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Mistaken Identities

Yes. Me. As per usual.

People that I have been mistaken for up till now:

• A student at Mayflower, or now that I think about it, maybe it was St Marg's
• This was when I was attempting (and mostly failing) to sell Encyclopedias at the World Book Fair a couple years back. But, hey, this case of mistaken identity caused the family who thought they were speaking to a well-loved family friend aka me, to sit down and be subjected to a pleasant chat, or well, sales pitch.

• A neighbour when this tuition kid's mom stayed in Ang Mo Kio
• This was at the staircase when I smiled at a mother bringing her child to tuition and she said I looked familiar and asked if I stay at AMK. When I said no, she insisted that I must have at some point or other stayed there before.

• Caroline
• When we were introducing ourselves in tutorial, and my professor who said I looked familiar (and well I should since I took his module the previous semester) asked if I was such a person.

• That I am Malay
• This, coming from tuition kids who don't know better and thinking they can talk behind my back in chinese. This, also coming from a Malay auntie only just yesterday, is a little too much.

• That I am Eurasian.
• Also, this again from tuition kids who don't know better. I pretend not to be either. "Hey, teacher can understand chinese!". I feel like I'm not there, or conversely, that I am there, as a lab show.

Poster Talk: Summer Wars preview

Already I am excited. Summer Wars puts itself on my must watch list by default that it is helmed by Mamoru Hosoda, whose last directorial effort was the excellent The Girl who Leapt Through Time. They are clearly gunning for the winning formula again, since the writer-director-studio team is the same as observed from various sources.

The last time they came together, The Girl who Leapt Through Time trumped Studio Ghibli's Tales from Earthsea in terms of both public and critical reception (that is how good this film is). This was an amazing feat, because Mamoru Hosoda is a virtual unknown next to Ghibli and Miyazaki. In fact, the irony is that Hosoda had been attached to direct Howl's Moving Castle but stepped down. And, up till now, I have not stopped wondering what the alternative would have been like.

I love Studio Ghibli. But I am also completely interested to see what Hosoda, Satoko Okudera (the writer) and Madhouse (the studio) will give us this time. For one thing, they clearly got a budget raise. The poster is amazingly stylish. There is something futuristic in the chunky font, but the silhouette of a girl clutching a traditional banner/flag seems to point to a less space-age look. It'll probably be something like The Girl who Leapt Through Time which has sci-fi elements but is set in modern Japan.

As for the story, depending on who you ask, it could either be about a young girl who drags her family through a bunch of adventures, or a family on an adventure with an old woman. Sketchy, I know. Nevertheless, I am already suspecting lots of green scenery - like set somewhere with lots of trees. With blue skies. That last one is a cliche for adventure type plots as it is. Basically at least enough bushes to conduct woodland wars in. It is summer after all...

Sources: Twitch, Yokaze, Anime News Network

Yesterday in Three.

14 Feb

Midnight slinks unseen

Past. Some things may change, but this

Would last forever.

Hot nights

Screw this bloody sore

It hurts so much even as

I enjoy ice-cream.

Tuition

Ink stains, the mark of

Industrious scribbles that you

Write, with unsure hands.

The Koala named Sam

Say hello to Sam.

Sam is the unofficial mascot for the fire victims of the Australian bushfire. She was rescued by a firefighter on the 1 Feb and is pictured here drinking water from his waterbottle.

Makes you wish all over again that the flood over in Australia would spread itself out and go put out the fires raging in Victoria instead...

image source via Google Images.

SHUT UP PY

I know what I did to deserve this, and I am now making a belated new year's resolution.

Never. never, ever, eat green tea ice with PY again.

UPDATE: I don't suppose anyone is being sympathetic. In any case, it was tough trying to eke out this post when I had to behave like a guerilla warfare soldier hogging her miserly blogspace while preventing the big evil PY from typing weird stuff into my blog yesterday at the comp lab.

Rosy memories

I suddenly remembered today that back in secondary school, during bio lesson, we once had to draw flowers for the plant reproduction practical lesson. My lab partner, who incidentally is Kappa, is clueless with the pencil, and I ended up drawing her flower for her with a lot of muttering. Most of the grumbling was because, of all the flowers she had to bring, she brought a rose.

A. Rose.
With lots of petals.

I hurriedly drew one for her (hey, it was almost the end of class), and then did one for myself, with what I believed to be slightly more effort. In the end, she got an A+ while I got an A.
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Blind tennis

Today, was sitting in the bus on the way home, minding own business by spacing out, when was struck on the side of the face with the end of a tennis racket. The racket had been poking out at a rakish angle from a JC student's bag and his girlfriend?sister? managed to rescue my face from further damage by stuffing the racket back into to the bag. The reason for this debacle, which I didn't even have time to react to (since I had been stoning) was that the student seemed to have sustained some form of eye injury and had tissue stuffed behind his spectacles, hence resulting in a lack of any kind of vision. Speaking of lack of foresight, it seemed they had randomly hopped onto the bus while not being sure how to get to their destination.

This makes the second time in a week that I have encountered an injured student, but these two did not seem to be heading to a clinic. They were instead discussing how to get somewhere by bus. But, judging from the way the girl was literally dragging around the guy, I seriously think they'll be injuring themselves further by, 1) falling off the steps of the bus, 2) trip, or worse still, 3) poke someone's eye out. I suspect however, that they'll continue to wherever they need to be via bus because, not oddly, they seemed to be amsued by the situation they were in. An odd couple they did make. I on the other hand, felt like a reluctant audience to some soap opera, because the guy was clinging on in this desperate way to the girl's hand, but the strangely touching scene (I am mostly thinking girlfriend now) was quickly reduced to a farce when we all alighted at the bus terminal and the girl ended up half-dragging the fellow around in an ungainly manner. They hadn't seemed to have decided where to go either and were walking about in various directions. The racket and the towel hanging out of the bag however, should help things. If you can remain injured and still have your towel with you, you're bound to be able to cross galaxies, let alone across one tiny island. The blind leading the blind indeed.