Don't waste tonight sleeping

Project X

2006-08-19T04:34:00.000+08:00

Just back from movie at PS.. Went to catch Lake House with my block mates. Hah what bad influence. I was supposed to do my own work tonight. And they had to call me along!!

Last night was Project X @ Zouk. The Union Pageant preview. OK la it was quite interesting since I've nv done anything like this b4... like walking down the runway for pple to judge you based just on your looks.

1 more week to Union Ball and the dance is not even completed yet... Gosh

I've alr skipped 2 lectures.. all due to fatigue.. haha thank god there's webcast

I seriously need time for myself.. to just sit down over a cup of coffee and think about what I should be doing for myself..

this is the life

2006-08-10T15:30:00.000+08:00

Well I'm right smack in the middle of O-week in school, and settling well into hall life. There're just too many other activities.. rag n flag, engin o-week, pageant pract.

I can't believe how much excitement I felt on flag day on Tues. Though it's been a long while since I did flag.. this time was just different. Though tiring, me and my blockmate Gerlynn were just too up for it. Self-motivation is the best motivation I think.. We seriously knew how to enjoy and give ourselves incentives for all that hard work. And I still can't believe I convinced someone to donate 50 bucks... =) It's just seriously how much you want it. That was my "aim" for flag day and I did it.. lol

To think that I still managed to throw in my last bit of energy at Zouk that night... haha. Was gr8 fun meeting up with my Crumpler colleagues.. or should I say ex-colleagues.. World DJ Championships was held there.. and Crumpler was one of the co-sponsors. And seriously I still can't actualise what happened with Jannah.. ;)

More to come ...

help me.. i'm suffocating

2006-08-04T13:38:00.000+08:00

I've finally squeezed out some time here..

When I'm supposed to be actually at Sheares Welcome Orientation Camp. Then there's pageant training in the evening, recording at night, interview tmr. This is killing me... argh! I've just matriculated yesterday, and so now all tt bidding for modules and stuff is taking place.

I want to settle into hall quickly.. cuz since most activities are in school, it'll be better la. And I'm drowning in a pool of overloaded information..

lost in time

2006-07-27T15:47:00.000+08:00

Firstly, whoever the **** was tt who posted the comment on the last entry. THANK YOU. I'd so love to be you friend.

This blog seems to be slowly evaporating..and I haven't really had time for myself this past month. Routines, events, and the thoughts and emotions that accompany it all take place too fast.. Too fast for me to even catch up with what's going on.

I really think I should start to slow things down a bit, since school will be starting in about a weeks' time. Hah but it's been too much fun this month esp. Too many pleasurable things in life, need to balance it off with hard work haha.

I'm really glad that Regina and I are now FINALLY on gd terms=) had a really gd chat with her just the other day.

Next week is gonna be hell busy for me, there's shifting in to hall, and hall orientation, matriculation, as well as union ball activities to see to. ARGH!

pics.

SportsCamp06 - Vampyres

me.xueli.siqian.huiren @ zouk =)

UnionCamp06 - Paikias

me.yi qing.christine.alvan @ Zouk (once again)

More pics to come soon ...

Shaggedelic

2006-07-17T23:41:00.003+08:00

Yes I know.. it's been 2 blardy weeks since I last blogged. Thanks to Sports Camp from 3rd to 8th and Union Camp from 11th to 15th. A hell lot has happened since then yea.. Sports Camp was really havoc.. nv expected my OG to be so crazy. I think we were probably the most closely knitted OG, like on the 3rd or 4th night everyone in the OG including councillors gathered in my room to talk cock .. until 5 in the morning la! and the next day it was amazing race (the finale), after which was night cycling from ECP back to NUS. Throughout the 6 days I really got to play a lot of sports.. which is really gd, so at least I can have a rough taste of what sports to take up in NUS=)

Haha shall not disclose some other details of sports camp which was really embarassing yet funny.. like just in case the right pple end up reading the wrong stuff. haha but yea... the forfeits are really damn funny la... interesting haha.

After having gone for Sports Camp, and being a lil more warmed up to the envt. in NUS, the stupid cheers, and all that ice breakers, Union Camp was much more comfortable. So much more to the extent, pple started asking me if I was a councillor on the very first day. Haha a bit of getting too much unwanted attn la. Union Camp is massive.. the strength is like thrice that of Sports Camp. 1 OG = 24 pple as compared to sports camp 1 OG = 11 pple. Nevertheless the SP game was really irritating la.. haha won't elaborate about it. But in Union Camp I met more pple all over... in my OG, in other OGs... etc. haha Si Qian, Ervin, and Kevin from Sports Camp plus a lot more others were at Union Camp also. Haha we're all ONE BIG FAMILY... haha and we left Union Camp on Wed to go for Sports Camp reunion @ Zouk. haha it was real nice meeting the Vampyres once again! extremely fun bunch of pple to hang out with... minus the suanning.

The camp ended on a gd note. Was so tired on Sat but still had the Marine Cove gig to play. Argh... almost died there la. Met Yiqing there as well, cuz she was having a bbq so she dropped by to watch the band play =)

Haha not to forget it was BAYBEATS weekend!.. Didn't see much on Sat la. More on Sunday.. just Electrico and Lunarin.

And seriously speaking, I was shortlisted for the Union Ball Pageant... haha what a joke right.
And I keep on getting weird comments, opinions and questions from the freshies and councillors.. like how "I don't sound Singaporean" and "I don't look Chinese" and "I don't look like a freshie" .. haha its exciting to know how pple think

And just today at work this female colleague of mine said "erm why aren't u attached? I thought all good looking guys have girlfriends" and "are you a model?" haha yes I know very bhb of me. haha but i'm just quoting.

Anw.. there's really so much to add la. Photos esp. I'm alr struggling and lost trying to arrange all those pictures that've been taken over the past 2 weeks. Hopefully I'll get a hold of it soon. Till then... I really need to catch up on my sleep

Milk Run 06 is THE UPS!

2006-07-03T01:20:00.000+08:00

Took part in MILK run this afternoon.. it's a youth day celebration run for charity. Ran the 8.4km competitive. Haha. Start pt and end pt both at Zouk. Steady la. It's shaggedelic man. Firstly cuz I haven't ran more than 5km in a long while, secondly.. err haha didn't sleep much. No 7 hours of sleep leh. LMAO. Anw I went with JS, haha obviously I didn't run the whole thing with him la. Only saw him for the first few 100ms of the run. After that he disappeared alr. Think I came in a gd 10 mins after him man... lol still dunno what's the official timing. It was a gd run anw=)

Rest of the day before that the band went to Little India, Zouk and the skatepark at Somerset to take band pics. Woah seriously.. the pics were goooooood. Think its the camera la. Not us. haha but we dressed up a bit also. And we were DUA-ED by the photographers la.. nv turn up la.. well at least we still did sth la... so its ok;)
Good stuff..

Saturday was kinda wasted.. woke up and rushed all over the place la... First to Tiong Bahru to collect runner's kit for MILKrun, then to town to register for sports camp.. haha and I met Jiang who's going too.. gr8 thing. at least I know someone who's gg wit me. Then had a really gd session of badminton b4 heading down to Ashik's bday @ DTE Costa Sands. SERiously lost my way la.. went to the wrong Costa Sands. Well and I didn't make it down to Zouk in time for Brit Rock.. so I happily pang-seh-ed my Crumpler colleagues and Tom. but what to do... watched Eng vs. Portugal instead at a pub at Pasir Panjang with YQ and Hans. Night before, on Friday, I caught Argentina vs. Germany. Haha all of em had to end up in penalty shootouts. How uninteresting man..

Gonna be away at NUS for sports camp the next 6 days... till Sat. Yea I know its really long la.. hah but who cares.. I'm gonna have fun la=)

Simply Red - Stars

2006-06-30T01:27:00.000+08:00

Heard this song last week at Mike's Studio... god he was blasting it on his amplifiers in the middle of the night man. Damn its a nice old song!=)

Right now I'm playing Electrico's new album Hip City like everyday. haha stuck on it la.

It's Friday alr. Very fast man. Schedule at Crumpler this week isn't too bad.. just 1 3 5. haha but I went back on Tues to pay back hours cuz I came in 2 hours late on Monday. Yea Calyn knows why I went to work late on Monday la.. haha ;)

Seriously didn't do much this week. But I've now got myself addicted to Sudoku. Wah thanks to the book that was underneath the cashier at Crumpler la. Then I met Tamar on Wed night for supper at Chomp Chomp Serangoon. It was pretty late at night la.. hah but at least it isn't far. Went to NYP this afternoon for lunch with Mum.. *ahem.. ya.. its somewhat nostalgic. And after so long she actually coincidentally asked me abt the person who studies there. "How's so and so ah?.. Why so long nv see her alr ah?" Just couldn't bring myself to say much about it la.

Anw I went to UHWC at NUS after that for the medical checkup that took the entire afternoon.. but good thing I met an old friend Guanyou over there. Then there were the CAC pple who came up to us to ask us to go for camps etc.. haha seriously la.. what a gd opportunity to catch the freshies - AT THE MEDICAL CHECKUP!

And the evening was pretty wasted... at MFG office. The band met up with the photographers who were going to do our press kit. But we seriously had no idea what we wanted to do man. Unproductive la.

Gonna be a hectic weekend =(

YouthGoneWild 06 - 10th Gig for Peepshow this year

2006-06-26T00:50:00.000+08:00

Yes. Friday night was superb. Peepshow's 10th gig for 2006 and ultimately the best one by far=) There couldn't be anymore screams and cheers from the audience (at least from what I was hearing)

It's a superstar occasion la.. no one ever really goes up to Zaki and the rest of the band for pictures man.. and seldom do we see the backstage pple jumping to our songs la. hah even Desmond of Typewriter was grooving to the beat! 100 bucks from YouthGoneWild!

top to bottom: a grp of peepshow supporters,
peepshow and the emcees,
my stage pass ..ahaha,
tom's picture perfect of me on drums

Anyway, the band - Zaki + Thomas headed down to Breko @ Holland V after that for a mini celebration n to chill also la. Blardy hell and it rained like as we were abt to leave. But as I sent them home I felt damn cosy in the car for once. Firstly cuz its raining like lions n tigers outside, 2ndly Lush 99.5 was playing retro man!... Felt like Studio 54 in MOS.. GOSH!

Last night I went to Sentosa with Mik to catch a glimpse of Salsa by the Beach @ Palawan. It was really an interesting concept man.. haha now damn gian to take up Salsa la.

OK anyway met Tamar and her 2 other friends Priscilla and Keith there.. hah we ended up having a picnic by the beach with lotsa chips, marshmallows n grapes.. an interesting combination of food. damn weird la... like it was drizzling and we were out there in the middle of the night. but it was fun la... lol like we were exchanging jokes n really lame ones. Left at 2... whoosh. damn shag

Although it was 10 this morning I still found it hard to get out of bed... like on a Sunday morning la! imagine the inertia. still.. I dragged my ass down to Macs for breakfast with parents and down to Crumpler. And to think I was early! Titi only came down at 1130. Met Audrey for the first time tdy.. she's another part timer who only works the weekends. Thank God now I'm not the only chinese LOL.

Back to work tmr!
And I need to sign up for camps la. Argh.

Ahh.. Whatever

2006-06-21T21:59:00.000+08:00

Quick post b4 jamming:) Well.. celebrated Meiting's 21st bday at her place on Sunday. I basically spent the whole day there la. Most of the class was there... and we got her a necklace. Can't be bothered to load the pics up.. haha. Been working my ass at Crumpler the past 3 days man... kinda tiring. Some more every night after work I'll have sth on. Monday nite was jamming, last nite was pool with Calyn, Tamar, Swee Leong. Tonight's jamming again. Hah thank god tmr i'm working till 4 only.

And then I'll go to CHIJMES... Shit la they don't want me as a bartender? Sad case la.

Check out Electrico on Youtube!

2006-06-18T04:13:00.000+08:00

Emptiness

2006-06-18T02:51:00.000+08:00

Regina called at like 2am on Friday morning... I was kinda pissed, like how she doesn't actually pick up calls in the day, and calls back late at night when everyone's at rest. It's annoying, but .. whatever la.

I didn't play tennis again that v morning! It rained la damn it. Welcome Tea @ Cuppage was pretty interesting though=) I managed to call Lenny n Thomas last minute just to join me n Mik. Haha how sporting. Coincidentally my pri sch friend Meng Kiat was there too! It was all those ice breakers n stuff... haha and Calyn was so damn spontaneous I had no choice but to join her up on stage ... hah damn paiseh. Oh! and the emcee.. this girl.. strikingly resembles Emily. It's sth like between Emily and Vanessa. I just had to ask her if she's got a sis called Emily. haha if only it was her sis. Headed down to O Bar @ MS with Lucy, Tom, Hans n Pearl. Met Sing For there! LOL Anyway it was damn chaotic, Lucy got drunk, Zing came down, Hans almost got into a fight with Zing. But Lucy is a party animal=) She dances w/o any reservations. LOL

Today was the Fort Canning Park gig in the evening mainly. But it kinda sucked, nothing too exciting abt the audience nor the gig itself. More happening was @ Timbre.. heh tts where Elise, Embryo, Typewriter and Local Bar Boys rocked the stage... esp LBB.

-Typewriter

-Patrick of Typewriter n Joe of LBB

-Peepshow @ FCP

-Elise

-2 cocksters falling asleep in Timbre

First day at Crumpler

2006-06-15T19:36:00.000+08:00

For a start.. it was good! Friendly, nice and comfortable envt. Also pretty flexible working hours I found out. Oh that was ytd, btw. Today's my 2nd day at work. I basically spent ytd remembering half of what was displayed on the shelves: the names of the bags, the colours they come in, and the prices=) haha easy la. Then today, I now know everything that is on the shelves... haha cuz there were 5 of us at the shop, so don't really need everyone to stay put over there... can walk ard Wheelock, like maybe get lunch, teabreak, dinner. OTOT.

The night before I actually discovered that I've to freakin get my ass down to NUS again to make the payment for application of hall. haha and Calyn was so nice to actually offer to accompany me down like at 8+ in the morning b4 I start work at Crumpler. She had to go to town after that anw.. So we sat down at McCafe for a while cuz I was v early.

Also had a gd chat with Joanne last night at J8 after she finished work. haha it was gd catching up. I haven't seen her for quite some time.

Already planned out my schedule over next week for Crumpler.. everything's gd to go man=)

Left Crumpler at 4 tdy to go down to meet Calista at CHIJMES for that bartender thing she has to introduce. It's called Hog's Breath Cafe=) Pay is actually nt bad. Working hours flexible also. I mean... I can only start at 6pm no matter which day la... who has happy hour in the DAYtime? Think I gotta juggle in between these 2 man... gotta work out sth=)

Tour around the campus

2006-06-14T01:25:00.000+08:00

Can't believe I sat down at engin canteen @ NUS tdy and started coming up with lame names for a superhero fruit drink store. Supermango juice, Rambotan juice, Strawberrygood juice. LMFAO. And it just came out of my mouth, I wasn't even thinking.

Nevertheless it's been an interesting day with Calyn and her group of friends bringing the freshies around school, introducing us to the best places to eat, best places to nuah, best places to study. How interesting.. lol. Got to know a lot of freshies through this thing also. Too many names.. anyhow I'll try listing : Calyn, Swee Leong, Jitsy, Benjamin, Edward, Guan Rui, Shiyun, Yan Xin, Tamar(unique name huh)... argh mainly these few la... haha reallie cool cuz they're all nice to hang out with and erm.. genuinely nice la=)

Burnout

2006-06-13T02:18:00.000+08:00

Saturday morning was burnt in slumber, after a crazy session of jamming the night before. So I didn't even meet Sirong for engin camp brief, and missed campus tour... argh. who cares. Woke up and decided to go for badminton with Dad. Had a very satisfying time in the evening washing my car, and it had to rain after I was done. Anw after that I met Weili and Chester at LFI to make the full payment, and went home. Haha too good to be true for my parents to think that I was back home so early on a Sat night. But I just had to go out again..

Lucy msged me, told me to join her and Zing at Butter Factory. That was initially, we ended up at MoS eventually. Anw I had no idea whr's Butter Factory, and that's why I lurve the JUICE mag. It's got the locations of most pubs, clubs and restaurants in SG. The ultimate dictionary for lost clubbers. I activated Thomas and Lloyd, and they were on! LOL. Maximised the use of my Exilim tt evening=) Got to know some new faces too.. like Samson and Audrey (no spellcheck la)

Audrey on the left, and God knows what Tom is trying to do

Ahh.. I was trying to say sth

Yea anyway Lucy n Zing stayed on, me n da rest left at 4=) and I saw Vanessa. Actually met Merlynn for supper after tt? haha hoping to crash Boon's place tog with Tom.. but they were sleepin like pigs, didn't even pick up.

The gig at Esplanade Parks on Sunday isn't worth mentioning much abt. Nothing sounded right. When I first woke up and saw the rain I didn't even think we'd be playing.Me and Mik switched roles.. haha only for set up. trying to play punk there;)
Gd part was.. Yongquan, Yijian n Shilie actually turned up despite the weather! haha and even Calyn whom I'd nv met b4 dropped by with her friend as well.

Ahhh.. and Vig from Crumpler called to ask if I could go down on Tues to start=) Better news came tdy when Calista told me she'd asked her manager and CHIJMES needs a bartender .. woohoo~

Post "ORDinary" Lifestyle

2006-06-11T15:16:00.000+08:00

Been having late nights the past few days. No distinction between weekdays n weekends. Gosh, it's sinful man.. but who wouldn't love to do this??

So.. Actually met Boon that evening to "celebrate" his POP, and transition to AFS (a lot more slacker) Boon-mei and Boon-mei-mei came to join us=) Merlynn also. And Mik.

middle pic: the botak boon and 2 sis + merlynn. on the right: mik,boonmei,me,boonmei,boon

Met JS on wed early morning. Went to NUM and a couple other places, and bought a belt from FourSkin. haha I tried FleshImp for a job, but they only wanted full-timers. Anw I still made my way down to Crumpler at 1 plus to check out the job. Waited close to an hour for the interview. As expected there were a few other applicants. Most of them females. The interviewer Vick asked if we've met b4... haha but no? since when. $5/hr - siao. No hiccups on my part I'd say. We were alr discussing abt the working hours. No news yet but its ok =)

Jamming session in the evening at Tanglin.. hah wth we've actually got a gig on 11th.. yes TODAY. and we didn't know. Well done la. Tsk tsk... after prata at Al-Ameen, I went pretty much around.. Sent JS back, Mik to Clementi, Boon to Serangoon, SK to Sengkang. Poof!

Sent Darrell Yeo off on Thurs evening at Changi Airport. haha surprisingly the bulk of pple there were Bravo3 pl mates. Like one whole gang of pple. And our commando platoon mate David is really getting out of hand.. as in.. his magic tricks. He performed a couple of tricks for like the whole grp of us, and it's really amazing. Damn awesome. Aspiring Copperfield=)
After which I went down to Aljunied with Weili, where I met Kenny and Ray. Put down my signature and signed up alr... with LFI.

On Friday I was supposed to play tennis with JS in the morning but it rained heavily.. so didn't go over in the end. Sigh. Met Lucy for lunch though, and watched She's The Man. Sth screwed up with her Visa so she's back in S'pore for the 2nd time. Hah last minute holiday. That very evening I went for jamming again, and we spent a gd 3 hrs till 2am practising just one song. It was tiring, but worth it!... cuz now the song Special Someone has got a retro remix to it man;)

What a day

2006-06-06T19:32:00.000+08:00

Mum brought back YI DU ZHAN noodles a couple of days ago.. the one from Taiwan..
haha and I took one for brunch this afternoon.. MY GOD.. the moment the smell of the hot noodles reached my nostrils.. I swear memories and emotions of Taiwan came gushing in the back of my head. It was all in tt split second that it happened before I realised it. How nice=)
Synesthetic effects.

Consciously I like doin nothing.. but sub-conciously I probably can't stand long periods of inactivity. Was too caught up in the day trying to find sth to keep myself busy, hopefully. haha the prev sentence basically means i was busy keeping myself busy . Unknowingly I started flipping through Classifieds looking for part time to do. LOL. And I even booked myself some interviews, and made a couple of calls to tuition agencies leaving my name. Oh, there's one interesting opening @ Crumpler man. haha should go check it out tmr.

My alter ego finally dragged myself down to swim. Like... buay tahan already la.. need to stay physically active also man :P

Meet Boon tonight man!.. Now that he's POPed.

I still have a choice?

2006-06-05T15:35:00.000+08:00

I've gotten a Casio EX S600 after much deliberation, but ironically by chance as well=) I originally wanted a Z600. Haha but some guy gave me the more expensive one by mistake. Salesman told me like.. "why not just keep it!" haha in any case if i decide that i still want the Z600 i can always go back to Courts to get it changed. Is this a joke or what? .. but I still have to choose even after paying for it.

While everyone's prolly workin part time, I'm currently slacking at home full time. Let me rest la. Supposed to meet Lucy n Hans for lunch, but it's been cancelled anw.

Can't believe I spent Sat night going down to Aljunied with Daniel n Ray to discuss a "biz plan". Wah lau how interesting can my Sat nite be. Nevertheless.. it was quite a gd session la. Compared to just hanging out or clubbing, this would be more interactive, intellectually challenging, and better exposure.

Why does she still call? It's because she's only bored?

Spoilt for choice

2006-06-03T00:49:00.000+08:00

Damn the PC Show... now I've got too many choices for digicams

1)Casio
2)Panasonic
3)Nikon
4)Sony

Going to colour hair also... ALSO too many hairsalons ard to choose from. Tsk.

Alan's 21st Bday Celebrations @ Costa Sands East Coast
(yea yea i've finally uploaded a picture... 1 picture ... after 10 posts)

As you can see most of SA5 were there! =)
haha that's an A for Attendance.
Even Mdm Lim n kids were there too.

30th May

Geek in da PINK

2006-06-02T00:36:00.000+08:00

I think I've waited so long for this day that it became so tiring... that I didn't bother looking forward to it anymore.. ;) haha ok lah. it felt good and at the same time weird holding the pink card that looks a little alien to me now. felt like i nv ever owned it.

Well, at least it's now replaced the green one in my wallet=)
Feels gr8..

Prior to the receipt of my i/c was a night of celebrations and havoc at MoS. Not to mention that it was cost-free clubbing!! HAHA. Special thanks to Thomas who partly contributed to it;) It's prolly one of the best club nights in a long time. Alison called me n Hans down to join her other friends who were mostly studying in the States and were back for the summer break. They're older... but don't look that old haha. Bunch of fun pple to hang out and club with anyway. Met Merlynn at the main arena.. hah what a surprise. Fellow clubber added to the list. She added on to the fun we were alr having with the whole grp anyway...haha cool.

Let's just say it was worth the trip down to MoS that evening =) number-close + lotsa Kino

In retrospect

2006-05-30T04:28:00.000+08:00

Yes it is 4 in the morning.. and I'm waking up at 7 to go to camp=) (it's one of those OTHER days I'm not on leave) Also reminds me that I've only less than 48 hrs before I'm done with THIS life, and then I move on to another chapter=) well it's definitely gonna be more exciting?

Gladly spent the last 12 hrs or so ransacking my room and removing every damn thing from the boxes on the floor and then repacking them into my new 4 by 4 shelf from IKEA. In doing so I've made my room very, much, more neater than b4 haha. And in doing so, I've spent a great deal of time reminiscing on the past as I flip through pages of SJI newsletters, diaries and journals that I wrote when I was 12 or so, discovering the toys that were hidden somewhere in the cupboard. Man.. it's amazing, like taking a walk back to the past 12 yrs of my life in just 12 hours=)

It's some commendable achievement for staying home tdy..

A big Thanks to all who made Cover Story @ Oceaniq on Sat a wonderful gig. Special thanks goes to Lunarin for playing with us. Don't need ta mention how good they are right?.. ;)
To a wonderful audience, thanks for the spontaneity and support. The pple who came down are the most impt.. haha for w/o them it would've just been an extravagant jam session. Last but not least, PeepShow, thank you all..

It was a super hyped Sat night that led to a drowsy Sunday morning.. Woke up early to send grandma and Aunt Catherine to Johor.. I feel kinda guilty not spending much time with them in the few days they were in S'pore. Well accompanying them to Johor was the least I could do lah.. Drizzled for the rest of the day .. and so I decided to go into slumber

Towards a more fulfilling weekend...

2006-05-29T13:39:00.000+08:00

I'm gettin lazy to blog.. maybe it's cuz of the late nights. haha excuse.

Anyway, spent Friday at Raffles Hotel helping out with Presidents' Challenge 06. Me, Mik and 3 other RGS girls were backstage helpers.. LOL moving props in and out of the stage. It was totally "saikang" from 1pm till about 8 when it ended lah.. But it's totally voluntary, haha nt like in camp. Good part was: I got to meet and shake hands with e President, got myself a Starbucks cup and a MFG shirt. Errm.. the cup n shirt's got nothing to do with meeting the President=)

Later that evening, or rather in the early morning, Mik, Hans, JS n myself made our way to KM8. It being my first visit, I was overwhelmed by whatever ambience the pink spotlights and music brought to me. Straight away, i made a mental note to hold my 21st there... together with the idea of the bday-out-at-sea thing haha ;) Great place to hold whatever you can dream of: gigs, parties, get-togethers...

Running down memory lane

2006-05-25T11:48:00.000+08:00

Met up with SA5 pple on tuesday evening for dinner. OK lah, we had fun making fun of Laurene lol. I mean.. it always feels gd to hang out with old friends, the presence of the pple is just sufficient to bring back memories. Next, I headed down to Aloha Loyang to meet the OCS gang. Same thing once again... =) After all tt happened over the weekend, maybe this was going to be the cure..

Reached home around 5 the next day, and left for camp ard 8. (I wasn't on leave on Wed) Anyway, did my FFI n dental. But now i feel so alientated from camp. I haven't been around and about, tts prolly why. Can't believe that RQ can be hurrying me back from lunch just to sign packing lists. And what's worst is that they told me there's nothing else, so I could leave, and after reaching home and preparing to leave for Changi, they dropped a thousand and 1 phone calls and messages asking me to go back because there was still more to sign.

What the hell is an understudy for?

Watched X-Men with platoon mates at Tampines just last night, then I headed back to camp.
TMD. But that's it, I was really tired.

Find, Meet, Attract, Close

2006-05-22T23:38:00.000+08:00

Yes i've reached the final stage : Close. But it's not a number-close, kiss-close or f-close. It's close as in .. full stop. It's painful and hard to accept, but at least the wait is over. Hate to be kept in suspense. Be glad that it actually happened?

Met Xuan and her uni friends for badminton this evening.. ooh it was gd game exposure man.. worth going=) meeting new pple each day nv fails to make my day better.. lol. Bao picked us up after that and we went for prata.. haha haven't had such gd company in a while, or maybe it's just what happened this morning tt made me think tt way... haha! no la... its gd company;)

Today is a day of acceptance... Regina decided, I accepted. Mr. Lexus insisted, I accepted.

I'm too nice huh...

Shit happens

2006-05-21T21:05:00.000+08:00

How should i celebrate the first car accident that's happened to me last night? haha no i'm not mad.. it's just .. positivity in every shit that happens.

SGA 8148 has now got a few scratches and a pretty large dent on the left door.. how man??
sucks like hell.. felt quite hopeless when i didn't know what to do about it last night. i mean, it's the first time what...how'd i know what kind of negotiations and compensations to ask for. parents must've thought i was damn stupid not to settle everything on the spot. anw, mum's cleaned it up quite a bit now.. a lot actually~ from far you won't be able to tell i got into an accident yesterday LOL:)

CHILL la..

I had a gd time meeting up with Eve, Sharon n Alan last night anw... been long since the 4 of us last met. Had dinner at Sketches, Bugis Junction. To think we celebrated 3 bdays!... Sharon's bday present which was supposed to be given to her last Oct was finally given to her haha.. 10 days ago was Eve's bday, and few days later its Alan's! haha... when's mine?!

11 roses sent to a girl who deserves the roses.. but maybe I don't deserve anything out of it.

Tdy was a day of actualising the car accident that took place. I swear I was too tired n confused about everything last night I just went ta sleep forgetting that it actually took place.
It's so fcuking bad that when i took a nap this afternoon i dreamt of knocking into cars and then getting out of bed with my heart pumping like a beat box.

But it's pretty interesting to hear the questions pple first ask when u first tell them about an accident.. a CAR accident in particular. Like so far, only Zhengxi, Zhenghan and SK actually asked if anything happened to me/i was injured/am i alright INSTEAD of ... gosh! what happened to the car?! how's the car?! haha!... cool stuff right.

listening to Stereophonics - Maybe Tomorrow

Cover Story!

2006-05-20T00:53:00.000+08:00

Gig organised by PeepShow featuring other local bands

Venue: SAFRA @ Mt. Faber
Date: 27th May 06
Time: 7pm

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Need to go order flowers tmr.. and get them delivered to.. somewhere in the West.(winks)

Finally, after months, I got the sms invites from MoS. haha. but who's gonna go?

And guess what! There's only freakin 11 days left! ultra fast! It seems to go faster when you don't count huh, and YES.. that'll be the end of 2 yrs and 2 months of life that should've nv been called LIFE.

"Do you know that 47.2% of statistics are made up on the spot?"

There's so much more religion in Physics than any other religion!

2006-05-19T19:45:00.000+08:00

It's hard to believe how you can associate physics with religion yea?.. haha but that's what the speaker James Skinner said today! it may sound like nonsense, but if ya go think about it carefully you'll realise.. He was the last speaker tdy that's probably one of the best in these 2 days (like they said they always place the best lined up at the front and the last)

"Doesn't it make sense?!" - now that's the common catch phrase i noticed in most speakers..

Today saw more consistency in the standards of the speakers and their value add to people.. who am i to say anyway? but tt's probably true la. haha.

In the morning Dolf De Roos spoke about real estate investments, most of which were a lot of statistics and graphs of the value of property in different countries. xuan should've gone for this haha.he did make a lot of emphasis on the viability of doing real estate investments because it fluctuates less terribly as compared to shares/stocks etc. And by the way, this guy's got a PhD in triple E, and he proudly told us that all tt he's learnt is now redundant! he took engineering not because he liked it, but cuz there wasn't ANYthing he didn't like about it.. see the difference? and when he completed his degree, someone said "why not spend another year and get your masters?" he couldn't find any reason not to do it, and so he did! and after completing his masters, "then why not do your PhD for another few more years?" Similarly, he couldn't find any reason to reject that notion, and so he did it. He illustrated to us that what he did was a result of what people wanted him to do, not what he wanted to do.

I dozed off halfway anw.. like after a while the whole real estate thing was getting too technical.. haha so much for the morning

You should be familiar with this 2 anyway:

1)Woman without her man is hopeless
2)Woman: without her, man is hopeless

=)

In the afternoon, it was Mr. Funnyman: Scott Friedman. He related the importance of humour in life and at work to the audience using, of course, humour;) He's undoubtedly, a funny and entertaining guy.. Told us how to "celebrate" the first stress you experience at work.. like maybe go for a coffee break or sth, and of course, laugh at it!

Imagine. The next time you feel sth coming that'll stress you big time, just ask yourself this : Is this problem gonna matter in 50 years time? maybe you might feel a lil better=)
Also, "If it's not fatal, it's no big deal!"

CPF in Scott Friedman's definition stands for Cash Prior to Funeral. How's that?

And of course, it ended perfectly with James Skinner the guru telling pple how to translate an idea to making it work, and then making it money.. excellent=)

National Achievers Congress 2006

2006-05-18T23:51:00.000+08:00

Woke up early this morning to head down to Expo for NAC06.. well its a whole day event from 9am to 7pm.. killer mans.. haven't had such long lectures in ages

Not too bad though, there were 4 speakers today : Jim Rohn, Ron Kaufman, Brett McFall and Tom Hua.. out of which my best takeaway tdy came from Mr. Jim Rohn, this 75-year-old guy who milked cows and was caught in the rat race until he was 25, when the change in his mindset and philosophy was sparked by someone and within the next 7 years he became a multi-millionaire. amazing huh..

Some things he talked about ...

About Neil Armstrong and the mission of landing on the Moon.. Think about this : one project solves 2 problems, namely, how to get to the Moon, and how to get back.. so conclusion is.. we don't leave till we're able to solve the both of them.

What's easy to do is also easy not to do, so will you do it?

Well, the rest hardly made any deep impressions.. except for maybe Ron Kaufman, who was full of energy and vigour, who made his point clear on the kind of service that S'pore should be giving in order to receive more..

Meanwhile i better go get some rest, else i won't be able to tahan tmr's session.
Yah i still haven't completed figuring out Cavatina on the piano.. tmr tmr

Caught in between

2006-05-18T01:30:00.000+08:00

What happens when you're stuck in the middle?
left with a choice that you have to make but can't decide because you don't know what's gd for u.

Can't freakin put my mind at ease when my emotions hang somewhere loosely on the top of an ice mountain and are ready to experience the worst avalanche ever - it accumulates as it rolls downwards, then it hits rockbottom. bang. ouch.

C'mon let's just get to know reality better.

Unbelievable greetings!

2006-05-17T22:30:00.000+08:00

After an afternoon with XQ's help at HTML, this goddamned thing will officially be up n online w.e.f. tdy man.. does anyone care? lol. [thanks XQ once again=)]

It's been an emotional roller coaster ride lately.. more of a hell ride really haha. i hope i don't fall off and get hurt.

Watched MI3 this evening .. ok lah it's another one of those films meant to throw u off your seats or sth.. still, it was a gd distraction from reality=)

Baoquan introduced this southpark studio >> http://sp-studio.de/
go try it! haha.
here's mine.. hehe

[unhappy & frustrated dude holding a rifle in a classroom full of kids]

Mik mentioned last night about Joanne who doesn't wanna be a part of us anymore, and i still can't picture what's gonna happen to the band right now...