Of pianos and poetry.

Oh wow, the title sounds so 温文尔雅 this time. If that's the correct adjective! I don't know an appropriate description in English though. D: Ahhhh flying catfishes save my GP! ... oh! I remember now, the word is genteel. But the meaning carries across much better in Chinese, doesn't it? :D

I figured I'd post since I'm back home before sunset for once, since Ching Yee and the interesting feeling in almost every part of my body convinced me not to bother with 8(?) flights of steps.

Well, piano pieces are really nice~ Except the music scores are damn hard to read, and consequently pianos are damn hard to play. D: Here's a little known fact: the piano was probably the first instrument I liked so much to ask for music lessons. Which explains the familiarity with piano pieces, maybe! -_- I can't think of any other reason why I would know the tune to so many pieces. ._. Actually, it still doesn't tally when I think about it. Hmm, mysterious.

Ah, I'm not kidding when I say someone has a calming influence. ._. Ching Yee and I were discussing this the other day, and we guessed it had something to do with being bochap? Hahaha, but wouldn't that mean the most bochap person I know should have that influence too? -cough-HW-COUGH- Or exert even more influence, for that matter. ._. Oh lookee, another mystery. ... honestly, I feel slightly bad for feeling better by stoning with people at black and white keys. ... ... ...I wonder if it bothers/disturbs/scares the other party. ._. Huh.

Oh right, the poetry bit. Firstly, I owe my poor tutor 6 pieces of lit homework. D: I promise I'll do it after this post! >< One of the assignments is to compose a response in the form of a poem (again). Well, at least writing poetry is more interesting than writing essays. And, uh, if you happen to be Ching or Sarah, I did mention I went a bit mad from studying during promo-period and so went and wrote a poem in a previous blog post, if you care to check. ._. Here it is anyway?

How would you define a Screwdriver?

I must confess and express,

To my distress, I'm impressed by how you're impeccable but always a mess.

You're completely oblivious, conscientious, meticulous, judicious, sacrilegious!

Responsible and unreliable, you endure that you're sure and insecure.

Equal parts quiet and reticent, insane and inane, oh dear, you are quite the pain.

But you amaze for you're a maze, safe and ensnaring, impassive, engaging, minute but binding.

It shouldn't be instinctive to find you distinctive, people believe; but you've a penchant to be inconclusive, sometimes explosive! They must be too dismissive.

Perhaps you're just cryptic, but maybe simply because you're simplistic.

Please grant me some apathy to your patience and empathy, it's all too subtly amusing, calming, confusing for the likes of - Screw this!

I apologise, beg you to spare me, and become conscious of your unconscious hold over my subconscious.

Or possibly not.

WELL THERE YOU GO. It's a terrible poem, really. I was happily experimenting with the sound of the words with the help of a thesaurus on a public bus. Seriously, on a bus, mind you! Frankly, promos mess with your head. UHH I RECKON I'LL CHANGE MY MIND AND TAKE IT DOWN SOON. D: It's not the best thing to plonk on the world wide web, really. (天啊我不清楚我到底在干嘛呀。)

Oh I seem to have chanced upon a spin-off of the 小妹妹变态 game Fan Yi plays in the app market.

Damn it I don't have anything else to ramble about. Uh, there's PE tomorrow and I might die! From remnant PT pain whee~

I shall leave this page before I die from hesitation, humiliation, procrastination or all three. Besides, now I need to find a box to hide in. ._.

Cup of milk. :D

Haha, it's what's sitting on my table at the moment. xD By the way, the thing about drinking more milk helping you to grow taller is rubbish. ._. Not like it's worked this past 5 years~ Uh, but still I only drink Meiji since it doesn't really taste like milk. Make any sense? No? Good for you. :D

Here's another thing that doesn't make sense~ Wushu people are still as cheapskate as ever! xD Whenever someone produces food (or the food is just sitting on a table) that costs nothing, everyone flocks there! Heheh Sarah said we're all like birds, since birds like to flock to food. :D

More things that don't make perfect sense include seaweed chocolate! ._. All chocolate at first, then you suddenly detect seaweed. I wonder whose brilliant idea it was to put seaweed into chocolate. o_o Even stranger still! It's not bad.

Oh, and going overseas to take pictures of good looking people doesn't make sense either. -COUGH- Neither does changing one's name the equivalent of your spouse! Not that poking people into standing next to each other does for that matter. - MORE COUGHING-

(Oh well, that's what the glass of milk is for, ain't it?)

Since we haven't left the topic of nonsense, Venus's flu is ridiculous! It's lasted since last week and hasn't gone away. D: Poor Bean, we should give her more nourishment/sunlight perhaps.

In retrospect, letting my sister infiltrate our school is nonsensical too. ._. I've been infected by the nonsense she's full of! o_o

Doing holiday homework before the holidays end is something that makes sense though! So that's what I'll do. ^^

...the meaning of life?

My dad says I've too much time on my hands. ._. Which results in me thinking too much. O: Well, I've kinda figured there is no meaning in life, really. Maybe it's just in human nature to like to find meaning in things. I like meaning, don't you? :D But many purposes and meanings were probably attached to things because someone out there was searching for a meaning where there wasn't one. o.o

Over-thinking things is probably bad for your health. Ahaha~ I mean, I only managed to win in reversi when I played with Pei An when I didn't think. Oh dear. There go all my battle plans down the drain. Anyway! You get the point. xD

Eh what other secret?! D: Sarah! How could you know of a secret I don't know myself? o_o And why're you so busy~? ._. It's so difficult to arrange an outing. -_-

Venus why are you not online. -_- I was going to sleep until you asked me to go online~ D:

Back to sleep.

It's not good to owe people things.

Or so I think! Therefore, I shall post even though it's 12.30 and I'm sleepy from training. ._.

Well, if you must know, I've been spending my days altering a pair of pants that my grandma cut to 3/4 length a long time ago. I suspect it was because they were either torn or growing mould. ._. Anyway! It's actually easy to alter pants into shorts, but that's only when you've a fully functioning sewing machine around~ My mum's 20-year-old sewing machine isn't exactly fully functioning. Imagine friction burn from pulling at thread? Ah, now you see. Y'know, this is how sewing gets frustrating.

Speaking of domestic things, I've been trying to cook udon too. My sister has had this obsession with kitsune cup noodles the past week or so, but they're really unhealthy. ._. So... I've been trying to cook the authentic version. ... ...which she rejected. D; GAH. It's interesting how no oil is used in the process. o_o まじで。Meh, challenge accepted to learn to cook udon that she will eat. -_-

Other than that, I've been trying to read sci-fi books! Only Bluey knows why. -_- (But I reckon I can review them for I&I since it deals with 'the human condition' in parallel universes.) So far, Dune's pretty interesting 40 pages in, but I've quite a long way to go. My dad recommends the Foundation series by Issac Asimov! He was telling me how nice it would be if a movie series was made out of it, 'cause it'd make the book a whole lot easier to understand. I offered to produce it if I ever had the money, but that's... unlikely. :D Never hurts to have nice ideas though!

Sorry if I don't sound coherent, but I am pretty sleepy. ><

Ohhh but Venus has transplanted back to Singapore and taken root! :D It's so fun to uproot her with 'plant references'. Oh, and lame jokes too. >D We must go for lunch soon so I can sprinkle her with more chagrin~

Cheng Yong's back too! Now I feel bad for being useless when I've no maps to refer to and having to get his dad to drop me off at an MRT station. D: Serious, I'll bring a street directory next time we've CC training. >< It's funny how I can read maps well but get lost anyway. o_o Ahaha oh actually I'm not really allowed to hitchhike all the way home, if not I'd have followed Jiahe. ._. My dad's logic is this: If other people's dad can send me home, my own dad should send me home. o.o Jiahe, if you were female it'd help with the issue too. ...huh. 'Cause my mum has an imagination similar to the Amazon rainforest. =_=

I spent Wednesday...? Oh! Out with Pei An and her CCA mates I don't know personally. ._. Ahahahaha. They were looking for badminton supplies! Did you know Daiso sold 2 rackets and a plastic shuttlecock? Which means each racket costs less than a dollar! O: Cheapskate~ :D I've also learnt the difference between guys' and girls' attitude towards shopping. ._. And that I'm just a patient guy in this case. o_O Her CCA mates were sighing and shaking their heads at how we could walk into shops, while I just stoned at the accessories, shoes, stationery she got excited about. Whoa, I realise we moved from Queensway to IMM to Clementi. Not bad, at least I feel less like a sloth.

I kinda need to go dry my hair. ._. Need both hands, so no more typing~

雨季了！

I just realised it's been raining every single day, without fail. o_o Reckon Singapore's drainage system is really not bad! x)

Oh dear, sorry Cheng Yong, didn't realise it was...6.50 am there. ._. I really I hope no one woke up or anything from the IM. D':

Bah, I really have nothing to say today.

Except maybe it being the rainy season means it's good weather to take a nap. ^^ But I can't unless I want insomnia. HMM this is a dilemma indeed.

Well, I'm off to weigh the pros and cons of sleeping then!

Since you left a tag, Sarah, I shall continue typing for a bit. xD

Oh right! The owl. ^^ Found the video~ :D

So very cute. xD

Ah.

Ehhhhh I'm being dao-ed by the only person online at this time. D: Didn't expect Cheng Yong to have internet access! o.o (But I've no idea what the time difference is~)

But I'm so boreddddd. Stuck in a room at my mum's workplace at the moment. ._. Pfffft.

Well, uh, Rurouni Kenshin is pretty interesting. It has the feel of an anime from a decade ago though! ... I s'pose that's a fact to begin with. o_o

And it goes like this.

I didn't have a good title in mind today, so I just stole a line from the radio. xD Eheheh.

Life is still either boring or unproductive! ._. People are still flying off one after another... -_- Susi's left for Indonesia, Pei An will be going home and Wai Yan's left for Vietnam so it seems? And Ching Yee will be going for OCIP in 2 weeks time. O: Ah, air travel.

Oh hey, the date was pretty cool yesterday! 20/11/2011. It might be more interesting than 11/11/11! o.o

I went to school for econs remedial on Friday (and didn't actually attend econs remedial -cough-) and realised I really need to revise! ._. I think everything left my head after promos. D: Oh, I ended up mugging econs with Yvonne, which was quite effective ahaha. :D

Sneaking into the SRC lab was fun too~ xD (I doubt I'm allowed to be in there huh, Ching.) The chemical fumes and the poisonous fridge are a good test for your immunity to such things. On the other hand, Ching Yee and Fan Yi chasing each other around with uncapped markers and chairs test your sanity! Well, I've to give credit to Zheng Xiang and the going about asking people to greet Men Quan in some (any!) kind of way too. xD Meow~

Training was strangely slack today. O: Maybe it's due to the absence of too many people! ._. But the idea of putting guys in purple biao yan fu? HAHAHA. But seriously, the colour doesn't really suit them. o_o I'd like to see them wear it for fun though!

Speaking of training, Jiaolian hasn't stopped trying to get me to ask Jiahe to let me hitch a ride home! 怎么能不不好意思呢？！D: 而且完全不关‘另外一个’的事，反而跟我老爸有关系咯！._____. And ahaha I don't know how to answer his ‘你住哪里？’~ I don't know how to describe where I live though I've lived in Queenstown for over a decade now. o.o Impossible, but true.

Oh. The thing on my shirt is really meant to be a penguin with spiked hair, it seems. -_- (Looks kinda like Bang Ying somehow! Hmm.) I think it's the cutest Sanrio character though, since it has an attitude problem and isn't pink or mouth-less! o_o

<---- It's called Badtz-Maru. ._.

Anyway, I feel retarded watching Bleach movies to amuse myself. >< Honestly, sleeping would be more productive, wouldn't it? Oh well.

Perhaps I should email Venus instead (provided I find her email address)~ :D