Thoughts

My head is finally loaded with enough thoughts for me to want to blog tonight. Much has happened over the past 1 month although i can't really remember everything.

I remember meeting up with Teri for dinner at HK cafe at Marina Square one day before we met up with Jackie to chiong at Butter Factory. It was a crazy night, i think i had a total of 8 shots and 2 beer...i've never drunk so much before in my life. I'm so glad i wasn't knocked out cold..my drinking capacity isn't all that bad after all! But i can remember after alighting from jackie's car..i walked to the side and puked on the grass patch haha.


Teri, Jackie and I at Butter

Went out with Sis and Mummy one day too. We had dinner at another HK cafe at upper Thomson road. The food wasn't fantastic. After that, we decided we will visit the new AMK hub! At first, i didn't expect any other stores to be opened except for NTUC fairprice X-tra. But i was wrong, the place was brimming with life! There were lots of people and lots of shops! Although none of the shops appealed to me...they were selling mostly female stuff. NTUC x-tra was alright...not as big as Carrefour...but i bought a lot of stuff that night though haha.


The HK cafe


Sis and I at the HK cafe


Mum and her dunno what drink..teh?



Met up with Mummy, Sis and Kok bin one of the days too for dinner at Coffee Connection in Taka. Although i get to see people dining there while walking along orchard road all the time, i've never dine there myself before. I must say the food is pretty alright and the mud cake was fantastic!


Yummy Coffee Connection mud cake

Eh..met up with Mummy, sis and Kok bin one of the days for dinner again. This time we had dinner at Oscar in Conrad Hotel. It is an international buffet..lots of variety of food and nice ambience...price is a bit steep though.


A free bear we got

Went house visiting at one of my man's house on New Year's Eve eve with my PCs Jit Hwee and Chin Seng. He sort of broke his leg while playing soccer with us and got 38 days MC. Incredible but true. Anyway the house visit was a cover up, our real intention for going there was to play mahjong hahaha.


Dinner at Siglap's Cafe Cartel after mj

CNY was as usual...went to same old places and did the same old things..which is eat eat and eat haha. But this year's reunion dinner was slightly different for my family, we didn't eat at home, we went to AUD's house.


Cousins!


Cousins again!

Met up with Odette on CNY year 2 because we both didn't have plans that day so we thought we would catch a movie. We chose Norbit and what a huge mistake it turned out to be. It was a super duper crappy show filled with corny and unlaughable jokes. I regret so so much haha..should have caught Epic Movie instead lol. We ate dinner at Suntec's Ichiban after the movie before i went to meet up army mates for a guys night out at Zouk. We expected a crowd that day but how wrong we were. Drove past MOS and the queue was crazy...stretching all the way to the former Crazy Horse door. But when i turned up at Zouk...it was literally a ghost town. Although the crowd starting coming later that night..it wasn't the fun squeezy Phuture that it usually is. I was dancing with this short hair version of HK actress Flora Chan lookalike that day but no matter how hard i tried..i couldn't open my mouth to ask for her number..damn i'm useless..i need practice..practice! Haha.



Had a presentation today in class. Was supposed to present this article titled 'The Denial of Slavery in Management Studies'. Spent almost the whole weekend trying to analyse it but whenever i tried my eyes will want to close. I tried it at home, i tried it in the national library, i even tried it in camp...nothing worked. End up, i think i did quite a terrible job. But the teacher still gave a positive feedback on my presentation saying that i managed to make a boring article sound interesting...haha ya right wth did i do i really don't know. Things weren't so pleasant in class last thursday though. The teacher and one of my classmate were literally arguing because my classmate was a little rude to her...long story i don't want to talk about it.

It has been confirmed..Mummy and i will be catching Phantom of the Opera on the 9th April 2007..can't wait can't wait! I've waited 10 over years for this!

Watched a few other movies over the month too. Just to name a few.

Caught Little Children with Mum and Sis. Not too fantastic...quite boring in fact...Kate Winslet acted as a desperate housewife. I don't understand how this movie managed a few nomination for Oscars, Academy or Emmy or whatever haha.



Caught Protege with Wayniest and Puss. Not a bad show although not as fantastic as Infernal Affairs.


Watched this with Sham and Puss. Puss was complaining throughout. Although this Jack Neo film isn't as good as the previous ones...i still managed a few laughs at some scenes. Enjoyed the part on LaoCharbor.blogspot.com and the last part where the 'ministers' were covered with smoke on stage..the look on their faces got me laughing haha.



My favourite movie of the lot. Watched this with Henry and Sham. Excellent movie..its this kind of movie thats why i don't regret signing on haha. Its so realistic..the army setting and the thoughts of the soldiers. I will certainly want to catch it again one day!


Has been playing league soccer with my team again recently. We lost 3 matches but won one game 10-0 haha. Got hurt in the last match, this stupid tall guy elbowed me in the throat..damn it still hurts now. We better start winning soon!

I don't make sense

Met up with my poly mates to attend this retro night thingy held at Temasek poly for the alumnis last friday. My former care teacher Ms Pearl Teng was nice enough to help buy tickets for us after i managed to get most of those from my clique to join me. The night turned out to be alright..we paid $5 and we not only got to meet people, hear some old music, reminisce but even managed to enjoy a small buffet and even some night souvenirs and coupons.


We all didn't dress retro


I won a prize with my teacher's ticket! She gave it to me because she left early haha

The girls got bored after awhile and convinced us to leave. We soon made our way to this pub at East Coast call BFD i think. Its just beside 7-Elevens and MacDonalds. There's a live band there and although we didn't really watch them perform, we did listen and they sound bad.

On Saturday, i had dinner with my mum and sister at this restaurant called the Humble House at Esplanade. And i can tell you they definitely not humble. Although their food is unique, they are all freaking ex! Whats more the servings are small..i don't know what came over us but we ordered this sharks fins soup that cost $58 for just a small claypot of it. The whole bill came out to be around $197..incredible but true. Don't go there unless you feel rich. To think that day some couple was holding their wedding dinner there..i wonder how much it cost..but i'm sure the food is good..good choice.


KA!


The ambience


Chawanmushi that cost $18


Some soup in a coconut


The empty bowl of sharks fin soup


Yummy sharks fin soup..animal activists don't come for me! I love sharks fin!


Some $24 Codfish


The dish i didn't touch..some $22 asparagus


Yummy pork ribs


They have this really big chair just outside their restaurant


Sis and i on it

After dinner, Weijian jioed me for his faculty's bash held at St James Power Station and so i went. It was my second time there only that time time i went to Dragonfly too! Haha..famouse for their cantopop music and ah lians, unfortunately, i didn't get to see any of these that night. When i got in, this guy was performing and he can sing pretty well too. He even had the company of a few sexy dancers behind. After the singers decided they needed some rest, the music came on and it was pretty good! It wasn't cantopop like what i expected..they played r&b and some other happy dancing tunes..it was good! Too bad they weren't any babes in sight to have fun with..so we didn't stay long haha.


I managed to take some acrobatic performance at Power House

Woke up on Sunday morning to learn that it was raining and the soccer match we planned had to be cancelled...yawn... Then horsey called and asked if i wanted to have lunch at Old Airport Road. After lunch, we went to Sim Lim Square because i wanted to buy a TV tuner card for my computer so that i can watch tv on my computer and more importantly record the shows that i will miss! Managed to get a good one at $150 but it was only after 2 days before Puss helped me to get it to work just today.


My Tv card

After Sim Lim, Horse went back and Puss and I decided to watch a movie at Tampines Mall. This time we watched Night at the Museum. Eh..nothing much to talk about it...quite funny. Haha.



Puss and Zhenming came all the way to Ang Mo Kio Block 608 which is just opposite my place today..all because they wanted to try the Botak Jones Western food at the coffeeshop there. Apparently, they are pretty famous with branches at Clementi and even Tuas! You might have to wait for around 15-30 mins for your food after ordering..they are that popular...my mum and aunt will dapao that for me sometimes leh haha.

Seriously, i don't think i'm making sense today..and i think i've some broken sentences and english here and there. I don't have the mood to read back and edit..i think i'm going to fall sick soon..and i have ulcers and rashes..what a period!

The Peak

Came home from work on yesterday and was told by mum that they will be going out for dinner. Although i was tired i joined them anyway because i haven really dined with the whole family for a long time. The auntie that i affectionately call Ah Poh Yee joined us too..she took care of me before when i was really young. Anyway we had dinner at this Hing Hwa eatery at Maund Road near Jalan Besar. Frankly speaking i have never heard of this dialect group before yesterday and well i didn't really enjoy their food either haha. Have been feeling tired after work lately, i think i'm finally feeling the effects of not sleeping enough. Jack and Dan jioed me for wala wala tonight but i just don't have the energy to leave home haha.

On my way home, i walked past this couple at my void deck. I didn't mean to eavedrop by that woman was talking so loudly. Just as i walked past she just went: "I don't like the way you do things, i don't like your character, i don't like this i don't like that blah blah." Ok i added the this that and blah blah cause i can't remember what she said exactly. But haiyo you don't like that person so much why be with him...ridiculous.

If you didn't know..the super funny Li Nanxing and Zoe Tay show on channel 8 is over. They are now boardcasting this new serial call The Peak. It actually talks about a few characters' lives working for Keppel the oilrig making company and they actually went to Brazil to film too. Do you know that Singapore is the number 1 manufacturer of oilrigs in the world? I didn't know that fact before i took my last subject International Business..now i know! Although Singapore is that super tiny on the world map..it can be so super amazing sometimes too! Ok i'm not sucking up to my boss ok!

Apple will be launching their latest product Iphone soon! It will be like their hugely popular ipod with the capabilities of a mobile phone..whats more its beautiful! How cool is that...its bound to revolutionise the world like the ipod did. I'm sure they will give Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, O2 etc etc a run for their money soon! I know i want one!

Bored and unlucky

Met up with Puss on saturday because i wanted to get my sis a present for her birthday. I hate shopping..especially when i don't know what i want to buy. I only got an idea of what to get at the very last minute...i settled for a gift package at body shop. There's body foam, soap, shampoo and i think some moisturiser as well..but best of all it came in a very cool and expensive looking box. I then met up with Mum, Sis and Kok bin for the dinner at Marina Mandarin's AquaMarine. It has a really nice ambience and a nice spread. It wasn't cheap though..initially i thought that it would cost only around $40 per person but it turned out to be around $58 per person...its still cheaper than the Line at Shangri-La though.


Birthday present for sis

While shopping with them after dinner, i saw this $10 universal remote control Carrefour was selling. So happen, blur Mummy of mine accidentally threw away the remote control of my TV set while cleaning up...so this universal remote control might be just what we need! Anyway, this isn't the first time my mum did something so amusing. The most famous incident of all involved my cute little pet love bird who died tragically under my mum's hands. I believe most of my friends know about the incident...i don't want to talk about it anymore haha. Ok anyway, the remote control works! All it took was some simple set up and entering of some code...its really amazing..i salute the geek who invented this shit.

Played soccer on Sunday afternoon at Canberra Secondary and we were unfortunate to lose 5-4...yes a 9 goals thriller. I have yet to break my goal drought yet too..if this goes on i will have to be dropped! Reaching home after soccer, i suddenly had this craving for pizza. Saw Puss online and so happen he didn't have dinner too..i suggested checking out thejapanese pizza place called Oiishi Pizza at Upper Thomson Road. Bad mistake. Although the pizza wasn't bad, i ended up with a ticket from Cisco after parking on a white continous line somewhere near the private houses around the area. We tried their Wasabi seafood pizza and teriyaki chicken pizza..its one for one too just like Canadian Pizza. We were so full after eating a few slices we did what most people will do to the remaining pieces when bloated. No not throw them away, we forced it down our stomach leaving the crust behind haha. Oh Oiishi Pizza has this delivery service too..the number is 655555565..check it out when you have that craving like me too!


Teriyaki Chicken


Wasabi Seafood


Finished everything except for the veges! Duh!


My oh My

I've been down on my luck while driving these days. Had a near accident a few days ago, got a hefty summon yesterday and i almost got a speeding ticket this morning! I was driving alone SLE at around 100km/h and suddenly i saw this TP bike parked by the road shoulder playing with his speed gun. He was shooting my direction when suddenly he mounted his bike and started moving off. I went: "Siao liao lah!" and my heart was thumping like shit. I don't want to pay for this! Fortunately, the expressway was pretty packed with cars then..so i quickly changed from lane 1 to lane 2. The TP bike went straight to lane 1 and rode past me to my super duper relief. I guess my orange bumper saved me..the TP bike had only seen the black front of my car and didn't thought anyone will be smart enough to have an orange rear so he didn't spot me! Wooh!

Came home late from work slightly later than usual today and got so bored at home after dinner i decided i shall go check out amk central. Guess what..small world. I bummed into Horse and Jocelyn. They just finished watching Curse of the Golden Flower at Jubilee. So we walked around aimlessly at boring amk central before we finally went home. I should have just stayed at home and sleep man haha.

Shocker!

Had the greatest shock of my life yesterday. Nearly got into an accident haha. You won't believe this but i fell asleep while driving. I don't know how it happened or why it happened..it just happened. I was on my way back to camp from another camp after collecting something..i was already at the road outside camp..and i just dozed off. Next thing i know..my friend started shouting "EH!" I opened my eyes to find myself drifting towards the kerb by the side of the road and quickly swerved back. A loud bang followed..i got off the car and got the great relief of my life when i found out my bumper and car was still intact. My rims were slightly scratched though..i never thought i could fall asleep while driving..dammit! Now i have a phobia.

Met up with Sham and Henry just now to catch Borat. Bummed into Gabriel and Xiaowen at the Apple shop..it has been such a long time since i've seen them so we chatted for awhile. Anyway, found the movie pretty dumb on the whole. There were however a few scenes i laughed really hard though. I thought that he was really irritating..and annoying too..there were times where i covered my mouth and asked myself: "OMG how can he do that?" I know that's pussy but yeah i did that haha.



Its my sister's birthday tomorrow and i still haven got her anything...we've reserved places at Marina Mandarin's AquaMarine..i bet it'll be good..now let me think of what to get sis.

A brand new year..year 2007!

Its really scary how quickly time flew. In a blink of an eye..its already 2007! I made a few resolutions last year but i've yet to complete them yet..so i shall keep them for this year!

Frankly speaking, 2006 hasn't been a good year for me..i think it sucked. Few things went my way. I hope this new year won't be the same..i wish for many wonderful things to happen to me!

Met up with Puss on Monday for a jog. The last time i jogged was at the Standard Chartered Marathon. So this time we jogged only 5km but it nearly killed me. I was so shagged after the run i had to sit down on the kerb immediately haha. After the run, we decided to visit the new hype up Ikea and Courts. By the time we got there, it was around 9.20pm and we wanted to eat and drink so badly. But the stupid Ikea restaurant wouldn't let us queue up because they insist that the kitchen closes at 9pm. But they were still a crowd queuing up..what would 2 more orders do to them?! Pissed off, we walked to Courts hoping to find something to eat but there was none too. Courts was really like a super big pasar malam...almost everything were on sale. With Giant set to open there soon, that place can really cater to our every needs! In the end, we ended up eating at Punggol Nasi Lemak afterwhich we met up with horsey and we went to Holland village's haagen daaz for awhile. After that, we headed down to Vivocity for a midnight movie Fast Food Nation. Well...its a movie based on a book written by Eric Schlosser. When it was published in 2001, Fast Food Nation quickly became a New York Times bestseller, with its no-holds-barred, non-fiction exploration of "the dark side of the All-American meal." There are quite a few celebrities acting the show..namely Bruce Willis, Avril Lavigne, Ethan Hawke and Greg Kinnear. The show actually tells us that there's shit in the meat..don't want to talk to much about it..watch it if you're interested.



Played soccer with the guys from Christ The King's altar servers yesterday at St Wilfreds. My friend booked the court from 1pm - 7pm..how crazy is that haha. Now my legs are all numb and aching from all that kicking and running. It has been like 5 years since i left the servers, the small boys that used to stand beside me on the santuary are now all grown up. Some of them can even kick the ball better than i now! Haha. I would like to emphasise that time really flies! Please make full use of it!

Oh the number 1 show of 2006 was Pirates of the Carribean Dead Man's Chest and the number 1 song of 2006 Fort Minor's Where you go. Not that i totally agree...but what the heck who cares haha.

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.


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!


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


Second group photo


Third group photo


The last one with our rides


Ready get set-to go!

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.



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!

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!


Mahjong!


Foolsball!


Steamboat


Group Photo


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!


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!


Buying sushi for the party


My sis's experiment..Chips with Tuna!


The presents!


Waiting for our gifts


Receiving my first gift


Sis with hers


Terence with his


Kok bin with his


Salmin with his


Ah Dio with his


Mum with hers


Santa Claus this year Ah Ling gettings hers too!


The logcake..nice and chocolaty!