Life is Wonderful - Jason Mraz

It takes a crane to build a crane

It takes two floors to make a story

It takes an egg to make a hen

It takes a hen to make an egg

There is no end to what I'm saying

It takes a thought to make a word

And it takes some words to make an action

It takes some work to make it work

It takes some good to make it hurt

It takes some bad for satisfaction

La la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Al la la la la

It takes a night to make it dawn

And it takes a day to make you yawn brother

And it takes some old to make you young

It takes some cold to know the sun

It takes the one to have the other

And it takes no time to fall in love

But it takes you years to know what love is

It takes some fears to make you trust

It takes those tears to make it rust

It takes the dust to have it polished

Ha la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ah la la la la la la life is so full of

Ah la la la la la la life is so rough

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ah la la la la la la life is our love

Ah la la la la la

It takes some silence to make sound

It takes a loss before you found it

And it takes a road to go nowhere

It takes a toll to make you care

It takes a hole to make a mountain

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ha la la la la la life is wonderful

Ha la la la la la life is meaningful

Ha la la la la la life is wonderful

Ha la la la la la life it is...so... wonderful

Note to self: Being optimistic is the key.

My New Baby

Meet my new baby... I am so in love with it *grins*

It's not the latest model but I got a damn good deal for it. Free upgrade to 4GB RAM and free 3 years extended warranty. Sweet deal.

My Very Own Acid Flashback

Note to self: Do not have phone conversations that last till the wee hours of the morning... especially if it's a school day the next day. I am running on 2 hours of sleep. Gah. Everything is moving in slow motion; especially my senses. I feel so light-headed. Ironically, my MP3 player was playing tons of songs from Across the Universe and now I feel so high, dudes. So high.

I could be on the Pineapple Express. Heh. Speaking of which, sadly that wasn't that good a stoner film as I thought it'd be. It was from the producers of Superbad and that movie was super hilarious! But still my favourite stoner film has to be Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle. Can The Big Lebowski be included? The Dude was pretty stoned throughout most of the film anyway.

The Big Lebowski: What makes a man, Mr. Lebowski?

The Dude: Dude.

The Big Lebowski: Huh?

The Dude: Uhh... I don't know sir.

The Big Lebowski: Is it being prepared to do the right thing, whatever the cost? Isn't that what makes a man?

The Dude: Hmmm... Sure, that and a pair of testicles.

Classic.

Love-Hate Relationship

I just saw the trailer to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and I have 2 words for it... FREAKING AWESOME!!! Come on, with Steven Spielberg as Executive Producer, it has to be a BIG hit! Repeat after me, "Must watch. Must watch!"

Anyway, I wanted to bitch about my brother. I seriously believe it's a guy thing. All I wanted to do was to rant about work and share with him about a kid I have that cannot count (like seriously). But he had to disagree with every bloody thing I had to say!! Why the hell does he need to take the offensive all the time? I just want him to nod and listen. What is so difficult with that? Why must he criticize and counter all that I had to say?

LISTEN. That's all I wanted from him. To listen. But nooo... he had to be a guy and interject the conversation and it got me even more riled up! Thank goodness mum came in and changed the subject. Gah.

Heard about the latest news? This boy murdered his pregnant stepmother. Horrible, terribly horrible incident but get this, reporters interviewed one of the folks about their opinion on the incident and you would never EVER guess his name!! Michael Myers!! Yea the dude from Halloween! Ok, I admit I can't recall the exact spelling (of the interviewee) but still... talk about irony!

Another Week Has Gone By

I find that I am having difficulty differentiating the days. Everyday feels like the same day to me now. Considering I am not doing anything different; it's the same thing, day in and day out.

The oddest thing is that although I am just teaching P1 this year, I find myself more exhausted than I have ever been! And it's only Term 1. On top of the mental exhaustion, I seem to be leaving school much later. Without fail, I leave the school after 5. That's dreadful! Once, I think 2 weeks ago, twice in the same week, I left the school after 6:30 pm. Now that's insane. Don't read me wrong, it's not the marking that's holding me back. Believe me, P1 marking is almost non-existent. I'm staying back for my other teacher duties. You know the kinds of outside-the-classroom-duties that the people up there throw at you for you to do on top of your normal teaching load. Yea, well, this year I have tons of them.

I listed all of them down and it startled me greatly. Where the bloody hell am I going to find the bloody time to do them all? I mean, I can forego sleeping, eating, spending time with the family and sleeping... yea, I'm sure that would give me just a wee bit more time to accomplish my tasks. Please note the sarcasm.

This is driving me crazy. I'm trying to squeeze time out from thin air! I sleep less, I go out even lesser and I've not met Them Boys Deux for about a week and a half and I feel absolutely guilty for ditching them like that. To make things worse, some of them are giving me shit for it which is not helping the guilt at all. I am going crazy.

I resorted to retail therapy. I bought 3 pairs of shoes at Charles and Keith. The purchase totalled up to slightly over $90 but it was only when I reached home when I realised what a steal I got the shoes for. The total price would have amounted to $195 but there's a sale going on so... I saved approximately $100. That certainly put a smile on my face!

It's amazing really. With the financial crisis going on, one would think that we would be strict with how we spend our dough, but I literally had to elbow women out of the way, in C&K, to move about in the store. Like today, I took my aunt and uncle (they're flying off next week) and my mum out for lunch and when it was around one in the afternoon, the crowd poured in! Almost every restaurant we walked by, including the one we were in, was packed inside and had a queue outside. So much for budgets and financial planning.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. I am seriously contemplating getting a new laptop. But that would take a considerable chunk out of my savings. Hmmm... it is a necessity, since I do intend to start school again this year. Yes, it took me this long to decide that I need to, how do they say it... further my studies... gah.

Well, I hope things are much rosier on your end. I have to get back to reality now. Enjoy whatever's left of the weekend.

I Was Burning Bright.. or at least trying to...

Wow. Like seriously wow. Years of not analysing poetry really takes a toll on the mind when you eventually get down to it. Worser yet, when the first attempt had to be Blake's The Tiger.

Gah. What pain! What anguish!

Enough about me, it was a Sec 1 assignment!! Which nutter gives a Blake piece for Sec 1's to analyse!? Lunatic.

TIGER, tiger, burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? What dread grasp

Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,

And water'd heaven with their tears,

Did He smile His work to see?

Did He who made the lamb make thee?

Tiger, tiger, burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

Poseidon Revelation

I think I know why the movie Poseidon was directed the way it was.

With fewer people in the later scenes, the fewer the lines the scriptwriters have to create. Plus, with fewer characters there will be fewer costumes too. Basically what we're looking at is lower costs.

The movie started off with a ship-load of people, then a maverick decided to find a way to escape on his own and ended up having a bunch of other people tagging along with him. 2 died along the way, but at the end, you are left with what, 6 /7 people? So from hundreds down to 6... (everyone else died on the ship as it sunk)

Pretty genius, I have to admit.

I Literally Woke Up On the Wrong Side of the Bed

I had a totally bad start to the day.

Woke up feeling like I needed an extra week of sleep.

Couldn't decide what to wear; kept on changing my mind till I left my house later than I should have.

Stepped on my earpiece and heard that awful crunching sound.

Dropped my phone (not in the pouch) right smack onto the marble.

Missed my bus.

All this before 7am.

A Bromance!?

That's what the tabloids are calling it. I prefer to call it a tragedy of immense proportions.

Dave Grohl and Paul McCartney collaborated at the Grammy's; where Grohl drummed for Paul, who sang,"I Saw Her Standing There". Obviously I have many gripes with the collaboration. Let me clear the air first, by saying that I love the both of them. They are legendary and are geniuses at what they do. Thus, I had very high expectations for the collaboration.

Individually, they are magnificent, but together they were appalling! I felt that it was an odd clash and that their styles were too different to compliment one another. Of all the Beatles songs, why that song!? Why not something later or even remotely impact-ful. It felt like a revival item; like some homage was being paid to the band. Bad song choice. McCartney was flawless, though, even managing to do the "ooooh" bits.

Dave, oh Dave, I know Paul's one of your heroes, and you looked like a school kid (grinning and all) whilst playing but really... the song wasn't rock enough for you and you were definitely limited by it and you couldn't fully show off how freaking awesome you are. Plus, you looked real stiff and awkward. Performance pressure? Your timing was impeccable, though.

Tragic, really. Such a promising collaboration and that was the best that they could come up with?!

I can't believe I stayed up just to watch that. I am terribly disappointed.

A Bomb or The Bomb?

If it weren't for my brother, I wouldn't have known that Milton's Paradise Lost is in production as of this moment. They started some time in '05 and hope for it to be ready in '10.

Who is so bold as to take this on? Scott Derrickson, director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Hellraiser: Inferno. So he does have some experience of Satanic subject matter but I doubt that that will be enough.

I'm assuming the movie will be mainly in CGI and that it will undoubtedly be awesome to watch the epic battles. Honestly, I have no clue how Milton's imagery can be translated visually especially since about everything is described in simile with most of it juxtaposing itself. That and the fact that throughout most of the book, Adam and Eve are nude right up till before the end. I'm pretty sure the censors will have much to gripe about that with Legendary Pictures who'd be developing the movie, since he plans to make it a big Hollywood blockbuster hit.

I realise I'm completely thrashing the film even before trailers / spoilers / tv spots have been released but if you've read the book, you'll understand where I'm coming from. The transition from print to screen has not been successful for the many who dared to take on the challenge. The written word is meant to titilate and to set your imagination free whereas it becomes limited once it's been directed through the eyes of an individual and the audience is forced to interpret how he interprets those words.

Plus Milton was slightly off-tangent, theologically and it will be interesting to see how the script writers work on that without offending / disappointing any religious groups or even Milton fans. Things like who's going to play Satan, God, Adam & Eve, the fallen Angels etc? Will the dialogue be in Modern English? Will it based or loosely based (like Troy - come on, Archilles was supossed to be DEAD and he appeared to fight!?!?) on the book or will it be an adaptation / snippets of some of the books?

I can't wait!!

Dear You

Stop. Really just STOP.

Junior is so wrong for you... and Senior is a worser choice.

But we all have to make mistakes because there are certain things in life where you know it's a mistake but you don't really know that it's a mistake because the only way to really know that it's a mistake is to make the mistake first and then look back and say "Hmmm, yea, that was a mistake."

What I'm trying to say is, the bigger mistake would be to not make the mistake, because then you'd spend the rest of your whole life not knowing if that something was a mistake or not.

So maybe I won't stop after all.

Reality Check

Some things are beyond my control and I must learn to accept that fact. I cannot solve everything or even fix everything. Some things are meant to happen in ways I don't expect them to and I'll just have to let them run their course.

On the other hand, there are other things which I can foresee and have absolute control over. These are the things which I know I can persuade to work in my favour. These are the things which I can manage and handle to the best of my abilities.

Then tell me why do I fret over things I cannot control and as for the things that I can, I let them go awry?

I'm turning 24 and I still have much to learn.