Monday, October 29, 2007
Italic sentences are the random snatches of translations I could see from NEWS’ Weeeek PV.Alright. Because I am kind of bored because I don’t want to do the VJC Math Paper 2 now as of yet and I’m listening to the songs that Smee sent me (for like the fourth time today), I’ve decided to blog.
Okay it won’t be of like momentous events or anything – okay momentous to me – but not to you, so there’s no point in you reading this really, unless you’re also extremely bored of studying and need a random teenager’s insane/bored ramblings to entertain you for a while.
‘Let’s enjoy everyday!’
Here goes~
Okay, Smee, this is your entire fault. You got me hooked on UVERworld! And Abingdon Boys School for that matter. Ah this is stupid – it’s not exactly her fault – I’d been teetering on the edge of getting hooked on them anyway. But she pushed me over the edge!
Okay, she’ll just like eat me for breakfast in revenge.
It started with Ukiyo Crossing, I think. Was just passing through the UVERworld.org site (which I shall be adding to my links area thingy) and saw that they had a sample and listened to it and well… I got carried away. It’s an ending for a new drama – Harataki Man.
Oh then I was really depressed about my SAJC gp paper so I went online and searched randomly for songs. Then I chanced upon Rainy by them and really liked it because it suited my mood. And then, I happened to chance upon Sorrow (because I heard it was really good – incidentally, where’s the single where Takuya sounds like Cookie Monster?) and then finally =.
That one was really funny. Because I didn’t know that was the title, and I was looking for the translation/lyrics on the site. And I bitched to Smee who had trouble getting to sleep about the mysterious UVERworld song to which I didn’t know the title to and she replied that yes, that was the title just as I found it on the site and discovered that yes, it was the title of the mysterious song.
Then the next day, she felt generous and spammed me with songs. I love her!
Now I’m not exactly sure how many of their singles I have on this computer. It’s more than… okay, a grand total of 12 songs from them, not counting the Ukiyo Crossing 1:17 sample. That’s a lot. I never get more than what, 3 songs on average for an artiste, except for soundtracks and albums.
Sorry, Smee, for spamming you with song requests!
But they’re really good! As in I find that the lyrics (well, from the translations) have lots of meaning and are pretty positive. It also helps that when I’m studying, it’s nice to have something to bop along and keep you awake. Else I’ll fall asleep.
Kimi no Suki na Uta is especially nice~
I wonder how I’m going to survive examinations where you can’t bring in this sort of thing. Apparently, I’ll talk to myself and probably hum to myself as well, so please, those people sitting around me, you have been warned. Especially Smee. She sits behind me/in front of me/in my general area.
Ah I remember listening to ABS songs that Smee sent me a couple of months back but it didn’t really catch on until yesterday on Saturday when I was alone in the house and I decided to listen to them again. By playing them really, really loudly, I appreciated the songs a great deal more. I am scary!
And the band is not bad, for well, a not-so-young band in an industry full of sprightly young things. Yes we have fresh faces! And they dare to wear kilts in their PV. They’re really fresh faces. Ah hahaha.
And oh man, NEWS’s (weird English) PV is extremely random. (I think if I watch it enough, I can decipher some of the English that’s there, as they used the song’s translation as [most of] the background.) But bored la. Anyway, I can’t be bothered to do it. Ah it’s such a random and catchy song~ Adeline says they’re basically singing out the days of the week. A good way to learn Japanese. Bands really can be random. And they get away with it, along with jumping around in suits and doing stupid actions. Man I wish we could do the same.
Aggie you should hear it! You’ll love its happy-mood feel.
Ah, Arashi’s Happiness is also another random video. Really, even if you don’t understand the language (like I do), it’s good to watch random, stupid stuff from time to time. It relaxes you.
Yes I am in a mad, mad phase now, listening to random Japanese songs to relax/study. I have gone mad. If only I could add Weeeek into my player! Then all shall be perfect. But I shall have to wait till November 7 to get it. Like, 7-11.
*dies of lameness*
Okay, right, the Japanese song phase is over for now – I won’t blog more about how nice UVERworld singles are, like = (which I totally don’t understand the title) or even ABS’s Nephilim and Lost Reason – squeee I can’t believe they have full songs in English! I didn’t know it was completely in English until I checked up the lyrics. Taka pronounces weirdly~
Okay, stop.
I wonder who comes up with their lyrics… for NEWS, that is. See this line? It’s my favourite so far.
‘As a matter of fact, it’s already Thursday and I have no plans after tomorrow night.’
Okay, really, STOP!
Argh. Okay. Back to more normal stuff. I can’t believe the A Levels are next week! They’re like tsunamis and tidal waves of doom and horror and evil papers of 3 hours, sitting there and writing your guts out – I am horrified!
I am going to die a horrible death! Noooo~
I haven’t passed Math before! How! This is terrible! And it’s disgusting! I don’t feel ready at all.
And I don’t feel like I’ve actually done any biology or chemistry or anything! Only like, Mathematics. Argh. This is weird. This is stupid. And! When is the GP paper anyway?
It’s on Halloween right? Ugh so ironic.
Okay, it’s on the 31st of October. Right. On Kiri’s birthday. The poor dear. I wonder if anyone will go trick-or-treating with her. Maybe Hachi will go just to placate her.
And yay to Bleach’s 7th Opening! Thanks to Smee again who told me of it. Ah hahaha. The PV is reminiscent of the mutant Angel’s discovery of his mutant gene.
Maybe Bleach Portal will have the entire single. I know they have most of the openings and endings.
Ahh! I’m talking about anime again!
Okay. Oh man, they’re really almost here. The feeling is strange, it’s nervous but I’m not exactly a train wreck though I may not be showing it, I’ve been suffering from this terrible rash. My sister says it’s from the stress. And I’m like, really? I don’t feel stressed. I should be feeling stressed right? Maybe I just don’t know I’m stressed. The body reacts in different ways to different stimuli right?
But really, I don’t know, I feel extremely weird! They’re almost here and I’m still fa-la-la-la-ing online and not really doing anything and I should sleep soon because –
OH. I’ve been studying at Bishan library for the past two weeks! Anyone who wants to find me for anything, please go there! And it’s really a good place to study, provided you:
a. wake up at 8am in the morning
b. get out of the house by 9am
c. reach the library before 10am
d. rush to the 4th floor before a lot of people
e. save a table there and stay there for the next 7 hours.
I’ve been seeing Kailing and her friend there for the past few days! Hello Kailing! =D
And it’s usually been me and XL who go there. Not Xinli la, Xian Ling. And people join us, like Yihui or Adeline or Gerard, though it’s usually 4 people who do study together.
It’s quite good and productive and I discovered while I can do some work at home, it’s not as good as in the library! Because there’s really nothing much to do than to study there. And the atmosphere’s pretty good because there’s usually a crowd at the entrance of the library so you really have to fight for places. And they really do want to study. Since the O Levels have started, the crowds have kind of died down but not that much as now it’s the A Level people who hog the tables.
So far it’s been okay. I’ve survived 7 hours of integration and differentiation, more hours of biology and some hours of chemistry so I think I’m alright.
The only thing I haven’t touched is literature! Ah haha but I’ll probably read Othello the play later, and finally figure the later stages of the play.
OKAY I AM NOT ALRIGHT. I AM GOING TO DIE. I SPENT 4 HOURS DOING A 2 HOUR PAPER HOW HOW HOW AND THE WORST THING IS THERE WERE 1.5 QUESTIONS THERE THAT I HAD ALREADY DONE BEFORE IN MY PRELIMS AND I COULDN’T GET THE ANSWER AGAIN. WHY. I AM HORRIFIED BEYOND WORDS, I AM GOING TO DIE HOW HOW HOW HOW
(Goes into a corner and dies)
Okay, wait I can’t die yet! There’s still so much to live for! Anyway, I’m listening to random, good songs now, so I can’t just give up on life!
AND ALSO, THE PV FOR UKIYO CROSSING COMES OUT TOMORROW SO I CAN’T DIE YET, AFTER WAITING SO LONG FOR IT.
(What a stupid reason to not die. But hey, it works)
Anything goes, man.
Please spam me with random Japanese songs.
Oh and these are the English songs that have caught my attention so far:
Hinder – Lips of an Angel
Enrique Igelsias (sp?) – Do You Know
Nickelback – If Everyone Cared (MV is good for your GP) /Next Contestant
Pink – Who Knew
Timberland – Apologise
And some other songs that I can’t remember now.
‘Let me stop and think about my life on Friday/Let’s go to break the wall with our freedom.’
Asian Kung Fu Generation’s After Dark is nice. =D
Heck, so are the dozen are songs that Smee sent over. Ah hahaha.
Good luck for A Levels, everyone! =D
Important Note: I discovered that this post was almost long enough to push the ugly picture of the quiz out of the whole bunch of links up there towards the vast black space below!
SO! Ultimate random spamming now!
Oh yes, today I almost ran over Ms. Chan at Mos burger at j8. Ah hahahaha.
I shall look for lyrics to post here.
Just for kicks - UVERworld lyrics! Yay!
=: Because I don't know why they called it '='
Aka-iro no sora wo tonde,
Mata hitotsu boku wa kirai na mono wo Atsumete kono machi wo oyogunda.
Nando sakende mitatte kotae wa kurezu,
Hitori de hontou no imi ga wakaru made utaunda.
Umareta basho toka hitomi no iro ya kotoba dakede,
Boku no nani ga wakaru tte iu no?
Tari nai mono mo aru daro? Subete motome nai de!
Oeba ou hodo
Mizuumi ni ukabu kumo no you ni shizundeku.
We'll be back!
Nari yamanu miminari tomaru koto wa naku
(We'll be back!)
Boku no taisetsu na mono tachi wo (I'll be back!)
Itsuka mamori takute
Te ni iretai to negatta mono wa
Konna kokoro wo mo hikisaku kamikire ja nai!
Koraeteta namida ishiki no hate de ugoki dashita,
Tsumetai kabe ni yori kakatte naita.
Hitomi ni utsutta mono subete boku wa shiri sugitanda.
Oeba ou hodo
Ima ni wakari aeru koto wo shinjite.
Realize truth. Why?
Everyday,Battle day
Azayaka na niji ga sotto itsuka tsunagu kara.
Ushiro muita mama ja
No use chigau to omounda.
Umareta basho toka
Hitomi no iro ya kotoba dakede,
Boku no nani ga wakaru tte iu no?
Tari nai mono mo aru kara
Hito wa te wo tori atte
Itsuwari no tae nai mizuumi ni
Ukabi nagara utaunda.
---English translation---
Fly through the red sky
Find and collect one more thing that
I dislike and swim through this city
No matter how many times I screamed,
It gave me no answer
I'm going to sing until I know the true meaning
With the place I was born, colors of eyes, and words
What do you say that I know?
There's something missing, right? Don't expect everything!
I go after it and go after it
But it sinks like a cloud in a lake
We'll be back!
The noise in my ears don't stop
I just someday wanted to protect what was important to me (I'll be back!)
The thing that I wished to get into my hands
Is not a piece of paper that'll cut my heart!
The tears that were held back move past my conscience
I leaned against a cold wall and cried
I knew the things that were reflected in my eyes too well
I go after it and go after it
Believing what could be understood now
Realize truth. Why?
Everday, Battle day
One day a vivid rainbow will connect it all
If you keep looking back
No use I think it's wrong
With the place I was born, colors of eyes, and words
What do you say that I know?
Because there's something missing
People go hand in hand
think of a truthful lake and sing to it
(Stomps happily on the evil table/quiz thing.)
Posted by norbert at 10/29/2007 12:16:00 AM
Sunday, October 21, 2007
ChocolatespinningaroundmefalalalalalawheeeeeeownagebythecheeseoreolovesyooouKhoped from GPZ's blog. She does all the weirdest quizzes ever.
AH IT IS OUT OF THE BORDER THINGY HOW HOW HOW HOW IT IS UGLY.
Magic Muse's Villa
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And not bad for a house like that. Mua hahahahaha.
Posted by norbert at 10/21/2007 11:17:00 PM
Saturday, October 13, 2007
'Here I am and there were you and it looks like it's just tea for two again...' Electrico - Good TimeAh. Today was Farewell Assembly. The entire thing was surprisingly nice.
In the morning I came to school and then hurriedly went to the ODAC table where it was a furor of taking pictures and running around and saying hi to each other. Fariha and Smee finally had a picture together where they were poking each other. Classic fun. I think we inconvenienced quite a few people when we asked them to be our impromptu photographers. There was this picture where we were taking and Joycelyn was coming towards the table and Jiachang was telling the photographer to hurry and take the picture before she arrived but Joycelyn ran over instead and bopped him hard on the head before smiling prettily for the camera.
Yes, fear the ODAC girls indeed.
Anthony was really nice- he got us normal 2B pencils with ‘ODAC XXIII’ carved onto them together with a sweet generic message. I finally got my autograph book back from Rachel and Fariha but now it is with Veronica who will probably write many random things. Pity. I haven’t read it since I started distributing it out.
Then was assembly where I poked Smee on the basis that I was never going to be able to do this again and she poked me back and we had a bit of randomness poking each other. And oh! I took a picture of Raktim and Anushka together. Mua hahahaha. Now we have evidence!
After normal assembly, it was the farewell assembly where they had this ex-AJCian come back and speak for about fifteen minutes. He’s the best speaker ever. Everything was almost impromptu (he had a card to refer to for his main points) and he talked about nuts.
Anushka had a dilemma. She had brought for the class this lovely packet of chocolate coffee biscuits and was very hesitant to distribute it out to the class in the hall as she didn’t want to be caught for passing food around in the hall when Fariha, our dear friend, was very happily eating Toblerone in front of us without a care in the world. When we told her that someone could have caught her eating the chocolate, Fariha bent down her head to eat it instead.
That didn’t stop her from opening another packet of the lovely little chocolates though. And Anushka gave us the cookies. They were nice and delicious and made me high.
Then they showed us random presentations before the award ceremony thing then they had some performances by the dance and choir before resuming to the award presentation thingy.
Dance was supposed to be an interpretive dance I hope, because it looks really disorganized and crazy. Even Weivien, a Dance senior was like saying that the dancers were very individualistic and didn’t dance as a group.
The choir teacher, Mr Terrence Toh sang the choir song together with them! He was very good, until this part where his powerful voice wavered because he was trying not to laugh or something. It’s quite funny – sorry Aggie, the video shook a lot when he did that – I was trying not to laugh as well.
And there was this performance by this quartet who played Canon in D. It was quite okay I guess but Smee said that they weren’t really playing together and I was thinking that it did sound a little weird here and there…
The teachers came up with nice video presentations for us. The GP teachers came out with a classic video on a conversation between a Ms. Rabbit and a Ms. Turtle.
‘Hello! How was your day today?’
‘Ah! I have a lot of papers to mark!’
‘Oh but how does that make you feel?’
‘And it was also raining today!’
‘But how was your day?’
‘Oh! I had a stomachache too!’
‘How do you feel about that? Can’t you simply answer a question quickly, coherently and concisely?’
‘Huh? What was your question in the first place?’
They ended that off with a warning: NEVER, NEVER, NEVER NAQ.
It was rather cute. They did many things but I didn’t tape it, which was a pity. Then the Science department took over and they went into overkill as they loaded us with lame jokes and puns on Biology, Physics and Chemistry.
It was really bad. I can remember the entire school groaning in agony about Maxwell Boltzmann diagrams and how activation energy is required to study or something. And oh, the chemistry teachers rounded everything off with a rate equation determining question, where they measured the amount of effect to the grades that you get and deduced that rate of reaction = [effort]^2[attitude][sleep]^0. As such we should all become pandas.
This contradicts nicely with what our Chemistry teacher specifically told us to do – which was to get enough sleep. All in all, the assembly made us all feel vaguely nostalgic as it sort of reminded us of things we’d never be able to do again – like prodding Smee in the morning or glomping Aggie or saying ‘Jolly’ to Anushka. Then they hurried us to our homerooms where they gave out our entry proofs for the examination. (Oh so that’s why all the guys came yesterday… I was thinking that they’d pon it…) Ms Koh is a very amusing Form teacher. She was giving us out our things and we had this A*Star booklet thing which no one wanted to take and she said that no one would leave the homeroom until there were no more booklets left. Eventually the booklets were given out and then we clamored her for pictures. She was kind of reluctant but succumbed to a picture.
A few actually. There were about six cameras in the class.
Oh and while we were getting people to take pictures of us, Yide was completely ruining the mood by discussing a serious Chemistry question with her. Like why, Yide! Why?!
Okay… my pictures are worth, in total, 153MB of space. I knew I shouldn’t have set my picture quality to 5M (which is the highest quality, which means they’re enormous). Who wants them? =D
So after that little session of class time, some people disappeared to take pictures with their CCA – ah where was ODAC? I didn’t know – so we dispersed to take pictures. It was mostly me, Smee, Anushka and Veron. Aga had to take her commendation certificate from Mr. Chin, and we tagged along for that and took a picture with him.
It was all very official looking – we all held our certificates for the pictures as Mr. Chin commented that we had brought Smee and Veron along for the exact purpose of taking pictures for us. Ah haha.
After that we had nothing to do as the place Aga recommended only opened at noon we had to wait till it was time before we could leave. The thing actually ended quite early, almost ten in the morning too. Since we had cameras and people and time, it sprouted a really, really long and tedious bout of running around school and taking pictures. It was mostly ambushing teachers and taking pictures with them. We entered the library to take pictures as well and we invaded other places to take random pictures.
We took pictures in the class, of PW groups, the econs group, the lit group, the girls, the guys, the lit girls, etc and more. Litian, Nigel and Fitrah vanished after the assembly, which was a pity as they were the only ones who didn’t go for the class outing.
Which was organized quite a while ago. Which was organized by Agapera. That lovely girl is a great organizer. She even reserved seats for us at the place! This huge class outing thing was mostly a girl-initiated event where the guys just tagged along because they actually felt like it.
I feel vaguely impressed with the guys.
It was quite fun – I have a lot of pictures in my camera. I’ll probably upload it and send it to everyone… if I remember. Ah the way everyone was taking pictures it was like we were never going to come back to school!
I felt that it was quite weird but tagged along all the same and got carried away with taking extremely random pictures.
I had no idea just how gay the guys in our class were…
But then again, it’s nice to see them *hem, hem*… come out of the closet just before we all break to study hard for A Levels.
Ah... that reminds me… I totally didn’t study today… meh.
Caught up with some of my manga, finished a series (2 books only and it was quite sad) and started another one. Adeline should know it – Boku wa Imouto ni Koi Suru. It’s okay, really, though I don’t get some of the scenes, like what is his reason for this and doing that and etcetera. It was quite confusing in some places as they would go back to the past then come back to the present where the couple is doing really weird stuff and then bounce around the recent timeline until I really don’t know who the brother is going out with now.
Ah but yes, Yori really does like Iku.
(Well. Only people who know the manga/drama/movie would know what I am talking about. This is to protect innocent eyes.)
We ran around taking pictures and finally yes, I have pictorial evidence that Zhiwen does exist and is in our class. And he is potentially in a gay triangular relationship with Yide (sorry, Yida) and Simon. And that Simon is very, very scary and frightening around the guys. It is freaky. I think being in his secondary school does things to you. Then again, Nigel is from his school and look how he turned out.
… okay… not that there’s much to compare anyway.
Yes! Please ask for my pictures! Mua hahahaha. I have taken evidence of many things which have been hidden for a while…
Anyway, so we hung around school until around eleven thirty where we finally, finally had everyone gathered and set off to Raffles Place MRT, at Boat Quay where the MindCafe was located.
Anushka, Smee and I got so bored of waiting that we went to the foyer and waited for everyone else. Apparently the guys were already there and mumbling darkly amongst themselves, or in the case of Boon Siong, discussing it loudly with other guys.
And predictably, the last person to arrive was Agapera. We glared darkly at her as we left the school and promptly got distracted by Shirong, and took another impromptu picture of our Lit class.
Apparently, the MindCafe was discovered by Odacians who went for the AJventure and they gave out little vouchers. And generally people know what Aga is like around free vouchers. It’s this little place where you get to go and play games and eat nice food for a few hours. And they’ve got tons of board games and random games and stupid games which are just so reminiscent of when we were kids that well, one gets distracted. With good friends and a free flow of drinks around and people doing stupid dares every now and then, it’s easy to forget that our A Levels were in two weeks.
The MindCafe is this really cozy place somewhere at Boat Quay where you can sit down at play games for hours at end. And it’s really tucked away and relaxing as they’ve got comfy sofas and low tables, along with nice lighting. It helps that they have enough games to line both ways fully and nice people to help explain the games to you. The price of staying there isn’t bad as well – just make sure you go during their happy hours: you get $5 for 4 hours worth of free drinks and games. Having completely invaded the area – I remember the man at the counter saying ‘Ah so you’re the group of 20 people’ when we arrived. He had this vaguely apprehensive look on his face.
I had really imagined it to be this chic, quiet place with muted lighting and sofas and low tables – I really didn’t imagine it to be really what I thought it was. The first thing I had thought of was ‘Wow, it really is what I imagined it to be!’
Anyway, we came, made ourselves comfortable, with most of the Lit and History girls in one big table – 10 of us – the Econs girls in another table – 4 of them – and the guys all crowded around one table. The counter person was introducing us to some games, especially when we specifically asked for brainless, stupid and funny games. First off, we played this weird monkey-banana-tree game thing where you’re supposed to remove some sticks poking through this plastic banana tree without letting the monkeys drop. The one with the most monkeys loses the game.
Somewhere around here, Wei Xun began to ask the girls for their shoes… no one lent theirs to him though.
Then we played this game called Ugly Dolls which is really very fun – you basically have this pack of cards that have pictures of monsters on them (pretty cute ones too) and everyone flips over a card to see the monster picture on it. When one has three of a kind, you’re supposed to try to take those three cards. When two people snatch the same card, the first person to say ‘Ugly, ugly, ugly’ wins the card. We played this game first with Agapera who was generally very loud and insistent, and didn’t exactly win. This game obviously calls for good recognition skills as well, as the cards kind of look like each other. So we have little arguments here and there and screams of ‘Ugly!’ all over the place.
It was very amusing.
Eventually our food came and we cleared the cards to eat them. Aggie had arrived by now as she came late because of her choir friends. I had Fish and Chips while Smee had Fish and Shrooms Pasta while Anushka took the vegetarian Mediterranean Pasta. It was really pretty and good to eat! They put the pasta in this pretty shell-like plate and Anushka was just squealing over.
That reminds me: Anushka, get a new memory card or something.
Aggie had some of our food and shared some gossip with us. We had fun stealing and poking each other’s food, because Aggie asked for my fork to poke Smee’s fish pasta and I didn’t know she was going to do that so I lent her my fork and she started poking it (rapidly). Smee just turned matter-of-factly to my food and started jabbing it as well (vicious girl), just as Anushka decided to do the same. So my poor fish and chips got prodded at a lot. We had fair trade as well – Anushka wouldn’t eat her Shitake mushrooms and gave them all to me in return for my fries. I was quite disgusted with her. Shitake mushrooms are one of the better mushrooms of the world.
And she didn’t eat a full egg today. Before she runs back to India, we must make her eat one full egg.
During the meal, Xinli had arrived and she was poking at our food as usual. Xinli and Smee had this very curious love-hate relationship. Xinli would very happily squeal out ‘mee meeeeeep~’ from across the parade square and at the café, she kept making pouty faces to Smee who just ignored her completely.
After we ate, we played Ugly Dolls again, this time with Aggie and Xinli together with us and it was particularly louder and more amusing as they were suspicious about seats and how it gave them bad luck. Xinli was generally being blur and confused by the cards as they really look quite alike and mooning over how cute the monsters really were. Anushka was so amused by the entire thing that she asked Jo to tape a sequence of us playing the game, and it was coincidentally the loudest and messiest time of the game, which made the video even more priceless. She was doing horribly until she changed seats and eventually won the game with 14 cards stolen from the pack. Aga lost with only 3 cards stolen. I can’t remember her dare though.
Never knew that Smee, the quietest of us all could be so successful in a game. She is scary and admirable. I regard her highly. Every time she flipped over the card, it was coincidentally the third card and so she took it.
After the food, we played more games – Jenga, where it’s like Uno Stacko, just that you have dares and questions written on the blocks that you have to do. The truth questions were quite repetitive so we didn’t really bother to answer them after a while. One dare was to kiss a member of the opposite sex. We modified it to blowing a kiss to the opposite gender. Natalie was shrieking her head off, saying that she didn’t want to do it but we made her blow a kiss to Simon who was just politely confused.
Some of them were fun (I had to yodel) but others were just downright lewd and annoying (pole dance around a member of the opposite sex – since all the guys in our class aren’t really considered guys, there was a bit of a puzzle over this). Xinli had a dare to dance like a ballerina around the room and she just focused on glomping Agapera who was making frantic motions not to do anything to her. The guys were playing amongst themselves too and they had really outrageous dares for each other – I remember having recorded down an entire dare sequence where guy A is in a gay relationship with guy B but guy C likes guy A as well and guy C proposes to guy A when guy B finds out –
Now you know what kind of directors Boon Siong and Joel can be. Anyway, it’s recorded. I will watch it once in a very long time, when I need to remember what the storyline is.
Then there were dares where the guys had to hug each other ala Brokeback Mountain…
And Simon had to pole dance around an umbrella.
I rest my case.
So generally, yes, we had a lot of fun.
We ordered so many drinks as well then finally we sat down to play Monopoly.
It was a long and hard game.
I was the banker and there were so many transactions and deals between the players themselves that I just concentrated on reading the rules and giving out money and houses.
Natalie and Aggie were busy haggling over this street – Anushka and Smee had a deal: if she sold her railway station to Smee at a higher price then she didn’t need to pay her at any of the railway stations; Aga was trying to buy over this street from Aggie while the latter owned the richest streets in the entire board. Xinli just focused on buying the orange line from Aga at a thousand dollars for two streets and paying me money to get herself out of jail.
There were so many changes to the rules, Natalie was very focused on reading this pack of trivia cards that she wasn’t really paying attention to the game – Smee had landed on one of her streets and she was keeping quiet as Natalie took no notice of the movement. It was a mass buying and selling game as Anushka kept wailing about how she would always lose money. And for the Chance cards, she kept saying ‘Give Anushka $50’ until once it really came true as Smee was said to be the Player of the Year and had to give $50 to every player. She was very happy when that happened. They kept buying and selling streets to each other and there were mass upgrading and everything – Aggie sold a light blue street to Aga who had the other two streets and in return, everytime she landed on that street, she didn’t have to pay, like the deal between Smee and Anushka.
I got so irritated with Natalie not paying attention to the game that I just took her trivia cards from her and kept them back in the box. Natalie had a sure-fire tactic for playing Monopoly – every time someone bought something, she’d ask to buy from that person until everyone got so irritated with her that they didn’t bother. She eventually became a better player.
Smee was a scary business woman, ‘shrewd’ as Aggie put it, and she successfully brought all the railways in return for her property and kept to that. She didn’t bother to do anything else and no one bothered with her because she was already established as a very smart and scary player.
Anushka was quite amusing. She didn’t like Monopoly as she kept losing money in the game but still she did quite well. Eventually she got bored of it and was fiddling around with her camera and lost her memory card for a while before Aggie found it on her blouse. She really wasn’t interested in the game, I’m sorry to say.
Agnessa was alright; she brought and sold stuff to people, collected her rent and was quite a decent player and a nice person. She was quite smart as well, when Aga wanted to buy property from her, she held out until Aga didn’t want to buy it anymore. Eventually she sold her some property but still played the game as quite a good and nice player. She owned the most expensive streets of all but didn’t really do much to them as we didn’t have much time to play the game.
Xinli was basically, quite a weird player. Within the first round, she had landed herself up in jail and stayed her for pretty much the entire game. Yes, she did get out and all ($50 to me) but she kept returning back to jail and hence never did collect her roundly income of $200 and blamed me for it. I think she made a record for going into jail the most number of times – at least three times within the first two rounds, because the Chance card was not kind to her. Xinli had the entire orange street (whatever) thingy but was unable to pay for anything. Ah haha.
Agapera was quite a funny player. She tried to buy things from Smee and Natalie and eventually when Anushka decided to drop everything, she earned quite a bit of things from her, making her one of the richest players. Then when Xinli finally gave up and gave her everything, she really became the richest player and improved upon the red street so much, with three houses. Smee was currently in the Free Parking space which was before the red street and was glaring darkly at Agapera who had just upgraded her streets to such a degree. She earned quite a bit of money in this game as mainly two players combined their assets with hers.
When we ended the game Agapera was quite sad as she was saying that she had never earned so much money in the game before, or was this successful in it. She wanted to take pictures…
We sat there for four whole hours, just sitting and talking and laughing and taking pictures and videotaping each other and listening to random talk – ANUSHKA I WANT THE VIDEO OF US PLAYING MONOPOLY AND UGLY DOLLS – AGGIE I WANT MY DARE VIDEO – and all the other lovely memories that will stay with us when we sit down and bully our brains into studying.
Please send each other the pictures! They will be fondly treasured.
And study hard for the A Levels! Let’s do this again after them!
I realize my posts are getting shorter. I used to be able to post ten pages for ten hours in font size 10 but now I’m barely two-and-a-half pages in font size 12 for almost 6 hours of pure nonsensical fun. Hum. I shall predictably forget to full in the gaps for this.
I am dead tired.
Okay, I changed it. Now it’s almost 4 pages worth of nonsense in font 10 size. And I checked it to my older posts, 10 hours was about 5.1 pages, so 6 hours for 3.5 pages is quite a decent turnover. Yay! I have not lost my ability to bore people with many words yet! All’s well!