I think I have a problem...

I should really stop buying things and calling them 'investments' or 'bargains.' Must. stop. spending.

My Plug in Baby

One day I turned on the television to find that Video Hits was showing a concert whose lead was a weird lanky guy in a red suit, a little like this: 

Playing to a crowd like this:

And I thought who the heck this band was and why are they so famous yet I've never heard of them. I doubt past Marianne would have thought that I'd be experiencing my first time in the pit metres away from this:

Just Matt Bellamy playing a song dedicated to me

The concert started with the lights dimming down and the towers lighting up. I could see a very slight silhouette of the band hiding in the towers. My heart was beating 1000 beats a minute. The intro music became suspense music as the entire audience stared attentively anticipating the moment we could see the band. The wait was killing me. Then the music paused, the drumsticks clapped, the drapes fell, a moment of darkness then there they were. I shat my pants and they played Uprising. Absolute chaos. 

Muse was overwhelming to the senses. They offered lasers, towers that displayed different kinds of visuals, light up instruments (including a keytar) and a clear drum set, giant eyeball balloons popping confetti over us (i think they're called hullaballoons? You can see them in the second photo there). Unfortunately I was too wussy to carry a camera with me so when I find some pictures from the night I'll post them up. 

By the end of the night I was bruised and drenched in other people's sweat but I wouldn't have had it any other way :D

Highlights:

1. Realising that I am the youth of today (haha)

2. Us chanting as one. Just everyone jumping and pumping the fists in the air in unison and screaming the same words that I was made my feel like I belonged

3. Surprising the tall bulky guys that just because I'm a short Asian girl does not mean I'm not going to put up a fight and let them push in front of me. 

4. During Starlight, Matt stopped singing because it was the our cue to sing 'Our Hopes and expectations, black holes and revelations. Our Hopes and expectations, black holes and revelations.' It was like for a moment the world had stopped. It was possibly the greatest 15 seconds of my life

5. Matt throwing his guitar across the stage, probably the sexiest thing I have ever witnessed a human being do

Muse Concert tonight!

This will either be one of the greatest nights of my life or I will die in the crowd.

Maybe even both.

What to do...

I'm not sure if I want to do science anymore. But then, what else can I do?

'One question: do you need someone, or do you need me? Forget it, I don't really care.'

I finally got around to watching Say Anything since it's considered one of the greatest high school movies of all time (well, according to wikipedia anyway). I always feel a pang of sadness at the end of these movies. Because
a) as happy as I am for the characters, it just reminds me that people like these, especially the chivalrous dorky yet cool leading men, probably don't exist.

b) I feel a loss for my youth having grown up in an all girls' Catholic School and missing out on this high school experience, if it even exists.

Ahh if only life were an 80's movie.

 

Summer holidays

Ok, so here's my personal to-do list:

1. FINISH writing Emma and Tom's story. I feel so bad about how I've abandoned my characters on a cliffhanger but I just lost motivation to be creative and stuff. :( After doing a couple of Arts subjects this semester I realised how much I still enjoy writing. I thought that part of me died this year with all these science subjects but there was a bit that I managed to resurrect.

2. Get a job. Please please someone call me T.T

3. Do more hours of driving

4. Blog more. Blog, I am sorry. I will do my best not to abandon you ever again. Even if it means just posting up some lame poem someone else wrote.

5. Get my reading groove back. I....have only read about two or three books this year. Year 10 Marianne probably read twenty in six months. What's happening to meee

6. Do some Youtube videos. Because i also miss my script and filming too :(

7. Bond more with my bunny to the point where we become bffls

The arrival of the pink ipod

Just me an my ipod

Okay, yeah many of you will think it's not a big deal. Almost everyone I have met has an mp3 player of some sort they take around with them to listen on their walks or on public transport. So when I say 'I don't have an ipod, i never have' to someone if the topic were to arise in conversation they look at me as if I 've just stepped off a time machine from the stone age and decided to pop by and say hi in the 22nd century. Then the conversation would continue on with a little something like this
them: B-but how do you survive?? What do you do when you're on the bus???
me: nothing, look out the window?
them: I don't understand!! Why don't you have one??

And their disbelief would continue on. So here I am 18 years old with my first ipod. :P

Things I find awesome about having a portable music playing device
1. You can listen to the dorkiest song anywhere and no one but you would know
2. You have an excuse for people not to talk to you
3. You guys are probably used to it, but listening to music outdoors is a whole new experience for me

Things not so awesome about a portable musical playing device:
1. I've only had it for a day. But if you're a techno-idiot like me then you may find yourself in a bank and wonder how cool it is that they started playing music in the bank. You proceed with your transactions, receive weird looks from people then leave the bank realising the music has followed you. You wonder how that is possible. You then realise the music the whole time was coming from your ipod in your pocket. You look at the song playing. It is Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi.