musings

"You were the one, you were the only one. And you were amazing"

-Gia, 1998-

meh

I don’t know how people make it look easy but tryna act busy is actually quite a difficult thing to do. I’ll give you an example for “acting busy”. It is what I’m doing now. My laptop screen is safely shielded from any of my colleagues’ eyes and as long as I can keep a straight face and type calmly, I’d look like I’m doing work when I’m actually not.

Don’t give me that look and don’t even go thinking what is wrong with me, wasting company time and resources by acting busy. I’m going to give you guys a little heads up about corporate office life – acting busy is how you’re going to pass time in the future if you end up with a corporate desk job like me. Mark my words. Your future is set in stone. /evil laugh/

I found an article online about how to look busy and it’s so true I wanna laugh out loud but of course I can’t because I’m supposed to be “busy” tying my paperwork. Na mean?

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Either way, I think it’s safe to say I’m Meryl Streep’s newest fan! LOLs

Honestly I don’t even remember how I got to know her all those years ago. It’s like that one good friend from school that you don’t even remember how the two of you met. It’s something like that. I think my earliest memory of watching her movies was..Mamma Mia, back in secondary school. Honestly I only watched it because everybody was talking about it and I’m sort of an ABBA fan.

I didn’t like it very much because musicals weren’t really my thing yet at that time. I knew that there was a movie called The Devil Wears Prada (“TDWP”) way back then but I never got around to watch it. Wasn’t a big movie junkie back then, too.

On the flight to South Korea a few years back, I decided to watch some of the in-flight movies. Since I had no idea which movies were good, I watched the ones with familiar faces in it. I watched Anne Hathaway’s movie. I started with the one about her and her best friend wanting to get married in the same hotel or something and then I moved on to TDWP because I saw her face on the poster.

And that did it. I recently revisited the movie and baaam! I love all 3 of the leading ladies! I love Anne, Emily and Meryl! I proceeded with my standard operating procedure:

1.       Read the Wikipedia page

2.       Search for notable movies

3.       Binge watch the said movies

4.       Watch cast interviews for the said movies

5.       Search tumblr for their photosets and gifsets

6.       Follow their fanpages

Binging Meryl’s movies was fun because she is so adorable! Like legit she is so adorable. Honestly! Like, I can’t even type this without my face threatening to break into a grin.

Just take a few minutes and watch some of the examples:

1.       The Graham Norton Show with James McAvoy and Mark Ruffulo

2.       At her daughter’s convocation

3.       TDWP Gag Reel

4.       The Graham Norton Show with Nicole Kidman, Nigela Lawson and Carey Mulligan

She’s just so adorable. I can’t! I really can’t. /sighs/ be still my heart.

That’s all I can think of at the moment. Haha!

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Day 2 of boredom and I’m running out of things to say. I suppose I could always update this Word document about every small little thing that happens because I really am that bored.

I had a really great talk last night with my dongsaeng. I’m going to refer to her as Regina since that’s what I’ve been naming her in my phone for the past few months. We talked about a tonne of things which was awesome, from our band days to my uni days and to my first heartbreak.

While we were talking, she suddenly got very serious and asked

“are you very unhappy right now?”

And when I asked why would she say so, she answered that she recognizes the signs and the vibe I give off. She came to a conclusion that I’m depressed. And I couldn’t be more glad that somebody finally picked up on it. but then again..for somebody to actually picked it up, it must be getting worse.

Pet Peeves

There are just some things in this world that gets on my nerves really quickly. I think they’re called pet peeves? So yea, let’s talk about pet peeves today. I think I can list down a few.

1.       People who stand around in a pool

Ok, like major no offence to those who can’t swim but I really can’t stand it (no pun intended) when people who can’t swim just stand around in the pool, chilling. If it’s one of those condo pools or theme park pools, I’m fine with it. But if it’s a standard sized, competition worthy pool, I’m gonna be pissed. Like seriously, don’t stand around in the pool. It’s such a waste of space and not to mention a major traffic stopper. People want to swim in peace knowing that they won’t be knocking into anything or anybody, ya know?

2.       People who take stuff without permission.

I’m not talking about thieves, I’m talking about those people who borrow or uses your stuff without your permission. Like as if I’m dumb enough to not know that my stuff got taken or used. Come on, people. Have some basic courtesy here!

3.       People who write stories in the second person.

Ok, this is a relatively new pet peeve because I didn’t know people actually wrote them in the second person. Seriously? Can’t they just write in the third person? It’s actually almost the same thing. Second person is just weird.

4.       Homophobes.

We are in the 21^st century. America and many other countries have legalized gay marriage which in my opinion, is a situation that shouldn’t even be happening. Gay marriage should’ve been the same as straight marriage. There shouldn’t even be the terms “gay marriage” and “straight marriage”. They’re all “marriages”. So yea, I can’t stand homophobes sometimes. Wait, let me correct myself. I can’t stand rude homophobes. If that person is a homophobe but keeps it to him/herself then fine because they’re not hurting anybody’s feelings. It’s those vocal ones that I can’t stand. Who people choose to love is none of their business. I don’t understand why they make it their business.

5.       People who complain non-stop/are wet blankets

Ok, I did not plan to write this one originally but due to some recent events, I’m putting this in as one of my pet peeves. Yesterday was my baby girl’s solo debut on a Korean music show. The performance was flawless, her live singing was so good people thought she was lip sync-ing and most importantly, you can see that she was truly happy on stage. As a solo artist, things are obviously done differently. Some parts will be covered by a pre-recorded audio while the singer focuses on the ad-libs. This friend of mine kept complaining on how the performance was below expectations because she didn’t sing the whole thing. Like what? I wanna see you try singing the whole thing and hit all the timings correctly. Ad-libs come in in the middle of a line most of the time, so obviously that line will be covered by the audio instead of being sung live. It’s all logic and common sense.

You got me smoking cigarettes

My baby girl has finally released her first solo album! Finally, after almost 9 years from her debut as the leader of Girls’ Generation, Kim Taeyeon has finally released a solo album. About fcking time, SM Ent!

Some fans might know her as the vocal powerhouse of Girls’ Generation, but for some of us older fans, we know her as the girl who went to the Han River the night before everybody was supposed to move into their dorm and yelled “I CAN DO IT!” three times.

You did it, baby girl. You did it!

And we couldn’t be more proud of you!

The title track is beautiful. The whole album is beautiful. Even the instrumental track for the title track is beautiful. The music video is flawlessly spectacular! Shot in New Zealand in the span of three days, the music video shows a discontented waitress!Taeng and how she quits her job (in wonderful, badassery fashion) and goes chase her dream. I’m not sure what her dream is yet (because I’ve only watched the mv once, I blame my job) but I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

source

I had such a hard time downloading the album when it was released last night because my dorm isn’t equipped with internet (le gasp! The horror!) but after an hour, after everybody finished spazzing, I finally downloaded it and it was so worth it. Completely burnt my data quota, too, but it’s alright. It’s for my baby girl!

so here are the tracks! (listed as per tracklist)

1. I

2. U R

 3. Gemini

4. Stress

5. Farewell

6. I Instrumental

strong girl, you knew you were born to fly.

Recs

been listening to the radio quite a lot these days and while i generally do not like the songs played on it, there are one or two that i will like haha

1. Can't Feel My Face - The Weeknd

2. Feelings - Maroon 5

3. Cool for the Summer - Demi Lovato

4. Ghost Town - Adam Lambert

5. Rising Rainbow - Misokkasu (Shokugeki no Soma op2)

6. Take Me To Church - Demi Lovato cover

7. The Hills - The Weeknd

LLB

Not sure why but I am really sleepy! Like honestly, can I be any sleepier? I probably can but that’s not the point. Hmm..must be my messed up sleep cycles. I haven’t been sleeping and/or waking up on time these couple of days. Ever since my housemate got that anklet with the annoying bell, I haven’t been waking up on time at all. I’ve been waking up earlier than expected which is just terrible.

I’m pretty sensitive to sounds like bells and keys jingling. I wake up almost instantly if I hear any of those types of sounds. My friend thinks it’s because of when I was younger my parents woke me up by unlocking my room door with a big bunch of keys that jingles noisily. I guess it’s been engrained in my head that jingling sounds means that I have to wake up.

Does that mean I’m a light sleeper? Not sure. I can sleep through the blaring house security alarm but not jingling keys? What is going on? I don’t think it’s a habit I can break since it’s been like that for so long.

There is no point to this post. I’m just acting like I’m busy because my manager is sitting beside me and it looks like she’s angry typing. You don’t wanna mess with a woman when she’s angry typing. It ain’t gonna be pretty. And you also don’t wanna give the woman an excuse to pick a fight with you. So you gotta do what you gotta do. Type and look like you’re busy. Act busy! Or the term we use when we were trainees: ABC! (A for Act, BC for Busy) haha! But the more commonly used term is “LLB” which means Look Like Busy.