December December!!

Here we are back at December again. And as much as I expect all the Christmas feelings to engulf the atmosphere, I couldn't get much of it. Well, It feels like the end of the exam despite there is another paper left. I have been feeling like this since 26th Nov anyway.

I stumble upon comments about the Christmas spirit, celebrations and whatnot on facebook. That makes me realise that I actually don't feel that much of Christmas this year. This could be attributed to several factors, I suppose. First is , of course, the bloody exams that dragged until so late. And the implication is that the fact that you still have another paper left just spoils all the christmas momentum within you. I feel dazed after the 3 papers I have gone through and become lacking in spirit to have proper christmas activities as I did for the previous christmases. I recall the 2007 christmas where I simply had the luxury of time to shop around and really stroll around the town. I properly felt the intense festive season that moment. Now? bleahh..
Besides that, the tons of obligations and commitments that await right after exam just take christmas away from me. Notwithstanding any funs I could derive from them, but puhhlllleeeasee.... this is christmas dudes! it's the festive season, time to be merry and joyful!! and, like seriously, don't you have any proper festive season to celebrate and really have a proper break? I know you are so enthusiastic about hall activities and so damn proud of your hall of residence. But, dudes, gimme a break man... You should have done this in your teen years. Especially for the guys, man, most of you are 22! C'mon!! and you still brag about being enthu shit. Okay, it's not my fault if your jc or poly or whatever sucked, mine rocked all the way.. and I had enough of such fun. Sorry dudes, I 'm just joining you for the benefit of getting a place next year. No hard feelin' man.. I love softball, but I want to celebrate christmas more. I value my life, you wouldn't know that this could be your last christmas.....

As if for Impresario, my another commitment, I still can tolerate. It will only take several days anyway.

Some might argue that Chinese new year is the real festive season here. Well, I know most of my friends are chinese (talkin' bout race perference, im not racist, it just happens to be so, you know..). That aside, chinese new year only gives you one week. Christmas holiday coincides with semester break. So, it is a true holiday season. You might not realyy celebrate christmas, so celebrate holiday instead. It's the end of the year anyway, isn't it necessary to celebrate that at least we made it through the year? Don't you cherish such happiness in life?? well, i guess you don't

Talking bout celebrating little things in life, I had quite a good time last night. Yesterday was Edgar's birthday. He is my NBS Indon friend. Although we don't hang out that much in school, we share much things in common. He was from the same junior high as me and a United fans as well (yeahhhsss). So, after his birthday celebration, we grab some beer and went to ADM rooftop green to talk cock, stargaze and chill (nice!). The birthday celebration was lame anyway, a fun guy like Edgar deserved more, but can't help it the direct indon crowd is not bunch of happening people ( sorry, I have to admit). So, to redeem and make the night more memorable for him, me and Betus took him to chill.

ADM in the daylight

ADM in the twilight

We went out to pioneer to grab the beer. As soon as I my eyes encountered the golden cans, I just decided on them. Yeah, It had been a while for the Carlsberg special brew. For your info, I like Carlsberg the most amongst the beers available. Not that I have really tried all, but so far it suits my taste the most. Carlsberg offer a more full-bodied and round taste compared to other that feels flatter and sharper. And the special brew, originally brewed for Winston Churchill, feels more velvety in my mouth with a more accentuated wholesomeness.

View from the top

We just spent the night talking about anything in life, seriously anything.. from the origin of the universe to how the new teacher in our junior high did not wear bras. Oh yeah.. Totally had a good time and thanks Edgar for the special brew treat..

See you space cowboys..

Accruals - to settle what we left behind

I know it has been 13 days after friday the 13th - my last post. Well, a lot of things happened since then that I was not conditioned to write. And, yes, of course lack of motivation takes his credit for this phenomenon as well. I know it is an undesirable behaviour for an early stage immature blog. That is the very reason iwasbornmagenta is not officially released yet, means I still have the liberty to post or not. It's like I am engaged, the vow of writing has not bound me yet.

As the title might suggest, I shall recount and settle anything left behind for the past 13 days. I personally felt I have been settling things in accrual basis increasingly. In other words, I am delaying stuffs. Especially things that involve other person. For instance, when Yulin asked me to teach her some accounting stuff, I delayed my answer till a day before the paper. As Yulin is a sweet nice girl, I did not mean to delay, and I usually never. I was asleep when I received her message and exams preparation occupied me since then that I forgot about it. But, I settled it, in most cases I did and I do not want to miss a thing.

Victor-Victoria

Well, I shall start from this point, where this event actually kept me away from writing.

When we celebrate Fenty's Birthday ('we' refers to the Indonesian NTU who graduated from JC), Merwyn came up with an ideda to watch a musical together. And so we watched Victor Victoria on the 15th



Staged in esplanade, this spectacle was the Asian premiere. It offered very strong music arrangement, elaborate settings and good comedy. I have to admit that all the actors are truly proffesional. Besides that, they had stunning dance displays. Combined with live orchestra and powerful original composition, this musical was a delight to watch.

I was particularly mesmerized by the music composition of this piece. Th chord progession during the part where Victoria was debating with Toddy (Carroll Todd) gave me goose bumps. I've never heard such combination of jazz chords. Simply amazing.

Laura Fygi, an internationally recognised jazz singer, acted as Victoria/count Victor, the main character. She has a unique vocal that really suits jazz, soothing and swaying. She was not that stellar in terms of acting though. Matt Grey (Carroll Todd) and Nicole Stinton (Norma Cassidy) stole the show I guess. Nicole Stinton put an exceptionally entertaining performance with the bimbotic-blonde interpretation of her character.

And, you know what, we got the chance to get Ms.Fygi's autograph and interact with her!

This is us with Ms. Laura Fygi

The escapade

and, next, despite the exam drawing near, I went for a resort escape to Batam. I simply needed a break,

and after that was history ( exams, you know it...)

However, yesterday, as we celebrate Claudia's birthday ('we' refers to my fix people in school here), we self-declared a mid-exam break, well some of us. It really felt like the end of the exam that Im losing my mood to restart mugging now. (ssssiiigghhh...). We dined in this mid-eastern restaurant in Arab Street called Amira's Grill. It rocks!! We took the king's corner and dine arab style by sitting on carpet and low table. The dips was simply awesome!!! The main course was nice, especially the herbs and spices, totally exotic (Crystal's term to describe the dinner haha)and the egyptian Babousa was a sweet wrap up for the 4 course meal.

the main course-mix kebab, some illustration to make you drool XD

We continued to watch 2012 and, yeah, I have to admit that it was a good movie. I had a little debate with cystal after the show about the quality. She said it did not live to her expectation, but I think it was quite entertaining. Maybe because I came with no expectation whatsoever despite the hoohahs about 2012. Well it was just a disaster movie, what do you expect, I suppose.

Anyway after such a long and happy soiree, ee chong proposed that we would have after exam celebrations on 2nd and 7th, after our each paper. We are left with Ric, Seehoo, me and JC who still have the agony of exams. And, yeahs, we DEFINITELY will celebrate!! hahaha..

Exams have been well so far, I know i'm being ungrateful for committing some stuffs, ought to have self control, must.

see you space cowboys

p.s thanks for teaching me how to play mahjong, it was fun although it lapsed to scary story session XD

November Rain

I gaze at the morning sky and the gentle dew embraces me

We keep our promise and you'll come this time..

when the raindrops kiss the window pane, I'll be waiting..


please show up as you have always, my pain awaits, I can't breathe..

When I see the rain through the window pane, you come and visit my pain

just save me, take me away

It has been raining for these few days, and that affects my mood. I just feel like staying slumber for the rest of the day sssiigghh..


ps. It's Friday the 13th, but nothing much. I don't believe insuch thing anyway..

Back from far east

Just got back from Crystal's birthday-one of my NBS mate- in far-east-really far ( okay i exaggerate, it was downtown east, in one of the suite of Aranda Country Club, not so damn far east, but it's far in the east anyway). Kind of had a proper break before exams and really enjoyed it. Forgot to bring camera, darn! But there was HX's, so waiting for her to upload. yeahs

This bunch of people are those that I've been hanging out since year one, kind of the fix people in school. The new project mates, just knew them for a while although spent much time with my IT folks (and gonna spend more as we're workin' on the FYP).

The image above was taken when we were watching MU vs Inter and Arsenal vs dunno-I-forget after we did fm project. Rode on JC's shrek-that's how we call his gentle giant CRV- to Balcony. We became too shagged afterwards and fell asleep for a while..

JC dressed damn funny for Crystal's retro themed party, he really went all out!! and we dressed nice also! so expect awesomeness from the photos haha..

and, yeah, this is not the official release just yet, need lots of things to improve. Yes, this blog will be all bout unnecessary stuffs and rants and myself and myself and myself and myself. Considering releasing another one for proper thoughts and perspective. haha

Side note, I did not attend class this morning, going for later's one at 12.30. I think Mandy hates me... whatever. Too late, hope this doesn't damage my participation grade much

next, exam mugging sssssiiiiigggggghhhhh ( a huge one )

see you space cowboys

p.s should've sipped at least a bit of that jim bean, it's been a while haha. Since everyone was either having class with whatever presentations tomorrow or wanted to study, so we didn't drink. Only Crystal got red haha XD

I was born magenta!!

Honestly, the idea of starting a blog for me to rant about anything has been dwelling for very long time. I have A LOT of things inside my head that i just want to vomit them out and be proud about it (if I could). Hope this darn thing work

Again, this might not be the best time for starting a blog or rather it is a totally wrong time. I am entering my sucky exam season, I am having class later at 8.30am and the time now is 3.42am. Dammit! I don't care. I want to start spawning something and I have been bloody delaying it for bloody LONG time, like eons, seriously! And today is the day! No day but today!


And I want to be MYSELF!! and I cannot effin' care less about what you or your people or your ideology judge me! yes, heck about it. I'm kinda tired having so much demand of being somebody from so many of you, and yes I will name some: school, church, community (okay, friends, if you could call them one). I will vomit here, I'll have HUGE words diarrhoea, sometimes I wont think. and yes if you think I am angsty, YES I BLOODY AM NOW, I dont know why dont ask me..

and you may think I am some hypocrite out there and trying to redeem myself here. My answer would be hmmmm I dont know, I feel i'm not myself sometimes. Dammit I dont care. This is not created in purpose of discovering that HA!

why I was born magenta? I was pondering upon it and having quite a bit of hard time in coming up with a name and this just popped up. Tell you 'bout the simple history sometimes when I feel like it. Champagne Supernova was my initial idea, but as it is so darn cool, it's not that original anyway. Dont get me wrong, I love Oasis and I will always. It's just that I want it to be more identifiable with myself.

okay, you hate me now, don't you? haha.. well, I may change, depends on my mood
so yea..

see you space cowboys