Crisis, crisis

Grace is in work crisis yet she hasn't done a thing today. Neither does she care because work is the last thing on her mind. She's annoyed that her gigantic phone (which also functions as a weapon of self defence) died and now her sim card is giving her problems.

That's it!

Hence she is going to buy new handphone and close the old one, even though the contract hasn't ended. Moral of the story, 3 Network SUCKS big time.

On a happier note, she has decided to buy the new Nokia 6111. What color do you think is nice?

Do click on the pictures individually as the pictures were resized and looks a bit distorted due to space constraint. She would appreciate some suggestions :D

Black?

OR Silver?

Weekends

Yeepa! It's the weekend finally!

Had supervision overload the past week, 4 is not a good number seriously. Hope everyone had a fantastic CNY, with lion dance and plenty of good chinese food. :)

It's gonna be a busy weekend again with more work to do, but all's well, and it's a fun fun day today, meeting lots of different people and cha-cha-cha-ing. And then regret (a little) for playing too much and doing work last minute. Hehe, that's what all uni life's about. Maximizing fun whilst minimizing work (too much economics there eeks), brain fried too when I had a supervision from 5-730pm just now, really patient Director of Studies I have.

Okay then, off to rest and relax a bit :)

Grace Reading in Formal Hall

I received this note in my pigeon hole the other day. For 30 seconds I was like ? ... I thought I had committed a crime by reading during formal halls. Doesn't make sense till *smacks forehead*, I realized what it meant. Apparently I am in the rota to read Grace for one of the College formals during this term. Must be joking rite... Grace speaking Latin when her French can't even make it. -_-'''

Just for your info, here is the College Grace:

Benedic, Domine, nobis et donis Tuis,

quae de Tua largitate summus sumpturi,

et concede ut iis muneribus Tuis

ad laudem Tuam utamur

gratusque animis fruamur,

per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

which translates to:

Bless us, O Lord, and all your gifts,

which of your goodness we are about to enjoy;

and grant that we may use these your gifts

to your glory

and enjoy them with thankful hearts,

through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Master even offered to coach anyone who needed help. Mine is on 23rd Feb, sounds challenging but think I will opt out of it LOL. The thought of me speaking Latin... haha :P

ANYWAYS, its near CNY already! Yippee, time to rush the work and party during the weekend!

Gong Xi Fa Cai and Gong Hey Fatt Choy everybody!

Memoirs of Gay-sha

(L-R) Sayuri (Zhang ZiYi), Mameha (Michelle Yeoh), and Hatsumomo (Gong Li)

Went and watch this film after hearing so much about the cinematography and the beautiful costumes and kimono. Having read the story book years ago, I felt that it only did an okay job of trying to fit everything in 2 hours. The story wasn't emotionally touching enough, though I must say that Zhang Zi Yi (Sayuri/Koichi) and Gong Li (Hatsumomo) conversed very well and clearly after their language training. But do go watch it for cultural exposure, there's lots of Japanese elements that I learnt from it. For example, I always thought Geisha's were equivalent to courtesan's (prostitutes), but they are artists (dancers, musicians etc) althought they do auction their mizuage. Despite being the villain, I thought Hatsumomo played by Gong Li was the most outstanding amongst them all. Just look at how Sayuri and Hatsumomo had different endings in their approach of the same problem in the life of a geisha : the freedom to love.

A famous quote taken from the show in reference to geisha's:

She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.

Yet, my favourite quote would be
" A true Geisha can stop a man with one look..."

Trust me, you will understand why once you watch this FIRST, and then only this. :)

A true Gaysha indeed... :P

Lazy

Eventful day, but too long to elaborate coz its late, hehe. Basically: good experience, hilarious moments, sore feet, blister on toe, zero productivity and having telephone marathons. Gargh, what a way to start the term eh? Not in the mood to do my piling work, maybe its because of CNY mood... Have weird lecture timetable as well this term, with crazy 4 hours non-stop-brain fryers on Mondays (now I REALLY have an excuse to have Monday blues), and then 1 hour or 2 on most other days, with a bizzare 4pm lecture on Wednesdays... there goes the days where economists had 3 day weekends and only morning lectures. Hmph