Ain't got no... I've got life

Sorry, I know this is totally random and not even MJ-related, but I'm loving this song! <3<3

I ain't got no home, ain't got no shoes
Ain't got no money, Ain't got no class
Ain't got no skirts, Ain't got no sweater
Ain't got no perfume Ain't got no bed
Ain't got no mind,

Ain't got no mother Ain't got no culture
Ain't got no friends, aint got no schoolin'
Ain't got no love, Ain't got no name
Ain't got no ticket, Ain't got no token
Ain't got no god

and what have i got?
why am i alive anyway?
yeah what have i got?
nobody can take away?...

Got my hair. Got my head
Got my brains, Got my ears
Got my eyes, Got my nose
Got my mouth, I got my smile

I got my tongue, Got my chin
Got my neck, Got my boobies
Got my heart, Got my soul
Got my back, I got my sex

I got my arms, got my hands, got my fingers,
got my legs, got my feet, got my toes,
got my liver, got my blood..

I've got life,
i've got my freedom
i've got life
I've got life
and I am gonna keep it
I've got life
and nobody's gonna take it away
I've got life!

RIP

Soundtrack to my Scandinavia Adventure

Disclaimer: The music I am about to put up here may not be very good, but I'm sharing these because they remind me of various portions of my trip to Scandinavia, and it's nice to keep the memories.

Alexander Rybak - Fairytale

Alexander Rybak from Oslo won the Eurovision 2009 with this folksy-pop song called Fairytale. Our prof showed us this video in class just before we left for the trip and it already left a bit of an impression on me. He's pretty huge in Scandinavia. I saw his posters everywhere in shopping malls and music stores...and heard the instantly recognisable Fairytale in many places. Personally, I prefer his other songs, like Kiss and Tell or Funny Little World.

Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love

Ciccy and I got a big kick out of singing and gesturing this song during our ride on the Flam railway. I went a bit ballistic when I heard this song on the radio while grocery shopping in the supermarket at Geilo (Yay-low), and then again while buying non-fat yoghurt ice-cream at a 7-11 store in Bergen.

The Rasmus - In the Shadows

This song is on the list because of Rifai's amazing story about how his friend went to a Rasmus concert in KL. (The Rasmus is Finnish). She had front row tickets...one thing led to the next...and somehow she managed to hook up with the lead guitarist. 6 months later, his friend got married to the band member and had a baby. This ALL happens while she's still in uni...It IS possible to marry a rockstar. Haha.

Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl

This song is here because the American guy, who we bumped into at the Stockholm hostel AND the Helsinki hostel kept humming this song. 3 days after returning home, the song is STILL stuck in my head. (One thing I've learnt thru staying at the hostels is that you can ALWAYS recognise an American just by the sheer amount of noise he/she makes. Americans are loud and obnoxious.)

Random Country Music

They played some good ol' American country music at the ultra-hip and funk Beyond Retro at Stockholm's Södermalm district (one of my favourite places for this trip). 

Village People - Y.M.C.A.

Karaoke Hour at Tallink Silja's Club Bali. It was painful.

LFO - Summer Girls

This song came up on my playlist during one of the long bus rides (i think it was the 3 hour ride from Heddal Stave Church to the mountain cabin on Geilo. Christine went into a fit when she heard this.

Edit: I was just wiki-ing the band LFO and saw this...

On June 3, 2009, LFO posted a blog entitled "LFO IS BACK" on their official MySpace page which announced that they have reunited and are going on tour starting on July 9, 2009, with Rookie of the Year, Go Crash Audio, and Kiernan McMullan.^[4] At the moment, they only have east-coast tour dates, but they are working on getting to the west-coast too. A new song was posted in a bulletin called Summer Of My Life.

Like wtf? 

HELLO FROM COPENHAGEN

HELLO WORLD!! I am typing this from a hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark! Managed to rig my laptop up to the internet using the LAN cable and decided to just say hi to all you guys in Singapore. It's currently pretty late, 12:43am...so I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves. After loading the pictures, I still have to go do my journal for the BSM. It's graded!!

Offshore wind turbines from Vestas that we saw from the window of our descending plane.

Little cities in Lego Land, built entirely out of lego bricks!

Beautiful bright flowers from Lego Land!

Open sandwiches at Lego's Headquarters. It's ALOT longer than it appears in this picture. There's fruits, veggies, eggs, caviar, shrimp, tomatoes and all kinds of interesting things on the sandwich.

We were also fed with these heavenly cinnamon rolls! 

Scandinavian home with a huuuuge lawn. They have a trampoline!!

My favourite picture from today. I took a photo of a huge dandelion I saw when our bus to Copenhagen stopped by a  roadside area for a toilet break.

This duck has a green head with a white stripe around his neck! Just like in the illustrated storybooks!

A hot air balloon built entirely out of lego bricks!

Anyway, just decided to blog a little since I have free wifi at this hotel. My roommates are all asleep already, but I'm staying up for another hour or so to catch Adam Lambert streaming live on the internet. I'm can't wait to visit hippie town Christiana tomorrow! Yay!

In Bb Flat

http://www.inbflat.net/

Pretty cool website to play around with and create your own electronic ambient music.

"play these together, some or all, start them at any time, in any order"

I M Fat

My bro just came into my room to show me the shirt he bought and it made me giggle. Not because the shirt itself is funny, but mostly the fact that he actually did use to be quite fat, and probably because of McDonalds.

We spent about 10 minutes trying to get the perfect picture. I'm only supposed to put up this final picture:

But because I'm an annoying older sister, I'm gonna post the rest of the bad photos that are supposed to go into my computer's recycled bin.

"Hey! Can I take a photo of that and put it on my blog?"

"K, I was just about to ask you to take a picture so I can use it as my facebook profile pic."

"OMG I look like a retard."

"Pants too poofy! Damn gay! Can you change into jeans or something?"

"Ok" *runs upstairs*

"Your face looks weird...can you smile more naturally? Think of Borat!!"

"Okay, you look silly. Maybe you should try to act cool and NOT smile. Close your mouth. And put your hands in your pocket."

"Wah Lau like modelling liddat!"

"Just do it"

"I'm gonna post ALL the photos we just took in my blog."

"NOO. I look like a retard!!"

"Only my friends will see it what.."

Revamped Bookshelf

So after an entire week of procrastinating, I finally got down to revamping the boring old bookshelf in my room. It's something that I've been meaning to do since months ago, but never had the time to due to the hectic school schedule + Operation GPA. Before I talk about my bookshelf, may I just announce to the world that Operation GPA was a great success! My grades jumped way beyond my expectations...pulling my cumulative gpa up by 0.27 points -- which is a cause for celebration! Now, I am a bit more hopeful about graduating with some kind of "credit" and also less doubtful, more confident of my own intellectual/academic capabilities. It's quite a miracle, considering many of the extra commitments I had this past term (e.g. RA/TA commitments).

Anyways, on to the shelf. Basically, I have this ugly old bookshelf in my room that holds all my textbooks, reference books, notes, handouts, notebooks, etc. And I wanted to give it a fresh new look. If you know me well enough, you should know that I love to paint things in my room/decorate my room. My bedroom walls have undergone several design changes. From plain white, to whimsical kid sillouhettes, to white/light purple chunks, to white/light purple chunks with random quotes and frame designs in black. My toilet dresser has a stenciled design done with light purple paint. I decided it was about time to give the ugly old bookshelf a makeover.

Materials:

• Off-white paint (this was leftover paint from my last painting project)
• Painting tools, e.g. big brushes, small brushes, rollers, paint tray
• Fancy wrapping paper (i got mine on discount from prints)
• Tape (to secure the wrapping paper to the shelf)

After two coats of paint, I pasted the pretty paper onto the back of the shelf and yay! New shelf. Painting the bottom third of the shelf required some skilful contorting of my body into awkward positions. Good thing I had practise from dance. Here's the shelf (empty) sitting in front of  my bed...

 And here's the shelf with things on it! Maybe you'll recognize some of these books. There's Campbell, Kotler & Armstrong, Coon & Mitterer, Sloman, Mauder, Ramsden, and the ubiquitous McGraw-Hill books.