Monday 31 December 2007

Sunday 30 December 2007

I've discovered a penchant for sleeping at chalets. Especially the beds at the NSRCC, I've been there twice in recent weeks and I spent an enormously large proportion of my time there lazing in them. It isn't the boredom, its the ambience of the room and the extremely plushy bed.

Seb's birthday celebration wasn't much. The usual guys went to stay over and we had a heck of a time doing nonsense stuff. We crapped, yelled, and howlered our presence. The only notable thing i remembered from yesterday night was that i ended up in sebby's car boot when we went for dinner. It wasn't a favourable spot but for the greater good, I sacrificed myself. Anyway, my ability to fall asleep in unfavourable conditions, enabled me to enjoy the ride. The humps gave me jolts that i didn't really appreciate though.

Caught up with my jc classmates 2 days ago. We had dinner at ding tai fung. I received a bag, and haha, a pair of branded underwear. Expensive underpants. I'll probably have to let the whole world know I'm wearing it when I do. Otherwise whats the point?

The holidays are flying by really quick.

Wednesday 26 December 2007

I'm caught between 2 minds whether to feel satisfied and relieved with my results or to be pissed with myself for the amount of careless mistakes that I shouldn't have made. 4.1 should be simply satisfactory considering the fact that I knew most of my stuff. Especially MS, they should seriously consider letting us SU core subjects. B-. Now that drags everything down.

Oh well ur only as good as the next step you can take. So I'll just have to look forward instead back, can't retrace my steps even if I want to.


Investing is an art I am keen to get into, but it seems that with the market being so weak right now, I should just concentrate on building my knowledge about that, and hopefully when the time's right, I can finally start and build a habit of making my money grow instead of simply dissipating into the wilderness of the greater economy.

Time for bed...

Friday 21 December 2007

caught between rocks and hard places

should I or shouldn't I?

I watched the simpsons movie and there was this really funny scene with homer caught on a bulldozer ball and swinging between a rock and a diner called " a hard place".

Friday 14 December 2007

Happy Holidays

The holidays has been a crazy, tiring and nonetheless fun affair. I watched enchanted with shen on monday. That was after travelling all the way to the ICA to make myself a new passport (i had a retarded incident regarding that too but i'll leave that for later.) Enchanted was hilarious, and the ending's a little different from your typical fairytale although it was still a happy one. Anyway, shen must be enjoying herself in hk, so I've one less person to hang out with this week.

Tuesday, i attended MCR's concert. Thankfully Mr Tsin with his huge network of friends managed to get a queue jumper and we could stand near the stage and be nearer the band. I didn't really enjoy the concert considering all that squashing I was subjected to and Mr Tsin who was shaking his head and subjecting me to some hair in my mouth. It was a kiddy concert seriously, and I felt old being there, lots of secondary school kids with their ah beng tshirts and punk attitude. The band wasn't that bad, but in my opinion gerard grey's just too fat and gay in his tight shirt and jeans which were threatening to split any moment. Regrets: 95 bucks which i can never get back, getting squashed by children half my age but twice my size. Glad: The songs weren't too bad.

LIVERPOOL won MARSEILLE 4-0. Absolutely wonderful performance from the whole team, and Liverpool once again defied the odds to qualify for the next round. Simply fantabulous, the very reason why i love them to bits.

Wednesday, was a blissful day, I filled myself with so much dim sum during an afternoon buffet, it became something like 3 meals at a go. Hao gave us a birthday treat at YUM CHA. Ok, special thanks to him since its really unlike him to give treats. The buffet wasn't cheap too at 20++. The shirmps and scallops were on free flow, and our typical kiasu spirit was evident from the start, we devoured the baskets of dimsum with such fervour, we weren't really talking for the first ten mins. Oh it was 5 of us, sy, dave, hao, keith and me. We could hardly walk after the buffet, but we decided to make a trip down to clark quay and get a reservation for the big match on sun. Liverpool vs Manchester Utd. Its gonna be a nailbiting clash that I'll have to sit through. A match, which I can't bear to watch and yet need to.

Thursday was the first sunny day of the week, I got Mat to wake up at very very early hour to tan ourselves. The warren golf and country club is a really peaceful and quiet resort to relax for a day. The sun was shining and I think we overdid it a little with all that Sun. So now we're as red as roasted pigs. Its Christmas though, so nothing wrong with being a little radiant and festive to raise the spirits. haha. Had a dinner with the NDU guys in the evening at NYDC, first time I ever went to NYDC in the 21 years of my life, was great catching up, most of them are at NTU so I hardly get to chat with them. Caught hitman which was an action packed movie, and i really can't be bothered to describe it. 5 of us hung around till late. We went bowling at ECP, I struck a turkey haha, unbelievable and got 150 points! Then it was supper before tsin and me went to seb's house and had a boy's night out, slumber party style. That sounds gay, ok we just played x box and some mahjong and texas hold em, got too tired and fell asleep in seb's bed, which was humongous. Cos the 3 of us managed to sleep in it, and when tsin is one of them you can just imagine how big it is. His blanket was huge too. How can someone so small have such a large bed, like my bed is 1/3 the size of his.

Friday, I wanted to go to ICA to collect my passport. To my dismay, I went into the building got myself a queue number and sat there for 20 mins, then I realised I forgot to bring my old singapore passport. I was so fucking pissed with myself, i wanted to be mad! Oh well i didn't really have any choice but to make my way home. Slept away 3 hours, before I went to zouk for a ad hoc job. The pay was good at 10 bucks an hour. I didn't do much for the first 2 hours except to move some stuff. My job was to be a casino banker at dice. you know like "big or small". I was yelling throughout the hour I was working, and its quite amazing how people can get so excited over gambling. Some guy managed to showhand his way to an amazing 200 chips from a start of 5. I wonder what kinda luck he had on his side. The boss for the event management company didn't want to pay us ot. But asked us to have food and drinks on the house. So gee, wei lun and me had a crazy time eating non-stop and drinking alcohol and coke. It was worth it in the end. In fact, I also got a chop on my hand for zouk so technically, i have free entry now. But clubbing's not fun alone so I'm back home typing this entry.

Ok, thats all for this week need to spend more time with my bed. I miss you.

Sunday 9 December 2007

I'm Old.

I celebrated my 21st birthday yesterday. It was an exhilarating affair, coupled with surprises, lots of food, and a trip around the island with a barney balloon.

Tsin called me on the morning of 7th dec, and wished me happy belated birthday. Haha, it was a hilarious situation, and he started cooking up some nonsensical story about wanting to be the first to wish me happy birthday. Anyway, its the thought that counts, so I'm grateful for such a fine friend.

On the evening of the eve of my birthday. I met up with some of my sec 4 classmates and had a nice reunion with them at sakae sushi, wheellock. Kian hao, siang yuan, keith, donovan and yee chwan, thanks for the simple celebration. Hao, next week's your turn to treat. After our short dinner, I went to meet seb, tsin and Ivan at marina square, we walked around before we went for a drink at Chijmes. They charged us 75 bucks for 4 glasses of beer, absolute madness if you ask me. At first the waitress was saying they had 20% off for all drafts, but I think it was more like a 20% markup in the end. Maybe they pegged beer prices to petrol prices. Its crazy how oil prices have been rising recently, 60 bucks used to be sufficient for a full tank. Now its up to 80 bucks. Anyway, I decided I didn't want to miss the train home, taking a taxi home alone at midnight wouldn't be a very prudent choice for my small pockets. So we parted ways around 1145 and I spent the first ten minutes of my birthday on an mrt train.

Got home and felt hungry, so I met Shen and Clarence for supper at lao pa sat. I had my first birthday "cake" from them. It was 2 ben and jerry's ice cream. haah, very innovative. Clarence is going to China for his super long work attachment. I think I would get homesick in a week. I sent shen home and somehow missed the exit at tampines and ended up at changi airport again. Pretty retarded, considering it wasn't the first, second or third time this happened. We went for a walk around terminal 3, and it looked very modern and stylish. I think our airport terminals 1 and 2 are due for a makeover. If you happen to notice and ponder about the designs, they really look old and might very well be the one of the major reasons why we lost our status as the number 1. Our adventure at T3 lasted approximately an hour. Then it was time to go home. I realised I've had a lot less sleep since the exams ended. Roughly 3 hours for the past 4 days.

I got home around 5am. Slept in till 9am. Then my aunty came with this marvelous tasting chocolate cheese cake that she baked. So i dragged myself out of bed and wore a long sleeve shirt(it was with boxers though) just to take photos. Haha, my mum insisted on it, so I had no choice to but to oblige, everyone looked sleepy in the pictures though especially my sister, she needs like 12 hours of sleep everyday, I dun even know how one can sleep that much. Haha. But she's been a joy to me for the last 17 years, we chased each other around for hours when we were young, had our fairshare of quarrels, but the good thing is as siblings, the animousity and anger is forgotten as soon as its started.

My parents joked that they booked the entire boon lay raja restaurant for my birthday lunch. We got there very very early at 11am, so we were the only customers for the whole 2 hours we were there. We enjoyed excellent service, and the food was good, though I couldn't eat much since it was really early in the morning.

Ok, nows the exciting part of my whole birthday, I got home around 3pm and took a nap till 5pm. In between, I got calls from Jian Wei, pretending that he's going to be late for our dinner. So I didn't suspect anything. Mat and Shen, got Karmen to ask for my home add for rag, and I gave it(they wanted it to come to my house). I still didn't suspect anything. So at around 5:15pm, these 2 girls started storming into my room with a blueberry cheesecake(which mat baked and taste excellent). I was still bleary eyed cos I just woke up. I was surprised beyond words, i haven't had a birthday surprise in all 21 years of my life. Getting my first on my 21st birthday was definitely a heartfelt moment. Shen made me a very beautiful card, I think she can start a card shop or something. So zhai.

We went vivo for dinner, at first I thought it was going to be a dinner with jian wei, mat and shen. I was in for a surprise again. Haha, Dex, Karmen, Alan, and Zhen jie popped out from nowhere for surprise of the day number 2. I got a barney balloon from jian wei and I had to carry it around vivo city with the entire population looking at the crazy guy with a barney balloon on his hand. How embarassing, but it was quite funny to see small kids pointing to my balloon. I had to eat 2 pieces of sushi with a dollop of wasabi, i almost died. Tip of the day from Dexter: breathe in hard when chewing food with wasabi, its kills the spiciness to shoots up ur nose. It actually works, but anyway I was tearing alr, when I downed my 2nd piece.

Bowling at Safra was up next. It was an event organised by bizad club, (Im still carrying my barney balloon and walking around the bowling alley with it) I suck at bowling, haha, kept getting long kangs. Anyway, some smart person decided to tell the emcee jonathan to dedicate the barney song to me and it was blasted on the stereo. I seriously didn't know where to hide my face.... There was bingo at the end, but none of my friends won. After that Mat, Shen and me went to Brew werks to eat this cobb salad that we were talking about for a month since we started mugging together.

We took quite a number of photos together, Shen and Mat were getting a bit hysterical after drinking a bit. Next we went to Mat's house to catch Reading vs Liverpool. We flew there in my car. It was a really disappointing match though since we lost, and I was pissed with the referee half the time and the commentator the other half. Talk about bias. The ref and the commentator must have been reading fans or something. Oh well, as long as we win our next 2 matches, the outlook would be much brighter. Sent shen home, and well thats the end of my birthday adventure. Tiring stuff, but definitely a very memorable one. Thank you everyone!

I woke up this morning and played soccer in the rain. first time i played soccer in a month and it had to bloody rain. The court was slippery and almost like a swimming pool so we ended up sliding and falling over, I felt like a kid once again. I fell on my butt so many times, i think i need an ass massage now.

Friday 7 December 2007

Its time to Party

6th Dec 2007 has been a date I've been looking forward to since the end of oct. Studies have been the single occupant of my mind and life for the past month. Finally, its a well deserved break from school, I didn't put in maximum effort, but nobody's 100% efficient. I'm just glad I made it through in one piece(though i'll probably be shattered on the 26th when the results come out).

Anyway........ Its Time To Party!

Shen came to my house in the afternoon to put her stuff. We cooked spaggetti and came to the conclusion that we were both not very competent cooks, but it was fun. The last time I fried something was way back in July. I've been dependent on my trusty microwave and instant noodles for survival since then, not that I eat home a lot. Mcdonalds must be 500 bucks richer from the revenue they receive from a loyal customer like me. We had cabonera pasta, with minced meat, carrot and mushrooms. It was a delightful, creamy dish and we savoured it while watching ratatouille. Notice the common theme food? Ok, it doesn't end here, we had this awesomely sinful sprite float to go along. Not bad for a meal at home eh.

Our dear mat only woke up at 3pm. 3PM! so time dragged, the rain came, and we finally made our journey to the warren golf and country club for bowling only at 6pm. It was fun. I haven't bowled for a year, and we had this crazy singing thing to go along with the bowling. Dinner didn't live up to my high expectations. Brewerks was originally on the cards, but unfortunately a certain mode of transport wasn't available. So we settled for the convenient but alas not so satisfying dinner.

I discovered the joys of sleeping on the MRT train. thanks to p1 haha.

Ok, I'm done for tonight. The first 12 hours of no mugging has whetted my appetite for the holiday. FOP meetings tomorrow.

Savouring every moment of now, embracing every moment that comes.

Tuesday 4 December 2007

I can't wait no longer

One more fing exam and I'm done with year 1 sem 1. I can't wait.

There's this whole string of activities waiting for me. I can't wait.

One whole Bio text book to read within the next 36 hours. I can't wait.

Soccer over the weekend. I can't wait.

My big Day. I can't wait.

Loads of friends to meet. I can't wait.

Christmas. I can't wait.

Liverpool match. I can't wait.

Don't you think life's wonderful? There's so many things to look forward to. For all of you out there who's exams have ended. Give yourself a pat on the head and enjoy the month ahead.

I CAN'T WAIT! But pls don't let time go by so fast.

Gonna go running now, the next time I'm back. All hell's gonna break loose. You'll Never Walk Alone. Eugene.

Sunday 2 December 2007

2 more exams to freedom. I'm gonna pretend I did very well for all of them and live in a shell for a month before the results come out and break my heart. Marketing is crazy, its essentially similar to bringing a textbook into the exam hall, except everything in the textbook has to be imprinted in your head.

Had a super humongous icecream indulgence yesterday with mat and shen. Talk about eating less, the original plan was a salad. But the plan flew out of the window, with cafe cartel's new menu. The food looked absolutely fabulous.

I went to count shoes in the morning at the standard chartered marathon. The only good thing that comes out of it is FOC is richer by my 50 bucks and the vitamin D, I have so desperately yearned for a month.

Got myself a haircut today. Ok, breaks over. Time to study. -_-"