I need to confess something. I'm pretty sure that no one would find this blog anyway so I should be fine.
I am TERRIFIED of World MUN. Absolutely TERRIFIED. And I'm a delegate for the Singapore team. I should be excited and I sort of am. But I'm just so so terrified. Plus the expenses are worrying me. Especially since I don't have any work attire so I have to buy pants and a blazer and hope my mum can dig out some blouses for me to wear. And wear those ridiculously painful heels. They really are ridiculous. But they're the only pair of "work"looking heels I have. A bit high la for "work" but I obviously don't have the cash to buy another more comfortable pair. I just don't want to look STUPID. not just in attire but during the sessions and while talking and convincing the other delegates. Especially since the Chairs of the different committees are so so impressive, just from the little biodata that they provided. And I'm pretty sure that the majority of the delegates would have done this all before. Also, my laptop's battery power is QUITE pathetic, so bringing it to the conference would be a little ridiculous, especially since each session is supposed to be 3 hours and I KNOW my laptop can't last 3 hours. Maybe I should buy another battery? I don't even know where to get that but I'm sure I can secure a powerpoint thingy in the conference? And omg lugging the stupid laptop around will kill me. Is it tacky to have the wire and all that?Can't be helped what. Omg I'm so so nervous and scared and worried and deep deep deep DEEEEEEPPPPP down, I'm pretty sure there's a little excitement there.
NOT to mention I still have to solve the problem of the a.r. rahman ticket that I can't use. NOT because its my fault. ooooohhh noooo, it technically isn't. But in my mother's eyes, it IS my problem, and it IS my fault and WHY can't I just leave the conference early on the LAST FREAKIN DAY and go for the concert that I wasn't even asked about or knew about with my mother and uninterested sister who will probably FALL ASLEEP. She and my aunt just DON'T GET IT. There are at least 6 social events happening at night or whatever and MUN is as much a conference as a social thing where you interact with people from different parts of the world and make friendships. Wouldn't you think I'd WANT to be there all the way till the end for last night? Of COURSE nothing is compulsory, except obviously the sessions, but I'd didn't sign up for this because I HAD to, but because I WANTED to. and i've NEVER done MUN before. EVER. I'd really want to experience this whole thing cuz hello, when will I ever get to?!
sigh. I'm getting more frustrated as I talk about this.
Forget it.
shini
Sunday, January 23, 2011
I thought I was imagining things when people say things like " your mother isn't used to you having all your own plans and stuff", I KNEW that my mother has basically no problem with my independence and she's not depending on me for things to do and stuff.
But just now she said that she wants to go and walk by the beach for like exercise in the evening and she wants me to go with her and like run because of COURSE and AS USUAL she's on me to lose weight. I on the other hand had an idea(yes as expected i have not acted upon it yet but i've been sick so sue me) whereby I'd bring my readings to the gym and use both the stepping machine and the bike and read while I work my legs, seeing as my thighs are the biggest issue. Plus there are the machines to use for the arms and as long as I don't run on the damn treadmill which i HATE, I should be fine. I really cannot stand the treadmill because it just makes my inferiority complex worse with all those damn numbers. At least when I run at the canal, I can just conveniently forget how long I took to jog 2km.
Sigh whatever la I'll go and do my OWN thing at the gym and go with mama as well. One can never have too much exercise.Specially since I'm hopeless at dieting.
shini
But just now she said that she wants to go and walk by the beach for like exercise in the evening and she wants me to go with her and like run because of COURSE and AS USUAL she's on me to lose weight. I on the other hand had an idea(yes as expected i have not acted upon it yet but i've been sick so sue me) whereby I'd bring my readings to the gym and use both the stepping machine and the bike and read while I work my legs, seeing as my thighs are the biggest issue. Plus there are the machines to use for the arms and as long as I don't run on the damn treadmill which i HATE, I should be fine. I really cannot stand the treadmill because it just makes my inferiority complex worse with all those damn numbers. At least when I run at the canal, I can just conveniently forget how long I took to jog 2km.
Sigh whatever la I'll go and do my OWN thing at the gym and go with mama as well. One can never have too much exercise.Specially since I'm hopeless at dieting.
shini
Saturday, January 15, 2011
ZEE CINE AWARDS 2010 @Marina Bay Sands Grand Ballroom!
I know I should be really really glad and happy now but my flu and recently developed cough has sort of tired me out.
I really don't want to do a post right now but i KNOW its best to do one right after the event so everything's still fresh in your mind. Also I have a feeling that if i dont' let everything out, I'd go to sleep unhappy.
okay, so here goes.
I went with my mum and sister for the ZEE CINE AWARDS held in Marina Bay Sands Grand Ballroom and I was super duper excited! We got there pretty early and mum valet-parked the car at the hotel cuz we honestly didn't see any car park for the convention hall and stuff and we honestly thought it was held at the hotel. So we quickly found out that its actually opposite the road and we can take the underpass. Hence, we sat down at this bar, very chic and had a drink. I had a virgin margharita cuz I had taken panadol before I left(damn thing doesn't work). At like 7 we went to the venue very diligently. They opened the dorrs at like7.27 and we were seated by like 7.45. Mind you the ticket said 7.30.
The security person on stage after some time kept telling people to be seated otherwise they can't start. People were still streaming in at 8.30. People kept standing up at the area infront of the curtain, supposedly the "red carpet" area la and they couldn't start till everyone was more or less seated. So eventually I think we only started the show at like 9 or so.
The beginning was sort of shaky. There were issues with the camera because for some reason the camera would be stuck on either vidya balan or shatrughan sinha and his wife, or else pointed to the floor. While Akshay and Sajid talked for at LEAST 15 to 20 minutes, we couldn't see their faces on the screen. Then at some point, the screen went blank. By that time people were making a lot of noise and BOOING. I'm sorry to say but my MOTHER did it too! and my sister said it once but my mother kept AT IT a few times! I mean hey technical difficulties SHOULD be expected, let them know but don't BOO FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!
The thing is that the emcees Akshay and Sajid didn't KNOW that we couldn't see them so they tried continuing on and apparently looked absolutely terrified when the audience started booing them obviously because they thought that they were booing at them not at the lack of a visual. Then someone came on the mike saying "We are experiencing technical difficulties bla bla bla" after maybe 5 to 10 minutes more of no cameras, there was an announcement saying that the official recording of the show would start now and then everything went on pretty smoothly.
At SOME point, my mother got pissed off again because she couldn't see the stage even with the binoculars because we had three fairly tall men sitting in front of us and there were tiers on for ever three rows. So she asked me to move down a seat. The thing is the woman that was sitting next to me had gotten up and left during the commotion but I didn't know if she was coming back or not cuz she had HAD a drink and packet of chips in her hand so she might have gone outside to get something. So I told her there's someone sitting here, cannot move. So she was pissed at me. Well she had that LOOK on her face. Couple of moments later I asked the man sitting on the other side of the empty seat if he knew if the woman was coming back but he said he didn't know. Unable to tahan her sulky face any longer, my sis was just " Let's just move down" so we did and she moved down too a few seconds later. EVEN THEN she still had that face on, so I told her she could have MY seat if she wanted cuz thankfully no one was sitting infront of me, in the next row, though of course there were people sitting in front of me in the subsequent rows.
During this ENTIRE time, I was somewhat dully watching the screen that again was thankfully, like right above our heads so THAT was good. They gave out all the technical awards and stuff and unfortunately I can't remember who won most of them except for the ones I sent out in sms-es. Eventually my mood lifted when I saw that mama had gotten OVER the whatever and was finally smiling and stuff. However, quite frankly, because this IS my blog, I WILL say what I want here; she did ruin the experience for a while. Like the first 45 minutes. Which isn't fair. So yeah.
Okay, Now I don't know if you want any surprises when you watch the show in 2 weeks time or if you want me to give the LOW down on everything but I'll just put a disclaimer here.
DISCLAIMER: THE NEXT PART GIVES A BLOW-BY-BLOW(as far as I can) OF THE ZEE CINE AWARDS SHOW. IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS, SKIP AHEAD OR DON'T READ. thank you.
Okay, there were about 5 performances, by Arjun Rampal and some other actresses, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, AISHWARYA RAI-BACHCHAN, AND SHAH RUKH KHAN. There were also like these little gags and things la obviously, one involving Chunkey Pandey(very accommodating), Hrithik and Sussane Roshan. Well the last one wasn't specifically a gag per say just very entertaining. Neha Dupia and Sophie Choudary helped out with the hosting too at some point. I gotta say though that these stars show a LOT of love for each other, on stage at least. I was very happy with the performances of Arjun, Deepika, Aishwarya and Srk. Quite honestly I was NOT expecting the latter 2 to be performing and I think the crowd wasn't either so they really CHEERED LOUDLY!!! Although, I think it was very very smart of the organisers to get those people to perform because they all got awards. Arjun got for I think best supporting actor, Deepika got for international icon(female), (Ranbir Kapoor got international icon male;ironic don't cha think?), Aishwarya got best actress(jury choice) and Shah rukh got best actor(popular). PC(priyanka chopra) didn't get anything, as far as I can remember but she put on like 6 little skits things, representing each of the nominated films, so I think she had plenty screen time. She did them REALLY well too! Unfortunately, I had not watched like 4 out of 6 of the movies that were nominated so I couldn't really enjoy the skits though the one for My Name Is Khan was really quite funny!
Akshay Kumar and Sajid Khan had apparently installed this trampoline next to the podium at one end of the stage so when the stars had to come up and collect their awards, they made them literally JUMP FOR JOY which I thought was quite hilarious and they were all quite willing to do it! Vidya Balan was wearing a SARI and quite high heels and she jumped like three times! It was so cute la and so unexpected somehow. Even Aishwarya did a little hop, though I think she could have jumped more since later on Vidya's heels were definitely higher than hers.
The thing that SRK did with hrithik and sussane was sooooo hilarious and cute! After his performance(!!!!) he started talking about being a good hubby and all that and asked hrithik to come on stage. Then he went on to talk about how everything hrithik's done, he's taught him. THEN he asks sussane to come on stage for a few minutes because he wants to show hrithik how to treat your wife. She sits on a throne and there's like Sajda playing, and hrithik has to follow all of srk's actions and he TOTALLY does! there's like confetti thrown on her, and practically worshipping her . It was so romantic and lovely and so funny at the same time.
I had a wonderful time, despite the issues at the beginning. And in case you were wondering, I told my mum just now that I was quite unhappy with how she behaved. Of course she gave it back to me, because I was inflexible in moving down a seat. I DID it eventually, but i suppose at that moment when she asked, I should have done it. WHATEVER.
OH! for those family members of mine who read the blog, don't mention it to my mother please. And please listen to HER version of the night and don't mention about me being unhappy or anything. PLEASE.
thanks so much!
All in all, i was EXTREMELY glad that mama bought the tickets to go and even tough I didn't see any stars up close, or get an autograph, with the binoculars that we had borrowed from Auntie J, I could TOTALLY see them on stage and THAT was exciting!
So I LOVED LOVED LOVED it and I can't WAIT for them to come back!!!
LOTS OF LOVE,
SHINI
I really don't want to do a post right now but i KNOW its best to do one right after the event so everything's still fresh in your mind. Also I have a feeling that if i dont' let everything out, I'd go to sleep unhappy.
okay, so here goes.
I went with my mum and sister for the ZEE CINE AWARDS held in Marina Bay Sands Grand Ballroom and I was super duper excited! We got there pretty early and mum valet-parked the car at the hotel cuz we honestly didn't see any car park for the convention hall and stuff and we honestly thought it was held at the hotel. So we quickly found out that its actually opposite the road and we can take the underpass. Hence, we sat down at this bar, very chic and had a drink. I had a virgin margharita cuz I had taken panadol before I left(damn thing doesn't work). At like 7 we went to the venue very diligently. They opened the dorrs at like7.27 and we were seated by like 7.45. Mind you the ticket said 7.30.
The security person on stage after some time kept telling people to be seated otherwise they can't start. People were still streaming in at 8.30. People kept standing up at the area infront of the curtain, supposedly the "red carpet" area la and they couldn't start till everyone was more or less seated. So eventually I think we only started the show at like 9 or so.
The beginning was sort of shaky. There were issues with the camera because for some reason the camera would be stuck on either vidya balan or shatrughan sinha and his wife, or else pointed to the floor. While Akshay and Sajid talked for at LEAST 15 to 20 minutes, we couldn't see their faces on the screen. Then at some point, the screen went blank. By that time people were making a lot of noise and BOOING. I'm sorry to say but my MOTHER did it too! and my sister said it once but my mother kept AT IT a few times! I mean hey technical difficulties SHOULD be expected, let them know but don't BOO FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!
The thing is that the emcees Akshay and Sajid didn't KNOW that we couldn't see them so they tried continuing on and apparently looked absolutely terrified when the audience started booing them obviously because they thought that they were booing at them not at the lack of a visual. Then someone came on the mike saying "We are experiencing technical difficulties bla bla bla" after maybe 5 to 10 minutes more of no cameras, there was an announcement saying that the official recording of the show would start now and then everything went on pretty smoothly.
At SOME point, my mother got pissed off again because she couldn't see the stage even with the binoculars because we had three fairly tall men sitting in front of us and there were tiers on for ever three rows. So she asked me to move down a seat. The thing is the woman that was sitting next to me had gotten up and left during the commotion but I didn't know if she was coming back or not cuz she had HAD a drink and packet of chips in her hand so she might have gone outside to get something. So I told her there's someone sitting here, cannot move. So she was pissed at me. Well she had that LOOK on her face. Couple of moments later I asked the man sitting on the other side of the empty seat if he knew if the woman was coming back but he said he didn't know. Unable to tahan her sulky face any longer, my sis was just " Let's just move down" so we did and she moved down too a few seconds later. EVEN THEN she still had that face on, so I told her she could have MY seat if she wanted cuz thankfully no one was sitting infront of me, in the next row, though of course there were people sitting in front of me in the subsequent rows.
During this ENTIRE time, I was somewhat dully watching the screen that again was thankfully, like right above our heads so THAT was good. They gave out all the technical awards and stuff and unfortunately I can't remember who won most of them except for the ones I sent out in sms-es. Eventually my mood lifted when I saw that mama had gotten OVER the whatever and was finally smiling and stuff. However, quite frankly, because this IS my blog, I WILL say what I want here; she did ruin the experience for a while. Like the first 45 minutes. Which isn't fair. So yeah.
Okay, Now I don't know if you want any surprises when you watch the show in 2 weeks time or if you want me to give the LOW down on everything but I'll just put a disclaimer here.
DISCLAIMER: THE NEXT PART GIVES A BLOW-BY-BLOW(as far as I can) OF THE ZEE CINE AWARDS SHOW. IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS, SKIP AHEAD OR DON'T READ. thank you.
Okay, there were about 5 performances, by Arjun Rampal and some other actresses, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, AISHWARYA RAI-BACHCHAN, AND SHAH RUKH KHAN. There were also like these little gags and things la obviously, one involving Chunkey Pandey(very accommodating), Hrithik and Sussane Roshan. Well the last one wasn't specifically a gag per say just very entertaining. Neha Dupia and Sophie Choudary helped out with the hosting too at some point. I gotta say though that these stars show a LOT of love for each other, on stage at least. I was very happy with the performances of Arjun, Deepika, Aishwarya and Srk. Quite honestly I was NOT expecting the latter 2 to be performing and I think the crowd wasn't either so they really CHEERED LOUDLY!!! Although, I think it was very very smart of the organisers to get those people to perform because they all got awards. Arjun got for I think best supporting actor, Deepika got for international icon(female), (Ranbir Kapoor got international icon male;ironic don't cha think?), Aishwarya got best actress(jury choice) and Shah rukh got best actor(popular). PC(priyanka chopra) didn't get anything, as far as I can remember but she put on like 6 little skits things, representing each of the nominated films, so I think she had plenty screen time. She did them REALLY well too! Unfortunately, I had not watched like 4 out of 6 of the movies that were nominated so I couldn't really enjoy the skits though the one for My Name Is Khan was really quite funny!
Akshay Kumar and Sajid Khan had apparently installed this trampoline next to the podium at one end of the stage so when the stars had to come up and collect their awards, they made them literally JUMP FOR JOY which I thought was quite hilarious and they were all quite willing to do it! Vidya Balan was wearing a SARI and quite high heels and she jumped like three times! It was so cute la and so unexpected somehow. Even Aishwarya did a little hop, though I think she could have jumped more since later on Vidya's heels were definitely higher than hers.
The thing that SRK did with hrithik and sussane was sooooo hilarious and cute! After his performance(!!!!) he started talking about being a good hubby and all that and asked hrithik to come on stage. Then he went on to talk about how everything hrithik's done, he's taught him. THEN he asks sussane to come on stage for a few minutes because he wants to show hrithik how to treat your wife. She sits on a throne and there's like Sajda playing, and hrithik has to follow all of srk's actions and he TOTALLY does! there's like confetti thrown on her, and practically worshipping her . It was so romantic and lovely and so funny at the same time.
I had a wonderful time, despite the issues at the beginning. And in case you were wondering, I told my mum just now that I was quite unhappy with how she behaved. Of course she gave it back to me, because I was inflexible in moving down a seat. I DID it eventually, but i suppose at that moment when she asked, I should have done it. WHATEVER.
OH! for those family members of mine who read the blog, don't mention it to my mother please. And please listen to HER version of the night and don't mention about me being unhappy or anything. PLEASE.
thanks so much!
All in all, i was EXTREMELY glad that mama bought the tickets to go and even tough I didn't see any stars up close, or get an autograph, with the binoculars that we had borrowed from Auntie J, I could TOTALLY see them on stage and THAT was exciting!
So I LOVED LOVED LOVED it and I can't WAIT for them to come back!!!
LOTS OF LOVE,
SHINI
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Hello hello children!
I know I've been MIA from this blog but let me just say that its not because i have nothing to write about but for some reason, I had this inertia to start writing. Strange I know but I finally felt that I should at least write about the new year and all that.
Personally I'm quite terrified about the new year starting. I have some things that I have to do in 2011 and that makes me apprehensive. There are quite a few things so let me elaborate.
1. I'm taking part in World MUN (Model UN) which is being hosted by NUS for the first time ever and I'm going to be one of the Singapore delegates. So I'll basically be interacting with various delegates, in meetings. Its a conference. I'm obviously terrified cuz if I have trouble talking in PS tutorial, how the HELL would I manage a whole bloody conference?! And yet, I know that if I prepare myself, I can do it. And its not like we're REALLY solving world problems, so yeah. Still scared though.
2. I have to get an internship during the summer break. Again, I'm quite worried about it cuz I don't have any working experience and I don't know if I can handle the jobs or not. But I have to do it and I know I can do it. So yeah, just apprehensive about that too.
3. My second year is ending. and I'm turning 21. It feels like I just only turned 20 and now I'm forced to become an adult. Like officially an adult. People say its no big deal turning 21, but it IS! I can't explain it la why I feel that way. And I don't think I'd be having a huge party by the way. I'm just not the sort. God knows my sister, mother, cousin, aunt and friends would feel that I should celebrate it though cuz all my cousins as far as I'm concerned have "celebrated" it. So, I'll have to be prepared to put up a good fight.
4. I'm going to start a diet of low carbs and regular exercise. To see if I really can lose weight or not. Of course, it will kill me, and I would be "plugged" into the laptop a lot more, cheering myself up with movies, shows, videos and music since food would no longer do it for me. I don't know how long I'd be able to do it cuz I'm not very disciplined when it comes to food. or anything really. so, we'll see how long I last, and how well I stick to it. Weirdly enough, even though its the first, I haven't actually started the diet. Thanks to my mother who bought oily but great indian food from Samy's yesterday, which we will be eating today. So, I'm just going to be like in a horrible mood for a while la.
so I'm just going to end off now, and happy new year lovlies!
shini
I know I've been MIA from this blog but let me just say that its not because i have nothing to write about but for some reason, I had this inertia to start writing. Strange I know but I finally felt that I should at least write about the new year and all that.
Personally I'm quite terrified about the new year starting. I have some things that I have to do in 2011 and that makes me apprehensive. There are quite a few things so let me elaborate.
1. I'm taking part in World MUN (Model UN) which is being hosted by NUS for the first time ever and I'm going to be one of the Singapore delegates. So I'll basically be interacting with various delegates, in meetings. Its a conference. I'm obviously terrified cuz if I have trouble talking in PS tutorial, how the HELL would I manage a whole bloody conference?! And yet, I know that if I prepare myself, I can do it. And its not like we're REALLY solving world problems, so yeah. Still scared though.
2. I have to get an internship during the summer break. Again, I'm quite worried about it cuz I don't have any working experience and I don't know if I can handle the jobs or not. But I have to do it and I know I can do it. So yeah, just apprehensive about that too.
3. My second year is ending. and I'm turning 21. It feels like I just only turned 20 and now I'm forced to become an adult. Like officially an adult. People say its no big deal turning 21, but it IS! I can't explain it la why I feel that way. And I don't think I'd be having a huge party by the way. I'm just not the sort. God knows my sister, mother, cousin, aunt and friends would feel that I should celebrate it though cuz all my cousins as far as I'm concerned have "celebrated" it. So, I'll have to be prepared to put up a good fight.
4. I'm going to start a diet of low carbs and regular exercise. To see if I really can lose weight or not. Of course, it will kill me, and I would be "plugged" into the laptop a lot more, cheering myself up with movies, shows, videos and music since food would no longer do it for me. I don't know how long I'd be able to do it cuz I'm not very disciplined when it comes to food. or anything really. so, we'll see how long I last, and how well I stick to it. Weirdly enough, even though its the first, I haven't actually started the diet. Thanks to my mother who bought oily but great indian food from Samy's yesterday, which we will be eating today. So, I'm just going to be like in a horrible mood for a while la.
so I'm just going to end off now, and happy new year lovlies!
shini
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