Let's dress up to go to the beach in winter!!

Well, that's what the organisers of this sem's Bunker Party has in mind.
Semester 2's Bunker at Crommie's theme is Luau and it's right outside my window.

You know when a huge party is about to begin when at 4pm, college speakers and bass are turned on at full blast. Then, fire alarms strikes off at 5pm. And suddenly, there's a deadly silent at 6pm. Because the kids have to eat dinner and start dressing up to appear at the entrance at 7pm. This is when the noise level reaches maximum. The only sign of possible noise reduction is when it's nearing midnight and you smell alcohol from the gust of wind seeping through the window sills.

It's 11.30pm, the redbull car just drove off, and the police car just checked in. This means the party has ended and I'm about to stuff my nose with earplugs.

I figured that no matter what I do, the noise is gonna be there for at least another hour, so my as well put it to good use.
So I watched this video:

Well, the video has nothing to do with the noise, but tonight, I'm fully capable of screaming my hearts out and not get complaints from my neighbours.

This is almost as awkward as watching myself on TV.
I'm so used to portraying him on TV as a singer in his usual on stage persona. Seeing him taking on the small screen makes me giggle in embarrassment.

Btw, it's been confirmed. Changmin is starring in the drama, Paradise Ranch. Jaejoong finished his side of the job for his acting debut, so he is accompanying Yoochun to release a Japanese single for *rolls eyes* Hello Kitty's birthday. That mute old feline is giving me more reasons to not like cats. Like TVXQ needs more reasons to prove that they are not gay.
Now let's all forget that and treat it as TVXQ and Hello Kitty have common target markets. Which brings us to: "All we have left is - Which market is Junsu gonna choose?"

Na prays: "Go find Junho and make a mini-album together!! It'll definitely be more impactful than the 3 actors and 1 kitty friend's gigs!"

Thanks to ichigoKJJ for the video.

Edit
I see 5 Suns, walking leafs and a "corn?banana?surf board?" outside my window.

It's a matter of getting used to

It's almost a week since the flight home, but Na hasn't really used the kitchen stove for decent purposes despite filling the fridge and cupboard with real food.

Na reasons her actions because she misses the food here, Nandos, Vietnamese chicken wings and salad, chinese food from Sunnybanks, etc.

Ever since Yunho's news of starring in a drama filled all the Kpop websites, I'd assume Junsu to be begging LSM for a shot in some camera, lights, action! I think so because Jae and Su are normally the ones who act like children who wants whatever the brothers and sisters are having. Then Changmin would be sneering at his hyungs and goes back to doing serious stuff while Yoochun is in his room playing the piano and computer, minding his own business.

Na hears that Changmin might be the 3rd TVXQ to start acting (and smooching actresses).
WHY??
Nothing wrong with Changmin acting ONLY ACCEPT THAT CHANGMIN IS THE MOST AWKWARD PERSON IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA!!
Has anyone (Maybe the Producers) EVER watched Changmin in... umm... short story dramas that he has never been a lead before??

That kid is the most awkward person in front of the camera since debut. It may have gotten better in recent years, but whenever he's trying too hard, it gets back again.

In any case, before there were any concrete news of Yunho's acting gig, rumours were all over the place and SM representatives denied all the possibilities. Therefore I should assume that I cannot be for sure until SM makes the announcement.

Well, I hope I'm right and the fire-starters are wrong. Changmin REALLY is an eye-candy (seen it for myself), but I'd very much prefer him to appear on TV as it is.

Yunho had been seen with Go Ara (lead actress) for script reading sessions... Something I've totally have to get used to seeing this PLUS more intimacy if I wanna get excited and anticipate for my Yunho to appear on TV on a daily basis being someone else, much less watching it.

P.S. If the above blocks of words didn't make sense in certain parts, it only means that Na was typing it with House M.D. or KangXiLaiLe episodes back to back rolling in a window beside this one.

Oh No

My mother registered a twitter account and started following me today.
Thank goodness I only use twitter to follow others, such as wonder girls and 2PM.
Scary~

Everybody loves reviews

So I was told to give the american TV series, House, a try.
It wasn't the first time somebody tried to do so, but I've been pretty sick of hospital dramas (See the pun? no? Nvm, it wasn't planned).

Despite being extremely judgmental, I would normally give everything a 2nd chance.

Na's thoughts: "Maybe because she knows she is extremely judgmental, that's why she'd give everything a 2nd chance, in case she's wrong."

In any case, I gave the TV series a chance to prove itself.

The good things is, there's no "I love you, you love me, he loves me, I can't love him, she loves him, you cheat on me, I cheat on you" drama.

The bad thing is, without the drama above, this series is almost like sitting through advanced biology class with a little (ok, maybe a little more) suspense.

So why am I still watching it?
Na found a new person to look up to. Not exactly an idol, but someone she can learn from.
The lead character in the series happens to be a cynically sarcastic person filled with negativity. Sounds familiar?

Na answers: "Isn't that.... Na??"

No. Well, not really. The main character, Greg House, can get away from being cynical and sarcastic just because he's all fictional. And he's even a few notches above me, yet people love (watching) him!

Now I wish I was fictional, so I can flood all my thoughts out loud and everyone will still love (watching) me.

Settlers

Settling down isn't much of a problem this semester if I didnt had so many activities packed straight after my plane lands in Brissy.

First up, Congratulations to all the fresh UQ Graduates!
And Thank you Bel and Bel's mummy for a sumptuous dinner on the day we arrive.
Well, I made it sound like the dinner was for my arrival, but it's actually for Bel's graduation and final trip home to Sg.

I might have escaped the kitchen duties on the day of arrival, but Na still has to eat, and Chef Na frowns on an empty fridge.
So the next day, it was Sunnybanks for some Asian grocery shopping, followed by Coles for regular grocery shopping.

Na made a promise to her college friends to visit Dreamworld last semester, so today, on the 3rd day back in Brissy, Na and her college kakis train-ed down to Dreamworld for some fun before uni starts.
Frankly, Dreamworld's rides are far inferior to the Movieworld rides. There was barely any adrenaline rush and i felt more pain than excitement on most of the rides. I even dozed off while riding one of them.
My last trip to Movieworld included a bonus pack of 3 bruises on my arms and a boggling headache after leaving the themepark. Maybe because the rides in Dreamworld are not as fast and violent, I didn't spot any bruises on my body at all.
There's only a slight chance of me uploading photos of our endeavours IF I could get hold of them and IF I am not too lazy to.

Youthful Brissy Na hasn't set in yet. Maybe because Oldie Na has been too busy to answer the doors. I'm being hopeful that Youthful Brissy Na will coming knocking soon.

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Na hears that YUNHO IS CONFIRMED ACTING IN A KOREAN DRAMA!!! AS LEAD SOMEMORE!!!
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
and the drama so happens to be soccer related... like the first thing that popped in my mind was Junsu's face turning green with envy.

Okay. So the drama is expected to be released in early September. TVXQ currently have the A-Nation tour and their following "Hello Kitty" related single release on their hands. The "Hello Kitty" related single, aka COLOURS - Melody & Harmony (CMH), will mean more Music Japan, Music Fighter, Music Station, Music Fair, and other Jap talk show to appear in. This is also often followed by Jap magazines such as Arena 37, Pati Pati, Oricon, Ray Mag interviews and photoshoots. Not to forget their Bigeastation commitments too.
HOW ON EARTH IS YUNHO GONNA FIND TIME IN KOREA TO FILM A DRAMA!?!?!??!!

Then again, there WERE rumours saying that TVXQ MIGHT release a Korean Mini-album later in the year, so is there a possibility that SM signed a package deal in the contract?
Buy Yunho and get TVXQ to sing OST at bonus price.
This way, even if the drama doesnt do too well, the DVD or Drama Soundtrack CD will sell like hotcakes and make up for all the loses made in mainstream productions.

I analyse a little too much.

Maybe leaving isn't such a bad idea

I expected alot more for my last weekend in Singapore... Now all I can think of is escaping to Brissy where I have no expectations for life at all.

This is by far the most miserable weekend I have in Sunny Sg, throwing tantrums and exposing all my negativity to my closest friends, thus becoming the wet-blanket of the party, and finally drowning my sorrows in the only place where I can get FOC free-flow of a wide variety of liquor while controlling my sanity by waiting for Ronald's delivery to fill my stomach.

20th July, 2009 @ 2:18AM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The above is an unfinished post blogged in Ber's room while he was in the kitchen cooking noodles and mixing drinks.
Waking up in the "morning", feeling a lot more sober than before, I realised that this vacation not only brought Na home from Brissy, the spoilt, selfish and insensitive brat from Na's younger days found her way back in authority as well.

After much turmoils and tragics in Na's history, she has learnt to lock away the person she grew up as, out of reach from everybody, in case any harm comes to her friends or herself.

But the frequent adjusting and readjusting in life, checking in and out of reality at least twice a year, is becoming very confusing.
It's almost as if she has lost a sense of belonging to anywhere and now relates herself to nowhere at all.
In the midst of exchanging attitudes and social standing positions, the multiple identities that Na has been comfortably juggling all these years are starting to collapse, allowing the true Na who has been suppressed for more than 5 years to revisit daylight and cause torment to people around her again.

Na's body reasoned her comeback with her absence from home for too long, making Na totally oblivious of the terror within her.
In her last weekend in Sg, when all negativity gets so overwhelming that it engulfs everyone around her, she finally came face to face with her real self, meeting her for the first time so directly since her return.

Right now, it's too late for any reconciliation. Na can only hope that time will heal all wounds while she escapes back to Brissy with her cynical self (to settle scores with her) and return once more with the legit and preferred Na in a few months time.

"Adult" no more

Ignoring my "signs of aging" issues highlighted in my previous entry, I am no longer entitled to use the word "Adult" when addressing older people when I talk.
This is because people aged "children and below" now calls me "Auntie", which categorizes me into the other "A" word (mentioned above) in their dictionary.

Therefore, I've chosen the term "Old people" to subtly refer to people with bigger real age numbers relative to me.

In any case, this isn't what I came to write about.

Despite being in an all-english-speaking land with greener grass for a long time this year, Na still finds herself loyally listening to Korean and Japanese music only. So pardon me when I say that I've only recently really listened to popular acts like Lady GaGa and Kathy Perry. (Did I spell their names right?)

Yes, go ahead and judge me for being outdated, because I judged everyone in Singapore for going bananas over the "so-last-year" song, Nobody, by the Wonder Girls.

What really baffles me is the new fashion trend/statement Hollywood is trying to set recently.
I first noticed the "No Pants" wardrobe when Lady Gaga made a brief appearance in S.Korea's entertainment gigs.
Then, I see Kathy Perry and Beyonce spotting the same almost bared bottom look on MTV.
Next I know it, Jolin Tsai picked up the wardrobe for her MVs as well.
And I think there's a high chance that 2NE1, the current coolest korean girl band, is doing a monkey-see-monkey-do for their upcoming mini-album release.

It is a known fact for years that Na is NEVER a fan of pants. With climate like Singapore and body made of heat conducting materials, Na resists anything that's meant to keep one warm. I only learn to embrace the heat/warmth retaining abilities of pants/jeans after toughing through my first winter life in Brissy.

But still, Na knows that it is always at all times polite to keep her trunks to herself (and possibly anyone special) with perhaps some cloth that safely covers and yet unrestrictive.

If this is Hollywood's way of telling Na that mini skirts and hot pants are no longer enough to keep the heat more baerable, I think we should expect to see the current "1 piece swimsuit paired with panty hose" lookalike trend to succumb into walking lingerie/bikini average looking women in the next decade.

With absolutely no relevance to what I've written above, I think this is the first Jap CF I've seen so far, and I absolutely DIG IT!

Aside from flaunting their great a capella skills, this is exactly the image of Tohoshink I'd be envious for Dongbangshinki.
The fastforwarding of Doushite and ???? dance moves Cutesified the CF to the Max!

Who will be my financial advisor??

Shopping, a.k.a. spending excessively, is the new swine flu inhibited in my body.

This morning, I was awaken by my alarm set the night before to welcome my BKK buddy for a photo-grabbing session and movie date arranged a week ago.
Being accustomed to the mundane adult habit of checking emails right after the post-getting-off-bed trip to the bathroom, I thought I no longer needed a coffee for an "old people morning caffeine booster".

My mom had emailed me (and CC-ed my dad) a request for an arrangement with my time because she needed help home after a check-up at the doctors for the taboo "C" word in medical terms.

Without hesitation, I canceled my movie date and headed down to the vicinity to chill while waiting for the call.

I'm using my words very loosely here, because chilling turned out to be a torment for my wallet and my ATM card. Having suffered enough bruising and bleeding from other parts of the world, I can't help but hear soft cries of agony from my handbag.

Hours later, there was still no call from the nurses. I headed down to a cafe and ordered Iced Latte and a piece of cake for some adult quick fix. I really took my time to enjoy the a/c and time alone without parents judging while complaining about bills, but the silence from my phone was getting frustrating. I sent a msg to my mother, despite knowing that handphone radiations are probably something she cannot be in close proximity with, and received a reply almost immediately that contained 3 embarassing words.

It read: "It's tomorrow lar."

There, I waved for the bill, ignored my change and headed straight to the bus stop for home.

She called getting worried about my silliness to wait for nothing, but I was more concerned about my silly spendings during my wait for nothing.
Since she called, I made sure the check was something routine and there was nothing to worry about. So yea, it's a routine check for family history diseases, which got me questioning, "Am I eligible for one myself?"

Anyways, for a trip out for nothing, I found myself making purchases I already own because they are all sitting at home in the place of land with greener grass.

I swear that every trip I make back to sunny Sg, I find myself stripping my sg room barren and stocking up my properties in a place I've decided to leave for good in less than a year's time.

With regards to my relationship with caffeine, I am known for my mental age issues among my ozzie friends, but I still find myself living a life fit enough for a youth. However, everytime I leave the place I've gotten so used to the past few months, I find myself aging mentally so much that it's also starting to get physically draining as well.
The first trip home last semester got me sleeping and waking up in regular adult hours.

The second trip to home and bkk this time seemed to have added a couple of decades to my real age. In Bkk, I couldn't survive without coffee fixes on a daily basis. My bkk buddy could be my witness for that. Ber said it was the jet lag that caused the syndrome, but I'm into the end of my 2nd week in Sg and 3rd week away from Brissy and yet I still need the old people remedy to awakening to get my life rolling.

And it only gets better. I'm returning to Brissy in less than 2 weeks time, so the next time I'm back in Sg, expect Mother Earth, God, or whoever the culprit is, to add digits behind my age so that I can check myself into the doctors and get a prescribtion for rheumatism due to the year end wet weather climate in Singapore.

Blogger has been hanging on me

And I can't be bothered to change my web browser or do anything about it.
Which is why this post is so long overdue.

If you're expecting to see my BKK photos, please proceed to the "x" button on the top right corner of your window right now because I haven't uploaded them on the laptop yet. It is still in the unpacked handbag sitting on my luggage.

Seeing that I'll only be home for a few weeks, I my as well live off my luggage and save the trouble of messing up the organised cupboard/wardrobe in my room. My mother enjoys cleaning up the room every time I leave for Brissy.

Normally after any vacation away from my laptop and the world wide web, I'd always have the immediate urge to connect myself to technology and get piping fresh updates on my Korean Darlings.
But because this BKK trip got me up close to my TVXQ Darlings, I felt a strange and foreign emotion that I was really afraid of feeling. I was actually sick of reading about TVXQ on my laptop. I'd the tendency to skip all of their latest news, photos and videos and I found more joy in watching TV than clicking my mouse.
That was super scary. I thought I was jinxed. Maybe I really meant it when I said I'd retire after seeing them live.
But I couldn't! Retirement is NOT an option right now because the Mirotic Concert WASN'T SATISFYING AT ALL!!!
Fangirls yelling, exploding my eardrums. I could barely concentrate on their voices.
I watched both concerts, on 27th and 28th June.

On the first night, there was a Changmin fan who would scream at super high pitch whenever Changmin sings. I was partially deaf halfway through the concert. Both my hands couldn't leave my ears because you never know when her piercing screams will start slicing through my eardrums.

On the second night, a few bigeast fans, aka Japanese fans, were sitting behind me. Like me, they were really calm and sat down almost throughout the entire concert. I mean, even if every1 was standing for the fast songs, such as Purple Line and Mirotic, they were sitted, fully enjoying the performance with composure. I like them.
Believe it or not, other than the first 5minutes when TVXQ first appeared in flesh and blood in front of me, I spent the rest of the concert really composed, trying my hardest to concentrate on their voices and dances amongst the screaming, distracting cassies.

Therefore, I was right before. My ULTIMATE LIFELONG DREAM is to watch TOHOSHINKI's JAPAN LIVE TOUR one day, preferably their Tokyo Dome, which looked fantastically excellent in photos!!
If only I had friends who are time and wallet rich enough to splurge on Tokyo Dome... I'd probably have made the decision to skip Mirotic and jump straight to Tokyo Dome for some 100% Live Secret Code.

So while Na was recuperating, Donghae and Siwon were such sweethearts to remind her that she still loves Kpop. But even if she doesn't, LSM's possible intention of moving part of his overcrowded money plant to the Chinese market is really a consolation for her.

Donghae is such a cutie and Na is surprised at how she doesn't hate Ariel but instead, feels super sweet when they act as a couple.
So maybe I'm not a selfish fangirl, it just depends on who's the girl feeling up and down my Korean Boybands.