Friday 261104

Had quite a pleasant morning. Forgot wut i was actually doing, juz know that it was a very slack morning. Decided to take half day off even tho it wud leave me with nothing in my off record, but in the end, staff maswan decided to give me half day off for helping kelvin chua to stand in as HQBO. wow~ Splendid~ i love you staff!!

came back home to get my singnet gift acknowledgement slip, and then rushed down to orchard to meet youwei and frens for lunch at NYDC. but, wa lao, there was quite a jam along PIE all the way to orchard. AND IT WAS A FREAKING FRIDAY AFTERNOON!! terrible. was trapped on the bus for almost an hour and was late. damn it. lunch was not bad. and come to tink of it, this meal was my second or third time having lunch wif alvin. yar... mmm...

went to lifestyle shop at specialist shopping centre to collect my new mp3 player! cool~~ so small, so light, and it had all the features of my old mp3 player, but with more space and more flexibility. i can control the EQ better wif this new mp3 player! yea yea yea~ now, kok wee, if u're reading this, i'm still not letting go of my old mp3 player if u're jus gonna stick wif paying me a miserable $20!!!

at night, went to Eden House (England embassy) together wif NAFA brass band to perform for their 100th anniversary of the building. wow~ i felt like an expat, socializing wif ppl in suits. then there's chio bus everywhere. (the event-in-charge resembled Celine Dion! a prettier ver some more!! haha~) played quite a number of songs which all sounded not bad, starting to like brass band music too. we even played the English national anthem for the arrival of Prince Edwards (whoever he is).

enjoyable day. very enjoyable one indeed.

Saturday 271104

woke up at 12 noon. gosh~ i actualli slept till that late? had a brief brunch before going down to kim seng. was late *again*, *ops*. the legendary Mr Ng Hok Kin came and i was playing together wif him. apparently a lot of ppl respected him and i was quite pressurized. but he was very courteous and very un-snobbish (if there was ever such a word) and encouraged me to play all the higher parts. wow~ he was really very nice. hope he comes down more often. :)

met up wif zhengqi for dinner. had no money so i had to borrow money wif him to have a simple BK meal. decided to go down to orchard to waste time, and met zhengyi, christine and gang who are on their way to jay chou's concert. wa, our class really have yuan2 fen4, no matter where i go, i sure will meet any of my classmates. haha~

crapped wif zhengqi all the way, kinda felt quite sad in the end that i cudnt really meet up wif a lot of my other classmates. really missed them. sighz. wished i got the time to organize something like a lunch or dinner in december.

met up wif thomas late at night to have a drink at kopitiam and chit-chat. gossiped quite a lot abt his frens.

another enjoyable day. wow~

Sunday 281104

almost woke up late, and pulled my mum out of the house to make her watch The Incredibles. it's my second time watchin' the show, but i know if i dun accompany her to watch, she wun watch anymore. but she cannot not watch this show sia! it's too good to miss! haha~ even tho it's my second watching, i still enjoyed it a lot! the movie is juz so sincere and so true to the hearts of ppl. whenever i watch the scenes of bob being so helpless working in the insurance company, i sympathize him and yet felt it's not so unreal after all.

pulled mum down to SITEX at expo. haha~ weird hor? oh wells, we had nothin' to do anyway. keke. browsed for things i need to buy for my new comp next year, took a lot of price lists (even tho i'm not buying a single thing). felt quite shiok la~ it's like window shopping without windows... er... ya... *roll eyes* whatever. u get the idea eh? haha...

another enjoyable day. wuhoo~

'tis-the-season-to-be-jolly,
Johnzzon

 

okiez, 'tis the season to be jolly! it's the holidays. it's the perfect time for the distributors of movies to showcase their movies and hope to earn big bucks. but which movie should we watch? which movie is worth our $8.50 seriously?



just watched a trailer to the movie "National Treasure". to be frank, i was definitely attracted to the poster by the small print right above Nicholas Cage's name: "From the Producers of 'Pirates of the Caribbean'". but so wut, the producers have also produced a lousy un-interesting movie "King Arthur". but the trailer kicked ass man~ definitely. the story goes like this: Modern treasure hunters, led by an archaeologist, Ben Franklin Gates (Nicholas Cage), who is the eighth descendant in a family all searching for the same thing: a massive war chest treasure reportedly hidden by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin as funds for the Revolutionary War, using a secret code found in the Constitution (and a map that might have been drawn on the back of the Declaration of Independence) to find its location.

it felt like reading "The Da Vinci Code" all above again. codes left in actual monuments, secrets left behind by people from our history books. heck, it might be based upon actual rumours of the treasure. with all the hype about "The Da Vinci Code" and the movie basing upon this book to be released later, "National Treasure" is definitely one of the appetizing movie to watch before that movie is being released. ;)

 

Marco se n´è andato e non ritorna più
e il treno delle 7:30 senza lui
È un cuore di metallo senza l´anima
nel freddo del matino grigio di città...

A scuola il banco è vuoto, Marco è dentro me,
è dolce il suo respiro fra i pensieri miei
Distanze enormi sembrano dividerci
ma il cuore batte forte dentro me...

Chissà se tu mi penserai se con i tuoi non parli mai
Se ti nascondi come me sfuggi gli sguardi e te ne stai...
Rinchiuso in camera e non vuoi mangiare
Stringi forte al te il cuscino piangi non lo sai
Quantro altro male ti farà la solitudine...

Marco nel mio diario ho una fotografia
hai gli occhi di bambino un poco timido
La stringo forte al cuore e sento che
ci sei fra i compiti d´inglese e mathematica...

Tuo padre e i suoi consigli che monotonia
lui con il suo lavoro ti ha portato via
Di certo il tuo parere non l´ha chiesto mai
ha detto "un giorno tu mi capirai"...

Se con gli amici parlerai
per non soffrire più per me ma non è facile lo sai...

A scuola non ne posso più e i pommeriggi senza te
Studiare è inutile tutte le idee si affollano su te
Non è possibile dividere la vita di noi due
Ti prego aspettami amore mio ma illuderti non so

La solitudine fra noi, questo silenzio dentro me
È l´inquietudine di vivere la vita senza te
Ti prego aspettami perché non posso stare senza te
Non è possibile dividere la storia di noi due...

PS. for the next 4 days, my handphone will be off, i wun be coming online and i would not be socialising with anyone. shall not be in town la~ haha~ solitude life is so hard to get nowadays. keke. if u wan to contact me urgently, do call my house... dun know for wut, but... heck... haha~ ;)

 

There was a lot of things that i needed to buy, so planned this day to be kind of like a buying trip (dun mistake it as my shopping trip.) was tinking of going to sim lim and get my stuff and back home to pack my things, but in the end, spent the whole day outside wif frens and turning the day into a shopping trip. it was very fun tho, hadnt really been doing this kind of shopping. haha~

ok ok, some of u may be confused with why i say buying trip is not a shopping trip. Buying trip is kind of like a planned trip, u planned to buy this and that and this and that. and the things u buy are more of necessities than anything else. wheareas, shopping trip is kind of like, hey i dun noe wut i wanna buy, and i'm jus going to go here and there and look at things and spent money on luxurious items that i find nice on the spot. (yes yes, i can see u twitch ur eye and going "riiiight", but that's how i live my life... muahaha~)

so so, wut did i do? woke up in the morning at around 10:30pm. remembered yanhui said he wanted to meet after lunch, so did my usual computer routine stuff, tried to arrange a song (but had no inspiration and was in no mood). din know he changed his plan becos of someone, and wasnt informed that we (three of us) were supposed to meet for lunch. had my lunch, called him, den found out he's alone in bugis. rushed down to bugis to meet him.

then, we proceeded to sim lim to get our stuff. tink yanhui wasnt really in the mood, kept complaining of a headache and din wan to get panadols. he din even want to bother abt comparing prices!! gosh~ that's a first. i was quite shocked. in the end, we roamed like only three shops before deciding on which shop to get our stuff. *ker-ching* $39 + $15 = $54 gone from my wallet.

chilled out briefly at TCC near Beldin's school. den everything was ok liao before we proceeded to borders at orchard to check out a book. hongguan messaged to say he'll be meeting us at 7. and it was only 5. argh~ so justin and i decided to watch movie. but din know wut movie to watch. decided to settle with The Incredibles. but it was a midnight movie. argh, heck it, we'll watch it anyway. we slowly (literally) made our way down to cineleisure (from borders!) and got our tickets (messaged kok wee along the way and he said he'll be joining us for the movie). *ker-ching* $8.50 gone from my wallet.

roamed aimlessly around the 2 parts of the golden triangle of orchard (ie Cineleisure + Heerens), got tempted to buy the t-shirt i longed to get for the past 2 months. *ker-ching* $29.00 gone from my wallet. argh~~ *pull hair in frantic* but, yar, din regret buying it at all! i love it so much~ the doggie is soooo cute~ haha. like me. er... ok ok, dun puke.

once again got tempted to buy, courtesy of efforts of mr justin yeo yanhui. Christina Aguilera Live in UK dvd. HMV was playing it and both of us were quite blown away by her performance. woah~ but but... cannot! argh... $25.95! ooo, that's cheap for a dvd. but but... *control control* cannot!! *breathe in breathe out* ok ok, it's code 2, my dvd player cannot read..... *phew*

hongguan came and we settled our lunch at the weird wanton noodles stall in the middle of annex........ YESH, IN THE MIDDLE OF ANNEX!! weird right. and they're using... *drum roll* GONG JI WAN (traditional bowls with prints of rooster on them)!! woah~ so cool. so fu4 gu3 (shant say 'retro'). and it was damn nice. or is it because three of us were hungry. haha~ heck, i tink it's nice. Full Stop! keke. *ker-ching* $2.80 + $1.50 = $4.30 gone from my wallet. mm.. this amount is still ok.

chilled out at Coffee Club outside the Cali Fitness Gym. had my favourite Camomile tea. (Coffee Club termed the tea "Camomile Blossoms"!. so nice... haha~) all three of us chatted (did we? *tink*) and played wif my camera there. tried to plan wut we're supposed to doing, but too lazy to do so. so heck it la~ haha... *ker-ching* $6.30 gone. camera ran out of batt, so went to get batteries. *ker-ching* another $5.50 gone.

after that, three of us roamed the whole orchard. walked from heerens to orchard mrt, enjoying the busking activities. quite fun to be watching them. there were ppl crowding around each busker, very difficult not to spot any one. haha~

"chilled" out *again* at macdonald's at lucky plaza. *ker-ching* $3.65 gone.

hongguan had to go cos he's not watching The Incredibles. met kok wee at paragon. watched the movie. so much more enjoyable than Shark's Tale. it's more original, and the beginning of the movie (after the 15 years part) was very different from the usual adventurous pixar movie. tho it wasnt as touching as Finding Nemo, but the lines were more cheeky and it was more fun. The Incredibles felt closer to reality too and the voicing by the actors were near to perfect (especially for Edna's character, voiced by the director Brad Bird himself. "daar-ling~~")

after the movie, was pretty tired and came back home. dozed off quite quickly. haha~ spent so much money, and so much energy. *yarnz*~

i'm-leaving-on-a-er.....-coach-bus,
Johnzzon

 

* 咕噜咕噜叫 咕噜咕噜叫 咕噜咕噜叫
咕噜咕噜叫 咕噜咕噜叫 咕噜咕噜叫
不要变成一只鸡 好不好 (*2)

我家的屋顶 住着一只公鸡
一大早就啼 不是叫人早起
鸡眼睛瞇瞇 臭屁的要命
一直啰哩八唆炫耀毛之类的东西

自以为得意 走路也要 Looking
我等着看你 有天跩到抽筋
看不起别人 也瞧瞧自己
还真的是目中无人的鸡

# 你的举动能不能不要 太骄傲
你的尾椎能不能不要 翘太高
你的心眼能不能不要 那么小
你的嘴巴能不能不要 那么吵

咕噜咕噜叫 咕噜咕噜叫 咕噜咕噜叫
咕噜咕噜叫 咕噜咕噜叫 咕噜咕噜叫
我就快被搞到受不了
咕噜咕噜叫 咕噜咕噜叫 咕噜咕噜叫
咕噜咕噜叫 咕噜咕噜叫 咕噜咕噜叫
你这只永远都不会飞的鸟

我家的隔壁 听说也有只鸡
隔壁的隔壁 听说有2只鸡
干脆组个团 叫物以类鸡
省得比较自己屁股跟了几只小鸡

一肚子妙计 围在一起算计
满脑子心机 围在一起谈心
把人当白痴 还要我相信
说什么人话 你是我兄弟

Repeat * #

 

oh wells, had a stressful driving lesson jus now. almost met with an accident half way through my lesson, and my concentration was jus lost for the remaining 45 minutes of the lesson. kept forgetting to do this and that, and mr leow was rather pissed off. when i released clutch too early during a change of gear (that would result in the car violently jerking momentarily), i was like "argh~" and mr leow said a discouraging "nothing is surprising coming from u anymore~". argh~ i never felt that bad thru-out my whole driving course b4. almost wanted to say "mr leow, can we stop the lesson for the day~?"

had had an accident-prone week. HQBO was terrible yesterday. warrant goh had to call twice to check on things. 2LT in No.4 attire had to appear. i had to shout into the duty bunk's faulty phone to demand whoever on the other line to TALK LOUDER (the attempt never succeeded).

finally, my break has come. hopefully by the end of this long break, i will be more refreshed and energized and more... 'good-luck'ed. no more torments for me anymore. ANYMORE!

trying to complete at least three songs for the december workshop. two slow songs and one fast songs. apparently, songs i wrote nowadays sound more commercialised. good thing or bad? well, dun noe la~ i jus prayed to get my first song sold asap.

had been buying a lot of cds nowadays. 01: Sun Yanzi's Stefanie 02: Wu Yue Tian's Shen De Hai Zi Du Zai Tiao Wu (loosely translated as God's Children Are All Dancing) 03: take in a deep breath Britney Spear's Greatest Hits My Prerogative!! my... bought it on impulse. but, oh wells, i kinda enjoyed cheesy cutey songs once in a while anyway. MUAHAHA~

wut else to say. mm... to johnson zhang: dun tink too much~! haha~

bleh-blah-boo-ops-i-did-it-again,
Johnzzon

 

wow, i shud start a bitching club.

had been talking abt the person (i've been so wanting to complain abt) to quite a number of ppl recently. it actualli felt much better after making my first complain. the subsequent complains were specially requested by ppl who were overheard the first complain and wanted to know more.

and one of the complains, i told everything. totally everything. wow~ it's like a very huge burden finally let off from my mind.

it cud be selfish on my part to be backstabbing behind my back. it cud be immoral. but has he ever really treated and thought abt how i wud feel even tho he claimed to his friends i am still one of his friends?

to him, i wud jus say: i'm jus too tired of waiting for u to be in the right mood so that i cud talk to u as a friend. now i jus wanna talk to u because i need to. full stop.

~
secrets were exposed and revealed, gossips were forming and spreading every second. it's so amazing that gossips like me falling out wif somebody were formed. anneson, alvin, kok wee, and the list goes on and on~

~
beldin is due for reservist this week, so i cud sort of take a break from worrying abt his school.

~
gonna be taking my driving test very soon~ ppl who's awaiting for my license and my car, hopefully i wun disappoint u all, but i seriously doubt so. *worried*

tinking of forming a supper gang to go out for supper every saturday night once i get my car and license. MUAHAHA~ now that owning a car is more affordable, my mum did not seem to object abt getting a car when dad and i talked abt it over dinner. yea~

~
btw, bought stefanie, listened to stefanie, got slightly disappointed by her. but surprise surprise, i'm still quite hooked to her cd due to quite a number of fast numbers in her album and the highly addictive and karaoke-friendly Wo3 De4 Ai4.

~
i like instant mee gorent (dry). without chilli powder that is.

~
going for my driving lesson later. so cold~ *shiver*

have-been-tinking-a-lot,
Johnzzon

 

Stayed in very frequently for the past one week, and through this one week, i had been allowing my mind to settle down on things i've been trying to avoid, mostly matters that i did not want my mood to be influenced by. friendship matters, career matters, etc.

Had been talking to a lot of ppl i normally do not really talk to, even those that were condemned by some of my bunkmates. it felt different talking to them, like all of a sudden, the reasons why i disliked them weren't really there anymore. pretty interesting, 'cause i have never known myself as such an open person. (some close friends wud hear the statement "i can forgive, but i would not forget" from me quite often.)

but sometimes, i can't help but feel quite lost and weird, especially to the fact that i seem to be hanging out wif band b guys quite often nowadays, like i feel more comfortable and at ease with them. yanhui, yongxiang, pee, glenn, aloysius, soon wei, alec, zhengguo, and the ord-ed zhenqiang are the ppl that i wud greet so sincerely everytime i see them.

when did this happen?

if it was just the combined concert, i most prob will only know aloysius and soon wei better 'cause they played the euphonium too.

if it was just because of yanhui and anneson, i wudnt really be feeling so good around these band b ppl oso. (i'll just feel like an awkward outsider and intruder)

perhaps it was practice room number 18. for most ppl i know from band b.

when my conceptual orgasm comes along, i wud always get myself practice room 18 and allow my mind to work to its full max in the little room with a piano inside. pencil scribbles, erasing noises will be the interlude music to the ever repeating riffs and melodies i wud play on the piano.

during this time, band a ppl dun like to stay around me. till this date, i've yet to find out why. perhaps they tink i was trying to show off or something; perhaps they tink they shudnt disturb me; perhaps they tink i might get angry. wutever.

but whenever i am in room 18, ppl from band b will pop by and jus stay there and listen, helping me out whenever i go crazy and scream my lungs out. zhenqiang, soon wei, yongxiang used to be the ppl there. recently the band b personnels that got themselves into my room 18 visitor list includes alec and zhengguo. interesting how friendships are just started like that.

it felt good to be able to make friends wif ppl jus like that, it's like a no-stress environment, and ppl jus come and go. the movie 2046 suddenly comes to mind, but this is quite a bit out of point. nevertheless, i guess i truly treasure this kind of feeling, and may the feeling of happiness stay wif me all the way till i ord.

had-been-tinking-a-lot,
Johnzzon