No mojo

No mojo to blog recently;

Although life has, as usual, been busy.

So here’s a dreary update post… real sorry about that.

What have I been doing? Well, a lot of IMU ball stuff. :) We’ve sold 10 tables so far, and raised about 10% of the money needed… Sponsors are difficult to find, but hopefully things pick up after CNY. If any of you readers know or work for a company that might sponsor products or funding for a medical university grad ball, do contact me!

Been selling little candy bouquets & roses for Valentine’s day in IMU–apparently our boys are no less romantic than the general public. 100 roses sold out in 3 days! Haha. A much better response than expected.

My room has regressed to pre-spring-cleaning state. Hmm. Trying to keep the clutter manageable is a tad difficult though. Maybe I’ll clean it up on Saturday… after shopping.

Been expanding my music collection again: discovered this amazing guy called Sam Sparro. :) He mixes funk and soul with an electronic drive–love his old school voice! Can’t get his song, Black & Gold, out of my head. Youtube him and have a listen; you won’t be disappointed. His songs aren’t about the typical love mush stuff–they’ve got messages and questions that make you think, but you won’t notice them at first.

Oh, and on the 7th I sang for SIBKL’s Valentine’s night with Michel. Our band was Merlvyn & my brother, Matt, on acoustic guitars, and Daryll on percussion. It was a nice, relaxed evening–a much fancier affair than last year’s, though. 

Yeahhh that’s about all I can dig out of my brain. So tired these days… must be my monthly friend.

Jade out.

Nodame Cantabile

Guess I picked a good time to finally start watching the dramas I’ve collected over the past few months, one of which is Nodame Cantabile (live-action). Based on googled research, it looks like it’ll culminate in a happy Christmas ending. :) 

Another good reason is that the “season two” of this series is coming out as a two-movie project, one of which was released yesterday, on the 19th of December. Now I just have to wait for it to be translated and subbed! :D

I normally hate waiting for sequels and such, mainly because I end up forgetting about them while waiting. Then, when I finally remember, it usually a few months to a year after they were released… So this is perfect! 

So much better than that Boke Dake no Madonna that I attempted to watch a few months ago… This may not beat Mei-chan no Shitsuji in my heart (AAAAAAHHHH RIHITO-SAMAAAA), but it’s pretty good. :) Chiaki Shinichi is the lead male character, and his type-A personality + manly good looks caught my attention immediately! To top it off, he plays the piano + violin + conducts + is extremely musically talented and has such a serious, yet dorky-sweet personality when caught off-guard. He’s got that oji-sama appeal and arrogance, which will, obviously, be deflated by the love interest. His actor is Tamaki Hiroshi.

Nodame did not endear herself to me immediately, as she is both unhygenic and irresponsible…  I don’t like people who stink. She also takes advantage of Chiaki-sama’s hospitality WAY too much. >_< I’m getting used to her though, more so than that irritating lead female in Boku Dake no Madonna, whose name I have easily forgotten. Nodame is played by Ueno Juri, who I must say did a remarkable job at being disgustingly adorable yet annoying. :)

I’m not fully supporting the Chiaki x Nodame pairing yet, but I guess the remainder of the episodes will change my mind. With a great deal of self-control, I’ve only watched episodes 1 – 4 so far. There are 11 + 2sp total. 5 days to Christmas (and my musical) to finish this series! :))

This series makes me wish I took my piano more seriously… =/ Kind of depressing how I’ve hit Grade 7 but can’t even play simple chords well, let alone a full-fledged classical piece. Ah well.

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In real life, I managed to spring-clean my wardobe today. Filtered out three boxes of stuff I probably wouldn’t wear anymore. All my clothes now fit into my closet, yay! It’s kind of weird having so much floor space all of a sudden, but it’s a nice change from having to side-step dresses, cardigans and hangers just to reach the air-con switch. 

Next cleaning project: Dressing table + accessories; at present, I can’t even close the drawers OR see the table-top.

Sense of Accomplishment

Yup. It’s been an okay week. Despite not being able to meet my 1.30 target bedtime since the “treatment” plan started on Monday night, I’m on track with everything else. Tonight, I was able to write about 50% of my selectives report, leaving the other half for when I get more data about the treatment phase in my project. Ah, bliss; one worry lessened. Hung out with Rae & David while writing it. Rae studied for her last exam, which is tomorrow. All the best, love! :) Dea’s at a camp right now, can’t wait for her to come back so we can all hang out and update each other fully!

Also, I bought the OldTown White Coffee 2010 organizer. I couldn’t resist after Rae showed me how she customized hers to look very chio! Having second thoughts now, though–I’m really quite attached to my Starbucks 2009 organizer and was really looking forward to making my own refills… We’ll see how I feel after selectives end and I have less on my mind.

Attended meetings for the IMU Ball and MEDT1/08 convocation magazine planning this week. There’s a lot to do, and not that much time left; need to make good use of time. We have good committees for both things, so hopefully the enthusiasm keeps up and everything falls into place before deadlines creep up on us. Semester 5 won’t be as light as Semester 4, especially with the heavy-duty MSK & CNS! 

Musical rehearsals aren’t letting up anytime soon, with performance dates approaching mercilessly. Oh, if you want to attend, you need to tell me by Friday so that I can put in my request for tickets! They’re fast running out. For more information, see the Facebook invite that I sent out for “Season of the Year! the Musical“. :) It’ll be held in my church, SIBKL. A 5-performance run beginning Christmas day. You get to see me play an interesting character–very unlike who I am in real life. It’s been a real journey. The script for the musical is completely original, as are the songs (with the exception of one parody). Admission is free, so what are you waiting for?

It’s a little sad that I can’t do much in the days leading up to Christmas–will be heavily involved in the final practices for the musical. But at the same time, when all the performance excitement is over, I’ll hunger for more again… Self-control, Jade! There’s a flipside to every coin. :)

I’m in a strange mood right now. Don’t know how to describe it–somewhat peaceful and wistful about life. 

Had a nice dream yesterday.

(Could be the caffeine from the xi mut milk tea I had earlier.)

Project : NUIT 0130

As you all know, I am (unwillingly) doing psychology a.k.a. BS for my selectives.

60% of my mark will be determined by a behaviour modification experiment applied to myself, and then presented in the form of a 2.5k-word written report.

Because I am cool like that and like to amuse myself in small ways, this experiment is henceforth referred to as NUIT 0130 (nuit means “night” in French).

Therefore, I will be conducting an experiment on myself where I will lose RM5 for every half hour I sleep past 1.30am for the next 7 days (last day will be Sunday, December 13th).

What should she do with this money (if there is any)?
Suggestions open now.