My Ugly Blog

2007-12-01T00:52:00.001+08:00

I always remembered in secondary four, Mr Terence Goh, my form teacher, told the class that JC would be the most challenging period of our education. Once we get through that, university would be a bliss. HOW WRONG IS THAT!!

I can't believe the sheer amount of time I've put in studying for the year-end exams. Still remembered that my dad was rather worried when I stayed over in school for the first time during week 7 or 8. Now I have been staying over so often that he would just say 'Remember to bring your toothbrush'. Hougang Mac and SMU are the other favourite haunts of us NUS Hougang Bizaders. My life is basically rotting at these places. But I am really glad that I have completed four papers with the last one coming up on Tues. Then I would be officially free!!

History paper was terrible. I was basically stunned for about 10 mins wondering which questions I should pick. In the end I chose this question that I remembered vaguely, 'How would you describe the social pathogens that lurked under the glided veneers of the European society after the Great War of 1914-1918?' coupled with some French words here and there. Hahah dun understand right? Neither do I. can see how desperate I was during the exam. But somehow still managed to crap out about 8 pages. Hope I dun do too badly!

The rest of the papers were manageable bordering hard, so I am really hoping very hard!! Have to go back to mugging for my last paper, hope everything goes well and I would be officially free on Tues (not inclusive of my golf practical exam on Wed. Must go watch more youtube so that I can improve on my swing shots).

2007-11-05T22:24:00.000+08:00

Oh gosh, I just finished 1 chapter of my history notes. 5 more to go!! Hate studying for history.. never understand what the lecturer and tutor (who is the same person) is saying, dun understand the notes, dun understand the textbook. Dunno how I am going to do for the mid-term test on Wed. Must buck up!!

Was feeling miserable for the whole of Thurs and Fri after receiving my Statistic results. I was way below the mean. In fact I was way below Q1. So upset that I canceled golf and took a cab home. Then had to 'fight' with the rest of the class to answer questions during Stats class to gain more participation points. In the end also answered everything wrongly. But never mind, as long as I get the participation points. Yay!

But feeling better already, cause the lecturer personally emailed me on Sat to tell me that she tabulated my marks wrongly, so my marks 'improved' by 9 points, higher than mean already. Couldn't believe how fortunate I was. Summore the lecturer said there were only 2 mistakes, so was quite glad to be one of them, except that the other one was the top girl in my class. Thot with my increase, I could match her grades, but she told me this afternoon that hers improved by a further 4 marks. Darn! But its okie, she's a fellow NJCian too!

Right now, I am rather satisfied with my grades, which I rather not reveal here. I have decided not to give myself too much pressure to do well cause I have been pushing myself too hard recently. I actually don't sleep an average of 1 night each week so that I can rush through projects and tests. No weekend outings for a long time also. Everyday's just mugging and more mugging. Its the whole Bizad culture I guess, everyone is just so competitive. Like for managerial econs, the mean was 26 upon 30 and for stats the mean was 30 upon 40. Everyone is just chionging really hard right now such that if I don't do as much work as them each day I will feel guilty.

Everyone was complaining about the amount of work that we have to do on the train just now, as compared to other schools and other faculties. Of course we can't ascertain the real situation outside of our fac, but it just seems that Bizad people have more work to do than anyone else. Reports, projects, assignments, mid-term tests. It's just a never-ending cycle of more and more work.

And yet they say grades aren't everything. Haiz, think my 2 CCAs are not enough. I am still looking at opportunities where I can take part to spruce up my resume. A bit too pragmatic, but I've got no other choice. Think I may sign up for another 1 or 2 CCAs. But for now, I just wish I can get through my History Mid-term with good grades.

2007-10-25T23:22:00.001+08:00

Oh happy happy!! I managed to get through dreaded Wednesday, where I had my Treaty of Versailles debate and my marketing presentation. Still can't believe I've finished both, cause I had spent so much time preparing for these 2 presentations. Slept only an average of 3 - 4 hours each night for a few days and I DIN GET TO SLEEP AT ALL on the night before the presentation. Still feeling quite sore about my group members, whom I stress are able to SU the mod due to them not being Bizad students. Luckily the adrenaline was enough to keep me awake till 3pm, where the lesson ended.

I am super behind schedule now. Missed a total of 7 lectures in 3 weeks, so trying to make it up now with the webcasts (for those with webcasts). I really wonder how my classmates spend their time. Mine is used for studying and projects everyday. It's so bad that my only TV time is on the bus, where I can watch my VCDs thru PSP. Speaking of VCDs, GOSH, Jumong is super exciting!! Must-watch!

I needa go out!! I haven stepped on Orchard Rd since school started (not including the 1 hr I spent there rushing to evaluate Borders and Kino for marketing assignment). I have even been to my favourite Suntec for weeks! I need a break!

2 presentations down, just left with 1 final Stats project and 1 history mid-term test before the start of the year-end tests!! Hurray~

2007-10-15T18:25:00.000+08:00

Okie I am getting a bit worried now. My management science result is totally unexpected. The marks are either given to me wrongly, or that there are typo issues or that everyone got around the same marks as me.

2007-10-08T01:49:00.001+08:00

Oh gosh, I am so upset right now. Totally screwed up my Management Science mid-term. Think I got 3 out of 4 qns wrong, and it accounts for 45% of my module! Really v v v upset, cause I studied super hard for it.

The worst thing is that I know how to do all four questions, but I was so panicky during the paper that I made so many careless mistakes. I immediately realised how careless I was when I started to think abt my work the moment I submitted my paper. All very careless mistakes. I hope it wun result in me getting a screwed-up grade. Hopefully a miracle happens.

Really feeling damn down at the moment. No more motivation for the rest of my papers and project.

Super irritated and pissed at myself.

2007-09-17T19:23:00.000+08:00

Just got back my first two graded assignments. Got a 8 and 8.5 upon 10 for both. Sounds okie but compared to the rest of the class it doesn't seem to be too good. Better buck up from now, next week aiming for 9 marks!

My very very first mid-term test is coming up this Wed. This is bad, considering the fact that I know nuts about it. Really regret choosing the History module. I go to class knowing nothing and leave class still knowing nothing. I copy my lecture notes knowing nothing, and I read my text knowing nothing. I am so screwed. Reserved 10 hours to mug 4 chapters, and the test is only half an hour with 25 MCQs! Wad a waste of my time. Irritating.

2007-09-11T02:51:00.000+08:00

Oh I just finished watching till ep 20 of Lovely Complex. Woah, super good. In fact I wasn't planning to watch anymore, cause I got kinda sick of waiting for the eps, but after watching it again I felt pulled in again, back to the very first day when I watched the show. It's just so damn good! Soo Chin, WK, please carry on watching k, confirm wun regret one! I even pangseh homework to watch the show lor, very worth it!

Aiyah still have a lot of work to do lor. And that's beside my tuitions, CCAs, and my case and stock competitions. Stress stress stress. Luckily got through my Econs presentation today. Damn suay got to present the hardest tutorial ever. Never even study before in JC!! Luckily crapped through, tutor never scold. Heng ah!

But really too shagged after lesson, so I immediately rushed back home to cheong sleep, and now just woke up to do some readings and complete my tutorial. Ah, busy busy busy. Later on still got consecutive 6 hrs tutorial followed by mugging session. Argh, damn shiong!

NVM, got Otani spirit!

2007-09-08T09:41:00.000+08:00

University life is really far from my expectations! I am just so busy every single daay. It's just school, school and more school. And tuition, and CCA and mugging sessions. No time at all for fun!!

Seriously, I dun think I even mugged that hard during A levels. This entire week has been super hectic. There is not a day where I reached home before 12am. Even if I do reach home early, it would be to rest for an hour or so and then out to mug with friends. Monday was the ultimate, mugged till 2 plus am at Mac, and Thurs stayed in school till 1 plus am. Really crazy life in bizad!!

And it's not just me and my group of friends. Think everyone in general here are mugging like crazy.

I need my fun and games!

2007-08-19T00:12:00.000+08:00

Woah, just came back from Jam and Hop @ Zouk. At first had my reservations about going, but now I feel that I have made the right decision in going after all.

Got there just before the closing of the admission for bizaders, at about 9.55pm. Of course, the pageant was already over, so it was just free and easy after that. Started off playing some games with the OG ppl. At first everyone was still rather reserved, but after a while it got really quite fun. One forfeit was to go up to a member of the opposite sex in the club and ask for the mobile no. I was made to dance on the dance floor with the rest of the OG guys. But heng I just kindaskipped it through quickly.

We got some drinks and went over to Phuture where the fun really started. It was really quite high dancing with the OG ppl and the mood over there was really fantastic, up till the moment I got sober. I think it has to be the longest I have ever danced. Like 2 hrs maybe? Anyway, we finished at about 3am and den Anthony, Shaoting and I took a cab over to her place for roti prata supper. Felt really bad that Anthony paid $40 over bucks for the jug of vodka lime just now so I volunteered to pay for the cab ride. Even with that it was barely half of wad he forked out for the entire night. Had a lot of fun crapping with the two of them. Wah, really haven seriously gone out till so late already. Really miss those days where the clique would go out and have fun and all.

Finally reached home at 5 plus in the morning, with my ears ringing heavily, and an emptied-out wallet. Triple tuition this weekend!! Utter crap!

2007-08-05T01:34:00.000+08:00

After almost a whole week in NUS, finally have some free time to come online and blog a little. Not too happy about the school at the moment, particularly the part about having fixed modules, classes, tutorial groups and lectures. A lot of bizaders are damn unhappy as well, but as the profs said, they put in a lot of effort to group the LARGEST BIZAD INTAKE in the whole history of biz school into classes, so we shldn't try to disrupt the order of things, or so they said.

The first day was terrible. People in my OG weren't too fun. The loud ones were really loud, and the unenthu ones were really unenthu. Most of the new bizaders were super unenthu, so during games it got quite bad, esp when no one really put in the effort to participate in the games.

My OGL was super quiet. Super duper. I barely heard her speak 3 sentences throughout the entire day. She din organise any games or try to break the ice. I dun blame her, I think she really dun like OWeek.

Talks were boring and useless. Totally wasted my time.

Second day was much better. I was kinda shocked by the turnout. I think only 1/3 of the freshies turned up for the OWeek. All were still sian sian, and I actually spent the most part of the afternoon at the biz bus stop talking to my OG and a new friend. At least I found like-minded friends.

BBQ at night was surprising rather fun. Guess everyone was exhausted from the games, so they were all more toned down. Made new friends and all and left school feeling way better than the first day.

Today I attended the Buddhist Society Orientation. It was really the best orientation I've attended. The OGLs were really nice and took care of the freshies. As I came late, they really did a lot to make me feel more welcomed. The games were much more fun than those I had at Biz OWeek and the people there were warm and friendly. And real. Quite glad that I took the initiative to join the orientation.

Next week's got FIC, Rag and Flag, Dean's evening, field games. Hope I survive through!!

2007-07-22T02:40:00.000+08:00

Just went to Esplanade with Jongie. Haven been to Esplanade for 6 weeks alr, felt so great to be there again!

Before that we went to Royce to buy a bar of chocolate to eat at Esplanade and I thot the packaging was very nice, so I decided to make something out of the packaging. And I managed to make a wallet out of it! It's the first time I made a wallet, so the workmanship wasn't so good, but I am really satisfied with my project, given that it was purely inspirational (It helped I saw a similar wallet on sale at Tangs last year).

Quite cool right? It's totally waterproof cause I have already applied a layer of plastic adhesive, and the inside of the wallet is actually the ingredient list. The sides of the wallet are all machine sewn, so it's really tight and secure. Only problem is the lack of slastic slots. As you can see, there is only one slot for EZlink, but that's cause I was quite tired alr, so din want to make more slots.

I shall come up with a proper design and make myself a new cool wallet for school!!

2007-06-18T09:12:00.000+08:00

Woah, so exciting!! Ep 11 of Lovely Complex is finally here!! Just watched the first 5 minutes of the ep. Super exciting!! Esp when Nobu-chan kept wanting Risa to show her (emotional) breasts. Too bad I have to go to work now, if not I will definitely watch the entire ep. Never mind, shall watch it tonight!!

Glad that I actually got my mum, SC and WK hooked on the series!! More people should watch!!

2007-06-14T00:51:00.001+08:00

Woah.. came back super late from work today.. reached home after 12am lor.. althou I knocked off at 9.30pm, cause I went interacting with my colleagues intead. They are quite a bunch of funny people, very different from my colleagues in school. For one, quite a few are smokers. I dun think I have any friends outside of NS who are smokers, so its quite an interesting change. But nonetheless they are still a bunch of nice chaps.

Something funny happened just now too. My boss, who is some Jap guy, was trying to figure out how to use his new Nokia N95. He ended up so frustrated that he threw his N95 on the floor!! My goodness!! 1000 bucks thrown just liddat. And the floor is not even carpeted! So another worker said if he din want, he could sell her for 300 bucks, and he said okie!! Just liddat!

I must be a boss in future.

2007-06-12T01:13:00.001+08:00

OMG!! Episode 9 and 10 of Lovely Complex is out! I was actually very tired and was about to go to bed when I saw the good news. I am currently in such a good mood that nothing can depress me!

Anyway, I finally survived the first day of work!! A lot a lot of things for me to do. I have to clear plates, take orders, refill water, dry the forks and spoons, serve dishes, pack tissues and cutleries etc. Time passed so slowly.

At least they serve us meals after that. Though it's leftovers. But it's still 16 bucks (triple plus) worth of food. Like I've said, half my pay comes from the food. If not it's totally unjustifiable to be paid a measily $5 per hr for all I've done.

At least I get better uniform than Ajisen restaurant.

2007-06-09T01:11:00.000+08:00

Woah-ow!! Bought a lot of things today. Went out to shop after tuition and got myself a pair of levis jeans, a pair of lawman khaki trousers and a black zara cardigan. Heheh, I am so gg to look my part as a future upcoming NUS bizader!

Anyway, I got hired as a waiter in this really quaint authentic French-Japanese restaurant called Ma Maison. It's at Bugis Junction, so must come and support me!! Its a little more pricy than usual though. Dinner costs about 20 odd for a main and a drink or side if I remembered correctly, but the set lunch is affordable, only 15 bucks or so. I will be officially starting work on Mon next week and although I get paid very little, I am actually quite looking forward to it. Heheh, can't wait!

2007-06-08T01:07:00.001+08:00

Hah.. nothing to do again, so shall update a little here. I have completed my teaching stint at NJC, which, imo, was the highest point of my lack-lustre career life. I also went back to NCHS to teach during the 10th week, cause NJ's term ended in week 9. Basically nothing to do there, cause everyone was already in holiday mood. Felt quite bad though, cause my class was caught eating sweets in class by the discipline committee when I was in class, and worse still, I was eating with them. Din noe where to hide my face after that.

Went to laser my nose on the last day of school, cause I have always felt that my nose was patchy and uneven. It was a terrible experience, having endured 6 anaesthetic jabs ON MY NOSE and a whole lot of lasering. Some parts of my nose weren't even numb yet, so the lasering part hurt. A lot. And I could smell a chau-ta smoky smell, which incidentally, came from my nose being burnt.

I have this really bad bodily reaction, which is I laugh a lot when I am in pain. And that was what I did during the minor surgery. I laughed out really loud when the pain was too intense. I think the doctor was stunned by me. Heheh.

Anyway, I was left with a rather bloodied nose, which kinda healed quite badly. So now I have an uneven surfaced nose, with a lot of raw pink skin. Hope it heals soon. Very soon. More like immediate.

Since I couldn't go out after the surgery, I was stuck at home for more than a week. I was totally totally totally bored. It was just games, anime, meals, sleep and the cycle restarts all over again. It may sound quite fun to most, but try doing the same stuff over and over again every single day. SUPER SUPER BORING. How I wish I could go back and work then.

Granado Espada (the latest game I am playing) is starting to irritate me, and I have watched a lot of animes. So dun really noe what to do now.

Here's what I have watched. In a week.

Bleach

Claymore

La Corda d'Oro

Lovely Complex

Harukanaru Toki No Nakade Hachiyosho

Saiunkoku Monogatari

Bokura Ga Ita

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge

And a whole lot of other misc shows.

That's how bored I am.

Anyway, I really enjoyed some of the shows. Gonna list them here.

Harukanaru Toki No Nakade Hachiyosho

It's about a high school girl and 2 male friends who were sucked into an ancient kingdom. The girl later found out that she was the Priestess of Ryuujin, and was the only person that could conjure the four gods protecting the country to defeat the demon lord. Along with her 8 protectors (2 were her friends that travelled back in time with her), she had to find the 4 gods and save the kingdom. I loved the entire series. The show's really touching and the music is really good. Loads of fighting and confrontations between demons and the Hachiyou (protectors). Great ending too!!

La Corda d'Oro

There's a school where students are separated into the general education stream and the music stream. Naturally, the music stream people looked down on the general-ed students (their uniforms are different so they know). 6 members were chosen for a very important intra-school music competition. Somehow a girl from the gen-ed stream got in, and with the help of a magical violin, she survives her way thru the series of competition. This show is really cool, cause the whole setting is really realistic. It's the first time where the scores are really real and follows the music. Even when the people are playing the violin, the bow movements are actually synchronised with the music, and the fingering of the clarinet and trumpet are fairly accurate. Even in real life shows this will never happen, so I am really impressed. The starting theme is really cool too!!

Lovely Complex

There's this girl, who is always bickering with the guy in class. Somehow the girl kinda fell in love with the guy (who doesn't know), but they are rather mismatched, cause the guy is 16cm shorter than the girl. Although this is a shoujo anime, I really loved it. The setting is really realistic, and I liked that the show's funny without resorting to lame tricks. It gets rather sad towards the latter episodes, and I was so upset I couldn't go out of my house. IMO I think it's the best anime I have ever watched. Really good!!

Claymore

Its about a group of half-monster-half-women in the journey to kill demons. Exciting exciting. Loads of fighting again. Nothing comical inside (unlike Bleach), all dark and gloomy. But great nonetheless!!

2007-05-10T12:00:00.000+08:00

I think I can really get used to teaching in a JC. Its the second day already and it's just getting more and more fun. The day is slack (I only have 9 tutorials a week!!) and the students are great! They are so interactive during the lessons (in a good way) and are so quiet. I din even have to raise my voice once throughout the lesson. Hahah, hopefully my 2K and 2A will also be like 2C. I am sure I am gg to miss teaching in NJ. Hopefully I can apply here again during term 3!

2007-05-09T10:50:00.000+08:00

Just finished my first lesson with my class 2C. I have to say that this class 2C is so much quieter than my previous class 2C. All were quiet (really quiet) and super well behaved. I was expecting some people to talk amongst themselves, but I din catch anyone doing that at all. If my JC knowledge is good, I can really get used to teaching in NJ. But of course, my knowledge of econs is super darn low, not to mention the fact that I had forgotten most of the stuff that I could even remember. I mean, even I was surprised to get an A for Econs for A levels. I really dun noe much stuff. Even a simple chapter like Elasticity of Demand proved to be tough for me. I think I really have to read up more on Theory of Production and Costs today so that I will not screw up my tutorial tmr.

And NJ students, like before, are really very active in learning. I am already giving extra coaching for students tmr. When I was in NC, I had to literally beg students to come for extra lessons. It's such a bliss to be teaching here. If I was smarter. And if I could at least know someone in this entire school. I dun even dare to walk out of my cubicle!!

2007-05-09T07:34:00.000+08:00

Can't believe it, actually sitting in the NJC staffroom right now. Kinda got a stint as an econs relief teacher here somehow, but I am not feeling really too good at the moment. I see a lot of familiar faces (teachers) but most of the teachers that taught me had left, so I practically know no one here. So lonely, dunno wad to do right now while waiting for the bell to ring for morning assembly.

And the worst thing is that I have only slept for 2.5 hours last night!! Cause I was tasked with teaching Theory of Cost and Production, which is my most dreaded chapter. Spent hours trying to find out what the hell is the MC curve, AFC curve, law of diminishing returns, returns to scale and a million other formulas. Thanks anyway, to Shufen and Soo Chin for helping me with all the concepts!!

Okie, gg for my first NJ morning assembly as a teacher!! Not too excited though, dunno who to stand with later

2007-05-04T01:04:00.000+08:00

Just finished tuition with Ashwynn. He really saps all the energy out of me. So darn tired now. But still had the energy to meet up with Hui Chuan for dinner at Cartel. Kinda regret my actions now, having just realised how much fatter I am compared to 3 months before. Okie, I am gg to start running tmr. No matter wad. Even if it rains, I am gg to run in the rain. No pain, no lose (weight).

Symponic Winds haven replied me yet. But I got accepted into Mus'Art Wind Orchestra instead. What a turn of events. Not too sure whether I will agree, cause Mus'Art is so much better and more prestigious than Symphonic Winds, so a little stressed at the moment. Nvm, shall take some time to think abt it.

Oh yes, NJ called back, so I am officially gg to relief teach Economics at NJC. Hahah, can't believe I am actually gg back to teach Econs, esp when I was like one of the worst students there academically. Had to see the principal and undergo counselling in the past summore. Rather stressed now. Was told that I would be teaching Cost of Production. All my average cost, marginal cost, marginal propensity to consume, implicit and explicit costs, economies of scale... if the students were to question me, I am sure gg to get stumped. Die Die. This time round sure lose face!

2007-05-04T00:40:00.000+08:00

Was looking thru my old photos, and oh gosh, I have grown a lot ('a lot' is two words, not 'alot') fatter since I orded!!

Damn sad now.. used to have such an angular face in the past. Now, I just look ballooned with a pauch sticking out. This is really bad. I must start to lose some weight, before I turn back into the old me. Forgot how I used to look like again? Fret not, look below.

2007-05-04T00:26:00.000+08:00

Woah.. after havin a gazillion problems with blogger.com, I finally can upload photos! Hahah, so decided to upload the Birdpark photos, before it doesn't work again. Heh.

2007-04-27T13:09:00.000+08:00

Starting to get acustomed to staying at home and doing nothing. Feels great actually, when you dun have any responsibilities. Watching a lot of tv programmes everyday. In fact, stayed up till 4am yesternight just to watch tv.

Just applied to join the Symphonic Winds yesterday. Hope I will get selected!! Oh man, haven played in a band for so long alr, hope they need a bass clarinetist!!

2007-04-21T00:27:00.000+08:00

Wah, just came back from tuition. Damn tired. My student was as usual, trying to slack as much as possible; still tried to show me some mahjong movie lah. Almost screamed at him, but forgot that I am only a tuition teacher, and so constrained myself. But think he could see that I was getting mad, so he kept his laptop. Got free ride home after that. If not have to travel an hour from Tiong Bahru again.

Anyway, went to the Bird Park with Slutty today. It was fantabulous! Haven stepped into Jurong Bird Park for almost a decade already, and I really felt like a child when I went in. Except that if I were a child, I would not have to pay the ridiculous $40 entrance fee (which will allow me to enter Bird Park, Zoo and Night Safari once each within one month. Meaning that I will be gg to the Zoo and Night Safari in the coming weeks! Which is actually quite exciting, considering how much fun we had at the bird park.)

The bird park was huge! There was actually a waterfall inside. In fact, its the largest MAN-MADE waterfall in the entire world! Slutty and I was like damn stunned when we saw the waterfall. It was majestic (for a man-made one. And for us, who have not seen a real one before.) and simply breathtaking. We felt like we weren't in Singapore at all. It was just amazing!

And the lory loft was wonderful! I was standing right at the top of the canopy with so many lories and the view was gr8! Except halfway it started raining and I was almost attacked by the lories who all wanted to take shelter with me. Super scary.

And it was really terrifying when we were inside the rainforest enclosure, cause we were in the same cage as the birds, and when they started flying ard us and ambushing us, it was really frightening. I actually shouted a few times. Can't believe I was actually scared of birds. Hahah.

And towards the end it started raining, so we tried to get onto the panorail, which by right costs $5. Somehow or other, we managed to catch that for free, and it was so cool! We could look at the aerial view of the entire park and zoom in close to the birds as well. Lurve it!

We had so much fun that we stayed all the way till the closing hours.

Den we went for dinner at KFC.

2007-04-20T00:21:00.000+08:00

Just got back home. Had a long day today. Started out by gg back to NC to pass to the class the remaining cards that I made and the class photo to pin on the notice board. After that, packed the last of my stuff and then treated Nurul, Ashwynn and Natasha to Swensons in Compasspoint.

Went to Tampines gym after than and then to Bugis to meet Hui Chuan. Den went to Serangoon for wuxiang and porridge with her and Jongie.

Tmr I am gg to watch omni movie and to the Bird Park with Slutty. So exciting! Really looking forward to that :)

2007-04-18T22:12:00.000+08:00

Just came back from the fishing trip. So happy now, cause when I was in the sea, I seriously thought I wasn't going able to make it back to shore. In fact, I still feel my room bobbling about, like when I was on the ship.

I had to wake up at 5 plus in the morning so that I could reach Tampines at 7am. And effing Ziyi was late! Damn eff, but since he had a fever, shall not scold him too much. After that, met up with the rest of the people that I did not know. Ziyi was damn jian, cause he said there were a lot of cbs in the group, and when I went there, there were only 2 girls, and they were accompanied by their boyfriends. Still said can interact with them and make more friends. What a liar.

We sat on a bumboat and took around one hour to travel out to sea. Then we just stopped in the middle of nowhere, far from civilisation and started fishing in the sea. It was rather funny, cause we all din know how to fish, and were all very squirmish when using the live prawns as baits. And, the boat was VERY VERY jerky, so much so that I started getting sea sick. Not just me, of course. Most got sea sick, one even puked. And it was only at 9am. I wondered if I could survive till 5.30am.

Somehow I still managed to, and witnessed the capture of sharks, stingray, pufferfish, garoupa and other smaller fishes. And the weather was great! The sea was beautiful and peaceful and the sea breeze was cooling. There was no better way to relax already.

But of course, there was nothing better than to reach dry land again. Went for dinner after that and went back home. Nothing's better than home!

2007-04-17T21:46:00.000+08:00

Din get through the interview today. So sad. Went all the way to Tanjong Pagar for my interview with Jobstreet for the position of a recruitment consultant. But in the end failed to make the cut. And the worst thing is, I think there were only 3 applicants, and he chose the other two! Damn sucky. He said he would call me up again if there are any future job offers. I think he just meant he dun wanna see me again. There goes my hope of being a recruitment consultant. Now I wished I had accepted the job offer at IMH to take care of mental patients.

Interestingly, my eyes did a double take on me as I was going home. When I was looking out from the bus, I thought I saw a surfer wearing a wetsuit and carrying a surfboard. It turned out to be an ah mah carrying an iron board.

Well anyway, I will be going fishing tmr with Ziyi and friends. So dreading it. One whole day of waiting, in a small boat, with 10 people, of whom I only know Ziyi, and Shawn, vaguely. And, I have to wake up at unearthy hours tomorrow.

How exciting.

2007-04-17T00:43:00.002+08:00

After 1 whole afternoon of intense searching, I finally found Ziyi to watch 'Meet the Robinsons' with me at the very last minute, one hour before the show. Lucky for me, if not I would not hVE gone as well, wasting 2 tickets.

Frankly speaking, I did not expect the show to turn out this way. I thot it was just another typical animated movie, like The Incredibles or Madagascar of sorts. Or even the recent Penguin show, which I thot would have been unbearable if not for Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman lending their voices to the movie.

Anyway, it was out-of-my-expectations good, in a feel good and inspirational way. Surprisingly, it wasn't really very funny, but it was well thought (unlike Madagascar, or that penguin show, which is so insignificant that I can't even remember its name) and well executed. Which is crucial, because it shows that the movie is made for the STORYLINE, rather than to blatantly showcase the fantastic SKILLS of the ANIMATORS. This one has substance, not to mention stunning visuals.

There was even a 10 min footage of an old Walt Disney show! I was rather caught by surprise by that because I know I have watched this clip before and it kinda brought me back to my childhood life, where I was still blissfully ignorant of the harsh reality of life. Sweet moment.

Anyway, the movie was about a young boy who invented stuff and all. The show reminded me of my secondary school days where I was an inventor myself, and was even selected for this 6 month mentoring programme for young innovators. I came up with this really useful food cover cum tray design which won me a chance to present my idea in front of the entire NYP auditorium. Although I kinda screwed up the presentation when I said "Well, it protects the flies from the food!" instead of the other way round. How exciting.

Ziyi was damn effing lucky, cause he could 'freeload' the movie. And he still had lots to complain about. Why? Because it meant he could not eat porridge at home for dinner. Wad a shitass friend. Treat him still kena complain. But I am still glad he came and helped me get over it. Shitass friends, no matter how shitty, still comes in handy at times.

Oh and I am suddenly reminded of wad happened yesterday. Ziyi was saying that Shawn's father, being the Director of Prison, was photographed in the papers again. But Shawn's father shouldn't be surprised, cause he has xi(2) yi(3) wei(2) chang(2) already. Jongie, being hard on hearing due to the noisy environment, actually asked, "Huh, he si beh wad?"

And yesterday the three of us were playing Percussion Master at the arcade, and Jongie was damn funny, cause he hit the drums rather well and scored quite a high combo, except that he chose some CNY song, so there was the "dong dong dong chiang, dong dong dong chiang, dong dong dong chiang dong chiang dong chiang" melody going on. Its really hard to pretend to be cool when playing that song, even if it's hitting the drums. And he decided we would call him Jones instead of Jongie, after much deliberation (actually we got the name after we played "Doctor Jones" in the arcade on Percussion Master. Remember? "Doctor Jones, Doctor Jones, calling Docter Jones. Doctor Jones, Doctor Jones, get up now"..).Cause he felt Jongie was a rather disturbing name, and no one else in the world calls him that except for me and ziyi.

Another highlight for the day would be my students. They kinda rather prefer me to the new English teacher, which rather made my day, although I am not supposed to feel this way. But it's also rather embarrassing that they did not erase my words away on the board, meaning that Pan Lao Shi, Ms Ng, Mr Ng and Ms Lim would have read my writing. Gasp. Wonder how they will think of me now. Starting to get worried that my kids may not learn (or want to learn) anything for English. Bad. Hopefully the situation will turn round and something will work out between them.

Gonna finish up on my book right now. The book is about this girl working in a art gallery who became drawn to a very famous sculptor. Reminds me of the french movie I watched earlier about an elderly woman who was attracted to a young (like young-enough-to-be-her-son-young) doctor who liked to draw. Well, he reciprocated her love in the end. I know that cause they did it. Twice.

I am going to take out all my mouldy watercolour paints tomorrow.

2007-04-14T14:27:00.000+08:00

Went back to school just now to pack up my stuff so that my replacement will have a clean table on Monday. While I was back, I decided to pop by 2A and 2C. The classrooms certainly seemed quiet and peaceful without them. But somehow, I dun seem to like peaceful and quiet atmospheres anymore. Maybe I've indeed been changed by my students. When I was inside the class just now, I wished the class would be rowdy and noisy like always. It's so typical of me, only cherishing what I had after I have given up.

Memories kept flooding back while I was inside the class. Like when I wasn't prepared for the lesson, I would just make them do journals or read newspapers or flash News In Class. And when I see students using handphones and listening to music, I would turn a blind eye as I was just too exhausted to scold them and also that I know they will not disturb the rest when they are playing with their gadgets. And when I was marking journals, I would just read the last paragraph or so and then write in some comments. While I was in class just now packing the journals, I wished I had taken time to read those journals to get to know my students better. Why hadn't I just spent some time to bond with my students more. Now that I no longer have the opportunity to do so, I want to see them and play with them and talk to them.

I always thought that I can learn nothing from teaching, unlike my friends who are working in banks drafting contracts and calculating financial gains. How wrong I am. I have gained much more than my friends. I made positive impact on my student's lives (hopefully). People have learnt from me, be it curriculum work or life lessons. I am still very touched now by the fact that there were so many students who cried on Friday. It shows that my 14 weeks spent in school was not for nothing. In this way, I have gained much more than any of my friends. How can financial accounting and contract drafting ever be more important to improving other's lives?

It was then when I was in the classrooms that I started crying again. Because I know that I will never be able to step into their class again to teach my normal classes again. When I was in class, I was always strict and wanted to keep my students quiet, because I wanted to teach my lessons and let them learn. I was always thinking about improving their grades only. If time could reverse, I would have interacted with them more and find out more about their lives, rather than be so result oriented. Now I wun have the chance again. I just hope that they will like their new teacher and do well for their English.

Dun wanna blog already. Silly me, crying again. Very emotional these 2 days. Hahah, now that I have so much time on hand, shall do something fun. My tuition kid left me a copy of WOW, shall try to find that and see if it's fun.

2007-04-14T01:27:00.000+08:00

Its kinda late right now, but I am surprisingly still very awake, so decided to do some blogging after a really long time. Finally, 14 weeks have passed, today's the day I officially quit teaching.

I was still rather dreading to go to school today, cause I wasn't sure whether I would be happy or upset. My first lesson was with 2D, my CME class. They were rather nice, and they actually gave me a card, which was really nice of them to do so, considering the fact that I only teach them 2 periods a week. Really thoughtful of them.

The real surprise was during the third period (my free period) where I was dragged to 2C, although I have already let Ms Lim take over the class during that period so that the students could complete their Lit test early instead of having to stay back after school to sit for it.

Oh yah, and before that, Aileen came. Kinda surprised she came, cause din hear that she was coming. She gave me this really huge thingy that she made by herself. I call that a thingy cause there isn't a better word to describe that. First, its huge. Like really huge. Den its like a card. And it has pages inside. Then there's a calendar inside the pages, plus her pictures. Anyway, its just hard to describe, but its really cool, cause she actually made the effort to try and remember all that had happened for the past 3 months or so. Really very sweet of her. But she had to buck up on her art summore. The stuck-on alphabets started dropping off within the first hour. Just like Meiying's card, where the fish (yeah, that popular fish in school) sticker fell off soon after I've read the card.

Back to the cool surprise. When I stepped in to 2C, I was really shocked, cause I din expect them to create such a big party. There were tidbits, drinks and a really tasty blackforest 2kg cake (which I heard was almost $50) as well. I was presented a really cute poster from the class, which was really very well done! I have to frame it up somehow and hang it somewhere. Maybe under the bed. Hahah, just kiddin lah! ;)Following that, Joelyn and gang actually gave me a big heart shaped cookie that they made by themselves the previous day. It was really thoughtful of them, since they must have spent quite some time doing that. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE COOKIE WAS TASTY! It was very nua(3) nua(3) and lau(4) huang(1), and it tasted kinda spoilt. And it was broken to pieces by the time I saw it. But of course, what's important is the effort, and I am really touched by that. So next time, just buy me cookies can already, cheaper and tastier.

I was touched then, but more of happy than emo. Then there was the usual candle blowing (dunno for wad) and the cake cutting and of course the mandatory cream on face act. Everything got on fine until I started to make my silly speech. Damn paiseh, almost cried when I made the speech, cause as I was speaking, all the old memories started flooding back. Like when Ashwynn and Kent gave me so much trouble in the beginning, Hazel always sleeping and not paying attention in my class, 2C singing me birthday songs, funny screenshots of Cheryl Fox during News in Class, Sentosa trips with them, Nurul winning the EL Oratorical Competition and more. I felt like I have gone through so much with them, although it was only 4 months. I really can't bear to leave them, but I have my personal reasons for quitting, and I had to stick to my decision, although I can't help but ponder whether I have made the right decision to quit.

Luckily I din cry in the end, cause Jerick, Shawn and gang kept coming from 2A to kacheow me, so the irritation in me overtook my sadness.

But when it was time to take photos, I noticed a couple of students crying. That was when I could not take it alr and I started to tear as well. At first it was still just a bit of tears, but when I went to 2A for lesson and started to talk to them I really started sobbing uncontrollably. Cause I knew that I wasn't teaching them well and I knew that a lot of them disliked English because of me and I never really did anything to make them learn. I had long adopted the defeatist attitude towards them, and I really felt very bad about it.

To my surprise, a lot of them started to quieten down and listen to what I had to say. And then tears started to flow from the students as well. In fact, by the time I had finished talking, more than half the class was sobbing already. And I myself was rather useless as well, being unable to stop my own crying.

Some came up to me and told me that I taught well. I hope that they really think so, but I just feel that I did not put in enough effort. If only I did something more. If only I just tried another approach. If only I just devoted more time to them. Maybe things would have been different. But its all too late. My only hope is that my students will understand the importance of English and start to learn from this day on.

Charmaine came up to me and apologised to me for cutting my hair in Term 1. To me, that was the best thing that I have ever received since I starting teaching in Nan Chiau. More than the celebration. More than my salary. I was really very touched by her apology, because I could see that she was really very sincere about the apology and I hope that this would humble her and mould her into the good person that I have always seen inside her. Charmaine, I have never borne a grudge against you. Whenever I shout at you or scold you, it's not because I dun like you. Its because I want you to understand the severity of the matter, be it not doing your homework or talking back to me. I dun mind if you scold me or call me vulgar names, because I know that you dun mean it when you say that. But you know that you have a short temper, and other people may not like what you say. I scold you so that you will know the consequence. It may not be the best method, but at least I tried. And I can see your improvement as the days progressed. And I am really grateful for your apology. I will carry that apology with me for the rest of my life, because I know that I have made a little difference in your life, and no amount of money can come close to having that kind of feeling. And to Wenli as well, you dun have to apologise, you are one of the best pupils in my class. You are such a loyal friend and a kindhearted person. You dun have to apologise for anything. To me, you are the best student any teacher can have. I am really glad to have taught you for the past 14 weeks.

Anyway, back to the topic. I was tearing so badly and 2A was crying and 2C was crying that the entire corridor outside was a commotion. Pupils from other classes were peering in to see what happened, and a lot of students were crowding outside my 2 classes. People were giving out tissues everywhere. It was really quite a scene. Hahah, and to think that I said I wun cry on my last day. On Aileen's last day, her 2D students were crying and I thought that was rather exaggerated. Now when its my turn, its even worse. Almost 50 mins of tears from me and my 2 classes. My hands were all numb from all the crying. And when the 2 classes greeted me goodbye for the last time, I was really very upset. No more strolling into class and turning off the fans and making students stand up and sit down repeatedly. No more making Nicholas and Ashwynn sit beside the dustbin. No more locking 2A in class for recess. No more making my classes put their fingers on their lips and pulling their ears. No more bickering with Kent. No more acting from Wee Kiat. No more stopping of fights. That's it. Nothing more.

Argh. Starting to feel emo again.

Once again, I am really glad to have taught my 2A, 2C, 2D, 2E and 2F. If given the chance to teach again, I would not want to change any of my classes. You are the best I've had! Thanks for giving me this wonderful opportunity to teach you guys and I have learnt a lot out of NCHS as well.

Thank you.

2007-03-28T00:58:00.000+08:00

Was so bored preparing my mid year paper that I started looking through the profiles of some of my old friends at friendster.com. How time has passed, its been 4 mths since I orded. Always thought I would have a fruitful life after army. Is that the case? I am not so sure now.

Flared up at 3 of my 4 classes today. Made a girl cry. Continued scolding her while she cried. Left a class midway. Threw worksheets in class. Tore up 2 student's worksheets. Hurled vulgarities. What's happening to me? I am not supposed to be like this! Anyone who knows me should know how I am like. But its just so disappointing to see my students not bothering to do my work, or listening in class. I really dun wan them to regret their actions only when they become older. That's gonna be too late. But they dun understand. And will probably not even after I leave the school.

No one's really helping at the moment. So I am just left to feud for myself, with the help of a few perm staff friends. Its almost like I have sold myself to the school. Its impossible to even have a bit of life outside. Its just school, school and more school. I am just a RELIEF teacher!! I am supposed to knock off at 1 plus everyday and have fun outside. Why am I staying back everyday and coming back on Saturdays? And the job, believe me, is hardly satisfying.

Gotta go back to setting test papers, which I only find out weeks after the other teachers found out I had to. And I am the only relief that needs to set 2 papers. How exciting. That's not including the 3rd class test I need to set, 4 sample essays I need to write for my students, 2 classes worth of English files, reading files, journals and workbooks to check, and tons of shit to mark.

How exciting.

2007-02-09T23:43:00.000+08:00

Went over to Montfort School today to support my students, Joshua and Angeline, in the National Inter-School Debate Competition Prelimanary Rounds. And they won!! Hahah.. I am so happy for them.. Angeline really surprised me. I couldn't believe how eloquent she was, apart from the minor hiccups in her speeches. Seriously if I were speaking in front of the audience at 14 years old, I would probably be shivering and trembling and lost for words. I am so glad that she performed so well for the competition.

Earlier in the day I stayed in the hall for the release of the 'O' Level results. Most of my students scored distinction for their Chinese. In fact, most scored A1, which is like even better than me. However, I saw many dejected faces too, probably cause they did not do well for their exams. Watching them kinda reminded me of my results day too.

Then even earlier, I was in 2A helping out with the new year decos. My 2A actually seemed rather fun after lessons. I rather enjoyed my time with them. Natasha took a lot of pics of herself, and some rather hilarious videos as well. Hope that they will grow to like me better!!

Even earlier, 2C made Louis very upset because of some minor incident and he actually ran out of my class tearing. I had to pause lesson and run around the school to look for him, as well as his form teacher, the discipline coordinator, and the school counsellor. Another wasted lesson. But I also saw another side of 2C. Some of the kids were actually quite nice in some ways. I learnt a lot more abt those kids today. In the end, all's well ends well.

Even Even Even Even earlier, I suffered a lot of teasing from 2D. Couldn't continue with the lesson after that. Really funny kids, some of them.

2007-01-23T23:12:00.000+08:00

Dear all, please note that the cake cutting will be brought forward from 9.30pm to 9pm. So please try to make it earlier for the event okie?

2007-01-17T23:13:00.000+08:00

Yk's 21st Birthday Celebration Details

Hey guys, here's the update for my bday celebration on 27 January 2006 (Saturday).

The chalet is held at Aloha Changi Netheravon Terrace D. (Code: NB D) Terrace C is being taken up by Jelvin, who will be holding his bday celebration on the very same day as me, so if you know him, you might go next door and visit him as well.

How to get there?

Take the east bound train to Tampines MRT station. From there, you can take Bus 29. You can check on the map to see where you can alight. Remember, its NB D. N for Netheravon. B for I-dunno-wad. You get the idea.

(Map courtesy of http://www.aloha.gov.sg)

Schedule

3.30pm Check-in of chalet
6.00pm Start of celebration
9.30pm - 10.00pm Cutting of cake

If you are free, please try to come down as early as possible to help me with the set-up. But if you really really cannot make it so early, at least try to be there after 6pm for the food, and please please please try to stay till abt 9 plus 10 for the cake! And if you can make it, please try to stay overnight to accompany me!!

What to get me

Of course, the aim of this celebration is for me to meet up with my old friends again, so I would already be very happy if you people can come for the party, esp those whom I have not seen for a long long time. But, if you really insist on getting me something (a bit bhb I know), please please please do not get me anything decorative. And that includes any forms of soft toys, picture frames, mugs, ornaments etc. I would really appreciate that. But of course, I would treasure anything that my friends give me. And of course, I would be happy enuff if you ppl can come for my party. So see you guys there!!

2007-01-07T11:52:00.000+08:00

This is my first entry for 2007, so happy new year guys!

After so so long, I finally have a real job! Have been relief teaching for the past few days, and I have to say, the experience is bittersweet. The day before school started, I had the same sinking feeling thatI experienced when I was gg to be enlisted 2 years back, and although my friends helped my telling me that I am now the PC, not the 'men', I still feel rather bad about it.

But, I was quite glad I still manage to get thru the 3 days. Of course, I had my fair share (come to think of it, a super large share) of bullying from the students, it was still generally going well. I still dun understand how come I get so bullied easily. Despite that, I still feel consoled by the fact that there are still students who take me seriously and who really wants to study. As for the rest of the students, I am confident that they will grow to like English and do well for their studies.

Studies aside, I am really quite amazed at the change in lifestyle that I have. In the army, I was the lowest in hierachy, and basically I just had to deal with wadever work that my superiors bestow upon me. However now, I really get treated like a teacher. Its really rather nice to see fellow teachers, students and colleagues address me by 'Mr Khoo'. It just made me feel that I am finally getting respected like a person should.

Okie, tired alr, have to draft out my lesson plan for tmr. Tmr's gonna be D-day. Expecting to send many students out of class tmr. Hate being the nasty guy all the time.

2006-12-21T01:11:00.000+08:00

Woah.. I just watched a really good show on cableTV.. its some french flick on channel 44 called Trop Jeune Pour Moi?.. really really good!! At first I only flipped to that channel for fun.. budden the show just caught my eye.. its abt this 50 odd year old woman who went on an internet date and in a twist of fate, met up with this successful playboy doctor who was in his early 30s. Of course he was very turned off by her, but her determination made him fall in love with her in the end. It was so touching!! The doctor summore said that she was old enough to be her mother, but in the end it was her who understood him the most. And he knew it too, and so in the end they had sex. Den he kinda disappeared and she got on her life without him.

And one day he sent her an invitation card for his art gallery opening. And when she got there, she realised that she was the only one inside and when the lights were turned on, she realised that all the paintings were of her!! And she was so touched and ended up having sex with him again. End of story. OH MY GOD!! Its so touching!! ALL THE PAINTINGS DEPICTED HER INSIDE!! And she was like 20 odd years older than him. Love really crosses all bounderies. OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD I am taking up oil painting classes from now on.

2006-10-24T01:59:00.000+08:00

Ah so irritated!! Just now I was waiting for my Night Rider at Dhoby Ghaut and there was this Trans Island bus that came. The irritating bus flashed Selamat Hari Raya and dunno wad on the screen instead of the number and destination. And just as it went pass me suddenly the word SENGKANG appeared so I ran to flag the bus.

AND the bus REFUSED to stop for ME!

ME!

And so I decided to run to the next bus stop to catch that bus. And I managed to outrun the bus to the next bus stop, so I flagged the bus again.

AND the bus REFUSED to stop for ME!

AGAIN!

Made me feel like a fool lah. Carrying so many bags ard and running like some lunatic.

I hate chasing after buses!

In the end I had to wait for close to half an hour for the next bus. And my headphones were spoilt lah. I was listening to 'Get High' on the headphones and sometimes I could hear on both sides, sometimes I could only hear on the left side, sometimes on the right, but mostly on none of the sides. Damn shitty lah, to think I wasted 80 bucks on this disgusting headphones like 4 mths back.

Damn high.

2006-10-15T23:34:00.000+08:00

I think there is something wrong with my cable tv. I suddenly have like 20 more different channels on top of my subscribed ones... lets hope it stays this way!!

2006-10-15T01:45:00.000+08:00

Had a super fulfilling day today.. started off the day by going to NUS with Jin Ping in the morning for the early sem talk. Was supposed to wake up at 745am, but in the end woke up at 855am... ended up rushing to change and rushing out of my home, with disastrous results

1. Forgot to bring out my house keys and handphone.
2. Wasted $11 on cab fares.

Luckily in the end Jin Ping din come on time too, so managed to meet up with him... met like super many people over at the NUS auditorium. Saw Daniel, Chee min, Liang Yuan, a lot a lot of 40 SAR people, Chee Tek etc.. anyway, learnt a lot during the talk.. think I might want to go for the special term alr!! Super excited!!

After the talk, managed to hitch a ride from Liang Yuan's merz.. he is damn lucky lah.. have a Merz to drive.. summore he doesn't have to pay a single cent for the patrol.. anyway, took a lift all the way to Bishan with JP, den brought him over to Cat High for a tour.. think JP seemed impressed with my school... of course he would.. its so cool to be a Cat High student.. just look at me!

After that went for disgusting lesson. Got tormented terribly again. Almost couldn't survive thru.

Well well well, after that went to meet my NJ clique!! Haven seen them for like months! Hahah.. we went down to Marina Square and Suntec City to walk around. Can't even rmb where we walked. Our clique is funny in this way. We never ever enter the shops. Hahah, almost had nothing to share with Wen Dtin, cause apparently, she comes to my blog very often to check out on me, so she knows everything that happened to me. Bad bad Wen Dtin ah.. know my everything den appear so mysterious in front of me.

After that Wen Dtin had to go off first, leaving behind me, SC and WK at Orchard. We managed to do some quick shopping over at Taka, den went over to Seoul Garden for dinner. It was super not worth it. Think I ate barely half of wad I spent. Terrible. But there was one malay employee that caught my attention. When she was helping to change the hot plate, I noticed that she had a lot of burnt marks on her forearms.. and yet she looked so cheerful and happy to serve the customers. I felt a momentary sympathy for her. She was so young and she already had to come and work undersuch harsh environment. And yet she had to remain cheerful and happy ard people. I felt so touched that I almost wanted to give her a hundred bucks to buy some nice moisturiser for her to apply on her arms. But of course, my practical side still won over my angelic side, and my money was saved. Still, I wanted to take a picture with her, but in the end I was too hum to do it as well. Well, I hope she remains cheery and enthusiastic. Hello nice malay girl, you are reading this, which I assume not, cause you dun even noe who I am, I wish you all the best okie??

We were so full after the dinner that we decided to go over to Vivo instead for a short walk. In the end it turned out to be a really fun play-a-fool cum phototaking session.. we did so many foolish stuff there, like jump around and take silly photos... luckily there weren't many ppl ard to watch us..

I am really glad I could make it for the clique outing.. today just reminded me why the group of us are one clique in the first place. Although we may have our differences at times, but essentially we are still close frens and I really treasured the friendship that we all share. Must meet up more next time okie??

2006-10-10T01:13:00.000+08:00

Went out for the third consecutive day today.. was supposed to meet Jelvin at 10 today at City Hall but I somehow managed to wake up late again, so in the end met up with him only at 10.40am..

Had a lot of fun today. We went to, in no particular order:

1. Citylink Mall
2. Marina Square
3. Suntec City
4. Millenia Walk
5. Esplanade
6. Bras Basah Complex
7. Sunshine Plaza
8. Peace Centre
9. Plaza Singapura
10. Vivocity

Den after that, I left to meet CJ whilest Jelvin went to meet Shawn for a movie.

Had KFC with CJ and walked round Suntec City and Raffles City.

Booking in soon. Kinda dreading the feeling again. NVM, ording soon.

2006-10-09T02:49:00.000+08:00

Finally have some free time to blog for today.. had yet another exhausting but fun day. This time with Wenjie!! Hahah.. had gym in the early afternoon with CJ den met up with Wenjie.

After we met up, we went (more like rushed actually) over to Esplanade Concert Hall to catch the Philharmonic Youth Winds.. haven stepped into the concert hall for a long long time already.. think the last time was during end of JC 1 where I performed there with the other combined bands for Bandfest. That was like so long ago already... the feeling inside the concert hall was great.. but the Phil Youth Winds weren't that impressive to me. Firstly, the instrumentation wasn't complete. Basic instruments like oboe and bass clarinet were not present at all. The choice of pieces were terrible. Most of them were selections, where many different songs were put into one piece. Terrible!! Not a serious piece inside at all. Althou its made for the masses, at least they could have played something more layered, not straightforward, boring selection pieces. It was a rather boring concert I must say, quite disappointing. Babies were crying everywhere. No one wanted encore. And the conductor still encored himself. But at least it wasn't everything bad - the emcee was marvellous!! She spoke really terrific English and Chinese! Really professional!

After that went for lunch with Wenjie at Imperial Kitchen. Wonderful lunch!! Loved the lamian!! And I ordered these balls with red bean paste. 2 Thumbs up!! The skin was crispy and thick, unlike the camp uncle's balls, which were more nua nua and chewy. The red bean balls at Imperial Kitchen are really good, must try!

After lunch, the 2 of us went back to Esplanade again! This time round we went over to the Esplanade library where we booked a room to watch Riverdance and Lord of the Dance and Cirque du Soleil! Wow, it was so cool! The room was so cosy and the sound system (Bose) was terrific, and the flat screen tv was sharp and the air con was so cold. The 1.5 hrs spent there was so fruitful . Haven watched so much of Michael Flatley for such a long time. Its great to see him dancing so happily and passionately again. But his bad habits of groping his dancer's breasts were still evident. And he thot I din catch him doing so. I have very sharp eyes, you noe.

We finally finished watching Michael at 7.30 and then we left the library to catch all the wonderful performances ard Esplanade. We managed to watch some ppl singing oldies, CO section quartet, a harp cum tai-ji-quan performance, a Chinese Dance performance and a cai deng mi game! And Wenjie even managed to guess a deng mi correct, and won a prize!! Damn smart of him, hahah.

Overall, we spent like more than 6 hours at Esplanade alone.. really wonderful time spent there... and Wenjie liked it too.. think we can go there more often!!

After that we walked down to Clarke Quay where Jelvin joined us over at Mac Liang Court. But it was kinda late alr so in the end Wenjie left first. Jelvin and I den went over to Vivocity again. Managed to reach there at 11.15pm.. only stayed there for a while cause we had to catch the last bus home. He was damn jian lah.. made me take this really slow bus whereas he himself took a super fast one. He managed to reach home at like 12.30am and I only got off the bus at 1am at Hougang Interchange!! When I called him at the interchange, he actually told me that he had finished bathing alr and that he was reading the newspaper.. damn jian lah!! Ren ru qi ming!!

And naturally, I had no bus to take. And I was kinda broke, so in the end I decided to walk home. 8 bus stops. But I made it! Below half an hour summore! Could have been faster, but I was strolling pretty slowly, and singing "Get High" whilst walking, so that took more time.. I repeated Get high like 30 over times on the way home lah.. got kinda irritated by the end I reached home. Think must change disc alr, think wu niang would be a pretty gd choice!

Anyway, I have a query. Can a rice cooker make porridge? I was trying to cook some porridge for supper just now so I put in rice and lots of water. And when it was done, it became rice! So I thot maybe the water wasn't enough, so I added in more water to cover the rice and then when it was done, it still remained as rice! So i put in even more water to completely submerge the rice and when it was done, it still turned out as rice. In the end, I just scooped out the rice and added hot water. Finally got some porridge that I wanted.

Okie, tired alr. Sleeping now!

2006-10-08T01:23:00.000+08:00

Super fun day today!! Went out with Ziyi and CJ for the whole day.. come to think of it, haven really been out with the 2 of them for a long long time alr... went to a super lot number of places today.. We went to, in no particular order:

Waterloo Street (to view the Singapore Biennale exhibits)
Sunshine Plaza
Bras Basah Complex
Suntec City
Clarke Quay
Stanford House
Vivocity
and of course, Esplanade

Wow, the weather was super horrible. Lots of haze everywhere; it looked horrible. Heard the PSI was 140, really terrible. I was suffering from a really bad headache all the while I was outside, and I felt so tired and weak, even after having a really full meal at Mac. And I had to walk around the whole Dhoby-Bugis-Cityhall area cause we were like totally lost. We kept on walking in circles cause the 3 of us were like super road idiots, and then everytime we walked past somewhere interesting we would like "Wow, looks fun. Lets go in and take a look" and thus, wasted a lot a lot a lot of time. But nonetheless it was kinda fun lah... hahah

Anyway, we visited Vivocity!! Triple wow!! It looks AA-MA-ZING!! There are like 2 whole level of shops and 7 levels of carparks!! OMG!! And the crowd was so huge, even thou there were so few shops open!! It was really fantastic. The view outside was spectacular, althou I couldn't really see much due to the haze. But it looked really really really grand. And there are fake beaches on the 3rd floor! But I am not too sure whether it was on purpose or not.. it might just be flooding on the floor. But somehow I still think it would become my next fav hangout soon. AAA-MA-ZING!!

And of course, we went to my favouritest place in the world, ESPLANADE!! There were like so many performances there due to the Mid-Autumn Festival. There was the CO concert, a riddle guessing competition and a Chinese Dance performance!! There was this guy who was really engrossed in his own dancing that he din realise that there was a super big split in his pants. His underwear was like totally showing lah!! I would be so embarrassed if I were him.. kudos to his bravery!!

Oh yah, and something really funny happened. CJ was so vulgar today!! Ziyi and CJ were talking about watching Phantom of the Opera together next year when the musical comes to Singapore and so I started to sing the theme song, and got quite engrossed into it. And then when its time for CJ to sing, I gestured to him,

"Sing, Angel of Music, Sing!!"

And he said,

"F*** off lah"

2006-09-30T00:23:00.000+08:00

Woah, finally back in the comfort of my own home!! Hahah.. sounds like I haven't been home for a long long time alr.. but this time different okie?? Cause I just came back from the last last last shoot of my NSF life!! Yay, so happy lah.. not gg to wear long 4 and touch live bullets for a very very very long time from now.. feeling a huge chunk of weight lifted from my shoulder!!

Lets do a cheer!

Brr.. its cold in here! There must be some Toros in the Atmosphere... I say..

Okie, too enthu already.

Well anyway, I was actually quite dreading this week, cause there were quite a number of activities going on.. but I have to say that this week has been really fun, esp today (Friday).. had a 5km run in West Coast Park on Tues.. its more like 6km or 7km lah.. so far lor.. almost couldn't finish the run.. but guess wad.. I came in sixth!! OMG OMG OMG.. I was like super duper whooper fast lah!! And I won Jian Hui yet AGAIN!! Second time in a row already.. summore run slower than me still want to give excuses lah..

"I was never a good long distance runner"
"I want to accompany the other runners"
"I just wanted to run leisurely"

Give up lah. Its okie if you are slower, no need for excuses one.

Oh.. and Friday started off really badly.. gotten lotsa shit in camp althou I was at the range.. was actually damn pissed lah.. cause the NSman charging was not really my problem, but I just had to dabble in it and in the end, it became my problem. It really doesn't pay to be helpful and responsible in S1 branch. Its like I am the one pushing the superiors to do work or something.. arn't NSFs the ones that needs pushing instead??? Basically throughout the combat shoot I was like making calls after calls after calls to find out the situation and get the stuff that I need. And cause my phone was down, I had to borrow phones from Jelvin and Jin Ping and waste their phone bills. Thanks so much to the both of you!! Owe you lots for ur help! Summore, I kinda misfired during the combat shoot.. had a shock myself.. luckily the target came out alr, so I wasn't penalised.. but the shock just kinda lasted thru the combat shoot, and in the end think I messed up the entire shoot.. such a bad day..

Well, but by afternoon, things turned for the better. Although I still have the shit work, at least more of the things got settled and I finally had some time to socialise with the rest.. had a really good chat with Alex.. in fact we really managed to share a lot with each other on Firday.. we chatted about our impressions of the people in S1 branch, and I was really kinda surprised about the other sides of the people in my branch that I never knew of!! In fact, after this chat with Alex, I felt like I was really mistaken about some of the ppl in the br.. am gg to look at them in a new light from now..

In addition, I have also found out a lot more about Alex himself.. I did a lot of thinking.. when I do work for others, its often obligatory, and sometimes, I would want to be recognised for my work. However, when Alex does his work, he does it out of sheer love for the people around him. He has never once asked for recognition for his work. He is forever giving and never taking anything in return. This just suddenly flowed into my head when I was having dinner (which by the way was horrible. It was nua(3) nua(3) cabbage with super salty omelette, some wierd chicken piece in spicy sauce and my absolutest hatred - pork cubes with peanuts!! OMG!! Super disgusting lah.. luckily I had 4 sardine curry puffs for tea break..).. I felt so inferior and selfish in comparison!! In fact, I was rather touched when I realised this, cause he has really helped me a lot previously, but I din even help him much in return.. After I left, he even sent me a msg. I was really very touched by his msg, cause I can tell that he was really real and true about wad he wrote inside.. really proud to have him as a fren!!

Thus, I have made a new resolution. I am going to be nice to everyone from now for the next one week, and experience for myself how its like to be giving and selfless. Hope I can keep to my resolution! :)

2006-09-24T19:08:00.000+08:00

Woke up super late today.. was supposed to meet up with Jelvin and Wenjie at 0930 this morning for breakfast at Kovan but I overslept!! Only managed to wake up when Jelvin called me at 10am.. in the end had to rush to bathe and brush my teeth and pick my clothes and then rush out of the house.. but I managed to do all those below 10 mites!! Den in the end had to take a cab down so that I would not be too late... wasted my $4.20!!

But luckily I went down, cause it was really fun!! We went over to some food centre opp Heartland Mall for dimsum breakfast.. the food was great!! Hahah.. we had siew mai, har gao, ming xia jiao, paper wrapped chicken, century egg porriage and chee cheong fun.. really satisfying meal! And it felt like we weren't really in Singapore, cause the surroundings were all rather old and nostalgic.. its like having a holiday instead lah!! Took a lot of cute photos as well, will upload next time!!

After that we went over to GB cause Jelvin was supposed to go their for his service.. it was quite funny, cause I could like recognise most of the people there, althou I have never met a single one of them before.. all because of Jelvin lah.. made me stay up till 1 plus am so that I can memorise all their names...

Once Jelvin went for his service, Wenjie and I walked down to Highland Centre to get the famed durian puffs.. it was delicious!! V V nice!! Had a very nice chat with him along the way back to my bus stop.. He is so nice lor.. actually waited with me for my bus even thou his bus stop was very far away.. really super super nice of him.. Thanks Wenjie!!

2006-09-22T22:52:00.000+08:00

Argh.. bad bad bad.. Took off today, cause I intended to teach my sis, but in the end she said she wun be coming home early as she wanted to meet up with her teachers first, so in the end I went shopping with Jelvin instead..

It was:

- Lunch at New York New York (Good food and good ambience.. 2 thumbs up!!)
- Shopping at Marina Square (With special mention to Evita Peroni. Really good models there!)
- Relaxation session at Esplanade
- Shopping at Far East
- More shopping at Taka. And we tasted like tens of mooncakes at the bazaar there.
- Even more shopping at Wheelock Place

And finally after a million years, Wen Jie joined us. Actually I din really want to wait till he comes, but I was just too tired to leave the comfy chair at Wheelock Place so in the end I just kinda drifted into a semi-unconscious state until Wen Jie reached.

And then, I decided to go home, but I was dragged all the way to Heeren in the end. Along the way I met two frens, which made me the official winner of the "Friends" Game! Ultimate trashing!! Then we played the "Bomb" game, and Wenjie lost terribly!! Hahah, which made Jelvin and I the masters of the Bomb game!!

After I reached Heeren, I decided to take a bus home. But the two of them had a ridiculous idea to get tee shirts for the 3 of us, and made me go choose with them. So I was dragged along with them. So, I unleashed my hidden skills of power shopping, which is the ability to look thru racks of clothes in the shortest available time, saving us a lot of time. However, the 2 of them were super picky, and after a long long long long (I mean LONG) time, we still could not find one where the 3 of us could buy.

Just as we were giving up hope, we chanced upon 77th street, and there it was, the ultimate shirt that could fit the 3 of us. Damn heng lah, and just nice there were only 3 left! We were like so relieved, cause the other stores only carry like one or two of the same design, but 77t street carried 3 of the same design, and in our size summore! I think its like fate that we had to get the shirt. Next time go out the 3 of us can wear the same shirt for outing!! So exciting!!

After that, I was like so late I took a cab back home. Jelvin and Wen Jie took the cab too, cause they wanted to go to Xin Wang at Heartland for dinner. So that sums up my entire day's programme, tmr is another tiring day again!

2006-09-19T20:02:00.000+08:00

Ahah... haven blogged for a long long time!! Managed to find some time today, cause I reached home early! Was despatching some medals today to some officer's place, and he asked me which reservist unit I was from. Do I look like a reservist? And to think that my new boyish looking hair would make me look more youthful...

And anyway, I think I just sprained my jaw!! Ow its so painful I can't even open my mouth properly. I think if I open my mouth wide enough, my lower jaw will just drop off.

So tired now, am supposed to teach my sis GP, but think I really need to sleep awhile first. Super exhausted after yesternight.. chatted with Jelvin until like almost 2am and had to wake up at like 6 plus again.. but it was a v satisfying chat, cause I have finally seen the big picture. Come to think of it, I feel so silly to have deceived myself. I was almost convinced.

Thanks Jelvin, your status has been upgraded ;)

2006-09-03T01:53:00.000+08:00

Argh.. so tired now.. just reached home only.. went out for the entire day lor.. finally taken the advance theory test already.. was the second person to complete the tests.. wun say the results here, cause I promised Jelvin I would tell him how I fared on Sunday night when he books in.. anyway, I made it down to Orchard to meet CJ and Ziyi.. and I was acutally first to arrive.. hahah.. I am seldom first lah.. and den I actually met Jelvin whilst waiting for them! Wad a coincidence!! Weekend dun wan to see camp ppl in the end still bump into them.. but Jelvin's different, sec school frens rite?

Met Jelvin at the Sembawang Music Store abv Orchard Stn. How "fortunate".. hahah!!

Well after the other 2 arrived, we finally set off to Lido where we had Pepper Lunch for Lunch! Wad a great meal.. hasn't had Pepper Lunch for a long time already.. and I made a very important realisation - the pepper at Pepper Lunch is really good! Must put more next time! After that we went to Sunshine Plaza (somewhere really far, near Paradiz Centre) where we caught the Wanton mee stall (Wenjie you would rmb right? Just told you a couple of days back only) that I had wanted to go ever since I saw it on Channel U. So lucky I saw the Bryan Wong's face on the shop and in the end the 3 of us all went to have post-lunch there.. wow the wanton was really crispy!! And the noodles were very well flavored.. think it was really worth eating..

Pic 1: Ziyi and me. Basically we were sitting opp CJ so he had to take a group shot of us. Unfortunately, that means he cannot be in the pic. Kinda unfortunate of him, cause Ziyi and I snapped up the cushioned seats first, so he had to sit on the lousy one. And now he cannot be in the picture summore. Pics 2-4: Wad we had for lunch. It was really good, but kinda ex. Singaporeans are so wierd lah. Paying so much to cook by themselves. May as well eat at home.

Above: The famed Wanton mee with the fried wantons. And me tucking in to my post-lunch. Woah.. getting fat already..

Basically for the rest of the day we just shopped and crapped ard.. and CJ actually won the "Frens" game lah.. can't believe that he acutally met more frens than us for the first time in history.. total thrashed us man.. but he still lost the "Bomb" game. He always gets bombed by us lah.. so expert at PS2 and Xbox games but still always kena bombed by us.. hahah!!

Took these pics on our way to Suntec City. Orchard Rd was like totally deserted, which was really nice, cause I hate crowds. And the trees were all so nicely decorated that we had to snap pics of them.

When we reached Suntec, we even managed to meet up with SC, SF, WK and their sec school fren! Wad a coincidence lor.. hahah.. we went to play with toys at Toys "R" Us and then got down to Esplanade together..

Me as a super athletic basketball player.

As cute as the cookie monster.

Me being brave fireman for the day.

Esplanade.. my favouritest favouritest place.. we were all kinda tired by the time we reached there so we just sat down and people-watch. There were some graduates taking their graduate shots.. they looked so happy lah.. how I wish I can graduate earlier and take all these shots too.. I was thinking, if I take the 4 years honours course and my sis takes the 3 years bachelor's course (cause she not so smart.. hahah), we can graduate together! Den we can take sibling graduation shots together!! That would be so cool! I was also thinking I could do these series of shots where I do everyday things with my graduation robe, like shopping at NTUC den asking someone to take a pic of me when I am at the cashier, or like taking another pic when I am at the cinema eating popcorn, or when I am waiting for the MRT etc. Super cool right?

Top pics: Graduates looking so happy in their grad robes. Bottom pics: Everyone looking great in the group shots.

Finally finally, the AI ppl left, and Ziyi ps-ed us, leaving CJ and I at Esplanade until HC came. As usual, I listened (and made CJ listen as well) to Jolin's Wu Niang track until he got so bored of it.. seriously, i think its like a super catchy tune and I just saw her MTV. IT RAWKS! Wow, she looked so tribal and she played with balls and strings and water and she still looked so good!

Well anyway, finally finally the 3 of us went over to Marina Square for dinner and then we shopped ard for a little while more before making our way to Bakerzin as promised.

Tasty dinner! I had Grilled Chicken Set, CJ had Curry Yong Tau Foo (damn hot) and HC had Duck Wanton Mee (w/o wantons).

Bad experience: I almost fell on the stairs again (bad karma for insulting too many ppl).

Arh, Bakerzin. Yet another of my favouritest place. It was already quite late when we reached there.. like almost 11pm already.. but still we managed to secure a good seaside table.. the 3 of us just sat there and enjoyed our desserts and relaxed by the sea and crapped and took silly photos.. it was so relaxing I din feel like leaving at all after that.. din even realise how tired I was until the moment I stepped on the night rider.. slept all the way home.. super super super shagged..

Pic !: That's Esplanade at night. Its really beautiful and grand with the blue balls floating on water at night. Pic 2: The famed candlelights where I always played with. Pic 3: Superb view of the river/sea at my seat. Pic 4: Bakerzin at night. Beautiful.

Photos that we took along the way to Bakerzin and there.

And so, that sums up my entire day's trip.. and its like almost 4 already, which means I took like, wad, 2 hours plus to complete this entry.. argh.. so tired already.. later still must go gymming with CJ at Bishan.. argh tired tired tired :)

2006-09-02T10:56:00.000+08:00

Wow.. finally its almost time to take my advanced theory test.. think I am sufficiently prepared for it already, since yesterday afternoon I have

1. Swept up all the dirt from a super long drain and a hell-lot of dried leaves for CIP.
2. Fought off an army of super big red ants after I ambushed their hiding place near a big rambutan tree and swept away all the rambutans on the floor.
3. Gone window shopping at PS with Ziyi.
4. Gone window shopping at Hougang Mall (btw, HM is like damn big now lah. Hate to say it, but I think it might be better than Hougang Point already!)
5. Chatted on MSN for more than 3 hours.
6. Watched Goodness Gracious Me on Youtube.
7. Repeated FIR's Wu Xian for 2 hours on my com.
8. Had a super satisfying 9 hours sleep.

And more importantly,

I studied for the advanced theory test for less than an hour.

Great.

I am so going to fail the test.

As what I have always said, its the experience that counts. Just treat it as I have eaten a $6 MacDonald's meal lor.

Oh, its 11am now. And I am late. Wow. Great Day.

2006-09-01T22:30:00.000+08:00

Bad bad bad bad bad. Look at the time now! Its like super late already lah! And I've only started (well technically not yet, but I am planning to start after blogging) my revision for tmr's FTT!! I planned to start studying right after CIP today but in the end I was like wad-the-crap, since I am gg to fail anyway, might as well just go shopping for a while. And so, I went to meet Ziyi at PS for dinner at KFC! Haven eaten at KFC for like super long already.. in fact, I haven been out on a Friday for like a gazillion years already.. so surprising lor.. its a school holiday and yet the shopping centre was so empty.. guess all the students are all guai guai studying at home.. even better!! I hate crowds!

Anyway, something very embarrassing happened just now!! I was at Guardians with Ziyi , trying to get my medication but I could not find it off the racks.. so in the end I had to ask the pharmacist where it was, so I was like "Hi, Can I find out if you stock up on Eurax?" den she gave me a blank look and reply "Condom?" in a super loud voice. OMG.. so embarrassing lah!! I am sure everyone heard wad she said. So I immediately replied, "No no I am looking for Eurax, the antipruitic cream".. den she gave me yet another super blur look and asked me to spell.. I guess at that time I got so blurred by her that I actually spelled "D-U-R-E-X" in front of everybody.. Argh!! Screams!! Can't believe I said that lah.. but in the end I still spelt the correct way, which was E-U-R-A-X and finally finally got wad I wanted. I am nv buying from there ever again.

After that terrible incident, we made our way to KFC for dinner and then dessert at Secret Recipe, where I ordered a heavenly Classic Cheese Cake and an Oreo milkshake. The cheese cake was simply delicious, with layers of tasty custardy cream mixed with light cream cheese spread between chocolate sponge layer cakes. Simply delicious! Nothin much can be said about the Oreo milkshake though. It tastes just like.. oreo.

2006-08-31T21:32:00.000+08:00

Yay!! I have finally visited NJ!! After so long I finally stepped back to school.. as a student summore!! Hahah.. Jelvin and I decided to go back to school as students and pretend that we knew each other like super long time ago.. so we used the AHM off day on Monday as an opportunity to go back to school.. den somehow my personal assistant joined in as well... think cause he has got no one to go out with him so he just had to tag along.. hahah.. so extra lor.. hor JH?? And by the way, if you so free, please finish up on the medals' table and stop visiting my blog!! So anyway, we really made it back to school by 7.30am.. poor me had to wake up at 5.30am cause Jian Hui tricked me into travelling all the way to Hougang Interchange.. utter waste of my sleep time lah.. luckily we managed to reach school on time and the 3 of us even went for the assembly!! We were kinda scared actually, cause we couldn't find any teacher that is even remotely familiar looking... but in the end we still found somewhere to stand.. so embarrassing.. I was standing behind some IP class.. and the students kept on turning back to look at me.. I was so worried that some teacher would spot me with my chao lao face and question me how come I am pretending to be a student.. I even rehearsed beforehand with a chinese accent to justify that I was older cause I was a PRC student.. hahah.. luckily in the end I din have to.. guess cause I looked so boyish with my new hairdo.. hahah.. After assembly, we went to the canteen for our 'free period' and we had canteen food! We ordered western food and dessert.. it was such a great experience to be back doing all the student stuff in school.. never really noe how nice it was until its over.. so sad lor.. well anyway, we just took a lot a lot of photos and walked around school talking about our old experiences.. we even chatted with a couple of old teachers, such as Mr Bek, Mr Lim and Mrs Khoo.. I just felt so much like a student again, like I have nv entered NS before..

A lot of cool shots right? Its like the 3 of us knew each other long long time ago in JC already.. of course back then I still looked like a super hideous Godzilla or something. At least I have taken some good shots in school, so next time I can just use these shots to so ppl how I looked like in NJC, like I have nv been fat at all.. hahah

After that we went for a quick tour of NUS Law School (The entire place was so beautiful and scenic! Its like I had been transported to Harvard or something) led by HC and we left for town! Wenjie met us and the four of us went for lunch at Xin Wang and just kinda shopped around.. and we went to my favoritest place, Esplanade!! Wad a great place to be at.. we had a selection of 6 cakes at Bakerzin.. it was such a great moment, eating cakes whilst feeling the sea breeze... ultimate enjoyment!! But must go there more during this period cause Bakerzin is moving out already on 16 Sept.. I think I will go there everyday or something..

Look at all the sinfully good food that we ate for the entire day!

Poor Wenjie was tricked into wearing his AJC uniform by Jian Hui, who double tricked Jelvin and I by telling us he was gg to wear his home clothes and making us change out of our uniform. So evil of him! No wonder Wenjie looked so pissed off.. hahah

I really have to admit that I am glad to have met so many great pals in the Brigade, especially during the period when I was feeling most down. Its a nice feeling to noe that even thou I was let down by some, I still have frens that brought back joy in my life. Of course I will not forget all those that remained great frens with me throughout all my life, you guys/ gal have been really wonderful. Stay this way, k? :)

Bleh, really tired already.. tmr still must book out early.. so now must go prep already!!

2006-08-26T19:01:00.000+08:00

Yay! I have finally survived till 7pm already... 4th post for today already.. think my combined post for today has surpassed the total no of posts I've had for the past like gazillion months..

Feeling so much happier now.. anytime from now ppl will be booking in to entertain me.. yay!! Can't wait for Jelvin to get back.. cause he's getting decent food for me! Dinner was such a contrast from lunch. I had disgusting undercooked beansprouts with a piece super old looking tow-guah and 1 tiny piece of curry chicken. Not for human consumption.

And worse still, just now I was pretty bored, so I started to login to my OA account and completing some outstanding work, and when I tried to login just now, my access got blocked due to my supposedly restricted card timing. Argh!! All my work was unsaved lah! All gone to waste.. to think I spent so much time adding the nice nice colours and fonts and now all gone... nvm, my understudy can do them for me next week.

Arh, the joy of having an understudy.

2006-08-26T14:15:00.000+08:00

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so bored!!!!!!!!!!!!! My 3rd entry for the day already..... I am so so so so so bored now. I have nothing to surf online. I have nothing to do. Time passes like super duper slowly. My radioblog playlist have have repeated like 20 over times already. How am I gg to make it till tmr?

Ppl, please book in early tonight and entertain me.

2006-08-26T12:15:00.000+08:00

Was taking a really really short nap (like 5 seconds. maybe 6.) in the HQ office when I had a super super super super horribly disgustingly bad dream. In the dream, I was COS but I was v sian so I actually went home to watch tv. Den the duty clerk called me and said the OC wanted me to go back to his office to explain why I was not in HQ office. I had to rush all the way back to camp lah!! Damn scary! Den I gave some stupid excuse that I was sick and stuff, and he accepted the excuse!! So heng.. den for the rest of the day he made me push the office chairs (23, I remember) round and round in the HQ office, dunno for wad.

Wah.. still seem so real right now.

Must be retribution for sleeping during office hours.

But, on a high note, lunch was really good!! It was mee goreng with salmon patty and fried chicken wings. OMG! I always say I miss the cookhouse chicken patty, and here it is, in fish flavour! Super delicious golden crispy outside and den soft flakes of salmon swimming in my mouth, and yellow noodles that melt once it touches my mouth, and the super crispy chicken that oozes out juices the moment I bite into it. Perfect harmony between fish, chicken and noodles. 5 out of 5! Damn tasty! Weekend lunch are like out-of-this-world good lah!!

2006-08-26T07:51:00.000+08:00

Argh!! So sian!! Back in office again.. and its only 7.51 am!! Meaning that I have like 24 hours plus to go.. such a horrid day today.. so much so much so much shitwork to do later and den still kena PS by Ziyi!! Cancel outing with me on Sunday so that he can meet his seniors.. you better chia me next time I see you!!

Bad Saturday.

Bad Sunday.

Bad life.

2006-08-19T23:05:00.000+08:00

Woah.. finally have the time to start blogging again.. cause today I've got duty, so have to stay in office.. poor me.. sick today but still had to report back so early.. just hoping that I wun get sicker tmr, if not I cannot even enjoy the few hours I have outside..

Rather busy day today.. had mass charging in the morning, but this time round only a handful was charged.. its like the least amt of ppl that ever came back lah.. we round up the whole thing before 10am.. super super early.. den went to pull out the wild weeds around the hard court.. den had to personally go and check for all the fire extinguishers around my block.. dunno for wad also..

And by the way, how come so many ppl noe I was sad ah? I din even tell anyone and ppl start smsing me and asking for me.. hahah.. quite touched by everyone's concern.. I am feeling better already.. not fine yet, but better.. thanks everyone for your concern!!

2006-06-24T23:15:00.001+08:00

Finally have some time to blog.. just had dinner outside with my family.. to celebrate a belated father's day and my sister's birthday... not too bad a dinner... really full right now!!

Before that I was with Ziyi and CJ.. we were gg to watch King and the Clown actually.. but there weren't any good time slots.. and so we decided to settle for the next best show, HAVOC.. we kind of regretted buying the tix, cause it looked like a really bad show.. but after all, it was Anne Hathaway's (remember? She was Princess Mia of Genovia!!) breakthrough movie.. and wad a breakthrough it was!! 5 minutes into the movie she was already saying the F word.. OMG.. I acutally laughed a little when I heard her say that, cause I could not believe a Princess would say that. OMG OMG and for the movie, she smoked cigars, smelt inhalants, took hard drugs, fondled herself, said a lot a lot a lot of F words, had sex with a drug dealer, acted super intimately with another girl, stripped naked, and even gave a BJ to some guy!! I can't believe that Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, as Crown Princess of Genovia, would do such stuffs!! I wonder how Queen Clarise would react if she'd find out about her scandals...

The show was quite tragic actually.. even till now I am mildly disturbed by the show's contents.. Anne was a typical rich kid whose parents were always too busy to interact with her, so she was led astray and she joined a gang in school called PLC. Den on a particular day she and her gang went "Downtown", cause apparently in LA, there are 2 segregated portions, one being the higher class and the other like some riot town or something.. so in short, they went to the really mesy part of town where they experienced a real gang.. so Anne was deeply attracted to this drug dealer of the gang, called 16th street.. and so she and her best fren decided to join this gang.. and the only way to join this gang was for them to each roll a die and the no of points on the die would represent the no of men from the gang that they must sleep with.. luckily Anne only rolled a one.. so she decided to sleep with the drug dealer.. but halfway thru she felt pretty disturbed cause she was sharing the bed with her best fren, who unfortunately, had rolled a 3.. so Anne stopped and asked her best fren to stop too.. but her fren seemed to be enjoying it and din want to stop.. until all 3 went to do it with her at the same time.. and her best fren freaked out.. cause the 3 of them "($*£"$"!&£)%&$£)($"* )%&"_)*£_"&%_"£&)(_*$ (censored.. v disgusting and partly cause they censored parts of it so I could only roughly make out what they were doing)... and the both of them ran away and her best fren claimed to the police that she was raped, which isn't the case, cause she agreed to it in the first place..

Anyway it was a really sad story, cause Anne was really v poor thing... she only joined a gang cause she din have a family to turn to... and then she had to strip for everyone to see and fondle herself for everyone to see (everyone being us).. she is a Princess after all.. she shouldn't do that... orh.. I am so sad for her... and she was half raped by some drug dealer cum addict with a lot of tattoos on his body.. and worst of all, he is shorter than her!!

I am so terribly disturbed now!! Hope her next show would restore her prefect image for all of us! Everone must support her in The Devil Wears Prada k??

2006-06-24T23:15:00.000+08:00

2006-06-10T09:31:00.000+08:00

Orh!! Finally back from outfield!! After close to 1 year of doing administrative work, I finally had the chance to go for a 5 day outfield exercise.. not that I want to of course.. learnt a lot during this outfield, not all good of course.. will elaborate as I go on..

So, I booked in last Sunday and prepped my MOT Tonner with all the field equipment.. since the entire Manpower section of my CSS cell only consists of me and Daniel, we had to prep the entire vehicle.. so many stuff to put in lah.. in the end we took like 4 hours to finish prepping the entire vehicle.. after which we were already tired, sweaty and wet (it was raining.. in fact it rained all 5 days.. more abt that later)

We moved out at 4pm exactly.. pretty late actually, cause we were told it would move out at 10am... hahah.. made us rush so much for nothing..

When I reached the place, I was quite awed by the massiveness of the entire structure... one main tentage (made up of 4 tentages and 4 tanks) that's the size of like 2 of my house and like 3 or 4 smaller tentages.. all surrounded by concertina wires and guarded by the MPs and RPs.. wah its like a mini village lah.. the scale was so huge.. so exciting!! But also got bad point lah.. it was built in the middle of the forest.. so there were a lot of trees and stuff.. super dirty lah..

Anyway, for the next few days we were all there (except Sunday nite where I got to go back to camp).. and for all the days we were there, it rained super heavily.. it got so bad that the exercise had to cease for a while cause all the desktops and notebooks were getting drenched in rain.. someone told me that while rescuing the electronics, he saw a signaller tilt the CPU and rainwater actually gushed out.. a lot of electronics were destroyed in the exercise.. and the rain got so bad that our area actually flooded to slightly below knee length.. can imagine how bad it was lah.. we were all drenched and cold and trying to dismantle the entire 'village' (remember the large scale?).. took us hours to complete... I felt like I was walking in a fish tank, cause there was so much water in my boots.. water just gushed out of my boots when I tilt them.. and after the rain (finally), I felt something tickling my stomach and so I reached underneath my clothes and swept it out... IT WAS A 15 CM LONG RED AND BLACK CENTIPETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! Everyone near me was astonished... I was shocked beyond words.. OMG!! It was so huge and big and disgusting and each of its 100 legs was the size of like 4 ants!! So its equivalent to 400 ants all over my body! Not including the main body of the centipete!! OMG!! Can't even imagine how it got onto my stomach!! OMG!!

Anyway, after the terrible incident, we made our way to another area to continue on the exercise.. we travelled (still wet) half an hour to the land of a thousand spiders.. the entire ground was covered with spiders.. many many brown and black spiders.. all scurrying around.. it was so disgusting.. we built up our village there again.. and how nice.. just as we started, it started to pour again.. we were all wet on top of being already wet.. wah-ow!! After a long day, we finally finished our task and could return back to this huge grassland with super tall grass and rested for like 4 hours before we had to leave again.. when I woke up, my face was covered with mosquito bites.. horrible!!!!! And my feet were so wet and itchy and my entire body was itchy and my face was itchy and I was cold and tired and hungry and thirsty.. I din noe how I managed to survive..

And so, we made our way back to the land of a thousand spiders.. surprisingly the ground was not so infested when we got back.. think they all hid under the mud waiting to attack me when I sleep or wad.. anyway it was like 2 in the morning and we were all trying to set up the lights and fans and computers and the tanks and landrovers and tonners were moving in.. wad a scene!! Hahah.. finally by 6am we were done.. caught some sleep (like half an hour).. and when I woke up, I felt something tickling my neck.. I brushed it off and it was a milipede.. HELP!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe my luck lah.. all the insects like decided they all wanted to attack me lah!! Stupid milipede.. so big lah.. OMG OMG OMG OMG!!

And so, the next few days were spent trying to fend off insects, eating practically nothing, catching as much sleep as I can (which is not alot), chatting with Jelvin, and submitting my reports every 3 to 4 hrs a day..

And finally when the exercise ended, I was so happy lah.. I was like muddy from head to toe, my clothes all wet, my face covered in disgusting camo cream, and my boots were half submerged in the super thick and wet mud, and I smelt like rubbish. It was the worst feeling in the world.

And when I came back to camp, I had to clean up all the equipment and my weapon.. but I was happy, cause I could endure all these and not fall out.. I was part of the biggest and most gruelling local outfield exercise that the Brigade had experienced in recent years.. I felt like a Champion.. but not for long.. cause I was too tired already!!

Anyway, back to the learning experience.. I had a lot of bad encounters during the exercise.. and its not just the weather. I have realised a lot of stuff about people in the Brigade. I am extremely disappointed in some people, whom I thot were pretty nice people, but in fact were not at all.. I tried my best to cover duties of the rest and not once was assistance offered to me.. I did so much work and I was still reprimanded for my efficiency.. But did anyone see me wake up once every 2 hours every night to liaise with the other battalions for my report? And I was still awake in the day reminding the rest to submit the reports cause the rest din even want to remember the times they needed to submit the reports.. basically I was just doing everything. Wow.. and all I received was scoldings and more scoldings.. but I dun care anymore.. as Jelvin said, as long as I din disappoint myself, its alright.. I dun care anymore wad the Brigade thinks of me.. its fine if they think I am slack or if I sleep in the office in the afternoon or if they think I disappear all the time.. Why dun they question where I was or wad I was doing.. They dun see me going for all the outfield exercises, they dun see me running errands for like all the rest, they dun see me staying back to complete my work, they dun see me reminding the rest to do this and do that and worrying if they will complete their work and end up doing it for them.. they just shoot me with more tasks to do.. well thanks for all your arrows.. as long as I know that I am doing the right things, I do not care.

The Brigade has taught me something very important, that is I have to be an independant person. Cause no one will help you in times of need or trouble. Its best to rely on yourself and complete the task yourself. And no use comparing why I do so much work while the rest can take MCs and canteen breaks and book out early and watch movies in the office and sleep in the afternoon and surf the internet, cause I noe I will leave the army with a much stronger character that anyone of them and that I will get further in life than the rest of them when I step into the real world outside.

And to that Big Mouth Rubbish Dump that I happen to know of, your mouth is still so big.

2006-05-30T09:46:00.000+08:00

Yoz yoz!! Haven blogged for such a long time!! Hahah... finally took some time out to blog.. so that ppl will continue to come my blog.. Anyway, I am so guilty right now!!!! Its barely the start of the Great Singapore Sale and I have already splurged like more than $300 already!! In 2 shopping trips summore!! Bad bad bad.. yesterday was pretty bad... was feeling so bored in camp and a lot of mishaps happened... so in the end Iapplied for a half day off so that I can go out to shop at night... and in the end I bought 1 pair of berms and 3 t-shirts!! OMG!! Terrible lor.. acutally I only bought 2 shirts, but I saw a very nice nike shirt.. but I forced myself not to buy it.. and walked out of the shopping centre to the bus stop.. but when I reached the bus stop, the more i think abt it the more I think I should get it.. so in the end I detoured and went back to buy... I am like a Shopaholic lah!!

So overall, I have bought, in 4 days, an Mp3 player, a Springfield belt, 3 t-shirts and a pair of berms. Which leaves only a Topman shirt and a pair of Levis yet to be bought... hahah... nv knew buying clothes can be so shiok...

2006-04-23T21:26:00.000+08:00

Gg to book in again soon.. hate that kind of feeling lor... anyway anyway, shall blog down the things that happened during the weekend.. actually din plan to go out during the weekends one.. but in the end still went out.. on Fri, I went over to SAJC for my sis' concert.. her CO's technicality wasn't that good lah.. but it was still quite entertaining.. a lot of pieces that I have heard of.. like the theme song of turn left turn right, Masjuri, Guan huai fang shi and stuff..

On Sat, went for the SYF Display Bands Competition.. hahah.. quite interesting lah!! Haven stepped into the National Stadium for years.. its such a great feeling! And it was so cool to see all the sec band members so excited for the competition.. and all of them doing their drills and formations.. so cool! It so reminded me of the movie Drumline, except not a lot of ppl went for the event.. think cos it was not advertised at all.. in fact I wouldn't have known if Jin Ping din tell me... after that met up with Royston for dinner and shopping in City Hall and Dhoby Ghaut.. Royston kept on perstering me to buy a super ugly red shirt from Bossini lah... it was horribly childish and I din like it the moment I saw it.. but Royston was so wowed by the shirt when I wore it out.. he said it was the best shirt that I have ever worn in my whole life.. but it was so ugly lah.. luckily I din buy in the end.. but I realised I can wear S size from Bossini... so happy!!!! Can't believe it.. I used to wear their XL lah..

Went out with Royston again today.. we received free tickets on the way to Cathay, so made like full use of it to watch a movie for FREEEE!! We watched The Art Of Seduction, which I had wanted to watch a few weeks back.. it was gr-eat!!!!! So funny lor... the female lead is so so so so pretty.. I dun mind if she seduces me.. hahah.. anyway, the show is really good.. so funny and its quite a long show too.. very worth the money!

2006-04-23T20:55:00.000+08:00

No choice.. got forced by Royston to do this thing.. hahah.. so long lah.. took up so much of my time.. anyway, here it is..

All About Me

Rules:
1. Bold the following words that are true about you.
2. GREEN the things you wish were true.
3. Add one thing true about you. And then tag one, two, three, four, FIVE more people.

I miss somebody right now.
I don't watch TV these days.
I own lots of books.
I wear glasses or contact lens.
I love to play video games.
I've tried marijuana.
I've been in a threesome.
I've been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.
I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
I curse sometimes.
I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.
I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.
I'm totally smart.
I've broken someone's bones.
I'm paranoid sometimes.
I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost and scar-free.
I need money right now.
I love sushi.
I talk really, really fast/unclear.
I have long hair.
I have lost money in Las Vegas.
I have at least one sibling.
I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.
I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
I like the way I look.
I am usually pessimistic.
I have a lot of mood swings.
I have a hidden talent.
I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.
I have alot of friends.
I am currently single.
I have pecked someone of the same sex.
I enjoy talking on the phone.
I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
I love to shop.
I enjoy window-shopping.
I would rather shop than eat.
I don't hate anyone; I dislike them.
I'm a pretty good dancer.
I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
I have a cell phone.
I believe in God.
I watch MTV on a daily basis.
I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.
I've rejected someone before.
I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.
I want to have children in the future.
I have changed a diaper before.
I've called the cops on a friend before.
I'm not allergic to anything.
I have a lot to learn.
I have been with someone at least 10 years older or younger.
I am shy around the opposite sex.
I have made a move on a friend's significant past or crush in the past.
I own the South Park movie.
I would die for my best friends.
I think that Pizza Hut has the best pizza.
I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
I love Michael Jackson, scandals and all.
Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.
I watch Spongebob Squarepants and I like it.
I have dated a close friend's ex.
I am happy at this moment!
I'm obsessed with guys.
Democrat.
I am punk rockish.
I am preppy.
I study for tests most of the time.
I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.
I can work on a car.
I love my job.
I am comfortable with who I am now.
I have more than just my ears pierced.
I walk barefoot wherever I can.
I have jumped off a bridge.
I love sea turtles.
I spend ridiculous money on makeup.
I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.
I'm proficient in a musical instrument.
I worked at MacDonald's restaurant.
I hate office jobs.
I love sci-fi movies.
I think water rules.
I went to college out of state.
I like sausages.
I love kisses.
I fall for the wrong people.
I adore bright colours.
I can't live without black eyeliner.
I don't know why the hell I just did this stupid thing.
I usually like covers more than originals.
I can pick up things with my toes.
I can't whistle.
I can move my tongues in waves, much like a snakes slithers.
I have ridden/owned a horse.
I still have every journal I've ever written in.
I can't stick to a diet.
I talk in my sleep.
I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distraction.
Climbing trees is a brilliant past time.
I have jazz in my blood.
I wear a toe ring.
I have a tattoo.
I can't stand at LEAST one person I work with.
I am a caffeine junkie.
I cosplay or know what cosplaying is.
I have been to over 15 conventions.
I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
I'm an artist.
I only clean my room when necessary.
I like a person of the same sex.
I love being happy.
I am an adrenaline junkie.
I have ridden an elephant.
I love chocolates!
I go to school NOT for the sake of lessons.
I feel crazy.
I love tomatoes!!
I like peanut butter on bananas.
Been told "You're on fire!"
I'm a netballer.
I believe in Serendipity.
I think the word "RASPBERRY" is sexaaay!
I love to look at people's teeth.
I don't wanna grow up.
I can cross my eyes n stick out my tongue n still look cute.
Gaining weight is a wonderful thing.
I am a procrastinator.
I love listening to gossip.

One thing about me: I always purchase things that I regret buying later.

Cheng Jong, Chin Keat, Soo Chin, you are tagged. Please do this.. hahah

2006-04-16T19:32:00.000+08:00

Wah.. finally free to blog for a while... hahah.. wad a busy weekend.. so many things to do.. shall put up a short summary here..

Thursday

Had an outcamp run at Marina City Park.. was actually quite daunted by the distance (5.5km), but in the end managed to breeze thru it.. hahah.. the jog was pretty relaxing I must say.. den after that, the few of us went over to Marina Square to have dinner and shop. Watched Bracer play Para Para.. he was like damn good lah.. everyone crowded around him and watch.. after that the few of us played the arcade games.. there was one game in particular that we liked a lot.. some bishi bashi game, only 3 coloured buttons to press.. but still so fun.. hahah..

After that we just roamed around Suntec City and Citylink.. caught CJ there with his frens and his crush.. he still din dare to admit to her.. didn't even show her the pic of him and hc to test her rxn.. so hum!!

Friday

Wah-ow, its Good Friday.. met up with Ziyi after my haircut.. the salon hairdresser din cut so nice this time round.. so sad.. dun have that fantastic haircut that I had the last time round.. anyway, we met up at Orchard, where I went to Far East to get my jeans tailored.. the service was so nice over there!! The lady managed to find the exact same coulour thread as the jeans lah.. superb! And althou I din have exactly $5, she din mind.. so in the end I only paid $4.95!! So hua!!

After that we went over to Taka, cause Ziyi wanted to look at the Levis sale.. but unfortunately the store was closed for renovation.. so sad.. after that we just walked down Orchard all the way to Marina Square where we met up with CJ.. even more window shopping and walking.. den we decided to go to Lau Par Sat for dinner... I had the trademark mutton soup as usual.. delicious!!

After that, we had a long walk back to Esplanade.. den da paoed some snacks and went up to the rooftop for a 'picnic'.. crapped till pretty late before we finally left for home..

Saturday

Woke up super early today to book in back to camp.. cause had to bring a guy back from DB.. after that went for a run and met up with CJ in the afternoon... we went to Expo to look around.. wow Expo is huge!! Ziyi and HC came to join us later and we had dinner at Malan.. pretty good meal!! After that we rushed to VCH to watch the Cat High concert... we couldn't get any seats at all!! All because of Ziyi, who kept on psychoing us to sit in the circle seats and in the end a group of ppl said they were sitting there previously so we had to go to the stall.. and down there, he kept on talking to Derrick and in the end we had no seats at all.. so had to sit on the floor.. so embarrassing lah!! Luckily after like 4 pieces we finally found 3 empty seats.. so heng!!

After the concert, we went to Mac with a few juniors.. crapped till 11 plus before we left for home..

Sunday

Woke up at 2 plus in the afternoon today!! So sad.. half the day was gone lah.. initially quite happy to wake up, cause I thot it was Saturday.. den I realised it was Sunday, and it was 2 lah.. damn sad.. so much time wasted..

Went out with Royston and CK in the afternoon.. had a pretty nice time shopping with them at J8..

Gg to book in soon already.. so sad!! One more long week to go bfore the next weekend again.. hope I can ORD soon!!!!!!!!!!!

2006-04-12T07:53:00.000+08:00

Doing duty today.. so had to wake up early in the morning today!! The day hasn't even started yet and I am already tired... hahah.. anyway, yesterday, when I was on my way out of camp, the camp bus just happened to leave.. and heard from my fren that my chief actually told the bus driver to stop the bus so that I can board.. hahah.. so nice of her.. but I din see the bus stop.. and so I still missed it in the end...

Yesterday was a horribly busy day.. so many things to do.. another guy in my camp got charged.. so it was extra izzy buzy for me.. and today's no different.. a lot a lot a lot of work to do.. hope I can finish all of these by 6pm..

Luckily tmr's the last day of the week!! Hahah.. can't wait for this week to end.. and heard tmr there's an out camp run!! Gg to run in Marina South or something.. yay.. so shiok.. after that still can go to City hall and do some shopping... hahah... but a bit smelly only!!

2006-04-09T00:41:00.000+08:00

Argh... so so so so so tired!! Just reached home lor... been out since like 7 plus in the morning.. cause had to go to NUS for the University Scholars' interview... wah luckily HC told me to wear more formal.. cause it was such a formal interview.. there was this girl who was wearing a power suit with stockings and was carrying a suitcase.. then some other guy was also imaticulately dressed and was like reading the Beijing Financial Times.. wah super chim.. nv even heard of the magazine before... so glad I din choose to wear the jeans.. the guy who wore tee-shirt and jeans looked so out of place lah... hahah...

Anyway, I think my interview was a disaster... I was bombarded with so many questions and I think I answered them really badly due to a lack of sleep.. like for example they ask me wad I like to read.. I said I like to read craft magazines and recipe books.. wow.. how exciting.. and for the rest of the questions, I answered standard answers that they would like to hear but lacking in creativity.. so anyway, I am like almost certain they will reject me.. but at least they liked my essay and I looked good for the interview.. hahah

After that went out with Ziyi... shopped the whole of Suntec before he finally arrived and den went to Marina Square... I was so tired by mid afternoon that I actually fell asleep on the couch outside the cinema!! So scary lor.. ppl walking ard me could see me sleep and I was like lying on head on my own shoulder.. so wierd.. but luckily I din drool.. that would be super disgusting lor...

After sleeping for half an hour, I finally woke up.. den went over to Esplanade, den to the Cathay, den had steamboat buffet with Ziyi... we went to Princep St opp Paradiz Centre.. the service was really good lor.. the lao ban niang was so polite and nice and helpful that we couldn't resist not eating there... it was pretty good actually... buffet with free flow of drinks and satay and seafood for only $12 nett per person.. not too expensive...

After that we went to shop in Orchard.. CJ joined us later.. and he brought his camera.. and we starting taking pictures.. and then when I saw my own photos, I was pretty shocked.. cause I knew I lost a bit of weight, I actually looked quite good in the photos... hahah... a bit thick-skinned I noe.. but quite happy, cause I managed to find some old photos of me when I was in J2 and comparing then and now, I really looked like way younger... I mean WAY younger... I shall post these photos for you all to see.. remember, all these were taken when I was in J2.. only abt 1.5 years back.. the later pictures were taken just now.. just look at the difference..

THEN (2004) (must click on the pictures, den can see big big.. esp the 2nd and 4th pic)

NOW (2006)

Can go and be slimming programme ambassador already right?

2006-03-31T22:27:00.000+08:00

Orh... haven been feeling too good for the past few days... been down with a persistant fever and a super super bad cough... think because I have bad aura around me, resulting in me being so sick... but my chief clerk had been really nice... she actually told me to go home early (really early) and to rest at home.. she even told me to go to the clinic and get an MC if I am still feeling bad (although my unit's rule is that we cannot book out to get MC).. so nice of her lor... even called me in the morning to check out how I am...

Anyway, I was at the clinic and there was a weighing machine and so I weighed myself... OH MY GOSH!! I only weigh 75kgs now!! I actually lost 20kgs from J2 lah!! So scary... hahah... very very surprised.. I am like normal weight now lor... so happy that I din gain weight when I was transfered to 8 SAB, cos everyone was like saying that everyone who goes to the Brigade gains weight, and I lost 7kgs there!! Yayay... hahah.. there are like so many clothes that I can buy now... I couldn't fit into OP and Esprit in the past, now I can wear their size M! And my waist was 38 inches and now I can squeeze (barely, but still able to) into a size 30! Hahah.. I noe I sound pretty air-headed here... but its such a great achievement! Brag a little can rite????

2006-03-20T19:12:00.000+08:00

Oh bitch, shut all your crap! I so can't stand your big words, coming out from your big mouth, on your big head. You get on everyone's nerves. You are monsterous. Everyone hates you.

Rubbish comes out of your mouth.
and
You have Medusa hair.

2006-02-18T02:25:00.000+08:00

Trying out this new software here.. so interesting!! Its called Picasa (freeware) and I think its really cool!! Hahah... so many effects to play with... with the above being an example of the many effects of Picasa... hahah... really very interesting :)

2006-02-11T02:02:00.000+08:00

OMG!! ANTM 6 is gg to start on March 8!! So exciting!! Its supposedly the 'fairy tale' season.. so looking forward to watching probably the best reality show on television nowadays... listening to the Miss Congeniality soundtrack that I mannaged to dig out in some CD shop some time back... hahah... wad a nice show!! Definitely one of the top 10 movies in my list... I am such a sucker for shows with a dramatic makeover.. like this, and PD.. orh.. so exciting!!

Anyway, managed to rush to my sis's school just in time today to find out her O level results... she was quite disappointed.. scored 15 points.. cos she did quite badly for English.. C6... but at least still can qualify for JC... hope her CO teacher is able to help her to appeal to stay in SAJC... if not think she might be gg to MJ or CJ...

This week was so tiring!! Suddenly a lot of NSFs and NSmen got charged... like at least 4 times more than the previous months.. so that got me like really really busy... so looking forward to ORDing and studying again... speaking of that, my sis's senior in SAJC wants to get into Bizad too... and I may be tutoring her in Econs cos she's like trying to help my sis appeal to SA.. if it really works, I dun mind tutoring her for free lah.. provided I still remember... hahah...

Wah.. still 1 more hour to go before the Winter Olympics Opening begins... still remembered that I caught the Greece Olympics Opening back 2 years back.. it was also at such odd hours, think 4am... but I was studying for some NJ test so I could watch it.. so impressive!! So I am really excited abt being able to watch the Toronto Opening... but dunno can stay up till 3am or not... my eyelids are like closing already!!!!!!!!

2006-01-25T22:18:00.000+08:00

Back home again... tmr morning gg to Sentosa... dun really feel like gg.. but no choice.. everyone in the brigade has to go.. hope it wun be as bad as i think!!

This week was a pretty bad week actually.. so many tasks were being pushed to me.. cos no one else wants to do it.. and after all those work, ppl still think I am being slack.. sometimes I really envy other branches, cos they are like way more united than my branch.. but I shouldn't be complaining lah... lotsa ppl are in worse conditions than me..

Well anyway, shall look forward to my New Year, which is like coming really really really really soon!! Yay, so exciting, althou I still have to do duty on coming Friday.. nvm.. wun care abt all the unhappy stuff already.. wad's most important is that I enjoy my New Year, and of course, my 20th birthday (1st Feb) happily!! The rest I will just leave them till after that..

2006-01-25T20:02:00.000+08:00

This.is.super.funny.

2006-01-15T20:48:00.000+08:00

Nv blog for a long time already.. so guess better blog a little so that you ppl will continue visiting my blog.. hahah.. anyway, wad a long week.. had extra duty on Sat.. so only went out to the civilian world today.. but I was sneezing the entire day, cos I slept in a super cold aircon-ed office the night before... spoilt my entire day lor.. now my nose is sore and I am feeling so tired and weak.. how I wish I can just take an MC and not report back to camp tonight.. haiz... sad life of a soldier..

Anyway, I actually caught Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on TV yesterday on some Malaysian channel... I was like super shocked lah.. for those who dunno wad this was, its a home makeover, a wardrobe makeover and a cookshow all combined in one.. all for a lucky guy every episode.. the twist is that the hosts (5 of them) are all gays.. hahah.. cause gays are supposed to be more metrosexual.. so they can impart some of their metroness to a straight guy.. hahah... anyway, I was shocked cos its like banned in Singapore, obviously.. but its actually not banned in Malaysia lah.. hahah.. they are so liberal ppl.. but the show was very healthy lah.. dun see the point why Singapore cannot show.. the guy in yesterday's episode was so lucky lah.. the entire wardrobe changed.. unlike in other makeover shows, where the contestants only get 1 set of costumes.. so lucky!! 1 entire wardrobe full of branded clothes!! And a whole lot of high-tech gadgets, antiques and furniture!! Americans are so rich lah.. can afford to produce such high budget reality shows..

Enuff crapping.. went out today with Ziyi, CJ, Royston, HC, Aloy today.. Ziyi has "eye needle".. bet he must have seen like a lot of nake ppl to get that... its so big he cannot even open his eyes properly.. damn disgusting.. hahah.. anyway, owe ppl like lotsa money, cos there are like tons of January babies.. going to be super super poor already... hahah...

Went for a haircut just now.. wash, cut, blow for 12 bucks only.. wad a steal.. the hairdresser was very nice to talk to too... she was straight to the point, and was so thoughtful lah... pretty impressed..

Okie lah.. enuff crapping already.. gg to rest already.. booking in soon..

2006-01-01T01:28:00.000+08:00

Well well.. finally back homa again.. celebrated the New Year at my uncle's place.. he had a really big private home.. and a lot of ppl in our family were invited.. even my extended family... quite shocked to see one of my younger cousins bringing his girlfren to my uncle's place... hahah.. I am supposed to be the one to bring first lah.. according to the family's heritage line.. but too bad.. still single.. maybe wait till next Christmas or New Year.. perhaps by then I can bring someone there.. hahah!!

Guess 2005 was not a pretty good year for frenship.. regained the frenship of a super close fren, fortunately, and improved on certain frenships, but I also lost contact with some close frens in the past... some may think its a pity, but no use crying over spilt milk right? It takes both parties to keep any form of relationship going, and there's really no point in trying to salvage the relationship if the other party is not making an effort.. this is inevitable in any case and would have happen sooner or later.. guess it would really be better if I just give up now and channel the energy to make new frens.. who knows, I may just forge out even better frens out of this?? Hahah.. everyone should just treat this a as a phrase in life.. lose some frens, make some more frens.. we should never regret our actions.. wad's past can NEVER be salvaged.. just treat this as a lesson learnt and add this to one's life experience..

I am fortunate enough to meet very nice new frens in 2005 as well, and as 2006 arrives, I will hope that these new frenships will blossom, in addition to the rest of my good frens, hope our frenship will be everlasting!!

I am crapping already (meaning: I should go to sleep now) :)

2005-12-31T01:38:00.000+08:00

Hi ppl, I am back!! So tiring lor... summore starting to feel a little sick already.. pretty bad.. the hotel room was really cold!! So ended up sneezing the entire day yesterday.. but anyway, I shall start all the way from the 1st day..

Day 1

Reached Lavender Station at 640am and registered for our bus trip.. the journey was pretty smooth, but it was so long!! I just slept and slept and slept.. cos there was really nothing much to do on the bus.. finally reached KL at 1 plus pm... super long bus ride!! Anyway, we got conned the very min we reached KL.. took this cab that costed us 8 ringgit.. because we couldn't find a cab that would use their meter.. if not the trip would easily cost only half as much.. so we reached the hotel (Corus Hotel) and checked in.. it wasn't as luxurious as I thot it would be, and the room only has 2 beds!! Summore there wasn't cable.. so I only had like 4 or 5 Malaysian channels to watch!! But the good thing was that KLCC was only like opposite the hotel.. so it was really cool.. its like having Suntec City across the street!!

We went to this really huge shopping mall called Mid Valley Shopping Centre after that.. it was so huge it had a North Wing, a South Wing and a Centre Wing.. and the word SALE was plastered onto almost every single shop.. the first shop I stepped in was the Adidas Shop.. I just picked a random item and it was like on 50% discount.. and the best part was that, I can half the price and half it again, cos its in Ringgit!! But in the end I din buy also lah.. so basically we just walked and walked around.. went to this restaurant for dinner... think its called something like Madam Kwan's Restaurant or something.. realised that Malaysians have a wierd habit of naming eateries after surnames.. I've seen other places like Uncle Lim's Coffee House, Chef Choi's Dim Sum and Mr dunno wad massage and stuff..

After that we went back to KLCC.. I have to say that Petronas Tower is super beautiful at night!! So magnificent!! From ground level, the top of the building can't even be seen, cause its covered by fog.. its really super grand, and the shops are super grand too.. like Em(something I can't remember) Zelgo, Burberrys, Prada, Hugo and a lot a lot more luxurious shops...

Day 2

Woke up early in the morning so that we can eat in A&W.. cos there's no more A&W in Singapore already.. we waited for quite some time before we got our food.. and we received a complementary fries too!! Hahah... so happy lor.. we din even complain or do anything.. and it was just sent to us liddat... after that we went over to some shopping district, somewad like Orchard Road.. visited Berjaya Times Square, BB Plaza, Sungei Wang (if I remembered correctly), Lot 10 and more.. just went into shops after shops after shops.. the shops in KL are all about the same, never fail to see SEED, Bum Equipment, Diesel, Dunkin Donuts, Zara, Topshop, Levis, Sweet Secrets, somewad like Singapore..

After that, we want over to China Town.. we got lost, so ended up walking one big round to find it.. really exciting place.. there were so many stalls selling fake imitation goods... but they were mostly too famous already.. so it would seem wierd if I start wearing Prada or LV out, so in the end I din buy much from there too.. althou I was almost tempted to buy an Adidas imitation, its so cheap!! only 20 plus sing.. and it looks just like the real one..

Caught Wallace and Gromit at the movies at night, it was so nice!! Everyone should watch this film!!

Day 3

Last day!! Went to Great Eastern Mall and Ampang Point to shop.. but these 2 malls were really just neighbourhood malls. so we din stay for long.. went to KL tower after that and spent 10 Sing to go up the tower.. the view was reallu splendid.. we also had a pair of headphones each that gave us audio commentary as we walked around.. very cool!! We dan checked out of the hotel and shopped more in KLCC...

The bus ride home was really the coolest in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Must read this..

The coach is very very very spacious.. and all the chairs are MASSAGE CHAIRS with remote controlled leg raise!!!! And each of us has a personal LCD monitor to watch wadever we want!! And its not like fixed behind the chair like in airplanes, its protruding from the arm rests!! And it can be adjusted to any viewing angle!! There were quite a lot of channels with a lot a lot of movies!! And there was actually a coach stewardess on the coach!!!! So cool!! And we were served dinner, together with the adjustable dinner tray like in airplanes!! The dinner was pretty nice too, mixed veg rice with 3 dishes.. and the stewardess would even ask if we need blankets and stuff.. its like the most most most most luxurious coach I have ever sat in.. the trip back was really super cool!! The stewardess would also tell us when we were going to arrive at the checkpoints and thank us for travelling with them.. just like airlines... and the best part was it only costed us like 20 Sing for the journey back!!!!

Okie, its really late.. going to sleep now.. notice the posts gets shorter and shorter.. cause no choice.. really too tired.. if I have the time, I will lengthen this post.. hahah... really gg to sleep now!!

2005-12-25T23:29:00.000+08:00

Merry Christmas everybody!! But a bit too late lah cos its like half an hour to end of Christmas.. went out till pretty late for the past 2 days.. reached home like at 2 plus am for both days.. so shagged!! Hahah.. basically just went out and shop and eat and crap and watch performances lor.. pretty fun lah... heard CJ is sick.. hope he recovers soon!!

And thanks to everyone who gave me christmas cards.. loved it!! And thanks to all those who sent me smses.. loved em toO!

2005-12-18T20:22:00.000+08:00

I must express my gratefulness to Chin Keat over here. Thank you so much Chin Keat from RJC, for coming down all the way from Marina Square to PS so as to pass me the DVD... its really nice of you even thou I totally forgot that you were gg to meet me.. hahah... and I am so happy Nicole won!! I was seriously not expecting her to win lah.. but she looks really pretty and her shots were GORGEOUS!! Yay yay yay!!

2005-12-17T00:14:00.000+08:00

Wah so tired!! Finally got some free time to rest in front of the com...

Went out early in the morning for my medical appointment today... summore had a pretty bad tummyache.. think its because of the super alcoholic drinks that I had at Pre-Rouge the night before with HC and ppl.. stomach burning the entire night.. but it was fun lah.. anyway after that had to rush to SIR building cause I will be going overseas!!! Hahah... so excited lor... going to KL for 3 days after Christmas with Jelvin and Mingfeng, our Cat High NJ clique.. althou its only KL, but its going to be my first official trip overseas with frens only... hahah.. super excited lor.. also dunno why I agreed to go.. we just thot of gg Malaysia one day, and we booked the hotel room and bus tickets 2 days later.. hahah...

Digressed already.. after renewing my passport, I went to meet Jelvin and Mingfeng in Bugis.. wah.. they were so nicely dressed lor... unlike me, who was like super undressed due to the fact that I had to wake up at unearthly hours.. but we still had loads of fun lah.. went shopping and shopping all around town until I getting blisters already... after that Royston met up with us and then I went to meet CJ.. feel quite bad, cause I nv watch King Kong with CJ... but its okie, cause CJ is gg to watch that with his crush soon!! Hahah... saw his crush today.. good catch!!

Today was really quite fruitful.. except for the fact that the Adidas shoes on offer din have my size!! So angry!! And I found my highly desired jeans that I just bought was selling at $9 cheaper 1 week after I bought it lah!! Damn pissed... but I tried on the jeans again, and Mingfeng said I wore the jeans better than Jelvin, cause I've got the butt to fill in the pants, but Jelvin din.. hahah... that pair of jeans is really nice.. so glad I've bought it!! And CJ got to hear my singing!! Hahah, was singing Fish Leong's songs everywhere at night, in her octave summore.. I can actually sing at very high pitch lor.. hahah... CJ was totally disgusted...

2005-12-04T01:13:00.000+08:00

So excited!! I am going out to Shufen this coming Wednesday!! Haven seen her for some time already.. althou we keep in regular contact on the phone... hahah... can finally show her my super cool pants!!

Anyway, found out an evil secret about a fren of mine... yi jiao ta liang chuan!! So exciting got love triangle.. people really change when they have steads!!

2005-12-03T23:54:00.000+08:00

Wah.. very long never blog already... must try to blog more, if not will lose the habit again..

Yesterday at the very last minute I found out that I had to take the 8pm to 8am shift at Pasir Laba Camp for some exercise.. was quite sad actually, cos I already made plans for the day... but in the end it wasn't that bad lah...

Went to Jurong Point for dinner before going to PLC. Hahah.. very interesting experience.. cos I called Rachel before gg, thinking she might be in JP cos she stays in Jurong.. and she really was going there.. so had dinner with her and her mother... so interesting right??

Anyway after that, met up with Jelvinand some frens and made our way over to PLC.. was quite shocked when I saw the place I was stationed at.. it was like a hospital, complete with a hospital smell.. and there were a lot of partitions and officers everywhere... almost like a chalet lor... and its super duper cold!! I was practically freezing lah!!

Reached home at 0820 today.. so tired lor.. had a really filling breakfast at home and then slept all the way till 12 noon... den went out to meet Ziyi in Orchard.. actually he was supposed to come to my house one.. cos I was to book in tonight.. but in the end, I could book in on Sunday morning, so I decided I should go out and have some fun.. went to Orchard first cause I wanted to try on the pair of jeans that I wanted to get... but its 75 dollars leh.. very ex!! And Ziyi says its a bit tight around the groin region.. "offers no room for expansion{" was wad he said... hahah... but its really nice leh... still thinking whether should get or not...

Later on went to Esplanade... watched some really wierd performance... there was this indian girl that was dancing and reading poetry at the same time.. and she was dancing a combination of flamenco and indian dance... really wierd.. den she gave me an imaginary baby whilst dancing... and everyone was looking at me lah... den I had to pretend to carry the baby whilst she recited her poetry about the baby.. really wierd...

After that just went to Marina Square to shop and Raffles City for dinner...

Anyway, Really happy today... caused I have come to realise that things have never changed, and life has always been the same for me!! Yay!!

2005-11-06T01:14:00.000+08:00

So tired now... went out for the entire day today with Tzyy Yih and Cheng Jong... actually decided to meet in Beach Road one... budden in the end Tzyy Yih could get all my stuff from the Bedok army shop, so met up in Orchard instead.. every one was late, but not as late as me... I was 1 hour late... hahah... walked around in Orchard first, den went to Cine, and den we just walked all the way to City Hall instead.. along the way took some pretty nice photos.. so decided to make this a photo entry instead...

This one was when we were on the way to City hall.. think its somewhere near the museum... the weather was pretty alright.. so it was quite a good walk...

Here, outside Raffles City, we decided to instead walk on the road outside over to Esplanade, cos the weather was really not too bad... and City Link would probably be congested.. along the way got approached by some ah pek and his family who needed directions to Millenia.. so since we were gg to Esplanade library, we just brought them somewhere near their destination... at first wanted to go to the library to book a room to watch some movies.. budden Ziyi and CJ complained that there were only oldies so in the end decided to watch Sky High (again) in Marina Square...

Managed to get the tickets for the 7pm show and we just spent the rest of the time shopping...

We went to TS cos CJ lurves shops that sells CDs, VCDs, DVDs or any other Ds... think he wanted to buy Star Wars 3 on DVD.. but too bad for him, its only coming in to Singapore on Nov 17.. so guess he has to wait for about 2 more weeks...

Guess we were really bored.. cause I only remembered taking the escalator so many times cos we din really have anywhere to go...

We just walked everywhere that could be walked... like shops under renovation...

... Fast food outlets to be opened soon...

... Walls and pillars...

... and even potted plants...

I even pretended to be a security guard!!

We walked around Marina Square for so long we were so exhausted we had to lean on the glass railings...

where we realised that there was actually a gap between the floor and the glass... so dangerous!! Anyone could easily get their feet lodged inside if they tried to dig around the glass!! We were so tired that we went over to the food court, which was the only place we could think of where we could find seats to sit on and I managed to get some fruits to makan..

following that, we got to Giant and bought all the food we wanted before making our way to the cinema.. as usual, Sky High was great.. really enjoyed the show, althou it was the second time I was watching the show... its really good lor... Ziyi and CJ thot the show was great too.. except they said the effects weren't that good... but at least they both agreed that the show was really very good for a low budget movie.... after the movie, we headed back to the food court for dinner.. had delicious cha shao shao rou fan althou there arn't any pics to show... den after dinner, we made our way to Esplanade for the outdoor concert..

Finally the outdoor theatre was showing something good... the performing item was some mexican singing cum instrumental band... really very nice... the lead sang really well.. and there were like a handful of mexican babes and line dancing ah mas dancing to the tune... everyone was so involved in the music, all clapping and cheering for the band.. hahah... really quite interesting show...

And finally finally it was time to go home... managed to catch the last bus back just in time to watch the later half of Kang Xi Lai Le... hahah... interesting show... and caught like the last 5 mins of Dark Water... scared the hell out of me... althou I din really see anything much... still pretty spooked now... hahah :)!!

2005-11-05T12:07:00.000+08:00

Wah... so many happening events, yet no time to blog down.. so have to rewind all the way to the beginning...

Wednesday, 2 Nov

Oh... slept all the way to like 2pm today.... think I was real sleepy.. or just super lazy lah... hahah.. anyway, I agreed to go out to watch a movie with Chin Keat much to his delight, cos he kept on perstering me while I was sleeping... hahah... anyway, so I really had to rush out of my house in order to catch the movie (Sky High) at 4.10pm.. but not before making a call to Ipod service centre, cos my sis couldn't switch on her Ipod.. wah... the accent on the operator was super strong lor.. couldn't make out wad he was saying at all... think he is Vietnamese or something... at first still thot he was just a computer generated voice... hahah... anyway, he was super polite and I got my Ipod fixed with his instructions over the phone.. den he said my warranty only covers 1 call.. so next time if I want to call again, I would have to pay 50 over bucks.. wah!! Cheat money one!!

Anyway, after that went over to PS to meet Shihan, Zhien, CK and Yimin.. and I have to say, SKY HIGH WAS GREAT!! Really very funny lor... very pretty female leads...but male leads just so so lah... hahah... but it was really good... think it could very well be the best movie I have watched this year!! Considering I watched shows like Charlie and the Choc Factory, Bewitched, House of Wax, and of course Bernie...

After that had dinner over at BK.. wow the new English bacon and chicken (or somethin liddat) sandwich was really not bad! Anyway, shihan looked pretty moody... but he din really wan to say why he was so sad.. so betta not ask.. not nice to keep insisting to know lah.. but hope he isn't feeling too negative now lah..

And then whilst we were leaving, we decided to take really wacky photos... hahah.. so funny lor... wasted so much time over at the MRT station taking really stupid shots...

Following that (woah.. I am really good with conjunctions!!) went over to J8 to meet Royston and Weibin... hahah just sorta walked around.. can't really remember wad we did already.. but quite fun lah... oh.. I remember already! Weibin and I were talking about our 'special' encounters in the army.. and we concluded that Royston wants to encounter such stuff too... cos he sounded so envious!! Hahah.. anyway, Weibin passed me wad Shufen bought for me... OH MY GOD!!!! Can't believe wad she got for me lor... I such a hum person... and still gimme Resident Evil for wad???????

Friday, 4 Nov

Went to court today again... for another case of mine.. hahah... sounds so professional rite?? Anyway, he was found guilty and fined $800... he was like so relieved lah... think he was already mentally prepared to go to prison... so when court hearing was finished, he was like thanking everone profusely lah... hahah... hope he better not commit the same offence again!!

After that, went back to camp and did some admin work before gg off.. oh yah.. my S1 was really nice.. drove me and an escort over to Court Martial Centre in the morning.. really kind of him... and he seems like a really funny person too.. think S1 branch is not as bad as I had originally perceived it to be...

After that went to meet Royston... bought Yanzi's CD, Fish's CD and a Bossa Nova album... really cool! Den went to Chinatown Point for lunch and den to Orchard to shop.. so tiring!! Shopped from Dhoby Ghaut to Orchard and back to Dhoby Ghaut again... after that went over to Marina Square for dinner at Changing Appetites.. have to say that this place was great!! The ambience was good, the seats were super comfy and the food was superb!! Wah... din regret eating there at all lor.... after eating met up with Weibin and the 3 of us went over to Eskibar for a drink.. well 6 to be exact.. we ordered 3 but there was a 1 for 1 offer so we got 6 instead.. hahah... it was a pretty cool place... literally... it was FREEZING!! At first we were in the main area.. so it wasn't that cold, and when we were leaving, we found this place that had temperature below 0 degrees!! Damn cold lor... hahah... we took so many photos along the way back too... pretty fun outing!!

Reached home, managed to watch Da Chang Jin on SCV... so exciting.. den caught this horror flick called Infestation on AXN... hahah... so funny... pretty old film so the effects were really lousy.. its about some mutant flies and so the leads were pretty much running away from these killer houseflies that will turn them into zombies... hahah... so funny lor.. anyway the female lead was actually Amy Jo Johnson.. in case no one knows, she was the original pink ranger!!

2005-11-01T23:47:00.000+08:00

Wah lau just now got harrassed by 2 female agents at Cineleisure!! Was out with CJ for the entire day, den actually wanted to go over to Cine to see if there are any movies to catch, den in the end made the wrong decision to go down to B1 and got asked by 2 ppl to do come simple 'survey' and in the end got tricked to listen to some sagvings plan thingy.. and one of the girls was actually tugging her sleeve so as to pull down her collar to reveal her shoulder lor... damn disgusting lah.. trying to make use of her 'mei se' to seduce us to sign up for their plan lah.. summore not pretty one.. wasted so much of our time.. CJ still said that she kept on trying to lean forward so as to reveal her assets or something lah... super disgusting!!

2005-10-30T00:49:00.000+08:00

Hey ppl, listen up!! If you all go over to Cineleisure, please please please do not watch this french art flick called "BERNIE"... total waste of money and it SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS!!!!!

Just now went over to Cine with Zhien cos he so wanted to watch a movie.. but really got nothing interesting to watch... so we just somehow came to a decision to watch some foreign flick and since BERNIE was at the earliest time slot, we decided to watch it lor... and we were so so so so wrong!! It was really gore and violent and R(A) ed and dumb and sickening... the only thing that was good was the length of the show.. luckily only 1.5 hours.. last time the Gangs of New York was like 2 plus hours lor... terrible ordeal lor... hahah... anyway back to the show... the story line was super boliao lor... it was about this guy who grew up in an orphanage and when he finally became an adult, he left the orphanage in search of his birth parents.. and along the way he like killed tons of ppl and stuff... he always thot that his parents were kidnapped and he was thrown into a rubbish dump.. but in true fact, their parents were separated and they were the ones that dumped him.. and he never did find out the fact..

The lead's dad was super crazy lor.. went to the ex-wife's place and killed everyone and raped a dead girl, den tried to rape the ex-wife and hit her with beer bottles and an iron and stuffed her head into a microwave oven and tried to turn off the oven.. and his wife chopped off his right hand and stabbed his back with a meat cleaver lor... in the end both died...

Den some drug sniffing girl dunno got horny or wad den just had sex with the male lead... super stupid lor... the scene was so explicit!! Super uncensored and explicit!!

All these with a PG RATING!!!!!!!!!!!!! How can????????????????????????? If I knew the storyline was liddat, I wouldn't have bought the tiks lor... wasted my 10 dollars!!!! And the ending was so abrupt lor... and the funniest part was, when the lights were on, I looked at the surroundings, all the ppl inside were french!! Hahah... never been to a place where Europeans outnumbered asians in Singapore lor.. and they were all as bewildered as us lor... hahah... all looked so stunned lor... hahah...

2005-10-28T22:41:00.000+08:00

Just came home from camp... as the new R and D clerk from HQ 8 SAB S1 branch... hahah... and R and D is not research and development.. its regimentation and discipline... hahah... super stressed lor... got so much things to learn... tons and tons of stuff to do.. too bad lah.. got chosen by the chief clerk out of the 2 possible branches I can go to.. guess maybe I look more intelligent and hardworking ba... hahah...

Anyway, this job is pretty fun lah... can go attend court hearings and make house visits and prepare legal documents and liaise with lawyers and stuff... but its really super busy... got to do so many things in such short time... and the branch is full of super intelligent ppl lor... there's a PSC scholar who just came back after getting his degree.. another degree holder, 2 ppl with 4 straight As, another one with 3 As and stuff.. I am like the stupidest person there lor... hahah...

Today attended this court hearing... pretty interesting... cos nv heard a court hearing in my life before... but guess since this is a military court, the process was really fast and emotionless... not like those you see on tv or heard in the news.. no one cried or made a fuss or anything... but the good thing is can take taxi there and back.. and can claim reimbursements too... hahah...

Later on went to SAFTI MI library with my upper study to get some articles for the safety message, I had to make some registration with my ezylink so that I can borrow books from there.. den I told the librarian that I was NSF, she exclaimed super loudly, "Har, ni shi NSF ah?".. please lah.. I look like regular meh... so pissed off... but on the bright side, when I stepped out of the taxi to exchange my 11B for a pass, the RP actually called me SIR... so at least I look like Officer, not a sergeant, unless they think I am a Warrant lah.. den that would really be super sad.........

After book out, went to J8 to shop around with the usual Cat High ppl... den saw Body Shop selling fragrances for a pretty low price.. so decided to go get one with Weibin.. totally humiliated myself lor... I was smelling one of the perfumes and I whispered that it smelt a bit like 'da bian'... den the salesgirl overheard and she exclaimed "Smelt like da bian!!" so loudly lor... den I just replied "No lah.. think it came from my hand"... so double humiliation... pretty crap of me... hahah... and me and weibin was naming the perfumes ourselves, calling them names like mint, vanilla, medicated herbs, chocolate, passionfruit, lemon and stuff.. and the salesgirl managed to remember all the nicknames lor.. so in the end when we said we were getting passion fruit and mint, she could correctly pick out wad we wanted... pretty impressive lor.. but she made a rather bad comment too.. when Weibin said I could mix 2 of the perfumes to get a resulting sexy smell (as stated in some pamphlet), she actually said, "ta hui xu yao sexy meh?" or something liddat.. I cannot smell sexy ah... hrrrrrmph!!

2005-10-22T10:03:00.000+08:00

Just heard from my encik that I will be transferred from 40 SAR to HQ 8 SAB... dunno whether it will be good or not.. gonna miss all my frens from Archer Coy.. and dunno whether I will still have my block leave or not... hahah...

But anyway, I will be gg to collect my free Sony PSP now!! So exciting.. hahah... can't wait to start playing.. den later gg over to Royston's place to watch ANTM... hahah... yay hope today will be a fun day...

2005-10-16T17:45:00.001+08:00

Everybody can just shut up

2005-10-10T00:18:00.000+08:00

Hahah... finally have some time to blog... just now went out with Royston and Weibin.. ate a lot a lot of ice cream... until so full lor... after that went over to Royston's place and watched Charmed and America's Next Top Model.. all the way till 945pm lor... spent the entire day at his place... came home and continued to watch again... hahah... its such an exciting show lor... it brought me thru my A levels lor... still remember studying by the tv while watching the second season, rooting for Yoanna, den gg to school and having a major discussion on who should win... now already season 4 on tv already... so fast.. hahah... Kahlen is so so so so so so PRETTY!! But too bad she din win... orhhhhhhhh... Brittany is very pretty too... think season 4 is like the best season ever.... the contestants in season 5 is like totally uncomparable to those in season 4 lah!!

Anyway, I was like thinking, since I have quite a bit of time in the army, I may just start to make some handcrafted cards inside and put them on sale.. so if anyone wants some really exquisite and unique cards, I can make em for you! But think it may cost quite a bit... but no worries, got quality one okie!!!

Oh yah.. and based on a popular survey, I am considering a self imposed ban on any kind of pants except jeans.. cos Chin Keat and Jelvin and like so many other ppl says that I look like I am in my 40s when I wear any kinds of bottoms that is shorter than full length.. and that includes berms, shorts, 3 quarters etc.. at least I only look late 20s when I wear jeans.. poor me

2005-10-08T02:26:00.000+08:00

Very long never blog already... cos my internet connection got cancelled for think like 1 week due to a change in internet providers... but now finally alright already!! I have internet connection on both my coms... yay... so can finally do late night surfing on the other com whilst my sis can sleep in the room without disturbance...

Haiz... quite sad for all the things that has happened for the past few weeks... esp Royston... you must not give up hope okie? Dunno whether you will come to my blog and read or not... but hope you will be more optimistic about ur situation right now... I am sure you will be able to survive this calamity and emerge as a stronger person... its a very tough period for u rite now but all ur frens will definitely help you thru this... if you need anything, dun hesitate to approach me okie?? I will try my best to help you in any way...

Really nothin to do online now except to read the Da Chang Jin forum... anyway, to Mich, you must watch Da Chang Jin okie? I noe you've got same taste in shows as me and I am DAMN SURE you will lurve this one... no watch sure regret!!! And go rendezvouz with Zhi En never tell me... so evil of you ah... go underground relationship issit??

2005-09-25T17:51:00.000+08:00

YES!!! I changed my blog layout again!!! Its so ugly now... I love it!! Browsed thru 1000 over blog layouts in blogskins.com to finally find this one on the last page... Hahah... wasted like an hour on this lor...

2005-09-24T22:58:00.000+08:00

This is my new blog!! Think I better start to blog again... so that ppl will noe abt wad I am doing currently... hahah...

Had a close shave just now... cos when I was celebrating my dad's birthday with my family just now, PS Tse called to ask me to do guard duty for tmr... really spoilt the whole atmosphere... so sad!! Den I had to excuse myself to go make like tons of phone calls to so many ppl so that I can find a replacement for me for tmr so that I can celebrate my dad's birthday proper... ended up the celebration dinner was like so moodless lor... but the food really not bad lah... quite tasty!!

Recently a lot of ppl around me are pretty upset har... all have their own problems and troubles... Me included... but wad's the point of worrying about all the consequences?? For me, I am already pass the stage of worrying about the impression I give to others.. as long as I feel wad I do is correct, I will go ahead and execute it.. and hopefully, in the future, people around me would see me in my situation and understand why I had to act in such a way previously...

So everybody, cheer up k!! Let me give everyone a cheer!! We've got the red (Clap, Clap) , We've got the white (Clap, Clap), We've got the stripe (Clap, Clap), We've got the lion on our side!! Hurray!!