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I thought I've became more independent. Maybe I did for a while, during the months overseas. Maybe because life reverts back to how it was... Maybe I didnt change afterall.

He told me way before, that I was a naive person, I need to stand up on my own. I felt like I'm a burden to him sometimes. And most of the time, I needed other pple more than they needed me. The worst case, I just wasn't there for other pple. I felt I'm living other people's life more than my own.

Then I wonder... what the hell was I doing the last time I was alone? I'll play my piano. I'll read manga, and I'll draw out my fav characters. I'll edit them over a few days and show it to my mum. And she'll smile, I'll pout, "that's all?" and continue pestering her, "Is it nice??" haa.. I haven't done that for the longest time. My last drawing, I think it's still SamuraiX. I didn't really get back into the manga interest ever since. Partly because my mum complains I spend too much money on them and there's no space to keep them. What's the other part?... I wonder...

My piano playing... I feel that I'm no talent like what some others think. I admire people, continuing their passion. Like zx, he doesn't stop composing even after he stopped lessons. He and his friends created more music sparks while jamming tog. For me, I'm not sure if i'll pursue my diploma in the future. Maybe diploma isn't really suitable for me cuz the only times I play my piano is when I'm sad, or frustrated. Really, I dun think I play when I'm happy. Conversely, I play best when I'm upset, cuz I put all my emotions into it. And that translates to either strong, loud and heavy pieces... which nobody really appreciates.

Whatever happened to me? sigh.

Caught Mama-mia movie last night. thanks to engrg club cheap tix, only $4 wor! haha... Weiann, his 2 other fencing friends - Nick & Yanling, and I went for the movie tog. Ayez, because it's free-seating, so there's already a long queue by the time we reach at 7pm. (the show is 7.30pm)

The entire movie theatre at Marina GV is filled with NUS students! Prior to the screening, some peeps were trying to take photos of everyone in the theatre. And everytime the flash goes off, i'm doing sth unglam... like opening my mouth wide to fit nachos in. haha. Yup was pretty excited to see the movie rendition of the musical which I missed in London.

Anyway, the movie was good. Alot of the popular ABBA songs - which brings back some memories back in Cedar band. There're also some that I've never heard before. But I think they actually fitted the songs into the storyline pretty well. IT's kinda like 'We Will Rock You', where they try to insert songs into the story whenever they can. But this storyline is definitely better. Here's a short trailer :)



Oh yeah, Pierce Brosnan's voice is totally not suited for singing and I felt that his expression is a LITTLE... constipated. haha, he's better at being a cool Bond guy.
There's one scene where they started singing 'Dancing Queen'. And for the first time watching movie musicals, I thought it's very Bollywood. hahaha... She started singing, and the rest of the women put down their daily chores and started to join in the singing and dancing. hahaha... Found a clip on Youtube - Enjoy!

Although this sem's timetable is alot more slack - 4 day week, and 3 days of 2hr lects only... but I still feel a little overwhelmed by the amount of work to do.

The rest of the time, I'm either doing tutorials, revising cheem FEM lecture, reading journals for FYP, trying out ANSYS tutorials or gg for weekly meetings w prof and my proj groupmates.

For design proj, fabrication's starting soon. Gotta go down to labs to try making parts into shape, head down to sim lim to check out motors. Tog with my limited knowledge on motors, it's a challenge.
FYP is totally Finite Element language - journals after journals and trying modelling on ANSYS. And when my FEA module prof mentioned about group modelling project today, my heart sank. One more project.

And for each module, I feel like i'm such a SLOW learner, every activity takes up so much time. I'm really tired and this is just week 4... sigh

Checked out Timbre Musicfest on Wednesday night with dear. It's organized by Timbre (sponsored by Exxonmobil) and it's FREE~! haha...

Our tickets to the concert

There are quite a few bands performing. Each one lasting bout half to an hour.
The first performance was by Rick Steele from Down Under, tog with uBlues Duo from Singapore.

Interesting thing is, it's a free concert with free booze(Stella Artois somemore!) and free food!
OMG, i never came across such deals before. hahaha... but of course upon exchange with food vouchers which everyone has in their goodie bag.

Dear and I while queueing up for our pizza. =)

While queueing up, another band named Reverie & Rene performed.

I was quite surprised to know one of my coursemate Hanrong is the drummer. Cool~ Recalled them playing a few rock songs and 'Here comes the Sun' by The Beatles.

The next band, Soulfellas, was very very entertaining. They totally brought the mood to a higher level with their colourful and coordinated clothes, and little soul dance moves as they sang.

It's a pity that the courtyard was lighted quite brightly, makes the lightsticks quite redundant. Then everyone's seated down, and nobody really dare to stand up and groove to the beat. Next time they shld dim the lights, pple can go crazy w/o being embarrassed. haha

The last performance is a band from Australia in the theatre. Can't take pics inside. There's a harmonica player who is really lihai! haha.. His harmonica skills is equivalent to pro guitarist manz. When he's playing really really fast, he's body movement is like entering a trance, keep jumping and shaking his head like he's high on ecstasy. lol... We were stunned. really. hahaha... But I really applaud his playing skills. Eye-opener. =D Just feel that their style of playing is really about the same, we got bit bored and started playing w our lightsticks.


I think there should be more of this kinda performances in school (with those freebies of course!) It gets pple high and can relieve stress. woohoo~~