listening to snow patrol makes me sad

:(

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Make This Go On Forever

Please don't let this turn into something it's not
I can only give you everything I've got
I can't be as sorry as you think I should
But I still love you more than anyone else could

All that I keep thinking throughout this whole flight
Is it could take my whole damn life to make this right
This splintered mast I'm holding on won't save me long
Because I know fine well that what I did was wrong

The last girl and the last reason to make this last for as long as I could
The first kiss and the first time that I felt connected to anything
The weight of water, the way you taught me to look past everything I had ever learned
The final word in the final sentence you ever uttered to me was love

We have got through so much worse than this before
What's so different this time that you can't ignore
You say it is much more than just my last mistake
And we should spend some time apart for both our sakes

The last girl and the last reason to make this last for as long as I could
The first kiss and the first time that I felt connected to anything
The weight of water, the way you taught me to look past everything I had ever learned
The final word in the final sentence you ever uttered to me was love

And I don't know where to look
My words just break and melt
Please just save me from this darkness

the bourne ultimatum...

was friggin' AWESOME!!! O_O

and so are the first 8 songs in Snow Patrol's 'Eyes Open' album.

*satisfied*

sesame street never had my attention but...

Which Sesame Street Character Are You?
	You are part Big Bird. You are something of an eccentric, and not everyone always gives you credit for your inventiveness and intelligence. You may not always know everything, but people turn to you for your sound, unique logic. Plus, you have a big heart. Really big.
	You are part Cookie Monster. You are a glutton. You often make attempts at controlling yourself, but why stop yourself from getting what you really want? Cookies. Inside, you are sensitive and vulnerable and it just may be the source of your problems.
Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com

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why is it always a tie???

Which Disney Princess Are You?
	You are part Jasmine. You are loyal and would visit the ends of the earth for what you believe. You would never let obstacles stand in the way of true love.
	You are part Ariel. You are beautiful but impaired. At times you are naïve. Still, your innocence and good heart make you sought after and loved.
Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com

honey bunnie

the girls and i walked into Accessorize at Raffles City yesterday.

like we were in secondary school, mel and i were pulling on hat after hat just to try them on for fun, but this time, we are 10 years (egads!) older and with expendable income. (xinwei and angel were preoccupied with sunglasses.)

then i lay my eyes on...

^$*#@&%#bunny earmuffs!!!^$*^$#&%@

they were so very cute!! like a moth to a flame, i couldn't help but grab them (oh, good fur, i like) and pull them onto my head...

TA-DA!!!



yes, i bought them.

for $19.90 a piece, they were WAY OUT OF MY BUDGET (yeah, u know the kind of budget that everyone has that's called 'budget-for-retarded-items-that-i-buy-for-fun-but-may-never-wear/use')

... i couldn't help it! when something cute calls out to you, u grab! it's very simple!

and i knew if i slept on it, i probably will not be able to sleep and will just go down the next day to get it... so why not?

and at least the girls were all squealing that it was cute, and didn't give me the 'wah lau eh viv!' look.

this is how it looks like. it's really kinda spastic and useless... but it's too cute la, i cannot resist. (like how i react to alvin when he gives me puppy-dog eyes. so unfair!!)

no one really wins.

i heard this first when Copeland came around to sg and i'm not sure if they sang it during the glasshouse performance (sunday)? maybe they did?

but the acoustic version (monday) really caught my attention. aaron marsh's voice is so smooth and buttery, and the lyrics just stopped my heart.

i was so into the song that when i got home i kept trying to look for it from the Copeland albums alvin passed to me... and it took me SO LONG because i really didn't expect the original to sound so... RAW. so i just kept skipping past it, coz when i heard the beginning i just brushed it off, hahaha.

but the original version really grew on me, even though it sounded so unpolished. at first i thought, well, maybe it's their first (few?) album(s) so maybe that's why they sound so unprocessed?

but listen to the 2nd chorus, the sound actually changes and sounds somewhat like something Franz Ferdinand would play.

i really love this song. so much that i'm even uploading the little bit of the acoustic version alvin managed to capture. maybe listen to the acoustic one on the vid before u listen to the mp3... the differences are more jarring.

here we go!

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OH. EMM. GEE.

i had one of the most shocking revelations yesterday.

chuu ling and i were, as usual, mucking around the office not doing much, when we decided to take a look at each other's photos...

then she showed me her 21st birthday photos...

i gasped.

because her cousin-in-law... IS MY COUSIN.

omg!! i'm sort of married into her family!!

WHICH MAKES HER MY SOMEWHAT DISTANT COUSIN-IN-LAW!!

as candice would say: 'ACKS!'

ahahahahahaha...

a quick update

woah haven't blogged in a bit!

alright, stuff that have happened since:

i went for the hairspray gala premiere! tickets were free, movie was good, and nothing beats watching john travolta in drag (and doing a fiiiiiiiiiine job at that too!) while the two guys kept squealing at the wrongness of it all.

timbaland's new album rocks my socks off. like, seriously. he's got sooooo many collaborations (yay dr dre and missy elliot XD) it's NUTS.

reggae and hiphop classes are so good, they hurt. and because they're so different from each other, it makes me work out a whole range of muscles. *wince* and alvin's not bad at hiphop! *impressed*

and i finally feel like i am seriously underpaid. too much work, too much work. pace is picking up past the stage of merely getting an adrenaline rush... i'm now panicking from all the work, GAH.

pay me more, please?

my favourite commencement shot

is not one of those glam portraits Jun was helping us to take (i.e. 'EH SMILE PROPERLY LA!')...

but it's this one:



i call it 'behind-the-scenes-waiting-for-our-turn'. heh.

the rainy weather makes for great sky

as alvin and i waved goodbye to his cell and started walking towards the expo bus stop, we saw this awesome sight.




here's a closeup:




and we thought that was that.

i mean, those were really pretty sun-rays (which never fail to make me think of God's glory XD) and well, good thing i had my camera coz i NEVER bring it around unless i was going for some outing.

but i mean, it's just sun-rays and i was just glad i brought my digicam.

then we got on the bus, hit tanah merah...

and saw THIS:



i craned my neck, and poked alvin (who promptly called it an 'oily' cloud, hahaha) and whipped out my digicam again. i waited and waited until we could see its full-blown glory... and here it is.

WOW.






my pictures definitely doesn't do the cloud justice. from our view, it really looked like the Aurora. the colours were SUPER BRIGHT and so defined in the sky!

and then by the time we turned from temasek JC, a little bit of those rainbow colours started peeking out from the left side. heh.




by the time we hit siglap, there was the teeniest rainbow straddling two bunches of 'dettol' clouds. my camera couldn't capture it since we were shooting from inside the bus, so i just took a few shots (just in case) then the rest of the time i just kept smacking alvin on the arm and squealing 'rainbow! rainbow!!'

sigh, i miss sunset way, where rainbows appeared ~50% of the time after a downpour.

chinese songs based on english songs

one example would be Cao-Ge's 'Superwoman'.

so as i was listening to it, i decided to dig out the lyrics for the original... but funny, i have no idea who the original singer was. *shrug*

it's quite a sad song.

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Superwoman

Early in the morning
I put breakfast at your table
And I make sure that your coffee
Has its sugar and cream

Ooh, your eggs are over easy
Your toast done lightly
All that’s missing is your morning kiss
That used to greet me

Now, now you say the juice is sour
Well, it used to be so sweet
And I can’t help but to wonder
If you’re talking about me

We don’t talk the way we used to
And it’s hurting me so deep
I got my pride, I will not cry
But it’s making me weak

(Chorus)
I’m not your superwoman
I’m not the kind of girl that you can lay down
And think that everything’s okay
Boy, I am only human
This girl needs more than occasional
Hugs as a token of love from you to me

I find a way through the rush hour
Trying to make it home just for you
I want to make sure that your dinner
Will be waiting for you

But when you get there you just tell me
You’re not hungry at all
You said you’d rather read the paper
And you don’t want to talk

You’d like to think I’m just crazy
When I say that you’ve changed
Well, I think I know the problem
You don’t love me the same

You’re just going through the motions
And you’re not being fair
I got my pride, I will not cry
But I can’t help but care

(Chorus)

Oh, baby, look into the corners of your mind
I’ll always be there for you through good and bad times
But I can’t be that superwoman that you want me to be
I’ll give my love, everlasting love if you return love to me

I’m not your superwoman
I’m not the kind of girl that you can lay down
And think that everything’s okay
Boy, I am only human
This girl needs more than occasional
Hugs as a token of love from you to me

Of, if you feel it in your heart
And you understand me
Stop right where you are
Everybody sing along with me

I’m the kind of girl that can treat you so sweet
But you’ve got to realize that you’ve got to be sweeter to me, yeah
I need love
I need just your love

I don’t want to be super, super, superwoman (Oh, no)
I’m not the kind of girl that you can lay down
And think that everything’s okay
Boy, I am only human (I’m only human)
This girl needs more than occasional
Hugs as a token of love from you to me

minesweeper the movie

slog!

(it stands for song blog)

wheee~

well, we all don't have to wait for a meme to be tagged to us in order to have some musical fun. SO! here goes the first line(s) from 40 of my songs (plucked out at random) and you can have fun guessing which songs they are... and who sang it! (there are no repeat artistes this time)

as usual, no cheating (e.g. checking the net)
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1. She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene, I said don't mind, but what do you mean I am the one
2. Rain, rain on my face/ It hasn't stopped raining for days
3. It could be ten, but then again, I can't remember half an hour since a quarter to four/ Throw on your clothes, the second side of Surfer Rosa, and leave me with my jaw on the floor
4. She was like nothing I'd ever known/ Her eyes shine like diamonds in a field of snow
5. Look, pump it up if you came to get it krunk/ With a dame and sh*t that's drunk
6. I can't remember the last time that we kissed goodbye...
7. I don't need a lot of things, I can get by with nothing/ Of all the blessings life can bring, I've always needed something
8. Baby if you give it to me/ I'll give it to you
9. When I move you move (Just like that?)
10. It is not a human right/ To stare not fight/ While broken nations dream
11. (Why don't we...) Play somethin' these hoes'll like/ Drive whips i know they like/ Twista you told 'em right...
12. When I'm walking down the street I call your name/ Inside my head I go insane/ Don't you know that it's really making me crazy
13. He said 'Hi, my name is so and so/ Baby can you tell me yours?/ You look like you came to do/ One thing (Set it off)'
14. Uh huh, this my sh*t/ All the girls stomp your feet like this
15. Wouldn't it be nice if we were older/ Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
16. (let's go!)/ There's nothing better...
17. How the hell did we wind up like this/ Why weren't we able/ To see the signs that we missed/ And try to turn the tables
18. Round, round baby round, round/ Spend the night on me
19. Wise men say
20. When your only friends are hotel rooms/ Hands are distant lullabies
21. Every time I think of you/ I get a shot right through into a bolt of bluee
22. I have, I have you breathing down my neck, breathing down my neck
23. And I'd give up forever to touch you
24. I was thinking the other day/ What if cartoons got saved?
25. 6 am day after christmas
26. Shut up/ Just shut up/ Shut up
27. That's the start, the middle, and the end/ Aren't you glad the universe pretends
28. I thought that you'd be loving me/ I thought you were the one who'd stay forever
29. Baby, I'm so into you/ You got that somethin', what can I do
30. I am an arms dealer
31. Everybody, move your feet/ and feel united, ohhhh
32. I haven't slept at all in days/ It's been so long since we've talked
33. Take a look at my girlfriend/ She's the only one I got (ba ba da da)
34. If I had to/ I would put myself right beside you/ So let me ask/ Would you like that?
35. Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes and I am taken to a place where your crystal minds and magenta feelings take up shelter in the base of my spine sweet like a chica cherry cola (i am SURE this is a whole line.)
36. Go ahead as you waste your days with thinking/ When you fall everyone sins
37. Fear and panic in the air/ I want to be free/ From desolation and despair
38. Don't be so quick to walk away/Dance with me
39. Don't stray/ Don't ever go away
40. Didn't hear a tone, are you, hello/ I never hear a tone, I guess you know

yay!

australia has good improv! XD

Thank God You're Here is based on a simple premise: get a group of well known performers and make each walk through a door into a scene without any idea of who they are or what they're walking into. It might be an operating theatre and a simple greeting, "Thank God you're here, Doctor. The patient's ready." It may be a Roman dungeon, a boardroom, a starship or a talk show. The only things they can depend on are their abilities to make everything up for the next five minutes and cover their tracks as they do it.

randomly surfing online again

check it out! i'm sure anberlin will come back to sg after the way stephen christian was raving about us in the first few minutes of the interview:

to aileen lam wanli...

my cell leader, my neighbour, my buddy, my ardent blog-fan...

reminder:

YES MY BLOG CAN PLAY MUSIC AND IT'S AT MY SIDEBAR.

-_-"'

my new doggie.

alvin bought me a dog!!!!!!

it looks like this!!
















ok actually more like this:





i love my doggie!!





look at his pudgy butt!! hahahahaha!!



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the cat in science!

INSULT MATCH (with my prof!! *roarrr*)

ok the first jibe was totally unintentional. i swear!!

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my prof comes into the student room and takes a look around. he spots my staff card lying on my table. he moves over. i quickly press alt+tab.

him: eh! that picture doesn't look like u!

viv: yes it does what!

him: hmm... oh i know! your specs (my red ones) are different. hmm they're quite nice ah?

viv: ah yeah they do look nicer, but i tend to keep them at home coz they're kinda spoi...

him (cuts in): eh! they're like mine! see see?

viv: eh yar! but... mine's not so cheap.

him: O_O

me: O_O!!!!!!

immediately it's like someone stamped 'OMG' in bright red huge letters over my face.

i meant that my specs were cheaper than his! not the other way around!! omg!!! why did my brain die at that moment!!!!

omg!!!!!!!!

my prof just gave a mock 'how dare u!' look (oh pls, let it be a mock-look T_T) and kinda laughed at me coz i started kicking myself, then left the office.

ARGH!!! *dies of mortification!!!*

then...

he retaliated.

today we were all crowded in the lift after lunch, when he turned to me and noticed...

him: hey! you're wearing a pregnant top!

me: heh yeah so i can eat more. XD

he appraises the top... then...

him: hmm. your belly is quite big ah?

all the girls in the lift: !!! DR TAN!!! HOW CAN U SAY THAT??!?!

me: *wilt*

him: *acts innocent* oh really? why? what's wrong? okok let me rephrase myself: your belly is big... in a good way! :D

me: T_T

at church yesterday...

i just sat down, watching around the eating area while aileen and candice chatted.

then i spotted the youth worship drummer (name's seth, apparently) walking towards us to ask candice something.

after they talked for a bit, i actually stopped stoning at a distance and suddenly mentioned,

'hey i saw u at the anberlin concert!'

seth: OH REALLY??! U WERE THERE?? eh........... you look familiar.

me: *shrug* (coz maybe he's just seen me around church?)

alvin walks to our table with noodles...

me: hewoo!! :D

seth: (to alvin) eh! u look familiar too... *face screws up in concentration*

aileen: OH OH THEY KISSED AT THE CONCERT ON STAGE!!

alvin and me: *sputter!!*

seth: ??............................. OMG!!! IT'S YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

alvin; me: *chokes on noodles*; *sputter somemore*

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aaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

nua nua nua

it really feels good to just stay at home and relax, with absolutely nothing to do so i can do useless things, like uploading pictures onto yahoo auctions to sell stuff again.

yay.

unfortunately, helping adrean to set up his new fujitsu laptop has given us both such a headache that we both gave up and retreated to our own corners to read... or nap. (gosh, i just woke up leh.)

ahh... the weekend. :)

this is seriously, the best mtv ever.

the choreography rocks!

coffee

There's plenty of time left tonight
I promised I'd have you home before daylight
We do the best we can in a small town
Act like big city kids when the sun goes down

If it's not too late for coffee
I'll be at your place in ten
We'll hit that all night diner
And then we'll see

There's so many things I have to say
I'll stay up all night to hear about your day
We do the best we can in a small town
Act like kids in love when the sun goes down

- copeland