Your democratic ideals are useless outside your country

Here's a gorgeous song, I've listened to many many versions, but i liked this one by far the best.


Today I am excited
1. Camera Obscura's in town! *squeals*
2. Swirls new collection comin out next month!!! *double squeals*
also I like cyndi lauper, i think she's cool.
tsk tsk. here's a meme, why do they call it that anyway?
1. What would you do if you hadn't met the Purple People Eater?

    I'd be a lost soul wandering around aimlessly with no illusions in life. Desolate and empty. Oh, purple people eater, how you have filled my life with such inspiration and hope. I am but an insipid slug without your divine existence! 
2. . Would you love to read Dreamworks's very personal diary?

      Hell yeah, then I would take over the world, muah hahahaha
3.  What is one thing Roseanne isn't exactly made for?

     Uh, Modelling? 
4. Ever slept in the same room with Shakespeare?

     Yup, we were lovers, once. That was before he left me for that older woman. Why else would I be such a literary genius? 
5. Who would win in a duel, the postman or yourself? And what kind of duel would they pick, anyway?

     The postman, I guess. He's more fit, for one thing. Erm, motorbike challenge!!! Mr. Postman would win hands down, though.  
6. Can Dr. House be bad influence?
     You'd have to ask Paul about this one. 

7. Who's Dumbledore dating?

     Me. 
8. If you could do anything with Jesus, what would it be?

    Lol! That's between Him and me, so shoo fly, all you common folk. 
9. Will a boy eat those green eggs and ham?

     ... Don't boys eat anything? 

10. What do you think of Particle Man?

       Sharon Says : I think he should mate with atom girl. 

Get the original meme here
thanks Sali! ;)

"You said, go slow. I fall behind."

The Living and the Dead

OMG. and I was supposed to be studying html.
In the end. I stupidly went online to find out about the presidency debate. which is tmrw, by the way 900am sg time.
But of course I got distracted by youtube and amazon.com
tsk tsk. html help, anyone?
tonight I have been listening Scarlett Johansson, Tom Waits, Jolie Holland and Charlotte Gainsbourg (who is gorgeous)
Hollands new album is well... popish. I dont know if its in a bad way or not. To most fans, its a welcome change from her dark, obscure-countryside-inn bluesy feel.
But then it was what I kinda appreciated her for. Not that this album hasn't got its plus points.
whoever produced/mixed this album did well by using her beautiful rustic voice to its maximum effect. so what was once her primitive box violin like voice now sounds like a neo middle ages plus kinda thingy. I mean her voice sounds richer and more pop now but I guess it suits the album. Saw the viddyO for Mexico City and she's gone gorgeous. I mean gorgeous in Lizzie's perspective. But I'm kinda still sitting on the fence on this album, until I've heard the whole thing. I only hope there's more of the old Jolie in it.
I want Cds and I want them badly :(
somehow getting them off the net isnt as thrilling as it was for me anymore.

"Play indie-rock, if that's what you want, Quote Mike Leigh films, it'll turn them all on"

We read BBC and NatGeo for entertainment

Serena, have you ever seen Giselle Bundchen?
seriously, what was she thinking?

Well I'd give her credit for her confidence.
Miss Trudy and ChrisG have officially turned us into newsheads with a passion for current affairs. Chan thinks we have issues.

I might just agree with her.

Oh Sali dear, the quote isnt from Dracula but Camera Obscura's song, If looks could kill. Let me find the link and add it here.



Whoohooz, I ace at html. LOL
"well I can tell you this, for nothing, you won't win. "

THE FASHIONISTAS GOT IT WRONG

I secretly(and take delight) gloat that fashionistas have no clue about fashion. LOL or rather, ancient fashion. 

So here's the deal: Sali and I have been really into the whole ancient civilization fashion thing lately(around hari raya) actually she got me into it, and I thank her for that!!(or I would've been an ignorant pimp myself) and have realized that so and so's 'grecian inspired' gown did not, in fact, have its originations in greece at all, and so and so's 'gypsy style' was so not gypsy at all? LOLLERS. 

SOMETIMES i wonder if I should turn this into a fashion blog to educate, and show off knowledge(pfft!). But then again I wouldnt call my wardrobe very fashionable, I mean half the time im slacking in a nondescript skirt and an oversized tee, so, nothing worth showing. Yeah, maybe wait till I get my white sperry's, alligator kittens, jack purcells and tailored utilities(did I mention that I want a gorgeous kimono top with the wrap thing and kimono sleeves?!)which will probably only happen when I get/earn/save/stumble upon the money which will probably be in like a few years

oh, random, we should check out felt. 

what happened to all the ethnic clothing shit that I was into?

the hari raya bazaar closed down before i got my pay

I couldnt find a sari I liked so will ask sonya to get me one when she goes to india in dec. 

I promised sali we'd go shoppathon after her a levels which would only happen in dec. 

great, I have 2 months to get/earn/save/stumble upon the money then I can be this totally ethno-ccentric(and I mean it in the pun way)  chica gal.

so my school starts tmrw, uugggg~ 

wardrobe options: SP shirt+ nondescript skirt. 

I have sworn off pants ever since working in a pair during the two months of slogging at work. 

"if its true looks could kill, then you would be the first to make me mad"

Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.

and No, this will not be another book review blog post.

in fact, I havent been reading since dracula. I mean, I've tried grotesque, by  natsuo kirino she's even more depressing and unlikeable than  maragret atwood (and I like margaret atwood) maybe if i'd read it in japanese it would ve been better but ANYWAY

go here==> My plug in baby crucifies my enemies to check out what the busy bee has spending my time on.

also I like duffy.

today sali and i went to the hari raya pasar malam and squealed over clothes clothes and more 

clothes, over priced henna tattoos which we didnt get in the end, and FOOD, and ICEY COLD DRINKS 

I really liked this white cottonny kebaya with a gorgeous shade of dark green skirt which i am

currently in love with AND ALSO costs 80 sing and by the time i get the money for it the shop

will have gone back to indonesia. cries

Sali 's in love with the loveliest white bag with very sweet lining which cost 38sing, shopkeeper

offered to sell at 32, so I am urging her to settle for nothing more than 30. which means that

sali u gotta ask for 25 first (or so my mom says!!!!)

I'm helping paul with some church thing for international youth day rally and we're like

doing all these songs and working with cool people. im supposed to be the backup

singer. My first session with them I was really

nervous but I warmed up a little towards the end. theres this song i forget the title which

suits nobodys vocal range but mine so I hope i get to solo for it. *hint hint* LOL self assignment

im kidding okay. apparently this woman called josie will come in and (hopefully) teach me

cool stuffs about hormonising OMG i meant harmonising lol so im looking forward to meeting her!

okok now I have to oblige sonya with my TOP SECRET RECIPE lol ok shall go find

the recipe and email her now so bye~

I joke about trash 'cause it takes class to be enlightened.

Dracula

By Bram Stoker 

was a very.... interesting read. I finally got to it after its collecting dust upon my shelf for some years. I have a curious disease. Its called buymanymanybooksatonegoandnotreadthemtillafewyearslater.  whew. 

it was less creepy in the japanese-horror-movie way than I expected, but it did manage go instill in me a sense of gothic dread... but then again, it was all the rage in london at stokers time, so I imagine they all had a ball of a time with yet another horror novel. 

the thing which set me off a little was how in-your-face the book was. Like, if the situation appears to be thus so, then it is, in fiction, so. Which made the plot just a little predictable and boring, and the characters a little too one dimensional. 

This isn't to say it wasn't a good book, evidently stokers talent in writing lay elsewhere. His story telling and descriptive skill and character portrayal is quite good. 

But the character I liked best was Renfield, the zoophagus. He must have been the most elusive, yet three dimensional character in the book. Three dimensional because he had the most variety of different moods and feelings, times of strength and weakness, swinging in a self struggle between good and evil, and elusive because, as he was a madman, I may never know when he was really being mad or when he was being sane. But nevertheless I found his conversation entertaining (good-bye my dear, I pray god I may never see your sweet face again. may he bless and keep you!) and his ways so absurd( His method of tidying(his room) was peculiar; he simply swallowed all the flies and spiders (his pets) in the boxes before I could stop him. It was quite evident that he feared, or was jealous of, some interference. when he had gone through this disgusting task, he said cheerfully, let the lady come in!)that I always found myself laughing aloud(receiving curious/annoyed stares from my parents!) 

Alas, he died in the end, killed by the Count. My only solace was that he died a good man. I liked him very well. 

"Don't be scared, I'm a friendly man; I joke about sex because its funny when you're frightened"

Scales and Arpeggios

Do me so do, so do me do
Every truly cultured music student knows
You must learn your scales and your ar-pe-ggi-Os
Hear the music ringing from your chest and not your nose!
When you learn your scales and your arpe-ggi-Os

LOL not helping.
I wonder why I'm having so much trouble with scales and arpeggios =((
And exam in 2 days time, cry, Lizzie please buckup!