Pale Fire

Hi I've moved to trajicmagicq.livejournal ! Do re-add, people! :3

OK, now I'mma go make myself happy with a $5 promotional Subway meal with extra capsicums and chili.

How many people in your life can you truly say give a shit about you. How many do you give a shit about. I can talk to you about your day - but that doesn't mean I care for it. Point is, Cheryl's leaving for Australia and I don't know how long this will last ... People grow in and out of one another. Forever is but always a temporary moment. I wish we could all be neighbours and live beside each other so distance won't make us forgotten and strange. Then again, I also wish to be a farmer, dislocated from the world; living on my own vegetables from my own herb garden and having wine in my own vineyard with my dog yapping at my heels. I am ridiculous.

Anyway I've been Blogging mostly on Tumblr buttt ... I wish to return to LJ soon with a new URL! Need to think something kool katzzz 'cause 'jacplane' has been haunting me for too long. Till then please think about every annoying thing in your life right now and make a point to change it. If you can't, then stop complaining about it.

I think Marcus' formspring is quite interesting; I think I'mma brainstorm for a question. My virgin formspring question! The only thing I can think of is "why / how do you always wake at 7 AM?" Sorry, very uninteresting but it's honestly quite fascinating to me.

Hee hee anyway I don't understand how some people (not Marcus) create formspring and don't answer questions, but post them up anyway. Like, "sorry, won't be answering this" O.O then wtf do you post the question up for? & formsprings that ask people for their names "I will answer this if I know who you were", "who are you?" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA WTF GET A LIFE; you want people to spring all sorts of anonymous questions on you so you can feel like people actually give a shit about your deep dark private secrets or day-to-day happenings but you can't divulge them anyway in fear of the world judging you - so you decide a compromised solution whereby you post these questions up unanswered - after all, people can see that you get asked such questions (albeit unanswered). & then you wonder why your formspring is unpopular and you constantly hanker around for more questions. Sorry lah, sweetheart, like that how to become (in)famous?

What's up with all these Facebook university groups that people are joining that showcase "university characteristics", which they claim are exclusive only to their institution? You know you're a SMU student when you ... 1), 2), 3) & 4) ? Can anyone even put down a definition like that? OK, let's try it:

Let's take this FB group that some twit of a Joycie Koor created on Facebook:

You know you're a SMU student when ...

a) You've spent numerous weekends in school sprucing up that report, fluffing up that presentation ...

b) You've never stepped into a mall or any of the museums during the entire semester despite being located in the heart of the city.

c) Your insides crush to receive that B+ grade because the least you expect is an A.

d) You spend most of your waking hours on MSN/Skype/Facebook, especially the 'Overhead at SMU' page...

e) You feel like a zombie when it's barely midweek

f) All of the above & more!

I'm sorry, so what do the rest of us do? We sit in coffeeshops and stir coffee while watching Hokkien drama? For starters, practically 1 in 2 INDIVIDUALS (not even students) living in today's technology has MSN/Skype/Facebook and spends exorbitant amounts of time on these platforms while committing himself / herself to institutional websites - PM Lee's "Overhead at SMU" may be The Temasek Review, for all you know.

Let me try to put that definition Koor charmingly came up with under other more reasonable labels; I can fit the context of a), b), c), d), e) and f) into these labels:

1. Overworked mother:
2. Movie director
3. Man having an affair

1. Overworked mother:

a) You've spent numerous weekends at home cleaning the house

b) You've never stepped into a mall or any of the museums during the entire semester despite being located in the heart of the city (too much laundry, idiotic kids and lousy hours in a low-paying job)

c) Your insides crush to receive the news that your son / daughter has not received an A for a test, but B+ (curse that school - must be the over-achieving, very unique, very difficult school system)

d) You spend most of your waking hours on MSN/Skype/Facebook, especially the "Job Seeker" page

e) You feel like a zombie when it's barely midweek

2. Movie director:

a) You've spent numerous weekends working at the set

b) You've never stepped into a mall or any of the museums during the entire semester despite being located in the heart of the city

c) Your insides crush to receive the news that you received the second-best ratings

d) You spend most of your waking hours on MSN/Skype/Facebook, especially the "Movie Critique" page

e) You feel like a zombie when it's barely midweek

3. Man having affair

a) You've spent numerous weekends staying over at your mistress'

b) You've never stepped into a mall or any of the museums during the entire semester despite being located in the heart of the city (worried that someone familiar may bump into you)

c) Your insides crush to receive the news that your wife, having found out, rated your performance in bed a B+ instead of the expected A

d) You spend most of your waking hours on MSN/Skype/Facebook, especially the "Divorce Act" page

e) You feel like a zombie when it's barely midweek (no wife, mistress threatens to leave as and when she wants, kids fall out with you)

My point is these characteristics are representative of practically any individual. I have really good / best friends studying in schools like SMU, and it creates a bad name for them when certain students are tiring the fuck out of everybody by a) constantly talking about their school b) constantly FB-ing about their school. Seriously, get a life outside of this bubble of self-indulgence - you're just the same as everyone else doing this same shit.

(While) studying in ADM library:

I like it when my dorm's quiet except for the whirring of the fan; lights out except for the one at my table, and I have my iTunes playing comfortable music while I'm writing something on my laptop. By something I actually mean my résumé (I can't believe they typed it as "résumé" throughout the entire length of our notes) and not this LiveJournal post. Writing documents like that always makes me wonder why in the world I spent so much time on extra-curricular activities ever since I was a kid. It also makes me wonder where all my $ went after all my part-time jobs (which I call "professional experience" on my résumé). & I'm steadily getting irritated 'cause I don't have my certificates with me now and I've forgotten many official names and events - turning to Googling every few minutes. My (new) roommate's snoozing in one corner - speaking of which, I have to wake her up in about a minute. I spent $100 ++ today (yesterday) with Mir, Aretha and Anthea, while shopping for our costumes, so I have officially sworn off shopping for a while. This is steadily getting boring, linear and very annoying so I'mma go back to my boring, linear and very annoying-to-write résumé now.

I'm watching Finding Nemo and it's making me ridiculously happy. It coined my catch-phrase "grumpy gills" hee hee.


This was the sort of shit I was terrified of when I was a kid. I think I read too many of those learn-about-our-planet books. I was (am) also terrified of sharks. And those dark angles in a swimming pool. I swear I am hydrophobic.

Anyway, I badly want to get this but I know it's so impractical:

HI SPREE HERE.