Nervous about Wednesday

CURRENT MOOD: NERVY :(
CURRENT MUSIC: YE QU by JAY CHOU

I'm very nervous about my driving test on Wednesday, definitely no doubt about that. Just had my final revision lesson yesterday at the test centre and luckily for me I got a pretty good driving instructor. He told me about my weakest points and advised me on the DOs and DONTs during the test. He also helped me master the parallel parking obstacle, and if I do really get through that with ease on Wednesday I will thank him lots man. Practically tried everything as he brought me to the more challenging areas like test routes 6 and 7 and Ubi Rd 4. I'll just be so thankful not to get the test route 6 and 7 because it's so fuckin hard. Especially the lane change part, oh my god yesterday was the first time I faced so much difficulty doing lane change. The whole place was experiencing a traffic jam, and the other cars were complete fuckers...all dun wan to give way want le..and it's really tough to judge the cars' speed. I think if I sway sway get 6/7 I'll just be mentally prepared to come back to Ubi for another test date. Seriously.

PRAY FOR ME TO PASS MY DRIVING OK....

Received news on Friday that Mdm K will be treating us guys to a buffet dinner. It's to give ORD-ing boy Jia Hao a treat. An expensive one indeed. Place was at Clarke Quay, Swissotel Merchant Court to be precise. Haha. Dun frequent there really often so had to meet Calvin to ask him to lead the way there. Hence, met him@Parkway for some pool before we took bus 196 down over to Clifford Pier and walked all the way to the destination. I felt extremely gutted because I did not do any workout yesterday went I should have. When will I really get down to business?!?!? The tummy grows but I continue to ignore. Worst still, if you looked at today's Straits Times, Lifestyle section, on the cover page you will see 2 PANDA XIONG TIAN PINGs. One 60kg, the other 100kg. FucK. How did he become so fat?? Anyways, he looks so disgusting now and what I am afraid is that someday I will follow in his footsteps! NoOOOOOOO!!! Never!!!!! I've got to cut down SOON. Anyway, back to the main issue, we had buffet dinner and I guess Calvin and I ate the most. Damn full man. Liked their Chocolate Fountain and Crispy Platter. That's about it. The rest of the food was sub-standard. The sashimi was a total turn-off and the shark's fin soup tasted more like beansprout chowder. I'm serious. Not worth the money unfortunately. Too bad I couldn't appreciate oysters coz if there was one thing that looked really a MUST-EAT it was that. Anyways, thank you Mdm K for your treat. Really appreciate it. It was again the same situation as Calvin and I did not speak to Jia Hao. I dunno what's his problem but he seriously has mood swings because he can talk to you yesterday and treat you like a foe today. Craziness. Why he is not talking to us I donno, but if he wants this to carry on so be it, coz I dun think Calvin and I gives a damn about it. Such a pity.

One of my closer relatives left us on Friday. Din really expect her to leave us just like that but reality is that that has happened and we got to face it. Went straight to the wake after the Merchant Court dinner to pay my respects. I am just happy that I managed to chalk up some time to pay her a visit just last week, and I knew she was really happy to see me. My mum is really sad about this cos she was like a mother to her. I guess my mum will be feelin rather shitty about this but I will try my best to spend time with her over the next few days.. After everythin I stayed over at Kai An's place as we watched Liverpool win West Ham 2-0 and Boro thump Man Utd 4-1. Here is my conclusion about the Man U Middlesborough game:

MAN UTD SUCK, RIO FERDINAND SUCK EVEN MORE.

Just finished watching ONG BAK on Channel U. Tony Jaa is a tremendous fighting machine. I dare say hez much better than the likes of Jet Li and Jackie Chan. Whoo...he just mesmerizes me with his superb fighting skills. Now I so want to watch, and die-die will watch the upcomin Thai Action Movie TOM-YUM-GOONG. Tony Jaa.. hez the man. Haha.

My seduction style

Your Seduction Style: The Natural

You don't really try to seduce people... it just seems to happen. Fun loving and free spirited, you bring out the inner child in people. You are spontaneous, sincere, and unpretentious - a hard combo to find! People drop their guard around you, and find themselves falling fast.

What Is Your Seduction Style?

Hmm..interesting...haha..

Finally started to do a little workout

It was a Saturday with a fully-packed programme for me as I started the morning waking up late, as a result having to take a cab down for my driving lesson. Talking about driving lessons, I cannot afford to fail my driving test this coming Nov 2 because I have no more money to set aside for another string of driving lessons plus another booking for the driving test. Besides, the reality of having to wait so long before you can proceed for another dig at the driving test is simply unthinkable. I don't care if it's 6 points or 19 points, damn it I just want to pass. Oh I saw Jeremias as I was leaving the centre, and he hasn't changed abit. A good lad, so easily recognisable. Haha.

After that I arranged to meet up with Xuan Yu to go for some swimming. I decided that I gotta start to do some workout someday and therefore decided to accept his very kindly invitation to join him. I swam a cool blue 22 laps in the olympic-sized swimming arena in Hougang Swimming Complex, and I felt really contented with myself. Swwimming this distance is by no means an easy task but I didn't gave up. Haha.

Then in the evening I went to visit this relative of mine who was really in quite a poor condition, therafter meeting up with Ken, Russ and Tze Hin in town. Found out about the new food court in Wisma Level 4, which I explored for a little while before I met them. It's really big as the food court stretches a whole level and I took a peek at the various types of foods they were selling and it's really not bad. I'm sure I will try out the food there pretty soon I would hope. Haha. We walked around after Russ finished his shopping@TOPMAN and thought of where to go. We stopped over outside Indochine to listen to their house band perform and, I must say they were really good. Finally decided to settle down in Russ's new house@Katong area. His new place was a dream really. A really nice 3-storey house and oh my god it was just absolutely astounding. The whole place had such modern design and how I wished I was living there too. Russ's room was even better. So spacious, and his king-sized bed was just laid on the floor. The whole layout of his room was simple yet beautiful. Equipped with the PS2 console and the plasma screen TV, I wished it was my room. Then, he brought us to the very top of his house which was equally kool. You feel like you are simply on the top of the world. Definitely near the standard of my dream house. Russel you lucky bitch. Haha.

We watched the Manchester United vs Tottenham Hotspur soccer match and it was rather entertaining. Jena's goal was a beauty and although we were disappointed Liverpool lost to Fulham, we were equally glad Manchester United failed to beat Spurs. We chiong-ed down to Teo Heng to sing about an hour of karaoke, and we tried to sing as many songs as we could, haha singing like one chorus for each song then skipping already. Never have we finished singing a song fully. Anyway what was so crazy about us was that Russel, the ultimate Karaoke King managed to search for one of those stupid songs again and this time it was 'Ai Bu Pa' by Grasshoppers(Cao Meng). The MTV was a joke and it was so funny and the lyrics are even worse. Haha, but that was our last song, and we sang it with a huge bang and I think everyone who could hear us tot we were nuts. Haha. It was fun though.

Our last stop was this Hong Kong eatery along Upp East Coast Rd - I think it's called 'Shi Nai'. Recommended by Tze Hin, we went there for supper. Before we even went in we saw a ferrari parked near the shop and immediately guessed that some big shot was dining in that restaurant haha. Guess wad, we saw Mediacorp Artiste Le Yao, and whether shez the one driving the ferrari, you can go ponder on your own. Haha. For this supper we must thank officer-to-be Quek Jongy, who offered to give of us a treat. We ordered food and beverages including Coffee-Tea Yuan Yang, Iced Mango Pomelo(My personal favourite), French Toast with Peanut Butter Spread, HK Cafe Noodles, Soya Sauce Noodles With Deep Fried Pork and some Deep Fried Wanton. The Wanton was exclusively expensive as 6 of them cost $5.80. Daylight robbery rite? Craziness. Russel also became infatuated with this girl whom supposedly was Le Yao's friend. Probably all of them just finished filming or somethin coz that girl was dressed in a uniform. No other reason to explain why rite, because she doesn't look to be like a student, at least to Russel. Haha. What a bummer coz I din get to see her face as I was seated such that my back was facing her back. Wanted to c if Russel's taste was normal or just totally fucked up haha. Hmm...the things there are pretty expensive, but they're good la. So maybe I'll consider popping by again. Haha. An ideal place to bring your girl to if you have run out of places to dine in. :)

Thank you Russel for fetching me home. Haha. By the time I stepped back home it was already 0345. Quickly washed up and got some sleep. Was originally scheduled to play mahjong with my army buddies Tian Hao and Wei Yang but we had difficulty finding the last leg coz Calvin was not available. Therefore, in the end we cancelled it. NVM. Plenty of time to win money haha. Next time I should jio Justin Neo over. It's just because his exams are underway tt's why I dare not really ask him out for mahjong haha. Prolly when his exams end we will meet up for mahjong again man...haha it's been long since we met up.

Hidden talent

Your Hidden Talent

Your natural talent is interpersonal relations and dealing with people. You communicate well and are able to bring disparate groups together. Your calming presence helps everything go more smoothly. People crave your praise and complements.

What's Your Hidden Talent?

Oh..

How true.

An interesting viewpoint about McDonalds

Was looking forward to my medical appontment at NSC this afternoon today coz it's always good to be able to get out of the office. Just a few outstanding stuffs left yet to do, and for once in my new vocation I feel at ease, a lil easier to breathe now that everything has been settled here more or less, and I'm gettin rather used to life over there. :)

Anyways, since it was on my way I decided to lunch on McDonalds to satisfy my hunger. Had my favourite burger - Mcspicy Double, and I must comment on the quality of the french fries today. Fried near perfection and even the colour was good enough to show that it was Grade A standard. Haha. If you realise that whenever you order somethin from McDonalds, there will normally be a sheet of paper attached to the tray and the contents written in the sheet of paper will be nutrition information about the various types of foods you can find in McDonalds. So as I was eating, I scanned through the nutritional values of the different burgers and found some interesting results from there:

McChicken contains 510kcal of energy, 30g of fat and 50mg of cholestrol, while Mcspicy Double contains 504kcal of energy, 22g of fat and 25mg of cholestrol. Hmm... notice any discrepancies? It's kinda weird rite, considering Mcspicy Double is made up of 2 chicken thighs and McChicken only contains a single chicken patty? So why does McChicken have more fat and cholestrol than McSpicy? Something to ponder...haha..will be great if anyone who studies nutrition can answer this query of mine. I tot it was kinda interesting so I should share it up on my bloggy. Maybe it's McDonalds providing incorrect values? Shouldn't be that huge a possibility rite, considering that McDonald's has an enormous reputation to protect. Hmm.....

Also, before I even had the chance to order my food in front of the cashier, one of their restaurant managers had already came up to me and asked me what was my order goin to be. Equipped with just a palm top, she keyed in the order and handed me a slip which had only numbers on it. 'Just present it to the cashier,'said the manager. Actually, this ordering system of McDonalds has been in place for kinda some time already, but it really caught me thinking as I analysed its cost-effectiveness. They implement such a system in place, and the obvious advantages will be to speed up orders and lessen queue time. More orders will result but can the profits from these orders offset the cost of this system? I should feel this system is very expensive, due to the mechanism of generating order codes and buying several palm tops for each and every restaurant, at least those in Singapore..therefore, if you would isolate this situation and not let other factors come into play, would you think it is McDonalds making a loss or a profit? I guess only those working in the higher ranks of McDonalds Coporation would know the answer. But nevertheless, I feel it's really interesting to weigh out the cost-effectiveness of various implementions by different companies, and from there think about the benefits that arise from such areas. Kool to really find out how different organisations work and create opportunities to earn themselves some big-money deals.

Hmm..perhaps....just perhaps....the blogger here has a business mind in the making....hahaha
:p

Lazy ass

I am one fuckin lazy shit ass.

Someone...

Please....

Wake me up from my eternal slumber...

Good N Tasty Yong Tau Foo

AIMING TO: REDUCE MY WEIGHT COZ I'M GROWING SO FAT. CLOSING IN ON 70KG WHICH IS DISGUSTING!
CURRENT MUSIC: DREAMS by DIANA DEGARMO

Some people are just pure idiots who simply will do anything to try to get the best out of everything. I know of one such dumbo in my unit and I shan't comment any further.

Anyway had dinner with Calvin today as we dined at a coffeeshop just residing next to Bedok Interchange. It was Yong Tau Foo and it's really cheap and good. I ordered quite alot and it only cost $2.60. Their sweet sauce mixed together with some high quality chilli made the yong tau foo value for money. Highly recommended. U bet I will go there and eat again.

Wake up idiots, September has ended

CURRENT MODE: SLACKING@WORK
CURRENT MUSIC: MY HUMPS by BLACK EYED PEAS

Just about a month ago Meiqi left for the United Kingdom to pursue her studies. 2 weeks later, another good friend of mine leaves for the same place to further her education. This time, her departure was much more emotional. Several of my other frens who went to see her off at the airport that day broke down totally. A tinge of sadness struck me as I just looked on as she left for the departure gate. The guy who probably was worst-hit was Daryl. Putting up a strong front, he refused to shed a tear in front of us, as she hugged Charlene for one last time. After she went in, Daryl was nowhere to be seen. Perhaps he needed some peace. I did my best by sending him a message telling him not to take it too hard. But I know I can never fathom the deepness of the cuts he has suffered after that very night. I hope both Meiqi and Char are doing fine over in London.

Just last Saturday I played field soccer in what was my first time in 2.5 years...and as expected I didn't perform to my full ability. In fact, I played like a fuckin twat. I was used in 2 positions, RMF in the 1st half and LB for 2nd half. Fatigue set in quickly as I started the game on the right flank. Playing under the hot sun, my energy was draining fast and I knew I was lacking alot of fitness. Haven't been exercising on a regular basis so it was no real surprise actually. Missed tackles, lousy passes, wrong positioning, you name it. My performance was just sickening. And after 25 min I decided it was just too much for me and I told Alex to switch me out. In the 2nd half it was worse as I played in LB which I totally was unfamiliar with. I played the opponents onside and even failed to clear easy balls. What the fuck was I doin man. Luckily, our keeper Simon was fantastic that day and the match ended 0-0. At least the result wasn't wrong. If we had lost I probably was goin to shoulder much of the blame. But anyways, I would like to comment that Alex was shouting the whole time, which I really didn't like it at times. Just shouting negative comments all over the pitch is not goin to spur the team on, at least not me. Maybe....just maybe he can take a few pointers from Shawal, who was at least encouraging. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying Alex is a bad leader, in fact he makes a good leader. Just that hez probably too overbearing at times. Alex, if you are reading this, no offence ok. But, please do know that passion is not anger. Do try to control your temper even though I know it's your nature. Chill dude. Haha. I guess it was a totally good workout and a valuable experience for me that day. Completed the afternoon when I lunched with Calvin and Gerald at some nearby coffeeshop in Cantonment Rd. The Lor Mee was really not bad. Maybe we were just hungry. Haha.

kOOLio!! I won 64 bucks over the weekend as I betted on some soccer matches.... International matches are easier bets I feel. Well...wadever.

Watched "THE MYTH" with Mum yesterday. Kim Hee Sun(I think it's spelt like that) is really gorgeous and Mallika Sherwat was another stunning beauty. I tell you if I were an Indian I would have gone crazie over her. The show was really not bad at all! Exceeded my expectations. The first movie where Jackie Chan actually dies, although it's just a myth n everythin haha.

MOVIE RATING: 3.5/5

Saturday wrap-up

Despite not being fully recovered from my stomach flu, I still decided to go out and meet out with the usual suspects, this time it was to celebrate Beck's birthday - in advance. And I wanted to kill Hwi Jong for making me wake up so early. He suggested to Ken that we should meet early for lunch, since it was a buffet, so we should take full advantage of it. In the end, I dunno why, but knowing they won't be punctual, I still decided to meet at the time stated by Ken. But when I reached there, only saw Greg Ken and KH. Where was HJ? He should be the first to arrive since he wanted to meet earlier. That idiot. Haha. Anywayz we proceeded with eating first. The place was @Siam Kitchen housed in Parco Bugis Junction. It was ala-carte lunch buffet and Ken acted fast by ordering one of everything available. At first I tot Ken was crazy but when I saw the portions being served I realised it was not alot of food. I tucked in together with the other guys and liked the Green Curry and Thai Fishcake the most. As we were about to finish the first round Janice and then Jongy arrived. I didn't really eat to my maximum that day coz I was still feeling rather terrible. Anyway the other guys were chatting about army life the whole time and I couldn't really join in the discussion coz my vocation was an admin clerk after all...In truth, I was kinda sian listening to them cos I dunno what they were tokin abt. I looked across to Jan and I really wanted to ask her if she felt the same haha. Coz she was giving the sian sian look also. Maybe if I had sat nearer to her we could hav talked about other stuffs...uni life maybe haha..but I guess we endured thru till the main star for the day arrived at the scene. Becky arrived soon after SH and she was really really late. But, what's new? Shez always either late, or the latest. Haha. Wadever. We sat there for awhile more..as usual..took some casual photos..and then decided to take a walk coz we were superrrr full. Crazy HJ and KH decided to kill so many chickens when they kept asking for chicken wings. Haha. I think in total we ordered around 50 chicken wings...and Kian Hean was the ultimate chicken-eater, he counted and he proudly exclaimed he ate 22 wings...haha...enough to form a chicken wing bone mountain on his plate.. haha.

Thereafter we walked around and as usual didn't know where to go. Oh KY and Russ joined us before that. And we stopped outside Hotel Intercontinental. After contemplating for a LONGGGG while, Russ made the final decision, to walk over to BREKO CAFE and hav some coffee. On our way there we really din expect to chance upon Choon Guang, who was waiting for his girl Fanny. Long time really neber see him already. Yah...hez still the same old him..always joking around. Oh saw Fanny too and I thought she really changed alot. Became prettier I guess..Shez got rid of her specs and really looked more feminine. Haha. wadever. Over@BREKO, I ordered Lemon Hibiscus Tea while others drank lattes and coffee ice-blendeds. My lemon hibiscus was really not bad. Haha. Over there, we just chatted and chatted and took more photos till it was like almost 6pm where most of us including me had to go. Yupp. I hope Becks enjoyed the outing today, coz it was for her..eh...if any of my classmates is reading this entry, can the kind soul please let me know if we are getting any present for her? Haha..

From Bugis I travelled to Eunos to attend Brent's birthday party. In truth I was kinda reluctant coz I din know if Brent had cable TV coz I really really wanted to watch soccer yesterday. I am glad he did and I was thankful I could watch the match. But his house was really cool, it was a condo-like building that was built by the Hotel81 president. And Brent's family was few of the lucky residents coz his father worked under the Hotel81 management. Very nice place. Swimming pool, table soccer, large-screen cable TV, gym and karaoke room were some of the facilities present on the ground floor. And in Brent's unit the toilet was open-air one. Unique but also kinda dangerous coz someboday could just easily peep at the person showering. But what the hell, who wants to peep at Brent??Haha.. anyway ate very little over there too because of my bad stomach and watched the Liverpool match there. Was absolutely gutted that Liverpool only managed to draw. The team must really start to win if they are to mount a serious championship challenge. Assholes Chelsea have won again..fucking lucky blues. But was ecstatic to hear that Man Utd lost and even Arsenal only managed a 0-0 stalemate with West Ham. Guess it was a bad weekend for the top teams excluding Chelsea. Oh wells. Felicia also forced me to buy a ticket for the movie premiere of "Into The Blue" starring the ever so sexy Jessica Alba. I really dunno if I can make it, but I still gave in to her constant persuasion and promised to purchase a ticket regardless of whether I can make it on Oct6 or not. Well, I will be consoled by the fact that I am killing 2 birds with one stone - Firstly, helping Breast Cancer patients coz its for charity. And secondly, helping a friend coz it's actually Felicia's term project and her grades are dependent on it. Oh wells.

ANYWAY, IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN DONATING TO THE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OR WATCHING THE MOVIE PREMIERE 'INTO THE BLUE' (starring Jessica Alba and Paul Walker) , you can contact me via email(violentblood@hotmail.com) and I can help you get tix (each ticket priced at 15 bucks). Yup. Oh I think the $15 that you pay will also include popcorn discount vouchers. If that is an incentive to you. Haha.

VENUE: ORCHARD CINELEISURE
TIME: OCT 6th, 7 PM.

I am so sorry I haven't been blogging on a regular basis

CURRENT MOOD: =( FEELING SICK
CUURENT MUSIC: I WAS BORN TO LOVE YOU by QUEEN

Let's see...How long has it been? Slightly more than 3 weeks..

I really want to apologize..coz it's my entire fault that I haven't been doing some updating here. I have just been a lazy bum who can't even be bothered to update my blog. You should just kill me. I have no farking idea why I am so lazy. But whatever, I am seizing this chance to write out something since I am at home now nursing my illness. Before that, I want to thank Sanjiv for persuading me to do some updating and also apologize to my colleagues at work, namely Shaun and Ngai Han, especially the latter. He was not able to clear his leave today, I guess I am partly to blame. I am utterly sorry but I am really not feeling well, and I appreciate your kind understanding. :)

I shall write the things that I can remember..
We shall date back to....

Thursday, 1st September

I was clearing my off-in-lieus and decided to meet up with Meiqi to crash NUS together since both of us were free that day. Haha, in the end it wasn't a really pleasant trip to NUS. Well, before that we had lunch together at a hawker centre near Clementi Interchange. She had chicken chop while I had porridge if I remember correctly and the food was ok lah. Then we had to squeeze our bodies with the other students from NUS on bus 96 which really sucked. Luckily Meiqi managed to grab a seat fast enough and we had the luxury to sit through the whole trip to NUS. But, it still sucked because it was real stuffy in the bus. Bus 96 had to be NON-AIR CONDITIONED. Then, the tricky part came. We didn't know where to stop coz we were not familiar with NUS after all. Haha. And happiness, we ultimately found ourselves at the wrong bus stop. To make things worse, we had trouble navigating around campus and finally found central library. Well, we went in to dry ourselves coz by that time sweat was already pouring all over us. Haha gotta say the damn library is fucking grand!! I like!! Haha...next we found ourselves at LAW faculty. Walk, walking and walked till we finally found BIZAD. We wanted to attend the lecture but it was too late. We din want to enter the lecture theatre making a 'grand entrance'. Haha. Decided to head back to the area near central library and check out the 'FORUM' bookstore. Then, I asked Meiqi how she felt about this whole crashing thing and she says it sucked. To think we travelled all the way here to lose our way. Haha. So funnie. Hence, we unanimously agreed to get out of this crappy campus since we weren't familiar with it at all and then headed down to Queensway to do some shopping. Haha. In the end, I bought a pair of shoes that I needed so badly and also a T-Shirt which I tot was really nicely designed. Meiqi wanted to go Holland V coz she heard of a factory outlet there which sells cheap and good stuff but it was too late and we didn't know how to go there. Haha. So, we didn't go in the end. We finally went our separate ways at Parkway, where I had Katong Laksa fer dinner while she met up with her frens. Throughout the whole bus journey from Queensway to Katong we both slept like a log...hahaha. But, it was a crazy afternoon man.

Sunday, 4th September

Well, after giving tuition I had a game of badminton with Xuan Yu at Paris Ris East CC which was near my place. It sucked coz I lost to him in 3 straight sets. Haha. Maybe I was too tired or something ..but my work rate is just atrocious. It caused my bloody downfall as I lost. I was pretty sure if I pushed a lil harder I would have won him. HMPH. But anyway, good game and rest assured I will beat you someday. Don't you swell kiddo. Haha.

Friday, 9 September [Ehh...I think]

After work I had tuition with Guo Xiang then I met up with some of my colleagues (Qing Yong, Thiam Hao, Ngai Han, Terence, Colin, Eugene, Shaun, Zhengzhong and Jian Xiong) for supper at CHOMPCHOMP@Serangoon Gardens (I hoped I spelt it correctly). Well, I was bluddy influenced by Qing Yong to turn up coz actually I didn't want to as I was really tired for the day already. But was glad I turned up coz it was really nice to chit-chat with the guys and try to improve some understanding between us colleagues. Well, and also I met my primary school classmate Christopher whom I glad remembered me. Haha. He happened to be Terence's junior I think. After all, they were both in RI so it's no surprise actually. Anyway, we ate and talked and wadever. Also met Janan and Xuan Ming there. Xuan Ming had a big transformation, well at least that's what I think. Haha. Not the normal XM that I knew in camp. But wadever. After that, Thiam Hao and me suddenly had an urge for mahjong so we proceeded to Eugene's house to try our luck. Calvin joined us there and once more I shared my capital with him, as we pit our mahjong skills against the likes of Eugene, Colin and Thiam Hao. Not knowing how skillful they were and knowing Thiam Hao's rash nature to throw out winning tiles, I really fancied myself to bring home at least 5 bucks that night. But it was not to be... Calvin was super unlucky that night. And Eugene just went mad. Sickening as everyone lost to him. He won a grand total of 66 bucks in the end. Just pure SICK. I tried to minimize our losses by winning a few games but unlucky Calvin lost them all AGAIN when he took over. What can I say? Haha. I am never gonna go to Eugene's place to play Mahjong again. It just sucks haha. Bad omen when you go there.

Saturday, 17th September

It was the day my sister was definitely looking forward to. It's the ROM of my sister and Nick. Her bestest friends came over our house to party the night before..Set at Goodwood Park Hotel, it wasn't the ordinary ROM that you would expect. The whole solemnization ceremony was held at this very nice garden, and there were minmal amount of people witnessing this. Due to the space constraint, my sister and Nick only decided to invite immediate family and some of our closer relatives. It was special I guess, and I can really sense the happiness in my sister's face. Dressed in a beautiful green gown, she was being walked down by Daddy..and it was touching to see Daddy hand sister over to Nick. I was the camera boy as sister put me in-charge of shooting photos from her Nikon Coolpix. I wasn't paying attention to the JP during the solemnization, jus busy taking photos. In the end..I am just really happy for her as a brother. I wish her eternal happiness and like all fairy tales say - to live happily ever after. Haha. I am truly happy for her and hope that she had made the right decision for herself. I hope that Nock is the right man for her. I give you both my blessings..:)

Thereafter, I went to Shaun's place for awhile to at least show my face at his birthday party. I congratulated him and ate his birthday cake. It was yummy choc fudge. Shortly after all the OSC people left but I felt rather bad to leave so fast, so I stayed on fer awhile more together with Eugene, Tucky and Thiam Hao. We just chatted and watched soccer while Shaun entertained his other frens for most of the time. I must say that Shaun has some crazie friends man. Haha. There is one called James, who really is insane. And then there's thsi Indian who also talks alot of stupid crap haha. These are the CHIONGSTERS that Shuan hang out with everytime he goes clubbing...as he told us..Like Eugene, restrained myself from drinking besides having only one shot of Raspberry Vodka mixed with a lil 7UP. Also, I was pretty amazed to see Tuck Chen pick up smoking. I never did expect that man and when I shared it with Eugene he told me that he picked it up for fun. Hopefully so, coz it's never nice when you get addicted to it. He probably learnt to smoke under some influence...I certainly hope I won't be the subject of influence. I hate smoking...and I can't imagine myself smoking next time man.

Sunday, 18 September

It was the day where Meiqi and Alison leaves for the UK to pursue their studies. As much as I hate to see them go, the inevitable has to happen. Before sending them off at the airport..I went over to Kiaying's house to watch soccer with her before we would make our way to the airport together. I can't believe Liverpool did not score against Manchester Utd again in the EPL, their 3rd 0-0 draw in 4 league games. It totally sucked. To think I was relishing the chance to play down Man Utd in front of Kiaying's face coz shez a Man U fan. Haha. But there was the consolation fact that Liverpool looked the more threatening. Haha. At about 945pm we found ourselves at the airport, and many other friends of Alison and Meiqi respectively. Well, a few of us came to send the two girls off..and we took our last photos with them...


Me, CP, KH and the girls


Together with Ally

Wish them all the best in whatever they do overseas...And make sure they don't forget us when they stay overseas!! Already I am looking forward to their return to Singapore during their holidays to visit us..

TODAY, 23rd September

I should mention that I watched Fear Factor on TV yesterday night and it utterly made me sick. Yesterday's stunts were just EeWwW. As if having to pierce 10 needles of varying thickness through your skin is not enough, the unlucky contestants for that show had to eat 4 ounces of maggot-infested cheese gone bad. That seriously sucked. You should have seen how one of them really had ultimate difficulty trying to gulp down the chesse. Oh my god. Seriously. EeWwW..

I just called Cindy to tell her that I will be withdrawing from tuitioning her problem kid anytime soon and never did I expect her to giv me such a fucked up reaction. She told me she was really disappointed. Well, you can't really blame me if your kid has no interest at all..because I would really love to continue the tuition if ur kid shows some bloody sense of eagerness to learn. But NO. When I asked Guo Xiang whether he wanted to do well for his PSLE, he had the cheek to tell me: "Well I dunno, go ITE is the best!" It makes it really hard to continue teaching him like that..I am sorry, but I don't regret my decision. I reached a compromise with her that I will tuition him till his PSLE is over..but I can sense that she really hates me to the core now..Oh wells..I don't care. I'm just gonna do my job and forget about this kid once it's done. But I have no idea how I am going to face her for the upcoming 2-3 weeks. I just feel sorry for Guo Xiang. If he had the slightest motivation to study, then maybe...just maybe..

That call just now made me understand.
It's not easy to be a tutor.
Parents are really becoming so demanding nowadays.
But maybe, I have to shoulder some blame.. maybe I just had no confidence and no interest in tutoring this kid becuase of his very bad attitude.
Now I am just worried that the agency will stop giving me assignments becuase of my lack of commitment...

Robinho, Detective Mok and Mr. Wisely

I just finished watching two HK TVBI serials, namely The 'W' Files and To Catch The Uncatchable.

THE 'W' FILES

If you like the supernatural, you should probably enjoy this show. Well, as for me, it was quite interesting to watch the different types of weirdo stories, some they really portrayed very well...but overall, I kind of expected more out of this show, since it was Gallen Lo's swansong performance. Not fantastic, but good to watch in my opinion. My favourite actors will be Gallen Lo (Wei Si Li) and Michael Tong (Bai Qi Wei), actresses will be Tavia Yeung (HongHong) and Yoyo Mung (Bai Su). Ending was superrr crappy and I was rather turned off by it. But for the rest of it, it is really worth watching.

FINAL VERDICT -----> 3.5/5

TO CATCH THE UNCATCHABLE

Yeah yeah the title may sound extremely cheezy but I tell you this is one hell of a good show. If you want lots of humour you can definitely get it from this show. Perfect show, perfect cast. Favourites included the ever pretty Ada Choi who is really versatile in her acting, Huang Zi Hua aka Detective Mok, Michael Tong as Jim Jim, there is Mary and Mia in the show whom I don't know their real names, and also not forgetting Marco Ngai (Romeo) who will guarantee make you laugh like shit in the show. Really loved the cases they solved in the show, especially the Chan Wai Keung case and also the fake religion case. Strongly recommended..

FINAL VERDICT -----> 4.5/5

ROBINHO

This guy was really impressive when I watched him play. He came on as a substitute for Real Madrid in the match vs newly promoted side Cadiz. Orchestrated the winning goal for Real Madrid and is simply unstoppable. Watch the video and you know what I mean.

Robinho And His Samba (Real Madrid vs Cadiz)

Now, are you impressed?

Weekend at a glance

Never would I have expected that I would have to use my knowledge of changing tyres to get back home on Saturday. Saturday was a well-spent day, in the morning I went to tuition Guo Xiang, and thereafter Mahjong wannabes Tianhao, Jia Hao and Calvin came over to my place to try their luck at winning some money. But in the end, only two prevailed. That was Calvin and me. WHAHAHA. The usually skillful Jia Hao actually had a bad day, as he was the biggest loser. Too bad we didn't play till late night coz I had to meet up with my classmates in the evening, if not I would sure be happy to continue the session till midnight even. An unsatisfied Tianhao called me soon after they left to ask me if I was available during early Sunday morning coz they wanted to play somemore coz they felt it wasn't enough. Thinking that Mommy won't be too happy about it even if I didn't mind, and that Dawn will surely complain about the noise, I had no choice but to turn down his request, but I assured him that we would have another session very soon haha.

Hurriedly went to take a shower and changed up and rushed over to town to meet my classmates. So long since we got together (That's what I think). Apparently this probably might be the last time we can hang out with Meiqi coz shez going to UK to further her studies. Lucky her how I wish I can go overseas to study too. But she deserved the place because of her excellent 'A'Level results, unlike me...haiz.. Anyway, we met at Marche@Heeren for dinner. Shared the total cost of whatever we ordered, which included pasta, calamari, pizza, crepes, rosti and of course soft shell crab. Haha. Thereafter, we walked around for a while before settling in at Party World Orchard KTV. Sang till like about 2am like that... Me, Russel, Janice, Jong and even KY really sang alot..but a pity Meiqi and David didn't like to sing...in particular Meiqi, we would have loved to hear her sing manz..We tried so many times to get her to sing but shez ever so stubborn and decided to just sit in and listen to our beautiful voices whahaha. Russel sang his favourite HEI SE YOU MO by JAY CHOU, then I duet with him this song by DONG LI HUO CHE, which we tot we sang really to great effect haha. And I was pretty honoured to sing ROOFTOP with Jan..although I slightly regretted coz I didn't sing that song too well that night. Well wadever haha. I'm sure we enjoyed the night@KTV..the song of the night was probably MR VAIN haha..Thanks to Russel Fong, who was able to find that stupid dumb song haha. Ken too found a farni song in FAST FOOD SONG...whose lyrics are just so funny..haha

Then shit happened. The ever so nice Ken decided to see all of us home coz he was the only driver, and I dunno for what reason, the tyre had to go flat on us. Probably because of our excessive weight, or maybe Ken drove onto something sharp on the road? It didn't matter, coz the tyre was already punctured. And we had to change it no matter what. Luckily I had my lesson on changing tyres at the driving centre not too long ago so I was roughly able to recall some of what I learnt that day. All of us guys helped to change the tyre except Hwi Jong who probably helped by safeguarding the wheel screws to make sure they aren't misplaced haha. As for the girls they just sat beside the kerb and watched on helplessly. By the time we finished replacing with the spare tyre..it was already slightly past 3am. And by the time I got home it was 4. Haha. But I think all of us guys would have felt a sense of achievement that night, for we changed a tyre by ourselves. kOOL. Moreover the conditions in which we did the job weren't particularly favourable because it was late at night already and the place we punctured the tyre had no street lamps nearby to supply sufficient light. Our only source were phones and a torchlight provided by David haha. Guys, we should be proud of ourselves. Without our expertise, we wouldn't have got our asses back at home HAHA. But I really hoped Meiqi enjoyed that Saturday night..because it was sort of an outing organised for her before she leaves for UK. Hope Saturday is not the last time I see her, I will probably be free to see her off at the airport on the day she leaves...yep..:)

After that night, I was so beat. I slept like a log till it was time to give Zhang Rui tuition. After tuition with him I went back and I slept again. You probably can imagine how tired I was. Haha.


TRIBUTE TO DJIBRIL, OUR MATCH WINNER vs CSKA MOSKVA in UEFA Super Cup 2005
PLEASE DON'T SELL HIM RAFA...DUN SELL HIM AND BRING BACK OWEN..