LA RITOURNELLE*


journal entry #1
April 29, 2008, 3:59 am
Filed under: music fetish, pictures paint a thousand words, random updates

I’ve decided to give the blog a little makeover. Unfortunately my creative streak is lost somewhere so this is all I’ve managed to do, for now.

Tristan wanted me to blog more. He asked for more of those “violet stuff“. Unfortunately I have to be under a slightly troubled condition to be able to write like that (yeah i’m pretty much moody). So I guess I’ll just blog about my day. (Starting from the weekend).

I don’t exactly have anything to say about my weekend though, so maybe i’ll just post pictures?

Bed (Friday) and Monash Street Carnival (Saturday)
Bed was alright, Kubil played with Irwan and Yansi and my heels hurt my feet and when they played Groove Armada’s Superstylin me and Nourma started reminiscing. We ate at RSB afterwards and went home. Saturday I woke up quite late and we went to Monash Street Carnival and London School of Economics and the Freeloaders Inc rocked (unfortunately I didn’t get to see the other bands who played earlier, huhuhu). Tara and I tried out the Haunted House, it was funny because everytime I turned around a corner, I saw the ghost and I screamed even before it screamed. They probably screamed because I screamed. Haha. Sunway we did nothing and just had a late dinner with Panca at Murni.

Monday after class (we watched Hitchcock’s Psycho for Authorship) I accompanied Bram to KL. He’s been eye-ing a synthesizer for quite some time (he said the obsessions been there for a while but he began ranting about it everyday since last week) and he finally purchased the micro KORG synthesizer/vocoder (I’m basically just copying off whatever the box says, lol). After that we went to Sungeiwang/BB Plaza (we had a little situation before that where I had to push the car while Bram started up because he left the headlights on while we were away). I was disappointed because I was trying to find a thrift store that some forum mentioned that was (supposedly) located across from BB Plaza’s FOS (note to readers: the FOS in BB Plaza isn’t exactly FOS anymore, it has a new name). But all I could find was Buntil and a closed shop (I figured it was probably this closed shop). So I went to the Rooftop in hope to feel better, but I couldn’t really find anything and we also ended up eating at this really shady japanese restaurant in Rooftop.
So we went back home to Sunway and Bram tried out his new toy and played with it all night until he managed to play Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Something like this (But this is the Kanye West version)

lol lol lol!



<3
April 15, 2008, 4:02 pm
Filed under: self-realization

today i’ve found out something very important:

that i have a very loving boyfriend :)



FEVER
April 15, 2008, 3:47 pm
Filed under: random updates

i’ve been skipping classes (and meetings) and it is purely because i have the flu.

(not because i’m lazy! maybe because i needed to finish my assignment on time, but once again, NOT because i’m lazy!)



how to write your enh2407 assignment
April 10, 2008, 6:54 pm
Filed under: you blog thang!

TAKEN FROM MY FACEBOOK NOTE

Can’t seem to get those paragraphs right? Want to know how to get your brain juice flowing? Want to know how you can put yourself in those romantic poets’ shoes?

STEP 1. DEPRESSION
Maybe being depressed could help you start on your essay, or inspire ideas for the essay. Come to think of it, most of the greatest writers known to man are depressed alcoholics. And how do you get depressed?
Think about your past lovers and how bad your relationship ended. Or think about that one thing you’re practically obsessed about getting but can’t… Or how bout this. Think about death. Think about dying. Yeah,, imagine that… everybody on earth will die one day. Even you. Even the postman, or the milkman, or that nice auntie that lives across the street from you. It’s just a matter of time… might even be tomorrow…

Depressed yet?

Once you are semi-depressed, turn on your ipod (or itunes, or winamp if you live in the year 2001) and turn on these tracks (if you don’t have them, I recommend you downloading them… that is, if you do want to get depressed)
1. Feist – Let it Die
2. Sebastien Tellier – La Ritournelle
3. Counting Crows – Colorblind
4. Telefon Tel Aviv – I Lied
5. DJ Shadow – Six Days
Yeahh.. Depressed aren’t ya?

STEP 2.Get intoxicated
Most of the Romantic poets had something in particular that they were addicted to, whether it was alcohol, drugs or women. Addictions act as a stimulant to open that small little door in your brain, which can lead to imagination beyond the capacity of a normal human’s brain. It releases your inhibitions and your consciousness which acts as a barrier will set all those suppressed emotions free… Even Coleridge confessed to have been under the influence of opium when he wrote Kubla Khan.
recommended alcoholic drinks: anything with more than 30% of alcohol. For extreme effects, try Absinthe (if its legal in Malaysia- or not, which makes the experience even more fun).
recommended illegal substances: marijuana. and… others that i probably should not mention publicly (but you can go find out yourself.. hehe).

STEP 3. Have a romantic affair with nature
Once you’re depressed, and intoxicated, start by staring at the rose bush in your garden, or the trees, or a flat grey stone near your fish pond, or even the homeless beggar who waits outside the Asia Cafe parking lot and demands a tip from you… and start professing your love for its beauty. Its beauty lies in its ordinariness. its so primitive… and savage.

Oh! How exxxotic. How savage!
An image of a homeless beggar-
Away! I have pushed thee out of my way
For your primitiveness have intoxicated me
and drowned me into a wine-like ecstasy
Thy skin so tender, yet so rough
just like a peel from an orange, which i have eaten enough
(Ode to a homeless beggar, lines 11-17 by: Me)

still stuck staring at the same paragraph you wrote yesterday?

then go to the last resort:
pray.

now stop facebooking, and start doing your assignment!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AAAAAAAHHH!


weekly roundup
April 8, 2008, 2:50 am
Filed under: random updates, you blog thang!

1. MonGa ‘the social issue’ is out! Check the MUSA Lounge, Library, Cafeteria to grab a copy!

2. Cultural Night was good. I wore green, I had a lot of makeup and hairspray on, and Bram was tipsy when he went on stage.

3. Out of boredom I created an account at Stylemob.com, check it out here

4. Forever21 had just officially opened in Sunway Pyramid! Unfortunately they did not have any opening sales or discounts which would have made me much more happier.

5. I shall be going on the Arts students study trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia.

6. Last night I had an odd dream about other-worldly dimensions and solar symbols. Hmm…

7. Bram and I did not end our relationship. It was an April Fools joke. And I think we’ve got you! Lol, sorry.