. Super funny.)

Alright. Guess that’s it. Going to go off and mull over the events of the past few episodes and try to come to terms with it. Maybe watch it again. It was seriously action packed. I think if I were to sit and watch the whole 5 episodes back to back, I might explode. It’s that intense. It’s one of those things that, if it were a movie, I’d come out feeling mentally exhausted. And the ending sucked. They should have just ended it without the ’six months later’ bit. Just stopped after Jack’s daughter rejected him and he walked away into that bright light of the swinging doors. That would have been a good ending. I guess it was one of those things that tried to force an ending and it didn’t quite work out well. Oh well. Wonderful bit of television until the last few minutes. 3.5 out of 5 stars.

ETA:

I found THIS blog review/article from guardian.co.uk. Pretty good. Read it.

Quick one this time. Been trying out clothes alterations cos my new choir tshirt is WAY oversize. tested on one of Dad’s unwanted shirts. I think it went alright. Could be better. I think I should get a sewing machine. My right arm was cramping the entire night. Couldn’t get to sleep cos it was so uncomfortable. Figured it might be because of the sewing. But then again, where’s the fun in it if the machine does all the work? Hee!

In other news. Torchwood Children of Earth. This latest episode “Day Four” is freaking sad!!!! The line where Jack tells Ianto about his daughter and grandson and that they’re being held hostage is probably the saddest line I’ve ever heard Jack say. *sob* He’s got serious baggage and skeletons in his closet and has to live with the knowledge that what’s happening is ALL because of him and the consequences of his actions. Poor Jack. And, they KILLED Ianto!!!! Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!! *sobs harder* Can’t wait for the next episode.

1. Bloody construction noise
This was originally going to be point 2 but at the moment, I’m fucking annoyed at the construction that’s going on right next to me in the lift landing. Grrrr!!!!! Hammering and dropping things down the lift shaft. At least it’s not drilling. There has been non stop construction in this neighbourhood for the past ten years. First it was the KPE, then the Circle Line, then the market, then lift upgrading, and soon to come, the hawker centre. What next??! Can’t we have a little peace and quiet??! Someday, I hope some clever engineer somewhere will figure out a way of doing this kind of thing without sound. It’s driving me MAD.

2. Graduation
Not really in the mood to talk about my graduation because of the above point. That kind of noise seriously gets on my nerves. Anyway, it was a good night. Boring speeches, except from that second valedictorian guy. Nautical metaphors all round with people rolling eyes. Very bored, reluctant and pissed off sounding person doing the announcing of names. Walking across the stage, shake hands with goodness knows who, take the fake scroll then walk off and exchange the fake scroll for the real transcript. I kind of liked the fake scroll. It looks good. Saw Mr Chua from MJ. He got awarded Masters in South East Asia something. Can’t remember. Didn’t even know it was him till the name got flashed up and his face was on the big screen. He was one of the first to get it.

Lots of photo taking but I’m not in the mood to put any up. Facebook’s strangely not yet inundated by photos. I think it’s cos all the camwhores had to work today. Tonight I suppose.

Duan Hui came for the ceremony. Feel kind of bad that I had to get the ticket back from TY cos the bro managed to get off at the last minute. She got me and Sumi flowers. *muacks* That was really nice of her.

3. Torchwood: Children of Earth
Torchwood season 3 is a series of 5 episodes. Well, a miniseries I suppose, being shown on 5 consecutive nights. Just watched the first 2 on Youtube. Freaking awesome! It fells like a movie actually, rather than a tv series. Can’t wait for the next episode. Pity SG doesn’t show this kind of stuff. Wonder if can get BBC if I subscribe to cable. But… in the meantime, have to rely on Youtube. Jack’s seriously indestructable. He got blown up but he came back to life. Grew a new body out of the bits that was left of his old one. Quite interesting look into Jack’s personal life too. Apparently he has a daughter. And a grandson. How cool is that? And then there’s his relationship with poor Ianto. *pets Ianto*

4. Cameras and Gimp
I like my new camera a lot. Ok, well, not so new, by now. But one huge gripe I have with it is that it doesn’t have the ability to imprint the date on the picture. I really liked that feature in my old camera because me with my horrible memory can use it to remember. With this new camera, if I want to put in the date, I have to change the resolution of the photo. Last night, after taking the graduation photos, I had to edit every one of them with Gimp to put the date in. Very inconvenient. Especially since I had to do the same thing for the 30 odd photos I had and Gimp didn’t seem to allow “cut-and-paste” or batch edit. You know, sometimes, software can be super powerful and do a lot of wonderfully powerful thngs, but there are times when all the user wants is a simple fix and the software can’t do that without a lot of painful struggling, hair tearing and blood pressure rising. Ok, I’m learning how to use Gimp but the process is freaking painful. There aren’t many reference books out there about using Gimp. One of the hazards of open source software I suppose. :p

5. Computer
My internet connection’s going wonky again. I’m seriously thinking about getting a router for upstairs. Except that I don’t really know how it’s supposed to work. But the situation’s getting ridiculous. I see more of NGEAR_Spark and Wee@Pipit than I do of my own internet network. There are times when I can even pick up Daryl’s network and he lives a significant distance away from me. But I can’t pick up my own home network. And I am beyond angry at that. It’s especially annoying at night when I’m pressed for time and I can’t get anything done because the bloody connection dies every five minutes. And I still haven’t discovered where the wireless antenna is on my Macbook. It’s just a nagging question I’ve had since I got it.

That reminds me, I’ve got to run that system maintenance thing I installed recently. Maybe it’s me coming off a Windows background but I feel like the computer may be slowing down because since I bought it a year ago, I have not done any system maintenance at all, apart from virus scans.

I took out the battery of the Macbook and I’ve got it running on AC current these days. Didn’t want to spoil the battery since I’ve got the comp on usually more than 12 hours a day. And then this thing I was waiting for to happen happened. It was the day I put the laptop on another stand to find a good wireless spot. Now, I have to move my laptop around a lot to find a good spot and I’ve got the wires trailing under the table. So I knew it was only a matter of time when I would, in the process of moving the thing around, accidently yank the AC wire out. Cos of Mac’s design of the plug, to ensure that if anyone tripped over the wire, the plug would easily come free of the computer and prevent it from crashing to the floor with the wire, it’s really easiy to yank the plug out. So, that’s what happened. The wire got tangled in my foot, I didn’t notice and whoops! The whole computer blacked out. Had to restart it. Can’t be healthy for the comp.

Sorry for a lot of bitching. The construction noise is making me irritable so the bitching increases. Makes me feel like hitting something.

I’ve got a sore throat. It was already kind of sore since yesterday and it got worse last night cos I didn’t drink any water at all for the entire evening. Kind of inconvenient to go to the toilet wearing the graduation gown. And the UCC hall is dry. So, my throat feels like sandpaper. Been drinking lots of water today and as a consequence, having to pee a lot. Not really helping my throat but I suppose the peeing is helping to cleanse the system. Hope the throat gets better real soon. Choir’s having a showcase tomorrow night and I have to cantor on Sunday. What a wonderful time to lose my voice.

I suppose I could bitch much more if I wanted to but it wouldn’t serve any purpose whatsoever. So I guess I’ll stop here and go back to inwardly cursing the damn construction guy for making so much noise. Seriously. These days, if it’s not hammering and drilling and throwing things down the lift shaft, it’s the karang guni man honking and hollering. All karang guni men sound the same, it seems. Else it’s one guy constantly doing this block over and over and over. Shut up.

Oh yeah, I was reading through my transcript and I found out that my entire uni life, my grades ranged between C and A-. And the first time I got A-, I got it from Pakir. So I suppose I should be grateful and not bitch about her. Looking at my results from Year 1, sem 1, I got a C+ for EL. Wonder why the hell I decided to major in it in the end. Nice bits of nostalgia though, looking at the forgotten modules and grades and remembering all the torturous times.

For those who don’t know, the hawker centre near my house, the circuit road one, closed at the beginning of this month for major upgrading works. It’s quite a big hawker centre and it’s been there for as long as I can remember. Fond memories of walking home from school along it. When it’s in the evening, I’d see the TV screens at the shops all tuned to the same channel and the same show. You could walk the length of the place and not miss a scene.

A lot of people say the hawker centre here’s really good. I don’t know. It was just there. But when I tell people I live here, they always say, “oh yeah, that hawker centre etc etc.” Of course, now there’s the ‘oh no hawker centre, no food’ feeling. Not sure where we’re going to get food now. Geylang East is kind of far away and the coffee shop downstairs, I heard he’s getting complacent given that he’s the only food store around now. Tsk.

Lately, cos choir always ends so late, I tend to be walking home along that road quite late at night, like 11pm plus. And it would still be bustling with bright lights, traffic and the noise of people getting supper or buying a really late dinner or just hanging out. But today, I went back and that stretch of road was like a ghost town. Everything was so quiet and still. There was no bustle in the air, no lights, no sounds, no body around. It was SO different. Even back when I would be walking home after midnight mass or something, there would still be some activity. It’s all gone now.

I don’t know. I guess I feel kind of sad. Like something’s missing. It’s clearly the end of an era, the closing of the hawker centre. I never realised how central it was, how much it was like the heart of the sleepy little Macpherson estate. Now that it’s gone, there’s a different vibe in the air. It feels weird. Like a different place. I’d never thought I’d see that hawker centre close. It feels abandoned, when I see the empty stalls and the half dismantled tables and chairs and the half put up construction barriers.

Oh well, goodbye to the hawker centre as I knew it. Goodbye to the estate as I knew it. I already miss that place.

Well, I’m graduating tomorrow. SO EXCITING!!!!!!! Of course, it’s kind of scary and I foresee a lot of nagging from the mother about it. Well, mainly about me not creasing the gown and going up on the stage with wrinkles on it. Not much to say about it at the moment. It’s just really exciting.

Went to see the Da Vinci exhibition again on Saturday with the girls. It was fun! Even though it was crazy crowded and my feet ached a lot from standing too much. It was really much more fun. We could talk and discuss the exhibits and all. Went to IMM for dinner after that. Again, super crowded but dinner was nice at this pasta place. Didn’t tell mum I went to see Da Vinci again. She might blow her top. So told a half truth – that we went to IMM and hung around. Oh well.

Saturday’s choir practice was… alright. Terrance’s first run of “O Magnum” sucked so badly! But, like 小叮当 that we dubbed him two years ago, he pulled out quite a few interesting exercises to get us back on track. The kinesetics thing was very useful. Was late for choir on Saturday cos I left the house like 5 minutes later so missed the bus. Then, because I like taking 155 and not 40, I waited for 155 and it didn’t come until really really late. So I got to Siglap 15 minutes late. But they hadn’t started yet so technically I was on time. Anyway, 13 more days before we fly.

Throat was really sore on Sunday. Thank goodness for Cliff’s Fisherman’s Friend lozenges. Helped. I’ve got to start taking care of the voice now. No falling sick. The bro was sneezing quite a bit over the weekend. Hope he doesn’t pass anything around. Ah Ku fetched him back to camp last night and mum was asking if I’d like to ride along and I was all thanks but no thanks. I don’t want to catch something and risk missing my commencement on Tuesday. Or worse, get quarantined and not be able to fly. I would seriously cry if that happened.

Did some audio recording for Cba. That was an extremely interesting experience. I’ve never done anything like that before. Well, I once tried to record myself singing and put it up on youtube for a while before I removed it due to lack of self confidence and thinking that I sound horrible. So, this recording thing is kind of out of character for me I think but I thought, what the heck. Wouldn’t hurt. Might be fun. And I’ve got a voice recorder on my laptop. But I don’t think I’ll be doing any radio plays or the like anytime soon.

Speaking about radio plays, been listening to Torchwood radio plays and audio books on the BBC. Very entertaining and super interesting. Well, most of them anyway. Loved the audiobook “In the Shadows”. Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper) read it and it was about people getting sent to hell. Jack got sent to hell and it was pretty scary and shocking. Given that he can’t die, means, he’s stuck in hell forever with no escape. Anyway, talking about Jack, the audiobook read by John Barrowman, “Another Life” wasn’t very good. I think John can’t really read it too well. He rattled on and on and on and on and on. Nice voice as he has, 3 hours of it was a bit too much. But not to say that it wasn’t an interesting story. On well. See the things I do when I’ve got nothing to do at home.

It rained last night. Not just the little sickly drizzles we got in the past few weeks but a real honest to goodness thunderstorm complete with rain, wind and thunder. It was absolutely brilliant. Loved the cool weather and, for the first time in months, I could sleep without switching the air con on. It was nice.

There’s a new update for ipod touch and iphone out. I’ve just downloaded it but I’m worrying about the payment bit. I mean, I don’t have a credit card. I have a debit card and the last time I tried to input that information, my internet connection died every other minute. So I’m very worried about how the payment for the update is going to happen. I just downloaded it and apparently it seems to be working but I have no idea if the payment method worked. :p Sucks. I should find a job and sign up for a proper credit card with visa or something. Saves me a whole bunch of worry.

Was checking out the Sistic website just now. Il Divo is coming to SG on 21 Sept, performing at the indoor stadium. Anyone wants to go???!!! Let me know ok? I’d like to go but not by myself.

There are days when I feel like throwing my Macbook out the window. I know I had a very strong reaction against it the other night on Facebook. Sorry about that. I was in a horrible mood and it didn’t help that nothing seemed to be cooperating with me, including my laptop and technology. Yeah. My internet connection seems to be alright today but it was horrible over the weekend. It was not only very low, it kept blinking out. To the point where I had to resort to putting my comp on my fan’s stand which has wheels and wheeling it round my room trying to find a good spot. Extremely uncomfortable I must say. Today it seems better though the day’s only just started so I won’t compliment it too soon. I kind of miss Windows. Especially Windows Movie Maker. I could do much more with it. I know iMovie is really good and Audacity also, but there are some things that simple software can do and doesn’t need the help of such cheem programmes. Don’t know. I’m seriously considering, when my macbook dies (few more years at least I think), of switching back to Windows. I’ll take my chances with anti-virus software and all. Functionality was better. Or maybe I’m just not adapting as well to Mac as I thought. Hmm…

Ok, well, I suppose that’s all for now. I’ll leave you with this song from “Australia” that I really like. Maybe one day I’ll do a montage with it. It’d be perfect for memorialising the choir with.

Just watched “Australia” on MioTV. Thought I’d say some stuff about it. Mostly, I felt that the main story line between Lady Ashley and Drover couldn’t stand up to the whole film. To me, it was the minor characters, the Aborigines, which stole the show. The character of King George is so enigmatic and strange. I have no idea what his lines meant. He spoke them in their language. And even though he never really came directly into the story, always seen on the sides, it seems as if he’s actually very very central to the film. As though he’s some kind of guiding spirit that moves the events along. In a good way. There have been so many films about rich women falling in love with the poor man and all their twisted love affairs. Throw in World War 2 and a jealous enemy out to destroy them. Very cliched. But this film became different I think because, like I said, of the minor characters. Like I thought the scene where Nullah’s mother drowns trying to save him is extremely poignant. It’s an extremely simple scene but it speaks volumes. Or when Bull stayed behind to distract the Japanese to give Drover and the kids a chance to get away safely. He got killed. That was sad. So was that guy who got stampeded to death. Very premature death. I got the feeling his character just had to be killed off cos he had served his purpose.

Maybe I’ve done too much of Talib’s modules. But throughout the first 3/4 of the film at least – I had no idea how long the film was or what was going to happen in it – I kept thinking that there’s more to come. Even though it looked as if the film was ending. Like when they finally managed to drive all the cattle to the harbour and beat the bad guy. There was just something in there that felt like there was more. It was one of those films with little mini endings in between and a long series of conflicts and resolutions. Very cliched little plot twist that the film studies student in me hates but the shallow part of me loves. The bit where we think Lady Ashley’s dead but she’s actually not. By the way, I think it was a bit perverse of me to think that, during the mini endings in the middle when I thought it was the real ending, that someone had to die. That the film would only be truly epic and strong if someone died. Sick of me isn’t it? I mean, I like the happy ending, with the bad guy getting his comeuppance and everyone living happily ever after. It fit how the director finished off the film. It would have been seriously powerful if it wasn’t a happy ending. Oh well.

I actually thought it was going to be a history film. For some reason. I thought it would be showing Australia’s beginnings as a penal colony and how it built up since then. But I was a little disappointed that it wasn’t about that. I mean, World War 2 romance is very very over done. Even though I haven’t seen it done in an Australian setting. Too cliched.

Oh, the soundtrack was sweet I think. I could hear Waltzing Mathilda in there somewhere. I think. Using Somewhere Over The Rainbow was a nice touch though including references to “The Wizard of Oz” seems a bit… unsurprising.

On the whole, I think “Australia” is a good film to watch, but don’t focus too much on the main story line. Take a look at the smaller, minor characters instead and that’s where the true personality of the film comes through.

Ok, so I’ve resorted to main headings again just so I remember what I want to blog about.

1. Peter Facinelli vs Rob Defranco
I talked about it a while back about the bet between Peter Facinelli (Carlisle Cullen) and his friend Rob Defranco. Basically, Rob bet that Peter couldn’t get 500,000 twitter followers in a week. If Peter lost, Rob would get the backing of his Twilight chair. If Rob lost, he would have to dance down Hollywood Boulevard in a bikini singing “Single Ladies”. How evil is that? Anyway, Peter Facinelli won. Apparently. Twitter was a bit fuzzy about the numbers. Something about crashing. Anyway, Rob conceded defeat and this is the result:

I think he was EXTREMELY sporting.

2. Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson died this week. It was extremely sudden. Something about a cardiac arrest. Woah. It was kind of a shock. Despite all his weirdness, he was a really good artist. I’ll give him that. He will be missed.

3. Choir
It’s been crazy. Choir every freaking day. Way too much choir. I feel like I’m having a choir overdose. I mean, I know the competition’s only 18 days away (should start a countdown or something). But I thnk we’re doing a bit too much. It’s worrying. I don’t feel like we’re ready for it. Every day going down for choir, I see people missing and coming in late with no reason. I know it feels like the competition is so far away, but it’s not. I know that I, for one, am still quite high over Russia, but this is a whole different thing now and we better start working hard but at the same time, not working too hard. It would be horrible to burn out before we get there.

Song-wise, Terrance’s been saying that “Credo” has suddenly become our strongest piece. Woah!!! That was unexpected. “Ilay”’s coming along great I think. Love the bit where the tenors do their percussive part with the sopranos. Favourite. “O Magnum” is… I don’t really know. It’s alright but not great. I think we’ve over sung it by now. Unfortunately. On Folklore side, I like “Soleram”. It’s nice. “Sik Sik”… I don’t know. For me, I’m still struggling to put both words and dancing together at the same time. If I get one, I don’t really get the other. Practice is being called for. It’s fun though. Harris has been really ambitious with the choreo I think, given the limited time we have to learn it.

To reminisce… this time last year, I was in London. Nice cool (well, warm, but still cooler than here) London. *stares dreamily off into space* Given that it’s 2am in London, probably I was getting ready for bed after watching Les Mis. That was a very nice night. And in the morning, I went for the Westminster Walk around the Westminster part of the city before rushing to the airport and panicking cos the train got stuck at a station, leaving us with precious few minutes to catch the plane. Seriously. We were running through Heathrow airport and reached the gate just as they were boarding. Good times.

4. Torchwood
Been watching Torchwood lately, now that I’ve finished most of Grey’s Anatomy for the second/third/fourth time. Like I said in my previous post, Captain Jack’s my new celeb crush. He’s got a nice laugh. Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd)’s pretty cute too. Hehe!

Found a radio play yesterday. It was called “Lost Souls” and it centred round CERN and the LHC. Been a while since I heard of the LHC. Anyway, here’s part 1 of a 45 minute audio episode. I think it’s pretty cool, even though a bit of imagination is called for:

According to the BBC radio 4 website, there’s another audio play coming up that’s featuring Torchwood today. 2.15pm London time (I assume) is around 10.15pm here. I’ll probably tune in. Hee!

5. Graduation gown
Went to school to collect my graduation gown the other day. They gave us a garment bag along with it. How nice. As expected, there were all those booths that were trying to sell stuff and make us give donations for bursaries and all that. :p Anyway, haven’t tried on my gown yet but I don’t doubt it’ll fit. Mum thought it was too big but thing is, it goes by height, not width. Tried on the mortar board though. I look horrible! It’s the hair. On the other hand, the bro looks really good in it. Cos his hair is short so it isn’t sticking around the edges. Dad’s moaning about how he has to go and find a jacket so we can take a formal family photo. Haha! Told him that there’s a studio promoting a package and all and it includes jackets for family members and Dad asked if they also include photoshopping the person in, so we don’t need to actually turn up and take the picture. *rolls eyes*

Got 2 extra tickets. I asked for them cos I wanted to invite Ah-Ku and Ah-ma to come for the ceremony. Unfortunately, Ah Ku’s got to go overseas for a meeting at the time, so, with no transport, Ah ma probably can’t come. So, I have the problem of 2 extra tickets that now most likely have no one going. Damn. Hoping that bro can take leave so he can take 1. He seemed keen to come, except don’t know if the army will let him out.

6. Pouch
I made another pouch. This time for myself. Took me three days, inclusive of unpicking and re-sewing mistakes. I initially wanted to do the pattern in beading but after I finished about 1/4 of it, I realised that it wasn’t going to work out, so did it in embroidery thread instead. Then I had to put in a lining on the inside so I had to unpick the top part so I could sew my lining on. It’s got another little compartment inside. I think it’s really really REALLY pretty. (pictured here with my iTouch as reference size)

It’s a bit small. I wanted it to be able to fit my headphones, iTouch, ez link card and handphone so it could be one of those pouches where everything’s inside it. So if I changed bag or whatever, I could just grab this pouch and everything’s inside. But can only fit the Touch and headphones nicely. Well, technically, the rest can go in too but it’s super squeezy. Used ribbon for the draw string. The ends are fraying cos I don’t now how to finish the ends properly. But it works. Don’t think the ribbon will break so easily. The pattern looks a bit off centre doesn’t it? I only just realised. :p Oh well. Next time it’ll be better. First time I attempt such an ambitious pattern and second time I’m doing the multiple compartment thing in a pouch. I thnk it worked out rather well this time.

Of course, having been working on this, I haven’t been working on my previous teddy bear cross stitch. :p Bad me. I should really get around to it before it dragged out to ridiculous times. That project’s been sitting around for far too long already.

Ok, I think that’s it for now. Going to read my last year’s travel blog and reminisce. See ya!

My new celeb crush is Captain Jack Harkness, played by John Barrowman. Shallow I know. Will blog something of substance some other time.

I don’t know what’s worse: scorching heat of the last few days or the sickly kind of rain we finally got today. Ok. I miss the rain, as annoying as rain is. But today’s rain was kind of a persistent drizzle that hovered between the need to open an umbrella and to just walk through. You know, the not quite do heavy but not so light kind of rain. As much ad I hate thunder and lightning, I kind of miss a good ole thunderstorm.

Not sure what my point is exactly. Just had a nice night out with the EL people and now it’s 1.15am so I may not be thinking entirely right. Probably time to go to bed. Choir tomorrow. Again. *sigh*

Goodnight world. See you tomorrow. Or rather, later today. Hehe!

So, the parents are listening to a recording of some priest bellowing away in the next room. I’ve just finished watching about 4 episodes back to back of Grey’s Anatomy. I figured it was time to do something vaguely intellectual, like composing a blog entry, to prevent my brain from turning into mush. Not that blogging is very intellectual. It still consists of forming grammatical sentences so I guess it would count. Whatever. I’m going soft. I watched Grey’s Anatomy and I cried during some sad scenes. I never did that before in my life. Never. Especially not when I’m watching alone. I’m seriously going soft. Omg. What the hell is wrong with me?? I think I’ve got too much time on my hands and I’m thinking too much. Probably that’s why.

This week’s gonna be a busy choir week. Only times without choir are Wednesday and Friday but even then I’ve got things going on. So yeah. Amend that. This is the busiest week of my break so far. Last night’s choir was interesting. Terrance worked on blending. Did only “O Magnum Mysterium” for the whole practice so it was intense. But I think it was cool. First practice where all the A2s were present. I had no idea we had only 4 of us. Bit scary. Anyway, we sounded really good I think. Competition in a month. I think we’ll be ok. Supposed to have practice for “Sik Sik” later today. Choreo. Not looking forward to it. It literally took 2 years to master “Luk Luk Lumbu” choreo and we got to do this one in a month. Good luck to us. Haha! Haven’t really gotten round to sitting down and memorising my scores yet. Bad me. I should get round to it soon. Really should.

I think I pulled something in my leg yesterday. They closed the footpath down to CFA and I was trying to find a way down that didn’t involve sliding down the grass slope. I was wearing my heels and it just so happened that the ground was pretty uneven cos the brick path was quite old. So I tripped. Didn’t fall. Just tripped and I think my leg went the wrong way. Didn’t hurt at first so I put it down to just me being clumsy again. I always say I’m gonna kill myself falling over my own feet some day. Only started noticing the ache during choir after having to stand for about 2 hours. Got worse when choir was over and had to put my shoes back on. Wasn’t unbearable but just an ache that shouldn’t be there. Oh well. Doesn’t ache so much today but I think I’m going to have to put off heels for a while. Pity. I like wearing my heels. I probably should try to get myself to buy heels that aren’t that high too.

The weather seems to be playing with us all the time these days. It was scorching hot this morning. I showered using the coldest setting for the water but I still feel sticky. :p Then in the afternoon, it got overcast and I heard thunder rumbling. At least, I think I did. But it DIDN’T rain!!!! Boo! It’s been like this for a few days now. Makes us think it’ll rain then doesn’t. I feel cheated. I know it’s the hot season. Wish I were somewhere cooler. It’s weather like this that really makes me miss Europe. Well, maybe not quite London, since it did get kind of warm. Maybe I’d say St Petersburg. That was nice and cool.

By the way, my mum’s still trying to matchmake me with that guy. Except she’s using another angle to try. So obvious. And still so not working. Haha! I know what she’s up to and I say, me and this guy, never going to happen. He’s uber religious. And short. Not my type.