Monday, July 31, 2006 1:06 PM
zoooooooooooooooooom and the 3rd week cometh...
Anyway last friday evening me and 10 gals went to watch Swan Lake on Ice at the Civic Theatre. Being the most uncultured barbarian there, I wanted to try and experience some culture so to speak =p. Hmm, dressed in a long sleeved blue shirt and black pants wif black shiny boots, needless to say i attracted a whole lot of attention from my fellow hostelites who went on to give various comments, ranging to questioning my motives for watching such an arty farty unmacho show for ulterior designs to faint praise of my smartly dressed businessman attire and teasing for what they think is a group date?!?!
Some of us against the the theatre entrance if u can see us...
from left to right: shuping, siewsian, harliey, sandra, chiayee, ME! the ONLY GUY!
All the posers and me the manager lol....
Daniel's 11!
Left to right: siewsian, chiayee, ME, shuping, sandra, harliey, vandana and her two frens! hehe i look the tallest YEAH!
But anyway straight to the point. Swan Lake was very very nice and impressive. Its much better than watching a movie coz everything's up close and real. Somehow the colours and settings seems way more alive than a flat movie screen and of coz the stage and backdrop was amazing in the way they kept using transculent screens to create illusions of space and depth. Oooh stage illusions man! And of coz the skating is pretty darn good! The villain was the best skater among them, so much so he was clearly a cut above the rest although the rest were already national, olympic and what not skaters?! haha really an eye opener man...
The weekend was rather pedestrian in comparision. I spent most of my time alternating between revision and playing games (call of duty 2 rocks! esp on the extreme settings.. boohoohoo that i cant play it anymore since it got corrupted on my lappie but well thats good too=p). Right now school is zooming into the fast and furious mode when everything finally gets interesting and challenging.
Oh yeah ma, i just changed my wallet to the one u bought. Haha need to get used to it man. thanks a lot=p
adios all.
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:03 PM
Yooooo...
the second week of the sem has started already and how has it been so far? well, i have been trying alternative lecture streams to see how well i like them.. haha so far i think i like gatecrashing the morning lectures so i have only 1 lect left in the afternoon after a long lunch break.. but my schedule still comes in handy when i cant wake up for the freaking early 8am lectures.. Almost got chased out of one the lectures i gatecrashed becoz it was soooo full that students were sittting on the floors of both LTs (they are linked by videocam, cool aye?)
Just spent 140 bugs getting a 6 mth membership at the Sch Rec centre so I can have unlimited passes to the gym and the courts whenever i want. I have been forcing myself to attend gym every alt day to workout. Nope i still loathe gym rats especially those misshapen ones except i have no real alternative venues left to exercise. Outdoors are still too cold to merit wearing shorts and freezing myself to death and they lack fitness corners in Auckland so its pretty sad. On the other hand, well gym machines have the advantage to being specialised and targetted so it helps. Now, time to blast the fats away, sculpt my old body back, and turn into the ultra fit demon i once was feared for hahaha! Lots of hard work needed boohoohoo.. but if this goes well, i shld end up fitter than my best hehe.. hopefully??
Been sticking an eye out for the dance clubs around Auckland. Ballroom, salsa, hiphop etc... Haha, its crazy but well if i never try i never know what? But this is still in the works, just the ideas stage haha.. already have someone ask me to go hiphop which i am actually quite apprenhensive as i dun wanna dislocate my back shaking my booty haha...
Grabbed a Japenese book from Jennifer and gonna get another one from Ahmad and its time for some self taught Japanese. And i am also gonna start on Korean too.. Now if i could only figure out who can i find to entertain me while i fumble thru the languages and how to actually go about studying these languages??? hmm headaches...
OOOh yeah this friday, i will be attending Swan Lake On ICe at the local theatre. ahaha yes, i have turned into an arty farty rat but hehe as again, just try if not i will never know how is it like and whether i like it or not. Seems to me that this sem i am really trying to do a lot of new things yeah? hopefully i can carry out all of them to a certain degree of success.
Ahhhh of coz, nothing makes me happier than buying my beloved instant noodles to stock up. Hehe. time to cook noodles for night snack later?! tata guys...
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Thursday, July 20, 2006 5:49 PM
Aiyooooooo
how can i be soooo blur.. Yesterday was a wednesday and it was my relaxed day coz i only had 1 lab. BS106 which the course book put as 3-6pm. So happily i waited and relaxed until 2 plus before making a move.
Suddenly! i look at my timetable which said the lab starts at 2?! And i checked online which says 2pm oso! wah... in the end, i walked down to the lab and the lab tutor ask me to swap til today morning so i went to the course coordinator to see him.. Until now i still feel weird in the way some of the kiwis act. I wld be totally at home if there was some grousing or complaints like what singaporeans will do. Similarly i would be comfortable wif smiles and polite service like some of the polite singaporeans do. But ah, i dunno its my accent or what... i find that they tend to just sit there and look at me and i dunno what they are thinking. Are they trying to figure out my accent? or thinking how to explain stuff is simple ENgRish to me???? hahaha.. i gotta make sure i acquire a slang to cope here manz..
Been eating the pineapple tarts and wang wang crackers my mom bought and i am a monster man.. i zoomed thru half the wang wang in 2 DAYS! lor.. aiyo i better control my eating.. and start exercising..
Haha and carol! welcome to the AUCKLAND FARMILY!
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:26 PM
Not bad...
managed to wake up early today and go down for breakfast and then its off to Grafton Campus for my first RAT dissection lab! Its a longer walk then i tot, and i spent frantic moments applying for my access pass to get in (no choice only got time today lar) just mins before my lab started. I tend to kalang kabo when i panic in new environments.. bleahz..
Man, i was feeling queasy before i started playing wif my rat and it doesnt help that my rat shat before it died so i had to wipe its arse for it. Then wif rock steady hands and nerves of steel, i started snipping away at the dead carcass. Phew! I can stand everything but the smell... seriously man, bleahz! Only until the very end of the lab then i got used to the nausea...
anyway some pics of what a rat dissection looks like.. this pics are way less bloody of coz.. and of coz there aint any electronic smells so NO FAIR!
The chest! reminds me of ALIEN's the chest burster...
The innards! anyone for Rat kwaychup?
Then after the lab, i had to "brisk" walk from one campus to another campus... waliao.. walk until i had shin splints again.. looks like i have to relook at my schedule to rearrange my classes...
And it was a movie night! went to watch click which was one of those feel good comedies.. but it was really quite funny and nice. Worth a watch...
still not used to the food and schedule here... will need to take some time to click back in... adios guys.. i have to relook my diet and exercise man.. body slightly malfunctioning sia..
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Monday, July 17, 2006 11:03 PM
Busy busy days...
Airpork had an unexpected last min sendoff from the guys. I was almost handing over my passport for checking in when they called and i walked back out..hahah must look soo much like a fool.. but i appreciate it guys..
it was a 9 hr plus flight, faster prob due to the favourable winds. As usual i spent my time watching 4 movies. 16 Blocks, Moulin Rouge, Firewall, and Take the Lead. Of the 4 i like 16 blocks best for the cop stuff and Take the lead for the dancing. I am fascinated by dancing and music sometimes. Probably due to my lack of talent in these areas lol.. but it was really a nice show. Interested people just go and watch coz i dun wanna spoil the plot.
Had a expensive 60 bugs taxi ride to o rorke from airpork coz i was tired and didnt want to walk.. after breaking back into my room (which had a big gayish poster stuck on it i dunno why?!) and settling back in, napping didnt do me much good as i only felt more dreamy and disconnected. Alas it was back to caffeine to shock back to reality. After a rushed lunch, rushed down to classes and by skipping only 1 intro lecture, i managed to settle all my course books and my hostel fees payment! haha i am proud of myself not KOing along the way altho the last lecture i buay tahan KO on and off..
but a slow dinner, yet another bath and some more coffee.. i guess my bio clock is more or less back in sync hopefully... haha what an unorthodox method to combat fatigue and jet lag. Tomolo is a 8 hr day for me... and i have to do more stuff like set up new bank accounts, scout for cca groups and email people.. buzzzyyy... man sem 2 doesnt look nice at all sooo far...
tata dudes.. time to sleep...
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Sunday, July 16, 2006 8:45 PM
And the party comes to a close.. Madonna's Take A Bow comes on.. nice nice song...
3 weeks over in a flash. Just as i had acclimatised to the weather, the spicy food, the dialects all over the place, the public transport service, the rush rush baby rush life and of coz, the gals.. its tata time..
Anyway, if i was Stoned on the 2nd last day of my course, then I was Janet Jackson'ed on the last day of the course. Oh man! MY EYES are bleeding! pls pls pls.. members of the opposite species, be more self aware CAN???
The last day ended pretty well (meaning i wasnt bored to death) and i was walking wif Hongster for quite a while. Come to think of it, my fellow Delta 3 pals were really a breed on their own, esp the few who were wif me all the way. I then met up wif some of the vball crew at Marina square where they forced me to watch POTC2 (i'm watching it again in auckland, but heheh at least its good enuff for a second viewing haha) and nonsense at Carl's junior. Melissa made her appearance for that event and i dun think she changed much, except for the fako fako highlight and the pink jacket?! (muhahah dun kill me =p)
Then i met up wif some of my future colleagues for my farewell (is such sweet sorrow~lit boi =p) dinner at Marina square (again!) cafe cartel. I got cheated on my fish fillet coz it was like 50% smaller than normal!? but well there was good service from a particular waitress. Hmm think her name was evelyn haha (dun murder me haha) After dinner entertainment was a long and lengthy discourse on various subjects from clothes size to my torrid past (well at least a summarized version of it) Some aftertots on that? I shldnt have revealed my history lar.. coz hmm i hate listening to it. I mean, its the same no matter how many times i tell it, nothing will change (thankfully in a way haha) Hope i didnt discourage too many people though!
I just realised how freaking expensive shuttlecocks can be. The premium grade one goes for almost $3.3333333 per shuttle lor.. haha once in a while lar ah... now going thru all my luggage to double check all my things.. Been going thru some of my barang barang that is kept in boxes and tins over the last 4~5? years (letters, fotos, knickknacks from frens) and i realised ah, quite a few have faded away...
So have i accomplished my 2 goals of getting back my boooody (booty) and zapping all my red dots? No! due to the 3 buffets a day last week and no time for swimming tans.. BAH! Also didnt manage to meet up wif Angel(yeeling) and Demon(Sujun) hahaha...
and it will be a 10 hr book in.. and a rush rush work day tomolo. No sweat man...
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Saturday, July 15, 2006 3:04 AM
ALmost done wif my attachment... just waiting for release.
Its been 5 solid days wif Delta 3. Haha perhaps its better to take the whole thing as a 3 buffets a day slash army pals meet up session than a nationalistic ra ra event. I had been stuffing myself full and laughing till my cheeks turn sore everyday at reminiscenes and the antics of my pals who never change.
Kinda makes up for the stuffy attire and the endless sit still listen to someone drone sessions. BUT some of the topics were interesting to me lar.. perhaps not other people coz of my particular job scope. haha..
Oh yeah i saw a Sharon Stone wannabe today!? haha kinda outta point but ah, this particular gal (wasnt that gd looking =p but sporean gals know makeup and dressing) was sitting across me during one of the sessions and her skirt was riding up under her laptop. Then when she passed the laptop to someone else, she did a sharon stone?! I almost puked blood and had to turn away to laugh discreetly. Waliao eh.. i never UNDERSTAND why gals ah, like to wear short short skirts and then be so utterly self conscious and uncomfortable when they sit. Worse still, those who are blithely unaware of themselves lagi best!
I mean is it worth sacrificing comfort and modesty just to look good? haha for me, unless i feel like turning on the charm i will hardly do that lor.. but then i am not a gal so i wouldnt know right???
Haiz.. the stuff were also too idealistic too theoretical for me. As i could see my fellow jaded compatriots struggling too.. i mean life aint all stats and numbers or good theories and etc. I wonder how many of these scholars can speak dialects well, mix wif hokkien ah bengs, navigate the murky world of the education unelites etc.. For me, i feel clumping so many "educated elites" together u create a very artificial world where bombastic worlds and idealistic concepts go whizzing thru the air but can these people stay rooted and direct the nation accordingly?
Seriously? if u ask me? i have no reason to believe i shld have confidence in them. Mebbe i wld if i see them again in 5 yrs time.. haha
let this ah beng wannabe return to his ah beng world...
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Friday, July 14, 2006 1:34 AM
Some off tangent tots here..
Kinda realised my future organisation is caffeine addicts anonymous. Coffee breaks abound and there's a very heavy kopi culture le... but then i kinda swore off coffee since army. In jc i was still a pretty heavy kopi drinker but in army i only use to to keep awake during those critical missions or struggle awake for those endless lectures... Nowadays i pump as much caffeine as i did last time, my heart goes into hyperdrive, my brain feels too wired up and i find myself overly AWARE of my environment.. bleahz..
Also cut my hair again.. so my hair has gone thru 2 changes in 2 weeks.. parents sponsored my second hair cut coz they also cant tahan it haha.. here are the fotos!! hahaha...
The Bae Yong Jun wannabe..
Back to the primary school bowl...
Army cut still the best.. haha so far got varying comments from Ballack comparisions to vainity..
And some of my nephew titus! he is coming again tomolo but i have to go out bleahz...so no disturbing him.
Yoz Yoz!! Da TITUS is here!
Come on, Come on, Boogie wif me!
U punk! Come to my concert dun wanna dance?! Never die b4 issit?!
Walking around the living rooom
Exploring the balcony and the hanging gardens of my father
So far this week i have been around the 87ers, what can i say? pretty much nothing coz i guess the frequency is really different from people before NS or Uni and peopel after NS or Uni.. I cant put it in words but the difference is a gulf there. Hmm luckily tho i have my bunch of Delta 3 warriors and my Home Tm dudes to chat wif so its still pretty lively over here. Haha as guys are wont to do, we spent time "people watching" but nothing much lar.. just a couple of fair damsels..
I cant really be bothered to dress up really but after going to one of the sessions dressed in middle aged undercover cop attire (read tuck out short sleeved crumpled shirt, singlet and old man pants wif sneakers lol) i decided well that was quite pushing it when the rest were dressed in ""smart casual"" (long sleeved shirt, black pants black shoes looks like they are either living in a world where formal means black tie and casual means shirt pants OR they were all busy preening up to hit on each other, inbreeding again hahahaha. I think the reason is more of the latter)
Oh that day ah when i was coming home from town in the mrt during the evening rush hour ah, waaah soo terok man, FIRST TIME in my singaporean life i was smished and squished! It was damn crowded as expected and as me and hobart managed to get on, some dude/dudes just ngia ngia lai one le.. push and push so i was like squised against someone in front(heng not gal otherwise i die) then when final cannot he cursed and got off lor. WALIAO eh, obvious no space still push push push think what superman can push everyone into a sardine can ah? heng after one stop the human pressure was released greatly..
haha and my old NS pals said i looked taller.. haha yeah! and shuttlecocks are amazingly expensive surprisingly.. and its time to go back NZ soon.. soo fast.. just got used to it here lorz...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:59 AM
There's something greatly relaxing and comforting to be sitting at my table, surfing the net, new music playing on my headphones and just nuaing after a long series of long days...
Anyway, my attachment at my Organization had ended rather prematurely on last Friday. Looking back, I guess i got to know some of my senior colleagues well enuff to have a grasp of their psyche. Although i didnt get to cover much stuff coz it was supposed to be for 7 weeks straight(i only did 4 days lol), it was still interesting and gave me a better idea of my future job.
Saturday was pretty busy for me. My cousin fell sick rather suddenly and my mom was called on to take care of my nephew titus at last min notice. Well, THATS GOOD coz i finally got to meet the little dude and play with him! haha the inside joke was that the anaesthetic jab really woke him up coz he is very active and intelligent now compared to before the operation. Anyway after doing some chores i managed to meet up wif my godsister after dunno how longz and ate out at Cafe Cartel lol.. its really quite nice for the budget restuarant muhaha.. ate and did a little catch up. Both of our lives in a state of flux now anyhow.. then its back home to thrash my brother at dota (lol jking) and out again for zichar dinner wif family and titus! This time my family ordered chilli crabs coz it has been ages since we ate it but i turned out to be the only one settling them! waaah.. eat until i cant tahan le.. than zooom its out to Dhoby Gaut to meet up wif 42 SAR old specs and officers at Parklane! Lots of reminscing about old times wif all the strange crap that NSmen love to do in the close interactions of camp. Laugh until stomach cramps..
Sunday, church as usual and met up wif Joshua for the last time before he flys for Perth on the 14th to pursue a degree in sports science (if i didnt rem wrongly). Hmm i wonder how many deviations from normal will our lives go?? After church i made my way down to AMK station to meet up wif xinhui and wanyu to go to KX's haunted hse for the bbq at jalan kayu!! haha i gotta say, its nice having the whole hse to ourselves wif no one arnd coz we really messed up the place haha.. almost everyone turned up so it was super duper rare lor.. haha and it was a really nice bday celebration for me and xinhui haha coz totally didnt expect the sparklers and popping balloons! i got a shirt wif no. 1 on it and a whole host of South Park characters representing vball team 02/03!! haha nice nice!! Spent the rest of the night reading the msgs for me stuck in bubble tea straws.. hehe..
So ends my second week..
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Friday, July 07, 2006 1:38 AM
LOL i cant believe it, yest or the day before while i was zooming thru J8 i was handed a flyer asking me to try out as a fashion designer or a model. BOGGLE?? SIAO bo?? me model? u GILA ah?! muhahaha
Also got contacted by a dubious company for "good chances for work". Not gonna name the company but I checked around and it was a Multi layer marketing scheme. Bleah... con men.. from what i heard u have to buy a 1.5k BUCKAROOS MATTRESS and a 400 buckaroos makeup set?? just to start business?? siao bo?? even king koil BED SET also not so exp.. and shisedo makeup stuff also wont hit 400 bugs.
And it really struck me how amusing those promoters etc target certain demographics, especially insurence. I walked past once in a nice outfit (long sleeves, pants and etc) and was immediately approached. THe next time i walked past in a Lok Kock attire i wasnt even spared a glance lol.. I know last time even worse, coz when i wear my No. 4 go home sure cant run one, they zoom like flies around honey, And i am too honest to lie my way out haha..
Today my attachment ended at lunch?! haha was very happy that i finally get an early day but we all went to Jurong Point for lunch where my long experience around the area was called into use. LOL ended up 4 of us ate the same curry chicken rice which was really good and then me Hockboon Allan and Jerald went to Dhoby Gaut to play pool. Havent touched a cue in quite a long time but i played decently. LOL Jerald was powerful man and from watching him play i picked up quite a few tricks. But seriously the last game we had was super duper funny coz Hockboon scratched like 5 times in a row?! and allan scratched right after him to give them the game.. haha couldnt stop laffing.. i guess i got to know some of them better. hehe
Just did my seven deadly sins test for fun: as expected PRiDe came up tops as my deadliest sin. hmm gotta work on it...
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006 3:18 AM
The singaporean mugginess is getting to me... although i can stand it pretty well in a long sleeve shirt and jeans in this weather, it takes a lot of effort not to sweat or lose my cool.. lol i need shades man.. to up my coolness muhaha..
Yesterday was the first day of my PDC but as it happened murphy's law kicked in. Me and my colleagues were left stranded at Asian Civ Museum for the better part of an hr b4 someone called to tell it has been postponed to next week... Its like dot dot dot.. can tell us earlier rightz!? But anyway i had mixed feelings about the hitch. On one hand it means i "work" til 15 july Sat (yes u read it right) and i miss the "interesting" stuff i was looking forward for my training attachment. ON the other hand i can get to spend more time wif this batch of future colleagues which i really clicked really well i think, AND i get to see my old frens like HONGSTER!, and i get to travel arnd spore in the last week b4 i fly. (yeah i am a first bitter then sweet kinda fellow.. well excluding books games and anime haha)
So anyway we sent off one of my future colleagues yest wif a shanghai steamboat ala carte at bugis which was really funny and we journeyed on foot from there to esplanade where i bumped into my ns man Eng Chye, and we had some desserts...in all was pretty nice..
Today was quite a diff matter.. i Had to struggle to wake at 0630am to journey all the way to CCK coz i was afraid i was late. Although so far it seems pretty slack and ez (we were invited to bring swimming attire coz of the amt of time we have we can take a afternoon swim.. if only my acne werent sooo bad =P) but this batch of people i am wif are prob gonna be my future seniors colleague although most of them are a year younger. It seems that OBS really helps to bond the people together coz they were really comfy wif each other (of coz the fact that they WERE ALL UK students for a year liao HELPS A TON). Looks like i will have a harder time clicking in. bleahz...
Anyway there was a hoohaa in my household when i mentioned the differences in the top tier scholars and the 2nd tier scholars like mua (haha i classify myself as a failed top tier one =P). Seriously i am not jealous coz most of the time i prefer a challenge like handicaps or whatever gives kinda mentality and its far more exciting to compete wif a handicap and WIN. Morever i dun really like the limelight, although i admit i like being recognized for my abilities. But my point was, i dun think anyone in the world (xcept a genius researcher or etc) deserves those kinda benefits lor... thats all.. coz if u add it up and compare it to the common man, well its really quite obscene haha..
I popped into Jurong East Interchange Guardian today after being dismissed and Miss Weng couldnt RECOGNIZE me until i stood in front of her!! haha i told her i will conduct a spot check on her coz i received complaints about her service.. haha just kidding.. spent the better part of an hr in guardian walking arnd and catching up.(tho seriously its a lousy place to do so, colleagues and customers all in such a cramped confines how to have any privacy?!) And i bought 2 bags of cookies for her time lol.. Wanyu u have changed to be way more confident than last time. haha good for you!
Cant really stand my present hairstyle coz it makes me loook reaaaally kiddy... like a pri sch kid. (heck i think they look more fashionable than me nowadays) Gonna zap it to high slopes definately soon.. but shld i chopped the top (will be wild grass in a month) or leave it combable? so it can "last"? questions questions... tomolo gym.. more soreness coming up.. bahz..
On a final note, i need to polish up my social skills really quick. Nowadays EQ is everything and well, i am outta practice muhahaha.. if u get my drift. Ok ciaoz people...
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Sunday, July 02, 2006 11:10 PM
My body's engine has downgraded to a slow ticker. I am still sore after a little gymming and basic vball and some walkabouts, cant really run etc (lol spent more time enjoying the breeze).. its gonna be tuff whacking it back into shape...on the "good" side, it seems i have added on a kilo or so despite my lacklustre eating.
It takes a lot of effort to maintain and upkeep and constantly inject new life into old relationships. Taking for granted the usual responses or going about life as if people and events dun change is only gonna get u into trouble or ur relationships stuck in an endless loop.
I gotta put in more effort to know people better...
and yes genevieve, first round goes to you. haha and yes the haircut of yours is pretty radical. Took me a split second to recognize you. haha oh well =p
annnnd some new fotos of my OBS... actually we just took pics of the Height elements coz Sea expedition very difficult to bring camera.. i mean who wanna risk their cameras in the sea?!?! click HERE
haha enjoy...
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