Nice Movies to Look Forward to

I still have final year project which will only end on 3 May. But I have already switched on my holiday mood and planning out activities for the next few weeks. Of course there's all those overseas trips but I'm looking at the movies that are releasing in May and here's my list of movies that's coming out in the next couple of months and I sure hope they won't disappoint me:

1. Iron Man 3
Trailer 1:

Trailer 2:

Need I say anything more about this movie? Just sit back relax and enjoy! *starry-eyed*

Opening: 26 April 2013

2. The Great Gatsby
Trailer 1:

Trailer 2:

Trailer 3:

Looks like a pretty awesome adaption from a great classic! And I'm also looking forward to the OST. Just looking at the trailers, there seem to be an abundance of good music in the movie from artistes like Lana Del Rey and Florence And The Machine. Really looking forward to this movie :))

Opening: 16 May 2013

3. Great Expectations

I have to admit I really enjoyed reading classic novels when I was young. Little women, Phantom of the Opera, Jane Eyre etc. And so, I saw this on the upcoming movies list and hope that the movie would bring out the essence of the novel (movies often fall short of expectation when they're an adaptation of books).

Opening: 30 May 2013

4. Man of Steel

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! (I know this line is over-quoted but I just can't help it :P)
Well, another superhero story, which I never get tired of. :3

Opening: 13 June 2013

5. Despicable Me 2
Trailer 1:

Trailer 2:

You just can't get tired of those cute minions!! Even if their BA-BA-BA-NA-NA song has irritated the hell outta you last year when it first came out. ;)

Opening: 3 July 2013

And lastly, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire! It's only gonna come out on 21 November but I'm sure loads of people are looking forward to it with high anticipation.

Alright, I think that's enough for the night. Tada~

Horoscopes

Sometimes, when I'm really bored and have nothing better to do (or rather, I'm just not in the mood to doing anything productive), I would start reading horoscope stuff. I would first like to put across the point that I am not someone who fervently believes that the alignment of the stars during my birth would have a huge impact on my life thereafter, but it is still interesting to read these stuff and see how they try to classify close to 7 billion people (according to Google Stats) into 12 distinct categories, in terms of personalities, preferences, yada yada. And surprisingly, some of them do seem rather accurate (at least based on what I observe in myself and the described horoscope. I'm a Virgo by the way.) So here's some stuff that I came across online (source unknown and therefore un-credited) which I found pretty accurate and interesting. They're in Chinese though. And I'm too lazy to do the translation. Google Translate should do the trick. Hahaha

Horoscope personality:
【雙魚座 Pisces】
1、喜歡吃，頂級吃貨。
2、霸道，有很強佔有欲。
3、懶，超級怕麻煩。
4、愛捉弄人，事後還經常自鳴得意。
5、超自戀，沒事就愛臭美。
6、容易害羞，遇到喜歡的人反而會疏遠。
7、外冷內熱，對陌生人視而不見。
8、固執，不善於變通。
9、過於溫柔，經常把愛人慣壞。

【水瓶座 Aquarius】
1、喜歡簡單，不喜歡麻煩和累的感覺。
2、健忘不記仇。只要沒碰他底線，一切都是過眼雲煙。
3、有鬥志愛拼搏，刻苦努力。
4、別人對他好定加倍奉還的代表。
5、天生的統籌規劃專家，計劃性強。
6、固執。明知是錯也要往前走，撞了南牆就把牆拆了繼續走。
7、討厭做決定。就算是顏色不同也會讓他們苦惱半天。
8、愛笑，一點小事就笑逐顏開，什麼都寫在臉上。
9、愛憎分明，不給自己不喜歡的人絲毫機會，對自己喜歡的人超級縱容。

【摩羯座 Capricorn】
1、吃軟不吃硬。
2、經常口是心非。
3、很樂觀又很悲觀。
4、安全感不多，有點感性。有些話即使害怕錯過也不說。
5、常常被人騙。有點小心軟、小敏感、小潔癖。
6、害怕受傷。總說自己不孤單，其實很寂寞。
7、在陌生人面前很冷淡，熟人面前很鬧騰。
8、總表現的很堅強，其實很軟弱。
9、總被人誤解，卻不願解釋。

【射手座 Sagittarius】
1、強迫症，神經質。每晚睡覺前都覺得窗沒關，門沒鎖。
2、專一。喜歡一個人時喜歡的要死，眼裡容不下一粒沙子。
3、小孤僻，小高傲。看不慣的東西超多。
4、戀舊。一首喜歡的歌可以聽N年。
5、害怕孤獨。人前總是嘻嘻哈哈。
6、對愛人很偏執在乎，有神經質傾向，不輕易放手。
7、霸道。跟人吵架表現強勢，事後放下架子來哄人。
8、愛裝堅強，讓人疼惜。
9、自我感覺良好，其實有點冒失讓人無語。

【天蠍座 Scorpio】
1、有魅力。個性張揚或內斂都對旁人很有吸引力。
2、記仇。別輕易得罪蝎子，他可能一輩子都記得。
3、生氣抓狂的蝎子不可怕，沉默的蝎子才最可怕。
4、神秘。總希望別人了解自己內心。
5、直覺敏銳。不要在蝎子面前玩花招。
6、執著且敢愛敢恨。不斷付出卻又容易走向悲憤。
7、被動。因碰不到心動得讓他願意主動出擊的獵物。
8、對失去興趣的人理性冷酷，對待愛人卻感情用事。
9、佔有欲強烈。喜歡獨占討厭和人分享。

【天秤座 Libra】
1、替他人著想，常試圖改變自己迎合對方。
2、外表親切熱情，內心追求安逸的環境。
3、對最親愛的人容易暴走脾氣，對外人和善常被說人好。
4、愛睡覺，對多數人和事不上心，不在意周圍太自我，忽冷忽熱。
5、超懶散，對任何事都抱隨遇而安的態度。
6、膽小害怕失敗，卻總表現出強悍的一面。
7、珍惜友誼，成為他死黨要很久經歷很多事。
8、很忍耐，什麼事都放在心裡自己承受。
9、不愛爭搶，認為屬於自己的是不需爭搶的。

【處女座 Virgo】
1、敏感多疑。喜歡胡思亂想，愛鑽牛角尖。
2、冷靜。即使內心起伏再大也十分理智冷靜。
3、害怕失去。總表現得不冷不熱讓人難以靠近。
4、死要面子愛逞強。即使傷心也表現得十分強勢。
5、缺乏耐心有點小自私。討厭等人自己又愛遲到。
6、傻傻愛著他、幫他做很多事，即使對方不愛自己。
7、追求完美。任何事情都希望做到最好。
8、愛較真。關鍵時刻敷衍了事，在他身上起不到任何作用。
9、內心溫和善良，會一直堅守在朋友愛人身邊。

【獅子座 Leo】
1、霸道且控制欲強，其實是沒安全感，喜歡占主導地位，被讚美。
2、愛整潔，即使是獅子男也十分愛整潔。
3、喜歡胡思亂想，性格較極端。
4、喜歡裸睡。
5、淚腺發達，易被感動。喜歡跟愛人身體接觸，恨不得把身體揉進去那種。
6、有些悲觀。有較強的依賴感。
7、偏執，苛求完美。具有雙重性格，很抗拒有人走近。
8、經常表現出不在乎，無所謂的態度，其實內心彆扭的很。
9、常表現強勢，其實內心十分脆弱孤獨。

【巨蟹座 Cancer】
1、喜歡裝堅強，裝冷酷，讓人捉摸不透。
2、隱藏悲傷。卻希望別人安慰他、給他安全感。
3、愛幻想。希望有人懂他、愛他、能給他所想要的。
4、浪漫體貼。細心關愛自己愛的人。
5、外表孩子氣，內心卻很成熟。
6、害怕被忽略，對人關心也不表露出來。
7、內心藏著無數秘密，只和最親密的人分享。
8、慢熱。陌生人面前十分文靜。遇見開心的事會說個不停，不開心會躲起來哭。
9、情緒化。愛撒嬌，超級黏人。喜歡賴床。

【雙子座 Gemini】
1、善忘。不論重不重要的事都容易忘記。不記仇。
2、偏執悲觀、追求完美，有輕微強迫症和潔癖。
3、熱愛暗戀，有點悶騷。
4、容易被感動。心思細膩，不願與人計較。
5、黑白分明。喜歡被肯定和信任，討厭耍心機。
6、玩心重。熱愛自由，討厭被束縛壓迫。喜歡挑戰。
7、雙重人格，性格較極端。有輕微自閉。
8、渴望被理解，卻不奢求理解。對別有用心之人一眼就能看穿，並視若無睹。
9、非常注重第一印象，幾乎一見定生死。

【金牛座 Taurus】
1、吃軟不吃硬，經常口是心非。
2、樂觀又悲觀。安全感不多，有點感性。
3、朋友求助常有求必應，所以易被騙。
4、害怕受傷。對陌生人冷冷的，熟悉後就嘻嘻哈哈。
5、故作堅強，其實很軟弱，被人誤解卻不願解釋。多愁善感，總為小事糾結。
6、自尊心暴強有點不自信。討厭和人打交道，常年宅在家。
7、超懶，最愛睡覺和發呆，擅長裝傻。
8、喜歡錢但不在乎，討厭幹沒有意義的事。
9、喜歡故意讓人抓狂，最怕被冷落和不在乎。

【牡羊座 Aries】
1、倔強。遇到討厭的人，寧可受罪也不向對方求助。
2、率真坦白，討厭被欺騙。
3、冷漠。對惹火他和糾纏不休的人表現得異常明顯。
4、不圓滑不世故不記仇。遇事常猶豫，難以選擇。
5、對繁瑣的事情沒耐心，容易放棄。
6、心地善良，樂於助人。即使不喜歡的也盡力完成。
7、心軟。即使受傷，一旦對方道歉便忍不住說沒關係。
8、陌生人面前很安靜很慢熱，熟了很鬧騰。
9、有點小脾氣但很隱忍。不輕易表露自己性情和內心。

【最會壓抑自己情緒的前五名星座】

第一名：水瓶座。
水瓶座太ㄍ一ㄥ了，他不喜歡讓人看出他的喜怒哀樂，也不希望自己的生命被人家視為如此淺薄，所以會長期的用自己的方式去處理事情，在不熟的人面前他永遠都以最完美的形象出現，即使熟的人他也有所保留。

第二名：天秤座。
天秤座內心深處非常情緒化，表面上的他大部分時間會告訴自己要有風度，要笑臉迎人，不能夠造成別人的困擾，也因為如此其實他可能早就想要哭，想要崩潰，只是為了怕人家擔心而壓抑住。

第三名：處女座。
處女座對自己要求太高，他常常會恨自己不完美、恨自己不夠堅強、不夠成熟…、等等，也因此自我期許太高的處女座常常會很不快樂，他的煩惱通常都是自找的，有時候在別人看來他的壓抑其實蠻多餘的。

第四名：金牛座。
金牛座不喜歡打擾別人，也不喜歡表現脆弱的樣子給別人看，而且當他情緒不佳時會覺得自己已經夠煩了還要應付人家的問題和關心更煩，所以他表面上會ㄧ副如如不動的樣子，但是實際上他非常煩惱。

第五名：魔羯座。
魔羯座覺得自己要當一個成熟的人，他認為成熟的人就要有成熟的態度，可是有時候他自己本身的修養以及對事情的理解度和忍耐度並不夠成熟，在顯性的壓抑之下，他隱性的想要發洩，有可能上班的時候正經八百把所有的責任扛下來，可是下班的時候卻放浪形骸或者喝兩三杯小酒。


So how how? True or not? :)

The end is near...

If this semester have been any longer, I would probably have died. But I'll die in good shape ;)

I only had three modules this semesters, but two of them were extremely intensive with assignments due every week. And because the due dates are Monday and Friday respectively, I find myself not sleeping at all (or at most an hour's sleep) on every Sunday night and Thursday night for about two-third of the semester. And because of my timetable, I'll sometimes just skip lunch on Mondays and Fridays.

Well guess what, my weight has finally reached the target (I am not going to reveal the number, but it is what I have always weighed back in Year 1 and 2). So now, I am going to aim for another 2-3kg loss and try to squeeze into this dress below without any sign of suffocation:

This dress was bought online quite a while back last year, when I was still delusional about my weight issue. I could barely fit into it and my tummy was bulging out! *gasp! runs and hides in corner* 

There was no way I could comfortably walk about in this without self-consciously sucking in my breath and trying to hide my tummy. So I would occasionally try to squeeze into this piece at home and use it as my motivation. Hahaha. I guess I'm on the way to conquer it! :D

Some updates relating to school:

My final semester is more or less over for me! Save for one more class on Friday and a final year project that is about 70-80% completed. There was supposed to be a quiz next Monday for one of the heavy workload modules but the professor decided that we have real done quite a lot over the whole semester so he cancelled the quiz! Woohoo~~

And so, I am pretty free now!!! Liberation (partial) at last!! No more burning midnight oil for the next few months before work start! :)

1st All Star Open Dance Championships 2013

On my way to WM's dance competition to help out now. Excited~
Don't know what to expect though.

And I have a pimple in the inner edge of my nostril. When I tried to squeeze it, it hurts so bad I cried. So the pimple is still there. I can feel it whenever I flare my nostril.

Updated (15 April):
I've only had time to update this now that most of my assignments and projects are over.

This was my first time attending a dance competition and it was pretty amazing. Especially the night events, which were definitely of excellent standard (something to work towards to, but I doubt I can ever reach that level).

Michelle gave me the easy task of collecting score sheets from the judges initially, so I get to watch part of the competition. I had to walk quite a lot of rounds around the competition area, but for the someone who is trying to be more physically active (and losing weight), it was pretty fun. And I have to admit there were a couple of cute judges (for the Latin events). *drools*

But no long into the role of score collector, Michelle realised that she was short-handed for ushers and I was given the task to usher the competitors. Basically I have to gather up the correct competitors for the correct item and get them ready before its their turn. I have to say this is a rather saikang job and conclusion of the day: 7 year old little kids are really really hard to manage. They'll probably be wandering all around the hall and it might be only one more event before it's their turn to shine and they are no where to be found! It would usually be the parents who would be more uncooperative and bring their kids to me once I start shouting out the event number.

The whole competition lasted till late into the night and I went back to my score collecting role again after my ushering job is done.

I have to say coming for this competition kind of motivated me to put in more effort for dance. I used to just attend the elementary and intermediate courses organised by SNB so after a while, my standard just stopped improving and I am just learning the same moves over and over again. And now, I have decided to start technique classes at Dance Dynamix together with Gladys in May once my FYP is over. Hopefully, I'll improve faster and be good enough to join Viva later this year. :3

Changes

After 4 years of uni life and tons of group projects, I've come to realize that my attitude towards group work and cooperation has changed drastically.

Hotmail has been recently upgraded to Outlook and I was sorting through all the project-related emails since year 1. Back in year 1 and year 2, I was the "enthusiastic" one, who'll blast emails to everyone in the group reminding them of the deadlines, what should be done, and when we should meet blah blah blah. And most of them were equally motivated and so there were not much issues getting projects done in an orderly manner back then.

And then, I met more people for various projects, I realized that different people has different working style, the most common would be procrastination until the last minute. And I came to understand that, sometimes, there's no need to be so kan-chiong and start on the project early, especially if most of your group mates are the procrastination kind. And human beings are lazy by nature, I procrastinate too. So as long as the project gets done eventually, I really have no issue if everyone just starts working on it one day before the deadline.

So now, with less than 2 months from graduation, I have become a serious last minute worker and most of my projects are finished in less than an hour from the submission deadline. And if my more "enthu" group mates tried to get the ball rolling, I just can't be bothered anymore. :p