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Saturday, September 02, 2006
Aah... i've did about 9 months of national service already. here's wad i've learnt in NS:
1. i can't stand irritating people, especially people who ask questions that fit the meaning of either of these 3 R's... redundant, ridiculous or rhetorical, which leads to point 2.
2. i can flare up quite easily, sometimes during when i'm tired, and also when i'm not so tired. however, sometimes i surprise myself when i dun flare up under extreme conditions, maybe bcos my self-awareness keeps reminding me that flaring up may not change anything for the better, so no point wasting energy.
3. i must work with people i'm comfortable with, people who i know very well. however, the 'people' i'm referring to here can sometimes be just one person. but i'm starting to open up to more people, so that when that one person is not around, i still have other people to crap with.
4. pulau tekong has trees grown in the straightest rows i've ever seen in singapore. so much for being realistic.
5. i love to give names to people i dun like, which act as 'code names' when i'm talking bad about them just in case someone who knows them is eavesdropping.
6. there are 101 ironies in the army; however i can't really change anything, much less since i'm not a commander.
7. some sergeants really deserve some slaps on the face due to their foul mouth / ridiculous standards / inhumane punishment... i'll make sure they are slapped when i ORD if i see them anywhere around on the streets.
8. i have zero tolerance when people provoke me in civilian life cos i think i have endured quite a lot of shit in camp and dun deserve to be tekaned anymore... so once i scolded an auntie when she accused me of jumping her queue cos she apparently choped a place.
let me give you a summary of what a person with A levels / diploma qualification can go through in the army if he's combat fit (PES A or B):
either BMTC --> OCS or SISPEC (training schools for commanders to be) --> units (as commanders leading their men);
OR
BMTC --> unit (as men - if u chose not to be a commander or SAF decides u are not fit to be one; i belong to the latter case obviously since i fail IPPT)
so straight after BMT, in which i enjoyed life at Raven company, i suay suay got posted to 1 Guards, a unit. so much for being so eager to login to the overloaded website to check my posting after waiting for about 15 min for the web traffic to clear. the posting is even more exciting than my A level results. i was glad that 4 other pple in my platoon also suay suay went into the same unit as me; one of them was my best buddy in BMT. after some asking around, i found that another tj friend and my pri sch friend were also going to 1 Guards for the rest of the 2 years. however, both of them were going to be recce troopers, while i'll just be simply a rifleman, meaning i need to chiong when i'm supposed to, unlike them who will be dealing with military intelligence.
[i would like to post about BMT stuff, but then unit life is so much more interesting to write about... so BMT life will have to wait.]
so wad happens if u dun have A levels or a diploma? you go to a unit straight for your BMT and the rest of your NS will be done at the same place, with the same people you met during enlistment day. yes, that means they dun enter pulau tekong, and dun have a chance to be a commander at all and are destined to be men. why this special arrangement? ask the govt lor. then again, not many of them have the qualities to be a commander anyway. since these people enter a unit directly and the intake is small (a few hundred compared to thousands at tekong), they are known as a 'mono intake'.
why do i suddenly bring forward this concept of a 'mono intake'? that's because 1 Guards as a unit always takes in a mono intake every 2 years and while i happily thought that i'll be separated from them and posted into a company full of A level students in the same predicament as me, i was sadly wrong...
(to be continued...)
1. i can't stand irritating people, especially people who ask questions that fit the meaning of either of these 3 R's... redundant, ridiculous or rhetorical, which leads to point 2.
2. i can flare up quite easily, sometimes during when i'm tired, and also when i'm not so tired. however, sometimes i surprise myself when i dun flare up under extreme conditions, maybe bcos my self-awareness keeps reminding me that flaring up may not change anything for the better, so no point wasting energy.
3. i must work with people i'm comfortable with, people who i know very well. however, the 'people' i'm referring to here can sometimes be just one person. but i'm starting to open up to more people, so that when that one person is not around, i still have other people to crap with.
4. pulau tekong has trees grown in the straightest rows i've ever seen in singapore. so much for being realistic.
5. i love to give names to people i dun like, which act as 'code names' when i'm talking bad about them just in case someone who knows them is eavesdropping.
6. there are 101 ironies in the army; however i can't really change anything, much less since i'm not a commander.
7. some sergeants really deserve some slaps on the face due to their foul mouth / ridiculous standards / inhumane punishment... i'll make sure they are slapped when i ORD if i see them anywhere around on the streets.
8. i have zero tolerance when people provoke me in civilian life cos i think i have endured quite a lot of shit in camp and dun deserve to be tekaned anymore... so once i scolded an auntie when she accused me of jumping her queue cos she apparently choped a place.
let me give you a summary of what a person with A levels / diploma qualification can go through in the army if he's combat fit (PES A or B):
either BMTC --> OCS or SISPEC (training schools for commanders to be) --> units (as commanders leading their men);
OR
BMTC --> unit (as men - if u chose not to be a commander or SAF decides u are not fit to be one; i belong to the latter case obviously since i fail IPPT)
so straight after BMT, in which i enjoyed life at Raven company, i suay suay got posted to 1 Guards, a unit. so much for being so eager to login to the overloaded website to check my posting after waiting for about 15 min for the web traffic to clear. the posting is even more exciting than my A level results. i was glad that 4 other pple in my platoon also suay suay went into the same unit as me; one of them was my best buddy in BMT. after some asking around, i found that another tj friend and my pri sch friend were also going to 1 Guards for the rest of the 2 years. however, both of them were going to be recce troopers, while i'll just be simply a rifleman, meaning i need to chiong when i'm supposed to, unlike them who will be dealing with military intelligence.
[i would like to post about BMT stuff, but then unit life is so much more interesting to write about... so BMT life will have to wait.]
so wad happens if u dun have A levels or a diploma? you go to a unit straight for your BMT and the rest of your NS will be done at the same place, with the same people you met during enlistment day. yes, that means they dun enter pulau tekong, and dun have a chance to be a commander at all and are destined to be men. why this special arrangement? ask the govt lor. then again, not many of them have the qualities to be a commander anyway. since these people enter a unit directly and the intake is small (a few hundred compared to thousands at tekong), they are known as a 'mono intake'.
why do i suddenly bring forward this concept of a 'mono intake'? that's because 1 Guards as a unit always takes in a mono intake every 2 years and while i happily thought that i'll be separated from them and posted into a company full of A level students in the same predicament as me, i was sadly wrong...
(to be continued...)
~ the @lie[n] landed on Earth @ 11:16 PM
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Good riddance, national stadium.
Yes, i'm proud to say i've no feelings whatsoever for this gigantic gray architecture. my buddy agrees with me on that point too. it always gives me the depressing feeling. please dun give me the crap that it has 30 plus years of history and has witnessed countless events and i'm supposed to feel sad that it's going to be torn down. i would be delighted to apply my demolition skills to destroy it though =)
some reasons why it should have been gone years ago:
1. the track has already started melting. walking on it normally with boots will cause imprints. now you know why the annual national track and field championships changed their holding venue years ago.
2. the toilets are definitely the dirtiest in singapore. even dirtier than some portable toilets located at construction sites. even dirtier than MRT station toilets. and the water that comes out from the tap can be just 3 mm wide. it's that pathetic.
3. there are plenty of mosquitoes there. i believe it has the highest mosquito density in an urban area in Singapore. of cos the spectators during NDP may not feel it cos the mosquitoes have many options. but during one night when i was guarding the fun packs delivered there by my company, i thought i was in outfield.
if you dunno yet, 1st battalion singapore guards (or 1 GDS), the unit i'm in, is in charge of NDP 2006. that is assuming you know that SAF always organises NDP. of cos, one big event like this needs the help of other units too... armour, combat engineers, blah blah.
wondering what i did for NDP in what i term it as the 'Great NDP Saikang'? read on. (saikang is hokkien for 'fatigue work', which simply means the work behind-the-scenes)
it all started with the calling centre. we are supposed to call everyone in singapore who are successful in the ticket balloting. i had one weekend burnt because of this. actually, when informing the winners, we only know their NRIC number and the number of tickets they were allocated.
so wad happens next when we tell them they won tickets? we have to give them their tickets. so i became a person clad in red hang ten 'i-love-singapore' t-shirt sitting behind a counter giving them tickets. that had to be the best day of my NSF life since i get to enjoy air-con, work on a laptop, interact with civilians and eat at a japanese restaurant for dinner. heard that the set meal cost $18.50. too bad i only did this ticket collection thingy for one day only.
then some singaporeans decided to wait till the last minute to collect their tickets. so we had to call to remind them on the 2nd last day that the ticket collection will be over soon. i burnt a saturday because of this.
now comes the 'fun' part. we now need to pack fun packs for all 3 shows, namely the NE show for pri 5 students, the preview and the actual NDP itself. every company will take turns to pack fun packs every day, and the target to meet every day is 10000. my company was the only one to cross this mark every time we packed. while the other companies argue that the reason is bcos we have more people, i say it's because we concentrate on wad we do and not slack so much.
towards the preview and NDP, the logistics dept of HQ decided that we need to pack 13000 bags a day. and they are prepared to let you pack till night time as the bus will leave the warehouse at 9 pm. (we pack the bags in another camp in clementi) but of cos my company won't take that long to pack. we finished at around 4 plus and by 5.30 i was on the bus back to bedok camp. our OC (Officer Commanding, something like the principal of the company) promised us we could have a nights off all the way till 11.30 pm if we can meet the target everyday. a 'nights off' means you can book out to the civilian world and for people like me whose house is near my camp, i can even go home.
wad do i do during the shows then? i mentioned 3 shows: NE, preview and NDP.
for NE show: i was the Army Liaison Personnel (ALP) for edgefield primary in punggol. so i need to go to the school alone in my uniform and ensure every pri 5 student gets on the bus to go to stadium. i had teachers to help me of cos, so it's not that bad managing 11-year-olds. plus, at the stadium, i get to sit down and enjoy the show. however, i had to follow the buses back to the school itself after the show. since the entire country's pri 5 students are here, there were not enough buses and i waited till 11 pm when my school's name was called to board the bus.
for preview: i was attached to charlie company (my most hated company in the battalion, why i hate them so much is another story) to help them give out fun packs. sounds easy? it was definitely not the case as we had to constantly refill fun packs at the counters and the refilling rate was slow. the fun packs were stored in boxes of 12 and were quite far away from the counters. plus every fun pack contains 4 things that make it heavy: 1 bottle of distilled water, 1 bottle of newater, 1 Yeo's packet drink and 1 sports drink u've never heard before called Activade. while we are working our ass off refilling fun packs, you have our dear charlie company people just standing down there looking at us while they count the number of people that went past them using a pacer. u see, their OC is so good, assign the easy jobs to them, give the difficult jobs to us. dun tell people that the best soldier of the month came from that company.
for actual NDP: my platoon complained about doing too much work for preview so we were assigned much easier work this time. some of us manned pigeon holes. they are just the different entering points into the gallery of the stadium. we could only let the crowd enter at specific holes so we need to man them in case they take away the barricades or open the gates themselves. i was an usher in the gallery though. i was supposed to 'pack' or squeeze as many people on a bench by constantly reminding them to move in and put their fun packs on the floor or lap. however, my platoon sergeant decided not to do this and i became underused. so i slacked around and almost viewed the entire show too. except that before the fireworks, i had to give umbrellas to those sitting at the top few rows of the gallery in case they get hit by fireworks debris.
for all 3 shows, we ate KFC for dinner. sounds good but by the time i got the food, the oil from the chicken had already been absorbed so much by the paper box that the bottom part of the box can give way any time.
after every show, there were always saikang to do (moving barricades/leftover fun packs/keeping umbrellas blah blah) but of cos, my company always finishes so fast that we need to help other companies. as a result we can only go off at about 11 pm in our sweaty uniform. luckily i always share a taxi with 3 other people living in pasir ris... so the taxi fare is quite cheap.
*****
now that NDP is over, it's going to be normal training again... and of cos taking whatever fun packs that are left haha =)
Yes, i'm proud to say i've no feelings whatsoever for this gigantic gray architecture. my buddy agrees with me on that point too. it always gives me the depressing feeling. please dun give me the crap that it has 30 plus years of history and has witnessed countless events and i'm supposed to feel sad that it's going to be torn down. i would be delighted to apply my demolition skills to destroy it though =)
some reasons why it should have been gone years ago:
1. the track has already started melting. walking on it normally with boots will cause imprints. now you know why the annual national track and field championships changed their holding venue years ago.
2. the toilets are definitely the dirtiest in singapore. even dirtier than some portable toilets located at construction sites. even dirtier than MRT station toilets. and the water that comes out from the tap can be just 3 mm wide. it's that pathetic.
3. there are plenty of mosquitoes there. i believe it has the highest mosquito density in an urban area in Singapore. of cos the spectators during NDP may not feel it cos the mosquitoes have many options. but during one night when i was guarding the fun packs delivered there by my company, i thought i was in outfield.
if you dunno yet, 1st battalion singapore guards (or 1 GDS), the unit i'm in, is in charge of NDP 2006. that is assuming you know that SAF always organises NDP. of cos, one big event like this needs the help of other units too... armour, combat engineers, blah blah.
wondering what i did for NDP in what i term it as the 'Great NDP Saikang'? read on. (saikang is hokkien for 'fatigue work', which simply means the work behind-the-scenes)
it all started with the calling centre. we are supposed to call everyone in singapore who are successful in the ticket balloting. i had one weekend burnt because of this. actually, when informing the winners, we only know their NRIC number and the number of tickets they were allocated.
so wad happens next when we tell them they won tickets? we have to give them their tickets. so i became a person clad in red hang ten 'i-love-singapore' t-shirt sitting behind a counter giving them tickets. that had to be the best day of my NSF life since i get to enjoy air-con, work on a laptop, interact with civilians and eat at a japanese restaurant for dinner. heard that the set meal cost $18.50. too bad i only did this ticket collection thingy for one day only.
then some singaporeans decided to wait till the last minute to collect their tickets. so we had to call to remind them on the 2nd last day that the ticket collection will be over soon. i burnt a saturday because of this.
now comes the 'fun' part. we now need to pack fun packs for all 3 shows, namely the NE show for pri 5 students, the preview and the actual NDP itself. every company will take turns to pack fun packs every day, and the target to meet every day is 10000. my company was the only one to cross this mark every time we packed. while the other companies argue that the reason is bcos we have more people, i say it's because we concentrate on wad we do and not slack so much.
towards the preview and NDP, the logistics dept of HQ decided that we need to pack 13000 bags a day. and they are prepared to let you pack till night time as the bus will leave the warehouse at 9 pm. (we pack the bags in another camp in clementi) but of cos my company won't take that long to pack. we finished at around 4 plus and by 5.30 i was on the bus back to bedok camp. our OC (Officer Commanding, something like the principal of the company) promised us we could have a nights off all the way till 11.30 pm if we can meet the target everyday. a 'nights off' means you can book out to the civilian world and for people like me whose house is near my camp, i can even go home.
wad do i do during the shows then? i mentioned 3 shows: NE, preview and NDP.
for NE show: i was the Army Liaison Personnel (ALP) for edgefield primary in punggol. so i need to go to the school alone in my uniform and ensure every pri 5 student gets on the bus to go to stadium. i had teachers to help me of cos, so it's not that bad managing 11-year-olds. plus, at the stadium, i get to sit down and enjoy the show. however, i had to follow the buses back to the school itself after the show. since the entire country's pri 5 students are here, there were not enough buses and i waited till 11 pm when my school's name was called to board the bus.
for preview: i was attached to charlie company (my most hated company in the battalion, why i hate them so much is another story) to help them give out fun packs. sounds easy? it was definitely not the case as we had to constantly refill fun packs at the counters and the refilling rate was slow. the fun packs were stored in boxes of 12 and were quite far away from the counters. plus every fun pack contains 4 things that make it heavy: 1 bottle of distilled water, 1 bottle of newater, 1 Yeo's packet drink and 1 sports drink u've never heard before called Activade. while we are working our ass off refilling fun packs, you have our dear charlie company people just standing down there looking at us while they count the number of people that went past them using a pacer. u see, their OC is so good, assign the easy jobs to them, give the difficult jobs to us. dun tell people that the best soldier of the month came from that company.
for actual NDP: my platoon complained about doing too much work for preview so we were assigned much easier work this time. some of us manned pigeon holes. they are just the different entering points into the gallery of the stadium. we could only let the crowd enter at specific holes so we need to man them in case they take away the barricades or open the gates themselves. i was an usher in the gallery though. i was supposed to 'pack' or squeeze as many people on a bench by constantly reminding them to move in and put their fun packs on the floor or lap. however, my platoon sergeant decided not to do this and i became underused. so i slacked around and almost viewed the entire show too. except that before the fireworks, i had to give umbrellas to those sitting at the top few rows of the gallery in case they get hit by fireworks debris.
for all 3 shows, we ate KFC for dinner. sounds good but by the time i got the food, the oil from the chicken had already been absorbed so much by the paper box that the bottom part of the box can give way any time.
after every show, there were always saikang to do (moving barricades/leftover fun packs/keeping umbrellas blah blah) but of cos, my company always finishes so fast that we need to help other companies. as a result we can only go off at about 11 pm in our sweaty uniform. luckily i always share a taxi with 3 other people living in pasir ris... so the taxi fare is quite cheap.
*****
now that NDP is over, it's going to be normal training again... and of cos taking whatever fun packs that are left haha =)
~ the @lie[n] landed on Earth @ 4:05 PM
Sunday, November 20, 2005
got this via this blog, when i was blog hopping.
Procrastination
Procrastination is the avoidance and delaying of doing a task which needs to be done. This commonly involves feelings of guilt, inadequacy, self-disgust, stress and depression. In the long run, a person who procrastinates tends to be an underachiever who lacks confidence and self-esteem.
When faced with a daunting task, we sometimes try to disguise our avoidance of the task by keeping ourselves busy working at other tasks that simply do not contribute towards the main goal or important goal.
Why do people procrastinate?
Reasons vary but frequently, people procrastinate because they feel overwhelmed by the task at hand; sometimes, this might be due to their own perfectionist tendencies and unrealistic expectations. People who procrastinate spend time worrying about the task rather than actually working at it.
For some others, procrastination results from their inability to prioritise, difficulty in concentrating on a task or simply knowing they will be bored by the task. Others procrastinate because they are unsure of what the expected end result is.
To overcome procrastination:
* Make a list of everything that you have to do.
* Eliminate unimportant tasks.
* Rank the remaining ones in order of urgency/importance.
* Make your tasks meaningful (e.g. try to evaluate the importance of the task by considering the ways it affects your life or those around you).
* Consult others to find out more about what is expected of the task.
* Begin tackling the more urgent/important tasks first.
* Set realistic goals for yourself.
* Promise yourself a reward if your goal is achieved.
______________________________________
this really applies to me... especially the words in bold. =(
Procrastination
Procrastination is the avoidance and delaying of doing a task which needs to be done. This commonly involves feelings of guilt, inadequacy, self-disgust, stress and depression. In the long run, a person who procrastinates tends to be an underachiever who lacks confidence and self-esteem.
When faced with a daunting task, we sometimes try to disguise our avoidance of the task by keeping ourselves busy working at other tasks that simply do not contribute towards the main goal or important goal.
Why do people procrastinate?
Reasons vary but frequently, people procrastinate because they feel overwhelmed by the task at hand; sometimes, this might be due to their own perfectionist tendencies and unrealistic expectations. People who procrastinate spend time worrying about the task rather than actually working at it.
For some others, procrastination results from their inability to prioritise, difficulty in concentrating on a task or simply knowing they will be bored by the task. Others procrastinate because they are unsure of what the expected end result is.
To overcome procrastination:
* Make a list of everything that you have to do.
* Eliminate unimportant tasks.
* Rank the remaining ones in order of urgency/importance.
* Make your tasks meaningful (e.g. try to evaluate the importance of the task by considering the ways it affects your life or those around you).
* Consult others to find out more about what is expected of the task.
* Begin tackling the more urgent/important tasks first.
* Set realistic goals for yourself.
* Promise yourself a reward if your goal is achieved.
______________________________________
this really applies to me... especially the words in bold. =(
~ the @lie[n] landed on Earth @ 3:15 PM
Friday, November 18, 2005
some "updates" (in no order of importance)...
#1: mediacorp finally did something right - inviting patty hou (the beautiful jay chou's girlfriend) to host the star awards, together with guo liang. of cos, the best part is, i still get to watch the show, 5 days before i enlist.
#2: 'A' levels are going to be over soon. just one main paper left which is the chem mcq. yay? i'll save that when i get my results, hopefully.
#3: apparently, the booking engine of golden village's website is down, which i think must be due to the vast number of people going online at the same time to book tickets for harry potter. then i used my handphone's GPRS to check... the 8 and 9.25 pm timeslots were sold out, and the 10.25 pm were selling fast. warning: this show is 157 min long... normal for a harry potter movie of cos. and for the first time, the omnimax theatre of the science centre will be showing the imax version of it for six months, starting from now.
#4: two new terms i came across about exams - being 'owned' by it when u think it is difficult, and dun want to "da bao" an exam. not so sure about the latter though...
signing off...
#1: mediacorp finally did something right - inviting patty hou (the beautiful jay chou's girlfriend) to host the star awards, together with guo liang. of cos, the best part is, i still get to watch the show, 5 days before i enlist.
#2: 'A' levels are going to be over soon. just one main paper left which is the chem mcq. yay? i'll save that when i get my results, hopefully.
#3: apparently, the booking engine of golden village's website is down, which i think must be due to the vast number of people going online at the same time to book tickets for harry potter. then i used my handphone's GPRS to check... the 8 and 9.25 pm timeslots were sold out, and the 10.25 pm were selling fast. warning: this show is 157 min long... normal for a harry potter movie of cos. and for the first time, the omnimax theatre of the science centre will be showing the imax version of it for six months, starting from now.
#4: two new terms i came across about exams - being 'owned' by it when u think it is difficult, and dun want to "da bao" an exam. not so sure about the latter though...
signing off...
~ the @lie[n] landed on Earth @ 12:40 AM
Thursday, November 10, 2005
there are just 29 days left to the start of my National Service/conscription (to sound GP-ish)/participation in military defence (total political correctness).
yes, i failed my napfa. so i would be in early. very sad case. sigh.
translating the above to sound GP-ish:
I would be entering the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) prematurely due to my failure to pass NAPFA, a fitness proficiency test. It is a cause for sorrow and despair that leads me to sigh at this predicament.
yes, it's my GP exam tomorrow. i just received a "happy christmas" card from my GP teacher Ms Kwan. it is square-shaped and it came in a red envelope. her name card was also attached, which i really dunno why, cos i have her handphone no. already. the name card is professional looking and nice though, and i had a first look at her credentials. 2 bachelor degrees from the US and one masters from NUS. wow.
although christmas is more than a month away, it's pleasant to know that Ms Kwan actually bothers preparing a card, writing a personal message, wishing you good luck, finding your address, writing it on an envelope and sending it to you. she teaches at least 3 classes, so she did that for at least 60 people. she's smart enough to send the cards through school though, so she didn't have to affix a stamp. (omg i actually notice this.)
she said she thinks i'm capable of scoring and i just need to keep in mind my time management. AH. an element of stress added. = i wouldn't like to disappoint her though.
i have already disappointed myself in my chinese A paper. as for the maths and chem papers, let's face it: A LEVEL IS NOT AS EASY AS IT SEEMS ANYMORE.
argh. i dun like exams.
yes, i failed my napfa. so i would be in early. very sad case. sigh.
translating the above to sound GP-ish:
I would be entering the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) prematurely due to my failure to pass NAPFA, a fitness proficiency test. It is a cause for sorrow and despair that leads me to sigh at this predicament.
yes, it's my GP exam tomorrow. i just received a "happy christmas" card from my GP teacher Ms Kwan. it is square-shaped and it came in a red envelope. her name card was also attached, which i really dunno why, cos i have her handphone no. already. the name card is professional looking and nice though, and i had a first look at her credentials. 2 bachelor degrees from the US and one masters from NUS. wow.
although christmas is more than a month away, it's pleasant to know that Ms Kwan actually bothers preparing a card, writing a personal message, wishing you good luck, finding your address, writing it on an envelope and sending it to you. she teaches at least 3 classes, so she did that for at least 60 people. she's smart enough to send the cards through school though, so she didn't have to affix a stamp. (omg i actually notice this.)
she said she thinks i'm capable of scoring and i just need to keep in mind my time management. AH. an element of stress added. = i wouldn't like to disappoint her though.
i have already disappointed myself in my chinese A paper. as for the maths and chem papers, let's face it: A LEVEL IS NOT AS EASY AS IT SEEMS ANYMORE.
argh. i dun like exams.
~ the @lie[n] landed on Earth @ 9:22 PM
Sunday, November 06, 2005
| Your Birthdate: September 28 |
 You have a Type A personality so big it makes other Type A's shrink away in shame. You never shy away from adversity - and you love to tackle impossible problems. Failure is not an option for you, and more than a few people are put off by your ego. You tend to be controlling, and you hate leaving anything up to chance. Your strength: Your bold approach to life Your weakness: You don't accept help Your power color: Bronze Your power symbol: Pyramid Your power month: October |
Argh, why isn't the power month November?! Don't be surprised i carry a glass pyramid everywhere i go now. =P
~ the @lie[n] landed on Earth @ 5:06 PM
Monday, September 26, 2005
i just watched a korean movie called "The Classic". it stars Son Ye-jin, who will be appearing soon in the upcoming movie "April Snow". Son Ye-jin (of "Summer Scent" fame) is really a credible actress. it's a very very very nice movie, which made me cry due to the storyline and of course, the music. not many movies can make me cry to this extent, not even "My Sassy Girl" of which is also made by the same director. i must say this movie is better than many hollywood made romantic films... one of the most fantastic films i've ever watched. the background music was so nice, as always, characteristic of korean shows. i'm going to buy the OST tomorrow.
talking about movies, South Korea has been continuously producing many great movies. and of cos, many of them are of the romantic and love genre. while many people accuse them of being melodramatic, they no doubt are successful at causing a stir in your heart. plus, they are very marketable, sought after in asia and even in the US.
now look at love movies produced by local directors. 1st one that comes to your mind is perhaps "I Do I Do". i'll like to tell jack neo that no one is grieving about the fact that the movie wasn't sent in for nomination at the Golden Horse Awards. please lah, even raintree pictures knows it isn't film-fest material. i'm sure that the movie won't do well at all if not for its chinese new year screening, and also bcos people who can't get seats for other movies chose to watch this unwillingly. another movie recently of this genre is "Be With Me", directed by eric khoo which has won rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival. finally, we have one movie that can be recognised internationally, although it is not of mainstream material.
it is definitely true then that singapore's movie industry is light years behind korea's, or maybe the rest of the world too.
time for some packing of my notes...
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