When you go, would you even turn to say

Ok so I've only been to 2 band concerts but it's enough for me to realise that there are quite a few interesting types of people who go to concerts. Here's 9 I came up with because I've nothing better to do. 

1. The Metalhead

They may or may not know the lyrics, but they could hardly care less about that. What they care about is the parts they can headbang to and mosh around and crowd-surf to. They're just there to have fun, they're not really listening to the music. They also somehow seem to come in gangs or large groups of at least four or five or more (and on the rare occasions you'll spot a girl in the group), and they may sometimes come across as annoying, especially if you're a girl and there's a bunch of huge sweaty guys moshing around behind you at a concert. There were a lot of these people at the Pierce The Veil concert and it was really scary for me because getting caught in the middle of a mosh pit when it's your first time at a real concert and you've no idea what to expect is no fun at all. Takes time to get used to it. 

2. The Uninterested

These are the people who pretend to look bored, and who'll just stand there trying to look casual as they observe what's going on onstage and take in their surroundings. At the All Time Low concert there was a group of malay guys standing somewhere around the middle, closer to the back, and they were just standing there, all of them with their arms crossed as they nodded ever-so-slightly to the beat of the drums and tapped their feet now and then. I was doing my best not to laugh because honestly, anyone around them could tell they were torn between breaking out into dance and trying to look cool. 

3. The Fangirl

There are quite a few different kinds of fangirls and fortunately I didn't come across any particularly annoying fangirls near me at either concert but I could hear and see some in the crowd. A lot of these girls are just there to check out the hot guys in the band, and to scream their names. For some reason, they also tend to be tone-deaf and most people will want to move away from them after a while. 

4. The Fanboy

They're hardly as annoying as the fangirls. There was a J1 guy from my college at the ATL concert who was seriously a hardcore fanboy. He was also a fan of the opening act DBHB and just kept yelling "I LOVE YOU RO!" and the expression on his face when he was singing all the words and waving his arms in the air to the acoustic plays was just priceless. Truly a dedicated fanboy. Fanboys can be very fun to be with at concerts, and they'll also definitely provide you with endless entertainment if you spot one in the crowd. 

5. The Kind Soul

They're the people who pass around water they somehow manage to snuck in and constantly watch out for those around them. I think I mentioned falling down in my ATL concert blog post and there was this guy who helped me up and yelled concernedly over the music at the moshers to back off and he disappeared into the crowd again before I could thank him, presumably to go help other people up. People like him are honestly life-savers because if nobody bothered to stop and help us up, it could've ended really badly. 

6. The Videographer

They're the Adam Elmakias of band concerts. There will always be that one person with a camera up in the air, carefully videotaping every song down. Most of it usually ends up on youtube, not that it's a bad thing anyway. It's good for people like us who want to watch the recordings again in future, but sometimes I wonder what's the point of going to a concert just to concentrate on filming everything down. Might as well log on to youtube then, saves you the time and money haha. Sometimes I regret not filming more down of the concerts down too but then I think about how much fun I had just being there and I feel glad I didn't tape down much. 

7. The Dancer

The dancers are the people who completely lose themselves in the songs. They'll be moving to the beat and singing along with their arms in the air and sometimes with their eyes closed. Very interesting to watch. 

8. The Poser

The people everyone hate. They buy tickets (which means more deserving fans can't have them) just so they can look cool like hey, I'm going to a rock concert. You can easily tell them apart from the real fans by watching their lips- they're often mouthing the wrong words so it'll seem like they know the band and the songs. Then after the concert they go around pretending they loved the concert and that they're huge fans of the band and if anyone thinks that isn't so, they're wrong because they've actually seen the band live so there. Hah. The concerts they attend are like medals to show off. 

9. The Party Pooper

The people who go "TSK" and turn to glare at you if you go so far as to accidentally step on their toe or bump into them. Get anywhere within a 3cm radius of them and they'll be keeping a real close eye on you. It doesn't matter if concerts are supposed to be so packed and cramped that most people can't even pull their arm out from the compressed space they're standing in. If you even prod them they'll still give you the evil eye.

Can't believe I spent so much time on this haha anyways.

1 more week left of school guys. I can do this. We can do this. And and this is the most productive weekend I've had so far hehe even though I didn't actually do a lot of work it feels like I did plus I had some awesome good food on saturday- bak kut teh with the fam for lunch at tanjong katong road and sushi tei for dinner at tamp, also with the fam. Ahh I lovelovelove food so yep it was a great 3-day weekend for me.

Good night x

Food post 1

So Tania made yet another one of her food posts (tania-ng.blogspot.com) and I was inspired to make one too so here it is

Just had a scrumptious bowl of Post's great grains cranberry cereal. Added a nice serving of Greenfield plain milk and a teeny bit of Greenfield's chocolate milk. Turned out just right, pretty pleased with my efforts

Hot tea on a cold day 😌

We'll carry on.

Crazy amount of work to do :( feels like no matter how much work I do it's never enough. Spent the whole day doing work and I haven't even started on my actual homework. #what

I'm also going through an mcr withdrawal phase. I miss them so much. 

I know a lot of people don't understand why I love all these bands so much. Sometimes I don't know why either. 

I can't even listen to their songs now without feeling something swell up in my heart. 

They were the very first real band I started listening to, way back when I was 13. And they were there for me all the way till now. It kind of feels like they're saying I'm old enough now to live without them now and that the crucial adolescent years are over. 

Mcr taught me more than any book could ever have. The Black Parade showed me what real music was. There was a time when Welcome To The Black Parade was basically the anthem of my life, as it probably was the anthem for thousands of other teenagers all over the world. 

One by one I discovered their songs. I got hooked on Ray's beautifully-crafted riffs, and the punk rock rhythms, and the simple but effective basslines, and the pounding beats. 

It also went beyond the music. It was more than just the sweet sound of rock music. It was the amount of passion and dedication I could see that went into what they did. The way they seemed to forget everything else once they got onstage and started playing- I had never seen a band perform with such unrestraint and such emotion. 

Gerard Way was a role model for me, growing up. I respected him for the amazing lyrics he wrote, and the encouraging things he said to everyone, and often times I found myself thinking, wow, he's either extremely genuine or the most brilliant actor in the world. He had a natural flair for theatrics, and even when I watch their videos I can't take my eyes off of him; the way he paces the stage and sings all the words I know by heart with a kind of rawness in his voice that I don't think I'll ever hear coming from any other singer. 

And Ray, when he plays, it's like the whole place lights up. He's the Brian May of our generation. I always, always wished his solos were longer than they were. His playing wasn't showy but in the fast songs he sounded incredible and he also knew just how to carry a slow song. One of the saddest things is that I'll never get to see him smile onstage again. He just looks so incredibly happy when he's playing, like he's home. 

Frank... Ugh. He's overflowing with charisma. I love him so much. I have this picture of him as my wallpaper that is the most amazing thing ever because his eyes are closed while he's about to strum a chord in I Don't Love You and there's a thousand words in that picture that don't really have to be said; you just have to look at his expression and understand. 

I have a million and one things to say about the band that changed my life, and all the late nights I spent in the past listening to every track on Three Cheers and wondering how anything could be so perfect, and all the times my heart broke listening to Demolition Lovers, and how I die a little inside everytime thinking about how I'll never get to watch them live. 

Maybe when I'm older I'll read this post and laugh at my naivety, but for now I'm not getting over it. Not just yet. 

And I feel... well, I don't know what to feel thinking about how they're all moving on going on their separate ways. 

Gerard seems to be going into Japanese art and Frank's working on a project with Leathermouth, and I haven't heard much about the others but I'm pretty sure Ray's spending time with his family and possibly the newborn son I heard he and Christa had, and Mikey, I don't know, canoodling with that model that's too young for him

This is the first time I'm actually writing about the whole MCR thing so that's why it's kind of long I guess. But I feel a lot better after writing it all down. 

Just listened to all our old recordings on my laptop. Oh how I miss jamming :(((( 

There is this song by Bullet for my Valentine called Scream Aim Fire and it goes, "OVER THE TOP, OVER THE TOP! RIGHT NOW IT'S KILLING TIME!" 

And I'm just going around the house singing "OPEN THE BOOKS, OPEN THE BOOKS! RIGHT NOW IT'S MUGGING TIME" and I can't stop laughing at my own joke help

Without the bitter, the sweet isn't as sweet

It felt like a good night for dancing in the moonlight

And empty streets, well everybody's got a reason why

If we could only just get it right

Maybe it will all work out like in the movies

But I know Romeo must die before the ending

With a final poisoned kiss delivered gently

Because you don't get lucky twice, and that's the truth

Mayday Parade writes the best love songs. #fact

Yesterday lum said in class, "if there were no A levels but no holidays I totally wouldn't mind" and at first I was like WHAT no holidays?? 

Then I thought about it again and actually omg yes I would be soooo happy to go to school. I'd love school so much. 

But of course reality sucks.

A level Chem SPA later. I got 7/16 for my trial because I didn't really take all the previous experiments seriously and I didn't study for it :( 

And I really need to do well for this spa cause I screwed up my previous one last year. Really badly. 7 marks fly away~

Anyway, this week is gonna fly by cause we only have 2 days of lessons this week woohoo. Yesterday was lessons, today is our chem spa, tomorrow we have lessons too. Thursday is sports day, and friday is vesak day. 

My class' girls got through for both 4x400 and 12x100. I'm running for 12x100 ahaha nervous. Hope sports day will be fun cause it's really our last day to have fun as a class for a really long time. 

Oohh and Reckless - Youmeatsix just came on my iPod time to party yay BYE

DONT HOLD YOUR BREATH IM NOT LOSING SLEEP OVER YOU IM MR. RECKLESS WITH A CAPITAL R

They used to be the rivers that would take us away

(THIS POST WAS MEANT TO BE PUBLISHED YESTERDAY NIGHT)

1. Today dom and i were talking about how awesome 'Bullets' was and after quite awhile we realised he was talking about the band Bullet for my Valentine and I was talking about Mcr's first album I brought you my bullets, you gave me your love. Hahahahaha

2. I'm really sad cause all the good bands are disappearing or breaking up or worst, selling out, and I don't like all the new cookie-cutter bands that've been coming out recently. :( where are all the good bands?

3. Highlight of the week was prolly buying a stick of nimm2 my childhood sweet!! Forgot how much I love it ahaha

4. It's hump day today. I remember Lianne saying that one day in sec4 and I was like what in the world is hump day then oh. It just means Wednesday. 2 days to the end of the week yayza.

Good night x

Caught in the middle

My mommy will prolly never read this, but. Happy mothers' day mom and I love you even though I don't say it. Wrote a card and bought a cupcake for her and I didn't even write 'I love you' haha just signed off with "Love, zoey."

I've come to realise over the years, especially recently, that it's really the littlest things that count, like how she washes my water bottle for me even when I don't ask her to, boils brand's essence for me when she notices I look tired, buys buns and cakes for me and packs them for when I go out to study on the weekends cause she knows I'm always hungry. Even the fact that she pretty much accepts me for how I am and doesn't try to force me to be more girly like I think most other moms would (oh gosh this reminds me of a new year's gathering when an aunt said girls my age should put on some make-up and my mom just gave me this don't-you-listen-to-her look.)

The only thing is I often wish my mom would be less studies-oriented haha

Gotta go sleep. Long day tomorrow. Check out the crazy pile I have to bring to school tomorrow. Mondays are terrible. Sigh but 3 more weeks to the end of Term 2. Just 3 weeks. GO ZOEY GO

And I'm still going to baybeats on the 28th of june ok I don't care >:(

Pictures from our mini pizza party on thursday, courtesy of Elysia and Zhiyong who will be leaving our class because they got accepted into university.

I guess it's a great thing but I can't help but be sad that they're leaving :'( only spent 2+ months with them but they're awesome people and I'm definitely gonna miss them.

Chelsea smile

I'VE GOT A SECRET
IT'S ON THE TIP OF MY TONGUE
IT'S ON THE BACK OF MY LUNGS
AND IM GONNA KEEP IT
I KNOW SOMETHING YOU DON'T KNOWWWW
DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN

Just had porridge for lunch. So not filling :( but it was good.

I would like to blog about last thursday, 9th may, because it was kind of an interesting day.

Woke up earlier than usual to try and record some covers. Only managed to do one song in the end and it wasn't even good thanks to my morning voice. Rushed around the house in an attempt to not be late for school, luckily it wasn't futile and I managed to get to school on time yay

Cme first period was sexuality education. Amongst other stuff, ms wong showed us an interview video of an aids prostitute in oklahoma and it was really, really sad. I teared up, especially at the part where she talked about her daughter.

You can watch it here:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=BmhGFtjudJE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DBmhGFtjudJE

Math lecture --> break --> gp

Spent gp writing piercetheveil lyrics in my gp log book.

And then we had econs and i could finally understand most of the lesson for once, felt so happy :)))

Break --> PE

Dang I was really looking forward to PE cause we could play games but it rained :((((

So I spent the hour sitting inside watching people play badminton cause I don't like badminton (or rather, I'm really bad at it and it's too embarrassing to play in school)

Ok thursday actually wasn't /that/ interesting hahaha I just have a boring life.

Off to study at the airport yay love my boring life

It's a little bit of give and a little bit of take

1. Realise I tend to like the people most people dislike, and dislike the people most people like.

2. Shaggy day today. Had econs CA then gp which was slack then chem SPA trial then triple-period math

3. Still have work to do but I've no energy.

4. I want ice-cream. Or tauhuay.

5. Just got whacked in the head again by one of those handlebar things for people to hold on to on the bus. I swear one of these days I will murder those things

6. You know what sucks? Never being taken seriously when you talk about heavy music, because you're a girl.

7. Had vegetarian food in school for the third day in a row. Sometimes I really feel like I can survive w/o meat

8. I hate school

Hungry

Caffeine still hasn't really worn off but oh well I'm gonna try to get some sleep. Less than 5 hours of sleep oh no and econs CA starting in less than 7 hours

Sometimes I don't know if being my body being extremely sensitive to caffeine is a good thing

And is it really only wednesday? Feels like it should be friday already haha

Soon week 7 of term 2 will be over... Man what have I been doing the past 5 months.

Ok good night (or rather, good morning)

Random side-note, does anyone else ever look out the window late at night and see a passing plane in the sky and kinda wish you were on it?

What if I just left in the middle of the night back to California and never looked back

Silverstein's lyrics are amazing.

Running low on my supply of caffeine which has served me very well. Maybe too well. I feel super restless, like I wanna run around and start doing some jumping jacks.

At T2's beanz studying for my econs CA tomorrow. Stomach feels weird and I don't know if it's the vanilla latte or I'm just hungry haha

1.5hours before I have to leave. Go zoey go!

Loud and clear, was a muted song only two people could hear

Good afternoon

Gonna stay at home today to do work cause I'm totally broke and I'm too lazy to go out. CAs are this week :(

Got back my chem CA and didn't cry this time cause I knew I would fail really badly. I felt really guilty cause I could hear the disappointment in my tutor's voice over the phone though, when I told him just now. Sigh.

Spent yesterday with Lianne at town. Had eighteen chefs' for dinner which sucked. Should've gone to nihon mura instead.

And oh my this weather will be the death of me. It's early May and soon it'll be full-out heat season from June to August or September.

Speaking of months, I can't wait for November 27th to come. Gah

After 'A's I'm gonna get a job (two if I can) so I can pay for drumming lessons and then I can finally lepak and enjoy life... -snaps out of daydream-

Aneeways. Below is a pic of the maccha chocolate I bought yesterday while studying at maccha house with Lianne (which is a really conducive place btw) and it was totally not my cup of tea (punny) haha never buying it again

And here's a pair of New Look shorts that I really wanttttt

And koped the last two from T's blog. Me in Ikea, 2013 and me in Ikea, 2010.

Ahaha how time flies.

A photograph dream on a getaway mile

Finally blogging about taiwan ahaha

I think the trip was from 11th to the 19th of december last year, 2012.

I was so excited when we got on the bus with our tour group haha like wow I'm in taiwan again! And everything looked so familiar because I went there in 2011 too.

Sadly my tour group had no cute guys hahahah but it's ok. There were lots of cute guys in taiwan on the streets

I actually don't remember exactly where we went every day since it happened so long ago so lemme try to recall from the pictures.

Went to a night market on our first night there. There's my mom looking cute all wrapped up cause it was super cold.

Next day we went to Yeliu which is a lot of rocky formations, and it's one of the coldest parts of taiwan. I was shivering cause I only wore a sweater over a thin cotton shirt.

Also took a slow train ride to iforgotwhere after lunch.

At the hotel that night we watched people release 天灯 too! It was quite a nice sight though I feel bad about the air pollution. Also, me and the girls went to 放天灯 the year before when we went to taiwan and I only wrote 2 wishes: to stop growing taller and to get good grades for 'O's, neither of which came true so... #skeptical

Visited a temple, i can't remember what it's called, and sun moon lake on another day. The lake was pretty!

Also went to some touristy spot, looked kind of like an exhibition, where my fam bought ice-cream and it was super duper yummy!

Visited two night markets around day 5 or 6. The second one was feng jia night market and it was packed like crazy omg. I bought shoes there too

Day 7 was spent at a theme park. Sadly I'm not a theme park-ish person haha I'm too chicken to go on rollercoasters. There was this loop rollercoaster which looked so scary I felt dizzy from just looking at the people on it

Went to leofoo safari resort that night. There's like animals around the place, kind of cool but I feel bad for the animals too, such a tiny area for them to live in.

Took a bullet train on day 8 and also visited taipei 101, which is the tallest building in taiwan i think. We had lunch at a restaurant on one of the top floors. View from the restaurant windows was crazy but i forgot to take a picture. All the cars were like ants

And then we went to a shopping mall which was kind of high-end. My mom and I were looking at all the shop names and talking about how to pronounce them.

Went to another night market again, I bought another pair of shoes. Threw away my old pair of green shoes that night at the hotel which I also bought from taiwan the year before. I loved them, they were super comfortable. The shoes in singapore are terrible. My singapore-made converse are less comfy than the night market shoes in taiwan. No wonder all the girls there wear sneakers

Also watched some american music awards programme on tv that night in the hotel. I remember feeling super happy when I was watching it because i was missing singapore badly by then and I couldn't wait to go home haha

Flew back the next day yay home sweet home