James Blunt is coming to Singapore on 13th May. And I feel like going. Well....I really liked his first album, not so much the second one, but I think that its worth going for! Anyone interested? The cheapest tix are 60 bucks which is not too bad I guess. I saw a couple of his live videos and they were pretty good! Gosh I think I'm hooked on live concerts. I love the whole experience. It's fun!

Anyway. Art coursework is getting more and more time consuming. It's just terrifying. And I'm not getting better at time management either. And other work is also piling up. I feel like the person in that Just For Laughs gag where he's working in a factory collecting plates and they just keep coming non stop, faster and faster. I PROMISE never to laugh when I see that gag again.

I wish Maroon 5 would play shows in Singapore everyday. Then I'd go watch them everyday, never mind that the Indoor Stadium is so far from where I live. Boohoo! I want to hear the amazing sound of them playing LIVE again. As you can see, I'm having Maroon 5 gig withdrawal symptoms now. Hence, pretty PICTURES from the gig! Most of them are blurry but you can still tell who's who :D They were taken by Yeth Harrison (I think), this kind soul who shared her pictures with Yuting and I. She obviously was smart enough to bring a camera which was CHARGED (see previous post for a cruelly funny story).

Adam Levine, the sexiest man alive!!! Mickey, the bass guitarist, is behind Adam. I love what he was wearing. And his guitar. And his hair. He looks a lot better with long hair!

SO YEAH. OMG I just got back not too long ago from the

Which I went to with art class buddy and partner in crime Yuting! It was just crazy... I was just crazy! It's kind of hard to describe but I'll just leave it as TOTALLY AWESOME for now. You get the picture, right?

They played (in no particular order, only the order of appearing in my head) Harder to Breathe, Wake Up Call, Makes Me Wonder, Won't Go Home Without You, Can't Stop, Little of Your Time, Nothing Lasts Forever, The Sun, Sunday Morning, This Love, She Will Be Loved, If I Never See Your Face Again and I can't remember any more! And HA I remembered all the words to all the songs!

Adam Levine was SO sexy. Period. Nuff said. Oh. And he was the only one doing the talking. Most memorable line: 'Where are all my ladies?' WHOA. I'm HERE, Adam!!! Why can't you see me?! James Valentine and his guitar were WAY too far away from me (WHYYY...life is so unfair) but he's totally edgy cool and still my favourite band member i.e. he didn't disappoint! He rocks the hardest. Mickey Madden and his pretty bass guitar was the one I was nearest to and he wore a v. long T-shirt and has the shiniest, straightest hair ever. He's mad awesome too! Matt Flynn on drums was being amazing doing his thing the whole time. He was really, really great and giving like 200% for the entire gig. And Jesse Carmichael doing keyboards was absolutely fantastic. The guy needs to be given more credit. Seriously. Like I didn't realise until tonight. And he cut his hair short!

The Bad News: Both our cameras ran out of battery. Before the gig even started. Please. Don't laugh! Our stupidity is just too stupefying to be true. I was hating myself so much that I almost killed myself right there. So I took pictures with my sucky phone but I got this nice girl to send me her pictures. Yay. Kind of. And something really hilarious happened. After the gig, being the stalkers that we are, we went around the building to see if we could at least catch them leaving and we walked one whole round before we saw loads of people from a distance...so we ran...and ended up at the opening of this unbarricaded side of a pick-up place...where the van was waiting to get them. We were kind of confused and just stopped in our tracks there before 2 security guards saw us and started walking to us gesturing NO YOU CAN'T BE HERE. Okaaay. Fine. I can't believe they left that opening sitting right there. So we went around to stand behind the barricade. We should have just rushed right into the pick-up area like crazed animals. At least we might have got an autograph or something.

All in all, what a fabulous experience. AdamJamesMickeyMattJesse PLEASE come back!

OMG I totally suck at blogging. Consistently. So here's a freakishly long post to make up for the absence of words!

Wynne dedicated a whole blog post to movies, which got me all fired up about my own favourite flicks :D so here I go:

I have a thing for FOREIGN FILMS. The best I've ever seen have got to be Das Boot (Germany), Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, France), El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth, Spain) and La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful, Italy). I only recently watched Life is Beautiful (which was like made over 10 years ago) and I have to say that this movie really made me laugh. Like, OUT LOUD. My mom got totally confused because minutes later I was complaining about how depressing the movie was. And that wasn't my split personality acting up, okay. The story is about an Italian Jew who gets hauled off to a Nazi concentration camp with his young son and manages to protect him from the truth throughout the whole ordeal by using his sense of humour and optimism. What he does is he tells his son that they're playing a game and if they get 1000 points, they win a REAL tank and get to go home. It's scary and hilarious at the same time. For example:

Giosue (the son): An old man was crying. He said they turn us into buttons and soap. They burn us all up in ovens.

Guido: How ridiculous. They were just teasing you! There are wood ovens, but there are no people ovens. Putting people in ovens creates too much smoke.

It's v. funny and touching and really, really sad. You can find clips on Youtube of some of the best parts but there aren't subtitles so that makes it kind of useless. Boo. But go rent it or something.

FAVOURITE LEADING MEN! I think RUSSELL CROWE is an amazing actor, even though he throws telephones at people. But the news is that he's been rehabilitated, thank God. A BEAUTIFUL MIND and GLADIATOR have got to be his best films yet. I remember watching the last hour of Gladiator when it was screened on TV and totally bawling my eyes out! And then my friend had to call! And she thought that something terrible happened because my voice was all watery and crackly and just horrible in general. That was some crazy emotional shyt! But it was a VERY good movie nonetheless. ADRIEN BRODY was like, phenomenal in THE PIANIST. Watched it on a very late Saturday night, couldn't turn it off and slept waaaaay later than is already bad for health. He's not exactly your typical good looking hunk (Okay. He's not at all!)but he was SO SO SO fantastic in that movie. And I don't think anyone could stand watching even 10 minutes of me so I'm totally in awe of him for carrying almost the whole movie all by himself. LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED is a song by The Beatles and is also the tagline of one of my favourite films, I AM SAM, starring the intense-mysterious-brooding-a-little-scary SEAN PENN. He's not intense-mysterious-brooding-a-little-scary in this movie at all though. He plays a mentally retarded man who's fighting for the custody of his 7 year old daughter who is growing up and becoming smarter than he is. Sean Penn was FLAWLESS. But I couldn't understand why he won an Oscar for his performance in MYSTIC RIVER, where he cried insanely well but also completely freaked me out with his ice cold %#/!* of Tim Robbins (I can't say! It's a huge spoiler). Well, I guess that's why he won.

ANIMATION is fun to watch. MADAGASCAR is my favourite animated film because FINDING NEMO is so lame-brain preachy. I mean, why does Disney feel obligated to forcefully fit in at least 3 moral values in every film they do? It leaves kids that grew up with them (i.e. yours truly) feeling totally jaded when they reach 16. Which is why I like Madagascar because the animals say things like 'Yeah. I often doze off while I'm getting an MRI', 'If you have any poo, fling it now' and 'How can you have the heebie jeebies for Mr. Alex?'

SEQUELS: The Lord of the Rings rocked 3 years of my life. The funny thing is, I could NEVER sit through Star Wars. Not a single one of them and I have no clue why. But I do have a favourite character! That would be R2-D2. He's cute (PY had an R2-D2 toy like way back), and I don't know anything else about him. It. Anyway. Pirates of the Caribbean jumped on this bandwagon and the first movie was awesome. I loved it...but from the second movie on the whole thing just got a leetle too self-indulgent. Ditto for The Matrix. I know. Me again. And I slammed the third movie enough in some other post so I shan't elaborate further!

I can count the number of horror movies I've watched on a single hand. The Skeleton Key, I Know What You Did Last Summer (CAN THAT EVEN BE COUNTED) Saw, The Reaping, (HALF of) Sleepy Hollow (a crowning achievement for yours truly) and...A Clockwork Orange! Haha! Joke on the last one though some parts were traumatising! I CANNOT watch scary shows. The one time I said okay was to watching Silent Hill at the theatre with my friends, after which I PULLED OUT. Along with 2 other guys :D so I wasn't the only one looking bad.