referring to my schedule book / diary... in June it had the following:
1. caught Madagascar with Socks
2. nino's birthday on the 17th and he is 29 years old and i am still finding it hard to see him as a twenty nine because.... it just feels impossible lol. but anyway, i read some magazine interview of his and i was just very amazed at what he said (about acting)??? from his position as an actor, he talked about how some (young) actors talk about aiming to act their roles with 100%, which is pretty "common" in a sense, and perhaps also, "the correct attitude" to have. i mean not just in his context of acting but i think in life in general, we always kinda see that as the optimum way of thinking, right? but nino has this total opposite thinking, where he only wants to put in 2% in some scenes he acts, maybe 20% in another, because he wants the work to be 100% when we see it as a whole. and, quoting from the translation... "Even if we perform every scene with 100%, it does not necessarily mean that the impression after seeing the work will be 100% as well. So that's why I think what's important is not doing the utmost, but the ability to construct." ohmygah, i don't know man, maybe i'm really shallow (ha ha) but i just find that this thinking is so deep? i immediately think about it from our own view as a person living life, and realised how we're always trying not to waste time, always forcing (or not) ourselves to put in our greatest effort into doing something so that in the end we will get a satisfying result, so that in the end it will be (or look) perfect and impressive. but is that really what it is? because (seriously for god's sake), certain things in life shouldn't be viewed so seriously, because saying "i'm gonna put in 100% into this" is just bullcrap and lame because.. too much of something isn't always good, the more the merrier...sometimes it should be said as, "the more the merrier... ya, my ass". so what if we subtly know how to construct our life that at the end of it all, it's a 100% we can bring in to our graves?
.... ...... i have lost my train of thoughts at point 2 and hence, shall make an abrupt stop at move on to point 3
3. oh, Li Ning Open at indoor stadium! extremely looking forward to next year's when the (real) top seeds can make it since most of them skipped this year's due to olympics.
4. Sho came to sgp for nazodi movie filming and i am just incredibly, incredibly upset that i am not crazy enough to dump everything and head down to the filming sites to stalk him LOL. just kidding. aah but it was really quite tough to handle the disappointment as a very, very big fangirl (hahahahaha) knowing that he was only <300m away from my workplace at some point in time when the crew boarded the cruise docked at harbourfront.
took this when i was on my way to lunch that day. damn i should have sneaked in...somewhere. haha okay wtf.
5. Caught 'the amazing spiderman' (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
6. reading 'Freakonomics' by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. decided to buy it since it was on sale at hmv hehe. i am still reading it after a month... as you know, it's not a story, it's so factual and intellectual and a lot of statistics and analysis and blehblah blahblehblehblehblah so sometimes i just get very dizzy reading it even though it honestly can be very entertaining but i just get ya, so dizzy by the overwhelming lot of words so i just stop. i mean pause.
7. so, suddenly half a year is gone JUST LIKE THAT and we are entering THE SECOND HALF OF THE YEAR.
attended sim-uol's enrollment talk at the campus. it was my first ever visit to the school because my dad was the one who helped me with the submission of all the application documents previously, heh heh. the school is okay, i think i'll grow to like it a lot in time to come. just hoping that the next time i go back to school, i would not be asked REPEATEDLY by the group of young, excited students, "HI ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN???"
7 july was N's birthday! had our usual sat outing, walked through botanic gardens for 30 mins to have lunch at Food For Thought.
Bamboo trees are such mysterious beauty to me.
We were saying how awesome it would be if we could study in a glass box (because we want it to be air-conditioned and we want to see the outside lol) in the garden, surrounded by all these greenery... Sure top scorers. HA..HA..
@ Food For Thought - House Works: 12 dollars. aiyoh i love the bread. Bread is just delicious in any way it is.
(finally) ended my work at Canon on friday!!! it was quite a day to remember, never really thought leaving this temporary job could be so memorable. i always complain about how boring my job is, how annoying a few particular colleagues can be... they are still valid complaints. (haha) but all that aside, i did enjoy my time working at Canon. it was really a good experience because i headed right into Logistics/Supply Chain Management work, something so very unexpected as a temporary job since i thought i had applied to be a "admin assistant" doing data entry, scanning and photocopying and filing, i.e, brainless office work, and especially because i had absolutely no prior knowledge of logistics.
but anyway.
Oh, my desk is the empty one you see on the left? with the orange post its and a bottle? and no one sitting at the desk? Aha.
the entire division (lol okay 18 people only, not like 50 or smth) wrote in the card aaah so sweet (': the senior director drew a very odd kinda smiley face that looks like the face of a fox with freckles ( i am leaving this to your own imagination) beside his note ahaha it is just amusing the way adults write such stuff. but i am so touched by this card hehe (': (':
they stamped this at the back of the card hahahaha okay i think Canon really has a damn nice logo. did you know (of course you wouldn't know but), that there is a division in the company that specifically researches on our brand/logo. i don't know exactly what they do, but i am just imagining it to be: everyday, discussing if they should decrease the boldness of the letter, at how many degrees should the space in the O be angled at, how many mm should each letter be spaced at, at which level of intensity should the red be at............
enjoyed korean food at Ju Shin Jung restaurant they later brought me to after work, a pity we didn't order beef since a few of them don't eat beef........ but nonetheless, it was a good meal!!! and yay for treats! >:)
LOL idk why this photo comes out like this no matter how i rotate it. I couldn't take alllllll the dishes at all, it was too overwhelming. no wonder the restaurant needs 8 dish washers to wash the plates (lol yes, we asked)
whooop whooop i love bbq meat. oh that is seafood pancake and it's my favourite dish!!! (besides the meat HA) oh there's the saba fish at the left corner being cut away because i didn't really bother lol, but that was good too! hehe. oh but frankly, japanese food........... >>>>>>>>>>> korean food. yakiniku is famous and delicious too so... japanese don't lose out in bbq food. the side dishes of korean food (1st photo, all the small small dishes) are either too 1, cold; 2, sour; 3, spicy; 4, raw (ironically since i love sashimi) for my liking. there was this colddddd seaweed soup with VINEGAR, it tasted too odd it forced me to make the disgusted face (think chandler's sex face HAHAHA). at least i tried!!!
so there, cheers to the end of work at Canon (':
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met P & N today and we played bowling hahahaha. okay, technically and evidently, they were the ones that played. i literally contributed zero to my own score because my leg failed me in the day and blahblahblahdiasdineuihd i couldn't play ha ha. can you believe it, it's just bowling??? and i can't play??? because of my leg??? what is wrong with you, leg???? (anyway it's better now so it's not that crazy)
thai food dinner at Nakhon with the girlzzzz! >:D
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and i always want to talk about them................
singing for ntv's olympic's theme song again (': this one is so moving (''''':
Back then, while I was simply chasing after my dreams
I ran recklessly with my gaze fixed on this day
Believing I could go on forever That I could go anywhere
Pulling out the hidden courage from inside of myself Now, for this moment
The distant landscape that I made my vow to is still the same as ever
It's spread out in front of me here
I held a countless number of tears and bluffs in my arms
Carrying them by myself, I think I was aiming for the sky
Something that no one can reach , but certain that if it was with my hands, I could grab it
Continuing forever, anywhere Towards the dream that I'd always been drawing
Ah With power welling up inside and a heart that will overcome anything
I'll go to the next stage of this competition that seems so far away
Passing my limits, I'll give a shout of happiness
The scene that I'd been chasing after back then It's here now
english translation of japanese songs always make it sound so cheesy. but it's difficult to compose it into english proper, it kinda makes it lose the beauty of the language. (i like to use 'beauty' haha) i believe i am right and those who understand.....will agree with me.
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