Don't You Break My Heart, Slow

But I'd rather you be mean than love and lie
I'd rather hear the truth and have to say goodbye
I'd rather take a blow at least then I would know
But baby don't you break my heart slow



You would run around and lead me on forever
While I wait at home still thinking we're together
I wanted our love to last forever

Because, I understand.

因为太了解所以很伤心　
没有你只好听着风的呼吸 　
却有种叫做时间的东西　
说没问题　最后我们会痊癒 　
因为太了解我无法坚定　
这一次会要掉眼泪的决定 　
有些遗憾只能一个人听
很对不起　
我还是珍惜　
所有的事情

Up

never underestimate the power of a good animation film. this is really UP!!!!!

was watching this way into the morning of xmas at ty's place. this year the party is not as wild as last year but just as fun. we set another new record again!

the best part of this movie was that extras that came along with the DVD. there was this section on how they actually went to the tepuis in South America! in the end i was the only one watching the entire segment of it (for like 20minutes) while everyone slept. the landscape/landforms/the rock/the cliffs/the waterfalls/the block mountains are TOTALLY AWESOME.

i think DH would love it.

cultural face-off

A typical dinner out with fren at ikea tamp bore witness to a scuffle between a prc and a (presumably) local malay man. it is quite rare to see a scuffle with such interesting socio-cultural elements, right in the midst of a crowded eating place. it is like a textbook study case come alive. thus this physical brawl stood out for the following reasons:

1) both are married men, with wife and child in tow.
2) already delineated the race of both men so this leads to point 3
3) both cannot communicate properly, can only tug each other shirts and give each other dagger stares. the malay man hostile screaming of vulgar invectives (the F words) flew right over the prc man head, drawing blank looks. (a pity, if it's a local then some sparring of hokkien words would certainly rise up to the occasion). there might be attempts to understand each other brand of EL but that is quite lost in the heat of the moment i suspect
4) apparently i figured the fight was first sparked by the malay man wife over some issue about heir children playing at the common area at ikeabistro house. i might be wrong, but an angry wife will certainly exacerbate the wrath of men.
5) the chinese man appeared to makethe first phy contact, he pushed the other man and that's when things got things heated up. they began tugging at each other tshirts and were neck to neck. it was like, i dunno.. touch rubgy?
6) no singaporeans interfered throughout. everyone just stared. it drew some gasps. the eye power was magnificent.
7) the chinese man backed off eventually but the malay man pursued him to the table. the chinese man tried act ignorant but that only fueled the malay man anger.
9) both wifes are equally angry. but the malay man wife looked more incensed
10) security arrived too late which leads to the true Singaporean response in point 11
11) a singaporean middle aged woman exemplifies our national spirit and did what she can best – exclaimed indignantly and complaint that the security man came too late and possibly the public lives are at stake- when everything is already over. Yes, Madam.
12) i almost also wanna run away.

is this incident isolated? probably. will this happen again. likely. is race a factor? maybe. will both kids be affected? yes, certain emotional scarring is bound to happen.

i wonder if the fight escalated, what will happen. the malay man kept challenging the man to a fight outside, but that is not a real call for action actually. i bet to my last dollar even if the chinese man followed him out, they will still be tugging each other shirts. when the prc went back to his seat, the other grabbed a glass bottle on the table and waved it in the air like a weapon. that indicates an act of restrain. if he is really blinded by anger, then he would have smashed it and the area would become a police scene.

resorting to violence is actually quite scary and yet intrinsically fascinating. i was so drawn into their moments of blind fury. both big grown men about to give their first punch in public.

this is an exact scenario why RACIAL harmony is important. and also reveals why racial tensions/faultlines is unlikely to ever fuse. plus, it brings the message about the foreign issue to the fore. which interestingly, many prs here claimed to live peacefully with others in the community.that kind of question has no close answers.

interesting profiles they have. the malay man is spotted with a tattoo on his right forearm. this tells something about him already. his wife is perhaps the chinese equivalent of an ah lian. very feisty and almost looks ready to join in the brawl with her husband, except that their daughter was wailing in her arms. the chinese wife is tanned, probably hailing from the southern part of prc and was equally outraged and tried to intervene to no avail. the man looks rugged and boorish. the poor boy also screamed and cried.

then the prc man retreated back to the table. and pretended nothing happened. even managed to eat something within a minute after the malay family walked away. again the hurling of vulgarities as the latter left had no ostensible effect on them but it blanketed the entire bistro/foodcourt with some deafening silence.

and hey presto, after the dust settled, one ikea staff apparated and endeavored some pathetic attempts to question what happened. she looked genuinely concern though and probably had saw the entire thing. AND THEN, a prosec security guard came and he looked equally pathetic with folded arms. perhaps to dispel some tension or salvage his face, the chinese man burst out in laughter a few moments afterward. what awkward pretence to guise over what happened! i bet his BP still running high.

it took me a while to get my mind away before resuming normal dinner conservation with my friend. in my opinion, both men were wrong and their actions gravely deplorable. worst, it had to happen full frontal to their kids. they are grown enough to know better. then again, men are well known to be reckless in the spur of moments. plus what makes this fight even more intriguing was the underlying cause and the stakes involved- their wife and child! i can only imagine both men are compelled to act in that manner to manifest their masculinity in protecting their families. again, and since this happened right in front of the public eye, would one party backing off at the earliest instance be applauded for chivalry or be scorned for cowardice? would the outcome be different if both are conversant in the same language? it could be worse.

it reminded me of some school fights i seen. public fight/dispute/brawl is a rare occurence indeed. i was seated some distance away and watching all this was like witnessing a horrific car crash. i felt so powerless in this dramatic, heated and perverse performance of power. the prc family continued their dinner as if nothing happened while the other party never returned.

case closed.

Grade Expectations

OKOK, I SHALL BLOG.

but first, I MUST BITCH ABOUT NUS ISIS. WTF ARE THEY TRYING TO DO! Presumably they invest so much to migrate from one server to another, only to miss out something SO SIMPLE - login TRAFFIC. AS A RESULT, I keep trying to log into the system AS IF im trying to hack the system like that. HECK HACK HECK! is that their latest brilliant move to strengthen online security? Brainless people! What's wrong with ACES? Call this a global uni with what Asia focus BUT you cannot even fix your server right.

Ok enough. The SMS thing works though so here goes..

two modules went way ABOVE my expectations. Geog Thoughts A and Eco-D. I am utterly stunned by both. I jumped about 2 grades from my mid-terms for both. And for the latter, I am even more surprised because I know i bombed one question. This is SO OMGWTFBBQ!!! ok this sounds very juvenile. i must say my biggest thank you to prof HY, prof VS and dr BOOMS!

geog thots B and urban were within expectations! so im thankful to prof DH, prof TS and Dr (boom boom) POW!

commed went down. B-. BOO! gotta S/U it LOR!

so this sem CAP is above 4.2! and my current SJAP is 4.30!!! that can only mean one thing ...

I CAN DO MY HT WITH FULL STEAM AHEAD!!!!!! I GET TO KEEP MY PMB GRANT! YAY!!!

2 movies at JB

went to City Plaza last Friday. two movies for RM17 only! (actually, it's only RM6 for the first) caught Zombieland first and then Princess and the Frog. still went to watch the former despite hearing all bad reviews abt it. hmmm.. there is one part wch is particularly funny.. haha.. the rest is the typical zombie gross stuff. hahaha.

Princess and the Frog is a winning Walt Disney movie again! i laughed so much, i think it's a crime. yes it's all stereotypical and stuff but it works beautifully and the jazz music is snazzy. of course it all ends the happily ever after and i guess it brought the child-like wonders out in me again! 4.5stars!

Princess and the Frog - 9.1/10

Zombieland - 6.5/10