Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Back to School!
Today, Tuesday morning.
I went back to visit my secondary school, Boon Lay Secondary School (BLSS), today and alone. I went back to visit my teachers (as the next day is Teachers' Day) who taught me well, and because of that I am where am I now.
Why did I go back to visit alone, you might ask?
Well, first of all, I didn't actually wanted to go alone anyway. I tried asking Elvin that bastard, to join me since he's free. But he gave me the worst of all excuses. He lived too far away to visit (See lah, this kind buddy I got... Haiz... He haven't even visited his school once after he graduated from BLSS...)
Anyway, I still went there alone, for I felt compelled to. Expecially when I've achieved another milestone in my acaedemic life fot the poly graduation. I thought that I ought to visit my BLSS.
After all, though a person should not regret the past and should have foresight. A person should have some hindsight too, to appreciate the things other people had done for you in the past, no matter how big or small a thing that other people had done.
Cos' a person who does not appreciate or acknowledge his or her past, will not understand the present and will not see the future.
Anyway, when I reached the school. Memories simply flowed smoothly through my mind, as if they were still yesterday. I looked upon a board of the school staff structure.
And I immediately spotted Miss Cheong, my secondary 3 and 4 physics teacher, Miss Chiang, my form teacher for secondary 4, and Mr Soh, my NCC mentor as well as my secondary 3 POA accounts teacher.
I walked my way up to the staff room. I saw Mrs Chan, talking to her other former students.
But I was approached by Madam Loo instead, the Head of Department (HoD) of Mother Tongue, Chinese teacher who recognised me (even though she did not taught me before).
I always see her every time when I came to BLSS for a visit around the Teachers' Day (but I always missed my other teachers who left the school compound, because I was always late in coming).
Madam Loo helpfully leaded me the teachers I wanted to see.
The first person was to Mr Tan, that seemingly senile Mathematics teacher when I'm in secondary 3 and 4. No need to say, he didn't recognised me anyway.
I was brought to Mr Soh. I've always met him every visit. He was a good teacher. I never seen him shouted or scolded students, he only reprimands in a way where he doesn't look like reprimanding. He earned his respect by his "solemn" teachings and mentoring.
The next was one of my favourite teachers, Miss Cheong. Whom I finally see for three years. She recognised me, even though my appearance was greatly changed.
But I came as a challenge. She asked me not to tell her my name. Then she simply stand there right in front of me thinking hard, trying to remember my name, in a thinking posture.
For about 5 minutes through, I gave her some hints of my name. From "being the only student who always raise his hand in the lab to answer your questions" to "My name start with J, end with Y, the second letter is E, the third letter is the letter after E".
But she still got it in the end.
She only remembered I was very studious-looking last time. Short and seemingly skinny looking. She also remembered I had very nice handwritings which made her marking of homework task easy.
The next teacher I met was Mrs Chan, my secondary three history teacher. Though during that year, she only taught my class and I for only half a year before she went for a course. We definitely missed after that. Because our history grades dropped after being taken over by several relief teachers.
Though I topped my class in the last history paper that year, I think only got 44 marks, meaning a failed paper. Ha ha!
Anyway, it was Mrs Chan who gave me words that made me push my history grades to the top from secondary 3 to 4. In the end, I topped my cohort in the O Levels exams with my A1 grade. The only regret was not able to thank my secondary 4 teacher, Mrs Sasi, who helped me made that achievement possible. She too, was part of that certain motivation.
Mrs Chan was the HoD of Humanities. She asked me why and where were the rest of the year 2000 batch and my classmates. This same questions were popped by the Chinese teachers there later.
Anyway, Mrs Chan took me to her HoD office where she took down my contact number, while I took down hers. She said maybe I could be the year 2000 batch alumni contact person, for there would be a great big celebration of the BLSS 30th anniversary after three years later, from now... (This seems like a hercluen too big for me, but I didn't say "yes" either... Haa...)
After writing down our contacts. I met Miss Chuah (as I always remembered her), or perhaps I should called her Madam Chuah now. I told her I was her secondary 2 science student, and she was my form teacher.
Once I told he that year was one of her worst teaching year because she lost her voice then, She remembered clearly. Because my class then was a menace, even I hated being that class.
She remembered me being the "small and tiny". But now I'm well built.
The next teachers to meet were the four Chinese teachers; Madam Chua who taught me my Chinese in secondary 1, Madam Ng who taught me my Chinese in secondary 2, and Madam Peng who taught me my Chinese in secondary 3 and 4 (my favourite Chinese teacher) and the HoD teacher, Madam Loo.
They were the four longest serving Chinese teachers, always together in BLSS, I think.
I talked to Madam Peng. I think It was her who made me realised how good my Chinese language could be and she made the subject easy to swallow. I've always hated doing the Chinese language subject since my primary school days.
But for that year she taught, not only that I was no longer hating my Chinese subject, I enjoyed it.
The next and last teacher to meet was my secondary four form teacher, Miss Chiang. When I saw her, I felt like laughing because I couldn't believe her haifstyle now...
Haa...
I didn't like her in the past because she confiscated my discman before, and said behind my back (hearsay through Elvin) that "I couldn't even make it to poly, neither the less, JC (junior college)".
Anyway, we talked, about my class and the people.
She said she enjoyed being with that class.
After that, I went to take Miss Cheong's contact number first, then, I said my goodbyes to my teachers before I went home, while all the teachers prepared themselves for a mass teachers lunch...
Hope to see them some time again, next time...
Today, Tuesday morning.
I went back to visit my secondary school, Boon Lay Secondary School (BLSS), today and alone. I went back to visit my teachers (as the next day is Teachers' Day) who taught me well, and because of that I am where am I now.
Why did I go back to visit alone, you might ask?
Well, first of all, I didn't actually wanted to go alone anyway. I tried asking Elvin that bastard, to join me since he's free. But he gave me the worst of all excuses. He lived too far away to visit (See lah, this kind buddy I got... Haiz... He haven't even visited his school once after he graduated from BLSS...)
Anyway, I still went there alone, for I felt compelled to. Expecially when I've achieved another milestone in my acaedemic life fot the poly graduation. I thought that I ought to visit my BLSS.
After all, though a person should not regret the past and should have foresight. A person should have some hindsight too, to appreciate the things other people had done for you in the past, no matter how big or small a thing that other people had done.
Cos' a person who does not appreciate or acknowledge his or her past, will not understand the present and will not see the future.
Anyway, when I reached the school. Memories simply flowed smoothly through my mind, as if they were still yesterday. I looked upon a board of the school staff structure.
And I immediately spotted Miss Cheong, my secondary 3 and 4 physics teacher, Miss Chiang, my form teacher for secondary 4, and Mr Soh, my NCC mentor as well as my secondary 3 POA accounts teacher.
I walked my way up to the staff room. I saw Mrs Chan, talking to her other former students.
But I was approached by Madam Loo instead, the Head of Department (HoD) of Mother Tongue, Chinese teacher who recognised me (even though she did not taught me before).
I always see her every time when I came to BLSS for a visit around the Teachers' Day (but I always missed my other teachers who left the school compound, because I was always late in coming).
Madam Loo helpfully leaded me the teachers I wanted to see.
The first person was to Mr Tan, that seemingly senile Mathematics teacher when I'm in secondary 3 and 4. No need to say, he didn't recognised me anyway.
I was brought to Mr Soh. I've always met him every visit. He was a good teacher. I never seen him shouted or scolded students, he only reprimands in a way where he doesn't look like reprimanding. He earned his respect by his "solemn" teachings and mentoring.
The next was one of my favourite teachers, Miss Cheong. Whom I finally see for three years. She recognised me, even though my appearance was greatly changed.
But I came as a challenge. She asked me not to tell her my name. Then she simply stand there right in front of me thinking hard, trying to remember my name, in a thinking posture.
For about 5 minutes through, I gave her some hints of my name. From "being the only student who always raise his hand in the lab to answer your questions" to "My name start with J, end with Y, the second letter is E, the third letter is the letter after E".
But she still got it in the end.
She only remembered I was very studious-looking last time. Short and seemingly skinny looking. She also remembered I had very nice handwritings which made her marking of homework task easy.
The next teacher I met was Mrs Chan, my secondary three history teacher. Though during that year, she only taught my class and I for only half a year before she went for a course. We definitely missed after that. Because our history grades dropped after being taken over by several relief teachers.
Though I topped my class in the last history paper that year, I think only got 44 marks, meaning a failed paper. Ha ha!
Anyway, it was Mrs Chan who gave me words that made me push my history grades to the top from secondary 3 to 4. In the end, I topped my cohort in the O Levels exams with my A1 grade. The only regret was not able to thank my secondary 4 teacher, Mrs Sasi, who helped me made that achievement possible. She too, was part of that certain motivation.
Mrs Chan was the HoD of Humanities. She asked me why and where were the rest of the year 2000 batch and my classmates. This same questions were popped by the Chinese teachers there later.
Anyway, Mrs Chan took me to her HoD office where she took down my contact number, while I took down hers. She said maybe I could be the year 2000 batch alumni contact person, for there would be a great big celebration of the BLSS 30th anniversary after three years later, from now... (This seems like a hercluen too big for me, but I didn't say "yes" either... Haa...)
After writing down our contacts. I met Miss Chuah (as I always remembered her), or perhaps I should called her Madam Chuah now. I told her I was her secondary 2 science student, and she was my form teacher.
Once I told he that year was one of her worst teaching year because she lost her voice then, She remembered clearly. Because my class then was a menace, even I hated being that class.
She remembered me being the "small and tiny". But now I'm well built.
The next teachers to meet were the four Chinese teachers; Madam Chua who taught me my Chinese in secondary 1, Madam Ng who taught me my Chinese in secondary 2, and Madam Peng who taught me my Chinese in secondary 3 and 4 (my favourite Chinese teacher) and the HoD teacher, Madam Loo.
They were the four longest serving Chinese teachers, always together in BLSS, I think.
I talked to Madam Peng. I think It was her who made me realised how good my Chinese language could be and she made the subject easy to swallow. I've always hated doing the Chinese language subject since my primary school days.
But for that year she taught, not only that I was no longer hating my Chinese subject, I enjoyed it.
The next and last teacher to meet was my secondary four form teacher, Miss Chiang. When I saw her, I felt like laughing because I couldn't believe her haifstyle now...
Haa...
I didn't like her in the past because she confiscated my discman before, and said behind my back (hearsay through Elvin) that "I couldn't even make it to poly, neither the less, JC (junior college)".
Anyway, we talked, about my class and the people.
She said she enjoyed being with that class.
After that, I went to take Miss Cheong's contact number first, then, I said my goodbyes to my teachers before I went home, while all the teachers prepared themselves for a mass teachers lunch...
Hope to see them some time again, next time...
Monday, August 30, 2004
Imprisoned, Without Money...
I am broke. I shall be imprison myself at home for this whole week...
BUT I'M SO FUCKING BORED AND SIANZ WITHOUT MONEY $$$!
And when I'm speaking of MONEY, I think of MY PAY.
And when I think of MY PAY, I feel like becoming a loan shark!
I feel angst, and felt like doing on all the loan shark thingies on those people who owe me money (directly or indirectly) for so long! I don't even know when they're giving me MY MONEY!
Haiz...
Hope I will tide over this week's time for now... On this coming Saturday, I can get a bursary prize of maybe $300 or $500...
But... Haiz...
This coming Saturday is also going to be a beginning my temporary job. Though I've always wanted a job, but this job seems very stressful, which I need to be working from day in, till day out. Not to mention it has stressful job scope that is challenging.
Felt like spending my rest of my days before NS enlistment relaxing while training myself physically up... But all thse plans were changed...
Just because somebody owed me $250 for a month plus and owed me my unfinished job (and I didn't know whether they'll hire me again for that unfinished project)...
I understand roughly why they owe me my pay, in all ways I thought of (but in some sense I knew some of THEIR problems could have been avoided), but maybe they should understand why I urgently needed that pay...
Maybe I shouldn't take up that freelance job at start...
Haiz...
Too late for regrets...
Just gotta live on with it.
: )
I am broke. I shall be imprison myself at home for this whole week...
BUT I'M SO FUCKING BORED AND SIANZ WITHOUT MONEY $$$!
And when I'm speaking of MONEY, I think of MY PAY.
And when I think of MY PAY, I feel like becoming a loan shark!
I feel angst, and felt like doing on all the loan shark thingies on those people who owe me money (directly or indirectly) for so long! I don't even know when they're giving me MY MONEY!
I'm very sure no one wanted a bloody, dead swine's head on their main door...
Haiz...
Hope I will tide over this week's time for now... On this coming Saturday, I can get a bursary prize of maybe $300 or $500...
But... Haiz...
This coming Saturday is also going to be a beginning my temporary job. Though I've always wanted a job, but this job seems very stressful, which I need to be working from day in, till day out. Not to mention it has stressful job scope that is challenging.
Felt like spending my rest of my days before NS enlistment relaxing while training myself physically up... But all thse plans were changed...
Just because somebody owed me $250 for a month plus and owed me my unfinished job (and I didn't know whether they'll hire me again for that unfinished project)...
I understand roughly why they owe me my pay, in all ways I thought of (but in some sense I knew some of THEIR problems could have been avoided), but maybe they should understand why I urgently needed that pay...
Maybe I shouldn't take up that freelance job at start...
Haiz...
Too late for regrets...
Just gotta live on with it.
: )
Sunday, August 29, 2004
Visit.
Yesterday, Saturday afternoon.
Well, I was so bored on Saturday, I've decided to PAY Elvin a visit. I used up my very last of my pennies (on my transportation fees) to visit this donkey. I sould be camping throughout at home for the next coming week.
(Yah, PAY. A sickening word that I thought of, and if I thought of it. I feel I killing somebody.)
He should really visit me instead, even though my home could be boring for him.
And what did I at Elvin's house?
I accompanied him to watch the movie, Spiderman 1, via VCD player to be on his telly. And after that I played Risk (the board game) on his PC. We played only half way but we had fun.
Situation of the game doesn't favours me though...
Current Friend Review for: Elvin, Best Friend and Buddy
(Friends since 1997, friendship lasting for 8 years now...)
I met this bastard during my secondary school's NCC days, when I asked him to help me buy me boot gutters. So this was where it started.
All things went well smoothly throughout the first two years of our NCC days. We shared our woes and happiness together. Whipping up ice-cream from the former Esso Tiger Mart after every weekend parade.
Till one day, the competitiveness spur between us started...
It was after another parade I think. That day, I only remembered he was sprouting about his falling grades or something. So I told him not to be disheartened, with some added sarcasm. I encouraged him, and told him he could get better grades (though I didn't told him to be better than me, but he did).
I also remembered I taught him how to talk back to people. Now he surpasses me in the "talking back" skill. Maybe I shouldn't have taught this ungrateful bastard in this skill.
Now I think, an Aquarian should never do anything to an Aries, it'll only fuel or spur Aries' bigness and even pride (as Aquarian Fixed Air fuels Aries Cardinal Fire).
Nowadays, he kept snubbing me with his big mouth when I'm "inferior" in some areas (like recently, I'm financially poorer than him). When I tried to put my heartfelt words on some things I'm going through, he talked back and said its my problem, or its my wrong.
Now, you know why I called him a bastard or asshole.
This bastard is an intelligent person. But when he's struck down without confidence, he's very weak. I've seen that. But when he stands up again, I'm proud of him. That's what I like about this guy.
I stopped confiding my things into him. I think he's not listening properly most of the times. Though sometimes he still confide in me, I tried hard to listen to him. (Remember that Aquarians are the rebels of the zodiac and if they feel they are being controlled or ignored, their defense can be to automatically rebel against any incoming input from their companions).
Sometimes, I wonder I should downgrade his friendship with me... Of course, I treasure this friendship between us. I sometimes feel that I'm giving in to him too much at times...
But his my friend mah...
I felt like punching his face sometimes. I think I had enough of his snubbings. I think he enjoying it too much and making all the fun out of it (Yes, an Aquarian does not like snubbings, he needed encouragement to spur him on instead).
I, an Aquarian, hated being snubbed or ridiculed.
(But I like doing that to others... So I'm an asshole as well... Haa...)
Yesterday, Saturday afternoon.
Well, I was so bored on Saturday, I've decided to PAY Elvin a visit. I used up my very last of my pennies (on my transportation fees) to visit this donkey. I sould be camping throughout at home for the next coming week.
(Yah, PAY. A sickening word that I thought of, and if I thought of it. I feel I killing somebody.)
He should really visit me instead, even though my home could be boring for him.
And what did I at Elvin's house?
I accompanied him to watch the movie, Spiderman 1, via VCD player to be on his telly. And after that I played Risk (the board game) on his PC. We played only half way but we had fun.
Situation of the game doesn't favours me though...
Current Friend Review for: Elvin, Best Friend and Buddy
(Friends since 1997, friendship lasting for 8 years now...)
I met this bastard during my secondary school's NCC days, when I asked him to help me buy me boot gutters. So this was where it started.
All things went well smoothly throughout the first two years of our NCC days. We shared our woes and happiness together. Whipping up ice-cream from the former Esso Tiger Mart after every weekend parade.
Till one day, the competitiveness spur between us started...
It was after another parade I think. That day, I only remembered he was sprouting about his falling grades or something. So I told him not to be disheartened, with some added sarcasm. I encouraged him, and told him he could get better grades (though I didn't told him to be better than me, but he did).
I also remembered I taught him how to talk back to people. Now he surpasses me in the "talking back" skill. Maybe I shouldn't have taught this ungrateful bastard in this skill.
Now I think, an Aquarian should never do anything to an Aries, it'll only fuel or spur Aries' bigness and even pride (as Aquarian Fixed Air fuels Aries Cardinal Fire).
Nowadays, he kept snubbing me with his big mouth when I'm "inferior" in some areas (like recently, I'm financially poorer than him). When I tried to put my heartfelt words on some things I'm going through, he talked back and said its my problem, or its my wrong.
Now, you know why I called him a bastard or asshole.
This bastard is an intelligent person. But when he's struck down without confidence, he's very weak. I've seen that. But when he stands up again, I'm proud of him. That's what I like about this guy.
I stopped confiding my things into him. I think he's not listening properly most of the times. Though sometimes he still confide in me, I tried hard to listen to him. (Remember that Aquarians are the rebels of the zodiac and if they feel they are being controlled or ignored, their defense can be to automatically rebel against any incoming input from their companions).
Sometimes, I wonder I should downgrade his friendship with me... Of course, I treasure this friendship between us. I sometimes feel that I'm giving in to him too much at times...
But his my friend mah...
I felt like punching his face sometimes. I think I had enough of his snubbings. I think he enjoying it too much and making all the fun out of it (Yes, an Aquarian does not like snubbings, he needed encouragement to spur him on instead).
I, an Aquarian, hated being snubbed or ridiculed.
(But I like doing that to others... So I'm an asshole as well... Haa...)
Friday, August 27, 2004
Exfoliating.
I wonder what happen to my empty promises of trying to keep my blogs short and sweet. Well, maybe its just me, I'm certainly a long-winded historian cum analyst.
Never like to keep things short, cos' I thought keeping informations short could lead to misunderstandings (been there, done that), especially when you're not good at keeping things concise.
I'm exfoliating (dead, previous sunburnt skin coming off), but I'm still going for the sun. I'm not trying to get cancer (maybe I am, if you know what I mean...), but I'm trying to be more tan.
What ever for? I'm just too bored and crazy. Maybe its due to the reason that I've seen an example of a friend in army who's NOT TAN after being for months in BMT.
Haiz... I'm currently broke and jobless now, I'm slacking.
I hated slacking now. I wanted to have more money to be more active in some other fun activities I could enjoy before my enlistment for my NS.
All these financial woes... Haiz... Primary causes not by me some more...
Hope I can tide these times over when my monetary reliefs should be coming within this one week plus' time...
I wonder what happen to my empty promises of trying to keep my blogs short and sweet. Well, maybe its just me, I'm certainly a long-winded historian cum analyst.
Never like to keep things short, cos' I thought keeping informations short could lead to misunderstandings (been there, done that), especially when you're not good at keeping things concise.
I'm exfoliating (dead, previous sunburnt skin coming off), but I'm still going for the sun. I'm not trying to get cancer (maybe I am, if you know what I mean...), but I'm trying to be more tan.
What ever for? I'm just too bored and crazy. Maybe its due to the reason that I've seen an example of a friend in army who's NOT TAN after being for months in BMT.
Haiz... I'm currently broke and jobless now, I'm slacking.
I hated slacking now. I wanted to have more money to be more active in some other fun activities I could enjoy before my enlistment for my NS.
All these financial woes... Haiz... Primary causes not by me some more...
Hope I can tide these times over when my monetary reliefs should be coming within this one week plus' time...
GY Leng, Du Lan Beng.
Yesterday, Wednesday.
What's with these Hokkien unpleasantries?
Nope, I'm not exactly being angst, angry and crazy again. This was actually the callings of two characters of an movie turned joke of "CD-Pro 2" (if you guys ever heard of it). Some jokers turn this Hong Kong movie into a Hokkien joke.
There were two characters, one acted by Andy Lau (Liu De Hua) and another by Tony Leung (Liang Chao Wei). In this joke, they called each other GY Leng and Du Lan Beng.
GY Leng being LIANG Chao Wei (Tony Leung) and Tu Lan Beng being LIU De Hua (Andy Lau).
Now, my best friend, Elvin Low and I has been calling each other using these names.
I being GY Leng (as my name is LIANG Yong Quan) and Elvin being Tu Lan Beng (as his name is LIU Jun Quan). Hope you can see the link.
So why are we calling each other these names? I don't know. Maybe we never like each others' attitudes. We are best friends but we're still competitors due to our competitiveness. We compete in almost everything.
So recently what were we competing in?
We're competing in the MONEY we have.
As most people would have known now, I am CURRENTLY DAMN POOR in debt as well as in credit. My personal finance in utter mess, messing up my lifestyle I wanted to lead.
My upkeep is now depended on the BORROWED MONEY from my mum (Yes, borrowed. And I still have to return it...)
As you all know, I owe Elvin $200, borrowed for my army spectacles (now, its $196 owing to him to be exact, as I paid for his LAN gaming fee yesterday. Muahahaha!).
The company I worked freelance for still owes me $250 for almost a month now.
So jobless and broke now, I am poor. So Elvin will always attempt to suan me on my weakest point (although we do that to each other all the time). It may sound a bit childish to be always comparing, but he always STARTED it first!
So Elvin would suan me as himself being rich and I being poor. In debt to him some more.
With a friend like this, who needs enemy?
He may have the laughs for now but my finance relief will come in about a week plus' time. My debt owing to this idiotic bastard will be settled first.
Anyway, what started this "I have more money than you" or "You are too poor right now"?
Well, yesterday I went swimming with this asshole at Chua Chu Kang Swimming Complex during the noon time.
After that we had lunch at Yew Tee central's McDonald's for lunch before I accompanied him to town to buy his protective gear for his rollerblading use. He had just bought his new rollerblades a day before.
Not trying to compete with him in the first place, I said I did have plans to be rollerblading.
I love speeding, and also love ice-skating. So I thought rollerblading was a good alternative to ice-skating, as well as a good activity to satisfy my desire for speeding in the wind as well as a good well to exercise of course.
Initial times of my life, I wanted a bicycle for speed in the first place. But sadly that time, my parents objected, giving excuses of my personal safety and costs.
Though I still like biking, I realised my butt shape ain't really suitable for bicycle seats anyway (will be in pain if on bike for too long), so I turned to rollerblading instead.
All the above reasons, and especially after when I saw all the rollerblades on the last weekend at the Stadium: Royal Sporting House at Ngee Ann City with Hong Yun and Bryan, made me even more tempted to get rollerblades for myself.
But all and all, I didn't have money to get all these gear for roller blading, for now.
So Mr Elvin the asshole suan me one way or the other for all my current inabilities to get my gears for rollerblading...
Well, for now, I could only bear with all these nonsense from him (Well, its not that I couldn't get my rollerblades later. Different people, different finance situations mah).
I could have ignored all these nonsense from him. But I'll just accept this as a challenge from this asshole bah.
Its for all the love of being competitive also. Ha ha.
Yesterday, Wednesday.
What's with these Hokkien unpleasantries?
Nope, I'm not exactly being angst, angry and crazy again. This was actually the callings of two characters of an movie turned joke of "CD-Pro 2" (if you guys ever heard of it). Some jokers turn this Hong Kong movie into a Hokkien joke.
There were two characters, one acted by Andy Lau (Liu De Hua) and another by Tony Leung (Liang Chao Wei). In this joke, they called each other GY Leng and Du Lan Beng.
GY Leng being LIANG Chao Wei (Tony Leung) and Tu Lan Beng being LIU De Hua (Andy Lau).
Now, my best friend, Elvin Low and I has been calling each other using these names.
I being GY Leng (as my name is LIANG Yong Quan) and Elvin being Tu Lan Beng (as his name is LIU Jun Quan). Hope you can see the link.
So why are we calling each other these names? I don't know. Maybe we never like each others' attitudes. We are best friends but we're still competitors due to our competitiveness. We compete in almost everything.
So recently what were we competing in?
We're competing in the MONEY we have.
As most people would have known now, I am CURRENTLY DAMN POOR in debt as well as in credit. My personal finance in utter mess, messing up my lifestyle I wanted to lead.
My upkeep is now depended on the BORROWED MONEY from my mum (Yes, borrowed. And I still have to return it...)
As you all know, I owe Elvin $200, borrowed for my army spectacles (now, its $196 owing to him to be exact, as I paid for his LAN gaming fee yesterday. Muahahaha!).
The company I worked freelance for still owes me $250 for almost a month now.
So jobless and broke now, I am poor. So Elvin will always attempt to suan me on my weakest point (although we do that to each other all the time). It may sound a bit childish to be always comparing, but he always STARTED it first!
So Elvin would suan me as himself being rich and I being poor. In debt to him some more.
With a friend like this, who needs enemy?
He may have the laughs for now but my finance relief will come in about a week plus' time. My debt owing to this idiotic bastard will be settled first.
Anyway, what started this "I have more money than you" or "You are too poor right now"?
Well, yesterday I went swimming with this asshole at Chua Chu Kang Swimming Complex during the noon time.
After that we had lunch at Yew Tee central's McDonald's for lunch before I accompanied him to town to buy his protective gear for his rollerblading use. He had just bought his new rollerblades a day before.
Not trying to compete with him in the first place, I said I did have plans to be rollerblading.
I love speeding, and also love ice-skating. So I thought rollerblading was a good alternative to ice-skating, as well as a good activity to satisfy my desire for speeding in the wind as well as a good well to exercise of course.
Initial times of my life, I wanted a bicycle for speed in the first place. But sadly that time, my parents objected, giving excuses of my personal safety and costs.
Though I still like biking, I realised my butt shape ain't really suitable for bicycle seats anyway (will be in pain if on bike for too long), so I turned to rollerblading instead.
All the above reasons, and especially after when I saw all the rollerblades on the last weekend at the Stadium: Royal Sporting House at Ngee Ann City with Hong Yun and Bryan, made me even more tempted to get rollerblades for myself.
But all and all, I didn't have money to get all these gear for roller blading, for now.
So Mr Elvin the asshole suan me one way or the other for all my current inabilities to get my gears for rollerblading...
Well, for now, I could only bear with all these nonsense from him (Well, its not that I couldn't get my rollerblades later. Different people, different finance situations mah).
I could have ignored all these nonsense from him. But I'll just accept this as a challenge from this asshole bah.
Its for all the love of being competitive also. Ha ha.
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
A Tough Job at Hand...
Today, Wednesday.
Well, I did said that I've got a job from a job agency to the National Junior Robotics Competition 2004, as part of the event's staff.
I went for the a job briefing held there at the Singapore Science Centre, along with Andhika and some of his friends today.
But they were late, so I went into the Singapore Science Centre first.
I was marvelled by how much the science centre has changed. Its maybe because I haven't been at the science centre since primary school days.
Anyway, we all arrived at the Maxwell Auditorium in the centre. Surprisingly, there were over a hundred people in there. Meaning, for this competition, we have over hundred staff doing this event.
Andhika's friends and I were allocated to the team coordination group. We were to become team coordinators.
I didn't had the chance to talk to Andhika's friends as they seem a bit cold, or maybe because the team coordination's overall-in-charge were too busy briefing on our job scope and its details.
What happened to Andhika then? I'm not sure, some "shit" happened to him from what I heard bits of news from him. But I still didn't knew exactly what happened to him. So I'll ask him later.
Anyway, the competition was held from about 8am to 5pm. So my working time will be from 7am to about 7pm (12 hours! My God!), inclusive of meals, breakfast, lunch and maybe tea-break. But at the end of the 8 days of wrok, I'll get at least about $400 of pay.
So early, I hope I have that spirit and energy to jog to work still... I still plan to do it.
Anyway, we were also to be given free round-neck T-shirt as our staff uniform. But I really hope they would give at least two or three T-shirts cos' I don't want to wear the same T-shirt for 12 hours everyday, for straight 8 days!
Eeeewwwwuuuu.... Yucks...
xp
As team coordinators, we'll be each handling 7 teams from 7 different schools. Each team has 5 persons. So we could be handling at up to 35 people at one time. But luckily, we only need to bring one representative around.
The schools would be of either primary or secondary levels.
I hope I get the secondary school students cos' I wouldn't have such a big generation gap between them. If I'm handling primary school kid, I could have problems dealing with some fussy, whiny and crying kids.
As a team coodinator, my mission was to be like a train. To run and fetch the team repesentatives with their Lego robots to places on schedule, not a minute less.
I'll bring them to registeration points, robot inspection booths, trial areas, actual competition areas and others, PUNCTUAL ON TIME, and AT THE CORRECT PLACE.
On punctual time and at the correct place are important. Or else, the teams could be disqualified, so they and I'll be screwed. If my teams' coordination schedule to off, the competition's schedule will be off-scaled.
Most probably I have to handle begs from teams to allow they time to fix their screwy robots or problems as such.
But my main mission is to fetch them to place to place on time. Unless I have the time, I SHALL NOT ENTERTAIN their requests, at all (recommended by my supervisor-in-charge).
I'll be fighting against time by the minute coordinating my in-charge teams' people. I may be also fighting bodies of crowds, as well as nosey teachers and parents with problems of their students and their children (but that's their problem).
So I'm basically the frontline staff of this competition.
The job scope sounds tough enough, but its a great challenge for me.
Just hope that I can overcome this challenge.
Today, Wednesday.
Well, I did said that I've got a job from a job agency to the National Junior Robotics Competition 2004, as part of the event's staff.
I went for the a job briefing held there at the Singapore Science Centre, along with Andhika and some of his friends today.
But they were late, so I went into the Singapore Science Centre first.
I was marvelled by how much the science centre has changed. Its maybe because I haven't been at the science centre since primary school days.
Anyway, we all arrived at the Maxwell Auditorium in the centre. Surprisingly, there were over a hundred people in there. Meaning, for this competition, we have over hundred staff doing this event.
Andhika's friends and I were allocated to the team coordination group. We were to become team coordinators.
I didn't had the chance to talk to Andhika's friends as they seem a bit cold, or maybe because the team coordination's overall-in-charge were too busy briefing on our job scope and its details.
What happened to Andhika then? I'm not sure, some "shit" happened to him from what I heard bits of news from him. But I still didn't knew exactly what happened to him. So I'll ask him later.
Anyway, the competition was held from about 8am to 5pm. So my working time will be from 7am to about 7pm (12 hours! My God!), inclusive of meals, breakfast, lunch and maybe tea-break. But at the end of the 8 days of wrok, I'll get at least about $400 of pay.
So early, I hope I have that spirit and energy to jog to work still... I still plan to do it.
Anyway, we were also to be given free round-neck T-shirt as our staff uniform. But I really hope they would give at least two or three T-shirts cos' I don't want to wear the same T-shirt for 12 hours everyday, for straight 8 days!
Eeeewwwwuuuu.... Yucks...
xp
As team coordinators, we'll be each handling 7 teams from 7 different schools. Each team has 5 persons. So we could be handling at up to 35 people at one time. But luckily, we only need to bring one representative around.
The schools would be of either primary or secondary levels.
I hope I get the secondary school students cos' I wouldn't have such a big generation gap between them. If I'm handling primary school kid, I could have problems dealing with some fussy, whiny and crying kids.
As a team coodinator, my mission was to be like a train. To run and fetch the team repesentatives with their Lego robots to places on schedule, not a minute less.
I'll bring them to registeration points, robot inspection booths, trial areas, actual competition areas and others, PUNCTUAL ON TIME, and AT THE CORRECT PLACE.
On punctual time and at the correct place are important. Or else, the teams could be disqualified, so they and I'll be screwed. If my teams' coordination schedule to off, the competition's schedule will be off-scaled.
Most probably I have to handle begs from teams to allow they time to fix their screwy robots or problems as such.
But my main mission is to fetch them to place to place on time. Unless I have the time, I SHALL NOT ENTERTAIN their requests, at all (recommended by my supervisor-in-charge).
I'll be fighting against time by the minute coordinating my in-charge teams' people. I may be also fighting bodies of crowds, as well as nosey teachers and parents with problems of their students and their children (but that's their problem).
So I'm basically the frontline staff of this competition.
The job scope sounds tough enough, but its a great challenge for me.
Just hope that I can overcome this challenge.
Monday, August 23, 2004
AvP.
Yesterday, Saturday.
Went to watch the movie Alien versus Predator (AvP) at Shaw Lido Cinema, Shaw House in Orchard Road. I met up with Bryan and Hong Yun only (two's a company, three's a crowd).
We bought the tickets early first.
After that, we went to Ngee Ann City's Food Village to have our dinner. Slightly sick and coughy Hong Yun ordered porridge for dinner, while Bryan (maybe lazy) ordered the same. I ordered a healthy mixed rice food instead. Also learned more about these two guys through some men's talk.
After that we went to watch the movie, AvP.
AvP - Alien versus Predator: The Movie Review.
I could only give this movie a 6 out of 10 rating for this movie.
Its a simple flick for the aliens and the predators to be mixed into one movie. But I think the story line was too lack of intelligence interaction for me.
Sorry, but I'm some kind of film student.
The movies left me more questions to ask in the end.
The story basis was simple, it was suppose to be a primal hunting game. The predators liked to hunt, and for ritual purposes they did it also, to hunt the top ultimate, which are the aliens.
The human characters who by or not by accident, stumbled into this primal hunting game. Aliens were supposed to be preys in a predator set temple maze, where a mother alien was caught and to reproduce for its offsprings were to be hunted for the purpose of being hunted.
Caught in between, most humans either died in the reproduction of the aliens or the weapons of the predators. Killed by predators because they had the predators' ultimate weapon to be effective on killing the aliens.
Only one leading female human chracter survived. Even those human characters I thought they would survive, died, due to the lack of the simple species superiority. Humans are simply unarmed.
Even the predators, two out of three predators died in action. They were unexperienced. Either killed by being back-stabbed literally or bitten in the face straight.
The last but experienced predator in the end, ended working together with the last female human survivor, who finally knew she had to return the weapon or gun which she took from the predatory game.
Then and there, the predator realised, and even made the human an improvised weapons and shield from the remains of an alien carcass. She helped kill an alien which tried to kill the predator. And there was their alliance, she was recognised as the predator made a tribal hunt kill sign of her face, just like he did it on his mask and face.
It was quite lame actually, though it was primtively understandable.
Then is was the question of mismatch to the AvP's movie motto, "Who ever wins... We lose."
It was disappointing, even Bryan says so. I doubt this wasn't what the producers want it to be initially (maybe low budget). And there was some good laughs on the movie. It was quite a failure in some sense.
So, aliens were reproducing like nuts, and there were simply too many to kill. So the last predator bombed the whole hunting ground to kill every offspring of the mother alien.
I doubt even with the initial three predators with their best weapons, they could kill every single alien. Same goes for the humans (humans never won in the alien movie series anyway). So what's the whole point of this hunting game? For the simple thrill of it?
Then, the predator and the human battled the mother alien. But the predator died instead.
But came the predator clan. The last predator was carried away in honour of its "bravery". The predator clan's chief recognised and appreciated the help of the human, offered her a predator weapon as a gift of appreciation or something.
And what's the last scene?
An alien-predator hybrid pops out of the last predator's body....
What the hell...? It makes no sense to me at all.
Yesterday, Saturday.
Went to watch the movie Alien versus Predator (AvP) at Shaw Lido Cinema, Shaw House in Orchard Road. I met up with Bryan and Hong Yun only (two's a company, three's a crowd).
We bought the tickets early first.
After that, we went to Ngee Ann City's Food Village to have our dinner. Slightly sick and coughy Hong Yun ordered porridge for dinner, while Bryan (maybe lazy) ordered the same. I ordered a healthy mixed rice food instead. Also learned more about these two guys through some men's talk.
After that we went to watch the movie, AvP.
AvP - Alien versus Predator: The Movie Review.
I could only give this movie a 6 out of 10 rating for this movie.
Its a simple flick for the aliens and the predators to be mixed into one movie. But I think the story line was too lack of intelligence interaction for me.
Sorry, but I'm some kind of film student.
The movies left me more questions to ask in the end.
The story basis was simple, it was suppose to be a primal hunting game. The predators liked to hunt, and for ritual purposes they did it also, to hunt the top ultimate, which are the aliens.
The human characters who by or not by accident, stumbled into this primal hunting game. Aliens were supposed to be preys in a predator set temple maze, where a mother alien was caught and to reproduce for its offsprings were to be hunted for the purpose of being hunted.
Caught in between, most humans either died in the reproduction of the aliens or the weapons of the predators. Killed by predators because they had the predators' ultimate weapon to be effective on killing the aliens.
Only one leading female human chracter survived. Even those human characters I thought they would survive, died, due to the lack of the simple species superiority. Humans are simply unarmed.
Even the predators, two out of three predators died in action. They were unexperienced. Either killed by being back-stabbed literally or bitten in the face straight.
The last but experienced predator in the end, ended working together with the last female human survivor, who finally knew she had to return the weapon or gun which she took from the predatory game.
Then and there, the predator realised, and even made the human an improvised weapons and shield from the remains of an alien carcass. She helped kill an alien which tried to kill the predator. And there was their alliance, she was recognised as the predator made a tribal hunt kill sign of her face, just like he did it on his mask and face.
It was quite lame actually, though it was primtively understandable.
Then is was the question of mismatch to the AvP's movie motto, "Who ever wins... We lose."
It was disappointing, even Bryan says so. I doubt this wasn't what the producers want it to be initially (maybe low budget). And there was some good laughs on the movie. It was quite a failure in some sense.
So, aliens were reproducing like nuts, and there were simply too many to kill. So the last predator bombed the whole hunting ground to kill every offspring of the mother alien.
I doubt even with the initial three predators with their best weapons, they could kill every single alien. Same goes for the humans (humans never won in the alien movie series anyway). So what's the whole point of this hunting game? For the simple thrill of it?
Then, the predator and the human battled the mother alien. But the predator died instead.
But came the predator clan. The last predator was carried away in honour of its "bravery". The predator clan's chief recognised and appreciated the help of the human, offered her a predator weapon as a gift of appreciation or something.
And what's the last scene?
An alien-predator hybrid pops out of the last predator's body....
What the hell...? It makes no sense to me at all.
Saturday, August 21, 2004
Job Found... Finally...
Yesterday, Friday.
Finally found a job via registering to an employment agency with my friend cum job connector, Andhika.
We both went to Tanjong Pagar's International Plaza, to the Kelly Services central branch agency. Andhika's friend recommended some vacancies of the National Junior Robotics Competition event at the Singapore Science Centre.
The working period will be from 4th to 11th September 2004. Working hours from 8am to 5pm. The pay was $5.50, inclusive of free lunch and tea-breaks meals.
At the end of the job for eight days, I should earn about $350 or so.
Though the pay and benefits were not really very attractive, I think its better than not doing anything but rotting my ass at home.
I could do some physical training by jogging back and forth between my home and the Singapore Science Centre in the early morning or evening. Its not very far actually.
Lifestyle beneficial. Can train my morning wake-up routine for my army life also.
But sadly, this job will only start after another two weeks. In these two weeks, I'll still be slacking... Haiz... But I am still trying to find something to do for thse two "empty scheduled" weeks.
Yesterday, Friday.
Finally found a job via registering to an employment agency with my friend cum job connector, Andhika.
We both went to Tanjong Pagar's International Plaza, to the Kelly Services central branch agency. Andhika's friend recommended some vacancies of the National Junior Robotics Competition event at the Singapore Science Centre.
The working period will be from 4th to 11th September 2004. Working hours from 8am to 5pm. The pay was $5.50, inclusive of free lunch and tea-breaks meals.
At the end of the job for eight days, I should earn about $350 or so.
Though the pay and benefits were not really very attractive, I think its better than not doing anything but rotting my ass at home.
I could do some physical training by jogging back and forth between my home and the Singapore Science Centre in the early morning or evening. Its not very far actually.
Lifestyle beneficial. Can train my morning wake-up routine for my army life also.
But sadly, this job will only start after another two weeks. In these two weeks, I'll still be slacking... Haiz... But I am still trying to find something to do for thse two "empty scheduled" weeks.
Friday, August 20, 2004
My Graduation Ceremony!
Yesterday, Thursday.
The Graduation Ceremony 2004, the official day when we received our diplomas. It is our acaedemic milestone, as well as a milestone for friendships.
It is definitely not easy to go through this multimedia diploma course together, as most of us are the guinea pigs.
I felt the sense of achievement receiving my diploma, as of all my friends, "Great Scots, we finally survive all this shit."
As for our friendships, this was only another beginning.
The SP Graduation Ceremony 2004 for my session or multimedia course was held at the SP Convention Centre.
As typical like of all graduation ceremonies (apart that we're not wearing graduation suites), we were seated according and waited for the whole thing to start.
We watched on the videos of all the glories and stories of Singapore Polytechnic, and about students who made it big time in their time in SP, having all the opportunities given to them from SP.
Argh... SP propaganda. What opportunities? Opportunities are given to people who successfully beat off competition like us. They are only few big winners in this big game.
Certainly, they were all demoralising demos. But its all part of Singapore's meritocracy system's side effects, know as "elitism".
After all the propaganda, the big shots walked in late. Then we sang our National Anthem.
Then, we listened to nice stories from the guest-of-honour and then, we waited and waited to receive our diplomas while others are too before you.
During the waiting, I just kept yawning, yawning, and yawning. Perhaps not enough sleep the night before, I was a bit tired, or it was simply too boring for my brain.
Like all others, when it was going to reach our turn to receive our diploma, we all lined-up at the entry of the stage, check our identities using a barcoded ticket, in which they are scanned and our names automatically called out, and we're off onto the stage to receive what we should receive.
When I went up, my focus was on the director of my school. Steadily, I received my diploma scroll box (meaning, its an empty box), but I almost screw up and walked out of him as I forgotten about the phototaking to my left of the stage.
The school director held me on, reminded me about the photo taking. And so I realised and turned my head to where the camera is, though I was a bit disorientated and did not look into the lens of the camera below me.
I thanked the director's congrat blessings as well as for his held-up for my photo-taking on the stage. But I think that's all I could thank him for after all these three years in which our course was basically unestablish in the first place.
Anyway, on the way down we receive order forms and image number cards for our photos taken on the stage and then, we all went back stage to take a souvenir bag.
Then we to the counter to scan our identity cards to another counter to receive our envelope of diploma and transcripts, before we went up back to our seats again.
After finally the who receiving ceremony was finished. We once again were hearing another nice crapping speech which was totally common sensical from a so-called "representing" graduate of our graduating session.
To me, he represented as those "who are lucky" enough not to struggle in SP.
Finally, we sang our SP School Song (I thinks its either fot the first time or second time, but I don't remember. But it was definitely the last).
Finally, the whole event came to an end after all the big shots went out first, followed by us.
Outside the centre, all the friends celebrated our milestone. We were chit-chatting, posing for our pictures and having fun, as well as having our food and drinks.
The different stages of being NS liable (from left to right):
Syazali says, "Hmmm... I want some more food! I've been starved in the army!"
"Damn... We're going in tomorrow after our graduation and there still lots of stuff to buy for our army life!"
*Graduation Photographs Courtesy of Andhika.
Yesterday, Thursday.
The Graduation Ceremony 2004, the official day when we received our diplomas. It is our acaedemic milestone, as well as a milestone for friendships.
It is definitely not easy to go through this multimedia diploma course together, as most of us are the guinea pigs.
I felt the sense of achievement receiving my diploma, as of all my friends, "Great Scots, we finally survive all this shit."
As for our friendships, this was only another beginning.
The SP Graduation Ceremony 2004 for my session or multimedia course was held at the SP Convention Centre.
As typical like of all graduation ceremonies (apart that we're not wearing graduation suites), we were seated according and waited for the whole thing to start.
We watched on the videos of all the glories and stories of Singapore Polytechnic, and about students who made it big time in their time in SP, having all the opportunities given to them from SP.
Argh... SP propaganda. What opportunities? Opportunities are given to people who successfully beat off competition like us. They are only few big winners in this big game.
Certainly, they were all demoralising demos. But its all part of Singapore's meritocracy system's side effects, know as "elitism".
After all the propaganda, the big shots walked in late. Then we sang our National Anthem.
Then, we listened to nice stories from the guest-of-honour and then, we waited and waited to receive our diplomas while others are too before you.
During the waiting, I just kept yawning, yawning, and yawning. Perhaps not enough sleep the night before, I was a bit tired, or it was simply too boring for my brain.
Like all others, when it was going to reach our turn to receive our diploma, we all lined-up at the entry of the stage, check our identities using a barcoded ticket, in which they are scanned and our names automatically called out, and we're off onto the stage to receive what we should receive.
When I went up, my focus was on the director of my school. Steadily, I received my diploma scroll box (meaning, its an empty box), but I almost screw up and walked out of him as I forgotten about the phototaking to my left of the stage.
The school director held me on, reminded me about the photo taking. And so I realised and turned my head to where the camera is, though I was a bit disorientated and did not look into the lens of the camera below me.
I thanked the director's congrat blessings as well as for his held-up for my photo-taking on the stage. But I think that's all I could thank him for after all these three years in which our course was basically unestablish in the first place.
Anyway, on the way down we receive order forms and image number cards for our photos taken on the stage and then, we all went back stage to take a souvenir bag.
Nice souvenir bag, but no souvenir items inside.
Then we to the counter to scan our identity cards to another counter to receive our envelope of diploma and transcripts, before we went up back to our seats again.
After finally the who receiving ceremony was finished. We once again were hearing another nice crapping speech which was totally common sensical from a so-called "representing" graduate of our graduating session.
To me, he represented as those "who are lucky" enough not to struggle in SP.
Finally, we sang our SP School Song (I thinks its either fot the first time or second time, but I don't remember. But it was definitely the last).
Finally, the whole event came to an end after all the big shots went out first, followed by us.
Outside the centre, all the friends celebrated our milestone. We were chit-chatting, posing for our pictures and having fun, as well as having our food and drinks.
"We're the DMMT survivors!"
"We're the National Service liables!"
The different stages of being NS liable (from left to right):
Jin Jian (in the NS Commando already, for three months or so...),
Joseph (going in tomorrow... *sigh*),
Jeffery (Yeah! I still go one month plus before I go in! Muahahaha...) and
Caizhi (in for NS for only one day, but he's out here for this special day!)
Syazali says, "Hmmm... I want some more food! I've been starved in the army!"
(Everyone's ignoring him?)
"Damn... We're going in tomorrow after our graduation and there still lots of stuff to buy for our army life!"
(This was after the ceremony when Joseph, Chee Wee, Caizhi, Gangxin, Andhika and I were together at the "Army Market" buying army necessities.)
*Graduation Photographs Courtesy of Andhika.
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Tanning or Burning my Skin?
Today, Wednesday.
Yep. Went swimming again in order to tan my skin or trying to burn my skin and get skin cancer.
I met up with Alvin, Huimin and yes, Chee Wee, again, for the straight FIFTH day I've meet him. We're swimming at the quiet but nicely renovated Bukit Batok Swimming Complex, its showers were one of the most opened shower are in Singapore. Really alot of spaces.
It'll not be the last I meet Chee Wee before his NS.
This record will be broken.
It'll be tomorrow that I'll meet him for the SIXTH and LAST time on our Graduation Ceremony before he goes into the NS on the Basic Men Training Centre at Pulau Tekong on Friday.
Mr Joseph Lim would be going into NS on the same day.
Well, all I could say is, "Enjoy as much as positive to survive all the obstacles."
Well, sometimes my friends would approach me to ask me out to meet up with old friends up before they went in. But frankly speaking in my mind, there's no need to meet them up suddenly for they are going into NS soon.
Why?
Because I know how fine they are before going into NS anyway. I still maintain contact with these friends one way or the other. Its just that I didn't see their faces or their body most of the time.
All I knew is that I've confidence in them that they're going to go through NS well enough. I think I will be too.
To meet them up would be of a certain concern for a friend, of course. As all boys going into NS wanted some kind of emotional assurance from their friends.
I knew that all boys who are going into NS would definitely feel relunctant to leave the mundane world outside the NS life.
But hey, you're going through NS, a time you will learn unique skills that would benefit you emotionally, physically (this, maybe not for all bah...), and perhaps even spiritually. You're experiencing a diffrent unique life that not all in the world can go through.
You're going into NS to die, but to survive and enjoy it.
Maybe you think I'm taking it a little too easy and open-minded for all these "crap".
Perhaps its my over-positive attitude of optimism that kept me confidence for NS. Too much naive acceptance of government National Education and National Service propaganda in my head maybe.
Anyway, back to the main story.
We swam from about 12.30pm to about time before 3pm. Had our nice tanning under the sun before, clouds cover came. So we got kind of bored with swimming and headed for the children's pool. We played with a small children pwater playground and even sat down the small slide.
Ah... The fun being a big kid!
: p
Then we washed up, and headed for Bukit Batok central for lunch. Chee Wee and Alvin had bicycles from their home, so they basically cycled there, while Huimin and I walked.
We had lunch together at a coffeeshop nearby, before Huimin left and headed for school. The rest of us headed for the Singapore Turf Club branch to buy some 4D lottery.
With some advice from Chee Wee's mum for us 4D rookies, we placed small bets and bought 4D lottery on some numbers related to Hong Yun's buanged rented Nissan Sunny car yesterday, of its car license plate number... Hee...
After that, I did wanted to joing Chee Wee and Alvin for a biking trip around anywhere, but sadly, I had no bicycle and neither could a rent a bike in the area.
So I returned home taking a bus, and here am I.
Today, Wednesday.
Yep. Went swimming again in order to tan my skin or trying to burn my skin and get skin cancer.
I met up with Alvin, Huimin and yes, Chee Wee, again, for the straight FIFTH day I've meet him. We're swimming at the quiet but nicely renovated Bukit Batok Swimming Complex, its showers were one of the most opened shower are in Singapore. Really alot of spaces.
It'll not be the last I meet Chee Wee before his NS.
This record will be broken.
It'll be tomorrow that I'll meet him for the SIXTH and LAST time on our Graduation Ceremony before he goes into the NS on the Basic Men Training Centre at Pulau Tekong on Friday.
Mr Joseph Lim would be going into NS on the same day.
Well, all I could say is, "Enjoy as much as positive to survive all the obstacles."
Well, sometimes my friends would approach me to ask me out to meet up with old friends up before they went in. But frankly speaking in my mind, there's no need to meet them up suddenly for they are going into NS soon.
Why?
Because I know how fine they are before going into NS anyway. I still maintain contact with these friends one way or the other. Its just that I didn't see their faces or their body most of the time.
All I knew is that I've confidence in them that they're going to go through NS well enough. I think I will be too.
To meet them up would be of a certain concern for a friend, of course. As all boys going into NS wanted some kind of emotional assurance from their friends.
I knew that all boys who are going into NS would definitely feel relunctant to leave the mundane world outside the NS life.
But hey, you're going through NS, a time you will learn unique skills that would benefit you emotionally, physically (this, maybe not for all bah...), and perhaps even spiritually. You're experiencing a diffrent unique life that not all in the world can go through.
You're going into NS to die, but to survive and enjoy it.
Maybe you think I'm taking it a little too easy and open-minded for all these "crap".
Perhaps its my over-positive attitude of optimism that kept me confidence for NS. Too much naive acceptance of government National Education and National Service propaganda in my head maybe.
Anyway, back to the main story.
We swam from about 12.30pm to about time before 3pm. Had our nice tanning under the sun before, clouds cover came. So we got kind of bored with swimming and headed for the children's pool. We played with a small children pwater playground and even sat down the small slide.
Ah... The fun being a big kid!
: p
Then we washed up, and headed for Bukit Batok central for lunch. Chee Wee and Alvin had bicycles from their home, so they basically cycled there, while Huimin and I walked.
We had lunch together at a coffeeshop nearby, before Huimin left and headed for school. The rest of us headed for the Singapore Turf Club branch to buy some 4D lottery.
With some advice from Chee Wee's mum for us 4D rookies, we placed small bets and bought 4D lottery on some numbers related to Hong Yun's buanged rented Nissan Sunny car yesterday, of its car license plate number... Hee...
After that, I did wanted to joing Chee Wee and Alvin for a biking trip around anywhere, but sadly, I had no bicycle and neither could a rent a bike in the area.
So I returned home taking a bus, and here am I.
Cash in Hand Poor, Suffering from Cashflow Prob!
God damn it! Sorry, but recently just feeling all the angst and anger with me.
I'm still bloody waiting for my $250 pay from the poorly managed new company known as Stratical which seems to me that it should be having cashflow problems.
Stratical my foot! What strategies and tactics have they got? They need to re-think man!
Its only $250 and they need to wait for two weeks plus for ONE damn bloody cheque from only only one stupid client? And I have to get money from that damn bloody cheque? Haven't hey got other business project other than this critical idiotic project?
Seriously, I think this is a bit wrong loh then.
FELT LIKE SMACKING SOME JOKERS ON THEIR FACES!
Now, I'm having my own cashflow problems! I even had problems topping up my EZ-Link transit farecard! I also have my bills to pay you know!
The day before yesterday, Monday evening.
Gosh, I'm so desperate... I even went gambling... Heh...
Went to play mahjong with Chee Wee and his cousins, Siwei, Cindy and Edmund, that Monday evening till around midnight at Edmund and Cindy's house.
But I fucking lost. I'm the big loser.
No luck at all, even very good tile sets I didn't win, damn it. Did some stupid missing tiles on the mahjong session too. The only big winner was Chee Wee. Everyone lost to him. Now its my turn to owe him money (god damn, my $250).
Anyway, after the mahjong session. Chee Wee and I went to Siwei's house just across a road. Chee Wee and I didn't slept still, we went to play WarCraft III: Frozen Throne online instead. Chee Wee said he wanted to play his fill before he enter the army this Friday.
We played till about 3am, only then we went to sleep on the sofa or in the sleeping bag.
Yesterday, Tuesday.
We woke at around 8am or 9am the next morning day. By that time, Huimin and Siwei and all their family were had already woken up and went to work.
I washed up my face with my travel Oxy face wash and dry my face with a towel I brought. I didn't bring my toothbrush, so I only rinse my mouth but ate quite an amount of Listerine Oral Care strips.
Since, I had nothing to do at home for the day, I decided to be a follower. I folowed Chee Wee for most of his journey on that day.
After eating our breakfast and drinking our coffee, we took into that rented car of Nissan Sunny. Huimin did the driving and we went to pick up Alvin and then drove all the way to the Singapore Police Acaedemy to pick Hong Yun up.
Hong Yun was in his smart police trainee uniform and was to book out temporary for the day for his graduation ceremony in the afternoon.
From there, Hong Yun for the first time drove that nice rented Nissan Sunny (but later in the day, we heard that he got into some minor accident. Someone buang his car from behind).
So Hong Yun drove Huimin and Alvin to work or school and dropped them by in the Bugis area, while Chee Wee and I were dropped off at Clifford Pier.
I was to accompanied Chee Wee to the StarHub shop to change and upgrade his handphone at OUB Centre at One Raffles Place.
But unlucky for Chee Wee, he didn't manage to change it because his trade-in handphone battery was over-charged and bloated.
So he decided to come and change it again when he got a good conditioned original Nokia handphone battery from someone else.
And we set off to walk to Bugis from Raffles Place, where we had our lunch at the hawker centre near Waterloo Street.
After lunch, I went to that puny office to pick up water bottle can and my holy Flash bible, and also, check how my pay is coming. Only Terence was in there, sitting down there having his lunch while watching pirated Catwoman movie on his PC.
He told me he could only pay me when he receives the cheque from that stupid client and he'll contact me so when he got it.
There and then, I felt like its either I land my water bottle metal can on his head, or I take one of his office PC system as his mortgage.
Anyway, after that Chee Wee and I took off to a LAN gaming shop at Shaw Towers where we played there for about three hours till early evening.
By the time, Huimin and Alvin had already finished there work and was already waiting outside or inside the shop.
I was not in a pretty good mood then, even when I was playing during the game.
I was woried and frustrated over my immediately due handphone bill, which its service will be cut off if I didn't pay. But I got NO MONEY to pay for it!
SO I had to borrow it from my mum. But I hated borrowing money, especially with my mum who will come up with all those untrustful assumptions that I was playing too much outside, losing too much money in mahjong etc.
I'm not bad boy, but I'm mature enough to know what I did have consequences.
I truly hated these kinds of distrusting assumptions on me. I truly fucking hate it.
I'm not a child and I know how to handle my money, okay.
At least I'm not the one who said I borrowed money from my son and later didn't return on the basis you're my son and its filial piety not to ask your mother to return borrowed money from your mother!
And you son couldn't say or do a bloody damn thing fot it, when he's independent financially able to survive HIS OWN ONLY.
At least I'm financially independent enough not to get pocket money from my parents, okay.
%@%^$&$&^%*!!!
And there was all my frustrations.
I am to borrow money from you and you suddenly got the right have to say all thse distrustful things. Its unfair.
Anyway, we were suppose to watch a free (or maybe subsided) movie at Siwei's cinema where he work in at Shaw Towers. Huimin, Alvin, Chee Wee and Hong Yun wanted to watch it.
But frustrated with my god damn "financial problem", I decided give up watching the movie with the rest (no mood to watch) and leave. So I said and waved my goodbyes to my friends.
They maybe quite wondering why I suddenly want to go. But once there is a super frustrating problem in my head, I would just simply and stubbornly persisted to solve it, ASAP.
So I went straight home all the way to Jurong East to borrow some cash from my mother, to deposit into my bank account electronically and pay my handphone bill electronically at either Clementi central or Boon Lay's Jurong Point (in the end, I chosen Jurong Point because, it is one of the closer place where I could deposit, withdraw and pay my handphone bill elctronically altogether at one place).
All these troubles, just because my mother refused to at least try and use the electronic debit transfer service using the ATM to pass some cash into my bank account, so I could pay the bill almost anywhere.
Pek chek, man...
God damn it! Sorry, but recently just feeling all the angst and anger with me.
I'm still bloody waiting for my $250 pay from the poorly managed new company known as Stratical which seems to me that it should be having cashflow problems.
Stratical my foot! What strategies and tactics have they got? They need to re-think man!
Its only $250 and they need to wait for two weeks plus for ONE damn bloody cheque from only only one stupid client? And I have to get money from that damn bloody cheque? Haven't hey got other business project other than this critical idiotic project?
Seriously, I think this is a bit wrong loh then.
FELT LIKE SMACKING SOME JOKERS ON THEIR FACES!
Now, I'm having my own cashflow problems! I even had problems topping up my EZ-Link transit farecard! I also have my bills to pay you know!
The day before yesterday, Monday evening.
Gosh, I'm so desperate... I even went gambling... Heh...
Went to play mahjong with Chee Wee and his cousins, Siwei, Cindy and Edmund, that Monday evening till around midnight at Edmund and Cindy's house.
But I fucking lost. I'm the big loser.
No luck at all, even very good tile sets I didn't win, damn it. Did some stupid missing tiles on the mahjong session too. The only big winner was Chee Wee. Everyone lost to him. Now its my turn to owe him money (god damn, my $250).
Anyway, after the mahjong session. Chee Wee and I went to Siwei's house just across a road. Chee Wee and I didn't slept still, we went to play WarCraft III: Frozen Throne online instead. Chee Wee said he wanted to play his fill before he enter the army this Friday.
We played till about 3am, only then we went to sleep on the sofa or in the sleeping bag.
Yesterday, Tuesday.
We woke at around 8am or 9am the next morning day. By that time, Huimin and Siwei and all their family were had already woken up and went to work.
I washed up my face with my travel Oxy face wash and dry my face with a towel I brought. I didn't bring my toothbrush, so I only rinse my mouth but ate quite an amount of Listerine Oral Care strips.
Since, I had nothing to do at home for the day, I decided to be a follower. I folowed Chee Wee for most of his journey on that day.
After eating our breakfast and drinking our coffee, we took into that rented car of Nissan Sunny. Huimin did the driving and we went to pick up Alvin and then drove all the way to the Singapore Police Acaedemy to pick Hong Yun up.
Hong Yun was in his smart police trainee uniform and was to book out temporary for the day for his graduation ceremony in the afternoon.
From there, Hong Yun for the first time drove that nice rented Nissan Sunny (but later in the day, we heard that he got into some minor accident. Someone buang his car from behind).
So Hong Yun drove Huimin and Alvin to work or school and dropped them by in the Bugis area, while Chee Wee and I were dropped off at Clifford Pier.
I was to accompanied Chee Wee to the StarHub shop to change and upgrade his handphone at OUB Centre at One Raffles Place.
But unlucky for Chee Wee, he didn't manage to change it because his trade-in handphone battery was over-charged and bloated.
So he decided to come and change it again when he got a good conditioned original Nokia handphone battery from someone else.
And we set off to walk to Bugis from Raffles Place, where we had our lunch at the hawker centre near Waterloo Street.
After lunch, I went to that puny office to pick up water bottle can and my holy Flash bible, and also, check how my pay is coming. Only Terence was in there, sitting down there having his lunch while watching pirated Catwoman movie on his PC.
He told me he could only pay me when he receives the cheque from that stupid client and he'll contact me so when he got it.
There and then, I felt like its either I land my water bottle metal can on his head, or I take one of his office PC system as his mortgage.
Anyway, after that Chee Wee and I took off to a LAN gaming shop at Shaw Towers where we played there for about three hours till early evening.
By the time, Huimin and Alvin had already finished there work and was already waiting outside or inside the shop.
I was not in a pretty good mood then, even when I was playing during the game.
I was woried and frustrated over my immediately due handphone bill, which its service will be cut off if I didn't pay. But I got NO MONEY to pay for it!
SO I had to borrow it from my mum. But I hated borrowing money, especially with my mum who will come up with all those untrustful assumptions that I was playing too much outside, losing too much money in mahjong etc.
I'm not bad boy, but I'm mature enough to know what I did have consequences.
I truly hated these kinds of distrusting assumptions on me. I truly fucking hate it.
I'm not a child and I know how to handle my money, okay.
At least I'm not the one who said I borrowed money from my son and later didn't return on the basis you're my son and its filial piety not to ask your mother to return borrowed money from your mother!
And you son couldn't say or do a bloody damn thing fot it, when he's independent financially able to survive HIS OWN ONLY.
At least I'm financially independent enough not to get pocket money from my parents, okay.
%@%^$&$&^%*!!!
And there was all my frustrations.
I am to borrow money from you and you suddenly got the right have to say all thse distrustful things. Its unfair.
Anyway, we were suppose to watch a free (or maybe subsided) movie at Siwei's cinema where he work in at Shaw Towers. Huimin, Alvin, Chee Wee and Hong Yun wanted to watch it.
But frustrated with my god damn "financial problem", I decided give up watching the movie with the rest (no mood to watch) and leave. So I said and waved my goodbyes to my friends.
They maybe quite wondering why I suddenly want to go. But once there is a super frustrating problem in my head, I would just simply and stubbornly persisted to solve it, ASAP.
So I went straight home all the way to Jurong East to borrow some cash from my mother, to deposit into my bank account electronically and pay my handphone bill electronically at either Clementi central or Boon Lay's Jurong Point (in the end, I chosen Jurong Point because, it is one of the closer place where I could deposit, withdraw and pay my handphone bill elctronically altogether at one place).
All these troubles, just because my mother refused to at least try and use the electronic debit transfer service using the ATM to pass some cash into my bank account, so I could pay the bill almost anywhere.
Pek chek, man...
Monday, August 16, 2004
(V_V) You're My Infatuation.
Foolishly lost
Craze accompanied
Passion arised unreasoned
Your attraction is extravagant
Your face is unremembered
Cos' its only transitory
Only your soul is noticed
That is your true beauty
All I knew is you
Yet it is almost empty
I still want to know and feel you
But all I did was getting jumpy
You're my infatuation
You're the distraction
To look into your eyes
To telepath to your heart
To focus on your mind
That is what is totally mine
Foolishly lost
Craze accompanied
Passion arised unreasoned
Your attraction is extravagant
Your face is unremembered
Cos' its only transitory
Only your soul is noticed
That is your true beauty
All I knew is you
Yet it is almost empty
I still want to know and feel you
But all I did was getting jumpy
You're my infatuation
You're the distraction
To look into your eyes
To telepath to your heart
To focus on your mind
That is what is totally mine
Tanning and Spinning Around (again)!
Yesterday, Sunday on the Beach.
I went to Sentosa in the late morning at around 11am. I was meeting up with Junlong, Hong Yun, Chee Wee and Bryan to have a day on the beach for some tanning under the sun at the Siloso Beach.
I reached there first the Harbour Front and everyone else was late, I thought. But I called Chee Wee and from him, I was told that Junlong was already at the Siloso Beach waiting.
So, I went there to meet him up. I found him lying on the sandy beach in swimming trunks, looking quite tired and sian near our usual beach pavillion near the rock.
Then, I heard from him than he was a the Nike Run event this early morning at Sentosa and was disqualified or something. So he had been on the beach since 8am in the morning.
But together we waited till about 12pm plus before the rest of the guys turn up. But Junlong decided to leave earlier before the rest of guys arrived, as he was tried and too bored alone on the beach for too long I guessed.
So we did all our walk on the sandy beaches, our swimming in the sea, looking at the girls on the beach, chatting here and there or simply lying down on the sands for the tan.
On all the doing, Chee Wee injurned himself with some serious but minor cuts by some barnacle when we're loitering near the floating platform bridge. He thought they were harmless rocks or something. As usual he whined about it, but with pain.
We decided to leave at around 3pm plus.
And on the right time we did.
Because after our showers, the skies were already covered with grey clouds above the beaches. There was no longer the sunshine. If we had left any later, there would be a long queue at the showers of people who decided to leave the beach because there was no sun.
After the showers, we took Hong Yun's rented Honda Civic from Sentosa back to mainland Singapore for our lunch at the hawker centre by the Harbour Front Bus Terminal. Before we got the car moving, we realised the radia in the car was screwed, it only switches on when the engines not running (though the battery power was on for the radio).
This car is definitely going to be scrapped sooner or later.
Yesterday, Sunday on the Road.
After our lunch, Bryan went home taking the MRT transit while the rest of us took the car taking the AYE expressway to Boon Lay.
We had parked the car in a HDB estate multi-storey carpark where it had quite a distance from Juront Point Shopping Mall. Chee Wee had to move with the pain on his foot.
We arrived at Jurong Point where Chee Wee would go up all to the 6th level of Jurong Point (taking the lift of course) with his injured foot.
And back to the carpark to get our car. Hong Yun drived us back to Chee Wee's house. I stayed along with Chee Wee as we should be having a mahjong session yesterday night.
So I stayed with Chee Wee while we played some games onl;ine his PC for an hour or two, before we took his family's goods van with his whole family to West Mall's food court to have our dinner.
After dinner, we immediate took to Hong Yun's car again. We were on our way to the Singapore's Police Acaedemy where Hong Yun and a friend of his, will book into the camp.
Soon Wei was also in the car. He was to drive us back to Huimin's house later for Huimin to drive him back home (messy? nah, they were sharing that lousy rented car).
So Hong Yun drove to Thomson Road where his camp is. We said and waved our good byes to him and his friend before we took off on the road to Huimin's House. So we took the CTE expressway towards Ang Mo Kio, to SLE expressway, to KJE expressway then to Chua Chu Kang area, where Huimin's house is.
Soon Wei got quite scary on the road at times. Maybe because both Chee Wee and I's mixture of double but difference guidiance. He got a bit blur. Sometimes
Then Huimin cam down, took the car, drove Soon Wei back to his house. After that we decided to waste some fuel before we change our car at the renters to a Nissan Sunny, so we wanted to head down to Bugis via PIE expressway to give Alvin a ride back home.
There we realised we may not had enough money for petrol fuel when we change our car later.
But we lost our way along the PIE. I've checked that we wasted about 50% journey on the PIE expressway, we should have taken a main road towards city instead, before the PIE-BLE link. Though we all knew that CTE could lead us to the city (where Bugis is), there wasn't a direct link from PIE down to CTE to the city. If we took CTE, we would only be heading northwards towards Ang Mo Kio, only then we could U-turn to the opposite direction to the city.
Haiz... So mah fan... Why the Land Transport Authority (LTA) didn't bother to make such a direct link from PIE to CTE towards the city?
So we got a bit lost somewhere in the vincinity above the top east of the city area.
We got someway we took to be the Kallang area, then the Lavender area. Then don't know how, thought we found our way to Bugis, instead we went on a road to Balestier (the road was of the north-west direction, not the south-west direction we wanted.
Chee Wee was giving direction say at this point but yet at times, he was also indecisive where to go... So I chup in to give Huimin a firm direction at critical moments (thought not exactly correct) so that she wouldn't get over-stressed on the road, which I could see that due to the indecisiveness, she got a bit pek chek and stressed. She was quite disorientated.
In the end, we gave up heading to Bugis, even though we could have back-tracked to some roads we missed that would definitely lead us to the city. So we took the CTE towards Ang Mo Kio, to Bishan.
By the time Huimin drove there, I guessed she was pretty tired, stressed and also disorientated, making quite a lot of "mistakes" which were not totally due to her fault. I think every in the car is at fault one way or the other.
Finally, we were able to change to a good car of the new Nissan Sunny, which was a great car to be in... Finally, no wind blowing from out of the windows which was making my hair stand all the way... Nice comfortable seats and air-condition. The only problem was the unworkable seat belt on the front passenger seat.
Anyway, we finally took the car to a petrol station to refuel. We got together all our money (yes all) to top the car fuel tank to a half tank.
Then we took off again, from CTE, to, SLE, to KJE, to Chua Chu Kang. On the way, Huimin decided not to play mahjong, as she had classes and things to do early this morning. So the mahjong session was postponed to tonight.
So on yesterday Sunday, about one-third of day was spent on the road. This was one of the times where I spent the longest time I've ever spend in a vehicle, on the road in Singapore.
In the end, my destination was home. I just simply didn't knew what to say on this road "trip" in the end...
Haiz... : (
Yesterday, Sunday on the Beach.
I went to Sentosa in the late morning at around 11am. I was meeting up with Junlong, Hong Yun, Chee Wee and Bryan to have a day on the beach for some tanning under the sun at the Siloso Beach.
I reached there first the Harbour Front and everyone else was late, I thought. But I called Chee Wee and from him, I was told that Junlong was already at the Siloso Beach waiting.
So, I went there to meet him up. I found him lying on the sandy beach in swimming trunks, looking quite tired and sian near our usual beach pavillion near the rock.
Then, I heard from him than he was a the Nike Run event this early morning at Sentosa and was disqualified or something. So he had been on the beach since 8am in the morning.
But together we waited till about 12pm plus before the rest of the guys turn up. But Junlong decided to leave earlier before the rest of guys arrived, as he was tried and too bored alone on the beach for too long I guessed.
So we did all our walk on the sandy beaches, our swimming in the sea, looking at the girls on the beach, chatting here and there or simply lying down on the sands for the tan.
On all the doing, Chee Wee injurned himself with some serious but minor cuts by some barnacle when we're loitering near the floating platform bridge. He thought they were harmless rocks or something. As usual he whined about it, but with pain.
We decided to leave at around 3pm plus.
And on the right time we did.
Because after our showers, the skies were already covered with grey clouds above the beaches. There was no longer the sunshine. If we had left any later, there would be a long queue at the showers of people who decided to leave the beach because there was no sun.
After the showers, we took Hong Yun's rented Honda Civic from Sentosa back to mainland Singapore for our lunch at the hawker centre by the Harbour Front Bus Terminal. Before we got the car moving, we realised the radia in the car was screwed, it only switches on when the engines not running (though the battery power was on for the radio).
This car is definitely going to be scrapped sooner or later.
Yesterday, Sunday on the Road.
After our lunch, Bryan went home taking the MRT transit while the rest of us took the car taking the AYE expressway to Boon Lay.
We had parked the car in a HDB estate multi-storey carpark where it had quite a distance from Juront Point Shopping Mall. Chee Wee had to move with the pain on his foot.
We arrived at Jurong Point where Chee Wee would go up all to the 6th level of Jurong Point (taking the lift of course) with his injured foot.
And back to the carpark to get our car. Hong Yun drived us back to Chee Wee's house. I stayed along with Chee Wee as we should be having a mahjong session yesterday night.
So I stayed with Chee Wee while we played some games onl;ine his PC for an hour or two, before we took his family's goods van with his whole family to West Mall's food court to have our dinner.
After dinner, we immediate took to Hong Yun's car again. We were on our way to the Singapore's Police Acaedemy where Hong Yun and a friend of his, will book into the camp.
Soon Wei was also in the car. He was to drive us back to Huimin's house later for Huimin to drive him back home (messy? nah, they were sharing that lousy rented car).
So Hong Yun drove to Thomson Road where his camp is. We said and waved our good byes to him and his friend before we took off on the road to Huimin's House. So we took the CTE expressway towards Ang Mo Kio, to SLE expressway, to KJE expressway then to Chua Chu Kang area, where Huimin's house is.
Soon Wei got quite scary on the road at times. Maybe because both Chee Wee and I's mixture of double but difference guidiance. He got a bit blur. Sometimes
Then Huimin cam down, took the car, drove Soon Wei back to his house. After that we decided to waste some fuel before we change our car at the renters to a Nissan Sunny, so we wanted to head down to Bugis via PIE expressway to give Alvin a ride back home.
There we realised we may not had enough money for petrol fuel when we change our car later.
But we lost our way along the PIE. I've checked that we wasted about 50% journey on the PIE expressway, we should have taken a main road towards city instead, before the PIE-BLE link. Though we all knew that CTE could lead us to the city (where Bugis is), there wasn't a direct link from PIE down to CTE to the city. If we took CTE, we would only be heading northwards towards Ang Mo Kio, only then we could U-turn to the opposite direction to the city.
Haiz... So mah fan... Why the Land Transport Authority (LTA) didn't bother to make such a direct link from PIE to CTE towards the city?
So we got a bit lost somewhere in the vincinity above the top east of the city area.
We got someway we took to be the Kallang area, then the Lavender area. Then don't know how, thought we found our way to Bugis, instead we went on a road to Balestier (the road was of the north-west direction, not the south-west direction we wanted.
Chee Wee was giving direction say at this point but yet at times, he was also indecisive where to go... So I chup in to give Huimin a firm direction at critical moments (thought not exactly correct) so that she wouldn't get over-stressed on the road, which I could see that due to the indecisiveness, she got a bit pek chek and stressed. She was quite disorientated.
In the end, we gave up heading to Bugis, even though we could have back-tracked to some roads we missed that would definitely lead us to the city. So we took the CTE towards Ang Mo Kio, to Bishan.
By the time Huimin drove there, I guessed she was pretty tired, stressed and also disorientated, making quite a lot of "mistakes" which were not totally due to her fault. I think every in the car is at fault one way or the other.
Finally, we were able to change to a good car of the new Nissan Sunny, which was a great car to be in... Finally, no wind blowing from out of the windows which was making my hair stand all the way... Nice comfortable seats and air-condition. The only problem was the unworkable seat belt on the front passenger seat.
Anyway, we finally took the car to a petrol station to refuel. We got together all our money (yes all) to top the car fuel tank to a half tank.
Then we took off again, from CTE, to, SLE, to KJE, to Chua Chu Kang. On the way, Huimin decided not to play mahjong, as she had classes and things to do early this morning. So the mahjong session was postponed to tonight.
So on yesterday Sunday, about one-third of day was spent on the road. This was one of the times where I spent the longest time I've ever spend in a vehicle, on the road in Singapore.
In the end, my destination was home. I just simply didn't knew what to say on this road "trip" in the end...
Haiz... : (
Sunday, August 15, 2004
I'm a Cat... Lover!
Some Nonsense on Me and Cats.
I am a cat lover! And I really really like cats! I also like dogs but I like them later than cats when I've overcome my fear for dogs (when I got bitten by one big one on my butt. Luckily no scars).
So I've came to prefer cats than dogs. Even when I choose dogs, I choose dog breeds closer to cats, i.e. dogs that are not always enthusiastic or playful all the time. Though I still like some playful dogs.
Hmmm... Cats...
I think my first comment from my mum ever since I was born into this world was, "Ni Sheng Chu Lai De Shi Hou Bi Yi Zhi Xiao Mao Hai Yao Xiao", meaning that when I was born, I was on the size slight smaller than a small kitty cat (yes, this is a fact, and I'm only 1.2 kilograms!)
So my affinity with cats started. Even though I was born as a "rat" in the lunar horoscope, I was also half a "cat". My mother is a "tiger" in the lunar horoscope.
So I came ot be very much closer to cats than dogs. I even knew how to make cat calls (not those lustiful calls, but mewing and such) so much like a cat, those who fear dosmetic kitties would simply jump when I meow right beside suddenly. Ha ha ha!
I learn to meow because I wanted to communicate with these nice kitties, to attract them to me.
I am attracted to the way they walk, known as the sexy cat walk. The sensuality a cat displays is very attractive to me.
I've always admire the cat's personality.
A cat's personality is know to be in balance. When a cat gets angry it get real fierce, it gets real fierce. Otherwise, it could be as wild and playful big time or simply lazing around.
When a cat wanted what it wants, it'll strive for the best to get its prey. When it stalks on something, the look of it make me felt that that's its greatest strength, that undeniable confidence and dilligence.
When a cat wanted affection, I will definitely give it... That attraction of the certain innocence in a cat's eyes is throughly mesmerising. This could be a favourite preference for my future girlfriends. Hee...
I would simply love to get a cat for a pet, stroking it while I watch television on a sofa...
Catwoman: The Movie Review.
The movie of the Catwoman was absolutely great!
Its visual art style was pretty cool. Good visual effects and nice camera motion and angles that really made me think how they did it.
They definite find the best casting for the leading lady who is Halle Berry.
Halle Berry ' acting was absolutely sensual and wild as the Catwoman. Even when she turn to that innocent lady, the attention she got from me was just as innocent.
The Catwoman's suit definitely fit her beautifully sculpted body also. Her whip is definitely deciphers as a cat's tail, flexibly to get your attention.
She's definitely better off as Catwoman than be the Storm of X-Men.
The story was similar to original story. Though slightly changed, it was still very good to fit the modern times. It is definitely not as weak as the one in the Batman movie, but the strength of the cat's spirit is definitely better in this movie.
I definitely like to see a second movie to be on the movie screens.
Catwoman, it is a must watch!
Some Nonsense on Me and Cats.
I am a cat lover! And I really really like cats! I also like dogs but I like them later than cats when I've overcome my fear for dogs (when I got bitten by one big one on my butt. Luckily no scars).
So I've came to prefer cats than dogs. Even when I choose dogs, I choose dog breeds closer to cats, i.e. dogs that are not always enthusiastic or playful all the time. Though I still like some playful dogs.
Hmmm... Cats...
I think my first comment from my mum ever since I was born into this world was, "Ni Sheng Chu Lai De Shi Hou Bi Yi Zhi Xiao Mao Hai Yao Xiao", meaning that when I was born, I was on the size slight smaller than a small kitty cat (yes, this is a fact, and I'm only 1.2 kilograms!)
So my affinity with cats started. Even though I was born as a "rat" in the lunar horoscope, I was also half a "cat". My mother is a "tiger" in the lunar horoscope.
So I came ot be very much closer to cats than dogs. I even knew how to make cat calls (not those lustiful calls, but mewing and such) so much like a cat, those who fear dosmetic kitties would simply jump when I meow right beside suddenly. Ha ha ha!
I learn to meow because I wanted to communicate with these nice kitties, to attract them to me.
I am attracted to the way they walk, known as the sexy cat walk. The sensuality a cat displays is very attractive to me.
I've always admire the cat's personality.
A cat's personality is know to be in balance. When a cat gets angry it get real fierce, it gets real fierce. Otherwise, it could be as wild and playful big time or simply lazing around.
When a cat wanted what it wants, it'll strive for the best to get its prey. When it stalks on something, the look of it make me felt that that's its greatest strength, that undeniable confidence and dilligence.
When a cat wanted affection, I will definitely give it... That attraction of the certain innocence in a cat's eyes is throughly mesmerising. This could be a favourite preference for my future girlfriends. Hee...
I would simply love to get a cat for a pet, stroking it while I watch television on a sofa...
Catwoman: The Movie Review.
The movie of the Catwoman was absolutely great!
Its visual art style was pretty cool. Good visual effects and nice camera motion and angles that really made me think how they did it.
They definite find the best casting for the leading lady who is Halle Berry.
Halle Berry ' acting was absolutely sensual and wild as the Catwoman. Even when she turn to that innocent lady, the attention she got from me was just as innocent.
The Catwoman's suit definitely fit her beautifully sculpted body also. Her whip is definitely deciphers as a cat's tail, flexibly to get your attention.
She's definitely better off as Catwoman than be the Storm of X-Men.
The story was similar to original story. Though slightly changed, it was still very good to fit the modern times. It is definitely not as weak as the one in the Batman movie, but the strength of the cat's spirit is definitely better in this movie.
I definitely like to see a second movie to be on the movie screens.
Catwoman, it is a must watch!
Spinning Around...
Yesterday, Saturday evening till night.
After having my dinner at home, I took the MRT transit to Dhouby Ghaut's Plaza Singapura, where Chee Wee, Hong Yun, Junlong, Bryan and I would be watching the movie, Catwoman.
But everyone was late except me. I was asked to buy the movie tickets for the earlier shows but I couldn't as I am poor (damn it, I still haven't got my fucking pay yet).
So I waited and waited for my friends to come, while all the earlier shows of Catwoman, till Bryan came.
As I didn't know what to do then as we were indecisive even though with all the money I had with Bryan's were enough to buy, we're just unable to decide as one, Bryan was worried about his transport home for a late movie and two, we didn't know whether the rest of the guys would wanted the first few rows of seats.
I got pretty angry then, especially at the time of indecisiveness and when I had to wait for things to be solved slowly. I was angry with myself why didn't I get my bloody pay yet so that I could solve that problem easily.
I really hated being indecisive. Anyway, problem was solved (but we had lousy seats).
We met birthday boy Soon Wei and his girlfriend. We gave the birthday boy our blessings. They would be having their own movie of Collateral at Orchard Cineleisure.
Anyway, since we were having quite a late movie. The rest went to have their dinner
at Burger King (again). I only had a dessert of the Hershey's Sundae Pie. We had a great time chatting.
After that we took Hong Yun's rented car, a small old Daihatsu, for a spin! Well, not exactly a spin though, we took his car to travel to Bishan to change to another car at the renter's place.
The car was small, not to mention its air-conditioning system is redundant. So open air concept was used.
Hong Yun even gave the renter's Daihatsu car a free filled petrol of almost half tank, which was considered a loss for Hong Yun's pocket.
So we changed to another car, an old Honda Civic GL. The only things better of this car than previous was that it got a larger space and better performance. Other than that, nothing more. Air-conditioner was as fuck up. And there was hardly any extra petrol. The cute parts were the steering wheel, accelerator and brake footings are as small as the Daytona arcade machine.
So before we took off, we always had to top-up the fuel tank. I don't know why, I've heard and seen it for myself that most of the renter's cars are always low on fuel before its been rented. So the best thing to do before returning the car was to always use up the fuel in the car.
After our refuelling, we sped off all the way back to Dhouby Ghaut's Plaza Singapura where we caught up on our movie, Catwoman, just on time.
After the movies, Hong Yun drived everyone back home. Then I thought, its quite sad on your time and pocket (especially when you're not very rich) when you're the only friend with the car.
But Hong Yun was a good friend to be with.
He's a Mr Nice Handsome Hunk. Need to remember to be grateful and repay his great deeds. Lolz...
Yesterday, Saturday evening till night.
After having my dinner at home, I took the MRT transit to Dhouby Ghaut's Plaza Singapura, where Chee Wee, Hong Yun, Junlong, Bryan and I would be watching the movie, Catwoman.
But everyone was late except me. I was asked to buy the movie tickets for the earlier shows but I couldn't as I am poor (damn it, I still haven't got my fucking pay yet).
So I waited and waited for my friends to come, while all the earlier shows of Catwoman, till Bryan came.
As I didn't know what to do then as we were indecisive even though with all the money I had with Bryan's were enough to buy, we're just unable to decide as one, Bryan was worried about his transport home for a late movie and two, we didn't know whether the rest of the guys would wanted the first few rows of seats.
I got pretty angry then, especially at the time of indecisiveness and when I had to wait for things to be solved slowly. I was angry with myself why didn't I get my bloody pay yet so that I could solve that problem easily.
I really hated being indecisive. Anyway, problem was solved (but we had lousy seats).
We met birthday boy Soon Wei and his girlfriend. We gave the birthday boy our blessings. They would be having their own movie of Collateral at Orchard Cineleisure.
Anyway, since we were having quite a late movie. The rest went to have their dinner
at Burger King (again). I only had a dessert of the Hershey's Sundae Pie. We had a great time chatting.
After that we took Hong Yun's rented car, a small old Daihatsu, for a spin! Well, not exactly a spin though, we took his car to travel to Bishan to change to another car at the renter's place.
The car was small, not to mention its air-conditioning system is redundant. So open air concept was used.
Hong Yun even gave the renter's Daihatsu car a free filled petrol of almost half tank, which was considered a loss for Hong Yun's pocket.
So we changed to another car, an old Honda Civic GL. The only things better of this car than previous was that it got a larger space and better performance. Other than that, nothing more. Air-conditioner was as fuck up. And there was hardly any extra petrol. The cute parts were the steering wheel, accelerator and brake footings are as small as the Daytona arcade machine.
So before we took off, we always had to top-up the fuel tank. I don't know why, I've heard and seen it for myself that most of the renter's cars are always low on fuel before its been rented. So the best thing to do before returning the car was to always use up the fuel in the car.
After our refuelling, we sped off all the way back to Dhouby Ghaut's Plaza Singapura where we caught up on our movie, Catwoman, just on time.
After the movies, Hong Yun drived everyone back home. Then I thought, its quite sad on your time and pocket (especially when you're not very rich) when you're the only friend with the car.
But Hong Yun was a good friend to be with.
He's a Mr Nice Handsome Hunk. Need to remember to be grateful and repay his great deeds. Lolz...
First Tan on this Weekend!
Yesterday, Saturday morning and early afternoon.
Its been a long fulfilled Saturday, yesterday. Had lots of activities on From morning to night.
During the morning, I met up with Yiyong and Daniel for a swim at the Jurong East Swimming Complex. I had not seen Daniel for a long time, ever since he entered for his National Service (NS) on Pulau Tekong.
I simply have to see how his body had changed through his NS training.
But he didn't changed at all. He's not even tanned or anything. He is still as skinny but is definitely toner. A skinny lean-toned person with six packs but still skinny. He really needed body builder proteins.
So we basically have all the NSF talk and chat on other topics. We also were committed to tanning ourselves.
Daniel was so much hoping for his skin to be tanned, he kept looking at them in a very perculiar way that made me asked his why he kept looking, and told him it wouldn't be tanned anyway if you looked at it.
So we left the place after having about two to three hours under the sun.
Then I leaded them to a pirated games shop for them to buy their games or software before we took a bus to IMM shopping mall for them to have their meals at the Burger King there ( Ihad my lunch at home later) and for them to do some shopping for their own stuff.
After that, we walked our way to the Jurong East Bus Interchange and went our separate ways. I took a bus with Yiyong back home.
Yesterday, Saturday morning and early afternoon.
Its been a long fulfilled Saturday, yesterday. Had lots of activities on From morning to night.
During the morning, I met up with Yiyong and Daniel for a swim at the Jurong East Swimming Complex. I had not seen Daniel for a long time, ever since he entered for his National Service (NS) on Pulau Tekong.
I simply have to see how his body had changed through his NS training.
But he didn't changed at all. He's not even tanned or anything. He is still as skinny but is definitely toner. A skinny lean-toned person with six packs but still skinny. He really needed body builder proteins.
So we basically have all the NSF talk and chat on other topics. We also were committed to tanning ourselves.
Daniel was so much hoping for his skin to be tanned, he kept looking at them in a very perculiar way that made me asked his why he kept looking, and told him it wouldn't be tanned anyway if you looked at it.
So we left the place after having about two to three hours under the sun.
Then I leaded them to a pirated games shop for them to buy their games or software before we took a bus to IMM shopping mall for them to have their meals at the Burger King there ( Ihad my lunch at home later) and for them to do some shopping for their own stuff.
After that, we walked our way to the Jurong East Bus Interchange and went our separate ways. I took a bus with Yiyong back home.
Thursday, August 12, 2004
My Last Haircut Before the Army Shave...
Today, Thursday afternoon.
Went for my last haircut before my army shave next month.
The temporary replacement hairdresser wasn't my usual hairdresser. My usual hairdresser had given birth and is in confinement for at least another two weeks.
And damn, maybe I shouldn't take the hair by her. She didn't knew my style well enough and wasn't sure really what I wanted from what I said.
The temporary replacement hairdresser cut my hair like one army man who just grew his hair when he's out of BMT or something. That lady call off too much hair off my back of my head and the side along with the side-burns, which allowed my scalp to be seen.
I couldn't see how my hair looked like while the lady cut my hair, as I'm legally blind without my spectacles off.
Though I was quite worried while she cut, I thought I may be cut until like the Jia Long, or Long-Ge, a chracter with the weird Ah-Beng hairstyle on the Channel 8 drama, Double Happiness I.
But luckily, she didn't cut like like shit. Or I'll rather shave all my hair off.
Though I wasn't really fully happy to what I desired to be cut. At least my hair still looks neat (with myself doing my own bit of trimming after I was back home) and stylable. Cool for the hot summer times for the beach...
Today, Thursday afternoon.
Went for my last haircut before my army shave next month.
The temporary replacement hairdresser wasn't my usual hairdresser. My usual hairdresser had given birth and is in confinement for at least another two weeks.
And damn, maybe I shouldn't take the hair by her. She didn't knew my style well enough and wasn't sure really what I wanted from what I said.
The temporary replacement hairdresser cut my hair like one army man who just grew his hair when he's out of BMT or something. That lady call off too much hair off my back of my head and the side along with the side-burns, which allowed my scalp to be seen.
I couldn't see how my hair looked like while the lady cut my hair, as I'm legally blind without my spectacles off.
Though I was quite worried while she cut, I thought I may be cut until like the Jia Long, or Long-Ge, a chracter with the weird Ah-Beng hairstyle on the Channel 8 drama, Double Happiness I.
But luckily, she didn't cut like like shit. Or I'll rather shave all my hair off.
Though I wasn't really fully happy to what I desired to be cut. At least my hair still looks neat (with myself doing my own bit of trimming after I was back home) and stylable. Cool for the hot summer times for the beach...
Waiting...
Yep... I'm still waiting... All these days, waiting for three things to come.
One - My pay of $250! I have really low on cash and I can't go out!
Two - My job with unfinished business! I'm too fucking bored at home! Need to work for my own upkeep too!
Three - That blind element...
Only one of two elements drives an Aquarian like me, it is either work (with the sense of satisfaction and achievement, or else the job is absolutely redundant) and that blind element (wait long, long ah... haa...)
For the thing number two, I've already apply for two jobs online in which they do accept short-term working period, which satified my worries that I can't work for too long as my enlistment date is only about one month plus away.
I can be hopeful about those two jobs, but I also know that is will be difficult for me to get those jobs also.
Haiz... Maybe I shouldn't have taken the freelance job in the first place, now that my upkeep has gone unstable, I can't really enjoy my freedom either
: /
Yep... I'm still waiting... All these days, waiting for three things to come.
One - My pay of $250! I have really low on cash and I can't go out!
Two - My job with unfinished business! I'm too fucking bored at home! Need to work for my own upkeep too!
Three - That blind element...
Only one of two elements drives an Aquarian like me, it is either work (with the sense of satisfaction and achievement, or else the job is absolutely redundant) and that blind element (wait long, long ah... haa...)
For the thing number two, I've already apply for two jobs online in which they do accept short-term working period, which satified my worries that I can't work for too long as my enlistment date is only about one month plus away.
I can be hopeful about those two jobs, but I also know that is will be difficult for me to get those jobs also.
Haiz... Maybe I shouldn't have taken the freelance job in the first place, now that my upkeep has gone unstable, I can't really enjoy my freedom either
: /
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
(V_V) That Blind Element.
Mesmerised and fallen into that window
Into a soul, so deep and cold
Yet it dazzles me
Telling myself I must be felt
My static words are seen
Silence they are
Capturing your time
Which will be eternally mine
So many things to think of
For such a simple blind element
So difficult to air it out
My heart is killing me now
The drive made me warm
Unknown to me, I froze
Still above, not wish to fall
But inner desire is below
It is never difficult
To say it out
Yet it is so hard
To show I'm on to you.
The fear is nothing
And nothing is blind
Unable to foresight
I've lost my way
The gift is when you say
The ways are what you open
My answers are you
You are my hope
I am escaping from that blind element now...
Only you can catch me now...
Mesmerised and fallen into that window
Into a soul, so deep and cold
Yet it dazzles me
Telling myself I must be felt
My static words are seen
Silence they are
Capturing your time
Which will be eternally mine
So many things to think of
For such a simple blind element
So difficult to air it out
My heart is killing me now
The drive made me warm
Unknown to me, I froze
Still above, not wish to fall
But inner desire is below
It is never difficult
To say it out
Yet it is so hard
To show I'm on to you.
The fear is nothing
And nothing is blind
Unable to foresight
I've lost my way
The gift is when you say
The ways are what you open
My answers are you
You are my hope
I am escaping from that blind element now...
Only you can catch me now...
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Hopeful Idol Wannabes, But Hopeless.
Yesterday, Monday evening.
I watched the first show of the Singapore Idol yesterday. It was totally entertaining, like the clowns from the new Nokia advertisement.
There were alot of idol wannabes, but most of them trashed by the judges. Some trashed wannabes were so good entertaining, they were totally busted, and will never make their William Hung dream.
They were as brave as William Hung, but simply lacked that pure innocence like Hung.
So they'll never succeed like Hung. That only happen to extreme ignorant people like Hung, who proves that sometimes "Ignorance is bliss."
But that chance like Hung's only happen one in millions.
The highly attractive trashes were the crybaby Rocky from Shanghai, who was commented better off as opera singer than pop singer. The Lemon Tree guy who was performing a failed primary school performance.
And that extremely thick skinned, yellow underwear stripper called Steven, who was totally entertaining to everyone.
His Thick Skinness was just too unbelievable, online, offline and now on TV. His yellow underwear is his trademark. He even tried to sell his photos locally and internationally on the web.
I really wondered whether he knew the meaning of shame.
I knew this guy was formerly skinny and had kind of "beautified" himself to a much fatter and better body of his since then. Something like a extreme makeover (but not as good). Since then, he was showing all his lameness of his version of charm using his body, almost everywhere.
He doesn't even have a inch of toneness on his body nor six-pack abs, but still he shows proudly of his body everywhere. I didn't really knew whether I had to salute him (when he's dead lah) or cover his body with the Singapore flag (over his dead body that is).
Even those who qualified was not really up to my expectations. I was hoping for something more better. Hope the events will improve as the show moves on.
Guess I'll have to wait and see then for the next show.
: )
Yesterday, Monday evening.
I watched the first show of the Singapore Idol yesterday. It was totally entertaining, like the clowns from the new Nokia advertisement.
There were alot of idol wannabes, but most of them trashed by the judges. Some trashed wannabes were so good entertaining, they were totally busted, and will never make their William Hung dream.
They were as brave as William Hung, but simply lacked that pure innocence like Hung.
So they'll never succeed like Hung. That only happen to extreme ignorant people like Hung, who proves that sometimes "Ignorance is bliss."
But that chance like Hung's only happen one in millions.
The highly attractive trashes were the crybaby Rocky from Shanghai, who was commented better off as opera singer than pop singer. The Lemon Tree guy who was performing a failed primary school performance.
And that extremely thick skinned, yellow underwear stripper called Steven, who was totally entertaining to everyone.
His Thick Skinness was just too unbelievable, online, offline and now on TV. His yellow underwear is his trademark. He even tried to sell his photos locally and internationally on the web.
I really wondered whether he knew the meaning of shame.
I knew this guy was formerly skinny and had kind of "beautified" himself to a much fatter and better body of his since then. Something like a extreme makeover (but not as good). Since then, he was showing all his lameness of his version of charm using his body, almost everywhere.
He doesn't even have a inch of toneness on his body nor six-pack abs, but still he shows proudly of his body everywhere. I didn't really knew whether I had to salute him (when he's dead lah) or cover his body with the Singapore flag (over his dead body that is).
Even those who qualified was not really up to my expectations. I was hoping for something more better. Hope the events will improve as the show moves on.
Guess I'll have to wait and see then for the next show.
: )
Monday, August 09, 2004
The Twisted Village & the Chaotic Town!
Yesterday, Sunday.
Went to watch the movie, The Village, at Plaza Singapura's Golden Village cinema, along with Bryan and Hong Yun.
Junlong was broke. Alvin was working. The rest of the usual were on holidays overseas. So its only the three musketeers for the outing.
We met and bought our tickets first at the cinema's ticketing offices. After that, we had some walking to see-see, look-look along Orchard Road and then had our dinner at Orchard Cineleisure, before we got back to Plaza Singapura to catch our movie.
The Village's movie story plot is really "twisted". Twists within twists that is.
Can't really comment too much except that I can generally say the movie is worth a watch for people looking out for surprises. If I comment anything, there'll be no more surprises.
Trust me it is worth a watch (unless you're looking for total entertainment, it is suggest you don't watch it. It could be an anti-climax for people who wanted to be entertained).
The only hint I will give for those who are going to watch this movies is, "Watch out for any reflections in the scenes of the movie, or you might miss a particular surprise."
After the movie, we immediately took a bus down to the Marina Promenade area.
The traffic there was in almost total chaos. Traffic jams caused by impatient road users in the already traffic congestions and also lots of pedestrians who were heading to where we were going.
We didn't knew the time the fireworks display was going to start initially. But seeing the en masse of vehicles and people around. We were sure it hadn't start or finished then. No fireworks sound were heard either.
Until when we overheard some other people's talk that it will start at 8.30pm. Only then we realised that it was going to start very soon as we just reached the area and was trying to search for a place to watch the display.
We ended somewhere in the Marina Leisureplex, and just when we reached there, the firworks started. But we were still moving to get to somewhere where we could watch it properly.
Although in the end we mange to catch the display, we weren't really on a good spot where we could really watch the whole grand fireworks display properly. Our sight for it was blocked by people and trees.
But the fireworks were very near and upclose, but it was still fasinating and awesome. with its grand colours. The fireworks exploded thunderously as the crowd sounded with awe...
To me, fireworks represented the brilliant beauty of hope.
It was absoultely amazing how such fireworks of only less than 10 minutes attracted so many people all over to the Marina Promenade area.
And after the display, we got our chance to find out really how many people were there, when we were leaving.
Initially, I saw no crowd at the carnival below when the fireworks at the carnival place from where I was. Because all the crowd moved towards the promenade water front to watch the fireworks. But when people were leaving, the carnival place was totally packed.
It was unusual. Usually, the walk in front of the Marina Square area were filled with only a few people, even during usual weekends. But that fireworks event attracted so many people, the place is practically a sea of people.
And really, really alot of people were really trying to get their way out of the Marina Promenade area.
End to end, there was nothing but people leaving the Marina Promenade area. The situation of the vehicle and human traffic were then even of a worse state when people were leaving. Worse than when the fireworks display was starting.
Even the underpass entrances from all sides from Esplanades to the Civilian War Memorial or City Link was packed fully. People were moving too slowly there.
So we decided to find other way out of the area without going through massive crowds. We thought we got plenty of time to get of ther already, anyway.
I leaded the guys pass One Raffles Link to the jammed overhead bridge towards Suntec City (we didn't try to crosee the congested road to Suntec City, as we still needed to walk with people, deturing some construction obstacles there). At the worst speed there, it was one small step per two seconds trying to climb the bridge's stopped escalators.
Where we got into the cooling air-conditioned shopping mall of Suntec. Still there were crowds, moving slowly through the mall. Even though window shopping was impossible as most shops were closing or closed.
Finally, I was able to lead the guys to the second level of the Suntec mall, leading them to an overhead bridge and walked all the way to Bugis area.
And what's the total time to get out of the Marina Promenade area and Suntec area?
45 minutes!
That's why. Sometimes I really dislike going into crowded places.
At Bugis, we took some time to get some drinks while we waited for Alvin to knock off from work.
I took MRT transit with Bryan while the other two guys went to walk to their bus-stop to take their bus back home.
At here, I wish everyone a Happy National Day!
v(^o^)v
Yesterday, Sunday.
Went to watch the movie, The Village, at Plaza Singapura's Golden Village cinema, along with Bryan and Hong Yun.
Junlong was broke. Alvin was working. The rest of the usual were on holidays overseas. So its only the three musketeers for the outing.
We met and bought our tickets first at the cinema's ticketing offices. After that, we had some walking to see-see, look-look along Orchard Road and then had our dinner at Orchard Cineleisure, before we got back to Plaza Singapura to catch our movie.
The Village's movie story plot is really "twisted". Twists within twists that is.
Can't really comment too much except that I can generally say the movie is worth a watch for people looking out for surprises. If I comment anything, there'll be no more surprises.
Trust me it is worth a watch (unless you're looking for total entertainment, it is suggest you don't watch it. It could be an anti-climax for people who wanted to be entertained).
The only hint I will give for those who are going to watch this movies is, "Watch out for any reflections in the scenes of the movie, or you might miss a particular surprise."
After the movie, we immediately took a bus down to the Marina Promenade area.
The traffic there was in almost total chaos. Traffic jams caused by impatient road users in the already traffic congestions and also lots of pedestrians who were heading to where we were going.
We didn't knew the time the fireworks display was going to start initially. But seeing the en masse of vehicles and people around. We were sure it hadn't start or finished then. No fireworks sound were heard either.
Until when we overheard some other people's talk that it will start at 8.30pm. Only then we realised that it was going to start very soon as we just reached the area and was trying to search for a place to watch the display.
We ended somewhere in the Marina Leisureplex, and just when we reached there, the firworks started. But we were still moving to get to somewhere where we could watch it properly.
Although in the end we mange to catch the display, we weren't really on a good spot where we could really watch the whole grand fireworks display properly. Our sight for it was blocked by people and trees.
But the fireworks were very near and upclose, but it was still fasinating and awesome. with its grand colours. The fireworks exploded thunderously as the crowd sounded with awe...
To me, fireworks represented the brilliant beauty of hope.
It was absoultely amazing how such fireworks of only less than 10 minutes attracted so many people all over to the Marina Promenade area.
And after the display, we got our chance to find out really how many people were there, when we were leaving.
Initially, I saw no crowd at the carnival below when the fireworks at the carnival place from where I was. Because all the crowd moved towards the promenade water front to watch the fireworks. But when people were leaving, the carnival place was totally packed.
It was unusual. Usually, the walk in front of the Marina Square area were filled with only a few people, even during usual weekends. But that fireworks event attracted so many people, the place is practically a sea of people.
And really, really alot of people were really trying to get their way out of the Marina Promenade area.
End to end, there was nothing but people leaving the Marina Promenade area. The situation of the vehicle and human traffic were then even of a worse state when people were leaving. Worse than when the fireworks display was starting.
Even the underpass entrances from all sides from Esplanades to the Civilian War Memorial or City Link was packed fully. People were moving too slowly there.
So we decided to find other way out of the area without going through massive crowds. We thought we got plenty of time to get of ther already, anyway.
I leaded the guys pass One Raffles Link to the jammed overhead bridge towards Suntec City (we didn't try to crosee the congested road to Suntec City, as we still needed to walk with people, deturing some construction obstacles there). At the worst speed there, it was one small step per two seconds trying to climb the bridge's stopped escalators.
Where we got into the cooling air-conditioned shopping mall of Suntec. Still there were crowds, moving slowly through the mall. Even though window shopping was impossible as most shops were closing or closed.
Finally, I was able to lead the guys to the second level of the Suntec mall, leading them to an overhead bridge and walked all the way to Bugis area.
And what's the total time to get out of the Marina Promenade area and Suntec area?
45 minutes!
That's why. Sometimes I really dislike going into crowded places.
At Bugis, we took some time to get some drinks while we waited for Alvin to knock off from work.
I took MRT transit with Bryan while the other two guys went to walk to their bus-stop to take their bus back home.
At here, I wish everyone a Happy National Day!
v(^o^)v
Saturday, August 07, 2004
To Love or Be Loved?
Today, Saturday.
Aiyo. Went to visit Elvin's house today. Now blogging from his PC while he watching me blog.
I'm not scared to offend him, even though I owe him $200. Ha ha ha!
He daringly showed me his girlfriend's online diary. Wau seh. Buay tahan, his girlfriend like him for so long, for about one year. If it was me, I'll just act quickly and end my worries (just like what I did once before, but unsuccessful). For me, liking someone or even loving someone without telling her makes my own life too unbearable.
Just can't stand to read the diary too much, cos' I've no girlfriend. I think Elvin was trying to make desperate for girls or something.
Then the old topic came out into my head again.
To love or be loved is happiness?
I've also discussed this topic of similarity with Vivian yesterday. I asked her whether she got like anybody or not during secondary school. Of course she said no (Yeah, whatever... secrets. Never trust what pretty woman says, ha ha ha!). I told I did like someone then, saying it was Agnes Chua, but realised now my fancy for her then was pretty much superficial.
Then Vivian explaination for her answer simply said that she rather be liked than liking someone.
(=.=) *Duh...* Pretty women... This is how they make themselves precious and look priceless!
But then I kind of think through it. Quite true of what she said. One can be happy too being loved by others. Loving someone or even simply liking someone can be quite painful and troublesome.
So why bother now.
Just be happy bachelor whom all people can love for now. Hopefully, I could hang on to this belief.
I've been a sweet lover boy all my life. Its time to be loved by others now.
Just wait for the Fates to decide my way to who I may meet, but the choice is always mine
: p
Today, Saturday.
Aiyo. Went to visit Elvin's house today. Now blogging from his PC while he watching me blog.
I'm not scared to offend him, even though I owe him $200. Ha ha ha!
He daringly showed me his girlfriend's online diary. Wau seh. Buay tahan, his girlfriend like him for so long, for about one year. If it was me, I'll just act quickly and end my worries (just like what I did once before, but unsuccessful). For me, liking someone or even loving someone without telling her makes my own life too unbearable.
Just can't stand to read the diary too much, cos' I've no girlfriend. I think Elvin was trying to make desperate for girls or something.
Then the old topic came out into my head again.
To love or be loved is happiness?
I've also discussed this topic of similarity with Vivian yesterday. I asked her whether she got like anybody or not during secondary school. Of course she said no (Yeah, whatever... secrets. Never trust what pretty woman says, ha ha ha!). I told I did like someone then, saying it was Agnes Chua, but realised now my fancy for her then was pretty much superficial.
Then Vivian explaination for her answer simply said that she rather be liked than liking someone.
(=.=) *Duh...* Pretty women... This is how they make themselves precious and look priceless!
But then I kind of think through it. Quite true of what she said. One can be happy too being loved by others. Loving someone or even simply liking someone can be quite painful and troublesome.
So why bother now.
Just be happy bachelor whom all people can love for now. Hopefully, I could hang on to this belief.
I've been a sweet lover boy all my life. Its time to be loved by others now.
Just wait for the Fates to decide my way to who I may meet, but the choice is always mine
: p
Thursday, August 05, 2004
(^o^) Chasing the Rainbow on the Wave Pool!
Thursday, today.
Just came back from a nice swim (^o^)
Hmmm... Not doing work today again.
So I finally took the chance to find Andhika to going swimming in this beautiful weather under the sun with me at the Jurong East Swimming Complex today.
Andhika and I felt young again. We were chasing that illusionary rainbow just about the wave pool (of course, it was physically an illusion to our eyes).
Some say there are gold at the end of the rainbow. But from what I see then, at the end of the rainbow, there is only ourselves, so that makes us that precious "gold"!
I wanted to get myself to be slightly tanned so that I wouldn't look like a white chicken after satying at home or in the office for so long. Its been about a month since I swam under the sun already.
It was raining quite badly this few days ago, but this few days' weather had been sunny and warm. Great times for a swim, so I got one for myself.
Had plenty of fun under the sun (^o^)
My spirits are high under the sunshine.
How about the rest of you? Going for a swim under the sun?
There's really nice weather these days! A swim in the pool or at the beach waters is a must! I'll be glad to join anyone for more fun under the sun!
(^-^)
Thursday, today.
Just came back from a nice swim (^o^)
Hmmm... Not doing work today again.
So I finally took the chance to find Andhika to going swimming in this beautiful weather under the sun with me at the Jurong East Swimming Complex today.
Andhika and I felt young again. We were chasing that illusionary rainbow just about the wave pool (of course, it was physically an illusion to our eyes).
Some say there are gold at the end of the rainbow. But from what I see then, at the end of the rainbow, there is only ourselves, so that makes us that precious "gold"!
I wanted to get myself to be slightly tanned so that I wouldn't look like a white chicken after satying at home or in the office for so long. Its been about a month since I swam under the sun already.
It was raining quite badly this few days ago, but this few days' weather had been sunny and warm. Great times for a swim, so I got one for myself.
Had plenty of fun under the sun (^o^)
My spirits are high under the sunshine.
How about the rest of you? Going for a swim under the sun?
There's really nice weather these days! A swim in the pool or at the beach waters is a must! I'll be glad to join anyone for more fun under the sun!
(^-^)
Network Webbies.
Wednesday, yesterday evening.
I wasn't doing anything yesterday. Still waiting for my wrok to come to me.
I went to Jurong Point to meet and very good friend, Jiavei. We've been childhood friends and playmates since birth and he's only about two weeks older than me.
He's a Malaysian and has gradauted from his college for quite some time. He's as intelligent as his father or my 3rd Uncle (who both have pretty high foreheads as good as Lee Kuan Yew's), who's a teacher graduated from university too.
And now he finally got his chance to study in Singapore, a wish his father and him had since when he was in primary school.
Now, he's studying in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and is living in the hostels of NTU campus.
I was suppose to register him a new handphone line under my name at a handphone shop at Jurong Point. But sadly, I wasn't able to as I wasn't 21 year old which then I'll allow me to add another additional handphone line.
And guess what, I'm 20 year old and 6 month old, only about half year to go.
I really hate age limits which tried to logical estimate people's maturity thinking as to restrict people. Especially for some clubs, which have higher age limits for guys but lower age limits for girls.
Talking about sexual equality, *duh*!
Anyway, I can't wait to get to the milestone age of 21 year old. But hope I stay young like that forever.
: p
Anyway, back to the main story, I brought my cousin to my home for dinner after that.
After I reached home, we continued to talk as we haven't talk for so freely like that for a very long time.
And there I received a Friendster message from Kernis to ask me join another network webbie like Friendster.com. The new network webbie is Multiply.com.
See? There's really a lot of many diffrent network webbies on net now. Alvin's IT business proposal is greatly challenged. Heh...
Anyway, I've registered into Multiply.com social networking site. It is definitely very much better than Friendster (though for now, maybe I'm going to ignore it till I've got the time to fill up and organise my stuff there or something).
How better is Multiply.com compared to Friendster.com?
It is definitely for people who truly wanted to maintain their own social networks. For working purposes as well as friends. Its a very well oragnised and allow users to easliy manage their stuff.
They definitely got all the features of Friendster's.
They also have TONNES of other special user features like journals (something like blogs, that's why I say it quite difficult for me to switch service. Maybe I wouldn't use Multiply's journal alot. Most probably put a link there to my blogspot or something). There are also other features like polls, posting albums, even professional stuff relating work employment like posting resume and others.
This could be a very good online networking service for people who really wanted to link their lifestyle to the net, making their lifestyle also a cyberlifestyle.
The main good points about Multiply are its features, but the vexing thing about them are that there's really a lot of things to fill up. People who may want to switch services (like me) is detered.
But the good advantage about those feature are really that you can manage and organise your social network better than that of Friendster's. It allows user to "import" your friends from Friendster and other network webbies.
But I was wondering whether they could allow me to import other information like "About Me", "Interests" and other informations too (perhaps even journals from my blog, then it'll make it a truly universal networking tool online!). Even using copy and paste command was a bit too mah fan for me, as those informations are basically all the same. Even my blog's profile has them.
But what ever is is, I'm temporary sticking to my Friendster and Blogspot for now.
Lazy to switch dramatically, as all my friends are mostly on Friendster also.
But we'll definitely see it how, first.
Wednesday, yesterday evening.
I wasn't doing anything yesterday. Still waiting for my wrok to come to me.
I went to Jurong Point to meet and very good friend, Jiavei. We've been childhood friends and playmates since birth and he's only about two weeks older than me.
He's a Malaysian and has gradauted from his college for quite some time. He's as intelligent as his father or my 3rd Uncle (who both have pretty high foreheads as good as Lee Kuan Yew's), who's a teacher graduated from university too.
And now he finally got his chance to study in Singapore, a wish his father and him had since when he was in primary school.
Now, he's studying in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and is living in the hostels of NTU campus.
I was suppose to register him a new handphone line under my name at a handphone shop at Jurong Point. But sadly, I wasn't able to as I wasn't 21 year old which then I'll allow me to add another additional handphone line.
And guess what, I'm 20 year old and 6 month old, only about half year to go.
I really hate age limits which tried to logical estimate people's maturity thinking as to restrict people. Especially for some clubs, which have higher age limits for guys but lower age limits for girls.
Talking about sexual equality, *duh*!
Anyway, I can't wait to get to the milestone age of 21 year old. But hope I stay young like that forever.
: p
Anyway, back to the main story, I brought my cousin to my home for dinner after that.
After I reached home, we continued to talk as we haven't talk for so freely like that for a very long time.
And there I received a Friendster message from Kernis to ask me join another network webbie like Friendster.com. The new network webbie is Multiply.com.
See? There's really a lot of many diffrent network webbies on net now. Alvin's IT business proposal is greatly challenged. Heh...
Anyway, I've registered into Multiply.com social networking site. It is definitely very much better than Friendster (though for now, maybe I'm going to ignore it till I've got the time to fill up and organise my stuff there or something).
How better is Multiply.com compared to Friendster.com?
It is definitely for people who truly wanted to maintain their own social networks. For working purposes as well as friends. Its a very well oragnised and allow users to easliy manage their stuff.
They definitely got all the features of Friendster's.
They also have TONNES of other special user features like journals (something like blogs, that's why I say it quite difficult for me to switch service. Maybe I wouldn't use Multiply's journal alot. Most probably put a link there to my blogspot or something). There are also other features like polls, posting albums, even professional stuff relating work employment like posting resume and others.
This could be a very good online networking service for people who really wanted to link their lifestyle to the net, making their lifestyle also a cyberlifestyle.
The main good points about Multiply are its features, but the vexing thing about them are that there's really a lot of things to fill up. People who may want to switch services (like me) is detered.
But the good advantage about those feature are really that you can manage and organise your social network better than that of Friendster's. It allows user to "import" your friends from Friendster and other network webbies.
But I was wondering whether they could allow me to import other information like "About Me", "Interests" and other informations too (perhaps even journals from my blog, then it'll make it a truly universal networking tool online!). Even using copy and paste command was a bit too mah fan for me, as those informations are basically all the same. Even my blog's profile has them.
But what ever is is, I'm temporary sticking to my Friendster and Blogspot for now.
Lazy to switch dramatically, as all my friends are mostly on Friendster also.
But we'll definitely see it how, first.
Wednesday, August 04, 2004
While Waiting for Work...
I haven't been working for the past two days.
As I my pay format has been chance to projectt basis, work will only come when there's work. Now I'm simply waiting for my job tasks to arrive.
There are two jobs I'm currently on but waiting for it. That teaching session for that cheapskate client that I've been rattling about in my blog for ages. And another is that unfinished website of the company I'm freelancing for.
That teaching session was especially "important". Not in that sense it is important that I'm most probably teaching an HTML imbecile. It was after the success of that teaching session, the compnay I'm working for could sign off that silly website project contract and get their money, and in turn, get my pay of $250, which has been postponed for a few days now due to that the cheapskate imbecile has no time to be met and taught.
Damn it man. I needed that money to shop for some new stuff. Crap.
Anyway, of course, I remembered that I'm still in debt of Elvin's $200. But as my pay format has became project basis, meaning that I may not get as much as I use to get per month (as my income is unstable), it is most probably that I only return $50 this month while the rest of the money are used for survival and such. Well, at least I pay him a bit by installments.
While waiting for work these past few days, I've been getting a pinning headache between my eyebrows. The headache wasn't that of kind in my brain due to stress. It was more physical than mental, like the pain was between my skin and brain around the space between my eyebrows.
I didn't wanted to see a doctor again. So I suffered the pain from morning till the early afternoon when it wears off usaully (strangely). I suspected that the pain was rheumatism or something, as I always wash my head with warm water and my face with cold water. Maybe it was some kind of sides effects.
I never had these kind of headaches before for about two or three years, that is how I washed my head and face together.
Anyway, this morning I didn't try to wash my head and face as usual with that massage on my head while washing my hair. That headache didn't come, and hopefully it will not come again for the rest of the day and future.
For the rest of today, maybe it would be another day of waiting while I stay at home (or maybe I'll go swimming later, but hopefully that doesn't cause another headache).
Tuesday, yesterday.
I went to town with Joseph and Andhika yesterday as I was bored at home. Joesph wanted to hunt for some cowboy Clint Eastwood DVD movies box set called "The Man with No Name", the name for the Clint Eastwood Trilogy.
I recommended him to try looking for his DVDs HMV at The Heerens which I visited last Saturday and saw the whole display of Clint Eastwood movies.
So that was our first stop, The Heerens. But unfortunately, it was sold out.
So we went hunting for it at others places at Orchard Road. We started next at a shop at Specialists' Shopping Centre (the stock haven't came), then a shop at the basement of Takashimaya Shopping Centre, followed by Kinokuniya on the top level and later at the Borders .
But all no avail.
So we took the MRT transit to City Hall, to go to the HMV at the City Link. And there, we found it. So Joseph bought the box set with another DVD movie, Jaws.
Andhika wanted to eat, so I recommended to walk to Bugis, to a coffeshop that sells Halal food. Joseph and Andhika ate their meals, while I only had a nice drink.
Then we walked all the way down the Middle Road to check out the Pool Junction, a cool pool place of good ambience with all 9 feet pool table (introduced to me by Linda and her colleagues), and then the Mechmaster pool place at Selegie Complex, somewhere near my usual LAN gaming place at the Selegie area.
But we decided to go to the Pool Junction instead at the one at Mechmaster was expensive and also lacked a lot of good ambience.
Although the price at the Pool Junction was slightly more expensive than the one at the Mechmaster's, I guess it was worth the price for its really nicely renovated ambience of crimson red, compliment with white and black also.
We were a bit rusty with our pool playing skills. But we had some fun playing for two hours at that cool place.
And again we walked quite another distance from the pool place to Bugis MRT station, where we took the MRT transit back home. As we walked alot yesterday and were tired with our feet, we all took a seat. And it was one of the rare times when I really sat down on the MRT train back home from Bugis...
I haven't been working for the past two days.
As I my pay format has been chance to projectt basis, work will only come when there's work. Now I'm simply waiting for my job tasks to arrive.
There are two jobs I'm currently on but waiting for it. That teaching session for that cheapskate client that I've been rattling about in my blog for ages. And another is that unfinished website of the company I'm freelancing for.
That teaching session was especially "important". Not in that sense it is important that I'm most probably teaching an HTML imbecile. It was after the success of that teaching session, the compnay I'm working for could sign off that silly website project contract and get their money, and in turn, get my pay of $250, which has been postponed for a few days now due to that the cheapskate imbecile has no time to be met and taught.
Damn it man. I needed that money to shop for some new stuff. Crap.
Anyway, of course, I remembered that I'm still in debt of Elvin's $200. But as my pay format has became project basis, meaning that I may not get as much as I use to get per month (as my income is unstable), it is most probably that I only return $50 this month while the rest of the money are used for survival and such. Well, at least I pay him a bit by installments.
While waiting for work these past few days, I've been getting a pinning headache between my eyebrows. The headache wasn't that of kind in my brain due to stress. It was more physical than mental, like the pain was between my skin and brain around the space between my eyebrows.
I didn't wanted to see a doctor again. So I suffered the pain from morning till the early afternoon when it wears off usaully (strangely). I suspected that the pain was rheumatism or something, as I always wash my head with warm water and my face with cold water. Maybe it was some kind of sides effects.
I never had these kind of headaches before for about two or three years, that is how I washed my head and face together.
Anyway, this morning I didn't try to wash my head and face as usual with that massage on my head while washing my hair. That headache didn't come, and hopefully it will not come again for the rest of the day and future.
For the rest of today, maybe it would be another day of waiting while I stay at home (or maybe I'll go swimming later, but hopefully that doesn't cause another headache).
Tuesday, yesterday.
I went to town with Joseph and Andhika yesterday as I was bored at home. Joesph wanted to hunt for some cowboy Clint Eastwood DVD movies box set called "The Man with No Name", the name for the Clint Eastwood Trilogy.
I recommended him to try looking for his DVDs HMV at The Heerens which I visited last Saturday and saw the whole display of Clint Eastwood movies.
So that was our first stop, The Heerens. But unfortunately, it was sold out.
So we went hunting for it at others places at Orchard Road. We started next at a shop at Specialists' Shopping Centre (the stock haven't came), then a shop at the basement of Takashimaya Shopping Centre, followed by Kinokuniya on the top level and later at the Borders .
But all no avail.
So we took the MRT transit to City Hall, to go to the HMV at the City Link. And there, we found it. So Joseph bought the box set with another DVD movie, Jaws.
Andhika wanted to eat, so I recommended to walk to Bugis, to a coffeshop that sells Halal food. Joseph and Andhika ate their meals, while I only had a nice drink.
Then we walked all the way down the Middle Road to check out the Pool Junction, a cool pool place of good ambience with all 9 feet pool table (introduced to me by Linda and her colleagues), and then the Mechmaster pool place at Selegie Complex, somewhere near my usual LAN gaming place at the Selegie area.
But we decided to go to the Pool Junction instead at the one at Mechmaster was expensive and also lacked a lot of good ambience.
Although the price at the Pool Junction was slightly more expensive than the one at the Mechmaster's, I guess it was worth the price for its really nicely renovated ambience of crimson red, compliment with white and black also.
We were a bit rusty with our pool playing skills. But we had some fun playing for two hours at that cool place.
And again we walked quite another distance from the pool place to Bugis MRT station, where we took the MRT transit back home. As we walked alot yesterday and were tired with our feet, we all took a seat. And it was one of the rare times when I really sat down on the MRT train back home from Bugis...
Sunday, August 01, 2004
Human Emotions versus Artificial Logic.
Saturday, yesterday.
Went out to watch the movie i-Robot at Plaza Singapura's Golden Village cinema yesterday along with Hong Yun, Chee Wee and Bryan.
My cousin Vel commented that the movie was like Minority Report with Terminator. And what she said is true. The intriguing investigative story was almost of the Minority Report's and the story agonist problem was the artificial intelligence similar to that of The Terminator movie series.
Initially I thought the movie's plot was going to be highly expected. But it was unexpected intriguing enough for me. The movie was not as bad I thought it was going to be at all.
The story plot basically followed this principle, "Logic is dead, human emotion with logic is alive and sensible."
It was as similar as the judicial stories, as justice make rigid laws, yet justice can be flexible with human sensibilities.
After the movie, we went for a long walk in the HMV of The Heerens, till evening. After that Chee Wee went off for his other appointment. Hong Yun, Brayn and I went to serach for a nice place to have our dinner. Initially we were at the Takashimaya's Food Village foodcourt, but there was simply too many people. It was too difficult to get a seat for thre altogether.
We ended up eating at the Le Meridien Hotel's Eat Treat Foodcourt where seat were plenty.
After dinner, we went home our separate ways.
Maybe we should have come to town on Sunday instead as we could watch the mass fireworks display at the Esplanades.
But anyway, we still have our chances to catch the mass fireworks display which last for a period from now till around National Day I think.
Saturday, yesterday.
Went out to watch the movie i-Robot at Plaza Singapura's Golden Village cinema yesterday along with Hong Yun, Chee Wee and Bryan.
My cousin Vel commented that the movie was like Minority Report with Terminator. And what she said is true. The intriguing investigative story was almost of the Minority Report's and the story agonist problem was the artificial intelligence similar to that of The Terminator movie series.
Initially I thought the movie's plot was going to be highly expected. But it was unexpected intriguing enough for me. The movie was not as bad I thought it was going to be at all.
The story plot basically followed this principle, "Logic is dead, human emotion with logic is alive and sensible."
It was as similar as the judicial stories, as justice make rigid laws, yet justice can be flexible with human sensibilities.
After the movie, we went for a long walk in the HMV of The Heerens, till evening. After that Chee Wee went off for his other appointment. Hong Yun, Brayn and I went to serach for a nice place to have our dinner. Initially we were at the Takashimaya's Food Village foodcourt, but there was simply too many people. It was too difficult to get a seat for thre altogether.
We ended up eating at the Le Meridien Hotel's Eat Treat Foodcourt where seat were plenty.
After dinner, we went home our separate ways.
Maybe we should have come to town on Sunday instead as we could watch the mass fireworks display at the Esplanades.
But anyway, we still have our chances to catch the mass fireworks display which last for a period from now till around National Day I think.
