sometimes i feel that reading a book can be dangerous.
a good book brings you places and influences your thoughts and feelings.
and i wonder if a good book can actually change your life?

seriously contemplating exchange again.
another 15k bomb sigh.
i should be saving the money for my future or something omg.

looking back at my pictures from all the way since year 1 of uni, it kind of hit me.
did i lose myself along the way?
i think i've come to a point where i think too much, i try to predict too much, i try to plan my actions too much.
i remember when i used to take on whatever came my way with this enthusiasm that was oblivious to consequences.
and i was so much happier then i think.
so maybe it's time to be myself again (:

华丽的冒险_陈绮贞

And work starts tomorrow.
I don't know why but I am feeling quite nervous, way more than I did during my temp job at Citibank.
But we shall see how it goes (:

And all employees' hand phones need to be left at security because they are afraid the radiation will get to them.
So no phone with me at all I bet I will be very efficient :D

And while I enjoy my last few hours of freedom, I am online being a fan girl.
I have not been such a fan girl since my JC days with Yiting.
This time it's a Korean boy band- Beast.
HEHEHEHEHE.

Why they so good looking, can dance so well, can sing so well and all around my ageeeeeeeeee.
Especially Lee Ki Kwang <3
Saranghaeyo wor HAHAHHA.

Because I always have an irresistible urge to share things that I like yet it breaks my heart when people don't like it too.
So, here is where a blog comes handy and I can consolidate all the wonderful things I came across for my own viewing pleasure :D

To Kill a King - "Maps" (Acoustic Cover) by To Kill A King

What a cover of Maps <3

Because deep inside I am still a fan girl.
Miura Haruma, born 1990 too can you believe it?!
Marry me? HEHE.

レミオロメン ３月９日 ~ending ver~ 『LIVE』

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings.

I love Japanese Art then.
There's just something about the Japanese and I don't believe I'm giving them more credit than they deserve.

Got back from the 'Lands of Sinful Food'- Taiwan and Hong Kong yesterday.
Drank more milk tea than water HEHE.

On my way back from Hong Kong, I suddenly had a strong urge to buy a book to read on the plane ride back.
By the way I love plane rides, especially when it's a night flight. When the lights are turned off and everyone around me are asleep, I love it when I have my little reading light turned on and it's like I have created my own little world while still having the people by my side.

So I set off in search of a book and I knew exactly what I was looking for and I finally found in at the FIFTH bookshop I went to in the airport TSK.

There's just something about Haruki Murakami.
Maybe it's the Japanese blood.
But I have read other books by Japanese authors that I have not liked as much as his.
There's something very simple, honest, thoughtful and effortlessly elegant in his words.
And he sure knows how to write chapter endings that just leave you dying for more more more now now now.

I am only a few chapters through the thicker-than-a-hamburger The Wind-up Bird Chronicles but I have a feeling I am going to really enjoy this book.
I don't know what to exactly, as always of his books, but even if the ending does not meet my expectations I know at least I will at least enjoy the process of reading very very much.

going overseas with a head full of worries.
worries about internship, about exchange, about what mods to take next term.
after supper i got home and did some last min packing, there was 3 hours left to catch some sleep but i struggled to keep my mind off things.
like that how to enjoy sia.
but seriously what bad bad bad timing, how am i going to settle my internship now when ill only be back in sg on 30 april.
but ok, things are supposed to work out (right michelle?) so ill just hang in there.
ontrac better send my applications in!!

corinne oh corinne.
what a woman.
you sing with all your heart, you sing about your hurt and your happiness so honestly, you look like a woman wise beyond her years who has loved, lost and learned without regrets.

i remember this was the first song i liked off the album.
i can proudly say i love every single song of that album, it will always have a special place in my heart.

Someone to love is bigger than your pride's worth.
It's bigger than the pain you got for all it hurts, outruns all of the sadness.

hi qian. HAHAHAHAHA.

basically, i was just being strange and wanting to be all private about my thoughts and feelings and then not posting anything afterwards HAHA.

i think ill never give my everything to someone.
i can never let myself reach that level of vulnerability.

if there was a g-spot for music, spanish sahara sure hits it every single damn freaking time.
heard the best live version of spanish sahara from their daytrotter sessions <3<3<3

i think they really going becoming one of my all time favourite bands.
not to mention they are freaking awesome live, in the ranks of muse for me <3

need to control my snide comments sigh sigh sigh

And If I stumble, and if I stall
And if I slip now, and if I should fall
And if I can't be, all that I could be
Will you? Will you wait for me?

pride cant earn me money nor can it feed me when im hungry, yet i hold on to it so tightly.
baka desune.

finished norwegian wood, glad that i ended up watching this in the middle of the night i think it really suits the feel of the movie.
thumbs up.
my favourite part about it was the ending, it respected the open ended ending that haruki marukami wrote but yet guided many lost and wondering readers towards the likely explanation.
but it was one long movie, my heart almost couldnt take it.
time for me to go read the book again (:

koukuhaku.
one fucking twisted movie.
but with damn impressive and artistic cinematography that makes you go omg how did they manage to capture such scenes and a good soundtrack (it was the last place i was expecting to hear fantasy by the xx wow)



actually, ive been quite disappointed with the movies that i have wanting to watch for so long: tokyo sonata, akunin and kouhaku.

but nonetheless, japanese movies are still my favourite (: