i wasnt planning to blog so soon, but im just so consumed by math ive to get away from it. slogging thru it for e whole sunday, what joy! elect exam last week was bombed big time, and french classes are getting so much more erudite in nature, boo hoo.. from playing games like taboo and learning fun words like 'silent fart' and 'loud fartbomb' in french (LZG, i dedicate these words specially to u!), im tackling on philo, and have to learn abt 16th to 20th century literature, theatre and prose. i spent 3 hours just learning about existentialism and baudelaire, and other schs of thought/writers. i cldnt have been more detached.

at times i wonder, has such deep pondering brought us any nearer to what we're searching for? or for that matter, have we even defined our goals clearly? Philo seems just like a didactic approach in seeking and reasoning out anything and everything; with hardly any concrete results to show. i can puke more than just blood this time round. countries all over the world emphasising on broad-based education. arts complementing science. what a mockery. i certainly dun give two fishes abt those circuitous discussions that expounded boring issues like happiness at length. i really did try to be interested but failed miserably. its nothing but idealistic qualities and utopian states that we've been trying to attain (without much success) since eons ago. quixotic and just won't fly.

and so in between my breaks yesterday, i started surfing on youtube, one of e sites i go to whenever im bored. wah this is really a portal to gd entertainment man. i can just watch video after video w/o feeling sian at all. i present to u my fav of the day:



omg, i luffed like crazy over this clip too, esp e part when he flung his cloak off. its so spastic! yet it cleared away my sunday blues haha . amazing what Jesus does for me! =)

on e other hand, spring is upon us! temperature's hitting above 10 deg at last yay!! dun have to wear so much when gg out now, but i can foresee higher laundry expenditure. shall think ways to economise, since my 'skills' have enabled me to do laundry once a month, or even once in 6 weeks, amazing isnt it? hahaa, the pile's always mountain-high, and i perpetually have a tough time squeezing it into the washing machine...





and e nite before, i caught crazy horse paris! not exactly what i expected. i enjoyed it, and i found it really colourful and artistic, but i left feeling a bit short-changed. how so, i cldnt place my finger on. its like watching a thai-girl show in thailand. i tot e latter wld be entertaining, since ive heard so much abt e feats the perfomers can do. however, it was more of a crude freak show that served as nothing more than a sobering reminder of the 'plight' those ppl were in, and how they must have felt while doing those acts. ok, i digressed. i tot initially tt a cabaret is all about sleaze masquerading as a more cultured form; with slow/catchy music and muted,coloured lights to make the lolitas look better, and also throwing in some nice glitzy costumes and cliché dance moves to complete the picture. i wasnt entirely wrong on this whole aspect, but still it didnt exactly fit e bill either. hmm i dunno also. watever it is, i urge u guys to go watch it in spore. i wld wanna noe the difference between the shows here and there. last but not least, i wonder if rockson's horse wld go crazy after watching it haha...

just a quick nonsensical post not unlike my others just before i head to sch at midnite for the weekend 'sch excursion' to amsterdam. am too restless to study. now, before you all skim further down in search of the titillating paragraph that wld render e cheeky title of this post appropriate, bask with me first in my joy. my results for last sem were quite gd!!! yay, my average is surprisingly high despite my not understanding profs'french completely, and i even topped my cohort for chemistry, yay!!

ok, moving on to sleazier fields, lets just say i was wondering how on earth NYP tammy sex video scandal managed to create such an uproar in spore. it wasnt till i caught it (courtesy of a 'resident columnist' heh) that i finally comprehended why tammy was on e tip of everyone's tongue, if not screen. for the typical sporean sexual climate is so deprived, that even with carnal gratification, he/she wld gleefully hope onto the bandwagon and fuel the talk/help pass the video on. the poor girl. imagine the humiliation she has to endure. unless she has a screw loose in the head like annabel chong, she must have been gg thru hell knowing that she had just been heir to the throne of e notorious porn queen.

speaking of annabel, lets feast our eyes on her now (warning: pictures are small for easier consumption. oversized ones may result in nausea). presenting the fugly girl, who became the world's first female ever to become human swiss cheese (wait, make that an extra-holey cheese) after a 251-medals, 10-hr marathon of its kind:



and here is a watered-down yet more 'palatable' form of her:



managed to watch the annabel chong documentary ( a fren here has it on tape) abt 2 months ago, and am deducing that it was shown in germany as it has german subtitles; but given that her feat was performed in the US, it has to be a US production. it explains the callous nature of the credits (below). the US surely has to have a finger in the pie for such matters. afterall, the magnanimous girl has graciously declined any profits that the US porn industry reaped, claiming that she did not do it for the money. my gdness. how charitable and dumb can she get?

in it, they described how annabel chong (whose real name is grace ng) came about aspiring to do such a crazy thing. as most of you wld have known, she was gang-raped by a grp of black men when she was a student in london. when she went over to US for further studies (loony her did not go thru psychological sessions at all to help herself), she was basically overcome by the noble aim of 'wanting to revolutionise the way women were subjugated by men sexually'; and thereby a brainchild was formed.

she wld help pump big bucks into the US porno industry by going on tv and cavort around in the most ludicrous advert ever: asking men to come for a big-time gangbang with her.

the few scenes of the scores of men all eagerly waiting to mount her (some of whom were so grotesque-looking you prob wld faint just from the thought of coming into communion with them) only pale in comparison to the one where her mum broke down. its amazing how she managed to keep her family oblivious to her newfound fame; and this is despite the whole production team taking her spore house by storm, filming her in her daily life like meeting up with frenz and gg back to hcjc to meet teachers... etc. till now, i have no idea how the mother found out abt her daughter's deed back in the US as no one was supposed to let e parents know (i guess all mothers' intuition has the uncanny ability of being right most of the time) but that scene of her breaking down was sobering in the fact that it shook grace out of her 'madness'. at least the cameraman had the decency to allow the mother and daughter some privacy as they both sat down in a room and cried, with grace finally promising her mum that she would do the latter proud at the end of the day (entirety of conversation in mandarin). all this while, i was thinking that grace cld have risen to heights in other more respectable fields if she had wanted to. instead she soared to heights that brought her nowhere. tough luck. you shld have seen the way she participated in the US classes and lectures, her wit and intelligence, coupled with her eloquence certainly made her a top-notch student. and her graduation ceremony saw her giving an exceptionally well-articulated speech that resulted in a standing ovation. humble grace made a dig at herself by some reference to her 'prowess', and the americans obviously lapped it all up.

when the credits started rolling, i thought that was the end of the doc. and tat was till i heard the plaintive strains of 'amazing grace' starting to play. i cldnt believe my ears. the director really has a great sense of humour eh? and add to that, he has blasphemised religion by using it in such a prog!

lets just examine the first line of the hymn. the first stanza:

Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found
Was blind, but now I see.

tt seemed to me like a deliberate pun on grace's name, and worse still, they qualified it as 'amazing'. amazing indeed. and what sound are they talking about? tts really hinting of smth else; and as for the rest of the lines, i guess i have no choice but to concur with the significance of it.

ok, time for some last-min packing, till then folks.