english summer rain~

hello~
i hope u had a good weekend.

met up with ced & jess for dinner last saturday, i haven't met them for awhile now so it was nice seeing them again. Went for dinner at this Japanese Marche-type Restaurant at the basement of Heeren.

not too bad.. the price was "Okay" for food that was "alright". Never was a fan of Jap food, i'd usually just end up eating their "Western" meals there anyway. But i guess it was partially the company which set the tone...

bounced to Starbucks for a drink and talked till it got late~

but i think the highlight of my weekend was seeing Karen again :)
seventeen years is a long time and our trip to the café was much overdue. Drove to this neat place at Dempsey called "Jones the Grocer". It had this industrial looking, warehouse look with it's high ceilings and cement floor, lots of steel too... one would expect the glaring silver to make the place feel clinical and cold, but the reality was quite the contrary~

we sat down outside by the curve and re-introduced ourselves all over again... like meeting a new friend you've already met before, if that makes sense. It was really fun reminiscing and sharing each other's different memories from the past... we talked and talked till she had to go off to meet her mom~

i had a great time~

met Fazil about an hour after i got home for an evening run by the shore... weather's super sticky.. even in at night~ damn nuclear powerplants fuckin up the atmosphere... we're all gonna get cancer and die from it one day, i swear~

and that pretty much concludes my awesome weekend...
why aren't they showing "State of Play" in the movies anymore?! the fuck am i gonna do for tomoro now-_-

today's weather at the end was great... in addition to that, mother bought spam for tomorrow's breakfast.

im feeling really super :)

before and after~

summer's been showing it's warm and sticky side these past few days... but that's okay, as long as it brings along a good storm~ i got my Confirmation letter to college today, been waiting for that letter since monday. Most probably headin down next week to finalize everything, course selection etc~

in relation to that, here are 10 jobs (in no particular order) i'd love to have in the future should god decide to grant me the fortune of obtaining any of these positions...

1. Travel Lifestyle Journalist

2. A Presenter on "Lonely Planet"

3. Host my own show on the Travel Channel

4. Cultural Anthropologist

5. Novel Writer

6. Freelance writer of travel and personal interest.

7. Food Critic

8. Wine Merchant

9. Have my own article column in TIME magazine

10. Correspondent for National Geographic

i doubt im even qualified for any of them to be honest, but im trying to see them as potential goals in which to strive for and not just a personal wish-list to be taken for granted~ contrary to the wine merchant thing of course, thats more of a retirement investment :p

im in desperate need of a camera or at least some kind of image capturing alternative, like a really good cellphone that takes pictures :) my blog needs something more appealing to look at other than a bunch of words & "copy n' paste"-es of stuff i get from the internet...

nothing too fancy either, just a simple digital camera with video functions oughta do, too many buttons would just confuse me anyway... all u need is the zoom functions and the snap + record button and we're all set for a day of shooting hahaha :)

last night was one of the most nostalgic nights i've ever had... i found an old old OLD friend through the wonders of the internet and we made plans to meet this Sunday for coffee~

i still remember the blissful fun times we had as kids~
that was 17 years ago...
pretty magical ain't it :)

The King of Pop passed away this morning... i never knew him, but i owned a couple of his CDs back in the day... or rather cassettes tapes~
u will be missed...

nontheless,
have a nice weekend.
i know i will~

homosayswad?~

man, my drinking skills have seriously decreased over the months... not that it's been extraordinary or anything like that in the 1st place, but at least it took me a few drinks before i got tipsy....

spam & eggs for breakfast then headed to Plaza Sing in the afternoon.... met up with mel and walked + talked from dhoby to far east then bugis and back to town again.

had a good ol' fashion burger for dinner before headin home... made plans to go timbre next friday so at least i'll have sometime to look forward to during the weekdays~

hmmmm.......
think if i buy a mahjong table you people will wanna come my house to play?

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i feel like drinking bandung sial~

peachee~

there was nothin to watch on tv so i popped in the "Mama Mia" DVD while havin lunch and occasionally i'd pause from eating and cringe as the characters broke into song and dance like a weird fusion of Western Bollywood-ism....

i never understood musicals, it just lacks realism but the show had alot of physical expression i guess... then my dvd player started jerkin the picture so i just turned it off and went to do my chores~

later on i got hungry again but i'd already finish all the bacon the day before, there were these little bottles of salted pickles and spicy fermented tofu cubes in the fridge... (u know the kind u eat with porridge?)

so i grabbed a pot and tossed in some rice... etc~
i think its the 1st time i've ever cooked porridge so, i just stood by the stove and kept stirring to since i didn't know how long it'd be done~

so err, 20 mins later it was done and i had the weirdest self-made "snack" of porridge and pickled vegetables at 4 in the afternoon....

ok well, headin out now so... yeah... super weird day, tats all im saying~

magic moments with martyrdom~

drove down to Far East last night with an old friend of mine to meet this tattoo artist for a consult on how to cover up the "eccentric" design on my back~ he suggested some ideas to me which i was quite fond of, but.. to cover up everything would take alot of work, alot of money, and a whole lot of pain~

im gonna end up with an entire back piece... tats pretty intimidating, even for me~ he tells me its gonna cost, at the very least, 2-3k which is practically impossible for me to conjure up since im onli gettin a measly 400 bucks a mth -_-

and even if i somehow struck the lottery and had tat amount of cash, its gonna take btw 7-10 sessions... each session being probably 3-4 hours long... all of which, most likely to hurt immensely :(

but i really want it done, guess i'd just gotta start savin i suppose~ it's only a matter of time~

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took Leave today from work to go down to Dhoby to register for my school. im totally psyched about it, can't wait :) met R later to watch "i love you, man"... tat movie's totally hilarious!! its witty and funny and quite different from other "chick-flicks"... though i wouldn't really categorize it as one~

but nontheless...
its a really sweet film and i give it a whooping 8.5 outt've 10.
woo hoo~

went to Blue Urban later with cas for a bite and chatted for a bit... haven't seen her in a while so yeah, it was cool... can't believe she's flying off to aussie for 5 mths~

everyone around me's going off to some foreign country for mths on end & im still stuck here to cook in this unrelenting humidity that constantly surrounds this damn island-_-

gawwd~

runway cycling this sunday.... i hope they don't call us back for it, i've already made plans -_-

and now im off to bed~

above the rest~

we got our new seaweed uniform today... looks like shit but feels really light and soft to the touch~ brings back alot of memories bout my days in tekong. The prestige still goes on too.. people still raise an eyebrow when u reveal u were from Ninja Company~



doubt i'd be wearing it anytime soon though... Air Force Personel much prefer the colour blue...


school's starting, can't wait.. be good and wish me luck~

over and out..

short stories~

yesterday's impromptu trip to Vivocity was quite delightful~ the walkin around took my mind of certain things which i felt had been hovering in my thoughts for far too long...

there was this event going on in the middle of the place which featured foreign designers sellin their wears at a nifty price. Bought a cool vintage tee for only $15 bucks there... so i was quite content :)

caught "The Taking of Pelham 123" at GV, not a bad movie at all.. very "New York City" if u know wad i mean... i give it an 8 out of 10~

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i went to the library this morning...

i spent a long time lookin at all the different books and deciding which of them were worth my time to even, so much as open the first page... i take ages to choose a book i really like.

But i seldom read story books, im more of a reference reader if u will.. history, cookbooks, literature, tat sort of thing~

so like, after an hour or so, i finally choose these elite few which i'm carrying in my hand and i walk over to the do-it-yourself machine thingy and realized that, oh shit, i forgot to bring my wallet.

so there i was, after browsing at all the many books having finally chosen the few which i wanted and theres no way for me to check them out~

so i was like fuck it and just go home... hid the books somewhere near the Chinese section. Figured no one would go lookin for them there since most of the librarians were malay..

i got home and there was my wallet on my dresser where i had left it the night before when i realized, "hey..." i don't have an IC to borrow books with... i need to use my EZ link. which i've already been carrying around with me the whole time~

"fuck me..."

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headed down to Bugis later that day for dinner then walked around Junction and Street hoping to find some good bargins..... found none~

bounced to Haji but found nothing there as well... as much as i have great faith in the "walking-around-aimlessly-in-hopes-something-cool-will-reveal-itself" phenomenon, it was starting to look futile~

we made a final attempt to go to check out the Iluma. Didn't think there was anything special in there to begin with but found this neat store with cool Tees going at a cheap rate.

u gotta luve the great sg sale man... bought 3 shirts from there and thanked the cute sales girl as we headed home with great satisfaction :)

it's not just girls, guys feel happy too when we shop~

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im missin my mates from Ninja... its our 1 year anniversary and we gotta party like its 1987...

VIVA LA NINJA COY!~

raja-laba-laba~

tomoro marks the one year anniversary of me being in the army for... well, a whole year~ and today, marks the "one year to go" mark for when i ORD~

i had a good day today... kinda made up for last night's incident which i thought would've ruined my whole week~
but i feel good today... so yeah :)

my back hurts, feels like some one elbowed it.. but i haven't been tied up recently so im wondering wad's the cause... think im not sleepin in the right position or something, maybe its the damn jerking of the vehicles, i dunno~

i need a back rub & some HELLO PANDAS...

kaybye~

i need a translator~

a friend of mine sent me some chinese songs which, i had happened to mention, sounded "catchy" when i first heard them on the radio... i put them in my itouch and i've been listening to them at over and over again obediently in hopes it will improve my mother tongue~

the advice given by my friends were to..
no.1, Speak more Chinese~
unfortunately most of them have given up trying to converse to me in Mandarin. So, advice number 1... FAIL

next was to.. "Watch more Chinese TV shows"~
wad, those wacky variety shows from Taiwan? hell no~ & if ur talkin bout the local drama shows on channel 8, come on -_- anyone who knows me knows im not into that~
Advice number 2, FAIL

last one's to "Listen to Chinese Music"~
now this one's more do-able... and to be honest, some of the Music's actually nice :)

the 1st song i've ever thought worthy of uploading into my mp3 player back in my poly days was "Qing Tian" from Jay Chou... my guitar teacher thought me tat song and even he was Malay~

i tried downloading a few more and slowly a pattern emerged... the Piano seemed to be the instrument of choice in most of the songs, every song seemed to sound the same... it was hard to tell them apart~

even the song titles had to be changed to the "Han Yue Ping Ying" version or i'd won't be able to read it~ it was such a pain to catagorize them... so i gave up and went back to Foo Fighters & Panic at the disco~

that is, until now....

most of it still kinda sounds boring, but some are nice lah... most i got are from Jay Chou and Wang Lee Hom... i love "Xin Tiao"~ its really sweet... no idea wad it means but catchy nontheless :)

oh, i saw this Flyer in the notice board next to my lift about some Chinese tution class for P4-6 or something... i read the 1st line and was like, WTF -_-

"PLAYING WITH WORD. Available both for chinese and other racers.

Learn around 1,000 the most frequently used words in 1 year, kids can read Mandarin story more easily.

Traditional chinese "San Zi Jing" inclueded"

spotted any mistakes?
not only are there hideous spelling errors, the Grammar is just fucked from the start.

"Play with word"? like.. just one?
oh, and racers can learn to, the F1 kind~

"Learn around 1,000 the most frequently used words in 1 year"
the fuck does this even mean?!

then there's "inclueded"
si mi lan jiao eh this one, no excuse to get this wrong!!! -_-




ihope i won't be sacrificing one language for another~
BEH~