Archive for October, 2007

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The road to The Cathay Cineplex

October 31, 2007

Yeah, I used to dislike the road to The Cathay Cineplex, but after thinking about it over and over… Why should I? Whatever happens there, or what happened there, ain’t gonna be affecting my life no way.

Oh well, never mind the road there. It’s the things, or rather, the thing there, that matters. Me, Jerome and Dixon playing LAN at Parklane, had nothing to do, and decided to walk. We walked pass The Cathay Cineplex and went in. We entered the Adidas outlet and saw the table soccer. We played a game, played another game, and played more games. We played for at least an hour I must say, and in the process, we even had challengers, I wouldn’t say that they’re good, I’d say that the last time we played table soccer would be years ago, unlike them. But still, we lost, nuts. They were kicking balls, we were kicking nuts.

Do you have friends who would leave you out to do something he, she, or they are able to do but not you?

Do you have friends, who when you go out in a group with, gets bored, suddenly plans to go to the movies to watch an NC16 movie, but in the entire group, there is one guy under the age of 16, has not enough money, and has a curfew. Then a friend of yours, or friends of yours in that group, would then go like, “Okay, you shall wait for us to finish the movie,” “Okay, now because of you we can’t watch the movie,” “Why are you always out of money?!” “Oh don’t spoil my day.”

Do you have friends like that? Are you like that? Are you the victim?

Reasons:

  1. Usually the starter or the few starters of it is one who has no confident in the group of friends, feels left out, and seizes the rare chance to feel “IN” the group.
  2. The victim hardly has any bad points whereby his friends can get at, and they are jealous of it, and so, also seizes the rare chance to get at em.
  3. The starter or the few starters of it dislikes the victim, but the rest doesn’t, and so is trying to “eliminate” em.
  4. Similar to 1, the starter or the few starters feels they are losing out to the victim in life, and wants to seize the rare chance to falsely prove otherwise.

So far this is all I can think of. Watching a movie and having no money, and being underage isn’t the only scenario. There are many.

Maybe when going into a LAN shop and one is underage and/or has insufficient money.

Maybe when going into a snookerium and one is underage and/or has insufficient money.

Maybe when going into a party for couples and one is without a partner.

Maybe when one has no choice but to follow into a game in which the rest is good at, except for em.

And so on. Countless number of scenarios, and reasons, that I’ve yet been able to think of.

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Hello WordPress.

October 30, 2007

Why WordPress?

Because it sounds nicer to me, it includes more features, more freedom.LiveJournal doesn’t allow editing of layout personally, unless money is paid, I don’t have to use an external statistics recorder with WordPress, I can easily categorise my entries, and so on. It is now 2:32AM, and it will be 3AM soon.

3AM, by Busted:

I don’t give a damn about you
No, nothing can change my mind
No way
I’m happy just to let you walk away

Don’t think about you at night
I’m happy to be alone
It’s ok
But that was yesterday, and now I’m

Driving in my car
Words don’t get me far
When they don’t mean shit
Ooooooh!

I’m calling you at 3 AM and I’m,
I’m standing here right outside your door
And I don’t think that my heart can take much more
I’m scared of cracking up again, I just
Want it to be like it was before
And I don’t think that my heart can take more

I don’t give a damn what you do
I’m going to get with you
Again
And that’s the way this night is gonna end
You say that you need some time
How long does it take to see
That we are more than meant to be?
And now you’re driving in your car
But you won’t get far
‘Cause your car is shit
Ooooooh!

I’m calling you at 3 AM and I’m
Standing here right outside your door
And I don’t think that my heart can take much more
I’m scared of cracking up again, I just
Want it to be like it was before
‘Cause I don’t think that my heart can take much more

Can take much more

Driving in my car
Words don’t get me far
When they don’t mean shit
Ooooooh!

I’m calling you at 3 AM and I’m
Standing here right outside your door
And I don’t think that my heart can take much more
I’m scared of cracking up again, I just
Want it to be like it was before
‘Cause I don’t think that my heart can take much more

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Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow

October 30, 2007

Okay, basically I usually ignore phone calls when I am still very tired and don't want to wake up, but today, although I was still very tired, I heard my phone ring, I answered it without looking at who called, and that phone call made my day. My mood for the day to be exact, but I did fight with my mood though, so in the end it isn't really that bad.

To those who have been asking me questions through commenting on my entries, if you wish to, you can e-mail me at brighton.y@gmail.com instead, as I believe some of you out there might have more personal questions or things to say which you think wouldn't be good to be showed as a comment even though your identity is kept anonymous.
Questions that I think I have answers that are too long for a reply as a comment, I'll just answer them through my entries.
In my previous post, someone asked:

“How do I approach a girl that I've never spoken to before, and befriend her?”

This is more of a Men's post, but girls should read too, just incase I make any mistake in trying to “explain” you. (;
Before answering, I have to make this clear, I am typing everything with my very own understanding, in my very own opinion. Any advices given by me MIGHT NOT be reliable, I am not what you call a successor in the relationship stuffs, in addition to that, I've never got myself to apply any of my own advices in my own life when it comes to relationship, don't ask me why, probably because of my failure to “execute” them in time, or courageously enough. By the way, to the guy who posted the question of this entry, I don't know your name, I'd just call you ABC in this entry if I have to, hope you don't mind that. Here goes:

You always hear this saying in Singapore, it says, “Guy see looks, girl see feeling.”
Well, it's true, more or less. But I wouldn't use “looks” and “feeling.”
I would use “appearance” and “value.”

I would say:

Fully matured men get impressed by a woman's appearance(sexual appeal) at first.
Fully matured women get impressed by a man's value to her at first.

Hardly would you see fully matured men get impressed by a woman's value at first.
Hardly would you see fully matured women get impressed by a man's appearance at first.

Take note of “Fully matured.”
Don't give a damn about immature minds yet, they don't know who, what, why, when, where and how they like someone else.

There are differences between immature and mature minds. When a retard comes by, an immature mind would laugh and gossip about the retard, whereas a mature mind would just shut up. But one thing for sure is that, both immature and mature mind would see the retard as someone of little value to them, and wouldn't really wanna associate with them.  For women, they don't judge you by your appearance, they judge you by your value to them. You see, when a woman is attractive, this means that many guys “react in a way”, or to be more exact, be more or less, “sexually aroused” upon seeing her, and thus would behave in a certain way. Living for at least 10 to 15 years already, she would have been already be able to “recognise” the behaviours, and so she knows who is attracted to her, and who is not. She has seen lots of guys reacting to her, for years, maybe decades, she is sick of such guys, they don't turn her on in anyway. So the bottom line is that, women are more attracted to men who don't “react like all other low valued guys” upon seeing her, because the fact that a man isn't “impressed” by her appearance already makes her question herself, and at the same time feels that she gives more damn about you than you give a damn about her. She feels that in this world, you are more wanted than she is, she feels that being with you would definitely bring more “wants” than being with the others. That's when going over and saying a simple “hi” and being friends is something possible. Starting a conversation with her wouldn't be easy, and wouldn't be hard as well. It takes courage. It takes quick thinking. Stutter and you're gone. You have to speak fluent, you have to maintain your high value to her. Because don't forget that as long as you take the initiative to befriend her, you rip off a bit of your value to her although she still is impressed by your ability to stay “calm.” Women don't like guys who are interested in their appearances, right? So try your best to speak more to make her think that you are interested in her, but not her appearances, like her sense of fashion, her voice, how much you two have in common, and at the same time, making her “more” into the interaction between you and her.

Let's say, you've accomplished the first impression part. Now you are friends, how are you gonna remain friends, or go further? Well, just look at you and your friends, or if any girl out there likes you, what would make you remain their friends, or go further? Many would say security, many would say comfort, many would say sense of belonging, bingo. They are all the same. When you feel secured, you feel comfortable, when someone is willing to secure, you feel as though you belong to em. Hmmm, how do I put this? Just make her feel comfortable the way you want your friends to make you feel comfortable with them. Don't pull off cold jokes, if you don't have a funny face to back it up. Don't drink if you can't. Don't take a cab if you can't afford to. Make her feel good, make her your company and vice versa, don't be her dog. Don't make your value so low she feels as though you're getting more and more of a well-designed book cover jerk. Spend time with her doing things with meanings, with value, not burn paper and say it's fun. Make sure she thinks that you are one man, that can be relied on forever, trusted forever, secure her forever, comfort her forever. Be there for her. 

To impress, is to increase value. Here's an example: 
When your friend shows you his huge muscles, you feel more secured with him, because you need not fear any bad guys. And he becomes of more value to you.

That's all I have to say.
How far you want to go, it's all up to you. This is all I think I know. How much you trust my “personal opinions and understandings” depends on you.

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I’d say that I’m intrepid.

October 28, 2007

In my previous post, someone posted a question as a comment.
The question was this:

“Why is it that when a guy's love for a girl gets turned down, they will stop talking to each other?”

Firstly, this happens to girls too. Secondly, not all will stop talking to each other, many remain friends.
So let's say they do stop talking to each other.
I don't know, I think it's because of self-esteem, anger/hatred, or embarassment.

Self-esteem:
When you see a very good-looking, hot guy with a big group of hot sizzling female models, would you go up to him and ask to make friends? Chances are, you won't. Because you feel as though you aren't “good enough” to make friends with him, compared to the female models.
If you do, and if that guy says “No, I don't want to be your friend,” it would feel as though he just gave you a hard push away, making you never want to go near him as you fear he might do it again. You never thought that you were so much “lower” than him than you thought you were.
He basically ripped off your self-esteem. And from then on, whenever you see another hot guy out there, you would recall what happened and would never think of wanting to attempt to make friends with any hot guy, anymore(until you pick yourself up, once again).
When it comes to relationship, it's the same. You ask to go steady with a guy, he tells you no, you think that he doesn't like you, you won't feel good talking to him in future.

Anger/Hatred:
You know, those people who comes to you when they need help, and when you ask them for help, they refuse? Those that act as if they like you a lot, care for you a lot, just to get some of your money, to get to know some of your good-looking guy friends. And when they get what they want from you, they keep a distance away from you. When this happens, you dislike them, you feel angry, and sometimes it gets serious enough for you to hate them. Sometimes, in the process of wooing a girl, a guy does every single thing for her, he continues to woo her because they both get very close to each other. But the girl gets close to him just to make him do more for her. When the guy thinks the time is ripe, he pops the question, and gets rejected. 
He would then question himself over and over, big and bold in his mind:

 ”she has lots of laughter when she's with me, she holds me when she's scared, she turns to me when she has nowhere else to go, she turns to me when she's bored, she turns to me whenever she's free to go out, so why reject my love?”
  

The guy feels cheated, the guy feels stupid, the guy feels that his been made a fool. He hates that, he dislikes her for doing all that, and doesn't even get an apology.

Embarrassment:
I don't think there's much to say for this, sometimes when one gets rejected, he or she will think, “did I make a fool out of myself? I'm just a nobody, and I'm asking him/her to be my partner? What a joke!”
And from then on, wouldn't really “dare to” face up to that person.

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My dog just bit my little toe

October 27, 2007

Have you ever wondered where does space lead to?
Have you ever wondered if there's an end to space?
I doubt so.
For everything, we need space.
We need space to breathe, we need space to move, we need space to build, we need space to do.
Think again.
For everything, space is used.
Space is used to store air, space is used to enable our movements, space is used to build, space is used to do.
Space is the place where we realize our potential.
I believe also, that space is endless.
So that an architect who believes in building a tower that is three times taller than Earth, has the space to do it.
So that when scientists believe in designing a craft able to fly into space as deep as they want, has the space to prove it.
So that when one believes in flying away from Earth into space where no one thought was possible to reach, has the space to prove it.
So that when Earth is out of land space, has the space to carry out plans.
I bet, that in the future, breathing in outer space would not be a problem. I can see it.
Nothing's impossible, even if it seems so. Because it only seems so now.
If inedible unriped fruit can turn into an edible riped fruit, unbreathable air can turn into breathable air.
If electricity can light up Earth, humans can light up space.
If scientists can alter the characteristics and properties of elements to adapt to a certain thing, they can do the same to themselves, humans.
Again, I'm saying here, that everything comes from within, not from without.
Nothing comes from space, everything in space comes from within us, within our minds.
Things only seem impossible when it is believed to be impossible. But the fact is, everything is possible.
For everything, we have space to do it, we have our minds to occupy space.
Space is our toy. It's up to us as to how are we gonna play with it.
We must play with it, we have no choice.
No matter what, at the end of the day, this toy of ours will either be spoilt, or upgraded.
Whatever it is, all we need to know is.
Everything comes from within, not without.
Space is there for everything within us to be taken out.
.rehto hcae ot ekops tsal ew nehw s'tahT .gninrom txen eht tfel uoy dna ,ybab a ekil tpels uo,revo emac uoy ,yadhtrid ruoy retfa thgin ehT

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I am hungry, and a hungry man, is an angry man

October 25, 2007

Today is the last 2nd day of the Advanced Elective Module, and tomorrow's the last.
After this few days, I think the Industrial Design course is not a bad choice.
But then again, getting into a polytechnic isn't my first choice.
Up till today, we graphically modelled I-Pods, PSPs, and handphones.
I took pictures, but am lazy to upload them. Next time.
I think I've said a lot of “next times” whenever it comes to uploading photos, I do have a lot of pending photos to be uploaded. :\

Re: :/
brighton_yam
2007-10-25 12:07 pm UTC 
“Those who usually end up out of one, becomes one probably because of the lack of trust, communication, and understanding. Infact they are linked in a way or so.
These people are those who, when single, thinks it is better to be in a relationship, and when in one, thinks it is better to be single.”

I didn't say that all has this thought, everyone starts off wanting to last forever, unless one's a playboy or girl. Only when there is lack of trust, communication, and understanding would the thought that being single would be better arise. The one who first decides to break up, is the one who gets tired of clapping with the other first. You see, if we can say that quarrelling is equivalent to understanding each other better, and also equivalent to clapping hands, then think this way:
If it takes coordination for 2 people to clap their hands together, hand in hand, without missing each other's hand, when one decides to stop clapping, that one gives up on the other. So why not continue clapping and understanding each other better until fingers of both hands interlock each other and stay forever?

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I would like to add this comment I made in reply to another comment from my previous post, to my previous post on relationships.
I'm going off.

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Snooker

October 23, 2007

I'm playing around with Audacity.
Some program used to analyze and rearrange music/songs.
I'm screwing up songs.
I also finally got to hear the “hidden” message in Jay Chou's Ni Ting De Dao.
You have to play the song backwards to hear it.

Went for the Advanced Elective Module in the morning, ended at 4PM, headed down to Dhoby Ghaut to play pool with ShaoLoong, Jerome, Dixon, Fabian, Kevin at MonsterCue.
Walked down to Orchard after playing and left for home.

Is your partner not good enough for you, or the other way round?

If you go out one day with $5 wanting to eat a $5 meal, but to your surprise, on that day, it costed $5.50 and you never got to eat it.
Usually people would go like, “Damn that restaurant,” “Damn the economy,” “Why am I so broke?” “If only my boss paid me more,” “If only my parents gave me more.”
Hardly will you see people go like, “It was all my fault that I came out with only $5 and no extra money for emergency,” “If I did not drink last night, I would be able to eat the $10 meal.”
Bottom line is, people tend to blame others instead of oneself. You know it, I know it, we know it.
How should one decide whether to go into a relationship or not? When there's love.
When is there love? When there's trust, there's security, there's faith, there's communication, there's mutual understanding, there's everything that's needed to maintain a good relationship.
What's most important? I'd say it's trust, communication, and understanding.
Every now and then we see people going in and out of relationships.
Those who usually end up out of one, becomes one probably because of the lack of trust, communication, and understanding. Infact they are linked in a way or so.
These people are those who, when single, thinks it is better to be in a relationship, and when in one, thinks it is better to be single.

In a good relationship:
When X trusts and has faith in Y's love for X, why would X be bothered whether anyone else is able to snatch Y's heart?
When X knows that Y needs X and vice versa, why would X feel worried when Y picks a quarrel or vice versa? It's not like anyone's gonna lose anyone anyway.
So what if Y spends more time with her friends than with X? At the end of the day, X and Y will still be together, ain't it?
Oh, so either one of both is spending more time with friends of the opposite sex than each other? Both are jealous of each other, if there's love, it will stop one day. If there isn't, then it's time to break up.
The love is there, both know it's secured, it's solid, too hard to break.
If the love is true, there won't be a need to worry about your partner giving “anything” to other people.

In a bad relationship:
When X doesn't trust and have faith in Y's love for X, X would be very afraid that Y might give love to others too.
When X feels that Y doesn't need X or vice versa, either one of both would be very afraid of quarrels as they see it as the reason to break up.
When Y spend more time with friends, X thinks that Y would eventually become close to friends than X.
There's no love. There's no trust, instead of explanations and expressions of care and worry for one another, parties questions each other.
Both parties are very afraid of each other giving “things” to other people.

Now we often see people worrying so much about what their partner is doing.
For example, you're a guy, you are going out with friends your parents don't know at all, and they expect you to name them all out.
Don't you feel weird telling them, “I'm going out with John, James, Dick, Tom, Harry, Eric, Edric, Jason, Peter,” when they don't even know any of them? Imagine if one of them has a very laughter stimulating name. Same goes to your partner. When you ask who is your partner going out with, and you get “Friends” as a reply, take it. If you suspect anything, find out who the friend is yourself, don't ask for help. Don't expect your partner to tell you, “Boy, I'm going out with BahBahBlackSheep, that's her real name, I swear, you have to believe me.”
When you ask for a name, after getting “friends” as a reply, your partner immediately concludes that you are suspecting em of something already, and the “atmosphere would be more tensed.” And so, telling your partner that your friend's name is BahBahBlackSheep would make you feel extremely awkward, it's like trying to distract your partner and changing the subject by making em laugh out of suspecting you, which is not gonna happen.

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Timbaland – Apologise

October 20, 2007

I'm holding on your rope
Got me ten feet off the ground
And I'm hearing what you say
But I just can't make a sound
You tell me that you need me
Then you go and cut me down
But wait…
You tell me that you're sorry
Didn't think I'd turn around and say..

That it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late

I'd take another chance, take a fall, take a shot for you
And I need you like a heart needs a beat
(But that's nothing new)
Yeah yeah

I loved you with a fire red, now it's turning blue
And you say
Sorry like the Angel Heaven let me think was you,
But I'm afraid

It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late
Woahooo woah

It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, yeah yeah
I said it's too late to apologize, a yeah

I'm holding your rope
Got me ten feet off the ground

The Past

Memories, we all have. Deep inside our minds. Among our subconscious thoughts.
We have good memories, and bad memories.
Bad memories can be when one gets bullied, one gets bitten by a dog, one trips and falls down a stairway.
Good memories can be when one strikes lottery, one gets married, one gets an award.
I've lotsa good memories with my family, with my friends, with myself, with things.
I've also lotsa bad memories with them.
Bad memories with my family are probably those that I quarrel with them or stuffs like that.
Bad memories with my friends? Some of the bad ones are the good ones. Before I obtain the mentality I have now, I used to more or less pump all my trust into “my group of friends” back then. But also, I have to thank them for inculcating that lesson, my current mentality, into me. I trusted them so much, they influenced me so much. Today, it has all stopped for quite some time, a few years to be slightly more exact. Ask me why, I would tell you I don't know why the heck was I so stupid, so very stupid. I regret big time. Even until now, I think twice, think thrice, and think thrice, twice and thrice, about who, how, when, what, to trust. I experienced what many is experiencing right now around me, I can see it, they are experiencing what I experienced. I felt so lost back then. Sometimes I can't help but contribute to these people who are experiencing what I experienced, and only feel guilty after. What I experienced was, the process whereby friends become just acquaintances. It sounds a bit like a backstab-and-forgive thing. It is similar, except that it came from the front, it's a few stabs, and, no forgives were given, only ignorance was.

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Graduation Day

October 20, 2007

Today was full of laughter. 
Met up with Jerome, Dixon, Eunice, Eileen, Fabian at Junction 8 in the morning today, headed to school to help out with the games.
Competed with Joseph in top spinning, I guess I won. :0
Was at school till roughly 5PM and walked around Bishan, then collected my shirt at Toa Payoh.
Came home, slacked until now.
I'm looking forward to, and at the same time, not looking forward to spending my next whole week at Nanyang Polytechnic for the Design And Technology Advanced Elective Module. I feel kind of like the odd one out among the few chosen to go for the course. ):
Think I've quite a lot to say today, but guess I'm too tired. Gotta get some sleep.

It's too late to apologise.

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Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent.

October 18, 2007

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I went out today with about $80, and came home with only $12. Tomorrow, I will spend at least $6 exclusive of meals. I wonder what would happen if my parents reads my blog. Hopefully they would think that they aren't giving me enough money instead of thinking that I spend too much. Dream on, Brighton.
I was on bus 130 heading towards Ang Mo Kio today, sitting at the back sit. Some guy boarded and farted so loud I could hear him from the back and everyone burst into giggles except me; I burst into a guffaw. I was so embarrassed man, I've no idea why did I react like that, but, LOL anyway. And to add on to that, I dropped my phone in the process of laughing. To that guy, so sorry man, I tried my best. Hehe.
Tomorrow is a day somewhat made known by the school to every secondary 4 and 5s as The Graduation Day. My ass man, what a curse to the secondary 5 wannabes. :\
I don't really feel like typing much, so that's about it for today, and Jason, I think The Body Shop sells wonderful bodies, you can get one there. Picture me giving you the “I-Just-Made-You-Speechless” kind of look. ;)

Ne-Yo – Do You

Maybe this decision was a mistake.
You probably don't care what I have to say.
But it's been heavy on my mind for months now.
Guess I'm trying to clear some mental space.
I would love to talk to you in person.
But I understand why that can't be.
I'll leave you alone for good I promise.
If you answer this one question for me.

I just wonder,
Do you ever,
Think of me,
Anymore, do you?

First off let me say congratulations.
Heard that you just had a baby girl.
If she looks anything like her mother,
She's the prettiest thing in the world.
Swear that I'm not tryin' to start no trouble.
Tell your fiance he can relax.
I'll leave you alone for good I promise,
There's a question I just gotta ask.

I just wonder,
Do you ever,
Think of me,
Anymore, do you?

I know what we have is dead and gone.
Too many times I made you cry.
And I don't mean to interrupt your life.
I just wonder do I ever cross your mind?