I didn't survive SCSM 2007

Met up with Sham, Valencia and Puss for what Sham described as the "last" dinner before the upcoming marathon we were about to run the next day. Lame but yeah. Haha.

This time we dined at Marina Square's Changing Appetites. Its probably quite new because i don't remember seeing it around before. Anyway the food was alright...affordable and there's so much to eat you'll be so bloated afterwards you'll be walking sideways. Anyway a leopard will never change its skin, which is why i ordered their biggest burger there, appropriately named the Barbarian burger. Its a gigantic burger with two 200gm beef patties, 2 dory fillets and 1 piece of chicken in between the buns. Obviously i didn't finish everything, all 4 of us struggled to finish the food that evening. Which is why i always say: "When you're hungry, you think you can eat a cow!" I must not over order and over eat again!

After dinner, we went to catch a 9pm plus movie. We watched Ben Stiller's The Heartbreak Kid this time and what a huge mistake it turned out to be for me. Its not the show, its a good show actually. A typical Ben Stiller comedy full of humor.



Anyway I mentioned that its a mistake for me because by time the show ended, sent all of them back and reached home myself, it was already past 1am, and the marathon's flag off timing the next day is 5.30am! I went to sleep immediately of course but guess what...i woke up at exactly 5.30am the next day. Lying in bed feeling super sleepy and all, i gave myself lots of reason not to turn up for the marathon...and yup i didn't go in the end. Well...at least i didn't have to limp the whole week or risk getting an injury.


Failed


Argh

In the end, i met up with Puss who also didn't turn up and return our championship chip without the tee-shirt. We had lunch at Citilink's Simply Thai before i went to play soccer and even scored a goal for my team! Good thing coz i wouldn't have been there if i ran the marathon in the morning. My team has been on an unbeaten run of late and i hope this continues!

Yesterday was my colleague Rodney's wedding dinner. To tell you the truth, this is the first time i'm attending a friend's wedding dinner. All of my other friends are still not married, i hope they don't all come at one shot because its gonna be really expensive if that happens. Anyway i had a good laugh watching the video they played during the dinner of what happened in the day before the sisters allowed the groom and the brothers into the house to get his bride, i've never seen anyone having to complete so many stunts before they were allowed in. I've always thought that a big angbao will do the trick. Anyway the dinner was at Riverfront Furama Hotel and its also the first time that i see performance in the process of serving the first dish. 2 men with stuffed bellies came out and started dancing around the dining hall, it was really hilarious.


Jonathan and I


The 3 cups of mix my table made for the groom, it contains beer, red wine and martell

I wanna do something special for Xmas, but what? Anyone has a party going on somewhere? Haha.

A week without work

Spent the week enjoying myself, slacking, resting. Important thing is i don't have to go back to camp nor do any work...now thats how life should be!

After coming back from Wallaby, i have more than a dozen people commenting that I've lost some weight...especially my face...now thats good news! But i didn't bother to make any effort to maintain it so i went out for a nice sumptuous international buffet dinner with my mum and sister at Trader Hotel's CafeBiz on Tuesday. It was a 1 for 1 offer they got from Women Weekly magazine. There were a big variety of food but it was okay considering I've been having lousy food for the past 40 days.


All 3 of us


Mum and Sis


Yummy isn't it


Some desserts


More desserts


A really hungry man who hasn't had a good meal in a long time

Had a mini outing with my ex CCIS platoon mates on Wednesday. I took a train to town that day because i wanted to drink at Zouk that night. After exiting from Somerset MRT station, i realized that it was raining cats and dogs outside. So I was stranded under the building just near California Fitness. It was just opposite Orchard Cineleisure where i was supposed to meet the rest of the guys, but there's no way i was going to drench myself and feel uncomfortable the whole. So i waited and waited and this girl had to come over and ask me to buy this charity ticket for $10. Being the nice guy that i am and someone who don't really like to reject others, i obliged and became $10 poorer. Anyway it turned out to be a great outing, having not seen most of them for the longest time ever since they left the army more than a year ago, we actually sat down for a movie and dinner in town together that day and reminisced about old times.

The guys chose this movie call Hero. I went into the theater with no idea what the movie is about. Its a feature expansion of one of Japan's highest-rated television series with this bunch of prosecutors being handed a case of manslaughter that takes a twist into high-level political corruption. Not the most interesting of movies you can catch now but its still half entertaining.



After the movie, we went to Vil'age at Heerens for dinner before we headed for Zouk where i had made arrangement with the rest of my unit friends to celebrate Xiaoqing's birthday. It turned out to be a wild wild night with everybody dancing and drinking like there's no tomorrow lol. Fortunately i controlled myself and made my own way home safe and sound. I have loads of photos though. Check out the wildness!







































Met up with Weijian on Thursday after his final paper. Both of us wanted to get some presents and do some shopping ourselves but ended up empty handed. We had dinner at Takashimaya's basement 2's Fisherios. We continued our shopping around Orchard before we decided to watch The Kingdom. It turned out to be quite a good movie with its settings in Saudi Arabia. After a terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed whole families of Americans, this FBI agent assembled an elite team to fly there on a mission to investigate and locate the terrorists. Watch it for the actions and Saudi Arabia, a country most of you haven been to and probably won't plan to go in the near future. Other than that, ignore the small unrealistic fightings and cheesy conversations and the show will turn out fine.




The fish and chips from Fisherios, i copied this from my sis's album lol

Its also nice to see how the show depicted loyalty to country in the show. But somehow sad to say you don't really see this in Singapore. Regardless of how competent our government is, how safe how country is, how successful and affluent our society is doing and how we miss home every time we go abroad, people here are just afraid to say that they love their country. They do their national service with reluctance and back mouth the government whenever we can. Lol thats how we are, sad to say...but its true.

Back where i belong!

I'm finally back! Touched down just yesterday morning. And guess what? I actually miscalculated...i wasn't gone for 35 days...its 40 days to be exact! And if my efforts to pay attention in Cathechism classes donkey years ago paid off..i think thats the same amount of days Jesus spent in the desert alone trying to resist the devil's temptations! Lol.


Where i've been

And for those of you that actually have this misconception that the trip to Australia is fun (my hairdresser being one of them), let me tell you now that its none of what you all imagine it to be! For your information, i don't sleep in hotels, motels, bunks or even containers, i sleep every night on a safari bed with only a tentage over my head.


Where i showered


So call toilets


The really disgusting shitholes


Yup those are urinals

Of course not all 40 days were miserable, there were ups and downs. And i actually drank more alcohol during these 40 days than the whole year before it. I was forced to get high a grand total 5 times and even puked twice while at it. Here are some pictures of the ups!


I got high


And again


And yet again




























A group photo while jogging


There was good food there sometimes

R&R this time was a little more happening than in 2005. Other than doing some shopping in the boring malls, we actually went clubbing and also had some really good steak. It has been a long time..there's so many things and places i miss during my time there. I'm so glad its over now!

Like i mentioned, there's so many things i missed after touching down. I could have teared if you actually played me some national day songs while i was there man hahaha. So i met up with Sham and Valencia to do some catching up and also eat some good food. Somehow we only ended up at Pasta Mania, and then TCC for a drink.

Then i met up with Samantha today's late afternoon for late lunch and also for some catching up and buying of presents. And us being in tiny Singapore, we actually bumped into Meiwen and her little sister Meiyin at Paragon and so we ended up shopping together. It has been quite a tiring days..there's so many other things for me to catch up with...channel 8 shows, movies, snooker, soccer being part of it!