and i u n f o l d

So, I’m watching episodes of Supernatural at the wee hours of the morn, and I’m freaking myself out.

Okay fine, I am a scaredy-cat. (But really, creeeeepy!)

Jensen and Jared are effin’ HOT though. Forget the Scott brothers, I’d like to be in a sandwich with the Winchester boys! Hee! Funny how I didn’t find Jared hot when he was in GG, but then Dean (Forrester) really bored/irritated the crap out of me. Jensen Ackles? He was always hot, but he is smokin’ in Supernatural.

Anyway, I’m gonna rave about how much I love those boys next time. Once I finish watching the whole season (a few more eps to go).

Leaving tomorrow for Manila. Woot woot! Be back June 4th. Y’all don’t have too much fun without me! :)

P/S: I’m still heart-broken over E’s elimination. Le sigh.

Okay, so I’m a bit of a reality-tv whore. I dunno man, I just somehow get sucked in.

Today has been both a bad and good day for a fangirl.

I knew, watching the performance show, that AI was out to screw Elliot over. Such blatant depimpage! First in the line-up (first to perform on Top 3 night traditionally have not moved on to the finale), super-short song renditions, and mild comments from Simon. And let’s not forget the over-pimpage of the girl in the trio. So, I knew that E’s time was out; it was a matter of whether the Yaminions could save him… even then, he still could get screwed over.

Being prepared for it didn’t help though. I spoiled myself, cos I knew I couldn’t sit through the entire results show not knowing. And then I read thru his thread at TWoP, and all the posts there made me freakin’ weep. Gaaaaaah. It’s really awesome how much love that boy has inspired. V. cool.

I was also prepared for the smoopyness of E’s hometown trip, but damn I was crying like a baby when I saw it. Again, with the love he inspires. And to think of what’s he has lived through, and to see his dream playing out and to see how much love people have for him… man, was that a damn good hometown clip or what? Probably the best ever. And then to see him getting weepy while watching it… sigh.

But nooooo. Yet more weepage came when he was actually eliminated. Boy handled that with class and grace, and thankfully the show handled it with class and grace and gave him a proper goodbye. Then came his Bad Day montage. Hel-lo, waterworks! Firstly, how much did that A Song For You montage rock? I will forever associate that song with him. And how awesome was he singing it? He sounded fabulous on every damn clip, and I loved the “10,000 people watching” edit (kudos to the editors for that cool moment!). And then, and then… his “I was lost” speech. Goddamn, by that time, I was crying like no one’s business! I did, however, love how great he was on his sing-out.

I’m really sad to see E go, ‘cos I think that seeing him in the Kodak with confetti raining over him, tears staining his cheeks, and him rocking out to his coronation song would have been priceless. But it’s okay. It’s not the last we’ll see of him, and I’m definitely looking forward to his music! I have faith that a record company will snap him up and he’ll get to do the kind of music he loves.

Then I tuned into the TAR finale. Bit my nails through it. Yelled at the tv a few times. But when I saw the final Roadblock, I knew that the Hippies would have a chance to take it. Oh man, that Roadblock was tense! Good stuff; it’s so much better than the straight-up foot race to the Bath Mat we’ve had in the past. And yes, there was yet more screaming at the tv. And then B+T got it right, I whooped in joy and they got to the Amazing Bath Mat and won the Race. T-TOWWWWWW! I’m glad they won. They had fun, they raced well and they aced the task when it was most important, so kudos to them.

[Side note: When the teams were in Tokyo, I suddenly became excited about going. Not that I wasn’t before, mind you, but Tokyo does look like a really cool and exciting place to visit. And while I’m still a little nervous about going by myself, I think I’ll have a good time, regardless of what may or may not happen, y’know. And plus, that themepark was wicked! Those coasters looked awesome yo. Thrill rides, indeed! Meanwhile, it’s still uncertain whether my plane tickets are a go. *crosses fingers*]

So, yeah. A fave contestant eliminated, and a fave team winning on the same night. Oh, the vagaries of reality tv.

P/S: I thought The Da Vinci Code was really good. But I’ll save that post for another day. :)

Today’s dance class was gooooood. Much much better than last week’s, mainly cos I really loved today’s choreography. V. groovy…. dunno how to describe it, but it was just a lot of fun to do, and the stress level was quite minimal, and it was just… groovy. Now I’m sad that I’ll miss next week’s class, if Pat continues with this set of choreo. Waaaaaaaaah. Sadsadsad.

So, I finally used most of my Nike vouchers. I got two cropped cargo-ish pants, a bright pink jacket, and a t-shirt. Came up to just over $250. Woaaaaah. Good stuff yo. (And my mom topped up the difference. Hee!) The black cargo pants with pink details and the black cropped top I had wanted are no longer available, which was too bad cos those were really nice. I wanted to get a bag too but I don’t really like the ones available. But still, I’m pleased with the stuff I got. And I still have another $100 to spend, since I gave $50 to my mom. I also gave her the voucher for the massage, since she’ll probably appreciate it more than I will. Hahah. I’m gonna redeem my gym membership sometime in June, when I will become a fitness & dance bunny. Ahahhahaha. Yay for vouchers!

I’m going away next week. Wooo! Going back to my other Motherland, the Philippines. Yessireee. I haven’t been since I was like 14-15, so it’s been a long time. I’m not really particularly close to that side of my family, but I guess it’ll be fun, since the occassion is my cousin’s wedding. And I’m a bridesmaid! Hehe. That should be interesting. I’m also looking forward to shopping! Retail therapy… yeah, baby, that’s good. And I’m gonna get my hair coloured+highlighted there. No more icky roots. Haha.

Andddd… maybe there’ll be some eye-candy? Esp. if they’re of the Colby/KC variety. The Flip-American thing is kinda hot yo. Ahahahahahah. *cough* I’m also trying to see if I can maybe get some dance classes in, but Google hasn’t been much help in locating dance studios there. (Unless I sign up for the gym pass I got and go to Fitness First there?) Ehhhh. I dunno. We’ll see. I won’t die if I got 2 weeks without dance. Heh.

I’m going to see The Da Vinci Code with my mom tomorrow!

LAST NIGHT WAS AWESOOOOMEEEEE!

Went clubbing at Butter Factory with some dance peeps. (I haven’t been since back in January when I went clubbing with Hani in KL!) It was Jen, Val, Caleb, Idil, Chris and me. Craziness! It was non-stop dancing from about midnight-ish to closing time (4am!). Danced with everyone in a circle and just let loose yo. Hee! I bet the other people were like, “What the $(**&% are these kids doing??!”. Ahahahahaha. We were like our own little circle of fun. So shiok sendiri. Heh.

The club was packed but not super-packed so at least we had space to dance. Or rather we created our own space to dance. Haha. But yeah, the crowd was just nice: not so many people that you can barely move and enough people to give a happening-club vibe. Heh. And there was v. minimal creepy/sleazy people, so us girls didn’t have to deal with guys trying to dance with us. Ahahahahah. We paid little/no attention to other people anyway since we were like on our own little world…. well, at least I was. :P

The crowd there is a little older (not that I’m such a young sprite nowadays anyway, haha *denial*), but damn, I love the music they play. Hip-hop and R&B allllllll night long! My kinda groove. And they played good songs, so I just couldn’t stop dancing. Hehe. It was hypeeeeeee! So. much. fun! I haven’t enjoyed clubbing this much in ages. Yay yay! The only downside was that the air-con was pretty bad and we were sweating like pigs. But whatever. FUNFUNFUN. I want to go again!

Ooh ooh, and I spotted Colby there, when I was near the bar. I still think he’s cute! Speaking of cute, there wasn’t any eye-candy in the club, unfortunately. No cute dancer boys either. Not that I was expecting any. Ahahahaha. It’s so mean, but it’s quite amusing to watch other people dance. Like there was this one guy who was channelling his inner-diva or something. Heheheh.

So yeah, it was great fun. Good music, good dancing, good company. Only reached home about 4.30am, and then basically crashed. Hee!

These past 3 days have been eventful.

Monday: I had my hair done! Finally. I have curly hair now. It’s supposed to look like Jessica Alba’s hair in Honey, but it’s a little curlier. Once it settles and the curls become less tight, Tania (the hairstylist) told me it’d look like that. Heh. When I first saw my new hair, I was like “Ummmm… OMG!Curly!” But I quite like it now. It’s v. cute. I dunno, it’s a spunky hairstyle. LOL. Like, my hair has a personality now! Hahahah. But yeah, I like. And I think it’ll get better as time goes.

Anyway, Monday evening, I met up with the posse sans Cal to plan her birthday celebration. Sarah, Juls, Hani and I ended up at a Arab-type cafe, which was hilarious, cos I felt like we were in a whole ‘nother country. Arab-decor, music, food… it was cool though. After much laughing and talking crap, we finally decided and then cabbed to town to buy her gift.

Tuesday: I went for a casting call for a Nokia ad. I hope I get the gig! I think they’re trying to portray a more youthful, hip image cos the snapshots they took were of a fun/clubby vibe. The girl played hip-hop music and said to strike a clubby kinda pose. Hahahah. Which should be right up my alley, right? So hopefully, I get it. I think it’d be a cool gig.

The auditon was super quick and I had tons of time to kill… so I ended up joining some of the Blast boys and watched MI:3. It wasn’t too bad; like a super-long Alias ep but with Cruise instead of Garner. Ahahaha. And damn, JRM was hotttt. He wasn’t onscreen much, but he is one hot man. Mmmmm. spy!JRM = GOOD. After the movie, hung out with the boys while they had dinner and then I left to meet with the posse.

I kept the birthday girl waiting. Heh. But the rest were late, so I had the task of keeping her busy. We wandered around Bugis for a bit before I got a call saying everything was ready. So we walked to Om Cafe (Side note: I was wearing heels, and by that time of day, my feet were crying out for mercy!) where them three screamed “Happy birthday” from their window-side table on the 2nd floor. Hilarious! Cal was like stunned. Ahahah. Anyway, we had the longest dinner ever (it took them ages to serve us our food!)… and then when we had the peeps bring out the cake we bought, the whole cafe burst out in the birthday song, which had all of us cracking up. Best moment of the night, by far! And then we gave her our gift (Mraz live DVD) but she seemed more excited about the cat postcards. Heh.

Anyway, happy birthday to Cal!

And today, I had dance class. Yay! After like a month hiatus, it was good to be moving again. And to see the dance peeps again. It was a pretty brutal day though (looking forward to aching tomorrow… not!) since I was at both classes and we did floorwork in both. Booooo. After class, a bunch of us went to eat at McD… and ended up staying there, talking crap for a long time. Heheheh. Awww, I love my dance peeps!

I’m really really looking forward to DR! I’m signed up for 3 items, I think… so it’s gonna be a lot of fun. Yeah yeah, I’m an alumnus-in-denial. LOL. I don’t wanna leave Blast!

P/S: Elliot kicked ass tonight. Top 3, top 3! *crosses fingers*

Okay, I know that some time ago I was all like, “Ace is teh Yummy!”. Which he is. I did really like his early performances, but once he hit the Top 12, it was touch and go. Still, I was sad to see the Pretty leave my tv. The snippet of his original song he sang on TRL was pretty nice.

During the Ace-lusting, I had some Elliot-love on the side. He had me at “Moody’s Mood For Love”, which was just fabulous. (His version of “Heaven” made me run to listen to Nicky’s version, though. Sorry E!) He was always good, but he has been fabulous the past few weeks.

And then this week, when he was in danger of elim. again, it hit me: I am a Yaminion. I have the mp3s, I listen to them constantly, and I was about ready to kill someone if he had been eliminated. And damn, if he hasn’t gotten more cute over the weeks somehow. If I was able to vote, I’d vote like a maniac for him.
I haven’t stopped listening to his version of Home. (OMG, if you haven’t heard it, download. NOW. Even if you saw the perf, ‘cos he always sounds better on mp3.) I love the original, which kills me everytime I hear it, but Elliot’s version is just… gah. Something about it. It’s not a showy number or anything, but it’s probably my favourite E mp3.

I just love his voice. And I haven’t been this into an A1 contestant since like Clay. (I was bored by most of S3 and S4.) I don’t think E can win this year, given the way the judges have shamelessly shoved the other contestants down our throat, but I hope he blows everyone away next week and makes it to the Top 3. Hell, even if he doesn’t make it to Top 3, I still hope he does a great job and goes out on a high note. Besides, it’s almost better if he doesn’t win and if he gets other opportunities away from 19Evil.

And how psyched am I to hear the recorded version of “Moody’s Mood For Love”? Squeeee!

[This is gonna be a long-ass rant. Just so you know. Also, most of it will be incomprehensible if you’ve never watched the show before. And, oh, spoilery stuff for the season finale will be behind the cut.]

I started watching One Tree Hill for one reason: Chad. Oh my, I was so freakin’ in love with him after seeing him as Tristan as Gilmore Girls. (I sadly confess that for a while he was OTL-status… oh, those were the days!) OTH was his new show, and I was on board. The pilot was pretty interesting… and hey pretty boys + basketball = HOT DAMN. So I religiously downloaded and followed most of S1. About 3 episodes in though, I fell in love with Nathan Scott aka the popular high school basketball star. He was an interesting character, and once the subplot with Haley started to happen, I was like, “HELL YEAH!”. Those were good times, when the show was entertaining, their characters were fun, and there was still hope that it’d be a good tv show. And then all that Peyton/Lucas/Brooke BS happened, and BLAAAAAH. (I wrote a bunch of posts on the show way back, ranting about how much I hated Seyton. Bleeurgh.) The cake, though, was when Nathan/Haley got freakin’ MARRIED at the S1 finale. Like WTF?!?!

But no. NO. The worst was yet to come: season 2. Oyyyyyy. SUCK. FEST. I don’t even know why I even watched anymore. But I guess it was a mixture of a) pretty boys; b) Nathan/Haley; c) it’s a trainwreck that you can’t look away from and you want to see if it can get any better (but it doesn’t). I can’t even remember much of what happened, cos it sucked ass. I do remember that the Pretty Quotient went down cos Chad shaved his head (Nooooo, Pretty Hair!!!) and that Haley’s storyline was crappy and designed to create ‘drama’ between her and Nathan, oh and Dan became caricature evil. OH, and the worst recurring characters EVER: Felix (Ewwwwwww!) and Anna. Let’s not forget Tyler Hilton, who can’t act to save his life, trying to act. Whatever. One highlight though was the alternate reality episode where Nathan dreams of what life might’ve been if Dan had married Lucas’s mother instead. That showed me what I already know: I love Chad so much more when he’s playing asshole cocky bastard characters. ‘Cos Lucas as the arrogant popular has-it-all jock? HOT AS HELL. Oooooh.

Anyway, I stayed around for S3. Again, for the same reasons, but mostly for (b). At least Chad had his Pretty Hair again. And N/H worked things out, mostly. And Dan became even more eviiiil. But maaan, it was still a pretty crappy season. It’s still uncertain whether it’ll be picked up for a S4 but fuckin’ hell, the finale? AAARRRRRRGGGH. That is not the way to craft a possible series ending….

(more…)

One more exam to go. One. (Le sigh. Fridaaaaaaay.) But I don’t wanna talk about it.

2006 is really turning out to be a freakily good/interesting year. There were two things I looked forward to before the year began: Backstreet & graduation. Then Mraz decided to come here, which, needless to say, was TEH AWESOME. And there’s also the whole me-going-to-Tokyo thingy… which will be interesting, hopefully. (Hee!) But now there’s yet one more grrreat thing. Remember how I said that all I need to round off my fangirl life is some *NSYNC and INXS? Well, yeah, guess the Fates are aligned with me this year, ‘cos apparently my other OTL (Shhhhh, I have more than one OTL. I know, shut up.) will be coming in August. Oh yeah. OH YEAH. My boy, JD, is coming! Aaaaaaaah! *flails*

JDDDDDDD. Guh. I’m so excited just thinking about it, cos daaaamn, he really is TEH SEX and seeing him live? Oh maaaaaan, I am a dead fangirl. Sadly, I know none of you peeps are really into him and so probably won’t want to go to the concert with me. WHATEVER. I’ll go by myself! And squee by myself! Cos JD! Aaaaaah. (Hmmm, maybe I can talk my mom into going? Hee.) And I. Must. Meet. Him. (Posse, y’all will help me with this OTL too, right? Please? LOL.) Now I’m thinking about joining the fanclub so that I can get presale tickets. (But! Expensive!) And please God, don’t make me pay $250 again just to be in front row. Pleasepleaseplease. I am poor. (The one bad thing is that apparently it’s L-A-M-C aka Fuck You You’re A Sucky Company That Overcharges And Has No Organizational Skills that’s bringing INXS here. Poo.) And please God, let there not be too many crazy INXS/JD fans here. I WANT TO MEET MY BATSHIT CRAZY BOY! (Hahahahha, I realize that I keep referring to JD as a boy when in fact he is like 10 years older than me and HOT AS HELL. There’s nothing ‘boy-ish’ about him, except maybe when he smiles and looks adorable.)

Oooookay. My fangirling was getting a little scary crazy there, so I’ll stop. (Squee! JD! Here! Live! Eeeeeeeee! So so awesome!)

P/S: I know y’all are probably like, “WTF is she talking about?” Ahahahha. Tis okay. But y’all are missing out! Heh.