I try to see the good in life, but good things in life are hard to find

2009-09-30T22:29:00.008+08:00

hihi!! another last day of the month post...

well, sept is over which means IM FREE!!! no more projs and deadlines!! wooooo, finally everything is settled!! sept jus flew pass man, been kept pretty busy everyday of the month but they're all gone now and its onwards exams which is a month away... shall relax and reward myself abit first den start mugging. wala wala comes to mind immediately and i honestly hope to go once b4 exams begin, that will really get the mood going man!!

moving on, paintball tag last sun and it was zai!! damn fun and exhilarating.... if only the games could have lasted longer, missions ended very quickly ah but it was fun. improvements would be to have longer scenarios but we have limited paintballs, so thats a bane in itself. LETS PLAY THE 250 PAINTBALLS ONE NXT TIME!!! its definitely worth it. honestly, i think the bruises add to the game and makes it much more exciting. chronos being a sitting duck was another plus point. ahahahaha.

well, thats that for now, unless i start going on abt my projs which is really quite tedious and a bore though eye candy does help alot. =)

cheers man!!

shirlyn, im coming soon!!!

2009-08-31T22:47:00.000+08:00

last day of aug.... all i can say is the month of aug has been crazy and sept will be crazier!! sch work's piling up and hopefully when sept ends, i'll be able to take a breather b4 going crazy again with exam mugging.

this sem feels lethargic, freaking slack feeling but when it gets crazy, its quite a struggle ah.

BUT!! always look on the bright side of life man, good news? projects getting shot down 1 by 1 as we move forward which can only mean brighter days ahead.

this past sat, went to lunar with colin and jaz for some mini Beyond concert. ah paul and sai wing rocks the crowd man, definitely better than the indoor stadium concert. event wise, it sucked balls ah, fucking crowded and had to stand for fucking 2 1/2hrs before they came out. FUCK YOU LUNAR!! cheat money event, had to stand, no crowd management and no entry drinks. but kudos to u for bringing the guys in, cannot fault u for effort.

new EPL season's started too, united not playing really well ah. still blunt, hopefully its jus a phase man, aft drawing level with them last season on domestic titles, we gotta overtake loserpool and make it 20yrs without the title for them!! even blackburn has more EPL titles than them, beat that LOSERS!!

alrite... sch tml and hopefully i can understand wad that bugger harry tan is gonna teach.

cheers kids!!

2009-07-05T01:15:00.013+08:00

老友看见我, 也会惊讶
平日杯酒不沾, 今晚总喝不厌
浅灰色烟圈, 浸没了我的脸
宁愿听旧笑话, 安慰可免则免
我说我爱你够份量了吗
我努力试探你, 接受我的真心可以吗
我太过爱你, 你会被我吓怕, 不是吗
怎么你眼里只得他
我也不知道
如今这算甚么, 你是否非他不嫁
当选了是他, 我认输都不可怕
最怕其实被取消资格
还不知道拼命挣扎
如今这算甚么, 我是否这么讨厌
只知道付出, 以后都不知怎算
最怕其实是输得很远
还不知道惹人生厌

老友看见我, 也会惊讶
平日杯酒不沾, 今晚总喝不厌
浅灰色烟圈, 浸没了我的脸
宁愿听旧笑话, 安慰可免则免
我说我爱你够份量了吗
我努力试探你, 接受我的真心可以吗
我太过爱你, 你会被我吓怕, 不是吗
怎么你眼里只得他
我也不知道
如今这算甚么, 你是否非他不嫁
当选了是他, 我认输都不可怕
最怕其实被取消资格
还不知道拼命挣扎
如今这算甚么, 我是否这么讨厌
只知道付出, 以后都不知怎算
最怕其实是输得很远
还不知道惹人生厌

多么想知道
如今这算甚么, 你是否非他不嫁
当选了是他, 我认输都不可怕
最怕其实被取消资格
还不知道拼命挣扎
如今这算甚么, 我是否这么讨厌
只知道付出, 以后都不知怎算
最怕其实是输得很远
还不知道惹人生厌

取消資格 - 陈小春

2009-06-30T23:04:00.008+08:00

Prison Break's back on tv man!!! been stuck to the tube every tues to thurs trying to make sense of the huge conspiracy thats going on... understanding abit here and there but its Prison Break so i guess i'll not understand anything until the end man. its hugely great as always and i personally prefer this season to the previous one, much more exciting and twists, who would expect don self to be a fucking bastard sia. nv know wads gonna happen in the series and thats wad makes it so addictive, been trying to stay away from all the spoilers too, which is really hard since everything prison break on the internet contains spoilers. last season for the show, so yeah, gotta enjoy it every min i can although its nice that the producers decide to end it while on a high rather than let it turn into a draggy affair. Fav character has to be Mahone; William Fichtner is a damn zai actor, stellar performance from him all the way since his introduction man. and Sarah Wayne Callies is darn hot, not Megan Fox hot but hot in her own way.

moving on, sch's starting in a week and its like FINALLY!! timetable's getting screwed every other day due to H1N1, so i have no idea whether my schedule's gonna change or not. but heck, it jus feels great to be finally going back to sch and making myself useful. sch's really great man, jus hate exam periods but well, thats life.

sharon's convo coming up too, exciting events all ard with BBQ at her place the same weekend too. cant wait cant wait!!

met up with ismail and the guys recently, that was cool. esp since i havent seen him since like forever, great time catching up and yeah definitely need to meet up more often man.

United finally got rid of ronaldo man. no feelings whatsoever abt him leaving, cos i guess every united fan could see it coming lar. and 80m pounds for a whiner is definitely good business man. why keep someone who's clearly becoming bigger than the team? if rooney left, prob i'l rile cos he plays his heart out for us but ronaldo? to put it mildly, he's jus a mercenary who believes himself to be the greatest. well, at least this din drag on forever like last time and we'll have ample time to source for replacements.

so yeah, hopefully i'll have another great time in sch this time ard and towards the unravelling of the Prison Break mystery!!

2009-05-24T21:51:00.013+08:00

hi kids, life's good i hope??

anyhow, exams been over for nearly a month alr and all i can do is pray and hope that the questions i missed dun come back and haunt me....

yep, so its the holidays now and damn im wasting my life away man. the month of may is a freaking quiet one, nothing much going on.... i know i've always wanted a peaceful and quiet life, but i think this is a little too peaceful and quiet for my liking. its kinda ironic, when exams were there i couldnt wait for it to be over and now i cant wait for sch to start again. anybody with temporary jobs pls recommend ya, i could really do with the work and money.

im crazed abt calvin and hobbes again, i dunno why but its started again. all i can say is, that little bastard nv fails to surprise me ah, can come up with all sorts of nonsense. he is like the bratty kid within every adult who wans things their own way, quote bill watterson. i guess that probably true, acting as an outlet where pple can see themselves reflected in him and laugh at his antics while half wishing they could be like him too.

yeps yeps, thats calvin to me, probably i'll talk abt hobbes in the nxt post together with sweet susie. leave u guys with a pic of that kid ya. =)

2009-04-23T22:53:00.006+08:00

ALRIGHT!!! My first exam in 3 yrs man!!! feelings? my hand wanna break alr lar!! kaos, really, lack of practice makes one rusty... was struggling to finish my last 2 qns with 20mins to go ah, no joke sia, frantic is the word man. but when the invilgilator said 5mins left, the feeling became screw it lar, alr did my best. ahahaha. so i slowed down, wrote my index number and freaking drink water. =)

anyhow, think too long nv study, so the feeling still takes some getting used to ah. the preparation and mugging. either that or the lazy bones in me has fully grown and i'll jus have to slog my ass thru the nxt 3 sems man. ahahahaha. bo bian....

i believe that education is the best investment..... bah!! yeah rite!! =P

kaes, teck out.... gonna sleep early and have good sleeping habits from now onwards. i hope.

早睡早起精神好!!!

2009-03-02T22:00:00.010+08:00

hi hi!!! its been awhile ya, sch's started and its jus been a blur since. cant really recollect the happenings here and there. BUT i do know that i have seen The UnXpected more times this year compared to the whole of last year. so YAYS!!! the band's still as zai as ever!! things i rmb are as follows.

had 2e3 gathering in jan. not everybody turned up but at least its half the class!! another one where we can have better attendance hopefully. well, it was cool seeing everybody aft so long. 2e3 is honestly the coolest class ever lar!! all the bad things, u name it, we did it. den malaysia with the guys. nothing much except 8 guys bought 48 slices of cake or 4 whole cakes!! and the cheap seafood!! shall go again soon, with full attendance hopefully.

sch?? well, still trying to get used to studying again. ain't tough jus weird. actually hor, i think i quite suay lar. 2 tests in a week and 1 of it on a bloody sat. WTH, friday lost its meaning lar!! ahahahaha. but the first test confirm get HD and the second? could have been better prepared but think i did alrite. and god, all those writing, my hand still feeling it ah. shall strive to be a better student from now on.

of cos, theres this band i jus jus found out, they're called Avenged Sevenfold. kinda cool, not like those poppy rock bands so common today. its a totally ability based band. forgot where i first heard them, but well, they're good so who cares.

xh turned 21 not so long ago!! spent the nite at where?? if ur guess is wala wala den u are so smart. dunnoe why leh, felt like the band was off form that nite, but still got nice songs here and there lar. they always come up with something great. and now that i've gotten xh and elene there, i bet they are impressed and will wanna go there again!! so YAY!! more wala kakis. anyhow, happy bdae to xh again and hope she liked the present we got her. think she did lar, cos i chose it mah. =D

recently, dunnoe why, im on a My Name is Earl, F.R.I.E.N.D.S and Band of Brothers craze all over again. so anybody who wishes to buy the dvd boxset of the above mentioned for me, im all for it man!!! ahahaha, jokes aside, the following is the theme for Band of Brothers, its damn meaningful ah. read and ponder.

You Never Lived To See
What You Gave To Me
One Shining Dream of Hope and Love
Life and Liberty

With A Host of Brave Unknown Soldiers
For Your Company, You Will Live Forever
Here In Our Memory

In Fields of Sacrifice
Heroes Paid The Price
Young Men Who Died For Old Men's Wars
Gone to Paradise

We Are All One Great Band of Brothers
And One Day, You'll See We Can Live Together
When All The World Is Free

I Wish You'd Lived To See
All You Gave To Me
Your Shining Dream of Hope and Love
Life and Liberty

We are All One Great Band of Brothers
And One Day You'll See - We Can Live Together
When All The World Is Free

shall post again soon i hope....

2009-01-01T06:44:00.004+08:00

GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY!!! 2009 has finally arrived upon us and lets all make it a wonderful yr ahead ya!! Cheerios everybody!!

heres a very very quick review of wads happened in dec 2008 for me:

15th dec - last day of work, feeling would be can slack but sch gonna start, thanx for the gift from colleagues.
19th dec - meet my grp mates for xmas gift exchange, fun fun but talk till no train home sia!! lol, thanx for all the gifts though!!
24th dec - xmas dinner at tom's and den Wala!!! to see The UnXpected!! sian, set that day sucked, but still some nice songs here and there, One Headlight was good. and Asri's last performance with the band... wonders why though. think it was more exciting playing at the bus stop then at Wala sia. 'pocky photos' and 'guess the song', cool shit. and we got elene drunk at tom's!!
25th dec - m'sia trip with saf, totally shag ah, yours truly slept for 30mins aft wala and left for johore sia. but still interesting... can go there more often for a short shopping trip and good cakes
31st dec - shopped for bbq food and den meet 2e3 guys for dinner and fireworks. its a tradition ah. found a FREAKING good spot for the fireworks, kwee's fren's recommendation, super great!! can see everything, way better view than any of the previous yr's view!! den Timbre for The UnXpected!! yep yep!! set was good, Shirlyn sang 'Always Be My Baby'!!!, super nice can, think the guys enjoyed the band too. feels that Timbre is also more conducive compared to Wala. shall compare nxt time when really go there to enjoy the food and band.
1st Jan 2009 - 7.09am now, gonna leave in 3mins time to go market and buy fresh BBQ stuff, hadnt slept a wink since 11am, 31st Dec..... but i'll not get to enjoy this sort of freedom much longer...

HAVE A GREAT YEAR EVERYBODY!!!

2008-11-16T23:54:00.014+08:00

well well well, its day 0 + 8 ah so i'll try my best to recollect wadever i can of the concert ya. interesting thing was Best suffered a blown tyre at ECP ah, stranded with phone no batt, totally cannot contact him, everybody gan cheong like nothing lar. luckily he made it in time though.

anyhow, beyond started the concert with a bang ah, Suicide and Redemption by MetallicA was played before they came out ah, cool shit rite? power lar. anyhow, i expected like maybe ah paul and sai wing coming out tog and singing a few songs tog den break solo parts but dun have leh. it was 1hr of sai wing followed by 1hr of ah paul den encore part with 45mins of Beyond. have to say im kinda disappointed, cos i expected them to sing more songs tog but ended up only 45mins of combined effort. but still, it was freaking high ah, me and colin kenna chase by usher to sit down at our seats lar. sucks, cannot get the mood up. it was great to see the crowd singing along though, songs like, Amani, 海闊天空, 不再犹豫, 真的爱你 and 岁月无声 was the high point of sing alongs. think ah paul is the obvious crowd fav ba, when he came out the screams blew thru the roof ah and he even played a guitar part with his teeth ah, behind Kirk Hammett, he's like my fav guitarist le, can be considered a virtuoso too ba.

and i loved it when ah paul sang 情人, so soulful lar, reminds me of ka kui. but honestly, they jus doesn seem to capture the song as well as ka kui did, something abt ka kui's voice that jus makes the song so much better, so much more emotion in the song ba. and the fact that he wrote most of Beyond's songs and they are still popular today proves something. and its his voice definitely lar, super rock songs, ballads, all good lar. here's some evidence.

喜欢你. love ballad thats so bittersweet.

灰色轨迹, my fav song of all, and this comes with subtitles although the eng not very good but still kudos to the poster for the effort.

不再犹豫, well, follow ur dreams and strive towards it man.

午夜怨曲, well i dunnoe how to explain, very deep song, interpret it urself ba.

Amani, anti-war song, written right aft they visited africa, peace lovers too man. its abt the situation in africa ah, asking for peace and when will the war ever end, and in the end, its the kids who suffer becos of the war.

i guess the reason why the songs of Beyond are so popular is becos it strikes a chord with the general population ba, the struggles of the common citizen, and the striving to make our lives better.

this is random but i jus realised the bands that i really really like actually all lost one of their most influential members to the God of Death; MetallicA lost Cliff Burton and Beyond lost Ka Kui well, wad a strange coincidence, i guess thats wad makes their rise even more intriguing ba.

Beyond Rocks!!!

2008-10-27T23:11:00.012+08:00

its been raining almost daily for the past week ah, its starting to get irritating man. honestly, i like it when it rains, its jus so nice, dunnoe how to describe, its jus nice lar. but, it has now becomed too much of a good thing ah, kinda getting on my nerves, jus feels like its gloomy all day long. anyhow, soccer last week was in rainy conditions. power lar, love to play when it rains cos u wont feel the heat and it jus seems like i could run on and on and on, esp the feeling of the rain on ur face is nicest of all le. den again, its makes for playing all the more hard ah, ball will skid, u will slip and passing is so much more diff but its a test of our abilities no? jus hope that it doesnt rain as much, except maybe when im sleeping, u should know how it feels when it rains heavily in the middle of the nite when u are sleeping ah. jus SHIOK lar!!

ok, enuff of this rain stuff. went to 2 of my fav places recently ah, MINDS and Tom's Palette (when am i going wala again? i miss shirlyn leh) tom's was the usual ice cream and talk cock ah, but ice cream was on the house thanks to mistake from the boss. hahaha. the peanut butter ice cream was great ah, gives me the 'tang yuan' feeling all over again. anyhow, they are trying out new things now and its jus so nice to see them trying to improve their business and giving their customers new treats - eunice researching on how to display their ice cream aesthetically, and making new web page. and the waffle we tried was good ah, had cheese integrated into it, so its like doubly good man. hehehe.

MINDS with my 2e3 gang, and hwa san joined us. a rare occurence ah but yeah man, hopefully he can turn up more. anyhow, hwa san is like josh ah, frens since P1 only not as close, though the 3 of us used to be inseperable de. thanx to zhss bball. and yeah, by the conclusion of this yr, 2e3 or rather 1e3 will be 10yrs old ah. so we're planning on a chalet nxt yr to try and get everybody tog and jus have fun lar. hopefully can get at least half the class to turn up? so yeah yeah, pls pls make it happen cos we really haven meet up in a long time le. and yen lin told me mr keong is retiring this yr ah, so maybe a good albeit belated gift for him too?

ok, continuing on my MetallicA mania. no lar, jus that i was searching thru youtube for live songs and chanced upon S&M, ok, nothing wrong here, it stands for Symphony & MetallicA. nv heard before rite? symphony music with heavy metal? well, MetallicA and Michael Kamen made it happen in 1999 man. ok lar, totally forgot abt this masterpiece of an art until abt 2.30pm today. anyhow, this really opened the way for metal fans to know more abt symphony music and vice versa. and playing with the San Francisco Symphony makes it all the more cool cos they are like one of the world's leading orchestra le. so yeah, go check it out, u'll be amazed how well the songs of MetallicA can actually blend in with an Orchestra's sound. and rarely do u see 4 rockers so nicely and smartly dressed ah. hehehe. Rock On MetallicA.

anyhow, this bags the question, when is MetallicA ever gonna come to Singapore? damn, those pple in europe and america and even japan gets to see them at least once a yr lar. and me? the last time they came was in 1993 lor. probably cos the crowd den sucked ah, thats y they decided singapore as a rock venue is cannot make it de. but hor, recently we doing quite well ah, esp singfest, should help bolster our reputation ba? so yeah, pls pls come to singapore as one of the World Magnetic Tour stops! anyhow, 12 days to go!!! cant wait cant wait!!

I'll wait here forever just to, to see you smile.

2008-10-07T23:06:00.022+08:00

introducing a new series known as 'Monkeyboy Reviews'. its where i review everything that i have bought recently and the first item up for review will be.... MetallicA's brand new album 'Death Magnetic'.

firstly, lets give some of the public opinions gathered upon hearing the new album.

from ms sharon of seletar estates upon knowing that the cd will be played, 'mus we do it now?!!' with a 'loud music again/stupid teck' look.

ms xiu hui of joo seng rd had the following comments upon hearing the first track, 'its jus noise' and 'can we have some real music pls?'

ms yvoone of serangoon north commented, 'thats kinda noisy ah'.

as for ms elene of pasir ris, lets jus say she was so engrossed with not damaging the paper rose she was trying to make, she couldnt care less.

mr joshua and mr sahfahri from serangoon ave 4 and serangoon central gave no comments although most likely they have gotten enuff of these nonsense to make any real protests abt it.

lastly. mr chin teck from serangoon north was so ecstatic upon hearing the name of MetallicA, he couldnt stop grinning to himself.

seems like the early comments for the new album has generally received a approval rating of below 2 against a scale of 10. but over here at 'Monkeyboy Reviews', i have to say, public opinions couldnt be more wrong. this album rocks so much, i couldnt keep my socks on at all. a definite middle eastern influence could be heard on the album and riffs come so fast, the F-16s would have a hard time catching up to it.

the playing abilities of Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett and Trujillo has definitely not slowed with age. solos come in perfectly with Hammett totally unleashing them after being forced to keep them in for the previous album, the disastrously bad sounding 'St. Anger'. Hetfield once again impresses with his growl although we all know that vocals has nv been a forte of MetallicA's. what's truly great abt this album is the fact that MetallicA shows why they are still the kings of thrash and why nobody comes close to even their leg hair or 'kar mor' as more commonly known. after the debacle of St. Anger, critics has pointed out that age may have mellowed MetallicA. well, it seems like this is a point across to all naysayers that MetallicA has not mellowed, rather, they have jus gotten stronger and better as they embrace life with kids and less touring. heres a list of recommended tracks for all interested in this new album,

1. That Was Just Your Life
2. The End of The Line
3. Broken, Beat & Scarred
4. The Day that Never Comes
5. All Nightmare Long
6. Cyanide
7. The Unforgiven III
8. The Judas Kiss
9. Sucide & Redemption
10. My Apocalypse

errr, i think that was all the tracks that are on Death Magnetic which means, GET THE ALBUM!!! and according to reports, they are currently the best selling band for this yr with the album only released less than 3 weeks ago. and thus, 5 bananas out of 5 bananas. there you have it, the conclusion of the first ever (and probably last ever) article from 'Monkeyboy Reviews'.

- Editor, Monkeyboy Chan out.
(all names used in the above article are tongue in cheek and comments are not to be taken seriously, should anybody feel offended by the article, well.... theres not a thing u can do abt it, unless u have bananas for sale/bribe.)

hahaha, ok lar. enuff nonsense from me. honestly, this new album from MetallicA is power ah, i know i mentioned in the previous post but i still mus say, its great man. metal fans get it for its definitely the best metal album of this decade and non metal fans, u have 2 choices, either stay away or listen to it and u'll be hooked like the fishes at fish and co. and hor, i really dunnoe which track to recommend lor, cos they are all good. personal favs are, The End of The Line, The Day That Never Comes, The Unforgiven III, The Judas Kiss and Sucide & Redemption.

hehehe, this vid here was done by elene and saf ah. damn funny can. at least for us lar. it parodies me, xh and yvonne and mr selamat. creativity to the max from them ah. go have a look and pass it on? if response is good, we may have a 2nd season? =)

lastly, i got my tix signed!!! yes yes, i went for Beyond's ticket signing session at PS. cool lar, alot of pple leh, luckily Best has a fren there, so we got priority queue, dun have to wait under the blazing sun. i even shook ah paul and yip sai wing's hands lar. cool shit man. 33 more days to go!!!

how can i be lost, if i've got nowhere to go.

2008-09-27T23:53:00.007+08:00

DEATH MAGNETIC is officially released ah. in case you wonder wad this weird name thing is. well, its MetallicA's new album after 5 yrs. well, first impressions..... TOO LOUD and TOO GOOD!!! definitely better than St Anger, like MetallicA of the old man, right after 1988's And Justice For All, not those crap from Black, Load or Reload. this IS the shit man. super power good ah... metal fans should get it and David Cook's first single is out too, called Light On. freaking nice but all the hype right now for me is MetallicA!! and hor, theres this band called Bullet for My Valentine, kinda good too, but if u dun like loud music den stay away hor, very loud, and they cite MetallicA as their influence. personally, i recommend Tears Don't Fall and Waking the Demon. very good!! abit of trivia, their original name was Six Pints of My GirlFriend's Blood. cool rite?? but kenna change cos too violent for the record label le.

F1's here too. wah kao, honestly, if i could afford it ah, i would have went ah. but cos the SAF only paid me peanuts then, well, i'll jus have to contend with sitting at home and watching it from the TV. so far, it looks great ah, first ever nite race, and well, the drivers seem to be having abit of problem with the track, so its a challenge for them to conquer. was looking at the qualifiers jus now. wah, its freaking exciting ah, who is and isnt gonna get pole. actually, F1 is all abt precision ah. not jus the drivers leh, the pit crews and enginneers too, when to come in for pit-stop, wad type of tyres to use and when to use. very impt wor, wrong strategy means slower speed. hopefully its a good race tml, and makes all the driver look forward to coming here every yr.

and this is a plea to Channel 5 ah, pls pls pls broadcast F1 in Singapore for as long as its here. if you only broadcast the first yr, den wads all this hype for? cannot catch further editions of it and cannot see all the changes that will be made for nxt yr's race. den no point le mah, jus cos its the first time ever as a nite race den u broadcast, will be very disappointing leh. so yep, pls pls pls continue broadcasting it ya. and Prison Break 4 is out, pls show it quickly or i'll jus have to rely on Tudou le. =P

im also starting a counting down now. its exactly 43 days to Beyond's Concert. only Paul and Yip Sai Wing coming ah, but dun care lar. its Beyond leh, rock supremo of HK. even their songs then are still being played today lor. thi sis how good they are ah. so pple, whoever wanna go, pls inform me ya, den we can go tog. Me, Best, Colin and Jaz are going, tix we getting is $168 but cos got PAssion card, we're paying $152. so, its kinda worth it from our perspective lor. BEYOND FOREVER!!! and the question now is, since Beyond is coming, when would MetallicA, Aerosmith and AC/DC come?? so wan them to come lar!!!

ok its now sun le, so HAPPY BDAE AH LAM!! im not joining the guys to visit you later, so im sorry here but im sure they have prepared wonderful presents for you. have fun with the guys tml ya. =)

try to leave a light on when im gone, something i rely on to get home... rock on DC!!!

2008-09-03T23:47:00.009+08:00

howdy kids! how's life? well, i've started work alr. and u guessed it, its at TP. hahaha. pay is good ah, food is cheap ah, environment is good ah. wad more can u ask for? anyhow, mus thank serene for telling me where to apply, otherwise, i think i'll still be slacking my behind out at home lor.

anyhow, today im gonna talk abt COMEX 2008. why? cos yours truly went to work there man. lobang from my beloved cousin, and since i had nothing to do, might as well lor and besides, i know it would be a good learning experience. and boy, it didnt disappoint lar, maybe except the pay part. but it was great fun man even though it was straining and tiring. and there were so many pple there, even going to the toilet is a chore ah, have to squeeze here and there. jus thinking abt going to the toilet puts us off, rather go when really cannot tahan anymore.

well, i worked for Harvey Norman helping to sell panasonic phones. dun belittle phones ok, i sold 10,000 dollars worth of phones in 4 days lor!! thats alot alot of phones ah. but the commission sucked to the max man. nontheless, its the working experience and fun i had there that counts.

fun with who?? the customers lar and my colleagues of course. well, i've been in service line all my life ah and i thot i've seen all sorts of customers liao ah. boy, was i wrong. there are jus so many diff types lar; the nice ones, the indecisive ones, the picky ones, the rich ones.... i can name them till tml and still not finish.

i dunnoe how to say lar, but it was jus fun meeting so many diff type of pple. true, it can get pissing but if u take a moment to look at their reactions and see how they react to u, its cool lar. i can play so many roles too, the good service provider or the bad. treat the bad customers with good service and they'll be impressed and likewise, treat the good customers with bad service, if they are desperate enuff, they'll still buy from u. but credit to myself, i played the good role all the time ah, except the final 3 hrs of the fair where i jus switched off, answering qns with minimum effort. hahaha. and there are some customers whom u can talk cock with non stop de. joke with them, laugh with them and u'll clinch a deal. too many examples le lar, but it was fun lor, super duper. jus so many things going on at 1 time, u wouldnt have the time to absorb it all in until later, and den when u do, u jus realise how much fun it is.

and my colleagues, all pple i got to know there. of course lar, first day didnt talk much with each other. but den slowly slowly, it gets interesting ah, like laughing at each other when we squat down tog to rest our dog tired legs, complaining abt the customers and their many weird qns. and den of course, jus plain talking cock. anyhow, heres pictures of them.this is trevor, my direct superior. he's a perm staff of harvey norman ah. and he's under alot of pressure cos mus meet sales target mah. but he very nice wor, nv pressure us at all. only told us to do our best, if can sell den sell; cannot, force also no point. and always joke and talk cock with us, helps with the mood alot alot.this here is yanru. guess how old she is. 17!!! yes yes, 17 this yr. wah lao, mei mei lor. makes me feel so old lar. when i poly yr 1, she only P6 lar. ngee ann poly student. super energetic ah. even when we are darn tired le, she will still approach the customer to help lar, while i jus hid behind the white displays in the background of the pic slacking. super good when i darn tired, i can jus ask her to take over. hahaha. cos i old liao mah.and this cute girl here is huiqi. same age as yanru, actually they have known each other since sec 1 lar. i click best with her le, cos we always got alot of nonsense. we always hide behind the displays and den laugh at how useless we are. funniest was when this indian guy came and ask price when comex was alr closed, when he heard the price, he said he'll come back later...... wad come back later??!! we are alr closed!! so i jus stared at huiqi and we started laughing out loud causing everybody to look at us. and also, she is darn ticklish ah, can fight with elene. but i still think elene wins hands down.
and this is wad goes on behind the scenes. look at all the flyers on the floor. this is when we are closed for the day ah. the amount of paper wasted and how inconsiderate pple are. but nxt day morn, it will be darn clean again. kudos to the cleaning specialists for a job well done!!ok, this 2 pics were taken at 2203 and 2205 respectively. why? cos its alr 1 hr pass the closing hr and there are still pple trying to get bargains lar. and this A1 Computer ah, very irritating leh, every min will use the mic to call pple come and buy. hellooooo!!! its 1 hr pass closing, stop it alr lar, u also money no enuff ah??!!and finally, this is the the uncles hard at work, dismantling all the fixtures from the event. they have to clear the entire exhibition hall by that nite lor. hard at work, hard at work....

yah know, its been nearly 3 months le. everytime i think abt u, i still get the chills, somehow..... memories jus keeps flooding back in. all the laughter we had, the nonsense that comes up and all the could have beens. whenever i passby PLAB, i think of u and the career u could have had. when i look up and see all the pilots zooming abt, i always think of wad u will achieve and to me, u are definitely the best pilot in the world. now that u are flying so freely, i hope that u are well and i know u are guarding all of us from above jus like the pilots that take off everyday.

even though i hate that chilly feeling when i think of u, i dun ever wanna lose it. cos it tells me that u are not to be forgotten and everything we love, we fear we lose it.

2008-08-03T23:50:00.008+08:00

Hi Kids.... been slacking ard the past 2 weeks since i turned a violent shade of pink. well, now that the euphorias all over, its time for me to get a job before i start school in jan. so this is a heartfelt appeal to everybody who reads this, if u have a Part Time job somewhere out there available. PLS PLS PLS let me know ya. desperately need a job for 2 reasons.... the money and to stop my mama from nagging. hahaha.

to the main topic for the day.... OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER!!

well, the man who won us the champions league crown in 1999 retired in Aug last yr and his testimonial match was played ytd to a full house crowd at Old Trafford (The Theatre of Dreams!!). Anyhow, this is a huge shoutout to the man!!! well, i started supporting United in the 1998/99 season, and boy with his goal against Bayern, he gave us a Treble in my first season supporting United. and man, i have been a die hard ever since. ask all my frens and i guess they'll jus tell you how much i adore United... to the point of being obsessed.

yeah yeah, thats him jus seconds after scoring our winning goal!! honestly, he is a folk legend in every United fans' heart lar. not only did he score the winning goal, he saved us on countless occasions lar. 366 appearances as a Red Devil and he scored 126 goals, of course, u could say he is not the most prolific when compared to RVN. do however take note that he was the man who won us the Champions League, the man who will go down into history as the one who rescued United from the dead.see what i mean... look at how much the fans appreciate him. those were the words of the commentator when Solskjaer scored the winning goal and it has been etched in memory forever.and of course, this is a classic lar. according to the commentator, thats 19,000 pieces of plastic sheet done by the fans lar. its a initiative by the FANS not United. the fans really do appreciate him alot sia.hahahaha, love this. honestly, this ronaldo thing is getting frustrating ah. true, he was darn important to us last season ah but his comments aint making us United fans feel better. if he wans to leave, better leave now so we can source for replacement lor. if he leaves at the last min, we wouldnt even have time to get a replacement lar. bloody hell, and madrid, if u wan him den submit a bid lar, dun sit down and do nothing. do u wan him or not??!!ok, enuff abt ronaldo. its abt the main man here ya. well, thats the last time we'll see him in a United jersey and man did he play his heart out for us. even when he was behind RVN in the pecking order, he nv did complain lar and always did his best. if only more players could be like him. well, thats another one from the class of 1998/99 gone, with only giggs and scholes left. but fergie has already planned United's future in advance lar. the really important players for us now are in their early 20s and we jus won the Champ League again last season, i believe we should be relatively safe for the nxt 10 yrs i hope.

ok, moving on, its time to talk abt The Dark Knight. super duper cool lar. those of u who didnt watch it, well, its ur loss lor. serious, its darn good ah. especially The Joker, wah piang, he jus plays with ur mind lar. actually, all he does is play with ur mind and u'll do his bidding no matter wad. thats how good he is. honestly, its a masterful performance from Heath Ledger lor. he simply stole the show away. and also batman's bike, wah lao, super duper uber cool. i honestly didnt wan the show to end lor. 2.5 hr jus flew pass, and when the credits came up, i was like darn disappointed sia, if only it could jus go on and on, its really damn good. right up there with American Gangster for my movie of the yr.

nxt, channel 5 is finally showing the finale of Prison Break 3 tml ah. but i have already finished the series. and all i can say is, I HATE THE GODDAMN SHOW!!! hate it in a loving way ah, cos it had to bloody end on a cliffhanger again. always end on a cliffhanger and the new season only starts in Sept. another lengthy wait for something good. honestly, Prison Break is like the only show that i will tune in loyally every week lor, the other being My Name is Earl. the plot and twists in the story is always so unexpected. theres always a surprise around the corner. and even up till now, we still haven found out who 'The Company' is and what exactly is their motive lar. simply cant wait man!!! Arghhhh, this is so agonizing!!!

oh ya, cos of The Dark Knight, i keep having this thought and im posing it as a question to everybody.. If you know a man is bound to be a mass murderer (100% confirm will be), would you kill him first to prevent him from slaughtering others? do rmb that by doing so, you will become a murderer yourself. but if u dun do it, once he has started, u will live with the guilt that you didnt stop him. and u cant send him to jail cos he has done nothing wrong yet. so guys, go ahead and ponder abt this when u have the time. =P

here goes, a long post.... and cos its a long post im gonna plead again for any Part Time job openings out there. pls pls let me know ya!! Thanks alot!!!

Never Walk Away From A Fight Thats Worth Fighting
Never Hesitate When You Know You're Gonna Act
Never Waste Your Words On A Fool Who Won't Listen

2008-07-18T23:47:00.007+08:00

MUAHAHAHAHA!!!! hello hello pple. I would like to officially proclaim that i have ORD-ed. YES YES. after 2 yrs in service, I am glad to announce that i am now MR CHAN CHIN TECK, no longer REC CHAN, PTE CHAN or even LCP CHAN. wah piang, savouring the moment right now lar!! always hated pink ah, but today will be an exception where i will enjoy the colour PINK WITH THE PINKISH GLOW ON MY FACE.

was damn excited with khairul when we were collecting our ICs lar, and that Esther slowly slowly took her time to clear her work before she slowly slowly took her time to fill in the documentations before she slowly slowly took her time to give us our ICs. maybe she didnt really take that long afterall. =?

still remember the day i enlisted like it was ytd lar. i was darn excited lor, telling everybody im happy to go army and serve the nation and how i couldnt wait to get in. even my PC Saufi gave me a weird look when i told him im glad to be in tekong. hahaha. but slowly slowly, it became like an arduous torture ah. jus cant wait to get out of the army, counting down hoping to see my beloved Pink IC again. honestly, it felt like forever ah. put it simply, i jus couldnt wait to get out. still, im a stickler for NS ah, its impt and vital for our country and every men should do his part. its jus that the NS journey was nv as smooth sailing as i thought it would be. anyhow, im looking at the army with a different light now ah. good or bad, i'll not post here in case i kenna shoot somehow someway.

yeah man, so basically im damn glad to be a civilian once again. anyhow, i've honestly learned and grown in this 2 yrs regardless of what i have achieved in the army. the one impt thing i learned was how to deal with new kinds of pple; pple who are more under privileged than me, pple with criminal records, bad bosses. wah piang, alot of things lar. true, i have not acquired any skills of any sort but i am glad to say that meeting these pple has made me look at the world in a different light and that i can assure myself that i can click with them jus as well as i can click with all of my frens from school.

yeah, i also learned that i mus cherish my frens even more cos i dun get to see them as often as i would prefer unlike when we were schooling, thats y, whenever theres a gathering, i would try my best to turn up. my army frens are always surprised that i keep in such close contact with my frens. den there are the pple that i dun get to meet all the time, sometimes i still pang seh them here and there ah, but i can touch my heart and say that i honestly did try my best to meet them.

1 complain that i have though is that i didnt get to meet any new girls lar. swear to god even the cookhouse auntie seemed attractive after awhile lor. hahahaha, no lar. honestly, cos im surrounded in such an 'enclosed' place, it gets hard to try and meet new pple ah not jus girls alone.

and 1 great discovery during NS mus definitely go to Shirlyn Tan and The UnXpected lar. wah kao, honestly Shirlyn is like darn good ah, mus proclaim her my GF forever lor but she is abit old for me lar, i go for rock chicks but not old chicks man. hahaha. anyhow, we went to Wala last nite too, and guess wad, thurs nite at wala is free entry. hehehe. my intention was to bring everybody there tml de but nobody's free and ytd happened to be an impromptu visit. but the set ytd was power ah, heres the list of songs that they played from wad i remember. nope, no research done on my part, i already knew these songs before they played. which means, i have same musical taste as The UnXpected!!! hahaha. songs in orange are songs that i always liked.

Leaving on A Jet Plane + Downtown Remixed (Downtown was changed to Geylang instead =P)
Master of Puppets by Metallica (power lar, thats like 1 darn hard song to play lor and i was damn high here)
Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin (Rene's Solo here was masterclass man)
Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen (Asri always sings this song when they perform)
By The Way by RHCP (i was jus listening to it before i went Wala lor)
Since I Don't Have You by Guns and Roses (no comments but its a great song)
Time is Running Out by MUSE (not a big MUSE fan but this is nice)
I'm Yours by Jason Mraz (one of my current fav and current hot song and they nailed it, surprised they played it though, so unlike them)
The Trooper by Iron Maiden (a staple of theirs and they always nail it, damn tight!!)
Iris by Goo Goo Dolls (wah, always wanted them to play but they nv do. now they have!!)
Walk Away and Rollercoaster by The UnXpected (their own songs, GOOD GOOD)

and pls go and watch Red Cliff, support asian movies. Its power ah, and Lin Chi Ling is sent from heaven to tempt all men de lar. hahaha. honestly, its good especially Kaneshiro's performance. watched it last week with my 2e3 peeps. but i dunnoe why, i got a big headache after the show ended and we had to watch hellboy after it. yeah, it was a marathon. 1630 was red cliff and 2125 was hellboy. first time i did a movie marathon lor, fun but shag ah. anyhow, part 2 of red cliff is only our nxt yr lar. DU LAN!!! TO THE MAX AH!!! now mus wait somemore, wad if i forget the story le?? hahaha, wouldnt lar but why mus we always wait for good things? oh yeah, we're gonna watch The Dark Knight tml, should be super good lar. and The Joker looked darn good lar. isnt there the advertisement thats askes which side are u on? well, im on the Joker's side man.

oh yeah, im so glad David Cook won AI lar, he is super duper good lor. think he will even beat Daughtry. especially Always Be My Baby and The Time of My Life. not a big AI fan unless theres a rocker and man this season doesnt disappoint at all lor

yep yep, thats all folks. Civilian Peace Out!!

2008-06-18T21:08:00.005+08:00

ya know, its been exactly a week and it had been an emotional roller coaster for all of us. but, do not worry ya, we are all coping well, i hope. and we'll move on definitely cos u live inside all of us now. i hope u are doing fine too, wherever u may be.

and they gave u ur pilot wings too, use them well man, fly to the place where u know u belong...

i've always loved this song by Alter Bridge, its called 'In Loving Memory'. and i guess it applies somehow now. and of course, u'll always be in our loving memory.

Thanks for all you've done
I've missed you for so long
I can't believe you're gone, and
You still live in me
I feel you in the wind
You guide me constantly

I never knew what it was to be alone, no
'Cause you were always there for me
You were always home waiting

But now I come home
And I miss your face so
Smiling down on me
I close my eyes to see

And I know
You're a part of me
And its your song
That sets me free
I sing it while
I feel I can't hold on
I sing tonight
'Cause it comforts me

I carry the things that remind me of you
In loving memory of the one that was so true
You were as kind as you could be
And even though you're gone
You still mean the world to me

I never knew what it was to be alone, no
'Cause you were always there for me
You were always home waiting

But now I come home
And its not the same no
It feels empty and alone
I can't believe you're gone

And I know
You're a part of me
And it's your song
That sets me free
I sing it while
I feel I can't hold on
I sing tonight
'Cause it comforts me

I'm glad He set you free from sorrow
But I'll still love you more tomorrow
And you'll be here
With me still

All you did you did with feeling
And you always found a meaning
And you always will
And you always will
And you always will

And I know
You're a part of me
And it's your song
That sets me free
I sing it while
I feel I can't hold on
I sing tonight
'Cause it comforts me

2008-06-12T23:01:00.011+08:00

oh man......

for the first time in my life, im stumped for words.

when saf called me with that solemn voice, i knew something was wrong, and i knew saf would nv joke with me over these things.... but hearing u gone jus stunned me, unexpected, was in a daze throughout the day, tried to sleep it away like a bad dream but the news jus kept floating abt in my head like a fly that refuses to go away...

damn, i jus realised how little i have seen u since i graduated.

missed the days when we would always make fun of ur big head and calling u the fugly one.... those days will never come again and i regret i nv got to see u more.

remember when u dropped ur phone at SAA? keypad got lost... and everybody laughed abt how clumsy u were? or the many advice u gave us on how to be better programmers?

ya know, i've always been so obssessed with death and things related to death that i nv knew it could come so near to me....

i really dunnoe wad to type anymore. feels so empty, hollow.... why isnt the world stopping, why is the clock still running??!!

AH LAM, MY DEAR FREN, I MISS U LOADS YEAH. U'LL ALWAYS BE 'DAD' TO PROG 05/06..... ALWAYS....

2008-06-08T19:44:00.004+08:00

Oh I, Had alot to say
was thinking on my time away
I missed you and things weren't the same
Cause everything inside, it never comes out right
and when I see you cry, it makes me wanna die

I'm sorry I'm bad, I'm sorry I'm blue
I'm sorry about all the things I said to you
and I know I can't take it back

I love how you kiss, I love all your sounds
and baby the way you make my world go round
and I just wanted to say, I'm sorry

This time, I think I'm to blame
Its harder to get through the days
We get older and blame turns to shame
Cause everything inside, it never comes out right
and when I see you cry, it makes me wanna die

I'm sorry I'm bad, I'm sorry I'm blue
I'm sorry about all the things I said to you
and I know I can't take it back

I love how you kiss, I love all your sounds
and baby the way you make my world go round
and I just wanted to say, I'm sorry

Every single day I think about how we came all this way
The sleepless nights and the tears you cried
Its never too late to make it right, Oh Yeah

SORRY

I'm sorry I'm bad, I'm sorry I'm blue
I'm sorry about all the things I said to you
and I know I can't take it back

I love how you kiss, I love all your sounds
and baby the way you make my world go round
and I just wanted to say, I'm sorry

I'm sorry baby, I'm sorry baby

I'm Sorry

2008-05-22T06:48:00.004+08:00

GOOD MORNING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!!!

MOST OF YOU WOULD HAVE JUS WOKEN UP OR STILL SLEEPING BA. NO MATTER WHAT KIND OF DREAM YOU HAD; A NIGHTMARE OR A SWEET DREAM.......

THE SWEETEST DREAM OF ALL HAS JUS OCCURRED FOR ME!!!

MANCHESTER UNITED ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE 1 MORE TIME!!!

YES YES, YOU GOT IT RIGHT!! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS AGAIN AFTER 9 YRS OF HURT.

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

OK, I HAVEN SLEPT IN 24HRS LE BUT IM SO FULL OF ADRENALINE NOW, I COULD FINISH A MARATHON 10 TIMES OVER MAN!!!!

OK. I'LL UPDATE MORE LATER IN THE DAY.

actually im darn tired out le lar, jus wanna post a shoutout to all the UNITED players who worked their socks off!!! ok, gonna go sleep. will talk abt this triumph later in the day. =) =) =) =)

2008-05-02T01:12:00.021+08:00

Whoa, seems like time really flies ya. like not so long ago, i jus enlisted and now, im only 2 months away from ORD lar. hahaha!!! cant wait man but at the same time im a lil apprehensive and scared abt wad im gonna do when i ORD leh.

for the past month, i've been thinking and thinking. wad will / can i do when i ORD? ya know, i finished my poly education, got my diploma. normally, that would mean work when i ORD. but im a only child and definitely, i need to support my parents once i start working. but how much can a diploma fetch me in the job market?? $1200 - $1500 max, probably enuff to jus feed myself and maybe a lil bit of luxury. therefore, i know i'll need to further my education definitely. gets me a better starting pay and gives me the chance to learn more. but degree education is not cheap leh, and who is gonna pay for it? im definitely not gonna make my parents pay for it sia, they're not getting younger leh, i cannot expect them to work jus to support my education wor, they have a right to enjoy life too man.

study loan, definitely, thats the choice that many of the undergrads took. and me myself, i think thats the most probable path that i'll take too. but come to think of it, when i start working, it means i have to work to repay the loan leh. WAH, SUCKS LIKE HELL LAR!! honest, i dun like the idea at all but i guess i dun have a choice ba. as we NSFs always say, lan lan suck thumb lor. den recently, got news that one of my sec school frens is married with a kid le, definite shotgun lar, but my thought was, wads he gonna do with his life?? only 22 and has to support a kid and wife. if he depends on his parents den to me, he's a goddamn bastard lar. but at 22, how much can he do??

i dunnoe how, but its his situation that got me thinking and scared lar. i'm already 22 leh, not young anymore le. by the time i finish my degree, im like 24 and nowhere in life. WTF, my goal is to be married with kids by the time im 30 lar. if the above holds true, den im down man. currently, i dun even have a gf, im still serving army. seems like all my life's plans are in a mess lar. of course, anything could happen within these few yrs, and im not sticking by the 30 mus get married rule though it would be ideal. hell, i dun even know wad i wan now. talking to all my pals recently and all we can conclude is we really 'wasted' 2 yrs man. nope, im a sticker and believer in NS, cos if we dun defend our country, who will? but 2 yrs jus seems like a bloody long time man, theres jus so much i wanna do and could do in this period sia. looks like im jus gonna have to spend my remaining time more wisely le lar. everything wrong with my life during poly will jus have to be rectified and time has jus got to be better spent. honest, its been a while since i've been this scared abt my future leh, my future is in my hands but at the same time i dun feel like i've got a good grip of it at all. =(

anyhow, on a brighter note. UNITED IN THE FINALS BABY!!!!! WOOHOOO!! haven been this happy in awhile le lar. hahaha. my hands still hurt from all the fist pumping when scholes scored and when the ref blew the final whistle lar!! wah lao, the final 15 mins was pure agony leh, it felt like 15hrs lor. pls pls, if Barca had scored jus 1 goal, we would have been screwed lar. but United played admirably man, defended well and always threatening when we went forward. and mus definitely mention Scholesy's goal lar. wah piang, that goal was a trademark of his wor!! go to youtube and search, u'll find that most of his goals were scored from that range and power de lar. but nv has it been this important sia, and of course, he doesnt score as much recently le, but he scored at the right time man. WOOOHOO, FULL SPEED AHEAD MOSCOW!!!

before the match, cool eh!! we BELIEVED and now we are there!!!

thats him man, with his trademark shot!! think this pic captured the essence of scholes.

my fav pic of all!! look at van der sar and ronaldo's reaction, and the crowd celebrating, cool shit!!

and also videos to round it all off

look at the players celebrate man!!

this is the goal and listen to Old Trafford ROAR!!! always loved it when OT ROARS like this.

2008-04-21T00:44:00.005+08:00

its a lil small ah. click on it to see it clearer lar. duh.....

anyhow, isnt he cute?? in case u guys dunnoe. Calvin and Hobbes is my favourite comic strip. cos calvin is so innocent and cute but with alot of ideas inside his head. and cos there is no filter between his brain and mouth.

cute little boy.....

2008-03-26T23:04:00.005+08:00

hello hello pple!! look wad i found last sat morning while preparing to go for soccer.

hahaha, my old zhonghua basketball jersey!! nice rite?? our team chose the jersey ourselves lar, unlike other schools where the school chooses for them. theres another white one somewhere but cant seem to find it. =x

anyhow, damn nostalgic when i saw this lar. brought back all kinds of memories lor. den on sun while having brunch with xh, i saw our old coach's sports shop lar!! so coincidental. i thought it was no longer open lar, especially when they tore down the old joo seng market, thought everything went with it.

therefore, i decided i'll blog and talk abit abt zhss 'C' boys team of 99/00.

till this day, i still believe that we didnt live up to expectations lar. we were destined, i do mean destined, to conquer singapore lar. im not exagerrating lor, it sounds cocky but its true. of the 30 odd matches we played, we only ever lost 3. and many of our opponents were dispatched with ease lar. but we were knocked out in the second round of north zone competition partly due to over confidence and also bad luck.

mr ong, our coach, trained us to play a system of bball that is rarely seen in sec school level lar. we would employ full court press from the get go. full court press is darn tiring ah, 5 pple have to cover the entire length of the court when u compare it with half court zone defense with only half the court length to cover. therefore, our team always had superior fitness. and i particularly loved it during morning assemblies, where there would be announcement of our match results. the whole school would 'WAHHH', made me feel so proud lar especially since our school has nv had much sports achievements. and of course, no sec school team ever plays full court press cos its jus too much to expect from 13-14 yr olds. in fact, our team was cocky too. since there are members of bball club that are 'non-school team' pple, we would not even train with them, and our team jus stuck with each other everytime we were at the court, and i believe some of us even looked down on those 'non-school team' peeps.

the fact is, mr ong din wan us to jus win, he wanted us to win by huge margins, to win by 'humiliating' ur opponents. (i guess thats where i get my competitive streak from). im not proud of this, but he also taught us to win by employing dirty tricks. the elbow, tugging of jerseys, and pushing ur opponents out of bounds, etc. these are things that only happens in pro ball not sec school bball lor. and becos im a power forward, and its always physical, i would employ these tricks darn often, so much so that i became an expert at it lar. =P

of course, to be able to win, we were trained darn hard ah. after school from 2.30pm to 7pm every tues, thurs and on sat morning from 7am to 12noon were dedicated to bball training. and on other days, we would play ball among ourselves too. even during the school holidays, mr ong would book the old joo seng cc for us to conduct training lar. and during the holidays, training was a daily affair, tog with the girl's team. thats y everytime i pass by joo seng now, i feel kinda down cos the cc has been replaced by the gurkha contingent's camp and it jus feels like the glory days of the cc is no longer there. and also cos i had loads of fond memories of that place; the team going for lunch tog at the market, conning drinks out of the vending machine (70 cents and we could get like 5 cans of drinks to drop out =P), the many laughter while playing ball tog and how we'll gush over jason williams' play. the entire team was crazed with jason williams lar, he was like our point of reference and inspiration when we play ball. postition wise, and ultimately, my no.1 bball hero is still Dennis Rodman!! he is uber cool lar though very controversial.

even though we had fun, training was tough lar; lay-ups with a chair between u and the hoop so u need to jump over the chair, 1 missed free throw = running 1 lap round the court, constantly doing 'suicide' to improve fitness. (suicide is like shuttle run, to and fro the various lines on the court within a time limit). den some of us got resentful cos mr ong nv seems to be satisfied with our performance. we would always complain abt him after training among ourselves even though we still put in 100% of effort in everything we do.

north zone qualifiers came and we swept thru the first round but when we were knocked out in the second round, everybody cried like mad lar. really darn sad since we were expected to conquer and the school principal had serious high hopes on us. mr ong den retired while the team fell apart. in the end, only 3 of the original 12 went to play at upper sec level.

theres this regret within me, and i always tell josh abt it. its the fact that we didnt appreaciate mr ong more, cos he was a real coach and someone who taught us wad it really means to play bball, he taught us to love it even though it was tough love. i guess we were young then and only wanted to have fun. once, i took a cab and the uncle jus so happened to be coached by him during his younger days too. hahaha, it was the same lar, full court press and everything. mr ong always told us that he was a former national team player and that he coached the national girls team before coming to zhss. and none of us believed him, even up till i meet the cab uncle, i didnt believe lar. it was only when the cab uncle told me wad a legend he is in singapore bball circle did i realise how fortunate i was to be once coached by him. really really sorry for our ignorance and naivety back then. but up till today, bball is still my 'first love' lar, though im playing more soccer now, bball was still a major part of my life for a very long period. even now, i still wear the red bball shorts we used back then when i play soccer lar. its something like a superstition for me. =P

hahaha, i guess im done reminiscing abt those days le ba. but really lar, abit of regret within me especially everytime i see the gurkha camp. oh ya, if u say joo seng, most pple would go 'huh?' but when u say joo seng cc, they'll go 'orrrrhhh, that place ah, last time alot of bball tournament held there one mah'.

anyhow, heres a belated happy bdae to saf!!! had supper tog last nite and theres this super huge thosai lar. knew it existed le and always wanted to post a pic of it but forget. so ta dah!! the super huge paper thosai found only at jalan kayu. and doesnt sharon look pretty in her new hairstyle?i dun wanna be a musketeer; i wanna be the 300 spartans!! =P

2008-03-18T00:39:00.002+08:00

One day, You'll ask me which is more important. You or My Life?

And I'll say My Life.

And You'll walk away not knowing that You are My Life.

2008-02-15T23:52:00.008+08:00

WOW, this chinese new year really passed by darn quickly ya. super long weekend lar. but it went by with the speed of light lor. hahaha. but this CNY was darn event filled lar. wah, not enuff sleep all the way lor. lets chronicle them day by day.

Day 1 (thurs) - first day, it was off to the temples for prayer and den my malaysian cousins came over to visit, followed by house visiting one by one. actually only went to 2 places lar since everybody will be there. but yeah, this took up the entire day already. of course, there was also the steamboat lunch that nearly killed me lar, in a good way though. hahaha. at nite, its off to River HongBao (its a family tradition!! hahaha) anyhow, kaye lynn and mocha (thats my cousin's dog) followed as well. the poor mocha got a shock when the fireworks came up lar. hahaha, hid in the basket throughout the entire trip afterwards.

Day 2 (fri) - well, it was off to the temples in the morning, with my cousin, kaye lynn and kaye leigh. den to my auntie's house. another day gone jus like that. den i went to Sharon's place for steamboat with the DB peeps and also Blackjack!! wah, we played like nobody's business lar. till today, i still cant figure out whether i won or lost lar. but it was fun, though we nv play mahjong at all. will make up for it lar. and of course, with my sweet mouth, i wished sharon's mother, Beautiful Forever!! hahaha, think she liked it alot sia. =P

anyhow, heres the 2 beautiful girls who followed us despite being catholics.

aint the 2 of them cute?? hahaha. anyhow, girl on the left is kaye leigh and the slightly older one is kaye lynn. or (mei mei and jie jie as we call them. hahaha)

Day 3 (sat) - had the morning and afternoon to myself, and then it was off to meet with the 2e3 guys for movie. wah lao, we watched CJ7 lar and i think its honestly one of the worse Stephen Chow film in a long long time lor. cannot make it leh, got some parts darn darn funny lar. but mostly its ok only. though the CJ7 itself looks darn cute. den off for some LAN as always and home.

Day 4 (sun) - think i could rest? no way!! off to Best's house. ya know, we didnt go last yr lar so yeah, mus make sure we do it every yr man. and Best's mom cooked lunch for us too!! that was darn nice lar, we kept eating and eating. hehehe, den it was Blackjack again (everybody's fav game during CNY lar). den it was off to sharon's place to chill. damn sian cos united lost to city of all teams, and when we were commemorating the Babes lar. wah kao, couldnt have chosen a worse time to lose lor.

Day 5 (mon) - supposedly i wanted to go back school and chill since i had the day off. but had to cancel it lar, cos i had some CNY dinner with MM Lee as GOH. wah, originally, i didnt wan to go for the dinner lar but now im glad i went lar. MM Lee gave a speech abt how singapore is able to sustain itself despite the USA's slowdown. and darn, i felt really impressed with the vision that the government has in store for us lar. im not exactly a huge supporter of PAP lar, but whatever the government has planned for us, seems like a really good deal lor. and really, MM Lee is a man u mus respect sia. 83 and fighting fit, and everything he says has an effect on what happens in the stock market. dinner sucked but the speech was worth it. plus pple pay hundreds to listen to him while i got a free meal out of it. COOL!!!

Day 6 (tues) - working again liao, darn sian. but guess wad. the whole bunch of us went to jason's house for Blackjack and Winning. wah, cool lar. cos everybody was there!!! EVERYBODY. colin jus arrived back from thailand in the afternoon lar, and he took the effort to come as well. so nice. and he was darn lucky lar. think he won every round of blackjack we played that nite. of course, we played winning lar. it was cool leh. hahaha. me best and jason played till our hearts content lar. sucked that i had to leave early but that was fun. so much like those days in the library. hahaha.

ok, thats it. no more events le. this CNY was fun lar. really really fun. it always seemed like the fun times always passes quickly ya. the whole sequence of event jus flew pass in a flash. and not to mention all the angbaos that were collected. hahaha.

and also colin and john ORDed, meaning, my turn will come soon as well!! hahahaa!! wish them all the best though.

Band of Brothers DVD Boxset!!! here i come, u'll be mine in no time!! =)

2008-01-21T22:56:00.000+08:00

had a good yr so far peeps? well, my yr's been so far so good. but i fell sick not so long ago, darn hate that feeling lor. totally lethargic and i jus felt like i wanted to sleep on the bed all day long lar. good thing though was that i had 2 days mc. so i slacked my ass out at home. hehehe.

but since i cant keep still for even a single second, i still went out during the weekends lar!! first up, TP's Alumni Nite called 'Mysterie'. COOL SHIT LAR!!! damn damn damn fun lar. ya know, i paid $5 for loads of food, beer (i had none, sick lar!!), additional pizza and also loads and loads of old frens!!! the programme was not really good lar, only had 1 game for pple to play. and i didnt even bother to play it lar. wish there were more mass games, ice breaker games that we used to play at FO, u know, would definitely make the entire event more happening. (cannot blame lar, since it was not done by students and not by programmers!!) hahaha.

wad i want to say is, the programme was not important lar. its seeing all the pple i know from my batch back at TP together again that was cool shit lar. (most of the participants are from 06 batch de) finding out wad they have been up to in their lives, catching up, reminiscing abt the good old times was wad made the event 'SIU' lor. darn nice lar, jus the feeling that TP has not forgotten abt Alumnis and that these events are actually held yearly. =) but i wan to say ah, i was in half a daze 90% of the time lar, like dunnoe wads going on, so kinda sucked in a sense lar since i couldnt enjoy it as much. but still darn shiok lar.

den the coming sunday, ZELVA had a match lar. yeah yeah, we lost. but we know we ain't good enuff lar. but i damn du lan lar, i went there, got myself dirty, and didnt even last 5 mins lor!! WTH, i ran down the flank as always and nxt thing, i was so totally out of breath i think moses lim could last longer lar. SICK SICK SICK at all the wrong time!! =(

anyhow, the match still wasnt wasted lar cos i had lunch with shao wei after the match, jus the 2 of us. he didnt join us for fireworks on new yr's eve, so i guess im the first 2e3 guy to have meet up with him and it was nice to have lunch with him lar. jus talking and finding out abt wad police life is like and wads been going on. and guess wad, we were both sick on that day lar, darn coincidental lor. hehe. remember dy got ask how come we dun jus have a meal together? so those who couldnt catch a movie can still meet up. kinda true ya, everything would be so much simpler to coordinate lar. maybe i'll do it one of these days. =)

and finally. the first epic movie i watched this yr. American Gangster!!! the show totally rocks lar!! Denzel Washington rocks like nobody's business and Russell Crowe is one hard ass bastard lor!! nearly 3 hrs of movie lar. but it felt like 2hrs at most. me and saf had such a good time discussing the movie when we finished it lar, damn damn damn cool lar!!! if u think its a show with loads of violence den be prepared for loads of conversation. its mostly talking but the talking is darn zai lar!! it discusses Denzel Washington's character darn well lar, his motives and why he does wad he does. Russell Crowe too, being honest or corrupt? wah, go and watch it urself lar. cant describe enuff lar. 9.8/10. why 0.2 missing? cos its not Band of Brothers. hahaha.
im biased, i wouldnt deny. =P

anyhow, CNY coming soon ya. which means loads of ang bao and relatives!! and i haven seen kaye lynn and kaye leigh in awhile loh, mus play with them!!!

tell me how the pain's supposed to go

2007-12-30T23:03:00.000+08:00

Hello Hellooooo!!!! 2007 is moving away and we are gonna welcome 2008 in no time lar. wah, honestly, i think this yr passed by damn quickly lar, the fireworks i watched last yr with my 2e3 guys felt like it was only ytd lar. and now, we're gonna watch another fireworks display tml.

the yr's been pretty good for me, though nothing really eventful happened for me either. ya know, i really wish there were events which i could remember the yr with, like my graduation, enlistment or even me being a total baby at FOW/FOC last yr. though nothing much happened, im glad that i got to spend so much more time with my frens this yr, since i always have my weekends to 'waste' with them together. heres a little recap of the who's who in my life this yr ba. and also a little wrap up of the yr for me.

the good ol' buds from zhss - been meeting up with my 2e3 guys so much more often lar. movies, dinner and also the 'mandatory' lan sessions. ya know, i jus feel great that i still have these frens that i can rmb zhss with, especially all the nonsense 2e3 comes up with (we were the only lower sec class to be voted into the impromptu top 5 naughtiest class poll conducted in yr 2000 lar. ACHIEVEMENT LEH!!! =P). a 2e3 gathering with everybody has been in the talks since last yr ah, but nxt yr is like coming lar. so hopefully 2008 will see most 2e3 members tog for maybe dinner or bbq?

my poly bros - really really didnt meet up much this yr leh, could only rmb the vesak day dinner at 85, and we waited for 45mins for our 'ba cuo mee' lar. WTF, service needs to be improved. anyhow, i have this feeling im like a link btw jaz, best and colin, john lor. its always me, best and jaz or me, colin and john. nv full attendance de. and as for jason, well i jus wish i could see him more lar. but i always have fun with them lar, no matter wad we do, especially when we reminiscence abt the fun we had in poly.

my grp mates - the wonderful ladies whom i always neglect lar. i always talk of meeting up with 2e3 or my poly bros, but i always forget abt even mentioning them. jus had dinner with them recently and man it was fun lar, thanks to serene for the chocolates she made herself, jia ning for the 'coin box' and pris for the rocher. and im guilty of not getting them anything lar. so sorry. shall meet up damn soon again ya, wad with jia ning turning 22 in like no time.

lee jing, sara and jasmine - my mahjong kakis, but this yr like we nv play mahjong tog leh. always cancelled for some reason or another. anyhow, thanks to lee jing for max brenner. it was like darn nice lar, that was REALLY chocolate leh!! and jasmine for inviting me to ur bdae as well, though i was like at colin's place most of the time. and sara, pls org more mahjong sessions ya. =P

xiu hui and elene - my beloved and beautiful juniors. wah, seemed like only ytd when i meet them for OTC lar and they were yr 1s lor. alot of has changed since then ya, but having fun will nv change de. loads of minds with them this yr and also all the ice cream expedition we embarked on. now that u guys are in yr 3, mus work hard ya. especially for biz students, yr 3.2 is like darn stressful lar. 1 individual and 4 grp reports with a shortened sem wad with FO to take care of too. mus go to tom's palatte soon ya.

my 3 lovely darlings - of course cannot leave this 3 pple out lar. josh, saf and sharon. i see them almost every weekend lor. its almost turned into a ritual le lar, like something missing if i dun see them. its like a drug that i cannot get enuff off. always something for us to talk abt, even if its jus sitting down at 'smelly place' for a quick supper. yeah, 'smelly place' is our new athar. speaking of which, im like darn sad athar closed down lar, been part of my life since sec 3 leh. but theres a new hunting ground for us, and its not too faraway too, and food is good too.

anyhow, this yr i watched loads and loads of movies leh. so heres my top 12 movies for the yr in ranking order.
1) 300 - damn good lar. think i can watch it a million times lor.
2) Chuck and Larry - funny funny funny, funniest movie this yr for me
3) Wild Hogs - darn funny lar. wad with travolta in it.
4) Ratatouille - the ever adorable rat who can cook. darn cute.
5) Simpsons - 20 yrs and still going, of course its good lar. like the jet pack part most.
6) Transformers - action packed wor, nothing but the best CG
7) Letters from Iwo Jima - very deep movie, war is cruel!!
8) Pirates of the Carribean - Cpt Jack leh!! thats everything le lar.
9) I am Legend - cool lar, Will Smith is darn good in it.
10) The Warlords - Andy Lau, thats enuff le
11) Stardust - Claire Danes is pretty pretty. but story is nice too.
12) Spiderman - disappointed, can be better. but kirsten dunst rocks

read quite a few books this yr too. fav has to be Tuesday with Morrie le lar. damn touching lar, Morrie's spirit, i think the world would do well to emulate it lar. go and read it pls. its really good.

there's also Sushi Tei that cannot go without mentioning. its good good good. i think ever since we had sushi tei for dinner, all other restaurants pale in comparisons lar. not only is the food good, its not too ex as well. definitely a good place to have dinner.

of course, theres the picture i took with LTC Fred Chong, a Navy Seal. jus looking at him is cool lar, i shook his hand too, wow, a moment to remember definitely.

there's also The UnXpected? thats like a seriously good find of the yr lar. rocking good band leh, hopefully can go and listen to them more often. but Holland V is like darn inaccessible lar.

oh yeah, taking driving lessons now too. its darn cool lar, but also quite diff ah. especially when i keep stalling, that feeling sucks lar. dang, i need to work on my concentration man. and im watching Goong now too, hahaha, i know im a bit later than most lar. but still not too late ya. Eun Yoon Hye is darn cute lar, her actions especially when dealing with Shin, damn funny.

argghh, too many things to talk abt le lar. i'll jus stop here before i finish typing at 3am. =P anyhow, everybody have a good yr ahead ya. 2008 will be so much better than this yr. definitely!!

what hurts the most.... was being so close

2007-12-13T22:22:00.000+08:00

YAHOOO!!!! going back to TP tml!!! hahaha. damn long nv go back le ah. mus go and gorge myself with all the food there is!!

Design Canteen; Mensa 1 and 2!!! all the food, all the enjoyment!!! and not to mention my home ground, Business Park!! maybe go and crash a lecture or 2 as well. WOOOHOOO!!!

shall have loads of fun tml!! and going swimming with josh too. =D TP ROCKS MAN!!

2007-12-09T23:38:00.000+08:00

HELLO HELLO!! its been a very good 2 weeks since i last posted. although nothing eventful really happened, its still a nice break from all the 'depression' of the past month yeah. by the way, i passed advance theory for driving so its onwards my license now. and since i'll be on leave most of december, i hope i can achieve a good few lessons before the hectic month of jan begins. and of course, the target of driving license before ORD is very much on track.

anyhow, holiday season coming soon; haji, christmas and new year all like damn close to each other lar. so yeah, have fun everybody!! getting drunk not advisable though. =P

speaking of drinking, i went to holland V for the first time last nite lar. yeah yeah, sounds damn sua ku eh, but it really was my first time there. anyhow, we went to this pub/bar/cafe? called Wala Wala. its cool lar. they have live band performance every nite lar, but on thurs and sat this band called The UnXpected!! COOL BAND LAR!!!

I SWEAR TO GOD, IN THE NAME OF UNITED, they're good man. and when i say good i really mean good lar. i personally feel they're one of the best local bands around lar. and it jus seemed like everybody was there to listen to them.

their lead vocals is a girl called shirlyn tan. a rocker chick man!! and man is she charismatic lar, very humourous and she's got a very powerful voice lar. heard this song called Window? its getting loads of airplay on radio, well its by her. yeah yeah, i read up loads on The UnXpected today after their performance last nite. the rest of the band's damn zai too, the lead guitarist is called rene and when he performed the solos, he looked darn cool and power packed lor, their drummer is called brandon, he worked with loads of overseas artiste before lar and the recent 881 soundtrack, well, all the percussion was done by him too. theres also colin the keyboardist and asri the bassist. both are botak and they looked like the quiet quiet cool cool types, theres another member called joan who wasnt there. guess wad she plays? .........VIOLIN!! violin in a rock band, sounds interesting rite?

why am i so into them now? cos they played a metallica song last nite, and metallica songs are not easy lar. darn good, and to think it was a girl singing it and digging it made it so much more cooler. and of cos, the rest of the set was fantastic too, very high energy and everybody was right into the music. not easy for a band to actually capture the entire audience's attention and they did it marvellously, everybody was calling for an encore when they ended the show lor, thats how good they are. go check them out ya, really really good. wonder when they'll release an album , i'll be sure to buy it though.

oh yeah, joshie josh turned 21 loh. the wait is over and we can watch R21 shows together. hahaha. thanks for the chalet get together as well, it was fun. also a very belated happy bdae to lee jing too. thanks for the treat at max brenner, it was really good chocolate man. thanks alot. and to shar, sorry i couldnt turn up for ur bdae. hadnt seen u in awhile too, lets have a TB012 gathering soon yeah, and have everybody meet up. =P

have a great holidays peeps. The UnXpected RockZ =D

爱要怎么说出口, 我的心里好难受

2007-11-26T22:59:00.000+08:00

ya know, i think im obsessing abt death abit too much here ya. but yeah, this post will be abt death again.

anyhow, im sure u guys know of the dragonboat accident in cambodia. well, wad can i say, its jus plain unlucky lar, so many boats went out, and only ours happened to capsize. condolences to family members and frens of the 5 departed. saving grace? perhaps the fact that their last act was doing something they loved and was passionate abt.

and my 2 darlings, josh and sharon, happens to know some of the departed lar. ya know, i haven found the chance to talk to you guys yet, but my darlings, take it easy ya. i know anything that i say is almost close to useless lar since its so traumatic to suddenly lose frens but at the end of the day, moving on is more important ya.

anyhow, the main reason why im talking abt this is becos of wad i read in the papers. pple asking questions why they were not wearing life jackets and all. but the fact was that they were swept away by the current and pls, nobody stands a chance against strong currents even with life jacket on. so pls, stop pinning on the fact that they were not wearing life jackets lar, its nobody's fault and cos they wan to win so badly and bring glory to our country, thats y they ditched the life jacket lar. i mean, so many teams went out with no life jacket and yet they all returned safely. sometimes its jus that god wans to take them away and nothing can be done ya, no point blaming the usage or non usage of life jackets.

me, myself, im a kayaker and i more or less knows how treacherous the open water can be. but i believe in destiny too. which means to say, i take the necessary precautions, but if accident is to happen den so be it. no point blaming anybody at all.

wad i wan to say is, things are already bad as it is. i dun believe in finding who is or who isnt at fault. spare a thought for the departed and their family. is it really good to find out the main reason for the capsize and find a scapegoat for it? especially for something as unpredictable as the open waters, no matter how much precaution is done, it can still wipe u out with jus 1 stroke.

and wad of the team mates? ever heard of survivor's guilt? wouldnt they feel worse without all the probing into wad happened.

3 of my best frens are dragon boaters and they share a special bond with their teammates. of course, the national team would share a similar bond. jus imagine the agony and helplessness they have to go through when they saw their teammates swept away and couldnt do a damn thing to help. or when search and rescue was going on, they couldnt join in the search too. lastly, imagine their pain seeing their teammates' body being found 1 by 1 and knowing that could easily have been them too. the impact on their mental health is beyond words lar. im pretty sure they can do without all these publicity too. hopefully, they can move on and not develop survivor's guilt ya, push themselves harder and achieve glory for these fallen comrades.

lastly, i hope parents do not oppose their kids from taking part in water sports ya. this is jus 1 very unlucky incident. chances of it happening again is definitely zero lar. and i do not wish to see all the hard work done by SSC go down to waste lar. im a kayaker and i know of the risks im undertaking when i go out to sea and im sure the dragonboaters and all other sea sports enthusiasts realise wad they are getting themselves into. so pls, precaution is important but the power of destiny is stronger lar. if its meant to be, i could jus walk out and be struck by a falling lamp post too.

and since im on the topic of death. i jus read in Time abt moral dilemma and im posting this question to all of u.

'its war time, and u are in hiding with a bunch of pple from the enemy soldiers. if u are discovered, everybody in hiding will be killed. suddenly a baby starts crying and u are bound to be discovered by the enemy, only way to make the baby stop is to smother him to death. would u do it?'

nxt consider again, 'if the baby is ur child, would u do it? and if the baby is somebody else's but the parents are unknown and unfound, would u do it?'

i haven found my answer, let me know urs ya. but i guess this is one tough question to answer lar.

2007-11-05T23:13:00.000+08:00

hello peeps, nearly been a month since i updated ya. not that im lazy, jus that theres really nothing of significance for me to blog abt. as always, life is good and hopefully its the same case for everybody i know.

anyhow, i resolved myself to blog today becos i know if i dun, wad im going to discuss will be jus another topic that i'll conveniently forget.

i dunnoe how much im suppose or not suppose to disclose. but i believe some u guys have heard of this guy committing sucide ytd morning after being bailed out by his father for drink driving. well, he happened to be a staff in my camp and although i dunnoe him personally or even rmb how he looks like, it jus shocked me lar. i believe everybody would be shocked lar, considering the magnitude of this thing. but wad i find shocking is not the fact that he was even joking with 1 of my frens on fri evening nor the fact that he has always been a happy go lucky guy from wad i hear, and everything given to him would definitely be 'ok; no prob and can settle'. (even pple like me have their problems lar). its the fact that everybody in camp jus carried on working like nothing ever happened that i find 'surreal'. i guess surreal would be appropriate ba.

the very least, he's a regular and therefore i would expect the regulars to at least be u know, kinda 'down' but well, everything jus continued as per normal. definitely there would be small talks among frens speculating abt wad exactly happened and why he did it. but other than that, pple jus carried on working; trainees continued to have lessons and drills were still being carried out.

den i suddenly remembered a chapter in this book called 'tuesday with morrie'. it recalled how this man called morrie discovered he had a terminal disease and when he left his doctor's office, he realised that everybody jus carried on with their lives. he was obviously devastated and when he left the doctor's office, he expected pple's life to stop and sympathize with his plight or even pity him but there was none of these. errands were still being ran, and the NYSE is still moving.

wad im trying to put across is that even though, out there somewhere, somebody is trying to cope with their own hardship, elsewhere, life jus carries on as if nothing happened. is a human life really that insignificant? i have always believed that everybody is useful in someways unbeknownst to themselves or others, but when a life gets taken away is it really that impossible for others to care or even note unless that person happens to be someone of great importance. no doubt, 99.99% of us wouldnt even bade an eyelid when someone dies unless we know that person personally and its human nature for us to react that way. well, i guess this point will nv have a clear stand no matter how hard i ponder since everybody has a different view with regards to this issue.

den wad abt the frens and relatives of the deceased? whos going to help them cope with the loss and how are they going to move on with their lives?

recently, josh had a fren who passed away in an accident and he's been rather traumatized by it. sharon and saf keeps telling him to get over it and we all know he has to. but it really isnt that easy ya, especially if its somebody u know. for us outsiders, its very easy for us to say get over it, nothing can be done cos we are looking at it from a outside view, and we understand that there are still work to be done, and i know josh understands that too, but wad abt the family of his fren? can they really move on?

if the above happened to me and i dropped dead all of a sudden (touchwood), i believe it wouldnt be that easy for my family and frens to jus move on, there are memories of that me that pple will suddenly remember and the more these memories come back, the sadder one would become even though we can nv abandon or even leave behind these memories. personally, i would be ultimately pissed if u told me to get over the death of somebody i know (touchwood). i have already lost somebody i know, and i wan to cherish wadever memories that i can remember. having somebody tell me to get over it is like rubbing salt into my wounds. i know its all out of consolation to ask somebody to move on, but wouldnt everybody wan to cling onto jus that last bit of the dead that they can find? even if its jus a memory that happened maybe 10yrs ago?

ultimately, i know we have to move on and that life has to carry on, but the least we can do is spare the family and frens of the deceased some time alone for them to gather their thoughts and pack up their 'spare baggage'. at the end of the day, i believe that they will find that little place in their heart to keep the deceased and all the fond memories while mustering the ability to carry on with their lives.

ok, i have blabbered on and on. i believe when i look back at this post, i probably wouldnt be able to understand half of wad i have typed and neither would i expect u guys who are reading it to understand. well, we'll jus leave it like that ba.

Cheerios =) no, im not depressed in any way although this post seems to indicate so.

2007-10-11T23:19:00.000+08:00

ok guys, wonder why i suddenly posted these 2 taekwondo vids? hahaha, i guess most of u guys dun know that i hold a junior black belt in taekwondo ba. yeah, practised this darn cool sport from 10 to 15 yrs old until i dislocated my patella. anyhow, u need to be 16 yrs old to qualify for a full black belt lar. so yeah, it was kinda wasted.

and why this sudden rush of nostalgia? well, was looking at some tkd knockout vids with kim joo and the passion jus came rushing back lar. so i went on youtube and started searching for tkd vids. hahaha. really cool and challenging sport in my opinion. and there are female fighters in the vid lar, so its not really a male dominated sport. anyhow, look out for the kicks on 5.21 and 4.31 (if on youtube will be 2.09 and 2.54 respectively) in the first vid ya. especially the one on 5.21, the balance that the guy has is like uber zai lar.

hehehe, suddenly i feel like completing wads left undone lar. get that darn black belt. but hor, im getting kinda old le lar, my bones and all stiff liao le. and i dun think my hips can take to all the twisting and turning ba. hahaha. but its still a passion lar. =)

Cheers!!

2007-09-30T23:12:00.000+08:00

Yeah Yeah, Gay Love!!! ok, for the record, im not turning gay and im as straight as a pencil can get. anyhow, this loud proclaimation is in homage to 'I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry'. yeah man, one of the funniest film i've seen. its a adam sandler film lar, so its expected to be funny and man it doesnt disappoint. laughing non stop from start to end lar, and i can still rmb many of the jokes even today lar, 1 week after watching it. thats how good it is, especially the 1-liners by the postman, classic wor. mus watch if you are feeling damn down or jus wans to laugh ur guts out.

sandler films are like the few movies i look foward to every year lar and he doesnt fail to disappoint me with all the comedies that he comes up with; 50 first dates, the longest yard, click and den chuck and larry. not to mention the classics like Waterboy, Billy Madison, Wedding Singer etc. all bloody funny lor. Keep up the good work man, looking forward to ur nxt movie - sounds like i know him sia =P

anyhow, ice cream is like my favourite past time now lar. hehehe, theres this new place called tom's palatte (actually its not new lar, jus that its new to me) the ice cream they serve darn exotic lar. personal fav is Black Sesame Ice Cream - jus like eating tang yuan and the black sesame filling jus comes oozing out into ur mouth lar!! so cool sia, and i'll feel darn happy after eating the ice cream, dunnoe y, jus a feeling of bliss and enjoyment. hehehe. starting to make the ice cream sound human here. but its really darn good!!! THANX TO ELENE AND XIU HUI FOR THE RECOMMENDATION.

nxt thing i wanna mention. guys who can cook are like darn cool and attractive lar. was at sharon's place last week and it jus happened that her sis' bf cooked meatball soup and thus i got lucky. and GOSH, it was superb lar, jus like my mama's cooking leh!!! wah piang, the soup was good, the meatball was good, even the bamboo shoots was good lar!! and hor, last yr the christmas party at sharon's place, the food was also prepared by him lar!! anyway, i was telling sharon how i dun mind turning gay if i can meet a guy who can cook as well as him lar. hahaha. ok, its not true and i reiterate, im as straight as a pencil can get. and thus sharon's sis doesnt have to worry abt losing her bf to me too. =P

lastly, theres now like a 3 point system when we look at girls on the streets le lar. me and saf together with the collaboration of sharon and josh has came up with: Chick, Chicky and Chicky-iest. yeah, of course Chicky-iest would be the biggest eye candy u can find, like Denise Keller, Jessica Biel (the hot lawyer in Chuck and Larry) etc. anyhow, when the points system came up, we immediately came upon a Chicky on the verge of being Chicky-iest lar. hehehe. and please ladies, we dun mean any insult to any single one of u out there ya. its jus tongue in cheek and a inside joke among my grp of frens. =)

Daughtry Rocks!!! Rock Rulz!!! and Balls of Fury Sucks!!!

-things are starting to turn bad here ya, but its been so long le. wad is it that cannot be worked out? november is like coming darn soon lar. i dun wanna see regrets, and we all know regrets are worthless. life will still move on but will you guys move on? and wad abt all the many laughter that we shared? i know its easy for me to say but i dun wan to come to a point where i have a make a choice between either one of u leh. both of u are equally important. pls pls pls work the problem out ya. im always here to listen.

2007-09-13T22:51:00.000+08:00

alrite kids, im back!!

well, i've jus been too lazy to update my blog ya. as always, life cant be better although i wish it can get better. but anyhow loads of things to say and update.

first off, after 9 tough months, Saf is a 2LT. darn proud of him lar, like watching my own son Pass Out sia. hahaha, i bet his parents are darn proud too. anyhow, we went to the commissioning parade and it was cool man. nv seen a parade up close before unless u consider the ones that i have taken part in. U know ah, its always the parades that makes being in the army damn cool lar, lots of hard work, but the end result is like worth it lar. anyhow, i was the designated camera man that day, so ya, loads of pics and vids. but of all the pics, this is my fav lar!!!!

ok lar, he had his eyes closed. =( but guess wad, i took picture with a real hero lar!! look at the number of badges he has!!! and i guess the one that he is proudest of mus be the 'Budweiser' at the bottom of his right chest lar. well, that eagle on a anchor is a 'budweiser'. worn only by US Navy Seals. and yes, u are correct. HE IS A NAVY SEAL!! a singapore born SEAL. SEALS are like the most elite of american special forces lar. and their track record is that they have nv left a fellow seal - dead or alive - behind in a war zone. this is not including the ranger tab on his left sleeve as well as the fact that he is a Commando. so yeah, this is a pic that i will cherish forever and ever lar. how many pple can claim to have take picture with a singapore SEAL? jus looking at him gave me goosebumps lar. and he is Saf's Wing Comm, wad a lucky bastard saf is.

moving on, theres a new hobby gripping me and my gang. it goes by the very simple name of 'mahjong'. hahaha, yeah, we even took to teaching saf how to play so that he will not be left out and at the same time, have enuff pple to play =P well, the cool thing is that saf has been killing us with his winning streak lar. and he is a beginner lor. to think me and josh has been playing since like we were 11.

oh yeah, rmb me complaining abt not going to minds? well, i jus had my wish fulfilled. twice in 2 weeks somemore. yeah, minds is as fun as ever lar. and of course i played taboo, 1 win and 1 loss. not so bad lar, considering the loss was a giveaway from me and xiu hui. and hor, we have a new trademark, which is the 'earl' thing lar. we happily kenna that thing again wor, so zun and she used the same way to describe it lar. so yeah, its a trademark.

nxt, pls have dinner at Sushi Tei!! that place like serves the best jap food lor. kim brought us there and it was addicted from the first bite. the mango sushi was heavenly, i think god would kindly become human jus for the mango sushi lar! =P anyway, the unagi sushi was great too!! considering that i have nv dared to eat eels, the first bite was a challenge but it turned out to be superb!! dunnoe how to describe lar, its jus good!!

and recently, sharon drew a uber cool pic of kakashi for me!!! hehehe, she wanted to make that into a shirt for me lar. but nobody could do it wor, so she decided to instead do up a clock for me with kakashi's face as the background. so nice and sweet of her rite? confirm loads and loads of effort placed into drawing it lar. imagine her erasing and drawing and changing again. WAH, no offense josh, but i love ur gf!!! hehehe.

caught a few movies since i last blogged, heres the list with my ratings to go along:

The Simpsons - 9/10, uber funny lar, damn i love homer and his checklists together with american idiot, funeral version.

Secret - 8/10, cool and kinda weird twist, guey lun mei is like darn cute lar, classic beauty and the theme song is nice too.

Rush Hour 3 - 7/10, funny lar but abit exagerrated leh. jackie chan still rocks though

Ratatouille - 9/10, freaking funny lar, laug and laugh and Remy is so cute. but hor, we had this feeling that the entire threatre only my row laughing lar.

i would also like to apologize to jia ning, serene, priscilla and fauzrin. last 2 gatherings i didnt turn up. i promise the nxt one i'll turn up!! and lastly, EPL has started, not a good start from United but in the end, we'll still win the EPL and Champ League lor. call me cocky, but im confident.

unitl my nxt post (hopefully not so far away), cheers!!

2007-07-08T23:55:00.000+08:00

eh, honestly. i wonder how many of u can see the chinese words on my previous post lar. cos i cant see a damn thing, its jus a pile of rubbish from my com. those of u guys who are reading, pls do let me know ya. whether u can see the chinese words or not. thanx =P

anyhow, my current status is HOME ALONE. hahaha, papa and mama went to bangkok with my cousins loh. was supposed to go with them, but it was a last minute trip and my passport was expired so tata!! im stuck in singapore with me, myself and I. but its ok, i'll have loads of new 'toys' to play with when they return. hahaha. and with this, i have a new resolution. get my passport done before august ends. so me and saf can go for our scheduled diving lessons. YES!! we are gonna learn diving!!! the thing that has obssesed elene for the past yr and more. dunnoe y lar, but everything that saf and me does are all spur of the moment, off the cuff things. should be fun though. after this, there is still wind surfing, blading and my kayak star 3 to learn lar. SO LITTLE TIME AND SO MUCH TO DO!!! and also have to go MINDS!!! wah piang, been nearly 4 months le ba? last 2 visits there and was rejected lar, cos full!! sianzation!

eh, anybody hasnt caught transformers?? pls go and watch it ya. i think its one of the best movies of the yr lar, even better than 300. 2 and a half hrs of action and laughter. totally worth the tix price. swear in the name of United!! anyhow, the month of July is a killer lar, so many movies to catch. Transformers, Harry Potter, Die Hard (Bruce Willis leh!! IDOL!!!), The Simpsons and also Rush Hour 3. money no enuff, time also no enuff ah!!

by the way, saf is in Taiwan currently. yes, training!! 3 weeks, but its already been a week loh. and why does he always make life difficult for himself? i guess all MAN ARE BITCHES lar, thats including me. anyhow, while q-ing to get popcorns for transformers, sharon gave me a very very delicious durian puff to eat lar and our first thought was saf stuck eating combat ration. hahaha, and we realised we always talk abt him and miss him when he's away. but when he is back with us, we jus treat him damn badly lar. especially me and sharon always making fun of him and giving him damn sarcastic remarks. =P I HEREBY VOW THAT I WILL TREAT HIM NICER WHEN HE IS BACK!!

anyhow, even before he left i had to make fun of him lor. elene had this crazy idea to go and send him off lar. but i was darn lazy and it was like 12am on a sun lor. so i suggested msging him instead, but using a certain someone's name =P. so me and elene tag team lar, i sent 1 msg using part of the name, and her using the other part of the name with another msg. pissed him off i think. hahaha. anyhow, it reminded me of PROG sia. i was supposed to work with elene de, but she got transferred out last min. so i guess this tag mission finally accomplised the job that was supposed to be done nearly 2 yrs ago. hahaha. damn i miss prog and damn i miss school. anybody willing to go back to school with me 1 of these days? call or msg me pls.

and lastly, i finally found the Band of Brothers DVD Boxset at Gramophone @ The Cathay. actually its xiu hui who saw it lar but heck, the important thing is that i've been searching for this special collector's item for like damn long lar and there it is in all of its glory. Stumbling block though is that it costs $105 leh, and it jus happens that im a poor NSF. so if there is a kind soul out there with money to spare or really really wanna fulfill my heart's desire , pls buy it for me ya. i'll be eternally grateful to u and ur kind heart. hahaha.

2007-07-01T03:19:00.000+08:00

原谅我这一生不羁放纵爱自由
也会怕有一天会跌倒
被弃了理想谁人都可以
那会怕有一天只你共我

仍然自由自我
永远高唱我歌
走遍千里

Very meaningful lyrics from Beyond's 海阔天空. kinda applies to me in some weird way.

everybody's always looking for freedom, wanting to be free. and here he is apologizing that he will nv give up freedom even though freedom is something that everybody deserves.

especially the last verse where he reinstates that he is his own person, doing things his own way. WHOA!! how many pple craves for that but could nv achieve it. i guess thats why he had to apologise for wanting to be free. 1 person doing things their own way would mean causing much inconvenience to the many others ard him.

why is it that we are all like that? cant a person jus live for himself? yeah, its definitely selfish. but if everybody learns to take care of themselves, wouldnt it mean not placing a hassle on other pple? i know its impossible lar, but if it ever becomes possible, wouldnt it mean lesser fighting and so much more time for peace?

how many times have we seen war erupted becos of discontent with wad is going on, pple claiming that wad they are doing it to create a better future. but isnt it so much better if everybody jus mind their own business and set their focus on finding the freedom within themselves or jus doing things that they like? life would be so much more uncomplicated lar and of course lesser fighting and bloodshed.

lets jus take a look at the middle east, they are all basically arabs but why is it that they cant find peace within themselves? and the middle east has the most oil resources in the world lar, if they put aside all the fighting and concentrate more on the improvement of their region, im sure they can even rival the G8 lar. and africa, all the civil wars has jus torn the area apart lar. even in their own country, there are like 2 different government.

even though the world has improved much over the yrs, but in terms of humanity, we seemed to have moved back 30 to 40 yrs lar. its as if with every step we take forward results in us losing a bit more of our humanity.

now that im listening to Beyond, i realise that they are like 1000 times better than SH!N. their songs jus connects with pple lar, theres always a meaning behind their songs and it always touches on issues that concerns common folks like you and me.

may Wong Ka Kui rest in peace. today is the 14th year since he passed on. (coming a lil late from me though) but the legacy of Beyond still lives in many Hong Kongers.

and some minor changes in my blog to accomodate the chinese words, looks kinda weird though. =P

2007-06-04T00:52:00.000+08:00

oh yeah, cos i wasnt at home on the last post. here are the pictures i promised from my gathering with jia ning and gang abt 1 month ago. some of which i find are darn funny lar.

thats me threatening doraemon with a butter knife, classic pic sia!!

and they are taking revenge for doraemon here. =(

and thats pris and serene with me. wondering wad serene was thinking sia. hahaha.

my first meal from a milk bottle in nearly 18 yrs.

ok, me filled and satisfied after my meal of milk in a bottle.

ok, this is the pacifier that took all of my courage to put in my mouth. accoring to my mama, i didnt even use a pacifier when i was baby lar!!

and thats the whole gang altogether.

enjoying our fondue!!

the card that serene made. loads of effort and time sia!!

and of course, the wonderful ladies who made my night!! man, am i lucky!!! hahaha.

2007-06-02T05:48:00.000+08:00

the time now is 5.56am, im at sharon's place blogging while the rest are all sleeping like logs. hahaha. jus finished watching england vs brazil and everybody jus kinda fell away into a deep sleep. anyhow, i entertained myself with wii. u know, the nintendo console that plays with a motion controller. cool sia!!! damn fun and interesting. technology today really is WHOA!! and we had such a good time laughing at each other's antics lar. especially mine and saf's. so dumb and childish lor. hehehe

ok, im blogging cos i have nothing to do and cos the shows on tv are all crappy lar. hehehe. shall give a lil recap of the notable things that happened since i last blogged.

went to watch pirates 3 last weekend. being a pirates fan, i was darn looking forward to it lar, wad with captain jack coming back to life in the show. but.... kinda disappointed sia. the show was nearly 3 hrs long lar and damn i couldnt catch up with 70% of their dialouge lor. they were speaking so darn fast, its like a GPMG on auto fire mode. and the show kinda draggy lor, so much dialouge jus to lead to the final climax part. the finale was cool though, 1 full hr of pirate to pirate battle. and the final part, gave me feeling that maybe there will be a pirates 4? jus cpt jack and his little sampan??!! hehehe. he is still as cool as ever lar, but i feel this last movie kinda spoiled the entire film series le.

den this past tues and wed, i went for live range. to clear my ATP so that i can ORD without worries. its basically nothing lar, jus a normal range. but its interesting cos im using a SAR 21 and not M16. they are the basically the same type of weapon lar, but the structure and shape is different. SAR 21 also comes with a scope and LAD, so its easier for the shooter to find the target. with all these features, i guess most pple would prefer SAR rite? since its a better weapon and newer too. anyhow, M16 has been in use since Vietnam War lar, almost as old as my father sia. but NO!!! i prefer the M16 cos it jus has got this rifle feeling to it lar. the SAR jus cannot compare leh, i dunnoe y. M16 also carrys more like a rifle lor, its like im shooting with a toy gun when im using the SAR 21. so yeah, it does feels kinda weird. but of course, its definitely easier to use a SAR 21 not to mention cleaning it too. WAH, saved me a lot of time lar. =P

had dinner with best and gang this past vesak day. was darn worried i would miss dinner with them lar, cos i had to go back to camp for duty. luckily it was over rather early. and the main question is who was missing? this time, it was john cos he had to book in on Vesak nite itself. we nv seem to get full attenance sia. anyhow, colin came to pick me up so i didnt have to leave house early. so darn nice of him, especially since he came all the way down from Tampines to pick me up. and jason turned up!! so long nv see him le lor, its like seeing a long lost fren. hahaha. well, dinner was supposed to be 7.30 but guess wad. nobody was early and jaz (the organizer who told us not to be late) arrived at 8.45. hehehe. its ok though. great time catching up with each other and bitching abt pple we knew in school. we should really meet up more often sia. anyhow, i think sara was rather left out by our army talk lor. so yeah, sorry woman. lets have mahjong soon ya. last thing though, nxt time u guys have dinner at bedok 85, do take note of which table u are sitting on lor. the plastic or wooden one cos u are only allowed to get drinks from the 'wooden gang' (as colin put it) if u are sitting on wooden table and vice versa. its damn dumb lar but the pple there are darn particular abt it lor. so yeah, please take note.

lastly, saf bought a new camera sia!! which meant we spent sat nite happily snapping away at all things. some of which i think were rather artistic lar. hahaha. soon, i'll be getting a camera too, so yeah. both of us will be snapping away wherever we go. hahaha!!!

2007-05-15T23:06:00.000+08:00

first off, a bloody cute video from snow patrol called 'Signal Fire'. its the soundtrack to spiderman 3. Saf told me abt it, and its seriously darn cute lor, especially the kids. the song is nice too.

Nxt, I would like to say, 'ITS OUR TITLE'. yeah man, the wait is finally over. United are Champions of England once again!!! its been 4 long yrs sia. and maybe its the wait, but this title victory jus tastes so much more sweeter. what i wan to say is, the title was loaned out for the past 3 seasons lar. and now, we have reclaimed back what is rightfully ours. United Rulz; Chelsea can go suck balls and Liverpool can continue to wait unitl the cows come home. Long Live United!!!

ok, better not get too cocky here, there are still many things we haven won. =P

anyhow, life's been pretty good recently. had dinner with jia ning, fauzrin, priscilla and serene last friday. been sometime since i had a meal with them together le, and wad a night it was. full of surprises lar. dinner was at pizza hut and in came my first surprise, they got me a milk bottle lar!!!! and according to them its a branded one lor. (pigeon brand) bloody hell, made me drink milk from it in the restaurant somemore. so embarrassing lor. i think the queuing pple mus have been wondering what the hell is a grown man drinking from a milk bottle for?!! anyhow, its darn cute lar and funny too.

nxt, we moved out to hagen daz for fondue. wah piang, we were snatching like mad lar. but it was darn delicious can. everything jus seemed to go well with the hot hot chocolate. and den came my second surprise. they got me a soldier figurine!! bloody hell, do u realise how much that thing mus have cost? so nice of them lar. the soldier was so detailed lar; rifle, SBO, helmet etc etc. something i always wanted lor. hehehe, thanx ladies. together with the package came a new Billabong wallet and also a PACIFIER!!! =X. hahaha, and they forced me to suck on that thing and take picture. =( there was also a card hand-made by serene. very nice card, all the effort she mus have put into making it lar. honestly, i really enjoyed myself that night sia, so much fun and laughter. thanx ladies, and as for ur wishes. i'll work hard ya. ;P (i'll post some pics when i receive them ya, took some rather interesting pictures lor)

and that friday night was a great night for another reason. My dear fren of 14 yrs passed his CPFT!!(a swim of 200m with rifle, FBO to clear SOC and FBO to run 3.5km in 52mins) YES!!! josh passed CPFT!!! so happy lar, he nv did pass once during his course lor. and on the actual test, he passed!! 49mins!! so, i can officially call him Fitness Specialist Joshua Kok. hahaha. so darn cool!! hopefully, he gets posted to a good unit ya. thats y i say life's been pretty good.

on a rather sad note, athar closed down le. yes, the place where i spent loads of time slacking with my frens closed down le. and the place nxt to it is bloody cock up lar. to think they belong to the same boss sia. such a difference in quality lar. and thus, me and saf has christened that place, the 'cock up place'. hahaha. but still, athar closed down le. kinda sad its gone le and theres no place for us to jus chill. at least we haven found one yet. no worries though, we'll find a place soon enuff.

been reading quite a bit recently too. 'Angels and Demons' borrowed from saf; 'Howl's Moving Castle' borrowed from xiu hui; and saf got me this book called 'Time Goes to War'. all very good read sia. watched the movie for 'howl's moving castle' long long ago, but i think the book is better lor, cos it jus explains so much more things in details. and 'time goes to war' is uber cool lar. the pictures in there are all awesome lor, showing the best pictures taken by war photographers. some of the images are very shocking lor but its very nice sia, and a very good read too. to think he got me something so good before he left for brunei. anyhow, saf is at brunei now le, for JCC. all the best to him sia.

lastly, Captain Jack Sparrow is setting sail soon!!! hahaha. finally after almost a yr of waiting, the coolest pirate the world has ever seen will set sail once again. and he is passing by Singapore too!! bloody hell, i still hate the ending to the 2nd movie lar. left it on a cliffhanger and made me wait for 1 bloody yr. anyhow, good things are worth the wait ya. should be a wonderful movie lor. and this time its the final installment le, so i guess it will be one hell of an epic lor. hahaha. lets all go watch the movie. Savvy??

2007-04-23T22:48:00.000+08:00

alright, its been awhile since i have updated. theres a reason lor. hahaha. thats becos im addicted to Bleach le!!!

Yeah, the anime that everybody has been trying to get me to watch the past yr. i had originally rejected watching it cos i couldnt catch up with those naruto episodes and i didnt wan to get myself addicted to another anime. well, now that Naruto Shipudden is out and there is only 1 episode a week, i needed something to fill me in for the rest of the week. I decided that Bleach would be a wise choice. its packed with loads of fight scene and stupid jokes especially those that includes Kon and his 'valley of gods'. anyhow, not 1 character has gripped me like Kakashi yet but im starting to like Zaraki Kenpachi. he is like the ultimate warrior lar, i think he doesnt need to eat de lor, as long as he gets to fight can le. hehehe.

anyhow, nothing much going on lately. sharon is having her exams and saf kenna confined for 2 weeks. so my last 2 week were spent mostly with meself. but its nice too, sat had soccer as usual and this time SWIFT joined in, so its like a reunion of minor proportions away from home.

went to sweep tomb too. i think we're one of the last few peeps who went to sweep tomb lor (the day before it all ends) and i think ah gong and ah ma mus be wondering whether we were ever gonna turn up. hahaha, i know u guys arent able to read this but still, no worries ya. we will definitely turn up no matter wad. rain or shine even if we are a lil late =P

and now, for my scheduled happy bdae wishes to all those who have grown a yr older.

Mr Muhd Sahfahri - My dear fren. Turned 21 loh. hahaha, i know u hate to be an adult and so do i. but we have to realise that as long as we are not as old as iskandar, its already a blessing le. hahaha. anyhow, now that we are both adults i believe its time for us to give up winning and persue some other passion ya? NOT!!!! its nv gonna happen lar, not with me always being 18 at heart and u still not being able to beat me. hehehe, i think this is getting too random but happy bdae ya.

Mr Ho Hin Kheng, Jason - hey man, i haven seen u in awhile lar. mus turn up for gatherings more often ya. all of us are missing you. and i know the possibility of u reading this is not high. but still, wadever was said was meant as a joke lar. so dun take it to heart ya. best aint angry and colin doesnt blame u for not turning up. no matter wad, we are still bros ya, wad with all the late nights we spent at best's place and the fun we had. will pass u ur present once we meet and also, happy bdae.

Mr Chan Chin Teck - yeah, urs truly also turned 21 loh. wad can i say, i dun feel any different as when i was 18 lar. although i can officially call myself an adult and that i can vote at the nxt elections, i honestly dun feel any difference lor. probably a tad older ba, but with me, u are nv too old to feel 18 lor. heck, i'll always be 18!!! like some demon who doesnt grow old!!! HAHAHA. but honestly, it does feels weird to be labeled an adult especially when saf did all he could to remind me abt it while waiting for fried mars bar of all things. (its uber nice by the way, please proceed to far east to taste it)

Mr Lim Jian He, Colin - well, spent the night at his chalet. wasnt really eventful unless u count the fact that he got drunk and kept apologising to everybody he sees. even when i said bye to him, KNS, he kept saying sorry to me lar. hahaha. it was darn nice of him to org a chalet lar, wad with all the food and the chance for everybody to catch up with one another. had a great time sitting outside jus eating and talking to each other. was nice to see sara, lee jing, jaz, best and zixiang; hadnt met them in a long time and it was jus nice to talk to them and gossip abt others. hahaha. cool. happy bdae to u too, hope u like the present we got u. only loss was i didnt get to play mahjong. =P

Ms Jasmine - well, i jus realised that i dunnoe ur surname sia. hahaha, to think we were in the same grp for SL camp lar. =( anyhow, thanx for inviting me to ur bdae chalet too ya. it was right nxt to colin's. how cool is that? close fren of sara and lee jing's and a regular mahjong kaki. hope u like the present ya. sorry i didnt spend much time at ur side but i saw eileen and krystin at ur chalet lar. thanks for the opportunity for me to catch up with them. happy bdae to u too.

if i didnt mention, all the above mentioned personnel turned 21. hahaha. all the tiger babies rocks!!!

2007-03-18T22:25:00.000+08:00

wad a weekend!! totally full of events. lets start the recap from saturday.

had dinner with xiu hui, elene, saf and jon siew. why the suddent occassion? becos jon siew is going to MEXICO!!! wah lao, MEXICO leh. and he is going there for SIP lar. how much more exotic and cool can it get? wad a learning experience it will be for him lar. cool sia!!

after dinner, it was minds-time. and it was saf's treat, all the more better. =P anyhow, they have this new game called dawn something something (cant remember wad it was le). anyhow, its uber cute lar and fun. its basically a memory game but there is jus something abt it thats jus nice. hehe, and we played taboo too!!! no loss, it was a victory!! and the one the word that sealed the victory was cool sia. heres how xiuhui described it:

xh: 'my name is .....??"
me: "EARL!!!"

hahaha, yeah. the final word was EARL!! dunnoe why they have earl as a word lar but 'My name is Earl'!! thats like a uber cool and simple way to describe something that is almost indescribable lor. hehehe. so clever of that girl.

also, i have to thank xh for literally saving my face. hahaha, i missed my step on the staircase and was falling forward, bound to hit my head on the stairs or something le. BUT, thankfully she was infront and i went crashing into her. i escaped the incident totally unscathed but she took the brunt of my weight plus the velocity of the falling on her back. although nobody was left lying on the floor, she said i really hurt her back lor. im so sorry but thanks for saving me ya.

after which, me and saf went to meet the dragonboaters at chomp chomp. we left soon after to do wad?? CHIONG CS!! hahaha, haven played that game for like how long lar. den ytd 1 shot play, we played from 1am to 4.30am lor. shiok sia!!1 part was damn funny lar. we agreed to fight only with knife, but somebody jus took out a gun and started sweeping everybody down lor. haha, in the end. wad was suppose to be a knife game turned into a free for all. hahaha

caught 300 jus now. wah piang. it seriously is cool lar. the warrior culture of those men is admirable lor. how willing they were to defend their land despite being outnumbered. they fought their guts out and willingly sacrificed themselves for their country. bravely showing their fighting spirit and also how they dedicate their lives to these values - pride, honour, glory and duty before death.

1 thing though, i hate the way the climax part ended lar. bloody hate it lor. it left me with this empty feeling lar. i jus couldnt accept the way it had to end sia, especially the spear throwing part. in the end i jus couldnt take it lor and i know this this sounds gay but when i was out of the threatre, i broke down lar. sharon had to comfort me lor, so ashamed of myself. but serious sia, the way it ended was jus unacceptable from my point of view lar. i know its jus a show, but there are better ways to end it mah. its not fair at all. i knew they would all die, but its jus such a pity lor, dying and yet coming so close to achieving their aim. and by close i mean real close leh, a whisker away lor. im not divulging anthing in case some of u wanna catch the show. but is really unacceptable lar. DAMN!!! but the show's great lar, story wise maybe not as good but the action part damn zai lor. totally worth the ticket prize.

"Give them nothing, but take from them EVERYTHING"

2007-03-16T23:47:00.000+08:00

hello hello, been away for too long ya. but hahaha, a new look for my blog ya. kinda getting sick of that old skin le, so i decided to change it to this one. with skulls and guitars, so ROCK, so MetallicA lar. hahaha.

anyhow, the past month was filled with bdaes lar. so please allow me to one by one wish these peeps a happy bdae.

Ms Sharon Chang Siew Ying - 21 loh, hahaha, the first one to turn 21. no worries ya, me and saf joining u soon le. den we can all call ms ow by her name, which is serene!!! hahaha, poor josh still has to wait for 8 more months, hahaha. damn im a bastard sia. =P but speaking of that boy, so darn sweet of him to organise a party for sharon lar. well, it was suppose to be a surprise party lar but owing to circumstances, sharon found out. but anyhow, its the thought that counts ya. and im sure sharon is damn happy abt it.

Mr Tou Nien Yeow - another one who turned 21. hahaha, his chalet was at pasir ris. wah lao, do u know how big that chalet is? its exactly the size of a bungalow lor. anyhow, sorry bro. didnt spend much time at ur place. only turning up for a 1 hr before rushing off and den rushing back again. and i have to thank sylbest too, for fetching me from downtown east at 3am. and best of all, i got to see so many of my poly frens at his chalet. a pity i couldnt spend more time catching up with them.

Ms Liow Xiu Hui - turned 19, but that poor girl had to mug for exams on her bdae. helped her to celebrate her bdae at minds. wah, i love minds sia. they have so many new games lar. so wonderful. especially that game called intrigue, kinda like im the boss but it involves even more screwing of ur frens lar. hehehe, but it was fun. and we got her a chocolate mint cake. mint leh, wah lao, thats like the best flavour of all flavours lar. =P a pity the cake wasnt cold le. if not, im sure it would have tasted wonderful sia. on a sad note, my unbeaten taboo record was tarnished on this day. hahaha, i thought i would nv lose this record lar. but still, all unbeaten records have to come to an end.

anyhow, had dinner with colin and john last friday. wah, im jus so glad that the 3 of us are posted to the same side lar. gave us so much more chance to meet up and talk cock. it was nice sia, especially at colin's place. talking abt all the army stories and den watching army daze on youtube. hahaha. laughed till my cheeks also nearly cramp lar. hehehe.

lastly, a very very belated happy chinese new year to everybody!! it was cool. seeing all the relatives and collecting all the ang baos. =P

2007-01-28T19:51:00.000+08:00

CONGRATULATIONS LIONS!!! yes yes yes, we beat the Malaysian Tigers at Kallang last nite. wad a great feeling that was sia!! the excitement of the penalty, and the joy of seeing a full house stadium celebrating the Lion's victory. WOOHOOO!! now its on to the finals and winning the trophy once again.

i really wanted to be at Kallang last nite lar, bloody hell. jus imagine the atmosphere at the stadium; the entire stadium clad in red, hearing Kallang roar one more time, the celebrations after the victory. wah lao, im so jealous lar. seeing an entire stadium full of Singaporeans cheering and having fun. and its not for National Day mind you. but i couldnt get tickets lar, bloody hell. they were all sold out lor and i couldnt go early and queue up to get the tix cos i was stuck at work. hai, really wasted lor. but the tix selling out is also a good thing no? this proves that Singaporeans are still intrigued by the fortunes of our National Team. but still, i wasnt there and i really wanted to be part of it, jus like i was in 2005 when we took on Indonesia in the finals.

see. this was how the stadium looked like in 2005 man. all red and the atmosphere was unbelievable lar. imagine this time its against malaysia, im sure the noise level would have NEA booking everybody in the stadium for being too noisy lor. =P

anyhow, i watched the penalty shootout at cafe cartel in Seragoon Gardens. wah, my heart was pounding like mad lar. every single shot was going in lor, i was so scared a singapore player would miss sia, bloody hell. when lionel lewis saved that final shot by the malaysians. WAH, relieved sia!!! and the entire cartel cheered and clapped. so nice to know that even though we couldnt be at the stadium, pple are still very much into the match.

and bloody hell, i was cheated by Channel 5!! hahaha, cos the listings stated that the match was a delayed telecast, i happily went out and got my mother to record the match. but they changed it to a live telecast and all my mother recorded was the extra time and shootout. so disappointed lar, but im grateful to channel 5 ya, for changing their schedule so that more Singaporeans could catch the match live. it jus so happened that i didnt have the luck.

anyhow, its onwards to the final le. good luck Lions, show to the others that we are the best team in Asean and soon we will conquer Asia too!!

2007-01-21T22:47:00.000+08:00

ok, im late here. i promised to blog in 2 day's time on mon. but i didnt and i sincerely apologize. anyhow, this was wad i wanted to say. HAPPY 21st BDAE Ms Loke Jia Ning. yeah, it was on the 17th. but hahaha, the as usual late me only posted today.

anyhow, she celebrated her bdae in advance on the 13th. held a chalet cum buffet. thanx alot man. and special thanx to serene for coordinating with everybody to get jia ning's present. really appreciate it.

that nite jus brought back memories sia. wad with all my grp mates there; jia ning, fauzrin, serene and priscilla. wah lao, jus so nice to have a good laugh with them lor - especially serene who always comes up with loads of nonsense with me. all the times we spent in the meeting rooms or outside lecture threatres slogging our ass out, having a good laugh and jus talking nonsense. poly life definitely is great sia. life jus seemed so much easier and relaxed.......

anyhow, jason, jaz and best came along too, and we left rather early cos we went to chijmes to catch United in action. (apologies to jia ning for that) i would say it was one of the best performances i have seen in recent times sia. Villa jus didnt have an answer to all the questions we posed to them. carry on United!! anyhow, after that it was supper at bedok 85. nice and sumptous. best was a lil strange that nite though and nobody could get him to talk, not even me and jaz. hopefully he is feeling better now man.

oh ya, reason i was late in blogging was cos i was sick on wed and on MC for thurs, fri and sat. yah, haven been sick in awhile and 1 time kenna only so jia lat. hahaha. but yeah, im feeling better le. so no worries ya.

My Name is Earl is back!! supremely nice show. funny and adds subtle values in it too. like izzit all that we humans do have an agenda behind it? consciously or sub-consciously.

hmm, and saf is having it real tough sia. can tell his morale and motivation is getting affected le. but mus hang in there sia. its not easy to get into OCS, dun give up now. besides, once service term over. things will start to look up le. so many pple has done it before, so can you!!! times will come where u will question urself and ur motivation but mus hang tough ya. otherwise, all ur efforts the past month will be wasted le. Tough Training dun Last, Tough Man Last!!!

2007-01-15T22:35:00.000+08:00

hello hello!! its been awhile sia. but first of all, a very belated HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL. i have loads of things to say, but im jus plain lazy to log in and type. anyhow, here goes.

been spending loads of time with my frens the past month plus plus. every weekend is filled with going out especially with saf, josh, kim and sharon especially during josh and saf's block leave period. lets start from christmas eve. spent it at sharon's place where she organized a christmas party. raining like dunnoe wad but food was great, fun was great and of course the frens were great. den midnight winning until everybody jus kinda fell asleep, wad with all the alcohol we had. anyhow, many thanks to sharon for the party. and i got to apologize to jaz and best cos i pang seh them that night cos i was darn lazy to go town despite me promising them i would go down. sorry bros. it'll nv happen again.

had a movie outing with my 2e3 guys before christmas, it was fun!! been awhile since i saw them. and we saw sok leng and magdalene too. wah piang, fellow 2e3 pple we nv kept in touch with. and to meet them while we were going out together was uber cool sia, den we jus stayed behind after the movie to talk and reminisce abt our sec school days. the famously notorious 2e3. all the nonsense we did, like sitting outside the general office and refusing to attend lesson cos we felt and were prejudiced against.

nxt up, new year's countdown at marina. with my 2e3 peeps again!! with brandon's bro whom nobody recognised tagging along. he was still a kid when i last saw him lar, that was way back in 2000 lor. hahaha. we reached damn early to walk ard and chope seats. but jus as the midnight fireworks was to start, we realised that we chope seats at the wrong place. moved out damn quickly and we still managed to find a damn good spot for the fireworks which was SPECTACULAR!!! cool sia, jus waiting for yee han to send the vid nia, and wad a way to countdown. we den led a whole street full of pple to walk across the roads irregardless of the traffic lights. hahaha, the drivers mus have been damn pissed off lar. we den spent the night walking ard aimlessly and greeting strangers happy new year, before settling down by boat quay to play 8 man tai dee. a whole new way to play it taught by yee han.

you know, its always nice to spend a day out with ur frens especially after a hard week's work. all the talking and laughing can really make the week's work so much more worth it. jus the knowledge that during the weekends, i can spend time with pple i can connect with and jus sit down comfortably without even talking is really wad motivates most of us NS boys now. of course, im not complaining abt serving NS cos its a duty. but the idea of doing the same old things everyday jus sucks to the core. some may say im blessed to be booking out everyday, but isnt it even more wonderful to be a combat fit soldier especially if your heart desires so. another reason is becos something has been on my mind and i jus couldnt get it out no matter how hard i try. been awhile since i had something stuck in my mind like this and its really bothering me. its a idea i would like to pursue but doubts jus keeps popping out here, there, every where. thankfully i have these frens to spend time with and keep my mind off it. =)

during this period, caught 2 movies that to me was really good sia. first was "Flags of our Fathers", the movie abt the flag raising on Iwo Jima. very very deep movie with loads of meaning, especially wad Ira Hayes went through. having to endure survivor's guilt as well as having an entire war's success pinned down heavily on ur shoulders. touching and meaningful, and jus portrays war as how cruel it is and wad it can do to those young men who fought in it.
2nd movie, "Death Note 2". didnt really wan to watch it cos will be spoiler since im reading the manga. but sharon's enthusiasm jus sucked me into it. and im not regretting cos its a really great show lar. the show was immaculately paced. and the ending was different from that of the manga's. final reason why its great. becos of MISA MISA. erika toda is her name, wah piang. so uber cute lar. hahaha, first saw her in nobuta wo produce. and she is as cute as ever lor!!

yes, im done!! will be back in 2 day's time to blog abt something else. stay tuned ya. =P

2006-11-28T22:51:00.000+08:00

finally, i had a weekend all to myself!! no work, no office, no early mornings. yeah, last weekend was damn cool lar. on sat, i slept till 1 plus in the afternoon before waking up. den i went to zelva for soccer. although it was raining ah, we still played lar. at the end of the game, everybody was wet and muddy. and lagi best, i had to clean my boots cos it was too dirty and my mama was nagging at me to clean it. =P

den it was athar with saf and josh at 2130. hehehe, for a long time we haven had full attendance. it was always only me and saf. anyhow, athar sucked that night. boss wasnt there, so we waited and waited for service and food. the only positive for me was neslo!! cool drink sia, nescafe and milo. weird combi but nice combi. my prata tasted like rubber, and i waited for like 45mins sia. but josh and his maggi goreng plus curry chicken was all so tempting. =P and the 2 boys are passing out in exactly a week from now. no more chao recruit!!!

that was not all. at 2330, i left for chomp chomp (damn near athar lar) to meet best and jaz. only the 3 of us this time but it was still nice seeing them and talking abt so many things. i was late as usual. and so, i had to make up to them. 3 cups of sugar cane juice it was, but not normal ones lor but the super huge ones that only chomp chomp has. its abt the size of 2 beer mugs stacked together and it costs $3 each. hahaha, i wasnt really full after the food but after the sugar cane, only word to describe was BLOATED. proceeded to best's place for midnite soccer, arsenal vs bolton. was rooting for the gunners all the way lar, but they still lost. jinx of best's place strikes again!! hahaha!!

by the time the match ended it was 3.30am. and best sent me and jaz home. damn touched lar. and i stay at serangoon lor, not far and not near. after that he had to send jaz home too, bedok. best always has to chaffeur us here and there lar, thanx bro. appreciate it so so much. SAT was damn eventful sia!!

sunday. me and saf went to find glenn and xiu hui thinking of slacking with them or maybe helping them with work. hahaha, in the end. no work got done!! spent it at mac, den 77th street(there was a orange zippo lighter lar!!) and finally, of all places. Toys 'R' Us!!! hahaha, damn fun inside lar, wad with all the toys and the things we play with. my fav is the blue horse head on a stick, so cute sia. press its ear and it makes horse noise.

den there was this kid who was playin with a toy gun and shooting at nothing in particular. i decided to be a idiot and pretended to be hit. and guess wad, he totally ignored me!!! didnt even show me a bit of face lor. to think i was trying to be nice by entertaining him. after Toys, it was to basement for snacks, i had Tori-Q, been 6 months since i last had it sia. and den to this place called Qi Ji for somemore food. reached home at 1730 and slept till 2130, and den it was more food. i think all the soccer the previous day was wasted lor. =P

on a sour note, my fave cousin is sick. she fell sick in thailand somemore. and had to be admitted to hospital after returning. thats still ok leh, the day after being discharged, she has to go back to work lar. even when she was still in hospital, she also had to work =?. so bloody inhumane. hope she gets well soon sia.

but happily, i saw baby kaye lynn(our niece) when i visited my cousin (didnt see young little kaye li though). hahaha, she's 4 lar so not really baby. but darn cute lar. i dote on the 2 of them the most le, always up to something unexpected. and this time, kaye lynn actually spoke chinese!! and she was chinese 'allergic' jus 3 months ago. damn clever and cute. her sis also, kaye li. now the face so round look like fishball. hahahaha!!!

lastly, Pele's in TP!! thats y i say, TP is the coolest school ever!!!

2006-11-19T23:19:00.000+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!! yeah, JOSHUA KOK ZHEN QIANG turned 20 ytd. and so nice of sharon to plan a surprise for him. but it wasnt as smooth sailing as we thought it would be lar.

was suppose to meet sharon to get his cake (she bought oreo cheese cake!! haha, thats my favourite cake of all time.) but cos i had to work, i left her to fend for herself. haha, luckily she got dickson to go instead. den joshua booked out an hr earlier than expected, and i had to rush off from work. luckily my work were all done liao, and i took a cab down from yew tee to pasir ris. $21 sia. but its worth it. thats not all the problem sia. if u read the papers or saw the news, there was an accident on PIE towards Changi. and happily, sharon and dickson were caught in that bloody jam. all our plans were thrown out the window jus like that. =(

luckily i had saf and kim joo with me sia, otherwise i seriously dunnoe how to stall him at the bus stop and prevent him from going near White Sands lar. hehe, we wasted abt 1 hr plus at the bus stop jus talking (and poor kim was starving lar). worse was to follow ah, when sharon finally reached and we left for white sands, we couldnt find each other at all lor. WTH, she was with the whole bunch of dragon boaters and we still missed each other. in the end, i gave the lame excuse of 'i need to go to the toilet' so that saf can go and look for them. saf made contact and a plan was hatched for them to hide near mac. they were hiding behind a construction boarding lar and i got a shock when i saw them but still had to act like nothing. =P after all the trouble, josh finally saw them and birthday song for the birthday boy!!

i like to think he was surprised lar and i hope he was. but ah, i think it was damn bloody obvious lor. hehe, and to think there were 2 specialised programmers in the grp. i think nxt time we do such a thing, really need to plan well ahead sia. went to pasir ris park for dinner at this seaside restuarant called 'mid summer nite breeze'. wah, i like that place alot lar. first time there was with best they all and i liked the ambience and food pretty much so i suggested going there this time. spent the time there catching up with kim and saf, wah. kim really having it tough sia, but tahan awhile more and will be fine le. jia you!!!

called xiu hui on the way home and she said i sounded strange and my tone was abit harsh. i guess i was too darn tired ba, last 2 weeks been going back home at 8 plus after work and have to work on sat too. damn sian, but it'll be over soon. anyhow, apologies to her for that.

today, movie with saf (original plan was minds de, but it was shelved) but all the movies we wanted to watch were not available. SIAN!! in the end, we watched casino royale, dun really like james bond shows lar, but this turned out not bad although it was a tad too draggy for me. i liked the poker game part most sia. hahaha, a battle of wits and intellect.

den we saw who??? MISS OW!!! hahaha, she looks thinner now lar but she hasnt changed much. hope shes doing fine at zhonghua sia. mus get her out for dinner one of these days. if it werent for her, i think most of 4e6 would be in a mess right now sia. saf and me proceeded to cold storage so he could buy tidbits back to tekong and guess wad i bought? Teddy Bear Cookies, hahaha, i know its damn kiddy lar but its nice sia. saf also bought a new watch. G-Shock, and its damn zai sia. it was love at first sight for him lor. and for me too, but i jus got a new watch recently so it would have been a waste of money.

lastly, i hope i'll be able to relax a bit more after nxt week sia, after the LAB audit check. hadnt gone for soccer in 2 weeks liao lor, thanx to all the extra work i had to do. mus make sure i go for it nxt week!! and again HAPPY BIRTHDAY my dear fren. 13 yrs and more to come!!

2006-11-05T23:06:00.000+08:00

finally!! full attendance for once!!! yeah, im refering to the night of 23rd oct 2006. met best and gang for supper at east coast, full attendance!! everybody was there!! and 6 of us squeezing in best's car which can only fit 5. and how lucky we were to met a road block at colin's doorstep. bloody hell. we even let him off early to avoid detection but the cops have damn sharp eyes lar. whole lot had to stand at the roadside and present our wonderfully beautiful green i/c (11b) to the cops. even the cops were shocked lar, a car full of NSFs. hahaha. not to worry, we were let off with a warning to not overload again. =P how bloody lucky.

nothing much going on since. except for minds (again) 2 sats ago. its definitely one of my fav place to hang out lar. and i met a rather unusual character, hahaha. to quote him, 'i feel a disturbance in the force' or something to that note lar. that night was fun sia, especially with 2 'im the boss' going on simultaneously on the same table. but i got thrashed lar.... lets jus keep it at that ba. hahaha.

den ytd, soccer with zelva. wah lao, damn long nv go liao lor. totally didnt play well. my usual passes were going nowhere lar and my touch sucked. this proves that practice is of utmost importance.

but thats secondary. cos some ******* stole kenneth's shoebag. inside were his clothes, wallet and camera. new camera somemore, with his project stuffs inside. WTH, how did that bugger manage to do it lar, we were there all the time and didnt see a single person going near our bags lor, bloody sneaky fellow. and we had a police officer-in-training playing soccer with us. got kenneth all worried and all of us pissed as well as puzzled. the worrying thing is, he had his i/c and housekeys inside plus he has to redo all his project stuffs. bloody bastard, thats how much integrity some singaporeans have sia. if u wan something, go work hard and buy it with ur own effort lar. dun even know how that person can sleep well at night lor. hope the thief has nightmares every single night for the rest of life!!!

anyhow, the news is out. saddamn hussein is going to be hanged. rejoice everybody, thats 1 bastard less for the world to worry abt. his coming to earth was a mistake in the first place lar. all the pple he has killed or indirectly harmed. he should count himself lucky his dead body can not be humiliated lor. otherwise i guess it would be pounded to dust before he can even cry HUSSEIN. i guess we can nv be too kind to some pple.

wad a mixed post sia. from joy to anger. not really anger lar, jus some issues i feel i should voice out.

lastly, i like this quote from lincoln alot sia. been wanting to put it up, only now has i found the right time. "Nearly all man can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power." how true it is!!!

2006-10-23T21:14:00.000+08:00

finally, josh and saf finally came back last fri nite liao. hahaha, great to see them back sia. and good to know that they are enjoying army life. tekong is the best lar, especially if u have great bunk mates and commanders.

sat, we went to minds. this time, josh got dickson along too. wah, damn long nv see him lar. got to know him cos he was a dragon boater too, and we would always hang out together in biz park. he's contemplating studying overseas after NS lar. cool sia, it would be good to broaden ur knowledge and learn so many other stuffs lar. but having to leave ur family and frens behind, thats one thing that would stop me from going lar. anyhow, we played the usual games at minds and dickson got addicted to Im The Boss too. hahaha, its really one of the best boardgames ever created sia. and its amazing how we always play the same games ah, but we nv seem to be bored of it. going this sat with xiu hui and elene and their PF gang. hopefully saf can book out early and get his special someone to go too. he really needs somebody to talk to ah, the loneliness in there can get to anybody on earth sia.

later, the whole gang of us met kim for dinner at fish and co. haven seen kim since we got our posting lar. cool sia, listening to all his OCS stories. got me all the more jealous lar. hahaha, but its bloody tough in there ah, first day only and they kenna pump until siao. and they have to do pull ups with FBO leh. anyhow, fish and co really rocks sia. the serving is big, food is good and service is excellent. i had baked salmon. and becos they had this halloween menu, me saf and kim ordered this drink called Pirate's Venom if i remember correctly. heres how it looks like:

cool looking drink eh!!!

den we met dion and gf at dhoby ghuat mrt. dion is also a dragon boater (the DB pple were having chilling session at serangoon). the funniest of the whole lot sia. haven seen him in a while too. and he happily proclaimed me to be his favourite rebel. he is also my favourite dragon boater. =) he enlisting in dec. all the best to him man. hahaha, my sat was filled with seeing pple i haven seen in awhile sia. COOL!!

sun, big match. united vs that bloody team from liverpool. hahaha, they were totally outplayed by us lar. 2 - 0. hahaha. a deserved scoreline i would say. and i have been wanting to say this sia, United's jersey this season looks bloody cool lar and Liverpool's, lets jus say that it looks like another one of those mass manufactured products from adidas. ok. i think im getting too cocky here. later something bad really happens. touchwood touchwood. shall keep those cockiness till we have the title. =P

MR 500 - another man of the match performance from the consumate professional. Gerrard was still drinking milk when he started playing in United's first team lar. Long Live Scholes, Long Live United.

I better go and bathe now, meeting jaz and gang later. and jason is finally joining us. bloody hell. it seems like we can nv get full attendance one sia. dunnoe who will be missing this time round. hopefully its none.

2006-10-15T22:35:00.000+08:00

firstly, heres to wishing lee jing a happy 21st bdae. her bdae was ytd lar. but i was darn lazy so today den post.

anyhow, dinner with her and the usual gang last night at Thai Express. first time eating there. the foods good (singha beer quite nice sia, me and best had a bottle each) jus that the service needs a slight improvement lar. den me and john didnt know jing was treating ah, so we happily ordered more food to share thinking that we were paying our own. hahaha. apologies to her for that.

sylbest got her a red fossil wallet on behalf of all of us. but as it turned out, jing actually reserved that wallet and we only paid for it. =? cool sia, the way this gift was given; chosen by her but paid for by us.

we moved to ben and jerry's for dessert after dinner. as the place was packed we needed extra chairs, so i asked this guy if the empty chair nxt to him was occupied. he gave me a 2 fingered "no" handsign. jus as john made for the chair, the guy's female fren came along and we realised the chair was actually occupied. and throughout the entire sequence of events, the guy didnt open his mouth to utter a single word. WTH, leaving us all confused lar, whether that handsign meant occupied or not occupied. all he did was sit down there and acting cool. den john and colin bastard him throughout our entire stay at ben and jerry's. kept doing that handsign and saying it will become a fashion trend in 2 to 3 months time.

left for home at abt 2350. at the mrt station, while we were talking and jing thanking us for the present, we suddenly realised we missed out john's bdae sia, on the 20th of sept. sia lar, seriously sorry abt that lar. sorry john. will make it up to you definitely.

2006-10-09T22:12:00.000+08:00

saf and josh finally enlisted liao. last fri @ 1000 and 1230 respectively. luckily the 2 of them same coy. hahaha. Whiskey Coy. i would say a rather slack coy lar, during my time there i nv see their recruits kenna tekan one. always see Taurus kenna. i think even my batch of Ulysses (Pes C) was more xiong sia. but of course we cant compare apple with oranges lar since Ulysses missed out doing alot of other military stuffs.

of all my frens going into army, im most worried abt the 2 of them liao lar. probably cos im closest to them and becos of some other reasons lar. but im sure they will do jus fine lar since both of them are dragon boaters. this sounds gay lar, but i miss the 2 of them alot alot sia. feeling kinda empty inside right now. dunnoe how to describe it lar, it jus feels weird. like something is jus not right. the same exact feeling i had on the nite FOC ended and on my Graduation day. although i know this time its only temporary.

josh and me been thru alot sia. from P1 all the way to Poly grad we have been in the same school (zhonghua pri, zhonghua sec and TP-Biz). basketball team from P4 till Sec 2. simply put, we shed tears, sweat and blood all the way. den the chemistry we have on the court is great sia. he always knows where i am and where i'll run and vice versa. even now when we change to playing soccer. its always me finding him or him finding me. and when he joined DB, he tried to get me in lar. hahaha, but i stuck resolutely to not taking part in CCA.

saf, simply put our frenship was built over a simple game of winning eleven. from the very old winning 4 until the winning 10 now. hahaha, and i can proudly say that im one of his trusted aides. all from a simple game of winning. i always piss him off with wad i have to say and do lar but its always so much fun seeing the way he reacts to me. we are both ariens but we are like totally different lar. what u get from saf, expect the opposite from me. but we complement each other well enuff. especially when we were both working at cartel. the manager always put as together as a team but always has to remind us to talk lesser cos we talk too much - but we do work hard lor!!!

everytime the 3 of us go out, we would do stupid things in public lar. but i think its cool that we have the guts to do this sort of things lar. like doing push ups in mrt station to asking waiters/waitresses (mostly its waitresses though =P) stupid questions. like what does NYDC stand for. hahaha. cool and fun but dumb. i think josh still has the video of us doing push ups at city hall lor.

last movie i watched with them was Rob-B-Hood. very funny and nice. the baby is darn cute lar. and i have to say The Cathay has great service sia, cos we went to watch with xiang lin and he was late. we didnt know wad to do with the ticket, while we were discussing, the lady at the counter took the initiative and approached us, telling us to write his name on the ticket and leave it with her. cool!! saved us alot of trouble.

both booking out on the 20th. and we are going to play boardgame!! haven been there since i enlisted sia. missing the games there and a lil bit of me missing the cute waitress. hahaha. can also spend the time listening to their army stories.

got my posting today also, going to be sent to SAFPU (SAF Police Unit). im the only one going there sia. like a 1 man army lor. also in charge of ammunition, but according to OIC, the things there quite little lar. and today jus found out. once im in Ammo Command, there is no chance in hell of me getting out cos of sensitive issues lar. not going to say anymore liao cos its really sensitive.

2006-09-24T17:02:00.000+08:00

very lethargic week sia. abit of intro first. my new camp is known as School of Ammunition, basically we learn all things ammo lar. currently on a 3 week course before i get posted to a new unit. first 4 days were spent doing nothing lar. but good thing was i have Platoon 4 pple with me in this course (6 of us from section 1!!!). felt damn sian when i reported on the first day lar, dun like wad im doing and i dun have frens there to talk to. but when i saw those guys. wah piang!!! immediately felt like the world is so much better lar. think im easily satisfied ba. only on fri were there lessons and there will be a test tml liao. damn fast sia, alot of things to memorise ah. felt like im back in school all over again. and i thought serving NS would mean no tests whatsoever.

alot of monkeys there also, everytime we sit in training shack can see them fighting or playing with each other. during lunch time especially, they will jus come crowding ard the cookhouse waiting for food. hahaha. typical monkey behaviours sia. but its cool to look at them have fun and not having a care in the world.

i badly needed to exercise since there are no PTs at my new camp so i went jogging with josh on fri night ard our neighbourhood. started at abt 9.15 and we ended at abt 10.30, den we went to do pull ups. hahaha, my pull ups still sucks sia. but it jus felt great to exercise after such a period of lethargic activity. athar after that with no food. nobody felt like eating sia so we jus had neslo and talked.

ytd went to play soccer with zelva and dinner with sylbest, jaz, colin, li lian, sara, eleanor and lee jing. had to leave soccer early cos i had to meet them for dinner, abit wasted lar cos i thought i was playing pretty well. but it was worth leaving early. jason did not turn up cos he was sick (hyperventilation, had to be placed on drip lor - reminds me of pam sia whenever she doesnt have enuff sleep). john didnt turn up too cos he was having dinner with karine. and we played zhong ji mi ma, it seems to be our favourite steamboat game sia. dunnoe y, everytime we eat steamboat, we would play this game and the one who kenna will have to eat the leftovers. best and ele owned the game sia, they kenna the most times. LOL!!

all of us left for tampines after dinner and best sent all the girls home (i walked lee jing home against her wishes. lol, but it was late ah and she insisted on walking alone and not taking best's transport.) went to TP bus stop to wait for best to pick me up after he sent everybody home. wah lao, TP at nite is chio sia. especially mushroom there. nv realised it while i was studying there lor. again i mus say, TP is the best Poly in Singapore not academics wise lar. but the impression and atmosphere it gives is uncomparable lor. from the super-hyper students to the desgin of the school. i think even the janitors are friendlier than the other polys lor. hahaha. im proud to be a graduate of TP =)

den we watched united vs reading. DRAW!! bloody hell. den colin told us that everytime we watch united's match at best's place, the results always dun go united's way sia. which was true lor. curse of sylbest's house?? =?

2006-09-16T02:28:00.000+08:00

not a good day at all today(ytd cos its sat liao). and i normally love fridays since the weekends are nearing. but man do i hate this friday.

early morning, found out abt my posting. vocation is supplies assistant(ammo) which is the equivalent of STOREMAN!!! KNN!! i got so bloody depressed immediately lar. STOREMAN. WTF!!! not enuff PES E pple to be storeman meh??!! or even PES C9. anyhow, got my parents damn upset too lar cos they know i didnt get a vocation that i wan. sorry papa and mama. i didnt mean to upset u all, but i really dun wan to be a storeman. and to think there are actually pple who doesnt wan to go OCS!! let me go instead lar. i'll gladly take recruit's pay for 2 yrs if i can go OCS lor.

while on the bus to suntec to get my watch, the bangle that sharon got me from south africa broke!! WTF!! my "good luck charm" lar. its made of copper lar and it jus broke like nobody's business!! immediately knew today wasnt going to be my day liao. and true enough, the watch was sold out liao lar. immediately morale low sia. luckily i saw another watch that i kinda liked and my parents topped it with a new wallet for me. =) back to normal, cheerful, monkey me.

den my mama told me something which got me damn pissed off again lar. my cousin got into trouble again. 32yrs old, 1 bloody full cycle older than me and still dunnoe how to bloody hell think!! for the past 10yrs (no joke, the first time he got into trouble was when im in P4. exactly 10 yrs.) my uncle and auntie has been doing nothing but worrying abt him non-stop. even his own niece (my niece also lar, my fav niece by the way) can sense something is wrong lar and she is only 5!! nxt time i see him, i'll make sure i drill some sense into him lar. I SWEAR!! but i dun think he will take any of it in lor, could jus be wasting my time but its still worth a shot.

dinner with jia ning and pris nxt. apologies to them cos i wasnt really myself. anyhow, haven seen them in a long time liao, so it was great lar and i started to cheer up. a pity serene and fauzrin wasnt there. hearing abt jia ning's uni life was cool sia. got me wondering abt how i would handle the sort of pple she meets.

den athar with josh, saf and kim. the usual pple lar. reached there only got bad news again. SIAN. but its ok, doesnt really affect me. but still abit sian lar. den chee hao. hahaha, popeye joined us. my zhonghua basketball team, teammate. jersey number 4!! so in essence, jersey number 4, 12 and 15 (josh) were there. totally cheered up talking to them lor. the power of friends and family!! they are very important!! cherish them!! and thanx saf for getting me the chocolate. appreciate it alot.

off to sleep liao, soccer with zelva later. =)

2006-09-14T23:43:00.000+08:00

passed out from BMT liao. finally im a PRIVATE!!! no longer a chao recruit!! yay!! other than that, miss BMT alot sia. espeically those peeps from Ulysses Platoon 4. all the CONFINE CONFINE and stone throwing while waiting for instructions. the fun we had. especially on the last nite, where me, ben and beng went to every bed to say good nite but got caught by 2IC and he thought we were having blanket party!! lol. had to explain to CSM the nxt day. kinda dumb though. alas, we will meet again lar. so no worries.

been rotting myself away these past few days, doing nothing and waking up at 12 noon. jaz and jason both went in liao. the last of my poly frens to go in. will see them in 2 weeks time (crosses finger and hope jason doesnt pang seh us. im organizing this time so he better not) =) Pam also flew off liao, this past monday. flight timing - 0800. check in time - 0600. hahaha, in the end. i slept only 2 hrs and woke up at 0445 to go and send Pam off. she'll be gone for 5 months sia, tough definitely but it'll be good training for her lar. later on, went back to TP. "helped" elene and xiu hui with their polyforum things. hahaha, i hope i was of help lar. all i did was talk cock but still reminded me of the days i spent in school working on projects sia. especially those Tourism projects which i love to do, didnt really like those Banking ones though. although i loved the calculations!!

ytd, went jogging with josh and kim. from my place to sharon's(she joined us at her place). thats like damn bloody far lar. Serangoon North to Seletar (Jalan Kayu if you are not familiar with Seletar) den jogged ard her estate. wah piang. that was xiong man. but it was good exercise lar considering the fact that i have been rotting away at home, and that i dun wan to lose the fitness that i have gained back. it was athar later(kinda sinful though) and United vs Celtic at kim's place. 3-2. wad a match!! United rulz the world!!!

anyhow, getting sick of jus sitting at home and doing nothing liao. although the first few days were alright. now i cant wait to get back into army life!! but i also dun wan to know my vocation. there is this feeling of apprehension lar. probably cos i dun wanna know wad i will get and whether i will hate it or love it. hopefully its something meaningful. shall find out tomolo at 1000. den im off to Fossil at suntec to get that watch that i saw in FHM. wah piang, that watch is really chio lar. and my mama is buying for me!!! YAY!! if u wanna see how the watch looks like, pls refer to FHM (linda liao edition) pg 89.

and last sun, played mahjong with lee jing, sara and colin. hahaha. i may have lost lar. but the fun was more important and it was my first time to colin's place despite me knowing him for a full 3 yrs!! unbelievable!! something more unbelievable, all my poly buddies has nv been to my place!!! something i noticed while playing winning jus now. WEIRD is the word. hahaha

2006-09-03T16:47:00.000+08:00

CONFINE!!!! nope, i did not get confined. jus that this is the single most powerful word in my platoon. not only is it our favourite word but its also the most feared. PS To always use it to scare us, and we would in turn use it among each other when only a very minor mistake had been made. it nv fails to bring lots of laughter even with the normally stern faced PS To.

anyhow, haven updated in 2 weeks liao. major events of the past 2 weeks would be the Live Grenade and Live Range sia. damn scary going into the Live Grenade throw lar. bloody hell, scared of dropping the grenade; scared of not throwing far enough. lol. but all these worries were unfounded lar cos its actually very safe as long as u keep to the rules. and cos PC Saufi was standing right nxt to us offering encouragement, it was all the more reassuring. the impact and sound of the grenade is not to be looked down upon sia. only 300grams but on explosion, the sound is damn bloody loud lar. and despite hiding behind a wall, the impact will still force u to jerk back. once in a lifetime opportunity and i will keep that in my mind forever.

Live Range was the following week and its uber cool sia. aprrehensive going in too cos u will be charged if you misfire your weapon. but nothing major really happened lar what with all the training we had in IMT. very interesting to shoot a real weapon, see how it works up close and what type of damage it can do to a human. night shooting was cool because the tracer rounds will emit red light that resembles fireworks. anyhow, kinda disappointed with myself cos my score was only 21/32 but at IMT i could manage 29/32. but the experience was worth it.

and while i was doing assistance work for the firer during night shooting i saw something that literally took my breath away. while waiting for the others to finish firing, i looked up at the sky for fun and i saw this skyful of stars that were not only bright but big too. every corner i looked there were stars, mus have been a few hundred thousands of them up there. den i realised wad xiu hui always mean when she told me abt those stars which i could nv understand. its really magnificent sia, they jus seem to stay there and blink at you all the time. really dunnoe how to describe wad i saw sia. i wonder how many other pple saw wad i saw that night.

the rest of the week was damn lethargic lar. not only was it always raining,we had nothing to do except sit in the bunk and slack. CO parade was nearly cancelled because of the rain, luckily it went forth as planned. but damn, IPPT was not cancelled becos of the rain. wad a mixture of feeling i got there sia. =P. thursday night was recruits' evening and it was damn high lar. totally reminded me of Jam and Hop in TP. everybody was jus basically enjoying themselves, dancing ourselves away. den as it was abt to end, the TP Mass Dance song came up lar (new age girl by dead eye dick). hahaha, me and one of my platoon mates did the mass dance right there and then!!! everybody was jus staring at us but heck it man, im proud of my school's mass dance. so totally nostalgic lar. felt kinda empty after that though, maybe cos i wasnt in TP afterall.

the very nxt day, it was Route March with the bloody FBO again. this time its 10km but it felt like nothing lar. especially when the PES A/B pple have to do 24km, mine is jus a stroll in the park. ended up with blisters and abrasions, but they are not even worth mentioning when i think of wad the others have to endure. proud of myself that i didnt fall out (platoon 4 had no fall out again!!!) but not too proud of myself as well becos i didnt need to do the 24km when i know my body can do it, the feeling jus sucks to the core. im not trying to be garang, but when i heard the 24km pple returning while i was trying to sleep jus made me feel like a wimp. there they are returning after a hard walk and i was back 6 hrs earlier and OC telling us wad a great job we had done. not exactly something im impressed with.

anyhow, passing out is this tuesday. my god, 7 weeks had jus gone by like that. this 7 weeks is something that i'll cherish for my entire life. it made me realise that the army is something that i wan to do and is willing to do. i'll know my posting on the 15th and i have already decided with my parents knowing (they are not too pleased though), if i kenna a vocation that i dislike (clerk, storeman etc) i will be going for PES status upgrade. which means i will fight to be a PES A/B soldier and go into a combat unit rather than be a storeman or clerk. i know this sounds dumb and stupid, but my days passed by so quickly while i was doing military stuffs and i rather do this for 2 yrs than sit in an office from 8-5 doing nothing meaningful for 2 yrs. i will have to recourse BMT for another 9 weeks but i know it will be worth it.

lastly, PC Saufi has left platoon 4 to go roving with the 6th SIR. kinda sad he left us jus before we pass out from BMT. but he will be coming for our passing out so its not too big a issue. wishing him all the best with 6th SIR. we gave him a "water parade" on his last night with us. imgaine 30 full 1 litre water bottles poured onto u simultaneously, thats wad PC Saufi got as a farewell present from Platoon 4. =P
PS To and Sgt Fahd are also going to ORD soon (we are their last batch of recruits). wish them all the best too.

2006-08-19T00:42:00.000+08:00

finally, back from field camp. wad an experience sia!!! was a little aprrehensive going in becos Ulysses has a reputation of dishing out very tough field camps and i went in sick somemore which made me felt even more terrible.

started the camp with a 6km route march from BMT to campsite with a bloody full battle order that weighs like probably 25-30kg. the walk was tough but fun, and im proud to say Platoon 4 did not have any drop outs unlike the other platoons. reached campsite and had to build our bashas immediately. that was tough sia, all shagged out and still have to build tent and dig drainage. this should be the toughest part of the camp liao, but it really proves that everything is jus a mentality problem.

lessons were particularly fun; fire and movement, FCO, camouflage, range card, field discipline and many others. i missed a bit of FCO cos i reported sick in the morning of day 2. fever was 38.3 degrees. fuck, wasted my time lar, was at the MO from 0730 all the way to 1330 and i saw the MO for only 5 mins. should have jus stayed at campsite and taken some panadol.

unluckily for us, it rained cats and dogs on day 2. which meant all of us were wet and mud covered, our bashas were not spared too, totally wet and the groundsheet muddy like hell. the sleep at night was damn cold sia. but becos of the rain, we learned to cook in the field with our rations. Sgt Matin(he looks like kobe bryant!!) taught us how to use milo and biscuits to make pudding. that was nice sia, the entire platoon ended up making pudding. hahaha. kinda reminds me of adventure camp where we had to cook our own food too. but that was at ubin and we were not cold and tired.

throughout the camp, i did not bath and brush my teeth at all sia. that feeling sux sia. but we had powder bath where we covered ourselves white with prickly heat powder. that was cool sia. everybody had fun, especially the powder bath song. took quite a number of photos during the camp also. in our undies to being in camou. den at night, we were not allowed to use our torch lights as it would risk detection by the enemy. that was tough sia cos we had to work in pitch blackness. platoon 4 was held in high regard lar, cos we maintained the best discipline out in field and our fall out rate was low. even the OC came to talk to us and not the other platoons. =P

the worst thing abt the camp though is the cleaning and all. we had to wash our tools, field packs and rifle. cleaning the rifle is not easy sia, no matter how u clean it, platoon sergeant would always manage to find a place that u didnt clean. we reached company line at abt 10am, but we only went into our bunks at 8.30 pm. the in between time was spent cleaning. and i missed BIC(you leopard crawl den back crawl abt 100m with live rounds firing over ur head) cos i was sick and no matter how much i pleaded, PS jus wouldnt let me take part. the comabt rations sux too. its all a lie!!! the ration sux. except for the desserts and noodles and biscuits.

very good camp experience sia, and i got to know my bunk mates so much better lar and the bond we created in jus a month together. only 4d3n thus its nothing compared to wad the PES A/B pple go thru (7d6n). its very tough out there in the field(u get punished for every single mistake u make) but very fun. and as the saying goes, Tough training doesnt last, Tough man last.

2006-08-13T13:52:00.000+08:00

jus caught CLICK yesterday with josh and sharon. personally, i think its a very powerful show. despite it being a comedy with adam sandler (im a fan of his work) as the lead, it brings a forward a very important message. that family is very important especially with a society of today.

its depicts adam sandler as a workaholic who always allows work to take priority over his family. and when he got himself a remote controller that enables him to fast forward time so that he can 'reach his final destination quicker', he begins to abuse it. by the time he realises the consequences of his actions, he has already allowed the controller to dictate his life and made him lose all the time he could have spent taking care of his family and watching his kids grow up.

the scene where he saw his father before his father died was damn sad. especially since it came in the form of sandler's memory. he was 'fast forwarded' to beyond his father's death, so he went back in time, to the point where he last saw his father. not only did he realise how much he hurt his father with his actions, he also comes to realise that he will nv see this person again. the part where he kept replaying his father's last words is a real tear jerker sia.

den the scene where he chased his son in the rain is beyond words sia. especially when he finally got his family back together only when he was dying. the note written ' will you love me in the morning?' followed by the answer 'forever and ever, babe' is my favourite quote from the entire film sia. it came in only 2 scene but it left a very huge impression on me.

personally recommend everybody to go and watch the show. especially those workaholics out there, it really makes you appreciate your family so much more. this show also proves that sandler can handle very serious roles too, despite his status as a comedic actor. the show combines comedy with moral lessons really well, incorporating very subtle but important issues smoothly with typical sandler humor. it can get pretty crude at times lar, but thats typical sandler what. whats important is the film is great. i say 8.5/10 because only a show like Band of Brothers deserve 10/10.

2006-08-09T16:06:00.000+08:00

i can say my first book out wasnt wasted lar. fri nite went to athar with saf, sharon and josh. told them abt my army life and all. den went home to sleep.

on sat, went to sylbest's 21st bdae chalet at SAFRA country club. that place was uber cool sia. big and cosy but very ulu. anyhow, we got him a crumpler bag lar. but i should say its jaz and jason who got him the bag cos they were the ones who went to buy while i only paid. that jason ah, really understands best inside out lor. the colour and everything he chose was like tailor made for best de.

we reached there earliest and nobody was there yet. so the 4 of us had a little chat. sitting on the bench outside and catching up with each other was cool sia, kinda like the days we used to spend in biz park except we didnt have iced milo with us, instead it was chicken wings and otar this time ard. other pple started to arrive in grps. some i know some i dun, but the coolest thing was seeing my poly frens again especially lee jing and sara. the rest of the time went by with me and jaz stuck to the TV cos superband was on but i did leave the tv to catch up with the others lar. hahaha. milu bing won. den it was phototaking and after that pple started to leave. we were considering whether to leave or not lar, but sara saw the mahjong table and mahjong set which was our cue to stay put. lol. as best was sending his frens home; jaz, sara, lee jing and me decided to play thru the nite. which means colin was stranded cos sara was staying and he was damn tired. li lian and jason were stuck too, cos lee jing was not leaving and neither was me and jaz.

the game was fun sia, played till like 1am before best's family took over. while me, best, jaz and jason went out to get tidbits. colin was sleeping like a log. returned to the chalet and continued our mahjong game. in the end, i did not sleep for the whole nite lor cos we played till 7am. and i have to say, sara and lee jing's stamina damn strong lar. they didnt even seem tired.

and the gambling did not end, blackjack was up nxt. played till nearly 8.30 before best sent us off. i did not return home to sleep though. came back, packed my boots and left for soccer with my SWIFT pple. reached there, and damn they were all late, but i was darn tired lar. didnt have the energy and stamina to work. so i left it to shao wei, kwee chuang, brandon, wee poh and dai yuan. hahaha, they trashed the opposing team lar. i replaced dai yuan later, was on the court for less than 2 mins when it started to rain like hell. wad a waste sia. even though i didnt play much, it was still worth it jus seeing them.

didnt have lunch with them cos i had to go get my specs done. bloody hell, why do i need specs sia??!! hahaha, i dun mind lar, as long as i can get marksman. went to this place called eye zone at toa payoh, xiu hui told me abt the place and cos i could get it within 30mins, i thought y not lar. followed xiu hui's directions and true enuff that place was damn easy to spot lar. the specs set me back by 98 bucks and degree of short sightedness was only 100 in each eye lor. anyhow, went home and slept for like 2 hrs before booking in.

ytd, booked out at 9pm. reached home and jaz asked me out for supper with him and best at jalan kayu. i thought y not lar, since they were picking me up. went there and we started to eat and talk. intro them neslo, hahaha. they got addicted too. we den went to seletar dam. it was a damn ulu place lar, alot of cars and bikes were parked there to show off and all. but its a very nice place for frens to hang out, we were facing the reservoir or maybe the sea ba, the view is very nice. lying down and looking at the sky, the sky seemed endless and the stars were damn bright too. i didnt know such a place existed in singapore lar. but it does!!!! we sat down there and chatted till abt 3.30am ba. talked abt alot of stuffs sia; abt our frens, our lives and how much we have changed since we first met in TB12, our worries and troubles.....

den we left for best's place and i went to sleep immediately. was damn shag lar. left best's place at abt 7am and took a cab home cos i was too darn tired liao. reached home and slept till now. booking in later at 2050. Field Camp nxt week!! cool sia =)

lastly, Jeff Hardy has re-signed for WWE liao. cool sia. him on the biggest stage of all time again. cant wait to see him in his first match.

2006-08-05T00:00:00.000+08:00

alright, finally back infront of my computer after 2 weeks of being totally cut off from the outside world. this will be a freaking long post lar. so bear with me a little ya.

firstly, my company is Ulyssess. company mascot is a roman warrior/god of war. cool sia. my bunk is a sea view bunk which is damn cool lar cos we are the only few companies with sea view bunks (jus like some 5 stars hotel). im in platoon 4, section 1, bed 13. most of my platoon mates know me as NEH. simply put, i once pointed middle finger with the sound NEH. and thus, it has stuck with me. my platoon commanders are; Platoon Commander (PC) 2nd Lieutenant Saufi(he is half malay, half chinese), 2nd Sergeant Toh, 3rd Sergeant Varun and 3rd Sergeant Fahd. they are all very nice pple and really cares for the platoon's welfare. although Sgt Fahd can be pretty strict at times. all of my platoon mates are PES C pple, but that doesnt mean they are weak or genging. most of them are PES C becos of sports injuries and things that are out of their control and thus PES C. the company Sergeant Major is Staff Sergeant Jason Lim. can say he is my favourite guy of the company, cos he always has alot of funny stories and things to tell us. and at the same time, he can work us really really hard. Lieutenant Ming Cai is also another funny guy, always making us laugh with his antics. my platoon is also the comany firefighters, which mean to say, if ever a fire breaks out. Platoon 4 would be the ones trying to contain/ put out the fire.

first few days in camp were pretty tough lar, cos u dunnoe anybody and u start to miss home coupled with the fact that we have to sleep at 2230 and wake up at 0530. good thing was they gave us ample time to know each other in the bunk. as the days went by, we got to know each other better and training started. the training were all very interesting sia. learnt alot of things. although there is a need for PT, i think its kinda good too lar cos can get to exercise and learn things at the same time. i had foot drills, arms drills and weapon handling and basically all the army stuffs. they were all damn fun lar and the days seem to pass by very quickly. and i have to say, the proudest moment of my life occured in BMT lar. there was a Weapons Ceremony where every recruit will be issued their own rifle by their PC in the parade square. before receiving our weapon we will have to recite the SAF Pledge and after receiving the weapon the RIFLE Pledge. while reciting the SAF pledge i had tears in my eyes
lar cos its so touching and made me feel like a man destined to protect his country. =P

den we went to live range. woohooo. thats was uber cool sia. saw a real weapon with real rounds firing and Sgt Iswandi damn accurate lar. he hit all the targets from a range of 100m lor. the sound is damn loud and all of us had to wear ear plugs. i was also appointed an armskote personnel becos i have nice handwriting but i have to say ah, my handwriting really not that good lar. so i dunnoe why lar. hahaha. i also learned to do things fast sia. as Lieutenant Ming Cai says, Chop, Chop, Curry Pork(its suppose to be puff but we pronounce as pork). we also learned to march and sing properly. all the songs damn nice lar. these 2 are my favourite:

Have You ever Wondered
Training to be Soldiers
Fight for our land
Once in our lives
2 yrs of our time
Have you ever wondered
Why must we serve
Becos we love our land
And we want it to be free to be free ya!!!

Stand up, Be on your guard
Come on everybody, do your part
Come on every soldier, show them how
Do it for our nation
Do it for our Singapore ya!!!

Looking all ard us
Pple everywhere
Children having fun
While we are holding guns
Have you ever wondered
Why must we serve
Becos we love our land
And we want it to be free to be free ya!!!

When the Cold Wind blows
In the early evening march
With my full pack on my back
With the aching in my heart
And my shirt is full of sweat

Im a long long way from home
And i miss my lover so
In the early morning run
When the cold wind blows X5

I know I know, You have to go
So hurry back home
Cos I miss you so

i find the lyrics very meaningful sia.

jus 2 weeks and i got to know my bunk mates so much better than some of the frens outside lar. and my bunk always has the most food lar. bought from e-mart and contributions from Rahul (he is like a mama shop lar). my favourite is chips and Snickers. in this 2 weeks i also learnt to be self disciplined lar and how to wash my own clothes. especially self discipline cos i couldnt allow my mistakes to drag the whole platoon down. im also certified a non swimmer by the SAF meaning i have to learn how to swim. =(

i also took part in drill competition as well as tug of war. tug of war is really not easy lor. requires alot of coordination, stamina as well as technique. but uber cool sia. during one of the lectures, Lieutenant Audi showed us a video of his OCS time too(accompanied by the song "Wake me up when September" ends by Green Day)[goosebumps all ard sia]. wah lao, its exactly wad i want in life lar. the things they do are so interesting and action packed. training in brunei and taiwan as well as field exercises. makes me wanna be a PES A/B soldier even more lar. seeing all this action made me jealous very very much. went to Simulated Range too also known as IMT. it was cool lar, but i got fucked upside down cos i couldnt get my shooting posture right. anyhow, we all learn from mistakes lar and im happy too cos first time at IMT and my shooting lane was 12. hehehe.

i guess i do like army life after all although it can get pretty regimental e.g. standby bed where the Sergeant tries to find fault with your area cleaning. still considering whether to upgrade my PES status or not.

i'll leave it here with a couple of words that we use in camp.

PsychoMotor - A person who marches with his left hand left leg, right hand right leg
MindFuck - Too much information in the head and it becomes overloaded
Cocksters - A blur cock
Suck thumb - Lan lan; jus have to buckle down and bear with it

Sergeant Major also told us this joke:
2 Malays play 4D
3 Indians drink like fuck
4 Chinese........ Play Mahjong

2006-07-21T00:21:00.000+08:00

alright, im all packed and ready for the thing i have been destined to do from the day i was born. National Service!!! i think its fair enuff to say that i have been waiting for national service all my life.

i was taken care of by my 4 older maternal cousins as a baby, all 4 of them are guys and the 2 older boys, chun huat and eng huat were serving their national service while i was under their care. therefore, as a child i kept hearing stories abt how fun their national service was. they also taught me to love my country and serve my country with pride thus i have always aspired to be a good soldier. coupled with the fact that i have been always been fascinated with guns, war and related stuffs. this waiting for national service grew and grew. it could also be the genes running in my blood ba, all my maternal cousins loved national service and i may have inherited that trait ba. =? currently im still harbouring thoughts of being a regular, but i know i may end up not liking national service as much as i think i would. so i will leave this decision to later on. for now i will jus concentrate on completing my BMT and see which unit im posted to before i make a decision ba.

i guess wad i will miss most is all the atharing with saf, josh and sharon; the many times i spent slacking in the lounge with xiu hui and elene; all the board gaming at minds; my parents and my comfortable room with my com and PS2; my current favourite show, My Name Is Earl; jia ning, serene, fauzrin and priscilla for all the gatherings we have; as well as best, john, jaz, jason and colin with the lameness we shared. quite a number of things sia. hehehe, to all my frens, no worries ya, i will enjoy BMT as much as possible. and pls continue tagging so that i see some movement on my blog when i return in 2 weeks time =P

yes, im definitely excited but im a lil scared too cos i dun know wads going to happen. but still, onwards Pulau Tekong!!!!

last thing. i saw my primary school, school bus auntie today on the way back from sheng shiong. cool sia. according to my mum, the auntie has been wanting to see me for a long time liao le lor, but she always meets my mum but not me. have not seen her since i graduated from primary school sia and she stills remember me. u can imagine the trouble i gave her as a child ba. hahaha. so nostalgic, especially on the eve of enlistment. brought tears to my eyes lor while talking to her, but i will not and did not cry in front of somebody i have not seen for a long time de. lol. she has not changed one bit and hopefully i can see her more often since she is working at sheng shiong part time. and she still remembers all the trouble me and hwa san gave her since we were the naughtiest and the last to alight the school bus. =P

2006-07-19T03:18:00.000+08:00

currently over the moon becos of 2 things.
firstly, i have gotten the book i've been targetting for over 6 months liao.

this is the book!!! Biggest Brother : The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led The Band of Brothers. WOOOOOHOOOOOO. im getting goosebumps jus typing this entry lar. cool man. this is a man i really respect sia. his leadership and his humbleness is exactly wad the world lacks right now - give him the Medal of Honour he deserves!!!! not some Distinguised Service Cross. he truly deserves it lor, if it isnt for some stupid rule abt only 1 Medal of Honour per division. got to know abt this great man from the greatest generation thru Band of Brothers (both the show and book) i recommend everybody to either read the book or watch the show cos its damn cool lar. for the record, i watched the show 8 times!!! and read the book twice. and they get better each time. actually every man who fought in the 2nd world war deserves some recognition. it jus happened that E company of the 506th PIR, 101st Airborne went through some of the toughest situations imaginable. as Wild Bill Guarnere of E company said, "we are lucky to have our story told in such a large scaled production but the real heroes are those that are lying underneath neatly arranged white crosses in France."

second thing is that i have caught Pirates of the Carribean 2 liao. the show is great man, especially Captain Jack Sparrow!!!! story is magnificent and action is splendid. go and watch it. and dun drink too much water when u watch. cos its not worth going to the toilet and missing any part of the show. every moment is great sia, except maybe the starting. and i have already named Captain Jack Sparrow as one of the guys that i idolise. he is uber cool sia!!! but i dun think cool does justice to him at all lor. remember its CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow.

2006-07-16T01:52:00.000+08:00

eventful past week sia. went back to school almost everyday. mon to wed were spent in lounge playing mahjong cards. hahaha. found 3 regular kakis in elene, han and xiu hui. totally addicted to it lar. WTH. in the lounge somemore. den tues play bball in school also and josh got hit in the eye by a ball i passed. nearly knocked him blind in one eye sia. luckily he's alright liao. spent my thurs at home being a good boy. went bowling on fri with josh and sharon (he can even bowl liao lor, shows that he really alright liao). den we went to Popular to buy books (sharon taking her QET) and i went to MJ to get stadium arcadium. den MJ had this 2 vcd for $16. and being the greedy me, i went to look for vcds lar. saw Schindler's List (i had goosebumps when i saw the disc lor) and couldnt get another vcd liao. but i saw Pirates, so i called xiu hui if she wans to buy. turns out she borrowing from elene and she's looking for spirited away. but i couldnt find any animes at all lar. i guess MJ doesnt sell anime vcds ba. so i had to continue foraging, until i saw ladder 49 and remembered saf telling me it was a damn nice show. so i had my 2 vcds and stadium arcadium. btw, stadium arcadium rocks man. the bass by flea damn tok kong. den at the bus stop, josh and sharon started to do impersonations lar. got me so totally high. i even started to talk to saf on the phone in that way. the 2 of them are bastards lar. hahahaha. but it was cool.

after sending sharon home, me and josh met saf at athar and josh bastard the boss there. the boss came and knew wad we wanted for drinks lar, but when he asked for food, josh ask him to read our faces and guess. damn bugger sia. hehehe, but the boss is a nice guy lar. wads a lil joke to him. the boss also always bastard us lar. that time i ordered 1 egg and 1 kosong prata. den he told me so 10 pratas lar, cos 1 and zero equals 10. laughed till i peng sia.

den today, (ytd cos now is sun. yes i know xiu hui) went to meet serene, priscilla, jia ning and fauzrin to celebrate fauzrin's and serene's bdae. was suppossed to go to this board game cafe called pit stop at circular road. but we couldnt find it and we ended up having dinner at TCC(galleria). nv eaten there before lor, only had drinks there and i can still remember the taste lar. the coffee was that damn good. anyhow, the proportion was quite small lar, not enuff for someone like me. but it tasted good. spent the nxt 2 hrs there talking and catching up. serene, jia ning and fauzrin starting school liao loh. and pris going to look for other jobs. and im going to army soon. cant wait sia. left TCC at abt 10 and they proceeded to take photos for the nxt 1 hr ba. hahaha, so typical of them. great to see them lar, been nearly 2 months since i last saw them liao. nice to jus catch up and talk.

last thing, the fucking neighbours playing mahjong again. its ok if they play lar, cos i sleep with music on. but they are smoking lor, totally pollute the air ard my room. now my room smells like i have been smoking for the past 2 hrs. WTH. the government should ban smoking in HDB too. hahahaa =P

2006-07-07T15:04:00.000+08:00

went back to school ytd again. this time was to pass book to elene, collect things from xiu hui and play bball with josh's DB teammates. went to tamp interchange first to meet saf for lunch. on the way to S11 we saw Pam(my prog head) with Kenneth(her bf), so we decided to hide behind a pillar and try to scare her. but bloody hell, she didnt see us, so we decided to take the initiative and went up to her. after exchanging hugs and all, we talked talked abit. despite me knowing she is going for OSIP, i still wanted to hear it from her personally. and she is going to Korea lar, something of a homecoming ba since she is half korean. and she is flying on sept 11!! wad a date but she says she doesnt care and honestly i dun think anybody should lar.

after lunch, went back to school and headed straight for the lounge. xiu hui was already there liao, so she passed me the army folder with a dec/jan army magazine in it and the army man on the cover looks like wei sheng lar. hahaha. anyhow, the date is not important lar, the important thing is i have something from the army liao. hahaha. and i couldnt stop grinning after that. thanx xiu hui. den we played mahjong cards with xiao toot and leong, first time playing mahjong in the lounge sia and with cards somemore. damn cute sia. the way i have to manipulate my fingers to fit all the cards in. hahaha, but of the 4 rounds we played i won twice and xiu hui twice. cool sia. totally dominated by prog comm. xiao toot was from log and leong from foodmin. =P nope, im not trying to promote any segregation here. was jus something i noticed.

xiu hui and xiao toot left, so we couldnt continue the game, but in came boss, elene, glenda, jodin. therefore, i spent the rest of the time talking and eating with them. and despite all of us complaining abt how bad the fake rocher tasted, we still managed to finish the entire box. lol. den we watched some mtv that elene created using powerpoint during the holidays. hahaha. damn funny sia, me and boss making it sound so wrong despite it being jus a very innocent slide show. saw abby too, damn long nv see her sia, was very glad to see her lor. last time i saw her was at steamboat. and we talked abt books of all things. lol. alvin neo came in nxt, and he kept worrying abt not having enuff votes and not being able to get into exco again. therefore, he decided to exercise his rights as exco immediately by sending some subcomm to do work. lol. josh called me at abt 5.45, so i left in a hurry to sports com and left my book in the lounge. called elene to ask her help me keep it. but since i still had sometime, i went back to collect it without informing her. in the end, it got elene so worried lar cos the book was nowhere to be seen and she thought somebody else took it. sorry elene. got u so worried.

played bball at school with those bloody school team pple. damn lao lan and cannot make it lar. the zhonghua 12 could trash their ass so badly they cry mama lar. wad i wan to say is, the stupid school team pple think they are damn good lar. but still struggle to beat us - pple who doesnt play regularly. wth, if last time we like that ah, coach dun scold, shih wen and panghin also scold us for being useless lor. but playing ball was fun lar, the shooting and the rebounding. and all the running abt. saw the girls team at training too, hai. also cannot make it lar. im not trying to sound arrogant or im very good lar, but the fact is really cannot make it lar. even josh agrees with me lor. and i got wacked twice lor, wth, once tripped and once poked in the eye. kns, i nearly wanted to play rough liao lor, den josh wacked them first. hahaha, so i decided to cool down and jus play my game. but bball is damn fun lar. as the NBA slogan goes, I Love this Game.

2006-07-05T16:04:00.000+08:00

quite a event filled past few days after i stopped working. shall start from saturday, was suppossed to go to bedok reservoir to support TP dragon boat team for SDBF, but i slept till 4pm lar so thats one day wasted liao le. sylbest called me later to watch england vs portugal at his house with the usual gang. at ard 9.45, best called to tell me that he is coming to pick me up at my house. hahaha, that was great lar, it meant i didnt have to leave house 1 hour early. he picked me up at abt 10.15 and we went to pick john up at tampines. jaz was left out cos he was at esplanade with his gf and he would come later. jason pang seh us again that bastard. we reached sylbest's place jus in time for the match, but the match was rather boring lar until rooney got sent off (bad thing sia, cos ronaldo was involved in the incident. and now the press are talking abt a possible rift betweent the 2 lor, which doesnt bode well for United). the match went on to penalties, everything was going well lar, kicks taken and missed. den before carragher was to take his kick, the TV went out on us. WTF, all the cable channels were out. hahaha, in the end we had to get the result that England lost from jaz's gf lar, thru the phone somemore. and for the nxt 30mins, best called starhub to find out what was wrong. turns out, there were unpaid bills lar, thus the cutoff. but why did they choose to cut off when the match was at its high point??!! hahaha, so we went to mac for supper, i had a mcchicken meal with iced milo upsized, 1 apple pie and 1 mcflurry. heaviest mac meal ever lor and i was totally satisfied although it was sinful. =) went back to best's house after that and we talked lor, abt john and his own army life basically catching up with one another. and since there was nothing to watch and we were all feeling lazy, we went to sleep. me and john in the room with the nice bed and best and jaz in the living room on the sofa. LOL.

sunday was uneventful and monday was fun. hahaha. josh called me at 11.30(i remember cos i was still sleeping) and asked me whether i wanted to go back TP for lunch with sharon and saf. of course i wan lar, why would i turn down the opportunity to go back school sia. reached at abt 1 and i met saf at mushroom, he grumbled abt going to MENSA (josh they all were at MENSA) for lunch so it turned into a 2 person lunch at design. saw tommy and jiayi there having their lunch also. their lessons only start at 2 sia. Boss came later to join us, Elene came down too and we talked and talked lor. Elene with her poly forum and Boss abt his campaigning. den some guy came up to us to give out tissue paper. turns out his sister was sarah lar and part of her campaigning was giving out tissue paper with her picture stickered on it. and there was more sia. like sook's post card campaign. the tricks these pple come out with jus to get elected to SU sia, 3 yrs in TP and i have nv seen anything like this before lor. the kids these days are getting more and more creative liao. later went to library to find josh and his DB mates. sat on lvl 3 and talked with them. later we moved to the biz park. along the way , yean hui gave us cards and pen to play some money game infront of the library but we happily left for the canteen without playing. hahaha. we spent the nxt 1 hr in the canteen talking and waiting for candace who was suppose to arrive at 3 but only reached at nearly 6.

in the mean time, i went to the lounge. saw xiu hui, elene, leong, daniel there, daniel was doing his damn big poster lar and the others were minding their own business until i looked into elene's bag and i saw a bottle of pi pa gao. and i happily exclaimed to the entire lounge abt it. elene also had a bottle of something i didnt know, and she claimed it to be her "drug", if i take it i will be addicted too. hahaha, it had a variety of taste in it lar, sour and salty were 2 of it. den xiu hui offered me the brownies she bought, and being the greedy me, i took it with glee but that "drug" thing was still in my mouth and i couldnt bite it into pieces. i only ate the brownie abt 10 mins after it was offered to me cos i only managed to swallow the "drug" 10mins later. listened to xiu hui and elene complain abt their poly forum grp, hahaha, there are many different kinds of human alive too, jus have to tahan lor. went back to canteen and continued to slack there until candace arrived who happily suaned me from the moment she arrived till the moment we parted. bloody hell. kinda reminded me of the days at cartel though. later, they wanted to go TM which i wasnt very interested in so i went back to lounge. and it was during this period that i felt like a senior sia, cos i kept telling the rest of them wad to expect from their electives and wad their yr 3 would be like.

went to help daniel put up his posters later and made xiu hui, elene and glenda wait for me in the lounge. putting up posters aint easy lor. went back to lounge abt an hr later to find xiu hui happily sleeping on the couch, elene going thru her notes and glenda watching shanghai noon. at abt 9.30 ba, we left skool and xiu hui saw jupiter. the star that was the brightest, hahaha. i always thought that jupiter was the north star that sailors use for navigation. turns out i was wrong. went home with xiu hui and all the suaning and crapping began on the bus..... her and her nonsense. turns out she had lawrence leong for Bus Fin lor, and the 3 sec rule is still applicable. cool sia. but for yr 2s its 6 sec. =( been imagining the stress on their face if they had to face the 3 sec rule instead. wonder how many of them would really need to leave sia?

tues was great. went to mindcafe and we took kim joo along too since he is enlisting this fri. pity the cute waitress wasnt working but the trip was still fun lar. and guess what, despite me cutting my nails liao, josh still got cut by me while playing halli galli lor. den we played taboo with me and josh in a team, we comprehensively beat sharon and saf 31-21 lor. it was "I'm the Boss" nxt, the game turned damn complicated lar cos there was now 5 of us playing instead of 4 making dealing more and more difficult. went home with sharon and kim later cos saf and josh went for their DB alumi dinner. but instead of heading home straight, the 3 of us stopped at the pasar malam outside serangoon interchange. hahaha, first thing i did was buy Ramly's burger. and sharon made a comment abt the guy making the burger which was true lar. he looks damn beng lar, but to actually help his parents with the business shows he is a good boy. anyhow, after i got my burger and kim bought his army stuffs, we walked on, den suddenly, this damn smelly smell hit us lar. smelt like alot of shit all mixed together lor. turns out it was chou tofu (smelly tofu). WTH, it even covered the smell from the durians directly opposite the tofu stall lor. and immediately i lost my appetite for my burger liao. the 3 of us ran like there was a bomb or something lar. but we were only trying to get away from the tofu smell. it was damn bloody smelly lor. but i finished my burger and bought an extra chicken wing =) we walked pass mac and saw some of the zhonghua kids sitting in and outside mac jus like how we used to. hahaha, very nostalgic sia. but heck zhonghua, still dun really like the school even though the principal has already changed. (and the new principal is worse) went home and slept at 11.30pm cos i wanted to watch germany vs italy. but i slept till 1pm today. wad a pig i am. LOL

2006-06-30T18:23:00.000+08:00

last day of work liao le. im posting this while counting down the time to 7pm. which will be the time im leaving Five Stars Tour for the second time in 6 months. lol. kinda happy cos i dun have to work anymore, which means more time for myself, play and maybe time to go back TP (i miss TP alot sia). feeling sad too, jus like after attachment. really like the work here; checking airline availability, quoting prices and all the different kinds of customer that i meet. the colleagues too, the lack of politics and how they make my everyday so fun and laughable.

trying to recap on wad i have done here. total sales from 15th may till now is $13,481. im pretty proud of myself sia. considering the fact that i haven been working really hard to garner the sales. of the 1 and a half months here, alot of interesting things happened here. the one that stuck most in my mind is when i served a couple who wanted to go on holiday. they gave me one whole stack of ititneraries and told me to write down the pricing for them. the reason they gave a stack of itineraries to me was because they were mute and deaf. thus they wouldnt have been able to hear wad i said nor could i understand what they were trying to convey to me. after serving them, i was very inspired cos despite their disability, they tried their best to make their lives as normal as possible. they were not disheartened by their disability, and they were able to cast aside wadever strange looks or comments pple give and jus lead the life that they wan. totally inspired by their spirit sia. =)!!! reminded me of that time when i went for the hand sign thing in school. that was uber cool sia. learned to sing Go Temasek Go with hand signs and learned to do ABC with handsign too. that was way cool sia. i will definitely go and learn how to converse in sign language lor. hahaha and kwee already knows how to do it. lol.

anyhow, i got another gift from my colleagues to send me off. hahaha, its a cap which according to them i can use during NS. cool!!! goodbye Five Stars.

2006-06-27T18:32:00.000+08:00

well, wad was originally a very bad monday turned into a very good one actually. after i slept at nearly 6am after the netherlands game. i woke up at 12 feeling damn depressed lar, originally wanted to cancel the trip to mindcafe with josh saf and sharon one. but i still went lar. reached there early with josh cos saf and sharon came from different places. since we were the only 2 there, we decided to start with a game of chinese chess. hahaha, have not touched chinese chess since sec 4 sia.

den sharon and saf came and we played halli calli, the game that required us to have 5 of 1 pattern before we can press the bell. jus as we were abt to finish the game off with the last round, me sharon and josh went for the bell in a desperate bid to not lose. we all hit the bell at abt the same time, but den josh gave a very huge "OUCH" after reaching the bell. blood started to flow from his index finger, he actually got cut by my damn short finger nails lar. hahaha, this proves that even board games will result in injuries ok. LOL.

den i saw this really cute waitress at the cafe lar. hahaha, my mood started to change for the better. but saf, josh and sharon all say she aint cute lor. anyhow, the thing that really got my mood up was when we played "I'm the Boss". first time playing the game lar, so abit confused as to how to play it. and we had the cute waitress explaining the game to us =) once we started to play the game proper, it was damn fun ah. all the bargaining and negotiating with each other so that we all earn as much money as possible. me and sharon formed an alliance lar, which got saf and josh damn pissed off cos we controlled most of the good cards and undercut them their profits. the game is damn addictive lor, on the way home we kept groaning abt wanting to play the game somemore. hahaha, worse than when we played "Dividends" sia.

den we went to suntec to look for that Netherlands bag that i had been eyeing for a long time sia (the one i saw while looking for glenn's birthday gift with xiu hui and elene). that time at the converse in heeren, the sales lady told us most of the outlets already sold out liao and i was damn devasted lar. den saf saw it at the converse in suntec lor. hahaha. was damn excited along the way to the converse. when saf went in, he reached behind a england bag and TATA, he pulled out the netherlands bag. OMG, it still looked as nice as ever lar. and it was on 20% off. which made it even cheaper. but it was the last piece liao, so it even more precious. and i only paid 9 bucks for it cos saf sharon and josh also chipped in $9 each. as my very belated birthday gift. hahaha. thanx for the gift guys. really like it alot. later, me and saf went to crumpler at paragon (josh sent sharon home) and he bought a seriously huge bag lar, i think can fit 3 of my Netherlands bag sia. it set him back by $189, thus my netherlands bag was nothing compared to his. but the bag he bought was damn nice lor, especially the colour combination. still i would say its not as nice when compared to mine. =P

den we went to athar for dinner before heading home. and the most amazing thing happened at athar. athar actually bought a television sia!!! to cater to all the world cup fanatics. saf and me actually stood right beside the TV for a full 10 seconds to admire it sia. and the boss there told us it has been there for almost a week liao. my favourite hide out with my frens is getting more and more high tech liao. hahaha. kinda ruin its original setting and ambience man. but cool sia. hehehe

2006-06-26T05:03:00.000+08:00

im blogging rite now in the wee hrs of the morning becos the match between Netherlands and Portugal has jus ended and i am damn pissed off. firstly becos the dutch went out of the world cup. and secondly, the portugese played fucking dirty. use all sorts of small actions to give their team the advantage; diving, play acting and hacking at the dutch's leg. WTF, this is football lor, we wan to see great skills and great action. the match turned from a would be spectacle to a great debacle. especially figo. KNN, he only ran passed and brushed u accidentally with the swinging arm lor, u fell like u were hit by a train. i do hope u get hit by a train one day sia. and u head butted van bommel, u are damn lucky the stupid referee missed it. fucking portugese, play jus like their club sides. dive and cheat using all sorts of tactical fouls to stop the opponents from playing.

thirdly, the referee was a bloody idiot lar, alot of infractions on the dutch he also nv give. den kept giving the advantage to the portugese, he also missed alot of things lar. wad kind of referee misses action here and there one???!!! he needed to consult the assistant so many times lar. stupid russian. i hope u crash and burn in hell ah!!!! and he gave a total of 16 yellow and 4 red cards lar. turned the whole match upside down inside out. fights nearly broke twice lar, he couldnt even control it. 4th and 5th officials had to step in to prevent anything worse from happening lor, even scolari had to step in. stupid referee, cant even control the match. jus drop dead lar, the footballing world would be better with one less referee like you.

fourth, that bloddy dirk kuyt sux like hell lar. van basten crticised van nistelrooy for not getting involved with the attack as often as needed. but i didnt see anything from kuyt that suggests he did a better job. WTH, he was like a mere passer-by lar. left it all to the wingers to shoot and attack. pls lar, they are wingers lor, they are suppose to pass the ball to you and score. instead they had to do the shooting. and van basten, i have to say he is a good coach lar - brought the dutch a long way while playing beautifully - but y did he leave van nistelrooy out??!! even when the team needed a true striker on the pitch, he chose to bring a totally unproven hesselink on and he did nothing noteworthy.

on a final note, i appluad the dutch. they played so beautifully today. the attacking was totally magnificent, a total of 20 shots at goal lor. movement off the ball was perfect too. even when the match was ending, u guys jus kept plugging away at the portugese goal hoping to get a breakthrough. a pity u guys went out so early, and the world losing the chance to see the oranje play attacking and wonderful football at the world cup. luckily this is a young squad and if they do stick together and van basten stays coach, im sure they will do damn well for EURO 2008 and beyond.

2006-06-24T18:21:00.000+08:00

yesterday was kim joo's birthday. it was fun sia. saw alot of old zhonghua sec schoolmates and ah kam came too. ah kam is actually kim yuan, a good fren of ours in primary school. i haven seen him since we graduated from primary school sia. made it all the more interesting sia. met josh, sharon and saf at dhoby ghaut mrt after work. they went to get kim his present (a germany soccer ball and a water bottle from adidas. they took alot of free posters from adidas too cos saf knew the staff there). naturally, becos the party contained me and saf. we only reached kim's place at 8pm when we were supposed to reach at 7.30pm. lol.

when we were under kim's block, saf and sharon started to sing half a verse of happy birthday while i helped to end the verse. i have to say, we cant bloody hell sing. lol. we reached kim's place and sharon gave him his present. we den started to eat like mad; spaghetti, bee hoon, pizzas, 933 golden pillow etc etc. the most happening food has got to be one of the pizza sia. guess pizza kim ordered, escargot pizza sia. OMG, first time eating snails lor but it tasted great sia. abit like chicken and oyster mixed together. hahaha, the 933 golden pillow was damn nice too. the curry chicken was superb. den ah kam came, almost cannot recognise him sia, he has grown so much taller lar compared to pri school days where he was damn short. now he is almost the same height as josh sia. hehehe, we started to reminisce abt our primary school days sia, how we used to look like and all the stupid stuffs we did. one particular incident was where i tried to kick hwa san (playing only) at the basketball court before training but he caught me and i tried a jumping turning kick, instead i landed flat on my face. hahaha. had a great time laughing abt that yesterday. and josh did his best to remind me abt it. it has indeed been a long time sia.

the army boys came nxt, all of them botak and they started to tell one another abt their platoon and all the interesting stories. proceeded to watch 'the fast and furious: tokyo drift'. the show was damn zai lar, with all the cars and racing. but because it was pirated ah, the quality sucked like hell sia. after the show, we sang birthday song for kim and he had a very tiny tiny minute birthday cake. funniest was when they started taking photos sia, kim kept posing with the magazine with felicia chin's face. den we took part in lucky draw that kim planned. gifts include; STRIKE, 4D and TOTO and some chocolates and toys (i got TOTO). LOL. funniest was, all the gifts were sponsored by Singapore Pools (kim jus won $125 from STRIKE). den it was world cup time, and all the pple who got STRIKE as gifts started to pray hard as hell lor. and we made loads of noise sia. i think we were louder than the uncles at the coffee shops.

last thing, kim has a damn cute nephew sia. damn shy in front of all of us lor. speak also damn softly and so gullible too. he wanted to give kim his gift but couldnt find him, so we told him he is hiding under the couch. he really bent down to look for him lar. hahaha. damn cute. we also watched some japanese variety show on youtube introduced by mr brown. wah lao, the japanese they all damn bastards lar, prank pple until damn jialat. but it was damn funny sia, abt 10 pple gathered ard the laptop and watched and laughed together. and wad with all the pple from my sec school. kinda missed the kind of life i led in sec school sia although i hated that school, all the laughters in the canteen after school and at the basketball court. and there's soccer tomolo too!!! YEAH, 2 weeks nv play liao sia. hope that it doesnt rain sia, and ah kam could be joining us too. =)

2006-06-19T12:19:00.000+08:00

jus read an article abt this girl known online as Nevada-tan. she is a 11 yrs old girl(in 2004) from japan studying in a normal japanese elementary school. sounds typical eh. well, she's not...... on the 1st of june 2004. she slashed one of her 12 yrs old classmate to death with a pen knife during lunch break in school. damn horrible man. what could have provoked a innocent 11 yr old to do something that even a grown man would shudder to do?? the reason; the 12 yrs old classmate talked abt Nevada being fat on Nevada's website. thats like too extreme lar, to kill a classmate over a comment abt you being fat. its worrying becos of 2 things. firstly, she is only 11 and is already so concerned abt appearances and stuff, what would she grow up to be sia?? and to actually take the internet comment so seriously, isnt it too extreme? secondly, Nevada is suffering from Hikikomori (situation where the person becomes extremely isolated from outside world) but her parents nv did find out abt it until the murder.

what i wan to say is, doesnt this say something very wrong with the society today?? kids getting obsessed with their looks and parents not noticing wad is wrong with their kids. wad is it that causes these problems?? urbanization? lets jus have a look at kids today and kids from my generation. in my days, we play with see-saw, lego; toys made from plastic, we would definitely not get what we asked for (not on the first request anyway) and we are forever carefree, no pressure at all. we grew up the way kids are supposed to grow up. kids today, they play with computer games, rarely go outdoors, get what they wan whenever they wan. they also have to deal with pressure; excelling in studies and cca, comparisons with frens abt who has the best toy/gadget, parents subjecting them to comparisons with cousins. maybe its because of these things that could have caused the problems. the kids getting more and more self-centered with bigger egos. to them, pride is everything and letting go is nv an option. parents too, they spend most of their time at work and doesnt spend enuff time with their kids(they have to work in order to survive). as a way of compensation they give the kids what they wan without questioning which builds up their ego even more. as we all know, once a person's ego is bruised, they can and will do anything. even kids.

im not saying that urbanization is a bad thing, but wouldnt it be great if kids can retain the same innocence, have the same kind of childhood that we used to enjoy (i doubt any of the babies born after 1993 has even seen live chickens) while the world continues to move forward. i read an article quite awhile ago, it talked abt this picture comparing the smile of kids today and in the past. in a nutshell, kids in the past had a brighter and much more radiant smile compared to the smile of kids today. surely this says something. the pressure that parents are putting on kids are enormous too. 5 yrs old and already sent for tuition classes, piano lessons, english enrichment, etc. so young and already has to deal with so much, i wouldnt be surprised if more similar cases to Nevada's turn up. already crime rate among kids (5-11yrs old) are on the rise.

2006-06-16T16:24:00.000+08:00

i have to say, sharon has a damn cool father sia. that day me and josh went to her house to watch Korea and Togo's match on the super huge TV(42 inches i think) that she has. haha, the TV was so huge ah, i had to sit at the back jus to see the whole screen sia. lol. den her dad came in clutching a bottle of "Bailey's with a hint of chocolate mint" (basically its jus whiskey lar, with chocolate mint). he asked us wad is the legal age to drink and when he found out we were old enuff, he left the entire bottle in the room and left lor!!!! telling us to have a try cos its very nice. hahaha, but we only drank a cup each - we very automatic one - and its the best alcoholic drink i ever had sia. better than red wine or champagne man. after the game, we played winning on the TV. woooohooooo, first time playing winning on such a huge TV, the feeling was damn shiok sia. my head had to move like 1 second before i can follow the action on the otherside of the TV lor. unlike normally where jus 1 glance and my eyes can take in everything on the screen liao. lol.

nxt day, we decided to go and watch CARS at The Cathay (original plan was to go play board game one, but saf is working so we decided to watch movie). first time watching movie there for me sia, and we got the largest theatre there is. damn great sia. and the movie was nice too. liked mater and guido most. their actions damn funny sia. especially when guido was changing the tyres near the end. hahaha, laugh still flip sia. after that we went for lunch before i headed home to collect my com from my cousin. its finally back up. but i lost all my stuffs. the naruto animes, the FRIENDS (all 10 seasons), my songs especially the metallica ones. and all the pictures - my TB012, Programme Com, Banking Tourism, Jeff Hardy all gone. but at least i can use my com liao.

work has been pretty boring too. i dun think we get more than 10 walk in customers a day lor. thats from 10am to 6pm leh. phone calls are also getting lesser and lesser. probably becos of the world cup ba. everybody wakes up late and has no motivation to go overseas or even step out of their house. lol. im not complaining too much though. BUT my full time colleagues get to go on a Amadeus course man. FREE. Amadeus is a system used for checking air-tickets and other airline related stuffs. going for this course means I will learn alot more abt how to use the system and things like that sia. but i cant go since its only for full time workers and not part timers. sian.... but the course would be fun. jus for the record, today's sales from 10 am up till now (5.40pm) is $140 nia. not even enuff to cover the salaries of all the staff on duty sia. lol.

2006-06-13T16:37:00.000+08:00

well, after 4 long years, the world cup is finally underway. and i believe the whole world is totally captivated by this major event which is watched by more pple in the world than the olympics. and today, i have decided to play predictor and try to guess which team is gonna win the Jules Rimet Trophy. i'll rank them according to who i think has the highest chance of winning.

Netherlands - hahaha, of course they are the favourites to win lar, cos they are my favourite team mah. this prediction of them being most likely to win is biased lar, but heck. i believe they can win it. partly becos this year they finally have a squad that doesnt have any internal squabbles lar. and they have a fairly strong squad with alot of young players who are willing to play their guts out for the team. talent is definitely not a problem with players like Van Nistelrooy, Van Persie, Robben, Heitinga, Cocu, Kuyt and many more. but the defence is a lil suspect lar cos its pretty inexperienced. after watching their match with Serbia, Total Football is back!!! pretty confident they will do well.

Italy - well, this year sees Italy coming into the world cup with very little expected of them, which i think will work in their favour cos they almost always fail whenever they go into a major tournament as title favourites. they are definitely defensively stable with Nesta and Cannavaro, albeit a little old. and attack wise, they have Totti leading the line and Del Piero can come on to do damage when needed. and there's Gilardino who mus be eager to prove himself after a slow season at Milan. many players would be eager too with this world cup being their swansong.

Brazil - everybody's favourite to win the cup but not me cos it would be so much fun to see another team win the cup instead of Brazil again. but the talent in their squad is undoubted lar. they are like Chelsea man (more attacking one), with so many quality players in every position; Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Adriano, Kaka, Cafu, Carlos and so many more. they are definitely the most attacking team in the tournament. the nike slogan, joga bonito really fits them to a dot sia. they also have players who has got big match experience which could work in their favour.

Argentina - well, they were eliminated from the last tournament in the first round so they will be damn eager to prove their worth to the whole world. with Riquelme being the playmaker and Saviola (the little rabbit) in attack. if needed, they can call on Tevez and Aimar too. and not to forget Messi. and their defence is one of the most solid in the tournament. they have one of the strongest squads available and they play with a attacking philosophy too, with Jose Pekerman being a tactically smart coach, they would be one of the teams to look out for.

Spain - great talent throughout the entire squad in all positions, Puyol, Salgado and Ramos in defence; Xavi, Iniesta and Joaquin in midfield; Villa, Torres and Raul in attack. but they always flop in the major tournaments. and their coach is a racists lar. anyhow, if they really play to their full potential. they could shock alot people sia. with their skills and passing ability its not hard to actually see them all the way till the semi-finals lor. and considering that they have underachieved for so long, i think its abt time that they come out of their shell liao.

to note, i think these 2 teams are overhyped to win the cup for one reason or another. England; Eriksson is not tactically good enuff lar, the squad is strong though. France; over-dependence on Zidane liao, seen especially in qualifying when he didnt play. under-rated teams i think are Portugal & Czech Republic.

may the best team win (Netherlands pls!!!!!!)

2006-06-10T19:41:00.000+08:00

FUCK, first screw up in so long working for Five Stars sia. made a damn stupid mistake. y did i make such a amateurish mistake sia??!! totally damage my previously unblemished reputation lor!!! KNN, WTF man, how can make such a simple mistake and to think the customer was at Sunway Lagoon liao. luckily the customer was magnanimous lor, and my colleague, Regine, helped me to settle it & Sunway had an extra bed. otherwise i would be in shit sia. thanx alot to regine. shall nv make such a stupid mistake again. will let off some steam tomolo during soccer. grrrrrrrrr.

2006-06-10T17:55:00.000+08:00

sylbest is already in Tekong liao, today at 11.30am. had dinner with him on thursday together with jaz, john and jason at bedok 85. was suppose to meet them at 7pm, but i only left my work place at 7pm. hahaha, in the end i had to take a cab there and wasted 14 bucks. reached there and of course we had the very famous bak cho mee - damn hot sia, should have asked for ketchup instead - chicken wings, satay and also orhh lua. food was good lar as usual and we talked cock abt girls and stuff. it jus so happened that there was a really hot girl sitting right nxt to us lar. and we kept talking abt her, to think she was having dinner with her father sia. wad if he had heard us talking abt his daughter sia?? =P

after that, we had no place to go or things to do. came up with alot of ideas as to where to go. jason suggested going to the beach and relax and jus talk cock but we couldnt decide on which place to go to, changi or east coast. sylbest even suggested going to seletar dam (nobody knew where it was, hahaha) in the end, we decided to go K-Box and sing. hahaha. 5 guys going to sing karaoke sia...... but we did not go lor. we changed plans again and in the end we decided to jus drive ard in sylbest's car. sounds boring eh. NAH, i think its the hardest i have ever laughed lor. i nearly cried while laughing sia and had such a bad tummyache. especially since i was sitting at the back with jaz and john. those 2 seriously crack me up; they were in desperate need to pee lar, and we couldnt find a place to stop. so they had to hold it in, but hor sylbest was driving at such a speed, every bump we took would mean a serious challenge on their bladder lar. hahahaha. was laughing so hard with jason that i think pple outside the car could have heard us sia. was a totally wonderful night out with them lar, pity we had to work the nxt day, otherwise who knows wad other stupid things we could have done and laughed abt. by the way, we went to a place very little frequented by normal pple. that was the highlight of the drive-ard man. the funniest and most exciting part of the whole get-together. hehehe.

2006-06-08T17:28:00.000+08:00

hehehe, yesterday was graduation day and im now a official graduate of TP =) it was super duper fun sia. on tues nite, i met saf, josh, sharo, kim and some sec skool frens for athar. sharon jus came back from South Africa sia, jus the air tickets alone cost SGD 3200 lor, and she got me a bangle made by the local tribesman. cool man. anyhow, after that i took bus to sylbest's place for winning camp. saw john and colin for the first time since they went into army. had lots of fun listening to all their stories abt their life there and it freaked jaz and best out a little. especially best since he is going in on the 10th of june. in the end, only me jaz and best played winning while the 2 of them slept. woke them up at 4am for breakfast at mac; we stayed for 2 hrs talking abt army before we proceeded back for somemore winning but we ended up watching Ameican Pie: Band Camp. i only watched for like 45mins before i fell asleep. woke up at 8 plus and went home. slept for like 4 hrs before i started preparing for graduation.

met john at mushroom and waited for the others to turn up, saw ele and she is still as tall lar. also saw sara with her mother and jaz came with his grp mates. after talking cock for awhile, i wanted to put my tie on, but hahaha my head was too big sia. took the whole tie out and nobody there knows how to tie a tie. jaz tried. in the end, needed xiao jing to put the tie on for me. hahaha, and i dun even know her that well but still thanks. saw xiu hui too, wanted to talk a little with her but i was still getting my tie tied so i couldnt say much but she still managed to put in some suaning time sia. hahaha. went in for registration after that and i told the person i forgot to bring matric, but in fact i purposely left it at home - i dun wan to return the card =P - went in and had serene sit right nxt to me sia. how cool was that??!! haven seen or talked to her in a long time, so we spent the entire graduation ceremony talking and laughing as we always do during project. den went on stage to collect our file with no cert in it. was the 3rd one on stage which made me even more nervous lar. and i was so afraid of tripping myself when walking to collect my file lor; given my clumsy reputation. it turned out fine though. sat down and continued talking to serene, gossiping abt those going on stage and abt our workplace. hahaha. laughed alot with her sia, all the nonsense we come up with....

after the ceremony, went out of TCC and took alot of photos sia, man. my cheeks went stiff jus smiling lor and my eyes had lots and lots of small bright lights from all the camera flashes. hahaha. it was fun lar, last day in school (mark my words, its not going to be my last). hahaha, and philomena see (one of my favourite tutor) went to to talk to my parents sia, congratulating them and all. hahaha. later, the whole bunch of us went to look for desmond to take photo. we also kept taking photo outside the toilet for no apparent reason. took photos with my parents too with jaz's camera. thanx to him. yean hui kept persuading me and john to join TPGA, hahahaha, still considering lar. but most prob i'll join, simply cos i love my skool. and to note, i didnt cry at all sia. hahaha. meeting my 5Js and best later for dinner cos best going in on sat liao. all the best man....be a good soldier.

2006-06-06T16:11:00.000+08:00

well, im officially graduating tomolo. therefore i have decided to chronicle the 3 yrs i spent in TP in this post. it will be extremely long though so pls bear with me.

Sem 1.1
First ever sem in TP. hahahaha. how fitting was it that the class is TB012 (12 being my favourite number). and not to mention, this class being my favourite class of all time. OMG, the fun we had together and the tutors still remember this class even today!!! everyday during break, we would visit the many canteens to taste the food except engine cos the food there simply sux sia. and after school we would jus spend our time wasting away in Biz Park over a cup of iced milo and jus talking crap. hahaha. the 7 guys were the greatest sia, John, Jaz, Colin(Jian He), Jeff(me) Ismail, Sylbest and Alvin. And together with John, Jaz and Colin, the 4 of us formed the 4Js. the 4 crappiest guys in the class. (a fifth J was to join us later on). most memorable was our chalet/kayaking trip. that really got the class together as a group. i mus also mention song yun and elaine cos they were like my sisters in the class, hahaha. the fun we had during project. and also sharon and ur lao shu; thanx for letting lao shu keep me company during the boring lectures and the stupid OB tutorial. a pity was that we only had 1 sem together, otherwise the fun we could have would have been so much greater. other than colin who went to study LOM. the rest of us went into Business but we all chose different electives sia. all 6 of us, all different electives ah!!! how likely is that? gratefully, the majority of us still keeps in touch. and special mention to the entire class for pestering me to cut my hair every single day. hahaha. i have to agree sia, my hair was way way way too long.

Sem 1.2
to be totally honest, i hated this class. i was the only one in the class. no TB012 pple at all. and the people in this class were people i didnt particularly like or could get along with. the 4 Js all had similar 1.2 class, which gave us something to complain abt during our get together sessions. and what John said was correct, if it wasnt for this particularly bad 1.2 class, we wouldnt have realised and appreciated TB012 that much.

Sem 2.1
hehehe, this was where the 5th J joined the group. Jason Ho Hin Kheng. got to know him cos he was in my class for 2.1 and boy did he make my 2.1 so much more exciting. i was in the same class as him and sylbest. together with that freaking tall eleanor. =P we did projects together and boy did we do well. we submitted the best project for both the HR projects and the one Marketing project we did. me and ele would always made jason feel inferior by standing either side of him and talking across his head. hahaha. we would stay back late in school almost daily to do our projects and although it was tiring it was fun because we spent half our time playing winning eleven on sylbest's laptop in the library. apologies to ele and sylbest cos me and jason were always late for meeting by at least 1 hr. =P. and with the beginning of this sem, we started to stay overnight at sylbest's place for overnight winning eleven "camps". the 5Js and sylbest also really got to know each other better thru our irregular camps.

Sem 2.2 to 3.2
got into my banking and tourism class and i did not change class ever again. had Jia Ning, Serene, Priscilla and Fauzrin in my grp for projects. the class was not even close knit cos we basically jus stuck to our own project grps. but i liked this class because of my project grp. it was particularly special because, we would talk cock 60% of the time and jus laugh our way through the many project meetings even when we were totally stressed out. the war only began when we reached home. special thanx to jia ning for typing all that we have discussed into soft-copy and printing them out. it was particularly tough in 3.2 as we jus came back from SIP and had a shortened sem with the same amount of projects to hand in. but we managed to gut it out and hand in works that we were proud of. and they were great projects too. the projects pulled my coursework up to B+ despite my C or C+ mid sem test results. and ever since i got into this grp, i have been known as baby ever since. =( the many outings we had were fun too especially the field trips for our event project. hahaha.
my SIP was also particularly memorable with all my great colleagues and fun work. was even more touched when the operations people gave me a gift for being the best attachment. =) cried a little but nothing compared to camp. had some of the best tutors in this class sia. Mr Desmond Lim; always covering our ass. Ah Phong; event management tutor. Mr Chua Kheng Tiong; nv marking me late for a/cs tutorial despite me being 1 hr late. Mr Lawrence Leong; BTM tutor, he taught things using logic.

i also started to take part in school activities during this period. first was the SL camp, it was ok and i loved my freshies to bits and pieces. but they still call me banana when they see me on the road. damn. i also took part in kayaking during this period. got hold of my star 1 and star 2. hahaha, apologies to angie during star 1 course because she had to rescue me twice for capsize drill; she had to paddle so hard to make sure we were with the main grp. thanx alot. the most special thing during this period would be me joining programme comm for OTC/FOC/FOW. nv expected myself to do this sort of thing, but while walking to athar with saf one day, i jus wanted to do something with my last sem. the programme kias, definitely some of the most wondeful people i met in 3 yrs. us squeezing into the superbly small and slow SAA hydraulic lift. record was 26 of us. and the lift was nv the same ever since. always breaking down and jamming. hehehe. we went thru alot of shit especially on the first day of OTC, but we became stronger and more united. late nites to al-kadir for supper, MOS in log room and in zul's 14 footer lorry. it was especially tough for the 6 days FOC/FOW but i dun think anybody wanted it to end on the last day. last day was rather emotional for me personally, nv expected myself to do that. but 3 wonderful yrs in the school, i jus couldnt control myself. and that was the first time i cried so hard since sec 2 sia, when we lost and couldnt get into nationals for north zone bball tournament. thanks to meili and shep for consoling me and xiu hui for asking me if i was alright when we were outside the lift. really appreciated it guys. have to thank all the I/cs for job well done especially the scoring i/cs (abby, jeslyn and yours truly) cos we stuck to it sia. =) and ah hui for the frenship band.

2006-05-30T19:40:00.000+08:00

was talking to song yun jus now, basically jus catching up with her. haven talked to this small girl in a long long time. we talked abt age, abt how old we are compared to the freshies. den something caught me. what will i be doing 10 yrs down the road when i turn 30yrs old? since i was a kid, my ambition has always been to serve my country. to be a police at first and more recently, a soldier especially a commando. alot of pple have questioned why i wan to do this. they say its tough and its not as easy as it seems. but to me, everybody has to die and why not die in service of your nation. at least i know i died while serving my country and serving a purpose instead of dying like every other person.(i know its extreme but thats jus the way i feel). den recently, i received my pes status and it was C due to the dislaocted patella suffered in sec school. and immediately i knew my chances of being a soldier was gone but i still have not given this dream because i believe the army does not need so many clerks. hahaha.

but if the army really does not wan me, wad do i do? that bit i have nv given it much thought. what do i do with my life once i come out of the army? all my first choice options were nv really options to begin with...... being a professional athlete; thats not going to happen simply due to my age and the fact that i nv truly grasped the chance while still playing for the school. serving the nation; as explained above, im still waiting for my chance. that jus leaves me with the prospect of the business field. i was lucky to have taken accounts in sec school, not of my own choice but because of my results, but if i had taken A maths instead. sure as hell, i would have been nowhere in life now. accounts really opened my eyes to the prospect of working in the business field as i liked that subject from the moment Ms Tan introduced it to 4e6.

long story short, it was accounts that landed me in TP-Dip in Bus. from there i further realised that my interests were in the Tourism industry and Banking sector although i prefer the former. with the IR due to open in 2008, that has given me a very big opportunity. here comes the problem. i grow sick of things very easily; quickly getting bored over something and searching for something new to explore(thus the first 2 options of soldier and althete as they always bring new challenges). i do not know whether this interest in the tourism and banking sectors would last me a lifetime or i will, jus like many other things, grow sick of it. thus the question, what will i be doing 10yrs down the road? in the banking/tourism industry or doing something new? i guess at this point in time i will jus have to take things one step at a time and see wad the future holds for me and not bother myself too much. i shall end this post with my motto in life; Live For The Moment.

2006-05-28T00:03:00.000+08:00

haven updated in quite a few days sia, time to type something in liao. so i'll jus start from the most past thing. the other day, josh helped me buy the Netherlands lanyard from Nike, damn chio sia partly becos its in orange lar. it came with a whistle which i thought was useless lar, might as well come with a plastic holder, at least i can do something with it. but it was still chio lar(until i saw something even cooler, i'll talk abt it later). den josh and saf came over to my place to pass me the lanyard and saf watched hard gay at my place-FOOOOOO!!!! that stupid boy laughed till he was rolling on the floor lar. we den went to athar for their dinner and my supper. on the way there ah, the 3 of us went hard gay crazy sia, kept shaking our hips and going FOOOO!!!.

den came friday which was the day glenn celebrated his bdae. meet xiu hui, elene and jon siew at TM to get the present for glenn. we couldnt decided on wad to get glenn(its always so hard to get gifts) but i saw a Netherlands bag in Converse. its a sling bag and its damn cool lar with the word NEDERLANDS on the cover. im getting that bag sia once i get my pay, although its a lil ex. anyway, in the end yasin came and he suggested we get glenn running shirt and pants. along the way, elene kept talking abt her DIVING not DRIVING trip. hahaha, can tell she damn enthu abt it lar but me and xiu hui soon got sick of it. hahaha. in fact xiu hui has been hearing abt it in school everyday. finally we settled on a orange top and grey pants for glenn bought from Royal Sporting House.

went to glenn's chalet in zul's 14 footer MOS machine, once there, saw a few the of ex programmers sia(jono, mac, raj and greg). its always fun having them ard and talking crap with them. den that mac ah, poured martell for me and once i finished the drink i knew im gone liao. i was concious but my head started to ache like siao. when we were going home, xiu hui looked at the sky and said she saw scorpio and started to point them out to us. much as i tried ah, i couldnt understand a thing lor. lol. im really sorry ah hui. and on the way home, iskander started telling ghost stories, which freaked the gals out lar. hahaha. in the end, me, jon siew and kenneth sent xiu hui up to her flat cos she was scared. but she has her reasons lar. besides my legs needed some walking from all those sitting in the lorry. my house was nxt and i slept early cos my head couldnt take it no more.

today(technically yesterday cos its now sunday liao) went to play soccer with zelva - they are also hard gay crazy sia, going FOOO!!! all the time - and could immediately feel the martell still having its effects on me sia. bloody hell. totally no energy to run and ran out of breath within like 10 mins sia. and the pitch ah, waterlogged; causing the ball to get stucked and all lar. all our boots got damn bloody muddy and i have to apologise to xiu hui again cos the frenship band u made, was totally covered in mud. original colour was orange and after the game it was brown with specks of grass but i managed to clean it though and its orange again =). but after today's game, i really need to work on my fitness sia, couldnt sustain my own pace for long sia and i kept losing the ball. if only i was still playing bball, where i can go on and on. after the game, we went for dinner at magic wok, its a thai restaurant. the food was good but the service sucked sia(most prob cos they dun have service charge). also found out that shao wei is having a tough time with his MP, jus hang in there man, it will be over soon. went home after that only to catch 10mins of my name is earl and was kinda pissed with myself cos i could have left early to watch the whole show. anyhow, i can always get the show's dvd =) thats all folks. i know its long but if u have read till here, thanx for ur patience.

2006-05-23T18:03:00.000+08:00

forgot to apologise to the guy that got hit by my flying chair at zheng fa. i only pushed the chair damn lightly lor and it skidded damn far sia. and you were trying to eat your food somemore. made the situation damn awkward and funny. once again, i offer my sincere apologises to the guy who got hit. =P

2006-05-21T14:39:00.000+08:00

jus caught Da Vinci code on friday with my 2e3 pple at J8; Shao Wei, Brandon, Kwee Chuang, Dai Yuan, Boon Gee and Yee Han. great show but abit hasty if u have read the book. if as a stand alone film, its very very nice; intense and fast paced. after that the whole gang went to mac for dinner and we only left at ard 12am. most of us missed the last bus home, we den decided to walk home from bishan. OMG, the distance was damn far lar we took abt 1.5 hr before we reached NYP. but it was damn cool man, haven done this sort of thing in a very very long time. spent the time walking basically jus crapping and catching up with each other. Bran has the best work place in the world lor, can play game as and when he likes. a pity we meet up quite late if not can catch up with each other more. han, dai and gee going to ORD soon liao sia, damn fast. awhile more den can relax liao. den sw damn stress lar, MP in school maciam like working life like that. kwee, hahaha. same as always lar; crappy. going army only in sept. anyhow, in the end we took cab home from NYP cos we all damn tired and gave up halfway. haha.

spent my sat sleeping at home hahaha. went out for steam-boat at night with my fellow sub-comms in marina. hahaha, fun to see them again although not many pple turned up. those still studying, they all damn stress sia; projects and all. relax abit especially xiu hui ah. reached zheng fa and waited for quite awhile before we found seats, it was abby's first time to marina for steamboat. haha. so interesting. had a great time cooking for each other and passing food to one another especially xiu hui; cannot finish den keep passing and act blur like the food popped out by itself. hahaha. ah tan can really eat sia, espcially the prawns and jon jus kept cooking and cooking for us hahaha. Tom actually BROKE his chopstick sia, dunno how he managed to break it. lol. had a great time there lar though i left early with saf for athar. met josh at athar and talked crap lor. in the end i decided to miss work for 4 hrs to play soccer with my SWIFT FC today. shiok sia, nv exercise in so long, abit cannot catch up although i still scored 1 pretty nice goal. hahaha. and im typing this blog at work now despite missing 4 hrs of work. this is how free i am lor. sian......

2006-05-18T13:30:00.000+08:00

hey guys, this is my first official blog. hahaha. didnt expect myself to blog. but since work is so boring, i decided to do something with the time i have on my hands. and also write some of my thoughts down. =) thus this creation with kakashi as the skin. he is way cool sia.

the blog is named oranje12 becos it has the elements of my favourite colour, team and number. abit duh lar, but orange is a nice colour and oranje is the nickname for Netherlands national football team and since World Cup is ard the corner, can honour them at the same time. 12, hahaha, my fav number and Jeff Hardy's too. its has also always been my jersey number and is my birthdate too..... so there it is. oranje12.blogspot.com

do remember to tag ya. =P

2006-05-17T12:08:00.000+08:00

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