Tuesday, March 31, 2009 . 8:26 PM

I only have two things to say about the year 2 pros...

1. Thank God I studied vestibular ocular reflex

and

2. Why the heck did I study every blinking adverse effect of every blinking drug =\

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Sunday, March 29, 2009 . 10:03 PM

My favourite segment of Whose Line Is It Anyway ever... Hope this cheers up anyone who's depressed from exam mugging :p hahaha... You can only understand the "meow" bit if you've watched the whole show. I love the fact that Colin Mochrie is the only fella left singing at the end of the song.

Saturday, March 28, 2009 . 10:04 PM

Lolll read this on Soccernet after Rooney's infamous punching of the corner flag after getting sent off at Craven Cottage last weekend:

An open letter to football's governing body dated March 21, 2009.

Dear FIFA/UEFA/FA/Premier League and whomever it may concern.
It has come to my attention that there are continued, unprovoked assaults occurring across football pitches every weekend and it is high time that something is done about it.
Long have the custodians of the corners stood, proud and erect. Harming no-one and diligently going about their business - yet they are the subject of constant abuse. I refer, of course, to the recent actions of Mr Wayne Rooney against Fulham where he callously beat a flag to the ground; while the likes of Tim Cahill continue to fly in the face of public decency with their assaults on the most upstanding members of the footballing world in the name of celebration!
Please make sure that in future such gross actions are punishable to the fullest extent of the law, lest the tradition of the corner flag be removed from the game altogether. Remember, without those brave flags, no-one would know where to take a corner from!
Sincerely,
Florence Agpole (National Organisation for the Protection of Corner Flags).

Spasticated beyond words. (Of course it's not a true letter -.-)

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Friday, March 27, 2009 . 9:12 PM

I'm reaching the point in studying where you try to test yourself what you mugged like last week, or a as much as up to a few days ago, and you only can recall bits and pieces of what you mugged.

It SUCKS I tell you, it really freaking sucks.

I've had it up to HERE already with this incessant mugging, memorizing loads of shit and trying to puke it all out in the examination in a desperate bid to pass. For the WHOLE of Year 2 it's been like this.

I don't remember studying being so difficult. I remember back in JC, I could mug stuff and actually REMEMBER what I mugged for weeks or months later. Why is now so different??? And it's not freaking helping that it seems like whatever I mugged for A levels is multiplied by 100, it's not so easy to "run through" everything again lorh.

And I got no one to rant to, no one to complain to, no one who can see this from a different perspective. If I tell my mom, she'll say "So many lesser people have done it before you and passed, so you will definitely be able to", and I can't perfectly well tell her that I feel SO MUCH DAMN LESSER than all those people when I cannot recall stuff that I SHOULD. I cannot tell my med friends cos they'd complain back to me and it'd become a competition of how much your life sucks cos of this mugging. I can't tell my best friends cos they'd just tell me not to waste time and go back to mugging. OMG.

I hate this kind of life. Hopefully this suffering pays off in the end, and I don't have to go for pass/fail VIVAs, or supps.

Damn it.

"You'll Never Walk Alone"

Archangel

Thursday, March 26, 2009 . 9:07 PM

OMG LISTEN TO THIS!!! Damn cool.


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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 . 8:25 PM

Probably my new favourite Coldplay song :)



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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 . 2:31 AM

Oh my God... The Coldplay concert was unbelievable. UNBELIEVABLE. This is the only band I think, that sounds so much better LIVE than on their albums, just cos of the crowd interaction, plus the energy that they put into their performances. Totally worth the $188. The only sad part about their performance I felt was that they didn't do "Amsterdam" =\ sigh but apart from that it was fabulous. Chris Martin, John Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion are geniuses, I tell you, pure God-like geniuses.

That wasn't the only fantastic bit of the night. I went for the Naturally 7 concert yesterday for the Mosaic Music Festival, which totally blew my mind, and today, just before the Coldplay concert started, Sumi and I were talking about how ripped Jamal (the high voice/electric guitar in my previous post's video) was, I spotted this totally ripped African-American dude walking a flight of stairs below us and pointed him out to Sumi, saying "you mean something like him" or something along those lines... Then we both took a closer look and OMGZWTFBBQ it was NATURALLY 7 AT THE COLDPLAY CONCERT!!! No one seemed to recognize them (a cappella doesn't enjoy such a huge fan base in Singapore =\) and they were just walking freely, and they sat at the block below us! We were like at block T13, they were at A13.

So after the epic concert ended, Sumi and I hung back (making Perry, Diana and Aw Yong wait for us haha) to look for them, when most of the stadium cleared, we spotted them hanging around the area that they were sitting, and we approached them to take a photo!

Monday, March 23, 2009 . 3:53 PM

You know, if you ever asked me if I'd rather sing solo in a band or sing bass in an a cappella group, I'd choose the former most of the time.

But it's times like last night at the Naturally 7 concert and whenever I hear epic a cappella songs like this one that remind me of my roots... The bass is like how sexy la. OMG




Heh I missed the 1 day to Coldplay post cos I was at the Naturally 7 concert for mosaic today... Really blew my mind man. If I could perform to like 5% of the bass' level today, I'd be damn happy with myself.

17 hours to COLDPLAY: THE VIVA LA VIDA TOUR

On this final post of Coldplay week, I share with you where it all began for me. "Shiver" was the very first single produced by Coldplay (and subsequently is on the Guitar Hero World Tour song list lol), but "Yellow" was the first ever song I heard by them. "Don't Panic" made me more interested in them, but "Yellow" was the song that let me know about their existence first... So for me, effectively it's been the song I most associate with Coldplay... Enjoy.

Saturday, March 21, 2009 . 2:28 PM

2 more days to COLDPLAY: THE VIVA LA VIDA TOUR

Azi's favourite song :) I realized that the way Coldplay does their albums, they have excellent singles that catch the ear immediately after you hear them that make you want to get the album and listen more; and you know how some singers have their best songs made into singles so that they can sell albums, but the rest of the songs on that album are crap? Well for Coldplay, after you get their album by recommendation of the single that you heard on the radio for the first time, you are never disappointed cos while their singles are great, attention-catching songs, the other songs are soulful, meaningful and beautiful. Some of them are hidden gems within the album, like this track, off X&Y. It's the last track of the album after "Twisted Logic", not printed on the back of the album, but listed as a track on the stereo.

Dedicated to all those people who are waiting for their boyfriends in NS, waiting for their loved ones to come back from overseas studies, for those who pine away at home thinking about their loved one they don't dare to approach etc.. This song is for you.

Friday, March 20, 2009 . 3:46 PM

3 more days to COLDPLAY: THE VIVA LA VIDA TOUR

"The Scientist" is great in so many ways, the tune is great, the mood is sombre and perfect, the lyrics are amazing, and the video is just fantastic. I would label this as one of Coldplay's greatest songs. Did you know that to film the video, Chris Martin had to learn how to sing this song backwards? They filmed everything normally, then played it in reverse. That's how Chris appears to be singing the song the right way even when everything is going in reverse. Like Squidward once said in a Spongebob episode, "Art is suffering". That's dedication for you man. Still have no idea why it's called "The Scientist" though.

Thursday, March 19, 2009 . 7:58 PM

4 more days to COLDPLAY: THE VIVA LA VIDA TOUR

Today I share with you the title of the album, the title of the tour: Viva La Vida. After a three year hiatus following the success of X&Y, Coldplay came back with a bang in 2008 with Viva La Vida, an album with such a huge change in music direction that you'd almost be forgiven if you could not identify them as Coldplay (Chris Martin's voice is ever-revealing though haha). It's arguable that this is the most catchy song in the whole album, with the meaning of the lyrics most debated among Coldplay's following. The album itself is a breath of fresh air where Coldplay is concerned, involving many new instruments and different music styles. (I lol-ed at the video at 3:19, where Chris Martin was mirroring the movements of Will Champion.)




When you read something over and over again but can't seem to get it into that thick skull of yours.

When you spend 12 hours a day mugging endlessly, looking at how many pages you have left for this chapter to finish, looking at how many sets of notes/chapters you have left before you can say you're done.

When you try to recall what you have mugged 24 hours ago but can't remember about half of it.

When you close your eyes to test your memory, or to take a short break, and wake up 45 minutes later, 45 minutes lost to your carelessness.

When you tell yourself you must get up on the dot at 0730 to start mugging the next morning, but can't bear to drag yourself out of bed, dreading the long ordeal that awaits you that day.

When you opened your mail this morning.

It's moments like these that make you feel like crying.

But life is not without its challenges, and even though some days you feel like giving up, exiting the rat race just for a while, you know you cannot.

You know that no matter how bad it gets, you will do your best to survive, and even if you don't, you know you did your best. Even if your best is not good enough, you still did your best.

And it's moments like these, that you can lift your head up high and be proud.

So don't give up. Strive on, no matter how hopeless it seems, no matter how many times you wished you could've started earlier. Strive on - and be proud.

"You'll Never Walk Alone"

Archangel

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 . 3:07 PM

5 days to COLDPLAY: THE VIVA LA VIDA TOUR

Oh well, no matter what happens, nothing can dampen my spirit for the upcoming Coldplay concert :)

Today I share arguably the best song out of X&Y, "Fix You". To me, compared to the other albums that Coldplay came up with, X&Y wasn't as impactful, although it did continue their trend of bringing a different sound to each album. "Fix You" is one of the more soulful songs of the album, and the lyrics are just golden. They say every Coldplay song will bring you something different, and this one doesn't disappoint. Definitely a song to listen to when you're feeling down on your luck and shitty. I love the part in the video when he swings that light globe around many times before hurling it out into the audience, and when the whole crowd joins in the last few lines, can bring tears to your eyes. Brilliant.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 . 10:11 PM

6 days to COLDPLAY: THE VIVA LA VIDA TOUR

Today I'll share the reason I got into Coldplay in the first place: It's not the single, "Yellow", that first caught my attention, though it's a great song nevertheless! I first saw the video for "Don't Panic" on MTV and it immediately caught my attention. The love affair with Coldplay has continued since...

I like the video a lot, fit the title and the song very well in my opinion... Their whole world is crashing and sinking and they're in a flood with volcanoes erupting around them but he's going "we live in a beautiful world... yeah we do yeah we do" and it's incredibly chillax, the way the song goes and the way they are portrayed in the video.

Monday, March 16, 2009 . 10:47 PM

7 days to COLDPLAY: THE VIVA LA VIDA TOUR

I declare this week Coldplay week on my blog, in lieu of their upcoming concert in Singapore this coming Monday. Each day I will share one of my favourite Coldplay songs with you and the reasons for it being so :)

I kick off the countdown with my favourite Coldplay song ever - "Amsterdam", from their album A Rush Of Blood To The Head. This rendition is my favourite, from their Coldplay Live 2003 album.

This song is just so... emotional. Chris Martin opens it with the piano and takes the song all the way to the last bit with just his singing and piano-playing. The last moment of the song is really, truly a climax in every sense of the word with the whole band coming in to support Chris Martin as he goes "you came along and you cut me loose" right at the end... then everything dies down... and the song ends as it began, with the piano and the singer (and a little bass, but you get the idea).

The lyrics are beautiful as well. I have dreams of performing this for my wife at our wedding lol. Pity that getting married looks more and more impossible with each passing day.

Sunday, March 15, 2009 . 5:28 PM

Thursday, March 12, 2009 . 3:14 PM

I managed to get tickets to the Coldplay Viva La Vida tour in Singapore on the 23rd of March! Was going to do this earlier, but chacken kept forgetting to return me my Coldplay albums =\ Haha. Don't these tickets just make you drool?






Let's see, before the first leg of the Liverpool vs Real Madrid Round of 16 Champions League qualifiers, Pepe (Centre Back for Real Madrid) had this to say about coming up against Torres (Striker for Liverpool):
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"I love going face-to-face with a big powerful striker like Torres because I'm made to go clattering into challenges and there's nothing I enjoy better than massive physical battles.

''We are both strong but I have a big advantage in that he's got to play with the ball and I don't. The bigger, stronger and better my opponent the more I like the clash.

''Football's a contact sport and strikers often give defenders like me a right good kicking off the ball and nobody says anything because we centre-halves are tough. But as long as I go for the ball and not the man, then there's nothing better than using all the time I've spent in the gym to crash into bodies."
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After Madrid were thrashed 5-0 on aggregate last night, Pepe had this to say about coming up against Torres:
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"I think the referee should have blown for a foul in the first goal from Torres.

"The match changed course from that moment. I was the last player and felt I was pushed."
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Those who watched the highlights, and paid close attention to how Pepe dealt with the situation that was presented to him, would have noticed that he was ALREADY falling when he tried to poke the ball away with the outside of his right boot. He decided to go crashing to the ground very theatrically, even bouncing the back of his head off the pitch, cos Torres had a hand on his shoulder. Then he cried foul.

Those who watched the whole match, would have noticed that Pepe spent most of it diving and falling at the slightest contact, trying to get Liverpool players yellow-carded, and he did, to Mascherano, who is now banned for the next leg. Talk about your dirty players.

Those who watched the whole match ALSO would have noticed that NOTHING changed course after the first goal. Liverpool were dominating the whole game from start to end and if not for Casillas and his world-class saves, they would have been 3-0 up even before the first goal. So suck it up, Pepe. You should get yourself checked, maybe you hurt your brain from your enormously theatrical fall.

So much for enjoying "massive physical battles". Stop making excuses Pepe, I knew you were a rubbish defender from watching you at Euro 2008, and these two matches have only served to further reinforce my stand. Only God knows how the heck you are in the first team for teams like Real Madrid and Portugal. What a crybaby.

"You'll Never Walk Alone"

Archangel

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 . 2:30 PM

Last night, was probably the happiest 2 hours of my life so far.

I know, it's pathetic right? But it's true.

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I caught this video on MTV while waiting for the Liverpool vs Real Madrid match to start last night, didn't think it was much until I flipped back again and thought that the puppet looked a hell lot like Chris Martin! Then I heard the sitar issit? I think it's a sitar riff, haha, or a sitar-sounding riff, and I was OMG it's Life In Technicolor II from the Prospekt's March Edition of Viva La Vida!!! I just got the album yesterday, haven't listened to it yet, but if you've listened to Life In Technicolor from the original Viva La Vida, this one will give you goosebumps man.

Sunday, March 08, 2009 . 11:46 PM

I think one of my favourite parts of playing football is forging profitable partnerships with my teammates. It makes the game much more enjoyable knowing that you have an almost psychic connection with at least one player out there on your team.

I used to have a good connection with Alex until he tore his knee ligaments and stopped playing football for the forseeable future, currently in the medicine team I share a good understanding with Jipson whenever we two play together, and even less so with Samuel, who does most of the instructing to me when we play on the left flank.

Most recently during weekly football at RI on Saturday, I played with Malik, or Manik, didn't quite catch which letter it was, in the same team for once. His play reminds me of Cristiano Ronaldo, needless to say he was the go-to guy whenever we started attacks. It was a real joy playing football with him on my side cos we could find each other really well and with him as the left-winger and me as the striker, we reaped about 3 goals or more and carved out many other chances with Wilson in the picture several times as well.

Some people find great joy in football going on blazing, unstoppable runs, some find that in scoring tons of goals, some get the same feeling by assisting others, or even producing a fabulous tackle, or making unbelievable saves. I think forging great partnerships with players ranks right up there with the rest of them.

"You'll Never Walk Alone"

Archangel

Friday, March 06, 2009 . 12:35 AM

Oh dear.

How did you screw up your life so badly?

"You'll Never Walk Alone"

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Sunday, March 01, 2009 . 4:12 PM