Thursday, December 27, 2007

Weddings

Recently I attended Daphne's wedding at Rasa Sentosa Hotel. Yes, the same Daphne whom Eugene was head over heels for some years back. So far, I've attended quite a few fren's wedding; Regina, James, Hilda, Kim Long, Jason, and this time Daphne. But this time there is a slight difference - difference in my status. All the other times, I was single.

Actually, my perception of marriage and weddings are pretty warped ever since I knew Min was marrying Alvin. I dislike the notion of getting married. I have heard more than enough of the sweet and romantic reasons for getting married, but perceived thru my realist view, it just seemed like it's sth to just get it over and done with. To obtain a status recognised by the law, with someone whom you think you can live with. I have not tot of settling down ever since that. Sometimes I even think that I would prob not get married my whole life.

This wedding stirred up some different emotions.

As I watched the video clips of the groom going to fetch the bride at her place, I started wondering if I'd ever have the chance to do this. Being the groom. Sometimes when my imginations are loose, I'd imagine myself in wedding situations, but I'm always part of the brothers gang. Nv the groom himself. I tot abt who my brothers gang would comprise of. Prob Hanxi, Eugene, Lewis, etc.

I imagined myself taking all that the sisters gang can throw at us, cos I would not allow anything to stop me from marrying Joanne.

I imagined us walking on the red carpet, to the tunes of the wedding march.

I imagined us drinking our nuptial wines.

Sometimes life makes fun of us all. I belittle the notion of wedding when all this could happen to me. Now I can only imagine how it would be like beacuse it wun happen for us. It wun be special for her; hence it wun be special for me.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Injury-plagued Xiaohei Part 2

It was supposed to be a simple nite of shopping and Xmas decor viewing at Orchard Road, and we made the unfortunate choice of Far East Shopping Center for our carpark. Sth rather amusing happened. Joanne has some vouchers for Isetan Scotts and we were hoping to go redeem it. Somehow, we made our way to Wisma only to learn that we can't redeem it there as it's stated Isetan Scotts only. We backtrack in search of Isetan Scotts and were pondering how we can miss this detail, and to realise that Scotts shopping center has actually been demolised!

So what happened was our brain automatically processed the next nearest Isetan to be our supposed destination when we could not find Scotts shopping center in the first instance when we pass by what used to be it's location. Anyway, ended up we have to redeem the vouchers at Isetan Shaw House.

When all's done, next came the retrieval of the car at the top floor of Far East Shopping Center carpark. Upon going down the first slope, I did my normal cornering and everything seemed to be going as usual until I heard a disgusting scratching sound which turned into such of a crunching sound. SCREEEGH ~

The rear door on the right side was wedged into the edge of a fucking pillar. I tried to reverse myself out and this causes the door to be further dented in. After much effort to minimise the damage to unwedge myself, I earned myself a $200 respray and repair cost. The spray job was a little fucked-up as well, and it leaves small little bumps on the lower portion of the resprayed door.

Oh well, what luck.... =(

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Injury-plagued Xiaohei

A spate of unfortunate events befall Xiaohei recently. Within a month, he's sustained 1 minor and 1 major injury. The carpark at the following 2 places are at the top of my blacklist now: Pearl Center and Far East Shopping Center.

There is a disgusting steep slope leading up to the carpark at Pearl Center. And better still, the gantry does not use ERP style of entry. It requires u to stop and insert the bloody cashcard. I overshot the cashcard device and gotta reverse to the damned device. After all's done, I tried going forward and found my car going backwards instead. The Honda Civic behind then decide to horn me to add to my confusion. Well.. dunno what shit went thru my mind and for a while, I tot I was driving a manual car. Being stuck on a slope with ur manual car sliding backwards? The only thing to do - jam the accelerator.

WHAM!

End of story.

The consequence is a payment of $76 for the Honda Civic to change it's number plate which was bent, and a series of emails on whether or not the money transfer was received.

The 2nd incident at the condemned Far East Shopping Center carpark is even more heart-wrenching. To be continued..

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Meeting On Board SQ805

The scene was n board SQ805 bound for Shanghai, on the morning of 30th August 2007. I had forgotten to put a pen in my laptop bag and needed 1 to fill up the numerous departure forms which were needed by China Custom. I was checking out the babe sitting behind me who's also furiously filling up her departure forms, thinking of borrowing her pen and possibly strike up a conversation. Along came a stewardess, noticing my plea for sth and offered her assistance.

"Can I help?" Stewardess

"Eh... can I borrow a pen from you?" Me

"Sure, here you go." Stewardess (handing me her pen)

As we look each other in the eyes, the fleeting moment of recognition registered in my mind. Before I can say anything, she goes...

"Andy Kwa" Stewardess (And she walked away)

Memories. Memories. Memories. If my thoughts can be viewed like in Dumbledore's pensieve, it'll look like this:

2001
She was 16. I was 21.
She whom I met at the old Ridley's at ANA Hotel.
She whom immortalize the song "Once In A Lifetime" as THE romantic clubbing song.
She whom I wrote a 500 word essay to tell her y I like her.
She whom I left behind at Orchard Cineleisure, because I swore to myself not to let any more gals step over me.
She whom ask me to tuition her for her O Levels.
She whom I kiss.
She whom I bought a mango cake, 12 red roses and 2 love devils for her birthday.

故事的最后结局,结束在那年冬季,孤独的冰冷风里.

It was kind of nice to meet her again this way. She did give me a bit of preferential treatment throughout the flight. The first time I finally a familiar stewardess on my flights.

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Emergence of Xiaohei

It's been a while.... Hahaha.

I'm back on the blogging scene again. For the past month, my working hours took a drastic plunge for the worst. Tot that now that I've got a car, leaving office after work should be a case of pure bliss (minus the bus waiting, hot stuffy bus ride, standing in the mrt, 1.5 hr journey back home, etc). Who knows I end up staying later and later every day. And worse still, now that I don't need to claim taxi fare home, I ended up not keeping track of my overtime meal allowance as well. Bah!

Social life-wise (no, I have not been picking up cais), it wasn't much of a diff. Prob cos I have not been salsa-ing much nowadays. My new salsa grp sorta split after Akder went back to India. Thinking back to the days when we all have the thinking that having a car would make picking up chicks so much easier. Not too true though, or maybe I just have not been putting it to this particular use. Haha.

Well, I did go out with Jer more often nowadays. I brought her to Oosh at Dempsey Road, and she was totally ecstatic about the place. Subsequently, we went out a few more times, to Union, to Upper Club, Holland V, etc. She did tell me that she feels that I've gotten more confident now that I have a car (She calls it Xiaohei). I dunno how true this is. But it's true that I would not have initiate to ask gals out last time, like how I asked Jer out not. Even gals whom I'm interested in. And no, I dun feel like I'm going after her, well, not now anyway.

Sth funny happened 1 time when we were at JP. We were just talking abt me having not gone to Union for some time, and who I wana meet there, when just out of nowhere, Yumin appeared in front of us. I was stun beyond words, and just managed to mutter "Hi" before we walked away. I knew Yumin felt that I've always sort of like Jer, cos she did tell me last time that she notice I only dance with Jer at Union last time. And that was during the time when I sort of dun do salsa. It's been so long since I talk to Yumin. We dun even talk on msn now. There was 1 Fri nite when I went to Union with Jer, and happened to see Yumin there with her Bugs. I was sitting alone at the sofa with my back to the pool table. I knew she was behind me, and I saw her silhouette walking towards where I was sitting. Instinctively, I just stood up and walk away, without looking back. I dun know if she was walking over to talk to me, but I just did not want to talk to her just yet. Let the silence continue.

Back to Jer... sometimes I think I'm seeing shadows of Min in her also. Both have abt the same kind of family background, the same profession, the same streak of rebellious-ness, the same bit of Siao Charbor mentality sometimes. We were in my car 1 time, and it happened to play Sammi's song Bu Shang Xin. This is like my song for Min, reminding me always of the times we were together; the sweet times when we love each other to bits, the bitter times when she left me for Marcus. Jer told me she love the song also. Not many pple even know of the song I believe.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Happy Birthday To Me!

Ok, a bit late to wish myself happy birthday rite now... but who cares. Anyway, it fell on a Thur which does not seem to have any celebratory feel surrounding it. Thur - the majority of the week behind it and 1 more day to the last day of the week. It somehow seemed to be the most draggy day day of the week. The day where u feel like the time seem not to move while u're in ur office.

Anyway, had a mini gathering with my JC folks. Eugene, Lewis, Duckie and Sandy at Union Square. Nobody of the usual gang there AT ALL. They must have just celebrated Miss Tng's birthday the day b4. Just as well, if not I'd might be forced to do a birthday dance. They bought me a real creamy chocolate cake, (dead giveaway that it's my birthday ya?). We played silly games to finish up the cake and taught Duckie and Sandy to dance towards the end of the nite.

Babe bought me a little cake the next day. =) Din expect that though.

Thanks to Rongyan, Kaixin and Huihui who remembers. Love you, babes!

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Best I Ever Had

Today I danced with Cranberry again. After 2 weeks. She's the first gal whom I feel like dancing with song after song after song. Everybody talks abt the so-called chemistry when they identified a person whom they so love to dance with. I din understand it then. I guess I do now.

Cranberry - best I ever had. I know she like this song

Best I Ever Had

So you sailed away
Into a grey sky morning
Now I'm here to stay
Love can be so boring

Nothing's quite the same now
I just say your name now

But it's not so bad
You're only the best I ever had
You don't want me back
You're just the best I ever had

So you stole my world
Now I'm just a phony
Remembering the girl
Leaves me down and lonely

Send it in a letter
Make yourself feel better

But it's not so bad
You're only the best I ever had
You don't need me back
You're just the best I ever had

And it may take some time to
Patch me up inside
But I can't take it so I
Ran away and hide
And I may find in time that
You were always right
You're always right

So you sailed away
Into a grey sky morning
Now I'm here to stay
Love can be so boring

What was it you wanted
Could it be I'm haunted

But it's not so bad
You're only the best I ever had
You don't want me back
You're just the best I ever had

End Of Countdown!

End of countdown! Eh... actually the clock ticks down to 0 last Thur. Albeit much earlier than I expected. Yeah !!!!

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

The Clock Winds Down 1

Day 3 of waiting. Tick tick tick....

Oh ya, my blog visitor counter hits 7777 today. =)

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Commitment

Today I made a huge life(style) changing decision and commitment that I ever done to date. Now, to really watch those expenditures from now on... sigh.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Babe Alert

Finally. After 2 years. A babe in the office. =)

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Midsummer Night's Dream

Some pics from Midsummer Night's Dream at Fort Canning. Can't rem when was the last time I attended a play. My salsa grp decided to organise a picnic / play watching. Present are Suyin, Alanna, Jade, Shirley, Arkder and Sherman. Some other frens of frens joined us but can't really rem the names now. We're not the only salsa grp there as Jacelyn's grp was just situated right in front of us on the picnic ground. We were having the time of our life there with the picnic, that the play seemed like an after thought.


I think I like take up half the photo. From left: Sherman, myself, Shirley, Alanna, Jade and Suyin.

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Sweet Dreams

Yesterday nite I had a dream abt Cranberry. We were dancing, but our heads were awfully close, like when we were doing bachata. Then our heads got closer, and I kissed her slightly on her lips. I looked up and she was looking down with a bashful smile on her face. At that point in time, we knew we are together, and we are in so much bliss.

I awoke this morning, feeling all positive from my sweet dream. Even happier cos I'll be seeing Cranberry today.

We met and we parted and it seemed like just another ordinary day. Damn those dreams...

Friday, May 25, 2007

10 Reasons

What I intended to blog for this entry undergo a last min change, when my other active browser which happen to be surfing Friendster realises that she's getting married soon.

She ever asked me, to give her 10 reasons y I like her.

"If I tell you, will u marry me?" I asked.

"I will consider." she said.

Usually I avoid such rhetorical questions. This is depicting love as a very methodological process, which is against my school of thought. I prefer giving a truly strong statement answer instead of making it like a 10 reasons thingy. But for her, I immediately took out a pen and tried to pen down 10 reasons, for liking her. Try as I might, I only manage 6.

Yesterday night while I was tossing in bed, it finally came to my mind how I should give her 1 true statement, which epitomises the feelings I felt with her. The literal words suddenly materialise in my head. I knew the feeling all the while, but I just can't formulate it in words. Till tonight.

I intend to blog it the first thing today, until the Friendster realisation. With that, I shall bury my love statement for her in my mind. Thou shalt not come to light no more.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

All About Dance

If I don't ask u to dance, I think u're too good n I don't dare to dance with you.

If u think u're good but yet I still ask u to dance, u're probably a close fren of mine.

If I don't ask u to dance, but u think u're not that good that I don't dare ask u to dance, I probably like u.

If I used to ask u to dance, but less freqeunt now, but u think u're not that good that I don't dare ask u to dance, I probably din like u last time but like u now.

If I did not dance with you last time, but now does, but u think that u're not that good that I dun dare to ask u to dance, it probably means I like u last time but not now.

Pls include ur name in the above categories if u feel u fall into any of the above.

Does any of this makes sense to u? Haha.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Back On Track

Hah... been absent from blogging for the past month plus or so. Saw the bar chart of my blog views creeping lower n lower every week. The lack of scandalous scandals involving scantily clad scandilicious gals I guess. Nonetheless I'm back today to bore the shit out of u on the boring life that I'm leading right now.

My last post was abt my job.... so where has that led me to now?

Finally talked to my boss and I firmly put across my tots as to how I m NOT going to take up the role to lead the customer support team. And how I would like NOT to be utilised as a clerk/logistics/ops personnel. That saw my career path being put back on track a bit, with a recent trip to China for more meaningful purposes. Job change? I guess that's gotta wait for a while longer. I got a new goal now: Car ! But first to curb my spendthrift habit....

1) Less taxi trips! Looking back, I'm amazed at how I could drag my ass up every morning at 6am to take the hour plus long trip to work on public transport. I nv seem to be able to do it now on a consistent basis, explaining the rise in taxi expenditure. =( New motto: MUST LOVE MRT !

2) Stop taking the car! I've been thinking of cancelling my WhizzCar subscription, but to date have still been keeping it alive in case of emergency. (Well, I vow to cut down usage or maybe not even use it. So far this month I've only taken the car once. My week in Shanghai helps though)Incessant expenditure every month. N it's not as if there's any gal out there who is a must-send for my Union nites. Well no more now, since Piggy is gone.

What becomes of the broken hearted? Who hath love that's now departed.

So what happened? That must be on the paparazzi's mind cos suddenly, it just seems to die. They no longer observes anything because ntg's happening. So did anything even happen? Hell it did. I pulled the plug on myself. She gets the idea after a while. She no longer msg me on MSN, like how she used to. Even in Union, she seldom comes over to the sofa area now, except for the occasional dance with Johnny or Zhiguang. When we see each other it'll be just a smile. A meaningless smile. I wonder if she ever thinks abt what's behind the smile. The feelings behind the smile. I guess she doesn't. She's too happy with her Bugs and life now.

I'm fine. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Crossroad

I might be approaching the crossroad in my career path very soon. Din expect this to come so soon though. If indeed the company is gonna assign me to take on the role which I heard thru the grapevines, I guess I will just have to pack up and leave.

So.... screw you guys, I'm going home ~ ~ ~

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Beach Party And Club Party

It seems I have quite a Salsa grp. A few of us organised an outing to Sentosa last Sat. Cafe Del Mar and basically just having fun on the beach. The few who went are Su Yin, Jade, Shirley, JH, and a guy called Vincent whom is supposed to be from their Beginner class.

It was a rainy affair the moment the stepped foot into Sentosa. Had a brief shelter at Cafe Del Mar, which is what used to be Sunset Bay. A very nice place indeed, though the dress code does seem a bit strange. You get guys who are dressed in fulll clubbing gear, n at the same time ladies in hot bikini attire. This place no doubt replaces KM8 as the new poseur hangout in Sentosa.

We played beach volley (and I even brought my pump! all cos of Shirley's airless volley ball!) and frisbee and were joined shortly after by the tall German babe from Bachata class. Oh yes, I took up Bachata. =) Shd have made the outing a bit earlier. We left Sentosa shortly after evening to have a 2nd round at Clarke Quay. We had our dinner eating this weird shape pizza at Harbor Front, where 1 slice is like 12 foot long.

Most favor the idea of going home to change first before going for our 2nd rd. I took the car and picked Shirley and we met the rest at Clarke Quay. MOS nite it's gonna be. Dear Suyin got tipsy on a hand-made vodka orange from 7-11.

Monday, March 26, 2007

Lost Handphone!

So did I lose my hp? You must be wondering.... read on to find out.

So I was trying to get thru the day without my hp. I tot I had left it at home. Y? Because of the below reasons:

1) When I went back to the cab to search for it, the cabbie lent me his hp to call my number. My hp did not sound off in the cab.

2) I called my own number using my office phone. It was still on.

So this led me to believe I must have simply forgotten it when I left hse. After sometime, I tried calling my number again. It was off..... FUCK. Someone must have picked it up then. So I called to suspend my line, in case someone nut used my number to go support Jue Dui Superstar Diya (Wahahaha). Not cheap leh, God knows how many calls these fanatics will make.

So the first thing I did after work that day was to make a trip to Westmall to get a new hp. They only have 2 models of non-camera phones available, and 1 being the one that I lost (or did I??? =P). So I got the other hp, Motorola W220. A stylishly slim flip phone, with a rubber padding feel on the exterior (this hp seems built to withstand hard knocks) and a superbly kiddish screen (reminds me of Battle City on Nintendo). And while I was at it, I traded in my Nokia N6680 for a Sony Ericsson W800i. So happy with my 2 brand new purchases, I went on my way home.

Next surprise come when I sat down in front of my comp screen at home. Dear Linda has a msg for me. "Hey, your phone is with me". =

*STUMPED*
Why would my phone be with her ??? It so happens that the cabbie found my hp after that, and contacted Linda. (Why Linda? L is like in the middle of the phone list. This leads me to wonder how many pple he must have called b4 someone agrees to collect it for me....) Dear Linda is kind enough to go down to Leng Kee or somewhere near there to collect it for me. (For that, ya gonna get a kiss from me. *Muacks*) And so.... officially, I did not lose my hp after all.....

Thursday, March 22, 2007

No Handphone!

Hooray !! Today I'm gonna be a very peaceful man. I forgot to bring my hp to work. Eh... well, I hope it's I forgotten and left it at home. For a while, I tot I dropped it on the cab, but upon stopping the cab again and doing a brief search, it wasn't there. And the last time I checked, the phone was still on. Man, can't believe I actually forgot to bring it out. I usually do my 3 checks (wallet, hp, smokes) before I leave hse or go anywhere.

This has got to be the 1st time I actually forgotten my hp. Let's see how I can survive unconnected today in this connected world. =)

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Wise Saying From Lala

Lala said to find myself first; and then I'll know what I want. So where does this lead me?

Finding myself. Physically I'm located at my office desk currently. In a broader sense, I can be found (most of the time) in the northwestern part of Singapore, which is part of the continent of Asia, which belongs to the planet Earth, which is the 3rd planet from the Sun, in a galaxy known as the Milky Way, an infinitesimal portion of the boundless universe. (so much for finding myself)

I've nv been too particular abt the gal who I want to spend the rest of my life with. In the sense that I do not set too extreme limits or restrictions as to what type of gals r out of limit, not acceptable, etc. I used to believe that there r no such things as "wrong frequency". I still believe in that now, though I think that what some pple perceives as "wrong frequency" is actually more of a case of "wrong expectations".

And how does this wrong expectations come abt? This would mean that from the start, the guy is trying to be someone whom he isn't. To put up a facade, either to impress the gal, to mould himself into the kind of guy he tot the gal would like, or simply as a poseur. But he can't pose forever. So sooner or later, the real him would stealthly creep back into him, and the gal would detect traces of characrteristics that weren't there in the first place. Before long, the situation will deteriorate so badly that the guy is but a shadow of his former self (in the gal's opinion) and thus she will label him as "wrong frequency" or communication failure.

Well, I ever got caught in such a scenario b4, which made me abhor the idea of needing to be someone else in order to get the gal. I relish the idea of meeting a gal who is like Min, someone whom I can truely be myself and who will love me for being myself. I tot I found it in Piggy. Cos I really like how we click, not cos of how she looks. Seems fate has other plans for me though.

When I was younger, I would go for looks first (I'm a mighty realistic guy), and attempt to establish the flow with her later. A whack-first-see-how-later approach. As I grow up, all this doesn't seem to matter as much (I still like babes, just to set the records str =P), but I still end up without what I wanted. So you think what my msn nick says is true? 爱不爱都受煎熬

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Replay?

I guess some pple r not meant to be forgotten? (Wait, did I say this b4? Like some time back in Jul 05?) Today I brought Gillian to Union Square. The first time that we met up after the short stint in 2005. I rem the last time I saw her was to pass her her resume photo. That was just the 4th day I started work. Now I've worked for slightly more than 1 n a half yrs already. We fell out shortly after that. But it's strange that though we fell out, we're still keeping in contact. The price to pay being 1.5 yrs.

Back at the crossroad again. To let the sleeping lion lie? Or to let it wake? My feeling is telling me that there is still affinity between us. It isn't completely over yet. Those who know me will know how eerily true my feelings can be. She still uses the photo which I took for her at Indochime as her Frenster and msn pic. Sometimes I wish to think that that still means sth. (Fat hope, I guess) But at the same time, I feel that I'm not qualified to play this game already. If Fate gave u a 2nd chance n u screwed it up anyway, who r u to request for a 3rd chance?

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Salsa Intermediate 1.5

This is actually the continuation of the previous entry Resolutions Review, but I choose to name it Salsa Intermediate 1.5. Why? Just because I like it. (Wahahaha) Decide to try to log a quick entry while waiting for the rush hour jam at my workplace to subside b4 I make my move, so that I can at least have a good comfortable snooze on the bus ride out.

Well... Salsa Intermediate 1.5. The last time I took this lesson was back in Apr 06. When my classmates were Lewis, Qixiao, Johnny, Jianping, Priscilla, Ellen, Renee, Ai Chin, etc The former generation I would call us. Except that I din really made it (Hence the refresher lessons. It feels more like NEW lessons for me than refresher). Well, my Salsa Inter 1.5 class on Sunday is turning out to be quite a fun bunch. They hang out together for Salsa apart from lessons. Not many dance class I've been in hangs out, (and trust me I've been in quite a few classes with diff grps of pple) and the babe factor is certainly a plus point. Keke.

So as far as New Yr Resolutions go, the only thing that I have succeeded is picking up Salsa again.

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Resolutions Review

Have not blog since the CNY holidays. Well, 1 reason y I dun blog as often as I like to, is that MY IE on my hse desktop just refuse to load the Blogger website. I dunno for what fuck reason, but it simply hanged whenever I tried to log in to Blogger. So if I'm at home, I have to use Firefox to blog and I dun really like to use Firefox. Otherwise, I would have to leave it till I'm in the office and blog using the IE on my laptop. Not a really bright idea to reveal this, but..... fuck it lah. My mood's not good today.

It's 0422 after a long nite at Union. Firstly, just lemme recap sth unpleasant which happened last Sat at Union. 1 of my female fren was actually molested by this foreign Indian guy at Union. I was abt to leave Union for supper with Piggy and Candice when I saw my grp of frens gathered outside Union. They told me of a Indian wearing a long sleeve blue top who's into a bit of funny business inside Union. Zhiguang n I went back into Union to recce and we identified the fellow standing at the counter. He called Johnny, and boy, Johnny really got guts. Johnny and Zhiguang approached the guy and attempt to talk it out with him. I stood a distance behind, ready to sock the guy shd he attempt any funny moves. Sometimes, I prefer to let actions do the talking. The bugger sure was guai lan. Die also dun wan to admit. We wanted him to go out n apologise to the gal, he refused to budge n insisted he din do it. We got the manager at Union to talk to him and suggest we go behind to the bar to resolve it. He refused to budge n complained that we're racists. After some haggling, he threatened to call the police.

What the fuck is he thinking abt? Just a ploy to make us not pursue the matter. 1 guy alone in Union plus he do not know Salsa. Pretty clear what his intentions were if ya ask me. I din stayed ard to watch how the story unfolds, as Piggy n Candice were waiting for me. But later I learnt that the police actually came cos of some other biz, n he was shun bian taken away, to which he admitted that he did it. Some pple just deserved to be lauped.

Shucks... haven even talked abt my resolutions, but I lost the mood for blogging already. Till another then...

Monday, February 19, 2007

Mahjong

I learned how to play Mahjong! Fri nite we went to Miss Tng's hse for Mahjong session. It's more like Mahjong lessons actually, cos Cedric and I are both beginners. So Serene and Christine taught us how to play. Cedric was more interested in Union and left after Derrick joined us. We played 1 rd of Mahjong and I think I only won twice. Paid sch fees of over 15 bucks. Anyway, I'm glad to finally learn how to play Mahjong. I think it's an activity which is worth mastering, sth that pple will gladly organise a gathering for. 1 more activity which I can do next time. =)

Today is the 2nd day of Chinese New Year. This yr's CNY came a bit too sudden for me. Prior to that, I was fretting over my upcoming ICT. Till the last min, I was still trying to defer. Din play for anything that is after the ICT period. ICT came n went n I was left with 1 week to CNY. Then I was left with my pile-up of work for the 2 weeks I was absent, and all the excess request from my China customers in anticipation of the 7 days CNY holidays in China. So much so that I did not even shop for CNY stuffs or help out with anything at home. I bought my CNY shirt on Fri nite itself b4 meeting them for Mahjong.

I think this yr's CNY represents a change in future CNY preparations onwards. Mum seemed to lost all zest in CNY preparations after Grandma passed away last Nov. CNY gathering at Grandma's place feels not-so-right when Grandma's not ard anymore. Nonetheless, everybody still made an effort to gather on that day, even though we are not officially celebrating CNY. We played blackjack with cousins the whole day.

Now I'm left with the decision to make as to what to do tonight. I can either go down to Union, see if anybody's there n if not look for an alternative place to hang out. Or I can just stay at home and see if Mum wants to catch a show later in the nite.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

ICT Number 3 Week 2

Week 2 of ICT. Pulau Tekong week. How nice. I have not visited Tekong in like 6 yrs? Well, somehow I think I'm being eaten in my detachment. My detachment consists of majority 3rd Coy pple and a couple of lao jiaos from other coys. I was somehow arrowed to go for Matador live firing on Fri and another piece of' "good" news greeted me on Mon morning just b4 we move out to Tekong. My Det Com spoke to me:

"Go draw 1 MG."

"What?!"

"Our detachment needs 1 MG."

"I dun want to take MG leh, I'm not trained anyway. Can get someone else?"

"Just draw out first. We'll take turns."

Take turns. Take my fucking shit! The only time when someone else touches the MG was during withdrawal of the mission when I have to lag behind to make someone take note of the fucking MG.

1st day at Tekong was day n nite component training. The first day almost killed me already. Think not conditioned to field yet. I went to bed (safari bed) at nite with my whole body aching. I was left wondering how to go thru the remaining few days and the mission at Tekong.

2nd day was all the dunno-what orders and a day and nite rehearsal. I was in pretty much of a daze in the early part of the day. Hadn't had a good nite sleep the previous nite. I woke up abt every hr. So I took every opportunity I had to snooze during the day. Come rehearsal time at nite, I felt re-energized already. My body adapts v fast to the surrounding. And I was left thinking the mission on Wed nite would be chicken feat. =)

Wed came n Wed went. The mission was seriously fucked. Our Det Com is a nice guy I would say, but just not too efficient workwise.

Thur nite and I'm at home blogging currently, waiting for tomolo to come. Well, whenever I'm in camp, I would inevitably think of Min. I guess it's because of the times when we were together. I was serving NS and she was the inspiration of my life then. The reason I fought. The reason I try as I might to stay out of trouble. Because I value the opportunity to see her every weekend too much. I actually dreamt of her the first nite while I was at Tekong. It was a negative dream. I dreamt of Piggy on Wed nite. negative dream as well. I haven heard from her the whole week. The last time I sms her was on Sun nite to tell her that I'll be away in Tekong for the coming week. Nil news since then.

ICT Number 3 Week 1

I'm nearing the end of my 3rd ICT today, will be out-process tomolo b4 dinner. All in all, this 2 weeks ICT is still pretty alright. Just quite fucked for the main mission. The 1st week was good; they actually did not indent dinner for the entire week. Means nights-off every nite. EVERY nite. It was quite a relaxed week, just the tot of the pending 1 week out-field at tekong the following week haunting us constantly.

As with all army events, aapproximately 50% of the time goes to waiting. As the saying goes, "Rush to wait; Wait to rush".

The 1st nite, I actually intended to go down to Union. I was pretty early, and I rem Piggy shd be having cha cha lessons at JJ. So decided to pop by JJ to see if she's ard. Lucky I did pop by, as June caught sight of me and gave me the alternative dates for the Salsa Inter 1.5 lessons that I've missed. And so, I did meet Piggy there. She looked good that time. White top with green skirt. She din intend to go Union that nite actually, and had wanted to go for dinner with her frens. However, since I'm there she decided to accompany me instead. We went for a walk ard the area, but actually I wasn't feeling very well. Think had food poisoning from the late nite malay chicken rice at Changi Pt with Piggy that nite. Later was I to know that that particular chicken rice stall is supposed to be famous. It almost made me die on Friday nite though. Was running a fever thru sat which made me unable to attend the last sat Union Square b4 my ICT. I was still feeling the after-effects on Mon nite while I was out strolling with Piggy, but I guess she made it all worthwhile.

The 2nd nite I went home during nights-off. Well, tot ICT can help me to save some money. The cab fare to and fro camp is equivalent to my usual spendings when I'm outside I guess.

The 3rd nite I went down to Union! Not bad, quite a few of the gang was ard. Piggy was there too, but I hadn't told her b4 hand that I was going down. Guess it doesn't make much of a diff to her. She wasn't with me for most of the nite either.

The 4th nite I went home again. Money... there it goes.... =(

The 5th nite was reminiscent nite. I went for a walk ard Tampines central. Tampines Mall, Century Square, the usual places where I usually hanged out during my NSF nights-off. The place changed though. The familiar arcade center and comic shops were no longer there. But I could feel the familiar feeling in the air again. As I queued for No. 29 at the bus interchange to go back camp. The feeling of being constraint. The feeling of uncertainty. The feeling of not being in control of my own life. Man, I hate the army.

And on the 6th day....... book-out right? Yes, but not so soon...... Insert IPPT in the afternoon! Fuck. Courtesy of Mr Foo, who seemingly haven screwed me enough during my NSF days that he's gotta become the CO of NS men now and continue to screw with my life. Well, IPPT right? It doesn't seem so bad, just fail 2 static stations and proceed to out-process yea? That's what I did. Along with several other pitiful souls who tot they have found a way out of this intendedly-scheduled IPPT meant for fucking up pple's life. (They purposely book IPPT for those who have yet to clear it this workyear in the AFTERNOON, n not in the MORNING, so as to fucked up ur weekend) But guess they have predicted this ploy from the lao jiao NS men. Mr Foo was there in person wearing his highly-decorated smart 4 to see us take the IPPT thru the end. Run! Even if u failed 2 static stations. So run it shall be then. Actually I'm quite amazed that I still have it in me for the 2.4km run. Even though I failed, but the leisure run timing that I did was still quite ok for my standard.

That was followed up by 1 night of Union Square which ended pretty early for a sat night. I was ignoring Piggy that nite. Somehow her recent blog entries din exactly made me feel happy. She did come by to my corner once in a while, but we did not converse much as I did not wish to talk that nite. She did tell me when she's leaving, n that was pretty early. So i ended by Union nite pretty early that sat nite too.

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Forgotten By Fate

I was chatting with Donut on msn the other nite, and she was telling me that Fate has forgotten abt her. If there's anyone Fate forgotten, I reckon it's more likely me than anyone else.

(Center portion deleted after 2nd tot)

Fate forgotten me? Nah, Fate abandoned me.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Truth..... Or Dare?

Hmm.... Lemme make an earnest request for some confirmation here. Out of curiosity's sake.

Who reads my blog ???

Ok, just to make it more fun, I suggest u leave ur answers as comments in the form as such:

"The one who .... blah blah blah."

The blah blah blah being sth which shd be known to only the 2 of us. (If you gonna say sth which u think shd be known by me but in fact is not, there's not much I can do ya?) Even if I already know that u read my blog, pls still do leave a comment.

Well, let's see how many of u will humour me with this request m'kay? =) (I think I'm getting Southpark overdose. Haha)

Hmm.. seems this is only Truth. I'll leave the Dare to some other time when I feel like it. Hehe.


You Go To Hell And You Die ! M'Kay ?

I'm sick and tired of doing the admin and clerical work. I demand to be doing sth of value, which is what someone of my position is meant to be doing.

You Go To Hell And You Die ! M'Kay ?

Monday, January 22, 2007

In My Place ; What Would You Do?

The first time I officially talked to Piggy was at the JJ Anniversary party at The Pavilion. Prior to that, I had actually noticed her before during a few of our Rueda sessions in Union. Initially have the impression that she doesn't really talk much and look a bit blur blur at times.

Then at the Pavilion, we were doing Rueda as usual, and the caller shouted Setenta. My parter happen to be Piggy, but we din manage to execute the Setenta. So after the Rueda finish, I went up to her and volunteer to teach her Setenta. After 1 demo, I asked her if she got it.

"Orrhhh !! zhe me rong yi !!" was her reply.

This reply caught me by surprise, and it changed the image that I have of her. She said it so lively and happily; that my impression of her as a kind of shy and reserved type of gal was shattered. So I was caught at a lost of what to say, before I finally utter some reply:

"Ni zhe me cong ming, zao dian shuo ma!"

And so it started from there. Towards the end of the nite, we were seating beside each other and resting, waiting for the event to end. She just started talking, abt her driving test, her sch stuffs, whatever topic that surface. It's been some time since I know a gal who is so easy to talk.

As time goes, I think I found a gal who is a perfect complement to myself. I don't usually talk much, abt in-depth stuffs i mean. If u realise my conversations are usually superficial, I keep my tots to myself. Someone who will invoke me to talk, someone whom I'm truely at ease with when I'm with her, someone who laughs at what I say, regardless of whether it's funny or not. Isn't this reminiscent of someone? The last Min who is so dear to me.

For a while, I began to see light in Lewis' theory. The laws of natural progression finally won one over the laws of cai selection. She's special to me. But I have to let her go. Because she's not mine.

In my place, what would you do?

In My Place

In my place, in my place
Were lines that I couldn't change
I was lost, oh yeah

I was lost, I was lost
Crossed lines I shouldn't have crossed
I was lost, oh yeah

Yeah, how long must you wait for him
Yeah, how long must you pay for him
Yeah, how long must you wait for him

I was scared, I was scared
Tired and underprepared
But I'll wait for you

If you go, if you go
Leave me down here on my own
Then I'll wait for you

Yeah, how long must you wait for him
Yeah, how long must you pay for him
Yeah, how long must you wait for him

Please, please, please
Come back and sing to me
To me, me

Come on and sing it out, now, now
Come on and sing it out, to me, me
Come back and sing it

In my place, in my place
Were lines that I couldn't change
I was lost, oh yeah, oh yeah...

Thursday, January 11, 2007

La La

Alright folks, in the season premiere this week, we shall unveil the secret to the billion dollar question raised at last season's final episode:

What is a La La ?

This mystery has one little (oops... little again.. hehe) gal perplexed for the past 4 weeks, hardly able to get a wink of sleep at night, cos she simply must know what is a la la ! And her wish will be fulfilled tonight !

La La-s hail from the distant planet of Saturn, with it's homeland on the nineth moon of Saturn, where the atmosphere consist of 70% methane gas n 30% Calvin Klein Escape cologne.

So how does a La La look like? It's a 4 legged creature covered in white fur with black patches (imagine a cow here), somewhat resembling a rodent, abt the size of ur comp mouse. It's diet consists of CDs (Yes, CD. not VCD or DVD. Strictly CD) and 10 bottles of Vitagen a day. Upon contact with chio gals, the La La will transform into a savage, green scaly lizard-like beast which breathes fire and consumes anything in sight.

The La La-s arrive on Earth in yr 2000 during the millenium countdown planning to invade Earth and colonise us but fell prey to Dawn, whom they mistaken for a Dawnut. When they finally realise that Dawn's not a Dawnut and can't be eaten, they had lost their drive to take over Earth as they were too smitten with Dawn. (Somemore she threatened to cut off the water supply to the Vitagen factory so that they can't produce Vitagen no more) So they choose to co-exist n blend in with everything else on Earth. The La La-s made Dawn their ambassader on Earth and resides ard her vicinity. (Apparently she took them to her office as well. =|)

I tried to adopt a La La from Dawn, but it finished up all the CDs at my place in less than a week's time. Gotta return it to her now... haiz...

Well, u still want one? =)

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Resolutionsss...

Oh ya.... it's that time of the year to make resolutions again. Mine's rather simple.

1) Save money !!!
No more unnecessary taxi rides, no more extravagant expenditures on gals who r not worth it, no more..... eh..... I guess that's it?

2) Cut down smoking !!!
Some of u may not believe that you are seeing this. Haha. Well, it may not be very successful but at least I'm trying ok? Gimme some credit ya? Hehe. Trying to restrict myself to 6 sticks a day, just nice to fit in my ciggie case.

3) Master Salsa !!!
Haiz.. I'm such a failure.

4) Shed those kilos !!!
1997 JC 1 - Healthy 67kg. Due to basketball everyday during sec sch days
1998 JC 2 - Still healthy 70kg. Due to food outburst when I get attached
1999 NS - Lean & fit 76kg. All the training somehow made me weigh more
2000 NS - Balloon 80kg. Slacking the 2nd yr away made me balloon =
2001 Uni 1 - Unhealthy 80kg. Started my unhealthy lifestyle. Smoke n booze
2002 Uni 2 - Slim 78kg! Gasp, first time my weight gone down. Been exercising. Hehe
2003 Uni 3 - Explode 82kg. Getting attached somehow doesn't bode well for my weight
2004 Uni 4 - More 85kg. IA made me gain weight. =(
2005 Work - Slowly 87kg. The life of a working man... haiz
2006 Work - I hate working life! 100kg soon... hahaha

Optional
Find myself a gal who loves me? 爱不爱都受煎熬