now that feeling has returned to my fingers and it doesn't hurt anymore, me here expanding my blog from last night. ok, the reason my fingers were hurting was cos i was trying to self-learn guitar. haha! i'm proud to report that my guitar is in tune. and i tuned it myself! lol! what an achievement from someone who has never touched a guitar for more than 10 seconds in her life. went to the music shop to buy replacement string that the bro broke while playing with the thing. and almost bought the wrong kind of string after bro told the man (wrongly) that we have a classical guitar. *rolls eyes* as much as i don't know anything about guitars, at least i know that ours is NOT a classical guitar. it is (as i suspected and now confirmed) an acoustic guitar. bought a teach yourself guitar book. lesson one, how to strum and C, Em and G chords. i can do the Em and G and switch between them, but C is a killer. haha! check back one year from now for my progress report.

and...again. i'm gonna talk about the "da vinci code"(dvc). i accept that the thingy is highly controversial and all. but i think the church is becoming totally ridiculous in what it's doing about it. btw, in case anyone's thinking of asking me to go novena with them, forget it. it's a complete and utter waste of time and only spoils yours and my day. for fucks sake, the picture of jesus at orchard is JUST A PICTURE!!!!!!!! it is NOT jesus. it's a piece of printed plastic! why da heck are you making such a big fuss of it? it's not even a consecrated picture or what. that novena i attended yesterday (mum made me go), the priest's reaction to it SO annoyed me. he's acting like it's the freaking end of the world. what thing about doing penance for singapore. i will not go into details of what he said. just know that to me, it was utterly ridiculous. it's just about as stupid as that thing i heard about people going on prayer walks and praying out loud at the top of the hdb flat to consecrate the estate to jesus. complete nonsense. the movie's already out. there's nothing you can do about it now. so, just shut up and accept that which you cannot change. yesterday this thought came through my mind "o ye of little faith. why do you fear?" like i said before, if you have enough faith, something like this will not shake your beliefs. i saw in the catholic news, there are 3 categories of people's reactions to the dvc. (rephrased) 1. those who see dan brown and dvc as the devil incarnate. 2. those who haven't read the book, seen the movie, and don't care at all. 3. those who see the issue as a learning opportunity. and i shall stop now before it becomes another church bashing session. the church and me, we have agreed to disagree. end of story.

what else to talk about...saw in dawn's blog about singapore idol. haha! that's why i'm not bothering to watch singapore idol this year. i think it's becoming stupid also. i saw the trailer for the girls' show. you know what? they all look exactly the same. clones of each other. the same phenomenon occured at the miss singapore universe and all the other beauty pagents. and frankly, i don't really care about the local scene. look at taufik. where is he now? look at all the past winners - talentime...all the chinese competitions. there is not enough market for them. and they are not exactly that good either. and btw, simon cowell rocks! he's my favourite judge this season. randy will say something, usually trying to sugar coat it a bit, inserting lots of "dawg"s and "yo dude"s. then paula (shudder shudder yuck yuck) will be totally saccharine sweet and mainly repeat what randy said. THEN simon speaks his mind. which imo, is a proper opinion, not sugar coating whatever and setting the facts (most of the time). there was a poll i saw, about whose comments we like most, randy, paula, simon or ryan. ryan?! since when does he give comments??? lol.

moving on. the nus business school ad. the one with the ang moh girl. i think that is TOTALLY RIDICULOUS also. geez. i was one of those who *cringed* when they saw it. but then, i'm biased against nus. so... who da hell would be THAT excited to go to nus? and who says there are cute guys?? point them out to me. i haven't seen anyone fitting that description yet. *cringe* again. disgusting ad. i shall not say more lest nus decides to kick me out. much as i hate the place, i don't wanna be expelled.




mood: bitchy
listening to: touch - clay aiken