can you see?

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I think I can understand a bit of the lyrics without searching for the translation. I’ve been listening to the song over and over again. At first, I just enjoyed the tune – emotional. Then, I tried listening to the words. Got most of it but didn’t think much coz I always listen to it before I drift off to sleep.

Now, I listen to the song again. The words hit me. I could just cry coz the lyrics are pure and emotional.

The song is OLIVIA inspi’ REIRA (TRAPNEST) – Shadow Of Love.

Oh ya, I read Chloe’s blog and realised I have yet to thank Yui for helping me get Tacchon’s uchiwa and NewS photo album. I spent most of the time squealing over the photo album last night. The old man is wise for choosing what I call the “wedding pic” for the photo album coz everyone is so 帅。Sankkyu! Chu! :heart:

Sis and I were discussing over the uchiwas we collect. We’re puzzled over why I never collect aho Maru’s uchiwas. I thought about it. Answer: I like his aho moments which will never be captured in the uchiwa.

to do list

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How time flies. July is coming which means I’m only left with one month to wrap up everything. Meet with friends for the last time, shop for warm clothing and laptop, visit Grandma’s grave, pack my bags, pack all my things into boxes…

Talking about packing my things into boxes. I don’t even know how and where to begin. I have too much “rubbish”. I guess I can start from the magazines. *thinks* Can’t believe it. My family is moving without me and I don’t even get to enjoy my new room before I leave for studies.

Meeting friends can be quite a headache too. With 7ners it’s more or less settled. Wait for Pwen to come back then we’ll all meet up. But with the poly mates…*haiz* I checked with Raynor sometime back when are the Uni holidays. It’s vacation period for them and the school term only starts in August. However, he requested to meet up in the weekend as he is working. Hmmm…yea, I guess I’m the only one shaking legs here. I just messaged back that I’ll work out something.

Then again, why am I planning my own farewell party? *blink blink* *echo-ey voice: coz you’re the one who wants to see everyone before you leave~~~* でも…I think it’ll feel nice to have someone do the planning? *twiddles thumbs* We could have dinner それも…カラオケに行こう!!! Cash Studio, please! Hehehe…

PS: I’m writing all this on purpose…but I wonder if anyone will see it? *prays* 

disbelief

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In case anyone is interested to know, I got my student visa. *beams*

After reading Jo’s lastest blog entry on some ill-bred kids and their parents with lousy parenting skills, I have decided to share my experience.

This happened a few days ago while I was watching Spiderman 3 with my bestie, Xianglin. I guess every kid knows the character which makes their equally excited parents go “let’s have a family outing to the movies!” What these parents fail to realise is whether their kids are old enough to understand what is going on the big screen especially when the movie is not a cartoon.

These two related families brought their kids little brats to watch the movie. I think the general audience would be pretty tolerant when it comes to noise from kids coz afterall, kids are KIDS. And Singaporeans are rather tolerant when it comes to a fellow citizen forgetting to switch his phone to silent mode…we just make “lizard noises” to let the bugger know he is testing our patience.

Halfway through the movie, one parent decides to sms and in the process, let the whole cinema know she is sms-ing. Grrr…there is an option to switch off the keypress tone, you twit. Meanwhile, their kids are getting a little restless, asking all sorts of questions as to what was going on in the movie. Alright, patience is a virtue so we shall not show our displeasure yet.

Towards the end of the movie, said brats decided to give up watching the movie and started to play catching. Yes, right there in the cinema. Ok, patience is no longer a virtue. Everyone was going “shhhh” which was VERY audible but what did the parents do? Nothing. WTF. Now, everyone was staring at the brats AND the parents. What did the parents do? Still nothing. !%$^#%$^& My patience was wearing thin. If I could shoot laserbeams with my eyes, the parents would have been fried a long time ago. I was about to verbally tell the parents to REMOVE their brats from the cinema when someone beat me to it. That was when the parents decide to drag their kids out.

*shock shock shock* Disbelief. Sayless.

You mean people have to TELL you to take your kids out of the cinema. That doesn’t make you any better than your brats now does it? Thank God we didn’t have a violent person in our midst else that cinema would have become a bloody crime scene.

On the one hand, I want to defend the brats by saying that they were too young to understand the movie so it was the fault of their parents for bringing them to the cinema. On the other hand, I think it’s just a case of ill-bred children. What have I said about ill-bred children? There is NO excuse for ill-bred children.

I remember my first movie “Dennis, the Menace”. My mum was so excited about bringing us to the cinema for our first movie as a family. I was so bored. Did I go around making noises? No. Did I run around? No. I just sat through the movie with half-closed eyelids. I knew that if I made any noise or run around, I would so get it from Mum. See, good example of good parenting.

Attack All Around

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*FANGIRL ALERT*

可愛いでしょう? :heart: 絶対可愛い~~~ Somehow I always felt Shinjiro looked good when he was all serious and cool. Whenever he smiled, he looked a little odd. Compared to the ever-smiling Nissy, he paled in comparison of cuteness and being vocally strong. He hardly sang solo parts for AAA. Despite being a good dancer, he is always at the back.

I would not have watched 美味學院 if not for Shinjiro and Nissy acting in it. Hmmm…the storyline for the drama is so-so with lots of scenes that make you go -_-|||. Anyway, I’m just trying to catch up with dramas.

Ok, I just went to the AAA website and found out that Yukari has left the group due to health problems. It was from the forums that I learnt that Yukari has been taking breaks due to health problems. I never thought that Avex would actually remove her from the group. Maybe saying that would be a bit too unfair to Avex since it could have been a mutual agreement.

With gymnastics girl, Yukari out of the group, that makes AAA a 7人 group – 5 guys 2 girls. Really really unbalanced… Get well soon, Yukari! And all the best! 🙂

one can never be too careful

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Still waiting for the Golf & Mike PV to complete downloading. While waiting, I’m checking out blogs and listening to 嵐 belt out “Love So Sweet” on winamp. Suddenly, I have the urge to blog.

Nyanyanya…I’m so not blogging about the Japan trip yet. *evil laugh*

Again, I left things to the last minute. Actually not on purpose but coz I didn’t freakin’ read ALL the contents in the envelope. By the time I realised I had to send back the orange form to get my I-20, I had wasted about 2+ months. So I sent it out quickly, figuring that clever me had got everything sorted out. Timing would be perfect. Go for Japan trip. Come home, open letter box and jajang! I-20 form sitting in the letter box.

Well, I would have been clever had I remind myself that “all things that can go wrong, WILL go wrong”. It states on the form that my first name is “Zai-yu” and middle name is “Elisia”. Wait a minute…I always thought my first name is “Elisia” and I don’t have a middle name. However, thinking that if I don’t put in my chinese name which is stated in my passport, the school might deny my attendance. So, I enrolled with first name “Elisia” and middle name “Zai-yu”. Of course my name would then be read as “Phua Elisia Zai-yu”, wrong order but at least all 3 names would be there. Anyway, I suppose the school must have looked at the photocopy of my passport and decided that “Zai-yu” is my first name since it reads “Phua Zai-yu Elisia”.

Best of all, I wouldn’t have freaked out that much but I read this article in the newspapers in Japan that a Japanese lady got barred from entering the States just coz she was still of engagement status when she applied for her visa and when she actually decided to step on US soil, she was of married status. Apparently, she did ask if she could get married while waiting for the visa to be done and was given the go ahead. Later on, officials actually said that she lied about her status. WTH. Small thing like that and she gets barred from stepping on US soil. So, can you imagine what I started to think about my own situation?

Then, I realised I have to fill in a number of forms and fix an appointment date to go for the interview at the embassy. I don’t even have the photo ready. They don’t take our usual passport size photos. Photo studio would need time to get the photos ready. One week? Can I even afford to waste one more week? STRESSSSSSSSSSSSS…never thought filling in a few forms could be THAT stressful. I even ended up unable to sleep last night just coz I was worrying whether I could get a time slot for the interview since I’m so late already. What if I get a time slot but they can’t get my visa done on time? What if they decide to pick on every single detail in my forms and finally deny me of the student visa? What if I’m going to be in deep shit? Ahhhhh…I’m going to die. *shoots myself*

My apologies to Man Ling. I sms-ed her in the middle of the night even knowing that she’s holidaying in Germany. I was just freaking out big time.

So now, I’ve got the forms filled out. I’m waiting for the school to email back with advice. I decided to go ahead with “Zai-yu” being my first name. I now hope that the school has not decided to change something. *crosses fingers and toes* That would mean I would have to wait for them to send another I-20 form. More time wasted. I fixed my embassy appointment date to be this Thursday. I found out that there’s a photo booth at the embassy where I can get my photo taken.

I’m not sure I can come out alive since it says that only the person getting his/her visa is allowed to enter the building. Which means that Mum won’t be able to accompany me through the interview. Of course I should be doing this on my own since at the end of the day I’m going to be in the States for 4 years without my immediate family. But just in case I hear bad news and need familiar hands to support me…

God, please please please let me get my student visa successfully. Please please please let things go smoothly. 😥

the future of MM

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I’m sorry that I’m not blogging about my Japan trip yet. It will take some time so I’m trying to settle other things first. Haha…like visiting blogs and reading fan gossip.

The future of MM seems to be pretty bleak. One incident after another. First it was Mari, then Aibon, then Nono, now Mikitty. The leadership torch has been passed down quite a few times in such a short period.

Mikitty’s case is similar to Mari’s. She was spotted and photographed by a tabloid magazine (aka trashy mag) with her boyfriend. She admitted to the news and has since decided to step down from her leadership post in MM. She will still be part of GAM and H!P.

I really don’t know if I should be excited now since Ai-chan has taken the role of leader and Gaki-san, the role of sub-leader. My 2 favourite MM girls.

welcome back

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キャぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁ~~~ 内くんと草野くん帰ります!!!

They will be in PLAYZONE!!! If I weren’t going to study, I might want to watch the play even though I won’t understand it. We’ve been waiting for their return for so long that I bet some of us were starting to lose hope. Now, they’re coming back!!!

Although there is still no say of whether they will rejoin NewS and 関ジャニ∞, I really pray that the old man will decide on that.

I really miss 8人 NewS…

PS: Thank God for WordPress’ timestamp function. I meant to blog this before I left for Japan.

new songs for me to sing

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Sing Sing Sing
Went CS-ing yesterday with Sis, Per and Joyce. So exciting! They updated the songs in the system so there were all the new songs. Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~~~ :heart:

I managed to sing NewS’ “星をめざして”!!! :heart: I also tried OLIVIA’s “Stars Shining Out”. I was a little afraid that I wouldn’t be able to manage it so I just kept silent while the first verse played. But I figured it was quite ok. 🙂 Only there’s this part that goes very very high-pitched, my already thin voice goes even thinner and Sis says I sound like I’m singing for the mosquitoes to hear. :rofl:

Yea, I once joked with Sis that if ever I join a group, I’ll just be the wall-flower of the group. Coz the wall-flower of the group doesn’t get to sing upfront due his/her weaker vocals. He/she sings most of the harmonising parts. Haha, but even so, that is totally impossible! Why? Coz I can’t dance. Don’t laugh, I’m serious. Maybe someone should invent the “stiff cardboard dance” or “wooden dance”…

Leggings and Shoes
I was flipping through May’s issue of Kera and I saw this model wearing the type of leggings I wanna get. Ya, you don’t have to bother about the rest of the clothes she’s wearing…haha…

Also, I decided to check out the website for this online shop that sells punk/rock shoes and boots. They also sell the rocking shoes. They do international orders but the shoes don’t come cheap. Hmmm…

Teacher of Technology
Our phones are of the same brand but different. Thank God the settings for Mum’s handphone is about the same as mine.

I was in the shower and Mum just asked me how to change the alert tone when there’s a sms. So, I gave her instructions there and then by memory.

Why does it happen to be only me in the family who knows all this technology stuff? I wonder if anyone really thought for a moment how did I learn how to do all this stuff. I too had to read the instruction manual or fiddle around with settings. I don’t just know things you know.

*thinks*

Ok, fine. I’m the same. I keep asking James to fix my internet connection when it goes wonky.

Slow vs. Ill-bred
Our family was having dinner at a hotel restaurant yesterday. 3 kids from a neighbouring table were running around and making a lot of noise. It’s very dangerous for kids to run around in a restaurant. Moreover, the noise they were making was getting on my nerves. All this while, the adults at their table didn’t even bother to stop them. :angry:

Grace said that she didn’t mind children who were slow at grasping facts but there’s no excuse for ill-bred children. I totally agree with her. Now, I’m really thanking Mum and my babysitter for whacking me when I was young. At least, I grew up knowing what is to have good manners.

Hurhur…now, I know of 2 who badly need smacking…