In About 120 Words

I have been a very lazy blogger. Lazy's just not the right word .. boring / non-existent seems more like it. Though it would be more logical to say that I was on hiatus, I must admit that I was either too bored or lazy to blog. Notice that these giant pauses in blogging always occur at about the same time every year.

A LOT has been happening since the 4th of April. The mid term holidays are going on at the moment which probably means that this blog would hopefully be getting sudden spurs of posts. These two weeks of holidays has been a much needed yet awaited one. My time this year's been passing like the wind. It's been homework and studying ever since form 5 started.

Then, the exams came. Doubt so if I would need to explain all the stress involved in cramming as much facts as possible in that precious brain of ours. Brandon has been a very bad example to follow in the two weeks that the exam was on. Procrastination just fills my life forever. You have matthews in the first week of may going "If you don't start studying now, you are a fool". I have that ringing in your head but the moment I reach home, there's take a nap, go online, watch more tv whispering in my ears. It wasn't till the weekends before the exam that I started revising. Some was even done the night before till like 2 am once.

Thank god I could go through every paper considerably well though I was dozing off half way through some of the papers. I actually had to be woken up by that goldfish dorothy during moral. I just hate moral and don't be surprised if I end up going for classes after school with matthews. Probably gonna fail miserably again. All I could remember was the first nilai (don't we all) and the last three. You can only imagine much tembak-ing I did in the span of two hours. In spite of all this, me and jiam share the same sentiment of eagerly wanting the holidays to end soon so we could get hold of our marks. Not sure whether you all out there got the same feeling but it is plain strange. Better just enjoy the holidays first.

Anyway, this is what's been happening throughout my apparent hiatus ..

Mummy back again --> but from beirut this time .. rather last minute as she had to attend my step-bro's graduation in manila first. Left April 23 .. was here for about 2 weeks

beloved hip mamma

Good Charlotte Live in KL (21 April 07) --> yet another 'let's wait and see whether I get to go' event .. my cousin surprised me with the 2 extra tickets he won from some MTV contest. Lo, One Buck Short and Estranged were the opening acts. They were boring except for Lo. GC's performance was not what I expected. Long and under-rated. Having Joel go "I wanna move to Malaysia" about 3 times ain't entertaining at all. Muse was so much better =)

Sports Day (21 April 07) --> Mummy got lost on the way there. Almost left out of the march past because I forgot my tie. Thank god for Johann's extra tie. Nothing spectacular. Yellow house won and red house was last

Physics PEKA Practical test --> Performed horribly. So little time given yet so many tasks to do. Couldn't finish a lot and simply screwed my measurements up. Yeah, I still cannot connect my own electrical circuit .. pathetic.

May was rather uneventful. Studying, exams and now holidays ..

So as not to bore you people any further, I'll just be posting some pictures of our favourite reality tv stars. Everybody loves their reality tv stars ! X)

Eric and Danielle - they won the Amazing Race All-Stars edition

ANTM Cycle 7 winner Caridee !! -- my favourite to win other than Brooke

I still hate Melrose . . she should have committed suicide after losing .. so i hoped


Another consecutive season of AI with me hating the winner. Sorry you Jordin fans but she's not appealing to me at all. I was counting on Melinda all this while but looks like she wasn't 'hot' enough for the american audience. Blake wasn't that bad too but his beat-boxing was just inappropriate at times. Hands down, i'm remaining 100% anti jordin.

-adios y hasta luego-

Ne me quitte pas

Have you seen the mukhsin ad they run on local tv? Heard the french that plays in the end? Well, I happen to like it without bothering to understand it. The song's called 'ne me quitte pas' and that was the version sang by nina simone surprisingly coz it the voice in the song was very manly.

The add. maths project we have to do for SPM is just bloody pathetic. It is just a bunch of repeating crap on calculating lengths, widths and areas of sheep pens ! I don' think farmers would be using graphs or differentiation to determine measurements for their pens. Then again, 3/4 of the stuff learn in add maths doesn't seem related at all to daily life. Imagine using progressions to like find out how much fruit you'll eat next. What crap am I talking about.

Exam marks have so far been OK. No failures so far. It was a definite pass for moral =) and well i got 66 for my first accounts paper ever. All my science subjects are in the 60-65 range. At least, my parents won't get called for an exclusive parent-teacher meet.

I can't wait to catch these two movies in the cinema.

1. Pan's Labyrinth --> why must crappy m'sia make it 18PL =(

2. An Inconvenient Truth --> Al Gore global warming documentary seen by Brandon to contain elements of political propaganda

I'm supposed to go for the PBSM-Scouts camp in school over the weekends but i've been excused. All thanks to Qing Ming on Sunday. Looks like its gonna be fun though. On a brighter side, it means that i'll be able to attend the edu uk expo in klcc convention centre on saturday.

-adios-

On Screen Success

Exam terror is around the corner again. More studying and late nights to come for me indeed. Considering its our third last school term exam ever maybe there is some delight to it after all. Another term exam, the trials and *poof* it became koko crunch SPM comes. 3 alphabets to strike fear in the eyes of every form 5 in the country.

Time does pass fast considering it's already the 3rd month of the year giving us only another 8 months or so to literally prep ourselves up for SPM. It seemed barely yesterday that I came back from spain and started school again. Wish me luck for everything that's coming up.

Something weird, funny and maybe inspirational took place for 5L-ians last week. Gnerally, leong collects our diaries every month or so for her checking pleasure I guess. This time around it all came back with angpau's in it. My first impression was like she must have striked the lottery for this sudden surprise but it was still chinese new year. Still she wasn't married. It turns out that every angpau contained some sort of advice/message personally from her mind and soul. Guess what I got ..

"Brandon, i only find out that u'r very cute in this year =) U'r a smart boy, i hope u'll get straight A in SPM. Wish u've a good year .. "

Confusing as it may be, it looks like a whole mix-up of insults, encouragement and praise. I mean what's with - 'very cute this year'. Seems so wrong. Clearly she doesn't know me well based on the message which is very vivid. Mind you that all the grammatical mistakes ie. find as well as the smileys are as written on that piece of paper.

Moving on, both my mum and step-dad are finally in beirut, lebanon. My mum left madrid on the 1st sadly but I have yet to hear from her since she called from the airport. Hopefully she hasn't been gunned down. Haha

Believe it or not, I actually spent 4 hours of my life watching the Oscars last week. Wonderful show overall with ellen degeneres being one of the most entertaining yet spontaneous hosts i've seen. Wasn't truly happy with some of the winners but it wasn't as bad as last year's.

Here's a rundown of the main award recipients ..

Best Motion Picture - The Departed

Frankly, I found this movie really boring. I feel asleep watching it on the bus trip to pangkor last year. I know its the remake of internal affairs but I think we asians make better kick ass movies related to triads. I think less talk and more action's the key. Maybe i'll have to rewatch this dreadful movie. Even Babel or The Queen deserved this award better.

Best Lead Actor - Forest Whitaker (Last King of Scotland)

Haven't heard much about this guy but I guess his acting must be good which also means his movie is a must watch. Still downloading on my comp. The only skill I can think of from him is speaking with a almost pure african accent throughout the movie. Try it if you think it's easy. He played the character of Adi Amin, a Ugandan dictator. He has a really hot wife. =)

Best Lead Actress - Helen Mirren (The Queen)

She has won every single award she was nominated in this year for her interesting yet controversial role as Queen Elizabeth II. She just suits the character 100% coz i dun think i can find another actress who looks like the real queen so much with or without make up. I've watched half the movie and she totally emulated every aspect Queen Elizabeth has to offer. Sadly Penelope Cruz didn't win for Volver.

Best Supporting Actor - Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)

This came as a big surprise since he was up against actors like Eddie Murphy and Mark Wahlberg. Played the drug addicted, fowl mouthed grandfather in Little Miss Sunshine which to me is one really amusing movie to watch. I still remember him telling his 16 year old mute grandson to "fuck all the women you want". I'm serious ..

Best Supporting Actress - Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)

Many may still remember her from her American Idol days but I didn't till someone told me. She is like the newest thing Simon and gang can probably boast about. I wanna watch Dreamgirls before the cinemas stop showing it here. There's Beyonce in it too. Pretty great achievement for her since dreamgirls is like the first production she's ever been in.

I was unhappy over the fact that Volver didn't grab the award for best foreign language film. Pedro Almodovar is such a great director. At least Inconvenient Truth won best documentary. Hope I do well in my exams ...

-adios y hasta luego-