Friday Already?

June 11th, 2010

thanks everyone, for all the lovely comments about Kafka :) i gave him Kafka on the Shore by Murakami the other day, as an insight into his new moniker. but really, once upon a time, in our first gchat conversation, he referred to giant cockroaches as ‘Kafkaesque’ and it made me laugh.

i have a midterm on monday so i’m in my usual reading room at the wonderful Butler Library (recently placed on CampusGrotto’s Most Beautiful College Libraries of the U.S. list — see #4. though i am sure we deceptively earned our spot). i’m wearily crunching numbers and squeezing as many optimal bundles as possible out of the Lagrangian, and by crunching numbers, i mean procrastinating. i actually haven’t gotten very much done at all, and already i’m contemplating ditching the stacks for dinner and drinks. it is friday night after all……. but then there’s a guy behind me who is hard at work creating the most comprehensive set of notes you’ll ever see. it looks award-winning and quite intimidating. so i guess i’m staying in…

but not without sharing some funnies!

first, for all Little Mermaid fans, especially those who know all the words to the movie by heart:

and a cute conversation with my dad, after an average of two emails a week for the past month asking me to buy him an iPad (and i DID):

dad: your papa wants this… http://www.apple.com/iphone/design/#design-video
me: hehe i am getting mine in 2 weeks!
dad: buy one for me
me: no money ah… very broke lately
dad: dun be so bad… get me one. I really want it.
me: WOW YOU WHAT ALSO WANT! SUPER GREEDY LOR. u think money grow on trees is it???
dad: How can you say your father GREEDY. I am SAD !
me: so fierce for what…
me: hellooooo
(no reply)

and today i went to the bank only to find out that my malaysian credit cards no longer work. WTF. lesson of the day: parents are expensive and very sulky, so don’t buy any.

also, kakicucuklangit recently told me that Istana Budaya is staging Tun Mahathir the Musical. i froze, processed it, and then dissolved into uncontrollable giggles for about 5 minutes before going on twitter, plurk and facebook to announce it to my friends. i’m SO EXCITED but incredibly bummed that i won’t be in KL to watch it when it opens in September. like i keep saying – it has such creative potential! bound to be the hiroshima of humour if the right people were allowed to develop the script. but alas, we all know none of that is happening. so we cracked our own jokes in anticipation. some samples:

me: THEY’RE MAKING TUN MAHATHIR THE MUSICAL????? HAHAHAHAHA
response 1: it’s titled RENT(seeking)
response 2: now the question is .. will ur tickets be subsidized?
response 3: the tickets won’t be subsidized. in fact they will raise prices for it and offer protection by slapping ridiculous taxes on foreign musicals
response 4 : i can see it now – there will be a song titled: (If They Can Make Avatar) They Can Do Anything
response 5: I’d go just to hear the so-do-mi chorus.
response 6: it will be sellout shows by phantom watchers
response 7: dilemma: protagonist says he owns the land the stage was built on
response 8: dont forget the crooked stage
response 9: “mahathir mahathir… he reminds me of a look-east story!”

hahahahaha. oh. /dabs at tears of joy

lastly, i’ve been catching up on Glee episodes, and really loved that episode called Bad Reputation! the show’s been getting a little redundant but this episode blew it all out of the water for me. it featured all these gloriously tacky songs like Physical by ONJ, Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer, Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice and Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler!!!! excitedly, i plurked about it, and Alvin then showed me the funniest/weirdest ever cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart that you will ever watch, performed by Hurra Torpedo, a Norwegian band that plays using kitchen appliances. my favourite dude, by far, is the headbanging percussionist:

okay, great. library admin just walked in to say that the library closes in 20 minutes. blasted summer school schedule- i’ve barely gotten any work done! so much for studying all night so i can guiltlessly watch US vs England tomorrow. boo, bring back the 24-hour library schedules :( but then again it is friday night…

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19 Comments Add your own

  • 1. biopolymath  |  June 11th, 2010 at 10:53 pm

    I heard of that Tun Mahathir musical and would like to watch it! But too bad I won’t be in Malaysia for the time being.

    Wow even your father also crave for gadget I must salute! My father, I have to keep on telling him, go try out the interface and explore by self, the gadget won’t explode if you press the wrong thing!

  • 2. kei  |  June 12th, 2010 at 12:01 am

    omg hahah the dinglehopper!!!!!!!! i love how his tone when he says the lines are spot on! HAHAHA

  • 3. nileey  |  June 12th, 2010 at 12:22 am

    I love that episode of Glee as well, especially the rendition of ‘U Can’t Touch This’. Hilarious!

  • 4. Michelle Chin  |  June 12th, 2010 at 2:55 am

    How come your dad so cute wan!

  • 5. May Lee  |  June 12th, 2010 at 4:44 am

    LOL! your dad is sooo cuute omg. and also, hahaha omg mahathir musical? REALLY? have they nothing else to sing about?

    i can’t wait for the pak lah one.

    “now featuring musical snoring!”

  • 6. chm  |  June 12th, 2010 at 6:53 am

    I agree with you on Mahathir. The play has seemingly endless material to work on. And your friends left good replies :P Too bad it isnt by Comedy Court.

  • 7. k0k  |  June 12th, 2010 at 9:24 am

    He could quite as easily have referred to giant cockroaches as “Lovecraftian”. Then you would have to call him Lovecraft. or Cthulhu. Oh, please name your next boyfriend Cthulhu! (cough, if there’s a next one, that is). It would rock so hard.

    the so-do-mi chorus bit slew me xD

  • 8. Waifon  |  June 12th, 2010 at 11:49 am

    that is the scariest cover of ANY song i have ever heard O_O hahahah who came up with the so-do-mi chorus thing DAMN FUNNY PLS. why you so rajin go for summer school! i have not met kakicucuklangit for the longest time :( so busy. and he has no time to layan me also cos got teman wanita/ awek already omg damn kuno man those words!

  • 9. smartypants  |  June 13th, 2010 at 11:06 pm

    soon monday again :(

  • 10. yapthomas  |  June 13th, 2010 at 11:46 pm

    I want iPad too!! :P

    Really.. Mahathir’s Musical? hahaha

  • 11. Zhi Wei  |  June 14th, 2010 at 9:19 am

    HAHAHA OMG THE COVER

  • 12. Waifon  |  June 14th, 2010 at 4:11 pm

    oh i just watched the little mermaid clip. URSULA FTW!!! omg sooo funny! and that was SO the skinnier version of chef louis! the misai and all hahahahah damn funny!!!

  • 13. Simon Seow  |  June 14th, 2010 at 5:52 pm

    I want iPhone 4 can? US team much stronger than last time.

  • 14. quaintly  |  June 15th, 2010 at 1:51 pm

    biopolymath : lets trade dads! at least yours wont guilt trip you into buying him expensive gadgets you cant really afford! :(

    kei : “and dont underestimate the importance of BODAY LANGUAGE! HAH!”

    nileey : haha yes! i was so excited !

    michelle chin : maybe cos hang out with me so much :P

    may lee : featuring choir members each named ‘apa nama’ in the playbill !

    chm : haha oh that is true!

    k0k : i know… quite possibly the funniest thing that friend of mine has said in the 4 or so years that i’ve known him

    waifon : teruk lah. make him hang out with us when i come back plsss :(

    smartypants : already tuesday! two more days to the wkend!

    yapthomas : yup!

    zhi wei : time for u to do one! :D

    waifon : hee hee hee ho ho ho

    simon seow : i also want. you get in line!

  • 15. Nikki  |  June 15th, 2010 at 6:20 pm

    Hoped you managed to get some serious work done, all work and no play would make Su Ann a very dull girl indeed so I think you needed to chill out and enjoy a Friday. The newest library on campus was always 24 hours and there were some very intimidating hard workers there!

    As for the rendition of ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’, I couldn’t take my eyes off the percussionist either – definitely mastered the banging and clacking kitchen appliances.

  • 16. Justin  |  June 17th, 2010 at 3:39 am

    I died at ‘don’t underestimate the importance of BODY LANGUAGE!’ I also died again at 0:26 of the cover. =)

  • 17. aimee  |  June 21st, 2010 at 6:38 am

    Dont know if you’ve seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA

  • 18. undergraduate  |  June 21st, 2010 at 10:24 am

    Thanks for sharing those interesting videos. And good luck in your exams. Take care~~

  • 19. Jon  |  August 17th, 2010 at 8:59 am

    If you love the Little Mermaid (and who doesn’t), there is a singalong version that is the most amazing experience ever. And people not only know the songs but the lines to the movie. It’s kind of a great time.
    http://jonyangorg.blogspot.com/2008/09/fathoms-below.html

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