Friday, August 24, 2007

His face is a map of the world
Is a map of the world
You can see he's a beautiful girl
He's a beautiful girl
And everything around him is a silver pool of light
The people who surround him feel the benefit of it
It makes you calm
He holds you captivated in his palm


KT Tunstall's Suddenly I see
(gender changed.)

Posted by Dominic at 11:30 PM

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

ok, this is gonna make me sound like a nerd. i was reading some stuff the other day and then i thought about games i played in my childhood. this was at a time when games were 2d and 3d was state of the art. but im all for a good story. dont think many will appreciate this list but i remember these games being awesome.

1) Final Fantasy 7 - I love the story line, the characters were the shit, Aeris' death shook my world. (shes a good person, shes not supposed to die!! whats wrong with this game!) a ton of secrets to explore, people to find. a epic as it gets with a story on regret, love, loss and saving the world. you'll laugh and you'll cry. i tried a few years ago to get into it again but sadly the dated graphics made it unplayable.

2) Final Fantasy tactics - Awesome art, great job design and i like games that make you think. and there are jobs called dancer and bard. funny.

3) Shining Force 2 - I played it when i was 10. ton of secrets, interesting characters. it got me hooked to gaming. basket.

4) Chrono Trigger - awesome story line. its been so long i forgot what it was. :( time travel i think.

5) Final Fantasy 9 - I fell in love with a character called Vivi, a little mute dark mage in the story, named him sappho and grew protective of him. he was pretty much the only attraction of the game. he didnt have a face though.

6) Super Mario Kart for the snes and Goldeneye for nintendo64. serious fun for playing with siblings.

7) everquest. it's like crack. stay away. for the record, my first character was a pale skinned high elf enchanter. I swear he had eyeshadow on. but i wanted to be an enchanter.

good times.

Posted by Dominic at 9:13 PM

Monday, August 13, 2007

"I get by with a little help from my friends."
- John Lennon

Posted by Dominic at 2:03 AM

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely
Went to their deaths more proud than this one went.
Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping
I will confess; but that's permitted me;
Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keeping
Rubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.
If I had loved you less or played you slyly
I might have held you for a summer more,
But at the cost of words I value highly,
And no such summer as the one before.
Should I outlive this anguish—and men do—
I shall have only good to say of you.

this one by millay has been haunting me, playing at the back of my head the last few days. im no fun to hang around with when im a sad sob.

Posted by Dominic at 1:08 AM

jeremy's new poem. my favourite so far. awesome stuff. check out the others, link on the right ---->

indicative

i grow suspicious (sometimes)
when raindrops trickle
on my head; i'd wonder
if i were hearing voices;
growing madder every
minute; or if it was
just the wheel inside
my head: tripping
on its cogs. but if
it was just a subjunctive
moment; so striking
a cause to think
i'm unhinged; so intimate
with the breath
of insanity: these showers
take me to another
universe- hardly beyond
my reach.

Posted by Dominic at 12:59 AM

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

a friend over here once told me over dinner, "once i graduate, im never fucking going back." this came from a guy who dropped out of jc, with the tag ''O' level graduate' pinned to his name in the army, a guy whose teacher once told him that he's "never gonna make it". so basically, where the education system in singapore, where people bloody view a person's worth by their alma mater, failed him, australia adopted and said yes.

he had his results last semester, he topped his college here, topped the nation in geography, and yet he cant forget the time he visited melbourne uni, met a singaporean in the basketball court, and that guy asked him "so which jc were you from?" to which he cheerily replied "yishun". the guy then gave look accompanied with a disdainful "oh".

btw, my friend is, in my opinion, cooler, fucking hot, more articulate and nicer than any guy from any 'elite' school i know in sg. so that slip of an "oh" pretty much represented whats wrong in that singapore mentality.

so here i am, in melbourne uni, and people ask me all the time what secondary school i was from. seriously, does it matter? it was SO many years ago. and for the record, it was Ngee Ann Secondary School. i remember having a bloody good time and that batch was made up of some really awesome people who i still care for today. so, no, that 'oh' won't do.

an ex of mine is so proud of his 'elite' boys school alma mater when he positively had a miserable time there. hmm, homophobia sucks people.

so much for a name..


bah. Happy Birthday Singapore.

Posted by Dominic at 10:59 PM

Monday, August 06, 2007

i know this is kinda random but ive often wondered if couturiers like lagerfeld and mcqueen etc design everything or they have a posse of designers designing their work but they provide the theme and direction cause there is s/s and a/w collections as well as haute couture collections etc, thats kinda alot of design work for one guy. also who sews them cause there really is alot to sew for clients all over the world, do they outsource, do old italian men in dusty workshops sew the leather and old ladys hand craft the embroidery. well, this series is, personally, super fascinating.



in episode 4, theres this lonely old lady by the name of Mme Pouzieux who is a farmer and lives in the countryside who does the trademark braiding for chanel, and whom i find really endearing. theres something resilient about her which makes me wanna get to know her. its awesome that a big name designer has to ask the help of a farmer to get her braids. its kinda like a fairytale where the girl spins gold from yarn.

schools been good for me. its been 10fold more fun than last semester which isnt saying much and i gotten close to a jap called tomoka, and a group of hongky friends to hang out with so lectures and tutes arnt as monotonous.

i took aus flora and fauna as my elective. its super boring. they're at the flora part now and i go through his lecture hearing him talk about the arid aussie weather and about prickly pears and cacti. you can go in the lecture room wide eyed and high like this (0.o) and everyone walks out (-.-) i cant wait for the animal part.

been thinking bout grandma lately but it fustrates me when i call because we cant have a conversation cause she cant hear me on the phone. a r g h.

Posted by Dominic at 6:53 PM