Second time AAR pt.2

Awww...did you surfed on Google today? Cookie Monstah got featured! I like it :)

Yesterday, to my surprise my students were in their best behaviour and that made me extremely happy while in class. Had a conversation with an Indonesian student during D1 class and we were talking about the entertainment industry in Indonesia and he (the student) was so surprised when I told him that apparently there are A LOT of Indon dramas/sinetron that's currently airing on TV right here in Malaysia. He was so clueless about it and he was also very surprised that there are quite a number of Indon movies that has been shown in the cinemas here too hahaha. Don't you agree that we actually enjoy watching K-Dramas, J-Dramas, Indon dramas, pinoy dramas and of course American shows rather that the dramas/shows that are locally produced?

Well, not to say our own local dramas are thaaaat bad but sometimes I can't really stand it when the scripts are bad, the actresses ALWAYS have heavy make-up in every scene even when they are in the bedroom and the story line tends to be really boring.

Anyway, my dad is like a HUGE fan of Indon dramas, I seriously have no idea why. I tried watching with him before but I just couldn't find any way to enjoy it which is why I always ended up watching the shows of my choice on midnight onwards...that is when my dad is already in bed.

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AAR!

So before you start scrutinising your eyes thinking whether am I too old to be listening to bands like AAR, let me tell you this.

1. AAR is a band that I've liked since they came out with their first album. That was when I was just 17 years old and I've continually liked their music until now though, a lot might say that their music are way too mainstream now...which kinda explains why there were a lot of tweens during their concert heheh. So you might hate 'em but I like them a hell lot :D

2. I do listen to a lot of mainstream music and that's just because I like it. I might not know a hell lot of indie stuffs but hey, at least I admit that most of the songs that I listen to these days are pretty much mainstream ones and not just wanting to be 'cool' and act like I listen to a lot of indie music. I can actually listen to different genre of music...it just has to depend on my mood.

3. I was actually contemplating whether I should write a post about this or not cos I know some of my students do read this blog tsk tsk. Maybe I cared too much on what they would think about me once they know that I'm like a superfan of AAR buttttt I shouldn't care THAT much right? I mean I'm a big fan of them it doesn't mean you need to be a fan too kan?

So my point is, please don't judge me la ok hehe.

Right, to sum it up...AAR was awesomeeeee! I enjoyed their performance and the best thing was they sang more songs this time compared to the first time I saw 'em on MTV World Stage. They even performed songs that I didn't really expect them to perform that night like The Last Song and Paper Heart cos I thought they'll only perform songs from When The World Comes Down album and Move Along albums. I did not stood in front this time because I didn't want to get suffocated among all the tweens hahah....actually all I wanted was just to have a good time watching AAR (even it was quite far) without being squished around. Plus I went to their autograph session in the morning and secured myself a pass for the meet and greet session after the concert so it was all good!

Here are the list of songs that they performed that night in no particular order: Move Along, Fallin' Apart, Swing Swing, Paper Heart, Dirty Little Secret, Damn Girl, Real World, Mona Lisa, It Ends Tonight, The Wind Blows, I Wanna and Gives You Hell.

Tyson was wearing a Red Indian headgear because it was Halloween :))))))

Pictures! (Taken at Pavillion)

Mike Kennerty and Nick Wheeler arriving at the autograph session @ Pavillion.


Joined by drummer Chris Gaylor.


And Tyson Ritter! Man, he is super skinnyyyyy...seriously!








The DiGi people didn't allow the fans to snap pictures while we were up there getting their autographs which really sucks but I managed to snap some muahahaahaha.

LOL...Tyson's fan boy.

It was indeed a well spent Saturday :) My feet hurts like crazzzy once I reached home after the concert. Oh, the local band Disagree were goooood too! Anyway, I went to watch MJ's This Is It movie the day after and it was so so nice as well. If only he was still alive...sigh.

Weekend's here again....have a good one everybody :)

Second time AAR pt. 1

I went down to Pavillion KL (my first time going to that shopping mall... how outdated!) to catch AAR's autograph signing session last Saturday. Fan girl much? Got an autographed poster of the band and I've decided to give it to Eudora because in case you didn't know, I am a very kind hearted person hahahaha. Will post more pictures soon or maybe tonight. Not feeling great at the moment because I am currently enduring a GREAT pain now. You know, that pain that comes every month? Plus there are still much work to be done here. So stay tuned boys and girls :)

Another heart calls

Today marks the end of 'exploration' week and also the end of my little break from all my classes. Sigh...wished the 'exploration' week will continue for another week because I still have TONS to do! I told myself that I must finish grading half of the students' work and also finish archiving artworks but I tend to get distracted every single time. I've got a meeting to attend, a talk to listen, students to monitor at the print room and today I had to meet up with one of my student's parents. I honestly don't feel that comfortable to meet up with parents because you just don't know what to expect! Yeah, loads of random shiz happened within a week and oh, today I fell down and hit the floor hard while cleaning the print room! FML seriously.

So anyway, because of all these distractions, I ended up having no time to even start on my grading and the only proud thing that I managed to do was drafting out the tutorial for next week's Photoshop class...and that even took me the entire Thursday to do. I'm just glad that the weekend has finally arrived because there are two things that I look forward to :DDD

1. The DiGi Music Live concert event in Bukit Jalil which is tomorrow. Gonna see AAR perform for the second time again whoop whoop! (fan girl mode on)

2. MJ's This Is It docu-movie that I'm gonna watch on Sunday night.

So I gotta make full use of my weekend because after this, it's gonna be another 5 weeks of being busy. Dang, November's arriving in two days!!! Have a good weekend everyone and have a good rest too. Imma go and watch another episode of The Vampire Diaries hehe. This show is getting addictive lah.

This week's episode of Gossip Girl, I totally lol-ed at this scene haha.

[Nate and Dan watching Olivia’s movie]

Dan: Is she actually levitating?

Was their acting this good in the rest of the movie?

Look at the way she’s looking at him, it’s love.

That’s definitely love. Lust and gratitude.

Nate: Dude, it’s an orgasm.

Dan: Yeah.

(via meesters.tumblr.com/)

FYI, the girl who was levitating is Hillary Duff and Chace Crawford is uber hot!

OK BAI! (fan girl mode off)

Possimpible

Would you wear this? I WOULD!

Another reason why I like Brandon Boyd is not only because he's musically talented and write/perform awesome songs with his band Incubus but also he's artistically talented. Same goes to Mike Shinoda from LP. I dunno why but I've great respect on people who are not only good in music and at the same time appreciate art and design as well.

So this is probably an old story but just recently Brandon Boyd contributed his artistic talent and collaborated with TOMS shoes and also his fellow artist friend Kristin Jai Klosterman to produce 'a one of a kind art' and their artworks were then made into limited edition collection for TOMS shoes.

Check out the large canvas! I'm wondering what's the meaning behind the painting...but it sure looked totally rad to me! Hahahaha...

(source)

Click here to check out more of Brandon Boyd's art and read his bio too. Very random and funny :)

Yesterday while in class I had an Iranian student who came and told me and Reis that he might have a 50-5o chance to stay in Malaysia or be deported back to his country because his Visa has expired and according to him, the Student Service Department (SSD) who deals with international students were supposed to help him to renew his Visa but they (SSD) has forgotten to do so. Anyway, he (the student) said that if he has to leave Malaysia and go back to Iran, he has to join National Service for 3 friggin' years and become an army. No shit! I asked him would he be afraid to go for war and stuff and he said no because he was doing it for his country. Haha so damn patriotic right??? But he also said that his dad doesn't want him to join hence the reason why he came over here to study.

Today there's gonna be a 'Halloween Party' in the college...but it's basically for the students to enjoy and have the chance to dress up la. So count me out, I ain't gonna go to this party hahahhaha. You know what my Iranian student wants to dress up as?

Suicide Bomber. For real.

Let's just hope that the guard would really believe that he's actually just dressing up for fun la hahaha. You know what? I actually liked talking to the students...well it has to depend on my mood too la. Sabahan students are really nice to talk to and I'm not being bias or anything, just that since we all come from the East side of the country, it is much easier to click with them.

Anyway, the Academic Manager wants to meet up with me today and I've no idea why? I'm thinking of a few possibilities here:

A) I will REALLY be deported to Penang and it's for real this time around.

B) More subjects to teach? (In this case, I shall need an increment haha)

C) I did something wrong (but I really can't recall any)

D) Is she gonna sack me?

Seriously I don't know. I'm still waiting for her phone call...so wish me luck peeps. Finally it's Friday!

Bloodsucker

Left hand is a lil' cacat haha.

I had two workshops today hence the reason why I was only in jeans and t-shirt. The printroom is too hot to wear something that's more erm...decent haha plus it's Friday and I just felt that it's nice to wear something comfy. Anyway, I stained my shirt while colouring on the linocut in class. Dang. Never ever wear white while doing printmaking, well unless you have an apron with you... then it's fine. Dark coloured shirts are better.

Tomorrow's Deepavali! Any plans? I was thinking of staying at home and getting more sleep :)That'll be nice! Or I could just stay at home and watch DVDs and TV dramas. Speaking of TV dramas, I am still scouting for new and interesting drama(s) to watch. Just recently, I downloaded this new drama called The Vampire Diaries.

After the movie Twilight came out last year, it seems that there are more (okay, I knew there are two currently) shows that has to do with vampires. I dunno la...it's probably like the IN thing now haha. There's True Blood which I've never watch an episode before. Heard it was nice and Simone said the show was a little soft porn-ish (lol!) but then she seems to be addicted to that show :) Then there's The Vampire Diaries, another vampire show which was adapted from a teen book as well but I know the books came out way early than Twilight. So I've watched the first two episodes of this show and I gotta say it seems interesting and I felt that the girl and the vampire has way more chemistry than Edward and Bella of Twilight. No offense but I personally felt like there's always an awkward gap between Edward and Bella in Twilight. Well, it's still too early to tell whether the show would be really nice to watch or not, seeing that I've just watched 2 episodes so far but I might have a feeling that I would like this show :) Oh and the 'bad' vampire is hot and have quite a good acting skill hehe.

Geez, I hope it's not too weird to actually watch a teen show when I am obviously not a teen anymore. Just finished my class a while ago and boy, the week does pass by fast! It has been another crazy week but i should be happy that tomorrow's a public holiday. Will be heading down to KL later at night to meet up with Jesse for dinner and cousin bonding session. Wow can you believe that I'm actually going out on a friday night? That's ermm...a very very rare thing for me to do hahaha. I'm seriously a loser FML.

Have a good weekend! Peace out.