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2007-07-23T22:25:00.001+08:00

i've shifted! 我搬家了！

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2007-07-20T21:04:00.000+08:00

ok, this post is not meant to be sarcastic at all. i fell sick a few days ago, thanks to all the well wishes and stuff, i'm finally getting much better. :) though i must really apologise for spreading the virus a bit. hmm..... this reminds me being socially responsible during the SARS period. not a good citizen. oh wells. now i noe.

2007-07-17T19:29:00.001+08:00

tired. more days to come. :)

2007-07-13T21:12:00.000+08:00

sian diao. i wanna buy tickets to dim sum dollies n they r all sold out. damn smart of me not to buy earlier.

2007-07-11T12:22:00.000+08:00

OBS IS OVER!!!

ok, so i was cynical, but for good reason. ns is over, i've got no intention to go outfield anytime soon, sian. it'll be with scholarly people (read: nerdish n bookish, haha... stereotypical myopic view), doubel sian. rained on the very first morning, triple sian.

BUT, i enjoyed myself so much! we did the climbs which were awesome. never thought i'd be able to climb those structures. special thanks to chuyan n grace for making them so much easier.

land ex was really tyco. we just anyhow bashed up the hill n found the checkpoint, anyhow bash down n found another checkpoint. then while walking, we found another checkpoint when we thought it would be some distance away. not to mention that it rained, and so we could rest for about an hour. haha.....

the dinner that night was great too! the cooks were amazing. oh yah, i apologise for the chicken curry debacle once agian. my bad.

sea ex was pretty simple and straight forward. thanks to chuyan n aini, haha... our zigzagging still managed to bring us back to camp. haha... think we were the only watch obsessed with photo taking.

the science project was a major lucky one. our structure could actually fire! brilliance! haha......

oh yah, i was almost a monkey in the circus. haha...

anyways, thanks to my watch mates and LJ, OBS was a fantastic experience. LJ was sarcastic but really knowledgable, a great intructor. though our watch were playing the fun fun orientation games, we were enjoying ourselves gossiping among each other. haha.... see u guys soon!

2007-07-06T23:43:00.001+08:00

i m so excited over obs. can u sense my sarcasm?

2007-07-06T20:16:00.000+08:00

some pple r plain irritating. fyi, not everyone is born with a silver spoon stuck in his mouth. ok, u're rich, ok, u're gonna bea big shot doctor in future. good for you. now screw off from my life. that'll be really awesome. (no sarcasm intended at all)

2007-07-02T22:47:00.000+08:00

ok, i went miss clarity's cafe with shi han this afternoon. cheap! haha, the prices were without gst n service tax, or perhaps, they included that in the menu prices already. oh wells, food:

then we went sim lim where i bought like lots of stuff. gosh, i dare not look at my account balance now.

next, we walked to lavendar coz i needed to get some stuff for obs. BUT we could have gone to level 3 of the food centre at bugis! there's an army equipment store there! argh! anyways, we visited the istana at kampong glam along the way. coolness. we were like tourists! haha... pics:

2007-07-01T09:49:00.000+08:00

goodness, if u have yet to watch fantastic 4, dun, transformers is much better. it's cooler, it's more exciting, the plot is better, it looks better, and to top it off, it gives you this tinge of nostalgia! brilliance! it's great. a great roller coaster ride.

2007-06-29T20:52:00.000+08:00

wow, been some time since i last blogged. many things happened, i started teaching again, i bought a macbook, preparations for tspc r underway. lots of stuff to do, but time is sufficient. :) life's good.

2007-06-20T20:55:00.001+08:00

i've got the i-have-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-wait-for-two-hours look. GREAT.

2007-06-18T17:37:00.001+08:00

2007-06-12T16:34:00.000+08:00

I WENT TO THE ZOO! ok, photos with yu xian, shall upload later.

it was extremely fun and enjoyable! it taught me a lot! fun facts 101:
#123: polar bears has black skin and transparent fur
#245: penguins are found only to the south of the equator. there are acutally penguins along the coast of africa
#456: gestation period of an elephant is between 20 to 22 months, longest recorded: 25 months!
#965: there are 17 fishing fields in the world, 4 depleted, 13 overly fished.

alrights, i noticed a very disturbing fact. whenever the zoo keepers give commentaries, they'll stress that the animals are well taken care of in the zoo. citing longer lifespan and better "quality" of life as proof. they are kinda erm... i think "covering their ass" is quite an apt description. i dun noe, perhaps the animals may be better off out in the wild? not as bored as they seem while kept in captivity. but, they'll have to worry about food and diseases which are taken care of if they r in captivity.

another thing. the animals participating in the animal shows are EXTREMELY well trained. timing is almost perfect! however, almost all the animals except the elephants seem to be extremely familiar with the reward scheme. u work well, u get food. the elephants, however, were not trained like that. they did the stunts and tricks really well and did not need to be fed during the show.

lastly, during animal feeding times, the keepers will say that such activities keep the animals occupied and that it breaks their routine and gets them to exercise a bit. sorry, but it sounds weird to me. especially when the feeding times are FIXED. isnt that a routine in itself?

food for thought.

2007-06-09T14:39:00.000+08:00

PLEASE DO NOT TAKE IT PERSONALLY

i just recalled what i said a few weeks back when i was in the office. i was reading i-weekly when i came across this guy called pornsak.

me: his name quite sad huh...
colleague: yah... a bit
me: the first syllabus is bad enough, the 2nd one adds the ompf

2007-06-07T20:02:00.000+08:00

OH YEAH! back in singapore. ok, time to blog down what i did for the past few days.

first day, budget terminal. haha. it was really no frills. just plain and simple. look at the photo below and you'll understand what i'm talking about. oh yah, there r still shops for you to shop if u're bored. not to mention free internet as well, for 15 mins though.
haha, this uncle just stood in the middle oblivious of my efforts to take a photo of the boarding gates.

on board tiger airways, nothing much, really like a bus ride except that it's many km above ground. then i reached the thai international airport. woooooooot! it's quite glassy. as in, lots of glass used in the building. futuristic, modern, clean lines. anyways, point to note - thais love their king. look at evidence:

anyways, after airport, we took the airport express to our hotel. frankly, if you're travelling in a group, just take the cab, it's cheaper actually. coz the taxi meter jumps pretty slowly.

after checking in, we went to this alley near our hotel and had our first meal in thailand. haha, uber cheap. noodles for 20B, 2 popiahs for 25B and drink for 10B. cheap. nice. good.

toured around pratunam area for a while before heading to suan lum night market.

we took the BTS sky train followed by the MRT to suan lum market. ohyah, the people here actually QUEUE for the sky train. goodness, this is it man. s'poreans need to learn. LEARN!

en route, we passed by Lumpini park, took a pic with the statue of King Rama VI. fyi, the current king is King Rama IX.
very funny, in lumpini park, there was a whole load of people doing aerobics together. haha....

gosh, this is the market of all markets. lord of the markets. it has everything and anything under the sun. what u want, u get. cheap too. the best thing is, it aint just touristy. i mean granted, there are tourist stuff like the typical thailand handicrat products, but there are much much much more! there are home decor stuff, bugis-like clothes, shoes, accessories, bags, furniture, paintings, all sorts! it's damn good. serious. uber good. for all my three nights there, i went suan lum. see my point? it has loads.

for the 2nd day, in fact, for all the next few days, breakfast was done in the hotel. there are quite a few to choose from, american, continental, pancakes, asian (rice, noodles). yeap. nice. filling.

haha, 2nd day is being a tourist day. time to get to know the city of angels. we took this canal taxi. lonely planet described it as taking a tour in the backyard of bangkok. haha! it's damn fun! and it only costs 8B per person. oh yah, water may splash from the sides. beware. woot!
walked to the golden mount. uber good view at the top. the golden mount is damn cool too. soo big and golden. goodness.

then we walked to the democracy monument, which is really nothing much. BUT, while we were reading the road signs and map, a guy came up to us and was really friendly. he said there's a big big golden buddha and lucky buddha and what nots and that the grand palace wont be open till 2 coz they r praying now. CRAP! all he wanted was to get us onto the tuk tuk for them to skin! evil!

anyways, we took a cab to the grand palace. gosh, it's big. we went to the museum first then entered the emerald buddha temple. gosh, big and lots of people and lots of photo taking opportunities. cheerios! oh yah, not to mention damn hot. in case u're wondering, y the hell m i wearing jeans in the searing heat, it's coz i've got to be in long pants and shoes to visit the grand palace n emerald buddha. there are lots to vist and lots to see. cool stuff. oh yah, there are guards. very sad for them. so warm, cannot move, need to stand still.
alrights, after being a total photo whore, i went to the reclining buddha to ask for forgiveness. it's huge. big. huge. big. huge. yes, you get my point. do spend 20B to get a pot of coins to get put into the pots for better kharma. oh yah, there aint exactly 108 coins in there, though there are 108 pots. confirm.

next stop: wat arun, also known as the temple of dawn. haha! the ride across is only 3B one way, ie, 6B return. well, as the guidebook says, it looks better from afar. haha. totally true. on closer inspection, it's broken pieces of pocerlain pasted on the wats.

oh yah, near the pier, do pick up some local produce. dried squids, cuttlefish, salted fish. yeah, these kind.

anyways, by now, both of us are damn tired and sticky. haha, headed back to the hotel for a shower. thank god man. then we headed to MBK to shop. woot! loads to shop. it's the suan lum mall version. oh yah, LUNCH!

we also went to patpong night market. goooooodnesssss. DUN GO! you be asked if u wanna visit the bars like 999999999 times. when we peeked in, there were girs dancing in their bikinis on the bar tops. also, these guys will ask if u wanna buy sex dvds. goodnesss. BAD PLACE! it's at sala daeng station on the BTS. DUN GO! but, we went.. now we know. the goods on sale are also not as good as those at suan lum. much more touristy, much less variety.

3rd day, SHOPPING AS WELL. hahaaaa! siam discovery centre, siam centre, siam paragon, central, Big C, all the what not malls. all these are the malls you get the originals from. not the knock offs at MBK and suan lum. hiek! anyways, we caught a movie too. NEXT. it's goooood! in fact, a sequel will be great. hmm..... central is like ngee ann city. it has ZEN (a departmental store) as their anchor tenant. oh yah, siam paragon took greening the mall to the next level. look at their walls. gosh. the plants are fake i think.

anyways, walking along the orchard area of bangkok is kinda confusing. coz alongside these upmarket malls, you'll still find stalls selling knockoffs and street food. their fruits taste great btw.

on the 3rd night, we had dinner at the stalls outside our hotel. kinda like zi char. wonderful! we ordered rice, prawns, roasted pork, egg, vegetables and a huge bottle of pepsi for only 280B! cheap and good. the bottle is made of glass, not plastic. i tried the shutter speed function of my camera while waiting for our food.

4th day, pack. pack. pack. walked around the neighbourhood as well. quite interesting to see the market. not the clothes tourist kind, but the vege, pork, chicken, food kind. DARN! din have my camera with me. anyways, cab back to the airport. lunch at the airport as well. haha! the cafe had fake roasted ducks. funny. den it's back to s'pore.
i must say i thoroughly enjoyed my thai trip. great break from my familiar surroundings. it's nice. now, back to life. oh yah, i went for thai massage on both monday and wed night. on mon it's for an hour while wed it's the real deal of 2 hours. monday i had a male massuer while wed female. frankly, i prefer the male, he was more forceful and it after the massage, i felt more relaxed. 2 hours was too long i guess. oh yah, on wed, this middle aged guy also went for a massage when we reached. he was for 2 hours. wen bin chat with him a bit and he seemed quite friendly. later on, our massuers told us that guy is GAY! he asked for sex with his male massuer and his massuer gave in.... goodnesssssss!!!!! SCANDALOUS!

2007-06-05T00:24:00.000+08:00

first day in bangkok ROCKS!

i went to pratunam market, nothing much actually. rather, nothing for me. walked around the streets of bangkok. den wen bin and i went to the suan lum market. woooooooooot! loads to buy. LOADS. i would be damn happy if singapore offered such a great variety. bargains haven. serious. much better than bugis street.

visiting grand palace tmr. woot! shuangness.

cya!

2007-06-04T11:36:00.000+08:00

yo! i'm at the budget terminal making use of the free internet access. well, the budget terminal is really no frills. there are still shops to shop at if you're really desperate for that shopaholic side of you to manifest. anyways, i think the decor is quite good, not over the top but pretty decent as well. photos when i return. wish me a good trip. CIAO~...

2007-06-04T08:45:00.000+08:00

ALERT! this may be the last post from me for the next few days. gonna shower then head for changi budget terminal. i'll blog again if i get to there. ha! i wonder how the budget terminal looks like, ee hui wants a review. oh yeah. bon voyage to myself!

2007-06-04T00:08:00.000+08:00

i cant sleep! afternoon nap the day before u go for something big is bad. real bad. i need to sleep!

2007-06-03T10:51:00.000+08:00

moshi moshi! i was at the train station yesterday evening when gerald called. i was thinking, ok, he calls. not to say that him calling isnt exciting anymore, but it's less exciting. for example, in the past, when i receive calls from him, my heart will be pumping 1000mg of adrenalin, but now, the amout is reduced to 750mg. get my point? still is, but not as much.

then comes the shocker. he tells me lindy is beside him. WOAH! cool! moshi moshi! oishii neh! honto?! here comes lindy on the line and starts rattling the shrines they visited. as though i know a thing... i'll call gerald when i go bangkok and rattle the temples/buddhas i see. hmpf! anyways, it's cool that lindy is in japan now. haha, even cooler to get a call from them!

alrights, yesterday, i went out with kaiyong and we had wan ton mee at sunshine plaza (some building near bugis area) then shrek at plaza sing. good day!

i think i'm crapping now. basically just typing semi-nonsensical stuff now. coz i'm excited and scared and over the bangkok trip. i'm flying in about 24 hour's time. aijosajdosadjsd!

2007-05-30T10:51:00.000+08:00

I'M SICK! :(

not sick in the mind but literally sick. fever, headache, sore throat and all. argh. i ought to be sick on monday instead of tuesday. i had so much planned on tues but thanks to being sick, i had to cancel. well, actually it wasnt too bad. i planned to go to school to mark 听写 and to town to pass lindy gerald's notes and then to tuition. i accomplised 2 out of 3. not too bad after all.

still kinda heavy headed and all now but haha, after so much sleep yesterday, i'm feeling lots better. gosh. at least i fell sick now and not when i'm on my trips. cheerios?!

2007-05-28T13:57:00.000+08:00

this happened on a very boring monday afternoon.

my brother was doing his maths holiday homework while i was in the room doing my stuff. he came into the room...

bro: 看一下对不对
me: 不要
bro: 看一下对不对
me: 对
bro: bye bye idiot

2007-05-28T10:28:00.000+08:00

oh yeah. i went my grandma's place yesterday and played mahjong with my aunts. gosh. they r damn pro. not to mention i lost $7. well, my other aunt lost $45. so ok, i'm lucky.

the aunts whipped up a spread. chilli prawns, chicken curry, honey stewed ribs, tofu drenched in sweet and sour mango gravy, fried chicken wings, sweet and sour fish, stir fried celery and stir fried vegetables. woah, so much food! haha, sadly, din take any photos.

oh yah, i saw my neice! she's like 3 months old i think. kawaii! oh yah, her hair is like taipei 101, standing tall and proud.

2007-05-26T23:57:00.000+08:00

kawaii kids :)

alrights, i guess many are probably wondering where's my entry with reflections of my stint at woodgrove.

hmm... great experience. classroom teaching is vastly different from personal tutoring. that's one thing i've learnt which is by far, i suppose, the most important. you've got to recognise the different abilities of the students in the class and try to accommodate all of them. no mean feat.

next on the list is classroom discipline. woah. damn bad. some kids really erm... kinda challenging. haha, those who taught before know what i mean.

well well, the stint has come to an end. no more classroom teaching for the time being. time for me to look back, reflect, take a rest then move on again. i remember there's this poster thingy pasted somewhere. 休息，是为了走更长的路。吃，是为了改更多的书。amusing isnt it? haha, that's the life of teachers i guess.

now now. I'M GOING THAILAND! ok, that's already announced. yup, 4th to 7th june. next up, i'm going VIETNAM! to be precise, i'm heading to HO CHI MINH CITY! oh yeah! that'll be from 29th july to 2nd august. oooooh la lah! exciting dont u think?

as for today, i went to THE CATHAY at dhoby gaut to watch pirates 3 with roger. haha! first time out with my cousin. gosh, damn weird. at least i think it's damn weird that we are out together for the first time after being cousins for 21 years. since the ticket was free thanks to some lucky draw, i treated him to lunch. haha. i guess he could hav asked for something better.

long rest awaits.

2007-05-23T23:05:00.001+08:00

oh yeah. wisking off to the land of smiles on 4th june den back in the roaring island on 7th. all for about $210. oh yeah.

i'm pretty amused by the closing of UNSWAsia though. esp with all the hype and adverts they put in. oh wells. i think it's the $$ that's the deciding factor. s'poreans arent that rich lah.

2007-05-20T21:52:00.000+08:00

so yesterday i went to attend the above wedding thingy. it's at singapore khalsa association. goodness oh my. the taxi driver dropped us at civil service club and we happily went in. we saw a 50 year old guy's birthday bash, an ROM dinner but not the one we were looking for. haha! we finally found SKA and went in. thank god for making us complete such a detour. we were SO early! we waited SO long... typical i guess.

yeah, see my food? haha. been a real long time since i've had indian food. not since india i guess. nann. HAHA! when i told shihan nann is served, he thot there's a nun amongst us. dead smart.

not forgetting to take photos with the pple i went with. xingle, shihan and azizah. quite fun to attend such a thingy i guess. learn more abt the customs of the races living around us. only disappointment was i din get to take a photo with the bride and groom. sigh. anyways, hopefully they'll hav a fairy tale ending.

as for today, i went to ADAM FOOD CENTRE for nasi lemak! look at my feast! woah, super a lot. haha, it's called the royal rumble or something. the stall's pretty cute. it has photos of all the sets on display den a sold out sign on top. when that set is sold out, the sold out sign will light up. kinda like cinema. theatre one, now seating. hahaaaaa.... OH! i saw my student there! woah, the number of chicken wings he bought, can feed an african family. so many.

drink. teh-bing.

what's left. haha. lindy had the same set as i did. see the remnants of her food in the background? haha...

after our super filling lunch, we headed to lido to watch priceless. quite a good show! very good show! hahaaaa. it's really funny! then we walked around orchard area for a while. getting gerald his stuff. oh yah, gerald called me after we had our lunch. haha. both lindy and i agreed that we were having a hot date. literally. the weather is searing hot. oooh la la. school tmr. last week. cheers?

2007-05-15T22:04:00.000+08:00

ha! to end off my brilliant yesterday. i found out i lost my ipod this morning. brilliance. turned out i left it plugged in the staffroom's comp. when i went back this morning. still plugged in. teachers are an honest bunch. every cloud has a silver lining. i guess this is it.

ha! told u not to say stuff u dun mean. see. this is how it turned out. it doesnt affect u, coz u dun remember. but i'm affected. coz i remember what u said. ha!

2007-05-14T22:11:00.000+08:00

bad day. i left my wallet in school. had to walk back to school after i reached woodlands mrt station to get my wallet. headache. havent been sleeping well for the past few weeks. sian diao. icing on the cake: i screwed things up. ha. damn smart. as usual.

2007-05-11T09:36:00.000+08:00

no one is above the law.

not socialite PARIS HILTON, neither is actor CHRISTOPHER LEE.

woah, i think chris just became s'pore's paris. gong xi fa cai.

2007-05-09T22:35:00.000+08:00

i noe there r lots of games i aint good at.
just added another to the tally.

it involves 2 people.
sometimes, more.
but that is rare.

it could last from
a few days
to
a few years.
or perhaps,
even longer.

somtimes you win,
sometimes you lose.
in fact,
sometimes both of u win,
sometimes both of u lose,
sometimes either of u win.

complicated?
most agree.

managed to guess?
haha, aint difficult.

2007-05-09T10:10:00.000+08:00

yooooohooooo! today is wednesday. mid-workweek. notice how i said mid-workweek and not mid-week? correct! because in a 7 day week, thursday and not wednesday is mid-week. however, in a workweek of 5 days, wednesday is indeed mid-workweek. cheerios!

2007-05-06T14:06:00.000+08:00

i finally found out y the travel restrictions r imposed. it's thanks to mad mad moo moo. mad cow. check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_donation to know why. alright, basically it's because of the mad cow scare in europe. they r afraid that the human mad cow virus is in ur blood which cannot be screened yet. hence, mathematicians, biologists, statisticians and all the what nots worked together to formulate a travel restriction. if u've been living in those countries over a certain period, den u cannot donate blood. it's possible u hav the virus in ur blood. note, it's possible, not confirmed. yup. this leaves me wondering how do the europeans get the blood they need for transfusions then? considering almost all of them are affected by such a travel restriction. hmm... perhaps the travel restriction only applies in s'pore? i checked, it applies in the states as well. food for thought.

2007-05-06T00:09:00.000+08:00

gosh, i taught billy how to find the inverse of a 3x3 matrix over the phone on fri night. woah. reduced row echelon form. cool stuff eh.

anyways, today i headed to SGH again. guess what? the nurse made a mistake! she thought i was supposed to get a random blood sugar level test which isnt in the package, so she asked me to pay and get my blood drawn. BUT, i need not get the test done coz i'm not above 25! in the end, i just collected my report and left. now i noe my haemoglobin count! it's less than normal of course. no thanks to the blood disorder i have.

anyways, since i was already at sgh, i thot maybe i check out the bloodbank with zao hiong. woah, they were having a celebration thingy! quite cool. anyway, i aint able to donate thanks to my haemo issue. btw, haha. it's quite funny. there were a few categories of pple who cant donate blood.

1) You have visited or lived in the United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Island) from 1980 through 1996 for a cumulative period of 3 months or more.

2) You have received a transfusion of blood or blood components in the United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Island) between 1980 till now.

3) You have visited or lived in France from 1980 till now for a cumulative period of 5 years or more.

4) If you're having same-sex sex. ie, if u arent straight.

5) if u r having sex with a male who is suspected to be having sex with another male. ie, u're a woman and having sex with guy A. however, guy A isnt exactly st8, he is having sex with guy B as well. i was just wondering, how abt guys who are having sex with females who may be having sex with another female as well? gays discriminated against but not lesbians? haha, quite amusing.

ok, the list goes on. but i'm quite curious abt the travel parts. was there some HIV scare there or something? i've got no idea. someone enlighten me please.

oh yah, zao hiong and i both took photos with the star wars dun noe what due to the celebration there. haha. free photo!

anyway, i next had lunch with zhien at thai express and we headed to NUM at the hereen shops for his interview. quite amusing. he was supposed to answer this question on paper: should cow wear bras? pls..... who cares as long as they r being milked? anyway, we really think the purpose of this interview is to see u in flesh. whether u r buff or not, whether ur look will appeal to the clientele of NUM. there's a next interview to pass through.

next, it was bowling with zhien and zhiwei! woah, zhiwei is damn pro! oh yah, we saw this guy who would pick up speed as he walks to bowl BUT will just stop at the line and put the ball down. damn like zhien. ball rolls damn slowly. dinner was pretty good too. haha... yay, good day!

2007-05-05T09:31:00.000+08:00

this is pretty amusing. sgh called to tell me my blood glucose isnt sufficient, hence the need for another blood sample. seriously. my blood glucose insufficient? must be the breakfast i skipped that day.

2007-04-30T22:04:00.000+08:00

when we saw this album, yimin's first reaction was: is he dead? haha... we r all reminded of billy puay as well. haha. alrights, back to the is he dead issue. basically, when u 道别, u say good bye. so either u're dead or u r retiring from show biz. haha.

on saturday, we went to vivocity. took a stroll, had some food. quite fun i guess. haha. oh yah, the mocha thingy from this hotdog chain is really sucky. it takes so bad. it was kinda bitter and not sweet but had a chocolatey taste too. basically, BAD. a lot worse than bad kopitiam coffee. ok, u get the idea. yup, that was sat.

sunday, i just bummed around. nothing much. oh yah, i jogged the same route i did on sat, it was so much worse! i had my specs on, a much greater torture. haha. perhaps that's y i completed it faster.

today, i went to get my med exam done and submit forms to moe. had a afternoon nap! it was GREAT! havent had an afternoon nap for ages! so refreshing!

watching spidey 3 tmr. damn excited. love spidey.

2007-04-29T10:14:00.000+08:00

it was a bad night.
really bad.
headache.
must be due to the lack of sleep.
the previous night that is.

if my head was the globe,
and my mouth was s'pore,
the epicentre of the ache would be london.
there were earthquakes in london,
and bombs and explosions.
bad.

i couldnt sleep.
not even after i shut my eyes.
thoughts were racing through my head.
ala nuclear fissions in a nuclear reactor.
loads of them,
all happening at once.

i told u to mean what u say.
u said ok.
but r u doing it?
i think not.
ha, back to where i started.

i was willing to change my plans,
how about you?
it takes two to clap,
surely you know that
too.

2007-04-28T21:11:00.000+08:00

i jogged a total of 6374.85m (in case u're wondering, i got the value from streetdirectory.com) in a record slow time of 44:22mins. hahaa... ok, i noe it's slow, but i felt damn good after the jog. it was a leisure jog.

started at amk ave 5, turned right into amk ave 6, (ok, basically, i kept turning right) amk ave 1, upper thomson road, yck road den back into amk ave 5. yup, ended at the point i finished.

started at 19:01, ended 44:22mins later of course. lesson learnt #1: dun jog with my red/black specs. this pair of specs kept dropping! i was so irritated, 3mins into the jog, i took them off. those who know me pretty well know that i may well be blind without my spectacles on. yeah, i was a blind mouse running in a big big maze.

running without specs was exhilirating actually. couldnt see clearly, merely made out the bright spots. the sky dimmed as i stomped down the streets. before i knew it, the sun was completely down. guess it's the boiling frog syndrome. the change was so gradual, you barely notice it, and you get used to it. except that this time, i din die. (in the boiling frog experiment, a frog was placed in a beaker of water and the water was heated. the frog died quite peacefully i think.)

i could barely make out what was in front of me towards the later part of my jog. hence, i slowed down. once, i almost knocked into a bicycle. thank goodness, the cyclist braked and i avoided crashing into him. i had my ipod with me. either he din ring his bell or i couldnt hear it, no wonder the us government wanted to ban people from listening to ipod or phone when crossing the road. you cant hear the warning signals at all.

blur. all of it. not knowing what you're in for, you just go for it. shihan once told me: bashing in the night is a lot better. because you cant see what's ahead, just grab and go. what you cant see, you cant fear.

perhaps, life ought to be like that sometimes. food for thought.

2007-04-28T08:45:00.000+08:00

yay! another week has past. next week, i'm on a three-day work week. haha, envious right? 3-day workweek equals 3 day pay. not so enviable after all. here's y it's a 3 day work week. monday, i'm heading to SGH for a med check followed by MOE to submit some forms for my scholarship. hence, i took the day off. might as well right? considering i've got loads to do anyway. tuesday is labour day! which is also the day i'm gonna catch spidey three. woah, damn excited. it seems that the plot has lots of layers. with venom, green goblin (again...) and that sandy man, it had better be. today's out with shihan n yimim while tmr is to be spent on forms. wish me luck!

2007-04-22T20:41:00.000+08:00

i went swimming! haha, after which, i joined yongkwang n liangyuan for a walk in j8. we had ice cream at macs. hot fudge sundae for me, mcflurry for yk and cone for liangyuan. woah, damn nice! nostalgia. haha. anyways, we walked around for quite some time. hmm... yk bought hello panda and this pocca biscuit.

hello panda was nice! compared to the cheap hello panda i bought from sheng shiong (from thailand i think), this was so much better! the panda was full of the cream, instead of air. yeah, so much yummier.

the pocca thingy yk bought was quite good too! it has a cheesy filling. when yk said he wanted to buy pocca, i thot he wanted pocky. ok, it's pocca. the buscuit is crunchier and thinner compared to hello panda but the filling doesnt fill the whole biscuit like panda's. but, it's quite nice i guess.

nice day out. thank goodness i went out with them, or i'd have been soooooo bored at home! cheers! hav a great week ahead! :D

2007-04-21T22:54:00.000+08:00

wonderful day! first, i went with shihan to chinatown where we had great desserts! i had this milky eggy thingy while shihan had this mango sago pomelo thingy. we shared a pumpkin cake too. woah! damn good! next, we even took photos with the uber cute cows. haha. one with the gentleman, one with bruce lee look-alike and one with the bride. cool :D

oh yah, i wanted to send my phone for servicing, BUT, the queue was 45 people long. no way. i bought a few muji pens too. OH, shihan treated me to egg tart. hmm.. but i paid for the desserts coz i was late. haha oh wells.

next, i met kimpern, yongping n samuel for dinner at waraku. brilliance! damn nice as usual. waraku cant go wrong i guess. wonderful day. hopefully, tomorrow would be good as well.

OH (yet again), i talked to ee hui on the phone this morning. felt damn good. yay!

2007-04-20T23:04:00.000+08:00

smart chin keat. damn smart. knowing that his throat is already getting hoarse no thanks to the kids constant noise making, he carried on feasting on chocolates. as a result, his throat is now extremely itchy and nose slightly blocked. he is widely anticipated to have caught the flu bug and expected to fall ill in a few day's time. he's uber smart. no doubt about it.

2007-04-18T09:31:00.001+08:00

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2007-04-15T11:37:00.000+08:00

HAHAAA... i cant contain my amusement. jianhong (one of the older batch of specs) emailed me. ok, rather. he mass emailed, n i m in the list. basically, the email was about the old specs having a gathering of sorts. hahaaa... think he accidentally included me in the list coz i once invited them to the ord function. AMUSING.

2007-04-14T00:29:00.000+08:00

yay! gerald called me from japan! again! woah, felt as if he's back in s'pore talking to me. felt damn good! awesome! thanks soooo much for calling, really lifted my spirits. hope u take good care over there and have lots of fun.

2007-04-12T21:16:00.000+08:00

kids. sigh. i've got a few kids with problems of their own. one's parents r already divorced. the kid wants to stay with his mum n mum's bf. he actually noes the mum has a bf and even noes his name. another has parents undergoing divorce. one other has a problem concentrating and keeping still. he loves to challenge authority. but, if i set him up with tasks, he'd complete them dilligently. kids. if you are gonna bring a kid into this world, make sure you have the responsibility to nurture and discipline and provide them with the necessary opportunities. kids.

2007-04-08T22:23:00.000+08:00

haha, shihan thinks the auntie at keat hong camp ought to join 云南健发中心. ok, this auntie is actually the hair dresser, quite cheap, quite fast, only $4, 4 mins! haha

ok, here's the story. when we were still serving ns, we always went to get our hair cut by her coz it's cheap n fast. we seldom let her daughter (or is she just her trainee? whatever) touch our hair, though it's just a small tuff. shihan's hair then was quite sparse and fine and thin. the auntie noticed and asked him to stop using 3 in 1 shampoo. (u noe, the kind with conditioner with shampoo with anti-dandruff) stop using anti-dandruff shampoo. use the normal kind. also, lather in hands hopefully till foam before applying onto head. when applying on head, massage and ensure it's thorough. leave it for a while before washing it off. NOW, shihan's hair is no longer sparse, fine and thin! woah, she's damn good. oh, she has a RED's hairdressing cert to boot. cool huh.

2007-04-08T17:16:00.000+08:00

haha

liang yuan's bored, so m i. how else do you explain y i'm blogging. how else do u explain y he reads my blog.

ok. hi ciko kumu??? whatever. i so cant be bothered with impersonators. go ahead. yeah.

after a long 5 day break, i'm gonna return to kawaii land tomorrow. cheerios. hope i dun have too much of catching up to do. yip. i'm utterly bored! argh....

2007-04-04T23:32:00.000+08:00

woah, 2nd post in a day, i must be really bored.

anyway, i've got this urge to blog about the documentary i just watched. it's called 大国崛起. i tell u, it's UBER COOOOL! goodness. today's episode is about portugal and spain.

look, the turkish ottoman empire kinda blocked out the trade paths for the european countries. hence, the portugese had to look for a new route to obtain their much sought after spices. u noe, without a fridge, food goes bad, spices essential to mask the smell/taste and preserve the food. so anyway, portugal improvised the chinese compass, improvised the sails and set sail for india. woah, they made it past cape town and finally went to india.

den the spainish oso damn cool. they finally unified and chris columbus went to see queen issy. she finally gave him the means to set sail. the sailors are damn sian they couldnt see land for so long, so kinda had a mutiny against chris. but chris asked them to sail for another 3 days. viola! they reached the bahamas! ie, discovered AMERICA!

so basically, the portugese controlled brazil, african side and the most of south east asia while the spanish controlled most of americas and the philippines.

basically, the rich got richer while the poor got poorer coz the rich did not use the money to fund commerce and industry, they indulged and kinda financed the churches (which were quite corrupt lah). in the end, how the money came in, how the money went out. back to square one.

cant wait for next week's episode on the dutch. coooooool!

guys, pls watch 大国崛起 on channel 8 every wed at 1030pm.

2007-04-04T20:22:00.000+08:00

and so i've strained some dun noe what thingy part of my ankle. oh wells. haha, taking today and tomorrow off from school. resting is boring. oh wells, 休息是为了走更长远的路.

2007-04-03T20:38:00.000+08:00

:(

hmm... sometimes i dun noe what's wrong with me, sometimes i dun noe what exactly i want, sometimes i feel lost.

haha, i actually missed a step while walking down the stairs for flag lowering. in the end, i ended up kneeling down with my hands cushioning the fall. think my ankle is slightly twisted now. a bit swollen.

:(

2007-04-01T22:53:00.000+08:00

2007-03-31T21:45:00.000+08:00

just some thoughts.

u have to either quite rich or quite smart to make it in s'pore.

the former needs no explanation i guess.

as for the latter, if u read today's insight on the administrative service, u'd get what i'm talking about. these guys r smart. they are analytical, logical, efficient, and all the what nots u want in a top notch person. when their bond ends, they are already head hunted by quite a few private organisations. wow. cool huh.

2007-03-29T22:31:00.000+08:00

i'm soooooo glad gerald called me from japan!

moshi moshi! hahahaaaaa

woah, it's damn cooooool! gosh, i wish him alllll the best while he's in the land of kawaii girls and oishii sashimi.

talk again!

2007-03-25T21:20:00.000+08:00

met kai yong, junda and cedric at city hall for lunch. goodness, cedric is late as usual. silly kaiyong actually thought that he may be early. hello, a leopard can never change its spots. hence, in future, whoever is asking cedric out, pls pls pls just turn up an hour late. trust me, you rather be slacking around at home than wait for him out there.

anyway, they treated me to a fantastic meal at waraku! woah... the bill came up to erm... three digits. yup, thanks to them, i tried uni sashimi. for those who dun noe, uni is actually sea urchin. it's erm... yellow/orange. tastes kinda creamy. not worth the price if you dun exactly noe how to appreciate such stuff. in this case, us.

next, we went to andersen's for some deserts. of which i foot the bil of course. haha. cheapo me.

then they adjourned to cedric's house for poker. goodness, they are compulsive. while i headed to sim lim square to get an external hard disk. goodness. i forgot to bring my keys out! 2nd time in a week. woah.... i better start to drill it into my brain to bring keys around man. thank goodness, kim pern was on his way there too. so we spent some time in sim lim shopping around. :D

2007-03-24T10:16:00.000+08:00

yup, i've turned 21. on the 20th of march 2007 that is. thanks lots to those who remembered. all the presents and well wishes.

anyway, i met so many of my p1 parents yesterday! OMG! it was like me giving a seminar on how to improve their chinese. haha. anyway, it was pretty fun dishing out advice and talking to them. great experience!

2007-03-17T16:22:00.000+08:00

:D

school's reopening! back to kawaii land! the p1s are gonna have their developmental tests though. gosh, i hope they pass at least! i heard that from past experiences, they will fail like crap! coz those who dun noe really dun noe a thing, as for those who noe, they will get close to full marks. pray pray pray.

oh wells, life's moving on. i dun noe. i think i'm kinda lost nowadays. thank goodness zhien asked me to take part in TARA with him. spent the past few days filming and editing. damn fun! but very tiring too. haha. thanks to every1 for ur extremely worthy comments!

:D

2007-03-10T22:36:00.000+08:00

it was sports day yesterday! yippie! i shouted myself hoarse. those who dun believe, just ask the other relief teachers. goodness, n today was meet the parents. bet they r damn amused at how bad i sound. BUT, it was great fun! just shouting and cheering! oh yah, i took part in the staff race! my team came in second! (out of 4 teams...)

today is zhien's birthday. HAPPY 21ST! may the coming year be eventful, fruitful and fulfilling. :D

cheers. (i hope)

2007-03-03T23:11:00.000+08:00

i would like to dedicate the following post to my maths teacher Miss Chan Bee Bee.

Miss Chan Bee Bee was an incredible teacher. She was dedicated, humourous, caring, meticulous, capable and a lot more. It's a pity she passed away on the 2nd of March 2007. She ignited my interest in mathematics. even after i graduated from dunman high, i kept in contact with her. she often offered a lot of extremely useful advice. she always went the extra mile for her students. she said, 'do the right thing at the right place at the right time.'

i remember calling her last year and she said there's something wrong with her health and she hasnt been working for a few months. i was really worried and told ee hui. then we both called her a few months later n she said she is much better and is back at work. i thot that was the end of her illness. over the cny period, i put a reminder on my phone to remind me to call her to wish her a happy cny. yet, i din. now, i no longer have the chance to do so.

miss chan, u were a great teacher, and will be missed always.

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2007-03-01T22:32:00.000+08:00

writer's block.

i want to post something but i dun noe what to post. haha. anyways, CA1 is just over. sigh... my students. ahem... not worth mentioning.

anyways. crap, i dun noe what i'm anywaysing for. hahaaaaa.

dun feel too good. dun noe why though. just dun.

2007-02-26T10:08:00.000+08:00

oh my 天！

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u think about it. singapore troops trained there. matador is singapore developed. who left it there?

2007-02-25T14:24:00.000+08:00

haha

it was pretty fun at yuanhong's birthday party yesterday. haha, had quite a few jokes.

anyway, i was talking to gerald n he suggested i blog the following conversation

setting: i was helping gerald buy his bubble tea while he went to top up his ezlink card.

gerald: hey, i want pearls.
ck: sure, fresh from the oysters.

hahaaaaaaa

2007-02-21T09:08:00.000+08:00

校长、副校长、老师、同学们，早上好！今天我要讲的故事是《我自己的故事》。

新的一年就这么样来临了！大家新年好！新年的庆祝活动也就此搞一个段落，有时回到我们乏闷，无趣的生活了。

goodness... nice try at typing chinese. anyway, back to life. hope every1 enjoyed their cny celebrations as much as i did! it was great dun u think? yippie! it's great to have a chance to just unwind and catch up and do things that you like. we ought to have new year more often! haha.

2007-02-18T09:40:00.000+08:00

新年快乐！恭喜发财！万事如意！身体健康！步步高升！学业进步！一帆风顺！

ok.... i'm crapping already. anyway, my point is, HAPPY NEW YEAR! Yippie, it's a new year again! time really flies, doesnt it? it's like, i'm finally flying off for studies this year. haha... anyways, since it's a new year, i'd like to make some resolutions.

1. do what i want, without regrets. i guess i do not want to look back at the end of this year and think: hmm..... if i actually did this, would there be a different outcome? life's too short for regrets (gosh, that's such a cliche), dont u think?

haha. that's all i can think of for now. happy new year guys! may the year of the pig bring happiness, luck and health. cheeeeeeeeeeerios!

2007-02-17T21:59:00.000+08:00

haha... i just had my annual reunion dinner which as usual consists of a steamboat. anyways, thereafter, my family played mahjong for the first time! my brother, my mum, dad and i. gosh! my dad was sooooo slow in playing! i almost puked blood. haha. anyways, i guess it's fun. afterall, it's a once in a lifetime thingy isnt it?

2007-02-16T21:03:00.000+08:00

wahahahahaaa... so that was not the only valentine's present i received. on thurs, i received a clip and a flower. i feel so loved!

2007-02-14T22:30:00.000+08:00

haha. guess what, my v day present is actually from a student! when i asked him what it's for (well knowing that it's for v day), he just shook his head, saying that his mum asked me to give it to me. i guess his mum prepared quite a few and asked him to give it to whoever he wants. oh wells. the package consists of a diasy, some lavendar and some leaves. not forgetting two extremely yummilicious ferrero rocher.

2007-02-14T08:58:00.000+08:00

xing le n i were working on this yesterday. haha. it totally reminds me of painting banners when i was in secondary school and junior college. 金猪贺岁！

2007-02-11T20:58:00.000+08:00

brace yourself for yet another boring post.

i'm at peace with myself. somethings are just meant to be thrown away and untouched for the rest of your life. dun ever ever ever think 'oh, maybe i should revisit some of those memories one day and maybe i would realise something i missed that time.' PLS! that is so not possible and utterly silly to actually believe such nonsense. throw such thoughts and those memories away. they are not worth the space in your brain AT ALL. :D

haha. next, i had an extremely enjoyable weekend. it's all thanks to my bmt platoon mates and my unit platoon mates. cheers!

on saturday, i first had tuition in the morning followed by shopping with mengleng at orchard. thereafter, i went for the farewell gathering organised by wenjin as he'd be leaving for down under in a couple of day's time. sigh, another one leaving. it's quite fun to catch up, however, i've got to apologise for leaving so early as i promised to meet another bunch at chinatown to soak up the cny spirit. take note, DO NOT i repeat, DO NOT visit chinatown as firstly it's crowded, secondly, they only sell taiwan moshi (台湾麻吉）. it's pointless going there. oh, it's such a coincidence that in this very short day, i saw gin of platoon 3, wei jie and tze yong of platoon 2 and also, wee theng of tank platoon. such a coincidence! in all three incidents, they were the ones who spotted me! haha...

as for today, i went to have lunch with shi han, zhien, fattsheng and smurf since fatts is leaving for aussie too. ANOTHER one. we then practically combed bugis for clothes. haha, i'm pretty happy with my purchases. oh, we saw peter of platoon 2 (that old spec). haha. he still looks really comical.

yippie! life's good.

2007-02-09T23:55:00.000+08:00

hello! tmr's a farewell thingy for wenjin while sun's one for fatts. many people are leaving. oh wells. good luck guys.

2007-02-05T20:56:00.000+08:00

hello people. hmm... in fact, i feel that these days my blog is kinda boring dun u think? oh wells, let this be another boring entry.

did i mention? life's good. haha. yup, i dun have much things to worry about these days. so yah, lif'e's good. :)

2007-02-03T15:14:00.000+08:00

i'm sick. yup. sick, finally sick. should have happened long ago don't u think? considering i've been constantly (pretending to be) angry at the kids. anyways, i'm down with the flu. blocked nose, nasal voice, occassional cough, slightly irritated throat. i better heal soon. :)

2007-01-28T14:41:00.000+08:00

this post is dedicated to my best girl friend - ee hui.

ee hui, do actually remember how we got to know each other? (gosh... this sounds so wrong, so mushy) i do! it's all thanks to RMUNC, ironically, we both went to RJC. haha... this reminds me of you coming to my class early in the morning with ur 'chin keat.... i dun noe how to do this...' and boon wee would say, 'chin keat, entertain your friend pls.' haha... those were the days.

then we went on to rjc, where u continued asking me maths and physics questions. frankly, (you probably remember me telling u) i was kinda taken aback when you still had so many questions during our prelims and As. gosh, i was kinda shocked. how are you gonna take the exams when you were still so unsure? obviously, i din show it den did i? thank goodness you got your 4As. :D

now that you're having lots of fun in london while i am waiting to fly to china for studies, i cant wait for you to visit me or vice versa! wouldnt it be great fun? hehe....

thanks sooooooo much for being around all the time to knock sense into me.

2007-01-28T11:57:00.000+08:00

have you thought about it? the red you're seeing may not be the red i m seeing. however, we have the consensus that the item we are looking at is red.

argh, i'm bad at describing this logic.

ok, think about it. to me, apples are red and my blood is red. to you, the apples and blood are of the same colour too. however, it may be an entirely different colour after all. they may be green. but, it's due to this consistency that we dont argue over what the colour of apples and blood are.

get it? i hope you do.

2007-01-24T21:41:00.000+08:00

haha, long wanted to take photos of my workdesk in the staff room, so, here they are! right... you may be kinda confused, what kinda desk to i have? hopefully, the following photo will clear your doubts.

2007-01-24T09:34:00.000+08:00

life's good again. now everyday, all i need to do is report to work. then the daily routine begins. the kids are cute and fun to work with, though i may have to shout a lot, ultimately, they do listen. it's a joy teaching them. when i reach home, i'd probably busy myself with either marking, coming up with lesson plan, or, hehe, watching tv. gosh, 金枝余孽 is a damn good show. MUST WATCH!

anyways, all i have left are my weekends to fill. well, i've got tuition on sat mornings. and this coming saturday is yong kwang's 21st birthday bash! woooohoooooooo!

other than that, nothing much.

2007-01-21T21:35:00.000+08:00

ee hui said: everyday is a new day and you are still young. live in the present, not in your fantasies!

n i said: live in the present, dun hold on to worthless memories.

2007-01-19T23:19:00.000+08:00

i see myself in the present. i can imagine myself ten years from now. but, what i cant, is seeing myself getting from now to then.

2007-01-16T10:24:00.000+08:00

the kids are kawaii!!!!

kawaii neh!

haha. ok, maybe i'm turning paedophillic. but the innocence in the eyes of the kids is something you rarely find.

though they may be difficult to control at times.

kawaii!

2007-01-13T00:17:00.000+08:00

it's dumb n it's stupid n i know i shouldnt be doing it. if i can help it, i wont.

2007-01-10T21:09:00.000+08:00

2 days of teaching in a primary school taught me a lot. a lot.

kids are tough nuts to crack. some are so outspoken and ready to flaunt while others are extremely reserved. refusing to even speak to their teacher when questions are asked.

my voice is going hoarse i think. from all the raising of voice in class. and this is when i've only got one class to teach for now. soon, i'd have three classes under me. but it's fun. real fun.

2007-01-10T08:34:00.000+08:00

teacher can i go toilet?
teacher can i go toilet?
teacher can i go toilet?
teacher can i go toilet?
teacher can i go toilet?
teacher can i go toilet?
teacher can i go toilet?
teacher can i go toilet?
teacher can i go toilet?

2007-01-07T12:54:00.000+08:00

this is amusing. i was reading the sunday times only to realise that this hc guy actually wrote in to kinda complain about wearemean.blogspot.com. then, i popped by the mean blog to take a look.

hey look! i'm M-E, and she's A-N. together, we are the mean M-E-A-N sisters! wow!

haha... ok, i'm getting a cheap thrill out of thinking the mean sisters as some kinda cute cute but not exactly cute taiwanese girl group which would just wither and die soon either from a lack of water/nutrients or just from old age.

anyway, they arent posting any photos anymore.

hey look, we are back and with a vengance. BUT, we aint gonna post any photos coz it'll drag us into deep s***. so, stay tuned while we attempt to entertain you guys with postings to prove we are the M-E-A-N sisters without photos. right, no photos, only words.
PS: those photos we posted we claimed were ourselves werent actually ours. the evil magic mirror played a trick on us. we look much better. (on another mirror) hmm... why did it crack i wonder.

2007-01-06T22:01:00.000+08:00

2007-01-06T13:15:00.000+08:00

haha.. pics from the new year's day gathering. ;)

2007-01-05T21:48:00.000+08:00

i'm bored stiff. being without a job kinda sux. big time. oh wells, i hope my unemployment status ends soon. someone ask me out pls. pls. pls.

2007-01-03T00:19:00.000+08:00

woah! i finally finished downloading the billy puay video from zhien. it's damn funny! anyway, yesterday was pretty fun. slutty zhien actually slept. but i think the morning was super funny. with our siao siao conversations and that slutty lexus which suddenly slowed down and not to mention your lousy parking. thx sooo much for sending me home too. oh, photos pls u cam whore. :P

2007-01-01T01:59:00.000+08:00

first post of 2007! ok, must make it a good one. haha, tough luck.

anyway, the things that went through in 2006 are over. i'm pretty satisfied with 2006 as a whole i guess. there were ups and downs; highs and lows of course. but essentially, i enjoyed myself.

i survived the army.
i orded in one piece. haha.
i made lots of good friends throughout the year.
i had a stint at precious thots, my first job ever.
my family members are closer.
i feel happy. :D

2007 is a brand new year. i wont set myself new year resolutions coz i dun believe in them. i'm not being pessimistic or anything. just that, why bother? haha. i believe in myself. i'll accomplish what i set out to without having to put them down, cast in stone.

2007 will be an exciting year for me. i'll be leaving the country for further studies. oh yeah. super psyched. may the new year be full of fun and excitement. may you guys enjoy the new year as much as i am about to as well.

cheers!

2006-12-31T13:48:00.000+08:00

have you seen it? by it, i mean wearemean.blogspot.com. it's AMUSING and not to mention, downright, eeeks. ok, pardon my limited vocabulary for i cant think of a suitable word and hence the eeks. it's plain gross coz they are simply judging a book by its cover, ok, that sounded extremely cliche, but hey, it works.

anyway, point of argument: even if you are turned off (or on in some cases) by a person's looks, keep it to yourself, discuss it with your friends in private. please for goodness' sake, not let that someone know about it. even if you dont find it embarrassing, think of the person you are commenting on. how would he/she feel? oh wells, maybe these girls are inhumane? incapable of feelings? void of emotions? ok, i'm getting worked up. nah, i'm not. just ranting. it aint personal. :D

2006-12-30T09:42:00.000+08:00

i think i'm pretty smart, coz i understand most things. but when it comes to this, i really dun. it's not a case of which i can kinda make out how it is, but a case which just leaves me clueless. i've got no idea. like none at all. i'm bewildered, i'm confused, i'm preplexed, i'm stumped, and most importantly, i dun noe what to do. this is bad. plain bad.

2006-12-26T00:38:00.000+08:00

i had so so so much fun today (christmas...)! going out with zhien, gerald n luah was damn fun. no thanks to a slutty waitress. more so was the fact that i actually saw neo wei siong, kenny sng, billy puay and even tze chian! gosh, it has been such a long time since i went out like that and just had such senseless fun. i'm glad i did. :D

2006-12-24T10:15:00.000+08:00

hello people. christmas in 14 hours' time. BUT, i'm going off to work soon. haha. just in case u guys are wondering y i'm working n working n working, it's coz 1stly, i'm no longer under the saf, hence, the need to work for money. 2ndly, it keeps my mind off stuff i dun want it to wander to. 3rdly, it's fun! haha... the co-workers r real nice people, except that sometimes, some of them may swing sooo hard it hits you right in the face. (i'm referring to their mood btw) i guess christmas (and new year) is the time of giving n sharing and to me, rejuvenating and thinking through what went on for the psat 364 days, and setting goals for the next 365 days. yup. just in case i dun blog tomorrow,
MERRY CHRISTMAS!

2006-12-22T00:34:00.000+08:00

i love my bolster. thank god for it.

on a complete unrelated note, thank goodness i'm working. i'm glad i'm working. i would like to work. i need a relief teaching job. which school is willing to employ me? pls! i want to be employed. employ me please.

alright, i'm going bonkers. haha. bonkie bonkie bonkie bonk.

2006-12-20T09:55:00.000+08:00

heyo! first and foremost, girls aged between 9 and 26, go get yourself jabbed. jabbed by a doctor. with a vaccine for cervical cancer. 100% effective i think. go go go! $6 or 7 hundred if i'm not wrong. apparently, cervical cancer is the 5th killer of women in singapore. so, get yourself protected pls.

next, i kinda love my job. coz the colleagues are great. they are such fun people to be around. not to mention i noe officially can gift wrap. after the intensive training at precious thots, wrapping the gifts of oh so many people. :) any1 needs to wrap presents? pass them over. oh, i charge btw. one chirstmas present for every present wrapped. in that case, might as well give me the present i'm wrapping right? haha.

2006-12-16T09:26:00.000+08:00

haha... another debate over elitism and meritocracy. right... meritocracy is basically hmm... being judged on ur merit, regardless of race, language, religion, race (and sexuality!!!) haha however, due to our society being meritocratic, a bunch of people, whom excel tend to be condescending and undermining, taking light of the people who do not do as well as they do, ie, becoming elitist coz, according to them, they are given the 'right' to do so thanks to their exceptional abilities. in that case, dun mind me saying, didnt the government unwittingly cause this undercurrent of elitism when they adopted the policy of meritocracy? well... this current debate stems from a judge granting some kid probation instead of sending him to a boy's home coz he's in the express stream. seriously, i think it was more of his teachers and principal pleading leniency for him. besides, when a judge passes a sentence, he has to consider the impact the sentence has on the person. for example, if a person is only 21 years of age, by sentencing him to life imprisonment, he'll be wasting like 50+ years. however, if a sentence of 20yrs is given to him, when he's released, he'll be 41, still able to start a family. if you are the judge, would you lock him behind bars for the rest of his life or for 20 years?

2006-12-15T23:15:00.000+08:00

thanks to shihan and bernard for perking up my otherwise kinda down sad day. we watched ERAGON. gosh... it's super duper cheesy. even more than nachos with added cheese. think u want kids to grow to like lord of the rings? let them watch eragon, in which they will develop some interest in this kinda fantasy stuff, then, introduce them to lotr when they are older.

2006-12-14T21:59:00.000+08:00

today is the weirdest day at work. at abt 745 i received a call from my hr manager to ask me to go to amk right away to shift some table to causeway point. i reach amk stn and then he asked me to go to the guardian. obviously i went to the one in the station right? haha. then he asked me to go to the one in central. thank goodness i noe the area. then we went to a furniture shop to get 2 foldable tables and walked back to the mrt station to take a train to causeway point. then at causeway point, just before we were about to enter the store, he thanked me for my help and asked me to leave. maybe because it was already 9 and he din want to hold me further coz i'm paid till 9pm. weird right?

2006-12-14T14:43:00.000+08:00

thank goodness i've got work to occupy myself. if not, my mind will just wander around.

2006-12-12T22:39:00.000+08:00

yeah i had fun! i played mahjong with shi han, bernard and melvin at bernard's place. gosh. i actually won. then we (shihan and i), joined zhien for dinner at holland v. once again, i apologise for being sooo late. we deserve the 臭脸. anyways, on our way home, we actually saw jinping! wow! haha... what a coincidence.

2006-12-12T09:47:00.000+08:00

i was about to type a depressing post on how drained and tired i m but decided against it. there's no point to keep harping on it when the feeling will not go away unless i decide to embrace a new outlook to life. wow, i've turned optimistic all of a sudden. cheers? yeah, cheers!

right, since i'm not to harp on how maybe depressed (nah...) or sad (no!) i m, i shall bitch about a certain pooh bear. she is so bitchy. she may be named after a pooh bear, but she's bitchy. gosh, just because she's in a bad mood i got screwed. and besides, i wasnt that lousy after all, it's just that i got on her extremely sensitive nerves coz she may well be pms-ing. nevermind, i still have to spend quite a bit of time with her. i'm magnanimous. i m able to look past your bad mood and discover your well-intentions in screwing me and work whole heartedly so that the store hits the target it is supposed to.

2006-12-11T12:07:00.000+08:00

oh mi gosh! kym ng won! i'm so so so so happy! i was so glad when her name was called first. in the weeks leading up to the star awards, she was never ever never ever ever in the top ten list, wala, on the day itself, whoever-up-there decided to bestow her with a miracle by asking santa to bring her a star award by dropping it through the st james powerstation chimney. yeah! she won! she's my queen. think about it when she din win a thing last year, she was not disheartened. she persevered and strived on. she graced the cover of 8days and iweekly countless times, despite not winning an award. a year later, she did it once again. 十大最受欢迎女艺人：钟琴！