Final.Night.in.Vietnam

did some shopping yesterdayyyy~ bought about 3 t-shirts~~ i also wanted to see what the craze about chinese chess was in this country! so i decided to pit my wits against some old hand at An Dong Plaza whilst jeanne was shopping. I proved that a purple-haired foreigner CAN play chess by decimating his poor generals. In the end though, i decided not to embarrass him in front of his onlooking wife/kids/friends so i decided to use a sleight-of-hand that magically allowed him to sneak a narrow win(on purpose of course...as though there was a need to ask hmf.)

eggciting kinda day was today! went on a tour to gao-dai. Gaodai-ism is a religion which is really a combination of many other religions! we then went by the cu chi tunnels! met tons of foreigners like myself. Nice meeting aaron, matt and alan. photos from gaodai temple, cu chi tunnels.

gaodai-ism

Booby traps in cu chi.

tmrw we'll be heading back to singapore~ so sadddddd... but oh wells i had fun so what can i expect? leaving would've always been a pain no matter when it was so i guess there's no time like the present~ enjoying a good slugfest by vika azarenka vs serena williams. Me hopes the dainty girl can hold out against the bulldozer williams is! Go vika! Anyways i'm out of t-shirts so i guess i'll have to dig into my stash of 3 new tshirts heheheheheh.. busy day tmrw gotta catch a flight too at 240pm! rehi singapore soon! signing out.

AnDongMarketHereWeGo

Goodmorning vietnam!

yesterday we headed to chinatown! where they had tons of

spices/fabrics/clothes/footwear/food/hats! like TONS. Also went to visit a temple kinda place..

Wednesday we're heading back to singapore so better make today a good day! hope it doesn't rain too!

yesterday was chinatown..

today = shopping!

Also...some random photos from my trip so far...it's a bit mixed up.. the first is from siemReap. the rest = Vietnam

Love this. Funny how i hardly see Jade Beer in Singapore.

Vietnam. This is a Thomas of Switzerland who stays at the same guesthouse as us. We were having pizza with him and Amanda. This ninja masseuse popped out of nowhere during dinner and tortured him. and then me.

Cathedral de Notre Dame.

Grey skies over HCMC.

purple hair boy blogging.

daythree.dayfour.dayfive.daysix

3.sunrise.breakfast.guesthouse.sleep.lunch.temples.shooting.sunset.apsaradinner.changehaircolour

AngKorWat.

AngKorWat(er-bottle)

shooting range! M16...notice the shell exitting? nice shot bro!

a random shot as we pass by a river..

sunset at angkorwat

4.breakfast.bustophnomphenh.meetCK.dinner(checkouthaircolour!).zzz

Changed to purple/blue/pink. Courtesy of jeanne.

Dinner in phnom phenh.

5.S21.palace.russianmarket.lunch.bustoHCMC.walktoMyMyarthouse.

S21--The museum of genocide.

Royal palace.

Russian Market.

6.crazyday.breakfastinhostel.lunch@pho24.boughtshades.searchfortailors.highlandcoffee.pasta4dinner.

Photo of the day@highland coffee.

7.herewego.

daytwo.

woke up damn early...but the partners in crime were fast asleep...so i spent two hours playing risk vs. com.

rosy's mega fry for brekkie.

angkorwat.

lunch.

angkortown.

rain + drenched.

tuktuk home.

met friends.

dinner.

dayone

airport.

tuktuk.

hostel.

lunch.

boat.

snakes.

dinner.

nightmarket. no photos.

pink'd purple'd and to siem reap we go

my hair is pink and purple! and off to siem reap in 4hours+!
jsut finished packing! whoO! took me all 40 minutes to pack for a 1 week trip! hope i din forget anything!~ gdnite!

rei ayanami

cannot really see from the camera! but think rei ayanami!



haha tmrw gonna add more purplee! (and blue if possible!)

Jeudi.

Went down to raffles place for lunch with jeanne and we ate at red mansion who had a 9.90 nett set lunch! woohooo! it wasn't bad at all! wheee! and jeanne finally played around with the camera for abit!



After lunch i dragged myself home for the most undesireable event...room-cleaning! i packed up one side of the floor beside my bed, and vacuumed my room as well! so it's now 49% dust-free!
and look wad i found? a scoresheet from the past! kenny, jeanne and i played 3-player bridge (the fun-nest card game in the world). Judging by the scorecard, jeanne kicked out fat-asses.


anyways,
Kenny come back!



we miss you!

wii partii

Wei, Don & Swee...

-Lunch-
-ah mei's cafe.plaster x2.ice milk tea.





1215@Wei's
-wii party = muscle ache.








-timtams = indulge.





1915@NUS SRC
-swimmingtraining = muscle ache x2 + Drink more (pool)water than required.
I was once told that confident swimmers won't ever drown in a swimming pool. As of today, i can validate the mistruth of that statement. It's been about a year since i swam more than 800metres. Another myth is that fat makes people more buoyant. It doesn't work that way. I certainly wasn't floating today.




-dinner-
subway w/marcus & zhiyun.
subway-club.honey-oat-bread.toasted.lettuce.capsicums.onions.olives.southwest.mayonnaise.salt.pepper.
chocolate-chip-cookie x2.
barley.

Fundamentals of life + here comes the sun and mon

Some fundamentals of life* in black and white.
(*disclaimer - In no particular order..)




Food.



Love.


Music.



Sun: went with j to PC fair. whenever we go to some crowded place, i am reminded how shitty some Singaporeans can be. Pushing, shoving, so as to get the 3032nd printer instead of the 3033rd. omG.

Also i found the trick to getting between levels fast instead of the mad congestion at every escalator landing. just use the stairs!! it's a tad unglam but hey..level 6 to level 1 in 3 minutes haha. Got ourselves a Canon Powershot A2100...dunno it's capabilities yet so i'll hafta play around a bit. The crappy thing is that it wasn't on sale or anything, but given our need of a camera, and our 2 hours spent scouring the convention centre for signs of cameras, meant that buying an undiscounted camera was a better than having no camera tsktsk..

After suntec came soccer at AC barker...saw chang after a looooong while and suen after not so long..soccer was good fun, but a tad distasteful..u know...like the humble pie that reiterates one's insecurities that one's getting old and not the same athlete that one used to be!

Well, things improved a bit after the first game, and with j watching on from the stands with her pom-poms (and camera), i participated in a few key plays(yaaa riiight...). Suen, J and I went mackers@serenecentre after footy for dinner...bigmac meal + 20 nuggets always makes your day.. Went home to recuperate after a taxing day and found comfort from my pillow after a splitting headache. Here comes the mon.

mon: sent j to work den take mrt home...
Dinner,1pm met Gwen for lunch. Had beehoon cham mee with fried egg, veggies, and chicken wing @ this malay(so says gwen) stall in tpy! After, i had the customary watermelon ice blended with strawberry jelly! YUM! and Gwen swears by Honey milk tea, just like Kenny! Ahhh... hopefully K isn't reading or he may be salivating in india. Sat down at burger king for a chat till around 3+, before gwen leaves to cut hair...It's always nice to meet up with my fellow tpy mate so we can vent frustrations about S'poreans' lack of awareness, and unwillingness to step outside our comfort zone! Being singaporeans ourselves, we recognize that we are bound by similar values and we'll try to break free!!!! after an hour of chatting, i decide i am a homey-boy and she is gonna travel the world..
..at least we can agree on one thing..we need to get to GREECE!! damn nice! haha..


@6pm, i rush down to raffles place to bring jeanne home! dinner, followed by a trip downstairs to pay bills. then mahjong. an exciting game ensures.


Booked tickets to cambodia, courtesy of J.
Then RC. oh yeahh 300k+
Then ZzZz.

lest we forget.

21/12
30/12
3/1
6/4

united we'll stand till death do us part.

Love and laughter in the air, they waltzed into the ballroom, and down the lovely carpet. I sincerely wish them a fulfilling union, one that is drizzled with great experiences and sprinkled happiness. Congrats dude.

It was a lovely night indeed. Friends from IMOS gathered to celebrate khet's wedding and it was simple and delicate. apart from all that, it was a great time for us to unite and enjoy each other's company once again. Some, are close and often meet up, others meet periodically, and then there're those whom i rarely see. Yet this is the bunch who makes me ache. I am not as close to them as others, but whose company i enjoy nonetheless. Dinner is good but soon it is time to go, and after the handshakes and hugs, we say goodbyes and see you soon, both sides knowing that we may well never meet again for the duration of our lives.

It kinda aches, because they are a fun and rowdy bunch, and meeting up once again allows me the nostalgia of reliving some of the best moments in my life, and there's an undying connection between us, but as inevitably as we meet, as inevitably do we part, chasing our dreams, lives, and other commitments. Just so you guys know, it is true that i have other priorities, but without all of you, i'd have a lesser life. And i appreciate each and everyone of you. And though we may never meet again, depending on chance (or mischance), and i may well forget your names if we do, you have touched my life, and i thank you all, and i really hope i touched your lives the same way u did mine.

Now as i lay my head to rest, memory of tonight is already slowly ebbing inevitably along the force of time, so i pray only good things for my friends, especially those whom i may not meet again. My heart feels heavy but glad at the same time.

Goodnight, and thanks for a wonderful evening.

houston. We have touchdown.

home i am and not feeling too sickly just yet. A little under the weather which is expected given the lack of sleep and the change in climate but i'm holding out for now. a pretty interesting week ahead. In fact, i kinda feel like a prized stallion, as many things call out to me, learning italian being one of my suitors, and the many things to catch up on not that far below on the agenda. zzz.
3 boxes of krispy kremes and tons of chocolate..now where does that go?....hehe.

see you or hello; i'm on my way baack!

i'm on my way back! TC you all!

packing.

>packing on blueberry muffins for brekkie.
-Mini is outside trying to earn some sympathy votes.





packing to go fishing. Rainy. cold. overcast. Bad day for fishing!
> but we get lucky (and in no small part, thanks to our skills),...and so does mini..


Fishing was greattttt! we caught a flathead!! and we also caught this tuna that was too big to load up into the car so we had to throw it back. (yeah right) And after i snapped two lines on the rod because of 2 huge fish, Ken decided to take things into his own hands by constructing his famous hand line. With our new armament, we managed to snare lots of broken scallop shells as well as other miscellaneous items such as, paper, seaweed and empty oyster shells.
Eventually, dark fell, and it was time to bring the spoils back home~

>>The flathead.


Mini the happy cat.


Anyways, loads more packing to do before i return!
>>
packing in the chocolate. (shitloads.)
packing in the clothes.
packing in my chargers.
packing in the love (said bye to the kiddies..probably won't see them till december)
packing on the n1h1 (bought masks today).

packing on 42below(half-gone..so tonight's gonna be a looooong night...after about 15 pax of vodka over 3 days, i decide that maybe finishing it before i leave isn't that good an idea..i doubt i could down the other 15pax tonight).

gonna have a warm shower now...
tomorrow i will be home.
Un.하나.one.

on the brink

In the blink of an eye,
-Lakers are on the brink of securing game 1 in the Finals
-I'm on the brink of reaching level 27 in Restaurant city
-on the brink of depression from boredom and loneliness

Anyhow, fish and chips and roast chicken for lunch again~

anyways to bro~ check this.
It sounds quite good plus the link-ups in between verses and chorus!




and..i'm almost...almost there...

Enjoying the present.planning for the future

It's raining outside now, like it's been for the past 3-4 hours or so. It must've did well to douse the flames in my rooms though. I just had a heated exchange/argument over the handling of the house with dad, which was refreshing in some sense, cos i don't think i've ever heard dad use "f12k" before in serious conversation, in all of my 24 years, and 24 years IS a long time. I learnt alot about rentals and stuff over the past two weeks, but today felt like an examination in which i didn't study for, cos i was stumped with questions at about every turn. So, needless to say, today i learnt helluvalot. Also and for now, there're still things to clear up, but those things will get done, that i believe. It was nice too(the argument) because he seemed lighter after letting it out. He doesn't really have anyone to rant his frustrations to, and it's a pity, cos i often can understand why he feels frustrated (although i dun always agree with it), and that means that we're all willing to listen, but he just keeps it inside, and it must be suffocating him. It was a constructive argument i suppose, and we both took it well so that's that. The best part of our entire dialogue was at the last, because it was a mish-mash of 1) his expectations of the future, and 2) his stories.

His stories are painful endearing.
Painful - because of when he tells these stories, it means that he expects me to learn something, and sometimes, the only thing i learn is that times have changed;Enduring - because some of them stories are pretty unbelievable and amazing..And when u realize that dad has told the story before, around about 2617342 times, it is painfully enduring. That's also when a slight chuckle and grin subconsciously creeps across your face, and u decide to let the old man continue on cos' it may just be the highlight of his day. So i hope he sleeps better tonight. And since we're on life stories, i've been playing this song on 'la valencia' for a good hour or so. Dick lee wrote: Life story.


Wake up, she said
Look it�s a beautiful day
Downstairs to the kitchen door
And then away
Into the light
Morning feeling lives on
Come the clouds, the moon
And morning is gone

Born today some years ago
And had a happy childhood
But I fell in love and out
Nothing changed
Lived a life of nothing much
But then how much can one expect?
So there you are
My life has gone
But I'm the same

Just my life story
Minute by second a story
That goes on forever with each breath that I take
This is my life story
Uneventfullest story
That ages with each year and birthday cake

Get up, he said
Hurry or you might be late
Everyday you hurry off to keep your days
Learn something new
What are you hoping to prove?
Make some money
Find a wife
Have a kid or two

Thinking back
I like to dream of things I would have done
If I were braver then again I'm not
What's there to do?
Maybe if I had another chance
I�d go into my past
And make my life a better one
For me and you

Just my life story
Minute by second a story
That goes on forever with each breath that I take
This is my life story
Uneventfullest story
That ages with each year and birthday cake

When its time
And I must close
I�ll write a book
And sign it X
And send it to some true romance type magazine somewhere
Then the world will read of me
And say there lived a hero
But too late my friends and enemies
I guess life isn't fair

So my life story
It's self-explanatory
Won't you please start from page one
And do go on
Till I am done.....




Beautiful song it is.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow's swimming session with the nieces! I'm now thinking back to a few posts ago when i commented that i am in a place where i don't belong, cos of the two extremes ranges of ages! Today, i realised that i am not that far away from one, and tomorrow, perhaps i will be reconciled with the other, and convinced this really is a continuous cycle. One day perhaps, i'll have enough to write my own song.

A shot now please, i am getting cold, and lonely.


Miss ya bro. Miss ya jeanne.
Trois.

.enjoying the present.planning for the future.

did some shopping today.and.
bought some.nice looking stuff.



more hair dye to mix colours.





some stuff to keep warm.






some stuff to stay happy.