Cruel, crazy, oh so beautiful world

Well. Been quite a week for me. Someone please explain to me why when things happen, they all happen at once and when things don’t happen, nothing ever happens?? I just cannot understand this aspect of life.

This week for instance. Worked for 2 days doing data entry. It was quite interesting really. The first day was super tiring cos got stuff from all over the world and yeah, after I was done, I really felt like I took a whirlwind tour of the world. The second day was easier. Less data to go in and I guess I got the hang of it at last. So, yeah, that was fun. I liked the company too. It was miles better than the previous one I did. Maybe cos this one the job was within my league and not overwhelmingly overwhelming. Anyway, the people in the office here are nicer and friendlier.

And then there was Janice’s 4th birthday. That girl ah…4 years old already but still behaving like a two year old. Aiyo!! Her friend Chloe came too and oh my god those two girls are so different. The biggest difference I noticed is that Chloe speaks English properly and she knows how to switch between English and Mandarin and with whom to speak which language. Wow! That’s chim stuff man! Of course, both girls are super naughty and mischievous which led to a very tiring evening when they were here. Even though I retired (read: escaped) back to my room upstairs, it was still very tiring having them in the house.

Then, for some strange reason, Dad decided to bring the DVD player upstairs and then bring it back down and then it didn’t work. The ENTIRE week Mum kept nagging me to fix the DVD player and I kept insisting that there’s nothing I can do about it cos it ISN’T PLUGGED IN in the first place and that’s Dad’s problem. My problem is software, not hardware. But as usual, no one believed me. So, yesterday, Andrew came back and we pulled the TV out and first thing I did was check the cables and true enough, I WAS RIGHT!!! Ha. Ha. See! If they listened to me sooner, they’d have gotten their DVD player back up sooner. Whatever.

Went out for lunch with Sumi on Thurs. Had that new KFC meal thing. The shrimp nugget was very interesting. I don’t know. It was tasty but it felt like something was lacking. I don’t know what. Then walked around a bit then went to Cafe Cartel for really sinful chocolate brownie dessert. I had Oreo milkshake too. Haha! Must’ve gained 2kgs that day at least. LoL! Oh well, I don’t really care.

Gotten the results for my Module Preference. Oh my god. My modules next sem SUCK big time. I hate being an E.Lang major. EL4205 Discourse of Argumentation, EL4880 Topics in E.Lang (Systemic Functional Grammar), EL4252 Interactional Discourse, EL4254 Language, Ideology and Power. All freaking discourse modules lah!!! *sobsobcrycry* And what’s worse, I had NO CHOICE in it. These are the ONLY 4 4000 level EL modules offered next semester except for thesis and ISM which I doubt I qualify for. Life sucks doesn’t it? I am NOT looking forward to next sem at all. One more module I can choose to take. I wanted to take that physics module about Einstein and Quantum Weirdness. But I apparently don’t qualify for it. Cos I didn’t have O-Level physics. I have O-Level Sub-Physics which apparently isn’t the same. Fucking hell. I had a freaking A1 for my sub science back then lor. But what’s the bloody use?!! My freaking secondary school screwed up my future. Yes, I am still sore about that even though it’s been 6 years since O Levels. So anyway, I’m thinking of taking Intro to Cybercrime. It sounds interesting. Should I? With such boring major modules, I should take something that seems vaguely interesting or else go completely bonkers next semester.

Anyway, today had the AABC (All American Boys’ Chorus) concert. We were one of the guest choirs. The other choir was the NUS High choir. That was a fun performance. Haha! When we went out on stage for rehearsal, it was so awkward. I think for me, it was the first time I was stepping onto the UCC Hall stage as NUS Choir and the stage wasn’t ours. Interesting. AABC didn’t use the sound boards either so there was absolutely NO echo from the hall AT ALL. It was damn super dry. And we didn’t warm up so it was pretty bad sound. AND AABC had their own unique stage set up – mics all over the stage and risers and speakers. And these equipment could not be moved. So, we had to stand in front of it all in order not to knock into them when dancing Luk Luk. (Oh yeah, we did Lily and Luk Luk.) That was another unique experience cos we’d never been so close to the edge of the stage before. Really. One more step and we’d be off the stage and in the audience. We were THAT close. So yeah, it was pretty fun. Luk Luk was rushing like mad and so hard to breathe but it went well. Heard NUS High Choir. Um…well, it’s not really a choir, more like a vocal ensemble. They did “You Raise Me Up”. One male solo and the rest were all girls doing back up. Oh and a pianist. I’m sure the male solo was trying his best but…*cringe* he cracked the high notes, sang super nasal and went sharp. Yeah well, I think it’s a relatively new choir so they did quite well, especially in such a high tone performance as AABC.

AABC itself seemed quite interesting. From Orange County, Southern California. Couldn’t see them except when they were backstage (really cute little ang moh boys btw). But I heard them rehearsing cos whatever’s on stage is sent through PA system to backstage. They were singing really old school songs. Like they sang “Shenandoah”, and “America the Beautiful” and one more that I can’t remember but when they sang it, me and Alicia glanced at each other and started commenting on how old that song was. They opened their concert with “Be Our Guest” from Beauty and the Beast. CooL!! I kind of regret not buying their ticket but I doubt I could afford it. $16 lah. Where got that kind of money? And could only watch the second half cos we were performing in the first. The boys were really cute. They were sitting backstage and waiting for their turn to go up and they had little notebook things and they were sketching and doodling and reading stuff. So cute!! Haha! It must be so fun, going overseas to sing concerts like that. I think there was an ambassador or someone important there cos when I left the UCC, there was a BMW parked outside with 2 flags (one US flag and the other don’t know what) stuck on it.

Winnie’s birthday today. Well, a lot of birthday’s these days in choir. July must’ve been a good month for babies. Winnie’s…we tried to do a surprise for her. Pei Min and Mich were pretending to be really really angry and gave the altos a good scolding in our dressing room. And they singled out Winnie for being late. So, scold scold scold. Then PM said go and pack up and told Winnie that some of her stuff was in the cupboard. So she opened it and out popped Wei Zheng with a card that said, “Just Kidding!” and her birthday balloons. She was so surprised. She really thought they were seriously scolding her. Haha! We are so evil. Harris’ birthday too on Thursday. We also surprised him. We had a cue and at the end of Luk Luk, instead of yelling “Hoya!” we yelled his name instead. He was so shocked and then Adyll came in with a McDonald’s apple pie ‘cake’. Haha! Yeah. These were fun days with the choir.

So, why the strange title for this post? I’ve used this phrase a lot of times before I think. But it’s really true isn’t it? Life is so cruel, crazy and beautiful. You feel tortured and suicidal at times, you think it’s such a crazy world and things going on in it that you don’t understand but there are also moments that make life so beautiful and great.

~ by mezzogal on July 26, 2008.