V

hmmm, just now we went to longhouse at thomson for dinner. it was quite interesting to note tt there was this couple sitting on the table next to ours. well, they were just like a normal couple but it was nice to note they didn't display their affection too explicitly. i think the most they went was a hand over the other's shoulder.

actually i didn't notice tt they were a couple initially, but only found out when i noticed a silver ring over the guy's left ring finger. yar, then i was like looking out to see if i could find something on his partner's ring finger too. haha. then i saw it. an exact same replica.

honestly i didn't think there's anything wrong with it lar. i think pple have to come to accept such variance. i think they can be very happy pple too, maybe even happier pple then the 'normal' pple. at least tt particular couple seemed happy enough. and btw, their behaviour isn't the sissy type, nor do they have plucked eyebrows nor wear tight fitting shirts with obscene colours/wordings. just pleasant looking young men.

this type of topic, no one likes to talk about. i was asking p a couple of wks ago on where in the bible is it stated tt homosexuality is wrong. i rem i still was thinking abt it despite reading his reply but decided to leave it at tt cause there's always a stigma associated with this type of talk.

haha, don't know lar, quite confused over this. but anyway i believe tt god still loves them as much as they love anyone else, and we should accept them as they are, cause it's the same 'dirty' me/us tt god loved too. unconditionally.

life's great

yesterday was supposed to bring my brother to queensway to get his shoes. but last minute we decided against it, and he ended taking my saf shoes. which weren't too bad really, looked not bad lar. saf shoes as in the new balance, red/black/white ones. they're rather comfy too so he told me it was ok although i told him if he wants to buy a new pair i don't mind too.

yar, i'm so glad tt he's so dong(3) shi(4) liao. i think he's even more so than me. haha.

many things have changed in the past year. i've realised tt some things weren't worth holding on to, although i had wanted so badly to grasp. haha, not serious things lar. but just simple things like jogging, listening to jazz music, wanting a pda etcetc. really lar, now as i look back, these things tt were real passions to me in the past are now nothing much liao. but some things still remain the same lar, like wc3, of which i still have a burning desire for. haha.

recently i've got an outbreak of pimples on my face. quite depressing lor. reminded me of the times in the past (when it was just as bad) and i was so sianz diao. today during service as i was taking communion, i just felt tt i'm healed. and i know it in me. as qk always screams, "i'm the spotless lamb of god!!!!!". haha, never failed to bring a smile to my face. :) i claim tt too!

recently my dad has been moving stuff all around the house, really a part of da(4) sao(3) chu(2) lar. now the kitchen looks quite weird, with the fridge in the 'wrong' place and the washing machine missing. haha, yar, disappeared to the wc. this arrangement frees up alot of space and the kitchen looks bigger than ever. well, not tt we use the kitchen anyway cuase we don't cook. just for the occasional washing of plates and bowls and, oh yar, to collect our laundry.

well, the less dong(3) shi(4) me has ben eyeing a new phone! well, the one i'm using now is borrowed from kim (an extra phone tt her sis has). my phone plan with m1 is due to expire in march, and actually i can't wait to get liao. haha. tt day when i met with xl for dinner i was telling her my plans to get a new phone. she just looked weirdly at me and thought tt my phone was perfectly alright and there was no need to change. but... i think i want to spend a bit to boost the economy. haha, like real. well, this phone isn't mine after all wat.

talking about phones, there're 2 models tt i'm looking at now, both nokia. 6170 and 7270. which are both 'flip-phones', things tt i've never used before. something i'm concerned abt is tt it may be too troublesome to always flipflipflip when pple call or u want to msg. something abt the 7270 also is tt they don't sell the fabric covers yet. so... what if it gets dirty or something? then cannot change liao (although it comes with an extra fabric cover... but i mean, just ONE extra only leh).

we were supposed to have a coffee after service to celebrate pam's bdae. haha, we got her a catebury RUGBY polo. haha, i still can't really associate pam and rugby. i mean... ok nvm. :) i hope she wears it soon so can see how it looks on her. haha. but yar, didn't go for the coffee as i had to come home.

anyway, there's this post-it programme tt u can dl to ur comp and u can use it to post those ever-so-familiar yellow notes on your desktop to remind u to do stuff. haha, i'm such a person who needs these constant reminders if not i may end up forgetting everything!!! yar. dled it today after seeing it on another laptop a couple of wks ago. hehe.

haiz. jielun's playing on 93.3 now. i mean, shi(4) jie(4) mo(4) ri(4) leh. what a nice song, i shall sing along with him. "lalalalalaalalalalalalalalalalala". nvm. i miss the concert when we were all almost crazy, preparing the poster and all. haha, very fun! haiyoh why the concert vcd take so long to come out?!?! :)

out to dinner!

unmix-ed

yesterday we had cg as usual, but this time was slightly different, cause peer asked me to share the msg instead. i think it was a privilage to, really and i gladly took up the offer. for god to use me as a vessel to preach is really an honour.

a couple of things were going through my mind then when peer called me on wed. hmmm how come he call me to share? maybe god told him tt i may have something to share with the rest particularly about this msg. or maybe he wants to ord liao then he looking for a jie(1) ban(1) ren(2) and want me to try out first. haha. yar, these were a couple of thoughts tt went through my head.

i think the former should be a good reason lar, but if what he was thinking was to get a jie(1) ban(1) ren(2), i just feel inadequate. after all, they are big shoes to fill. if anything i feel i need more time to grow and be filled. :) must be filled first before can pour out, like even the small jar of oil in the widow's house was filled before it filled the many great vessels.

yesterday's message was on wineskins. on old wineskins and new; how u must have a new wineskin mentality, if not whatever wine in you will burst and will be lost. yep. when i woke up this morning, i found that this message couldn't be more applicable to me than anyone else. haha yeah. although i was the person sharing the message it just seems so queer that this can't be anymore relevant to me.

this song came to me this morning,

i worship you, almighty god,
there is none like you...
i worship you, oh prince of peace,
that is what i want to do.

i give you praise,
for you are my righteousness
i worship you, almighty god,
there is none like you...

in recent times i have not been living a life of a new wineskin. i have not been filled and whatever's pouring in is just leaking out. as i was preparing for msg, i heard god telling me that i am compromising, using a patched up old wineskin which can never ever hold the new wine. what god wants is a new wineskin, not a patched up old wineskin. bits of new, bits of old. which will make the tear worse.

mixture in my life has cause alot of hurt. at prayer request yesterday i asked for my heart to be guarded. cause it was sometimes when i didn't guard my heart tt i slipped into short bursts of depressions and got really bad. otherwise, i was okay. i felt i needed to patch up my heart to prevent my emotions from leaking out. what devin prayed for me was really accurate and tackled the feelings on my mind/heart, really spot on, although i didn't tell him what was happening. haha, he so funny cause he asked me what exactly i wanted him to pray for me but i refused to tell him and asked him to just go "as the spirit leads". then peer also prayed for me too, usging me to look at the PILLAR of cloud and fire whenever i felt lost. i mean, it's a PILLAR leh. which is really relevant cause a pillar is just overwhelming. when i'm standing in front of the pillar, i am so small and the presence of the pillar is all tt matters.

i used to think tt time would heal all the xin(1) ling(2) chuang(4) shang(1). but i realised tt there's no way 100% repair could ever take place. a old wineskin can never contain all the joy, but a new one will, and i receive it now in jesus' name! and now tt i have a new wineskin let the joy start building up!

another mixture i see in my life is how i didn't live the life i was supposed to. i found tt it was easier to mix around and make friends when i compromised on god's standards. i mean, i still go to church, bs, cg mar, there's enough of the word liao. so it wouldn't hurt if i compromised a bit. things like kbing abt CAs, allowing fear to creep in etcetc. well, i think it was easier for pple to accept if u didn't come across so secure.

these things didn't keep me in the right mentality and allowed me to slip backwards, one time or the other. minor slips here and there to cause a whole backslide when they're added up altogether. but from today, i resolve to no longer live a life of mixture. it'll all be undiluted, uncompromised and to live a life of eating, talking and living god. i think tt's the way it is meant to be. i've had too much mixture liao and i've had enough of it. :) i'm real glad tt clinical groupings turned out the way they are. i'm really really happy.

praise god, it'll be a glorious road ahead.

promise

i'll try my best to give u what u want if it'll make u happier. cheers, and hope this doesn't fall through.

great day

last week this guy called me up. he was an insurance guy who got my number from my friend, hldy. haiyoh. haha, i almost wanted to call hldy up to scold him. haha, this type of thing why come and give my no... haha. but anyway, after talking to the insurance guy (jeryl) over the phone he managed to convince me to go down to his office, which was at bugis.

haha so i went down today, though i really didn't feel like going down lorz... but i thought tt since i agreed to meet him liao i should just go down and look see look see. and a better thing was tt this morning gan msged me and ask me out for dinner with xl and himself, and none other than at bugis! haha. so it was just a minor detour to meet jeryl in the end, which i didn't mind lor. anyway, meeting jeryl was quite fun in the end. made a new friend, had a good chat. turned out tt he's hldy's instructor!!!

before i went to meet jeryl, went to shop around at bugis area. well, something tt i'd wanted to do for some time liao but didn't have the opportunity to. was trying to get a friend down too and was waiting for reply. but in the end went down myself today. wanted to go down ever since tt time when i went out with ck and lihui. passed by some nice shops but we didn't have the time to go in to look see. well, made it up to myself today lor.

bought a new sling bag and a t-shirt. yay! i think i like the sling bag really alot!!! still can bargain one lor. haha. the best part of shopping at these places is the BARGAINING. no doubt abt tt. yep, got discount on both the bag and the t-shirt. yippee. think i'll use the bag tml. no more red stain on my bag liao. :) i think both the bag and the t-shirt are quite good buys.

dinner was with xl and gan. xl came back from overseas cause now hols. she studying medicine in australia lor. their syllabus is slightly diff from ours -- systems based rather than subject based. and she graduates with a bSc in addition to her mbbs. arh. but her course is abt a year longer.

we went to this bubble tea shop to eat dinner. yes can u believe it... pao(4) pao(4) cha(2)... yup, but the starch pearls weren't the things tt filled our stomachs. we all ordered claypot rice. in a bubble tea shop. but it's really yummy and next time i'ld definitely recc my friends to go there. yup it was nice catching up with her, habben seen her for almost 2 years liao... last time still used to talk to her on icq but after i stopped using icq haven't been in contact with her.

tt crazy girl is working in truimph now... haha, not as a model lar... but as some secretary or clerk or something liddat. haha so funny cause she was commenting on her temp company's calender for 2005 and it's "almost pornography"... haha. she's considering auctioning them on ebay, i think she'll get a good bid for it. oh well. :)

*blinkblink*

on the way home, the sole on my slipper 1/2 way came off. haha. which made it flip-flap ala crocodile's mouth... haiyoh... walking became a chore, and had to drag my feet along cause if i raised my leg too far up and came down, the flap would fold over and feel really weird, as if i stepped on something, which really didn't feel nice.

anyway, i did try to correct the situation by trying to staple the sole back (haha, now if u ever borrow my staple u know where it's been...) i smiled with glee when it seemed to work and i managed to put not 1 mind u, but 5 staples into the sole. but on the first step everything fell apart again, much to my dismay.

so i had no choice but to drag my feet all the way home, all the way from nus actually. after prac the thing just gave way. had jon chia's company to go home so i was kbing to him abt the slipper lar. haha. well, after we got off the bus we saw this other slipper on the road.

hmmm, i thought to myself, and realised how funny the situation was. reminded me of the saying, "i complained about not having shoes, until i saw someone with no feet." haha, so it should now be changed to, "i complained about having lousy slippers, until i saw someone's slipper off her feet." so funny.

anyway i'm glad i bought my sandals liao. haha. lost 1 sole but gained 2.

oh yes, i've got to record this down too. on the ride home with jon chia, i was suddenly reminded of a something tt i watched on a chinese variety show a couple of days ago.

sharon aw and another actress heard someone (who they didn't want to see) coming...

"he's coming!!! let's shan(3)!"
"ok!!!"

sharon turns to leave and sees tt her counterpart is not following, but sitting on the sofa flashing the most radiant smile, with computer inserted 'light rays' beaming out from her...

at this point, jon chia smacked his forehead hard with his palm and shook his head in disgust...

inspiration

i'm so inspired by this little boy who was featured on today's xing(1) qi(2) er(4) te(4) xie(3)... the boy called hongli (jereme) who suffers from a congenital brittle bone disease, making him susceptible to multiple fractures since birth.

something he said to his mother, "everytime i get a fracture, i'm really sorry that u have to suffer with me..." he doesn't blame his parents for his condition and neither does he blame anyone else for his 'bitter' life. instead, "when life handed me a lemon, i made lemonade of it."

he visits other chronically ill children and rather than being a recepient of kindness, he's now the one giving it, in a way much more than other able bodied people... he just radiates an optimism that's infective... even seeing him feature on this show i've found renewed meaning in life. i mean, seriously...

he's now a columnist for Today newspaper. probably more well spoken than myself even. brave in the light of adversity, with more courage than many of us even. his physical impairment can no longer chain his aspirations of becoming a genetic engineer. "because i believe tt genetic engineering will become key in treating such chronic diseases" yep, and he's studying in one of the premier sec schs now.

even now he's taking music lessons from li(3) si(1) song(1) and is an ambassador for the nkf children's medical fund. i mean... it is at these moments that u realise the human spirit is something to marvel at.

imbecile!

haiz... made a fool of myself today after service. sigh. real sorry. didn't know anything abt it being my only excuse. but maybe i just talk too much. argh.

random thoughts otw home

a couple of days ago i was taking bus home, sitting on one of the last rows of seats. noticed the scribblings on the back of the bus seats, which roughly went like "ABC loves XYZ forever and ever", yeah, or something to that extent. couldn't help but wonder how many of these couples were still together atm.

then this family came along. a father, mother and son. there was only one seat left and the father walked over and promptly sat down. they look as if they've been married for 10 years or so considering their son's age. the mother and son were left standing. i don't want things to turn out tt way for me. :)

i felt the emptiness in my heart and it was sad... haha, but got over it quickly. *smiles* see, i'm learning mar. give me more time ok? haha.

went home and decided to play piano, and was playing bu(4) neng(2) he(2) ni(3) yi(4) qi(3) by yanzi. hehe it's quite a nice song. nice lyrics too. :) maybe tt's why the music industry can make so much $$ -- the songs play on your heartstrings and either 1) remind u of similar events tt u actually experienced, or 2) give u a vision of a perfect hope [wah vision of me! *beams*] with the perfect person.

chye sim with oyster sauce

oh yes, went to cut hair today with chye sim. oh yes everyone remember to go cut hair before cny draws too close when the barbers will raise prices. yay, quite happy with my shorter hair. the hairdresser tried to gel my hair after it all and i think it looked a bit weird. haha, but it was something new. maybe i'll try it again someday lar. but really i don't know HOW to gel my hair. it's too much of a hassel i guess too. chai sim's hair is too short liao lar. the chye sim no more leaves liao...

aiyar so gross. chye sim boasted tt he mugs till 6am everyday. dare to come and show off to me this type of dirty laundry. i threatened to go spread to everyone and he just shrugged it off and dared me to do so, still saying tt's the reason why he so tired everytime in school. so here am i. haha. now u know i shuo(1) de(2) dao(4) zhuo(4) de(2) dao(4). *smirk* 6am. simply disgusting.

tml lunch with army pple at marche. haha looking forward to meeting them. quite long never see them liao. dinner will be at hyq's bdae party. i just volunteered anin to give me a ride there and she's kindly agreed. haha. habben ask for car... transport would have been a problem. yay, now settled liao.

i still want to go for the ice cream buffet. someone sponsor?? :)

mary roach (guilbeaux)

sigh my brother was hogging the comp the whole day... haiyoh... cannot use at all. and of course he was having fun with dota. anyway there's a new version of dota, verysion 6.00, an update from the 5.84 update. it's really interesting and a fresh change, with lots of new characters. but of course there're ALOT ALOT of bugs. i mean... if even pple like me have discovered them we should be expecting an update to correct them real soon.

was expecting to watch san(1) guo(2) yan(3) yi(4) tonight, but seems tt it is not on. wonder what happened... maybe it's the hari raya tml tt's why the screening timings have been reshuffuled.

but no loss... cause i'm watching american idol now as i'm typing this. with my brother ka-chiaoing me from the side. haiyoh he... seems tt they added another judge - martin. aiyar i think he's there just as a hua(1) ping(2). i still think simon is the only real judge. i mean, randal just mirrors what the rest says. paula's too soft and don't give frank enough comments. the other's just a vase. strangely enough, randal keeps asking "oh, so what do u think simon?" whenever it's his turn to make a comment.

well i really admire some of the contestents, esp the lousy ones. i mean the REAL LOUSY ones. there was this guy who sang 5 voices. but then he had this strong sense of destiny and was so confident in himself. well, self confidence is good!

horribly nonetheless.

and thank goodness he was kicked out. it was sad for him though. err, it MUST have been sad for him right?

pop meets broadway meets jazz and rock. come'on, guilbeaux wasn't that bad. there're easily worse singers around. why brand her as william hung 2? haiyoh. anyway simon is honest. i respect him man... and he bears the brunt of all the criticism. pple who didn't dare tell the truth to those 'substandard' idol-wannabes really hai(3) si(3) lang(2).

new sandals

yipee, bought a new pair of sandals at the fair outside LT. i think it's quite a good buy, cost $35 for a pair of reasonably looking teva sandals. :) haha. my old pair will be retired as of today, been using them for 4 years liao. actually still can go on one lar. hmm yar. maybe i should keep them until cny at least when i can put them aside as part of the ta(4) sao(3) chu(2).

aiyar, like i will be doing a dao sao chu anyway. haha.

was trying them on, walking around in my room just now. feels weird... must season a bit. thinking of wearing them in the house lor. then maybe by the time i start using them proper they'll be as comfy as my old pair. :)

the old pair's comfy. real comfy. but of course real smelly too. haha. then there's this hole on the bottom of the sandals which allows it to collect sand.

yes, SAND... then it gives the sandals a nice 'bump" which makes walking a chore. haha. so with each step i take it'll seem like i perpetually step on something. haha, maybe like dog shit... but dog shit should be softer lar. bwahaha. oh, i heard pple who step on dog shit get lucky and win money is it? i very very long never step liao (not looking forward to stepping anyway), tt's why not lucky. yar but who needs tt type of 'luck'?????

oh back to the topic. which is my new sandals! yay! hopefully they serve their term or at least another 4 years. :)

sian day... i should go sleep.

[STOP! don't go furthur if u're not hope ang if not u'll kena confused... haha. yar lar, don't need to read everything cause ignorance is bliss sometimes.]



i think i can get angry over nothing. yar, serious... or maybe it's really something, but just can't put my finger on it. haiz. or maybe just don't want to face the truth because it hurts. and of course, 1 thing i learnt from last year was, "running away may be the best thing to do in some situations. it is NOT cowardly..."

how i wish i could just run run run away.

i'm beginning to think anger is just one of the ways tt u express your confusion and it's just an outlet for all tt u don't know what to do about. something like crying. yeah. when u come to an end of yourself, exhausted all your means and ways. yup, i suppose tt's when God is supposed to come in. but there are times tt i don't 'feel' it. yet at other times when i do feel the comfort but i choose to shut it out and wallow in misery. well, wallowing is fun. it's almost addictive. it gives a sense of satisfaction and glee, makes u feel appreciated and heard. cause the best person to talk to, may jolly well be urself.

yeah, i think tt's the thing with wallowing. it provides so many things tt i'm looking for, but can't find it where i'm searching. but like quicksand, the more u struggle the faster u sink. the more u wallow the deeper u go.

haiz. i think i'm too demanding at times. and it is at these times when i come to this state of realisation tt i'm too demanding when i'm happiest. maybe i should stay like this, but then it can be tiring to stay aflot, rather than allowing urself to sink. what if i'm not too demanding at all and it's the other person who has the ball now?

peer approval is one thing very hard to shake off. i tried and found it's real hard to forgo this. i'm trying not to see and hear the mumblings and whisperings but it's hard. nvm, i'll learn.

thanks for listening to me and putting up with me. i really appreciate it. although listening to the unreasonable me can be hard at times... thanks for ur patience. i really wish it would not be so hard for u too, but something more enjoyable... aiyar and the reason why i can write this is cause u prob won't be reading it anyway. haha maybe it's just silly of me.

can't get enough. but don't blame me, blame those times.

another afternoon

arh ok... came home early today, didn't have anything to do after school. so happened tt andre was going to borders to look for books so i accompanied him down to look see look see before heading home.

i'm playing maple story now. in fact just waiting for my char to heal over time (if u leave the char there motionless it will heal like 10hp every 10 seconds. oh well, considering i have about 400hp (which i believe is quite low), it'll be a wait.

there's pbl tml. med students take note hor. haha, or am i the last one to remember? :)

oh yes, ca's in 6 weeks. how horrible. just try not to be so ca concious this time.

*ouch*

i just hate papercuts and small cuts. especially when they're located on functional parts of your body...

like on the anterior surface of my right thumb...

don't we see on insurance claims and all tt, when u lose a thumb it's considered to be so incapicitating tt they compensate u the 'value' of 4 fingers... the THUMB, it's supposed to be the essential tool tt gives us an edge over the primates and chimps which has led to evolutionary success of man. haiyoh. and now tt i've lost function of 1 thumb, maybe i'm half an ahmeng. everytime i press down on a key the nociceptive fibers are repeatedly stimulted. really, i think they're rather fatigued liao, and so am i.

so, i've resorted to using my thumbnail to type instead of the pulp of my thumb to ease the discomfort.

*ouch* (again)

the thing about small cuts is tt they don't give u ANY right to complain. i mean, try whining to anyone about your cut, and pple would ridicule you, just stopping short of rofl.

what, tt small nip is supposed to cause your grief??? then i assume it isn't causing much at all and i can conclude tt u're a crybaby with a low threshold of pain, cannot take any hardships one... afterall, doesn't the age old saying go, "chi(1) de(2) ku(3) zhong(1) ku(3), fang(1) wei(2) ren(2) shang(4) ren(2)...

but if u scream out pointing to a gaping 10cmX10cm necrotic wound with spurts of arterial blodd, sympathy would natrually follow.

haiyoh, na(2) ni(3) hai(2) you(3) tian(1) li(3)... enough whining for now.

---

i learnt something today. well, maybe i learnt it in the past liao, but i heard the phrase during service today tt helped summarise all tt - we make time for things we value. well, it's not a sweet realisation or anything. painful even.

bdae celebration

what a lazy sunday afternoon... i can't type properly now cause yesterday i cut my thumb over dinner. boohoo. anyway it was my brother's bdae dinner and we went this place near siglap centre, at this quaint little sea food restaurant.

the food was horrible. there was this dish of chicken with sotong paste which was really 95% sotong paste. not very tasty too, and very oily. the cereal prawns were the worst i tasted too. in addition all the portions were super small (eg the sotong-chicken dish was the size of 1 chicken breast but cost $12)

oh, but the saving grace was the last dish, which was chilli crab. wah we all got a shock when it came cause its shell was SO BIG. hmmm, i think the crab was 1.5kg at least. i slurped up the rest of the gravy. and i tell u the meat was so white, tender and succulent... alot of meat too, not like those flower crab type with no meat no matter how u dig. this one even the legs were a treat, as my brother remarked. cracking the legs were a treat in itself too haha.

yup, i think tt was the best crab i even ate. the downside being i cut my thumb in eager anticipation of the succulent meat calling out to me... well the conclusion was tt it's a lousy place for dinner. they won't be finding me back eating there in the near future.

after dinner we went for ice cream at the haagen daz palour next door! hehe, quite a treat, cause got vouchers to spend anyway, so must enjoy right?? tried a few more flavours like baileys. haha. 5 scoops in total for us all to share, very nice. :) and i discovered something very interesting, cause...

HAAGEN DAZS HAS A ICE CREAM BUFFET

and it's free flow of ice cream and soft drinks lor. valid from mon to fri from 11am to 6pm. i mean... free flow of ice cream leh. which normally comes at $4.50 a scoop. i think eat liao must diet for 1 week. haha. first it was chocolate buffet, and now it's this. ice cream buffet. oh man... i can't wait to go. oh yes, did i mention? it's $18++ so must save a bit before can go. and oh course must look for a motly of fellow indulgers too. :) the promotion is valid at all haagen dazs shops except hilton sidewalk, raffles city, takashimaya and tang plaza. hmmm. which means the one at esplanade is available!!!! wah... i want to go...

oh and we cut cake for my brother this morning. hehe, another one of bengawan solo cakes which the med pple are all too familiar with thanks to the bengawan solo cake shop at nuh where we buy all our bdae cakes for sch celebrations from. it's amazing how they manage to incorporate a gooseberry in the deco of almost every cake they sell. and pple will always ask "ei, what is this?". then the next line will be always "can eat or not?"

haha so funny. happy 17th bdae brother. :)

scouts gathering

we went to this turkish place at far east for lunch. i had some longtong as a very late breakfast before i left so didn't order any food when i got there. haha, but hansel ordered extra food liao and he was super full after finishing 1 portion and couldn't finish the 2nd portion as he intended. so i ate most of it up.

can't rem what's the name of the dish leh, but it was really all meat with some yoghurt drenched in this sour sour sauce. quite nice lar. :) i think it was bit of beef. so, tt's my first time tasting turkish fare. interesting. haha, then ordered a cup of turkish coffee, which is a VERY VERY small cup. actually i when i just got there shuwei was kbing to me about his cup of coffee, which was served in the same very small cup too.

"$1.50" he said, gesturing to his super value-for-money cup of coffee. which really couldn't be more than 75ml.

it was only later on when i decided to ask him how was the coffee... "oh, very nice, it's quite exotic."

tt was when i fell for his trickery and decided to order mine too.

when i bought my cup of coffee shuwei told me to get a spoon to stir the coffee before i drink it cause it tends to settle to the bottom. wait a minute, coffee where got settle one? and after my first mouthful i realised tt the sediments were actually COFFEE GROUNDS (yes, the new med cafe's namesake).

well, more amusing was the fact tt shuwei drank it all up assuming it as part of good old turkish culture. [well, even as i'm typing this, i'm still not sure if it IS part of thecustom to drink up all the coffee grounds or not, but i can saw it tastes terribly awful if u do...]

i really regretted not bringing along my camera if not can post the pics here for everyone to judge how gross the coffee grounds are... anyway i decided to add a little pepper and salt (i mean literally) to my share of coffee grounds in a spite of boredom, much to the disgust of acy.

after lunch 1/2 went home and 1/2 went for a bit of window shopping. haha, ended up only ben bought stuff. the rest of us were too broke to buy liao. somemore is not cheap stuff - a fcuk long sleeve shirt and another fcuk t shirt. haha oh well. :) belated christmas shopping i guess. wait till the day when i'll be able to do tt too. :)

but i tell u, we were so super tired by the time we walked to taka tt we just had to go into delifrance to rest. well, the pple who came along shopping was gy, hansel, sw, ben and me. now, gy just HATES bread... don't know what's wrong with him, but he detests bread. which of course is what delifrance serves. :) haha, can u imagine his face when he came back from the toliet and found us sitting there eating... anyway a damn funny conversation ensued:

gy:"wah lau, why are u eating bread?? it's high in cholesterol, high in fat, high in carbo and low in protein. it causes u to have heart attack."

hl:"what crap."

gy:"i bet with u tt everyone who has had a heart attack has eaten bread before."

all:*speechless, but bowling over in laughter*

ben:"u're damn c**k, don't u realise tt bread and noodles are made of the same thing?"

gy:"so?!?!?!? u're made up of atoms. the table is also made up of atoms."

all:"O_0'"

anyway we came to the conclusion tt gy's fear for bread is an irrational and totally absurb one. afterall he's terrified of cats and peacocks, cats and chickens too. haha. rem the times when we were hiking on ubin and there was this big chicken (in a cage, mind u... not like those running freely about one), but gy wouldn't come 5m close. haha.

it is also noteworthy tt at this pt gy started poking at hansel's small piece of garlic bread, after tt he picked it up! omgosh! we all though gy was going to eat it!!! but then he promptly tore the bread into 2 and lay it down again, with a smirk on his face feeling he had conquered the unbearable.

went home for dinner after tt with my family, cause it's my brother's bdae on 16th jan. happy 17th birthday. :) shall blog on bdae tml cause now it's damn late liao... alot of interesting things happened then too.

maplestory

haha finally played maple story in such a looong time. i think the last time tt i actually played was nov i think. then yar, the whole thing abt studying etc came up and have to sacrifice the game liao. haha. not tt it's tt impt too anyway.

but anyway i only ended playing for like 15 mins before i suddenly got very unglamourously kicked out of the game - wither because 1) they didn't like my magician very much; 2) the server is too laggy... well, of which i would choose to believe the 2nd reason. haha. but just now even in the game it was quite laggy liao, so should have saw tt coming.

this morning was supposed to be a very hectic day - go ri to meet up with scouts early in the morning, collect $ for tsunami victims with the church from lunch till mid afternoon, then go out for dinner with family to celebrate my brother's bdae! which is tml. :)

but... decided tt i would give the can collection a miss lor in the end. which gave me the privilage to catch up on sleep till 1130.

muahaha. slept like a pig. I LIKE!

there's this bag of instant noodles sitting in front of me right now courtesy of kim. haha, she was clearing out her food cabinet in hall and just decided to dump instant noodles on me. haha, she was complaining tt the instant noodles taste horrible, something tt i found to be not very true when i tried cooking a packet of the mee goreng yesterday night for supper. haha. very nice! she also showed me her korea photos, which were so funny lar. haha.

a very funny incident she described to me was when there was this huang(2) di(4) da(4) can(1) tt they were going to eat and everyone was super excited about it cause it was super cold in korea the time they were there and everyone was very hungry. well, what met their eager, eatering mouths was 20 plates of pickled food. haha. and to think they were kbing abt eating pickled food for the entire trip liao. so her family didn't even touch most of the food except a plate of cold fish, seaweed and hot soup. yar. so much for the emperor's meal. haha, better watch out for tt if i ever go to korea.

i think i better go bath liao, going to have a nice peaceful, relaxed lunch with the scouts later. catch rtzb before he flies back to USA again. habben met up with the rest in a long time too.

temptations...

haiyoh, why am i still up at this unearthly hour... cause, i'm watching this jue(2) shi(4) shuang(1) jiao(1)... it's very nice!!! haha, and the best part is tt it just started, 1st and 2nd episodes today. :)

hope tml won't be too tired lor... haiz. not like today when i slept through an entire lecture.

oh it just ended. i think this is something i'll be addicted to in the near future. haha. :)

*yawn*

i came home with the intention to nap and catch up on sleep. little did i know tt it was not to be so. :) played dota online and them slacked around. before u know, oh it's 10 liao.

haiyoh, pple who have blogs pls go blog so i got something to read. :) hehe.

regarding numerous ulcers in the mouth, click here! thank god it's not hsv. haha.
[no, i'm not the poor soul with multiple mucosal lesions.]

2 down, 2 to go

so happy... finally ca2 is over. and to think all we had were 2 papers but i actually studied for an entire month... this is terrible. what life i subscribed to?? haha. as after every ca i would just dread those notes and text books... i just want to get away... haha, at this moment i'm still trying to knock the 'ciprofloxacins and gentamycins etc' out of the thought bubbles tt are floating all around my head. it's so real tt i can almost see them.

scary.

on the bus ride home i was still joking with jon chia about the most OFF thing to be talking abt after a ca. more sch stuff, namely anatomy... mixed with a bit of violence of course, like how he wanted to "kick so hard tt ur coccyx would be impaled onto your frontalis" and "punch so hard tt your eyeballs would go back to their primary sensory cortex". yes i know, very off. i petioned him to stop after a while and when he realised what he was saying too, he became rather distraught too.

the wonders a ca can do to our puny minds.

the day before the papers are always the worst hit. i've a relatively short memory and therefore have the need to go through EVERYTHING again just before the paper. which is why if pple find me u'll in the 10mins before the paper starts, i'ld still be frantically rummaging throught sloppily written notes... as i was studying in my room in the wee [really wee] hours of the morning, time seemed to stop. haha ok, i'm exagerrating. yar, but i was SO intent on finishing the last bacteria before i put my head on the pillow.

that, i am proud to say, i did accomplish. hehe. but at the disastrous consequence of loss of my precious sleep. the worse thing was tt when i was doing the microb paper i couldn't recall any of it... sigh. yeah, microb was bad. microb was quite bad... but i think patho was a much easier paper, reason being the gave alot of marks to questions like "state the differential diagnosis of blah blah blah" and u can just list anything tt comes to mind.

hope the cas won't be too bad.

i was writing and writing and writing during the patho ca and it seemed to go on forever. argh the torture. i could visualise aileen wee's face when she would be marking my script, happily putting all the crosses/ticks wide across, disfiguring the script... haiz. and sometimes what i was writing didn't make too much sense. i didn't even bother to correct the gramatical mistakes... haha and as always most of the points are rather 'smokey'... all have doubtful relevance one.

i think my hand went into a spasm. reminds me of what happened last year when i gripped so hard on my pen during the anat paper tt when i came out the procimal phalanx of my right thumb hurt like crazy... i was so sure i killed some nerve. thank god it recovered soon.

interesting thing tt happened is tt only just did seaborne call me. hmmm, they're organising a leisure trip to the SOUTHERN ISLANDS... no, not anywhere exotic but if u haven't realised, it's the singapore southern islands. works out to be about $90. but don't think i'll make it because:

1. no spare cash
2. it'll be too rush to do over the weekend right... nan(2) de(2) got long weekend...
3. singapore waters as as good for diving as toliet water is for drinking

well, u could argue tt reason 3 is totally irrational because we ARE drinking toliet water ever since the nice folks at the water works turned on the pipe to the NEWater plant. but maybe i was thinking of the untreated jamban water...

eeks.

reason 2 is crap too. cause one pull factor to do diving is cause u CAN do it over the weekend. short and sweet. afterall, where got long breaks from now on??

still i hope to go diving again soon. but after the eventful last diving trip, i resolved to have my own suit, fins and mask on my next diving trip. well, considering i still need to buy a replacement phone at the moment...

[ANYONE WANTS TO HELP ME OUT HERE? haha. just kidding.]

beyond reason or a doubt

reading xiaxue and junhao's post i was starting to have some questions about religion again and thought i should consolidate my own thoughts. well, the last thing i would want is for anyone to be offended in any way by what's written in this post, so my apologies if it does... haha, may dont' read lar! :) shoo. hehe. ok anyway it's the thoughts i gathered from reading the posts and what i can gather of my thoughts at this moment are:

1. i'm totally not irritated/annoyed/angry at whatever's been said. i like these arguments and think they're quite constructive. cause to me no matter how u try to dispute tt the earth is square, it remains a fact tt the earth IS round.
2. christianity IS just 'blind faith' if your would have it. there's no scientific, publishable evidence tt proves without a doubt tt god does exist.
3. yes, according to the bible, anyone who does not confess tt jesus is god will go to hell. which is the only reason why i sometimes try to preach to close friends who mean alot to me. i am wary of how pple may perceive me as being too 'fervent' or 'extremist' tt's why i usually don't talk about chritianity stuff to friends... but i respect their freedom of choice. like the chinese proverb, "you can only bring the horse to the waters edge; can't force it to drink"
4. in my entire life as a christian, i've only tried to 'convert' 3 friends. who were very close and dear friends to me. the only reason i even try is because i love them alot. cy, sw, and icsy. i shared with them about christianity, but anyway none of them converted.
5. the thing about giving 10% (tithing) is your income to church is not a law. as in, you don't have to do it. my family doesn't tithe to the church even till now. but i do of the allowance i have. tithing is entirely optional. god doesn't love you more or less if u do it or not.
6. god loves the paedophilliac priest as much as he loves anyone else.
7. i don't go to church merely for friends, cause they are not the reason, although they are a real blessing by helping me to grow and i treasure the friendships tt i've forged. even if there was no one to attend church with me, i would still go. in fact the first 2 years of attending ncc i sat in service totally alone, 1 person. but still i went cause i found what i was looking for in church.
8. 'bad' things happen for a reason. my family has been through the worst of times, but as i look back things really work out for good. it's difficult to tell anything other than from 1st hand experience. it's up to the christian to believe if god is in control or not. the reason why 'bad' things still happen in this world is because the world is a fallen world. ever since the fall of man in the garden of eden. man committed high treason by giving control of earth over to the devil, which allowed sickness/poverty/plague to come. [ok enough liao]
9. i disagree with my pastor sometimes too about the points tt he makes. out of reverence maybe i just don't understand or realise his points at these times.
10. the entire essence about christianity is not about making sure you don't sin and do good, or to preach to people and "convert everyone around you". cause sometimes i think it's distasteful to impose your religion on others.
11. yes, there are 'evidences' in the bible but i would stop short of naming any at the moment. but trying to qualify christianity robs the meaning of it. i don't base my faith on these empirical evidences and even if they didn't exist i would still believe in god.
12. haha the whole crap about dinosaurs... anyway it is recorded there in the bible... i think 2 lines? but what's recorded is what's important. for our daily lives... no dino's going to spring up to eat me. :)
13. it's sad to see how some christians cause unhappiness through some things tt they may not yet have understanding of. but no condemnation.
14. religions require you to serve your god and do good. all religions teach you to do good, so in a sense, religions are beneficial for the government and for the health of the society. christianity doesn't require you to do good at all. you will still go to heaven if you go out right now and kill and murder and rape and sodomise [and whatever you can think of] if you are a christian. don't be shocked, yes you WILL go to heaven. but if you understand how much god loves you and what he did for you, there's no desire to do those rubbish.
15. it may be a blind faith to some, something tt will seem totally irrational to others. to me, it doesn't make sense too. to me, it is the perfect faith beyond reason or a doubt. which is why christianity is my faith. something junhao mentioned about using the "unexplainable to explain the unexplainable"... very interesting, i shall ruminate over it.

mugging and eating

oh man... i'm left with 1 more set of notes to go before i finally finish 1st time revision of microb. TB DRUGS!!! haiyoh. and i study until so sian liao tt i thought i deserved a break. so off to supper i just went, and back from supper i just have. had a nice big bowl of zhu(1) zha(2) tang(1) and a bowl of rice too. and grabbed a lorh mai kai too on the way back. hehe. so full now... *burp* remember the time when i finished mugging for a-lvls and i did the same thing too -- went out for a bowl of bak kut teh.

well, only difference is tt this time i didn't finish the mugging yet. well... almost lar. :)

BUT. i realised i don't remember so many stuff. haiyoh. which means must revise again.

like when i was enjoying my soup i was trying so hard to recall my microb.

but so sad right? have to eat supper alone. where's qk?? :) have u settled down liao? if so make some noise to let us know u're still there leh. :)

i think i'll try to finish at least the 1st line drugs. in fact i've done streptomycin and rifampicin liao. 3 more to go!

catching up

hmm yesterday was an exciting day. caught up with lihui and chuankai for an entire day, haha, though not the best choice of times because ca's coming up. so for like 1/2 of the outing the thought of the CA was just looming at the back of my mind. well, till i realised i shouldn't be doing tt and threw it all away.

haha what fun it was. :)

3 of us sang ktv from 11 plus till 4pm... we went party world [the one beside hello shop] which was a bit more sleazy than kbox, but it's cheaper and the snacks are much nicer too. haha. the seats are pink leather btw. haha. and the toliets are a bit dirtier too. aiyar but go ktv not go for the TOLIET right?? go for the singing and friends mar! haha both of them can really sing quite well... didn't know before.

wah and what's more they're all expert at all the lao(3) lao(3) songs so all also ban(1) chu(1) lai(2)... haha. if i able to catch the tune then i sing along lor. haha mostly can lar. but fell short once the hokkien and canto pop can in. O_o"

then after tt... we went to catch the movie i had been wanting to watch all this while: KUNGFU HUSTLE! haha what a crap show. but very entertaining. these type of keep-your-brain-at-home show i just my fav. :) haha maybe it reflects something of me too. and strangely enough we watched it at bugis [when we were singing at somerset before tt]

i think my favourite scene was when the barber was washing his hair 1/2 way when the landlady turned off the water supply. HAHAHA. and the conversation b/w the 2 was hilarious. chuankai was imitating the barber the whole way back home. oh yes tt crazy fellow watched the show twice liao. with us was the 3rd time. haha. support zhou(1) xing(1) chi(2) let him make more such crappy shows in the future. :)

anyway i have a strong suspicion zhou(1) xing(1) chi(2)'s 'body' is JIA(3) DE(4)! he director and producer of course must let himself egoego a bit mar. :) haha.

it was a good movie. got open and close properly, feasible storyline and quite dramatic too [esp fighting scenes]. :)

only got home at 10pm when i left home at 1030am... so it was really [without any exageration], a day totally w/o studying. i tried to when i got home but just plonked and went to lala-land.

---

went back to sch to mug today. and found tt the cafe where the deans list used to be is now open. and i'm so appaled tt they actually named it 'coffee grounds'. i mean... i head some rumour going around previously tt they were going to name it after the type-of-vomitus-when-u-gastric-bleeding but i'm really shocked it really pulled off. haha. even the decals sticking on the glass panels too. highly amusing.

and it was nice seeing so many of our batch pple taking a nice coffee break in full view of everyone walking by. maybe they can put some nice potted plants/palms around. make the place greener too. somehow i think the place still lacks ambience and bears a strong resemblance to some newly painted storehouse. [ok, i realise it probably IS newly painted but tt's not the point...]

---

it's relieving to note tt i'm not the only like-opinioned one around here. i hope pple will break out of tt trance sometime. meanwhile status quo seems best and i'm not going to bother. at all. :) haha cryptic stuff [nooooo... not again... i hate cryptic posts myself too... HAHA]

---

tv was interesting just now.

1. saw ex-CNMO on tv at the tsunami disaster site. hmmm think he should be leading the medical team there. but thought he retired liao... oh well does it matter? haha he's the garang garang sort who'll go for any challenge one. and tt's one man i really admire. :)
2. there was a major slip of the tongue just now on extreme gourmet. anyway the dish was rabbit head and meiyi (the female host) was protesting against eating heads. well... something tt shouldn't be said was said and the male host (don't know what's his name) was like, "WHAT DID U JUST SAY??". anyway it quickly passed probably cause the editors didn't realise it. if not it would have ben *snipsnip*. yet another booboo.

handwriting analysis.com

saw an online handwriting analysis on pl's blog. hmmm, thought it'll be interesting. anyway it seems mostly accurate, some parts just rubbish. so i read it with alot of interest, and of course with a whole barrel of salt. i put my comments in italics and red in response to the statements made by the 'analyser'. well in conclusion i think the test was fairly accurate. quite lengthy though. :)

---

• Hope is very self-sufficient. He is trying not to need anyone. He is capable of making it on his own. He probably wants and enjoys people, but he doesn't "need" them. He can be a loner. [are u crazy? i need pple.]

• Hope is a practical person whose goals are planned, practical, and down to earth. This is typical of people with normal healthy self-esteem. He needs to visualize the end of a project before he starts. he finds joy in anticipation and planning. Notice that I said he plans everything he is going to do, that doesn't necessarily mean things go as planned. Hope basically feels good about himself. He has a positive self-esteem which contributes to his success. He feels he has the ability to achieve anything he sets his mind to. However, he sets his goals using practicality-- not too "out of reach". He has enough self-confidence to leave a bad situation, yet, he will not take great risks, as they relate to his goals. A good esteem is one key to a happy life. Although there is room for improvement in the confidence catagery, his self-perception is better than average. [sounds ok. haha, though i think the writer is throwing smoke here.]
  
  
• Because Hope has sharp needle pointed 'm' and 'n' humps, he has a very sharp mind. He instantly sizes up situations, making instant decisions. He thinks and evaluates circumstances very rapidly. Many people with this type of mind are geniuses, thus he may be seen as highly intelligent. Hope is often irritated by slow talkers or slow thinkers. If he drives, he gets irritated by slow drivers in the fast lane. He quickly becomes bored when being taught on the level of the slowest student in class. He may be on problem number three when the rest of the class is on problem one. Hope is curious and very active. In fact, in school he might have been a trouble maker because he thought so much faster than the other kids, he finished his work first, thus having plenty of time on his hands to make trouble! [oh man. i'm seen as a genius. this is very true esp when pple automatically assume i do well in tests. well, let's settle this once and for all -- i'm not a genius, something tt alot of my close friends can testify to. :) well, i do get very irritated by slow drivers blocking my way. OVERTAKE!]
  
  
• Hope will be candid and direct when expressing his opinion. He will tell them what he thinks if they ask for it, whether they like it or not. So, if they don't really want his opinion, don't ask for it! [oh this is so so true...]
  
  
• Hope will demand respect and will expect others to treat him with honor and dignity. Hope believes in his ideas and will expect other people to also respect them. He has a lot of pride. Hope uses judgment to make decisions. He is ruled by his head, not his heart. He is a cool, collected person who is usually unexpressive emotionally. Some may see him as unemotional. He does have emotions but has no need to express them. He is withdrawn into himself and enjoys being alone. [this is so true. damn i'm making myself vunerable here...]
  
  
• The circumstances when Hope does express emotions include: extreme anger, extreme passion, and tremendous stress. If someone gets him mad enough to tell him off, he will not be sorry about it later. He puts a mark in his mind when someone angers him. He keeps track of these marks and when he hits that last mark he will let them know they have gone too far. [haha u can ask around... this is so so so so true. :) i usually don't regret the things i say. but i do regret the anger tt i express with those things i have to say.]
  
  
• He is ruled somewhat by self-interest. All his conclusions are made without outside emotional influence. He is very level-headed and will remain calm in an emergency situation. In a situation where other people might get hysterical, he has poise. Hope will work more efficiently if given space and time to be alone. He would rather not be surrounded by people constantly. [sometimes... self interest is a priority. but mostly it's others before myself 90% of the time. also must see who i'm dealing with -- some get 100%. i do my best to stay calm in situations. i used to be able to work better alone, but currently as per the 1st paragraph i think i need friends more than previously.]
  
  
• In a relationship, he will show his love by the things he does rather than by the things he says. Saying "I love you" is not a needed routine because he feels his mate should already know. The only exception to this is if he has logically concluded that it is best for his mate to hear him express his love verbally. Hope is not subject to emotional appeals. If someone is selling a product to him, they will need to present only the facts. They should present them from a standpoint of his sound judgment. He will not be taken in by an emotional story about someone else. He will meet emergencies without getting hysterical and he will always ask "Is this best for me?" [nonono... i need her to keep telling me tt she loves me. every mornign when i wake up and every evening before i sleep. *smug grin* haha is this silly? arh. both doing and saying. why do 1 when u can/should be doing both? also i tend to do impulsive buying. so not too accurate there.]
  
  
• Hope tends to write a bit smaller than the average person. When a person's letters are small and tiny, this indicates an ability to focus and concentrate. This character trait is a huge asset in careers like math, science, race car driving, and flying planes. However, if Hope writes tiny all of the time, he will also display characteristics of someone who is socially introverted. Hope will often sit on the sideline and watch others get the attention at parties. he might be willing to open up and be warm, but only in small groups or a select group of people. When he is busy working on a project, it is common for all other noises and distractions to just fade away and his ability to focus is incredible. When he says he didn't hear you... really, he didn't hear you. [small handwriting, something ALL my teachers had something to say about all these while... this paragraph is quite true too. well... abilty to focus is easily disrupted by many things.]

countdown plan

it's 2005! and i got a very big shock this morning when i woke and wanted to blog. i thought my keyboard was spoilt cause some keys showed numbers instead of the letters they were supposed to represent. so if i had typed "appreciation", it showed *apprec5at56*.

which, isn't at all amusing considering i bought the laptop less than 3 months ago...

well, met andre for dinner, though it was a last minute plan. tried subway melt for the first time and boy, was it yummy! and i perfectly understand why pple can get 'addicted' to subway now. :) then later we went to haagen daz ice cream palor for dessert! :) well i got some ice cream vouchers for christmas from my aunt mar, 3 X $10 vouchers. must start spending mar if not i'll never finish them. well the queue was SLOW, although there were few pple in the queue. but took a million years for the queue to move... the management should try to increase the seating capacity and then they can make more money too. :)

and it was only yesterday tt i realised haagen daz charges differently for eat-in and take-away. of course the latter being more expensive, furthurmore still have your usual gst and css. haha, which makes a triple scoop ice cream cost $12.10, cf $7.90 for a 3x scoop take-away. haha. but got place to sit mar. what's more it was drizzling and neither of us favored the idea of eating ice cream in the rain.

wah then so qiao(3) met hansel, gy and lq!!! habben seen them in a long time liao. and apparently they were walking to esplanade. aiyoh, they started all the way from newton food centre and when i met them they were at orchard. haha, lq was kbing about how these 2 idiots wanted to WALK there. in the rain somemore. crazy. so amusing.

but anyway i soon found myself walking with them too. haha. andre couldn't take it and went home, also to finish dling his stuff before the clock struck 12 (when the carriage would turn back into a pumkin and the white horses turn back into field mice. cheh. of course not lar. rather before the copyright laws 'officially' set in).

esplanade was superb. they had wanted to go catch 'electrica' (or however u spell tt), which we did just in time to catch the last 30 seconds of their last song. haha. i think they were all quite fustrated. but there was also another stage where there was this super zai jazz singer performing. omg she's how chio! somemore she was singing as she was playing the keyboard, with her crew of a bass, main guitar and another keyboard. her voice is POWER. sigh, my heart sunk when i saw her wedding ring. oh well. didn't catch her name anyway.

esplanade was quite crowded. alot of cisco too and it was funny (though irritating) to observe how they converted walkways to 1-way streets and thus getting around was alike a maze at times. oh and they cancelled the fireworks and there was no countdown too, instead replacing it "observing a minute of silence" for the victims of the asia tsunami. very prudent initiative by the government i must say.

haha after tt the 3 clowns came to my place before heading out again to lavender for supper, where i demonstrated yet another successful attempt at // parking. :) although i was like dead tired liao by now lar. ohoh, tried the western food chicken chop again after such a long hiatus ever since the s11 at stamford road closed down... haiz. yep, but the food's just as great as before. with the unique green chilli served with fried rice + chicken chop. yummy!~

after supper they came over supposedly to play majong. HAHA. but i COULDN'T FIND the tiles!!! haha, hansel was damn pissed, but we came to terms with life and settled for taidi then. and it was really not a few rounds before we got sian and went to look for mtvs on yahoo. quite an eye opener cause i never knew such a big collection of mtvs existed. free somemore. some singers like eminem, creed etcetc. haha watching eminem's mtv where he 'spoofed' michael jackson was HILLARIOUS. heard mj demanded tt eminem remove the mtv. haha, somehow it's not very successful cause even I got to see it. and 'like toy soldiers' is like how cool! :)

we gradually all fell asleep at 5am... then hansel's hdpn alarm woke all of us up 7am... SIANZ. haiyar, go home go home... cannot sleep for a while more meh... haha. anyway i gave them a lift to novena mrt lorz. and man, i think tt's the time when all of heaven's angels were on high alert man... cause I WASN'T. thankfully it was a short drive only. :)

think this was a wonderful way to bring in the new year. yep, although i didn't have any 'big plan', things still worked out to make this a most memorable day.

*omg. an accident just happened at the junction outside my house. quite loud the bang. think 1 passenger knocked her head quite badly, no blood though. and some shoving between the passengers the car too. aiyoh... why liddat. 1st day of the new year... but yet i want to see what happens... haiyoh hope... why liddat so ba(1) gua(4)... HAHA. intriguing. hope everyone's fine...*

*profile pic*