goodbye 2004, hello 2005 (:

blessed new year in approx 8 hours from this post! =)

and yeah with the year coming to a close so soon, i can't help but feel dumb.
owells. enjoy yourselves out there, don't drink and drive or don't drive and drink or don't drink, don't drive, don't bother!

so.

Blessed New Year 2005!

ocean's twelve

=D

i'm quite convinced in my mind that its a good show, cuz i felt it was a good show. haha..well no matter wat pple have said and newspaper have written (actually the former said bad, the latter good), i thought it was good! certainly worth the 6.50 i paid (or more?)

cast is quite all star and the so-slick moves heh. humour was alright without going too overboard and the storyline's quite to my liking :)

anyways things i learnt today, a) 4 player xbox games are uber fun =D. b) there's a nice gear shop at beach road. c) there's a button on the cash thingie at cartel for "cut into 4" (ie if you wanna share food or sth). d) gv has some problems printing tickets in order - seat 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 3, 10, 11.

anyway, next on the to-catch list is "meet the fockers" haha..when you guys wanna catch it?

i'm radioactive!

today's a really funky day. see i booked in at 0715 and then after securing my off pass by 0800 (which i feel is somewhat miraculous), i left camp at 0815 after having breakfast and off to TTSH or rather NNI for my bone scan.

ookiee, first i thought it would just be i sit or lie down on sth and then go thru some machine and since they said it would take 4-5 hours i thot i would fall asleep or my legs would just die haha. well i was wrong and right in some sense.. wrong that i would stay there for 4-5 hours, right that i would have to go under some machine.

so, i had this jab and some questions to answer, following which the nurse/doc told me i'm free to go but have to be back by 1515hrs. also she warned me to keep away from pregnant women, to which i questioned and then the jaw-dropper was that because i'm now radio-active! -___-

anyways went out with jq and then LAN-ed a bit and then headed back and then in 20 mins i was done! haha..then called back and then the msgt told me since its raining so heavily and its at ttsh then i didn't have to go back haha.. so quite well done. bad part is, my temp pass is stuck in camp so i'll figure something soon.

gonna catch ocean's twelve tmrw! and kinda looking forward to it since i heard that it was coming out :) hope it lives up to my expectations (been hearing not too good reviews but optimistic =P)

blessed Christmas to you :)

yeap..its that time of the year again! (not the one with santa and rudolph and frosty but the birth of Jesus Christ :)

so yeap..haven't had the inspiration to write much this couple of days, unfortunately due to the fact i'm just nua-ing in office =P hopefully that'll change soon and heh well the year 2005 is coming soon ;)

anyways wishing one and all a blessed Christmas! :)

nite cycling!

well first off, like to apologise. ever since i ooc-ed i've been having too much time and thus going out heh. so that equates to little time to blog.

well, during those times there were 2 movies which i caught. one bombed and the other rocked. so between "blade trinity" and "national treasure", which do you think bombed and which one rocked? tag me abt it.

so apart from that and late night suppers and mass (ok not that large) gatherings, there was "work" to be done in the day. not that i really did much, besides sweeping the room, the lecture rooms and dumping the rubbish, issusing the keys and getting them back..i've not really been doing much. mostly, its a good book then rest when i get tired and *poof!* off to lalaland i go.

anyways, tonight had night cycling to orchard. think its an almost yearly affair. group got a bit bigger than last year's, still had some of the pple who went last year, for a total of 15 (actually 11, 4 met us at the destination but they count too!) This year's bikers were james, angeline, lisa, dawn, johan, kang, tim, danny, walther and debbie (chee meng, zuhui, adrain, carolyn met us there). heh. so quite a good group. was supposedly one large happy group but turned out to become 2 groups of contrasting values. one was mean and fast (the guys really - kang, johan, danny, tim, me) and the other gentler and slow (the rest of the 11) heh. there was a period we were so far ahead that we could turn ard and wait for them :P surprising this year was a bit early (we started at 9) and thus human traffic at town was slightly more crowded and also we were done ard 3 so thats kinda short =D anyways, i had westin's bike (which although has it shortcomings, i still think its uber cool) that helped alot :) a good bike really makes any journey short heh.

anyways some random thoughts. since this blog was started a year ago, i realised that at this time last year, i was probably at my emotional lowest (which was later even depressed by my dad's illness in jan) and yet this year, i can't seem to feel low, even i had wanted to. pardon my illogical musings, its nearly 5 in the morning heh. and there's prob still a lot of sugar in my blood stream heh. but yeah..how things work out hmmm?

p..o..p..o..c..! o..o..o..o..c..!

haha..yesh the wierdest things have happend.

i'm OOC. or out of course.

honestly..i didn't do anything. i just filled up this medical questionnaire then had to go for a medical screening where i explained my op and my knee problem..then later i was told that i was KIV-ed and would join in the next course in march.

so now i'm lobo-ing. and working at nee soon camp as a TSS (temp support staff) at the resource library. so wierd the way things have worked out.

~ back

been a week of a spiritual high :) just came back from yf camp which in many ways have been such a learning experience, a blessing and a trial.

the testimony from rev heng, the msg on 'a Christian's speech', and most importantly, the morning msgs by elder seah where the ones that really inspired me the most. how God can use a normal, simple man to show the power of God just amazes me. i feel he really speaks from the heart as God's mouth piece and yes, thank the Lord, i'm really inspired. (:

object lessons were interesting and different. it may have been lessons learnt long before but a new idea when it was done. lastly, food and accomadation and logistics were well settled. a big thank you goes out to the camp comm :) you've done a wonderful job.

to those who have gone, please remember the precious lessons that have been given, the fun times we had in camp, and all the activities. most importantly, remember our Creator :)

brought back 2 acronyms to sum up camp.
first one is what we should do in our fellowship,

E xample to others
N uturing each other spiritually
C aring
O peness
U n-judgemental
R eadiness to help
A wareness
G raciousness
E steeming each other better than ourselves

second one is for what lies ahead for the Christian,

H eaven
O vercoming Death
P eace that passeth all understanding
E ternal Life

its been wonderful being a Christian, no matter what can happen, you know its in hands that are so great that if He could create the world from dust, He'll know every single thing you will do in any situation that comes your way. i've been a Christian for many years and i've never looked back and said i want to give it up for anything. true that i've been thru a lot in the past few years. i've had my fair share of girl problems, my dad has kidney failure and nose cancer and i've got friends who have let me down time and again, or friends whom i have misplaced my trust. but at this point in the road, i can say its all been good. and i hope one day, you will come to put your trust and faith to this man named Jesus, and i can assure you, He is one friend who will never misplace your trust and faith in, unlike your mortal friends (even me!) because in Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today and forever." if you do need to talk abt this, i'll always be on my fone ready to help :)

anyways, i got my posting which goes like this,

Your Posting Order is listed below:


You are posted
to
HQ MC.
Your vocation is
SERVICE MEDIC.
Your are to report
to:
Nee Soon Camp, BLK 701, RM #02-19.
Reporting Date/Time:
13/12/2004
at 0800 hrs.
Person to report to:
Chief Clerk
Contact Number:
64505551
You are required to report in smart no.4 uniform (PES E
recruits to be in No 3 uniform), except for those assigned to Police
Force.
Special Instruction:
You are required to bring along your duffle
bag / field pack complete with the SAF issued items given during BMT. You are
expected to stay in.

well, i wasn't very happy when i got it. i think i'm better now. afterall (which i forgot when i saw it and was so upset, and shows how mortal i am), was that God has it all planned out and He'll show me and lead me in His perfect time.

anyways i'm just got back earlier on from a wedding dinner of someone i respected in my area of service and haha..the food and ambience was good. but the dessert fantastic! it was a dessert buffet and had all manners of desserts from fruits to traditional desserts to ice cream (which i tell you can 'fight' with haagen daz) to cakes (the choc mousse cake was heavenly), puddings and such. but the one that took the cake (pardon the pun) was the fountain of chocolate. warm, thick, flowing chocolate! fondue style. it was absolutely the sight to look at and then to taste it, heavenly!

haha shan't tempt you any further. =Þ anyways talking abt God's timing. well i guess, i'm just a Christian first, a soldier second. so regarding relationships, well i'm not good at that but well in God's timing. cuz well i did tell this someone (you who know, know. you who don't, please don't probe. if i tell you i'll tell you in time) whom i've liked for some time how i felt and well at the way my ns life has taken another turn, its good the way it currently is. whether the feeling is mutual or not, is something i leave not in my hands but in the hands of my God.

lastly, i hope this spiritual high would last me till church camp in june (which i really hope to go for and hope to get the off for) and then also if you wanna see the journal abt "The Life of a PES C Soldier/Slacker" you may get it at all popular bookstores ard the island =Þ haha..not! but you can ask me for it if you wish.

Service Medic

ahhhhhhhhhhh!

nooooooooooo!

sigh.. why medic? and why nee soon? =( gotta travel so much to get to camp now and summore expected to stay in. -_-! when all my buddies are going to ayer rajah and staying out. gahh!

2 words

POC LO!

(more to come later! =)

back at home for one last book out

fwah..that was a long 2 weeks!

quite shaggd..see it starts with fieldcraft, then range (3 days), then fieldcraft, then grenade, then field camp (4 days 1 nite), with CO evening, OC evening and CO master parade stuck in between, and lastly games day.

actually..i slacked thru field camp lah haha..but went for mostly everything else. and i suku suku know i somehow or rather cannot take it for trench digging and i still go. smart rite? haha..fantastic. got bruises and blisters and the dumb trench was so undone. nuts man. dig for so long also didn't get the darn thing fully done. and like wat took 6 hours to dig took me half and hour to cover up. zz.

anyways, this is my last book out before i pop or poc (i think my coy is poc lah..all 'pikachus' how to parade?) hahah...brought most of my stuff back too. like my webbing, helmet, spare boots, some uniforms haha..gonna try to survive on 2 sets of uniform for the next 5 days.

think i'm quite shaggd/concussed from all the shouting and noise of the games day. thing is raven didn't win anything, it came close to winning tug-of-war but didn't, and we only participated in 2 games so yeah. and lastly, we almost had a huge gang fight with foxtrot haha..well so did pegasus and delta hahaha...

met jon there and he's like booking out only tmrw at 6 so heh. got some reason to cheer :P hahaha..

Trench digging a major minus point! Dug for like 7 hours (with a lunch break) with an entrenching tool. Got blisters on my hands and aching feet. Super tiring and super low morale activity. Why? Cuz it's hard to dig, you've got no one to help you, and you feel so shag you just wnana give up and die. At least the evening was a lot better. Had a performance nite of sorts. And they were really good. funny and enjoyable.
Nite! =)

Just finished night shoot and I missed all 4 of my illuminated targets. Zzz. Just cant seem to see the target. Hit the next 12 though and caused a little fire too! =P Otherwise I'm pretty confident of tomorrow's day shoot, which will be no walk in the park but heh. Anyways having itchies and scratchies while trying to sleep is no fun. Ughh! And with a schedule like wake up at 0530 but sleeping at 0030 aint helping.

3rd day of freedom

sounds like the christmas song "12 days of christmas" huh? ;)

woke up late (hahah!) then bummed ard at home, in front of the laptop, in front of the xbox (my prrreecciioooousssssssssssssss! ;) before heading out for lunch with my parents. went to novena there, had lunch at the food court, where i realised all my food cravings (laksa, roti john, mushroom cheese prata, subway's italian bmt or subway melt, lawry's beef, beef noodles, wantan mee). then proceeded to shop haha..bought 2 shirts from addidas' warehouse store thingy then went to marina bought a pouch, LED torch (fwah very bright ah!) and insect repellant, insect bite lotion and lozenges.

still got the stuff that one of my section mates helped to buy for field camp, think i got most of the stuff i need heh. anyways turns out the evening was rainy =/ heh nice lah but i think i'll prob not like to be wet during field camp lorh..besides where i am, i doubt there's the CAT 1 siren (its like when there's lightning, siren would sound and this computerised voice would go "CAT 1, CAT 1" and if the weather gets better, another siren would sound and the same voice would say, "normal weather, normal weather". but i digress) yeah so i'll get wet and try to keep warm in my basha which hopefully won't collapse on me in the middle of a thunderstorm and hopefully won't have any holes so it leaks -_-

got to yf nice and dry in my gortex luck.bird (zzz!) jacket and the msg was really quite good :) so thank God that a) i'm still going for yf, b) i'm in church having fun and not outside having fun, c) pple seem to want to hear from me abt the stupid life inside haha..! anyway i digress again..but yeah the msg was from 2 peter 1:3-9, abt knowledge and temperance. the preacher was an audio msg of some pastor/preacher in sarah's church i think. methinks he's quite good heh but like the church there in us and in sg is like quite different (get to that later), started off by telling us the difference between believing and knowing.

he gave the example of that he believes that there's a man called arnold swarcehowyouspellhisname (although he can't believe that he's a governor..LOL!), he believes that that man is real, alive and a living person..BUT he (preacher) doesn't know him! he hasn't talked to arnold, hasn't rode in the same vehicle, hasn't shared a problem with him, doesn't know personal information abt arnold at all! so quite a good example, ya? another good example is taken from James 2:19 "Thou believest there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble." which is true isn't it? we can believe but if we do not strive to know then our faith might be in vain!

see thats the problem with Christians and pple he says, we believe there's a God. Christians accept and believe in God, but we stop there and say that its enough to just believe in God. but NO! its not! see its not enough to believe in God alone, we must know God too! its like growing, you believe you will grow, but if you don't eat the right stuff and don't exercise and etc etc etc, then you just won't grow. just like a Christian's growth, its stunted and in worse cases, we backslide or shrink! cuz if we think we do know God and thus not need to know more, from 1 cor 8:2-3 (which actually talks abt food offered to idols but there's a lesson to be learnt) its says, "v2 and if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. v3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him." really makes sense cuz sometimes in army, we feel we know something when actually we don't and then jump to conclusions and thus get into trouble. and the same for the Christian! if one thinks he knows everything then actually there's so much more to learn and to know. (i think, you thought. you think, i thought. i confirm, you confine!)

so too know God, we must search or dig just like in Proverbs 2:1-9, but taking from v4 "If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures," he (preacher) liken it to when you search for gold/diamonds, you have to dig and have to know where to dig and that the gold/diamonds would be in a ugly state and then you have to purify it to see the real beauty/shine. in Hosea 6:1-3, he talks abt that when we leave our first love for God that we must return to Him and that He will "bind us up" (or heal our wounds), and that we "then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord:"

see also John 8:28-32, where Jesus preached, and in v30 "As he spake these words, many believed on him." and in v32 after Jesus had said that if they believe, they should carry on and follow him to be His disciples and that "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." do we want to chained to that iron ball of sin? or set free to live life anew? he ended off with Matthew 7:15-23, where at the judgement seat, many would say that they have believed in Jesus in v22 "Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?" then these "ravening wolves in sheep's clothing" the Lord will say, "I never knew thee: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." what a frightful/sad day that would be when you realise that you've just been professing that you knew God but deep down, its just head and not heart knowledge.

following which he talked abt temperance, which is basically self control. he brought up the issue of that when jails were built, they were 10 times the size of what they needed and yet 10 years down the road, the jails are full! and they have to build more and bigger ones! this is he says, is due to the lack of self-control! he raised up that he used to drink before he was saved, and it runs thru the family (the love of drink), but after he was saved, he chose not only NOT to drink but also to stay away from even a glass of wine at a meal, because it would cause him to lust for more. now thats self control! in short, you don't tempt yourself to sin. in Galatians 5:16-18 "v16 This i say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. v17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. v18 But if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law." the flesh/mind wants its cravings and if you are silly enough, you'll let yourself have it, eg. you're sick but you still go and eat junk food and not medicine.

well, when he was talking abt the temperance, i reflected upon my NS so far, and at a place where punctuations can be vulgarities and the songs we have to sing, the insults we have to put up with. sometimes, inside me i wanna lash out saying those things and i struggle within myself. i dunno how successful it has been but i've been able to curb vulgar langauge from my vocab cept for one or two (and hopefully, not more) occassions when i just let my guard down and just say it, only to regret what i said. its an everyday struggle just to say the right things and i guess i've only been able to do thru God. i pray for His guidance to keep me thru the rest of my journey.

day of freedom!

2nd day of freedom that i don't have to worry abt what time to book in or book out. left with 2 more days :)

went to catch 'taxi' today after lunch at cartel ;) quite funny but kinda ripped-off from the french original. like the storyline is abt the same..the car chases are equally good and the women are just hot..! haha..i thot the initial bike part was better than the scooter one but heh its good and i guess i'll give it 4/5 :D

waited for lisa to knock off then headed down to al azhar for my first meet up with jon the man haha..its been like 2 mths since i last saw him and the next time he saw me was in tekong heh. dude has longer hair than me (but i bet i've got the shortest) and we had this strange form of greeting. we would shake hands then clench fists and then pull off the caps and then laugh. dinner was good..releasing all the crap from the army life felt like being able to shit after having constipation for the past month. lol..enjoyed myself. food could have been better but well its alright :) the company made up for it heh. and i was quite surprised to see my section mate there too!

then after dinner walked to calvin's place and sent dawn off before heading back with lisa and then headed home. haha..i think i'll either sleep with sweet dreams or not sleep at all heh =D

wooo 5 days...siaannnn confinement!

i'm alive!

hahah..still surviving in a way i guess.. :)

and 5 days off is like wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

dunnoe haha prob spend my days with friends and family la..but nothing concrete so far. anyone wanna go out gimme a call ya?

book out day!

"book out book out book out day!"

my first book out heh.. :) really good lorh!! =D even though its just for a better part of a day like 30 hours..its still good :)

really went all out and played hard and had a good time and all. heh.

btw one of my sergeants lives a street away from me heh..like wat a coincidence lorh..and he's quite nice lah, talked abt helping each other out after we leave tekong and like generates a bond of sort to heh..well more 'welfare' la.

anyways, i miss home. i miss church, i miss my laptop, i miss my bolster, i miss my oakleys, i miss my cues, i miss alot of stuff lah. heh..

tmrw blog more if time permits, i booking in at 1910 =

Wah chao slack la. Do ippt in the morning then after that nothing else important. Btw didnt do too bad for ippt, even though it's my first one in like 6 years. Standing Broad Jump - 243 cm, Situps - 36, Shuttle run - 9.9 sec, 2.4km - 11:50 so heh, not too bad la!

I'm sick. Fever, cough, runny nose, giddiness. MO put me on ATT A. Feeling like crap.

Sitting having instant noodles for supper, talking cock with my section, and having passed my test aint exactly the way i wanna spend my saturday but heh! I'm happy and I dunno why! Possible that with God's hand guiding me, I'll survive. Thank God I'm just slightly sick when every alternate bed is already sick. To my faithful readers [haha!] i miss blogging! Nvm been writing a journal in my spare time so maybe I might publish a book about the rigors of transition from a softie to a soldier [haha!] * hears guffaws from the readers* anyways yeah, leave your well wishes and msgs for me on the tag i'll read it on the 6th [i promise!]

Falling sick and falling out with some of my platoon mates. Curbing anger and the use of vulgarities. Niceties are over and the trainings tougher and falling sick isn't helping.

Dang, i got my "wife" today and she's pretty and hard to maintain. Haha. The fear of falling out is greater than the fear of falling sick!

Slack day these two days. I hate the no. 4 uniform! And I'm gonna miss yh! Ugh! Will be back out on the 6th! Anyone for lunch on sunday?!

Today's another normal day. Paper work and stuff. Bad news, I failed my swimming cat test, good news I strained my shoulder doing it. So hopefully might get excused haha.. well some other good news but that's later! ;)

First day's horrible but I'm fine. At raven coy platoon 2 section 1 bed 7 so my 4d number is 2109. Bit pressed for time. More details later.
Joel out!

counting down

i guess here it boils down to the final 9 hours i have left.

and well here are the 10 things i'll probably miss the most (in no order of merit):

1) friends
2) church
3) my room (messy as it may be)
4) family
5) pool
6) time
7) crazy things i do
8) stupid jokes that i pull off (too often)
9) sports
10) ____

and...*drum roll* the 10 things i'll probably NOT miss the most are (yes..in no order of dis-merit) :

10) vulgarities (which i'll prob hear as a form of punctuation)
9) pulau tekong (and the "welcome to pulau tekong" sign)
8) those crazy buggers that drive you nuts
7) xiao qiang and da qiang
6) making tough (sometimes life changing) decisions
5) incessant nagging =P
4) that sian feeling
3) getting taupoked or pythonised
2) getting blanket partied (the next best thing huh? -_-")
1) most prob my saergeant (but i can't tell right now)

34 - 1 = ahhhhhhh time!

running out of time.

as i speak.

i have 33 hours left.

so.

i'm gonna make the full use of it and say,

gee i lost my train of thought after that sentence..owells i'll tell you when i remember hopefully in another 24 hour haha..well, yet to pack, so should be soon and will prob get joe to update this blog for me heh, loaning my stuff out (so shout out if ya want anything i got!)

today was a bit of a run around or rather the lack of running ard. was supposed to go to novena to grab some stuff from the addidas factory outlet there but got sidetracked at the qshop so heh. after that biked down to jq's place to find that yes, tennis is still on, and no, no one (cept johan) is playing. played a lil over an hour before trying squash, which i suprised myself and me. heh. then went to eat my last al azhar meal before i go in..and the food was good..!

well gotta cut it short so i can pack my stuff up and maybe xbox a lil before turning in..cuz its goona rain and rain = nice time to sleep! :)

...was a blast..but he couldn't sit still..

great day yesterday. busy one actually. morning had to try to sell my snooker cue to a friend then after that went to shaslik for lunch..food was ok la. the beef was nice and tender but the rest well..abit of a letdown to me.

then went to meet the 'seducer' of my joss haha..and collect compensation :P (sounds quite erm..ah-hem ;)

realised that it was a bit of a mad rush as it was already to jump from place to place..so skipped theQshop and went for yf prayer meeting at church. and it was good time of sharing and well listening.

left after that for the highlight of the day..which was my last competition. well..performed to my own expectations cept for the wierd part that my break failed me the entire night. quite happy that i played well but not too happy that i didn't really reach my target of 3 wins out of 3. heh. perfectionist *rolls eyes* so i'm prob ranked no.1 in my grp but on paper no.4 haha..thats cuz the next stage would be next week's sunday so yeah..tough..so like to wish my friends playing there all the best for their games :)

thanks for the wonderful night..

its been a good day. :)

as it has been for quite some time :P

wanted to go running when i woke up buttttttttttttt........ the sun was so bright and so hot! :P so lazy slacker me put off running again haha..

so yes, i went and sat down in front my new toy and began playing again :P cleared the stage at last..after like wat? 5-6 tries..then got stuck at another stage..haha..but its good (btw that was crimson skies) then top spin won another 2 pro tournaments heh..in the top 5 now! (actually i'm no.5! but..heh its 5/100 leh!) then realised i was late for my appointment with hsien to go to beach rd to get the army stuff..

which was surprisingly fast and easy..the auntie there very very efficient haha..so got all the stuff i need to get from beach rd. so now left stuff to get from a pharmacy and ntuc.

anyways got my 'package' then headed to selegie for cartel heh. everyone was late! but then again who cares when we're all together and having a great time rite? :) i certainly enjoyed myself (and even thought i was 18 again :P) we had good food, warm fellowship, crazy laughter and definitely noisy noise :P then walked and went to the arcade at suntec for a bit before heading back and yeash it was such a great night tonight that words can't really express how i feel :) so danke lisa, grace (esp for organising), dawn, jq, johan (you snooze [we tickle] you die!), elvin, danny.

anyways, i came up with this just now, "i'm a 60 year old man, in a 20 year old body, with an 18 year old mind"

child's point of view.

child's point of view

HAIR
"Why is there hair on your legs, Daddy? (while Dad pondered for the most
scientific answer, child adds:

Is there no space on your head for the hair to grow?"


NUDITY
I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a Woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, "Mom! That lady isn't wearing a seat belt!


HONESTY
My son Zachary, 4, came screaming out of the bathroom to tell me he'd dropped his toothbrush in the toilet. So I fished it out and threw it in the garbage. Zachary stood there thinking for a moment, then ran to my bathroom and came out with my toothbrush. He held it up and said with a harming little smile, "We better throw this one out too then, 'cause it fell in the toilet a few days ago.

OPINIONS
On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, "The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents."

KETCHUP
A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup to come out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone "It's the minister, Mommy," the child said to her mother. Then she added, "Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's hitting the bottle."

MORE NUDITY
A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women's locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The
>>little boy watched in amazement and then asked, "What's the matter haven't you ever seen a little boy before?"

ELDERLY
While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. The various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs, unfailingly intrigued her. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe this!"

DRESS-UP
A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, "Daddy, you shouldn't wear that suit." "And why not, darling?" the afther
asked.
"You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning."

DEATH
While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased. The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayer s and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his Father always said:
"Glory be unto the Faaaather, and unto the Sonnn .. and into the hole he gooooes."

SCHOOL
A little girl had just finished her first week of school. "I'm just wasting my time," she said to her mother. "I can't read, I can't write and they won't let me talk!"

BIBLE
A little boy opened the big family bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. "Mama, look what I found", the boy called out.
" What have you got there, dear?"
With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, "I think it's Adam's underwear"

x-tasy

past 2 days have been xbox crazy. been playing top spin and stuck now at the paris grand slam down a set against kuerten who's driving me nuts haha..

and crimson skies were i'm stuck at the navajo trial of skill..can't clear that one >.< sian he keep telling me i missed a turn or i'm fallin behind..then have to restart.. -__-!

well..therapy was good today..shoulder's still not too good (even though i think its my elbow that sent me there =P)

also tennis was good yesterday..don't have much time left to play but well at least i guess i made the full use of it..well..i'm still thinkin abt the wilson triad 5/6 and the babolat team drive (?) heh..yes along with phone :P

owells 6 days to go and looking forward to dinner tmrw! :)

xboxxxxxxxx

i got my xbox today!!

haha and today's my last day..so was quite slack.

mum's watching the tv now..so i'll play again later..

what a nite!~

what a day really..well..xbox was great..beat jq in 2 straights sets 4-3(9-7), 4-3(10-8) at last! haha..been losing in singles in top spin to him heh. well..i've decided to get a xbox and a top spin and sit at home to play the career mode. its really quite fun..! but before that was 'wimbeldon' which i thot was a rather good show, thot the leads played their parts well..nice story but well abit on the plain but for such a show, the (tennis) action on it was good :) made me more inspired to play :P

so after that jq had to go dental so i went to meet alex up at far east and having the time, decided to walk to far east (on hindsight and hindleg it was a bad choice). got there in 15 mins (?) and then met up with him and his classmates (don't remember much, cept that his two other guy classmates were quite funny..) walked ard "level one" and well..beside it being chick/ah lian haven, it was eye-candy haven too i guess..got really bored while one of his gal classmates was trying on some tops..then jq came and i left with him to go meet lisa at cine. heh..now why it was a bad choice..cuz we speed-raced like in nfsu (in heavy human traffic) thru orchard mrt-wisma-taka then to cine..bumped into a couple of pple haha oops..(so sorry!)

so after meeting her and then the two of them deciding on where to watch 'white chicks' (they couldn't decide to stay at cine or go ps) then we moved off to ps (thank goodness we didn't walk..) by train..then they couldn't get tix to white chicks even though we tried the automated machines and stuff. then they went back to the counter and tried to get tix for resident evil instead and guess what, they got the same counter guy and lo and behold someone had let go of 3 tix (in a row summore) for that white chicks, not 5 mins before. so they got the tix to their show..then i had to run off to marina south to hitch a ride from gay-lvin and meet the idiot. got the car and then tried to find the superbowl and the recommended bbq-steamboat. so we more or less found it but had to wait for the old dinosaur to come. so we walked ard into the arcades, and then found cue & q, which turned out to be a lil snooker haunt (for ahbengs) but they had a couple of ok pool tables at the back so we took one of them and just decided to play. heh guess what..using the house cues provided..i broke clear on one of the racks! :P so happy! =D haha..and the shots i was pulling off..i dunnoe how i did them but it just came. we stopped after an hour after the bumbling fossil came and had a couple of racks.

the food was great..heh..ate our fill and had live prawns! literally, jumping haha..lots of crap-talking thru the food and man, if we had only bothered to film it..i tell you..the jokes we can come up with..would be in one word, incredible. anyways the joke of the night is this. cuz of we had live prawns (which were live and jumping in the container) we cooked some and then westin passed one of the cooked ones over the container to show the live ones 'their impending fate' and the prawns really did become more agitated even trying to jump out (from this we know that prawns are brainless or blind cuz the container was closed) and then like this especially lively one, which galvin took and and said that since it liked to move so much, it would go into the pot first! promptly dumped it in and alex was suggesting that we put it in lower part first. thats when westin said that we would all prob get nightmares abt trying to escape a closed container, then a pair of giant chopsticks would take us up and we would see a gigantic king prawn who would say, "hmmms i think i will try to put you in legs first". aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

well..went back to far east to meet lisa, dawn and mini-maximized-me..told me the movie was good. makes me wanna download it more :P then sat down and chit-chatted abit before heading for home by train. saw this scene that touched my heart. saw this blind beggar selling tissue paper in the middle of a crossing, when this caucasian stopped by with a drink and started a conversation with him, offering him the drink. well was really impressed. kudos to that guy. respect.

and well..while i missed csi, i caught sg idol and well can't agree why its such a popular show. feels its really quite screwed up show. basically..unlike 'the apprentice', 'the bachelor/bachelorette', 'amazing race' or even the bimbotic 'top model', this is basically a popularity contest where simply the most votes from the viewers would win, instead of from the judges. so its like really screwed up to me. like the most undeserving guy could actually walk off with the title..so unfair!

anyways thanks to galvin, alex and westin for the night. it was fantastic!

time of my life :D

having really the time of my life..

been doing stuff after work and on weekends and stuff and meeting friends and basically just having fun! :D

work was a huge bore, doing the letters by hand and its really wols progress and a huge stack waiting to be done. well..planning to quit next wednesday so hope it clears by then or my mates would have loads to do..then good luck to them =P *big grin*

had tennis after work..tried the older/heavier racket..was quite nice hitting but a lil too heavy. then had a solo session with dn chia..haha..was quite good..can take (some of) his forehands and backhands and return a couple of my own too! haha..like it was a warzone of sorts there. first, before he and esther came, we were tossing ard the ol' horsehide when danny pulled his shoulder *ouch*, following which i whacked my right elbow into one of the tennis poles *oouchh* and then we figured its abt time johan and jq got injured too..but they didn't :P and yes i proclaim myself ball magnet of the week! got hit two or three times (one right into the back by danny), and then had like 6-10 near misses (can feel the wind of the ball). but yes..i survived :D

then had supper at al azhar and talked abt a lot of stuff haha..quite fun to have supper with pple who like to talk and share their views heh. so in the midst, we decided (or rather esther suggested) to go night cycling..currently still in the planning but day has been decided heh. destination prob east coast to catch the morning sun (hope it doesn't rain! *crosses fingers*) so cool..then got a lift back and then after a nice shower, here i am sitting regalling you abt my day.

so quite cool huh? sorta have my week planned out now..
tues - go over to adrain's place to send my regards, followed by collecting my cues from gf.
wed - physio in the morning then dinner with ma sista~
thur - hmm...nothing planned yet..but dunno if i'm gonna do anything at all :D
fri - steamboat buffet with my pool mates..night cycling
sat- badminton?

another sports day

skipped work to play badminton..was a bit disappointed that the turn out was so poor..wells..improper planning i guess and like didn't manage to confirm the number.. but it wasn't that bad. paired up with johan after my p'rdner pangsehd (!!) me for his friend..but we won 2 sets to 1 in the end :P played singles too, beat johan one set, lost to zy 2-1 and lost to his friend another set..but can't be helped they're really good..and i'm just old and losing mobility :d

decided to skip the ept ranking for soccer cuz its been too long that i've gone without soccer and meeting my soccer mates.. but had to cut my hair first haha..so rushed here and there cuz i got informed of soccer late.. but it was good.. scored a couple (and all in the heart of the pocket goal! :) basically quite happy la..then the mood soured when..

some cheena pple came and like tried to take over the court. see we were at nus and playing at the basketball courts since the handball courts are full. there's a "no soccer" rule there on the signboards but no one seemed to be picking a bone with us for playing there..till those guys stepped in. well..nothing against the PRC peeps (there was one of them playing soccer with us and he was fine) but those numbskulls were total asses. they demanded we leave the court and then said, "there are no other courts" when in fact at the far end there was an EMPTY court unused by anyone. when we pointed that out to them, all they did was keep harping on the "no soccer" rule. that really ticked me off..like can't they see? or if they asked nicely i would have been fine to let them have the court. when they refused to move, we continued playing.. too bad i was on the wrong side of the court if not i wouldn't have minded taking a couple of potshots at them. then they decided to call all the other "tong pan men" to come over to "conquer" the court. so seeing that this time there were really too many of them, we decided to leave but not before we argued and i gave them a piece of my mind. freaking boneheads. luckily a couple of them were more diplomatic. (following which i stormed off the court and kicked over a table) was so freaking pissed off..so much that it reminded me of the time when i had a super short fuse and snap at every small thing. well it was just like that..can't stand haughty pple who are so legalistic (and blind) and as if they own the ground we tread on.. i just feel its so wrong. like how can anyone think like this in the modern day and age? really numbskulled.

anyways was intending to go yf but was too tired, and hungy, and well its still excuses = but yeah..its been awhile since i hung out with marcus, junhao, kai and the bunch..like our sat soccer session were stopped cuz of their workload in school..so really no other way to meet them..(apart from skipping work) :P had dinner and lots of laughs, jibes and fun, food wasn't too die for but the company sure was..! so thanks guys! =D (should you ever read this :)

well..its another 18 days to go..and a brand new week starting soon!

@ work..but not @ work

posting this from office..haha..found a com which wasn't affected by the LAN and like the connections really really slow or they just can't process heh.

feeling a lot better from this time yesterday so thats good :)
and like the room's so empty today. the 2nd grp of temps left already =/ and like another 4 went MIA :P so like left 6 of us in the office..

now's a bit after lunch hour and i don't feel like working..its really very bored kinda feeling haha..like don't see the need to keep working since theres no one around. too bad there ain't no half-day pay if not i would have left to go home hehe ^^ nvm 3 more hours till i enjoy the freedom and do my stuff. i can do it!~~ :P
speaking of which they said they'll retain us for another 2 or so more weeks and some of them will be retained for permenant positions (good for them :)

looking forward to recover fully to partner up with zhong yan on sat to once again go on an unbeaten run (and beat dn chia and johan :D)

heh ok shall get back to work now.. :P

ughhh-i hate being sick

woke up this morning with this huge headache and lightheadedness. thot it was due to my wrapping myself in the blanket the entire night when it was so warm. woke up both my legs were wet so thot i somehow in my sleep tried to dehydrate myself..

then went to the breakfast table and couldn't seem to swallow my fruits at all..its like i take a bite and chew and chew and chew but when it came to swallow like quite difficult..and i had this wierd sensation of something like hiccups but without the "hic!" also felt like wanting to vomit but nothing came out.

went back to bed and called in sick and slept till 11 when i awoke to find that my stomach was still in pain. walked ard and tried to make sense of things before i went back to bed and waking up at only 2.40pm. same feeling.. :( can't vomit (which i destest..even though it would have made me feel better)..nothing to shit out (which was worse..felt like a block of rubbish sitting in my gut) and still no way to eat. so i went to the doctor which diagnosed me as having stomach flu -___-

so now back at home i'm starving but have to wait till half an hour later and also that there isn't any porridge stalls open now.. =/ so had to get instant porridge. will tell you how they taste.

btw..on a happier note, man u rox :) they won 6-2 :P

some days are good for first times :)

heh..today was quite a good pool day. drilling jere 7-0 was something new. i didn't leave him many shots and had him shooting out of a safety or a no-shot. the feeling was incredible, haven't felt anything like that before. ok lah apart from some of the 'tyco' snooks, the rest was all planned and executed well..and pity i couldn't run out. would have loved to cap that wonderful moment with a break clear.

and winning 2 bucks in guard is a no-brainer..

anyways for those reading..there's badminton on sat! clementi courts 14 & 15 from 11am - 1pm. so do come down and join us..! (and tell me if you're coming)

a short today = a long tomorrow

haha..they let us off early today..but that means we gotta stay a lil longer tmrw..darn! :P

tennis was ok lah..had a mini game and won 6-2 (joels vs eugene/danny) guess you could call it a game of double faults. haha..hilarious..only towards the end that we had slightly more gameplay..

quite tired..lots of stuff happened and happening these days and well i'm really bushed..!

two crazy days

work is fine but kinda boring now..once again its the after work activities that keep me going. haha..not that i worked on thurs :P

took off on thurs cuz a) my mum's birthday (so..Happy Birthday Mom!) b) my occupational theraphy and c) i just want some time off. went for birthday lunch at some jap place at novena sq. food was good..but my mum overordered and i had to run off to keep my appointment with my funky therapist. that was good :) had a wax thingy of my hand to help loosen the muscles and a warm pack for the shoulder and after that did some exercises which i'm supposed to do regularly but keep forgetting haha..and then i was done! but my arm was feeling the strain. anyways..pool doesn't need my left arm haha..

went to gf after that..to meet westin and alex and galvin. westin's got his new cue so heh..we all had to go down to view it.. really nice and all..just felt a bit light to me haha..but i'm nuts so can ignore my comment on it, and then i realised. gee...! its been such a long while since we came together as a group. and i was saying that..my "bust the lights out" came by and thus the reunion of sorts was complete. haha..he was ranting abt uncle scroogey being the ntu cuesports club coach..haha..i don't blame him. anyways galvin's still quite sharp..alex's improving..westin's still really sharp and benny..haha..goodness knows what all that studyin has done to that player..! made a deal amongst us that we should go out for a makan before i go in.

anyways..partly the reason we were there was because of westin's cue..the other however..was that it was dennis' ROM. so congrats to the newlyweds and many happy years ahead! had a buffet dinner and then more pool. justin (gf) organised a mini tournament, single elim, $5 buy-in, race to 7. haha..first round met justin but managed to put up a fight of sorts..well.. lets just put it as i've got a long way to go to beat them. after that me, alex and zhenjie played on then left ard 11..

and yeash i was late for work cuz i couldn't get up.. :P can't help it if my bed's too nice, my pillow's too soft, my bolsters too huggable rite? and work was quite a bore haha..happened to 'keng' a bit more today..nearly beat my minesweeper intermediate score of 138 secs but killed myself on the last mine at 130 secs.. -___- then after work dropped by cartel to say hi to lisa before heading back to gf for day2 :P haha..

which started out quite well..played bryan from hsb again, not too bad..really nice guy to spar with and train against. then guard caught his eye and his wallet and he proceeded to earn a bit of moolah from these bunch of ginas playing guard haha..sort of a hustle of sorts..continued to train on my own and managed a break clear..(its been awhile since i had one) and then sparred with zhenjie losing 5-7 and then beating him 9-6 later on that nite. all in all a good nite..learnt some shots and position play..found some errors and correcting them. a really good nite for me today..

anyways just to end off with a quote, "you can't have a better tomorrow if you keep thinking about yesterday all the time." (yes its from the NEL :P)

p.s. when we had our reunion we took a couple of photos of our 'partners' (some wives, girlfriends or mistresses =X) and its all here photos! or you could go to the link called "photos and calendar" on the side bar

muuhhhh eyeeessssss

had a bad nose-eye day..my eyes were so dry! had to keep dropping eye drops to keep them moist if not open eyes also quite painful. then keep having to chase my nose.. work was fine..was doing appeals today.

so basically had to read thru the "sob-stories". well...some of them are legit but when they aren't fulfilling the clauses, guess its time to be 'hard-hearted' and reject them once again. well well..learnt to 'fake' an approval letter.. mine came out not too bad k! tried to copy the real ones till they were almost identical.. so identical if non of them said anything you would have thot that it was real! :P (r--i--t--e..!) so now i'm a pirated forger LOL :D

then went to hit some balls with the local indian hustler..played quite ok if not for my eyes which were burning out of their sockets..my friend did spot one of my major errors..said my head tended to lift up at the last moment thus losing the aiming point..so guess have to keep my head down more..

anyways there's this dumb show on ghost-hunting on ch 5. haha..imagine this scenario, you're sleeping when 4 pple burst into your room.. you throw something at them to hint to them you're not to be disturb..they seem to take the hint and leave. but 10 mins later they come back in chanting some rubbish and putting up some lights so you sneak up and pull the plug on their light. they freak out and run back downstairs. then they pull out a board with many letters and expect you to play with them, when all you want to do is to be left alone to continue sleeping. well thats precisely what those pple in that show were trying to do.."hunt a ghost" really looked like some video that could have made it for "america's funniest home videos"

anyway signing off..i remember its 28 days more to ns. haha..how time flies =/

stressed tennis or tennised stress

talk about stress man..! i was so stressed today at work. see the work had to be cleared really quick and the supervisor wants it to be cleared..so was rushing the work and realised that a lot more things had to be done. and most of these things my cousin didn't and hadn't done. well i seemed to have taken a more leading role in doing it and been delagating work to the other staff as well..sometimes i feel bad. so when i had to find the missing pieces and stuff today..i felt quite under pressure to 'do well' and do my job..so embarrassing :P

well really had a good time at tennis after work today..seems that i've picked up a couple more things and well i'm playing slightly better :) cept for the slight knock i picked up when the ball hit my racket's rim and hit my eye..so there's a little bruise there now..

so tired..

methinks i'm gonna sleep quite soon..falling asleep typing this post heh ;)

btw..songs of the week are "if i had a million dollars" by bare-naked ladies, "simple kind of lovely" by maroon5 and the accoustic version of "she will be loved" by the same group and "innocent" by fuel.. haha..!

nites ya'all..btw..its 29 days to go!

the essence of time

heard this on my way home from lunch from a father of two daughters..

daughter: "look pa..we're only going to be 5 mins late.. its better than being 30 minutes late which is whole lot more later!"
father: "well..5 mins is alot of time. see 10 pple are waiting for me. so 5 mins to 10 is... 50 mins. and that is alot of time isn't it?"
daughter: "ummm..."


well..really found that interesting and had my head thinking abt that for awhile..guess i should be more punctual, ya?

couple of things to do this week..
- mum's birthday on thurs
- tennis tmrw!
- badminton sat!
- save more money :P
- physio on thurs


and yes i'm wondering what has happened to my faithful taggers..seems so quiet there.

200th post..

long day today..was so busy covering my cousin's duties..got a bit overwhelmed by the amount of work and like realised how slack a cousin i have.

doing extra work to cover but at least it was good i guess..i feel good at the end of the day when i saw all the work completed. :)

went straight to gf and played with a couple of the guys there..won 7-5 (with 2 golden breaks) and lost 6-7 to bryan and won some team gf member 5-4 (with lots of safety play)..not bad..even though haven't touched the cue for like quite a while.. since sunday heh.

playd quite well after that at rc but like the table was really bad..so apart from that i could well, drop out of that playing rhythm and get right back into it is really a good start..tmrw's there's still ept tour at klassic (which sounds really..phoneyy!) and i have to work!!hahaha..alternatively..i could sleeeeeeeep in..*rolls eyes & yawn*

and yeash this is my 200th posting.. :) its been so long..haha..and didn't realise that it's finally here! haha...but well..just another small marker on the road..

btw..joseph has like such a "lucky" mouth. the first time it happened was when he told kevin that he was going to try the 5 ball combination if kevin missed the ball..which he did..and jos pulled off the combi like it was a piece of cake. today's the second, when edgar missed the 2, jos said he's going for the 9 at any cost and then he made it..incredibly. guess whats the third..we went for supper at west coast..then we ordered teh tarik..but the guy took like forever to come, by which time we were thirsty and had almost finished our food..so we decided to heck care and order from the drink stall across us..as the guy was getting the drinks for us, he said, "after we buy this only the teh tarik will come.." well he wasn't that far off..i had only filled my cup when..yes, the guy with the teh tarik came.. -____-

well done joseph..! well done! -______-

now i'm all awake la!

really ahchoo-ed

woke up today feeling really sick..ugh..

didn't head out for work today and still feeling lightheaded and throatless.

gonna go down to the polyclinic to see a doctor later and at the same time get my ankle checked out. its been really bad of late.

still feeling like going to sleep..again.

uuuugggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..!!!!!

aaaaahhhhhhhchhhhhhooooooooooo

haha..bad nose day. my sinus really acted up today.. 'ran' thru 4 packets of tissue within the day..literally 'blowing my own trumpet' haha..got made the slight brunt of jokes in the office..

speaking of which, today wasn't that a killer day (if not for the nose) but it was tough and fun in a way..had more staff to help us out but some of them turned out to be more non-committal than i thought. haha..apart from that the ankle's really bad..seem to have really bad muscle spasms in my ankle and they really hurt. apart from that, the work was good..what made the work light was prob the company (its like really good to have pple who are naturally funny working alongside you :) also lots of wierd cases, like these person has 2 mothers, and like how would you address someone's mistress? yeah, that got my sups stumped. lol..really funny day.

wantd to run today..but didn't in the end cuz of my ankle..then couldn't book the court so no badminton on friday =/ really quite looking forward to it and now its off. really tough to book man..hahah..owells..went to buy groceries and stuff after that..so that i won't spend so much on food in office..like really..you'd be surprised how much i've been eating since i started work. and yes food = money. so if you waste food = waste money. thus more money = more food..erm wait..that doesn't work out rite! hahah..

well..hopefully the ankle will get better..! its like quite bad today and don't want to get it any worse.. songs of the week has been, "me and my monkey" by robbie williams, "falling for the first time" by barenaked ladies and "hold on" by jet. it'll be a while before i get some of those lyrics up..quite meaningful some of them.

and yeah my 'desk' has now 3 styrofoam coffee cups and they're all decorated by..me! haha..got so bored while waiting for my work to respond so i drew a herd of sheep..haha..workplace art huh? ;) maybe show it you peeps when i finally quit haha..

ouchh

work was a killer today. a huge stack of those levy forms ended up on everyone's desk but heh still managed to clear my pile of work from my desk. didn't move from my desk except for a 'power nap' and a toilet break..a couple others did too but like the rest still had alot leftover. btw there's like another mountain of papers to go thru..really doubt we'll finish by the 19th. quite impossible, really..

and yes more raves and rants..btw..there's a family thats quite cool..there's like 6 kids and their names all start with 'A'..and not those normal names but "cheem-cheem" names. haha was too busy rushing thru the forms so didn't really take it down. and i found out that the fastest i go thru a form that only needed checking was 18 secs haha.. ;)

and yes..the thought of tennis after work just kept me going. didn't really play very well. donno how to hit the backhand even though some pple *prod-prod* make it look so simple haha..guess it boils down to lots of practice *shrugs* and then the doubles game was crap..kept double faulting.. =/ need more practice and like eugene can really serve along with dn chia against the two joels who couldn't.. hahaa..no prizes for guessing who was losing but! didn't lose! ah-hah! the lights went out as we were serving for the game at 2-4 (yes, joels 2). earlier called a fault from dn chia's serve and then foolishly didn't move out of the way -__-! yes ouchh.. but i'm fine lah..

then went to rail road place or sth to follow jq to return and borrow some movies..then tried to get some food from cold storage and 7-11 but didn't see anything appetising so left with a 'big gulp' of 100 plus..then while waiting for the bus to go back, saw a shop which sign read to me as, "life's like a bagel" and wondering why it looked so wierd till jq told me that it was actually "life's like a booze!" -_-" felt really stew-pidd after that.

saw this quote and thot this was really cool, goes like this, "chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends" so choose wisely :)

past few days have been alright..did what i set out to do and stuff.

one of the more experienced (and older) temp staff left for another job so means more work coming in. gah..and my cousin's taking 2 days off this week so.. -_-!

ended up playing pool instead of sleeping today..bad choice haha..but *shrugs can't chase the time back, aye?

this is gonna be another long week and i'm still ranting and raving about those forms whose applicants either can't read (low levy conversion is for maids for parents/grandparents over 65 and/or children under 12 -- but pple apply for themselves, their sister/brother, uncle/auntie)/spell (hmmms...so do i give low levy to pple who have a monther at home? -- maybe 'monther' = mother-in-law .. hmmms..)/understand (like 'read' only that when you ask them about whether xxxx is their auntie, they go, "no..she's my mother's sister" -- d'oh..!)

yikes~ anyways tennis tmrw at jq's place at 7..and touch nfl on sat was quite fun..haha..like my team's plays and like it ain't fair that their wide reciever is 4 years younger and 4 times as fast as this old fart sitting front of the pc :P

btw..the last post wasn't really directed at anyone..just felt fustrated that sometimes (because of upbringing/perception/opinion,) we tend to read between the lines..when we shouldn't and we're all guilty of it sometime or another, myself included.

there's more to life than just the girl

well..things just seemed like a blast all week..having fun, working out doing the things i always wanted to do but never did..feeling good and all that and then "bam!" sth happens and now it really seems quite pointless to carry on.

maybe its abt time to come clean.. maybe its abt time to say that i just guess i've been misunderstood.. maybe its time for me to say, "hey, there's more in life than just the girl".

in another 40 days i'll disappear into the system called national service, all i want it to have a good time before i'll have no time..

to those who know me well enough.. you'll prob know of my interest in someone and you prob know that i just got two left feet. guess i have my problems expressing myself and stuff.. haven't ever put my feet right into the right path and while its changing.. i'm not too bothered by what i do anymore.i'm not too bothered by what to care abt..what pple think and what you feel anymore.

but sometimes i wish pple could look at the big picture and not get sidetracked.. life just sucks when everyone looks at you like a freak.

Check out this cool pic!

Thanks, James.
Thanks, Lianyi!

speaks of my impending doom.

haha.. =)

been really draining at work, but the after-work activities have been keeping me going. first, monday's badminton @ cck, tuesdays' squash/table tennis @ jq's (which i was made to run in circles), and today's badminton @ clementi. played 3 hours today and well thot it was quite good..(considering i hadn't played at that level since i was p4?) so like my fitness program has gone quite well hahah..cept i lost weight when i should have gained.. rofles =D

still got lot to learn to improve my game. can't serve for nuts haha..

might go running tmrw and then see how abt friday ;)

work work

had posted on sat but then the post got chewed up..

owells a short summary..started work on tuesday (you guys know that already), weds was spent in the mail room then thurs onwards was furiously attacking the coms to check and amend the info (so to those who's parent(s) applied for the low levy maid thingy, pls remind them incomplete forms and bad handwriting is really a pain in the ass to process) haha..really..can die going thru those forms.

thank God for a good week on the whole, and a good job with a good work environment. and also for good colleagues. starting a brand new week is tough..i don't feel like going to work today :P but don't think i'll have a choice.

caught bourne supremacy on thurs and it was good :) the action scenes, car chases, the predictable plot but it was still good. however, those who are fans of robert ludlum (guy who writes the bourne series, 4 books altogether - identity, supremacy, ultimatium, legacy. you'll be disappointed to know that the book and movie aren't the same)

and ain't it ironic at times when you're just waiting and looking forward to seeing someone and then hesitate and then find out later that person was looking forward to meeting you too?

and somehow i still feel vindicated..even now.

"we have two ears and one tongue so we should listen more and talk less."

back from the first day of work! and aiyoh i'm so tired!! :(

doing data entry at MoM and while didn't really work much (actually started work at 1030 and ended at 1700), i was so tired..kept dozing off when i wasn't doing anything. see, there were 3 guys to 1 pc, which was me (who's new), my cousin (who's more familiar with the data check) and this other guy (who has the id and password but not very familiar). so we took turns to do the data checking. finished random checking approx 500 names.

looks like i'll be trying all the food available from hong lim every lunch hour..haha the bak kut teh wasn't fantastic..the meat was nice but thats abt it..the soup like not very nice and the yuo tiao like too thick. haha..anyways..

work ended early..like the whole bunch of temps (10 of us) all left at the same time..so went to the qshop to get the moori s that i clamped on friday.. justin said that it seemed like a moori q. so good haha..now to let joseph test it..

and while heading back by train, its suddenly stopped at tiong bahru due to a "track obstruction" so thot jialat have to get out and change..then it started moving again after 15 mins.. (guess i was too lazy to move..not that i was sitting but standing -_-") then it stopped again at redhill then i saw what the problem was. someone/something was on the track (most likely someone) got knocked down by the train..could see the scdf officers looking for something under the train..no blood and gore though haha..

anyway did i mention my muscles are all aching from monday's running and tennis? =X hahaa..now super aching haha..craps siah.

tennis & work

finally manage to get myself moving to go for a jog. and under the hot blazing sun, it was a wonderful tiring jog..! like the 15 mins i spent seemed like 2 hours..lol..

then went to collect my O lvl cert from my old school..which has changed quite a bit..like the general office is downstairs..so i walked up the original lvl then walked down haha..and yeash i finally got it haha..

so after that went for tennis..quite fun! getting some stroke back but have to work on my backhand..can't seem to hit for nuts..at least can serve ok now haha..

and yesh! i'm going to start work tmrw!! haha..like finally and when i only have 50 days left..wierd siah.

anyways..have to sleep early..dun wanna be late for work :P

also actually this happened yesterday but had wanted to keep it a surprise. bought deception point by dan brown yesteday when i had nothing to do and finished it 6.5 hours after i started. yikes~ haha..just started on the teeth of the tiger by tom clancy. don't think i would finish it soon.

heh movies to catch soon..bourne supremacy, the terminal, dodgeball haha..!

two funny things that need to happen after i rpess the "publish post" button

i would usually blog first then go ard my routine of checking other pple's blogs or forums..
but this is the first time i had to post..


grace: "if there's a procrastinator that's better than me i'll like to meet the person. my room's been really messy for 1 MTH already and i can't sleep and do my work well if it's messy can't do my work at all and so my tutorials are not done. got to sleep "


haha..that person should be me. i've procrasinated watching collateral ever since it came out and haven't caught it yet and...i've not packed (besides pushing my stuff into the only neat pile in my room) my room for nearly 8 years? procrasination all the way..

teh win!

btw check http://www.jadeit.com.au/jcsworld/war3.html this out!

of hydrophobia and phobia of roller coasters

well..some things i meant to make clear but didn't or rather feel like making clear but never got the chance to.

first, i guess i've some minor form of hydrophobia (for those who can't tell :P its fear of water)..no idea where i got it from or when the fear started. but if my feet can't touch the ground i somehow really start to panic, mildly. well haha..so swimming at the deep end's a no-no for me. strangely i'm fine in the normal end of the pool (where i can reach the bottom) or when i can't reach the bottom but it ain't that deep that i can't kick myself back up..

but guess on thurs it wasn't that bad..somehow all the tossing INTO and OUT OF and dunking helped a bit..and yes mr plasticine rules k!

and the other is the fear of roller coasters..although i've been able to take some of them which were probably done when i'm either on a death wish or just willing to scare myself out of my skin. on a completely normal day, nothing could make me go on one heh.


and off topic..i'm quite fascinated with the descriptive writing of dan brown, been thru his books like no one's business. really spell-bound/captivated/caught up in his works. can't believe i finished 2 books in 6-7 hours each. once again..read with discernment but with an eye for his detail of description.

gonna stay up for the closing ceremony later..i mean like if i caught most of the olympics whats one more nite?

and caught harold & kumar today..incredibly hilarious but yet so subtle the hidden meanings. apart from excessive cursing *rolls eyes* it was a really entertaining yet eye opening movie. wierd it only shows on saturdays and sundays..

and like lisa, grace and danny had to go back for sgbf and i had till 7 (for my dinner appointment) so i walked to city hall and...

went to phoebe's place for tennis and then swam abit/played alot in the pool..

quite tired now..just finished a bit of food leftover..
still hungry but..lazyyyyyy hahah..
54 days to go!

procrasinator~

sheeeshhhh..for the umpteenth time this week i have procrasinated catching collateral. --" stupid time waster that i am. well 55 days to go and i'm slack..i know i'm slack..i'm know i'm not supposed to be slack and i know i'm supposed to be doing something else and not be slack BUT.. i'm not doing it.

*rolls eyes*

heh stole the mouse cursor from someone's blog ;) and so must thank him/her :) haha...doesn't show up everywhere though..but anyways its so nice! ahhhh..

yeah! the pics from viattorre are finally here.

btw i've got an account at multiply.com, http://thingie.multiply.com and the pics are there. haha..to those who aren't interested..whatever :P ;)

and its my parents' anniversary today! :)

so we had lunch at crystal jade, had like dim sum and it was quite good.. then pool in the afternoon..

and yes sg idol is good..some of them are the sg idiots and some of them truly deserve to be idols, esp the deaf and the speech impaired two..heads off to them..


and yes i watched the encore..! dohh!

wow..really..past few days have flown past.

started with ept ranking on sat which i got frozen out by quite a good player. lost like 7-0 in under an hour. didn't do much cept sit in my chair. :( guess that means i've still got a long way to go =/ then yf was fine cept i was quite zoned out..a mistake on my part. considering i only went to sleep at 6 in the morning after watching the men's doubles finals which was like 6-4, 3-6, 17-15 to the croatian pair. forgive me i'm lazy to check the actual scores but i remember it was sth like that. a 4 hour match zz -_- but nevertheless very entertaining. BUT..i had to be up by 10 in hte morning so i got abt 4 hours sleep. which meant by the time ept started i was ready to fall asleep (which i didn't) and for yf i was too tired.

then sunday was really ok. went to qshop to get the set of balls for galvin's birthday prezzie (happy birthday dude!) then back to church for sgbf. watched the national day rally by the new PM and wheeeeeeeeeeee!!! i'm so happy! hhaha...he said that all civil servants including army personel would have a 5 day week! lol...! and yes olympics till 4 am. hahaha..like why must they put the 100m finals at the end of the night! *grumbles*

so well i just got up. and my aunt told me to get an application form and fill it up so that i can take up a part time job when there are vacancies..yikes hope they do it fast..


owells and yes 58 days to go!

yikes..guess what olympics does to me.

now i'm an armchair/couch potato..i just sit there and watch and channel surf..but like most of the sports i don't follow hahah..

table tennis, badminton, soccer, tennis perhaps but gymnastics? weightlifting? handball? swimming?

yikes! hahaha..

just came back from proverbs ii at febc..

have this to share with you guys

10 better choices in life

1. Wisdom > Wealth
Proverbs 3:13-14, "13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that getteh understanding. 14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of sliver, and the gain thereof than fine gold."

16:16, "How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get
understanding rather to be chosen than silver!"

2. Humility > Pride
12:9, "He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoreth himself, and lacketh bread."
25:7, "For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen."

3. Fear of the Lord > No fear of the Lord
15:16, "Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and
trouble therewith."

4. Love > Hate
15:17, "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."

5. Righteousness > Injustice
16:8, "Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right."
"Work as much as you can, Gain as much as you can, Save as much as you can and Give (to God) as much as you can."

6. Peace > Anger
16:32, "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."

7. Integrity > Decietful
19:1, "Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool."
19: 22, "The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar."
22:1, "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold."

8. Loving Wife > Contentious Wife
21:9, "It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house."
21:19, "It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a
contentious and an angry woman."
25:24, "It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house."

9. Love Expressed > Love Suppressed
27:5, "Open rebuke is better than secret love."
28:23 "He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue."
13:24, "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him quickly."

10. Faithfulness > Unreliable
27:10, "Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off."

just had to share it, thot it was very good. anyway all verses are from proverbs and the version's kjv :) most of them (if not all) should need no explanation but if need be, just tag

after that, i went for a long walk by myself to a bustop where i could get a bus back and that was good..quiet and alone and all :)

and somehow i feel tired after it --" haha..

owells..

of pool and buffets

wheee :) first bc with the p2. hopefully many more to come..(which considering that the 2nd ball was a fluke..i should be happy :)

did it while practicing alone after rajesh pangseh-ed me (cuz smart him forgot he had to refree a match later that evening!) but was really feeling sluggish and bloated the entire day too..no thanks to a stuffing from a dim sum buffet.

like met anthony for lunch at some restuarant. bugger's stinkin rich (can you believe he is my age and like has a gold card?) and fat :P so he order we eat and it was like a lot..hmmms 16 dishes? donno lost count after they decided to all start arriving at the same time. so full can? now i need to work it off again..argh!

anyways after the solo practice went to the qshop where i left at ard 11. was playing pool on the 7footer there..8 and 9 ball practice with justin. and i can tell that when i'm tired i play like crap.

and like so sorry small one! big one forgot all abt your birthday --" so hope it made it up to you :)

well..the rest of the day wasn't that bad afterall..

did a lil' trade with anthony..quite happy now heh.

playd a bit and not too bad..wondering if i should go and play tmrw too..then rest on thurs instead of the other way around. well we'll see..ask pple later.

stupid jere..pulled me out of my slumber to play guard with him and joseph. what a waste of my time! like seriously.

today's fireworks were good :) and longer than last weeks ^^ very nice!! too bad its over hahah..see lah..tell you all to go see no one 'hiew' me. anyways..today was ok lah..stepped in to cover for jon and like after service had lunch before going to cine to catch i, robot which was good..based on the same book as debbie's play. concept the same, characters and everything else is a lot different, lets just put it its made for the screen.

anyways, i just realised i've got 6.33 gb of mp3s in my hdd..like haha..oops..music pirate i am. :P like click and let it download then ooops! =D and yes, i went hmv after putting it off for super long and guess what, i didn't pick up anything! dohh! anyways got my mind set on the quite old 3eb album (which someone lost for me) and prob sth for the dude going in 2 mths ahead of me..

"i thought i found the girl of my dreams, so it seems. this is how the story ends, she's gonna turn me down and say, "can't we be friends?"" <--- wahhahaha..btw this is from jamie cullum's album, 'twentysomething' but you won't won't find it in singapore. hilarious song. think there's still another song somewhere in that 6+ gb. find it later.

"AH CHOO! excuse me..i'm allergic to bullshit!" (WHAHAHAHAHHAAH!! teh win! :)

aching

yesterday's tennis was good..found a bit of my stroke back..still gotta keep working on it too. like i can't hit anything with my backhand. anyway we played some 2+ hours before going for dinner and i was pooped by that time (not that i did run a lot..)

went for dinner then back home and was dota-ing till jo msged me for at.. heh tried a orc-hmn combi and it worked quite well except for the first map which was erm...really a bad map to play, so lost that one and went on to win the next 3. two were really nothing big..but one of them started with very badly (their hero harass me) and we were on the verge of losing. luckily, they made a couple of mistakes and we managed to win. hard fought one.

so i went to sleep at 6! hahah...now i'm up and abt and i'm aching all over! decided to turn down the invitation to west coast and stop pool for the weekend..at least till monday (will restart on tues) and now i've got nothing to do, save for going back to play more warcraft :P

fuckin' screwed up

i hate home sometimes. hate to stay at home. want to go out for supper/drinks can't..reason being "what if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, then get killed or injured or sth" like wtf. its like not gonna happen la. damn fugged up. can't she see? i'm old enough to take care of myself to make sure that nothing bad is gonna happen duh. like seriously..

first my stroke screwed up now this. fug it! i hate having to be told what to do all the time. i hate this stupid rule. i hate all this shit abt stuff happening that should have happen years ago. now i'm sitting in front of the pc pulling a damn black and long face.

everything's really fuggin pissin me off.

p i e c e s

my life is in pieces i guess..

pool's not been good.. i'll play well for a while and then things don't work out.. losing focus before i completely throw it out the window. don't know what i'm doing and what i'm doing wrong. also i feel myself stagnating again... can't seem to get past this mental barrier and improve..

at least friendship has been going up.. though sometimes i swear i've got pple trying to stab me with invisible daggers.. but apart from that, there's been new friendships made, old ones not forgotten and hurtful ones forgotten.

well.. guess someday the pieces will come to place and i will be whole again..

so first, i'll try to concentrate on pool. the key word being try..

and i'm not too keen on discussin the other pieces that are apart right now..

cycling, sun, and other stuff

today was really quite fun :)

danny and lisa planned a cycling trip to pple's houses to wish them a happy national day, take a pic and give a lollipop.. sounds really funny..too bad lisa couldn't make it..

then i was late in waking up, like i got up at 11..so had to push the meeting time back to abt 1215 then danny's tires were flat so he had to pump so by the time we first met up was already 1235. reached our first stop, lingwei's then on to the next stop where danny, broke his pedal (like woohoo well done!) and then onto nancy's place, who wasn't feeling too well, but she made it out to welcome us, then down the canal to amanda's place followed a rest stop at lisa's :) then we slacked abit more and then left at ard 1400, only to discover her tires were almost flat. so had to go esso to pump and that was at 1430 when we reached esso and viola! her tires weren't flat, they were punctured! --" so had to get back and then change a bike. following that was just a smooth journey all the way to west coast park where the teens were kiteflying and some of the j2s were playing touch rugby and stuff. so after accompanying them all the way there, then turned ard and headed for home. by the time i got home was 1540 i believe..so got a scolding for being late..haha..it didn't matter..i was having too much fun to care abt the time :P

then went to my auntie's place at u.serangoon there..watched the national day thing and played mahjong :) but today no luck =X so got kicked out of the table in quick succession (each person starts with 25 chips, lose that and you can sit out)..but woo..the level they were playing at was over me head..but at least i learnt much and didn't play too badly :) watched my "pro" uncles and aunties play a couple of rounds and it was like woow..! heh..so like just got back home.. prob gonna sleep soon..

so happy national day :) and happy 39th birthday, singapore :)) (which i've no idea why i'm saying it but maybe i'm hyper on caffiene or sth)

sometimes, we can only talk the talk.

played poorly this morning and it carried forward to the afternoon game..losing 7-2, i had an all time high record of like 13-17 scratches in the game. never played so poorly before in a competitive game. *shrugs just donno what went wrong.

anyway yf was good, glad i made the effort to go. see, smart me who knows the bus routes and stuff took 970 and missed the stop (dun ask me why..!) so had to alight at holland v. then there got shortage of buses going to clementi, like suddenly. so waited ard 15 mins and managed to get onto 7. then went to clementi and tried to change to 154. guess what, that played me out too! waited nearly half an hour for the 154 to come!! -.-" so like i reached church at 7. when in the first place, i could have taken 51 from gf and reach half an hour earlier *rolls eyes fantastic? i thot so too.. =X

anyways..yf was on the book of joel :) haha..and like went eld cheong went over a certain pt i thot of sth. he said that the bible didn't include much information of the prophet joel, it simply put it as God spoke to the prophet, who is the son of so-and-so. but thats all the information there is. eld cheong put it this way, says the book basically is abt the message of the book, that like although when we hear the message at sermons or sharings, we look at the life the person is living...cuz as my title put it, "don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk" its true la..but this time its just about the msg and what an apt name for the prophet giving God's statements in this book, jo-el is split like this and it means "Jehovah is God"

well apart from that, walked lisa back with grace and dawn and geez it was so hyper..i felt so old :P haha..but it was fun..thanks you three! :) (should you see this that is)

age ain't everything @)$&@*#&

i've got no patience anymore to argue after spending the better part of the last 3 hours fixing the damn %)#*)(*$##&$^ external hard disk to no avail. then a simple enough conversation became warped enough to fly. my goodness. age doesn't denote experience, when will people ever get that.

honestly, if he wants to stay there, i dun give a #()*%)(#&$# damn anyway. afterall, all i said was, "i think the place cmi" and that gave it wings to fly too.

yes the damn thing still can't work and i'm pissd off by/with it enough already. prob gonna sleep tmrw then go hmv and pay louis then go gf and train for sat.

and don't start talking to me abt the shallowness of it all.

days have just gone by

seem to be updating less nowadays. don't seem to have that interest or that sparkle in life for now. been bit-torrenting music past few days to fill up my muvo. even my pool has taken a backseat and a decline.

besides the good news (as always abt my cue), nothing much interests me besides getting my stroke back and having good music to groove to. sighh.. =S

my viattorre!

just heard from jackson (viattorre) that my cue has been started on! so happy :P hahah..changed a couple of things now the bill has gone up but like its now purpleheart instead of cocobolo. however i think i might leave the buttsleeve as cocobolo instead..would it look wierd if i had purpleheart points and cocobolo buttsleeve? (tell me whatcha think!)

been bombarding him with my emails haha esp after shawn and desmond got theirs :P

gonna change the description in my templates later. and church's silver jubilee anniversary dinner later too. have to be there earlier to help out with the door gifts or sth but i'm feeling rather lazy :P heh

i wear my heart on a sleeve

its been a long time since i felt this feeling of being so terribly screwed up that i can't seem to associate it with anyone, anything. but yet i'm feeling it now. i hate the way things are yet i am either powerless to do anything abt it or i just couldn't care less. never understood why i feel ths way or react to it this way either.

its just a matter of don't care, don't want to care and what the **** is happening.

sometimes there's a silver lining to every dark cloud, and sometimes there ain't.

got the spots?

heh went to theqshop to get the spotted ball :) sharing it with jo, jere and kev. lol..

yeah its 4 am and i'm still awake. like you would too if you read the "da vinci code" :) its a great book as long as you don't get stuck to believing its actually true. there are too many facts that are wrong and besides the very basis of the book in my opinion is false.

but that kept me up from 11 till now or rather 3.30 heh. like 4.5 hrs of reading. eeeks hahah..its been awhile since i stuck on to reading something so intriguing that i don't even do anything else. =P

just to give you pple some fun, a couple of anagrams came up..see if you can figure it out, if you can't tell me heh. if you can keep quiet (esp those who have read the book! :)

13-3-2-21-1-1-8-5
O, Draconian devil!
Oh, lame saint!

ankle's better :)

just woke up :( meant to stay up for the copa but fell asleep in my room. heh at least brazil won..

ankle still hurts like a nag..supposed to go to a sensei but man i hate that..swelling went down ofter the nite thank God. :) just a bit of tightness when i move the foot upwards and sideways.

have this $40 voucher for hmw considering what i should get. =S

"i am...vindicated, i am selfish, i am wrong, i am right, i swear i'm right, swear i knew it all along..and i am flawed, but i'm cleaning up so well...i am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself...so clear"
- dashboard confessional - vindicated

arghhs of guard and sprains

had my this entry gone twice --"

anyways summing up, on weds i went poolfusion3. not too bad the place..had the funky cueball but the cloth, cushions and lighting wasn't the best i've seen. played relatively ok there. rates wise also a bit on the high side..

then thurs had like guard la..with jo, alex and teh. managed to walk out winning enough to cover the table *shrugs (at least its a start) and like boy, like the 'traffic' was fantastic. ;) also realised sth. i was playing with my p2 then wasn't exactly able to play well..so i switched back over to the joss and began to have my confidence in my stroke, in my game. quite bad i know.. -_-"

then fri went to gf to train since they have good rates for ept players. then ended playing guard with justin and bryan..even giving me the 8 still can't save me. sighh..really learnt a lot by losing. at least i guess i'll be more confident in future.

then went for supper with jo..eat already talk cock then go over to his place that time my bike went into a ditch and i sprained my ankle really badly. it seemed better as i let it rest and as we headed over to his place.

well this morning it like swelled double or triple already..super pain now..even the slightest touch sent my scream factor up (yes its that painful =S) dunnoe what to do abt it. can't even walk 5 paces and i just sprayed some aerosol thing for sprains. prob bind it up in a while. doubt i'll be walking fast/running this couple of days. least of all play pool sighh..

wow incredibly. played for 5 hours and only managd to sqeeze 9 out of him. kinda let him off the hook once too often. sighh..if only i was as sharp as i was before he came. like i break cleared one rack and then after that jo broke the next and scratched and i ran out.

was using the joss too..its in quite a need for a new tip..draw or shots that are hit harder has that horrible 'thwack' sound. at least 1 break clear today. 93 more to go.

realised its been awhile since i last blogged and read pple's blog..this strange lethargy seems to envelope and come over me.

like just a brief run through, nothing much interesting has happened this week, strangely. maybe cuz its just been home in front of my com or reading or out playing pool or soccer. its nice lah but sometimes it gets a wee bit boring. money's flowing like the river out of my pocket and i got bills to pay arghhh..

blog again later if i feel like it.

borrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeedddddddddddddddddddddddd!~

was so damn boring at the sembawang chalet thing. first off i don't think its meant to be a chalet/resort. there's nothing to do there, apart from a pool (which you can't swim in unless you're wearing sexy swimming trunks -- which i have none off, like wats wrong with broadshorts? *stupid rules) which is 1.2m on one end and 2.8m on the other, a gym (with not much equipment), a video-games room (with not much games), and a restuarant (which is empty at lunch & dinner time). rooms were just as bad, apart from a comfortable king-sized bed (which i spent 2/3s of my stay, in), the toilet was clean and the tv miniscule (like 11"). no other amenities like mini-bar/fridge or soap/shampoo or room service or freebies. so much for holiday. *grumbles

also lacked the discipline to do my QT past 3 nites --" have no idea why. just damn sian.

"The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with."

"Pacific Sun, you should have warned us, it gets so cold here.
And the night can freeze, before you set it on fire.

And our flares go unnoticed.
Dimminished, faded just as soon as they are fired.

We are, we are, intrigued. We are, we are, invisible.

Oh, how we've shouted, how we've screamed, take notice, take interest, take me with you.

But all our fears fall on deaf ears.

Tonight, they're burning the roads they built to lead us to the light.
And blinding our hearts with their shining lies,
while closing our caskets cold and tight. But I'm dying to live.

Pacific sun, you should have warned us, these heights are dizzying,
and the climb can kill you long before the fall.

And our trails go unmarked and unmapped and covered
just as soon as they are crossed.

We are, we are, intriguing. We are, we are, desirable.

Oh how we've shouted, how we've screamed,
take notice, take interest, take me with you.

But all our fears fall on deaf ears.

Tonight, they're burning the roads they built to lead us to the light.
And blinding our hearts with their shining lies,
while closing our caskets cold and tight. But I'm dying to live."

Dashboard Confessionals - Several Ways to Die Trying

"I don't want to understand this horror
There's a weight in your eyes
I can't admit
Everybody ends up here in bottles
But the name tag's the last thing you wanted

As the world explodes
We fall out of it
But we can't let go
Because this will not go away
There's a house built out in space

I can't see that thief
That lives inside of your head
But I can be some courage at
The side of you bed
I don't know what's happening
And I can't pretend
But I can be your, be your

Someone help us understand
Who ordered this disgusting
Arrangement, time and the end
I don't want to hear who walked
On water, because the hallways are empty
And the clock ticks

As the world implodes
We fall into it
And we can't go home
Because this will not go away
There's a house built out in space

I can't see that thief
That lives inside of your head
But I can be some courage at
The side of you bed
I don't know what's happening
And I can't pretend

It's a long, long get away
It's a long, long get away
Make it home again
Make it home again
It's a long, long get away
It's a long, long get away

I can't see that thief
That lives inside of your head
But I can be some courage at
The side of you bed
I don't know what's happening
And I can't pretend
But I can be your, be your"
Our Lady Peace - Thief

nice songs. :) get it from me when you see me online ^^