Musings; 01112012

I am once again, super unproductive at work. Much time spent online doing absolutely nothing when I really should be doing my work. Dilly dally and it's now lunch time. I am feeling some salad and fresh fruits.

14days to +8610.

Musings; 24102012

On a very random note, I can't wait for our next overseas trip together B. 😔 A getaway from +65 is really what I need.

Teenager in love

each night I ask the stars up above, "why must I be a teenager in love?"

&in that moment, I swear we were ∞

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower ∞ from frankie_green on 8tracks Radio.

"I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning."

"So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them."

Perks of being a Wallflower is a treasure trove of sorts. I like that the book is written in a way that you are reading Charlie's letters to his friend. I can't describe that feeling when I read Perks. It kinda makes you feel, forlorn.

I don't think the movie killed the book. I just think it gave it more dimension. Go watch, go read.

Still figuring it out

Since I was just on the topic of finding myself yesterday, thought I'd share with you a video which I've actually seen previously, but thought it'd be pretty apt to feature it here. 

If you don't know who she is, you should go read her blog, Style Rookie. She started blogging in 2008 at age 11. She was invited to New York Fashion Week at age 13. Currently she's the editor-in-chief of her own online magazine, Rookie. 

I have always loved reading and I love listening to different individual's opinions on everything and anything. And I absolutely enjoy her perception on different aspects of popular culture. Do read, do read. 

I have transcript-ed a portion of her talk; the parts that I found really thought-provoking or inspiring. 

"So I think the question of what makes a strong female character often goes misinterpreted, and instead we get these 2 dimensional super women who maybe have one quality that’s played up a lot like, you know, a Catwoman type, or she, like, plays her sexuality up a lot, and its seen as power. But they’re not strong characters who happen to be female, they’re completely flat, and they’re basically cardboard characters. The problem with this is then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple. When in actuality, women are complicated. Women are multi-faceted. Not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy and women happen to be people.

So, the flaws are the key. I’m not the first person to say this. What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likeable, but eventually relatable.

..one thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism is that girls then think that to be a feminist, they have to live up to, you know, being perfectly consistent in your beliefs, never being insecure, never having doubt, having all of the answers. And this is not true, and actually reconciling all the contradictions I was feeling became easier once I understood that feminism was not a rulebook, but a discussion, a conversation, a process."

Do let me know what you feel :)

Run of the mill;

Was reading my past livejournal posts. Can't help but realise that I used to more, me in the past. Now I feel strangely inclined to be what society wants me to be. What society perceives as interesting;

I used to have more useful habits. I used to do things that I want. I read novels, I read graphic novels, I roam the cyber world not to stalk interesting individuals who i aspire to be like but to find out what cool indie movies I can watch that deserves to be watched. 

So is social media the bane of what used to be a personality?

Why did I wanna be someone else? when I can be me? Somebody totally original and special?

Maybe its time I took a step back, get my life back in perspective. Maybe that's when I can finally shed the society goggles and be what I am truly meant to be. 

Hope you guys are still around when I find myself, x.

Sponsored; Spooktacular, spooktacular

Thats right! Overachieving Asian in me is gonna blog about Sentosa Spooktacular 2012! Thanks to OMY, I managed to score 2 tickets to the Media Exclusive preview of Sentosa's Halloween Event! :D I love all things halloween, love/hate relationship with the paranormal~ But what gives, get scared first, think later yes? :D Totally!

At the entrance of the train station at Vivo to enter Sentosa, a very excited BFF and me can't wait to start!! And it didn't help that the Sentosa volunteers were spooking us with their own review of Spooktacular 2012 :( They were saying that they just went through the whole thing during the day and they already got spooked. BFF and me immediately went FOLs :'( BUT fret not, we'll get spooked first, then you'll see if you're game enough ;)

Some T&Cs before the start of our Horror Trails~

Here we are, finally at the entrance of the event! Notice in the pictures, there are some orbs flying around? Not sure about you but I heard that when your pictures have orbs in them, usually its because there are..... you get my drift :S (thats one mega big orb in the centre O.O)

Upon stepping through the black curtains, we were greeted (silently) by two guards in ancient chinese armory with very rotten faces. And they were SOOOO GOOD AT HIDING BEHIND THE CURTAINS OKAY! I was totally unprepared and got a shock when I realized they were peering at me! :S 

PS: Gotta put a slight disclaimer here that all the pictures taken here does not do justice to the images I saw during the event itself because of my camera flash :( I wish I could let you guys see exactly what I saw but without flash, my pictures would turn out just, well.. black. :/ So if you are impressed with what you see, you should totally go for the main event itself ;)

All these creatures were prowling the entire walkway up to the entrance of the first trail! And boy were they good at sneaking up on you! >:O

Creepy green lightings and skulls and bones were used EVERYWHERE! 

Undead hawker :/ As much as I love Hokkien Mee, I wouldn't want her to be cooking my noodles :S But that awkward moment when the undead hawker has a talisman on her and she's still moving! Hmmm......

Undead cha cha dancer! BFF was all "OMG I WANNA TAKE PICTURE WITH HER" when she saw this girl! 

MY FAVOURITE GHOSTS! THESE 2 CUTIES WERE DANCING TO THE MUSIC AS THEY STROLL ALONG! HOW CUTE PLEASE! Very very entertaining :P (Dayum another orb in my pictures :S)

Say Hi to my dear friend, Mr Pocong, who also has a talisman on. Does he even know what that is!?

HERE WE ARE! Fort Siloso~ Did you know that usually Fort Siloso closes at 6pm everyday? But they extend their opening hours, just for this Halloween event? :D How often do you get to explore Fort Siloso at night?!?! 

Cramming in some selca shots before we start the real deal :D

Fuh-reeky yes? That mannequin must be so brave to be hanging there all by herself :'( Poor dear!

Okay see this tunnel over here? Let me tell you a little story that happened to my BFF. I think a few years back when she was still a film student in NP, she had this project with an outside company which required them to shoot at Labrador Park's underground tunnel. Something similar to the one we had to walk through for Spooktacular. Plus, rumor has it that the one at Labrador Park links all the way to the one here at Fort Siloso. So what happened was, the whole production crew were allowed to film in the tunnels but on one condition, that they had to pack up and leave strictly at 6pm (similar to the timing Fort Siloso closes on usual days). But like all productions, filming almost always ends late. So needless to say, they were still there at 8ish pm, when the sun was already down. After a while, their producer told them (the production assistants) to go back to the vehicle and start packing up. Here's the spooky part. As the 3 of them walked out, they could here the sound of bursting wall lamps behind them. As though as they walked, the passage behind them was blacking out. 

CREEPY RIGHT? And all these happened to her. And it looks exactly like the one right here. ;) Are you brave enough?

One of the few scary shots I took last night, just right beside the tunnel. :S

So the first trail we went through was called "Camp Berhantu". The story behind this trail is one unfortunate recruit was burned alive in a mishap. And now he's back for revenge! 

This maze/trail thing was fun AND interesting because you can choose to play laser tag* with the "ghosts"!!! HOW COOL IS THAT! :D

Only have one picture of one recruit in the maze because it was too foggy and misty inside to take more decent pictures :D

After which, we are off to the next trail!

So we saw this guy just sitting on the road, and without the flash it was really really dark! So BFF and I were debating if this was a prop? Or a real ghost? :S And just when I was gonna snap a picture, he went "RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

I went, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~!" :X throw face much. 

Very cool ethnic dancer guy posing for me :D 

Playing mahjong with the skeleton family #likeaboss B)

So we are up to the next one! The Land of Lost Souls. 

When we enter, we saw this..

THATS RIGHT BABY I AM GOING BACK TO BANGKOK WOOO~

Wait what, why the air stewardess the trolley got wreaths and a SKELETON?! :S

As we keep walking we see more undead stewardesses with rotten faces..

And yet, another tunnel. Gonna develop a phobia for tunnels soon :S

Undead Muay Thai boxer waiting for us :'( I really really applaud these people man! They can stay at these isolated spots at a possibly really haunted Fort Siloso with their faces all painted like that, and they have no trace of fear on their faces :'( I'd be crying if I were them! Kudos man!

Okay this has got to be one of my favorite parts of the whole event! If you can't make out what the sign is saying, it says "CHEAP CHEAP GOOD GOOD". 

Now tell me what is Thailand well known for? (other than Phad Thai and shopping and stuff)

Thats right babehs! Fort Patpong at your doorstep! This guy is hilarious! He totally nailed the Thai accent and getting all flirty with us! LOL!!!!

Sorry for the blur picture once again but I thought the true colors would be better for this shot :P

Shortly after that, the horror begins again :'(

Scary Thai girl who popped out of nowhere :'(

Freaky looking Thai woman selling some voodoo shit! Look at those bottles! 

Gotta admit, the bottles do look really scary! :x

Fancy joining our friends at Fort Patpong? Hehehe :p

Okay this guy totally freaked me out! He was just standing there and staring at us! Look at his eyes! SO BIG FOR WHAT! >:( 

And that pretty much wraps up The Land of Lost Souls. :C 

Walking to our next destination...

More picture time with the creatures of the night~

Cemetery in Fort Siloso~ Nice. (Y)

Mr Jiang Shi while we were getting drinks! I asked him if he had cotton buds in his mouth but he ignored me. Guess he was insulted :c Sorry.

NEXT UP, DEADLY DOLL STUDIO. DAYUM I HATE DOLLS. THEY ARE SO SCARY OK. Sorry if there are fewer pictures from this trail onwards, I want to be able to walk, fast. :S But spot anything different from one of the masks to the others? :P

Scary girl who suddenly burst out from under the table shrieking :S 

This girl last warning ah the face, quit staring at me like that :'(

Another one where I got genuinely creeped out. This girl was just sitting silently at the corner and before that we had to walk through something else so we were all unprepared for her~ Once we saw her? We all went "F*, walao good one man!"

Missing children posters plastered all over the walls. With offerings for the dead right under these posters. Rumour has it the doll master of this studio is in pursuit of creating the perfect doll, but what is his secret? :S

The last trail that BFF and me went to before we left for the night. Oujia Board. (We skipped The Last Sequel because we were really tired and pretty spooked already :S)

Another motionless guy waiting to scare us as we walk past him :(

Enter the room and you see this. Unsure who is real and who is not :S:S:S:S

Doesn't look scary you say. But this is because of flash photography. Now this is what we really saw..

Crazy dark and everything was luminous. :S

And this guy pranced out of nowhere after the walkway, scared the shit out of us. But gamely posed for us lol!

No more pictures of this trail because I is too busy paying attention to my surroundings :S Below picture is creepy yes? :(((((

SO if you're interested in Sentosa Spooktacular 2012, this is the map! :D

Here are the details you need to know about Sentosa Spooktacular 2012 :D

Dates: 19, 20, 26, 27, 28 October 2012

Time: 7pm  - 11pm

EarlyBird Tickets are now ALL SOLD OUT! So standard tickets are going for $48.00. You're a student? COOL, $28.00 for your ticket but you gotta act fast because there are limited student priced tickets for sale for the 19 & 20 October! Sentosa Islander? 15% off ticket prices but please note that you can only get 4 tickets per card and its not valid for purchase on event days!

And if you are really going, I'd highly recommend you to get the Fast Pass ($25.00 excluding ticket prices)! Get express pass through all the trails, while other people are waiting an hour to get pass one, breeze through the Q and get to the horror first! :D You've been warned yeah? I predict a lot of people going so be wise!! :D

So what are you waiting for! Get your tickets today at www.spooktacular.com.sg! 

PPS: Just for the fun of it, check out the Ghost Ambassadors page at:

1. Pontianak (www.facebook.com/SaveBananaTrees)
2. Chinese Bride (www.facebook.com/gimme.gimme.diamonds)
3. Ghost Soldier (www.facebook.com/I.is.otaku)
4. Jiang Shi (www.facebook.com/fluffy.zhao)

SO PUNNY THEIR FB PAGES! :D

THANK YOU OMY FOR THE WONDERFUL EVENT! THANK YOU SENTOSA FOR HAVING ME but not having me, yeps I like my home and being alive very much :x

*Laser tag option is only awarded to the first 100 pax during event days :P So be early!