Events in the Endoscope

My semester just ended. I don't want to spend seven weeks doing nothing but playing TF2 and Civilization IV, so today I went to school alone and picked up some leaflets. One thing I like about my school's media division is that they spam all these festivals and events at you through email and on the bulletin boards.

22 and 23 August - Screening of Singaporean short films
Bunch of filmmakers and films I've never heard of before, but admission is free. I'm going to the National Museum for tickets tomorrow and see how our arts scene is doing.

25 and 29 August - Japanese film festival. Brochure capitalizes a lot of names, but no Kurosawa. Some of the films shown will be free, and others are worth 10 bucks, but the paid-admission ones are all R21 so we can forget those. Only two films I can legally see, both horror. Yay?

28 and 29 August there are free film screenings too, but they are both old Hollywood musicals and those are like ham sandwiches so I'm gonna skip those. The big gimmick is the open air cinema.

4 September - Talk on casting the right actors in school

25 and 26 September - free screenings of Little Shop of Horrors and Beetlejuice.


There is a class chalet organized, but I've been conspicuously left out of the loop.

I'm also thinking about seeing District 9 and going back to swimming. Anyone interested in any of the above, give me a shout.

09/08/09

Yea. It is that time of the Year again. Or was, since it is now the 10th of August. National Day, a time of near communist/socialist festivities, where the nation gets together to celebrate our 44th year of Independence this year, or Inter-dependence if you really think about it.
To me, this year's National Day Parade (NDP) is exceptionally special. Besides the stronger emphasis on the National Pledge this year, written by the late S. Rajaratnam (25 February 1915 – 22 February 2006), I also like how the planned the Parade, such as having the Ministers walking in past the audience, instead of having them always entering on a red carpet from their little enclosure, as well as having the MM, SM and PM come in. They deserve some spotlight, yea? Of course, this year's NDP also saw quite a departure from previous years', making it probably the best so far, and possibly the most "modern" too.
Truth be told, I can tell you so much about the Parade because I'm catching the encore telecast now. I spent yesterday with my family and grandmother at East Coast Park, cycling all the way to the Park Connector connecting ECP to Changi Beach and back, and then having my grandmother recount how my late grandfather and her used to come to ECP and how then the horizon was clear of all those ships and stuff, and how my grandfather would walk all the way to Bedok Jetty, and my grandmother became very worried because she couldn't see him. Of course, I admit I missed the Pledge moment, but I was eating, and it would be so darned awkward to be the only one doing it in a restaurant, right?
Well, to make up for my missing the Pledge moment yesterday, here goes:

We, the citizens of Singapore
pledge ourselves as one united people,
regardless of race, language or religion,
to build a democratic society,
based on justice and equality,
so as to achieve happiness, prosperity and
progress for our nation.

Yes, it really is that time of the year, whereby I truly feel most proud to be a Singaporean

Back

Hello guys, I'm back.

Life's been one heck of a roller coaster ride lately.
School's really fun but really mentally draining.
Home's been quite a bad place too these past few months.
And a lot of other things have also been taking it's toll on me.
说出来谁明白？

Now the only thing I really enjoy is training. Where I can just leave behind all my shit problems on land and just jump in and let the water, cool and clensing wash away all those dirty tainted spots in my life.

Life's an ass.

And I'm also at a crossroad of making perhaps one of the bigger decisions in my life. And it concerns someone special.

So basically, life's a bitch with lots of problems.