SATC Rocks!!!

ok... i know i'm a bit slow but by now you should realise (if you're unfortunate enough to have befriended me, that is) that I have this amazing tendency of getting onto something after the whole world has been through it till they're sick of it.

Have just finished season 1, and it proved to be thoroughly entertaining. Mr Big is such a jerk... but he's so cute ^o^ Am waiting to get season 2 from my generous neighbour who shall not be named here for security purposes haha.

have to get back to my essay. hope to finish it by end of today.

ta.

Ms Piggy

bbrrrrrr.....

... it's cold in melbourne. don't ask me how cold though, cos it's after 12mn here and despite catching a good Chinese play, or rather, i feel so languid after catching the play AND later on Mel Gibson in a tv re-run of What do women really want? that I don't really want to find out the temp that's causing me to sneeze twice in the past 2 sec.

Oh ya... about that play I caught with my friend Ruth. It's called Alice in Wonderland, by Fishnet Productions (Melbourne Uni's student theatre group). It's set in a different context, more modern i guess. The protaganist is still a young idealistic girl but this time instead of getting lost in a rabbit hole, she ends up auditioning for a really weird theatre company, which really makes for good theatre. If you have a theatre company with really straitlaced and morally upright characters it'll be so boring that i guess it'll close shop in no time ;p

so she goes in thinking of getting her big break as the next superstar, only to be rudely awaken to the realities of bitchy egos, slutty co-stars and a cynical management. Basically the story is about how she gets frustrated for having to change herself to please everyone except herself, and in the end she still ends up with nothing. So in the end she decides to leave the company for greener pastures.

A simple plot actually, which I guess is the whole point of staging a play cos I think it's hard enough to get simple ideas across on stage to the average audience (which they did try to make a reference of during the part where the actors/scriptwriters get together to brainstorm and they dissed this really bright idea from "Alice", cos if they can't understand it how can the uncultured, undiscerning audience of today ever understand it?? don't think i'm making much sense here but anyway it's my blog so...)

a rather humourous and inspiring show, considering not only that it's a student production but they managed to pull together everything in just 6 weeks' time, which is no simple feat on its own (and that's on top of school work, tests, assignments etc etc)... just shows how much one can acheive with the right spirit and determination ^o^

p.s.: jus caught brokeback mountain on my laptop yesterday. so sad... *sob sob*

Why are there so many psychos in the world?

although I know that evil balances the good in this world, sometimes I can't help but feel that there is too much evil in the world for the truly good to fight against.

Just read the newspaper online (it has become a daily practice... would rather read online than trudge down to the 7/11 which takes another 15 min to reach) and there was this sad story about how this psycho in the outer suburbs of Melbourne (which is really far from the city, so dun worry...) who broke into these little girls' homes and attacked them. One girl's body was found a year after her abduction. She had been shot execution-style three times in the head. The picture of the rest of her family grieving at the site where her body was found just makes me feel a deep sadness and rage at how the culprit may never be found and continue living his double life, creating more tragedies.

The Age news report described his profile as someone who "has an intense interest in children, especially children in the age group he is assaulting. He will spend a great deal of time with these children in what appears to be selfless dedication to students. This apparent dedication may well have earned him recognition and awards (teacher of the year, coach of the year, exceptional volunteer, etc). He is a functional individual, one with steady employment, is generally regarded as a good neighbour, polite, quiet, somewhat introverted, but may be involved in certain community-minded projects."

Doesn't that just sound sick to you? It sure does to me. While the rest of the world reads, sighs and moves on, the families of these poor girls would never be the same again

Bright and sunny morning :0)

if only I can wake up to this every morning...
...woke up this morning, feeling that I could continue sleeping forever. no.. it's not a sign of depression, although I've read somewhere that it's one of the symptoms of getting depression. It's simply "Sihan-the-pig-wans-to-sleep-more" syndrome that's occuring. Thank God it happens quite infrequently for me to enjoy rolling around in bed for half an hour more :D Life's going great, better than I ever imagined. Maybe it's just that I set my expectations low, cos the feeling is like things are going at a much slower, even leisurely pace. There's enough room to stop, pause and think about setting agendas for the day, shopping lists and what to cook for the next meal. Maybe it's just that I was too reliant on my mum for all these things. And it also allows room for me to eat more junk. But back to that later. I am sitting in my sun-lit room, stoning for the moment cos despite my hearty breakfast of sandwich and chocolate muffin, I'm still not quite settled down to start my reading seriously. Well, it's already 12 noon. Better get to that or else before I know it, it starts getting dark again. Damn.. this daylight savings thing sure needs some getting used to.