Ok to add to the cheena-ness, omg damn impressed by Rainie Yang's cover!!

OMFG.
Close to you is like THE BEST SONG EVER? (ok just kidding)
I love The Carpenter's version, I love The Cranberries's cover and now this.
This song always melts me into a puddle.

There are so many good songs with the word elephants inside.

Blonde Redhead's Elephant Woman
Warpaint's Elephants
Rachael Yamagata's Elephants
Beirut's Elephant Gun
Damien Rice's Elephant

(:

Came across this quote just now.

'You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstances.' (:

Michelle, I'm fine(:

I have been missing out on this gem of a band all these years.
Our paths have finally converged <3

Toe performed at Mosaic Festival 2012, I unfortunately did not have the privilege of coming across their music before that.
Only happened to see their performance videos uploaded onto Youtube by someone whom I subscribed to.



As you all can probably tell, I am such a huge sucker for Japanese music (not the creepy kind with 48 girls performing on stage at the same time) but more of the 'rock' genre.
Not sure if I am right but I just get the feeling that the Japanese have been well exposed to American/British rock/band music early and the influence in their music is a lot stronger as compared to bands from the other Asian countries.
Or maybe I just haven't been venturing much into other Asian music scenes.

Sayonara Itsuka (2010)

'When you die, would you think of the one who loved you or the one you loved.'

Sometimes life just doesn't work out the way you want it and you live with the consequence of your decisions every day.
Live with the regret and always yearning for happiness which you may have already missed.
I don't want that to happen to me, I don't want to settle and regret for the rest of my life.
Which is why I think I will always be looking and searching but would I ever successfully find.

I have a shitload of work to do but yes I am watching a movie on Funshion AGAIN...

SIGH.
Nevermind I shall like work reallyyyyyyyy hard tomorrow and finish all my work HAHAHA.
And Sayonara Itsuka has my favourite Nishijima Hidetoshi (the whole cast is like above 35 years old HAHA) and the theme song is my Mika Nakashima, HOW CAN I NOT WATCH.

Guilty of basking in the attention and care.
Guilty of entertaining the possibility.
Guilty of breaking it when it gets too much.
Why does this always happen, I wish things were always more clear cut.
How can I enjoy your company without letting you misunderstand?
Guess that is impossible.

NISHIJIMA HIDETOSHI AND HASEGAWA HIROKI.
Joining the ranks of quirky looking but oh so charming 30+ Japanese single actors like Kase Ryo that I would so marry.

Throw in Ben Gibbard and I will be a very willing bride hehe.

The only reason I would have went for laneway this year would be to watch Feist.
I really love her latest album, all heartbreak and raw emotion.

And here's my favourite off the album <3

'When a good man and a good woman can't find the good in each other.
And a good man and a good woman bring out the worst in the other, the bad in each other.'

As always, SMU likes to scare people.
But still thanks nonetheless for the second chance and letting me accept the offer to FH Joanneum in Graz, Austria.
So, things are pretty much settled.
Visa for summer internship then off to Austria.
Thank you <3

And so it has been a jam-packed, exciting and fulfilling break week.
Some highlights were definitely the handball matches at NTU, Waikiki, my Visa internship interview and acceptance and my exchange.

I was given the offer to FH Joanneum (my 3rd choice but my only early application) in Graz, Austria.
The mother silly thing is I accidentally put some stupid rule on the wrong folder (my CAT folder which I deleted soon after last term) and my exchange emails were going there without my knowledge.
My com was also sent to CIT to be repaired so I have been using SMU live so I obviously had no fucking clue about my offer to FH Joanneum.

Until randomly on a Thursday night at 1am (Friday morning)I had a gut feeling about checking my microsoft outlook decided to just turn on my old com which I got back from CIT not long ago.
AND THE EMAIL WAS REALLY THERE OMG.

Panicked, was on the brink of tears, sent some really panicky email to OIR and could barely get any sleep cause I so wanted to hurry contact someone from OIR to explain.
Went down to OIR on friday to explain and they might be giving me a second chance.

Sometimes I think some things are really fated, it was fated for me to get FH Joanneum and yet for me to not see the email and miss the deadline but yet see it later on so that I could do something about it if not I wouldn't even have known that they took my lack of response as a rejection and automatic withdrawal from the entire exchange application.

And of course, I am the only SMU student that applied in the 1st round again.
WTF MAN.
EVERY TERM SO MANY PEOPLE GO ROTTERDAM AND GRAZ WHY EVERY TIME I APPLY I'M ALWAYS THE ONLY ONE.
God, you sure have a way of doing things.
But I will take on that challenge. (:

Just sent in an email to OIR to confirm that I wish to accept FH Joanneum (cause I was given a choice to think over the weekend whether I wanted FH Joanneum or forego it and try for my other 4 choices which are quite unlikely).

Will see whats the response from OIR, really hope they understand that I truly didn't see the email and would give me a second chance!!