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!

~ by mezzogal on July 1, 2009.