statics quiz today...

dam, i knew i shouldn't have ignore the kids doing flag day this morn...

karma..

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally wornout and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride !" :o)

got this from some Health Q & A thingy. it was a email circulating around, whole lot of crap b4 that but this last part kind of makes some sense...

Am i supposed to say, "life in uni is supposed to be like that." when i wasted another hour trying to learn something only to come of the classroom feeling that i've gained nothing? What's the pt of you being a prof when, wk after wk, you just don't seemed to be bothered by the fact that your students never understood what you were teaching. We can't read with super-sonic speed. especially when we were buzy trying to decipher what you are trying to say. We can't read your minuscule handwriting. Quit removing the OHP slides after flashing it for that few seconds. We don't get enlightened everytime you say,"don't worry.. don't worry.." And everytime you ask if there's any probs, obviously there alot of probs, stop ignoring that fact. And for goodness sake, "interactive" doesn't mean us showing you our blur faces and you reading our blur faces...

hai... life in uni is supposed to be like tt..

um did i miss sth? haven't been watching the news lately... today, late for school as usual, i boarded bus 156 and i was totally stunned.. white-coloured leather cushions, the ceilings and everything red and padded.. the interior was like a make-shift bar/club.. apparently they were trying to create that effect.. groovy ! ^^ *

purple rose~

went for a play, title 爱恨 by CAC Voices. directed by shunjie... nt bad nt bad, got to hear more than 30 greats songs.. the setting was the 1960s, the lead actresses called themselves 莫丽姐妹花 and the one of the lead actor adopted a the name 英俊... ha, so overall it was pretty hilarious.. and we get to choose the ending via sms.. how cool is tt ^^*.

zi pai~

shun jie's moment...

CHEEROBICS 2007... went to support biyi for her cheering competition... tho nus din win, but during the competition itself, there were alot of moments which rang4 wo3 men2 kan sha2 yan3, zai jie zai li, nus!!.. woa seh, the flyers still gt swing-here-swing-der macham tarzan and jane.. or in this case, jane and jane,.
ha, its' really interesting to watch cheer leaders., they are always bouncing, literally... after the whole thing they shuang shuang they will start lifting and throwing each other... um... their way of expressing their high-ness ba...

oh ya, after tt, another lame show-"300". 300 beefcakes. 2 hrs of brutal slaughtering. kua-zhang to the max.

back together~

Tifa's theme...

okie it sucked.. but still working on it...

failed to upload our recording of "Soaring over the Ridges" cos of the huge file size... oni managed to upload our encore piece cos the size is lik how small.. anyway those who wish to download "Soaring...", here's the link. .. um... i dun think we sound too gd in the recording xp.

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the legend.

the bonding factor...

...tt held me back...

phibs & me ...Lifei dancing?
haha, joanna's lik how cute... dear SL and me...magnificant pirated alps...

tin tin^^*

tuning before show time...plain clownish...
dressing rm... guy's dressing rm... um y's lifei in here... * me grabing a last min bite*

another family
papa kangeroo & ... yups... i dun wanna kena wack by a spannar.. hahaha.. n the popular bear which lots of people wanna tak foto w..
kl & mua...
me and joanna's cousin lolx.

... and special tks to qiujie for being there, spiritually, and would hav otherwise joined me tt night if his plane could just fly abit more faster ^^*

i had alot of mixed feelings tonight, tho im not one of those graduating ones, but jus tonight, i had alot of mixed feelings. maybi to those who were having this as their last concert might want it to last forever, to me, i guess it's the right time to take a break.

everything went well, the music and everything, but i realised that it doesn't really matter whether or not poema sounded impressive, whether it sounded musically nice, i dun care. but wat i do care, is whether my friends came, even if they don't normally appreciate music. wat i do care is whether my family understands why i've been spending so much time in school at night. what i do care, is more of the people around me than the music i play.

ive been asking myself if i should stay on for the next sem. Sure, there're people who offended me and all sorts of reasons why i thought staying on isn't such a good idea.. say that im childish or whatever i dun care, when im offended, i'll never forget. when im hurt, im hurt, that's jus me, period. but tonight, what i also realise was that sometimes i get the feeling that im bonded. sometimes, in an unfamilar surrounding, i do get a unexpected sense of familiarity. but there are times when im with people i noe, but i just felt that i shouldnt be there and i wanted to be detached... maybi, that's why, i thought a break would do me good. so that i can think things though.

Nonetheless, i really appreciate those who came tonight. Kanglin, Lionel, Khoonz, Jasper, Biyi, Shiyun, Gavin, Edi, Jeanette, Aiyun, Wyemun, Junlin, Tsinli, May, my army frenz, and my family... it's really great to hav u guys with me tonight. and to those who gave me "spiritual" support de.. oh Gaias, i luv the mr bean bear, tks ^^*will probably hug it to sleep tonight.. ha n phoebe, tks for ur card. u r probably the zillionth person describing me as an apparent-quiet-but-actually-very-crappy kind of person. and others who prob wun read my blog so, oh well..

will upload pix the nx time.

they always say, over-stretch a rubber band and it snaps... i feel like one. not that im about to snap, i just feel overstretched... not that im really tied down with work, but i just kind of tire myself out with all the worries that i kept my mind preoccupied with for the entire week. partly because of the anticipation for the upcoming performance .. datelines for my ctw first draft and my ss project are just round the corner.. hasn't been much of a progress, we are kind of stuck, every now and then we'd encounter problems which probes us into asking ourselves whether we are heading the right direction... if im a rubber band, im one which has been stretched pass the yielding pt, not elastic le. (pardon me for the engineering terms). argh, this week is so full of sleepless nights... every morning i wake up feeling more shitty then ever... some how some point in time, im pretty certain that i'd end up in the right direction.. but right now im jus lost, plain lost.. maybe there just too many things to juggle, then i just momentarily lose track... kind of like a mental block, everything just blanks out... normally when i type one big chunk of words without paragraphing... you know it's just meaningless rants which you can just ignore...to me right now studies is nothing, it's everything else that matters.

there he sat, hugging his knees to his chest...
there he sat, after silent protest...

there he sat, at the centre of the universe...
there he sat, without a real purpose...

there he sat, waitin'...
there he sat, for a world to cave in...

aiya, phoebe, how? i sold so many le... muhahaha^^*

y my notes always become like tt?

m. hamz.

o...k... so 12 days b4 D-Day, we changed our stand. im having a headache.. arghhhhh i cant believe ive to pia 2 proj, i hav 4 band pract b4 sun's performance, i hav a quiz on tues, i hav to do my ctw...

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homo friend asked me why i ignored and bo chap him... im not trying to discriminate. i thot i could be quite open-minded when it comes to making new friends, but... i guess im jus lying to myself.

i hate no responses.. no response from com. no response from my grp proj mates.

freakin' hell. they better have a good reason for not responding me. isn't it supposed to be a group project? why the hell do i always end up doing solo? less then 2 wks left... don't they know?

im tired of trying to coordinate and then end up running the show alone... next sem, no more projects for me.

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felt as if i was practicing my crapping skills... commenting on God-hanan's web material, when i only completed 25% of it...

shit. did i jus delete an unsaved document i spent hours typing?
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ARRRRGGGHHHH!!!
STUPID U STUPID U!!

Hard Candy...

nice.

haiz, for some reason my com refuses to let me post pictures, and it's such a hazzle to go over to my bro's room to use his com wheneva i wana post some meaningless shots...

my belated belated belated b'day card from Gaia. oh, Gav card-napped my bday card and decide to return to me 4 months after my bday.... okie, im obsessed with it. but der's improvement lolx.dear deers~*

... the bad thing about og t-shirts is... you never know when another guy in ur og will wear it on the same day as you, labelling the both of you as another Brokeback couple....

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yea, aced my ss field trip exercise... but bonus credit only, oh well...

haiz, band practs are taking abit too much of my time...

one week.

till it all happens.

guess i contributed quite abit to deforestation today... used up 4 packets of tissue today, 2 of which was from jasmine and tsinli.. during lab, 3hrs under the air con duct almost killed me...

feel dam sick...

Not everyone, is meant to do great things.

Having put up a brave front everywhere you go, have you for once just feel like breaking down? when everything just falls apart?

i dun noe. right now i wish for a break.
A break from my family.
A break from friends.
A break from school.
A break from everything.

if only there's a place, that solely belongs to me. where there's no one else, where i wouldn't be afraid that anyone could see, so that i can just cry my lungs out. or maybi jus scream at the god damn ocean. for no reason. just to make myself feel better. nothing's gonna change tho.

i wish to let my guard down for once.

have you once told urself, "you're weak! and so be it."

im just too human to thrive in this world...

My japanese name is 猿渡 Saruwatari (monkey on a crossing bridge) 雄大 Masahiro (big hero).
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got this frm phoebe's blog... im bored, can? haha, last time there's this mobile service that translates ur name to a jap one, they even take note of ur birth date and stuff... then i was told that mine was tetsuya kuniyo... those asking y i use "kuniyo1111" as my user name, now u noe. yup, and now i got a cooler one... saruwatari masahiro...

um.. but monkey + hero = sun wu kong ? haha, maybi it's my destiny ^^*

"mm... so you guys are saying tt 50 yrs down the road, you will be campaighing against the tearing down of vivo city?..."

omg.... we got a very sweet canadian SS relief teacher. i seldom say dis de lo... her lesson was so engaging^^*

"oh, um.. im from NJ."

"Huh?!"

"im from NJ"

"Huh?!"

"im from NJ, NJ, NJ."

"Huh?! Huh?! Huh!!!...."

ha, had a brief chat with joshua and tt cow-bell gal from percussion.. ha, oh, they were from nj as well, hence the reaction. and joshua happens to cheewei's and meilin's classmate back in our jc times.. meaning to say if i'd chosen band as my cca back then , we'd hav met one another... ha it's amazing how fate/chance/coincidence brings people together..

Probably more than five years ago. Back in Commonwealth. A Simple Senerade- a modest name given for our first concert. Every detail still vivid in my mind. I still kept the ticket. the programme booklet printed on the pink construction paper, tied together with purple rice paper with a silver tread. Every song we played. The reason for which we were scolded that day. Even the type of chairs we had, i remember them clearly... I don't recall other performances we had, but the first one really meant alot. To me. And now, i forgot the reason why im back here again.

yesterday i had my long-dreaded one-to-one session with gao jian. i dunno, maybi cos im afraid to heard from someone, saying that im not cut out to be a musician, that maybi this isn't a route suited for me. And that night i heard it. Not that he said some crude stuf to me, but just implying that i had to start from scratch and that i still had a long way to go. im tired. i don't want to go a long way.

this concert, does mean something to me, though it didn't started off with me putting in all my heart and soul into it, especiallly during the first few practs this sem when i still couldn;t decide whether to leave or stay. This concert does mean something. Who knows, it might be my last., i realli hav no idea.

Ha, but, it's really comforting to know tt there are people here, who really managed to touch me, not literally of cus, but they let me feel that maybi i really want to be here. gee, i wonder if it's a gd thing.