So this is life!

Why is it that the holidays seem so much more hectic and busy than normal school days?


HELLO TO LIFE!

It's a GG situation ~

Lift upgrading is a wonderful and splendid thing, especially so when you know you're gonna be a bigger sloth than ever cos' your lift will stop right outside your doorstep.

So, we have to put up with those drilling noises and dirt and dust and sand now for a lazier tomorrow! :D

tahan with the noise now, for a better tomorrow.

BUT,

not everything's so wonderful and splendid when sucky things like this happens.

MAINTENANCE

WALAO. The only working lift is under maintenance and is not working.

Thanks ah, had to take the stairs. Defeating the purpose of a lift which stops right outside my doorstep.


This happened around two weeks ago, but still, hopefully such sucky things wouldn't happen anymore.

Hurts Live in Singapore! + Avril Lavigne's concert.

"Secret recipe to happiness is, hurt. It is pain which makes you find happiness in very small things." ~Theo Hutchcraft

I haven't felt this excited for a long long time already. I'm still so high on adrenaline I don't even think I can fall asleep. 

The cause of this impending insomnia - Hurts.

Hurts is a British synthpop duo which debuted in September 2010. Released their debut album 'Happiness' and killed me with their songs. The rest is yada yada cos' you don't care and I don't know either.

Ken and I went for Hurts' concert at the Esplanade just now, and really, it was simply fantastic.

Second row, everyone!!! 

It's like kinda retarded cos' there's only 2 pricing categories, $80 and $98. 

Well, you don't need to be a math genius to know the deal right?

Of course the $98 and right in front right? hahaha.

 

 

Hurts. Theo (Vocalist) and Adam (Synth player)

Theo is just so awesome! His vocals are insane.

  I don't even know how this kid here can sing better live than the studio record version.

Mesmerising.

 This group is so sick, I was shrilling like a crazy fangirl at parts of the concert. 

Theo and Adam's stage presences were awesomely awesome, they weren't just presenting music, but also a visual performance as well. 

No dancing though, just some awkward hand gestures, swinging of the mic stand, strumming of the guitar, walking around, etc. But yeah, stage presence, checked. 

Adam!!

 Yeah. That's about all. I'm still high on adrenaline. 

I'm so gonna dream of them and forget all about my exam in the morning to come. XD

but then again, no regrets!!!! :D

I watched Avril Lavigne's Black Star Tour concert the day before with Lizzie. It was good too! But I think I'm long over the age of punk rock. Surprisingly though is that Avril Lavigne hasn't aged a bit! She looks pretty much the same as when she came out with her 'Complicated' when I was in primary school. That's freaking 10 years ago and she still looks the same.

Here's 2 photos just for fun:

Had a rocking good time. Not really 'great' yet cos' I must admit her music is not very for me, but at least I got hyped up by the atmosphere and did enjoy it! :)

That's all for now. More posts to come now. I hope. 

New Umbrella!

 I know it's the exams periods, but I'm spending my days as though I'm the biggest sloth in the world. Oh my life is the biggest joke, ain't it？ Even <--- that question mark is a joke but I'm gonna leave it as it is since it's, I suppose, laugh-worthy.

Anyway, mum (or was it dad...) bought me a new umbrella today. It's really nice! Okay I know it's retarded to be showing off my umbrella on my blog, I wanted to blog about the General Elections but I'll probably drown in my own sweat and tears after typing out the post cos' there's just too much to say and I'm so very disappointed with the results. So, to bring move on in life albeit it being a joke, I'm gonna talk about my new umbrella instead :) I'm sure it's going to be very useful in times to come, I foresee more gloomy days and dark clouds to come, especially now that my area in under the opposition. ARGH.

Say HELLO  to my umbrella everyone! I hereby name it 'Blues'.

Look! It's so thin and compact! Awesome for people like me who has five billion and one things in my bag, I need an umbrella that is small and light that doesn't take up much space in my bag. 

 This picture show the size relative to a comb. Oh how random.

This is how it looks like when it's opened. (Wow what a messy table! IDC)．

 Clearer view of it being opened.

 Okay before this gets stupid and repetitive, I'm gonna show you what's REALLY COOL about this umbrella k.
Check this out.

 After sprinkling some water on the umbrella like how raindrops would wet the umbrella...
 Prints surface!

 Zoom in to see it! See? See how the droplets show the patterns?

 This is a clearer picture.

 Awesome shit right?

 I'm like playing with the umbrella only. HAHA damn cool.

 See? The flower pattern surfaced!

 Nice and pretty!

 Woah, damn bimbotic. But I like! :D

Anyway, Lizzy bought this mega funny autobiography of Tina Fey. Okay I haven't really read it yet, will read it after Lizzy is done with it and when I'm done with my exams. Maybe this will bring more joy into my life. Life, oh life. Sighs.

 She's a horror. Look at those arms.

Anyway, I bought Yoga Lin's album!! WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!
But why must it be in this faux-LD size?

 But I found a damn retarded page in the lyric book. Like what? Plastic bottles and a pair of sewing scissors? Hmm. But nothing can be weirder than another page I saw...

 Dissecting a fish! What the fish.

But for good music who really cares what's in the lyric book? It's just another funny concept they are trying to introduce and brand this album with. Pretty daring and rather cute I would say, matches my random and direction-less life now anyway. hehheh. what a joke.

Who's to Judge a Language?

About 2 weeks ago, my group mates and I were struggling with an assignment about annotating a corpus, and we had a presentation and blah blah blah. The main point I want to drive at is that, our professor came up to us and told us that we can gain extra credits if we can improve the flawed sentences on the corpus. Okay, so that was what I did, improving sentences on the corpus, and what I got back is a heap load of rubbish and a total ruination of my pride. I don't even think I know ENGLISH anymore. 

So what happened was that we had to annotate and tag word senses in a corpus, any corpus. We chose T*****a corpus (I don't wanna get into trouble here) as it is a multilingual corpus and seem very interesting to us budding multilingual linguists. We, however, faced problems while annotating the sentences because some of the sentences seem erroneous and sadly to say, some are downright horrendous as they are direct translations. Our professor hence told us to correct whatever sentences which we felt are wrong to improve the corpus as a whole and yada yada. 

And so I did. 

I made a total of 78 contributions to the corpus, mostly are comments of which I think the sentences didn't sound right and needed to be changed. For sentences which are not owned by anyone, I could basically adopt it, make it mine and correct it. HALLELUJAH, that was when hell came. 

After one night of editing certain sentences which I felt was wrong, I was greeted with 15 emails from strangers T*****a's war troops the next morning telling me how they don't feel a need to change their awkward-sounding sentences or that I must change my corrected sentences for the original ones are correct. 

Here are just some print-screens of my mortifying experiences with the evils of this earth. Of course, to protect the privacy of my enemies-in-war, I've sprayed paint on their names (If only I could do the same to their faces).

'She died for a lack of air.' This sentence sounds weird, agree? 

I commented on suggesting a change. but those ever-helpful front line troops replied after I commented on changing the sentence to a less awkward-sounding one. 

Well, not only is he/she indirectly saying that I'm stupid for not knowing that the original sentence 'is fine', he/she is trying to tell me that my vocab sucks too for not knowing the word 'asphyxia'.

Next is a really weird sentence that I've never ever come across before in the twenty one years of my life. 

Does that English sentence even makes sense to you? It seems so ungrammatical to me. The Chinese translation of it doesn't tally too.

So, the backside-itchy me went to change the sentence to "No sooner had I left it began to rain."

Then, I received an email notification telling me that someone commented on my sentence. The person not only commented once, but twice. Twice on how my English sucked and I should go right to hell for having such bad English.

As seen from above, I was trying to understand what is so 'right' about the original sentence, so I commented on whether the comparative 'than' should be the chronological 'then' instead. 

BUT NO. 

Someone smart came and rescued his fellow trooper by telling me straight in the face, 'No, it's "than"'. 

OKAY POINT TAKEN. 

What I didn't know was that people are really so free to stay on T*****a's website forever and go through all the comments/changes that others make. Yes, I received another comment on my change.

I hate my life.

 Now, You must be wondering, so what's the original sentence?

Here you go. Don't be too shocked though, cos' I'm just a student and am unable to pay your medical bills if anything were to happen to you.

My work is to do redundant things and make myself a laughing stock.

Okay, I proposed 'My sister works as an English teacher', but that was mercilessly shot down by those ever-protective soldiers of T*****a. 

WHAT A DUMB ASS I AM TO NOT KNOW THAT THE BEST TRANSLATION FOR ‘我姐姐是个英文老师’ is 'My sister's work is teaching English' (and we are from China). 

Next one is an epic. It is such an epic that I now declare myself a failure in the English language. 

Check out the sentence is:

 Wah I swear when I first saw this sentence in T*****a, I was laughing so hard I couldn't feel my cheeks for the next five minutes. 

But when replies and comments came in to my change of the sentence, I couldn't laugh anymore. I cried. I cried for the inabilities for being able to see the beauty of the English language. Here are the comments I received.

Woah woah woah. First, someone thinks the original sentence is correct (!!!) Next, someone else thinks that I'm so dumb I don't know how to find links on a web page. 

I feel so dumb I was at a lost of words to fight. I succumbed to my dumbness and gave in to them, admitted defeat and swore in my heart never to go back to that war zone ever again. 

There were more actually, but during my quest to print screen more wreckage from my defeated war grounds, the site crashed. Evidence as shown below. 

My theme chio right? XD

  

To ensure that it isn't Firefox's problem, I tried it on Chrome. What I got what the same "Service Temporarily Unavailable" message.

My Chrome theme chio too right?

Yah okay, seen through me, these two print-screens are meant to show off my themes of my web browsers and nothing more. Kill me kill me. 

Well, I went back to T*****a again shortly after and the website is working well. I'm not gonna meddle with it anymore and it'll prolly just make me feel even more like an idiot than before. 

So bye bye and good luck. 

Then again, don't meddle with politics too. GE is around the corner, parliament has dissolved, but I don't want to see friendships dissolved too. 

XOXO.

BTW, if the orange font colour is too bright for your eyes to function then I'm really sorry. Cos' I'm feeling really bimbotic now and wants to paint my world with a colour of my liking. Peace out. May your God's love be with you cos' mine will not be. 

XOsauce, for yummy prawns.