A Day In The Life Of The Oblivious Ape
Thursday, July 31, 2008
IT IS COMING TO AN END! AN ENNNDDD!!!!
Boy, am I fucked.

Fucked like BDSM slave.

That's how fucked I am.


So I was carrying my laptop in my laptop bag today, going down the steps in the lecture hall.

When I tripped and fell.

On my laptop bag.

With my laptop inside it.

Yes, the horror. I didn't think much of it at the time 'cos I didn't notice any cracks on the casing.

But it was just a few hours ago that I turned on my laptop, and saw a blank white patch to the right of the screen.


Like, really blank.

Oh look, I tried to clean the surface of the screen by brushing it with my hand, AND THE WHITE PATCH GOT BIGGER!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!


IT IS ENDING!!!!


ENDING, I TELL YOU!!!

Saturday, July 26, 2008
The 2nd best 3 months of my life.
OH-FRICKIN-EMM-GEE


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


BLOCO WAS (insert expletives here) AWESOME!!!!!!!

Didn't catch that?

Let me repeat it for you.

BLOCO WAS (insert expletives here) AWESOME!!!!!!!



WOOOOOOOOO






And now I've spent the last remnants of what energy I had.

Pics will probably come; that is, if I can get 'em. (hint hint)



To the audience, hope you fuckin' enjoyed our uber show.

To my fellow Bloco-ians, BAIK BLOCO SINGAPURA!!!

Monday, July 21, 2008
WOOMWTFBBQWARRARGH.
Holey-moley.

It's officially Bloco Singapura Week.

That's right, this whole week's gonna be packed from Wednesday to Friday with hardcore Bloco practices in preparation for the FUCKING AWESOME PERFORMANCE WE ARE SO GONNA FUCKING BRING!!!


Oh yeah, I am PUMPED!


WHOOOO!!!!


Need I remind you guys to come down to SMU Green on the 25th of frickin' July, which is like in 5 DAYS TIME!!!

Oh wait, it's now 4 Days and 23 Hours!

AHHHHHH!!!!


Oh yeah, and another thing.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any better....*drum roll*

WE WERE FRICKIN' FEATURED ON F.Y.I. ON SURIA!!!

WHOOOHOOO!!!

I'M IN THERE!!!!

I LOOK FAT....

Yeah...




Cripes.

Anyways, here's the VIDEO LINK, taken by teh ever awesome Shafiq from our juniors batch.

Enjoy. =)

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Fame ain't free.
I've finally come to the conclusion that girls definitely take the cake when it comes to observational skills.

It's true.


In fact, it's SO true that it's scary.


I don't know why.

I'm not good at explaining the theories I propose.

They just come, I guess.


Like a weird sort of epiphany; instructions not included.


So we're probably gonna be appearing on the info-variety show F.Y.I. on Suria. I'm telling you, this Bloco Singapura thing has brought us so much media coverage than we ever thought possible. Although we weren't directly mentioned, it feels good to be involved in such a landmark event; to know that you were part of a grander scheme of things. It's a shame we couldn't have recruited the juniors AND gotten new instruments (which still hasn't happened, by the way) earlier; I would have loved to get them involved too.

The big day comes in a week's time and I am STOKED.

So the juniors had their 'creative percussion' session just now, and for the most part, it was pretty hilarious. But I am kind of amazed that in the short 15 minutes they were given to come up with a totally new beat...they didn't just impress us; they frickin' BLEW US AWAY.

And I'm not one to give praise like it flowed through my veins; I give credit where credit is due.


Time for another 4 hours of painstaking socio-psychology to go through tomorrow.

I seriously have no idea how I'm gonna survive this semester.

Monday, July 14, 2008
Of Stretch Marks and Sleepless Nights.
You have no idea how long it took me to come up with a post title.




And now I have nothing to write.


Oh WAIT WAIT, I got something.

Bloco.


Yes, BLOCO.

The biggest thing to have happened in my life since puberty. Uhuh, I went there.

Practice has been going GREAT. Ever since this Bloco thing started, I certainly have learned a lot about the Samba Percussion culture here. Cliche as it may sound, it's true.

It's just that, you know you're really passionate about something when you simply...get lost in it.

When your heart goes up to your throat just thinking of your next experience with it...

When you just feel like letting go...

When you sacrifice precious sleep time just to listen to one more beat,

Another bar of that precious, sway-inducing groove...

When you can't put it in words - and I mean REALLY can't - how you feel about that something.



I am SO looking forward to the 25th of July.

COME CATCH BLOCO SINGAPURA BY THE NATIONAL MUSUEM ON THE 25TH OF JULY, COS WE'LL FUCKING ROCK THE HOUSE DOWN!


...AND THAT'S AN UNDERSTATEMENT!


On a side note, I'm having serious worries about my surviving this semester.

Current song playing on my speakers now: Relax, Take It Easy by Mika.

Go figure.

Thursday, July 10, 2008
Bollocks.
Today, I went home with a considerably lower slouch than usual.


Basically, today was a fucked up day.


I got tricked into high spirits early in the morning,


Only to be shot down like a clay pigeon in mid-flight.


Oh, this is not good.

I'm too tired to even think of a decent blog post.

Toldja this day was screwed.


Oh yeah, it turns out the 'fella' from Singtel who called me yesterday was Praba WHO WAS BEING A TOTAL &%$*(#@!*&^%#%#.




I still want a free Ipod Touch.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Tewellve? Du du du!
Good news, good news, GOOD NEWS!!!

MY PSA (Public Service Announcement) HAS BEEN COMPLETED!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

I gotta admit, it's not the way I envisioned it, but I think it actually turned out better than expected. I guess it's true what they say: Simplicity is the essence of perfection...


...that IS what they say, isn't it?

It's gotta be somewhere along those lines...

...yeah.


Anyway, the only thing I'm afraid of is that it'll look like those amateurishly-edited-on-Windows-Movie-Maker videos you see on Youtube. I guess we'll see tomorrow.

On a side note, I got a call today from someone who said he was from Singtel and that I had won myself an Ipod Touch. Ecstatic as I was, the guy hung up after I tried to ask him when was the latest I could collect it.

CURSES.

I want me a free Ipod Touch.

Sunday, July 06, 2008
You're fired.
Sorry, I just picked out a post title based on the first thing I saw when I turned on the telly.

That happened to be 'The Apprentice'.

Question: Is Trump's hair real or is it really a toupee?

Hmm...toughie, that one.


I'm currently playing Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth for the PSP. The game's going OK so far, but one thing I noticed off the bat - the long and UNSKIPPABLE cut-scenes. I'm like, FUCK! Just let me control some warriors and kill some frickin' monsters already! No, Jack Thompson, I do not feel the urge to re-enact in real life the violence I see in video games.

So that was one minus point already.

When it did get to the fighting, however, I wasn't disappointed. I loved how every strike was sort-of rhythm based; like success actually relied on keeping momentum. Guessed those Patapon boss fights helped out a lot, huh? Every strike was sweet eye-candy, and when it was time to unleash the devastating special attack, I was impressed by the presence of voice-acting. It was a nice touch, yes.

I'm still waiting to see if this game was worth the...ehem, 'purchase'.



Don't you just hate it when you hear a song and you wanna know the title but it's just THAT hard to find it?

Urrghh.

Friday, July 04, 2008
Like I said...
I don't know how you managed it.

But you did.

Congratulations; now I really don't care anymore.

Thursday, July 03, 2008
Always Feeling This with The Girl At The Rock Show.
I've got this unexplainable urge to listen to a ton of Blink 182 songs right now.

Yeah, they're old skool, but they were AWESOME old skool.

They rank way up there in 2nd in my list of Top Old Skool Bands; the 1st being Creed and the 3rd being Sum 41. I'd have put Linkin Park in there, but since they came up with that Minutes to Midnight album, they've dropped down to 5th place. Uhuh, I went there.

Samba practice was on just now; the juniors batch are picking things up awesomely fast, but they've got to work out their coordination with each element of the band. And I've just got wind of news that we're probably a.k.a most definitely gonna have a concert at the end of the year.

That's right, a WHOLE concert just for the TPLatinos! Normally, I would've been ecstatic. I gues Bloco practice has taken all the energy out of me lately. We're so close to performance date it's stifling.

Sigh.

Back to wallowing in my classic punk rock sanctuary.

Down, down, down, down.

Tuesday, July 01, 2008
...And you're watching Brainiac.
I'm tuning in to Brainiac right now on Arts Central, which airs on every Tuesday at 10 p.m.

Great show, that one... before they changed the host!

I mean, the previous host was just perfect; indifferent to the sufferings of his scientific subordinates, and quite simply, the face of Brainiac! The new host... he just looks like a wannabe.

I don't like him very much.

On a side note, I do love the nurses though. =D

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