Thursday, June 24, 2004 0 comments Post a Comment I am still sick. Recovering. Doing pretty okay. Feeling bit tired and stuffed nose , that's all. Didn't manage to join the parade rehearsal today after all. Just sat at the holding area and waited (hated it) and waited for all of them to be done and come back. Was so freaking bored. And couldn't lie down and sleep cos all the phlegm in my lungs kept giving me a hard time. But oh well, i'm happy cos our ma'am gave all the parade ppl (which includes me) 1 day off on friday and a long weekend (which means no work on saturday)! And that's just great. So i can like rest and get this shitty illness out of my system and be in tip top condition for the actual SAF day parade nxt Thurs. (hehe~!) It's rather interesting to realise the disparity in the ways i viewed this parade rehearsal before and after the rehearsals started. I mentioned to quite a few ppl (complained, in fact) that i hated parade rehearsals, it was going to be super taxing, i would rather serve extra guard duty...etc etc. But now i'm jus dying to join each and every rehearsal. I'm jus easy to please but full of complaints. Adele's back! In a "Jiu3 Yang2 Da4 Ming2" kinda way, (long heard of its reputation) i finally got to hear Coldplay. Tried the 1st five songs of its Parachutes Album. Hmm. Not bad. I'm not really impressed tho. I prefer Damien Rice. I think the lead jus sounded exactly like the way i thought he would sound. haha, i dunno wat that means but yeah. But some of their musical 'ideas' aren't too bad. But i'm not a fan of repititive lyrics. And it ALL goes back to Tori Amos. AGAIN. (i can see paul's look) Whenever i try new english songs, it is unavoidable that i compare them to mydearTori and whenever i do, it is almost (how i hope for the contrary) impossible to compare. *and it all suddenly changes to torifanpage talk* (alright alright i will give Coldplay a few more chances to impress) As for Tori!! *grins* I MUST recommend "Talula" and "Caught A Lite Sneeze" from her "Boys From Pele" album. It's funny how JUS her "introductions" can create scenarios and graphics in my head. I could actually see women-screaming-blood-from-wrists-streetlights-flickering-myself-under-her-piano-keys-and-her-face-twisted-in-orgasm with her piano intro in "Carbon" (Scarlet's Walk Album). I know it sounds terribly twisted. But that's what tori's music does to me, she sort of releases all the trapped angst and suppressed ,deep perverse thoughts in me, and makes me face them and either accept or condemn them instead of hiding them away. Although alot of these emotions aroused by her music are probably self-conjured but i dun see many singers having that effect (or in fact, ANY effect) on me. So if from time to time, u feel that u're trapped inside, u feel u're not you, u feel suicidal or angry or silly or bored or sexy (i think Tori is really sexy. like i suddenly think Kylie is too) , jus go pick up a tori album. *** haha, we were having dinner talk just now. My brother's having his NSmen IPPT in July and he was jus lamenting that his 2.4 timing now was a embarrassing 15 plus min. And i was asking my dad his timing. Yi : Dad, u run how much last time? Dad: Can't remem la. But if u ask me to run now, if i complete it, i'll take... 25 min. Yi and Bro : hahahaha.. Dad: dat's if i complete it la, without walking, 25 min. Yi : haha, if it's mom, she'll take 50 min. *nudging at mum* Mom : Oi. Shit. wahhaha. i thot it was hilarious. the whole conversation was in mandarin except the last line when my mom ACTUALLY jus threw a "Shit" at me! haha. SO HILARIOUS. it's sorta like a comic version of " Shit You " and from my mom some more. keke. and later my dad was actually asking how i made a certain funny face. which was quite cute. cos he kept asking on and on how i made that face and he kept twisting his face in the attempt but jus couldn't. It's funny wat 50 years of age does to some ppl. And he kept insisting he can still do 20 situps. Wah lel. pls lor. his tummy, i mean ppl who saw mi dad before can SWEAR he can't do even one, and he jus kept saying he could. Finally Da Vinci Code is picking up its momentum. But cos i'm feeling drowsy, nth much sticks to my head, maybe i'll continue reading another day. Still lazy to pick up my pen to write. this ISN't good. I need discipline. Being sick is lousy. Can't run. Can't read. Can't write. Can eat tho. 6/24/2004 10:38:00 PM

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