beauty like the sparkling sea...its gentle breeze your calming aura of feminity
18/2/2010 - cold white anger
you know how it feels when you treat someone as your good friend then they treat you back like shit? you know how it feels when you take pains to ask someone out nicely and all they do is kaopeh? and to take the biscuit, your obvious display of annoyance and displeasure is branded as childish? what was a merry, relaxing and happy setting just minutes ago is now replaced with cold white anger. is it worth it?
We went up the M1 to Manchester 2 days ago. Passed by a whole host of cities and towns including Stoke-on-Trent and Stoke City's Britannia Stadium. After a 2 hour plus journey, we arrived in the city of Manchester,which was huge! We went to see Manchester University which was very old, and a more modern Manchester Metropolitan University. Manchester University is impressive, and I must say I realy would love to study there. Its a city campus with no boundaries, meaning the next lecture could be across the road in a public place with shops and all! Rather interesting. The city is beautiful. Its red buildings a hallmark of its industrial past, and its the 3rd largest city in England, after London and Birmingham. We had lunch near the INTO college where it could be a possible route to Manchester University, which has very old and prestigious school, with the largest business school in England. I was mightily impressed. Then we went to the Trafford Centre, where we passed by Old Trafford along the way! Pilgrimage done for this year. haha. I roughly recollect being in Trafford centre before. But its huge! discounts were astounding, and its much much cheaper than Singapore after christmas thanks to the sale! I bought 3 CDs from HMV, since you can only find metal CDs in HMV; Atreyu (2009), Slayer (2009) and Children Of Bodom (2008). Overall, it was a great day in Manchester, pity about the quickness of the nightfall by 5pm, but thats expected of winter.
Yesterday was a lazy day. We went for lunch nearby in Leicestershire, and tried the karting in Burton-On-Wolds but it was fully booked. In the end, we took the M1 south to Leicester and watched Avatar 3D at the Meridian Leisure Centre. Was a good show! It was a pretty long show, and it was snowing and the road was icy on the way back to Loughborough. Overall, it was a lazy day but a satisfying experience! Looking forward to visting Cambridge University and Devonshire! (:
It seems a long time since i ORDed and left the army. It seems so long ago that i left it all behind. Yesterday was a exciting day as I went to watch a Guinness Premier League Rugby Game in Leicester between the Leicester Tigers and Sale Sharks. The day started with church in the morning as it was a sunday in the Church of the Sacred Heart in Loughborough, before we headed to Leicester Square for lunch. Lunch was served very slow and i had to rush as we had to walk about 2 miles to the stadium. We decided to walk as there was huge vehicular traffic due to the huge jams in Leicester for the John Lewis Shopping Centre, which was impressively massive and extensive and was full of shoppers for the after christmas half price sale. Yes, bargains do draw the crowds. So we reached the stadium, and the atmosphere was lively and good. The crowd was vocally very supportive of the home team the Leicester Tigers. There were a couple of Sale Sharks fans sitting with us right at the back and at the very top stand, and the frustration on them started to show as Leicester Tigers slowly but surely grabbed a stranglehold in the match slowly stacking up the tries and converting them with the magnificent Toby Flood, who many say is the new Johnny Wilkinson. Sale Sharks were abysmal and lacklustre, and although they had a number of chances near the try line, the Leicester defence was able to contain a poor Sale attack which lacked any imagination. Pity really, Sale had a good reputation, and being a lancashire club I wanted to support them but was drowned by the Tigers' vocal support. Tigers played well though, and overall it was a great experience under the wintry mercurial Leicester rain, with the Walkers Stadium of local football club Leicester City in the backdrop as the sun set, and memories of a past game i watched which Leicester City lost to Rotherham United 0-1 in a Championship game a few years back sprung to mind. The experience of the matches i have seen in the UK and the amount of atmosphere that is generated not just by grown men but grown women and children as well showed the British culture and tradition for sports that Singapore sadly lacks. How i wish i could do that in Singapore. Having said that, I might be moving to the UK after all, at least for further studies that seems to be the case at every increasing moment. After that we walked back the 2 miles back to Leicester Square, where we had tea and then went to watch a movie at John Lewis cinema. Leicester's new shopping centre is massive and impressive, i guess from Loughborough its not necessary to go to Nottingham anymore. Sherlock Holmes was better than i thought it would be. The plot was refreshing and it held water unlike other movies. We had Japanese food after that before heading home. Its been a fruitful European trip so far. 3 days in Venice, 3 days in Prague in -15 degrees, and now in the UK spending a white Christmas. Went to Warwick University and Stratford-upon-Avon College to explore further options for my educational future. my parents now think i should study overseas to gain new experience, and I think it be good for me too. Going to see Manchester University later today. A good 2.5 hours car journey up the M1. Hope it turns out well.
my last day as a teenager. a personal milestone tommorow as i finally turn 20. but i feel its more than that. its not just for the sentiment, but one to ponder about....more than the sense of deja vu in recent times, this period of my life is drawing to a close. in a month's time, everything will be different. my life and my surroundings would be different too. you could even sense it in the air. time creeps by, and i know i would never be back here again, and it will be just something i can look back upon. for better for worse? it has to be seen. for today, ill just be content with being 19. who knows whats gonna happen come december and next year. what i do know though, things will be really different.
Songs of the day:
1) liang san bo li zhu li yue- genie cho and gary cao
30/10/2008 - THE MASTER AND SORCERY OF DIMITAR BERBATOV
Now, watch and learn from the absolute master of ball control. Mr Dimitar Berbatov from Bulgaria showcases mastery, dexterity and skill from a simple football; a stellar example to why soccer is the world's most popular and beautiful game. Showing the deft touches of the most skilled a dancer, the quick responses and movements of a F1 driver, and the composure of a well hearsed lawyer in the courtroom, he shows us how pure elation is sometimes mixed with jaw-dropping admiration, and mind you I was mightily impressed! So once again three cheers to Mr. Dimitar Berbatov, our 30 million pound man from Tottenham over the summer. Kudos to MANCHESTER UNITED =)
25/10/2008 - AVENGED SEVENFOLD CONCERT @ MAX PAVILION 24 OCTOBER 2008, 8PM
AVENGED SEVENFOLD IS THE SHIT MAN!!! THEY REALLY ARE =) THEY PLAYED CRITICAL ACCLAIM, AFTERLIFE, BEAST AND THE HARLOT, SCREAM, SEIZE THE DAY, UNHOLY CONFESSIONS, GUNSLINGER, ALMOST EASY AND LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN. they didnt play alot of songs though. like trashed and scattered, blinded in chains, wicked end, second heartbeat, dear god, chapter four and many more. haix. but they were dam good la. i went with cheryl yeo, shawn loo and wei liang. supposed to go with maw and his 3 RV frens. but they book out late. ah well. i sang until my voice went away. wished i could scream like them all the way. thats talent for you. the mosh pit was somewhat crazy, cheryl wanted to mosh but they didnt let her, i dont think she was best pleased.
they few hours were the shit best in my life=) adrenaline pumping man! wish i could play drums like the REV....
actually there are lots of things i wish for...
maybe its because there is so much i lacked or failed to possess for my own pursuit of a utopian life.
maybe my illusion of perfect harmonious habitation is a conjured ill-memory?
or perharps my besotted double-edged blessing a hindrance to normality?
the latter seems more precice...
either way,
whatever i did to uphold or held,
was and will be eventually washed away by the gentlest of currents,
where the tinge of sunlight on the sweetest borned memory,
will be cussed away in the darkest and vilest form of night,
as the plight is accentuated into a firm authorative voice of intent.
where once remembered,
is now forgotten.
a city of evil,
of torrentuous vuluptous predators,
feeding off wounded and weak prey.
the directionless..
the hapless...
the useless..
just face i man,
its not gonna happen..
i might as well drum away..
and accept my just plight...
and hopefully before long,
god will grant me that meagre bit of mercy..
a small victory of justice in my puntured soul and wounded heart,
and take away a life worth nothing more than the bare parts used to make it.
the hand that rocked the cradle,
has thy cursed its bare essential,
in an inevitable turn of the golden spoon.
comfortable,
probably inconceivable.
scream. scream. scream.
my life was left in the max pavilion.
it was never there before or after that.
and now im left with music.
entrapped in its small lease of life in borrowed time.
god grant me the serenity to accept the things i cant change,
to accept the things that pains but i have to shoulder.
i just have one request:
before u make me heap my last breath...
before my chest heaves its last gasp of pain in solitute misery..
before i walked my last steps in circular perambulations...
before i make my last wrenching regret of chained predicaments...
before i left the scence of my last sin and humilation..
let me feel whats it like...
to share the warmness of a soul,
with another i would be happy to live with,
to spend my life with,
to feel my void of adject artifical pockets of satisfactions and real emptiness.
to be able to feel someone ailing for the gift of touch and radiant interation.
words escape me as much as time confunded me in our last memorable moment of intimacy. thoughts cant pacify my insatiable desire to reverse the course of time, as fervent dreams parade through in fantastical sequences of fairy tale endings- it was either entirely fastiduous falsified thinking or a immoral consequence on her endeavour in a selfish demeanour. you know who you are; your signs of maturity in youth coursing through your veins as you ventured into unchartered waters; even beating age long cliches en route to a really touching display of emotion. i was too dumbstruck that day, oh alas i was far too much in lagging disarray, still clinging on to my immaturity, my slow transition to adulthood. on that day, that day the cake was given to be to eat it; the day the stage was set, the curtains rolled open and a fanfare being played; i should have took centrestage, and held your hand aloft to the heavens in nodes of bliss euphoric in pure joy. for a gem you really are, and i never met anyone so valuable and so priceless.
the day i seeked fresh pastures, i squandered a life of lush meadows of greenery.
oh ye fateful day, ill recollect till the skies turned grey.
Brandon Wong DOB:12 Nov 1989 E-mail:brandon_wong89@hotmail.com School: Catholic Junior College (2T35) Hobbies: Soccer,Tennis, Cycling, Pool.. Supports: Manchester United Ferrari Rafael Nadal Avenged Sevenfold