Departmental Dinner

It has been such a long break since my last blog, more than a month! Here's the latest update on the event that I joined recently. My department came out with such a creative idea of organising Live Band performance, originally participated by the staffs from my department! Actually this had been iniatiated for more than a month ago. After one month plus of practice with my band, the performance came to reality on 29th November 2007 with 3 other great bands! I guess we all had to perform in front of a crowd of maybe 600+ people, well I forgot the number, but it was a good experience. I was the vocalist in the band, and this time I was singing the type of songs that I don't usually do. We aimed to really rock the event and did 2 rock tunes, with the last song being The Best Damn Thing (originally from Avril Lavigne) but we replaced the word 'Damn' with 'Grand' due to sensitivity issues. The musicians had a rough time on the stage especially the main guitarist and drummer. The guitarist had his guitar connection to the speakers cut off in the middle, but thank God he managed to plugged it back on time. And the drummer... man... hats off to him for staying calm and steady when one of the toms fell off! He had the bass flowing, and snare rolling as he fixed the tom! They all did such a great job! Oh, did I also mention that I had another team who was involved in Fashion Runway? We had to come out with design of our own. Not only that, we also had to handmake it ourselves! Hmm, not like I had any experience in this at all :P But we managed to pop the design out eventually. Here some pics of the event. More to come after I get pics from other cameraman, I did not take any pics with my own cam that night, was too busy running around :S

Prison Break... where is it heading to?

OH NO!!! Sara... my favourite character in Prison Break is GONE!!! This is totally unbelievable, how could they have the main character of PB killed? URGH...! I loved her character so much. Well, she's a mom now... not sure who was really the one making the decision to quit playing Sara in the series. It's quite contradicting, rumors are saying that it was Sarah Wayne Callies (SWC) who made the call, but French sources are reporting SWC saying this, "Yes, but I didn’t have the choice. I’m sad, but it’s just show business", and "I’ll just say this. I am sorry to let down the viewers. I have loved the support Sara Tancredi got from them. and though she was a victim of her own destiny, I liked how she made decisions by herself. But the way things ended up couldn’t have been foreseen. Again, I was deceived by the decision."

Nobody outside the PB crew really knows the truth... Sigh, it's just disappointing that this very significant character is just gone like that. It's also ridiculous how Sara got killed. Why would the bad guys wanna kill her so fast? It's just too fast! I know everybody is hoping that the head was fake, but up till now, the director or SWC herself ain't hinting anything on reviving Sara's character. I wonder if this series will be halted this season? Will Michael find his new love again? If he does within this season, then it's a cheapskate series. After all Sara had done for him, how her Dad got murdered and all, he just finds a new love? Hmm... I personally wouldn't wanna see that in this season. That's just too fast!

G-day (for Greenday?)

This is my theme song for now. Well, I have liked this song since it was first released back at 2 years ago. The MV is also one of my favourites! Now this song is back in this phase of my life with another significance... hmm, 'why' u may ask... Hmm, doesn't matter why, one person will know why :P Anyway, here's the MV, enjoy ;-)

Intel Idol

Ok, I was really disappointed and frustrated with the results from Intel Idol last Friday. That's because the results really did not make sense! The judges were sitting there for nothing good but just to write down the marks of the contestants' performances. They never uttered a single word to comment on the contestants' singing at all, and by the end of it, some unexpected results (of course very political) just popped out. Even those who obviously sang out of tune got to the top 3. Oikz... enough of frustration, sometimes we just have to face the reality, politics is everywhere, just live with it!

Hmm, since quite a number of friends asked for the pics, I'll show you some! Hee~

Posing before going on stage

The stage was all mine for a moment!

The Mak(s) both in finals!

Finale, Was It That Grand?

Finally this is the day of Intel Idol Finals. Hot yet a fun day. Great experience to be performing in front of the crowd. Interesting to dress myself up in ways that I have never done before. Confusedly not understanding the results. Not because I am not the winner, but there are other contestants who did better than the top 3. Speechless and puzzled. Singing is a fun thing to do! Nothing much to blog about this competition for now...

Unbelievable!

Monday is here! This is the day of verdict. Remember the singing contest I was talking about last week? This is really unbelievable... HF and I both got into the finals! HAHAHA! Praise God!! We were both doing our own solos for semi-finals. I believe it is really by God's grace that we are in the finals, because the competition was really tight. God has blessed me so numerously this week. In fact, I am sure that He has always been faithful by blessing me lil by lil, yet sufficiently :) It's time to think of what song to sing for finals, better make it spectacular!

Lost Season 3 Finale and...

WOW!!! Lost Season 3 finale is so cool! The flashbacks are totally unpredictable until the very end of Season 3. Just as I thought that their success of getting off the island marked the ending of the series, the subtitles showed that there would be a Season 4! OUCH! As though this is not shocking enough, there will even be season 5 and 6, which means that Lost will only end in 2010! But there are still plenty of puzzles scattered here and there to be revealed to complete the whole storyline. Lost has certainly gained its flavour again!

Avril's Back!

Avril's back with her new album after 2 years! Hmm, she is my favourite female rock singer. She seems special cuz she isn't one of those girly singers with just a pretty face. She can write her own songs, compose her own music, and play piano and guitar, quite cool. So here's the cover of her latest album "The Best Damn Thing" which will be released on the 17th April 2007.

I've heard the songs in her album, they are quite good. There are 12 tracks, with 6 fast tracks, 3 mid tempo, and 3 slow tracks. I'd say her slow tracks are really good, giving them 4.5/5 averagely. I'd give the album an overall score of 4.3/5. If you're an Avril and rock fan, the album will surely be worthy of the cash spent on it.

She's married now, and her image is slightly a lil different than she intially was. Not so much of the Rock Princess look, a lil girly outlook like Ashlee Simpson. Check out her latest video here and be the judge yourself.

Prison Break Never Fails

Everytime when I told someone that Prison Break was superb, he/she would reply me with, "You just like to see the leng chai in the series" or "It's just another series lah.." or "It's a chicks' show...". Hmm, in fact, I said, "It's just some silly series that wastes your time lah.." when my friend first spoke to me about the series. Haha, I don't need to convince those that I spoke to about this series any further, I just need to get them to watch the pilot and they will find themselves totally chained to the series! This has NEVER failed, Prison Break NEVER fails!

The addiction is so contagious, really. It's funny how I started watching it last sem during my AIC project while we were waiting for some long simulations to be done, and that's how I got my teammates (whom also happened to be my housemates) to start watching PB too. Ever since then, they all got addicted just like me and we all PB addicts would gather in my room every Tuesday night to watch the latest episode, hahaha. CK and SL were a lil left out at the beginning, but they managed to finish the WHOLE season which consists of 22 episodes in just 2 days! -.-" really sweat...

Soon the "PB virus" spread to other clans, now I guess more than 10 friends in USM are 'infected' already :P Not to mention some non-USM-ers like PS, HF, J, and SKY hahahaha, they are all PB addicts now! Yes, I am an addict too...(you PB fans out there surely know what that quote is about!)

Anyway, just a quick entertainment of 40 minutes weekly isn't so bad. Plus, Season 2 has just ended last week... Now we've gotta wait until 29th August for season 3 premiere. Gonna have a drought season soon as all my fave series are hitting a season ending soon, including Lost.

So is anyone of you starting to wonder what's so good about Prison Break already? Hmm, I guess Jazlie wrote a very good review on PB in her blog, you can check out what PB is all about at her blog, just click on the link to "Jazlie" at my sidebar and check out the review she wrote! Or visit http://jazlie.blogspot.com/2007/04/prison-break-finale-season-2.html ;-) Here's a sneak preview on Season 3! Cheers~~

Prison Break with Season 3?

I was totally addicted to Prison Break the moment I started watching the pilot. I won't deny that a very dominant reason was because of the good-looking leading actor and attractive leading actress. Season 1 ended with everyone in the plan except for DB Cooper escaped from the prison eventually. Season 2 is all about how the brothers were still fighting towards Linc's exoneration causing lives of many people around them. Now, there's only 1 single episode left in Season 2, that'll be on next Tuesday! It seemed quite promising that Season 2 Finale was gonna wrap up the whole story.

But guess what! There'll be a Season 3! Huh??? What about the title? See, it's called Prison Break but if Season 3 continues with them straying around the cities or wherever... what does it really have to do with the title? According to the producer, there may be a new name for the series... I dunno... perhaps "Cat Chasing After The Mice", "On The Neverending Run" or sth... :S Well, Season 3 will be premiered on 29th August 2007. It's very likely that S3 will be the last season. Let's hope that Season 3 will be a great one!

Mind Games

We spent 3 hours on this game! Just to get to level 65, with no more tips and skipping opportunity left. Welcome to Abstractica, a mind game which sets you to engage yourself in the abstract riddles and puzzles (hence the name of the game). It consists of 250 levels, with different questions requiring different knowledge and tools, yes... you need tools, and it's not just calculator and papers, you are gonna need more than that. The mystery is left for your imagination, use anything you possibly can! Abstractica will surely deliver entertainment and enhance your creativity as it promises. You can download the game from this link:

http://www.download.com/Abstractica/3640-2111_4-10592189.html

Have fun playing!!