It has really been a while sia since i last blogged. Or rather, should i say, felt like blogging. had been doing it for the sake of doing it. tonight, juz feel like updating this page. perhaps after letting a few more friends knowing the address of this blog, so felt like updating it to prove that it's worthwhile to come here once in a while. haha~

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It was zhenqiang's b-day today. woke up quite early in the morning and rushed down to town hoping to getting inspiration on wut to get for his gift.

First Stop: Orchard Heeren's. Went into HMV, saw Stefanie's new album selling at $20.95. wa~ so ex$... decided to leave Heeren's 'cos it was packed wif ppl. no idea why too. juz dun like to shop in crowded places.

Second Stop: Cineleisure Orchard. went straight to Sembawang Music Centre and got my Stefanie album at $19.90. haha~ den down to basement 1 to draw money. interestingly, the left most ATM never had ANY $10 notes, had to draw $50 instead. *grumble* had my lunch at Long John. went to More Than Words. wanted to get a few stuff, but felt like it's too simple to jus buy and give. wanted something more special and unique.

Third Stop: Plaza Singapura. went to Action City, discovered all the items there are either too expensive ( >$30 ) or too cheap ( <$4 ). went to a few shops (Molecules, Royal Sporting House, etc.) but there weren't anything that looked promising. went to Music Plaza hoping to get something musical, but all i cud find were rulers and pens designed as keyboards (which costed <$1).

Fourth Stop: Bugis. oh my goodness, i'm getting desperate and was really hoping to find something. luckily in bugis, all the gift shops were situated together (all on the third level) and i juz kept going in and out of the shops, making sure i din miss out anything. in the end, i bought a cookie jar (shaped as a bear's head) and a supposedly very nice gift bag (supposedly very nice until i put the present in it). sat down at a Pao Pao Cha cafe to package my present and write my "card" (which is just a piece of A4 music manuscript paper). spent quite a lot of time at the cafe until ppl were staring at me doing the presents. gosh~ after completing, i calculated the amount spent and wow~ i sure could spend without realising. gosh~

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Zq's birthday party was fun. it was like a Band B gathering with jiahao they all coming oso. so fun~ haha. was chit-chatting wif a lot of ppl too. was hoping karen wud come, so that i cud bitch wif her abt somebody. haha~

wondered wut wud Zq tink when he unwrapped my present. haha~

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went to cineleisure to catch Shark Tale wif Yanhui, Zhenguo and Yongxiang. found the movie quite enjoyable, laughed out real loud at some parts, but didn't find it overall better than the movie it's trying to rival (ie Finding Nemo). the colours were too kiddish, and the characters were just too superficial. it's like the filmmakers were just concentrating on spoofing things and forgetting abt developing the characters and the storyline. still, the spoofs were enuf to make my $8.50 worthwhile! haha~

yongxiang went back while yanhui, zhenguo and me went to the street hawker to get something to eat. argh, shudnt hav drank the Kickapoo, made my stomach upset. sighz...

oh wells, now i'm back home, but tired, but had an enjoyable day. pretty much enjoyed this kind of weekend. no commitments, no pressure, no stress. jus pure fun. i like~ ;)

*yawnz*,
Johnzzon

 

My personality is rated 28.What is yours?quiz by midgetfarm.com

Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical, and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.

 

~ SAF Band Life ~

To ppl, it's a very slack week. It shd be for me too. But apparently, had to settle with all the music programme stuff. i hate it when i had to do the choosing of COG pieces. there will always be comments that i dun like to hear, especially when they're insensitive and unhelpful comments. i really appreciated those who bothered to help me out and really give suggestions, rather than ppl who will say "johnson, can't u choose something simpler?" for one COG and "johnson, can't u choose something more difficult?" for the next COG. irritating~ then, there's someone who's been quite on my nerves when it comes to talking abt politics in the band. it's like he really knows wut to do when he din realli take into account of a lot of things. com'on, askin the band to practise for COG pieces is the hardest thing to do. (i shd hv known that b4 choosing the COG pieces for this month. Hell~ i regretted going for fun instead of practicality.)

~ Music X-Change ~

beldin handed me an assignment to do, but i had yet to gather enuf energy to really sit down and do it. gosh~ i tink i'm gonna fail him miserably. how~? my first assignment and i'm gonna fail.

~ Misc ~

hadnt been meeting up wif my old pals. i miss them a lot. was trying to get qi out, but it seems that we weren't able to make out something practical for both of us.

had been mentally working for the past few days, now that i really sit down and know i dun need to wake up so early tomolo morning, i kinda felt my brain like falling apart. having a very bad headache now. gonna watch 2046 tomolo morning wif qi, hopefully the headache will go away by then.

collected my FMA comic novel from Tien Di juz now *finally* (after like one week). surprisingly, the novel is quite well translated. wow~

tink i'm gonna let my mind rest fully for tonight. not gonna tink abt my new song, not gonna tink abt the assignment, not gonna tink abt breaking frenships.

heck, something inspired me to write this: yar sure, precious things only seem precious when they're being taken away from you, but how many things have been taken away from you, and how many things have been given up by you yourself? u can give up things i guess, but dun be hypocritical and say you find them precious and wan them back and say irritating stuff like they've been taken away from you in the end.

*headache*,
Johnzzon

 

To say the truth, i felt pretty weird. it's the same botanic gardens concert, but it jus felt very different. different stage, different dress code, different ppl. perhaps it's the ppl i hang out with this time, perhaps it's because i had to stand up to play a solo this time, perhaps i brought my digicam this time... i don't know...

most of the time, i hanged out with yanhui and gang (weiye, chengguo, ryan) and i was like joking arnd with ryan (with he being the star and i being the paparazzi trying to take photos and videos of him).

overall, it was quite an enjoyable concert, with some screw-ups here and there. (with somebody dropping an n-gage off the stage and forgetting to stand up when somebody entered)

took lots of pics, with half of the lot adding to my pretentiously-artistic photos... haha... posted the pics on my livejournal acc, so do take a look. below is jus a simple collage i made. btw, the background cloud picture is taken using my cam that day, not some windows 95 background pic. ;)

some-day-my-princess-will-come,
Johnzzon

 

From my fren's blog, haha, i laugh until i almost roll down my chair...!! oh my, how i wish the following was some spam mail and i'm surely gonna forward it to every one on my mailing list!!

Jerry OHMYGODMYENTIRECHURCHISVOTINGFORME ong :
I mus admit i have been biased since day 1.
But even if i wasn't , yesterday's performance would set me in the same direction anyway.
He was going OFF TUNE. OFF BEAT. OFF EVERYTHING.
His moves could well have been picked up from Bozo the Clown - his arm swinging in circle shit and lamp-post-dog-rub on e mike stand.
His face. Oh my goodness me. I need holy acid to wipe off that GRIN.
And he got in. STILL got in.
We have to unite people. We have to UNITE.
DUN VOTE NOW. EXHAUST THEIR RESOURCES.
WHEN WE'RE DOWN TO LEANDRA/SLY and E SCREWHEAD, WE SHALL THEN RISE.
AND
CRUSH
HIM.
I want him to be out so badly i wanna cry.
I should email Ken and ask him to start this new phoneline
" Call 1900 112 NO-JERRY to neutralise each vote casted for him , each call can cost any freaking amt cos i know u'll call. YAY. "
THE FORCE IS STRONG. AND EVIL. WE HAVE TO UNITE.
yea!

 

It's 9:30am on a sunday morning... *pause* What the hell am i doing awake so early in the morning?! Gosh, i wished i was in bed, but... oh wells. i got woken up at 8am by my alarm, but i switched it off and headed back to sleep, only to have a nightmare that i would be late for today's concert when i woke up at 5:30pm, and i couldn't find a cab anyway cos every taxi driver was having dinner (i asked a lady taxi driver to drive me there and she scolded me "wa, taxi drivers dun need to eat one right?!"). weird dream~

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There was an O.R.D. (Operationally Ready Date) Function held on Friday afternoon. Another batch (batch 52) of ppl had just successfully survived and completed the 2 years of.. of... torturous and unfulfilling NS life. 2 more batches, and it will be my batch's turn to sit in front and wait for our names to be called to receive the plague.

the life of band a will surely be different with a few ppl ORD-ing this time round, mainly Indera (no more screamings), Mutton Curry (no more irritating comments... and chances for me to bitch behind his back), Lam (no more FMA-chats with him), Goh (no more weird cheeky comments) and Melvin (no more bitching around with him)... weirdly, as i think about all these, names with Xavier, Yaw Chang and so on come into my mind. They had been an integral part of my SAF band life, and they exited quite abruptly. is this how working life is gonna be? ppl come and leave (i feel like writing 'as they wish' but doesnt sound really appropriate). so r they acquaintances or friends? should it matter to me? i dun noe

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Beldin gave me a piece of good news, telling me that i'd moved one step closer to selling my song. was really trilled! he's gonna air the re-recorded demo (which i have yet to hear) on the opening day of his school. gosh~ *excited*

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for 3 working days in this week (one day off and one day 'MC'), i had been weirdly on the beat for two days, like i woke up on the best side of the bed (i dun noe how to phrase it so pardon the weird phrase). really cheeky for those two days, and i kept chatting, bitching. even durian king din manage to ruin my day (altho he did ruin those few hours of full band for me, but i could bitch about him after that, so kind of balance out). even for that one day left, i was jus plain tired, and i cud feel there's still quite some energy in me.

seriously, havent been feeling this way for a very long time. could it be the sudden lecture from dom? the sudden realization? or wut? i cudnt really think of a reason... but den, i'm happy, and that's totally ok with me. haha...

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i tink i have a very screw up mentality.

• ppl say wearing dark coloured clothes make u look thin and pale coloured clothes make u look bigger in size. but i believe that if i wear pale coloured clothes, i'll still look thin. and when ppl see me, they wud go "aiyo, this person must be really thin!" i prefer wearing dark coloured clothes, as least ppl can tink "he looks thin, but mmm it cud be because of the clothes".
  
• my fren had been asking me if she shd go back to her ex. i asked her a question first: "why do u not want to go back to him?" and she blabbered out thousands of reason. den i asked her another question: "why do u want to go back to him then?" and she jus said "i dun know." my answer to her "go back. i think u r really in love with him, cos you couldn't find the reason, and that reason, i tell you, is jus plain love".

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there's gonna be a solo for me today. and i'm not particularly excited abt it. i'm jus afraid of screwing it up. so the most i did was borrowed a eupho from kimseng yesterday, and hopefully i will manage to sound pass-able today. sighz.

i kind of liked yesterday's full band at kimseng where we tried a few pieces. "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves" (grade 5 ver), "Spirited Away" (which i tot sounded not bad) and "Summon the Heroes" (challenging). hopefully the future full bands will be similar... ;)

ok, tink i wrote enuf... haha... planning to do other stuff too, u know. keke. tata.

blah-blah-blah,
Johnzzon

 

Got this in my email.

A man in this Zodiac has a thin long and proportional face. He has a high forehead and very cleaver. He looks like he can not stand or sit still, a very fast person. His nose is just right in size, thin lips, talk fast and very talkative. He can think faster than he talks, but once he start talking, he will talk non stop as if god has gifted him with that special talk machine mouth. He likes to cut his hair short and he is very athletic. He is a tall, slim and every movement of his is "Fast" or nearly call "Hyperactive". He has a long fingers and always tapping on table or moving his finger as if he is trying to grab something. He is the type who will write or scribble on paper, he never stay still. His hair always well comb or neat. He will spent a long time to comb his hair. He will keep his manicure and pedicure clean. He is a well dress and clean guy, so if you like cleanliness, you will love him. He will keep all his clothes in big closet, and never throw away even shirts he never wear any more, but yet he still keep buying new clothes and make sure he is in style.

He knows how to dress well even with a low budget. He get bored easily with his favorite clothes , cologne. He is very picky, so soap and his cologne even have to be in the same trend or same scent. If you date this kind of guy, you might think you are dating 2 guys, you will have to guess his feeling and emotion. Is he doing thing because it is a duty, or is it because he wants to? He change his mind as fast as he change a new pairs of shoes. He can pick up a book and roughly read through and understand it's contents, so if you see a Gemini man who reads the whole book, then he must be influenced by other Zodiac. He hate to set fix schedule, and dislike a boring same routine job. He could hardly be on time, and can only keep time if it is complete important and necessary. He does not come late because he forgets, but because he always find other attractions along the way. He likes to act opposite to what he wants to do. He is a very good speaker and make a very good politician. He can easily persuade other people and well presented himself in public, a real charmer. If he is a writer, he will write the best seller. He always search for truth and constantly study himself.

He never satisfy about his fame, his reputation or money, because he thinks he deserved more. He will keep searching even he is not sure what is his ultimate satisfaction. Woman in love normally wants to feel secure and stable, but if you fall in love with this guy be prepare to be alone. He will come to see you when he feels like it. He won't even know how he spent his days everyday, so adjust yourself if you love him. Dating him is like dating 2 guys, so today he can tell you how much he loves you, but tomorrow he might call you to cancel your date. When he upsets, he could tell you he hate your dress, even it is the same dress he used to tell you make you look very sexy. Do not ask him why he is that's way for he won't have any explanations too. When he is back to normal mood, he will take you out again and forget what just happened. You can not expect him to be the same person now, and forever. His changes will depend on you, for better or for worst. If you like to take risk and dare for challenges, you will get along with him fine. He keeps his emotional secretly as if hiding it, so you will not be able to see if he crazy in love with you, or does not give a damn at all, but be calm and patient. He will never leave you if he thinks you are a puzzle, then he will spent times solving this puzzle.

The bold ones i find very true. The unhighlighted ones, well, i'm not sure, they make me sound like a very lousy lover. haha. Am i really like that?