Its the monsoon season now, and nothing brings more joy then to coop up in the comfort of your own house, all alone, with only the faint sound of light alternative rock coming out of the slightly muted laptop speakers accompanying you. Oh, and the pattering of rain against the window pane, the dull rumbling of thunder, the occasional flash of lightning. Its been a long time since I've been in an emo mood, and I guess this is one of them. It all started in the morning, during the bus ride to school. As my house is quite some distance away from SIM, the bus ride to school is horribly long. On the usual dry sunny morning, the bus will be filled to the brim with people, and the morning sun will
attempt to arouse me from my travelling slumber. Today, however, was a rather different setting. There was a cold morning breeze, the bus was unusually empty, and it was an air-conditioned double decker (I usually catch the single deck or non-air-conditioned double deck). It has rained la
st night, which was apparent from the wet ground. The windows were slightly foggy, and the dark grey ominous-looking rainclouds still loomed overhead, threatening to spill forth its contents all over us. Slipping my headphones into my ears, the voice of Lisa Loeb settled me into this rather slow moving day, and everything felt so, I don't know, emo?
Anyway, its been awhile since I've updated this thing. Major events that happened were probably Armin Van Buuren at Zouk (amazing night!), followed by Zoukout '06.
Some photos from the events:
The videos are uploaded into the Vids section, more happening la than the photos. Couldn't take proper shots of the crowd that night.
Our soccer team has started to prepare for the upcoming season, with our first pre-season friendly taking place yesterday morning. Playing against an unknown team in rather horrendous water-logged pitch conditions, we eked out a 1-1 draw. However, I believe that the scoreline flatters the opposition, because if the pitch wasn't waterlogged, we'd have been 4-0 up by halftime. I started as a second half substitute, and I thought I played okay. Fitness is totally not there (as usual), but there were a few chances which I thought I should've at least had a shot. (Note to self: Stop hesitating! Just take the bloody shot already!) And playing with Chiloong and Chengwei upfront was a real pleasure, its like, we click. So many throughballs that were damn nice but the ball just skidded away upon hitting the ground, so it was always a tad too far ahead. Oh well.
I DJ-ed outside of my bedroom for the first time last night, at my gf's bro's 21st birthday party. He told me to keep the music light, so I took whatever deep house vinyl I bought from Guo Jie when I started mixing, and with whatever deephouse songs I have on my burnt CDRs and off I went. The volume was already too soft to start with, but I guess it was alright. After awhile, I got bored and decided to sellout and played more recognisable songs like Sexyback, London Bridge blahblah you get the idea. The few who were actually listening seemed to like it and got into the music. The rest were too busy yaddling away haha, but all in all a fun night. Also got to know my gf's cousins better, Natalie and Nicholas. First impressions are that Natalie's a rather jovial person, fun to talk to. Nicholas seems to be an inquisitive technical person, and well-versed in photography as well as sound systems.
Jansy's birthday party was held yesterday too, but I couldn't attend as I was at my gf's bro's party, so my apologies go out to her. Sorry Jansyyyy. Not as if she even knows I have a blog, but I guess I should apologise anyway. I think Jansy, Huiyi, Hatta, and I will meet up on a separate date to celebrate her birthday. Rachel's overseas (Hongkong shopping trip, so lucky la) since Thursday, but she's back yesterday already. Actually more like early this morning ah, anyway I'll be seeing her tomorrow, so can hear whatever stories she has from her trip.
"And you say, I only hear what I want to."
Don't we all?
