In Dreams.

(Which is also the title of this great movie starring Annette Bening and Robert Downey, Jr. Coincidence? OF COURSE NOT!)

When I get really nervous about something, I dream about them days beforehand. I know. Freak alert. But true.
Instances:

1) Form 3 government exam results was released: Day before, I dreamt that I got 6A's. And I thought, "That's not too bad. At least it's not 2A's. And most definitely, 6 is bigger than 2. So that's really, really good, considering I only got 2A's for my Standard 6 government exam." Turns out I got 7. Which is also good, if not even better, since 7 is not only bigger than 2, but also bigger than 6. Yay me.

2) Form 5 government exam results: This is REALLY something to be nervous about, since it determines whether you're able to go to college or Form 6, and you'd have to pass Malay to do so. Otherwise, no matter how many A's you have, once you get an F for Malay, it's an automatic failure for the entire exam. Which means retaking the whole thing. Oh hooey. Anyway, not only did I dream about the whole thing, but I dreamt about the entire thing twice! With two very different situations!
Situations:
i) 9A's. Few days before.
ii) 6A's. And this was the day before the results were out. In fact, I dreamt about my classmates' results as well. Mei Lin got 13A's (I'm not sure what she actually got), Mei Chen got 11 (I don't know why, she only took 10 subjects), and the rest of us were moping about because we didn't do so well. And Keng Yee was whining about her 8A's, and I was like, 'Stop complaining, at least you got 8!' (Surprisingly, she DID get 8 in real life. I think. Oh dear...)

So far, whatever I'm nervous about, I have dreams about. It's weird though, the past few times. I'm nervous about my results, REALLY nervous, since they all cost a lot of money (the government ones are free; it's just embarassing when you flunk them), but I haven't had the dreams. But recently, I've had dreams because I was REALLY, REALLY nervous about my exam results that came out yesterday (which, very luckily, I passed). Just not the ones that are exams results-related.

Dream 1, two days before: Stuart Townsend's back as Lestat, and as usual, I'm gushing over how gorgeous he looks (I mean, critics may've liked Tom Cruise in Interview With The Vampire, but I say Stuart Townsend IS Lestat. Probably because he looks SO MUCH BETTER in the white make-up. AND they didn't die his hair pure blonde. Which they should've, like the book, but thank goodness they didn't. And that feline grace and whatnot all came into play as well). The whole movie (or show, I'unno) is about Lestat going around and seducing all the women on the island. I don't remember seeing any blood-drinking, but I do remember wondering which book the movie was based on ("not Memnoch, not Body Thief, not..." etc.). And I saw Keira Knightley and a bunch of other familiar faces in there, and I was like, "Not bad for a direct-to-TV/DVD movie!" Stuart Townsend's a really random choice. I haven't seen Queen Of The Damned in ages. But I did see him in Aeon Flux. And Trapped. Okay, maybe not so random at all.

Dreams 2, day before or something: I have absolutely no idea why, but Stephenie, Pamela and I were in this bookstore, and we were looking for books, and alluva sudden, the cast of Heroes walks in! (Honestly, I can't believe that I'm actually THAT crazy about the show). I see Sendhil Ramamurthy, Zachary Quinto, Kristen Bell, and some others that I can't remember (their faces, not their names). And I was like, "Ohmigosh, that's HEROES!!" I kept freaking out, and my friends couldn't care a hoot (they were like, "Ohhhh....", then went back to whatever they were doing) because they don't watch the show (not that they don't WANT to, the show just doesn't air on free TV. Really surprising though, since 8TV gets all the really good shows first), so they don't know the significance of the entire thing. Sheesh.

So that's that. Yesterday night I dreamt that I was brushing my teeth. And then I spit. And the action itself felt so real that I woke up and felt my front, and I was like, "Whew! No spit."

Then I felt that my sleeve was wet and I was like, "Ewwww..."

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Heroes: Generations Chapter 9: Cautionary Tales

FINALLY! They've upped the anté! This episode is by far, the best and most interesting one of the season! Even my mom leaned in (cos we were watching in on the ol' big laptop) to watch, and she rarely does that with the other previous episodes. Anywho, my round-up:

(As usual, spoiler warning)

Hiro: Hiro's really upset that his dad died so he goes back in time to prevent it. He manages to get back to the night Kaito died, during Kaito's conversation with Angela. Kaito then tells him that it's fate that he has to die, and that Hiro shouldn't try to save him and change history. Hiro (naturally!) tries to convince Kaito otherwise, and takes him back further to the time when Hiro's mom died. Then there's this really heartwarming sequence where Hiro meets and talks to Past Hiro (about 10 years old or something). You'd think that part'd be draggy but it isn't. After talking to Little Hiro, Big Hiro's finally convinced that Kaito has to die, since it's already destined so. He teleports Kaito back to the rooftop, says his final goodbyes, then leaves. Then it happens. Halfway through, everything freezes, and Hiro steps out, saying he can't change the past, but he can find out who the murderer is (at that point, Kaito and Hoodie are just a little over the edge). Hiro goes closer, and guess WHO?! TAKEZO KENSEI!!! Well, at least now Hiro knows who he's up against.

Matt: Matt's section is usually really tedious and boring, I find. Lately though, his powers are evolving, so he's getting much more interesting. He now finds out that he can do... (drum-roll, please)... mind-control. He tells Molly to finish her cereal. Haha. Jedi mind-tricking everyone, he manages to get the chance to interrogate Angela about the last of the final 12, since no one knows where she is. Angela's really fighting it, and she tells him that the final member just wants to be left alone, and that if he were to pry that information out of her, he'd be no different than his own father. So Matt stops and thinks a bit. If I'm not wrong, he didn't press for the last member's location, but when the camera pans onto the picture of the 12, we see that the final unknown member now has a name: Victoria Pratt. (By the way, wasn't there a Victoria Pratt in Cleopatra 2525?)

Claire's people and the Company: Claire doesn't want to leave Costa Verde, and Bob, Elle and Mohinder are coming for her. And we finally get confirmation that Bob is Elle's dad. West still feels betrayed that Noah is his HRG and thinks that Claire was spying on him, so he swoops down on Noah and asks him for the truth, SKY HIGH!! So anyway, Noah tells him it, and West lands. Earlier on, Noah had asked Mohinder to look up where West is. Since Mohi is working with BobElle, he gives him the wrong street name. Luckily for us ('cuz Noah's so bad-ass you can't help but love the guy), Noah already has West, and knows it's a trap. So there.

Noah drives down to the road and meets up with Mohi. Mohi says they just want to take a sample of Claire's blood. Noah refuses, so Elle comes along to do damage control. Then out of nowhere, West swoops down and knocks her out cold. Mohi pulls his gun out, and there's this quick cut-scene to the painting of Mohi pointing a gun directly towards the viewer. Noah knocks the gun out of Mohi's hand, and hits him in his already-broken nose. Yay.

On the other side, Bob approaches Claire while she's in cheerleading practice. She runs home to find her dad and to warn everyone else. By then, Noah had already shown Sandra the pictures of the 8 paintings, the 8th being his death. Finally(!!), Claire sees the 8th. Honestly, I know that Noah's trying to protect Claire, but he really should've shown her the picture earlier. Then Bob comes in with a gun, and takes Claire away. He then extracts her blood, quite a lot of it, actually.

Noah comes back with West and Elle, and frees Sandra (who was duct-taped by Bob). He then drenches Elle with water so she can't conduct electricity. Ha! When she tries to, the whole electricity thing spreads (it's really painful), then Noah says, "Stings like a bitch, doesn't it?"

He's way cool.

We then find out that Elle was experimented heavily on when she was a kid (because of her abilities), and that her father was the one who was heading the research team. That's why Noah doesn't want to let Claire up to the Company. So now Elle's a bit deflated (since she's perky and rather unperturbed most of the time). Noah calls Bob to make a trade-off. At the trade-off, the, erm, trade-off happens. West flies off with Claire. But as Elle's walking over to Bob and Mohi, she uses her electricity powers to break the duct tape (she was duct-taped), and she hurls a bolt at West and Claire. West gets hit, they both fall, Claire lands first (since she can't die) so that West would be alright (well, wouldn't be any worse off than he already is). Noah shoots Elle, hitting her in the arm, and Bob runs to her. Noah wants to kill Bob, but Mohi pulls his gun out, threatens him a bit with it, then shoots him in the eye. We see Claire running to her father, and West restraining her (at least now we know that she wasn't KISSING WEST when her father dies!), like in the 8th painting. West flies off with Claire.

In the end, we see a blood bag with an IV linking into a man's arm. Camera pans upward, and it's Noah, broken glasses and all. Ruined, shot-out eye slowly becomes not ruined, and then Noah wakes up. How cool is that?! HRG DIDN'T DIE!! YAYNESS!!

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Heroes: Generations Chapter 8: Four Months Ago

Well, this is the episode we've been waiting for.

First of all, we have Nathan and Peter flying off. Messageboards have been saying, 'Why couldn't Peter have flown off and blow himself up instead of making his brother do it?' Well now, it's cos Peter's doing all he can to not blow up, and can't fly or use any other powers. So there.
Peter blows up, Nathan gets thrown off, it's all really cool. Sucks for Nathan though; he got charred. Really, really charred. Like really, blackened chicken (or any other bird or thing, if you will).

Anyway, Peter (flying!) catches him and sends him to the hospital. Then he's walking (someplace?), then this lightning bolt flies out and hits in the back. It's Ecletical Elle! And Bob! Who's her daddy! (He really is. Chapter 11 description).

When Peter comes to, he's with Elle and Bob. Long story short (I know, too late), Peter's gonna use the Company's new drug to suppress his powers, since he doesn't want to endanger the people around him.

(Basically the whole episode is of Peter being in his cell, with Elle bringing him his meds. Oh, and she's the one that cut his hair. And guess who's next door? ADAM!)

Maya and Alejandro: Alejandro's wedding, Maya catches his wife cheating with her ex, ex threatens Maya, she cries, whole town dies. That's pretty much sums it.

Niki and DL: Bob tells Niki that she might have other personalities and gives her meds. But they make her unbelievably depressed (or something) so she washes them down the drain. Turns out that she does have another personality, and her name's Gina! Gina takes over, and goes to LA. DL manages to track Gina down (she left a note) and when they start to leave, that other dude that she was dancing with pops out in front of them, and shoots DL in the chest. Point-blank. And that's what killed him.

Now that's a seriously lame way to die. I mean, getting shot by Linderman doesn't kill you, but getting shot by a flunky DOES??? How lame is THAT?? Honestly, the writers don't do DL's death justice.

Anyway, from this episode we know why Nathan doesn't have any scars. Adam used his blood to heal him.

Nothing on Sylar. I specifically remember the preview saying, 'What happened to Sylar?' I wanted to see how Candice hauled his ass into the sewers (seeing that he is pretty tall), and then flew his ass all the way to South America.

I still think last week's episode was the best.

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The Trinity of all illnesses!

Anywho, I got the Fever-Food Poisoning Combo on Monday. Suffice to say, it was not good. And even now, I still don't know why I got it. Was it the chicken? The overtly-rich ice-cream? Meh. Either way, the combo was a major ass-painer.

So for the entire Monday, I was just laying there in bed, feeling sorry for myself. Well, not really, since I felt so sucky I wasn't even SURE that I could feel sorry for myself. I mean, can you imagine pooping and puking at the same time? Sucks even more ass than it actually sounds. Lying down was the only way to stop the puking. Somehow, standing up made me puke, which was really weird, since I figured, lying down would be easier to get the food up your throat, rather than standing, what with gravity and all. Science is so weird. Makes me wish I'd done a biology degree.

Tuesday, we went to see the doctor's. Came back, didn't puke (luckily!), and I had to take TWO tablets for antibiotics TWICE a day! Overdose already! Six meds to take (luckily, they're on a need-to basis). I pretty much took the vomit pills first. I hate vomiting. At least now I know that I'll never be bulimic.

Wednesday was slightly better, but I keep having headaches. Worse, my nose kept getting stuck, even when I wasn't laughing before. I realized that I had the flu. Great. The Trinity of all Illnesses: The Flu-Fever-Food Poisoning Combo!

Thursday: Kept myself together for a bit, and wasn't too headachy when I downloaded the new Heroes episode. Meh. Personally I felt that last week's the best. But they're gonna wrap up the Volume soon. Hopefully next week's would be more fast-paced. And will Sylar kill someone already!

Friday (today, DUH!): Realized that the headaches were from lack of sleep. It's not like I'm not turning in late; it's just that I CAN'T BLOODY FALL ASLEEP!! I'm sick, and I'm restless. What luck. Anyway, felt a little bit better today (fingers crossed!) to blog. Emailed my friend's landlady, yadda yadda yadda etc. I think it's gonna be a boring weekend.

Really though, you'd think that one day of purging and not eating would make your stomach smaller. Well, smaller a little bit, at any rate. Funny. I had an egg sandwich just now. I still want a noodle.

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Heroes Caption Contest XIV

And I did it once again! Yatta! And they still think I'm a dude. Sheesh! Anyway, here's the snapshot:And here's the link with the rest of the comments: Heroes Caption Contest XIV
The one about The Writers Guild Association was pretty good. And so was the one about the telekinetic mucus extraction.

This is Piggy, signing off!

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Heroes Caption Contest XIII - HeroesFanatic.com

(I know, info overload, but I haven't updated in a while cos of exams)

The other time I joined the Heroes Caption Contest, but couldn't really claim credit for it, since I used a different username instead of my usual one. Well, ever since then, I've been using my usual one (every single week!), and I scored one again! Here it is: I know, I know, I shouldn't use the HaLo angle all the time, but really, I only did that because all the good ones have already been taken (and the good ones are dirtay!). Here's the link to the other comments: Heroes Caption Contest XIII. As you can see, the first few ones already hit the spot. And I'm a she!!

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Music, music, music....

So I finally got a reply from the university enrolment officer, saying that I can be exempted in prerequisite part since I have a Grade 8 distinction (yes, thank you very much!). All I've to do now is think about whether I want to take the two electives in Semester 2 (which means that, the people that I want to show my electives off to would've graduated already), or to spread out the electives for two semesters (one each). The one that needs the prerequisite has a paper in Music History, something that I'm interested in. Decisions, decisions, decisions....

Talking about music, the past few days I was checking out Weird Al Yankovic. Yup, that's right. His videos are absolutely hilarious! If I hadn't seen the videos, I don't think I'd have appreciated his music more. Smells Like Nirvana was really spot-on with the original Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. Fat was cute. I really wish he'd do a video for every parody he does. Right now, Trapped In The Drive-Thru (based on R. Kelly's Trapped In The Closet; which is pretty nice in itself) is running through my head.

Pamela told me that she likes System Of A Down's Lonely Day. I was really surprised; System Of A Down's alternative, and she's pretty much stuck on oldies and mildies. Turns out the song had a bit part in Disturbia, and as Shia LaBeouf is her current craze (I get it, he's very likeable, but he's not cute, ya know), I'm guessing that Disturbia is her favourite movie right now. Anyway, I checked out the song, it's not bad. Love the music; too bad about the lyrics. Maybe it's just me, but I find it kinda emo. There's only so many times you can say 'lonely day' in every sentence. I mean, Weird Al did say 'drive-thru' 7 or 8 times, but it's a parody! Like, R. Kelly said 'closet' like 5 times before the song ended!

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Heroes: Generations Chapter 7: Out Of Time

(Okay, so I skipped Chapter 6. I wanted to watch it yesterday, but Part 3 didn't download right, so I got sick of the whole thing and didn't watch it. At any rate, I've read the episode summary last week already)

Spoilers? Most definitely!

Chapter 7, by far, is the only one with the most going on, compared to the previous episodes, which were quite slow (even Chapter 3, with Sylar in it), and I find, is the best at the moment. Let's go character by character:

Hiro: Hiro escapes, and goes back to blow up Whitebeard's guns, but not before having a (mild) swordfight with Kensei. Kensei says he'll make sure everyone of Hiro's suffers (personally, Hiro should say that it's proven that he can never be with the person he loves, so boo on you). Guns blow up, tents blow up, Kensei's in them, so he pretty much burns too. Then seeing that his work is done, Hiro leaves for the future(!), but not before getting emotional when he has to leave Yaeko. It's actually pretty heartfelt, and FINALLY(!!), we get to see Hiro and Ando in the same scene. Hiro even did a 'Yatta!' He's so cute...

Mohinder, Bob, Nathan, Matt, Niki (long list, haha): Last week, Niki came to be Mohinder's significant other in the Company, and by that, I mean she became his partner (I'm tempted to put the word 'mutant' before 'partner', but apparently they make it a point to not to use the word 'mutant'. Hence, the word 'Heroes'). The bunch knows that Maury is after Bob, and Bob wants Matt to fight his father, seeing that they have the same powers (duplication!), only that Maury's is more evolved.

Then we have a DL sighting! Maury was tinkering with Niki, so she sees DL and starts talking to him. Mohinder sees her as being nuts, then realizes that Maury is there. He tries to pacify Niki, but since she's in her nightmare, she throws Mohi against the wall (or something). Bob and Nathan (more on them later) hears it, and so does Matt, who's sitting with Comatose Molly.

Matt goes out of the room, and instead of the white walls of the Company, it's his dad's apartment (I think). Molly's there, and she says that this is where the Nightmare Man (ie Maury) keeps her. Matt already knows that he can speak to people using his mind, so he telepathically calls for his father. And then his father's there! In the same room! Maury's like, 'Did you bring me in here?' and Matt's like, 'Yeah.' Matt manages to turn the tables on his father, and leave the room with Molly through the door he came in from (because at first he tried to bring Molly out, but the door wouldn't open), saying that the room isn't his nightmare, but actually Maury's (because Maury left when Matt was 12, and something about guilt or whatnot). Matt wakes up, Molly wakes up, and there on the floor, is Maury, trapped in his own nightmare. This whole part was way cool. At first I thought Molly was part of Maury's work, but it wasn't. Oh well.

Niki was persuaded (by Fake DL) to jab one (the virus) in Bob, but managed to snap out of it in time to stick it in herself. On to curing Niki, we say, but when Mohi tries to, he finds out that the viral strain has developed immunity towards his blood. He can't cure her. Dang. Bob tells Mohi that there's this girl who can regenerate (yeah, three guesses who that is. For the uninitiated, it's Claire), and that if they can get a sample of her blood, they might be able to cure Niki. Then Bob gives Mohi a Company-issued gun, just in case Noah tries anything. There's a painting of a broken-nosed Mohi holding a Company gun, barrel smoking. How ominous. Then Mohi tells Bob that he's been working with Noah the past few months to take the Company down. I was like, 'Whut?'. Serious overstep there, pal!

Earlier on (before the big fight), we have Bob and Nathan talking. Bob's telling him (I can't remember whether he told the rest or not) that Maury is actually a pawn of this guy called Adam Monroe, the main founder of the Company who brought everyone together. They locked Adam up, but he escaped two weeks ago. Bob also tells Nathan that Peter's alive, but they lost track of him. And then Niki-Maury-Matt happened. Yadda yadda yadda.

Claire: has been boring the past few weeks. I was beginning to feel that she's only there to remind people that she's still part of the regular cast. FINALLY, West finds out that HRG is her father. He then takes off. Noah realizes that the prank West and Claire pulled in Chapter 6 (the one making Debbie look like she was drunk) was, well, pulled by West and Claire. He confronts her, and tells the family that they're moving away. Claire says, 'You're just gonna have to go without me,' then storms off.

Peter: is in NYC 2008, having travelled there the previous episode with Caitlin, and finds out that 93% of the world's population is dead, and NYC's already evacuated. Then a bunch of people in those quarantine suits come along, and hose them down, in case of infection. Then the guy-in-charge (Darn it, can't remember his name) tells Peter that the Shanti virus infected almost everyone, is highly contagious, and then shows people this huge warehouse with loads of body-bags, all victims of the virus. Yikes. Caitlin is about to deported back to Ireland. Yikesier.

Angela shows up, and of course, having amnesia, Peter doesn't know who she is. Then he has this flash-back thing going on, memories, and then he finally recognises her as his mother. Cue emotional moment. Then Angela was about to take him someplace(?) and alongside (separated by those wire fences), people were being herded out, and Peter sees Caitlin. Naturally, she's panicking, and they hold hands through the wire fence. Next thing Peter knows, he's back in the present. Without Caitlin. What a conundrum. And poor girl. I mean, if they're gonna kill her off, the least they could do is let her die in her own time. Sheesh.

Peter's left holding the piece of paper (from this guy called Adam, back in Chapter 6) that led him into the big mess in the first place. All that time-travelling and he (and we!) still don't know who Adam is (but this part is nearing the end, so I think we can pretty much gues that Adam = Mr. Monroe = evil dude). Naturally frustrated, he does a Hiro, meaning, scrunching his face up with his eyes closed and hoping that he can time travel. Then he hears something behind him and shoots a lightning bolt in that direction. A hand catches the bolt, goes black (because it got burned), and then immediately heals up. Then this dude steps out and says, 'It's me, Adam. We're gonna save the world.' Or something along those lines. Anyway, Adam's a familiar face, and guess who he is?! TAKEZO KENSEI!!!! HE DIDN'T DIE!!! WAY COOL!!

Next week = What happened four months ago. The aptly-titled Chapter 8: Four Months Ago. Definitely cannot wait!

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