Some quirky song lyrics :)

"so keep your friends close and your enemies in your pocket" - Pocket by Sam Sparro

"go and tell your white knight that he's handsome in hindsight" - Fairy Tale by Sara Bareilles

I can only think of these 2 lines because they keep playing in my head. I would call them cute... but I seem to be calling everything cute these days. So I shall refrain from doing so now :p

(but they are kinda cute, no?)

:)

Word of the Day...

KERFUFFLE!!! :p

Ok, I'll type it again minus the perkiness - kerfuffle.

I discovered it while reading an article from an architecture magazine. It IS an actual word! It's synonymous with the words disturbance and fuss and is a primarily British term.

Such a cute word!!! It is officially the cutest word in my vocabulary. I have this tremendous urge to give it a huge squeeze and pinch its cheeks. If only it were a little kid and actually HAD cheeks... :(

(No, I'm not pyscho... Yet :p)

And in line with all this randomness, I googled images for the word 'kerfuffle' and found this:

Eerrmmm... :s

Serendipity

I recently watched the movie, Serendipity, starring Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack. My first thought was - "What a stupid movie".

Indeed, it was kinda dumb. The cheesy 'love-at-first-sight' (yes, I'm a non-believer); the annoying mis-coincidences... i.e. how they just kept missing each other at every place they went to; the crazy, frantic dashing around trying to find each other. Meh.

BUT (and there always is a but)

I could appreciate one thing (I use the word 'thing' because I can't find a better word to describe it) in this movie - the idea of leaving everything to fate. Though I don't believe that everything is fated, I do think that sometimes things happen for a reason (fate?) and sometimes we have to make our own fate, pave our own path, charter our own course.

This movie however got me thinking about how easy and convenient and comfortable it would be for us if we could just leave everything to fate - put all our trust in the fact that if something was meant to happen, then fate would take it's due course and make it happen. It certainly takes a lot of pressure off of wondering whether you should make that first move on the guy that you fancy or how much hard work you should put in for your exam preparation. It would be so simple to just live life without the burden of thinking that "good things come to people who work hard enough for them" and let everything else be determined by fate.

Yeah.... No. I think that kind of thing only exists in movies. In the real world, we make things happen on our own. Well, most of the time.

Taoism says that "the universe works harmoniously according to its own ways and that exerting one's will on the world will disrupt this harmony".

I can't remember why I quoted that... It's too late and my brain is dying from a lack of sleep. So I shall end this post here and leave you to ponder about the Taoism quote on your own :p Good luck.

I've become a fan of the Australian Masterchef series that's been showing on Channel 10 for the past 3 weeks and it makes me want to be able to cook as well as the contestants and chefs in the show!!! I've always been a huge fan of cooking shows and watching this show has shown me that ordinary people (even 'kids' my age!!) can come up with awesome looking and tasting dishes. I always get the urge to raid my 'pantry' for ingredients to come up with my own (hopefully not-too-awful) culinary inventions. Some have been good... Some were... pretty awful :p

Of course, I don't dream of owning a restaurant of my own... I would melt/disintegrate (oh wow! btw, I didn't know that this blogger thing had a spell-check which corrects my spelling :p) from all the pressure!! And then there's the reality check - that I'm not anywhere as good as those people in Masterchef. But it doesn't keep me from trying to up my game :p Try and try again, right? And if all fails, CHEAT. Hehe. Though I'm not sure how to cheat with cooking... (Use ready-made/pre-mixed ingredients??)

And just for those interested to know, my trusted internet source for good, tried and tested (and therefore reliable) recipes is www.taste.com.au :) :) It's got loads of recipes from all the Aussie magazines and cooking shows and has reviews by people who've tried them. Do check it out when you can!!

And I also need to mention that almost ALL of my friends have become foodies overnight!! Cool, but a weird coincidence :p

I think the media (particularly TV and cinema) normalises cheating. You see it in every TV drama/movie. The character is always in a relationship with someone else (usually not so attractive) when they bump into the guy/girl of their dreams, their soulmate (usually dropdead-gorgeous) and there's just this connection that's too amazing to ignore. And then they do this whole see-saw dance because usually, one of the parties involved is engaged and about to get married. Then comes the climax where they realise that they're marrying the WRONG PERSON (God forbid!!), and they publicly declare their love for each other (in front of the poor unsuspecting, but now awfully shocked and visibly distressed spouse-to-be). And then they live happily ever after.

Bah!!

So bad.

Now everyone thinks that it's ok to do stuff like that :s

My Awesome Photo

So I'm not much of a photographer... amateur or professional. But I was playing around with Tai Jia's DSLR camera and decided to try something different...


The best part is that...

It was an accident!! :p

But I guess, some people are just gifted ;)

My new favourite song!!!

I only just sort of stumbled across this dude's song (and actually paid attention to it!). I'm pretty sure I've heard it before (since it's not exactly a new song) but I just never gave it much notice. Now I have and I really like it!!!!

Woohoo - Sam Sparro!!
Black & Gold

Seriously, give it a listen and see what you think about it.

Right now, I'm in love with the song!!!
Too bad he's gay... :(
Such a nice voice!