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Recess Week (part 2)
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by lhnkhang
This is my last shot before leaving Singapore.
6. C**ppy N'US: I don't remember exactly but the slogan is something like: "Here we let you explore your maximum strength, that's the different between them n'us". Lots of $$$ have been paid for advertisements, resulting in a unreasonable excuse to students: "we don't have enough fund", not to mention their robotic-approval procedure that eliminates the remaining opportunity of their students.
A mere SGD$500 with a lot of unnecessary warnings: quotation for air ticket must be made through their endorsed travel agents, which always connect to high-class airliners and the returned quotation always makes recipient feel dizzy and vomit; applicant must not proceed to purchase any ticket without endorsement. On acknowledging that that sum of money is fixed, why do they require a very high quotation? And on waiting of their endorsement, I lost $100 in purchasing the ticket.
7. Changi by night
For those who catch early flight in the morning: Spend your night time at Changi or you lose $30. The experience at Changi@night is nice. Recommendations from friends are great. I received 3:
- go for a coffee in the far corner of terminal 1 and have a nice and soft arm-chair,
- go up one more level, walk around until you find a more comfortable wooden chairs with metal arms (than those in hall) in a glassy corridor, where you can see the airplane park,
- Wireless@SG is compulsory for option 2. Disadvantage: you can't find more power if your battery drains out, even there is a plug. (this is the first time I use this internet).
I'm now sitting on the aforementioned chair, with my laptop on my thighs, my legs on my suitcases, my shoes on the floor, my bread aside, my battery draining out, Burger King in front, behind a glass wall. Changi is not sleeping, people are mopping the floor, adequate and sentimental music is coming down, announcement voice broadcasts periodically, airplanes are landing, airport polices are passing by...
this is the place I'm talking about
Should I sleep? Should I awake to experience this Changi by night? Yet another voice from above: "... Gate will be close 10 minutes before departure. Thank you for your cooperation..."
do you think this is innovative? I can't think of sleeping like this.
8. Vietnamese music in mainland.
I am a detester of currently so-called "young" music in Vietnam. I also dislike young singer in Vietnam. I really feel uncomfortable hearing any song in that type. I like old songs, which were sung by My Linh, Hong Nhung, Thanh Lam, ... from 1997 to 2006. I love hearing "nhạc vàng" which is sung by oversea singers. How odd I am! I prefer oversea Vietnamese singers than mainland singers.
I can't remind whether I was influenced by that kind of music when I was a child, but I used to collect many lyrics of "nhạc sến" when I was at secondary school. Only in 11th grade of high school, my friends introduced me to songs sung by ML, HN, TL and that was also the first time I've ever heard of them.
Oh yes, here is one more reason: I used to collect/borrow "hải ngoại" tapes/cds. Sometimes I bought some mainland vietnamese discs, just to pretend that I also knew what was happening in Vietnamese music development.
The introduce is over. This is the main purpose of this entry: I have just heard two Vietnamese songs presented by two singers, Hong Nhung and the young singer HAT. The former sings "Rồi Có Lúc" written by Lã Văn Cường (famously by the song Có Đôi Khi) , the latter sings "Tuyết rơi mùa hè" by Trần Lê Quỳnh (unbelievably I like 2 more songs by him: Chân Tình and Cô gái đến từ hôm qua). Why do I like them? Maybe the intro guitar in the beginning and during the song, the light voice of the singer, the influence of HongKong rhythm in the second song. Who knows?
6. C**ppy N'US: I don't remember exactly but the slogan is something like: "Here we let you explore your maximum strength, that's the different between them n'us". Lots of $$$ have been paid for advertisements, resulting in a unreasonable excuse to students: "we don't have enough fund", not to mention their robotic-approval procedure that eliminates the remaining opportunity of their students.
A mere SGD$500 with a lot of unnecessary warnings: quotation for air ticket must be made through their endorsed travel agents, which always connect to high-class airliners and the returned quotation always makes recipient feel dizzy and vomit; applicant must not proceed to purchase any ticket without endorsement. On acknowledging that that sum of money is fixed, why do they require a very high quotation? And on waiting of their endorsement, I lost $100 in purchasing the ticket.
7. Changi by night
For those who catch early flight in the morning: Spend your night time at Changi or you lose $30. The experience at Changi@night is nice. Recommendations from friends are great. I received 3:
- go for a coffee in the far corner of terminal 1 and have a nice and soft arm-chair,
- go up one more level, walk around until you find a more comfortable wooden chairs with metal arms (than those in hall) in a glassy corridor, where you can see the airplane park,
- Wireless@SG is compulsory for option 2. Disadvantage: you can't find more power if your battery drains out, even there is a plug. (this is the first time I use this internet).
I'm now sitting on the aforementioned chair, with my laptop on my thighs, my legs on my suitcases, my shoes on the floor, my bread aside, my battery draining out, Burger King in front, behind a glass wall. Changi is not sleeping, people are mopping the floor, adequate and sentimental music is coming down, announcement voice broadcasts periodically, airplanes are landing, airport polices are passing by...
this is the place I'm talking about
Should I sleep? Should I awake to experience this Changi by night? Yet another voice from above: "... Gate will be close 10 minutes before departure. Thank you for your cooperation..."
do you think this is innovative? I can't think of sleeping like this.
8. Vietnamese music in mainland.
I am a detester of currently so-called "young" music in Vietnam. I also dislike young singer in Vietnam. I really feel uncomfortable hearing any song in that type. I like old songs, which were sung by My Linh, Hong Nhung, Thanh Lam, ... from 1997 to 2006. I love hearing "nhạc vàng" which is sung by oversea singers. How odd I am! I prefer oversea Vietnamese singers than mainland singers.
I can't remind whether I was influenced by that kind of music when I was a child, but I used to collect many lyrics of "nhạc sến" when I was at secondary school. Only in 11th grade of high school, my friends introduced me to songs sung by ML, HN, TL and that was also the first time I've ever heard of them.
Oh yes, here is one more reason: I used to collect/borrow "hải ngoại" tapes/cds. Sometimes I bought some mainland vietnamese discs, just to pretend that I also knew what was happening in Vietnamese music development.
The introduce is over. This is the main purpose of this entry: I have just heard two Vietnamese songs presented by two singers, Hong Nhung and the young singer HAT. The former sings "Rồi Có Lúc" written by Lã Văn Cường (famously by the song Có Đôi Khi) , the latter sings "Tuyết rơi mùa hè" by Trần Lê Quỳnh (unbelievably I like 2 more songs by him: Chân Tình and Cô gái đến từ hôm qua). Why do I like them? Maybe the intro guitar in the beginning and during the song, the light voice of the singer, the influence of HongKong rhythm in the second song. Who knows?
