You'll probably think I'm insane since I woke up so early to go climb the Tree-Top Trail. Anyway, it isn't that tiring lah, so I think everyone can go try it. Just go slower!
It's about 5km from the Reservoir Park, and it took us about an hour or so.
There wasn't anything really interesting to shoot, and besides, insects can't stay still long enough for me to poke the camera close enough. Here's some of the pictures:
I was damn bored waiting for people who were late. Haha.
Another "I'm bored" shot.
I was ummm, trying to show the light streaming through the forest, but I failed.
The super crowded Tree-Top Walk.
Complete with people trying to get into you picture. Haha.
Another shot. Sorry, a bit slanted!
Another one!
Nathalie, Elvira, Hansel.
It really isn't very long.
Nearly empty bridge!
Hansel and I think that the design is retarded - for every three steps, there's a landing. It really screws up your momentum.
Aye, after that the four of us trekked to the Roti Prata House at Thomson.
Thanks for the treat, Nathalie!
Anyway, as most critics have said, the sequels this summer are disappointing. I concur! Spider-man 3, POTC 3 and Shrek 3 were just 'okay'. They weren't really good. I liked the part in Shrek 3 were the bitching ladies teamed up with Fiona and the Queen to assault the castle which was taken over by Charming. Rather funky action moves! The most memorable part was when one of the ladies (I don't know who, either Snow White or Cinderella) sang a song to lure the wildlife to her, and then suddenly switch to the satanic howl of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song. All the animals attacked the moving trees after that. Haha.
Other than that, the movie's just a 'like that lor'.
I hope Ocean's 13 and the Bourne Ultimatum will be better!
I don’t really like mothers who question you about everything under the Sun. Nope, my mother doesn’t do that to me. She leaves me to my own devices most of the time. The mothers that I’m talking about are mothers of schoolmates and friends. They seem so intent on wringing every single bit of information out of you to the extent that you feel that you’re being raped mentally.
I’m not apologetic for that rude expression. I just plain dislike being interrogated.
Anyway, here’s what happened.
I was calling up the Sec Ones to check on the status of their consent forms and I had the luck to call on one of the boys who had a very concerned mother. She cooked me over the phone for twenty minutes, asking about Sec One life, Sec One academics, tuition, homework, CCA, bla bla bla. She's worried that he's so depressed.
Apparently, he has trouble adjusting to Sec One life and she was asking whether I had such problems during this transitional period. To that, I told her Sec One was damn fun for me. After all, short pants what! No need to do anything. Even during training, as long as the jiao lian wasn’t looking you can play squash with the seniors. I mean, use the air rifle and shoot the squash ball around to see who can score a goal.
Good memories eh?
I shan’t continue on that Sec One case anymore. I’ll do as she asked – putt the case to the PSB. It’s time for them to fulfill that pledge!
Oh, and for your wallet’s sake, don’t watch POTC: At World’s End. It’s a complete waste of time and money.
Goodnight goodnight!
I got the album last week, but I only got the time to sit down and listen to it properly a few days ago. It's not bad at all! I was a little disappointed when I heard the new single off MTV - Makes Me Wonder. The video was beautiful, but the song was not the Maroon 5 that I liked. I've always preferred Maroon 5 in their "She Will Be Loved" gear.
Don't fret though - It Won't Be Soon Before Long has slow soulful songs too.
Track 8 - Goodnight Goodnight has a chorus that I liked a lot. The only thing that I didn't really fancy was the starting guitar riff - it sounded too similar to 3 Doors Down's Kryptonite. Also, the lyrics remind me of Spidey 3. The thread, aye Peter Parker! The angry woman and the hurt little girl? Sandman's wife and child?
You left me hanging from a thread we once swung from together
I’ve lick my wounds but I can’t ever see them getting better
Something’s gotta change
Things cannot stay the same
Her hair was pressed against her face, her eyes were red with anger
Enraged by things unsaid and empty beds and bad behavior
Something’s gotta change
It must be rearranged, oh
I’m sorry, I did not mean to hurt my little girl
It's beyond me, I cannot carry the weight of the heavy world
So goodnight, goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
Goodnight, hope that things work out all right, yeah
Whoa
The room was silent as we all tried so hard to remember
The way it feels to be alive
The day that he first met her
Something’s gotta change
Things cannot stay the same
You make me think of someone wonderful, but I can’t place her
I wake up every morning wishing one more time to face her
Something’s gotta change
It must be rearranged, oh
I’m sorry, I did not mean to hurt my little girl
It's beyond me, I cannot carry the weight of a heavy world
So goodnight, goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
Goodnight, hope that things work out all right
So much to love
So much to learn
But I won’t be there to teach you, oh
I know I can be close
But I try my best to reach you
I’m so sorry, I did not mean to hurt my little girl
It's beyond me, I cannot carry the weight of a heavy world
So goodnight, goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
Goodnight, hope that things work out all right, yeah
Whoa, oh…
Yeah
Track 11 - Better That We Break is another one that's been playing rather regularly on the player. It's a piano ballad and rather beautiful in my opinion. Don't use the title as your Messenger display name though. It invites amusing questions.
I never knew perfection ‘til
I heard you speak, and now it kills me
Just to hear you say the simple things
Now waking up is hard to do
And sleeping’s impossible too
Everything’s reminding me of you
What can I do?
It’s not right, not okay
Say the word that you'll say
Maybe we’re better off this way
I’m not fine, I’m in pain
It’s harder everyday
Maybe we’re better off this way
It’s better that we break..
A fool to let you slip away
I chase you just to hear you say
You’re scared and that you think that I’m insane
The city looks so nice from here
Pity I can’t see it clearly
While you’re standing there, it disappears
It disappears
It’s not right, not okay
Say the word that you'll say
Maybe we’re better off this way
I’m not fine, I’m in pain
It’s harder everyday
Maybe we’re better off this way
It’s better that we break up
Saw you sitting all alone
You’re fragile and you’re cold, but that’s all right
Life these days is getting rough
It knocks you down and beats you up
But it’s just a roller coaster anyway, yeah
It’s not right, not okay
Say the word that should say
Maybe we’re better off this way
I’m not fine, I’m in pain
It’s harder everyday
Maybe we’re better off this way
I’m not fine, not okay
Say the word that you'll say
Maybe we’re better off this way
I’m not fine, I’m in pain
It’s harder everyday
Maybe we’re better off this way
It’s better that we break, baby
So yup, that's about all. I rather not blog about LP's Minutes To Midnight - it's a severe disappointment.
I took this off the CNA website after seeing it on the news just now.
Water spout sighted off Singapore's east coast
By Gamar Abdul Aziz, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 25 May 2007 1646 hrs
SINGAPORE: A water spout has been spotted from the eastern parts of Singapore.
Most callers to the MediaCorp News Hotline reported seeing what looked like a tornado or a twister over the sea.
Most said they saw the phenomenon at about 2.30pm and that the phenomenon lasted about 15 minutes.
Witnesses said it was moving in a circular motion.
The water spout could be seen in several areas including Chai Chee, East Coast Park, Suntec City and Potong Pasir.
Last August, a water-spout was also spotted off the coast of Sentosa Island.
The National Environment Agency (NEA) said intense thunderstorms were the cause of the phenomenon.
The water spout is a narrow column of water that is sucked to the base of a cloud, making it look like a funnel.
An average diameter of a waterspout is 50 metres and it has average wind speeds of up to 150 kilometres per hour.
The NEA added that water spouts will dissipate rapidly near the coast.
It also clarified that water spouts are not rare as there are actually several sightings each year. - CNA/yyWater spout picture sent in by Channel NewsAsia viewer Sharon Wong
View from Parkway Parade, sent in by Channel NewsAsia viewer Peter Chamberlain
View of water spout from East Coast Park: Picture sent in by Channel NewsAsia viewer Kay Hock
I wish I was there.
Anyway, the latest issue of Time arrived just now and guess what? We're on the cover! I mean, Singapore's on the cover! Quite unexpected eh? The six page article is titled "Singapore Soars" and it talks about Singapore re-inventing itself.
Go get a copy! I can lend you mine too.
This time, pictures that move!
Sometimes, dialect can make dull things livelier.
Singapore's Hokkien Gary Oldman. Remember the N93 advert?
Do you remember the Panasonic advert on wide-angle lens? I think the Olympus advert is even better. It's a Hokkien man trying to take a photo with a super duper mega wide angle lens.
Here's something to lighten up the PC vs Mac debate. The only reason why I've never bothered with Macs is because you can't really game much on it. The iPhone's nice though! Haha.
Bye!
After the exploding urinal incident, I was trailing this teacher up the stairs with Soh. Well, we weren’t exactly following him – it’s just that he was walking a wee bit too slow.
He was carrying a portable CD player in his hand when he suddenly stopped at the staircase landing.
Him: “It’s very heavy…”
Me: “Do you need help?”
Him: “Ya, that’s precisely what I was waiting for”
Me: “Oh okay”
I stuck out my hand to receive the CDP.
Him: “Oh it’s okay, never mind. Why didn’t you all offer to help earlier on?”
Me: “Erm, because we normally only help the female teachers”
It’s the truth, because female teachers are the only ones who complain that their load is too heavy.
Him: “Have you ever heard of the story about this man who held the door for a lady?”
Me: “I don’t think so”
Him: “Well, this man held the door for this lady, and she said not to hold the door for her because she’s a female. He said no, he did it because he was a man.”
Me: “Huh?”
I was a little blur at that time.
Him: “He did it because he was a GENTLE-man”
He emphasized that word a lot, which made me a little more blur.
Me: “Err, okay”
Him: “Okay, you can go”
Hmmm. I related the account in class and Kenneth figured that he was probably trying to tell me that we should help both males and females.
Yarh, and perhaps risk a confrontation because the testosterone-charged male would probably accuse you of thinking that he’s a weakling.
Anyway, it was probably my bad, because I thought a CDP wasn’t that heavy.
(It really isn’t lor!)
English was a classic study of what some people do when they get bored.
The often neglected newspaper finally gets some attention.
He decides that mugging Chinese was better, although we just had 200 minutes of Chinese. Damn.
And he thought it was better to sleep.
Some of them however, returned back to the Stone Age where their primal instincts controlled everything.
Much like how monkeys check each other for lice, they helped him check for white hair.
And he was so happy.
So damn happy.
So much so that he thought he had attained nirvana.
After that, they gave him a free leg hair removal session.
"Let's see who can pluck the most!"
"I plucked one! Wah, got root some more!"
I think the four of them managed to remove almost ten strands of hair.
Scissors came into the scene. Snip! (The finger was uncalled for though.)
I was really bored.
Buhbye!
Pictures reign supreme in this post, so I'm not really writing much.
"If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair". Muahaha.
He was being manhandled.
And he was engrossed in erotic fiction.
The trip to Turf City was a terrific trek through flooded roads.
It rained elephants and hippos.
So everybody went to Giant to buy food and have a picnic in the stands.
The teachers were comparing the prices of toothbrushes. (Btw, the pastry in Giant rocks. Especially the $2 Cookies (Mayson) thing - they polished off my whole box.)
Him: "Lindsay Lohan shouldn't be in FHM Top 100 lah" Everybody agreed.
While in Giant queueing, I missed the fun of watching Sharidan being char-kway-teowed, but when I return, another person was in the crosshairs.
#1
#2
#3
Being so darn bored, they were slapping hands for fun.
And it interested plenty.
Ouch.
Ermm.
Teeth!
If you're out of parking space, Heaven has plenty of space for you.
And thus the teachers boarded a pickup to get there.
HEH.
Look at how long they are!
Handshake.
Harmony.
He cam-whored himself.
Chee-ko-pah.
Country boy.
Let's go!
He's shy.
Freaking water-logged.
Red gooey mud! (We did push-ups in this kind of mud in the Sec 2 ACE camp, except that the mud there was stickier.)
It didn't reach the carparks up there yet.
Happy CNY!
YAY!
The shoe was...destroyed.
White to black.
It was quite fun running in the mud and splashing in the pools of water on the grass fields - since it was our last X-Country run in school. Besides, it makes you really feel like you've had a childhood.
Not many people really complained about the mud and soil though - I guess we all enjoyed running in it.
Bye!
