chinese new year eve
written: 7:27 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004

Not only that, I'd get to watch two New Year specials in which Jay Chou/Jielun will perform! Right now I really love Channel 8 and Channel U for broadcasting the much-hyped CCTV <<�������� 2004>> and some other New Year programme respectively. I think Jielun is lip-synching for the CCTV programme and even though I can't stand it when singers lip-synch when performing live, it's Jielun so how can I complain?

Actually, I can, and at length, but I shan't delve into that right now. Suffice to say, however, that lip-synching in a live performance totally defeats the purpose of that live performance. I mean, if I'm gonna pay some hot-shot singer S$149 to hear him lip-synch to his CD, I might as well stay home and listen to said CD, right? Luckily Jielun always sings live except when he's facing some strange anal-retentive mainland Chinese who complain about his enunciation and make him re-record his song to make it "clearer". So he mumbles when he sings. So what. It's his style, it's cool and I like it, and okay, I'll change the subject now.

Went to school today for the first two periods of the day, which were Econs tutorial followed by Econs lecture. Was very much uneventful.

More importantly, my class visited a hospital for the elderly after lessons ended, at 9.25 a.m. Truth be told, I didn't want to do it at all, as all the Science classes got off at 9.25 and got to do what they wanted, while me and the rest of the Arts cohort had to go hospital-visiting.

So I boarded the chartered bus with a very heavy heart, cursing the organisers of this little expedition mentally and complaining to myself. But when I reached there, I realised how childish my reaction was.

Those old folks were... I don't know, how do I say this without sounding cliche?

I don't know. All I can say is, my heart truly went out to them. And I wished I had better inter-personal skills for I didn't know what to say to them at all, after the required "�������/Happy new year", and thus, awkward silences were felt, perhaps mainly on my part, but that isn't really important.

It's hard to believe that they were all like me once, young and full of life and convinced that they have the world at their feet, but that's the way it is. And when looking at my own mortality, I wasn't sure if I wanted to live that long. To be dependent on other people for the rest of your life.

But I don't think any of them meant for it to happen, but it did. My grandfather passed away after he had a stroke, and he didn't mean for that to happen either.

What the hell is my point? I have no idea. I'm not really thinking right now, just typing whatever pops into my head. In a very non-poetic manner, but what the hell.

To conclude, I'm glad I went for the visit after all. Always feels good to make other people a little happier, however how small your role.

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Spent the afternoon attempting to tidy up my room, but ended up putting up and re-arranging my posters instead. I wish I could take a picture of my beautiful room and show it off but I don't have a digital camera yet, so that will have to wait. I love my James Dean shrine, which is directly above my Jielun and silverchair shrines. Haha.

Yeah, that wasn't funny. Nevermind.

I bought nailpolish today, a dark pink/red to match the Chinese New Year decorations all over town. And I thought I should wear something red somewhere on my body since none of the new clothes that I bought are red, except for this white top with a red motif of a dragon on it. That has to be my most cheena top.

At least, I think the dragon is red. I can't remember. Oh well.

I haven't bought new underwear this year and thus I'm not feeling very settled, but it's too late to buy any now. I really want new underwear though. I did, however, buy a new pair of shoes, which is quite an anomaly.

Will end this entry now.

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