Quote of the week

Ben: "I can't imagine if one day all of you guys died and I am the only one that outlived you guys. Life would be boring."
Bala: "What are you talking about? We'll all die together.... In a violent car crash!"


I'm still freaked out by work, and some problems. But this week was a vast improvement from the last 2 weeks.. which is definitely a good thing. Thank you all for all the support provided.

TLB

TLB stands for Tua Long Bao.. big brother of the xiao long baos! 

Xiao Long Baos

And a Ta Long Bao.. they actually give u straw to drink the soup inside. Other than being big, nothing to boast about. And it sucks totally.

The Ta Long bao compared to Yik's rubic's cube and my hand.

And this week is quite a terrible week, maybe its just the same old habit of thinking too much. Been wondering how silly some people can get by falling into the same trap over and over again, willingly, despite obvious signs that the other party is just screwing around and playing games.

But I guess not all things have an answer to them. Not immediately anyway. And when one is feeling down, probably nothing will seem to be right for them, the whole world seems to be against them, things just don't seem to go that smoothly.

I need to climb out of this shithole.. fast.

RIP

Back in 1995/1996, when I was still 'schooling' in Kim Keat Education Centre, I made a friend who would eventually follow me till 1999 in the same class. So, for 5 years, I had this friend, whom I still remember till today.

Fast forward 15 years.

On a Sunday evening, I posted in my blog that I was feeling down, so I went out, got a booze and tried to calm myself down. I've left out a part, simply because it didn't hit me that it was real. Maybe I was too tired to process anything back then, but when I was walking back home, I met 3 friends - Jun Wei, Yiling and Gary.

Then Gary told me, a primary school friend of ours has passed away. I didn't think anything, in fact when I woke up I was still wondering, what the fuck just happened? I'm pretty sure I did stupid things once again, and I even questioned myself, did the meeting even happen?

Then on Monday, Zhong Hao, a common friend between the friend that has passed away (also called Gary) and me, asked if I knew, I said I knew and then I realized it was true. Today, I came back, chanced upon his facebook and it struck me - it was true, he was gone, for good.

I had good memories of him - Him liking some girl in the class, scolding me when I scored an own goal against him, the silly stuff we did in class, like making solutions consisting of water, chalk powder, chalk, pencil sharpener and ants. The day he got caned in class was still etched in my mind. And I never did get a chance to apologize to him for getting him into such a mess.

I'm sorry. Rest In Peace, Gary.

The world against me

I didn't end my year with a good note. And I didn't start it off with a good note either. 2009 was not a very bad year, but not exactly a very good year too. Then came 2010, just 10 days into it I don't think it's gonna be any much better either. Sure, shit happens and stunts are pulled, but I feel that more crap is going to happen. At least I didn't end my year in 2008 collecting shit and start 2009 receiving stunts!

It's back to reality after so many days in the civilian world. Frankly speaking I didn't get to rest the entire time, still got some work to do every now and then.. thankfully they don't interrupt my daily routine; but waking up at 10am to 3 miss calls and 2 sms-es seriously sucks.

And on the 3rd of January, 2010, I dragged myself back to camp. And that week seem to take forever to pass by.

Whoever is above plays with me in camp. Whoever is about plays with me out of camp too! The week just seem to worsen with every minute.

Then came Wednesday, nights out was postponed.

Then came Friday, which took forever to reach 5pm.

Then came the book out.

Saturday afternoon was bodyworlds with a group of friends. It didn't turn out too badly. But not exactly well either. Amazingly we spent close to the whole noon in Science Center, trust me to think that we could settle the Science Center in 1hour (just like the last visit ages ago). Then again bodyworlds itself was already pretty amazing in my opinion, considering the displays were once alive and kicking, just like me. The giraffe, horse and reindeer was pretty much the attraction. I mean like, you only get to see these animals in the zoo, how often do you visit them? What's more we are talking about the body structures of the aforementioned animals now!

AFIAK, it ends 2 months later.

Saturday night was relatively alright, bar a few crappy moments which affect my mood somehow. The Korean BBQ was good, and Lian Hui chose to poison himself with SNSD over at that place too.

Midnight was RUBBISH. Somehow the events snowballed itself to an avalanche and decided to hit me just like that. Been a long while since I had such a night. I am still not over it, judging by my mood. And I really don't know what do. I need a long term solution to it, not some short term solution to try to mend the gap.

Even in terms of sports on a Sunday morning, it's not exactly all rosy either. And it is supposedly less stressful relatively speaking. It's not an everyday (or rather, every week thing) that you get to hit a decent volley, not for me anyway. Thus it is just crappy that the 1 of the volley just decided to hit the bottom left corner of the bar and second volley (which was the last one) decided to swerve, hit the top right corner of the bar and crashing out of play. For comparison: some guy shot, hit left pole, hit right pole, hit goalkeeper and went in. Probably I was the unluckiest dude out there. I got hit on the face and flew too! 3 hours, 2 volleys and 1 very unlucky dude.

And now I have a terrible backache.

Many thanks to the people who showed me care and concern. Appreciate it. If there's anything I've learned throughout these years, it'd probably be 2 things.

1. If you ever need a solution, find it quick.
2. Let go if need be. It's not easy to try and let go of issues close to half a decade, even when you choose to decide to.


God 1
Dr A 0


BUT..


I'll be back (hopefully)

First post of 2010

Compared to the past 2 years (2008 & 2009), there is a general observation that each year, our budget allocated for New Year is decreasing, and it gets more and more uncle-ish for some reason!!

Maybe we are just getting old.

Since the new year is here, let's have a new year resolution. Need to try to follow this.

1. Need to draft up a budget allocation table everytime I get my allowance
2. Save at least 50 bucks a month (so that at least i hit $500 after I ORD)
3. Cut down on the junk food
4. Do not overspend
5. IPPT gold (gosh this was soooooooooooo last year but I need the $, and I didn't get gold last year too!)
6. ORD.. in one piece (I got a really really bad feeling about this)
7. Get CPL ASAP.. the cash will be handy
8. Get rid of the spare tyre

So many cash related issues.. hmmm. Guess I'm going through a financial crisis of some sort now.

Thanks to ahhui, I got to taste the Tokyo banana (albeit expired ones but ahhui assured its alright).

Would like to take this chance to thank all the fellas who made 2009 a decent year despite all the unhappy events.

The next event to look forward to: Chinese New Year!! (I'm pretty sure I'll spend the valentine's day this year alone, or which a bunch of guys like last year. Miracles don't always happen ya?)

Senotsa and prawning

Sentosa with my cousins. According to Peiting it was meant to 'foster bonding between cousins. and spend the $170 budget', I'm pretty sure we manage to meet both agenda, especially the latter! Photos from Hui Ni and her boyfriend.

Vivocity. Another random shot by Hui Ni

At Giant.

For the love of god, it is possible to go in by ez link already!

In the monorail

In Pawalan

Slackers.. Spot the camwhore!

Feels like a scene from a drama, where by the lady in pink probably is traveling half the globe (via boat and thus the sea). The little girl and the guy in white is probably her husband and kid, telling her to take care and call back often. End of twisted story.

No idea why, but I laughed at this photo, for some reason.

Frisbee, which was pretty disastrous for some due to height!

Water ballet. Having fun. Male chauvinism. Attempting murder. Up to your own imagination.

Dolphins?

And they actually found this..

                         

I thought I saw this moving, and I thought I was too tired and started hallucinating. On closer observation, there was really something living inside. Probably a hermit crab and they returned it to the sea.

                  

Jump shot.

                  

AND

                                                    

They left all their stuff with umbrellas, but not me!!

Caught Sherlock Holmes with them. Good, but at some parts, slightly boring.

 

Went prawning with Pote, Binny and Heebe. 4 men, 3 hours, 55 prawns, countless wtf faces when they saw our prawns. All in our stomach by 5am. We actually caught 57, but 1 dropped and the other was freed as it was too small.

 

Heebe and me, and our catch.

BBQed prawns. Bloody sinful yet shiok to eat at 4am in the morning. But we got pretty sick of them at the last 10 prawns or so. But we still finished it anyway.

 

The end!

Lost the feeling to blog

I'm losing the feel to blog. I think it's just my life, which has gotten even more boring these days

Washed up whale failed!

Fail!

A super long weekend

My long weekend sort of started last tuesday.

Maybe its just me but I think that trains and buses are getting more and more crowded.. to such an extent that it can actually piss me off while travelling.

I seriously need more entertainment in my life.

My 500th post

This week was more or less a meaningful week, compared to the previous few lousy (and crappy) weeks. Like what Stan and Kyle would say, "You know guys, I've learned something today.. [insert morals or random crap stuff]" I really learned something.. the power of brains, and the power of teamwork performing on the same stage.

It started of with retarded taskings, ie to say, pointless stuff to do. The washing of more vehicles and getting my (and possibly ang kong's) jade hands dirty. While we were complaning how long this would take because the bloody water point was so far away, the power of brains came in. Called for the keys (boy boy), opened up the nearest room through the most unconventional method because the keys were not found, somehow affix a short hose through the new found water supply, before trying to connect a long hose to the aforementioned short hose unsuccessfully (me), and we were stuck to using a small hose to fill up the cans for washing.. before poteh came along with the idea of using a cloth tape (poteh) and we found another longer hose (dragon). We then managed to fit the new hose to the old one and secured it with more cloth tape (dustbin).

So within an hour, we were done washing. The power of many brains.. and crap ideas and mac french fries.

The very next day, under CAT1 conditions, we kept the stuff we washed. Then it started pouring, but Heebe, PK Tan, Dustbin, Poteh and I never did gave up and completed the keeping. Credits to PK Tan (which Dustbin called him lup sup because he got his whole shirt wet and dirty) and later, our PK done threw a string.. over at dustbin's neck. Before that was more madness. Heebe and I were doing strength training, because we threw away unwanted stuff and our brains allowed us to throw impossible amounts of rubbish into limited spaces.

Met JS afterwards, at Billy Bombers at Clarke Quay. The Obama burger was.. probably not as well as I've expected. Sad, but still a good experience. Barely got my pay and now I'm going broke to replace all the stuff that needs replacing. Why do stuff spoil at the same time?!