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DAMN IT! i can't go to the bp gathering at east coast tomorrow! sorry guys, last minute changes man! i actually have a seperate gatheringat sentosa, which involves the permanent staff ogf my company. my superiors and officers will be there, and everyone is expected to arrive at 12 noon at harbourfront mrt! if not, will get punishment! i did think of going to east coast first thn go to sentosa then, but now looks like i'm faced with no choice. i mean, all my superiors are going, then there's a no show from yusri? it just can't happen. abit frustrating, 'cause i would have loved to go to east coast first. aargh, it's just too bad.

moving on, did you see THAT match? did you? if you didn't, wasted! arsenal vs juventus, that is! i booked in the night before 'cause i had duty the next day. watched the game with lyon in his bunk. haha he backed juventus to win, but after seeing non-existent displays from mutu, ibrahimovic and trezeguet it was a lost cause. when arsenal scored i practically screamed my head off in his face. at 3+ in the morning! what more, we were the only 2 pepole in the whole level. see? arsenal played such a wonderful passing game. the first goal was a beauty, fabregas basically PASSED the ball into the goal. did you see how buffon reacted? he DIDN'T! he just got rooted to the spot, probably in awe of how simple the goal he was about to concede seemed. right after the match ended i went to bathe and then reported for duty. didn't catch a wink the whole night!

the the morning after duty, i still managed to catch lyon vs milan. lyon was rooting for lyon(sounds weird doesn't it?) and me? same as him. but lyon disappointed me so much, i fell asleep towards the end of the match. BORING! me and lyon agreed if lyon made it through, he'd buy the jersey. same for me, if arsenal went through. though it looks more likely that i'll be the one buying.

yesterday night had a class birthday gathering. 30/03/2006, so as you can see there's a "30/03" in there, which was my class in jc. so ya, it's my class birthday apparently. might sound lame. so we celebrated it at swensens. was a small affair, only 8 people including me attended. so we left quite early, at around 10pm.

so tomorrow chalet at sentosa! though i'm abit sad i can't go east coast. haha i still can't understand why ALL the gatherings must happen during this period. within this 1 week period alone i have 4 different gatherings. FOUR! is no joke! i doubt anyone has like 4 gatherings within the space of a week. is crazy!

anyway till then.

p.s. - i'm terribly short on sleep man!

406

yesterday my secondary school class, class 406 of 2002 had a small reunion. after 3 years in the wilderness, finally someone mooted the idea of having a class outing out of the blue. took me quite by surprise, since i never really kept in touch with most of them. heck but it was still quite a good thing. was quite fun actually.

although the sad thing was only 16 people turned up (12 guys n 4 gals!) well anyhoots, it was still great fun. finally i met again my classmates whom i haven't seen for 3 years...what a long time ago that was! there was me, fairus, hadi, ernest, tiong huang, roger, yiep soon, qihui, ben shih, jia da(or jd), you wei, heting. amanda, meiqi, yanwen and carine. wasted terrence couldn't be contacted. (i'll tell you guys about terrence some time in the future, and why he's so famous in my school) we dined at seoul garden at marina square. is no joke i tell you, per head we paid $26! that's so expensive! and they still dare to put up the sign "$5 will be charged for every 100gm of food wasted" huh? wow...blood-suckers man these people..but it's not like you get to meet up with them everyday right? haha..so i did have fun eating out.

you know somethings never change. 3 years have passed, but i realise some things will never change. the guys might have changed physically. qihui is as tall as me now, or even taller! jia da looks more massive, but not as tall as he used to be last time. i remember last time i had to crane my neck just to talk to him. haha. everyone's hairstyle kinda changed, save for yiep soon. but character-wise, more or less the same. fairus was still the same, so was ernest and qihui, still as playful as ever. kinda brings back the memories you know. secondary school days were fun times. sometimes i think about it and i can just laugh. we did alot of crazy things every single day.

after dinner we went up the esplanade roof. my first reaction was "err, are we in like some mini-malaysia or something?" holy lord, the place was awash with mats n minahs! uurrggh. irritating and simply annoying. i sat on the ledge that overlooked the ground floor, and meiqi kept pleading with me to get off the ledge. i was like, "it's not like i'm standing on the ledge or something!" so paranoid she was. but in the end we all settled for a corner somewhere on the roof. and we wasted the night away just talking, joking and fooling around. sometimes you just wanna laze around and talk, especially with friends you haven't seen in a long time. it's nice to laugh about the silly things that we all used to do in the past. it's actually just like yesterday that i was still in bp. bp was a fun place to be in. i doubt bp is fun anymore now.

so we did manage to take quite a few pictures. there's one shot of me about to pee in the urinal! haha. think i'll upload some on my photopages. won't have alot, since i don't have any cameras and i steal all from hadi and yan wen's photos! haha.

well next week theres 3 gatherings i'm having! is crazy! muy loco! there's a small class gathering on thursday night (weird day ain't it?) which i might go, and there is another gathering among my malay bp friends at east cost on saturday, then there's a chalet organised by my company for the perm staff. i have to be present since my colleagues and my superiors will be there, and it will be on saturday through to sunday. it's madness! coupled with a badminton game on tuesday, then the following day i hav e duty back in camp. is total madness! so hectic!

but i'm enjoying my rest period now. but it seems i'm having much of a rest, since the week is packed. and i feel lethargic nowadays, due to lack of sleep. oh and i watched csi on my pc yesterday, or rather this morning, after i got home from my class outing. cool man the show! one of the csi guys got kidnapped this time round. and the show was 1 and a half hours long, so it would probably be screened as two episodes or a 2 hour special on tv. but it was very good. to know 1 or your own being kidnapped, there was an added motivation to find him.

csi should be voted the best tv serial ever i guess. it's just so damn good.

now

nothing much happened over the weekend, surprisingly. for the 1st time in years i was home on a saturday night. nowadays i'm quite free since i've no recruits in camp, but no one else is free. so in the i always spend much of time at home.

though yesterday afternoon naim called me out for lunch with zuraimi and nura at pizza hut causeway point. dear old cousin just got a break from thailand and is back here for 1 week. (actually he's not my cousin, even if he is he's probably my 3rd cousin. ah confusing as it sounds, i'll throw some light on to it the next time i blog) so we spent around an hour just chatting over lunch. finally i could get to meet him. i haven't seen him since god knows when. probably the last time was the a level results day. that's like more the a YEAR ago. wow, it's that long.

and finally after twice bringing holland to the finals of the international cup and ending up as losers, on the third attempt i made it to the final, i won it! yeah! beat brazil along the way too, 2-1 in normal time! impressive achievement ok! haha. i'm talking about pro evolition soccer 4, the game khamsya installed for me when he fixed up my computer. or better known as winning eleven 8. i's the same actually. yeah finally i won something with hollland! haha. spent like 1 and half hours to win that trophy! i want to go and get that championship manager 5 or fottball manager 5, because i prefer to manage teams than actually playing the game on computer. and playing the game on the computer seriously hurts my fingers. but it's not like i have a ps2 or something.

anyways tomorrow naim's flying off to thailand again. most likely i'll take time off to send him off. probably i'll pillion ramli or something. changi airport's so far! he checking in at 11 am, meaning what, i've to get up by 7am? that's madness. okay i think i'll wanna try bring holland to the finals again later. why holland? cause i'm supporting them for the world cup this june. which by the way i hope to catch it even though i'll be in camp.

party

it was party time! haha so i went to eunice's birthday party. but it was those kinda close-knit parties, not your wild kind. a party by the poolside actually. so at least it was nice to meet up with the classmates that i haven't seen for quite a while. and eunice looked kinda different from the last time we saw her. and the birthday cake!

the birthday cake! i thought my hello kitty cake that they bought for me, jerome and fab in 2004 was the ultimate. haha. anyway it was a barbie doll cake. basically its just this - imagine a pink cake that looks like a hill, then you plonk a real barbie doll (i mean an actual barbie doll) in to it, so the pink base becomes the flowing skirt for the doll. got that? so what we were eating was her skirt (to put it crudely). but i must say the cake wasn't that nice frankly, because it had sour berries in it. to top it all off, pink-coloured cream is simply disgusting. i hate pink. sorry eunice!

so on sunday i went out with sutan, nas, iman and sheikh to the IT show at suntec city. ran into sam,cs,darren and fadzry on the way. so weird. anyway as expected it was packed to the max there. i thought of getting those coloured earpieces for my creative player, but to wait in a queue that was at least 40m long just to buy a earpiece - you do the thought processing. so sutan bought that 30gb ipod mini is it? that video player worth $495. i think it was quite cheap. after that we walked over to bugis village and bugis junction.

and guess where i went last nite. to ZOUK! or rather phuture. (shhh kindly please not divulge this to my parents or you'll catch me next at the slaughterhouse!) hadi just got crazy idea to ask me out at night to go clubbing. actually we were supposed to head to Ministry of Sound, but decided to join lizzy and her friends at zouk. wow what an experience it was!

it was ladies' night and also retro night. i must confess the music played was mostly boring, firstly because i never really had a taste for retro songs, secondly i didnt know most of them. but heck. we reached there at 10 plus. so by 1130 the dance hall started to get packed. although the music wasn't really groovy or any of that sort that sort, but i kinda enjoyed jus shaking my body to the tune. no grinding around though haha. around 1230 or so the music kinda picked u. suddenly they played ghostbusters, it's my life by bon jovi, sweet child of mine by guns n roses, even rock dj by robbie williams (since when he's retro? but heck it was a good choice anyway).

but still me hadi and lizzy still concluded - retro night is just not for us. we should really go on thursday nites, where its hip hop n r&b night. where all the mats and minahs would come down and club. but i msut say it was quite an interesting experience clubbing last night. quite a number of eye candies too. although the clubbing was cut short, since hadi's dad kept calling. actually my mum was also calling me. so at around 1.15 am we left. so much for wanting to reach home latest by 3am. haha. but it was fun!

i wont go so soon again though. i think. it's too expensive. unless they have guy's nite. and the probability that happens is virtually zilch. see how. must go on thursday nights! and we need the GIRRRLLLSSSS! haha.( don't go telling on me ok!) haha. till then.

shit

so my recruits passed out last last tuesday. so it marks the end of my 1st ever batch that i had undertaken. i'm still quite a greenhorn in quite alot of things, so i better buck up. and i'm planning to get a tv for the new office, as part of the reorganising of the office area. i actually thought about repainting the walls, because the shade of blue made the whole place look small and cramped. but the thought of just bringing in the paint and wasting so much time painting - forget it. all it needs is a rearrangement of the tables and abit of spring cleaning. alot of spring cleaning, actually.

so i woke up at 3.30am on wednesday morning to catch the barcelona-chelsea match in my office. the first half produced no goals and it was so boring. i fell asleep during the second half, only to wake just in time to catch lampard score a penalty that was unfairly and undeservedly awarded. damn! i missed ronaldinho's goal then!and the that whole morning later on i had diarrhoea.

i probably got food poisoning or something like that. that whole morning, i went to shit at least 5 times. and it wasn't even semi-solid or what, it was completely liquid in nature(sorry, i just hadf to talk about it here) simply disgusting. every half and hour or so my ass would just give way. and my bowels were liquid, and had the distinct colour similar to the winter melon drink(i'm serious!) simply disgusting. the whole morning i jus lay in bed up in the bunk groaning. i couldn't catch any sleep because the sensation kept coming and going. simply annoying.

i only managed to book out during lunchtime. my body was really weak by then. i still managed to go out in the afternoon though, but by nighttime i had fever. it was quite high. from diarrhoea to fever. that's just great. in fact even now i'm still not completely recovered from the fever. i feel better now but not 100% yet.

just now, for the 1st time ever, i ate at bedok corner. probablyknown to others as simpang bedok. i dunno. wes drove us there for lunch. i only had mee soto because i didn't have the appetite to eat solid food(the effects of diarrhoea+fever). bedok corner probably ranks among those famous hawker centres in singapore, like maxwel rd, adam rd, newton circus, lau pa sat and the lot. i might sound like a loser by admitting this - that i haven't been to ANY of these hawker centres before.

why? two reasons - 1) my family don't eat out often, 2) such places are so out of the way. get what i mean? i mean one goes out to walk around, and around such hawkers centres there's nowhere to to walk around after u've eaten. which is true. i don't even pass by any of such places on my way to where i want to go. theres no shopping centres near any of these hawker centres. unless you're a hardcore food taster or u have a car, it's really hard to patronise such places.

so saturday is eunice's birthday party. its supposed to start at 6pm. but the weird thing is that it has an end timing. 10pm. its so weird. i mean it's not wrong or anything, but it's just weird. i mean, i thought parties would just go on till everyone feel they've had enough. and the place is rather far flung, out of the way. its somewhere at the end of tanjong katong road. no buses reach there directly. i must figure out how to get there. it's quite tricky actually. oh well. till next time.

new

so as you all can see for yourselves, i've done up the blog once again. actually it's still quite plain. but i think it's nice enough for my own eyes, don't know about you all though. i thought it would be nice to change things round a little, because it all gets too drab. i try to do things simple, especially when i'm never a mr. know-how. and when dealing with html configuration, i only know as much as i do know of how to build a rocket.

so my recruits are passing out in 2 days' time. after that it's the lull period, but i still have things to sort out. alot of things will be happening i guess.so far so good for my first batch. and i still have quite a number to go. nad last friday they had their 24km graduation route march. i must say i'm still very tired from that. it was a very harsh route

yesterday i went out with jj and fab. disastrous, to say the least. because it was an ill-prepared outing. so everything we did was rather unplanned and haphazard. but at least we did catch the first half of the fulham-arsenal game at chjimes. finally we see the return of the old arsenal that were once tagged as the invincibles.

you know why i like arsenal so much? it's because they have this ability to just stroke around the ball with so much flair, and at the end of it all one palyer will just have to pass the ball into the goal. there's so much ease in the way they play, and it was so easy for them to take apart all kinds of defences. in one sweeping move a defence will be ripped apart, and the goals will start coming. everything they did seemed so effortless. and for the record, emmanuel adebayor is probably the ugliest soccer player today, second only to luke chadwick i think.

correction, i think i should use the word 'fugliest'.

pay day is next friday, and i'm still thinking of what i really need to buy. i simply must get myself something. maybe that arsenal jersey. i can't resist the temptation. soon i shall buy it. and a digital camera? but that's too much. way out of my price range. maybe later in the year, but not now.

anybody knows where i can get cheap game cds? i'm getting bored at home man...i need the new cm5! anyone knows any lobangs?