Brandon Flowers is going to release his album, Flamingo, on Sep 6, and I’m pretty much looking forward to it. He’d released “Crossfire” a couple of months back, and I remember checking the video out and liking it very much. I mean, how cool is it to see the roles of the hero and the damsel in distress reversed?

Plus, it featured the awesome kick-assing Charlize Theron, who acted in Aeon Flux.

I watched that as a kid and never forgot how cool she was. A fly landed on her eyelashes and she picked it up with her fingers. Her ninja skills are too awesome. T____T

The other one I’m really excited about too is Maroon 5‘s Hands All Over, due to be released on Sep 20. Every time I think of them or listen to a song of theirs, the memory of those days spent mugging in the library for my ‘O’ Levels will appear in my mind, technicolour and all. I can even smell the sharp coldness of the air-conditioned air. It’s just a really strong memory for me. And their song, “Misery”! It’s so awesome.

I mean, it’s actually quite a miserable song la. And the video… Zzzz I didn’t know it was so violent. I’d watched the UK version at first, and they’d censored all the parts where the girl beat up Adam with weird objects like pillows and sweets. I feel a bit disturbed after watching that video. Oh yeah Adam, I can see you’re in Misery.

And the album art’s a little creepy. It is quite literally, hands all over. I mean, there’re four hands and one person. Where the bloody heck did the other two arms come from?! T_____T

I’m a little freaked out, truth be told. D:

But yup. Gotta go for my duty for YOG now, so ciao!

The ungrateful bastard’s blog post
HE SAID I SHRIEKED LIKE DEMENTED BANSHEE AND HAD LETHAL ELBOWS HUH?!

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I am not a demented banshee. I am not a demented banshee. I am not a demented banshee.

*mutters to self about killing certain tougays with my “lethal elbows”*

I’m gonna miss my desk (and m:idea and Trimedia) so freaking much. D:

This was the place I foamed half to death while working on npTribune and HYPE. D:

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, and guess what? Just today, well, more like yesterday now seeing as it is 3 am in the morning, I went to The Click Five‘s concert!

And it was awesome. I swear, there were several times when I felt as though Kyle Patrick was looking right at me! Hahaha. It’s probably me being delusional, but hey! There’s so little in my life to be happy about, just leave me this to feel sort of optimistic ok!

There were also other acts, like Inch Chua and the Metric System (I like her!), Shirlyn Tan and the UnXpected (they’re ok) and Nathan Hartono and friends (his friends were just bleak).

Hahaha I will update this post again with more pictures I’ve taken later!

[EDIT: Hehe I've updated this with pics now!]

The sky was damn awesome ok! Little editing was done to the pic, except for resizing it. Oh, and I forgot to mention. I used a circular polariser, which gave it that cool vignette look. So really, no photoshopping much! Btw all the pics are taken with Nic’s camera, so, much thanks Elmo!

Sophie and her SMEs – convinced them to take a pic. With the sky so beautiful, how could you say no?

Shirlyn Tan and the UnXpected – Surprisingly, one of her songs was quite nice. It’s called Window, and apparently it’s been playing on the local radio stations already. No wonder it sounded so familiar…

Inch Chua – this cute ball of fun and her awesome voice. Her songs sound better live, though. My fav song? Rule the World. It’s epic.

Nathan Hartono – Dude’s got a nice voice. Sadly, his accompanying friends didn’t do much justice to his segment.

Xing Fen – I think that’s the way to spell her name la. In any case, she didn’t impress me much. Breathless in the middle of the second song while dancing. I get that she’s still a newbie, but still… More work needs to be done lor. First song was damn wtf though. T____T

Dominic Wong – He sings kinda nice, but there were a few hiccups along the way. Plus, that stand is so in the way!

The Click Five – Finally! The act we’ve all been waiting for!

Yeah, raise your hands in the air people!

Now clap ‘em hands together!

JY, Soph & Me – Hahahaha ok this one I cannot resist commenting about it. Doesn’t my face look like it should be photoshopped out? I look like a light bulb lolz, albeit a very  tanned one But anyways this was the first gig that all three of us attended!

Joey Zehr – This guy is cute ok! Plus he came out and did fanservice, which is awesome! And guess what? I got his autograph!

Kyle Patrick- Ok, you can’t deny he’s kinda cute. But he feels a bit more standoffish than Joey, so… I dunno. Anyway, I got his autograph too! Was waving like one dog with my notebook, flapping it above the poor people’s head. Lolz.

Really enjoyed myself at The Click Five concert, even though I was really cutting it close with a report and final presentation due the very next day. T____T

Worked throughout the night (no naps literally!) at the hotel and went back home to shower, get my attire ready, and flop down to school to present. D:

Finished the presentation just 5 or 10 mins before we were due, and had Soph & Mich arriving with the report (they went to print and bind it) just as we were supposed to present! FML we are jokes. Even the Director was there to listen in to our presentation. OTL

Anyway, it went well. I think. We finished at around 20 mins 40 secs? Which should be ok, since we’re not supposed to exceed 21 min. 20 min’s the allocated time, but we’re given 1 extra grace min. There were quite a couple of questions though, and I hope we answered them sufficiently!

Then afterwards, we went out to have sushi at Hanabi Restaurant, thanks to Dawn! Dawn the Demented treated us to an awesome sushi buffet, and I ate as much as I could but started giving up soon while JY and Soph continued gulping down the sushi like air. They are scary. >_<

Oh, and we had some Jap dessert at Ministry of Food to finish off the day! I think I had some Kurian dessert, shared it with JY, and Soph had some Macha drink thingy (?) and Dawn had a Fruit dessert thingy. FML I can’t remember the names, but I do remember that the desserts were really nice! I like the red bean and the mochi (?) and the ice cream. I want to go back again ^^

No pics for dinner, though. I’d thought of bringing my cam, well, Nic’s cam down, but I got lazy. Lol. I feel a bit regretful. The foods were awesome and would have made great pics. Meh. Never mind, there shall be future outings!

Ok that’s it! For more pics of The Click Five concert, go to my flickr here: rainin9

HYPE is out!

I’m so proud of it. I feel like a momma who’s just given birth to her first born. Katy Perry looks really pretty huh?

Anyways! You can get HYPE by coming down to the HYPEd Up! Flea Market happening tomorrow at *SCAPE from 2 to 9 pm! We have over 60 stalls at the flea selling cool stuff, and local bands like Trella, Postbox, Duxton Plains and Run Neon Tiger playing! Don’t miss it! It’s our inaugural event yo~ ^^

If you miss out on it, we have some copies of HYPE here at these locations stated below!

And lastly! If you suay suay still cannot get HYPE from these locations, we’ll be releasing the online version of it over here from Aug 7! Check out this site k!

Alrighty that’s it! Got to get back to npTribune Issue 2. D:

Once it’s done… hur hur. I will get back my life!!!

PS: Check out my new blog post, NP’s absolutely the best!, over at NP Friends Day Blog.

Yeap. Well, in any case, I’ve been feeling really emo lately. Not surprising, seeing as it’s the last lap for HYPE and I’m just really trying to keep going even though I feel really tired and all. I just feel so close to the end of my tether, like I’m about to snap and lose my grip on what little shreds of sanity I have left.

I also end up frikkin’ emo and end up creating weird wallpapers like this:

Hur hur. Yes. I guess it is a little creepy. I mean the eyes and all. But. I mean, isn’t preeeetty? That intense look contrasted against the velvety crinkle of the leather gloves. I don’t like the redness in the right eye, though, so if I’m bored enough I might just go photoshop it out.

And yes… I use GeekTool. ;D

Okay… I’ve kind of run out of stuff to say. Got to get back to editing, we’re just left with a little more to go for HYPE. D:

In an attempt to be productive, I blocked twitter, facebook, hotmail, and even my own website so that I wouldn’t be able to log onto them and get all distracted and stuff.

It’s good… It worked.

Only thing is… I can’t unblock them now. FML.

The weight of this responsibility is pushing down on me.

I can’t stop this rapid breathing, can’t stop hyperventilating.

It’s pushing and pulling me and I can’t breathe properly.

There’s just too much nervous energy bouncing around me.

I’m extremely distressed.

I need help.

]]> http://itsrainin9.com/2010/07/breathe/feed/ 3 http://itsrainin9.com/2010/07/spell/ http://itsrainin9.com/2010/07/spell/#comments Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:39:48 +0000 rainin9 http://itsrainin9.com/2010/07/spell/ Somehow my iTunes started playing this song and all I can think of is that this song fits my mood perfectly.

Beauty emanates from every word that you say
You’ve captured the deepest thoughts
In the purest, and simplest of ways
But you see, I’m not that graceful, Like you
Nor am I as eloquent
But just a simple melody
Can change the way that you see me

And right now, I have you
For a moment I can tell I’ve got you
Cuz your lips don’t move
And something is happening
Cuz your eyes tell me the truth
I’ve put a spell over you

And that I’m not going to think about anything. Despite what Shamus said last night. That’s the only way to get through this without it turning into another Spike D. So I’m going to try. I’m going to try not to think about anything except work.

Sigh.

Wish me luck in that.