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Sitting in the living room. The lights are dimmish. The TV is off, and not a creature is stirring etc.
My headphones are on. The final bars of Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto are just rolling to a close; I think that's the final 'exclamations' from the orchestra ... yes, silence. And now, ahhh ... the gentle orchestration of Beethoven's 6th symphony (first movement) are pouring across my head now. Ah, beautiful, beautiful ...
Mmmm. It's all very pleasant and pleasing and relaxing. I should really do this more often.
My playlist for the night (all compositions by Beethoven unless noted otherwise):
Now, off with you. Leave me to my music.
Labels: beethoven, isolation, music
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Black Cloud is on Star Movies again. I think the acting and direction and music are all atleast okay-ish, but the dialogue? Zomg! In my opinion, it's worthy of Keanu Reeves. "I love you", "I love you more". what?! Seriously. And that's some of the better dialogue. I wish there was a website with quotes from this movie online somewhere, but I can't find one. Which makes sense, who would want to write that dialogue down?
I bet some fans are going to show up and start cussing me up about this now. Ah well, can't have everything, I guess.
Labels: bad movie, black cloud, movies
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It's a philosophy, anyway:
We only go forward, not backwards
Oh, and I have a job now. With a programming language I have no experience with, no idea about. Oh me, oh my.
Labels: jobhunting, philosophy
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I finally got the see the Simpsons movie yesternight, and man is it something. Very cool. Very, very cool. I liked. Lots of nice little references (did you catch the ambulance at Springfield Gorge?), nice sentimental moments, and it was so much fun to see all the "ol' friends". Such a pity that the late, great Troy McLure couldn't be around. Still, everybody else gets an appearance (did you notice that bum who created Itchy and Scratchy in the crowd heading towards the Simpson's house?), and there's plenty of good laughs to go around.
Watching it in the theatre was a fun experience unto itself, with huge rolls of laughter at some of the jokes. My seat was right between two couples: the one on my left would laugh along with the crowd - and seemed particularly amused at the cartoon violence, and the one on my right - two women - would rather oddly "ooh" and "*gasp*!" every time something violent happened to someone, which - considering that this is the Simpsons - happened very frequently. That was particularly brilliant: Scratchy is hugely engorged by a flotilla of missles, everybody laughs, the lady one place to my right goes "oooh!". Totally brought a huge new perspective to the show!
It's also reassuring to know that I'm not the only one who saw traces of NGE in the movie. Must watch Ratatouille when it comes out - they were showing a trailer, I swear you can see each and every hair. The rendering, the colours, the perspectives are all fantastic. If that acting is anything comparable, they'll really have a classic there.
Labels: neon genesis evangelion, ratatouille, the simpsons, the simpsons movie
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Any more?
Labels: english, noun, weird, weirdity
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With Punch an' Pie from a week ago.
In other news, ahem, ahem. Perhaps the Beatles catalogue is finally hitting the web? Not that us Singaporean residents will get our grubby paws on it in any case. But it'd be an interesting step in whole Internet/media/DRM/copyright situation. Lesse, lesse.
Labels: apple rumours, beatles, jobhunting
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As far as I'm concerned, the primary difference between "strain" and "stress" is that stress is when you're worried, now, and are aware that the stress will end eventually (whether by your body and brain just "shutting down", or by someone falling out of an apartment building, depends on your interpretation). Strain, on the other hand, is what happens when you're stressed out and you know it's not going to end any time soon.
Long day today. After much cool dreamings (see post!), was awoken at two for our quarterly month cleaning, which was a huge success. I was tempted to take "after" photos: it's extremely unlikely we'll ever have things this sparkling clean again. Why? Because we're moving out in early December, it seems. Early December! This means the househunt begins again, and you remember how painful it was the last time around. You don't? That's cool, I'm sure it's in this blog somewhere. Time to practice your 733t G00g7e s[i11s!
Er, hmm. In other news, my parents are now sliding into some sort of super OMG-WE'RE-WORRIED-(but-don't-let-that-worry-or-pressure-you-tee-hee)-BUT-YOU-HAVE-TO-GET-A-JOB-ALREADY-BCOS-WHAT-ARE-YOU-GOING-TO-DO-WITH-YOUR-LIFE-OMG-OMG-OMG mode (I'm sure parents have a better name for this). Which means they intrude into what I have come to quaintly refer to as my "personal" life. Which, as you may be aware, is a move of sheer genius-like proportions, since the only thing I'd hate more than an uncomfortable life is to have aforementioned uncomfortable life intruded on upon. So, hmm. Interesting week again. If things go as I suspect they will, I might have to take up smoking. It is the number one way of "dealing with stressful situations" amongst my friends, apparently. Although if I had to pick a vice, it would have to be alcohol (massive consummation of sugar is NOT a vice. It is merely "no way to lead your life").
So I'm using lots of inverted commas this afternoon. I'm stressed. And likely to remain so for a while. I'm sorry. Deal.
Labels: jobhunting, life, stress
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I love my dreamings. The sheer vastness and variety always startles me on waking up. Just now, I dreamed (in approximately accurate order) about my mother, a tution teacher (which one?), my friend, my grandmum, sister, and her friend, my friend's brother, a party, and (therefore) several people I've never met before. And I'm pretty sure I've forgotten some bits in between.
Yesterday's dreams were at an equivalent level of craziness, I think, but can't be sure. I'm sure I've dreamt of my dead aunt in the last week sometime. And the main thing that got this post going was this strange entirely-in-my-head dream I had a few months ago about taking the bus in London (a few months or weeks before we went to London ourselves: it was nothing like in the dream, although I guess the dream was vaguely accurate wrt the Warwickshire area ...)
Went to the Singapore Fireworks Festival (they've changed the name, I know, but I can't be bothered to look up the new one) yesterday night. Good fun. The fireworks were aweinspiring and beautifully done, despite us being in not so ideal a place for watching; but it wasn't horribly bad either. Then had dinner, which was also fun and interesting. Learned how to eat rambuttan, finally.
Okay, house-cleaning time. Better go help the guys. I'll have fireworks photos up later today, hopefully. Ciao!
Labels: dreams, fireworks, today
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So: I woke up at 6pm, slept at 12mn the next day, then woke up at 5pm the day after that. Apart from being darn near impossible to translate into anything resembling a normal work schedule, this implies an 18 hour work day, followed by a 17 hour work 'night'. I have no idea if this is even possibly supposed to be sustainable.
Pan is coming along fine, and Objective C is really a beautiful language to work with. I hope I can pull off working with it more, although I don't entirely see how that's possible.
I also have to call home tonight, which obviously I'm enormously nervous about. What could they possibly want to say that they haven't said before? Why now? Oh god.
Labels: objective c, sleep, today, work
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So, here we are again.
Just finished catching up with Order of the Stick. My planned recovery from my sleep snafu isn't going fantastically well, what with me being up at 5am (awoke at 3ish or so, after getting to sleep around midnight). What this means, apart from I'm going to be really groggy at my interview later this morning, is that I'm going to be horribly out of it all of today. I mean, I'm seriously behind on my sleeping here. All I've been doing in the last twenty-four hours is: (1) sleeping, (2) trying not to sleep, (3) trying to sleep. And what's it all for? For three friggin' hours of sleep. Oh my sainted aunt.
The good news is, I'm out of the house - one way or another! - in exactly one hour. And I'm back in - again, one way etc. - before lunch, giving me time to contemplate or - more likely, like - forget everything to do with today morning.
Labels: jobhunting, today
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If you missed Contradiction III yesterday (you really missed something, n00b), here's a list of what you missed. I took details off the little pamphlet they handed out, but the summaries are entirely my own, and I apologize profusely if I got anybody confused with anyone else, or if I misremembered something.
Subtitle: a queer literary reading curated by Ng Yi-Sheng.
All in all, a really fun experience; the sausages were nice and the chillies awesome. The audience was relaxed and laid back, and laughed in all the right places. Really a great way to spend a Sunday night.
Tonight, with luck: the Simpsons movie!
Labels: contradiction, indignation, singapore, today
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Okay, first the bad news:
Okay, now the good news:
Yup, that's about it.
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Oh, borderless world! How far from this place
ranges all that lies beneath the sun?
So wide and limitless, so urban and profane,
The familiar stretching out and becoming one.
And if there is one thing of which I am sure
you'll barely see anything before it's over.
Ogden Nash, I am not.
Labels: borderless world, poem
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But I too really like the artwork on this one! Can't wait until QC restarts normal operations on Monday. Yay!
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"A beach house," he said, "doesn't even have to be on the beach. Though the best ones are. We all like to congregate," he went on, "at boundary conditions". "Really?" said Arthur. "Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."