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i just got home from a minor shopping trip. i went out alone to buy jeans. oh they were having a sale. no wrong, in fact everyone's having a sale nowadays! so i had to just take advantage of them, so i bought 2 pairs of levis jeans for a combined grand total of $108.

i suppose i'm quite cheapskate, but i mean, the more recent n newer models are so expensive! 1 pair can cost up to $139 (which is so much more thn the 2 pairs that i've just bought!). i can't just simply blow $139 on a pair of jeans, it's utter madness. so i guess i got myself a good deal (though it still can't beat my $40 levis jeans that i bought from seiyu bugis junction a few years ago!)

yesterday i went jamming with fab jj and jimmy. as if i can play anything actually. i'm trying to learn how to play the bass actually, although when we jam i do sometimes pick up the drumsticks and just whack the hell out of the drumset, even thought i've no previous learning experience of drumming. see, that tells you how amatuer the 4 of us are. we aren't good yet because we amateurish and we don't get together often. but i'm now actually just trying to get a good grasp of playing the bass. but for more effective learning, i simply have to get hold of 1 of them to practise. yesterday my poor little index finger got so tired very easily because i wasn't used to pucking thick strings on the bass, which is thicker n stiffer then the acoustic guitars i practise on.

but buying a bass? that's crazy too. i mean firstly the money problem. secondly, and electric bass needs a different amplifier of its own so thats anther point to note. thirdly, what's the point of buying a bass? i mean you can play only bass, and not like the normal guitar, where you can -lay all sorts of things on it, even bass. but if i do want to master the bass, i just can't simply buy a normal guitar. furthermore it's not like we are gonna be the next electrico or ronin, hence why bother buying a bass? so how?

anyway after 2 hours of jamming we went to have dinner, then headed down to chijmes to catch the manchester derby on tv. i'm glad i caught it because it was quite an exciting match. what was more satisfying was that man united came out as complete losers after the match. they lost the plot completely through the well-taken goals from man city. and the last goal was scored by robbie fowler, the one-time england's most natural finisher. i still don't understand what they mean by being a 'natural finisher'. you mean those who've been scoring more goals all their life are faking it or just acting the scoring out? i still can't understand it one bit. how do you look natural while scoring? i mean surely it HAS to be natural for strikers to score, since their main job is to score anyway.

ah soon i've to book in anyway. tomorrow i'm on duty again. like last saturday. and last saturday i nearly died of boredom. just imagine sitting in the office manning the phone for say nearly 12 hours with nothing to accompany you except the radio? i got so bored i actually sent in a song request to perfect 10, but i completely forgot to dedicate it to anyone. probably those who tuned in to perfec 10 at 8+ at night would have caught it. i was the bugger who requested for blink 182's feeling this. haha the funny thing is not even 10 minutes after i sent in the sms, the dj read it out already. haha it was all so funny i laughed. this is what happens to someone who goes mad due to extreme boredom.

and the next 2 weeks are busy days in camp. in fact i'm confined in camp next week. means i'll have to give the class outing the miss, if it's still on anyway. but i think it will be a poor turnout. and fort minor's coming to singapore to perform on 1st march! haha i've never been to any such concerts my whole life, and i feel like i want to give it a try! not say i'm a huge fort minor fan anyway, but i think it would be good to just escape from the monotony of life in camp and go catch a night concert! haha we'll see how it goes then. till then, ciao!

sorry

i'm back! i think i owe some people an explanation. ok, actually its just this - my computer got cranked up and went kaput on me! hence i could not go online, what more blog, for 3 weeks or so because i didn't know how to go about fixing my computer. anyway the cpu was rather old (1998 edition!), so i felt i was high time i revamped my cpu.

and walla! $950 forked out in 1 shot($950's no joke man) to piece up a brand new cpu! got alot of help from khamsya who helped me fix the whole thing up. so its now up and running, and its even faster than ever. i know, maybe $950 is abit too much but hey, its MY money, not yours!

so sorry to you all (especially our dearest taiwei) for not blogging. i couldn't help it you know. so here it goes, what's been happening so far.

i shall reflect on 2005 1st. actually, i've got nothing much to say. all i can say is 2005 happened so fast i can't remember anything much actually. what happened man? i only got my a lvl results, failed my driving test, enlisted in army and basically that's it. but it's good 2005 zoomed past this fast, since nothing much happened for me really. although i must say i've met all kinds of people due to my enlistment in the army, so i guess my circle of friends has expanded? maybe so.

well on saturday the 31st of december i went out with jerome and fabian to town. they wanted to do some last minute shopping, taking advantage of those last minute sales. there were nice clothes at topman, but i felt they were too pricey despite the discounts.so we shopped for a while, went to borders played pool and they soaked in the celebrations that rang around orchard road.

actually, it was just people spraying around that foam thingy to other people. oh, and alot of those bangladeshi and indian workers were also present at orchard road. everyone was spraying at each other, but i didn't want to haha/ but i ended up being wrongfully targetted at (it was fabian who sprayed this girl,but she thought it was me so she sprayed that thing at me). but i must add that the celebrations were rather muted. it was either there wasn't really any party going on there, or it's just the nature of singaporeans not being wild enough. i think we are just like that, most of us just don't want to reveal the wild side of us so easily. maybe i'm wrong, i don't know.

on another note maybe i've said this before, but i'm now a bmtc instructor. the section commander of bmtc sch2 pegasus company, platoon 1 section 2! haha so now what i do is handle all those newly enlisted recruits i once used to be. it's quite an experience actually. instead of going through all that training anymore, i now conduct the training, though i still have to participate in some of them.

i've been striving to be that mr. nice guy, which i am, but sometimes when the recruits go too far i feel i must step in. like that, when for the 1st time ever i punished them haha! but i felt deserved it. tell me how ridiculous can it get when they give me a reason for falling in late that is so preposterous - that they wanted to kill a cockroach that was running around their bunks. of course, i blew up. what kind of a reason is that? of course i deemed it unacceptable.

but other than that things have been okay. well, almost. there's still things i'm not sure of, since i'm still a greenhorn. but i'll take it slowly, 1 at a time.

oh, something weird happened to me 1 fine day when i was relaxing in my platoon office. i was just lying down on the sofa in my office because i was tired. i was just about to fall asleep when i felt something hold my right hand and sitting on my stomach. i could feel the pressure upon my stomach, and i found it slightly harder to breathe. i tried to stick my head out and open my eyes, but i could feel something obviously trying to hold my head back and force my eyes to remain closed. then 'it' touched my left hand. the pressure on my stomach was increasing, and i was struglling to open my eyes. something was definitely sitting on me. then it disappeared.

suddenly i could sit up straight. what the hell was that? i thought i was just dreaming, so i didn't bother much. i carried on sleeping, this time round leaning on my left side. then i felt it again. this time, i tried to tilt my head towards the right, but i could feel something pressing against my head, preventing me from moving. i really felt paralysed then. for half a minute i couldnt force open my eyes and was trying to move my head, but i simply couldn't. then 'it' disappeared, and suddenly i turned my head and sat up straight again. nothing was there!

but i didn't think much about it, until later on. only then i realised that 'it' must have been some sort of spirit, since i knew there was no humanly presence around when it happened, and i am quite sure i was awake when it happened. so how to account for this? frankly speaking, i don't know. quite scary ain't it?