Muse - United States of Eurasia

This is the leaked single from Muse's latest album (out in September!) There's some glaringly obvious Queen-influences, especially with the whole rock "orchestral" thing. But i thought the random classical piano rendition of Chopin was an interesting touch, and the mysterious middle-eastern flavoured melodic interludes.

Youtube comment:"people arent understanding this song. this is supposed to show the influences from all over the world. queen is obviously the influence from the USA, chopin is the influence from europe, plus you can hear the influence from the middle east, and finally the chanting at the end is an influence from russia. it was a genius idea of muse to show all of the influence from all over the world. awesome job muse!"

Makes sense! LOL!

Great Tweets of Science

from here!

Why I Love Stockholm

Awesome!! And notice how their clothing is super funky! Neon coloured tops, Rainbow coloured shoes! Love it!

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21 July: We just received an email about the Singapore version of this flash mob that's happening at vivo next week. OMG! I am SOOO gonna take part! There's a free movie ticket for the first 80 participants too!! WOOOOO~

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Shortly after noon on July 8, comes the moment that can be called 12:34:56 7/8/9.

(well, that'll be in the american month/day/year format...so i guess for us it'll be August 7).

Threadcakes

This is the most clever contest that I've come across on the internet in a while! Threadcakes, is an online cake-baking contest where contestants bake cakes as inspired by Threadless t-shirt designs!! It's such a delight to look at the cakes and think, "OH YEA! I recognise that shirt!!"

There are no cakes of the Threadless tees that I actually own though!

3D animal crackers

So adorable! From Design*Sponge. Way too much effort though.

Sunday Fleamart

Guys, it is 5.21am and I am awake. I think it's the milk tea I drank at the HK cafe (the last time I had the milk tea, I slept at 6am...I have no idea what they put in the drink!). Perhaps it's also the mild depression after sending the dancers off at the airport. Perhaps it's the post-humous admiration for and sympathy towards MJ after watching too many of his music videos and interviews on youtube. I think his story is so captivating because he's like a walking conundrum -- black/white, man/child, straight/gay, male/female, hero/victim, saint/sinner, human/monster, pauper/king, man/god. He's just so enigmatic and controversial. The kind of person that makes you stop and think, makes you question yourself, your judgements, your assumptions. It's kind of the same way Adam Lambert pushes the boundaries and teases the public -- though I'm not trying to put adam on the same level as MJ here, haha. But definitely, these are two people who were born to be on stage and bring their music to the world.

Back to the sleeplessness, perhap it's also the nervous uncertainty after reading the email from ofm about the closure of the dance hall due to a h1n1 case in school. What do you do when you get an email from the school authorities telling you that the place where your cca trains is closed because someone who tested positive for h1n1 was there last weekend and so they have to close the place for disinfection? And you have training tomorrow (technically, today) and you don't know if you should cancel training and find some way to inform everyone in time so they don't make a wasted trip down to school, or spend the day sourcing for an alternative location? All this while realizing that the decision lies solely with you because the rest of your exco is overseas? And while trying to figure out a way to get a decent choreography out by 22 Jul...with NO venue for any practices? AND while grappling with the dangerous realization that you were in that very place on BOTH saturday AND sunday last weekend, and the entire competing dance group was there for five hours on sunday and they just left on a plane for europe (thereby, bringing the flu virus with them on the plane).

The worst thing about being up so late is that you start to think too much. I'm probably making a big deal out of the cca thing...but I'm nervous because there's no one to turn to!!

But I guess the best thing about being up in the wee hours of the morning is the random surfing on the internet...and then you come across precious gems like:

Eggy, wanna go?? If not I will find someone else to go with!

By the way, eggy if you read this in time...I found out what naumi is! It's a luxury boutique hotel and the name was so familiar to me (that day when we were at bras basah complex) because I did a big project on the marketing of boutique hotels in Singapore for my module 2 terms ago!! Anyway, I'm thinking of picking this hotel for the birthday thing :) Go check out the site, it sounds pretty rad. (OMG I just used the word rad, but I think it's pretty apt).