Sunday, December 31, 2006

A nice gathering before 2007

Today is a Sunday, New year's eve and Hari Raya Haji! Its a super holiday! You can count yourself super duper unlucky if you have to work today! Please demand at least 3 times more of the usual pay for today!

Its scary how time flew past, it seems so recently that we were celebrating the welcome of 2006...and now its going to be 2007! Spent last year with Sam, Puss and Weijian, i remember that we headed down to Punggol Marina and even took a few pics there. The reason why we ventured so far that time is partly due to the fact that i just got my new car not too long ago and its always nice going to places in singapore that you don't always go to.

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The most memorable photo from last year, 4 of us forming 2006 to welcome the new year

Had a sec 2D class gathering yesterday at Jackie's place. The turnout was pretty good...even our form teacher Mrs Audrey Chong came! Coincidentally, she was also my Cathechism teacher in Christ The King church. When she first taught us, she was still considered a rookie teacher then, and now she told us that she recently got her 10 years long service award! Amazing..super amazing..very soon we might even be attending one of our classmate's wedding dinner...unbelievable yeah. From this class, we have a lawyer, a jailbird, a bodybuilder, a national sailor, one dead, many accountants, many engineers, some businessmen and last but not least the person they are more proud of..a professional soldier..how cool is that hahaha. We dined on Pizza, chicken wings and one whole chicken and chatted practically the whole night. It was nice catching up with everyone...thanks to our capitan Dazza for never failing to amaze us with his organising skills...like i said yesterday..he's in the wrong line (He's going to be an accountant), he should be in events management. One of them Jerry changed so much he introduced himself as Jackie's cousin Tom to everyone that comes in and no one recognized him. He used to be so chubby, fat and prosperous...now he's tall, lean and muscular..he chubby face caved in so much he don't look the same anymore. No wonder no one recognizes him!

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Our first group photo, try to spot Jerry if you can

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Second group photo

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Third group photo

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The last one with our rides

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Ready get set-to go!

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Saddam..War...blood..diamonds..they're all linked

Saddam Hussein has been slained. Today is the day. I expected the execution to be kept hush hush for fear of retaliation from his loyalists but nah the media knew about it anyway. The tyrant dictator that started both gulf war 1 and 2 is finally gone. When gulf war 1 started 15 years ago..i remembered that i was still in primary school and i would just sit there quietly while the rest of the kids play because i was aware of the ongoing war. There was this fear that time that the war might come to singapore with smrt reminding people to go to their bomb shelters should there be an air strike. I was still so young then and i thought that i was going to die. So silly then...i didn't know where the ongoing war was...i didn't know where Iraq was anyway.

Met up with Sham on Tuesday to watch The curse of the Golden Flower. The production looked really really expensive with all the props, costumes and extras used. The storyline was simple and nothing special but you'll be mesmerised by the rest. The whole palace was super colourful, the costumes were excellent and the actresses all had big boobs..or rather their boobs were pushed up so much they looked huge hahaha.

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Has been feeling frustrated lately because of the bike issue again. That stupid bastard still has not paid me. All his tall tales are getting ridiculous by the day. I made a trip down to small claims tribunal that day with the intention to make a claim against the bastard but they told me i needed some supporting documents and his address. But the stupid bastard refuses to give me his address claiming he sold his flat in singapore and is not warded in a selayang hospital in KL. And when i asked for me bike back, he kept delaying claiming he parked the bike at his friend's condo and his friend is now overseas and will only be back next week. I highly suspect he either rode my bike to malaysia with him (he claim he didn't) or he is using the bike for illegal activities. If i still don't see my bike by next week, i'm going to the police. Stupid bastard, i curse him everyday before i go to sleep..how can anyone be like that..go on lying for such a long period of time...may his legs rot and while he's crossing the road with his wheelchair, a trailer come and knock him down..stupid bastard!

Went Zouk again on Wednesday...there weren't as many babes as the week before but still some of us got lucky lah. Wooh!

Met up with Valencia, Christine and Sham yesterday in town. Christine and her colleague were shopping so we tagged along. We then had dinner at Nana Thai at Far East Plaza. We had wanted to try this place call Wasabi Tei there highly recommended by Valencia but that place is super small and we had to queue super long before we can eat there so we decided against it. After dinner, Valencia wasn't feeling well so she left first. While heading towards Tangs, we bummed into Shawn and Desmond along the street so we found a place at Coffee Bean and only Shawn had something to drink haha. Things got boring after awhile so Sham and i decided we wanted to watch a movie again. Ended up at Tampines Mall where we caught Blood Diamond. Excellent show. Creates awareness of the conflicts in Africa over diamond mines and how women are financing the massacres over there by buying diamonds! Haha...so now guys..you know what reason to use not to buy your girl a diamond ring next time! Anyway, its a really nice show..its suddenly got me interested in reading up on the conflicts in Africa...go catch it!

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Monday, December 25, 2006

Christmas Day 2006!

Although its only slightly more than 10 mins to the end of christmas day..its still not to late for me to wish everyone of you that visits this blog a very merry christmas and may this season be filled with joy and love from everyone around you!

Had a gathering at kheng hong's house on saturday with my poly mates. It was a great night of fun and catching up. Met up with henry early with the intention to go there early for mahjong but we reached quite late because henry had to do some last minute shopping at heartland mall for the gift exchange. When we got there, we had a mini excursion around the house which is huge to say the least. He had quite a lot of pets which makes his house a little of a mini zoo. Played fools ball, helped out a little bit with the steamboat preparation and played a round of mahjong too before the rest started arriving one by one. This year, i ended up receiving linus's gift which is a cute devil and angel bottle opener. My gift which is a coffee pot ended up with either valencia or kheng hong haha. Oh and i got a gym workout towel from samantha and a biotherm cleasing foam from Puss. Thank you all! All in all, i must really thank kheng hong and valencia for organising this wonderful gathering, preparing the food and making effort to entertain us. Its really nice and i'll be looking forward to the next one!

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Mahjong!

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Foolsball!

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Steamboat

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Group Photo

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Receiving my gift from linus!

Got up on christmas eve's afternoon and went for lunch with mum. We had lunch at my mum's favourite amk jack's place. After lunch, mum was nice enough to tell me she haven got me my christmas present so she asked what i wanted. Ended up buying a new desktop chair. My previous one was bought at Ikea and its all dirty and nearly unusable already. This chair came just in time! Thanks mum!

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My new chair!

Attended mass with my family on christmas eve. I can't remember when was the last time i stepped into my church. Its not that i don't believe anymore...i just find mass really boring and a waste of time. Its my personal thought so don't flame me! Anyway, since its christmas, i thought why not attend mass with my family and try to get myself into that christmas mood. Failed..had to stand throughout the whole mass..the church was packed like crazy..we really need a bigger church..why not do it at expo like city harvest i say haha...just kidding.

Every year, my family will have a small gathering and do a gift exchange and this year is not exception. Only that this year, we held it at AUD's house instead of my house. Bought my mum a new handphone, got my sis a bracelet and my aunt a necklace..i received a Levis tee from my sis and from the rest chocolates hahaha. It has indeed been a day of giving and receiving...but i still prefer to receive hehe. Once again i would like to wish each and everyone of you a joyous and fulfilling christmas...there's another 12 days of christmas so its still not too late to get me something! Cheers!

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Buying sushi for the party

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My sis's experiment..Chips with Tuna!

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The presents!

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Waiting for our gifts

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Receiving my first gift

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Sis with hers

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Terence with his

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Kok bin with his

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Salmin with his

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Ah Dio with his

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Mum with hers

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Santa Claus this year Ah Ling gettings hers too!

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The logcake..nice and chocolaty!

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Christmas is coming!

Haven been blogging not because i have nothing to record, neither is it because i don't have the time, but rather because i just don't feel like doing it. There was even a period of time i thought why should i blog about my life and let everyone know what life i'm leading. Then i realised that i only blog about what i want to blog. There are still secrets i keep within which i don't want others to know..this blog is actually all just a lie and cover up..don't read it!

Ok so here i am still doing what i like to do..recording what happened in life. I really don't know where to start..let me recall as much as i can. Ok went Sentosa to tan with Puss last week..nice and sunny weather unless these days where it rains practically the whole day. After that, we met up with Samantha at Vivocity where we lunched at some Jap restaurant there. They specialises in skewers and i must say it does taste good. After lunch, they accompanied me on a shopping spree..i bought 6 new tops altogether lol.

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My new ride at Vivocity

After shopping, we all went our separate ways. I met up with the poly mates to celebrate Valencia's 22th birthday. She chose a restaurant called Turquoise room at Gillman Village..just beside my old school SAJC's old campus. The place has really cool ambience but the food wasn't all that fantastic. After dinner, i suggested trying out the new St James Power Station. First, we checked out Bellini Room...its a quiet jazzy chill out kind of place and thats the kind of place we need..but unfortunately, they don't have a nice place for us to gather. So we went on the Movito or issit Motivo (whatever)..a salsa music kind of place but Shawn wasn't allowed in by the moron manager there. We then carried on to Power house..a house / hip hop kind of place. We were amused by the amount of old people dancing in there..we just didn't feel like we were in the right place. We saw a few mediacorp stars there though..i only know the name of one..Jeff Wang? Would like to check out the place again one day...there's a cantopop place there call Dragonfly and it looks kind of cool..lots of cool ah lian chicks there! Wooh! Haha.

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Kheng Hong and i at Turquoise Room

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The group of us

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Valen with the present we got her

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My food

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A closer look

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At Bellini Room

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Outside St James

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Another picture before we left

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The waterfall we bought for the birthday girl

I can't really remember what happened the next few days. But on thursday, i met up with Sham, Valencia and her colleagues for a JC band concert at esplanade. I was late and the whole group of them had to wait for me before they could enter..opps. Although they were impressive, we during the break because we were bored. After that, Sham and i went to catch Eragon..i had 2 free tickets from sis. Apparently, the medical group booked the whole suntec cinema during that slot just for people like us...and every cinema was showing Eragon haha. Well..the show is kiddy in a kind of way because it was based on a book written by a 16 or 18 years old. But nevertheless, there were still actions and cool graphics.

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Caught Charlotte's web the other day too. It was my literature book in primary school! I loved the book then. But i was bored to death at the movie..don't ask me why haha.

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Horse is finally back after one year. Met up with him, bucky and freddy on Tuesday and we went to play bowling! Before bowling, we had dinner at Arab Street's Samar because horsey wanted to smoke shisha. It has been years since we last played bowling but it still brought the fun and joy it did years ago. I still managed at least a 100 for each game..i must say i'm pretty good! Teamed up with Bucky against Horsey and Fred and we trashed them. The losers had to treat drinks at Zouk the following day which they did!

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At Samar

It has been ages too since i last went for Zouk's mambo night and i must say i really enjoyed myself that night haha. There were eye candies all over! Someone even went crazy and bought drinks for a few of them haha. I practically just leeched on him and chat up with those he bought drinks for hahaha. I saw lots of friends there that night..there was Nick Senior, Danny, Roy etc etc...friends from all walks of life were there..amazing..they sure know where and when to have fun!

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Bucky and his brother and i at Zouk

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2 of the girls..wee!

Met up with Puss, Horsey and gf again yesterday. Went for some last minute christmas shopping first before we decided we want a place to chill out. We soon found ourselves in Dempsey Road. And there, we found a really really cool place call Oosh. It has nice ambience, nice furnitures and a nice band! The female singer there can even imitate the sound of trumpet impressively. It'll be a nice place to hang out again next time.

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Oosh!

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My drink...strawberry bellini

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A picture just before we left

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Horsey is left out because he went to get his car haha

Christmas is coming! What used to be a season of receiving for me has now turned to a season of giving! Christmas = spending more money. Can't wait for chinese new year lah!

Friday, December 15, 2006

Salsa Fest 2!

Met up with Sham and Kheng Hong on Wed for a movie at PS..Flags of our fathers! Its one of the rare war films out this year and produced by 2 famous directors Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg! It actually talks about how the photograph of 5 soldiers raising the US flag on the japanese island of Iwo Jima made heroes of the men in the picture as the three surviving flag-raisers were returned to the U.S. and made into props in the government’s Seventh War Bond Tour. Uncomfortable with their new celebrity, the flag-raisers considered the real heroes to be the men who died on Iwo Jima; still, the American public held them up as the best America had to offer, the supermen who conquered the Japanese. Watch it if you're into war and history like me!

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After the show, 3 of us had dinner at PastaMania. After dinner, i suggested trying out the new place at Istana Park opposite, its call the Giraffe. Funny name for such a nice place but that didn't matter. Its a nice place alright with nice surroundings and ambience. Their cocktails were cheap so i had a Singapore Sling. It was really strong. I turned all red and hot after just one glass..partly also because they chased us out at 11pm because they were closing. It'll be a nice place to hang out next time you guys need somewhere.

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Sham and I at Giraffe

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KKH and I at Giraffe

Then i caught Deja Vu yesterday at Vivocity. Its a good show..all exciting and action packed. But its up to you to believe if such a time reliving machine can exist...its almost like a time machine. Anyway its one of the better movies i've watched these days.

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Last night was also the second night of the salsa fest..it was held at MOS this time. All the friends i jio pang seh me therefore i was left all alone. I met up with my sis and her friends for dinner before making our way to MOS. There, we met up with my cousins and watched as couples danced on the dancefloor. There were performances in between...one girl's tube top even slipped revealing part of her chocolate chip..it was really embarrassing for her...but she can only blame herself for not wanting to wear a bra haha. There'll be a third night this saturday but i chose to forgo it for Valencia's birthday celebration...how great thou art right?! Haha.

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The cousins!

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Addition of Lionel subtraction of Yanping Yanqing!

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