Run run runaway baby

Sleep happy

:)

 
 

Meet Mr Mars

After waiting for 4 months, the day is almost here.

Gonna meet Bruno Mars tomorrow.

Bang bang...GORILLA!

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Two big hearts

Love love love LOVE this.

It's like doing the waltz on a cobbled sidewalk in Vienna on an lovely spring evening. With a Malay man.

Cause...you know...the song is in Malay.

Good Sunday, guys.




:)

Me, myself and selfie

Weather has been awesome here in Krabi.

Going kayaking tomorrow.

Bring on the sunblock and aloe lotion.

Tanning is never my past time though I love the great outdoors.

Life and its ironies.

The ghost of Mass Comm past

Abby, Irda and I.

The former Mass Comm lecturers down at TMC.

Abby is for Media Studies.

Irda is for Public Relations and Business.

I am for Journalism and Film.

Good times.

Friday blues

Am setting exam paper.

And my godmother is accompanying me on the record player.

Come
Come
Come into my world.

5 more days...

...and it will be screw you, lesson plans, cause it is school vacation.

One week.

Then of course it is back to work again.

But now, let me deal with my Monday blues with old records.

Dust the vinyls.

Time out

Just a quickie.

Golden Man Named Oscar

The annual cinematic excitement is back and hey...this season, I am happy to say that I have been quite an active 'participant' and (armchair) critic. So, here are some of my predictions for...

The 86th Academy Awards

Best Picture:
American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Nebraska

Philomena

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

 

Ed's Choice: Gravity

Most likely to win: 12 Years A Slave

EDITED:
Actual Winner: 12 Years A Slave

 

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

Christian Bale (American Hustle)

Bruce Dern (Nebraska)

Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

Ed's Choice: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

Most likely to win: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

EDITED:
Actual Winner: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

 

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

Amy Adams (American Hustle)

Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

Judi Dench (Philomena)

Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

 

Ed's Choice: Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

Most likely to win: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

EDITED:
Actual Winner: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

 

 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)

Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)

Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)

Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

Ed's Choice: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

Most likely to win: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

EDITED:
Actual Winner: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)

Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)

Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)

June Squibb (Nebraska)

 

Ed's Choice: Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)/ June Squibb (Nebraska)

Most likely to win: Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

EDITED:
Actual Winner: Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)

 

 

Best Cinematography:
The Grandmaster (Philippe Le Sourd)

Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)

Inside Llewyn Davis (Bruno Delbonnel)

Nebraska (Phedon Papamichael)

Prisoners (Roger A. Deakins

 

Ed's Choice: Nebraska

Most likely to win: Gravity

EDITED:
Actual Winner: Gravity


Best Directing:

American Hustle (David O. Russell)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)

Nebraska (Alexander Payne)

12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)

The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)

 

Ed's Choice: Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron)

Most likely to win: The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)

EDITED:
Actual Winner: Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron)

 

 

Best Original Score:

The Book Thief (John Williams)

Gravity (Steven Price)

Her (William Butler, Owen Pallett)

Philomena (Alexandre Desplat)

Saving Mr. Banks (Thomas Newman)

 

Ed's Choice: Gravity

Most likely to win: Her

EDITED:
Actual Winner: Gravity

 

 

Best Original Song:

Happy (Despicable Me 2)

Let It Go (Frozen)

The Moon Song (Her)

Ordinary Love (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)

 

Ed's Choice: Happy

Most likely to win: Let It Go

EDITED:
Actual Winner: Let It Go

 

 

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke)

Captain Phillips (Billy Ray)

Philomena (Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope)

12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)

The Wolf of Wall Street (Terence Winter)

 

Ed's Choice: Captain Phillips

Most likely to win: 12 Years A Slave

EDITED:
Actual Winner: 12 Years A Slave

 

 

Best Original Screenplay:

American Hustle (Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell)

Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)

Dallas Buyers Club (Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack)

Her (Spike Jonze)

Nebraska (Bob Nelson)

 

Ed's Choice: Nebraska

Most likely to win: Blue Jasmine

 

EDITED:
Actual Winner: Her
 

 

Okay.

That's all.

Till tomorrow

 

*cross fingers*

EDITED:
My actual predictions came quite close. Guess it is another year of non-upsets. Bleargh.

 

 

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Bang bang...gorilla!

Down with heartburn. I guess it is only a matter of time.

Oh this sucks so bad.

Plus, I must be getting really old.

34 hits like a tonne of bricks.


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Volcano

Was at Mt Merapi yesterday. A beauty.

Headed to Borobudur and Prambanan temples earlier as well.

Tired.
























Good times.

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34

Not so young, never beautiful

I am a year older in 24 hours' time. I am feeling emotional. Blame it on being hormonal or whatever.

I hate birthdays.




I've seen the world
Done it all, had my cake now
Diamonds, brilliant, and Bel-Air now
Hot summer nights mid July
When you and I were forever wild
The crazy days, the city lights
The way you'd play with me like a child

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful
Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful

I've seen the world, lit it up as my stage now
Channeling angels in, the new age now
Hot summer days, rock and roll
The way you'd play for me at your show
And all the ways I got to know
Your pretty face and electric soul

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful
Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful

Dear lord when I get to heaven
Please let me bring my man
When he comes tell me that you'll let him
Father tell me if you can

Oh that grace, oh that body
Oh that face makes me wanna party
He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful
Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will

Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful
Will you still love me when I'm not young and beautiful


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Bell Jar

Mad Girl's Love Song

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.) 
― Sylvia Plath

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Back at one

Sometimes spending too long a time with your own thoughts creates complications in your heart.

Free yourself from the mental slavery.

Back to the board

"We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her and I...
...go back to black."

Almost 3am and this Amy Winehouse's number is wailing in my head. No absolute meaning because I cannot relate to the words at all, though I do appreciate blues and soul.

Things have been quite interesting lately. Not any less chaotic but interesting, still. My first time taking a form class and I think, by the end of the year, the students will be bonkers because they have a crazy agitator as a teacher. I cannot help it. I just want to test how far I can push the students, both academically and mentally. I just want to see how far they can go before they actually melt down. Now...that is a very thin line to cross. But, oh, I love danger.

And talking about danger...

Currently I am running a risk of having my heart broken. Not saying that it is going to happen but, well, there is a risk. Not going to elaborate any further (because there is nothing to elaborate, rather) but let's just say, shit's getting interesting.

Goodnight, Amy Winehouse.


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Is this love is this love is this love?

So I throw my cards on  your table.

 

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NY(E) Cinque

The fifth stop in the process of ushering the new year ~ the supper stop.

After wobbling down the stairs of ChinaOne and back to the car at around 0400hrs, we all headed to The Prata House down at Upper Thomson Road.

Two pratas later and I'm home at 0545hrs.

Now...the celebration will be put on hold for a little rest. It will resume at 1300hrs at Nani's place down at Paya Lebar later.

Zzzzz.

NYE Quattro

At about 0130hrs, the party at Ramada began to cool off. But I think our mood was still buzzing. We got my sister, who kindly came down (naaah, she was bored), to drive us to ChinaOne down at Clarke Quay. I wanted some rocking live music - the kind that Tabula (the resident band) - could provide.

Think we 'jammed' till almost 0400hrs. Oasis, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, The Killers, Adele (huh?), Katy Perry (say, what?)...oh how sweet the taste of pseudo youth.

My knees were killing me at this stage but...off to 5th pitstop.

NYE Tre

The third pitstop was at the Ramada Hotel at Zhongshan Park. Since Rae's the marcomm honcho there, she brought us to check out the countdown party.

Though we were slow to warm up, I thought the party was pretty cool. Would have been better if parents supervised their kids well cause I was quite worried looking at them playing by the pool.

By the way, Rae, Linda, Lauren and I took this shot by the pool.

It was midnight...2014...and I was De Niro.

"You talking to me?"

Happy New Year, folks.