rejuvenated donut

lol. YAY!. and i thought it was gone. i wanted to write abt how ironic it is that im in my final year, final term! and i having less physical endurance, i suspect mental too, to stay up late to do projects and stuff. It's actually good for my health. since i will be ge4tting more sleep! and better overall too cause it will spell greater efficiency for me as i try to squeeze my super many agendas of the day/ week, etc.

ANYWAY!

yes the donut that i thought had stopped running and dead (if ur wondering wad im talking abt refer to my very recent Donuts of the Mind post :), is after all "rejuvenated"! Yay!. i recalled that i wanted to write about the "choir" that i heard and eventually saw in campus. A group of about 20 plus people were singing, albeit nicely, in SMU, rehearsing for the yet another Grand Opening SMU has in store for the world ( i mean Singapore) this time the offical opening of Li Ka SHing School of Business*.

the sound, not only echoed in the halls and corridors of the building, it resonated in me. the song wasn't that wow, but i was still rather enchanted by the quite curious blend of altos and booming bass and baritones. Pleasant would be an understantment though. its nice, really. they were in tune. (previously the 3-4 grp singings can be rahter awful cause its so easy to hear if one is out- even for the untrained ear! i guess the power of numbers work in choir!)I stood for a while, basking in their chorus, waiting earnestly each time for the next stanza where there a wonderful union of varied voices and range... i smiled inside.

made me recalled the last time i wanted to join a choir but to chicken to be labelled a faggie. haha.. that was back then in secondary school. and also again in smu but i realized its too small a grp hence they i wouldnt be able to hide among the little great voices they had. Plus also they became accapela and the grp is minute.

this choir's different. apparently i only know like 3 people inside. so i conclude it is like a Freshie choir or sth. oh yeah the great salsa dancer/instructor that im currently super awed by, an occasionaly mesmerized, was there! its so cool; he can move so well and now he can choir! wow.

hmmm...

i think i want to attend a choir concert soon!!!!

(p.s. im zzzZZZzzZZzz)

Helipad-clubber Virgin no more!

I went to my first Green Room Session at the former World Trade Center Helipad!!! Woohhoo. Was a fun experience clubbing on the rooftop! The wind, the lights- mostly heneikken green! The blasting music.

Prelude to the main event was cool. they had nice great music but at that time the crowd was mostly people watching, gathered around the large encircled H. There was the occasional dancers-with-neon lights. I am quite impressed with them and their wide array of light ware: especially the lady with a slender kryptonite-lighted stick sort of the thinner version of the star wars sabre.

the Gang Starr Foundation (DJ Premeire and lyricist Big Shug) finaly came! at 1am i think. they were quite good and interesting. and especially Ghetto like. I almost had a culture shock. :p with expletives like "Mother fcuker", "Fcuk", it was quite wo.

But it was a cool experience! i wished it was darker though. was quite concious about my dancing.. :p

CLubbing's on the rooftop is great!

Thanks Aishah for the invite!!

:p

Donuts of the Mind

Tian It, vice-chairman & ECD of McCann Erickson, was our guest speaker for the Creative Tactical Communication class 2 weeks ago. One thing that i want to remember from his sharing session is that he said creative ideas are like donuts of the mind. One have to catch them while they are still (hot and) running in your mind. Cause once they get tired and stop running all you get is stale donuts. and you won't want that. Not excatly a verbatim quote but yeah. I was impressed by that imagery.

He further explained that we should be very quick to take down our ideas when they surface: be it on you journey to a destination, or even before u fall asleep on your bed. Waiting, and sleeping on it (inaction) will only detrimental to spark more quality ideas.

really good tip for me cause i so want to break into the creative industry. :p

So yes, catch the donuts before they stop running! the donuts of your mind!

***

On another note, last week's guest author for another course: Creative Writing, was Ms Shirley Lim said something worth mentioning again too. She said that what motivates her to write a book is more than money. Then she go on and explain that if she really wanted more money, she could always tie up with other universities do a reading then and will get lots per session.

ANd then it struck me, probably i thought about it before but i now its clearer. I thought at that moment. Grades to me are like money to her in writing a book. Grades are not important to me in SMU. Other things means a whole lot more. Like the new experiences that i;ve exposed myself to. the new acquaintances that i made. Ah... i was so at peace with myself. Yes. Now i am very confident to face interviewers if they ask me why i ddint, albeit almost, get an honors. I just tell them that it wasnt my motivation. My motivation are the new experiences that i can expose myself too. the things that i am passionate and enthusiastic about. :D

massaging my mom

i came back home and my mom was awake still
surpised i am as past midnight it was
her eyes watery, my heart starts to race
later it normally beats as the reason was told:
MC of two days, her left armed briefly lamed

so i started, massaging my mom. it made me
recall the many times that i've had done so
i wonder sometimes whether massages are
what (sorta) define me, my mom, our relationship
but of course there's more!

massages to mom, i guess is ....
(it's hard to explain, it is)

hmmm.. you see my mom is still working albeit 12-hr
shifts (now) in a production line since i could recall
as a toddler. so when fatique sets in from physically draining
work, massages are needed to soothe them
i suspect more than physically.

As far as i remembered, i have been massaging her since
i was capable of. I remembere walking on her back on my two feet
thank god when i was light enough. Doing so noe would be BAD
there were times where i would fret and dread
my patience wanning.. my excuses childishly myriad
but then i noe its the least i could do for her being a
great mom. she is she is.
THen there was army when im mostly not on mainland
and i am only at home in the weekends, briefly at that
that was probably a hiatus in massage sessions..

dear mom, even though the frequency drops gradually over the years
i just want to tell you that my massages are more true now
cause i feel your pain, your fatigue your drain
glad i am that you are still here for me to massage
albeit occasionally or rarely..

be it knead, step, thumb, chop or box..
Love ya mom!

:p

So you think you can dance?

Channel 5 had a preview of this next reality tv show about dance in SMU earlier!!! YAY!

was great! very enterntaining and inspiring!!

i wanna learn lyrical Jazz!! so expressive and sexy!

oohooooo!!!!

:p

major procrastinator: me

its 3:11 am. there's class at noon tmrw..

i need a list. a scary looking one.
a list of things to be done. immediate ones.
so that it will scare the living daylights of the major procrastinator of me!
so, here it is:

* Draft Interview Guide for FACT CEO interview
* Brainstorm of campaign ideas for the Action for Dogs, SIngapore project
* Finalize questions for Comms Practicum
* generate more poetry
* update Journal assignment
* DO Creative Writing Assignment #2

* phone BILLS
* flute loss instalment

* lose my fats! run, jog, gym!

hmmm...

(i think i still have time to procrastinate more? LOL)

(p.s. sometimes i think i'm mad. WHich is a good thing rite since mad people dun even think?)