derek:

Welcome back after about 10 days of not updating?
Anyways, I would like to thank each and everyone
who visits my blog and of course to those who
remembered, wished or recently celebrated with
me on my birthday! A guy like me, so full of
oneself, should be utterly grateful for the
friends he made along the way through
the journey of life.. chim right? haha.

Here's the update: do hear a cover I recorded on 16th November
on a medley of "Doesn't Mean Anything" and "Every Breath You Take".
 
I felt that these two songs sounded really similar but of a different take on a same topic
and that it sounded to me as both songs are about losing someone dearly and
feeling helpless of not being able to do anything except to make believe
that everything will be fine. This is dedicated to anybody out there who
has lost somebody that they truely love. As a few has asked me but:
I will not be performing anytime soon
but only because I have a lot of ideas in mind as I am trying out new things
and more but I can't find the time and place so I have to push back but
will update here with more information as we get closer though.

derek

12 November - Assignment Submissions
13 November - Dreams II Concert
14 November - Birthdays Dinner
16 November - MTV EMAs 2009
17 November - Janet Jackson's Greatest Hits Album
17 November - Alicia Keys: Dancing With the Stars
17 November - Sister's Birthday :D
18 November - Janet Jackson's interview on Michael
18 November - My Birthday :D
20 November - TB Results
22 November - American Music Awards
24 November - Alicia Keys: Today Show Concert Series
28 November - Gong Gong's Birthday Dinner

Special update on 21st November :D

Happy November, everyone!
Don't everyone love this time of the year when the weather
is cooler and it is closer to the New Year? I love it!

Actually I find that there are so many things on my mind
but somehow, I find it pointless talking about it
because nothing good will return. Some may
already know but I'm under pressure
to hand in my work when I have to
 juggle my time with work, family
and friends - let alone personal
time for myself, which is bad
enough and now, without
being late for submission.
What's worst, I saw a post on
Facebook with the list of names
who handed in late with the title as
"Public Shaming"
It's not like we planned for it.
It's not like we didn't put in our best effort.
It's not like we didn't have our own personal timetable.
How to hand in quality work when we can't have time
to execute something good without having anyone disturbing
us in class daily? and also fail for being late to submit our assignment?
I'm not in the list but I think this is getting way out of hand and a total bullshit.

A lot of things happened on the first week
but there were some which I really couldn't forget.

Doesn't Mean Anything
While I was eating my lunch on Thursday at Mensa with my friends,
I started waving profusely when I saw someone really familar. One of
my unfriendly coursemates, (I think) saw me looking at his direction and
thought that I was waving to him, sort of tilited his head upwards (to return the
greeting, I suppose, without a smile - lol, I don't know why), which is besides the
current point I'm about to bring up: I saw Pete! He's one of my closest friends from
Indonesia and he's an Alicia Keys fan (holaa!!) because I didn't really expect to meet him
here in Singapore and it was a complete surprise but sadly, he will return next week
as he's here to help his brother with some family problems. I have to agree with
him that her new song isn't as good as her previous but nevertheless,
anything from her! (ELLOS! If you are reading this :)

Happy: And you know it.
Happy to be in the same class with Siti and Leslie for this block,
happy for TB competition to finally come to an end, finally.
Happy that school starts 30 minutes later then before,
happy to have Monday off this block and
I'm especially happy for D!
(btw, I'm that someone lol)

Leslie just came home this morning
from the week's long field camp and
now has a sore throat while my sister has
her friends over to spend the time while she
cooks dinner and have a random gathering today.
I watched The Blue Mansion with Jun Xiang yesterday
and as mentioned in a youtube video trailer I saw, I
actually agree that this is a good Singapore film
but I think many from the production crew
were not local. Watch 500 Days of Summer!
What is it like to be late for latecomers session?