A and Ju's 21st Bday!

Happy 21th Bday, bros! ^^

ttBelow: Big box... really big box...

Below: Yummy tang yuan! Today is the last day at work at Tien Wah. And what a day to start work by arriving LATE for 20 minutes! -$3 for being late haha! Today is also the most tiring day because everyone has to pack huge cartons of books. The quantity stands at a freaking 80000 books! On top of that, there were other titles to pack, bringing the total sum to an astonishing 100000 books! Due to my concentration at work, I did not think of time, making it fly faster then usual!

Today is also Tang Yuan Day! And mommy made several plates. Too bad the colours are only limited to white and pink. Why aren't there blue, purple or black tang yuans?!

Today is also Ah A and Ju's 21st Birthday, dinner was at Sakura Restaurant. Ah Mah, Papa, Mommy, Ah A, Ah Ju, Shumei, Shumei Kris and Me were the peole there. After dinner we cut the cake at home. The cake is made up of pure chocolate and it taste good! Courtesy of Kris! Quite regret not getting my bros their B'day pesents. Perhaps I would get something for them from Kuching!

Tian Wah Again!^^

Below: At the end of the day, I just sit down and stoned... Too tired and my hand hurts!

Below: 20000 books for today... what's next for tomorrow??

Today is the first day working at Tian Wah again! But this time I will be working for only a week as I have to go back to Kuching the next week. Everyone back there is surprised to see me again as I did not inform them beforehand! I'm just glad that everyone is still happy! Even Auntie Siew had somehow reconciled with Aunt Kiaw! Too bad Ah Di and Ah Hao were not there as they were on leave. Today quite shag! Stickered and packed about 20000 hardcovered books at lightning speed... Grabbed 10 each time and jamming them into cartons of 20s. So much so that the joints of my hands and the nerve hurts. I guess its due to the fact that its only the first day and I have not get accustomed to the sudden workload! Hopefully I'll be okay for the next few days.

Cheng Earn's Sunday~!

Below: Ting MaMa De Hua~! Bie Rang Ta Shou Sang~!

Below: My hand looks suggestive!
Below: Someone likes to see me do this!

Sentosa today..again!! This time is an advanced celebration of Chen Earn's birthday! Happy Birthday to you dude! Yes! The blokes there include Me, the B'day boy, JiaQing, Ryan, Zhi Kang, Fredrick and Xiao Jian. First off, at about 10, we met and ate breakfast at Wang Jiao (Sorry Jesher!). Later its off to Sentosa's Palawan beach. Too bad the weather was quite bad. A slight drizzle spoilt a perfect day (Later it was to turn into shower..). We did lots of cock thing there! We played our name game, dun1 dun1 game! Both game's forfeits are spinning round and round for many times and finally topping that off with 3 jumping jacks! SUPER DIZZY! I did one forfeit with 50 JJs and I fell on the sand dazed like a drunken idiot! The rest of the guys also suffer the same fate when they fail the game! Don't believe? Try it urself, 50 rounds!

Later, we ate at the market opposite Harbourfront and its off to Singing! K-Box at Marina Square. Everyone's voice was bad.. real bad.. even JiaQing's. I guess its all due to the shouting and laughing ack at the beach! The surprise there was that I managed to find the song "Wei4 Le3 Ta1"! So happy to find it.. and well... I was obliged to sing it!

Shopping with mom!

Below: Me and mommy outside Vivo City~!

Today, probably the only day in my whole life, my mom gone on a shopping spree. In the sense that she hopped around many places to buy stuffs to bring back to Kuching. Early in the morning around 9 plus, she got me to follow her to NTUC to buy loads of household stuffs (detergent, bleach, tons of milkpowder, etc...) Later, we brought the items back first before getting changed and made our way to Chinatown. We spent the longest time searching for Wai Po's clothes! Almost 4 hours! Mom bought some special shampoo for Ji3 Ku3 and Ji3 Kim3, some clothes for the Crab Uncle and many more... I was quite tired following my mom all round People's Park Complex and OG Chinatown! For me I bought a new wallet ($10 only!) and a harmonica! Experiment how to play that musical instrutment! After more than 5 hours in Chinatown, I brought mommy to Vivocity. Its her 1st time there! The only thing we did there were eating the famous Kuching Kolo Mee and walking one small round inside CK Tang! Mom was just tired... so am I! So, where else but home!

This friday, Sam is going to start his National Service. Just now, with Ju and my company, we went to Seng Xiong to buy the essential stuffs like shampoo, washing detergent, etc. He seems fine and not that sad. I guess, he should be able to cope with the rigorous demands of BMT and life after that phase. Any problems, I guess he can look for Me, A and Ju... Anyway, I would like to wish him all the best, safety and best of luck!

Holidays have not officially started. But it feels like holiday! Yesterday was shopping, movies and fun. Tomorrow is bowling at Daniel's house! I guess my two bowling balls have already collected a lot of dust! Can't wait to see it spin tomorrow!

Below: JiaQing and Karen with the song "Xin1 Dong4 Xin1 Tong4"

Below: Hi, my name is Kevin... Please to meet you... hahaha

Below: If we could just steal the clothes! Joking!

Finally, I managed to get hold of Ah Hai over the phone. I asked him will there be any work available this coming Saturday. I planned to work for one week and night shifts would be best. Ah Hai couldn't give me and immediate answer and he told me that he would get back to me a few days later as he had to verify with Ah Wong for any vacancies. No choice... I had to work and thus sacrificing the first week of holidays. I need the cash when I go back Kuching.

Yesterday, school ended early because both Maths tutor and lecturer were not feeling well, so a Akbar, CE, JQ and me went to Vivo City to watch the movie "Deja Vu", starring Denzil Washington. Not really a bad movie, but some of my other friends views of that movie were quite negative. After that, something Deja Vu happened. The other three of my friend encounter a crazy american on the MRT that babbled nonsense about 911, Iraq and Vietnam and people on board the train were "suspects" as they were carrying bags!

After that we returned to school to catch the Chinese Society Singing Competition. JQ performed in the duet category with his Year 3 friend, Karen. I was quite surprised that they did not clinch the first prize, instead had to settle for 3rd. On the other hand... well at least they won something!

Above: Yum!! Guess who cooks the white and who cooks the red?

Yesterday Ju and Kris were the chefs! They cooked 2 different types of pasta. Cream and Tomato! The cream one has a erm, well, nice creamy taste to it while the tomato one has a sweet taste! Must somehow steal the recipe from them and cook one for myself too!

Yesterday night... I got to bed unusually early. Thanks to a bloody warning letter for GEMS that caused trouble... Don't wanna think so much... waste my time only..

This morning Ju sprung a surprise on me. He came in, and in a sombre tone, told me that he really wants to quit smoking. He lighted up with me for the one last time... He's got the willpower, and I hope its the real last time for him...

Awake for you... just to make your birthday card

I got a sudden awakening today! At 6.30am, Auntie Siew called me to go downstairs to collect the "goods" from her! Later I got to school and went for the 8am SPROG lesson. However, the class only had 6 people! The rest were held back by another MRT suicide case at Yishun (Probably that place). Heard from my brother that the person was a teen who was suffering from depression. My initial guess was spot-on! Heard that the PEEE tutorial was cancelled, so I decided to skip the rest of the lessons for today.

Jia Qing, Cheng Earn, Fred and me decided to go down to the Jurong East Gym to do some workout. But before that, JQ headed down to my house to get a pair of shoes... and do some singing and lame video recording as well!

We started workout at the gym at about 1.30pm. First off, I ran for about 3km on the treadmill. Funny sensation... I am not used to the treadmill. Later, I join the other 3 doing all the dumbbell, barbell and stuffs. About 2.30pm I had to leave because I had to meet Auntie Siew to pay her the $90 I owed her this morning.

Later I went to the market with some friends and. After the mean I went home..

At home, I got a copy of "Zui4 Jing4" ("Recently" by Li Shen Jie) lyrics and guitar chords for Ju. I left him to his room... All these while, I have been always listening to a less well-known song called "Ao2 Ye4"("Ton1"/"Stay up at Night" by Chen Ying Jian). The song has a soft melodic rhythm to it. The background music composed mainly of guitar picking and strumming... So, I guess it should be easy to translate to simple guitar chords. I do not have the song lyrics. So I had to pause, play, pause, play to get the exact words as well as the correct sound to translate to chords...

The final result was okay! I was so happy that I was able to tab the song... Just waiting to play and sing it to someone special...

This evening after school, I was pounded on the head by a sledgehammer. Baka... why must I do stupid things to make people angry! Went home with dejection. At home, I decided to take out all that "Bakaness" and dejection on jogging.

The moment I reach the 176 bus stop, no warm-up done, I ran. Just run only... With my favourite music blasting in my ears... I ran the normal route. By the time I hit the turning point about 4km away, my left abdomen developed a stitch and a sudden surge of pain fills that region. I mentally tell myself, "Its just pain you idiot! It shows you are still alive... You cannot stop! If you stop you will fail... you will be weak!" Everytime the pain hits me, I would take out my handphone and look its background picture... its someone special to me... I will never fail her... my mind became impervious to further demoralization as I raced to complete the entire 7 kilometres... Without her, I cannot do it... Guess I...haha...

When I reached home and took off my singlet, I got the shock of my life! The sunburn on my back developed into a massive spawning bed of water bubbles! (well, the water is sweat actually) Oh My God! Its the most grotesque thing I have seen on myself! It feels like leather to the touch. When I press it, it burst *POP!* yuuucks~! I got Ah Ju to do the dirty job for me for pressing all the sweat out!

Watashi Baka San~

Die, I copied homework today haha! Copied Akbar's exercise on Inverse Matrixes! Just didn't have the mood to finish up everything...the funny and sad thing is that today, I wasn't myself... so screwed up. Maybe constant discouragements from Akbar and See Kiang; discouragements from eating KFC (Kentucky Friend Cruelty). Maybe is the abstainance to smoke today... Maybe its that someone special in life giving me a stab through the heart. I couldn't take it... I transfered all the anger on a stack of nice chairs in the Computer Club. I feel real bad... That was the first time I vented my anger infront of my friends... Sorry to Akbar and See Kiang... I feel so baka... like I always call Ting Ting hahaha...

Later in the evening, JQ invited me to watch the SMIT TalentTime Competition. No time to go online MSN. JQ was the guest performer. The entire show was not bad. And the eventual winners were a dance outfit that called themselves "Ho-Seh-Bo?!"

Sentosa! 25/11/06

Below: The infamous PCB(Pon Class Bradders). Staring at what huh?

Below: Fancy fistworks from fiesty fighters!

Below: JQ and Me...we cannot live without it...

Below: Its a bright and hot sunny afternoon...

Below: A pretty lady helps us to take a shot! Lucky not the FUGLY one...

What a day at Sentosa! After the exams, a hot sunny day at the beach is a good way to relax! People who were there incude Cheng Earn, Akbar, Zhi Kang, Wen Chuan, Xiao Jian, JiaQing and me of course! We played the regular stuffs such as volleyball, soccer. But did other stupid things like burying JQ under a huge mold of sand and adding p**** and a pair of b***s! Played water fight, etc... Just too many to describe, real fun. One regret was not putting on sun block. Now, my whole body is red and it hurts! Oww... But overall, one word to describe it. Whee~!

My alter ego... still wanna be friends?

I got this post somewhere out there.... I don't know where... here goes...

I know today is you birthday, but I pretend not to know. I don't want to go home and see you and get forced to give you the present and wish you a happy birthday like a pathetic puppet.

Do you seem to care about me? I don't think so. When I step through the door and call you, you don't even give me a glance to acknowledge my presence. When I call you when I eat, you just simply grunt. You just have a lack of interest in me, while putting on a fake mask when u are in front of others. You seemed to have grown a belly lately.. is it because everytime the phone rings and you are too lazy to pick it up? Instead you leave it to me to get it? Thanks... there you have won yourself a belly, and I have lost mine.

Addiction, I have know them for so long, fair, you smoke I also smoke, you drink I also drink. If I had not picked up those habits I would have rubbed those in too. Your addictions have deprived us a lot. Gambling, all you do is spend you paycheck to feed your gambling addiction, as if you are deprived of it and need constant feeding to make you feel satisfied, feel high. You feel high losing hundreds, maybe thousands every night? Perhaps you still remember you burnt your fingers once, erm "twice?", on the stock market. And, you need to borrow money badly from others? What a loss of face...

Your constant feedings makes us suffer. You give us the bare minimum while you enjoy all the luxuries like some spoilt noble. You made us for what we are today. With deprivation, rage and hatred for the pampered emerged...

Did I mention Deprivation? Definitely not happening to you. Us.. Look at all the things in the space we reside in. Scavanged second-hand rejects. So typical of you, unwilling to spend on things that are essential, things that imrove the well-being of everyone. I know your carpenter and painting skills are good but showing off too much is not good too...
Protection? Sounds very doubtful. I will never forget the black box (a marvellous work of art). Does that thing really consume so much energy like the amount of current cosumed at "Babyface". If that is your rational, then screw you. You are just afraid we mess the whole floor right? *grins*... oh what a crooked thought...

You chained her home. Just to do all the dirty work. She is tired, she is overworked, she is underpayed, she is under-loved, she is over-abused. Yet, she refuses to blow. She seems to be bent to your will. You have deprived her of a mind of her own. I pity her for her life. I would gladly not exist in this world in order for her to lead a much better life. You made her protect us like some sacred custodian. We are not protected, we are caged. In this cage,I grow up with my brother. The name of my little "brother" is hatred. He is tiny amongst others but large when focused at you.... *sigh* I really wanna release that chain. But sometimes u really release it to allow me to suffer...

If you want to regret and attempt to change things .Don't bother, I am happy with life this way with my "brother". I have already forsaken all thoughts of forgiveness... Yes, this is so blasphemous. I don't mind burning in hell. I would love to meet the devil ...

Below: Maggie Mee! Yeah! And to think that I always tell someone not to eat so much MSG!

Phew... Managed to submit my GEMS personal portfolio. Managed to crap my way through. I submitted my work at the tutors office and I had thought that was the end of it. I was so wrong... She asked me if I had submitted the E-learning assignment. I did not. So here I am 2.30am in the morning... I managed to finish my E-learning assignment just only... I could have done it earlier all thanks to laziness. However, I managed to cure it by helping myself to nightsnack! Maggie Mee with egg and cabbage! With energy recharged, I powered and crapped my way through the assignment. Everything seems to go so well so far this week. Got 87 for PEEE, full marks for Maths, 68 for structured programming (not so good news afterall...) Can't wait for this Saturday as the PCB (Pon Class Bradders) are going Sentosa!

Just woke up only... dishevelled hair, carry my laptop to the living room to tap connection. Yesterday I had to go to my 3 Gu Gong's (Ah Mah's 3rd brother) funeral. We were at Bukit Panjang at about 6. Then I, Ah A, Ah Ju, Sam and Ray went to Bukit Panjang Plaza for dinner before the ritual commence. After dinner we head back to the wake. It was long... all the way till 11pm. After that the 5 of us plus Grace went to Clementi KTV! Saw Jimmy for the 1st time in ages. Sad, if he was working on Thursday, maybe we would have Burbon in our drinks! We sang till 3am. On the way home, we decided to meet up tomorrow morning for DoTA at Ginza. But now... only I am the one awake and the other 4 are still sleeping. And I remembered its JiaYi's 17th birthday tomorrow. But JQ, CE and I have not moved our lazy asses out of the house! Well, reality is that JQ is busy today and CE is in Sentosa. And, I don't want to go shopping alone. It looks retarded. Also, tomorrow is the submission date for the GEMs portfolio. And heck I haven’t even started. If I had not lost my materials at Vivo City...

Mid-Semester Test 2 Over!

Finally MST2 ended! PEEE=die, DE=double killed, Maths=triple killed and finally SPROG=holy shit! Ready to be meat-hooked and suffer sanity’s eclipse from my parents haha! Yesterday, at the exam venue, I was practically stunned at the last parts of the SPROG paper. After I saw a few of the guys left the exam venue in "happy dismay", I feel its time that I stop stressing my brain and follow the guys! Later in the afternoon, JiaQing, Cheng Earn and me decided to head down to the Clementi K-Box to give it all out! Hell shit, those guys really give it all out with their chinese rap and sorts. I would really love to sing some of the English songs. However, the MTVs look like some B-Grade flick shit. There was one incident where this young female KTV employee served us our titbits. JQ got emotional and focused all his vocals, gestures and emotion at her! We were all LMAO'ed when the young lady said that his singing sucks! Another incident was when JQ tried my paper-rolled cigarettes, using a piece of receipt as the paper instead of the cigarette papers… *puff*… tears well up and cough like hell! Remember, insist on the original, do not use receipt paper for hand-rolled cigarettes! Please guys, don’t push me to quit smoking, I am trying… I think… *grins!*

Project Dendrobium: Phase 2 (6/11/06)

Below: The internal structure for of the arms for the massive claws...

Below: RX-78 G3 Gundam poses with the partially completed Orchis..

Below: What's done up till the second session..

For Stage 2 on last monday, I finally managed to rectify the joint problem in Stage 1. And I made up more of the hull of Orchis, as shown in the picture. 2 more pieces of metal plates are required to reinforce the structure. Screws are required too! Loads of screws!! Also, I began construction of the thrusters... So far so good.

Yesterday, ZhenXi and her boyfriend Shane dropped by my house. Man! I found out that Shane is quite a Gundam freak. We had much to talk about regarding Gundam. So much so to the extent that ZhenXi tried to get Shane to accompany her home, but to no avail! Shane asked that I help him source for a MG GP02-A kit. It seems that he can't find it anywhere in Singapore or back at KaoXiong. Is it really that hard to find it?

Project Dendrobium: Phase 1 (4/11/06)

Below: The magnitude of the packaging...

Below: The magnitude of work that I have to undertake!

Below: End of Day 1... Stamen is wow'ed at dendrobiums height!
Below: Another angled shot. See the awestruck expression of stamen?

After 5 freaking years being left on the shelf, Project Dendrobium went underway! I believe it to feels that after sitting on my desk for ages, it feels its time that it assembles itself. But I am not going to let it have its way! Haha! I started off, by taking all the plastic mesh out of its packaging and laying it all over the floor. After all that is done, a feeling of lazyness washed over me. "Do I really have to do this???" Without thinking, its assembly time. I started with both the skeletal piston for the large beam sabers. This excludes the armour plating for it; just the skeletal internals. Then, I proceeded to make the stand, a small portion of the Dendrobium's bottom hull and the forward-central part in which both large weapon containers would be later attached. One of the problems encountered is the fixing of the skeletal piston arms. Apperently one of the parts to guide the pistons refuse to join together perfectly (So much for flawless Bandai model kits...) I managed to it by slicing off a portion of a 'male' part to attach to a 'female' part. As a result one of the arms were done up while the other is still pending modification. The other arm is attached to hard and I would have to fix it another day.

Character Development - Helping Out At The Orphanage

Below: Joel doesn't know everyone is making fun of him...

Below: Area cleaning done! Easy as pie!Below: My retard class!
Below: The aftermath...See? Clean right?
Below: After everything was done, everyone interacted with the kids.

Character Development - Learning how to be a poser.

I had always thought the module Character Development (CD) is something which is easy to breeze through as there would be an expected darth in homework. I was wrong. Assignments and projects are a must to successfully complete this module. Well, what really bothers me most is the attitude of this particular person. While most lecturers and tutors show professionalism in their work ( be it the ever-cool teaching styles of the PEEE teachers or the blah-blah style of teachings exhibited by the maths lecturers), my CD tutor (I refuse to name her to protect her dignity). She somewhat displays an air of arrogance and false-goodness. False-goodness in the sense that she is acting as if she is the perfect human being that has never ever sinned in life! And she always give the look as if she is 10 or 20 levels aloft of us as students. I still remember last week. I came to school in a sweater with a hood. Under the sweater, I wore my 5-SIR sleeveless tee. At that time, the classroom was quite stuffy, so I helped myself by removing the sweater. The CD saw what I did and said...

MrsAngel: "Did you know that wearing singlets in school is not allowed?"

Kev: "I didn't know that such a rule exist. But I am feeling hot..."

MrsAngel: "Yes, there is such a rule. Your attire is so revealing. By the way don't forget there are young ladies in the class too. I give you 5 mins to cool down. Later I want you to put your sweater back on."

Kev: "..."

zzz...

Today, I got the results of SPROG. I was disheartened. I think my results were the second lowest in class. Lots of people got 95-98-99 because they only made minor errors in their psudocodes. For me, my psudocode screwed me up. Pretty surprised of myself as I was stunned for 15 plus minutes. I guess I won't be taking things that I have learnt before that lightly...

Muther Fuhker!

I'm very shy to reveal my gold and silver plated teeth!

All the bling bling in this picture is bought by Uncle Huat. Its meant for people like Ju or Sam and not meant for me. When Uncle Huat showed me the good, I was stupified! haha! However, my hands got itchy and I just tried them on. Two knuckle busters and a G-Unit chain (The cross in the middle spins!) I'll take ya to the candy shop yorr~!

If only...

A friend of mine had her life smudged with unpleasent events. From what I heard, it was a secondary school acquaintance that caused all these troubles for her. The "assailant", Age unknown, sex unknown, looks unknown... This person did hell lot of despicable acts. Most evil one is hacking into her E-mail, blog, MSN and Maplestory account and did all sorts of funny stuffs... probably masqurade, defacing, alteration of informations, spouting verbal abuses and sorts.

The hacker's activities were relentless and even though everything seems fine, his/her verbal abuses continue to pepper my friend's blog. I guess nothing can be done to mediate this problem, only sit, see, wait and counter the abuse and threats. Probably a recommendation: Ignorance is bliss? I guess it might work in this situation.

This is the already the 3rd week of the new semester. Time really flies fast... Still remember during my primary/secondary/JC days I always pray that time will fly faster so that the holidays will come. Now as my youth slowly seeps out of me ( exaggerated), I pray that time will crawl. Lots of regrets... regrets of the things I left unaccomplished years before...

My new phone!

Samsung SGH-X820! Reportedly the world's slimmest phone at only 6.9mm at its thinnest. Small, sleek and slim. Like most phones today, it comes with a digital camera (2 Megapixels), has bluetooth and Mp3 player. However, the limitations of this phone is that there is no extendable memory. I.E to say, there is no space for a memory card. 80MB of space available only.

Rush: A Last Dance

Probably the last time I'll ever see this sign again??

Below: Full-house at Rush. It got worse later. Yea House Babies!

Rush to wait wait to rush... that was the feeling I had last night at Rush. Previously, before 12am, the dancefloor would not have a single soul dancing. But yesterday, since its the second last day of the operation of Rush, the dancefloor was really jam-packed with bodies. Ladies in skimpy dresses, Ah Bengs and Ah Lians chanting their stuffs and their groups challenge each other with their chants, the DJ pausing songs to give silly comments, the famous K-4 (Killer 4 dance songs; Shimmie-shake, The Book Is On The Table, Playboy and Smokemachine). All these were very common years ago and it just brings back the memories...Just that many of in the croud are youngsters. However, I did see some older people and erm, seasoned dancers, just that they have no space to dance.

The atmosphere inside there was really different. I feel that there is a wave of tension there, with all the beats and anthem. Even the DJ feels it and he swapped song. "Hey no fighting, no fighting.. yeah Shakira Shakira Shakira!!" Hips Don't Lie! I was turned-off, Shakira doesn't turn me on haha!

The people who were there and made the night, as usual was Melvin and he brought along his neighbours Jason and Vincent. Too bad Sam injured his arm, else he would be joining us. Kenneth was there too, together with his other friends. As promised we decided to have a Friday Rush outing. And worse still, I had a evil thought of asking Wa Yee along too, just that I scared that Jia Yi jealous!

After rush had closed, the four of us (Melvin, Jason, Vincent and me) made our way to 7-eleven to rehydrate ourselves. Jason got a super big gulp and mixed it with a bottle of CowBoy Scotch Whiskey! Really nice drink. We sat at the roadside and talked about all sorts of bullshit.

Then it was time for me to leave. Halfway across the road to get a cab, A white Toyota on the "turn-left" filter lane suddenly turned right as I was crossing the road and it nearly hit me! If it was about 20cm more I would have flew down the road. I was suddenly taken aback but I managed to dodge in time. I then gave the driver a killer stare and he apologized profusely. Cursing silently (I did not have the conviction to yell vulgarities at him), I made my way home.

Love Mediator...

Got home after work and logged into maple just to find out that my virtual bro and sis's relationship is on the edge... Spent quite some time getting them back together again... In the end I feel happy for them. Maybe its not my magic that worked but its their willingness to forgive each other...

Last Day at TPH: An Appraisal/Testimonial

An overview of the people at Tian Wah Press Holdings:

Auntie Siew: The 1st person I talked to. Very lively and chatty and can be tired at times haha. We got lots to talk about, which is good, as it will kill time fast and provides a good avenue for laughter in monotonous work. All the coffee sweets, food, small tidbits and roll and rolls of toilet papers from her! Its good hanging out with her as we have many things to talk about. Apperently has a dislike for Auntie Kiaw!! Her influence also spread to me!

Auntie Rose: The most flirtatious person at my line... and probably the most chatty one. She's super humerous and we always disturb each other. Rumoured to have many many boyfriends and suitors! Muahaha! She even tried to "tackle" me muahaha! At times, she draws flack from Auntie Siew, Ah Hao and Ah Di. I don't really know why they do not really like her. However, on the flipside, she seems to be suffering from some sort of depression syndrome and she periodically takes medicine to supress it. I really wish her well and her family issues be solved asap...

Auntie Milah: A motherly figure to me coz she treats me like his son! I still remember she "pinjam" me $2 to eat when I did not have any cash with me She is Auntie Rose's good friend and they can be seen laughing together most of the time. Their laughter can be heard for miles! Together with NahWee and Auntie Rose, they would have "picnic-in-the-park" together! She stays close to me, therefore we always walk home together. We always share our problems together... Hopefully TPH can reduce the O.T. to 5pm so she can go back early to watch her favourite drama on Suria! haha!

Ah Di: More like I am the little brother to him. A lean guy with tattoos sprouting from both his arms. However, his manners contrasts his appearence. He's softspoken and a hardworking guy. If not for his wrist injury, he would be one damn fast packer. All the way he's my smoking buddy and he also re-introduced "Ang-Hoon" to me. I coughed badly haha! Nice working with him.

Ah Hao: Another smoking kaki. Some of my colleagues refer him as my big bro...His 15 years at TPH gets him the "fastest packer" reputation. I saw with my own eyes, he's godlike and unbelieveable! Personality-wise, he's a very loud and funny person. Whenever he sees someone he does not like, he would order me to beat that person up! He also likes to sprout tons of nonsense and vulgarities at others. The vocal duels between him and Ah Kiaw will always be in my mind.

As for the others such as NaWee, supervisor Ah Wong, Ah Hui, the other 2 aunties and the indian guy at the other line, I did not really have much a chance getting to know them better in such a short time. However they are all nice people. I will also miss the two chicks who make YamYam cups at the other department. Too bad the more sociable one resigned and I missed the chance to say goodbye to her!

Overall, my short stint at TPH has been fruitful as I have learnt how to earn money the hard way. Not forgetting all the wonderful people I get to know there... Hopefully during the upcoming holidays I get to work there again.

Hans' Visit/Raving Again...

Above: Like a family photo...

Hans was back in town after almost a year being out of the scene. For raving freaks there is no better place to go than Rush. The gang comprises of "Grandmaster" Han Xiong, "Masters" Hans, Melvin and Me and the rest of the guys and gals such as Li Ting, Sam, Han's GF, and Raine. Unfortunately, we received bad news that Rush will be having its last dance on the 30/09/06. After that a new boss would be taking over that unit along Mohammed Sultan Road.

Although its the supposedly the last Rush rave in a long long time, and one of my shortest time in there (11.30pm-1.30am), I'm happy because this is a new record number of people who rave together, 9 in total. Whats Next? Chalet time!

A Lost Child...

Today, as I was on the way back home from work, I encountered a situation which touched my heart. Upon stepping out of the lift at the 6th storey of my block, I saw a, perhaps 2-3 year old boy with a mini school bag squatting on the walkway crying. I stopped in my tracks and looked at that boy. Somehow, the boy knew I was behind him and he stopped crying and turned his head and gave me a teary-eyed look. We stared at each other for about 5 seconds. Then, I decided to continue on my way as I had initally thought that his mom/maid would be somewhere around.

I walked walked and walked till I reached the stairs down. Before going down, I took one last look at that child. The child was crying again, but once he noticed me staring at him, he stopped. Poor thing... I couldn't take it... So I walked towards the child. (I feel that my walking style might freak the child out, so I decided to walk more casually.)

I brought myself down to the child's level and I tried to converse to the child in chinese, but he seems to catch no balls. I tried in english..bingo... I even popped him an outrageous question such as asking him to come to my house instead! (He nodded! But then it would make me look like a paedophile!) He had very very short hair, big eyes... all the tears and mucus streaming out... with his mini school bag... so cute!

After much conversation (more like me talking to myself!), the little boy said, "Mommy...".

I asked, "Do you know your way home?"

He nodded.

"Sure? Kor Kor bring you home, okay?"

He nodded again.

So I offered to carry his bag (a few grams!) and I held his hands and he led me to his unit, which was on the 7th floor.

The door was ajar. Once again, I reconfirmed with the child that this was his home before ringing the doorbell. After waiting for almost a minute. A lady in he thirties walked into the living room.

I gave her a slightly angry stare, "Is this your child?".

"Yes...", That was the only word that she could muster.

"Why did you just leave him all alone downstairs?" I asked. Silence was my reply...

I was angry. What happens if the child had met up with someone else with evil intentions? I wanted to scold her for being so fucking irresponsible. But then, its her child... I guess I have no say how she wants to treat him. But such a situation really makes me feel down.

Sam's 18th Birthday / Ah Ying's Visit

Below: Ah A, Ying and Me at The Durian!

Above: At Marina

Above: Some "Cock" Mascot!! Below: Nostalgic!! Just like when we were small kids!!

The pass few days have been hectic yes... Too hectic till I got no will-power to blog my daily happenings....

Firstly, it was Samuel's 18th Birthday. It was held early, on 2nd of September because Sam's actual birthday is on the 5th of September, which happens to be a weekday. Quite a lot of preperations were made as it was a BBQ. The people that were there were our usual gang plus Sam's friends. We BBQ'ed all the way till the night. There was even an instance where I was told to bring down a volleyball to quench Ray's and Grace's insatiable appatite for ballgame!

Also, it was Ah Ying's visit that brighted up an otherwise dull holiday. She dropped by on the 2nd September afternoon. She stayed for several days thus creating a perfect excuse for me to take offs from my work.

The following day (3rd Sept), we went Sentosa for sightseeing with my mommy.

On the 4th, together with Ah A and his ShuMei, we just glided pass Orchard Road, then to Esplanade and then to Marina. Lots of stuffs happened! I.E. I got Ying to smack a whole Carl's Jr Burger and that made her eyes roll!

5th Sept, I was overtime at work... At night we went over to Ah Mei's hostel for some cork-talking session and toured NUS. I will remember that you can take Bus 51 and 143 to PGP too!

6th September, Ah Ying, Ah Mei and I met up and went to Suntec City then to Marina Square. Got a cool looking T-shirt and jacket at S&K. Then I was determined to get Ah Ying something but everytime, she politely declines... It made me feel bad. Later we got to Chinatown and met up with one of Ah Mei's Kuching friend by the name of Victor. After some sightseeing and lunch, we travelled to Bugis Junction and Bugis Street. At about 8 plus, we made our way back to Ah Mei's hostel and then to the NUS prata shop for some prata. At first, I was apprehensive as Mommy told me that Ah Ying was feeling a bit sick. But Ah Ying just cheekly told me to "tou tou" bring her there. After that, we went home. Ah Mei decided to "TorN" for the night.

Then it was the next day already...after 3 hours of sleep... Woke up 6am this morning got changed and gone in a moment...

Just now at work... Overtime again.. And finally back home. Back home, mommy told me that Ah Ying was really feeling bad this morning. Felt bad again! She also told me...things I will remember...

I was dead tired due to a lack of sleep... Also, I was sad too due to...

That sad feeling has always been with me and my bros since we were small. Well, the "Airport Departure Hall Syndrome" strikes again; the feeling of seeing someone dear not so long ago and not being able to see that person again for a very long time. Throughout the day, I did not really have the mood to talk to my bubbly colleagues... I don't know why... I miss my Kuching and Miri cousins and relatives a lot...

I still remember in my younger days, I always dream that there would be a 500km bridge that spans across the South China Sea so I can drive there as and when I like! When will my dream materialize??

Day 10: The Gosips Just Got Louder!

The gossips seems to get worse and shitload realy happened yesterday! It seems that the rest of the people such as Auntie Siew, Auntie Jam and Auntie Rose all dislike Auntie TUA. THat 50 plus year old woman is really one bossy person. Also, she likes to speak to herself. Initially, I didn't mind her rantings and her commands. However, as the rumours fill me, I get more disturbed. I still remember yesterday. She and Auntie Rose were feeding the books to the sticker machine and I was the person that was supposed to collect the books in stacks of 10. Auntie Rose knew I am quite noobish in that, so she spaced out the books reasonabily. However, TUA just placed the books close to each other and allowed the convoyer belt to push everything in one big mass! The result was a stack of books with its stickers sticking 2 books. So pissed till I cannot really describe it! There was an instance where I just took the whole stack of books and slam it on the other table to vent my anger! However, later, I realized it was really, really stupid of me. thus I went to apologize to Auntie Rose, Ah Di and Auntie Jam. How to work with such narrow minded people??...Tired...

Day 3 Of Work

Work is really tiring... It seems like I always do all the more intense labour. Yesterday and today, I have been packing books at lightning speed. So much so that both my wrist ache, skin peeling at the edges of my fingernails and cuts appearing on the underside of my right forearm.
At least, the jokes and gossips of the aunties and uncles keep me awake.

Below: Acting spastic in the midst of work!

...And Where Books Are Destroyed...

There was too much to write on the 1st day of work. So, I decided to continue on the 2nd day haha! It might seem a wonderous place to children when they get to know their favourite story books are created there. However, I hate to spoil the show... It a place where bad bad things happen too!

The books are mass-produced at quite a large scale. However, shit does happen. Sometimes the machine cocks-up and the end result are a mass of crumpled and dismembered books!

For those lucky books that passed the menacing machine (haha!), they are packed nicely in boxes and loaded on palettes, ready to be stored and shipped away/flown overseas to bookshops and finally to some "lucky" kid!

However, there is always a +/- 5% extra in case of major cock-ups. For those finished books that are excess to quota..., they are consolidated to be THROWN AWAY!!! I happen to pass by a section of the factory and saw several palettes of excess books! I was disheartened... good books destined for the recycling bin... If I ever see any bestsellers such as LOtR or Dan Brown Series... I will really go crazy~!

If the little kids get to know about such atrocities, they might possibily gather in mass and storm the factory with double-bladed lightsabres! Dreaming...zzz...

...Where Books Are Made...

Today is the first day of work Tian Huah Printing. I was very surprised that there was no interview whatsoever. Got up at 6.15am and got started work at 7am. Loads and loads of books await me. I was supposed to fold book jackets, package, move heavy stuffs, fold cartons, stick labels and many more. Thank god that there were cool machines to help out, else it would be too tedious.

Below: My workplace, the book-factory...

All sorts of books were printed there. The first book I saw was one that was about karmasutra in German! There were others such a children storybooks, cookbooks, books on wellness, all in different languages such as english, german, french, belgian, etc. Even stuffs such as comics/pictures depicting gross violence and sexuality/nudity were in print(some in english, some in german)! My colleague told me that one there was this PRC person who worked here and he was absolutely stunned and curious about those nude depictions! I laughed!

Below: Ever seen smokers in comic strips in S'Pore???

Today is only the first day and I am already working overtime. $4 an hour, additional $6 coffee $ and $6 for overtime. Total of 7.5 hours and 3 hours overtime, all adds up to $54. A bit little for a lot of work. But, the best thing is that I don't incur any transportation expenses!

Overall, the working environment is okay, the people are friendly and the food is cheap! Kinda like that place. However, its only the first day and things might change...

ByeBye ChenChen~!

Finally, (well, its been a few days since) the MST is over. And I feel the last paper I am going to screw it up. No mood to study due to unforseen circunstances and distraction.

After the paper on Friday, Ah A, Ju, both ShuMeis Ah Ray and Grace and me were at Gillmans' food court having dinner. What a really nice atmosphere for a good meal and chats. Sad thing is that the coffeeshop ran out of coffee and the Indian shop closed early. So, we missed the Nan! Later, we headed back to West Coast prata shop for prata. But, they ran out of prata dough! What a coincidence! Overall, it was a cool outing! Thanks to grace for those photos!

Just now, 120+ATGM were at Yuki Yaki at Marina Square coz it was Chen Chen's treat! He's going to the States in a couple or so days and after his degree, he is going back to China! Miss him... The food was good; everyone stuffed themselves full with all sorts of meats, shushi and etc etc.


Below: The peeps who were there!

Below: Wonder why Grace isn't in the picture?! Below: Today's yum yum at Yuki Yaki!

Creating My 1st blogskin...

A bit sick of my old blogskin. I want a skin thats kind of original. I feel kinda stupid just analyzing other people's skins and experimenting with many online storage sites. Tripod sucks and TheImageHosting sucks coz apperently they got some copyright thingie when the image is being hyperlinked!

So i decided to use photobucket.So i grabbed this dragon picture and inverted its colours. Kinda cool with all the fire and sorts. Added a few words and created the background skin and..wallah~.... new skin! However, the code layouts were from the old blog. So, thanks to that person...

Music... I decided not to put all those sad or mushy songs and decided to go for my own music. Don't want people to misunderstood me as a sad person haha! Hopefully the new skin has a refreshing taste to it.

DE Mid-Yr: Aftermath...

Its been two days and I still feel a bit sad of the aftermath of the DE papers. I remembered that many were stumped at the XOR and XNOR gates. I was no exception. I did all the papers that JiaQing handed out. But wat I failed to do were the papers that were posted on the blackboard. Those were the essential ones! What really pisses me off was when I left the exam hall with JiaQing, we were listening to a conversation between Joel, See Kiang and Akbar. Apperently Joel was bragging about himself and he somewhat was "looking down" on us for not reading up on the exclusive gates. I was fuming mad, I swear I am going to kick that nerd's ass for the remaining two papers...

Yesterday I was out in town with Iris. We were at the new Cathay Building and we were unable to decide on what show to watch. So, we settled for Ghost Game in the end. Then we headed to Plaza Sing for dinner. My stomach wasn't feeling that good so I abstained. We only got about 1/2 an hour to eat and I feel bad for rushing Iris! So in the end we got back to Cathay and were slightly late for the show. During the show Iris kept on giggling! I don't know what's gone into her. But, it was kinda funny! But, *sigh*, the movie was not really fantastic...nor was it that scary. But what I enjoy most was her company!

Flip flop?! Roti Prata?!

Finally I managed to finish reading all the stuffs on flip flops. What an enormous task! Sometimes I tell myself that I should have paid more attention to what the lecturer was speaking, to prevent myself from going crazy at home mugging on flip-flops. Today morning was no real exception for this week. Wake up around 10am, munch on a bit of breakfast and get flip-flopping! Wheee~! Did the past year exam papers to confirm...

By lunchtime, my craving for good food kicked in. I felt like cooking baked rice with ham, saussage topped with sticky cheese! But, there were no saussages in the freezer; nor was there any rice left from last night's dinner. So, these are the ingredients for my 'new' dish: mozzerella+cheddar+parmesan cheese (forgotten how much grams), 2 slices of ham, 1 and 3/4 slices of wholemeal bread. Simple recipe... Just slice the ham into 3-4cm thin strips and cut the bread into approx 3-4 cm squared pieces. Add a bit of the cheese and mix all the ingredients well in a bowl. then transfer the ingredients into a erm... porcelin bowl (the picture) then top it up with more cheese! And, finally bake it in the oven for 12 mins. Make a cup of Milo-Peng and TaDaa~! My nice and tasty lunch!

Sad day...

Today is the CRS written test and I woke up late. Hurriedly changed and waxed my hair and boarded the cab to school. Got there ten minutes late. The paper is two hours long and I managed to complete in less than an hour... Had I known, I would have taken the bus to school. $6 gone just like that. Following that, I decided to skip school and went to Ray's house and Maple.

At Ray's house, I had a chat with Ah Mah and she persuaded me to reconcile with Pa. She seems sad due to the way I keep snubbing Pa. Its been almost a month since I last talked to him. Ah Mah even told me that YeYe was worse than Pa and how slack he was last time. She told me that he refused to go to work and even throw outrageous tantrums such as taking all the sugar cane juice and pouring it all in the drain. Then, Ah Mah could just only look on helplessly. The point she wants to drive home is that, "If I can stand YeYe's blazing temper, I don't see why you can't stand your father's..." I feel, its time to listen for the sake of Mommy and Ah Mah...

Then, it was to Feng's Dad's funural. Almost all the mortar and ATGM specs were there plus a few of my ex-men. We hung around for quite some time before we go our seperate ways at around 9.30pm just now. I feel sad for him, to lose someone dear to your heart at such a young age... that feeling, its indescribable... my depest condolences goes out to him...

School of Engineering Street Soccer Competition 3rd round

11 - 1 ... Suffered a humiliating loss at the hands of the eventual winners Riverplate Jr. The opponent's passings, dribbling, body feints, shooting, techniques, were all far superior than ours. I guess we have the dubious honour of being the team with the biggest thrashing... enough said... But, I feel proud for my guys. These past few days, they really ran their lungs out... some played with fatigue, injuries... *sigh* don't know what to comment on now...

School of Engineering Street Soccer Competition 2nd Round

We won again, barely this time... Our opponents this time were no pushovers. They even had a team jersey! We were all freaked. But our brave and daring captain told us to steel ourselves.

The match kicks off and within the first 5 minutes. We were 2-0 up thanks to a Wei Jie double! We felt we were going to win it. However, our opponents retaliated by firing in the goals and drew themselves level with us! Half time...

The second half resumes and both teams did not capitalize on one another. The match eventually draws to a close and penalties loomed in the distance... which in fact became reality.

Everyone missed their initial chance. For me, I did not have the 1st touch on the ball and just rifled the ball wide. I was agonized... Then, it was penalties in sudden death. Still, neither teams refuse to yield. Akbar, taking over the responsibilites from Jia Qing, produced some vital saves. Eventually, it was the skipper See Kiang who broke the deadlock. Placing the ball at the top right corner of the net. Then it was the opponents' turn. We stood in a line and put our hands over each others shoulders just like in european football matches. The ball was struck viciously but bounced off the cross bar.... we won! Rojak time...

Ah my comb! >.<

Something trivial just popped up my mind. Why do I always lose my comb? I've just lost my latest one (black one). Since ORD, I have lost and estimate of 4 combs. Everytime I lose 1, I always go back to the same stationary shop near my house to buy a replacement. I guess the auntie remembers me as the person who buys combs!

Busy busy...

The following weeks are going to be hectic for me. This is due to the fact that the Mid-session Tests are coming. Evidence points to the chaps of my class. Even those so-called slackers in class are trying their best to pull up their pants. A sign of things to come...


Highlights for this week.

Monday:(Today) CircuitMaker test. Piece of bullshit. Manual routing killed off many in the class. Only a few lucky ones managed to get it right.

Tuesday: PEEE tutorial. Some doubts on AC and Phasors needs clarification.

Wednesday: Nothing due. Just that need to chill out with Daniel Lim!

Thursday:(Headache) DE Lab Test. THe question papers were released beforehand so we can prepare. Looking at it I see... blur... 2nd headache: IDEAS. I have yet to complete the design plan. and get it burnt on a CD. Cheng Earn is doing the powerpoint for the business plan as well as the A1 sized poster. I have doubts on wether we can submit on time...

Friday: PEEE Lab Test. Osciloscope, Multimeter, etc etc... Blur again...


Thanks to all the workload that I do not have time to play MapleStory. Stuck at level 70 for a darn long time already... I want to progress...


Last but not least. The thing closest to my heart. My family... I feel problems arising... all thanks to one source... that only one source... you are the spark that starts it. If u want it to continue, I will gladly be your catalyst...

School of Engineering Street Soccer Competition 1st Round

Today was the first round of the SP School of EEE soccer. Me and my guys were at the street soccer court watching the games that were happening. Some of the teams were good, really good. Akbar and See Kiang were a bundle of nerves. So darn obvious because Akbar admitted it himself, while See Kiang was kinda serious about everything. Initially I was kind of apprehensive about the 1st game. However, unexpected...we won... 5-0. 1 own-goal, 1 goal by Zhi Kang and a Hat-trick by See Kiang! Akbar produced several spectacular shots but failed to find the net and finally Jiaqing with good distribution and a solid goal-keeping performance. And me being the substitute can only yell my encouragements from the side~! Our teamname: ROJAK...

Real Magic

First time in my life, I witnesses someone performed magic in front of my face. No, its not the crappy disappearing acts me and Johannes did in bunk or some cheap magic trick to bluff kids off thier pocket money...

Yesterday afternoon at the SP-Pool competition at the Morbaly block, there was this guy called Elliot, (I think...) with flowing hair and a goatee. He approached the 3 of us (Me, JiaQing and Nick) and we had a casual chat. Then he pulled out a deck of cards from his pocket and spreaded it smoothly with his hand. Then I was thinking "Oh this guy's got some serious shit in him!". He asked JiaQing to pick a card and placed it at the bottom of the deck (We knew the card). Then with a quick flick of his wrist, Elliot somehow managed to transfer the card up to the deck. We were stupified...

Later he performed many other tricks that got us baffled and amazed. He is able to make objects like cards, coin, cigarettes vanish and re-appear. He even can tell what card I was thinking of by staring into my eyes! Freaky...

Now that's some cool shit... Seeing is believing...

I hurt some one, again and again...

It was last week i think. Half my class were in the library doing our CRS stuff. Some of my friends got cheeky, persistant and curious and tried to access my private stuffs in my lappy. S.Y. restraind me while J.Q. helped himself. Then, my rage kicked in. I broke free and in a spilt second did a bar-lock on J.Q. . I applied moderate pressure on him and he was yelling his head off... Thank god I did not apply max pressure. If not I would be behind bars! After that incident, I feel I was in the wrong...

Over the weekend, everything was forgotten and forgiveness was exchanged between us (Well, we felt that it was no big fuss and we treat that as fun. ). I even thaught him how to bar-lock others!

However, just this afternoon, shit happened again. J.Q , after completeing his circuitmaker, Just came over and bar-locked him. He applied some pressure on me and I felt my arm almost wanting to break. Well, its rage time. He locked my right arm, so i used my right leg and in 1 swift motion tried to trip him. However, he evaded. So I used my other free hand lifted him up and did a back-breaker! Due to the awkward centre of gravity, we tilted backwards and slammed the back of our heads on the wall!

I was stunned for a second or two. Then pain kicked in... J.Q. blacked out for a moment or two... then it seems that he did not experience any real pain. He was sufferering from severe shock I think. After that, it seems he was behaving quite strangely. He again forgive me... and that made me felt damn bad. Crap... it seems that I have repeated what I did last week! I was scared he injured something in his head and thats it!! I felt so fucked up...

Driving T.P... A bundle of nerves!!! >.<

Today has got to be one of the most tense day of my life. Much ($2200 and a whole load of effort) has been put in and it all boils down to this day. Its make it or break it...

Due to extreme kiasuism and nervousness I arrived at BBDC about an hour before. That made my brain go crazy even more. As I was fiddling with the one of the PCs there, my fix group instuctor Mr Wee tapped my shoulder. He wished me success before he left for lessons and reminded me to remove my earrings prior to taking the test. He was somewhat my savior as he gave me a strict driving test scenario and corrected many of my mistakes which I was still making yesterday afternoon. Other instructors from my fix group (6022) like Mr Foo (I always remember him for his sniffings whenever he talks) and Mr Lim (The one whom I drove to his house at Choa Chu Kang to pass a mail)...I am very grateful to them too. I spent the 1 hour of idleness playing mobile phone games. When it was about time, I registered for the test and proceeded for 1/2 hour of warm up in the test car.

At the vertical parking area, I steered too late and kinda mounted the kerb! I was like...that's it. But the instructor tried to calm my nerves and thus I contined with the warm up. And then, shit happens again. At the crank course, I once more mounted the kerb! Good Game!! Total of 20 points already...fail... if its the real test that is! Later, it was time to proceed to the road. Nothing major happened except that there was an instance where I somehow managed to move off in 2nd gear! I did not realize until the instructor pointed to the gear lever!

Back at the centre, I was a bundle of nerves! I was told to go to the 2nd floor to wait for the balloting of test routes. Again, waiting is a must and thus, I waited for another half hour. Honestly, I eyed beautiful ladies/girls to preoccupy myself and to calm myself!

We (all those taking the test), were called into the balloting room to randomly pick our lanes. Luckily I got test route 4, which was pretty easy. If I had gotten test route 6 or 8, I might fail as that would be the Teck Whye area in which there were many ups and downs, heavy traffic, u turns and "funny looking" filter lanes! We were left alone for about 10 minutes to study our routes. Then one by one, the testees were called out to their respective test vehicles. I was one of the last to be called out. My heart feels like its on my stomach as my tester "boomed" out my name. We proceeded to my car...

Throughout the circuit, I was really freaked... Afraid to make even the slighest error. When I was told to go to the main road. I somewhat heaved a sigh of relief. Half the battle is won. On the roads, everything went surprising smoothe. Even at those major roads with 3 or 4 lanes; when I was doing lane changing from the left to right, I remembered that a lorry graciously slowed down to give way to me! Then, I felt like unwinding my window and holla a thanks to him!Finally, I drove back to BBDC. As I stopped the car to allow the always-silent tester to alight, I was totally relieved!

Then, it was the moment of reckoning. Back in the balloting room, the tester grabbed a chair and we sat down. I was facing him with the assessment form on the desk. He casually ticked ticked and ticked and I was like fuck la...So many mistakes meh?? Stress.... Finally, he flipped the paper to the last page and tallied the marks...12... I was elated! (silently)

To cut the story short, I proceeded to get my photo taken and applied for the driving license!Thus, the record still maintains. For my army friends who taken school lessons, the 1st attempt pass is still at 100%!

World Cup 2006 Finals! Italy Triumphs!

Italy beaten France to penalties, winning their 4th world cup. Zinedine Zidane put the french in the lead with a cheeky penalty. Several minutes later, Italian defender Marco Materazzi made amendments to the penalty he conceded by heading Italy level with France. Zidane was sent off during extra time for head-butting Materazzi! The 2 main actors of this drama!! A anti-climatic end to the man with one of the most amazing football career...

So, its good bye Germany 2006, hello South Africa 2010! Can't wait!

The Paradox of Time

This is from my ex-CRS tutor, Mrs Mok. During her last lesson with us, she left us with this very interesting and meaningful message. Here goes...

The Paradox of Time

The paradox of our time in history is that,

we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers;

wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints;

we spend more, but have less;

we buy more, but enjoy it less.

We have bigger houses, and smaller families;

more conveniences, but less time;

we have more degrees, but less sense;

more knowledge, but less judgement;

more experts, but less solutions;

more medicines, but less wellness.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We have learnt how to make a living, but not a life.

We've added years to life, not life to years.

We've been all the way to the moon and back,

but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour.

We've conquered outer space, but not inner space;

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul;

We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.

We have higher income, but lower morals.

We've become long on quantity, but short on quality.

These are the times of tall men, and short character;

steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare;

more leisure, but less fun;

more kinds of food, but less nutrition.

These are the days of two income, but more divorce;

of fancier houses, but broken homes.

It is a time where there is much in the show window,

but nothing in the stockroom;

a time where technology can bring the letter to you,

and a time where you can choose either to forward this message,

and make a difference...

... or just hit delete.

Quitted...

My driving T.P. is near..very very near. And I can feel the jitters! The last training a couple of days ago seems okay. On the main roads, nothing serious happened. However for circuit-wise, I somehow have lost touch on how to park my car vertically! Whats worse is, today, I wass too engrossed in maple that I have forgotten to go for the 3.25pm driving lesson!!! I wasted 50 bucks and risk not being able to take driving T.P!!! Damn it!

Alright, this might sound negative but I have called it quits for dragonboat. Somehow I feel that I have let down many of my friends. But I feel I can go no where with it. Aside from taking suppliments, there is absolutely no way for me to get a buffed-up body. But that's besides the point... I agree that the trainings are physically tough but this does not mean I cannot take it. I just want more free time away from school. Now that I almost no CCAs at school, I regularly take log jogs at West Coast Park with Ju and/or Sam to keep fit.

Visions from 'GOD'

'GOD' just sent me some scary SMSes. Here they are..

090054912: KEVIN GOH HAN LEONG. DO NOT QUIT SMOKING. YOU WILL DIE IF YOU DON'T SMOKE. DO NOT GO AGAINST HEAVEN'S WILL. WARNING.

090076690: KEVIN GOH HAN LEONG. GOD IS EVERYWHERE. DO NOT IGNORE WARNING.

090076690: GOH HAN LEONG. GOD IS VERY SERIOUS. DON'T PLAY WITH ME.

090076690: OR Mi TUO HOOD...

Who is GOD? Cryptic....

My Last... Maybe?

My last stick for the day used up at bus stop outside SP. Would it be my last forever? Maybe in a long long time... I tried substituting mentos for cigarettes... hopefully its the cure...

I Had A Bad, Maybe Boring Day...

Perhaps that is the reason I come up with this blog. Crap... Sunday 2nd July 2006. Bored stiff... Woke up in the morning, and had breakfast wif Ah Ray. Later, with Ray, Ah A, Ah Ju, Ah A's Shu Mei, gone LAN gaming. After that they had this proposal that Everyone (Ah A, Ah Ju and Ah Ray with their girlfriends each + me) go watch superman. I was like... am I the odd one out? Should I find another girlfriend called Shu Mei too?? Feel so left out, I decided to go home and slack.

Then I thought about last night, where the 6 of them headed to Villa Bali for a drink while I am at home training Maple level... perplexing... Family relations VS "Being the extra"... Perplexing... Which shall I choose?

Also on the same night. Got scolded my papa for playing too much computer games. I do not wish to elaborate on this as it always happens between me and him. Later, England, which I somewhat secretly cheer for, got knocked out by Portugal. That sums up the bad day of 1st June 2006 Sat

Tomorrow the guys are going for a chalet at Sentosa and I am unable to attend due to schooling commitments! Sianz-Half....

As for later part of the evening, I guess I will be going for a run at West Coast Park again. Running from my troubles and sadness? Maybe...

New blog...

Testing... Old blog is at kevingundam.multiply.com... Most photos will still be available there...

Finally, boredom got the better of me. As I was surfing the net, I suddenly thought of my old blog and its restrictions. Unable to use cbox, unable to use css/java script, etc... Thus, I decided to start a new one. Marlborose! Marlboro + Rose! Don't know why I chose that name, but it ain't a tribute to smoking though!