Too lazy to think of a title

Meh

2010-10-08T13:23:00.001+08:00

This blog is really kind of dead, thought about deleting it but the memories I have here.. hmmmm.

Anyway things have been pretty much the same, I'm still in 46 (a month more yooooooo). And according to our Fat Pang (who bought himself a gold chain and wears a rose-gold ring and practically ate everything available in Keisaki, our most recent buffet outing as a bunk, bar the beef) recently claims that I have, well, improved as a person!

Really?

Well he claims that these days, I've been helping him quite a fair bit (although it is always a 'first time') but in the end he claim's its an improvement and that I have 'downgraded' from a 'big fucker' to a 'small fucker'. Meh.

Sometimes I think back and realize I've been more mild these days. No more sarcasms from me (especially when I have received a certain text that I wasn't expecting) when I dislike something, no more quarrels from me. When's the last time when I actually yelled 'FUCK YOU' over the phone angrily? Meh.

I'm at junctions and I can't decide what to do!! Divine interventions please?

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2010-08-07T23:36:00.001+08:00

I am very much confused

Lesson learnt this week

2010-07-11T22:56:00.000+08:00

1) I don't really understand my parents. But I appreciate what they do although I disagree with their actions sometimes.

2) If I am stuck in any environment which spawns 39023894893298472 zombies, the last people I would wanna be stuck with will be any 3 out of the following (arranged in no particular order)

- Parthi: Who accuses me of shooting at him when he ran into my line of fire!! (although I did intentionally kill him once and shot him by accident like twice). Also throws a Molotov to save Bala and tried running across the fire.

- Bala: Fell from a cliff and could not get up. Jumps onto vehicle and alert hordes 837942137 times. Also charged forward and shoots back when told to guard back....

- Alvin: Solo kia!!

- Ze An: Actually I can't think of anything bad about him. Also risked his life (according to him) to get me a health pack (but he was the bugger that told me to take a defibrillator instead). Opted to drive off in the vehicle, leaving us on the floor (we had revenge when we left him on the floor when we took a boat). Claims I should make him my best friend but still, nah.

- Garr: Idk learn how to shoot straight mate. Has a hot sister though. Pity she's going back Aussie.

- Myself: The greatest enemy.. is yourself!

I think we are retards. Seriously.

Facts of the day...

2010-06-27T19:45:00.000+08:00

According to Zhi Wei (who is about to turn bald in a month or so), Ze An has two penis. One is a 'fucking penis' and the other is a 'peeing penis'. This interesting revelation came about after Ze An complained (whom I cannot and can not be bothered to remember who was it) after that someone 'smashed his fucking penis'

Save of the day... Someone, who prevented the ball from going into the gutter AGAIN. I believe its Kelvin.

Cheat(s) of the day: Group consisting of Guans, Ben and Nick, according to Jerrold, who is a big cheat himself.

Soccer

2010-06-13T16:53:00.000+08:00

Been feeling not-so-awesome and performing quite below average for the last 2 - 3 months.

But today, even under this extremely terrible weather, I somehow enjoyed it.

Save of the match goes to Jiu Siang, who barged through the door to try to save a ball which was heading for the gutter.

I want to see my pink IC again... :(

It's a little bit funny...

2010-05-28T02:09:00.000+08:00

I have problems finding a topic to blog about these days, after all my (present) life has been revolving around booking in, going out, ranting about low reserves and cars.

Lately, I've thought through many issues. I have also lost my temper quite a few times, got myself a nice patch of heat rash after staying in this shit weather for so-goddamn-long, and deep down, I want to point the middle finger to horrible weather. Screw this El nino phenomenon, whatever the hell that is. It's just terrible.

And I realized following currencies is actually quite a fun thing to do!

1/4 & 1/2

2010-05-08T15:59:00.000+08:00

(Image courtesy of www.mcdonald.com.sg)

I had the Double Quarter Pounder yesterday and the Quarter Pounder about a week ago. I didn't really like the Quarter Pounder because I thought the beef was quite dry. But the Double Quarter Pounder was pretty good! Big Carl or Double Quarter Pounder? I can't decide.

Probably one should eat Quarter Pounder for cheese and Double Quarter Pounder for beef. And, it's not a "double-cheeseburger-with-patties-joined-together"! It's different!

And recently I have started on a new manga.. Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima, author of Rave Master! Rave Master's ending turned out silly and too perfect (but I still finished the series twice, or was it three times?), and I just hope that Fairy Tail doesn't turn out like that.. cause I absolutely adore both Rave Master and Fairy Tail.

Half a year more... and my pink IC shall return!!

Quote

2010-05-02T20:22:00.000+08:00

"If you can make god bleed, people will cease to believe in him. There will be blood in the water, and the sharks will come"

A quote from Ironman 2. I think its.. damn true.

A week where nothing turns out right

2010-04-18T16:32:00.000+08:00

...

Even my mousehunt! I'm stuck at 99.96% and it HAD to do server maintenance. Even mousehunt is against me. Fml.

asdasda

2010-04-18T00:36:00.002+08:00

There are just days whereby nothing works out. Absolutely nothing.

I'm going mad over this issue.

4th

2010-04-04T19:38:00.000+08:00

The 4th of April is a very important date to me.

Today was Sunday, and while walking past a Chinese Calender today, I saw the big numerical 4, and I instantly got reminded over the fact that it has been a long while. Time does fly!

The details of the event can never be found on the blog, yet I remember the days like it was yesterday. The awkwardness of before and after..

Early book in special :(

This week in.. words

2010-04-01T22:51:00.002+08:00

We missed Tartar sauce and we saw some shit on a log.

Sums up my week!

2010-03-30T15:09:00.000+08:00

God helps people who help themselves - Benjamin Franklin

I hope so

sdfsfsfs

2010-03-20T01:30:00.001+08:00

I can't stand this shit anymore

It's killing me

Carl's Jr

2010-03-19T20:29:00.002+08:00

(Picture courtesy of http://carlsjr.com.sg)

Check out the guy at the bottom of the burger!!!

Anyway I choose the Western Bacon Thickburger over The Big Carl the last time I had Carl's Jr with Jingshen. This time round after coming from Tuas (long story how Wei Min and I ended up there), and after that we had lunch at Carl's Jr at Jurong Point!

The Western Bacon Thickburger was... a fucking awesome burger. That burger was simply mind blowing.

Sadly speaking, this was only good. Out of a possible 10 I would give it a 7.. of course I wasn't expecting anything like the WB but it simply is no match for it. I prefer this over the Big Mac though. It's just like comparing a Lamborghini, a Porsche and a Lexus. The A&W burger I had in JB was probably.. well I don't want to get sued for slander.

JB trip

2010-03-14T18:15:00.000+08:00

JB with Lian Hui yesterday!

This was a picture taken of the shopping center.. from the expressway. A moment of brilliance from ahhui means we DID end up on the expressway.

Hungry and we are off to search for food! A&W was the preferred location. It's been a looooooooooooooooooong while since I last had this.

Burger, which sucked.

Curly fries and Onion rings.

We then walked around, walked the entire mall.. and it was back to eating!

Papparoti and the packaging. Good. And I'm not sure if Singapore has any more Papparoti!

DailyFresh. Mango and Mocca. Lian Hui and mine.

Shihling chicken. This is nicer than the Singapore one. And a lot of bigger. This was only half of what ahhui took. My only complain? They have bones in it.

The interchange station. And the to and fro tickets.

Technology vs Human brain

2010-03-10T21:00:00.000+08:00

I'm impressed with technology advances these days. There's the internet, Active-Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode aka AMOLED, Iphone which my 6 year old cousin can operate better than I do, and of course, the online consultation that technology made possible back in 2008 on this very same laptop!

Then today, I got VERY IMPRESSED with the human brain!

Because technology restrictions caused this issue which has pissed many many people off..

The Human brain came up with this!

That's just amazing in my opinion. I tried it, and it works equally amazingly too!

Tiong Bahru and Ikea

2010-03-07T19:01:00.002+08:00

Was at Tiong Bahru with ahhui. And he said there was a shop which sells good coffee. And it does look like the traditional coffeeshop!

The coffee itself was not too bad. But the winner was the steamed bread with kaya and butter. The bread is soft and it goes perfectly with the kaya and the butter. In fact I wanted to go back for more.. but it was closed.

And I spotted this!

Volkswagen Beetle!

Ahhui and I had the charsiew bao, yam ball and siew mai. All 3 were pretty damm good. And since we were at Tiong Bahru, we decided to have ghee kuey.

It's just steamed flour and some chye poh. And this is good. But eating it is a huge chore as they only gave us 2 puny little sticks to eat with it. Think of it as chopsticks, but small and incredibly difficult to use. The chili was.. overpowering.

Ching Thng! This baby was excellent. They have stuff like green beans and water chestnut so it's a (good) breakaway from the usual chng tng, but it does not have any red dates. Pity.

Ikea was next as Lian Hui wanted to get something from there, and I haven't been there for ages.

And..

I sounded the hunter's horn and caught a white mouse and a grey mouse... lame.

Since we were in IKEA, we had meatballs and chicken wings! Good.

However, not something I'll die for. Not like the long time no eat tiramisu!

The last time I saw a Maserati GranTuismo, I had a terrible week.

This time, I spotted a Ferrari F430 Scuderia Spyder 16M, a Porsche Carrera, a Mercedes-Benz SLK, a BMW M3 a Lamborghini Verde Ithaca Gallardo and a Nissan GTR (I'm turning into a car freak) ALL IN A WEEK. Maybe my upcoming week will stink incredibly.

And weekly soccer is back!!

365 days

2010-03-06T14:51:00.001+08:00

A year ago, at this time.... I was in YJC. To collect my result. Supposedly.

But what actually did occur was that I was eating chicken rice with my friends in Yishun, having just completed a 16km route march. Yes, it was the day where I collected my A level results and I chose to go late because I couldn't really be bothered with how many As YJC had gotten. I was only interested in who the top scorers were and at around 1530 when I went in, the principal was just about to end her speech.

Then it was my turn to collect my cert, I sat down and the first thing I asked from my then-CT was 'Mr Goh, did I fail my A levels?'

Cause just before the GP paper few months before Serene and I was wondering how we are going to fare for the A levels and if we screw up, what can we do. It was the usual things.. NIE/SIM or yeah, just SIGN ON!

But thankfully, neither of us did badly. And after that we were in Dhoby Ghaut for dinner and saying goodbye to Daniel.

Fast forward 364 days.

Once again I was in Dhoby Ghaut. But this time I was with JS for Carl's Jr.

I had this.

(picture courtesy of http://carlsjr.com.sg)

The Western Bacon Thickburger™. Which was a fucking awesome burger. I'm going to try The Big Carl next.

It was just like a year ago. Botak heads, people taking about their future, and recruits with the commando formation patch!!!

End of February

2010-02-28T20:42:00.000+08:00

Let's give the month of February some much needed reflections. This month seem to pass by quite quickly, for some reasons, maybe because it only has 28 days. Then again, just maybe.

The last time I played soccer was the first week of February. That's 3 weeks without soccer. I sort of think that this unofficially spells the ending of our weekly soccer.

Chinese New Year (and the flipping of cousins) was awesome. I think it's pretty cool that us (paternal cousins) don't meet only over Chinese New Year (as opposed to my maternal side), we meet over various and sometimes random gatherings. And yes, Valentine's day this year was alone. My prediction came true. Well, sort of .

I started MouseHunt. So now a common phrase heard when I go down to my office and work is "for what, sound the horn?" And I think I am hooked onto the game. I mean, it's just words and pictures of a few cutesy mouses, and I got hooked onto it!

I started watching Top Gear. It is a superb show, featuring 3 men that give their (sometime controversial) views about cars. And they do stuff like going to Australia to test if the glove box is working in another car, and build their own car. And I love The Stig!

I visited the Peranakan Museum. To be honest I didn't know that existed.. learned the fact that Peranakans has a better level of Chinese than I do, and they get married over 12 days! And they seem to have a preference for a few colors like.. Green, Pink, Gold and Red. And as observed, the designs inside their plate is different from the design outside.

I visited MOS burger after ages, but this time I didn't have their awesome frozen strawberries (that threatened to chip my teeth off with every bite). And a friend of mine got enlightened to the fact that MOS burger do sell MOS burger. And it is a pretty decent burger.

I realized that hardwarezone offers many hidden treasures!

Notitleforthis

2010-02-26T22:40:00.000+08:00

Okay, so our dear friends (The Cute Little Thing and Ah Pang) are off to India in another 48hours or so, and that would mean no boyboy to eat lunch and dinner with, talking cock with and lastly complain to!

So Eeyen decides that HE will stand in for boyboy for this 2 weeks, but he's...

A Big Hairy Thing. So that kinda doesn't work.

Either week this week represents a mad week, as..

1) The Aircon spoiled, making outfield conditions more comfy than my office. Good for a sauna though.
2) Like mentioned, no boyboy to eat lunch and dinner with. But I got myself a Big Hairy Thing.
3) I actually felt productive, but it's only on Friday.
4) It amazes me that I have friends dying to get out of school, and here I am missing those days. The 2nd half of my secondary and same for my JC, well not the studying though.
5) I became a fan of The Stig! Loved his scene when he was the anonymous driver and dumped the key to the receptionist without saying a word.

More Prawnings

2010-02-20T00:47:00.005+08:00

Prawn fishing at Bishan once again.

Fishing for the prawns. God it was dead boring. Probably that's the reason why no one does prawning alone. Jerrold and I spent the whole time talking about 妻子的诱惑/Cruel Temptation. Boyboy got me hooked onto that show.. it's really good.

And we discovered that Zijie might have some hidden innate ability in fishing up prawns.

But this time despite having 1 more person, we caught significantly lesser prawns (thank god). Caught 34 prawns but we only had 33. The missing prawn was released as it was so small, it was almost the length of my middle finger! The other time we caught 57 prawns with 4 person, but this time only 33 with 5. Thus the catch to people ratio has actually fallen!

BBQing the prawns.

Still BBQing.

Enjoy!

Our next stop would be prawning for lobsters, according to Mr Neo.

Lesson

2010-02-15T02:56:00.000+08:00

If there is one thing I've learned over 2009 and 2010, it is the fact that while a friend's advice might sound good, it might not suit you at all.

After all, if you are faced with a situation, you know it best. I realized this after people give me different advice. They are the people I am closest with, so I'm pretty sure they know what they are talking about.

I'm about to take a plunge, let's make it a worthwhile one.

First...

2010-02-14T00:03:00.001+08:00

Person to _|_ me for the new year.. Mr Ng Ze An. Why am I not surprised?

Food I had for the new year was Merci Hazelnut-Almond. Personally I don't like almond but it's okay as it was a gift from someone special.

Car that NEARLY knocked me down was a Hyundai Accent. I was crossing the road and there was no signal and he suddenly jam break in front of me.

Chinese I met was Ze An.

Indian I met was Parthiban.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Cheers

Me Against The World

2010-02-12T00:29:00.001+08:00

It's amazing how things turned around in a few weeks. About a month ago I was ranting on my blog (here and here) that nothing goes my way and my life seems to be in tatters a month into 2010. Well, not all things still go my way but hey, at least it's better now!

I think one's confidence has a lot to do with it.

In between one month many stuff happened. I learned that fact that Jingshen has an imaginary shop to himself, called Batmandaughter, Marcus and Sean feels that mutton as no smell (it has a very strong smell!), almost everyone just decided NOT to turn up for soccer on Sunday and Jian Zhi thinks I'll embezzle money.

On a more serious note I've denied someone's wish to move into our already crammed bunks, I received some sms-es that (for the first time in my life) I decided not to read too much into it, I've cleared the air with someone (which I am glad), and Jian Zhi thinks I'll embezzle money.

I'm sorry if the words I've used last time causes misunderstanding.

The last thing I'll want is for everything to collapse on me again. Maybe it works as my artificial life support or something. As much I wish for everything to remain the same, I ought to get mentally prepared for the fact that change is inevitable. After all, the only constant is change, no?

Ending off with another quote (which was reflected in both the not so serious and serious note!)

Ah Pang: $100k?!?!!!! If that is in cash Ben confirm embezzle. Confirm, confirm!

Do I really look like such a guy?!

Add on:

Here's a nice little gesture to all the bad things that is going to happen or has happened recently!

Droppingchocolateswhenitmatteredthemost-nosocceronsunday-endoffy0910-startoffy1011-ahelllotofhkcomingup-ikenaflymanyaeroplanes-nocidernobeernowine-notaxisatecptoday-mylaptoplagslikedunnowhat-ijustclearedfinishallmyextras!

_|_

Quote of the week

2010-02-01T08:56:00.000+08:00

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

2010-01-17T01:46:00.001+08:00

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

2010-01-13T12:44:00.000+08:00

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

2010-01-10T18:09:00.000+08:00

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

2010-01-03T01:20:00.000+08:00

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

2009-12-29T20:45:00.001+08:00

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

2009-12-13T10:51:00.000+08:00

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!

2009-12-05T12:00:00.000+08:00

Fail!

A super long weekend

2009-11-27T17:25:00.000+08:00

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

2009-11-14T12:16:00.000+08:00

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?!

Untitled

2009-11-01T20:30:00.000+08:00

This week was once again.. terrible.

Some days I just wish I could just.. drop everything I have and just chill.

What's happening to me? Some one save me.

A week to forget

2009-10-23T22:43:00.002+08:00

There's nothing this week (starting from last friday) that is worth remembering.. kthxbai

Titleless post

2009-10-18T23:23:00.000+08:00

I don't get it.

Maybe I am just naive enough to think that friendship will last forever.

A long meet up after a while

2009-10-04T16:47:00.000+08:00

A few days back, I met ahhui to collect my Shiroi Koibito chocolates that came from Japan!

This time round, decided to try the dark chocolate version.

The dark chocolate version, and I like the dark chocolate version more! [Pictures from ahhui]

Met my bunkmates from Tekong yesteday. It's been nearly half a year since we last saw each other. Today also marks the day where we had many grand plans.. like eating buffet at Carnivore, Marriott hotel and Kushin-bo (!) the next few times we meet up.

After spinning around Orchard trying hard to scout for a wallet-friendly-price-yet-nice-to-eat-food, Mr Yin Caile decided to call his father and ask for his opinion. Thus we ended up in..

Eating Chinese food instead of the typical Japanese or Western food! Despite all that hoo-ha about the expensive prices of food everywhere, we ended up paying $40 per pax, but still, a good break from the norm.

CS, also known as our slave for the day. The reason? Because he was sitting near where all the food is placed, so we kaopeh a little and he'll have to suck thumb and follow instructions!

Chili. This was good.. so good that CS wanted to take home some of it lol.

The soup.. underneath this soup somewhere lies Bryan's favorite wanton!

We then turned from carnivores to herbivores lol. Looks like a steamboat for vegetables. Thankfully that was cleared pretty quickly.

This is CS, demonstrating how to cook that fish paste lookalike thing after seeing the staff doing it twice. His comments was "Pfffffffff, pay 40 bucks and still must DIY!".. although no one bothered asking the staff..

We ended up spamming tons of wanton (Bryan's favorite food - I bet he had like easily 8 of them or something) and sliced beef (it's pretty imbal). Also, they serve stuff such as oysters there, so for 40 bucks it's quite a decent selection. Also, a can of coke there cost $4.. and we actually spotted someone drinking it. So Caile was like "HEY $4 COKE HAHAHA"

Ended up outside Lido.. and had some ice cream from Gelatissimo.

CS's bad shot of me.. and my Tiramisu and Chocolate Liqueur. I must say, the Chocolate Liqueur was good but the Tiramisu wasn't really what I expected.

4 happy guys and their ice cream..

Gerald says that the escalator was a good time to camwhore, so..

Gerald and I. Unfortunately the photo of CS and Joseph was lost in history!

The rest of the people.

A group photo before Bryan wanted to leave, and we all ended up leaving with him lol.

Met JS for lunch today @

He said he thinks the food here is quite good..

North Altantic Sole Fillet was what I had. JS had the Pacific Snow Fish Fillet.

North Altantic Sole Fillet. The serving was huge. The fish was good. The tartar sauce was quite decent, but I didn't really liked the batter.

We also got ourselves

The oysters. This was pretty decent.

Goodbye

2009-09-27T16:38:00.000+08:00

He was a great servant

He didn't mind being kicked around

He didn't mind being thrown around either

He would always come back to us even though we took turns to kick and throw him around

He didn't feel deflated before

His presence wasn't really felt until he was gone...

He's gone.. forever...

Goodbye.

Yay new ball!

Vin's and my bday celebration @ DBG... again.

2009-09-21T01:20:00.001+08:00

I think 215'08 (+Winnie) has this special affinity with Dhoby Ghaut. Every time we run out of ideas we'll turn to the place where we usually go. None other than the place where there is a red line and a purple line!

Pictures courtesy of..

Our initial plan was this. We planned to meet at 6pm, but we calculated most people would be late anyway. So might as well as wait for these people, at the same time queue up for some nice food. Since Astons serves pretty decent dishes and there's a pretty good queue, we went for Astons.

The plan worked.. more or less.

WeiXian and I, looking innocent. Had a ribeye xtra cut, done medium rare with onion rings and baked potatos. I still say, it's pretty decent!

But before that, there was a cake!

Seriously though, I have no idea how Vin and I can look at each other at the same look, giving a jiaobin to each other and still get captured by the camera!

Yet another of such photo.

Cutting the cake together. No giant lollipop (I still have it), or 2 lobsters, or a box filled with random stuff.. just an ice cream cake which looks like this...

After our very unsuccessful attempt to cut it.

Group photo. It's been a long while since we actually had a decent one taken!

Went back to The Cathay. As usual there were no plans to go anywhere, so we just slacked there the whole time.. either standing around looking pretty

or camwhoring..mostly camwhoring.

Noticed anything weird?

The answer!!

What a well timed shot!

The following shot is taken in Astons, I'm leaving the best for the last. I just have to upload it.. for obvious reasons!

A picture paints a thousand words!

It came out like a river once I let it out
When I thought that I wouldn't know how

Held on to it forever just pushing it down
Felt so good to let go of it now
Not wrapping this in ribbons
Shouldn't have to give a reason why

It's no surprise I won't be here tomorrow
I can't belived that I stayed till today
There's nothing left in this heart left to borrow
There's nothing here in this soul left to say
Don't be surprise when we hate this tomorrow
God knows we tried to find an easier way
Yeah you and I will now be a tough act to follow
But I know in time we'll find this was no surprise

-No surprise by Daughtry

Madness

2009-09-18T21:48:00.001+08:00

I've just realized that it's already more than halfway through september and I've not blogged. I think I'm getting old.

I swear I was about to go crazy for this month!

Having a BPV route march over the past 2 weeks have brought back memories from Tekong.

AND I HAVE A MAD FUCKER BEHIND ME TRYING TO PULL MY SHORTS OUT JUST NOW!!

Siamming arrows

2009-08-29T22:58:00.001+08:00

I just realized my skills at siamming arrows has taken a back seat.. time to go for retraining.

Titleless post

2009-08-19T22:02:00.000+08:00

To the world: I'm still alive, though I'm pretty much shagged out after a day in the office.

Blogger is still fucked up, no idea why.

Ending off with a joke that make me go simi lanjiao?!?

It's in Chinese.. Here goes..!

有一天，老师带一群小朋友到山上采水果，
他宣布说:“小朋友，采完水果后，我们统一一起洗，洗完可以一起吃。”
所有小朋友都跑去采水果了。
集合时间一到，所有小朋友都集合了。
老师:“小华，你采到什么？”
小华:“我在洗苹果，因为我采到苹果。”
老师:“小美你呢？”
小美:“我在洗蕃茄，因为我采到蕃茄。”
老师:“小朋友都很棒哦！那阿明你呢？”
阿明:“我在洗布鞋，因为我踩到大便。”

I get very pissed off..

2009-08-07T23:18:00.000+08:00

When I sign in to blogger and the 2nd thing I see is a fucking messed up layout.

When your brains do not belong to you.

When disagreements and politics come into the picture.

When I am faced with a problem and I can't find a solution to it.

It has been a long while since I last had this problem of not being to find a solution to my problem(s). Usually just by taking a long walk (walking around the Bishan Active brought back some nice yet sad feeling) or just sitting down and thinking of solutions should do the trick.

The trick failed me today.

Someone guide me.

This week

2009-08-02T22:27:00.002+08:00

Thanks to Cheap Frog, I learned that GST stands for Good Service Tax, not Goods and Services Tax!

Pictures..

Well done.. There's actually one every 4 years or so!

Yeah JS, nice try, but I admit it's true!

I wondered what kind of stuff did I do in JC last time!

and Dugtrio's true identity..!

NDP next week and I'm hoping that's gonna be the last few time's I gonna see the camo creams.. And knowing that civilians do enjoy this year's NDP do lessen the blow of losing Saturdays somewhat..

Yet another week...

2009-07-26T23:07:00.000+08:00

Yet another week, another pointless post, another week closer to ORD!!

And I dunno what happened here.. the new layout is like crap totally.

What a week it was..

2009-07-18T23:34:00.004+08:00

Bad politics are still around. Fuck.

ADD ON: The week was a mixed one, for some people are just throwing their attitude around by sabotaging us [It's kinda rare that the 2 bunks actually co-operate and sort of worked on this issue], causing unrest, disharmony and unhappiness for BIG group, and attitudes for that particular individual.

Basically its just 1 VS 10, almost like the politics 215 have.. replaying all over again, but this time, the antagonist and protagonists are different. Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, there's hardly any harmony in existence between me and the particular someone, so I'm not involved.

"Don't know, Don't care, Don't ask why!" - Yi Wei.

We had a re-nights out on Thursday, and Ahboy, Dragon and I headed down to Jurong Point, wandered around and ended up in Billy Bombers! Had no camera with me, so no photo! The beef was pretty alright though.

Be blessed, for friday, it was Botak Jones! Only have a puny receipt to show, since camera phones aren't allowed. So I kept a receipt. Was showed this by BJG (internal joke)

Image courtsey of Botak Jone's facebook.

It was pretty good!

Was with JS, Jam, HS and WR at Timbre yesterday. After missing out on their two of a kind fish and chips, I finally managed to get my hands on it!!Calamari Rings for the 2 besties.Their pizza. JS's beefball noodles. He said it was fucking hot, it was indeed fucking hot.

And finally, My 2 of a kind fish and chips! Okay, not too bad, I prefer the fish on the left though.

We slacked at my holding area (wtf......!). More pictures, hopefully by next week.

Food!

2009-07-08T17:14:00.008+08:00

Char Siew Sio Bak Png on Tuesday.The char siew was above average, the sio bak was even better..Then I had this weird dessert, glutunious rice balls with tao huey and toa huey zui. Lor Bak, braised pork?
Minced meatFermented Vegetables
Cabbage.

The above 4 dish + 1.5 bowl of rice for brunch ftw!

Met with ahhui for some more stuff, he said he porn school.. (he really said that!) Searched for this place called China La Mian Steam Buns.Gyoza. This was good. Some how their gyoza has some soup base in it. Red bean pan cake. Pretty decent. Surprisingly, not oily at all!Xiao Long Baos. Not as good as the one I had in Qun Zhong though. Then again, for $0.50 a piece, you can hardly complain it's not good enough. One of the most value for money xlbs!

We HAD to see THIS. So We HAD to eat it!atTheir poh piah, is really really good!

Cage

2009-07-06T00:26:00.004+08:00

New personal best for monkey kick off!Had cage today. Today we witness the very best of Murphy's law..

We also saw many new stuff, like glaring misses, penalty shootout(again! my team only survived twice), along with flying tackles, Leo's family jewels are smashed by me (I smell kerosene..), and I was nearly hit with a ball flying at 30498094303km/h.

Quote of the day: "I'm only 165!!!" - Shunli rants after not being able to get the ball

Stuff we do when we are bored!

2009-06-30T20:47:00.004+08:00

This is one such game. Monkey Meters (aka mm) ftw!

and now YiWei is blowing at the screen to 'blow' his virtue pool ball to the hole. "I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way.."

This morning YiWei and I had a ball of mess, I sat on Marcus's shin, he sat on my leg scar, he elbowed me, like twice too! Not forgetting my family jewels nearly got smashed.

Not forgetting Operation MacStrike..

Sunday was great too, though everyone was like late again, except for Leo who bought the ball. Leo tried chipping the ball over Shun Li only to succeed in smashing Shun Li's face... Albert's stomach got smashed too!

Monkey kick off is super good!

What a week it was..

2009-06-26T21:31:00.003+08:00

You know, last year, I was still complaining that there's this politics ongoing in 215'08 (not sure if 215'09 has it or not..)

Then this week, I realize its all around.

I'm pretty disgusted by that fact, the fact that some people can flip faces in the blink of an eye. It's a different kind of politics now, but still, it sucks. But I'm glad we've settled it once and for all by moving out, and judging by the looks of it, it's a pretty decent solution!

END of post. Just needed to rant some stuff out.

S4, QM, AFV operators cohesion and xiao long baos

2009-06-18T19:19:00.012+08:00

S4, QM and AFV Operators cohesion.
Ate with Ahboy at superdog, while waiting for the rest to arrive [one of the rare occasions were EeYen and Granny can haolian to us they live in the East.. we'll see how Dragon and co. laugh their asses off for booking in, while noobs like us can neither go east nor west..]Chili Cheese Dog. I must say this looked pretty interesting, and taste pretty good too! Though if the sauce was a little more flavourful it'd be good..

Met them. BBQ was fun, tons of stuff happened (though without beer its hardly interesting), but playing burnout with YanKai was pretty fun. And we had like 30 odd chicken wings untouched.. I think they flew away.

Home, and the next day we met again. This time round we caught SK playing some game and everybody had a shock of their lives.. We headed down to E! Hub (where else is there in Pasir Ris..?) to..For our lunch. This place offers no GST, no service charge! Only an optional tipbox!Ahboy and Dragon. Double Puma. Dragon's and Eeyen's.

Then came the question about "Who would you employ in our platoon?" question. It's an amazing fact that people either choose Jerrold (comes with Ben), or choose Ben (comes with Jerrold). Either way its a buy one and get one free case. Granny and some cool(lol) effects. Guess how I did it? No idea!Had this. Their potato was good. Maxwell food centre today.ahhui seems to like this. I kinda hate it cause some contained mushroom!
Red Bean Pan cake was next. I like it. Lian Hui loved to dip it in vinegar, add some sliced ginger on it then swallow the thing up.. Either I'm weird or he is.

Since we're around Chinatown, a place where many old men were Playing Chinese Chess aka PCC, Jze Ying told me that..'s Xiao Long Baos are good? (About the eating house, not old men playing chess) How can we give it a miss?Xiao Long Baos! $7 for 7. All but one withstood the test of time, the bao didn't burst unexpectedly except for one (the last one), ahhui got too excited and lao zup(the bao, not ahhui).. the teaspoon of soup was fantastic, the meat was great, adding the vinegar and ginger shreds almost perfected it.. I can eat 1 basket of this by my own! Probably I'll steal ahhui's one if he ordered a basket too! Next time hor, ahhui!Rose flavoured rice balls, I was expecting this to be pink in color. But it came with some unknown types of leaves that do taste like rose. Comes in peanut, red bean and black sesame filling! Not too bad!

Rojak

2009-06-16T00:16:00.007+08:00

Was at the Suntec IT fair the other day. Before that we head over to Marina Square to get some Curry puffs! Good stuff.

Headed down to the IT fair itself. Super crowded, like usual. Some pretty good deals, as usual, and the floor is littered with paper, as usual. ZA got his laptop (claims that the previous one was spoilt). And we went back Marina Square to get the aforementioned curry puffs again, before I came out with the grand theory that since there's a Marina Square, probably a Marina Oval should be built...Headed down to Manhattan fish market for dinner. Wanted to eat this since one of the outlets was opened in Bishan. Unfortunately ZA is always either not free, or short of cash. But somehow, he expressed his surprise the other day, claiming that prices are not that expensive.. meaning I've been waiting for nothing!!Yik ordered this. Leo, ZA and I ordered this. Flaming platter.
The flaming prawns.. they'll whip out a portable flamethrower and torch the prawns. Serious.

We even managed to get ourselves one of this.
Today was great. Probably one of the greatest days of my life so far. It was fairy simple. I began with nothing in mind. Just a random idea that sprung to my mind and I think despite it being a very simple idea, I don't think it was a very bad idea to take random buses and landing up in random places, (haha) though I doubt I'll be doing that any more in the foreseeable future. Other then being quite happy with today's events, I also learned that not all things need to be planned swee swee for things to work. Well, that's my point of view, unsure about the other side, haha.

Was dragged down to Newton Food Centre today. Satay. Good stuff. Char Kuey Tiao. Not bad.Oyster Omlette. Oysters. Loved it!

Was kinda disappointed with the service over there.

Random Thoughts

2009-06-05T21:24:00.002+08:00

I passed by Yishun MRT today.

For the 1st time in my 2 years there (6 months since I graduated), I actually started thinking of that place. Amazingly, some of the memories like chasing after buses after school and the frequent visit to North Point [seeing Wei Ru getting brain freeze on ice kachiang was hell of a memorial experience] suddenly came flashing back to my mind after 6 months. Never did I thought that I'll be saying this, but I think I'm starting to miss my days in Junior College.

The invention of word LOLCUS.

The time when JS and I hid in the toilet on one of the days and leaving school at 1.30 and the days when we decided to skip school altogether.

The days when we pissed Miss Aminah off and one of the days we got chased out for not doing work.

The sleepless nights doing PW.

Dog + my birthday celebration @ PS.

Our modified name list, created during Physics lectures, names include Commandou, Enrique and Bandai.

Not so much in J1, but I must say J2 was quite an experience.

It's a little more than 5 months since I enlisted. Meaning I have 17 more months to go. For the first time in my ENTIRE life, I am actually pretty looking forward to starting school. Let's hope NUS FASS is the right choice.. after all I almost left my future to a coin and my cousin's intuition turned out to be correct. (maybe this is what girls call their 第六感. Probably its something not to be messed with.)

Food

2009-05-31T16:20:00.008+08:00

Food fair at Expo yesterday. Laksa. This was good. Had the apple and chicken pie. Both were great too!

Had something different for breakfast today before soccer. Prata!Onion-egg and cheese. Onion egg. Cheese. I don't think they use mozzarella anymore!

Soccer started late and ended early. We then headed down to for our chicken rice.

The puzzling question for today is... Garlic or Ginger?

I can't remember. Soup.Chicken. Not too bad stuff. Porky singing out side Wee Nam Kee.Alvin.. um, singing after some work here and there. He actually believed that I snapped a photo of him singing back in his days in school... lousy editing, even lousier observance I must say.

Acceptance

2009-05-30T23:48:00.003+08:00

Okay done, hope I won't be regretting this choice..

Viewing a movie in 3D... at home!

2009-05-24T00:22:00.003+08:00

Our cool friend, Ze An has proposed a new method to watch stuff in 3D. Scroll down for more information.

Disclaimer: Go blind.. not my daiji, blame ZA.

$62 gone for 2 buffets

2009-05-22T00:31:00.009+08:00

Out for some dim sun yesterday. $20 for dim sum buffet at yum cha. It's really not too bad. Pity I only have 1 picture to show.Probably this is 25% of what we ate in total..Kuishin-bo for dinner today. 42 bucks for that buffet. Despite that price, many people are still queuing up for the buffet. Probably proof that other then the super rich, the good food industry is recession proof too! Some of the pictures captured. Starting, everything on the plate was decent, except the prawns. Hated the prawns despite being a prawn lover!Jason's Sashimi! Their salmon sashimi was seriously good stuff.Sushi.More sushi.More food. And note the pair of scissors? It's gonna come in handy.Overview.. and the snow crabs are their star attraction. Fresh and sweet and delicious. Life made easier.. with a pair of scissors.

Suddenly we heard a bell ringing. Typical of any Singaporean we flocked there, and queue up and see what's in store for us. And we discovered that they are giving out.. These! Probably they are like bamboo shoots but the sauce was good. Kinda taste like bamboo shoots. Neat stuff and this was given out in limited quantities only. I was lucky to get the 2nd last plate at that point of time.

After eating lots of stuff (not captured by the lazy and busy eating camera man, me!), we hit the desserts. Cheesecake (bad), cream puff (good), 2 cakes (decent), peanut mochi (great), green tea mochi (also great)Some awful stuff left over.. but i ate the mochi up hahaha.E-clairs. Nothing fantastic, despite being banana flavoured.Some frozen lime ball. Downing this in 1 mouthful was better then taking it bit by bit. And my lime juice kinda taste like sweetener after this.. Last round of stuff. The guava thingy was good. The mango was decent. And I loved the chocolate.

To our shock and horror, Thursdays has no promotions!! And we chose to go on Thursday!The Tuesday one is probably the best bargain. Bill.

Block leave is ending.

Timbre

2009-05-18T20:37:00.005+08:00

Was at Timbre the previous week. Some of the very best pictures.. er.. captured by Jamie using Serene's cam. Apparently she camwhored that much that my aunt had to upload two albums for her facebook. The outing started quite promisingly (is there such a word?), as shown by this picture of Wei Rui and his bff (unofficially coined as Beri Fat Friend by Wei Rui). Salmon with whipped potato. And some long beans which I didn't take. I originally wanted the fish and chips.. but somehow they ran out of it.. after Russell and co ordered everything. hAtE dHeM dEePx DeEpZ LUHZZZZ. But the salmon was pretty decent.A picture consisting of Huai Sian [Left], Huai Sian's bff (best friends forever) [Center], Wei Rui [Right], and Wei Rui's bff [Center].
Serene and her CAL wannabe face. We then had this. Can't remembered what was this. And then sex on the beach. Cheers~Serene and Jamie... and a classical photo...

There was no build up to this.. somehow it just happened. Group photo. Home.

Some dumb stuff happened today.

Food

2009-05-09T09:36:00.005+08:00

Arnold's. Quite some time ago. Half a chicken. No fries, nothing. Just the chicken. Was one of the times where ahhui and yik horlan-ed in pasir ris. Chicken. Crispy. Oil. Tender. Great.

Hong Kong cafe 2 weeks ago. Yuan Yang. Coffee with Tea. The coffee flavour was more then the tea flavour. Sad. Noodles. Overall quite disappointing. But the mango prawn was good. Ba Chor Mee. Also like 2 weeks ago. Somehow I don't get sick of this. Tao Huey. Reconmended by Porky. Ban Mian after soccer. A better version then usual. SL came back from Japan and he got a lot of us this. I prefer this over Meiji. Pity I can't find this in Singapore. Noodles in Taka. There's bacon and cheese. Good stuff. And a moment of madness means WK bought all these. At a little over 20 bucks.

Exactly 4 months since I enlisted. I am kinda missing my BMT days (excluding the days where I don't get to shower when I'm outfield, then again one hardly cares about there since we are outfield). Next week will be my 2nd POP. Passing out of trade's course. Probably those in SISPEC will be joining us in this super ulu camp soon, maybe the OCTs too. Fancy meeting some of my friends in the same camp, just that they are ranks above me. This week was quite an amazing week, found out that under pressure, many task can be completed when I thought it seems impossible.

Belated Birthdays!

2009-04-25T02:09:00.009+08:00

Last week we decided to celebrate 2 of our cousin's birthday together.. AJJ and TPT's! We decided to have a meal in.. Astons! Some of the best pictures captured.Prime Ribeye.. Medium Rare. Great.

After the meal was prize presentation.. conducted by the Sim Siblings.andAnd the joy of opening presents..andGroup photo.Chuan Bao: Hmmm... we dined at STONS. Birthday boy and birthday girl and their respective gifts.Somehow I found this quite cute. For some unexplainable reason.We then headed down to Ben and Jerry's for some ice cream, and some wild time outside the shop.. like.. andAs if that wasn't enough..Models wannabes. Proposal and a somehow surprisingly nice jump shot. Another jumpshot involving 3 girls.

One of the failed jumpshot pictures taken.. but on closer look, Somehow it reminds me of 'Scream' by Edvard Munch.

And..!You know.. this picture somehow reminds me of Mona Lisa.Probably that's how Mona Lisa would look like if she's a 16 year old male Singaporean, wears addidas and is bespectacled?

Long Weekend.. Gone!

2009-04-12T18:13:00.002+08:00

There goes my long weekend! It's back to camp again.

I'm quite happy with my current job scope.. for now.

[I'm updating for the sake of updating, I'm too lazy to upload any pictures, just bare with me or simply skip this post]

Was at Tampanies the other day. Went Uniqlo. Freaking long queue. End.

Dinner at Arnold's chicken again. The half chicken was great. End.

Soccer today. 4 vs 4 for an hour or so. First time in my life I scored so many goals. The final score probably ended up double digits for both sides.

3 and a half months into NS. 1 year and 6.5 more months to go. Time seems to crawl some times, and other times it seems to fly.

I'm actually quite sleepy now.. thus this super boring post.

Wan Zai

2009-04-05T02:34:00.007+08:00

Wan Zai when I booked out. Somehow, of all locations, they choose to set up beside Ding Tai Fung. Had the soya bean which tasted like Yeo's soya milk, but slightly thicker. Ordered a bowl of wanton noodles [wanted to eat the baked rice, but for the sake of my good friend who is lactose intolerant, I've decided against it]
Wanton noodles. Somehow I liked it. A different version as compared to the other versions which I always eat. Dessert. This wasn't as nice as it looked.

Met Lian Hui for lunch, but I'm too lazy to upload the pictures (lol).

And Liverpool somehow struck a late, late, late winner at Craven Cottage.. and hit the woodwork and crossbar 4 times. Translation of agony to ecstasy when a shot by Yossi Benayoun bulged the net.

It's been 3 freaking years!

Earth Hour

2009-03-29T17:37:00.006+08:00

Wee Khuang told me a certain takeaway wanton mee tasted good. He say cannot eat there. So.. I must say it did taste good, and cost $2.5o only!

Then ahhui wanted to eat fried chicken.. Arnold's fried chicken! Been wanting to eat this but distance is always a factor when it comes to eating something unknown...The closest I can ever eat Arnold's is over at Paya Lebar. I must say.. this is cheaper than KFC, just like Dallas Chicken, and just like Dallas, it's so much better than KFC. 2 pieces chicken wasn't just enough. Ahhui and I ordered potato platter. It's all potatoes, and cheese. The cheese was great.

Earth hour, and this was seen 10 minutes into Earth hour.Looks like the people at bishan are pretty supportive of Earth Hour. Kind of an encouraging sign?

Ba Chor Mee with Porky (who else?) this morning before soccer.He's pretty picky, doesn't take the wanton, or the abalone.

Seems like no one put on their shooting boots today. GK missed chances he usually doesn't miss. Some missed from like just outside the circle, though there are tons of stunning saves, close shaves, the ball could have fell into the drain, JS failed attempt to throw the ball back to the court, we even saw 2 flies chasing each other. Love is in the air~Chicken Rice with WeeKhuang and his bro.. at Kim San Leng. Half a chicken for 3 people. Rice.

Booking in soon. My vocation is not a really bad one.. Squad mates are nice people. May it stay this way.

Last Meal Before AI

2009-03-23T00:02:00.006+08:00

Was back at Botak Jones after a long period of absence.

Tried something new today. The new.. Alaska Pollock Fillet.Sauce The fish. Looked similar to the fish and chips, but there heaven and earth when it comes to taste. This one was slightly more flavorful. The original fish and chips had the sweet fish taste. I prefer the original fish and chips. Bacon.. the standard kinda dropped.

This is like the 12th time I am eating Botak Jones!

Some food, some thoughts

2009-03-21T13:49:00.003+08:00

Was with Wee Khuang for some Tiramisu back at Ristorante de Parma once more.. This was a few days before my posting was released. And my, it still taste as good! I definitely will want to try out some of their pizzas soon!

On the way there, we actually sat on the non air conditioned buseswhich I thought had joined the dinosaurs in turning into fossils!

Then it was chicken rice the following day at Kim San Leng.The rice was blue because the window pane above was blue. We were kinda lucky that they almost ran out of chicken.. so we got the freshly made chicken. That's half a chicken. It tasted.. not bad. Better then the usual. While waiting I got actually quite bored and I decided to do some fanciful stuff to my $10 note.An neutral face.A happy face.. And a sad face.

Ordered some Eclairs and cream puffs from Silverspoon, and I gave a box to Russell for his house warming! The Eclairs were sure good. Cream Puffs.Eclairsand the cream inside the creampuffs blended well with the outer layer to give it a smooth feeling after feeling kinda down.

First of all, coming from Yankee, an enhanced leadership batch, most of us recruits were expected to be posted to command schools. And true enough, most of us did. Out of 12 guys from my section, I have no idea of one fella's posting, 2 guys went into Officer Cadet School (OCS), 7 went into School of Infantry Specialist (SISPEC), and the last 2 went into Armour Infantry (AI)... I got posted to AI.

I'm not disappointed that I did not get selected for command school, a feeling hit me in the morning (I told Yik) that I'll be posted to either a SAR or SIR. I got posted to SAR. What I'm truely puzzled is that I thought I've met the basic requirements to at least qualify for command school, at least from the surface. Some of my friends did not pass/do as well as me/attempted for certain sections yet they ended up in SISPEC. Maybe I did not wayang enough in SITEST, I have no idea. Wayanging isn't like me, I choose not to do it and I don't regret it.

Some of my friends were surprised, some told me to stop kidding that I did not get command school, some told me that I'm just plain suay (unlucky), some envy me for not being the stuck-in-the-middle-man, some told me I probably won't chiong sua much, I'm telling myself, siong or not, section commander or not, I believe, whoever is above there is doing a good job to ensure life is fair. Why?

For a simple reason: My A level grades. My A level grades came as much as a surprise to me as much as it was a surprise to my parents. For the amount of effort I put in, and the results I get, the efficiency level is probably well over a hundred percent. A hundred and eighty percent maybe. I've overachieved.. by too much [Especially on the subject Econs]. So this overachievement has been compensated. The price of my A level grades is that I'll spend my next 19 months or so as a man, not as a commander as most expect to be. I prayed to get a decent grade for my A level results, I did not pray to get into command school. Whoever is above is certainly making my life fair.

Enough of the puzzling command school section, I heard my posting is a siong one. I'll know what I'm going to do soon. I just came back from playing cage in an extremely unearthy hour. Lots of stupid things were done. We even had a mini penalty shoot out of sort, tons of unholy skills were displayed, such as the faking, blasting over the bar, flying saves and etc. I even managed to buldge the net for once. In that game, I have been the keeper 4 times for 6 matches I started (Only ZA can boast the same statistic as me), had 0 shots. The last 2 games were particuarly enjoyable as I managed to bring myself up to get out of the sad mood of getting posted to a chiong sua unit. Confidence and mood does wonders! Another a so almost perfect week!

Happy Birthday Michelle!

2009-03-16T10:36:00.000+08:00

Haven't went out with our birthday girl for ages, the last I could recall was during the 2007 2E3 chalet. So we gathered together on this occasion.. and went to..For dinner together.Chicken in a jacket. and Liying's 5 fingers. LY actually thought of lending me her jacket to wrap my chicken in it. Taste wise was alright, nothing fantastic and not filling at all. So Garr and I had half a pizza each. Once again, average stuff. Spamming it with cheese was good though. Since Swendens didn't allow us to cut Michelle's cake there.. we headed over to estae bar. A bar opened by Guan Kai's friend. The cake. The candles were sure nice. Lighted up birthday cake.Michelle with her cake.. and many many many hands.Still Michelle. Shi Xuan, Liying and Michelle.2 group photos. Spot the difference!A mess the birthday candles made. GY(or was it GK?) and I had a really good time picking out the wax.Cutting of the cake. One of the 3 games we had there. Tic Tac Toe. The other being.. Magnetic darts (which Nic managed to hit 1 shot out of a possible 12893472894279842 shots and) the last being darts with a machine. The very same one I played with 215.What the board says.

5-10 was being played too. For example... starring ZA and ZW.and the loser of the round would have to... Lick the table or kiss Garr's ass! (Garr has his jeans on of course)DrinksGuan Kai. Reminds of night firing!... and 2 animals that has escaped from the Night Safari.

Have a great year ahead Michelle!

A so almost perfect day.

2009-03-14T23:26:00.010+08:00

Firstly, was the Passing Out from BMT.

Then the midweek Champion's League which Liverpool trashed Madrid 4-0. I thought I had heat exhaustion when I read 4-0.

And I had a lot of great food. Chicken Rice in Ang Mo Kio with ahhui, after the yong tau fu store in AMK was closed for the day. In total 2 person had 2 plate of chicken rice, a bowl of soup, a bowl of rice, one plate of fried chicken, 6 deep fried toufu and 2 cups of sugarcane. Only one phrase to describe the feeling: Fucking full!
Chicken rice. Not too bad I'd say. Some stalls have fantastic rice but the chicken wasn't good, or the chicken was superb, but the rice was.. crap. I'm quite glad to say both are above average. Just look for a super long queue chicken rice in Ang Mo Kio!
Chicken.. and rice. They ran out of chicken ends.. and somehow chicken skin too!Chilli. So So.Their speciality garlic dunno what sauce. I didn't really like it though its not too bad.Toufu. Eat it while it is hot and the-crispy-on-the-outside-soft-on-the-inside feel and the cucumber (which was spammed) and the sauce really combine to a deadly effect.Fried chicken. For 4 fucking bucks, the serving is pathetic, but taste wise.. it's really not a bad dish. What ahhui and I finished. It's kinda hard to believe that 2 skinny people like us can down so much food in that hour. We queued up for almost 45minutes, so we thought, "Heck! Might as well as make the most of it!" So we made the most of it by ordering most of the food. Pity they ran out of organs though.Venezia ice cream at some random cold storage. Not bad.

NTU open house today.. nearly bore me to death. Somehow the environment feels kinda dead to me, so probably won't be the ideal school. Will attend the NUS talk and make a decision.. hopefully as I can be quite indecisive at times.

The ride there was a bore. Only Wan Lin and Benny was with me until we reached Marsilling before the rest joined up. Had pepper lunch.Beef Steak. I think I make a pretty bad chef. All my slices of beef all tasted different!
Since we were there, how could we miss out on Kuromitsu! But I think it wasn't as nice as
the one I had last time!Visited porky today. He broke his leg last week or something. Somehow he tore his ligament after falling down. ZA says he was rolling on the floor and can't get up. So it ended up in a casr and god knows how is he going to book in tomorrow.

Met him for dinner along with ZA and Garr. Plain rice with
and andandAnd with Liverpool winning Man U at OT with a scoreline of 1-4.. It was almost a prefect week!

How to get distinction in Economics...!

2009-03-12T15:14:00.003+08:00

POP lo!

2009-03-11T22:02:00.004+08:00

POP today.

Almost had a CAT1 today, but there wasn't. So at least our hours of practice wasn't really wasted.

Monday was the last time I saw my rifle with butt number Y220, and today we had to use other rifles. Damn sad ah I tell you. Felt nothing like MY rifle. When I used my rifle during the rehearsal there was hardly any cock up. Today change rifle only 2 cock ups. Zzz. No wonder they call your rifle, your wife.

A little bit of history: During my confinement week in BMT I got my rifle like on the 7th day. One night I was commenting that "7 more days to book out!" and my rifle which I placed standing upright... suddenly fell to my shoulders. It was perfectly fine for the past 10 minutes. That's how I fell in love with my rifle!

Back to today. Somehow taking someone else's rifle.. doesn't feel very right. Hope the next person that uses my rifle will take good care of it!

Either way. Passed out (not the fainting one) from BMT today. Would like to thank whoever is above for blessing me with cool session mates, especially the commando calibre gay which I always do stupid things with and of course my buddy who always puts up with my nonsense (though I'm not exactly close to him).. and my commanders who have been very patient with us, especially my SECCOM, who always think he isn't strict enough but he still is a very nice lad and we always listen to him!

24km at an unusual pace today nearly wiped killed me lol. Our route march also features the modified version of When You Believe by Mariah Carey, which goes something like this.

'There can be miracles, when you believe.
He never do field camp, he never dig trench.
He didn't pass SOC, he failed IPPT.
But in the end, he still POP!
You will when you believe."

I think whoever invented the song was a genius.

A level results and a 215 gathering

2009-03-06T22:04:00.007+08:00

16km route march was both siong and fun at the same time. Woke up at 2am and didn't sleep throughout except the 5 minutes on the fast craft. Got back, showered, got changed and went to meet WR and Russ for lunch. Had chicken rice at a coffeeshop behind Yishun MRT. A slip of paper. Not sure what does A stand for, 3.5 stands for the cost, 37 was the table number.Chicken rice! Not too bad actually.

Went back to YJC. Missed every single detail on how the school performed. When I reach people was preparing to go upstage. As compared to the O's, I wasn't shaking like a motherfucker this time round, but still, was expecting a CCC kind of grade until I asked my CT how did I perform...

Not too bad he said, bar the GP.Okay.. GP was really fucked. Elephant, but I was prepared for an S actually. Econs and Maths was neat, though I didn't really expected that. Chemistry and Physics was more or less expected. But that GP, urgh! Not sure if I can get into psychology with that sort of score!

Just when I thought I was over the moon for a silver in my IPPT.

Yeah, I finally got silver. Screw the gold... for now.

The breakdown for IPPT is as followed.

Chin Up: 8
Sit Up: 40
SBJ: 243
Shuttle run: 9.5X
2.4km run: 10:11

I was offered a shot for gold, but I was like, heck! I can't do 2 more chin up and run 40 seconds faster!
For dinner? Mini dinner of sort. Soso only, and its nothing near filling.Bill.. and Daniel was nice enough to treat us. Before he collected his cert he said that if he can qualify for a local uni with his grades he would treat us to dinner (still going Aussie though).. and he was a man of his words!Thanks for the meal Daniel, have fun in Aussie!

215 gathering (a decent one with a attendance of 10 odd) after quite some time. Met at Clarke Quay. Singapore river. Clarke Quay in the afternoon is kinda boring actually.

When everyone arrived, we headed to for our dinner(Somehow I missed the A). Azabu Sabo probably meansin Chinese. But it hardly looks like azabu sabo from where we are sitting.Dinner. Some beef thingy and I only knew the order as 505.The rice, there's like 5 different types of rice for you to choose if you order a set meal, which I did.Beef, cucumber, onions and one unidentifiable. The beef was excellent. Had this for dessert. Chocolate sundae. I thought this was not bad. There's like kiwi, watermelon and honeydew for fruits.Free flow of green tea. Bill... and Janice's finger.

Took a group photo and realized that JD's shirt actually reflects light when a picture is taken. Photoelectric effect. Fuck sciences hahahahaha. Probably will not want to do them anymore in my life.

Wasn't full (some gasp at the fact and asked if I'm kidding/does my stomach have a hole/are my intestine straight all sort of crap) so I went to the basement to get a quick fix. Got myself at Since it looked like the only decent thing around there...

No more calamari rings, so I have to settle for cheese sausage with mash potatoes. [Actually choosing the calamari rings was probably a bad choice, it comes in 15, probably I'll only have like 2 and the rest will end up in other's stomach.]When I ordered that Daniel and Janice went off. When I finished it Daniel and Janice came back and asked why didn't I get anything. I said I finished my sausage with mash potato he was like 'wtf that thing is so hot and you finished it so fast?!'. Come to think of it the sausage was actually quite hot.

Soccer today. Slacked quite a fair bit. Was clearing the drainage with GK and we saw a toad lol. Quite rare to see one there! After soccer was lunch at Qi Le.To have our national dish!
The chicken rice. The ji wei (chicken ends) were good. The rice was really bad but the soup made up for it. The chili is good too!I used to think that chicken drumsticks were the best part of the chicken. After eating the ends I think they beat the drumsticks hands down. Wee Khuang taught me that.

I'm passing out soon, so I got to bring back most of my stuff. At least like 95% is back home already... including my thirsty hippo. Didn't occur to me I could throw it away in camp! But either way, since it is back.. ever dissected the hippo before?9 weeks of BMT. One thirsty hippo down. And the inside of the hippo is.. Liquid. Loads of liquid. I wouldn't call it water since it didn't look like one. More of a yellowish and slightly gluey liquid. God knows what's inside.

3 more days to POP~!

Tiramisu (!!) and Seafood harvest and Zouk

2009-03-01T11:13:00.007+08:00

I've been wanting to eat Tiramisu for the past 6 weeks! But due to the lack of time I kept postponing the chance to eat it. Ironically speaking yesterday was the day I had the least time as a civilian, but I managed to eat it.Decided to go back to Ristorante De Parma (with the same person, Yik) for my fix.. and I didn't regret that choice. Surprisingly, a lady there actually identified me as the owner of this blog because of my last tiramisu post, but of course it's easy to identify me.. since my head was shaved again. That being said, I totally enjoyed the tiramisu to the very last bite like before, before I met up with Js, Serene and HS for dinner at Seafood Harvest.

This is how I actually look like now, with my hair increibly short.Taken by my dearest aunt, Serene!

JS and I was forced to camwhore (lol), majority of the pictures are with my aunt and would update them as soon as I have them.We got so bored that we actually decided to take photos of cameras. Lightings. Garlic bread which they served, and our multicoloured drinks.Passion Fruit, Strawberry (I think), Sky Blue (what a name) and Kiwi.

Main Course: I forgot the name, but this was sure nice! Some grilled fish, calamari rings and potatoes.

Rushed down to meet ZA and co over at Zouk. Not much of a club person, just there since all of them were there and for the drinks!And they have this lighting which made all white clothings blue! Quite cool eh.

It's book in time soon!

2009-02-22T01:08:00.008+08:00

Hougang with Lian Hui just now; with the promise of certain good food which ahhui ate yesterday and didn't mind eating today again. Shows how good it is and I must say it is really good. [Somehow the picture shrunk.. I have no idea why]Pork Rib noodles. This was absolutely good but not something I will eat 2 days in a row though. Pork ribs. There were no bones. Somehow the bones were cooked till so soft that it actually has a jelly like texture and melts in the mouth. Some good stuff.Another thing we had was the dumpling soup. Doesn't come cheap; 4 pieces of dumpling costed us $2.50. But looking at the amount of filling and the size [size DOES matter!], I must say it's pretty worth it. Tasted good too!As you can see they don't stinge with the filling.. I could eat another bowl of it without any issue.

Was at outdoors with 2 commandos and 1 infantry later on. Wanted to eat there but we had other plans. So Commando Dou and I ended up ordering some chicken bits instead. Chicken bits indeed. Really small.Chicken bits with mayonnaise.

Ended up at Ambrosia instead. Had some Middle East like food. Donner Chicken Kebab. Commando Js loved his beef version. I didn't really enjoy it but it was still an experience.Ice blended orange juice or something. This was fantastic. Loved it. I also loved this picture as somehow the dark background gave extra focus to the orange juice, making it more outstanding. Loved it. Somewhere in the picture lies Infantry Russ too.

Booking in in probably another 16 hours or so. It's my 7th week into BMT. Really learnt quite a fair bit in the army. Hate to say it but time does fly, as a recruit at the very least. I'm almost 80% done with my BMT, it seems like last week when I just enlisted. Soon I'll POP, and ORD.

I'm still uncertain with *certain* issues, the usual BGR issues, the money is never enough issue and the odd issues that surface occasionally. Issues like what snacks to bring back to camp and the likes. But I'm thankful for the friends that whoever is above has blessed me with, for they are always there when I needed them!

Soccer as usual this weekend. Before that met Alvin for breakfast.
Ba Chor Mee again! I don't get sick of this somehow.

After soccer bala went crazy and decided to show off his boxers...And I want one too! Damn cool manzxs.

SOC, sibei jiak lat , IPPT lagi worse!

2009-02-20T22:36:00.004+08:00

The title sums up my week in tekong.

Though I somehow managed to clear my SOC, during the trial SOC 2 days ago, I fell from the parallel bars and i could only manage 3 chin ups, thus failing my IPPT! My 2.4km timing dropped again, this time to 10.21. 9.44 is not too far off now!

This week has beena relatively boring week, range is next and I can get prepared to pass out!

Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th.

2009-02-14T09:17:00.003+08:00

Once again, nothing much can be elaborated except for the fact that after my SITEST, my chances of going to OCS seems to have felt the effects of the financial crisis too. To make things worst I actually fell sick on my 2nd day of the SITEST but i didn't report sick or so what, but well, it's over.

Friday the 13th was kinda good day for me, at least i managed to pass my IPPT this time round. Results (Kinda lousy, but well..)

Shuttle Run: 9.56s
Chin Ups: 6
Standing Board Jump: 234cm
Sit Ups: 41
2.4km: 10min 58sec

Far cry from what I want to achieve by the end of BMT, and I was just like 2 chin ups away from my silver. Hope that by the next IPPT I can do 8, and finally 10 and run my 2.4km in like 9 min 44 seconds, ceteris paribus (Wow long time since I last used this word!)

Booked out from camp and it's back to civilian life. Military life is sure an eye opener, but I don't think I will really wana sign on in the military (may this opinion change soon?). First thing was to meet Porky for dinner at Botak Jones (The cheaper alternative to Manhattan Fish Market) before I meet Wee Khuang to collect some stuffs, had a drink, before I went to look for ZA.

We had a long talk, 3 hours talk. Talking about everything under the sun. Issues, soccer, gossip, why both us hated war, and a lot more. It's nice to know that there are people there for you in times of need. Reached home at 4am, and I woke up at 8am.

Today is Saturday, 14th of February, Valentine's day. As usual, nothing much on this day, just another day I let is slip by probably. A years ago this day, Alvin and I planted ourselves at Novena Mac teaching the usual bunch of people Maths. 365 days ago I also did some ball-less stuff to which I regretted like fuck even till today.

Field Camp

2009-02-07T00:48:00.005+08:00

Back from field camp. Not too bad. Haha. Can't elaborate much else I'll get charged under military law.

But it sure was an experience to go through. The BIC especially ah. Never did that in my entire life until yesterday. Powder bath and pull underwear ah. Some people actually turned snowman and best part show PS his ass. Haha. First blood shitting in the wild also ah. Quite a fun experience in all.

Met ZA for lunch today. Din Tai Fung.

Once ranked as one of the Top Ten best Restaurants worldwide by The New York Times, the original Din Tai Fung in Taiwan has opened branches all over Asia and the United States. With its famous signature xiao long bao and steamed chicken soup, this authentic Taiwanese restaurant makes waves in Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and United States.

Source: http://www.singapore-restaurant.com/2007-01-13/din-tai-fung.html

Lunch was this. Forgot the exact name. Prawn dumpling noodles I guess. Not bad.

Since we are there, how can we miss out on Xiao Long Baos?! This was acutally pretty neat and there's instruction on the back of the chopstick wrappings to teach you how to eat them haha.

Receipt. They added like 4 bucks worth of stuff which we didn't consume.

Book in tomorrow, SIT test on Sunday. Hoping to get into OCS.. hmmmm.

2009-01-27T22:30:00.002+08:00

Ben is booking out in like 13 days. And there are jokers who bring 12 rolls of toilet paper, protein shake, and field camp soon!

Happy Chinese New Year!

2009-01-27T09:44:00.002+08:00

Typical of us to go visiting again and see my lost lost cousins (despite seeing them just yesterday for our reunion dinner). ZA claims that he has no reunion dinner because his parents disowned him. Some of the images.

Cousins

More cousins

Still cousins

Even more cousins.

[The last 2 pics portray 3 overhyper devils that can probably destroy any single toy, hit and push and single person in the world irregardless of race, language or religion and runs about all the ensuring a sure pass in IPPT for 2.4km should you attempt to chase them. That being said, we still love them.]

And how can they forget cards in the new year?! [Ah Ni Jie Jie and I quit gambling some time ago]

Whoever is above in the skies probably loved this festive season too.. and there was reports of an eclipse over here. Magnitude of 0.8, meaning the sun would be covered up partially, leaving only 20% of the sun at it's peak.

Managed to catch that tiny bit of the eclipse because it was so freaking cloudy here[I recall seeing one when I was quite young], no camera, so no pictures. But thankfully DigDub from EDMW has some... [Pictures used with author's permission.]

This is the initial SUN. Taken with UV filter and CPL filter. Sounds impressive but I have no bloody idea what on Earth they are, but I plan on getting a DSLR in the future!

Clouds starting to surround the sun..

And it begins a little from the bottom left!

More of the Sun is being eaten up!

The Sun now looks more like a Moon.

This looked like a crescent in the Singapore flag, except that it is facing the opposite direction.

More clouds.

Probably before the climax!

Probably the climax!

If I'm not wrong there's also one on the Feb 9th, so do keep a look out for it!

ANNOUNCEMENT

2009-01-24T22:26:00.002+08:00

FOR 215'08 people

Start of my army life

2009-01-24T02:39:00.003+08:00

14 days was spent in camp, away from Jenny, away from home and away from civilization. Adaption period, surprisingly, passed relatively fast, probably due to the amount of activities that is in store for us.

Platoon mates are nice people, bunk mates are bunch of jokers and I got the dreaded tekong cough. Bad cough, I can't even sleep well on my last night there; though I was pretty much thinking of my civilian life already.

Due to the strict rules about blogging, I can't possibly reveal much of what I have done there, though I did fit in well for most of the trainings better than expected. Drills learned in NCC are useful, along with the future use of C&C (Command and Control) - I actually can remember my drills and spot mistakes made (deliberately) by ICs or the CSM.

DA did a mini counter of sort: POP in 45 days, ORD in 652 days!

If the 45 days pass as fast as my first 14 days, then it shouldn't be a problem surviving BMT, but since training in progressive, it is very much of a possibility that I will not be able to handle the trainings as well as now. Field camp coming up, and my hope of getting into OCS is still very much alive, and I am very well aware that should I get into OCS, the trainings I am receiving now would probably pale in comparison.

45 more days to go!

Day 7

2009-01-15T21:24:00.002+08:00

Ben's stamina has dropped beyond all recognition. Stars can be seen from Tekong. Platoon mates are nice, bunk mates are cool! His whole section fail ippt trial!

-Ben

2009-01-12T22:09:00.002+08:00

ahhui here! Blogging on behalf of Ben who went in to tekong on 9 Jan, an island where boys enter and men leaves o.o

This is probably what he looks like now:

i'll update when he tells me more about his encounters o.o

oh, and he say there's lots of bees in his bunk!

My last tiramisu before I enlist

2009-01-08T23:25:00.005+08:00

Chomp chomp today with Yik Jiun. Actually we weren't supposed to be there but the shop I wanted to go to was closed (temporary), so we decided to chill there before it opens.

Okay, so I dreamed today that I ordered a tiramisu from Han's, and this old lady was very happy that I ordered it. And then I woke up... with a very strong urge for tiramisu (I had some previously but it wasn't even 10% of this super strong urge). So I woke up, went to ieat to see some good yet near places (prices are not really a factor since during that period of time I was a lil more than 24hours from enlisting). And I decided on Ristorante de Parma... and I never looked back and regretted that decision depsite it burning a BIG hole in my pocket.
This baby cost me $12.90 before additional charges. About $14.20 after GST and service charges. Pricey? Yes. Worth it? Hell yes!

For 14 bucks, it was certainly bigger than the usual slices. Generous with their cheese and there's coffee liquor accompanying it, I can hardly think of anything that would make it even better. Maybe a good bottle of wine accompanying it and my best friend would bring it to perfection, but for 14 bucks, it's hell worth it. This is the kind of food that I can travel from one end of Singapore to the other end without complaining once the urge comes up.

What ieat said..

"At first, I thought it would be enough for two people, but when you start eating it, I think one portion might not be enough"

... and I fully agree with it.

Enlisting tomorrow, any updates would be done by ahhui. He'll be reporting for me for the 2 weeks at least (damn confinment), so any updates would be done through him when he's free.

See you guys in 2 weeks time. The next chapter of my life is about to unfold.

title-less post

2009-01-06T10:11:00.009+08:00

Was atFor some Yong Tau Fu!This yong tau fu costed 5 bucks. I have no idea how Wee Khuang and I could actually finished it, We had like 9 items inside with beehoon lol.Their chili and sweet sauce. Not bad but can be better.

That was extremely filling.. but a itchy mouth means we arrived atHe said the best things here is the escargot and the mashed potatoes. Escargot... filled with buttery taste. Well its not bad.. but i rather have my butter prata anytime.What's inside the shell. Potato. With bacon and mayo. This was not too bad.

Sunday morning with a bowl of ba chor mee before soccer. First it came without meat and with 6 fishballs. Then it came with meat and 2 fishballs. Weird. The soccer last Sunday marked the last soccer with the usual people before I enlist this Friday. In total before NS I've scored a pathetic goal (with them) and I hit the bar more times that I actually scored(with them). [I scored 6 goals in all the games I've played in, while hitting the bar/bounced on the line at least 4 times - some lame career statistic]In view of my National Service, I was presented with a NEW PHONE!

Yesterday was our sending off party for Bala (who enlisted this morning - that lad's probably botak now) and Albert (unable to attend) over at Jalan Kayu prata house. There were a lot of suprise visitors. One even commented that 'we are eating what he has been eating everyday'. Quite a lame thing but it's actually true. I was using my new phone which was incoporated with a zero terapixle camera phone with lenses so big that one calls it a screen as pictured above. The design is flawed in such a way that you can't actally capture any pictures, so no pictures of Jalan Kayu was captured.

Edit: took this pics from ZW's blog (used with author's permission and everything is intact).

Note: Not seeing a clone, Guan Yu and Guan Kai are twins.

And no, I am not making a political speech and the GMT +8 is a jibe at him for always being late.

The next time we play soccer Bala, Albert, Kai Vearn and I would have no more hair, and Alvin has already fell victim to the man holder the shaver.

Happy 2009!

2009-01-01T04:43:00.010+08:00

Final moments of 2008 was spent in eski-bar with ZA, Garr, Albert, Alvin and Jeffrey.

As the name suggest it's cold, but it's a pretty decent concept. It's -0.9 degree celsius (yes it's colder than Genting) over there. The best part about this freezing temperature is that your beer will never get cold! But somehow a streak of genius of mine means I actually managed to destroy (kinda) my Corona Extra [which we found out that we were extremely ripped off at a later stage] by dropping the lemon given into the bottle!

But it wasn't so bad after all. The beer taste was preserved, and there's a lemon aftertaste.

This is how the beer is kept cold. Interesting concept.

A snowman I drew there.

As it was freezing cold in eski-bar and we couldn't find a seat, we went to another bar next to it and we ordered a bottle of champaign to welcome the new year! [It was a big rip off too!]

And we after 2009 arrived, Garr and I popped the champaign (and it overflew). Cheers to one and all for a great year ahead! It was like 12.45am when we left the place and none of us wanted to reach home so early. We ended up near Parthi's house [Jeffrey left early] and this was spotted.

And this was played with agendas of humiliating each other! The first time was doing some push ups. Suddenly ZA went mad and decided to go mad and made the plastic bag seen above into a face mask. We then agreed to get the 'loser' of the round to wear the plastic bag and dance to it. It came back to haunt him.

Our first casualty for sarcastic punishments.

As you can see.. and can forget his lines some more!

Garr wanted to take a photo with ZA. The plastic would soon come back to haunt him.

After having a good laugh at ZA, he was next. That was about the suay-est part. The next few videos/pictures are not posted in any particular order.

Alvin lost the round.. so...

And his punishment was...!

To dance around the lamp post with his hands up! The middle finger was his own idea.

Albert. He had to say 'I love you' to the post, hug it and grind the post.

Neither was I spared.

I 'had' a 'boner' on the post. Looked more like pregnant though.

Ze An and his proposal to a pillar. Ultimately he was rejected.

His first few words were 'xiao jie duo shao qian' (Miss, one night now much?) before pole dancing around the pole before he verbally abused someone.

Garr and his alter ego... as a butterfly. Due to environmental considerations, we used dead leaves. And it lasted not more than 3 seconds.

Last video. Featuring Garr and his frog jumpings! There's one more of Albert doing push ups, but it's with ZA.

Happy new year!

Rounding up 2008

2008-12-31T01:31:00.006+08:00

Beehoon. Toa payoh branch. Beside a goreng pisang stall (which Wee Khuang says sells the best in Singapore). This was not bad. Beats the normal one you get definitely. The soup was what stood out.

Was at Golden Mile Food Center today.

Had this. Fried fish with sliced fish. One can taste the superb marination in both types of fish. The only complaint I have is that there are bones in the fried fish. The fried fish was towards the salty side, which I loved it.

Okay. So what is really unique about this is seen above, the usually ching soup is replaced by an unusually un-ching soup. Super different from any other base, and its super nice too!

Their chili. Home-made. Beats any other form of fish soup chili hands down and this was great.

and take note. They have weird opening hours. And I was there. And by the time I finished up portion, it was sold out already.

A kopi-c and toasted bread was next. Singapore's traditional breakfast. There's a story behind this. The man making this was actually retrenched. And spent 2000 (or was it 3000?) bucks to learn how to make coffee. And my, spending thousands to make coffee, it makes really good coffee!

Coffee. Aromatic. Smooth. Fantastic.

The bread. Home made kayak. You know Ya Kun breads? It's similar. It's more amazing! Ya Kun bread has a hard toasted bread but this time, this bread has the crispy feeling, yet there's a soft bite to it. It's hard to describe the feeling. Taste it to believe it. A set (consisting of 2 slices of bread and a cup of kopi) cost $2.40 if I remember correctly.

Katong Laksa! This is a $4 version and I must say it's one of the, if not the, best laksa around. This was sure good. Much much better compared to the puny serving I had over at Expo during the food fair.Fish and chips. While I wasn't expecting much for a fish and chips that costed me $8.50, this certainly falls far behind standard. Not something I will ever want to have again.Soup of the day. Same case over at Cafe Cartel. I hated it. Garr loved it.

That bowl of laksa wasn't really filling for long hours. We soon found ourselves down to Han's.

Alright. Today is new year's eve. 2008 is coming to an end in less than 22 hours. This year has been much more different as compared to last year. Last year has seen my confidence crash (due to personal struggles) bad enough to make Wall Street shy in comparision and the start of this year has seen me steadily getting the confidence level back. 2008 is a relatively significant year for me.

This was the year where we managed to experience the shits 215'08 been through, shameless act of valentine's day (which I still kinda regret till today), the silly stuffs like being late collectively for Maths ASP (afternoon speical programme), disappearng acts from talks/MSP (Morning Special Programme), throwing smoke bombs, the change of Economics tutor (probably the most significant change of all that probably started the gaining back of confidence). From the highs of passing my first ever Chemistry block test and a pass in a major paper (Prelims) for Economics, to the lows of getting 15 for Mathematics (1o for pure maths and 5 for statistics) and depressing prelim grades. Not to forget the overnight studies we had in Boon Keng Mac, taking of alcohol when studying, and the actual A levels itself (which wasn't a smooth one), the academic side of 2008 was a mixed one.

The non-academic side was relatively stable. Nothing much but with an occasional inevitable hiccups. From the stupid class politics to the birthday celebrations, it's not exactly a smooth ride but nonetheless, unforgettable. Not to mention the regular weekly soccer sessions, the first day of 2008 where we were caught by police and on the 1st week of the Chinese New Year when I lost Mr Pouch (and getting him back) to the more recent events of slacking at Jamie's house and celebrating Christmas and later on, the new year.

Basically a slightly bumpy year, with the exception of the unhappy events, I hope the non-academic side of the year will be brought over to the years ahead, and may my 2 years in National Service and go past as fast as my last 2 years!

Blessed new year to one and all.

Cage

2008-12-29T02:37:00.004+08:00

Cage today was actually quite sad, as majority was late (Ze An was early - surprise surprise!).

Pre-match meal was a plate of wanton mee. Somewhere in Lavander food court and this was sure nice.

Some facts to amuse myself.

1. The longest winning streak this time did not last more than 3.

2. ZhiWei drew the first blood of the game.

3. Bala nearly smashed Garrett's family jewels.

4. There was a double ole which led to a goal.

5. If Bala doesn't play soccer, he could have been a good handball player after receiving orders from his team.

6. The 10 minutes rule was applied for awhile.

8. At the end of 10 minutes, 'last attack' was shouted instead of '10 minutes'

9. Somehow today everyone was quite tired.

10. #7 is missing.

11. A different uncle was selling the drinks today.

Superdog and X'mas gift exchange

2008-12-28T13:07:00.004+08:00

Was with ahhui near city hall the other day, and we saw this...!

We didn't know Mao Ze Dong is so hip that he actually wear earphones these days. In ear ones somemore!

We somehow ended up in Plaza Singapura (I seem to have this damn affinity with PS this year) and saw... Lin Chi-Lin!!!!!
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Some awareness thingy for an upcoming movie, Red Cliff 2. The sequel to Red Cliff. Releasing on the day when I am enlisting. Ta Ma De.
Full view of her costume.

Zhou Yu and on the reflection is ahhui with a big bimbotic smile plastered across his face~
His costume.. and not forgetting the man who prayed to heavens and somehow by a streak of luck, he got the wind. With that kind of luck maybe he should buy Toto this weekend and he can take the money and pay back the gods for their winds.

and his costume.
Was at superdog with Jingshen. That fella had his hotdog juice all over his hand (that sounds really wrong) after a few bites.

The place.. and on the paper was something interesting.

Presenting the

Do and Don'ts: Everyday guidance for eating America's sacred food.

Read for yourself. It's like Easter eggs you find in Grand Theft Auto.

I didn't just go there to read those. I had to eat something! (I'm seriously broke for this month)

My hotdog. Bacon Ripper. This was not bad at all! I hated their Iced Lemon Tea though. And I took like 8 bites to finish it haha.

Christmas exchange was at Jamie's house.

Jeff's present for me though a random gift exchange (the other half was a chocolate bar). It's sitting proudly in my room now haha.

Vincent's belt by WeiRui. Coincidentally, he got Wei Rui to buy that. It ended up with him instead.

The highlight at Jami'e house was Jamie's PS3 which we played Fifa09 on it. Daniel deserved a honorable mention by having like 8 one on ones with the keeper and either he did a Johnny Wilkinson by blasting over the bar, or he hit the post. 8 times. None went in.

Ubin trip

2008-12-22T23:21:00.004+08:00

Was in Pulau Ubin with my cousins today. (I'm not mentioning about Jiajun and mine ill fated event in Delifrance that had SiSi and Ah Ni Jiejie laughing their asses off)

On the boat to Ubin!

The signboard that greeted us.

And the first thing we went there was to rent bikes!

10 bucks for the 2 hours.

And we cycled and cycled till we reached Chek Jawa!

The signboards there.

And we walked on a long stretch of bridge.

Unfortunately it was high tide by the time was reached so there is only a few things to be seen. Blame it on the hard bread! (Internal Joke)

And they chose to camwhore there.

Ah Ni Jiejie decided to display her camwhore skills (you know that one, the one the girls can take photo of themselves by making the lenses face their direction with their arms outstretched one), and we decided to do stupid faces.

Another one. We had to hold in the positions shown above for like 329487296428375328472 hours to get it done.

The sea and some greenery.

The sea.

The sea with greenery with a bald tree grown out of nowhere.

Rocks.

Breathing roots?

Also on some parts of the bridge, they have this metal railing things. Looking down would allow you to see the sea and it's pretty fascinating the first time round.

We eventually ended up at a muddy place and that was where the fun starts.

We first saw these holes. As though something was buried under it.

See the little red things? Those are crabs. From far it was as though they are waving.

Another picture of it.

Jiajun and I (and later Sim Yi) decided to go down and explore.

We are trying to be very quiet as any small movement or noise do scare them.

Looking.

Crab. One of the best I can get as going too near to them or making sudden movements will make them retreat to their 'homes'. Reminds me of a pokemon called Krabby or something.

There's a mudskipper inside somewhere.

We saw even bigger holes! And there was even bigger crabs!

The bigger crabs.

We even saw Nipah on they way, twice! Their seeds are better know as attap chee.

Nipah.

Walked a little further and Sim Yi and I came across...

Spider!

We came across another bigger one this time. And there's a description!

Eventually ended up at the..

Treetop walk! This was quite tall.

At the top.

I swear I saw this coconut tree swaying.

Group photo there.

After all that, it was time to head back home. Cycling back was a chore as there was more downhill when we first came and these downhill turned uphill when we went back. What's best is when we went downhill, the roads were so bumpy that one needs to lift his/her ass away from the seat to make it more comfortable.

A view of the jetty.

In the boat.

Goodbye, Ubin! Hopefully I'll return to this place.

Rojak post.

2008-12-20T22:06:00.010+08:00

Was at Chuan Chuan (in chinese, I am too lazy to type chinese) with ahhui at vivocity.There's prawn ball, pig intestines and wanton. 5 bucks for 3.

Walked around and saw a National Geographic store there. Went in to see see look look.Balinese driftwood horses in Venice. This is actually for sale. Maybe jamie's house can display one of this.Wyoming fossil fishes. Said to be 50 million years old. It's pretty amazing to go almost face to face with this fossils (there's only a glass box surrounding it). As amazing as the cystals I saw in Genting. Pity there's only a handful of such stuffs.Radio? Sound system? Nope! Freezing chamber? Yes!I wonder what is this for. And if one actually touches the surface, it's cold. It was stated that the temperature inside is about, -15 degrees?Quite a nice lil thing to give for presents, but that's about it.

That being said, the national geographic store wasn't quite something I have expected it to be. I was expecting it to be more of a gallery with some merchandise beside sold, like that of the crystal gallery. Sad to say, it was more of a commercialized stall with little things to be seen but tons of things to be bought. Didn't stop Singaporeans from going in though.

Suki Sushi with Wee Khuang and his bro in the afternoon. Soft shell crab. This was nice. Rough idea of what we ate.

Our dearest best friend was down with flu, phlegm, fever, cough and sore throat. 5-in-1 combo. He claims he's starving to death, and after I told him not to die before I get a girlfriend (for now) else I'll be bored to death, he's out with me for late dinner. Five star for chicken rice. It was good. White chicken is mine, black chicken is ZA's. The white was better according to ZA. He said the roasted chicken was a lil too dry.Steamed chicken. This was good, but not as good as Boon Tong Kee.Roasted chicken. I must say it did look, and tasted a little dry.Rice. Fragrant and it doesn't stick together. Full set. The soup was alright.

Walked around in Thompson Plaza and we ended up at...Donut Empire!Wang and Silly-Mon.

Made to replicate Donut Empire's iconic logo of a Chinese coin, Wang is filled with juicy mango puree and custard, and topped with mango glaze. Like the name suggest, it is sure to bring prosperity to all!

Silly-Mon. Cinnamon with White Chocolate.

-information courtesy of www.donutempire.com.sg

And my, Wang is really good. Mango lovers like me should love it. Silly-Mon was so so only. But Wang was REALLY GOOD!!!! The mago and the chocolate complemented each other excellently.

Let's hope ZA gets well soon as soon as possible.

I can't think of a title.

2008-12-17T23:10:00.007+08:00

Was at cafe cartel one of the days (can't remember when). I remembered it as the day when I was supposed to catch The Day The Earth Stood Still with ZA, Garr, Bala and Porky. Our butts ended up at the seats in cafe cartel instead of cinema seats!Soup of the day. Garr loved it, Alvin and I hated it for some reason.Er, Fish and Chips. No match for Botak Jones, or Mad Jacks for sure. But their salad was pretty neat.

One sight I got during the chalet.Extremely disgusting sight of the seas. There was like 4 colours. Would make a perfect art piece though, since the colour blends into each other beautifully. The irony. Lepak with Jingshen and Jeff. Wei Rui was supposed to come, however he claimed he had a stomachache and has seen the toilet more times then he saw the light that day, he did not turn up. I bet he wears shades at home. As you can see, it's mussels. While it was nice, it certainly didn't match the one I had during Bala's birthday.

And yesterday, we went to the place where we usually go for buffet (when we have no where else to go). That place is called sakae sushi. I'm getting pretty sick of it, and while my good friend who suggested this place wanted to back out, neither Garr nor Batam wanted to eat elsewhere, we had to settle down at that place.

It turned out more of a laugh session (as usual). With Garr and his 'some people no brain and still spilling the sushi' theorem, ZA and his 'add more wasabi to his sashimi (which was incredibly awful) and end up choking himself' theory, Leo and his super lucky getaway when the soya sauce nearly dripped on his jeans (he claimed that he has no shorts as all shorts were washing) and the suggestion that CCTVs should be placed in there to prevent wastage (along with staffs who saw our actions would literally ROFL), we left Garr to pay his bills (he settled all by nets as he had no cash and god knows why he did not want to withdraw money) by sneaking away from the backdoor.

The list for potential kidney failures now stands at SL, Garr, ZA, Ben possibly Guan brothers too.

Tried swimming. Left shoulder hurts for a week or so for no apparant reason. So we almost wasted 2 bucks in the swimming pool. Dinner (or rather late lunch) was at S11. Homemade noodles and the green monster was Ze An.$3.20. They sell noodles at $3.20 or $2.70. Wierd pricing but the food was nice. Their noodles wasn't too nice for my liking, but the wanton was neat.

Sinseh after that. My problematic left shoulder was miraculous cured at 20 bucks. But my shoulder had 2 new marks.2 new markings on the arm. Looked likeon my arm.

Cage

2008-12-14T07:50:00.003+08:00

Was at cage from 11pm. A few amazing things were seen. SL, Jeffrey, Parry and I formed a team, and the fifth person was randomly chosen when needed. A few random facts.

1. Our group went on an amazing 6 to 7 match winning streak. That was probably the longest one throughout the game.

2. SL did not concede any goals when I was playing in front of him till the last minute during the winning streak. He was perfect until the last minute when he threw the ball to Nick and Nick finished it off and thus dumping us out.

3. There was only 3 words coming from almost everyone's mouth if they spoke after SL's deadly throw. They were called What The Fuck.

4. After SL decided to call a day since his arm was uh, going to be dislocated, we changed keeper and amazingly, we had no more winning streak for quite a while.

5. When I played in front of Alvin, he conceded for the first time. Later we managed to go on a mini winning streak of sort.

6. The last match of the day ended up in a draw because time was up.

7. ZA won the super-sub of the day award. He came in for about a minute, his opponent had a free kick, he said that he played for the opponent and despite other's rejecting his claim, the ball was at his feet when the ball was kicked and he scored.

8. According to ZW, I was the smelliest because I exited the cage last. To cure it one must use dettol to wash, before washing off the smell in a supposedly godlike manner by using a tuah peh kong statue which I had no idea how it worked.

9. 100 plus in a vending machine cost $1.10. There was another vendor around the area which sells for $1.

10. Fuck was probably the most common profanity used throughout the session.

Caught the match of Bacra VS RM over at Alvin's house in a half awoke state. I saw the penalty miss, the messy goal scored by Eto'o, and a sublime finish from Messi after Ze An moaned about the first, before his cheers woke me up for that last 2 before the replay showing that Cannavaro had smashed his head against the woodwork while trying to stop Messi's aforementioned shot.

My day was only tainted by the 2-2 draw for Liverpool. But since 3 of the top 4 where held to draws, it wasn't so bad. Chalet with my relatives a few days ago, but as of now I didn't receive any photos, but my, my cousins were a bunch of fun people to be around with. My thigh is cramping, my ass is painful and my ankle is a little sore after the cage.

Genting

2008-12-11T12:59:00.010+08:00

Supper on a Saturday morning (12mn ++), almost 5 days ago.

Caught the movie four christmases with a certain friend of mine, who shall not be mentioned. It was a funny show, but like The Love Guru, not much of a plot. A show great for laughs.

Wee Nam Kee on a Sunday afternoon after soccer.

My impression is that their standard dropped again.

Down to Genting on Monday. I had my ass on the seat for almost 8 hours, and soon potatoes were discovered underneath the seats. Also it was bloody cold over there, that their hotel rooms has no air con, just powered by natural cool air.

This was the situation.

Mist all over. So bad that their theme park had to be closed for a day.

Reached there some time in the afternoon and lunched at this place.

Had this. Looked really good, and that's about it as it tasted alright only.

Melamine ware!

And as far as I am concerned, the chicken rice over at Truly Asia was no match for their counterparts in Uniquely Singapore. Some things over there are better, but for chicken rice, any random food court standard food (which I hate) will probably taste better. But the ambiance there was nice.

Their lamps was pretty unique.

Saw this in a shopping center also.

World's first indoor theme park. Actually Malaysia does pretty amazing things too, like building a tourist attraction on the top of the mountain and getting your ass frozen after a 8 hours ride. Building that in Singapore would probably scare the living shit out of Singaporeans and it probably will get stomped. Why stomped? Cause a chicken was flying and eating a chocolate. Doesn't make sense to you? Not to me either! Same rational for stomping.

Different counties have different signboards on their escalators too. Their's was a lot less serious than that of Singapore.

Overview of Genting Highlands in model form.

Supper was at Marrybrown. Their chicken was nice! Much much better then the KFC of Singapore. In fact this trip confirmed the fact that Malaysia makes better fast food!

And I am under the impression that I am going to get a sore throat really soon (but that god I didn't)

Genting in the morning. The sight was breathtaking.

Breakfast. Their noodles was nice, but I didn't like their wanton.

Theme park was next. The queue was uber long. Their attraction seems to be the space shoot.

Basically they bring you up when you are feeling down (literally). Gotta queue 1 hour for that 3 seconds of trill.

Lunched, walked around and saw these.

Some of the things are as commonly seen as toilet paper, but to see them on on a large scale, and some even fermented was a truly eye opening experience, especially the rice one where it probably could be harvested as rice wine.

Another overview of Genting.

Dinner was at KFC. And the KFC there pwns the Singapore ones hands down. While the Singapore was a lot larger, and it was a lot more awful with the thick batter which tasted like uncooked flour. Not to mention dry chicken taste too.

Wasn't a fan of the original recipie, but the one over at Truly Asia was good. Their hot and spicy was even better.

Crystal Gallery after that. No photography allowed, so no pictures from me. Over there exist a 3 tonne crystal which glows in the dark. It's amazing and if you keep staring, it feels as though there is a heart beating in between and it's almost like a living thing.

Their salad was chunky and had the very raw vegetable taste, compared to the Singapore one where it is finer, but jucier. I'd pick the Singapore version.

On another morning where it rained badly.

Half completed building.

Breakfast. Okay, not much of a differnece as compared to Singapore. Somehow they ran out of hot water for that day...

Dorayaki! This was nice in a cold day.

Their toilet had a frog which said shoot me. Maybe Singapore should try doing that also.

Snacks, this was nice beyond description.

Last meal in Truely Asia.

And this was for lunch. Fantastic.

Boring

2008-12-04T21:58:00.006+08:00

Okay... fuck this. 4th of December. Somehow a day I can't seem to forget, and today marks the 440th post in existence (I'm dreading this). My life as of now is better than before the A's, but it is incredibly and extremely boring.

No updates for the past 4 days (argh) because there wasn't really anything to be excited about, absolutely nothing, other than gaming and the occasional mangas that come by. Other than that it's just occasional gyming and swimming, not helped by some rusty joints (though as of now none broke). When December 12 arrive, the poly people have their break and maybe my life would get more exciting, probably more exciting than this post. Cow and Porky gona enlist soon and Chin Hong has already went in.

Life's really bad when one has nothing to do. Probably I'll drop that dream of retiring at 40 years old for now, else I'll be bored to death. Football hasn't been great either, though as of now Liverpool sit proudly on the top of the table despite a mini slump of form. Seems that in this season their traditional slump during November has not hit them yet.

And I'm hooked onto the song Love Story by Taylor Swift. It's time to edit the playlist again!

Edit: Some missing pictures. Was at giraffe one of the days.

MPB came back from Japan the other day, and he bought us some Royce chocolates, and it was pretty damn good!Tong Ge's food at giraffe.Mine, this wasn't too bad actually.

Headed down to Plaza Sing which was nearby. Didn't get the snack though. And saw this GIANT structure (and re-injuring the injured ankle in the process while taking photos of it)The giant structure made up of Evian water!

YTH some other day, and I accidentally ordered the soup version (I was thinking of the dry version but somehow screwed it up)Not called special chili for no reason, it's really special! Try it to believe it!

Happy brithday Bala, Alvin and Simin!

2008-11-30T03:44:00.005+08:00

We only celebrated Bala's, and we celebrated on November 29th since Sunday would be busy for most (projects, school etc). Attendance today was Bala, Ze An, Garrett, Leonardi, Partiban, Shun Li and I. Guan Brothers and Nick joined later. Fish and co was the place. While waiting for the rest to arrive, we had Calamari rings andGarlic and Lemon Butter Mussels. The calamari rings wasn't too bad, but I'll pick the Garlic and Lemon Butter Mussels over it any day. It was like they said, irresistible. With a light amount of salt and pepper it made it even better. Loved it.New York Fish and Chips. It's the regular fish and chips with cheese hidden beneath the batter. Not too bad.

His birthday celebration!

Eh Bala don't shy, lah! He witness two people doing that and his eyes were O_O. He claimed that they had a birthday cake and he doesn't have one, so he thought he'll be exempted. But ZA and Burn had different ideas and when the Guan brothers came, they even asked the person there to hold one for Bala.

The cake. One moment ZA and Burn disappeared. Leonardi said they went to make cake, and indeed, out came a chocolate cake!

iBala. He is capable of talking nonsense, taking nonsense and brings racial harmony to a whole new level. Grab yours today!

Bala just came back from America few months ago, and my, he do miss America so much that...He had an America flag on his head! (Not sure if his hair smell of lemon afterwards)

After the celebration he found a new job!His first job was to investigate why did a bottle of coke ended up there. He wasn't paid the usual $6 for selling perfume (despite having an American diploma) but he managed to get a suspect by the name of HMK who was obviously innocent.

Chilled at Batam's house after that.