Planet Earth in Concert | Oyster Festival | Full Moon Party

HELLO YOU :) THIS WEEK HAS BEEN CRAZYYY. Phew. So exhausted haha. I was supposed to have three midterms this week and 2 assignments due and a project omg but thank god some got postponed or I wouldn't be here right now hahaha AND IT'S RECESS WEEK NEXT WEEK! I know I should be happy but honestly I'm miserable cause idk argh long story but I was really hoping to get out of the country for a bit.

Just some photos from the past two weeks!

Can't wait to have my own farm or vineyard and ride my horses when I retire hahahaha.

Went for Planet Earth in Concert last Friday and it was AMAZING.

I'm sure this must be familiar right to most right?

I won't say I'm totally a nature person because I'm absolutely terrified of insects (damn those buggers) but I used to love watching BBC and National Geographic documentaries and still do actually just that who has time for TV nowadays right :/ BBC's Planet Earth has been one of my favourite documentaries since I was young so my parents bought me the box set and I used to watch with a notebook in hand and pause and write down everything about the animals HAHA. I still have that notebook actually... From the time I wanted to be a scientist/vet/marine biologist amongst many other things -_- I've even got a notebook of all the questions and things that I've always wanted to research on in my free time..

Anyways the concert was held in the Esplanade theatre where the footage was projected onto a 10 metre curved screen while the Singapore Symphony Orchestra played the accompaniment. I've never seen any orchestra other than what I was forced to watch in Secondary school but ok legit the Singapore Symphony Orchestra was seriously amazing. The whole performance was a perfect symbiosis between the images and the music and it was a real spectacle.

There's a video on their website showcasing short snippets of the concert :)

I love LOVE LOVE animals so idk maybe I sound a little obsessive now haha but definitely wouldn't have missed it for the world. The concert's footage is split into different chapters about various types of wildlife and planetary phenomenons. I REALLY love elephants and snow leopards hahaha so when I saw it onscreen I CRIED HAHAH. Ok not cried because of that la but because it was so sad?? Elephants are just such beautiful compassionate creatures. Did you know they can die of a broken heart and they have burial and mourning rituals for their dead. Their ability for such emotional depths really puts some humans to shame. It was so heartbreaking cause the footage was of a mother and baby elephant separated from the herd and they were lost in the middle of the desert and THEY DIED. Idk what it was but they looked so helpless I wished I could have done something :/ haha yesss I'm such a crybaby I know BUT IT'S SO SAD OK. I just get damn upset when I see them suffer unnecessarily especially in those documentaries on ivory trade ugh like I'll always cry when I watch all those documentaries about animal slaughter where you see all these people butcher animals so senselessly. UGH SO INFURIATING  >:(

 My all time favourite photo. My everyday mood embodied in one photo hahaha.

 AWWWWWW SUCH A CUTIE PIE <3

Idk what it is but there's something about the way they lie on their face like that HAHA.

The segment about penguins was so cute though HAHA idk maybe it's just me but PENGUINS ARE HILARIOUS HAHA. Like little blobs of chubbs hobbling about HAHAHA AND WHERE ARE THEIR LEGS?? Am I the only one who finds their absence of legs disturbingly adorable?? Their body is just head, no-neck, stomach and feet HAHA. Like looking at a very fat short man in a suit.

 DON'T THEY ALWAYS LOOK LIKE THEY'RE RUSHING ON A MISSION OR SOMETHING??

 Wiggle wiggle wiggle

HAHAHAHAHAHA bet thats what I look like when I run for the shuttle bus in school

They also showed the behind the scenes footage of how the wildlife photographers managed to capture these shots and the amount of dedication and patience these people have is just nothing short of unbelievable. The segment was called "Wish You Were Here" and it shows how these photographers have to hide camouflaged for 118 hours on end or live in the bleakest weather conditions alone for months just for the hopes of capturing that one shot. This photographer spent months trying to capture footage of the snow leopard (my all time favourite <3) and they're so rare and beautiful. Really really admire these people who have so much dedication to what they do.


There was this incredibly anal man sitting next to me and photography wasn't allowed inside but I took some photos just cause he was so annoying. Anyways if there's another show, I'm definitely going haha my face was like :O and :'( and :') idk hahah I get super emotional when I watch things especially movies haha my face is always damn tense HAHA.

Work at TBC on Saturday! My first time at the full moon party and it's not really my thing. I couldn't wait to go home the whole time tbh.

Watched The Maze Runner AND IT WAS GOOOOOD. I was so nervous in the movie HAHA. Ok but not as good as The Hunger Games. Jlaw's my B I can't say anything bad about her even if I wanted to :') Idk what it is but I love the influx of post-apocalyptic world movies where the heroes and heroines of the plot are people our age fighting and doing kickass shit. AND CAN'T WAIT FOR HALLOWEEN!! ALL THE HORROR MOVIES COMING OUT YESSSYESYESYESYES HAHA and I'm gonna order my costume real soon ;) this year's costume is gonna be awesome I can't wait!

Also went for the OYSTER FESTIVAL HEHEHEHEHE. Man I love oysters.. I WANNA GO EVERYDAY HAHA. Ate so much I was a bit scared I'd get shellfish poisoning.. But that would mean I don't have to go to school. Hmm..

There was SASHIMIIIIII OMGGGGGG. FREE FLOW SASHIMI AND OYSTERS AND CRAB LEG?? THE COLD CRAB LEG ARGH. What can be better. And HaagenDazs Ice cream <3 AND CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN

 Shabu Shabu area!

Getting super fungry writing about this :'(

After the most god awful paper on feminism ever. Seriously the whole paper I couldn't find things to write about so I made up my own terms HAHA SORRY PROF.

 Three hours of sleep everyday AIYAAAA LOOK HOW SMALL MY EYES HAVE BECOME :'(

Wore my PJs to school cause.. argh couldn't be bothered HAHA. MY SHOES ARE SO WHITE AND I LOVE THEM BUT THEY HURT SO BAD :'( Been limping around in school haha but I'm hoping the more I wear them the less they'll hurt?

Last week was pretty bad to say the least. It's just.. I hear these things and ugh I really don't know what to make of it. But I think I'm feeling slightly better and I hope I never lose that feeling! I guess all that's left for me to do is to handle the situation maturely and just keep moving on. Enough of all this wallowing haha I'm so sick of feeling (and looking) like death every day. Baby steps :)


Ok gotta go for birthday dinner and work/Dash Berlin. Not looking forward to it cause Zouk is gonna be crazy packed and ugh just idk not in the mood for socialising or anything for that matter. Can't wait to be home in bed for my Breaking Bad marathon hahahaha.

xx
Qing

Ughhhhhh

Digressing from doing my research paper on medieval literature cause I just can't concentrate. This week has been exceptionally trying both emotionally and mentally I can literally feel my white hairs and wrinkles growing ohgod no :/

Got 2 midterm papers and so many assignments due this week and I'm just so severely underprepared time to find a new profession like competitive eating or something I'm actually good at. Idk why but each time I just can't bring myself to focus or even sleep proper each night. Just really never felt more helpless or lonely before WHYYYYY UGHHH.

It's been one of those weeks you know? Or rather one of those months haha. Really hope everyone else is doing a lot better but if you're not, you're welcome to sulk here with me haha. Misery loves company and I could really use another person to sulk and watch gruesome horror movies with me. I swear if life knocks me down right now I'm just gonna lie there and hope I somehow cry enough to drown myself. Ok i'm just being melodramatic. Things aren't really THAT bad haha I just wanna rant.

Seriously though it's gotten to the point I subconsciously growl and go ughhh or arghhhh ajshfakheu to myself while walking around school :/ feel like I'm turning into grumpy cat.

OK I'm done moping and procrastinating!!.. for now.. Back to writing about Geoffrey Chaucer and SERIOUSLY ancient literature. YAY ME.

Yeap this dog gets me.

SCHOOL UPDATES

HIIIII it's finally Friday again!! HAHA so glad the school week's over. School has been going by so fast I can't believe it's the end of week 4 already whuttttt. I realise that every post I never fail to mention how tired I am but seriously tired isn't even a feeling anymore, it's become a part of me.

Just some quick updates from school and work the past couple of weeks! School's actually been pretty fun save for the fact that the people in my Romanticism and Medieval Literature mods are insanely smart. I go into class and I'm literally dumbfounded by all the terms and names they throw around. Really makes me question my whole existence haha and wtf am I doing with my life or wtf am I even doing in school. Also, went for dance on Wednesday! I skipped school yesterday and today :'( [BECAUSE I REALLY AM SICK] so I'm not going for today's practice. One thing I've definitely learnt is that I have two left feet. I'm the clumsiest most uncoordinated girl ever hahah. The instructor was like ok left left and I was like shit which is left so I had to look down at my hands and make the Ls. And so many times I realised to my intense embarrassment that I was dancing in the completely wrong direction from everybody. Now I feel the need to say that I was put into this dyslexic programme as a child?? I was a really odd little girl. I would face the back of the class and just sit there playing by myself and when people played ball in school, I didn't know how to catch?? My mother said that I just stared and let the ball hit me. HAHAHA what a little weirdo. I'm just glad I'm not like that anymore but really the inability to tell left from right is so damn frustrating at times. I feel like my motor skills are just non existent and there's always a delay in my response?? UGHHH.

Oh! I finally dyed my hair last friday after school! It was a super last minute decision but I'm really quite happy I did it. I was horrified at first because my hair went from super light brown to ALMOST black.

I don't quite know how to explain my hair colour right now. It's like a mix of chocolate and ash. Chopped off a good 3 to 4 inches of my hair too hahah cause the ends were so dead I swear my hairdresser took like 15 minutes just to comb my hair and his face was like ohdeargod HAHAHA. But now it's so much smoother and healthier I can't stop playing with it HAHAHA. Like legit super smooth I'm so SO pleased. Gonna go do more treatment next week!

There was this sunsilk pop up booth in school the other day and they were giving free hair makeovers HAHA so cute right!!

 Ashley's hair! So pretty omg I wish I knew how to do my hair like that too.

 AND THERE WAS A MILO VAN. OMG HAVEN'T SEEN ONE SINCE PRIMARY SCHOOL?? Milo van milo is legit the best milo ever.

Oh and worked for Carlsberg last Saturday for this wedding! IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL OMG. I cried?? HAHAHA idk why I cried either seeing as I have no idea who the bride and groom are but it was so romantic and the thought of two people who truly love each other spending the rest of their lives together it's like awwwwww. Don't judge me!!! I wish I could have taken photos of the ballroom but my hands were shaking so badly from carrying the trays :/ Shangrila is really gorgeous though and the bride's dress was so pretty. Ok I cried partly cause it was romantic and also cause idk man like it made me think about when I'm gonna get married?? I know it's a long LONGGG way down the road, if ever, but idk.. I knew someone once, who I thought might have been the one but idk sometimes you can't trust your gut. Every relationship really is a gamble.

 Such a bad photo but oh wells. Idk why I look so small here.

Checked out Babette last night with Drew cause he's opening his own bistro next year WHICH IS SO EXCITING OMG HAHAH. He's gonna be serving up french fusion cuisine something like Saveur! I can't wait HAHA I love duck confit <3

Babette's atmosphere is really nice. I love the exposed brick walls and open bar with concrete floor. Just so raw and open. If I could, I'd totally wanna stay in a studio apartment fashioned like that with high ceilings and windows.

The food honestly wasn't spectacular. They serve French and Japanese fusion so we tried the duck confit donburi and the Steak donburi. The rice itself was already below average. The duck was super tough and just nothing compared to Saveur's. The steak was good though but nothing special to be frank. Plus the prices were really exorbitant in comparison to Saveur which serves much better food anyways.

The drinks were priced quite normal at about $8 a pint and $39++ for a bucket of 5 but the truffle fries were good! A little on the salty side but still good :)

Ok I'm gonna head out to Elizabeth's birthday nowwww SO LATE OMG :'(

Have a smashing weekend ahead guys!
xx
Qing