Awkward World

2012-02-08T01:40:00.000+08:00

No matter how much distraction or self denial one can give yourself these days, once in a while there will probably be a day whereby you sit down and everything unpleasant just floods into your head.
Guess today's that day again, one of those days for the past six and a half years.

五月天【乾杯】

2012-02-06T00:42:00.003+08:00

This new song isn't bad at all, but attention should be placed more on the MV.
I fell in love with the video immediately upon watching, because it's very similar to what i have always tried picturing in my mind, basically running through my life from beginning in fast motion and then associating different period of life with different groups of people whose significance varied with the time.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to just, right before death, have the opportunity to visit these different phases of life again and then giving the respective groups of people a toast to show how grateful you are to once have them in your life.

Happy CNY

2012-01-25T12:37:00.000+08:00

Somehow the more i wish my Chinese new year revert back to the liveliness of that in the past, the more it goes the other way. This year I barely stepped out and probably met only about 1 family per day for the first three days.

Not like my red packets income gets affected or anything along that line. I have learnt that the less we visit, the less my parents have to give redpackets to other kids, and the more my own redpacket from my parents get bigger. It's adds up to the same anyway.

I just miss meeting people i used to meet once a year. Even on a day entitled with the biggest excuse to meet your closed ones, i still can't meet some of them because my parents are sometimes to petty over their pride. How can relatives quarrel and not meet for 4 years lol.

Anyway this year i learnt something about myself: I hate to gamble with people i know.

I don't see the point in winning money of relatives, friends or any mild acquaintances. When you win, they lose money. How is it normal to feel happy when these people lose money? lol. Especially with friends. Imagine you winning $20 from them. Won't it just make them poorer, which will then affect their outing budget later?

Plus losing is definitely not something positive either, so it's a lose-lose activity. So people, if you really want to gamble with me, just accept it when i return any winnings i made back to you. I can't stand seeing people disappointed because they lost and knowing that what they lost is in my pocket.
I'm weird haha.

Restricted Saturday

2012-01-07T13:38:00.000+08:00

We ended up not going for the two new privates' POP parade in the morning.
6.30pm SSF outing at Dhoby Ghaut with Lisi fiona and the guys.

Our dinner was at 'Strictly Pancakes' opposite Pomo. The name's pretty much self-explanatory, you should expect nothing more than pancakes on the menu, which made us really sceptical at the beginning.
Turns out that, yes, every thing's pancake in one form or another, ranging from breakfast to main courses to desserts. Apart from just being a refreshing experience having pancakes as the carbo for dinner, it tastes awesome. You never knew pancakes can actually go well with things like meat, prawns or mushrooms etc. pretty cool stuff!

We watched a movie after that, but not just like any other movie sessions we've had over the years.
We did an adrenaline pumping feat of trying to sneak into an age-restricted movie, which i haven't done since like 15 when trying to sneak into NC16 Da vinci Code and then failing badly haha.

Turns out that it wasn't that much of an achievement or adventure haha... just a bunch of 20s going 21 in a few months wanting to watch a movie in a theatre. Plus all the way from ticket buying to 'casually strolling' pass the ushers, everything went too smoothly. All our "what if they just check a single IC? then we're so dead" we discussed earlier before attempting to buy the tickets weren't really necessary haha. Just $10 worth of cheap trill before the movie.

We watched "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo", which if you haven't read the book before, is like a more matured and dark version of 'detective 金田一' haha. "Someone gets invited to an island to solve a mystery and one of those seemingly friendly residents is the killer".. that kind of movie.. just inserted with some R21 style rape, brutal murder and a couple of random unnecessary bed scenes.. pretty much outlines the movie.

The downside was that there wasn't subtitles available. It's so dam difficult to watch and understand a detective movie which actors and actresses sometimes just mumble to themselves. We spent the next half an hour after the movie camping outside the theatre discussing what just happened with a wikipedia on the phone. Went "ooooooohh", chilled at starbucks and cabbed home.

2012-01-06T23:00:00.000+08:00

Had a really satisfying Dim sum dinner with Dalvin, Terence, Sushan and Michelle at Swee Choon. Definitely worth all that 'i think i know where it is' walk which we ended up circling that shop for a really long time.
What made it so great was because our ordered quantity was just spot on. At that point when we realised that we can barely eat any more, there were hardly any more. We left the place "just-right" full haha. I really think that's something to be happy about! :D

2012-01-05T18:44:00.001+08:00

Week 1/8 of 2012 just ended abruptly because my off just keeps extending itself. I get calls every evening telling me to stay at home because next day's an off as well!

2012 Resolution

2012-01-01T13:39:00.000+08:00

We'll take a cup of kindness yet, for Auld Lang Syne,
for the past year that had gone by, good or bad.

2011 started well, lasted well but ended a misery for me.

However the thing about a new year is that it numerically gives you a restart button. Yes it's a mind thing.. but it does make you feel this way. Like woh! Thank god that year's over, it was so horrible. Next please! *enthu*

It's always so exciting seeing a brand new blank page ahead waiting to be filled. How will this coming year be summarised? Who are the new people who will enter my life? Could this just be the best year? So much to experience, so much to find out and so much to work for!

I always write down my goals and wishes at the start of each year, not like it was specifically kept for this year. It just means "Dam it, i couldn't clear it in the previous years and had to push it to this year again"

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And so for my list of un-granted wishes along with new ones:

1) Clear Driving!

more like to start.. the only thing i ever did for my driving is to learn what a 'turn left' and 'turn right' sign looks like using 10 seconds of my life from the basic theory book. However this is more like a will and must happen thing, like going to Uni and ORD. Time's the only thing holding these back, so it doesn't really feel like a goal. More like a check list.

2) Get a dam Job

Getting one is one super lame low-level achievement i have YET to achieve, which i still find it really embarrassing. The closest i ever got was to be denied relief teaching slots by my own friends! but that was 2010's problems, two restarts before so forget about it! So yes, a job. To kill time, earn money and prevent my mind from being too free!

3) Needs to overcome fear of studying!

Ever since JC, my phobia for studying gives me nightmares at least once every two months till date. It was traumatising, no teachers on your side, not a single praise, zero self worth, a nobody in school and avoiding teachers either out of fear or guilt. JC was fucked up. No other words can express it better. I really hope that i can enjoy my learning experience again!

4) Stop being so awkward in outings

Awkwardness has been lingering in my secondary school outings since 1 year ago. Somehow when Oxytocin comes and goes, it leaves this terrible aftermath. They say time heals everything, but no one told me time doesn't prevent Oxytocin from invading again. Just when the previous one finally comes to an end, i have to freaking extend it with one more. In the year 2012, please just bring everything back to the old times! When friendship's the stake, you lose double. (must be the new year, i just shared something i don't even think they knew)

5) Needs to get my stamina back

This one is here just so that i can sandwich no.4 in the middle so it seems more 'by the way' and less obvious hahaha.. ok it wasn't. Ever since my knee injury back in July 2011, i stopped running completely. It was a 'kneecap wearing off' injury, and to heal from a 'wearing off', you have no choice but to rest and let all the built-up stamina go to waste. I can now no longer run as much, so let's not talk about joining friends for marathons. Thus my goal of this year, get my stamina back, and maybe miraculously be able to join one with a group of friends next year!

Quoting Garrett, i don't think anyone cares about their own resolution haha. It's just you sitting down, writing your wishes as of 1st January and then leave it aside.

But it's still good to at least find one day to remind yourself how much more needs to be done in just one year. I hope that everyone, along with myself, starts working towards their goals and then get to write one interesting and memorable year closure for 2012.

Happy New Year!!

All acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Hope so

New Year Eve Countdown 2011 @ Yellow Jello

2012-01-01T01:48:00.000+08:00

This year we do without the fireworks.
8 of us, without lisi and niandeng who were both away for HongKong, decided to just find somewhere early and sit there till the next year. No more crazy clock chasing and crowd squeezing.

So we just walked into Yello Jellow at about 9pm which were then only half filled. Just hours sitting there, drinking, talking, going deaf and then moving into telephathy/hand signs.

Being early gives you like this escalation of atmosphere and excitement. You start out with this empty quiet bar which you could really HTHT at first to one packed and crazy. Bands, friends, music, screams and whistles. That's New Year! i really can't believe i hadn't experienced it before back then haha.

I have to highlight, Garrett was like the man for the day. Not only was everything paid by him, he got drunk. Knocked out. So bad that if we don't hold him back he goes straight to the floor. Thrice.

With our dear friend drunk beyond hope, mobility of the clique dropped by 80%, so we just found the nearest Macdonald to put him down and have supper. It's still an interesting time lying to him all the things he had done when he wasn't that sober.

Because Taxi queue was outrageously long, we did some trekking across Fort Canning Park at 2am to cut across to Dhoby Ghaut. Which worked, and got our adrenaline pumping.

Year Closure: 2011

2011-12-30T21:28:00.002+08:00

Year 2011 was a year I didn't expect much but to simply get it over and done with. To my 2010 self who barely scraped NS, it's nothing but one whole mundane year of wearing green and serving the nation.

With effect from my first book-in of 2011, everything went according to expectation. Everyday we were training, practising, learning, working, comparing and complaining. With major military exercises which success is probably worth more than your pathetic privileges to prepare for, no one was really aiming for the finishing line.

It's just too far ahead to be more depressing than motivating. However, somehow or rather this year does end. Before we know it, we moved from trainees to instructors, newbie to experienced and from timid little soldiers to totally treating the camp as our home.

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I have to be grateful for the little bit of 'ups' over this year.

Firstly, NDP is probably the best consolation to ever be bestowed unto me in my army life. This one milestone itself provided me with 3days work-week for almost 3 months. I got to have a refreshing experience working as a NDP helper, watch the spectacular performance and fireworks every week and appear at home every alternate days after rehearsal.
Yes it may have burnt many of my Saturdays, but together with all the conversation topics it created for me... pretty worth it ...(not)

Also, at about the same period, my batch got to be the batch to enjoy the benefits of literally new facilities which construction had been a huge annoyance for some time. New beds and pillows fresh out of wrappers you tear out yourself, shiny lockers and sparking clean toilets (first week). Everything's just sooooo soooo fresh and exciting!!

One big surprise for me later in the year was that outing rates for the Sec School Peeps totally soared upon enlistment of Weifa and Zihao i.e September.
If we didn't meet every week, we would on alternate ones. With the utmost initiative of super planners like Fiona, you will expect to be out meeting people on Saturdays in one way or another. Awesome stuff!

A GOF malacca trip in December helped bring out the Holiday mood in me, which was then closely followed by a memorable Christmas. Everything up to this point in time seems so perfect!
The perfect ending to a great year, what more could I expect?? Like seriously?

But somehow or rather i have to totally give this wonderful year one horrible and awkward closure.
You know how they all say.. things like 'follow your feelings'.. or 'gather the courage', or 'you won't know until you try'.. LOL hahaha! Seriously la. It's these bullshit that totally screwed me up. The successful ones say these, the losers face rejection AND the consequences.

On the last week of year 2011, I levelled up. I broke a mental barrier, boosted bravery by 10 times, awkwardness by 1million times and self esteem down to 0, so much so i now instinctively avoid the mirror when i brush my teeth in the morn.

If I can make this one last wish of 2011, i wish that everything will go back to normal. Back to the happy old times of any other weeks of 2011 :)

2011-12-29T12:44:00.001+08:00

and yes with that, I really cant help but declare myself a big big loser. Like a 百发百fail kind of loser.

So tired.

When life tries to knock all the wind out of you,
You've got to roll, roll, roll with the punches.

2011-12-28T23:05:00.003+08:00

what an epic fail hahaha. oh well

2011-12-26T14:25:00.000+08:00

Every time I try denying, my dream proves me wrong that night and screws up my next day

Sleepy Bitchy Christmas countdown 2011

2011-12-25T22:55:00.005+08:00

Our annual Christmas eve countdown party, and no doubt this year's is definitely everything to ask for a fifth year anniversary. Marilyn has generously risked destruction of her new house to host a Christmas dinner/ house warming for us, which A LOT of effort is put into everything from food to decoration, all to the finest details. Really great job!

Everyone gathered at around 7 plus at amk hub to walk over to her house, which is definitely no longer as easy to find. Dinner began not long later, but for most part we ate it without Zihao because of his other 'commitments'. In the middle we did manage to have a full attendance for awhile before Niandeng had to leave for his HK trip.

Food was really awesome and appropriately themed. Got the western, Christmas-ty, atas feel of things like ham, cheese and a whole huge turkey which provided much entertainment cutting it along with the tremendous amount of meat it provided. Eventually it became quite a chore finishing the turkey we started stuffing them all to Zihao.
Lights off, candles lit, coupled with a soothing background Christmas playlist. For a bunch of " Non-christians acting like we're celebrating Christmas", this is by far the closest experience we've gotten.

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We ended our dinner at around 9. It was then closely followed by our high class Grande $96 log cake, which would have been more awesome if we hadn't spammed the supposedly tasty raspberry sauce which did nothing much but made our cake really sour haha.

We remained on the table after that, where we spent the remaining one plus hour away from Christmas with a talk session in which everyone must take turns to share something, be it juicy gossips of yourself, others, ghost stories or simply mass bitching about specific people. It turned out to be quite an effective bonding session, as well as educational.. and bitchy.

This year we didn't miss the countdown. Only problem was probably trying to do a countdown to Christmas using Marilyn's wall clock which doesn't have a second hand. Eventually we just used an average timing and did a 60 seconds anti-climax countdown before shouting out into the neighbourhood from the 28th Story.

Merry Christmas!

We popped a bottle of Champagne which was disappointing cause it tasted like a beer dyed pink... :(

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Slumber Party!

All the girls changed to pyjamas and took out a box of nail polishes. First activity was for the gals to paint nails. Each other's, as well as Garrett and Weifa's.. though Garrett was the much more willing one. Weifa hopped onto the nail polish remover the moment it made contact with air.

Second activity was cards, finally, the saviour! We had a Texas Hold'em tutorial from a few of us guys, which we later realised is not possible to play without real betting because it will eventually turn into a Hong Kong 'King of Gambling' movie where everyone just throw the world's money reserve into one round of poker. Skip!

Then it was Indian Poker, which i find, amidst all the random rambling and lies of others, just whether you want to change card or not. Weird but nevertheless funny haha. Probably played a few rounds till Kelly got pissed off when she lost.. which she blamed on trust issues lol. So kelly!

Garrett, Kelly and Zihao knocked out soon after, Lisi browsing the TV, Xiwen Weifa Marilyn and I playing bridge while Fiona hopped around these 3 groups.

Then the late night took it's toll, leaving only a few survivors (mara lisi wf me) setting up a refugee camp in the dark, with candles and munching on "egg Biskut". Fiona Zihao joined when they woke up, and soon it was morning, time to celebrate christmas by going home to sleep till the evening!

2011-12-24T14:52:00.000+08:00

Just discovered one more thing that can really annoy me a lot.. when my dad ate both packets of chilli for my pig organ soup and leave me with none. wth! i rather just throw the whole thing away than eat without chilli! rwwwarrrrrr!! explode!

2011-12-23T22:22:00.000+08:00

It's kinda difficult to buy presents for 9 people for Christmas.
Even if it's just confectioneries and chocolates, the action of swiping 9 of each item into your basket is just so awkward. Especially when the item happens to have about that number left, and grabbing 9 kinda wiped the shelve clear of that product haha.

Not forgetting at the cashier.. just 3 products, but 9 of each. Just feels so weird!

2011-12-21T11:30:00.004+08:00

So tired and sick of everything this life is giving me. Not giving a shit any more

2011-12-16T22:30:00.002+08:00

Will be in Malaysia from 17th to 21th morning! I hope i succeed in meeting them! haha, or ill be in deep deep trouble!

一个人想着一个人 , 是否就叫寂寞？

Malacca trip revived

2011-12-15T11:29:00.002+08:00

Suddenly I'm reminded of the movie 笑着回家, in which half the movie revolves around a mother, a son and a stranger pretty girl taking bus from Singapore to Malaysia. Oh and 一泡而红, where Michelle chong keeps taking this like free busride to and fro too.

LOL. because this saturday I'm going to take a bus to Malacca myself. Like MYSELF. Just the thought itself makes me so unsettled. Got to be really thankful the rest agreed to wait for me for that one hour plus at the terminal stop, saving me from an extra task of taking a foreign cab myself. If not it's really like the Jack Neo's movie already. So thank you peeps haha.

陪你熬夜，聊天到爆肝也没关系!

Passport crisis :(

2011-12-13T23:00:00.001+08:00

I think i should be facing the consequence soon.. for not realising how the passport system work. Back then i used to just let my parents settle it, and since these few years i haven't gone overseas i simply ignored and placed it aside.

Upon knowing about the trip and Sushan's passport reminder, i have been casually asking for my locked-up passport since a month ago, but somehow everytime the topic gets diverted and then forgotten by them and myself. This took place several times until this very day when i decided i should just firmly ask for it because it's a few days left.

And ignorant me, finally learnt online that a passport lasts 10 years i.e till 2009.
Subsequently, a new one will have to be made, and this requires 3-4 working days.

Surprise! It's no longer going to ICA to spend one morning to get a stamp. It's a few days, and I'm probably closer to the trip than to the completion of my new passport.

So yup, i may be paying for a pseudo trip because i totally screwed everything up! boo. only a miracle can save me now!!

LEAVE that place!

2011-12-13T10:01:00.000+08:00

Last Wednesday kicks off my imba 3 weeks of leave, my longest stretch of being out of camp since POP way back in June last year. Oh.. those days haha.

Though nothing much actually happened after 6 days of leave.. I spent one night playing Dota at Nex with the army people, then Saturday i had a Jap Buffet with 7/10 SSF. Most expensive buffet yet! $41?! Apart from these, it's me and Skyrim :D

I remember dreading being too free before enlistment, and kind of forgotten why once i started serving because you'll never be too free here.

All of a sudden when there's nothing to do for 3 weeks, it gets problematic again. Too much time to think, and negative ones resurface.

To end off, i kinda envy those who face rejection and not need to see that person again. No risk of seeing or hearing too much, and no need for an understanding friend to hold back her words just for you.

GOF Saturday

2011-12-04T10:30:00.000+08:00

Saturday was GOF's Cathay hangout.
We ate at Astons before watching 'Already Famous', which i felt isn't that great. It's like someone telling u a story, no ups and downs, and you just nodding and listening through. Though we should give credit to some of the funny moments which made us laugh. If you actually enjoy seeing tonnes of Mediacorp artistes together in a movie, you can actually go experience it yourself. Not that bad, but not that good either. But the soundtrack sucks. That i'm sure.

After the movie, with the horrible song from the movie still stuck in our head, we settled down at a SMU table for a chat. Somehow after not meeting for some time there was a lot of awkward silences which some of us had to think of random fillers to insert. The moment i got sucked into 9gags on Sharon's laptop i lost touch with what they were saying haha, though it seems that the more interesting topics happened then.. and i missed them! D:

不放弃~

Like a outdated

2011-11-27T12:22:00.000+08:00

I logged on facebook this morning and was like shocked when i saw this on newsfeed:
"Gn installed Facebook on her Android phone"

First my bro's Blackberry, then my Dad's iPhone and now my mum who barely knows how to use a Walkman phone just got an android yesterday lol.

*looks at my cui LG $50 phone with a 70+ SMS storage space and at this point in time, turning off by itself when im texting*

Short Town Meet up

2011-11-27T12:06:00.000+08:00

Zihao's finally botak! haha. and as he moves on to his next phase in life, it's a sign that we too, are steps away from ours, a better one i hope! We were so surprised that vain him didn't wear a cap, considering how much he loves to wear one back then with uber long hair. Thankfully I didn't do any betting on that haha.

Saturday evening was his first book out.
Apart from Lisi and Mara who were more worked up with exams, other 8 us had a feast at 313's Ding Tai Fung for dinner. We flooded the table till the waitresses had to delay several of our orders, pressurising us to quickly stuff everything into our already bloated stomach. We were so full we almost cancelled our complementary free mua chi!

After which it was more eating and drinking at Starbucks followed by watching Puss in boots.

the adorable pouting

2011-11-20T11:49:00.000+08:00

Pokemon: What you didn't know back then

1) Ditto and Mew

There had been numerous attempts to clone Mew but all of them failed. Failed clones of Mew becomes a blob we know as 'Ditto'. Mewtwo on the other hand is actually a result of genetic engineering Mew's DNA after those failed attempts.

This is supported by Mew and Ditto both having the same stated weight of 8.8lbs, share the same colour scheme, both genderless and are the only two Pokemon that can learn Transform.

In Pokemon Yellow Version, Dittos are found in Cinnabar Island's Pokemon Mansion, the site where Mew was cloned.

2) Cubone and Kangaskhan

We learnt that Cubone lost it's mother, but what was not known back then is that it's mother is actually a Kangaskhan and Cubone is nothing more than that the baby in it's pouch wearing the skull of it's dead mother.

In the game itself, it was intended for a baby Kangaskhan to be an idividual Pokemon.
When a mother Khangaskan faints too much, it dies and the baby Kangaskhan becomes a cubone. Cubone evolves into a Marowak which is intended to evolve back into a Kangaskhan again.

However due to complications, perhaps ethical issues due to the involvement of death (kid's game?), this idea was scrapped close to the game release. As there wouldn't be enough time to completely remove these coding, the coding for the missing link between a Cubone and Kangaskhan was moved away into an empty slot, becoming what we know as the famous "MissingNo."

3) Clefable and Gengar

Gengar's name is based on word 'doppelganger', which means a "a ghostly double of a living person". Based on physical features, many believe that Gengar is a shadow of a Clefable.

4) The insect mix-up

Somehow in the developing process, the image of Venomoth and Butterfree got switched. Nothing was fixed and they continued to use the designated names. Looks like the Butterfree you knew of had a wrong name and predecessor!

-Random Sources and rewritten-

There's probably only two kind's of reaction to this post. For the 1st Gen Pokemon fans, i think it's interesting looking back at our childhood and going " Why have i not known that back then."
For the rare few who has no idea what's going on, I'll say you missed out quite a bit! haha.

Been a while

2011-11-13T13:49:00.000+08:00

I really miss the old times when MSN was still the 'in' thing. Logging onto MSN used to be part of the whole computer setting up process. Appearing busy/offline whatsoever, it just feels like the computer is only ready to be used once logged on.

Once inside, dozens are online, so long as they are at their computer, you know you can reach out to them. From hour-long gossips to just a random question, at least people are so easily available.
It's one platform I had made used of excessively to break the ice between newer friends. A couple of sentences exchanges could just start the ball rolling.

To me mass conversations are like the awesomest activity in the night. Somehow in the world of screen and words everyone feels more untied, and different combination of people allows very different topics and laughter to be created. I remember being quite excited whenever I get invited into one with new people, with all the unknown nicknames, exotic font style and colours. You may just not get to talk to them as much in real life.

Not forgetting all the smaller side-convo created along with the larger ones, complaining or gossiping about a specific person in the other conversation. Laughing at each other's customised emoticons. It's all these tiny actions of mischief which I feel made the MSN experience memorable.

Somehow with the introduction of Facebook chat and phone applications like Viber and Whatsapp, people are giving up on the older messenger platform. The initial pool of users gets diversified into smaller groups which feels another platform is more convenient. However looking at how the situation is now, not only are the newer, more convenient form of messengers less effective in carrying out what MSN could do, the amount of users in each has also thinned down.

To me messaging platforms are all about people, and no new functions or benefits can make one without contacts better. We need something everyone has access to, not one which filters people away, like those who refuses to have a Facebook account or have the financial ability for a smartphone etc.

Till then, I shall just continue missing my online mass convos! haha.

2011-11-12T10:05:00.000+08:00

Exams, though not directly affecting me for the past 2 years, sure has its' ways to keep me at home along with those taking them. It's one boring weekend ahead!

At the start of NS i always tell myself I'll rather be studying, until a few days ago when i brought some old lecture notes into camp. Half an hour of chemistry and i slept for the next few hours. I knew bringing the notes in to cure insomia was right.

2011-11-06T23:59:00.003+08:00

This isn't just a movie, it tells us a story, story of our own. One of the few movies I'm not very interested in finding out who the actress is, because it doesn't matter who acted that character.

沈佳宜 isn't just one person, she represents that girl in a boy's life. That age when life starts having a purpose, when you wish lesson never ends, when studying hard had never been that important before. Life begins to circles around her, and in the midst of all the emotional ups and downs, he knows graduation's near.
That pair of hands will eventually be held by another, someone who probably hasn't known her as long, loved her as much, tried as hard nor shed as much tears as him

My sunday started out with meeting the Sec Sch people for Zihao's army farewell dinner. This time we try something new again, a porridge restaurant. The food actually arrived so quickly that together with our lightning quick food clearing speed, we ended dinner within 20mins of stepping into the place, making the dinner seem so insignificant. After which we definitely had our KOI before choosing a movie.

My sec clique had never watched any Chinese nor romance movie together before.. somehow when we're together we are just not interested in such things.. awkward maybe, complicated clique. Somehow or rather we decided on that, and our first 'Chinese romance' turns out to be surprisingly positive. All the regular burst of laughters probably made up for any awkward mushy lines.

那些年的回忆，谢谢你

2011-10-28T23:59:00.000+08:00

The problem with casually saying 'okay' every time someone suggests something is probably this, different friends sending me the supposed 'pre-planned' outing details and then me realising they all fall on the same day and time. Now i have to trace back which one of that casual okay came first.. my bad!

2011-10-26T10:57:00.000+08:00

So disappointing haha.

I cancelled my gaming trip with the army people during bookout to meet up with a few who wanted to have a walk around little india for the feel of Deepavali. Got home, bathed and only to wait till 12am without a single call for me to go down to meet them.

I dont know what's happening.. i hope it's cause my phone is spoilt ya? haha.

Dilemma

2011-10-23T14:05:00.001+08:00

Time's ticking down to loosing the remaining few tickets for Sentosa's spooktacular which I've volunteered to buy online. Sad thing is I totally forgot i have a weekend guard duty the next day, which after much further thought shouldn't be much of a problem.

I analysed what is making me so reluctant to go, a large part probably like how xiwen is thinking now, paying a large sum of money for something you pray will come to an end asap. Not forgetting the part about how my mood may potentially be spoilt. Talk about scared and sad, and then paying 40 bucks for it. AND THEN having to book in after that for guard duty the next day. Woh.

Luckily everyone is taking some time to reply my message, which is giving me some more time to weigh between a sad day or be missing from the group shots.

Decisions decisions..

I remember ,

2011-10-17T21:58:00.003+08:00

the first time we spoke through the phone, it was for class project.

the first time we talked outside school, class chalet.

being group mates with you for a total of 3 projects, bet you remember none.

helplessly watching you cry because our group screwed up our newspaper article for English lesson.

you were Juliet for our literature play, manager for the entrepreneurship project

I remember ,

the very first time being alone with you. Just five pathetic minutes at the BBQ pit, but i talked about it for weeks.

you opening the report book for me because i was too nervous. Your praise was everything i worked for.

your favourite colour

your index number in class, i still use that number when I have to random one

pretending to send out random reminders to the class, only to just send to one

you asking me a biology question through sms. I tossed whatever i was doing aside immediately

mugging that subject so hard just so that you could approach me with more questions, only to know someone else took up the role

I remember ,

the first time I watch you perform on stage. It was totally yours.

they told me you were turning up for an outing. How was that even possible.

having to meet up with you first, and i didn't dare leave the house

the first time we got to head for home together, it was just one pitiful train stop

how you were left behind because your bike was faulty. I volunteered to exchange bike, and you left me behind

walking all the way home alone with you. I cherished every step, but you couldn't wait to be home

None of these matter any more do they? (:

:D

2011-10-16T18:31:00.003+08:00

I just realise with the new template version, layout editing becomes so easy haha. Saves so much time!

Saturday Chill Out

2011-10-09T21:51:00.002+08:00

Didn't know much about 'Groupons' before, though I still barely understand how it works, i have learnt that it's something quite.. magical. It allowed my whole Sec School clique, 10 of us, to walk in Manhattan's Fish Market, order $160+ dollars worth of seafood platters, pass them four pieces of A4 size paper and then leave without paying a cent. Feels like monopoly.

After which, OF COURSE we went on with our notorious 'standing around hoping we know what to do next', but this time it didn't turn out like the other times. We really couldn't agree on something.

The whole outing was about 8 hours long, doing nothing but walking around, sitting around, discussing and failing, walk around again, camp at Starbucks for the girls to mug, walk around again.

Then came dinner at Food Trail under the Singapore Flyer, where the remaining 7 of us finally decided that we can actually go check out Marina Bay Sands.. finally something.
We crossed the Helix Bridge, pushed the door open and find ourselves inside a mall again. Then we walked around again, camped around again and sat around again.

In summary, hmm..

2011-10-02T22:15:00.000+08:00

Jealousy.. paranoia.. oh yes. I know what's coming up next.
My social circle better open up soon, or i see myself walking right into that very same black hole again.

I just can't avoid such things for long can I?
Haha.

Hope, agony's fuel

Weifa's budgetless first bookout

2011-09-25T22:06:00.003+08:00

Weifa's first bookout, what a day worth planning an outing for. First u get to remove his cap and laugh at him, then use that only reason to meet up haha.

We met up at about 7 at orchard central, all but Niandeng couldn't make it

We started off with dinner at Medz, which was totally alien to me at the beginning.. felt like a tourist lost in a local foodcourt. I dont recognise any thing on the menu because each stall is like labelled 'greek food', 'spanish food', 'italian' bla bla and then infront is one whole menu of words i dont even know how to pronounce much less know what to expect on my plate .

Eventually we did settle down with a whole table of food we mostly haven't eaten before. A huge variety to share with one another while chatting till about 9pm, before settling the scary bill.

After dinner we had Gong Cha for drink, because there wasn't a single cup of drink ordered on the dinning table haha. No want probably dared haha. Ah... earl grey milk tea♥
hahaha.. eew.

Kelly wanted to go home after that and she dragged Fiona along, leaving the remaining 7 of us pondering over whose house to crash to maybe watch F1 on TV. We took really long to discuss, and after deviating from that topic over and over again, Xiwen decided we should just go to a bar.

So ya, our impromptu chill out place turned out to be more happening than the outing itself.
Initially i was thinking since this is the first time the clique actually visits a bar, it will probably be quite awkward as we may not know what to even do inside.. like come on.. how many people is even going to drink.

Turns out that here was the highlight of the day. Everyone just drank non-stop till like 12 plus. It started out with just 3 shy cups of Vodka Martini and then someone suggested the tray of 25 apple/lychee shots. Upon picking up the first cup of shot everyone was like "omg. here we go." Raised the cup, emptied it down.. "eh this is like so light. get something else please."

Then came 2 more pints of beer.. then 5 baileys shots .. then 2 more tequila shots... until everyone realised that before we can get that bit drunk we are about to spend our cab fare away already.

Instead of leaving the place drunk like how we expected, we ended up complaining about how we are still walking so straight. Xiwen again, i dont know whats wrong with her. She wanted to go home even later so that her parents cannot smell the alcohol on her. Then came dumb plan of the year.

(mega random outing extension)

Took a cab down to Zouk. Used the toilet. Leave.
Spent an hour walking to clark quay from there. Walked across the entrances of the clubs.
Wait for cab again.

o.o

好朋友疯狂以后
还是一个人走, 无所求

2011-09-20T21:36:00.000+08:00

Comes a time in army whereby i wonder why i took a day's off to be at home doing the same things i do in camp. Sleep, eat and sleep.

come on.. end it already pweesse :(

156 ..
3 digits countdown doesnt really make one feel better eh? haha

2011-09-18T21:21:00.002+08:00

hahaha. my blog visits on weekends have dropped from 20+ in the past to just 6.
More freedom to post what i want without implicating any more trouble. yea! :D.

However i doubt i can do much to boost it back up. Who wants to read about my life when even I myself is bored of it. Maybe soon i can just post a point-form of my time plan for the whole week (which shouldnt be too many points anyway) NS :(

This week i made myself stay home, mainly because this one whole week of sunburn left my face peeling every single cell away. I looked like a victim of a fire outbreak. With me already completed most of my games, i was back to entertainment-hunting, which eventually led me to looking for any recent Taiwanese drama worth chasing.
( if you do not watch Taiwanese drama there's nothing much left lol. cya)

If you are one of the few whom i have recommended dramas to you in the past and you enjoyed it as well (last one being 痞子英雄 for dalvin) , I found another one yesterday after watching the first episodes of a few newly released dramas. (ya that free haha)

小資女孩向前衝

Released just 1 month ago, its currently only at episode 4 but slowly and steadily growing in viewership. Decent acting and humour packed with what i feel is a great storyline. Why not give it a try and get hooked on like me (:

but oh well ..

2011-09-11T22:17:00.001+08:00

A little disaster last Friday in camp.. i inserted my key into the keyhole, gave it a turn and *tuck* the mechanism got jammed together with my key in it.

Fortunately the lock was jammed at the opened state rather than when it's locked. Will really screw things up if it was the latter.. think of all the lock breaking and book-out bags trapped inside on a Friday evening. woh..

I find myself feeling worried throughout the whole weekend.

Firstly because we are not allowed to duplicate our bunk keys and there it is, 1x shiny duplicated key stuck at the keyhole, counting down to be spotted and questioned by the superiors hahaha! cant help it but laugh at what i may be getting myself into lol. Along with the key problem is that while attempting to "fix" the lock we damaged it some more. So much for accidental -.-
So yea.. here it is, 2 unnecessary problems arising from an innocent accident which isn't my fault at all. Self pawned (:

Amidst all the "why am i so unlucky"-ness, i realise I'm totally thinking like a guy in army. I'm worried for my spoilt bunk lock, not because afraid of things getting stolen but solely because this is the army and somehow or rather something so accidental and easy to resolve is going to be seen like a crime and some unlucky personnel (i.e ME! ) is going to be punished for it..

AND while thinking about all these i suddenly remember in about 5 months time im going to get out of this place, away from all the regimentation, to a place where i dont have to worry if things break by itself, like my annoying lock or my friend's rifle part. Yes, on the same week, both purely acts of god and we have to explain our ass out for someone to believe in it.

In addition, wishing Lim Weifa who is now in his 3rd day of Tekong all the best for his army life. Don't damage your toes, knees or/and lock.

2011-09-04T22:26:00.001+08:00

My mind is jammed.
Same set of images repeating themselves endlessly inside.
Felt horrible and decided to sleep to feel better,
only to end up dreaming of the same things, waking up worse.

My brain's hijacked by it's own hormones.

Feeling like shit.

lol

Soar (:

2011-08-28T19:59:00.004+08:00

Today i visit Marina Barrage again after like 2 years plus. It looks the same, feels the same, weather's the same. Even the 'temporary' bus stop is still there haha.

We celebrated Wendy's birthday , played Frisbee, and then i simply rot there while the others flew their kites, all happening while roasting ourselves tasty under the blazing sun.

Despite turning up without a slightest bit of interest and knowledge about kite flying, i realise kite flying's something really special.

For the noobs, it starts off with you trying everything u can to understand how everybody's kites are soaring up there while yours is crashing back on you. Running miles with the kite wondering who's flying who, followed by pure panic (and satisfaction) when it starts moving by itself.

For those who actually gets the kite up where it should be, it's an entire new community up there. Lots and lots of kites sharing that same piece of sky, all so closely packed, but gracious enough to make way for others without interfering their own experiences.

Kite flyers, totally stranger to one another, chatting and discussing about their common hobby while admiring the kites of others. Should any problem arise, those nearby may offer a helping hand or advise to get your kite up and going again.

Silent, graceful and gracious, had an enjoyable time rotting around these people :D

Jealousy's stepping in,
let the roller coaster ride begin.

2011-08-14T21:27:00.000+08:00

Just watched the replay of NDP online, glad it did bring out most of the atmosphere from the actual venue haha. totally enjoyed it :D

Finally on the 9th of August, i'm done with my 8 weeks of standby-for-something at the marina platform. Sat through at least 20 rehearsals and watched the full performance 8 times from start to finish, in particular the first three which still had the fun pack song.

I'ved missed quite a few outings along the way and caused many more to not even be planned at all, hopefully these will change from now on :)

Into my final phase of NS :D

NDP week 6: I have a Saturday outing omg!

2011-07-25T12:39:00.000+08:00

Ok it wasn't really a Saturday outing.. 80% of it was borrowed from Sunday.

Did something cool, we had our Harry Potter Movie Marathon at Zihao's house.
Obviously this wouldnt be a success for everyone, really depends on your will power to pry those eyes open.

We started off with Philosopher Stone at 8 plus pm and all the way till prisoner of Azkaban (3rd) people are still pretty much alive. It's from goblet of fire (4th) at like 3 plus when people start to give in to their sleep deprivation

Eventually when we finally finished goblet there's only left with zihao, Marilyn and me clinging on.
To fuel ourselves we decided to give order of pheonix which we've watched already a miss and went for Half Blood which was new, only to end the day on this super boring sequel. Epicly boring!

Post outing withdrawal syndrome

Goodbye Saturdays week: 5

2011-07-17T22:12:00.000+08:00

shows how long i havent blogged hahaha.

5 weeks of burnt saturdays, and im starting to feel like a liability, feeling that im likely the cause of all the failed outing planning these days.

Nothing much over these 3 weeks, week 3 was when our parents got to watch the show while week 4 and 5 are all the primary 5 kids' show.

I want to go out with you people :(

Goodbye Saturdays week: 2

2011-06-27T21:46:00.002+08:00

It's Friday Friday, gotta get down on Friday~

Down for guard duty that is =/

Dam these Friday guard duties, first i missed Xiwen's bday celebration a few months ago and now another similar one. FML!

As usual, my Saturday was burnt by NDP.
A much more coordinated and prepared performance actually made the time spent worth while.
The number of people on stage performing together can really make one tear. They're just so awesome! Plus i got to see many mediacorp artistes up close in person, people like gurmit singh and Suhaimi and Sharon Au etc.

Haha and there's this section whereby lower primary students will be dancing. SO CUTE!

memories of that elegant you,
be gone please

Goodbye Saturdays week: 1

2011-06-20T21:42:00.000+08:00

Just one week is enough to make me dread going to the platform already. 4 out of 7 days spent at Marina platform doing nothing but nothing. At least I'm clearing army time, not so bad eh? :)

Sunday i went out with sushan ryan dal and ter to Jalan Kayu for the famous Roti Prata. Funny how i've been passing by this place for a year due to my camp being there and yet not eaten it before..

maybe if i've eaten it back then i can warn everybody about the price to expect...

Pretty scary for a prata meal o.0

We are just so free

2011-06-14T12:40:00.001+08:00

I've never imagined that in the midst of NS i can actually meet up with the sec school people 3 days in a row. Reminds me of our post o'levels craziness.
Somehow the conditions were all right. A week when the uni holidays, poly holidays, post-poly holidays and army off days fall together.

Saturday we had a failed x-men movie, which ended up as a walk around ION and Plaza sing with 7 of us.
Sunday was an impromptu movie watching with garrett, zihao and marilyn. Watched Kungfu panda 2 at J8.
Monday was more of sudden. I just wake up in the morning to suddenly find out that we're watching x-men at amk hub. Same group as sat's just without fiona.

celebrating life (4th-5th)

2011-06-05T22:03:00.001+08:00

another post for me to record my day for future reference. u will not be interested if this is unrelated to you (:

Xiwen called this the " super luxurious bbq poolside party to celebrate life".
Turns out that the pit wasn't located beside a pool at all and the bbq wasn't very luxurious lol. But it was no doubt super with 20+ hours of partying.

Meeting up was horrible for me. I was told to be there at 5.30pm, only to discover that the other 8 wasn't going to be there then. Cool? I met the first person at 6.40pm, after spending 1 hour+ with my iPod alone.

We had so much difficulty with the fire, ended up having to even modify the assigned pit to at least make it usable. We used up 3/4 bag of charcoal building castles for the first flame! Good enough for a bunch of firestarting newbies i think :D
Barbecue was successful. We managed to cook and eat enough, only because we refused to leave by 10pm and extended for another hour hahaha. Typical trellis tower and it's notorious guards.

After bbq we spent some time letting fiona watch her much delayed birthday 'surprise' video before lisi and her left. The rest went over to Zihao's house to ton.

With the addition of new aircon and ps3, zihao's house has become quite a cool hang out place. Cable, pc, console, cards and a forever-have-drinks fridge, we were able to last through the whole night occupied. Marilyn brought her jap homework there to do.. and we ended up chipping in by helping her do the jap 习字, which was like drawing for us haha. I benefited by learning that ヨ is pronounced 'yo' in jap. Ok useless information.

80% of the time was spent on playing bridge. On and off we played bridge from like 1am to the next day 4pm, turning all the dont remember how to play at all into semi-pros. 15 hours? gees.

Must be wondering why the hell we stayed till 4pm. We initially wanted to leave at 9am but it was raining heavily. Nevermind, we'll leave when the rain stops... which was 4pm haha. epic.

that was all (:
May just have taken a step across that line again

2011-05-22T21:31:00.001+08:00

To be honest, ever since i discovered my new game I've been spending almost all my computer time there.

As for the blog I'll just like throw what ever happened to me into a post for future reference and then log off. Which will probably equate to a blog suicide haha.. but there isn't really much personal problems or anything in need of a reflection in this period right now.

Eat, sleep, work and play. Friends, family, full stop.
As easy as that, as boring as that.

This weekend, the bhss band facebook group suddenly got dug out and through a few posts initially, it attracted more and more people to come together to look back at those long forgotten time in the band which they weren't even aware they missed. Been a long time since i found someone i could really sit down and talk with about those awesome days.
An alumni gathering during a band camp or performance is sort of like my ultimate wish right. I'm still believing that it can happen one day (:

Virtual Celebration

2011-05-14T07:17:00.042+08:00

Was on my way to Marilyn's house for mahjong when they suddenly called me to buy a cake over. Kinda strange at first, since this month's only left with the twin's birthdays, and which both are unable to attend since they are overseas. The cake was also supposed to be as cheap as possible. Weird.

Turned out that we were going to make a video of a birthday celebration for her. A surprise even. haha!
Weifa, lisi, marilyn, xiwen, zihao, garrett and I were in it. It starts off with us playing mahjong and the birthday girls had to watch us for a few mins lol. Then we will do a cliché toilet + bring in cake which was hilariously obvious and fake. Ok so it was a birthday comedy i think haha.

After the video Marilyn was kind enough to drive us home. I realise I'm like the noobest when it comes to driving related stuff among all my friends. I'm like the only one who haven't even taken even one tiny step into obtaining the licence lol. Just wait people !

Thank you! :)

2011-05-09T22:10:00.000+08:00

Went singing with dalvin, wendy, sushan, sharon, and terence at bedok today.
Some ulu shop which no one seems to take notice, and when we enter there wasn't a single customer. freaky.. haha.

Fortunately Wendy is quite a regular here or else we wouldnt even dare enter, much less discover such an awesome place with great service and value for money.

Part of the plan was supposedly to eat at this sushan-greatly-recommended hawker centre, which turned out to be closed haha. Not on any other day, but TODAY. The 9th! Boo...

Thank you GOF for the mini birthday surprise!!

Getting through everyday in a comforting self-denial (:

20!

2011-05-06T07:37:00.001+08:00

Birthdays come and go, moving along with you through the different phases of life.

One year ago, my birthday wasn't enjoyed at all. Together with some other BMT mates, we were in the midst of out 17 days confinement in Tekong.
Not like we were going to be treated better on these days, the only form of consolation was probably those wonderful smses from my family and friends.

Before I know it it's another year.
In contrast to the previous, my birthday was celebrated this year.
Instead of being stuck in army, i was lucky enough to have a 4 and a half day weekend, all of which had nothing to do with my birthday seriously, just plain luck and coincidence ;)

On this special day I am reminded of how my social circle evolved again. Who left, and the whole lot who entered. For this year, it's no doubt my army buddies who made that difference.

And ya, last but not least, happy birthday to me! 20, but a huge pile of dreams and goals unachieved. Press on!

Everybody-is-here weekend

2011-05-02T22:21:00.000+08:00

Saturday (morn)

Swensons dessert buffet at Ions with GOF!

Initially we thought that because it starts at 11am, we probably should be there by then, maybe even slightly earlier.

However, it seems that going there at 10.30am is like rushing for something that wouldn't even run away, which as a result also made us wake up early for nothing and skipping lunch etc.

Anyway so lunch was a stomach full of ice-cream of every kind, cakes, tarts, waffles etc.. basically things which we can "simply eat forever" when eaten in small amount but then gets proven wrong when you actually have to. I had a meat craving towards the end.. salt too. Roar!

Saturday (afternoon)

Orchard Tour with Cayo

I remember being kinda suspicious at the start because everyone else was gonna be late for at least half an hour together. Turned out that.. ya.. they were really late lol.

The initial plan was to catch a movie, but everyone hid their disapproval all the way to the ticketing booth when they could hold no longer. lol.

We ended up spending half the time finding a place to eat instead, and dumb or what, we went back to Crystal Jade AGAIN despite regretting the last time. We found ourselves re-enacting our last outing.. wondering whether to leave the place because there was nothing we wanted to order.

Note to cayojadibe: NO MORE crystal jade (For real)

Somemore time was spent at Singtel because Zihao decides to change to his non-camera phone 6 months before enlistment. Oh well, at least his non-camera phone itself already owned the best phone i ever had. Watch out M1!! I'm Ording on 26th Feb! and i'll raid you!!

We had ice-cream (eeeww) at Cold Stone after dinner. The ice-cream looks kinda good, but of course there was no way I was going to eat somemore for the week, much less in the same day. Simply watched, uh huh.

After a long chat and an annoyingly long photo taking session at basement of Orchard Central the day finally ended. Pheew. Like stop taking photos and go home!! lol

SSF Sunday

Honestly the week before your birthday you'll get all worried and suspicious every time you leave home, not really anticipating.. more like worried of any embarrassment to come.

I spent the whole of Saturday getting suspicious whenever someone went out of sight.. like.. 2 groups in one day, something is bound to happen no? Turns out that I was wrong haha. nothing happened!!
So i gave up on anticipating and just went out with SSF on Sunday for the run.

Other than running 15 rounds around the stadium seeing the same old things and people over and over again, nothing much actually happened lol. Or at least I thought nothing was happening.

Zihao and Marilyn "went home" first to "wash up" , something i thought was pretty logical. After sending Lisi home, we met up with those 2 again. Strange thing was they were both together when we met them, clearly Marilyn didnt go home. She wasn't even changed up. She gave a weird reason saying she was "talking to Zihao's mum".

We had dinner at the hawker centre apposite Zihao's house, eating simple stuff like Fried Kuay Teow and Ban Mian.

Funny thing was after dinner when i suggested Mahjong at Marilyn's house no one agreed, and when Niandeng suggested Zihao's house everyone moved towards it almost immediately.
Up there everything seems pretty normal, watching TV most of the time.. until the lights went out and out came the cake. First thing in my mind was " Oh Ya. Why did i forget" lol.

So ya, wf zh nd fiona and marilyn celebrated my bday for me.. and apart from pushing my face into the cake, me eating ba chor mee for dinner and my legs worn out, it was an awesome surprise haha. Thanks people!

Made my wish really quickly this year.
"I want to be happy"
Because being specific only gives disappointment (:

Post-Excercise fun fun fun-long weekend

2011-04-24T20:53:00.000+08:00

Alcohol Thursday

On Thursday night my platoon had a special cohesion in a pub at Clarke quay.
As my platoon sergeant knew the owner of the pub, we managed to book like half the pub, inclusive of a pool table and a karaoke system.

Together with 3 bottles of Martel and 3 towers of Tiger beer, it was a pretty chaotic night. Fun, but taxing to the ears. Fortunately I managed to leave having drunk the least, so i was perhaps the only few who walked home straightly haha. The rest were either merlioned or limping home. scary.

Sporty Friday

Friday evening was pretty interesting too, though sudden.
I had a mini SSF jogging/running session at TPY stadium, with zihao, nd, fiona and Marilyn.

It was no doubt a fruitful session. Ran enough for close-to-cramp on my calve and did enough pushups for them to be aching till this moment lol. Weifa, as usual, skipped any form of activity involving perspiration, so he arrived right after that for dinner.

Funny thing is, 2 weeks ago I ate at this Indian Restaurant near my house with my parents. The food was pretty good and a great value for money. So my parents were like telling me, "Next time you can bring your friends here." Turned out that 2 weeks later, these same friends are the ones who brought me back to the same place, same food lol.

We spammed all kinds of curries, which ended up damaging my throat as well hahaa. Had a walk at CitySquare Mall after that before we seperated.

Hopefully this will kick off a healthy routine of a weekly exercise and meet-up. Lots of ideas were already generated. Time to wait!

Eat&Chat Saturday

Had lunch with Dalvin, Terence, Ryan and Sharon at Marina Square's Just Acia. After which we window-shopped around the mall. Came across this shop near the bowling alley selling mini toy models of military vehicles. Spent some time finding Ryan's tank hahaa.. but to no avail D:

2011-04-17T21:35:00.002+08:00

The annoying thing about facebook is that you can block a person's newsfeed and photos whatsoever but somehow or rather through someone else's, these things are just going to resurface and continue to haunt you. Dangerous stuff! haha. So I'll best be avoiding it for a couple of days :D

Anyway, there was supposed to be like this random Tau Huay breakfast with GOF on Saturday. So there was I all showered and dressed up ready to go, when the whole world decides to give me my retribution by PS-ing me back. Hahaa.
Maybe not. Ryan was sick.

Luckily I managed to have lunch with Zihao and Garrett at united square that afternoon, chance to visit the memory lane again.

Sometimes I wish I can say more, especially how I'm really feeling right now. But this, being a public platform, isn't really a good idea. Ironic isn't it? haha. Like you write something out there wanting others to read and yet at the same time afraid that they will. retarded.

grief or happiness, a thought away

The common frequency

2011-04-16T22:58:00.002+08:00

Everyone here have probably heard a choir perform before.
Just stumbled upon something pretty amazing.

Basically this composer/conductor, Eric Whitacre, came out with an idea one fine day to create an online choir, consisting of individuals uploading videos of themselves singing seperate parts of a piece onto youtube. He then combines all the 200+ seperate youtube videos together.

A combined song with 185 individuals from 12 countries, eerily awesome stuff!

Pang Seh-turday

2011-04-10T19:15:00.001+08:00

Queuing a long Botanical Gardens walk behind all the overnight attachment, obstacle course, guard duty, bla bla, worn out legs and a Friday with just 2 hours of sleep was just too much for me to handle, resulting to me having to forgo such an enriching and fun trip with my friends.

Not bad right?

Should sound better than: "I pang sehed GOF because i was sleepy".

lol

Haha yea, i probably did.

I decided to give the outing a miss, because any form of walking itself becomes dreadful after having stood at the gate doing nothing throughout the night. Plus i must emphasize i was dam sleepy lol. so ya! If you're sleepy and shag, you won't have the mood to be walking kilometers looking at trees, which i have just presumed is a valid excuse. Haha.

Aaanyway, so i ended up at home with my Dad who was slacking at home and not at work, I donno why. He later showed me a sms from my Mom saying that my Uncle booked tonnes of movie tickets for 'RIO' at Leisure Park in the afternoon. It wasn't a "Do you want to join?" question in my opinion.. more of like ' Here, this is your schedule for today. Go change up'.

Haha so ya, i ended up in Leisure Park watching 'RIO' with everyone on my maternal side. Really funny movie! Do consider it!

The rest of the night was therefore spent with my uncle, aunties and cousins. Nothing special actually, just dinner, some walk around followed by bowling.

But with an Uncle who manages Leisure Park, bam, that's when it's cool. The theatre, restaurant, ice skating rink and bowling alley becomes so accessible all of a sudden haha. We could just walk into them and all the staffs did was greet and let us in. Awesome stuff! :O

Uh ya, that's all.

On a side note, congrats on Commissioning 2LT Niandeng (:

2011-04-03T22:26:00.000+08:00

Turned out that the weekdays are the more "happening" time of the week.

This 3 days-long weekend of mine is an epitome of rotting at home and screwing my eyesight up. You can just observe how long i was at Facebook doing nothing but being there.

Plus i have to press 'enter' many times to make this post look like it's really long which obviously isn't.

uh ya.

I'm that bored, especially when birthday boy didn't have time for me either lol.

2011-03-31T01:26:00.000+08:00

Happy birthday Zihao!!! :D

Move on, again.

2011-03-30T18:44:00.002+08:00

Eyes sore, condolences felt and eventually, our helpless final goodbye.
We will, with no other choice, move on like any other events in our lives.

The much dreaded and unwanted funeral wasn't all negativity. In the midst of all the loss and grief is a wish granted, my wish of bringing all my relatives together. In fact, it was granted so well both my paternal and maternal sides relatives came together within that short 3-4 days, for some even breaking about 4 years of cold war. Must we always wait till someone is gone before we realise we are related?

In almost every wake, there are bound to be the little ones.
The tiny innocent souls, barely aware of what's exactly happening around them and you can see their excitement having everyone they know coming together till really late at night.
Looking at these young ones running around serves as a reminder that this is life. We create the offspring, watch them grow, and then we leave. The inevitable replacement of oneself, the circle of life.

Losing 2 grandmothers in just slightly more than 2 years is pressurising me to do as much as I can to all my loved ones and friends. One of my lifetime goal in life, to be able to support my parents and give to them whatever they had tried but could not give to me, things like holidays involving aeroplanes and hopefully, an awesome house with everything in it. To be able to give them a life they dreamed off, that's one of the things that will continue fuelling me forward in life.

But for now, it's moving on, and cherishing everyone around me even more.

P.S I wonder how many 'move on' posts i had written recently. Guess life hasn't been really promising.

Ha.

Time's up

2011-03-26T23:08:00.001+08:00

My grandma wasn't recovering, just dragging on.
Just got news at about 11pm that she passed away :(

Rest In Peace. Love you.

..and here comes the much dreaded funeral..
I totally can't stay in an environment full of crying people for long without joining them. Sigh..

BOOM!

2011-03-21T21:54:00.000+08:00

Had a cohesion with my army platoon today, a BBQ. However near the end there's like this frightening thunderstorm pouring crazy amount of rain and throwing lightning and thunder down once every 1-2 seconds. Never had i been so scared of a thunderstorm before hahaha. Scary stuff!

Saturday Bored And Sad Singles (BASS) day out

2011-03-20T22:29:00.005+08:00

Instead of falling into the evil scheme of kbox to suck your wallet dry on a Saturday, Zihao outsmarted them all by combining two short $6 sessions from two different places ,i.e TeoHeng and Kbox, and created a 3+ hour session for just $12. Very clever! haha.

It was a day of driving around, all thanks to the kind contribution of Niandeng as the driver. We started our singing at Leisure Park's Kbox before rushing over to Katong Shopping Centre's TeoHeng for another one. It's really not a bad idea you know? Feels longer too lols!

After which we had dinner at Parkway Parade's Crystal Jade, eating nothing special but food you can easily find at coffeeshops, but paying a hell of a price for them. ND's Wanton Mee was $7.80 lol! And mabel and my fried horfun is like $12. Maybe we ain't very clever after all D: So much for a money-saving day..

We talked and gossiped about old times till almost 10pm before getting back to the car, all ready to be sent home when Mabel suddenly asked if we want to come up to her house. Thus our day impromptu(ly) extended by a couple of hours watching TV and digging photos at her house. And some Uno stacko for the others.. i was too sleepy by then for such a game involving concentration haha.

Hung around there till 12.. one more new house visited (:

2011-03-20T10:36:00.005+08:00

Was in the car just now when the radio played VitaminC's Graduation song. Somehow this song has the power to gush me with a wave of memories and to the brink of tears. Those were the times :(

I guess I thought that this would never end
And suddenly it's like we're women and men

Niandeng's birthday @ CitySquare Astons

2011-03-13T21:05:00.000+08:00

Tired!!!

Wouldn't even have blogged if i had chosen to have dinner with zihao just now..
and alot of us are feeling so sleepy today. Maybe it's the cake haha.. or excessive dry ice sniffing.

Today we keep the tradition alive.
Another day we come together, for Niandeng's birthday!

I love annual events. It has this securing feeling amidst the satisfaction.. like 'go ahead, have fun. No need to be sad when everything ends, because there's one again next year.'

We had lunch at CitySquare mall's Astons, where Emilyn came along too.
As usual someone had to go to the toilet again before bringing the cake in. I don't think there was any intention to surprise anyone any more. It's more like a '意思意思' thing.
Like come on, the one receiving the surprise probably carried in a few cakes for other peoples' surprises before. Who wouldn't notice these endless 'toilet trips' during their birthday meal.

Maybe one day we should start the meal with the cake on the table already. That should surprise someone.

After lunch we had our notorious walk to nowhere and standing at entrances discussing about anything except where to go next. Eventually we decided on IT show at SunTec, but decided to let the couple go on their own first before we go to the same place a bit later. One lamp post is bad enough, and eight?! haha. Niandeng didn't join us.

We eventually took a train down to SunTec and got stunned. There were so much people they even closed the upwards escalator to stop people from going upwards. Crazy!
We ended up walking with the gals to see some gal stuffs before like leaving Sun Tec. Sorry Zihao! You didnt get to see your laptops :(

Had a decent long walk in Marina Square after that, window shopping before heading home!

Everything's postponed. Literally.

2011-03-06T18:44:00.000+08:00

Two days ago, i was expecting this weekend to be awesome, with botanical gardens walk and kbox etc.
Wow. Can't wait!
So i endured my week, looked forward to Friday everyday, and yeaa!! TGIF!
Happily, I booked out and headed home.
A typical start to a highly anticipated weekend, how can anything go wrong?

However, shit just happens, and it happens fast.

You see,
I received a phonecall from my parents just one hour after stepping home.
Apparently, things are not going so well for my grandmother in the hospital. Her conditions has gotten so bad the doctors found it no point trying to spam medicines to keep her alive any more. Been months since they have been doing that.

So ya, all of a sudden my grandmother is being left there to die and all my relatives are on a mad rush to the hospital to hopefully speak to her the last time.

So we rushed over to the hospital, spoke to her, and waited.
Went aside, planned for all the funeral stuffs, and continued waiting.
Hours past, and it was so late we went home first.

Somehow, we are still waiting. Till now.

Basically I had been at home for the whole of Saturday and Sunday after pushing all the outings away, and on this tragic countdown with my parents. Somehow, that day is not going to be on this weekend. Maybe on a weekday next week, maybe next weekend, maybe next month, we didnt expect to not know.

Now I just hope that my grandma can choose the path of lesser pain. If she's really suffering then I'll rather she let go..

As for me, i gave up trying to predict what's happening next, because i just kept getting it wrong. Now I can't even say for sure if I'll be in camp next week. My next couple of days will be determined by the willpower of my sick and frail grandma.

Do cherish the people around you. Hope to see everyone soon :)

2011-02-28T21:40:00.001+08:00

Hello! Monday post!

I'm on an off-clearing spree recently, so im actually at home longer than being in camp these 2 weeks.

However i wouldn't say im enjoying myself a lot lol. There are times when i wish i was in camp, and when in camp i wish i was at home. I really think the most ideal scenario will be letting me stay out!! haha.8-5 will be awesome! Because I'm officially bored of my home!! (but love my bed still yup)

Went out a few times this week, one with GOF to SMU for lunch on Sat, and dinner with Zihao the following night. These are perhaps the most enjoyable times of the week? haha. nothing beats just going out and meeting someone for a chat.

Maybe because only then am I not alone (:

活着只会呼吸吃饭喝水的生活

Tekong vs Unit Life

2011-02-27T17:44:00.001+08:00

Tekong - wakes up at 5am, day ends at 10.30pm

Unit- wakes up at 6am, day ends at 5pm

Tekong- 13 man in one bunk

Unit- 2 man :D

Tekong- Requires 45mins of bus and ferry ride to just reach Pasir Ris interchange

Unit- take bus 103 to Serangoon interchange, then take mrt home like Jc times

Tekong- day starts with morning exercise, then packed back to back with lessons and trainings

Unit- day starts with breakfast, then sleep, then repeat

Tekong- Book out Fri 7pm, book in Sun 3pm.

Unit- Book out Fri 3pm, book in Sun 11.30pm

Tekong- Misses outside food a lot

Unit- "Eh.. no money already la. Can we eat in camp?"

Tekong- "Hey let's go wash clothes"

Unit- "Hey let's go LAN"

Tekong- "Can i borrow your phone? I need to call home"

Unit- "Can i borrow your PSP charger? Fighting boss!"

Tekong- Mum: "Is it very tough? Rest well!"

Unit- Mum: :"Eh! Why are you at home again!"

Tekong- "Recruits! Why are you late to fall in for breakfast?!"

Unit- "Uh.. sergeant leh? Someone go wake him up leh."

Tekong- "Garrett, you going for lunch tmr? TPY red circle 1pm"

Unit- "Garrett, can you like.. get out of my bunk?"

1 year to go :D

2011-02-27T17:01:00.000+08:00

We dreaded and feared it, cried on the first night we stepped in, maybe some more when it started screwing our lives up, and before we knew it we cleared 10 months of it. 1 year left! Awesome!

It sounds and feels like a really short time left to go initially haha, until i realise im only like 45% done with NS, not even half way there?! what!!! lol.

But thankfully, these 10 months included 5 months of recruit/trainee life, which is probably the toughest times of one's NS life, so technically we cleared a larger part of Ns already right?! right?? (yes zhiyong, keep lying to yourself)

There's this thing im really looking forward to right now, and that is for my poly friends to enter NS probably 1-2 months later and I can go up to them with garrett and niandeng and go like.. "Half way there!!!!"

Hahaha. Or give cliché 'words of wisdoms' to them when they're going for field camp the following week:
"Wa good luck ah. It's going to be very tough, you're going to cry on the 4th day! You have to dig a hole to sleep in and eat combat rations. Oh! and watch out for wild boars!!"

lol. it's always this same old 'im-just-pretending-to-help-you' words but deep inside they are just trying to say : " muahaha, i completed mine already. Now it's your turn! sucks to be you!"

hahaha. now i understand why i received the same things from my seniors. The evil chain letter of SAF!

Just when i was trying to talk about what i would be feeling on this date one year from now, i realise i shouldnt carry it too far lol. im still a loser at 45% completion haha. shucks.

'I Am Number Four' Prelude

2011-02-27T05:52:00.034+08:00

"OOOOPPEN NUUUMBERSS!"

50!

1..2...3...4...5... 50!

You!

You are number one!

Number 1: "NOOOO! Shit!!!" *runs to Malaysia*

"WA HENG SIA. I number 4"

Sometimes, nothing happening's better

2011-02-20T22:16:00.002+08:00

When Michelle left the first time, everyone got really emotional. Some cried it out, some cried within.
Then she came back for holiday, nice, back to the good old times.
2 months later, the same painful separation returned. Same old tears from the same old people.

Will you long for a short-length happiness if sorrow and despair inevitably comes with it?

This is something which runs through my head every once in a while.

Since young, my Dad has always been against my brother wanting a dog at home, even though he was once a dog owner himself in the past. Seriously, why the great disapproval? I didn't understand why, till one day my Dad told him: "The dog will eventually get old and die, and you will feel terrible when that happens.Why adopt something which will eventually leave you? What for give yourself more things to cry upon?"

True.. why create things to cry upon?

Like facing with a relationship heartbreak, some find a new person quickly, some take awhile longer, while some withdraw at the slightest bit of interest for someone else, afraid that they will once again trade their devotion with pain of equal magnitude.

If you are dead hungry right now and is now given a choice, would you rather take a tiny, negligible bite off a tender piece of meat or not at all? Will exposing someone from a rural village to the comfort and privilege of the city for a day give him an unforgettable day, or make him less appreciative of his once-satisfied life.

Will the happiness of today outweigh the greater disappointment coming tomorrow?

We make these choices all the time in life,
we choose if we want to take that risk.
Just like asking Michelle Lim Zi Qing to come back to Singapore every time possible,
even if it means us having to cry every time she leaves.

Bye girl, again.

2011-02-13T11:31:00.000+08:00

Before enlisting into the army, I've always had this impression that the army is full of terrifying, old men shouting at you everyday.

Then i realise i got 2 points right, they are terrifying, and they shout at you everyday. But these people are no where old. Just like a secondary school, the youngest and the oldest is probably just at most 4 years of age apart. But with this insertion of rank and hierarchy into the system, these people are no where like your secondary school seniors.

I'm always amazed how someone around your age can treat you so badly. Like.. come on.. we are of the same age, we all cant wait to ORD. Surely there must be some form of mutual pity between us.

However these are the very same people who scream their lungs out at you, torture your mind, plays with your social life, basically do what they can to continue fuelling your motivation to finish serving your national service.

Well of course, not everyone works this way. I have superiors who are respectable, sociable and awesome in every way. But to those who enjoys using their rank as a status of power, it pretty much reflects on their character and their jeopardised future.

Oh anyway, last Friday i witnessed the first batch of seniors completing their service, collecting their pink Ics and saying goodbye to everyone they see. a.k.a ORD.

Apart from the inevitable enviness, i'm really positive about this. Like if i see these people everyday, it means
i am no where near to ORDing myself, since these people who are so much more senior than me are still here. But since they are gone, each passing day will mean closing up one day of our service time-gap.

Ok actually that is quite nonsense actually.. but whatever works lol.

For those who havent visually seen what Garrett and I do in NS...

Haha. uploaded by the ORDed people who seriously dont care about leaking confidential information anymore.

(photo taken in a public place, so im not committing anything wrong either!)

When quantity's the quality (SSF annual CNY visiting)

2011-02-06T21:29:00.004+08:00

I'm now faced with the utmost task of blogging my weekend in less than 2 hours before booking in. I'm totally freaking out now already lol. Pardon the wordiness!!! :)

TPY Central
The morning started in a state of confusion, no one knew who was going to arrive, what time they were coming and the supposed list of who was going to meet at TPY was no where close to the actual attendance. Lisi and Niandeng went Zihao's house themselves, Weifa and Xiwen was so late they didnt have to meet up with us.

Only Garrett and I went on with the meeting up at tpy plan, and to make our extra time and money spent stopping at central worth while we decided to buy KOI. And to our surprise even at 11 plus KOI literally just opened. How often you enter one right after the shutter is raised? hahaa
Anyway we were very amused by our single digit queue number. It's a sign of good luck for the coming year!! Must be!!

Zihao's

AAAAnyway, the both of us took a bus down to our very familiar first stop of every SSF new year visiting, Zihao's house!! When we arrived Niandeng and Lisi were already there, along with all the usual fingerfood that are always like.. there! Haha. Thanks alot soo mama!!!

We were busy watching this programme on Fox crime named 1001 ways to die, and a lesson i learnt from it is that when u pee, please either pee in a toilet (duh) or somewhere that is free from electrical wires. Apparently when u pee on a wire of high current, the current follows your trail of your liquid by-product into you and toast everything in you. Not a glam way to lose your life eh? :(

Weifa and Xiwen came quite significantly later, after which the next hour or so was spent on Monopoly Deal. We all left at about 2 plus for our next.. rather random stop, Darren Tan's house. Niandeng left from Zihao's house to prepare for his OCS Thailand Trip :(

Darren's
If you are wondering, who is this Darren Tan? Why havent i come across this name before? Dont worry, 5 out of the 7 who went over didnt really know him either.haha We only know him as our head prefect (even this im not so sure).. uh ya.. you get the point. We seriously dont know him! (awkward +2)

To make things worse, Darren did something pretty awesome.. inviting his Jc friends, secondary school classmates, secondary school juniors (us) and relatives over, 4 totally different groups, totally stranger to one another. I think it's dam cool haha!! You should see how the 4 groups were occupying 4 corners of the first storey. (awkward + 10)

But honestly he really did very well as a host. We settled in pretty quickly and were served really well. A really big thanks to him for inviting us over!!!

Weifa's
This one is another semi-fail stop.
Quoting Fiona :
"I have a good news to tell you! You know which storey Weifa stay??
"Noo.. it's 17th!"
"and the lift is spoilt!!"

Perhaps one of the toughest stop of my entire 19 years of CNY visiting. We have to climb up 17 storeys to get to Weifa's house!! Lol. Everyone is like rushing for all the fans available once we arrived. The host is so busy cooling himself down he totally ignored us when we asked for drinks. Watched TV and feasted guiltily on all the new year goodies on the table. There's really like freaking alot!! haha!! Kelly joined us here.
After some debating we chose Changi Airport as our next stop... oh.. and we never met Weifa's parents. So much for the 17 storeys climbed. Haha!! Fail

Changi Airport

The 8 of us split 2 cabs down to Terminal 2. Reason for coming here was to send the OCS people off. There were more than one being sent off, but I only came to send our dear buddy Niandeng off. All the best dude!! You'll be missed!

Next was dinner at T2's Sakae Sushi. Garrett was being an ass!! The moment we joined the queue he immediately told us he had to go, said bye, then disappeared. Pfft.
Food was great, plus some good talking along the way.

After paying the bill we began our hunt for 'Popeyes' due to Kelly's craving for it's Mashpotato. We went down to T1, only to find out it's popeyes is closed already.. so went all the way to T3's, where we waited for her queue for more than 30mins!! lol. The uni gals had so much time they actually started studying on the benches.

Suddenly we were stunned when Marilyn sent a sms over. She had just returned to Singapore from Malaysia, so we asked her to join us at Lisi's house.

Lisi's
We took a train back down to TPY to another familiar house, where Marilyn joined. Lisi's house is like always so fun and lively hahaa.. cause it's like always filled with so many family members who are so sociable and younger siblings whom we have been playing with for a couple of years already. Monopoly Deal again!! Hahaaa. It's like the new national sport for killing time and bonding.

Xiwen, Fiona and Kelly left at about 11pm, while Weifa Marilyn Zihao and I were kind of lazy and reluctant to leave. So guess what! We had an impromptu stay over at Lisi's house!

Got to say i had a great time that night! Together with Pearlyn and Bryan we played Heart Attack, modified Dai di, noob poker and even a big fail 7 people polar bear...after taking out the narrator, polar bear and hunter.. seriously who's left?! haha We ended up killing the hunter on the first turn half the time.

Together with some HTHT and random crap here and there, the sleepover itself came to an end. Had to rush home to sleep after that because i have a JC outing that noon! haha.

That's it for my Chinese New Year Chu 3! (: Happy CNY!

P.S OMG I DID IT! One and a half hour! Haha!!

what insensitivity.

2011-02-02T23:06:00.001+08:00

大年初一头一天,
家家户户过新年.
我却在camp guard duty
不能去拜年 :(

Like suay only.. haha
See you all on Friday!

Sting like a Butterfly, sleep like a pig

2011-01-30T12:01:00.003+08:00

This week i spend the first three days of the week learning to be a kung fu master. Fear me people!! Muahaha!!

But before attacking me, kindly tell me what you are going to do before hand, then give me like 10 seconds to think of the counter, then attack me slowly, best step-by-step, to ensure smooth execution of moves and prevent me from injuring myself instead. Other than that, i should be pretty deadly!

Apart from close combat training, there was really nothing much to my week in Camp. I find myself sleeping at the weirdest of hours. For example all my first 3 days ended at earliest 3.30pm and latest 4.30pm. So from 5pm onwards im back in my bunk staring at the ceiling fan.
So there was this day, after bathing and having a tiring day, what else can you do in bunk? Yup! Sleep!! So there was i lying on my pillow and cuddling under the blanket, all ready to enter dreamland when i picked up my phone and checked time. 5.30pm. Uh.. die.. like too early to sleep.

hahaha. So to make sure i dont sleep to early i played PSP till 6.30pm before finally falling alsleep, even before the sun sets. Next thing i know, i am eating breakfast at 6AM, all revitalised after 11 hours of sleep. Ah... NS.. lol

However the week didnt end as well as it started. I'm stuck in camp for guard duty on Fri and had to miss Xiwen's bday D: Hope they had a good time. boo..

Fate or bad luck?

2011-01-30T01:29:00.000+08:00

News of the NSF who died in camp spreaded instantly throughout SAF.

He was just like many other NSF. Serve the 2 years and get on with life. But somehow something so simple could not be granted to him.

What is scarier than the death itself, is the simplicity of the accident. He was not doing something very risky, wasn't running in line of fire nor defusing a bomb. Very simply, a reversing tonner while unloading stores from it. Who doesn't unload stores in army? Everyone does that, and so often.

We had all been exposed to the same amount of risk. The one on the papers could have been someone else, could have been me.

Was his time up? Or was he just the most unlucky soldier last Friday?

Life can really end just the very next second, anytime, and doesnt come with signals or time for you to prepare for your death... for you to do what you had always wanted to before dying.

If life is to betray you right now, how many unspoken words, unaccomplished goals and regrets are you bringing along?

Hey guys, lets get out of NS safely alright! :)

Dalvin's birthday surprise at my house on Saturday!

2011-01-30T01:13:00.007+08:00

Haha!!

We lied to Dalvin and let him suffer through 3/4 of a birthday weekend alone!

In the meantime, Sushan and Wendy came over at about 3pm and we shopped for the steamboat food at Shengshiong. We then went on to prepare the food and shred the ingredients for Yu Sheng. Lots of things to be done, but mostly are done by Wendy, Sushan and my maid haha!! I tried to help but realise i was more of an obstacle in the kitchen lol!

After that we were just like watching TV at the living room until Sushan reluctantly had to continue with our lie and walk vivocity with Dalvin for one hour plus lol. So wendy and I continued watching TV till the rest came over one by one.. first was Terence Jos Michelle, then Diane followed by Ryan.

Sushan brought Dalvin to my doorstep with the excuse of mahjong, and upon stepping into the living room we walked out with a cake. SURPRISE!!

So we went on to eat till we drop, but after that remembered we still have Yu Sheng, so we dropped further. We were reminded of Michelle's strange inhuman appetite again last night. She was promoting eating sour plum with Tomato. She claimed it's awesome... uh ya.. just for your info.

We ate till like really late, almost 10pm and ended up having to rush through all the group photos. Everyone left in such a hurry that the whole cake is still untouched in my fridge right now haha.

2011-01-23T20:18:00.000+08:00

Hello im back! hahaha

Alive and in one piece.

This time it went on smoothly, we got to where we wanted, didnt collide with any ships, didnt get arrested.

lol

Plus it was kinda fun going on this operation with platoon mates which have forged closer bonds together, and Garrett Chong.. army life with him is just plain weird. Like an outing!!

This weekend's the time of the year where i go raid the malls with my parents again for CNY clothings. Spent saturday night and almost the whole of sunday at Bugis!! Oh and i saw Lisi with her family shopping there just now haha!

Missing Xiwen's bday celebration cause of guard duty! :(:(:(

2011-01-16T22:21:00.000+08:00

The last time i went for this excercise, i almost got killed by a large ship twice.

Unfortunately i'm going for it again, and i am having a huge phobia lol

Anyway, (touchwood) if anything happens and this is my last post,

I love you all :D

P.S i hope newbie garrett dont capsize my boat

I want my PSP time back! D:

2011-01-16T13:54:00.006+08:00

I see more and more posts around that are so darn long but yet I can't understand a thing they are saying haha. But nevertheless, when you dont understand them it means that the writers are too pro haha.

However this writer here isnt as well-literate as them so there will only be the more juvenile life-related posts :P

My week's purely army-related, not like it wasn't for the past 8 months.
Just that there wasn't any outing at all because everyone was busy :(

To summarise my week of army, it was a week of dodge-ball between the platoons. Not literally of course, but a week of 'Sai-Gang' throwing. There are 3 platoons in the company, each led by different commanders which will of course want to protect their own men.

So when there is a pile of task to be done, to protect the welfare of those under them, they throw the task to another platoon. So jobs and tasks get thrown here and there around the company.

And unlucky enough, this week my commanders are either busy teaching the new people who just entered or busy sleeping in bunk, so they are not around to lead us, much less protect us.

AND SO, yup, with no one to protect our interests, everything gets thrown to us from superiors of other platoons and we obviously have to comply, which results to us having to do so much stupid things lined up back to back while others are sleeping in bunk. Which results to me being extremely pissed, which results to me ranting for the past few paragraphs, which results to you having to read it haha. sorry

Anyway for those curious about Garrett's life, he's basically doing what everyone in my company has to do, learning to drive the boat. Just that in my company, you have to carry the car you drive, which is where most of the hell come from. However, to the jealousy and anger of everyone else, this new batch of people are getting so little of what we had to endure when we were at our trainee-phase, which definitely means less efficiency and skill.

Oh by the way, there is going to be this major excercise next week which we will have to drive a boat for half a day to a beach at another end of singapore.. and when you think that garrett being in the same company is coincidental enough, i happen to also share the same boat with him this time. What's wrong with SAF always putting me with him lol.

hmmmm

2011-01-16T06:53:00.000+08:00

i was discussing with my army buddy about why some people who were fat before army are all becoming so fat again so quickly when army life starts to slack.

My buddy told me:

猪,即使你把它阵容成像一只鸭,本性还是猪.

I laughed so hard upon hearing this lol!!! Dont you think it's just so random??? hahaha

Cayo_dibe outing (must emphasize that someone is missing)

2011-01-09T16:17:00.064+08:00

Zihao pang seh!!!!!

Hahaha.. ok he didnt at first because he had something on.. but after 6pm it became official..Zihao you
pang seh kia!!

lol.

neway,

Met up with Cass and Mabel at NEX on Saturday afternoon. We had a little treasure hunt for this Addidas Track pants which Cass wants to buy for his bf.

After which we called up Niandeng so that he could drive over to pick us up.

First thing we did upon hopping on to the car was to cancel the plan to visit Zihao at his poly's booth hahaa!!! We went to Tampines Mall instead for some shopping and dessert. (actually we wanted to go IMM, but Niandeng drove towards the wrong end of Singapore lol)
I ate so much Chippy fried chicken that i skipped dinner that night :(

After all the bits and pieces of shopping, eating and talking , Zihao was released from his booth. So we were thinking it would be quite feasible to meet somewhere in between so that we can have dinner together before those who had something on could leave. He agreed on it, so Niandeng spent the next half hour or so driving us to Tiong Bahru Plaza.

*insert an exciting adventure which includes almost running out of petrol in the middle of the highway*

So we happily set foot at tiong Bahru Plaza, gave Zihao a call, and guess what! He's not coming already! Wow! awesome.

Haha! Thank you la. Now what are we here for?

Mabel left first because she was already late for her senior's bday party. After watching Niandeng finish his Ajisen Ramen the other 3 dispersed as well.

When the word Coincidence just doesnt emphasize enough

2011-01-09T15:46:00.001+08:00

There are so many vocations, divisions and companies in SAF, and Garrett Chong Jia La can get posted to my company to be my sergeant. Cool or what haha!

It's just plain awesome to have a 7 years friend walking around you everyday for the rest of your army days haha.

But of course poor garrett isnt very appreciative of his recent posting. I'm sure he will soon know how lucky he is lol. Till then, I'll wish him all the best for his course week.

With things like that happening, i wont be surprised if Niandeng becomes the officer of Zihao or Weifa lol.

LOL!

2011-01-09T14:49:00.000+08:00

Last night while sleeping i suddenly got awoken at 4 plus. and guess what happened? My bro brought his GF home! LOL

Ok that's actually too minor to be the point.

Then the both of them slept together on the same bed.

NO WAIT. That's not the point also.

The point is...

I share room and bed with my bro

THAT'S THE PROBLEM!

Worse still, after being awoken i couldnt get back to sleep because they switched on the lights and the girl was too chatty.

And I had to pretend to be sleeping so that it wont cause any ultimate awkwardness.

What a screwed up Saturday night! what the heck!

LOL!

Random blabber

2011-01-03T21:32:00.005+08:00

There's always this urge to blog that 2-3 hours before booking in. Sort of a swansong, some final few words for the internet before it's all gone for the next few days.

It's the beginning of a new year. I still remember how i always dread yet look forward to it. Reason of hating it, of course, it's all the unfinished homework and knowing that you can no longer slack at home, wake up late etc. But what i look forward is always the new teachers, the old and potential new classmates, or that new sitting arrangement which may get you to know that special girl in class. Oh sitting arrangement is vital stuff! It's life changing!

Looking around, talking, or just reading blogs, sometimes you realise that Yes, your life may not be as good as before, but it really isn't that bad. Like how i complain my cliques meet up less often, but out there cliques of around the same age are splitting. 2 parts of the same seperated clique going out celebrating on their own on the same day? Pretty disastrous :(

My buddy in NS, he has this terrible family problem whereby his parents are divorced, and he has to live with and visit both parent on different days of the weekend. His truancy has resulted to him stuck with an incomplete N level cert, which he greatly regret now and is studying very hard during his free time. However, not being insensitive or anything, i dont think it's gonna work. We tried teaching him, but realise it's quite difficult learning, much less, take exams without a proper learning platform.

So do appreciate what you have around you. We are more fortunate than we think we are.

And lately i find lots of happiness just by seeing my friends taking a few more steps closer towards a potential relationship or, for those already attached, them spending quality time with their partners.. seriously haha.. maybe this happens when you get that pathetic :)

Signing off, potential cayojadibe outing next week!

2011 Resolution

2011-01-02T15:08:00.010+08:00

2010, 365 days of vast divergence.

There were the happier things, like knowing that future is finally more or less secured with the University placing. Picked up a few skills here and there (e.g roller blading), and also had tonnes of meeting-ups like always. Not to forget, December to April, my 5 whole months of all play and no work (:

Life being life, there are also the slightly unhappier stuffs, like taking my first step into conscription in late April, dislocated my toes in just 16days, and then about half a year later, faced with one of the greatest blow of growing up.

Of course, those unhappy things shall be left right there at the final second of 2010, carrying with me the important lessons from them.

I celebrate another successful year of friendship, thank you all my friends for continuing to give me the strength and purpose to fight on the challenges in life. GOF, SSF, Cayo, Kartika, Siongmay, and also my new friends in army.. You all make life complete!!

I will also like to thank my beloved family, for their endless support and care for me throughout my JC education and NS phase. Mum for always making sure i have enough toiletries and cash in camp lol.. and also my Dad for being my Army chat mate, guiding me along the hardships of NS with his rich experience.

National Service, what was once dreaded for the past 18+ years, surprisingly passes by much quicker than expected. 8 months have past since i first set foot on the godforsaken Island. 1 year 2 months to go!

My wishes for the coming year,

first and for most, good health and happiness for all my beloved friends and family.
I hope that i can get pass this one whole year of army safely, while having my schedules disrupted as little as possible by duties.

Outings! May they keep coming, with turn-up and enthusiasm always as great. Hopefully i can find the time to catch up with those who i had difficulty meeting up, and also for all those friends who are attached to successfully juggle their time. Of course, all the best for their relationship :)

Last but not least, forget all the unhappy happenings of 2010, shed off all the awkwardness and patch up the problems.

Welcome Blog, to 2011. Should be a good year ahead (:

Kicking the year off with a bang

2011-01-01T15:44:00.007+08:00

Ending 2010 and starting the next,
with one of the best SSF outing ever since army enlistment in April,
how much better can it get? (:

Plaza Sing

To kick off the awesome evening, I watched "Meet The Parents: Little Fockers" with Fiona Marilyn Zihao Garrett & Weifa at Plaza Sing. We almost had this plan cancelled, but eventually attempted to tackle the red "selling fast" indicator. Blessing or curse, we spent the next 1 hr 40mins stretching our necks at the front row haha. oh wells.

After the Movie we rushed down by train to Bugis to link up with Lisi and Kelly who were already queuing up at the Steamboat place.

Bugis

Steamboat session was great, not exactly food wise, but it was a good platform for a whole-clique conversation, something i feel is pretty much missing in recent outings. This was carried on when we had dessert just a few shops down after that. 杨枝甘露 yummm...

CityHall

At about 11pm we took a train down to City Hall for our New Year Countdown. Xiwen joined us then, wearing this super high heel, coupled with heel abrasion. She really had difficulty walking. You can really tell haha.
We squeezed through the thousands of people towards our destination, half the time talking crap with Garrett. Like wondering what will happen if you suddenly point and shout '周杰倫' haha! ok that's dumb.

We came to a stop at Esplanade Park, just a short distance away from the floating platform awaiting eagerly for the fireworks. No one there had any idea of the countdown actually, so technically we didnt countdown, just focusing on the sky and checking the time occasionally till the first explosion in the nightsky.

It had been some time since I last watch a Fireworks close-up, and I was definitely not disappointed. Watching the magnificent artwork on the backdrop of Singapore City Lights, SSF successfully completed our 4th New Year Countdown, celebrating our (at least) 4th year of friendship.

We were at the brim of separating right after fireworks, but fortunately a random call to Niandeng from me extended the day. We decided to meet up with him, who were with his JC friends at the same area. BUT . BIG FAIL. To summarise it, we started off very near from each other, but then spent 15mins or so making the distance really far. too bad!

Still nothing to do, so we just walked. Walked, from CityHall all the way down to Clarke Quay to take a train to Farrer Park. All 9 of us, so that once the twins go home, the remaining 6 can walk Xiwen home. Like a big shot pls haha.

Farrer Park

So at Farrer Park, those staying there got their wishes, fiona and kel went home, and we walked Xiwen back home ( inclusive of taking the lift up ). After that we all got attracted to the vending machine at her void deck, where we all got a drink and had a chat at a round table.

This was when this Police Car drove in..
"omg there's a police car. We never bring our IC"

Police alighted
"oh no.. they seriously coming for us??? cannot be right?"

Police walk towards us
"die die die.. want to run not?"

Police speaks : " Sorry guys, you all seen a commotion around?"
"uh nope.. but we seen a group of guys walking that way"

Police: "Thank's a lot" *walks away*
"wa lucky we didnt run away just now"

lol! Quite a bit of excitement even at the very last bit of the outing.

We then walked to Pek Kio from there, where Garrett took a cab home while the 5 of us walked all the way home.

Happy New Year

Peeps!

Xmas Countdown 2010 / sleepover @ Mara's

2010-12-26T20:36:00.007+08:00

Merry Christmas

People!!

This year's dinner was at Clarke Quay's brewerkz, with 8 of SSF cept Fiona and Lisi. Food's like okay okay though.. what i ordered didnt really taste bad but didnt taste 31 bucks either haha.. but the view and company's priceless.

After dinner we literally walked round and round clarke quay trying to absorb all the essence of christmas..

Okay actually it's more of we didnt know what to do and was finding a place to go.. which we eventually gave up and settled down beside the river like again.. everytime.

***remove Zihao and Garrett who had to leave to visit relatives***
***insert Lisi who "suddenly" weren't in Malaysia o.0 ***

Time was 10 plus, relatively tonnes of time before the countdown for this bunch of bored and lost personals. So we took a cab down to Marilyn's house in hope that there's better things to do.

Clarke Quay ----------------------------> TPY

Time of arrival wasnt really far from Christmas, like 10mins only.. so we happily settled down and were so confident we can make it for the countdown.

But like ALWAYS the last few mins before the countdown are the most distracting. one minute before 12am we were still anticipating.. next moment we realise we missed the countdown by 1 min.. still as loser plsss hahaa!

Luckily we were quite good at this already...

" eh.. no no! still can make it! 10 seconds to go! 10! 9! ...."

Lying to ourselves. works everytime.

Fiona and Zihao joined us later in the night. Gettin lively! :D

The group then got divided into the Mahjong and the Loser Rock Band group (led by lead singer xiwen)

My night ended rather early, so did niandeng's.. we knocked out at around 4 while the rest continued their sit-in-circle games all the time ensuring we cant sleep peacefully haha (:

The next morning we gathered downstairs for the ultimate spicy Bah Chor Mee! 'yi dian la' was pretty deadly haha. Seperated after that.

_________________time extension____________________________

Okay we didnt like totally seperate. Zihao and I followed niandeng to TPY's kiddy Palace to buy a present for his sis. We then shopped around United Square before i left for a GOF outing that never failed so badly before hahaha! we met up for lunch, but only 2 ate, other 2 watched. Sushan left immediately after that, while the remaining 3 walked for 15mins or so and disbanded. lol!!

Thanks god i had a back up plan in case GOF's outing fail ( like expected! ).

Went on to Niandeng's house alone and stayed there the whole day haha!

Upsized day!

2010-12-19T19:50:00.009+08:00

Kbox! This time we went down to Chinatown..

but no one was prepared for what we were about to see..

TADA!!

Thanks but... why do we need such a big room for? lol. (the only thing occupying the other half was my phone)

and 2 televisions side by side.. uh huh..

Hahaa. It's far from a luxurious session when they charged us a luxurious price of $30 for like 3 hr plus. i'll rather pay 10 bucks and sit on the floor..

After singing we met up with ryan terence michelle and Jiayen for dinner at old airport road.

We literally searched from corners to corners for a sit which could accommodate all 8 of us.. before we eventually found one in the uluest of all

Everyone bought something to contribute to the table, but champion ryan's $18 claypot rice owned everyone!!

P.S i'm so happy that my brother could make it to sec 5! hahaa! u havent seen his horrendous results last time.

the irony..

2010-12-19T08:31:00.001+08:00

And once again, the final 2 weeks of the year, which often serves as a reminder to me that many very special people very much never left my life.

When i can tell myself no matter how terrible the year was it shall end and begin on the highest of notes.

I was really fortunate not to spend my last 4 Christmas alone,

06 cayo sleepover
07 ssf overnight bbq
08 ssf dinner and sleepover
09 ssf dinner and clarke quay

and then this year again with at least a dinner to begin with

But these are also the days which leave me the emptiest, the trough behind every peak, when the day get so memorable, the following must be worse. It's when I start missing those moments with every bit of paranoia telling me that this could be the last.

Like the sense of loss right after a highly anticipated finale of an awesome tv series, you keep watching so as to find out how the ending will be like, only to disappointed when it's all over

It's this mixed feelings that make me look forward and yet dread the arrival of a high key gathering with people I can hardly meet.

Haha. i think it's just me. Paranoid as ever when it comes to social life.

but i think it all boils down to,

because I love you all too much

!@#$ Who suggested this meeting time?!

2010-12-12T19:47:00.008+08:00

Waking up on a Saturday morning during army reveille time shouldn't be that bad,
problem was no one slept at army lights off time.

So with all the cursing and swearing in our heads we managed to drag ourselves to Tampines at 7.30am plus minus (a lot more plus)

Those who came in a rush managed to grab a bite before we set off due to Jiayen's late arrival.. so late she probably came for a different outing.

We took a bus down to Changi Terminal, followed by a boat trip down to Pulau Ubin.
$2.50 per trip seemed easy on the wallet at first.. until the second time we open the wallet to get back mainland.

Upon arrival we didnt waste much time before renting our bikes, because there was like nothing to waste our time on actually haha. The bike shop was like there.. at the entrance.

So we cycled along the forest tracks,

up the hills,
down the slopes,
mosquitoes suck some blood,
and michelle's and wendy's knees shed some more blood.

Michelle's case was halfway up this monster slope her breaks jammed up her wheels, so she fell and sort of rolled down a little o.o

Wendy's .. uh.. dont know la.. partially blind?

haha

So people, if you see this sign while cycling please do not ignore.

We came off our bikes at chek jawa where we visted the jetty and the viewing tower..

After the walk at chek jawa we cycled back and left the island.

Lunch was back at Tampines Mall's food court, followed by a little bit of shopping here and there.

Jiayen's bday celebration + Michelle's back!!

2010-12-07T12:34:00.004+08:00

Funny thing is that it's a monday evening, and we get a nearly full attendance .
And on saturdays we can get as pathetic as 3 people haha.

But yea.. with all the uni holidays, army offs, 8-5's, early bookouts, and nothing-to-do-in-singapore, we met up at NEX for dinner!

Two things we met up to celebrate, one was Jiayen's 19th and the other Michelle Lim's return from NZ.

Dinner was at this HK cafe which was very noob, the menus arent printed yet, orders take like forever and waiters dont even know what they are serving. We had to wait for everything to come to start guessing which was what we ordered.

Then came the birthday celebration.

Artwork of the girls.. and if you are to stare hard enough you should be able to realise this isnt abstract art. Took me awhile

Jiayen turned out to be the first person to celebrate bday at the shop ( see! noob) so she got a free desert.

Since it was just like A free dessert, we still went on to satisfy our craving at Dessert Story.

So we compiled our money, made our choices, only to be told they're mostly sold out. Anti Climax!

But thanks to Ryan who remembered there is another similar snowice shop somewhere deeper into Serangoon Central we kind of got what we wanted.

Had to find a void deck to eat at because the aunty refused to let us eat there haha!

Yup.. that's monday.

lol. im dam lazy

2010-12-07T01:01:00.008+08:00

hahaha. finally i find something i can use to describe the dream i keep having

http://xkcd.com/

2010-12-04T20:00:00.001+08:00

booked out today, booking in today.

Like whuuuutt

haha.

monday and tuesday off, shall blog then.

2010-11-28T16:42:00.004+08:00

"Private Rapunzel! Your hair is TOO LONG! You shall be confined forever! "

This week's another of those week whereby i can not be in camp at all and yet miss nothing.

Only thing memorable at all will be that my platoon was at the boat shed on Thursday, and my sergeants spoiled the gate by ramming a loaded trailer of a few hundred kilograms into it.

The whole huge gate was basically knocked so hard that the rollers got knocked out of the tread (whatever you call it). So for the next 1 hour we were frantically trying to fix the gate before anyone else discover this disaster. We ended up removing the whole gate before putting it back. That's what you call covering your own ass people! haha

Saturday i joined GOF late, missed lunch, and upon arrival Sharon Ryan and Terence had to leave. Not too bad for an outing lol. I ended up taking a train down to Tampinese with Dalvin, only, to meet Sushan for lunch.

After which we visited Wendy at her workplace to drop some sweets for her before taking a train to expo for SITEX.

The only thing stopping me from spending away was probably NS, for anything bought then could only be used like every weekend, so spending $1k+ on things which collect 5 days of dust every week isn't really worth it.. Sushan left empty handed as well, but her heart was left there at her Nikon DSLR which she couldnt afford haha.

After ogling at all the electronics (and girls) we had a walk in Serangoon's NEX, which turned out to be so dam freaking huge with about everything inside. Seperated after that.

On off on monday. Long weekend (:

crushes are a waste of your time and feelings

2010-11-28T06:00:00.003+08:00

I'm starting to like this person, and i'm feeling really shy around him/her. Too afraid to tell him/her, so i'll keep it to myself.

congratulation! This person has successfully stepped into a trap, into a period of false hopes and worries, lonliness and depression, shyness and awkwardness, into the dark world of crushes.

For those who once had crushes you do realise that there's always this friend of your gender who is closer to the person you like. Why is it that my good friend is so much closer to him/her than me? Why do they talk so much while i'm the one having difficulty? I'm the one who knows her longer, but why am i the stranger.

The truth is, by having a crush on someone, you are just completely killing any tiny bit of chance with that person. It just doesn't make much sense.

When you have a crush on someone, you shy away. Just at the decisive period when you probably would have sparked a very good friendship, you shy away and bam, there goes your potential friendship. You start creating pseudo worries and fears in your head telling you "Oh no. it's her. I better hide!" which is plain retarded in a third person's point of view. And how will you expect to be with this person when you even have difficulty being friends?

I talk a lot more to some girls than those guys who have a crush on them. Vice versa, i'm dying of jealousy when it comes to my own.

The moment you start having a crush on someone is probably the moment your friendship starts deteriorating.

So my point is, either be close friends first by fighting the deadly shyness, or declare your interest early. Avoid those oh-no-it's-her crushes because you'll end up hanging on the cliff waiting for the very day you fall. Months? Years? either way you're still falling. It's just unfair as you are not getting what you deserve, what you have put in.

Further more, everything is in your head, your imagination.

Nothing probably happened.

Like, don't crush (:

You probably wasted a few mins of your life reading this haha..

Ahhhh The sun!!! It burns! sizzle

2010-11-21T18:58:00.011+08:00

I feel like a solar panel this week.

putting the Wednesday public hol aside, the other 4 days were just pure sizzling under the sun.

On Monday and Tuesday, my whole company had field deployment which we had to dig our shellscrapes.. which was basically digging our graves in this super ulu place which no one can find on 清明节.

Thursday and Friday was attachment to 1guards to cover safety for their coastal swim. 2 km of swimming in the sea! crazy people!

funny thing is that how much they can swim is 99.9% dependent on the current, so if the current is moving there, they'll go there. If it's against their swim route, they'll find themselves not moving, if not, moving backwards for a couple of hours. So i dont see the point la lol. During war they can only pray to Poseidon or something.

This safety covering lasted 2 days, and each was about 10am to 4pm, so for 2 full days i exposed myself totally non-stop through the noon sun. Everyone wearing specs became ultraman haha.. seriously.

So this kinda makes this week's zero outing quite beneficial, since i'll probably need a mask or something if there's one.

Speaking of outing, been 2 whole weeks since i had my last. oh man..

me: "oh shit.. running out of fuel, better get back to shore"

*vroooooommmmmm*

*poof poof *

*stares at each other*

lifeguard: "... was that an engine stall?"

me: " hope so.. "

*tries restarting engine*

me: " okay.. pick up a pedal.. wave for help"

2010-11-14T12:11:00.007+08:00

Nothing much to highlight this week, unless you want to know how much psp i played in camp!! haha.. it was basically a one week chalet, just much safer without parang-wielding samurais around.

Oh.. and i have finally gotten my long-awaited IPPT silver, which should kiss saturday RTs goodbye for quite some time. The $100 is nice too ;P

Lonely weekend this week :( Uni exams robbed my outings away.

Anyway, i think guys are rather fortunate to be in NS. haha.. hell training aside, i think we still get to go on holiday mood every weekends and nights out. We get to keep fit, build ourselves up, and continue to play tonnes of sports and games when we aren't working. Plus we get paid etc.

After we ORD, it's going to be another post-A's holiday for us. In short, by the time we go to uni, we would have played till we're sick of it, and MAYBE be more interested in our books lol.

Ok i think i'm mad haha.. you probably need to have slack life like mine now to think like that!
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Went for a family bbq right after bookout on Friday. Was for my cousin Ronnica's birthday. This condo's a lot worse than trellis tower in terms of regimentation. They ban residents from making noise, hanging clothes at the windows and putting slippers at the door. The last one is quite nonsensical! haha. Some condo's just so strange.

(Fri-Sat) GOF sleepover @ ryan's

2010-11-07T12:43:00.006+08:00

Through my prospective this outing's actually quite short, cause i skipped LAN again haha.

I actually got to meet the rest only at around 8pm. Reason for it being this late, one mainly cause they played $9 worth of Call of Duty, and two, some idiot took ryan's 11B away after playing, resulting to quite a delay at the shop finding the card. ( it never came back! Ryan had to go make quite a few police report )

So while Ryan is busy recalling his day at the police station, I met up with Dal, Ter and Sharon first just downstairs at Little India MRT, where we later took a train down to Bishan.. (or Marymount??) .. to find Sushan. Why the confusion of venue? Because our dear friend LSS went into the train immediately after we alighted at Bishan even before Dalvin had the time to deliver the message for us to re-enter. Ended up only Dalvin and Sushan made it for that train to marymount.. we took the next.

Blunder #2 of Sushan , under her lead, we took a bus down to nowhere. We exceeded the destination by like 2-3 stops.. so yea.. dam.

"uh it's near the long something de.."
"long house?"
"ya ya"
"we went past it a long time ago"

Then come blunder #3, on the correct way to 'Fat Boy's', SS doubted the route and told us it's the other end, so we made a u-turn towards the other side. Thank god we doubted her even more, so while making our way to the wrong end we sent terence to carry on with the initial route. Then yup Terence found the shop. We didnt have to walk all the way to find nothing. *hurray*

Burgers at Fat Boy's was great, not that expensive IMO, maybe cause they didn't include taxes and service charge.

Skipping the Tauhuay part, we walked over to Ryan's house, stoned at the bus-stop while waiting for him to return to bring us in.

Rest of the night was spent in his room doing HTHT and random facts, a.k.a talk the *whole night. (*for the rest actually.. i slept relatively early as usual hahaa. the bed was too good)

Sushan stealthily left the sleepover in the morning for lessons in NUS without anyone noticing lol. NEway those remaining had lunch at J8 LJS.

Grade inflation!!!

2010-11-07T12:31:00.002+08:00

Randomly clicked on the NIE website and got quite a shock!

NIE Science (Education) used to be:

CCC/C (10th%) to BBC/C (90th%),

now it's BBC/C (10th%) to AAB/A (90th%)

basically, what used to be the top 10% is now the bottom 10% lol.

Nice to see my potential course increasing its rank in the cut-off page :P

Randomz

2010-11-07T01:22:00.002+08:00

This post is more for Ryan lol! or someone who knows the Taiwan celeb Linda Liao

She turns out to be a hardcore gamer omg!

And she recently won this international Starcraft 2 tournament