Happy Belated Birthday..

.. to my blog who turned 5 on October 19th.

Must be painful having to be a medium for wishing other people especially a few days just after its birthday.

You're old. You've seen me grow. You've seen me mature. You've seen me thru' my ups and downs. I love you!!

._.

someone take me outside :o

Also.

Happy birthday to Karina who had her birthday yesterday omgz omgz omgz.


risking my life posting this picture.

Hope you had fun. In Murni. And cramming your head the whole day for the upcoming exams.

Sorry to the October babies who had to do with having their birthdays on exam periods almost every frikkin' year. And I thought mine was bad. Hah.

Oops, I think I just hurt my blog again.

Someone really needs to take me outside.



-alexeO-

To those needing just that little bit of strength:

You know I rarely share videos.

So when I do, you can be sure that they're of an out-of-this-world quality. Most of them aesthetically of course, with jaw-dropping, stomach-churning, heart-wrenching impacts..

This video by my favourite band ever, is not so much as mind-boggling-impactful-bomb-shocker-woah as the previous', if that makes any sense at all.. does it does it?

Anyway as I was saying, this video by my favourite band ever (you can say whatever you like I don't care) has a much more explicit message, and the key lies in the song itself for me.. through the music.. lyrics.. delivery.. etc.

I listened to the song at first without knowing the message behind it and I loved it. Then after finding out why or how the song was created, I loved it even more.

Then after watching the video, it makes so much more sense.

According to Wikipedia, "lead singer Pierre Bouvier has stated in interviews that the song deals with his brother's battle with cancer."

Having a relative with the disease, it is certainly easy for me to relate to the various people, campaigns, organizations and songs out there raising awareness about cancer and ultimately giving strength to patients who might be undergoing treatment. It is a very, VERY grueling process lemme tell you and you can only do so much standing in the stands giving your support. And every ounce of it do count.

I am not trivializing any other problems anyone else could be facing here and I am also not trying to preach cancer awareness or anything similar.

But all I want to say is that life can be such a bitch most of the times and sometimes, just sometimes, all we need to survive the ordeal or day even is someone who when you fall or stumble down, he or she'll pick you up off the ground, or when you lose faith in you, he or she'll give you the strength to pull through.

Simple Plan, Save You. Enjoy.




-alexeO-

To those who are attached:

Do watch this video. Even if you're not, watch it anyway.



Beyonce - If I Were a Boy


p/s: When I say watch, I meant WATCH. Not letting it play at the background while you go do other stuff. That's 'listen', not 'watch'.



-alexeO-

To JL, SJ, and..

Happy Birthday Joseph and Sze.

High school check.
Uni check.
Primary school.. check also la!

To Yoke Keat who was in the same class as me for three years in a row in primary school(very rare considering how many classes there were in my primary school) and who also does not read this blog but included to just to have all categories checked, happy birthday.

(funnily ironic how he got the longest messsage of all)

Hope you guys have a good year ahead being in the 'twenties' till your next birthday(s). And thanks for warming the seat for me. I'll be right there.

Happy birthday again.



-alexeO-

Unhealthy

I think if I'm not the epitome of unhealthy eating habits, I don't know what is.

So it's no big secret(I wrote in my messenger's personal message) that I've been spending ridiculously more time than anyone really should in uni attempting to complete my group assignment - which happens to be a TV news feature production.

A little note on the assignment: It's TAXING. EXHAUSTING. DRAINING. EVERYTHING TIRING PUT TOGETHER!

We started feeling the pinch as early as on the second day of production. And we haven't even gotten to the editing part yet at that point.

What they tell you about spending all those time in the editing room. It's true. And ours was just a 15mins feature story. I cannot imagine the editing processes for a 2-3 hours film - particularly with all the effects and all. But then again, I'm specifying Hollywood here and knowing HOLLYWOOD with all its multi-million budget, equipments and humongous crew.. hmm..

So my group members and I hunted down people in shopping malls for interviews, made security guards give us suspicious stares, made random shoppers give us suspicious stares, risked getting beaten up for filming people without their permissions, risked getting thrown out of the shopping mall for filming illegally, shopped in Pavilion(???), ate free authentic granny's cooking, interviewed a granny and a granddad, laughed our socks off filming two self-made commercials, camped in the uni's multimedia lab, kena halau-ed from the m-lab twice by the guards, and after all that and the editing stuff later, not only did our 'tenaga jatuh' but our 'harga' pun jatuh.

Nola in all seriousness, we did learn a lot and had a good time producing our feature. (yea right la *rolls eyesx300*)

I think I drifted a little too far from what I wanted to say so back to my unhealthy eating habits la.

I'll list what I had so judge for yourselves wuu~

2 days ago:
Breakfast
Fruit Juice

Lunch
Fried Instant Noodles, Kopi Ais

Dinner
MCD - Spicy Chicken McDeluxe set.

1 day ago:
Breakfast
Fruit Juice

Lunch@5:00pm(?)
Tuna Bun

Dinner
4 slices of Pizza.

Today:
Breakfast
-

Lunch
-

Dinner
Korean Food.

Supper <- (hah! look I cheated!)
McNuggets, McFlurry Oreo.


Sigh.

The fruit juices better compensate for the lack of minerals and zat-zat.

And I would try to get the feature up on YouTube asap! But don't expect it too soon lar okay. I still have an essay to write OMG TALKING ABOUT THE ESSAY WTF WTF WHY ARE WE LIKE ONE OF THE ONLY PEOPLE LEFT IN THE UNI STILL HAVING ASSIGNMENTS TO DOOOOO!! EVERYONE BUSY PREPARING FOR THEIR EXAMS BUT BUT BUT HERE I AM BORROWING BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY AND ACCESSING WEBSITES I DON'T NORMALLY ACCESS FOR POINTS AND EXAMPLES AND ANALOGIES NOOOOOO!

.. okay. I still have an essay to write and also the video file is quite huge. 2-3gb OMG GOT OR NOT AH. So until I find a way to convert it.. Make it smaller or something. Does YouTube allow videos more than 10 mins? I know they didn't.. but recently I've seen videos going over by a significant amount so... I duno.

So most prob after all that hassle bassle you would prob see that video in 1-2 mths time or something la hah!

But then again.. knowing me.. it'll probably appear much earlier than that. O_O

OMG I DID IT AGAIN. Talking damn alot then contradict myself with a simple statement in the end.

Haih. Bai la. A little headache.

Gonna get my much-needed and deserved rest now.

Goodbai.


-alexeO-

Sympathize Me

My eyes are about to bulge out.

My nose is about to drop off.

My head is about to crack open.

My body finally gave in, and I've now fallen sick. I knew this day would come, but I wish it was slightly later.

But I shall rise above. And be strong. And pass this passing obstacle successfully woo!

Here is a picture I left out (intentionally, probably) from the last post:




Oh why oh why is my workload never ending.



-alexeO-

How you doin'?

Camwhoring at Starbucks.




You were sayin'?




The effect I have on the ladies.




I have dark, puffy, and slitty eyes.




Lala poses 1,2,3,4,5. Fail cause we didn't know how to correctly count ascendingly from 1-5.




Attempt 2.




It was alot of fun.. really..




This was supposed to be 'angry'. Don't ask me. Karina totally off-themed.




'Angry' #2.




This was 'sad'. (literally). I clearly win. Karina fail.




Karina looks possessed. Yi Jun damn funny. I win again.




Hey.




How you doin'?


Ok you can start judging me now.

Photos credited to YiJun's very awesome laptop camera.


-alexeO-

How Adorable

14 years old but I looked like 10.


Gone were the days before my life became a bottomless shithole. Prior to everything spinning crazily out of control.

Only I can get myself out of the own grave I dug.

I want my life to be back on track.. fug.



-alexeO-

To Exangel

Last day of school, 2005.


Happy Birthday Chrisanne.



-alexeO-

Desperate times call for desperate measures

At times like this, believe me, it is necessary.



P/S: quit commenting on my handwriting already.

P/P/S: hmm. i feel somewhat sorry for the guy who typed in 'healthy life blog' on blogsearch and got referred to my blog.


-alexeO-

Lock and Load

I had my rest so technically, there shouldn't be anything pulling me down.

(PD photos up on my facebook. Click on my profile badge in the sidebar if you're interested.)

Motivated and raring to go. Here I coooooooome.



-alexeO-

4:02PM

4.02PM..

Alone in my room.

Listening to inspirational songs, asking me to go higher. And higher some more.

4:03PM..

Singer sounds like on the verge of tears.

.
.
.

Song ends.

*

I just got back from a short de-stress trip.

I told a friend last night I was going to meet her this morning at 11.30AM before I went to bed at 10:30PM. I was pretty sure I wouldn't be late (as usual) considering that I should have had enough sleep and be freshly awake at that time.

But I wasn't. I received a phone call at 12PM plus a couple of missed calls and I almost froze. I quickly returned the call and apologized frantically.

I made it at 12:40PM.

I felt so bad.

I slept for 13 and a half hours. And even then I didn't even wake up naturally. The phone calls woke me up. I remember vividly waking up before the sun even rose and I wasn't quite sure what time that was but I remember feeling still pretty tired at that time and I was quite sure it was just the natural body clock I've been setting kicking in considering the little amount of hours I've been sleeping for the past many days.

Fatigued. And my exhaustion continues..

Really, I am tired both physically and mentally and it shows. I cannot really consciously feel it, but I know it's there. I should also note that I am very thankful for the random trip which happened because not only did it allow me to take a break from the things which are weighing heavily down on me but it was also because of that very trip that I actually finished one of my assignments before I left. Richmond correctly said that my assignment would probably still not be completed by now if I hadn't actually gone for the trip.

I'm strange like that. I need things like that to trigger and knock my senses out because discipline is not something I possess unfortunately. I certainly hope I have it though.

Oh. Now "Always" by Bon Jovi is playing.

Goodbye.



-alexeO-