Qui veut gagner l’argent en masse?

Canadian [parody] version of Qui veut gagner des millions. It’s pretty funny. :P Canadians are win.

I love good acting where it counts.

Community Channel

Indeed.

Back from camp and Guang Liang’s Tong Hua

I’m back from CMG camp and it was pretty awesome in the way that only all Asian gatherings are awesome. All the brilliant actors and singers aside [and there were a lot of them - the production is going to be so good,] I realise that I know no lyrics to Chinese songs that are considered ‘classics,’ so when they all sang along, I hummed. It also made a lot of the station games very difficult and awkward for me as only singing Merry Christmas after a heart-wrenching rendition of Tong Hua can be. Woe.

Lyrics can be found here.

First step goes into the puddle

I got a friend’s friend to teach me how to drive a manually-operated car today. It was pretty exciting. Driving a manual is a lot more fun than automatics, what with all the left leg and arm action. However, since I don’t have a manual car, I’ll have to wait a few years until I can buy my own to have more driving fun.

Went by my old school ‘district’ later for lunch with the aforementioned friend. Fwoar! The nostalgia! I guess at this point, all I can do is smile wryly at the past and keep walking the path I’m on.

Jason Mraz – I’m Yours

Jason Mraz – I’m Yours
Album: Extra Credit EP or I’m Yours single

My wifey likes the strangest music and she’s been pushing vids at me all morning. I love this [and she loves this] because it’s so happy. And the tropical fish [?] are really cute. Times like these I wish I lived up north because the tropics are so [ideally] happy and laissez-faire.

And by ‘wifey’ I don’t actually mean my wife.

Well you done done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill but you’re so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks
And now I’m trying to get back
Before the cool done run out
I’ll be giving it my bestest
Nothing’s going to stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it’s again my turn to win some or learn some

I won’t hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I’m yours

Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you’re free
Look into your heart and you’ll find love love love
Listen to the music of the moment people dance and sing
We’re just one big family.
It’s your God-forsaken right to be loved love loved love love

So I won’t hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I’m sure
There’s no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I’m yours

I’ve been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and I laughed
I guess what I be saying is there ain’t no better reason
To rid yourself of vanities and just go with the seasons
It’s what we aim to do
Our name is our virtue

But I won’t hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I’m yours
There’s no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I’m yours

Well no no, well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you’re free
Look into your heart and you’ll find love love love love
Listen to the music of the moment come and dance with me
I like one big family [2nd time: I like happy family]
It’s your God-forsaken right to be loved love love love

I won’t hesitate no more
Oh no more no more no more
It’s your God-forsaken right to be loved, I’m sure
There’s no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I’m yours

No I won’t hesitate no more, no more
This cannot wait I’m sure
There’s no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I’m yours, I’m yours.

Breaking Benjamin – Diary of Jane

Breaking Benjamin – Diary of Jane
Album: Phobia

I don’t usually listen to music like this as it isn’t really my genre. Not really… OK: rephrase. I wouldn’t pick up artists like this. However, I was introduced to this little ditty by way of a Firefly fanvid called – appropriately enough – Diary of Jayne. Yes, it was about Jayne.

Then, behind all those clips of the best show ever, I realised what a nice song it was and how I could get my grimy little paws on a copy. So I did. On all three Breaking Benjamin albums. That’s how obsessive compulsive I am. I have to have them all even if I hate everything else by the artist. Such is my life.

If I had to
I would put myself right beside you
So let me ask
Would you like that?
Would you like that?

And I don’t mind
If you say this love is the last time
So now I’ll ask
Do you like that?
Do you like that?

No.

Something’s getting in the way
Something’s just about to break
I will try to find my place in the diary of Jane
So tell me how it should be

Try to find out what makes you tick
As I lie down
Sore and sick
Do you like that?
Do you like that?

There’s a fine line between love and hate
And I don’t mind
Just let me say that I like that
I like that

Something’s getting in the way
Something’s just about to break
I will try to find my place in the diary of Jane
As I burn another page
As I look the other way
I still try to find my place in the diary of Jane
So tell me how it should be

Desperate, I will crawl
Waiting for so long
No love, there is no love
Die for anyone
What have I become

Something’s getting in the way
Something’s just about to break
I will try to find my place in the diary of Jane
As I burn another page
As I look the other way
I still try to find my place
In the diary of Jane.

Post-exam desk

This is how genius burns. Usually it’s in a worse state and the only reason it’s this clean [relatively, relatively] was because I had to get rid of all my mathematics and physics notes so that I had enough space for my engineering and french things.

I had been planning on cleaning it up though. Certain people have been on my back about its current state. Rubber shavings, empty gum bottles, chocolate wrappers and all.

I’ll get around to it…I promise, but let me first relish the joy of having finished with ridiculous amounts of sitting, inordinate amounts of thinking and a couple of weeks of bad sleep. Yeah, a sweet 5 weeks until I’m going to be back for semester 2. Might as well make the best of it.

Student impales himself on gate

Oh gods. The pre-exam horror stories just get worse and worse, don’t they? :(

Exams

Ugh. I can’t believe it’s time already. -___-

Thursday: Physics
Friday: Mathematics
Next Wednesday: Engineering
Next Friday: French

And then a blessed five weeks of holiday in which I must start driving. And working. And saving up for my hopes and dreams. ;)

School 1960 vs. School 2007

I usually rip my friends a new one for sending me spam emails but this is more amusing than annoying:

Many a true word is spoken in jest but this is too true.

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.

1960 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up mates.

2007 – Police are called, Armed Response Unit arrives and arrests Johnny and Mark. Mobiles with video of fight confiscated as evidence. They are charged with assault, ASBOs are taken out and both are suspended even though Johnny started it. Diversionary conferences and parent meetings conducted. Video shown on 6 internet sites.

Scenario: Jeffrey won’t sit still in class, disrupts other students.

1960 – Jeffrey is sent to the principal’s office and given 6 of the best. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.

2007 – Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. Counselled to death. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra funding because Jeffrey has a disability. Drops out of school.

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbour’s car and his Dad gives him the slipper.

1960 – Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2007 – Billy’s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. Psychologist tells Billy’s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy’s mum has an affair with the psychologist. Psychologist gets a promotion.

Scenario: Mark, a college student, brings cigarettes to school.

1960 – Mark shares a smoke with the school principal out on the smoking area.

2007 – Police are called and Mark is expelled from School for drug possession. His car is searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario: Mohammed fails high school English.

1960 – Mohammed retakes his exam, passes and goes to college.

2007 – Mohammed’s cause is taken up by local human rights group. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that making English a requirement for graduation is racist. Civil Liberties Association files class action lawsuit against state school system and his English teacher. English is banned from core curriculum. Mohammed is given his qualification anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers, puts them in a model plane paint bottle and blows up an anthill.

1960 – Ants die.

2007 – MI5 and police are called and Johnny is charged with perpertrating acts of terrorism. Teams investigate parents, siblings are removed from the home, computers are confiscated, and Johnny’s dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario: Johnny falls during break and scrapes his knee. His teacher, Mary, finds him crying, and gives him a hug to comfort him.

1960 – Johnny soon feels better and goes back to playing.

2007 – Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces three years in prison. Johnny undergoes five years of therapy. Becomes gay.