something about us~

i haven't really had time to write a proper entry, I've been rather preoccupied over the last couple of weeks~ (i'll refrain from elaborating to spare u an essay long post...)

Figured with this being study week & all i'd get be able to get some time alone for myself but then came this thing with this 'cancer' pandemic so i've been turning in pretty early these past few nights, which only burns up time i most preciously need to read and review my lecture notes for the upcoming exams....

Camp today (although idle..) was rather fun. The waking-up process took a bit longer to ease into though... The scratching in my throat and the warmth from the night before where mainly to be blamed, but it got much more comfortable later in the day~

made myself tea and sipped it whilst reading the morning paper, occasionally dipping the butter biscuit & twinkie rolls i brought to camp that morning into my oOh soo sensual beverage~ The morning was pretty slow paced, but i had no complaints there...

During the early afternoon, we drove down to the Pass-Making Office which happened to pass by a large forested area much resembling that of an untamed country side, which i thoroughly enjoyed~ spent the remaining hours chillin with my friends, and having a great laugh whilst playing with matches and molesting each other out of boredom~

A chat about life out by the 'secret spot' opened my mind to certain thoughts bout my possible future.. of regrets and mistakes i'd hope to learn from, even though their not my own to make~

ate a couple of bananas and drank more tea, then headed home and made myself spagetti bolognese AND Carbonara for dinner. That's right, 2 flavors... and they were rather satisfying i might add~

My coughing has yet to cease, it isn't really wise of me to be smoking while in this frail state but i really can't be bothered~ besides, it's not like i'm on a 'one-pack a day' habit and i still don't consider myself a smoker...

so, yeaah~

i think tomoro would yield more fruitful activities but a part of me's hoping it won't so i could use the free time to heal... as of now i think i'd hit the books for a bit, at least until mom gets back from work or if it gets too late~

Hot to windy, rainy to cold~
God's seriously gotta make up his mind about the weather...






seriously....

meh~

spent the morning waiting at the clinic for my turn to come... was quarantined with all the fever patients cause of my 'flu-like' symptoms... had the mask on and everything. Didn't really go any faster despite of that~

got home and pretty much passed out from the meds... i've been drifting in and out of consciousness since then~ As of right this moment, i think I'm actually feeling better despite earlier discontent on only getting 1day MC~

Unfortunately, im still coughing like i've been smoking since 5yrs old so i could still die tomoro..

fuckin cancer...

not soo fine~

i'm having a horrible week...
Work and school's been just one big mess....

think the only thing i enjoyed bout the past few days was the hot chocolate my mom made last morning which took all my troubles away for that brief moment, and being able to finally watching "Schindler's List" on my itouch... great great movie~

a thousand times better than "i love you beth cooper" for sure. I swear, im never gonna watch stupid movies at the cinema ever again unless i know their gonna be good~

i'm praying for the weekends...
everything will be fine once i survive till friday~

timbre anyone?

super duper~

shawn & i found 2 cartons of beer in the pantry fridge. it was ment for the 15th day of the ghost festival or something like that which was gonna be held later on in the evening~

they set up a table outside by the pond and there was chicken, duck, char siew, the whole nine yards and other assorted goodies along with all the paper money and cloth~

the sun went down and after praying and burning all the offerings we dug into the awesome feast & drank Tiger at the parking lot... it was like a picnic, we talked and laughed and held our beer cans high as we toasted to safety and good tidings to come... The food was great, the drinks aplenty. We were the best team there & we knew it, we were on top of the world~

i left for class feeling buzzed and warm from the booze... late as usual but i was quickly forgiven~ had an interesting photo shoot by the lifts after class and reached home with the intent to complete my Public Relations Essay but was just even more confused about wad i was suppose to do~

this pretty much carried on till the next day as i fumbled with a suitable topic to write about, from Health Care to Propaganda... my mind was all over the place~

superdog-ed with ivan before headin to Queens and had the the most amusing conversation with iqbal on the way back bout gay dudes and the hotness lvl of afros after headin to sheng song to scout for sport-aid prices with chris~

lizzy called a few mins after i got home to help with my essay. we talked into the night & after hearing all her insight i must say, a clearer picture's been painted for me. In light of that, i think i now know what i'm suppose to do & i can't thank her enough :)

woke up early this morning and had half of my sister's egg sandwich before attempting to continue with the paper but decided i'd blog abit first for the hell of it~

there's a can of Double Mocha Nescafe hidden at the back of the fridge i've been saving for the right occasion, think i'd need to use it today...

enjoy ur weekend folks~

Revelry~

i woke up really early this morning... had a rather violent dream which disrupted my slumber, but it wasn't scary or anything like that...

i could feel myself tossing around in bed for abit. First thought that came to my mind when i woke up was 'WTF' because it was a really nonsensical dream, i can't even remember wad it was about except that it was really weird and there was a Horse~

finished bathing and got dress before six so i stoned around the house abit... made tea and cut a slab of Pandan Swiss Roll from the fridge. It was nice having the time to have breakfast before heading out, usually i'd be rushing to work the moment i got outt've bed.

its nice to finally enjoy a morning before sunrise to myself~

popped by the mini-mart downstairs to grab some lemon drops before strolling over to the bus stop... it reached just as i arrived to board it~

i wasn't surprised to see it only had like 2 people inside...

"i'm early today.."

i kept tellin myself that.. or maybe it was everyone else who was late.... and we're all actually slaves to a race of machines livin' in a virtual world~

i reached the flight at 7.30am.
work was rather subjective, but i had fun hanging out with my friends. We got released early thanks to the great one's leadership & got home just before six feeling totally exhausted...

i really need to get my priorities straightened out... there's so much to do and although this morning started out great, the week's endeavors have only just began to emerge~

the days leading up to the October will be taxing but at least I've got something to look forward at the week's end :)



and thats all i have to say today so,
good night~

summer song~

i spent the morning sippin' tea & eating biscuits before hitting the books... i wasn't really thinking bout the workload, just more on my understanding of things. was trying to work smart this time round, didn't wanna repeat past mistakes if u know what i mean~

Made myself a sandwich for lunch... wholewheat on lettuce with cheese and turkey ham plus a heavy dose of Mustard, mild of course, never did fancy the hot stuff. Indulged in my Nicholas Sparks novel for a few chapters before leaving the rest for the evening~

the conversation last night, although short-lived was rather enjoyable. It's been awhile since i've spoken with a person that way....
guess that was something worth adding~

had a flash back of my field camp days for some reason... Lookin back on what i'd been through, i'd say the future don't look so scary anymore~

restocked my playlist with a whole new bunch of songs... i'm feeling quite ready for the week ahead...
the thought of that delighted me~

bye bye, Blackbird~

balancing school and work is starting to take it's toll... I've been showing up late for work one too many times and it's getting annoying~ My mornings are getting mentally agonizing and Eden for taking my i-touch earphones the other day did not help in the transition...

today's the only day since last week that i've come home and not headed straight to the bed. i found the time to watch some television and blog for a bit... im at the last two chapters of the "WATCHMEN" novel so im gonna resume to that in a bit...

been doing alot of reading these days, maybe it's the whole 'going-back-to-school' thing that's making reading fun again, i'm enjoying the habit~

in these recent weeks i somehow feel quite contented with how everything's going... i like being kept busy, i like how i'm meeting alot of new people & learning alot in school... I like how although i pull plenty of stunts in camp & often get on their nerves, my mates still have my back~

it's a pity there wasn't much pictures taken during the days leading up to my birthday.. but here's a video the best friend (whom i've not been spending much time with recently & im sorry for that) took of me at her place some weeks ago... i think it's pretty funny~




PS: i thought Public Enemies was cool, why's does everyone keep complaining about it?
i'd totally be gay for Johnny Depp~

well, not really....

caked~

im loving the morning's weather for accommodating with me on this day of days, there isn't a finer morning one could have the luck of waking up to :)

i spent the time watching all the previous episodes of Prison Break that i had missed out over the past few weeks and did some reading by the open door...

the guys bought me cake yesterday and fed all of it to my face... we never even got to eat any of it which was such a pity seeing as how im sure it would've tasted swell~ clean up was a bitch but i had fun. With friends like them there's no needs for enemies really :)

party tonight, after party tomoro night~
no rest for the weary :p

holocaust~

today's suppose to be the solar eclipse of the sun by the moon or something like tat, but the rain pretty much ruined most of it... talk about cosmic irony~

everyone huddled around the tv to watch the live telecast of it on channel U, but it was just a bunch of reporters interviewing scientists and random pedestrians, like we give a shit bout all that.. just show us the bleedin eclipse already~

i didn't stay long enough to see if they actually did...
weather was nice and cool though~

aside from the fact that M** got H1N1 and everyone's freakin out bout whether or not we're gonna get locked up... everything's just dandy~ my first day of school the other day was awesome, it was a journalism class & it was super interesting, i was really intrigued.

the sudden stimulation has sparked a reading frenzy in me... i'm constantly lookin out for new reading material- mags, newspapers, books, texts, etc.

went to the library and got a book bout the Holocaust... kinda retrospective for the likely hood of impending Doom judging by how everything in the world's fallin apart~

Hmmm.... better stock up on Cheetos~

love like a sunset~

the one thing i can say about how my weekend went was that even though for the most parts of it i was totally wasted and judgment impaired, i still remember having an incredible time~

i thought Friday night's escapades were bad enough with the strange incident with "Creepy Old Guy" and animal psychology 101... but then come Saturday night's shenanigans which was no.2 on my list of alcoholic endeavours we don't talk about... the first one being the night of the Pineapple Malibu~

we don't talk about that night anymore...

my throat feels like shit, i've been speaking with a low gruff all day and did nothing to contain my bedhead~ taking into consideration how god's decided to make the weather today gentle, hot tea and a good movie is all i need right now to rejuvenate from the week's adventures~

i've been downloading tons of chick flicks & now my heart's all mushy from watching Sleepless in Seattle which has renewed my confidence in destiny's clasp on love~

im sure i'll get around to being cynical again in a few days time...
so, just shut up and let me be~


:)

a thursday night in july~

hello~

this month's been full of surprises. i find myself constantly occupied with things to do. For the first few days i was hardly at the computer as much and i quite enjoyed the feeling. I should try & make this more of a habit...

In the times that i'm free i read. Even in the times when i'm not suppose to which is most aggravating to my peers. It just takes one good book to put the fun (not to mention momentum) back into reading again, kudos to that~

Aside from the dreams of death my mom and Winson's been having of me and the mysterious blue sex-ball floating around in the pond, camp's been cool. Our first ever Night Training acouple of days ago was a hoot, but damn was i exhausted.... i blame my fatigue on the frequent binging of the packets of "MAMEE" and "Chicken Rings" in our pantry. Their fucking MSG Bombs but damn do they taste gooood~

i've got quite a hand full of places to go to this weekend and i'm hoping to attend them all if i can. Sometimes i wish cars weren't so unaffordable. Or maybe hurry up and discover the science behind teleportation, im sure that'll soon make roads obsolete.

It's the 21st century after all, you'd figure this kinda stuff would have been invented by now. The world's moving faster now, only fair people learn to catch up to it...



in more ways than one~

2 steps forward, 1 step back~

the Email finally came to announce our way overdue promotion from Private to Lance Corporal after being in the Army for more than a year now. We were supposed to be LCP since May but due to whatever processing delay, we only got it 2 mths later...

better late than never i suppose~

Went to my 10 year high school anniversary dinner 2 nights ago with a few of my old classmates. It's been a long time since i've set foot on the school grounds, lot of memories.. mostly bad ones, but that was a long time ago lol~

met acouple of my old teachers, non of them could recognize me anymore... i was incredibly low profile back then so im not surprized. Food was mediocre, the dinner shows were lame and i wasn't really paying attention to any of it to begin with... it was cool just to hang out with my friends i suppose, it didn't have to be over dinner at a formal event like this~

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Made the final preparations for my studies yesterday. All i have to do now is just show up for class in 2 weeks time~ i was feeling bold & took 3 modules for the upcoming semester...

-Journalism & News Broadcasting
-Public Relations
-Advertising

i'm definitely syched about it :)

headed over to Delphi to get my portfolio and stayed for some financial talk bout saving money and all that. it was okay, i thought it would be ment more for like "working class adults" but it was rather general, think young adults would have been able to relate to it as well, so yeah~

left town and headed to Tampines to meet V & had my first meal of the day at Carl Jr. before catching Revenge of the Fallen. Alot of people said it was awesome but most of them, knowing how my taste in movies depends mostly on plot and dialogue, said i might not enjoy it as much since it was just riddled with tons of CGI-ed fight scenes & very little character development...

so i kept an open mind... somehow i didn't think i would walk away from a Transformers movie cursing and swearing...

when i saw Optimus Prime drop of from the Helicopter and transform in slow motion i couldn't help but giggle like an 8 year old boy... i think the plot of alright, for a movie bout Alien Robots invading earth, it doesn't have to be so realistic~

Loads of fight scenes of both the Robot & Human kind... i think the movie was kinda showing off how advance the U.S. military is with their airships and submarines etc. there was a subtle "don't fuck with America" message in the whole thing, maybe u caught it as well~ lol

the other annoying thing bout the show was how it kept playing "21 Guns" & "New Divide" over and over again... their nice song & all but a lil variety would be nice~

overall the movie wasn't great or anything like that... but the fight scenes were rather epic. It failed to leave an impression on me but it took me on a journey and that's the next best thing a movie can give :)

u can't go wrong with a Transformers movie lah~

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Lastly, i'd like to wish a bunch of my friends born in July a happy 21st/22nd Birthday...

-Michelle
-tz
-Shawn
-Khadijah
-Eddy
-Remi
-Denis
-Regynna
-yk
-Aloy
-jf
-minty
-wayne
-jy

Every time u celebrate ur bday, u celebrate mine as well cause my bday's everyday and don't u forget it :)

i sing you to me~

the start of the day,
for me...
begins once the music starts to play~

before i even put on my shoes, my earphones are dawned first. After taking a moment to scroll through the tracks... once the music starts, thats when the day can begin~

hello July!
Great things await me this month~
i look forward to the events that shall derive from it :)

a month that has brought rain to this humid land, and perhaps a little hope to new beginnings. Tons of birthdays to be celebrated in the upcomming weeks, not to mention my own. i have at least 7 parties to attend lol. "Woe is me" to have to decide which i friend i must forfeit seeing as how i can't possibly attend them all.

i spent most of the time in the Ops Room reading to Winson the "Macabre tales of Singapore and Malaysia in the 50's" aloud... it was this random Ghost storybook he'd randomly found and brought to the flight.

The pages were fallin out...
its illustrations substandard...
hahaha~

it was written by some Malayan Journalist named Othman Wok in the 50's and was published later by his eldest daughter in 1991. (so says the Preface...)

the stories where rather tame, not the least bit gruesome but fun to recite surprisingly. The language written was comparable to that of a high school student well-versed in his primary tongue. It lacks certain imagination & depth but to be fair, it was "old school" horror so much shouldn't be expected~

i finally finished watching "Australia" on my itouch after having uploaded it like a week ago. The landscape was like another character all by itself, not bad at all~ i quite liked the accents of Huge Jackman and Nicole Kidman in the movie too.

Couple of people died, which was sad, but understandable. Overall a well-to-do show, not exactly mind-blowing, but it did tickle my emotions just a bit...

Not a bad way to spend three hours :)

"Just because it is, doesn't mean it should be..."



ciao~

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!~