i-can-see--thru-all-your-lies

guess who's back...

2010-03-09T00:26:00.006+08:00

After almost 10 months, I have decided to finally post an update! After what has happened in recent times, I think I'd probably regret if I didn't do this now! Only problem is, I have noooo idea where to begin! Well I suppose, chronological is most, well, logical..

Finally I decided to apply for school! Went down to uniSIM's open house Sat and quite fortunately met up with rabbit (XH), even though we would have later that night, for mahjong with isaac and chew! Anyways after much deliberation I opted for English with Psychology. (Now you know why I'm typing in pretty much perfect english =x) Somehow we ended up spending the entire afternoon there, attending talks and the eventual application process via their website. We both then had dinner at Botak Jones' in Clementi before heading for mahjong! Chew owned that night and the three of us lost a few bucks, but heck, you win some you lose some! Mahjong is fun! XD

Monday somehow turned out to be quite an awesome day. Isaac's friend was in need of a last minute stand-in and I was roped in, thinking I just be a calafare of sorts. It was a video shoot of sorts, for a corporate video, somewhere in Sentosa called 'Wavehouse'. I had zero idea that I was to be cast alongside 4 other MODELS! Thankfully they were nice chaps and though the first part of the shoot was nerve-wrecking, the rest was smooth sailing; we were to pretend to have friendly conversation, but since we were already in conversation, we didn't have to pretend at all! Time flew and soon we were done, and inevitably parted ways. I hope to see them around someday, as successful actors/actresses/models!

Oh! PARAMORE WAS IN TOWN!!

Ben Kok and I had bought tickets way back in Dec and Ter got his too, but his was in the standing arena, whereas ours was in the seats just behind the standing arena.

Anyways, both of us decided to try our luck at the airport to welcome them, thinking they'd definitely be on the Christchurch flight as that was where they had their previous concert at.

The pack of fans waiting outside belt 47 was to be disappointed however; they did not appear. There were even a few false alarms too; someone started screaming and the whole crowd thought they had finally shown up, but of course that was not the case. Soon the crowds dissipated, but we clung to hope! Tracy, Ben's online friend had info from Twitter that they would be flying in from Sydney, so we then shift out focus to all incoming Sydney flights. There were so many! Since we were in T3 we decided to wait it out there. About 10 we then decided to take a risk and try our luck at T1 instead, which of course, paid off! They finally arrived, about 11pm and screams of excitement ensued. Sadly they couldn't stay long and were ushered by security to their waiting van. Hayley was soo cute!! She kept waving back and shouted back, "See you tomorrow guys!" after I shouted "See you tomorrow HAYLEY!!" Ben managed to hand her a handwritten letter! I wish I had prepared something like that! Sigh.

The concert itself was AWESOME! Me and Ben both bought Paramore t-shirts and immediately got changed into them! (I managed to secure the LAST M-sized one!) Basically throughout the show we were jumping and swinging our light sticks like nuts! Even now I'm still having a stiff neck from all the headbanging, and my arms especially my right one is aching!

The setlist was:

-Ignorance

-Crushcrushcrush

-Thats What You Get

-Looking Up

-Careful

-Let The Flames Begin

-Never Let This Go

-The Only Exception

-Pressure

-For a Pessimist, I’m Pretty Optimistic

-Where The Lines Overlap

-Decode

ENCORE:

-Misery Business

-Brick by Boring Brick

How I wish they did "When it Rains" though. Seriously love the intro of that song. But I guess wanted us to 'jump' more, hence, "The Only Exception" was the only slow song they played.

We met up with Ridwan, Luntat and 2 of their friends after the show and walked all the way back to Kallang MRT, and caught the last train home, tired, but still excited and high.

ABSOLUTELY, BEST NIGHT EVER!

some pictures!

HAYLEY!! <3s!

That's all for now. I just spent the last 2 hours composing this and its now 1.46am. Need to start sleeping early!!

Out~!

2009-05-15T00:18:00.001+08:00

She's So High - Tal Bachman

She's blood, flesh and bone
No tucks or silicone
She's touch, smell, sight, taste and sound

But somehow I can't believe
That anything should happen
I know where I belong
And nothing's gonna happen
Yeah, yeah

(Chorus):
'Cause she's so high...
High above me, she's so lovely
She's so high...
Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite
She's so high...
High above me

First class and fancy free
She's high society
She's got the best of everything

What could a guy like me
Ever really offer?
She's perfect as she can be
Why should I even bother?

(Repeat Chorus)

She comes to speak to me
I freeze immediately
'Cause what she says sounds so unreal

But somehow I can't believe
That anything should happen
I know where I belong
And nothing's gonna happen
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah

(Repeat Chorus)

sigh. what a mess i got myself into.

2009-05-05T21:32:00.001+08:00

kiss me, diss me - home grown

i dont wanna sit next to you
i cant believe you called me so soon
dont try to justify what you did to me
your just one of those trouble girls
using me for everything but love
dont make excuses for what you did to me
you kissed me then dissed me
but now you say you miss me
yeah you used me confused me
but you dont wanna lose me
dont talk to me,dont acknowledge me anymore
im just another score
i used to be all nice and sweet
giving everything you want in me
i cant believe i did it all for nothing
now im bitter i cant take no more
dont blame this on your bad childhood
that doesnt justify what you did to me
you kissed me then dissed me
but now you say you miss me
yeah you used me confused me
but you dont wanna lose me
dont talk to me,dont acknowledge me anymore
im just another score
you kissed me then dissed me
but now you say you miss me
yeah you used me confused me
but you dont wanna lose me
dont talk to me,dont acknowledge me anymore
im just another score
i would run away from this day
screw your head on straight so it stays
dont talk to me dont acknowledge me anymore
im just another score

somehow suddenly rmbed this song =/

69

2009-04-04T22:59:00.002+08:00

I FINALLY PASSED MY SOC!! (haha this comes a lil late since i've already "shouted" this out on FB and MSN, but hell, why not?) and by ONE SECOND! hahaha and the funny thing was how i had no intention of trying to pass the night before; watching 4bia with the tankees and slping arnd 12? who knew 5hrs of slp was enough? hahaha. that morning i was still hoping it'd rain so i could take the test another day, feeling lazy and also not ready for it. but my 'strategy' worked! i figured if i ran at a slower pace at the start i'd have enough strength to clear the obstacles fast and run the last lap. WHEEEEE~
watched confessions of a shopaholic earlier today. i'm quite surprised i enjoyed it! even though i was convinced before watching it'd be a good show having read reviews about it online. it was superrrr hilarious! and still it taught life lessons too. i think anyone who watches it, be it a guy, kid or elderly, would enjoy it just as much! so go watch it! =)

13

2009-03-14T00:27:00.003+08:00

13 more weeks to ORD! and it's friday the 13th for the 2nd mth in a row! cool huh? ben kok says it's gonna happen again in 13 years! haha!
anw, I'VE BOUGHT MY PC!! after almost 2 years of surviving on my bro's during the weekends i've decided to get my own especially since it was the IT SHOW today. and the crowds were HUGE! gah and i actually thought there'd be less ppl since it wasn't a weekend. NOT! i think i've said about a thousand 'excuse me's and 'sorry's while pulling my lenovo pc, lenovo lcd monitor, and a canon printer that came free, through the crowd. i never wanna do that again! but i guess it was worth it; my pc rocks! it's got face recog and i don't have to enter my password to log on anymore! haha the specs are pretty good too; quad core, ddr3 3GB, 640GB HDD and a 22" full HD monitor! but it wasn't cheap though! haha.
anws i had quite the loooongest week. monday was spent at jodin's where he cooked steak for us! YUM! and we played cards and 'settlers of catan' (which i'm itching to play again!). tues wasn't much; went to northpoint with robert and qi min. weds was spent watching "push", which i enjoyed actually, even though the ratings aren't good. it's kinda similar to "heroes" but they have their differences. on thurs i went rockclimbing! with lydia and tere. lydia was the only who could belay us tho so only tere and i climbed. wow i can't believe its been a decade since i last rockclimbed! thoroughly enjoyed it! thanks lyd! tml's gonna be a long day too! heading to the beach in the morn and then to NUS to watch 'the fire fight' perform! can't wait!
i guess its been a really fruitful week! haha i've never had a whole week off from camp except after POP. but the only bad thing about this week is, I SPENT A LOT!! AHHHHHH! =X

a weird dream | the long week ahead

2009-03-01T20:15:00.002+08:00

somehow i've been having dreams about driving which somehow always ends in me crashing into a tree or smth. funny why i've never blogged about it before when it's happened so many times already; 5 at least? all of them different scenes too. the one i had earlier this week was me driving away from terrorists who were plotting smth and i was escaping (to tell on them i suppose?) and somehow ended up driving into a tree. hmmm.
OK GOD I WILL NOT LEARN DRIVING SO STOP WITH THE DREAMS ALREADY KAYTHANKSBYE!!

anw it's finally here. atec stage 2. the last outfield! (not quite actually) but it sucks that it eats into the weekend and even post maintenence is also done on sunday and monday. crud. and tues morning i've got SOC training cos i didn't pass the last time (by TWO seconds arghhhhh). double crud. anw i just hope this week goes by quick. and hope it doesn't rain too heavily. sigh.

i can see the light... NOT!

2009-02-19T18:19:00.003+08:00

4 more months! sounds short right? hell no! things just keep cropping up when they shouldn't and we can't relax like we should! all of a sudden, we're to be activated for an entire 48 hours on our precious weekends! seriously how f-ed up can those higher ups be to plan this? they just HAD to burn our weekends. argh. i wish i could elaborate but i think i'd prolly end up in court if i do hahaha.. hmm. i just wish time could fly by a lil faster. esp for this month. and the next too! ATEC! urgh.
i miss my days in poly. esp my mates in band and esp perc.. i really enjoyed those days! makes me wanna study in poly again! hahaha nahh i'm not that crazy.
anw. i've thought about it long and hard and i've decided i'll study teaching! i don't really wanna do lab work, office work or any other mundane stuff. i figured teaching will be fun, interacting with the students and working with them. oh well, i'll see how it goes.

update!

2009-01-25T01:06:00.002+08:00

it's been a month since my prev update so i guess its time for a new one!

had quite a crazy week earlier; one day we were speeding in a speedboat (those u see in the ads where about 8 ppl carry and it can seat about that many) twice, in the morning and then at night, the next day we were in an urban facility in the middle of lim chu kang, playing CS with our SAR21s (and blanks of course) equiped with laser detectors. i was an "enemy" for a platoon and it was seriously the most fun i've had in my whole NS life so far. made me wish i wasn't a signaller! (cos i didn't have to carry my signal set for that)..
i've got duty on sunday night, meaning i'll miss reunion dinner, but it's ok since i already had one last week during my grandma's bday.. and its only for 12hours..
next outfield is in the 1st week of feb and we'll be in the speedboats again, but i'd rather not since it'll mean we'll be getting wet during that 4d3n outfield. gah. i hate getting my boots wet outfield.

till next time!

it's been almost 5 years already?!

2008-12-28T19:39:00.002+08:00

wow. i just realised i've had this blog since e start of '04! and it really seems like the rate of entries is dropping and the years pass! hahaha okay maybe it's the lack of activity and also cos army stuff aren't allowed to be published on the net, so that really leaves me with nothing to blog about, and thus, i've neglected it.. but hopefully in the new year ahead i'll have more to blog about! esp after ORD-ING!! hahaha still long tho. 5 1/2 mths more! but the 3mths ahead is not gonna be easy; outfields, outfields and more outfields! and atec stage2 finally in march..
gah. i'm suddenly given a dilemma. to choose between going to church retreat or friend's wedding? argh! i'm seriously stuck on this one. then comes the inevitable, what the heck am i gonna do after i ORD?? i think in the week that just passed, i've had about 5 ppl asking the same question. and i'm quite unable to decide too. sigh. i wish i could say for sure what i'm interested in studying, but i can't. i wish i could be like others, certain of what to study, like business, mass comm, engineering.. but i'm not. i've had ideas and dreams of doing music, becoming a professional percussionist, but hell, who am i kidding. sigh.

i think i need some help from up there.

21 and so NOT lovin it

2008-11-07T20:47:00.003+08:00

i don't feel any different. not that i'm supposed to i guess? but having turned 21 the previous week, i just got OLDER. gah. i wish i was turning 16 or smth. why 21? it's like what a friend said recently, when u turn 21 u can no longer tick the checkbox option of 16-20, but 21-24! urgh..
well as i was saying in my prev post, atec's next week! but lucky me! i'm not selected! at least that's what i was told. i had my molar removed yesterday and they had the selection then, so i missed it! yay!
monday's the last chance to clear 2nd yr SOC, so i'm quite determined to clear it so i wouldn't have to care about it when march comes! but i still regret not pushing myself harder the last time; i clocked 9.31, just 2secs shy of passing! gah! i couldn't get over it for the whole day and kept reprimanding myself.
what a difference 2 seconds made..

7 to 21

2008-10-18T21:14:00.003+08:00

OMG. almost 2 mths since my last post! if not for isaac i think i wouldn't even have noticed that!

okok fine i shall spend the next 10 mins writing smth!

let's see....

atec's coming soon! we'll be having a whole month of training and i just got thru the first week. and it seriously felt like it was back to SI cos they were RETEACHING EVERYTHING, FROM THE BASICS!! and yeah i mean EVERYTHING. so. i was pretty much dying of boredom. prolly will by the next few weeks i guess? bah. and best thing was, our score makes up just ONE PERCENT of the unit's. one whole month of work for ONE PERCENT. srsly. wtf.
but the "recourse" gave me a chance to catch up with the guys in HQ who i don't get to talk to much since my coy line posting. so, it wasn't that bad i guess. but i knew only half of them since the other half were posted in after i was posted out.

managed to skip yest's training cos i took leave. or rather, was FORCED to take leave, but it was welcome. i only hope there's enough for the 3rd week of dec; i'd like to see what the youth camp this year will be like..

okay 10 mins are up i suppose. cyall. in another 2months perhaps? =X

update

2008-08-30T11:00:00.002+08:00

wow its been a month since my last update and that update wasn't exactly one either. haha. well, ndp's over and i really miss it. now our schedule's back to chiong sua-ing and the lot.. and we've a whole month of extra duty but i won't go into details lest i get charged =x (which is why i usually don't bother updating hahaha.)
in fact i just got home from duty so its another weekend cut short =(
well in a while i'll be heading for band prac, my first in a long time, and after that a church games gathering of sorts. hopefully i'll get my ass to comex tml and get a new pair of in-ear earphones, and maybe new speakers. gotta get a new pair of sneakers too. gah..

attack of the baybirds

2008-07-21T11:13:00.003+08:00

MANDARIN ORIENTAL IS BEING ATTACKED!! GAHH~

the long overdue update

2008-07-21T10:39:00.002+08:00

slpt for almost 12hours straight last night, the 1st time in a long one. woke up feeling really emo. i actually wished i had downed whiskey the week i had my molar extracted so i'd die the way my neighbour did, in my sleep, of alchohol-antibiotics poisoning. gah. the empty apartment isn't helping either. listening to circa survive's album "on letting go"'s gets me high and looking forward to drumming on sunday's service, so much that i'm finger-drumming along on the com table. haven't touched drums in a long while before friday's prac so was quite rusty and couldn't find the confidence to do rolls and fill-ins.. but still i can't wait for prac!

NE show 3 was a bummer. the weather sucked; it rained a lil here and there and it was super cloudy. and i guess the black knights didn't do their "heart" routine because of it, which really was a disappointment. the fireworks were awesome as usual, possibly getting better and better as NDP approaches, but the rain still spoiled it a lil. apparently there's a break next sat but we're not told as to whether we're needed for anything else.. bleah.

seriously i hate the camp M.O. damned sob.

fireworks from ndp ne show 2

2008-07-13T22:10:00.000+08:00

some thoughts..

2008-05-19T02:26:00.002+08:00

in this life, how many friends can u say u'll definitely keep for life? or even for the next 10 years?

it's kinda sad really, come to think about it.. the bonds we used to have are now but just a distant memory.. i guess u could say its part of life to move on, but its really quite sad isn't it? don't u wish u could go back in time to the times when we had fun?

but the sad reality is that these friendships and bonds were never meant to last. they were only meant to get u through the times and through ur life. as time passes and as u go through phases in ur life, u meet new ppl to get u through these phases and then u move on.. and then sometimes, just sometimes when the busyness of life takes a pause, u look back, pictures and letters from the past and u wonder, where did it all go?..

maybe i'm just being emo on a late sunday night, but can u say there's no truth at all to this?

What Happened to All the Nice Guys?

2008-05-17T23:07:00.002+08:00

i'm actually gonna cut and paste this from cam's blog. i think it's pretty damn true! and explicit. hah.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/483318927.html

“What Happened to All the Nice Guys?”
Date: 2007-11-19, 3:52AM PST

I see this question posted with some regularity in the personals section, so I thought I’d take a minute to explain things to the ladies out there that haven’t figured it out.

What happened to all the nice guys?

The answer is simple: you did.

See, if you think back, really hard, you might vaguely remember a Platonic guy pal who always seemed to want to spend time with you. He’d tag along with you when you went shopping, stop by your place for a movie when you were lonely but didn’t feel like going out, or even sit there and hold you while you sobbed and told him about how horribly the (other) guy that you were fucking treated you.

At the time, you probably joked with your girlfriends about how he was a little puppy dog, always following you around, trying to do things to get you to pay attention to him. They probably teased you because they thought he had a crush on you. Given that his behavior was, admittedly, a little pathetic, you vehemently denied having any romantic feelings for him, and buttressed your position by claiming that you were “just friends.” Besides, he totally wasn’t your type. I mean, he was a little too short, or too bald, or too fat, or too poor, or didn’t know how to dress himself, or basically be or do any of the things that your tall, good-looking, fit, rich, stylish boyfriend at the time pulled off with such ease.

Eventually, your Platonic buddy drifted away, as your relationship with the boyfriend got more serious and spending time with this other guy was, admittedly, a little weird, if you werent dating him. More time passed, and the boyfriend eventually cheated on you, or became boring, or you realized that the things that attracted you to him weren’t the kinds of things that make for a good, long-term relationship. So, now, you’re single again, and after having tried the bar scene for several months having only encountered players and douche bags, you wonder, “What happened to all the nice guys?”

Well, once again, you did.

You ignored the nice guy. You used him for emotional intimacy without reciprocating, in kind, with physical intimacy. You laughed at his consideration and resented his devotion. You valued the aloof boyfriend more than the attentive “just-a-” friend. Eventually, he took the hint and moved on with his life. He probably came to realize, one day, that women aren’t really attracted to guys who hold doors open; or make dinners just because; or buy you a Christmas gift that you mentioned, in passing, that you really wanted five months ago; or listen when you’re upset; or hold you when you cry. He came to realize that, if he wanted a woman like you, he’d have to act more like the boyfriend that you had. He probably cleaned up his look, started making some money, and generally acted like more of an asshole than he ever wanted to be.

Fact is, now, he’s probably getting laid, and in a way, your ultimate rejection of him is to thank for that. And I’m sorry that it took the complete absence of “nice guys” in your life for you to realize that you missed them and wanted them. Most women will only have a handful of nice guys stumble into their lives, if that.

So, if you’re looking for a nice guy, here’s what you do:

1.) Build a time machine.
2.) Go back a few years and pull your head out of your ass.
3.) Take a look at what’s right in front of you and grab ahold of it.

I suppose the other possibility is that you STILL don’t really want a nice guy, but you feel the social pressure to at least appear to have matured beyond your infantile taste in men. In which case, you might be in luck, because the nice guy you claim to want has, in reality, shed his nice guy mantle and is out there looking to unleash his cynicism and resentment onto someone just like you.

If you were five years younger.

So, please: either stop misrepresenting what you want, or own up to the fact that you’ve fucked yourself over. You’re getting older, after all. It’s time to excise the bullshit and deal with reality. You didn’t want a nice guy then, and he certainly doesn’t fucking want you, now.

Sincerely,

A Recovering Nice Guy

side note: NDP this year will be graced by cai chun jia! her voice is like, power lah. damn sad i not even gonna be arnd the platform area. in fact, i've no idea wtf i'm doing for national day. one of em told me i was gonna man the signal set. -.-

oh and, i've got a loooong weekend this week! vesak day hol, followed by some leave till thurs morn after the match! awesome! =)

back from the dead

2008-05-01T22:16:00.002+08:00

yet another 2months has passed since that last update. i'm beginning to neglect my blog a lot, but really, who can blame me? i don't really have internet access in camp (unless i use my phone, which COSTS) and when the weekends come, blogging isn't exactly on the to-do list. this week tho, some part of me remembered i had a blog and when i saw the date of that last post, here i am. ok chris enough excuses for now yea?

life in camp has somewhat become slacker in some sense, especially after that final field camp which was an exam of sorts for the battalion, and we "passed" apparently, which in effect, makes us operational ready. and so, with the end of that test we started a month of being operational. this means we're expected to rush back to camp if we recieve a phone call. so i'm hoping i don't get any of such phone calls these 2 weeks. thankfully its only for a month so i'm keeping my fingers crossed my weekends don't get interrupted by surprise phone calls.
monday's gonna be quite a day. the whole battalion is going to the beach for games and stuff, so i can envision a beach FULL of guys. ugh. oh well.

went back to nyp band last week to check out my jrs as well as the freshies. as usual, large turnout, which will inevitably be halved as time goes when they realise how demanding it really can be. i can only hope more will stay this time, esp since there're overseas trips these next 2 years, of which only one i can aim for, which is the one next year after my ORD. it was also the 1st time i got to see the new conductor, mr. leonard tan, who seemed pretty nice. i'm still looking forward to laoshi coming back to conduct the alumni tho! as well as ensemble practices before that! really missed my jrs a lot..

update!

2008-03-02T19:31:00.003+08:00

had a look at the following month's schedule last week and i'm honestly freaked. 3 field camps AND, remedial training for SOC on sat morns! AND not to mention a live firing on good friday, AND guard duty on easter sunday (i think). OMG. can someone just take out my legs (temporarily please not for good!) so i can just stay home! argh!

oh and i think my prayer was answered! i'm gonna play drums for service next week! and easter sunday IF i don't have guard duty. also i went for alumni band yest and i'm pretty glad i went. i missed band A LOT! but church band pracs and alumni band pracs clash a lil but if church band pracs start a lil earlier i'd only miss the tuning, during which i do practically nth anw haha.

booking in soon. damn sian!

PS. notice the huge banner up there? yea i'm actually doing a lil advertising. so click on it if u're bored. it leads to a forum of sorts. =)

1st post of the year and its FEB. zomg.

2008-02-16T17:03:00.003+08:00

did time just fly by again? it always does doesn't it? already its been 8 months i've been enslaved in national service! hah! (when am i gonna be promoted.....? zz!)

cny was alright. did very little visiting though. but interestingly last sat i went to not one but TWO Dennis' houses! haha one's my perc mentor and the other's my church mentor!

this week was yet another field camp. it wasn't exactly very tiring or anything, but being driven around by a madman in a uber-bumpy terrain which would have been pretty much a desert expect for the forests! i swear i was eating sand for most of the 3 days and if not for my net-scarf thingy, i'd prolly have drowned in sand. puh-wee~ but the floodgates opened and i did throw up my breakfast of chocolate dog biscuits on day 2, when the madman was at his, "maddest"? haha.. i came close to throwing up a second time later that day too, but i guess not having the field rations for lunch helped. and i must have eaten a whole lot of sand already by then. hah.

we returned to camp on vday itself and that me aaron and james chilled at JP, which btw, was PACKED, and just pissed me off. it took us quite some time just to get seats at kopitiam, since restaurants like fish and co had queues that, well, were long enough to erase any hopes we had of a quiet evening and good food. sigh. some vday.

argh! my hands are itching to play some drums! someone sponsor me a drumset? xD

happy new year? i wish.

2007-12-30T21:01:00.000+08:00

i'm gonna breakdown soon. can't stand the damn company. never-ending field camps that burn my precious weekends, and i don't do shit except follow some officer in a landrover and go round and round and round. and round somemore. i actually had 7 hours straight going round in circles yest for some dumb live firing. and swallowed my own vomit. urgh. how the hell am i gonna tahan the next year's exercises?!!
pls oh pls God, let this year be a quick one.

one month later..

2007-11-14T20:01:00.000+08:00

omg. its been that long? haha. goes to show how deprived i am of the internet. but somehow 40SAR has a room for internet which we can use at night. only that there're few computers AND the damned internet is S.L.O.W.. but i'll manage. facebook, gmail, and soccernet is really all i need. too bad youtube doesn't load here. bleah.
yeah 40SAR. that's where i am now. posted here along with 6 others from my plt and about 6 from another. life here.. sucks. food sucks. rules here sucks. pretty much everything else too. and i'm gonna be stuck here for the rest of my one and a half years! omgwtfbbq. but it'll get better as time passes, or so they say. since we're new here we gotta adhere to all the frigging rules. damn shitty. shit work and more shit work. and there's no nights out for us either, until we pass our ippt. freak. they emphasize SO much on physical training here, its scary. and there's even 6km runs 3 times a week!! omgwtfbbq!! i doubt we even covered 6km in runs back in SI! damned shit. well. thank God at least they let us bring our PSPs in, which i promptly bought right after confirming that. something to keep me company at least.
sigh.

i miss you guys. =(

life is good. for now.

2007-10-06T23:44:00.000+08:00

2 weeks has passed and i think i just might be one helluva lucky guy to get into where i am. other than lectures and lectures and online learning, not to mention even MORE lectures, and just a lil bit of hands on training, plus a bi-weekly physical training, its a real slack course. but of course with all the studying, along with it comes exams! which should be in about 3 or 4weeks. yikes. did i mention we're studying computer stuff like TCP/IP and binary stuff from CISCO online? i'm quite sure they didn't look into our educational pasts before selecting us eh. especially when there were 2 O level guys also in this course wanting out because they "felt too stupid". lol.
okay other than that i guess another factor is the people. we didn't have fixed beds/bunks like how it was in tekong, so we could choose our mates. and i got myself the best lot; a great buddy and a bunch of great mates in the platoon. i gotta say, i wish it was 13 weeks here and 6 in tekong and not the other way round. but thats the way it is i guess.
the week ahead will prolly be a lil diff and tougher, considering we've got our 1st outfield exercise, but due to confidentiality issues i can't really elaborate.
so. how's YOUR week been?

speed thru skill!

2007-09-23T01:15:00.000+08:00

yea for those who've seen my msn nick u'd have alr seen this

Your Posting Order is listed below:

1.	You are posted to	SIG INSTITUTE.
2.	Your vocation is	SIG OPR - INFOCOMM2.
3.	Your are to report to:	Stagmont Camp, BLK 207, RM #02-16.
	Reporting Date/Time:	24/09/2007 at 0800 hrs.
	Person to report to:	Chief Clerk
	Contact Number:	67611104/103
	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.
4.	Special Instruction:	No Camera Handphone is allowed. 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.

i'll be damned. no 8-5. not yet anyway cos after this 8week or so course i might get posted to a unit with 8-5. oh well. but i read in some forums it might not be that bad. as compared to other combat vocations. so. once again. fingers crossed!

POP LO!

2007-09-11T23:25:00.001+08:00

finally. no more "bottlessssss, UP!" and "COMPANY DIAM!" and what have you, i'm FREEEEEEEEEEEEE!
well, for now.
but 3 months has gone and past real fast, just as i had hoped it would. now that i think about it, it's really been a short 3 months.. possibly becos we had the bmt batch of plt4, so they kinda made our 1st month seem extra fast. i dunno. but pretty much has happened, good and bad. i hope the good memories will remain, and i hope to be able to keep in contact with e really great guys i've met esp from e rest of the company..
what's next? i won't know till noon 21st. so.. dun expect a post before that. HAHA.

quick update

2007-07-01T00:20:00.001+08:00

the 2 past weeks in tekong was pretty much better then i hoped it would be! time really flew and already i'm back la. but really i think NS has really up-ed the welfare; the commanders are really nice ppl and the food is really quite good, esp e western meals which is like twice a week! woots! not forgetting the view we get for being on the 4th floor of U company! we have a really beautiful sea view and the airport tower is visible, even when taking showers! haha the night breeze is awesome and just sitting on the ledge enjoying the night view while talking on the phone ends the day perfectly. honestly i think thats the one thing i'll prolly miss most after these 3 months. training was really slack at 1st but it got harder and on the day just before we booked out we had to march in full battle order (FBO) for 3km, and being song IC, i almost lost my voice la. wahaha.. but like they said, its progressive training so it'll definitely get tougher and stricter..
well it'll be over pretty fast anw.

i think.

tekong, here i come!

2007-06-13T19:55:00.001+08:00

after 3months of not really doing much, its finally time to do my time, no not behind bars, but in tekong! hah.

i don't know what to expect really, except for lots of physically-demanding exercises and good food (hopefully its true lol). just hope i dun end up in a company with a super strict sergeant or smth la. haha other than that, i'll be back in 2 weeks i suppose so i hope i'll be seeing most of my percs at the street performance in far east then.

but 13 weeks. pretty long time, similar to back in yr3 doing the final yr project/attachment. hopefully these 13weeks will be somewhat more enjoyable.

well anws to anyone who does read this, i guess it'll be a long time before there'll be a next!

i'll miss u guys :D

PS. thanks for the good luck and prayers those of u. really appreciate them! (will need the extra luck too haha)

to-do list

2007-06-04T17:21:00.001+08:00

1. ~~buy extra army shirts at beach road with classmates on monday!~~

2. ~~find someone to go to philwinds concert with on sat~~

3. ~~badminton on sunday~~

4. ~~work on fri~~

5. ~~get 2nd hand phone for army use~~

6. ~~get specs for army use~~

7. ~~help out fellow percs during band~~

9. meet up with sean and mad! (postponed =/)

10. ~~shave hair before going in. hah.~~

hmm what else..

2007-05-28T00:51:00.001+08:00

wow. pretty shocked! haha!

19 days and counting!

2007-05-26T01:25:00.001+08:00

with all the free time i'm left until THAT day comes, i'm back in e band to help out and get to know e yr1s. pretty fun batch i must say, i wish i was a year1 again! with jokers with jokhie, ridwan, zhao zhi, luntat, band prac this week was never a bore! and with ever-smiling dororin and valerie arnd, u know u're in for a great day! hahaha and also not forgetting e other yr1s like jing cheng and jolyn and seniors jong and robin, its a pretty fun batch and i hope they'll bond together strongly as they go for performances and concerts, and also competitions overseas! and 1st on the list would be the performance on the 6th june (yah just 2weeks) for a new paper event in school. we're playing 6 pieces and today was only the 1st prac! the pieces look real fun though so i predict they'll have a lot of fun in these 2 weeks (i hope!). tml's prac is at 8.30am so they're prolly mostly aslp lol. well its gonna be my last performance before going to THAT place so i'm gonna try to enjoy this as much as i can.

also before THAT day comes i'm gonna try to meet old frens too. so maddy and sean! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU! lol~

lol?

2007-05-22T17:11:00.001+08:00

You take the blue chrissypoo - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.

Which movie was this quote from?

minutes to midnight

2007-05-05T22:19:00.001+08:00

the new linkin park album's out! hopefully it'll be good. was thoroughly disappointed with the one they did with jay-z. anws i've alr heard "what i've done" so many times but i still think it's below standard. i dunno. maybe its just me. =/

i have been working like crazy recently for the aviva open badminton competition so now that it's over (for me), i can rest at last. my faves got knocked out today, damn sad. eriko hirose and peter gade. oh well. at least i don't have to bother watching the telecast tml. wednesday was the craziest day; woke up at 5.30am to start work at 7.15am, and it finished past 12am instead of the supposed 10.15pm. by the time i got home i watched "heroes" and then the man u/milan match. thankfully i fell aslp after the 1st half, otherwise i'd be so damn pissed after watching the 2nd half. anws. by the time that was over, it was alr almost 5am. so yeah, practically 24hours of sleepless madness. but work this week has been pretty fun, though tiring too. met a lot of new ppl who've just joined and most of them were really nice and friendly (and some cute too xD), so i'm hoping to work more often before i enlist. sigh.

last week's dance alive thingy wasn't too bad. only that they actually forgot to include my name and also some others. was kinda pissed about it, but hell, who cares. ppl went for the dance, not the boring music. the foreign bodies rocked. totally awesome performance. prolly the highlight if u ask me.

40 days till enlistment. bleahhhh.

D-DAY APPROACHES

2007-04-23T00:33:00.001+08:00

well actually there are a few important events upcoming.

just up this week on fri and sat would be the musical for nyp's 15th anniversary (not that anyone cares right?) and we've practices throughout the previous week and this week. hopefully our blood sweat and tears aren't for nothing. really put in a lot of effort for this performance, especially with the ensemble.

then soon after that is done, we'll be welcoming in the year1s as usual. hopefully we'll have a good number of dedicated percussionists. affni dan and the whole lot of us decided to put up an ensemble item for them, so hopefully it will also inspire them to join us in the ensemble (though i won't be in it for much longer.. )

and not too far later, on the 14th of june would be, D E-DAY. Enlistment la! yeah its so sudden. kept thinking it's be in september or smth, but ended up so fast. crap. at least i can get some dental benefits soon! ehehe =x hopefully will see some familiar faces that day.

the scoreline says it all

2007-04-12T01:53:00.001+08:00

the best man u game i've ever watched. i'm so glad i stayed up for this! man u rocks! xD

sorry for not updating guys but i don't really have much to update really unless u wanna hear me rant about band and stuff. bleah. l8r.

square one

2007-03-27T02:01:00.001+08:00

Managed to find the online version of the comic "300" and it was pretty good. I'm still interested to watch the movie but sadly either I have no time or no buddies to watch with. Oh well. See how la.

I wanted to blog about drumming for God and how certain issues can make things complicated.
But now that I think about it, it really IS too complicated. So complicated I don't know where to start and how to end. I'll try anyway.

When one is serving God through your music and pride creeps in, it can get very messy. That's probably why I stopped 2 years ago and entered the world of (symphonic) band. Also, it can become tiring. There's a loss of motivation to play after some time. Then I'll start wondering why I'm really playing in the church band. For God? To fulfill this duty? Or to become a better musician through increased exposure and practice?

Nevertheless, I'm prepared to try again. Playing for God should be a form of offering, of worship to Him, and our focus should be on Him alone, and not our selfish thoughts of pride. It will be hard. But I believe He will help me focus my attention onto Him instead of on the music. Help me, God.

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time to let go

2007-03-26T01:55:00.001+08:00

By the time I reached the band room on Saturday, i was 2 hours late. A JUNIOR came up to me, "Eh. Why so late?" I was pissed. I wished I had stayed in bed. 5 minutes later, 2 other band members came up to me separately asking why I was late. I kept myself from blowing up at them, and calmly shot back at how I wasn't obligated to come in the first place, considering how I was one of the few graduating this year who even bothered to come.

Honestly. My time is over. I'm no longer an NYP student. My admin card has God-knows-when been inactivated and is INVALID, such that I couldn't even enter the block without using my brother's card for entry. As such. Shouldn't you understand that I'm freed from school activities, which by the way, includes BAND? As soon as I had received my crappy but acceptable-for-graduation results, I had a choice. Whether or not I decide to show up or turn up late or stay home and sleep in or spend my precious time on something, it was UP TO ME.

So to my dear percussions (and bandmates), it's not like I have developed skills that the band cannot do without, but on the contrary, I still suck like hell and I'm sure you guys can cope with just one member gone, just as how they (we) did when past members had left. That said, I hope you, my dear percussionists, will remain faithful, to yourselves and to the band. I won't be around to call and text you guys to go for pracs anymore, so please, do yourselves the favour and encourage each other. Set a good example for new batch of year ones so that they too will attend practices regularly. Strive to become better and better, and do our seniors Teo Hui and Iskandar proud.

As for me, I'm not abandoning you. As and when, I'll be around. But when I do decide not to appear, GET USED TO IT. Step up, and dare to play. Get shot by Laoshi, and learn from it. No matter how many times he shoots you, play. I did.

Welcome to Singapore!

2007-03-21T23:38:00.001+08:00

that smile was my highlight of the day

2007-03-21T01:43:00.001+08:00

WOO-HOOO! I PASSED!! well. not that i was worried i'd fail but yeah its good to know u're finally done with studies, at least for 2 years =/ my GPA's not great as i had predicted, but it did increase, also as i had predicted. cos if it didn't, i might not be writing this and instead u'd see me in the orbituary section tml. HAHA KIDDING!

anws today has been pretty much awesome. the same drummer whom laoshi and i had seen perform at a concert last year is joining my section! am i relieved or what! after seeing her play from that concert and from today, i'm confident the section is in safe hands! and to think all this time i was worried how the section was gonna die off once jas and i have enlisted. percussions, BANZAI!

she smiled back at me! what should i do now? ahhhh.. i have got to start talking to her!

freedom can be so boring.

2007-03-07T11:59:00.001+08:00

as soon as exams were over, the celebrations began. although i screwed up accounts, i didn't care. IT WAS OVER! we went to watch the protege after playing a few rounds of DOTA. all in all it was fun letting loose now that everything's finished. but now that there's no school, no nothing, there's also nth to look forward to. simply put. I'M BORED! until i can get my graphics card, i can't play any good games, other than dota-ing with AI or maybe lvling up in diablo2. well at least there're good shows to watch. PRISON BREAK, LOST, HOUSE and HEROES. and not forgetting the countless anime i'm following. haha.

i need a job. (a 2nd job actually.)

2 down, 3 to go!

2007-02-25T01:02:00.001+08:00

i so can't wait for this to be over. but hell. the next few papers will be hell. all of them at 8.30 in e morning and proteomics is on monday. guess what. i've barely started studying! well. i did try after friday's drug dev paper but i fell asleep almost immediately in the library so ian and i decided to just head home instead. bad idea. now i can't seem to get myself to do some decent revision! and tml's gonna be a long day in church too! this is bad.

fall out boy's coming to on 3rd march and i'm going to watch with affni and danial! after some persuasion from them =X but after listening to their latest album i think i might enjoy this! after all, i do need an after-exam celebration! xD

anws i'm using this new blogging application called "performancing" which allows me to blog from firefox explorer while surfing around. and i can simply click and drag anything i wanna post into the editor and it'll appear immediately! cool stuff! :D

i basically dragged this from soccernet. man u won 2-1 at fulham with ronaldo's 87th min solo effort. i could really tear from the endless support the away fans gave even though man u wasn't playing at their best. it was so appreciated ferguson actually beckoned the team to head towards the away section to applaud them at full time..

next up. FA cup replay at Reading. i only hope rooney starts playing better. he was.. slow today.

old is gold

2007-02-12T23:57:00.000+08:00

i had no idea who cliff richard was until sunday, but i thought he was a pretty good singer, especially at his age. and listening to some of the lyrics, i found them very meaningful, unlike most of today's songs. if only i had a chance to get the cd for my mum, since she's a fan of his. maybe i'll look for it after my exams. but the crowd surprised me. it wasn't all old peeps; there were young ones too, including a toddler! haha and i even saw mrs bala from my english class in sec3/4 who sadly didn't recognise me =/ anws the next event won't be too soon; disney on ice in march. i gotta find another job then. ian says we could try relief teaching in our sec schools. haha sounds good to me!
church has been real fun recently! we're doing a puppet voice-dubbing recording and had a practice and lincoln really cracks us up, especially verena, who couldn't stop laughing all day la haha.. and for e past 2 weeks we've been attending sunday school! no we're not reliving our childhood days we're preparing to lead one of the sunday school sessions next month and we gotta prepare for it. looking forward to it anws.. should be fun xD
next week's cny! but damn la. gotta study during that period. exams start on the 22nd and e last paper is on the 1st. argh. can it come any slower? i wanna get this over and done with!

and again, its gonna be a lonely valentine's day this year. well. not that i really care anw. or at least i try to tell myself that. =/

looking back..

2007-01-28T22:53:00.000+08:00

if only it was possible to relive the old days. go back in time and go thru it all again. esp the times in sec3/4, the countless late nights playing VS with good buddies when it looked like it would never close down, the few but memorable church camps over the years especially the most recent, and even the times working at motorola and pasta cafe. i miss u all. 3a2/4a2, esp my 4reigners, u guys rocked my world. my clanmates in PwH, esp mad and sean, how i miss our crazy nights playing catching and making videos in game! if only VS hadn't close down! and if only i had stayed in school during e open house! would have seen u guys again! sighs. and my excolleagues! working was such fun with u guys arnd! what i would give to go back in time.. ahhh i'm such a sentimental twit sometimes.

i love the pics from e recent church camp! too many to post all though haha.

sermons can be such a bore. just look at joseph LOL!

our group presenting the skit.. i think we were one of the most hilarious groups xD

i'm taking a pic of pastor su's son taking a pic of us! haha cool~!

last train home

2007-01-17T23:02:00.000+08:00

if u havent heard this song "last train home" by lostprophets, pls do urself a favour and listen to it! when i sing it to myself, it feels like i'm promising myself, not to fall in love again. but somehow, i always break that promise. sigh. but i still like the song anw.

but thats not the only reason why i used that as the title. bloody hell. i had to run from one bus stop to the next to catch the last bus home. thankfully the bus driver was nice enough to wait at the stop for what seemed like a min or so to let me run up to it. stupid ezlink had to run out of credit at the right time. i took a random bus to serangoon mrt just to top it up before i rushed up to see the bus taking off from the prev bus stop. geez my butt hurt like crap on the bus from the running la.

1 more month to the end of it all. just had a presentation earlier today and thanks to eeren and soekhui, it was quite a good one. more presentations to come though; biomanufacturing, PCT, and business mgmt. and finally, exams.

regrets. i'm one full of them. i think never before have i felt so much regret in a single week. from the first words i spoke to u, to the times spent with u, to the things i do for u, everything. why can't u decide for urself what u feel? why do u allow urself to be controlled just by what other do and say? and WHY CAN'T U JUST TELL ME THE TRUTH? fuck. have u even spared a single thought for me? did u not think that ur actions could hurt my feelings, especially after all u've said and lied? i hate myself. i do so only because i cannot bring myself to hate u.

i hate ppl who give false hope.

studying properly actually works!

2007-01-09T23:38:00.000+08:00

results were finally out and for once, i had no Ds, but neither did i get any As. but i'm happy; i didn't fail sfg/mbid for a second time! cos if i did, its GG la. anws i guess the tests weren't that hard cos everyone was scoring As and Bs..

argh! there was quite a lot of things on my mind which i wanted to blog but now i forgot what they were -.- nvm i'll just type what comes to mind; past, present and future.

new year's eve/day was celebrated this year at lydia's and then at dom's. had games at lydia's prepared by some of them and had a prayer session before leaving for dom's. it was a pretty unforgettable night; i had no sleep at all till 8am as we watched movies throughout. they made rocket flares and fired them outside his house and we played with bomb bags and party poppers (clement was the main target after trying to sabo one of us lols). prolly one of the best new year celebrations i've had so far.

after school reopened, everything else was still e same so it didn't really feel like a new year anw. i guess most poly ppl will feel e same. but 5 weeks or so remain. till then, i'ma enjoy whatever time thats left with my fellow classmates. i'll most definitely miss them after graduation. =(

the coming open house will prolly be the last time i'll be performing for band i guess. esp after the prev performance, which i didn't go for, got screwed up by some guest player cos there was no perc, i guess i'd better go for this last one. EH NYPPT PLS COME FOR BAND PRACTS LA KNS! again i was the only perc today -.- but then again, i dunno if i'll have e time to perform also. bleah.

k 9am tut tml. out!

warning! u just might get diabetes! xP

2007-01-04T00:16:00.000+08:00

just wasting away...

2006-12-22T23:25:00.000+08:00

church camp was fun! i'm proud of my group! even though we seem to be always lacking in numbers, we still had high morale and spirit throughout the games! all good things, as usual, must come to an end though. i think the committee did a great job with the planning of the camp, so kudos to them! i wonder if i'll be able to join e next camp, since i'll prolly be stuck in the army then. hah. dammit i gotta go back to do a IQ test cos my med checkup ended just a lil too late. argh.. leh cheh la.

today was a wasted day. seriously. so damn bored. was expecting my pc to be fixed by today but seems my harddisk hasn't arrived. crap. with the projs piling up during this hols, where the hell am i gonna find e time when next week's packed with gatherings and outings and whatnots? i'm dreading e reopening of school alr! sigh.. but i'm looking forward to seeing old classmates and ex-vsers! miss yall! =D

honestly, are u confused? cos u're confusing me more than u can imagine. WHAT EXACTLY DO U WANT FROM ME?!

happy holidays!

2006-12-16T20:09:00.001+08:00

exams are overrrrr!! wheeee!! haha.. and my comp had to be such a spoiler to crash on me! i sent it for repairs earlier anw so i'll prolly only collect it next week after camp.

the singapore chinese orchestra was damn good yest nite la. i had NO idea it was a buddhist-based event so, was kinda shocked. but the performances by the chinese disabled group was fantastic. hard to believe they're actually deaf when they are dancing so fluidly to the music. and the choirs were not bad too!

church camp next monday to thurs! will prolly head for band after it finishes. i miss band a lot! xD

the deep breath before the plunge

2006-12-10T19:09:00.000+08:00

i'm happy! man u won both games this week 3-1! especially the benfica game, which i had to stay up till 4 to watch, cos man u was trailing behind at 1st when benfica's nelson scored a terrific top corner goal which van der sar had no chance of saving. but as half time drew near man u's attack was so relentless it was soooo exciting! and when vidic (above) headed in the equaliser, i was so ecstatic i teared. it was beautiful! their efforts paid off! haha and when giggs and saha headed their goals, e game was history, man u were thru, top too cos celtic lost haha! but it might not be good news since both real madrid and barcelona were both 2nd place, so there IS a chance man u have to play either one next. *crosses fingers*

i love ensemble pracs. esp with all my section members there, its just the one event of the week which keeps me kicking. now i wish i wasn't graduating so soon. can't bear to leave all my cute lil juniors behind xP

anws the week of hell begins tml at 9 when the 1st paper begins; proteomics. but i believe i can make it through. just gotta put in e effort like i did earlier when i studied at BK. somehow i could manage to study with all e noise and distractions arnd. hopefully i studied the right parts =X can't wait for friday to come. but it'll be fast i guess. just as how the previous weeks have been. but i dunno if i can make it for ensemble this week cos i might be working at e stadium for a chinese orch concert of sorts. and then next week i wont be arnd till thurs cos i'll be at camp!
hmm camp. dunno whether to anticipate or dread. i saw the groupings alr. had mixed feelings to it though. but e camps usually turned out to be not too bad in e end when i had these feelings so it should be alright.

good luck to all having CTs! =D

i like the way things are right now..

2006-12-03T12:26:00.000+08:00

i didn't even realise how long its been since my last update. hah. a lot has happened anw but i'll prolly blog on just a bit.

common tests are coming. and boy am i doomed. with 2 Fs for sfg and mbid already, i gotta wake up! with a new motivation, i intend to, starting with this damn presentation coming up this week. and then i've to really study for common tests before i end up with more Fs. omg.

but amidst all this i'm still happy. i'm thankful i've such a great section which just grew this week with the introduction of jong and her friend bobby, and also jiajun, who reminds me of me when i 1st came in haha. i'm also thankful for some of my classmates who've been very supportive and have helped me arnd in schoolwork.

band this week seemed to pass real fast. played songs i'd nv played before like 7th night of july and puzta and folk song suite. but sounds nice. but then next 2 weeks break again so sian. wth we just had e prev 2 weeks break and after just 1 week band we're having another 2 weeks break zzz. sian.

fri was shirlyn and weihong's bday! e oreo cheesecake that shirlyn made was nice! i think our whole section would agree, esp someone =X hehe. ensemble was cancelled last min and we went to amk macs to chill out and played a bit of pool. it was fun, with almost the whole section there. i really hope to be able to spend more time as a section together more often..

yest was just one of those perfect days. met dan and affni in toa payoh where i had a proper haircut+wash. i've never had my hair washed outside before and it felt damn shiok la! like some massage or smth lols. i'm most definitely gonna go back there next time xD. and after that we went to get affni's guitar! which was done quite fast actually, we went in, saw a good offer and took it. i think we took less than 10mins in there lols. and then we went to e national museum! its just opened this month and i think it looks great. took lotsa pictures and it was real fun. we even saw that celeb kumar there, looking more and more girlish, esp with e way he walks. was so tempted to snap a pic but didn't lols. oh and we saw these 2 guys dressed as aliens of sorts. freaky. maybe we can have our section outing there during e hols =D after that we walked to PS where we had gelare! was broke actually but affni treated. thanks affni! then we walked to e skate park in somerset from there and just watched ppl skating, blading and biking. for dinner i met my parents n bros at yishun safra where dinner was just shiok. its a place which is similar to jack's place, but they made it halal. great day, great company, great food. what can i say? xD

to switch or not to switch.. =/

2006-11-21T21:42:00.000+08:00

hmm who was it who said blogger can only take up to 300 posts per blog? now i feel like switching to a new blog esp with shir's claims that livejournal is better.. but is it? haha i'm still deciding..

with the concert over, something tells me its time to go back to square one; playing for church. which would mean rededication to the church band and less nypso, or even NO nypso. surely there'll be some ppl celebrating if thats the case isn't it? so i might as well make myself scarce and disappear to where i'm needed at church. cos apparently they're short on players anw so why not? but when i think of my musical growth and improvement, i know i wont be getting much compared to if i stay at nypso. and then there's those i'll miss a lot. *hint* argh.. i guess nothing's more impt than progress anw. unless... argh forget it.

napfa's coming alr! and the guys in class are stepping up on the trainings for running and pull-ups. yest we ran even though it was raining! lucky lvl 3 was sheltered on the oppo end of school from blk G till P. so we ran 6 rounds back and forth, doing pull-ups whenever we reached one end. and today i couldn't climb the stairs without feeling the effects of yest! how the hell am i gonna run tml with danial when my legs are so fatigued? die la!

oh yeah got to watch notre-dame de paris for free! haha cos the promoters were supposedly happy with our performance so gave us each 4 free tickets! XD i'm like soooo in love with the songs now! dammit why dint i just take french back in year 1?! wastedddd. now i understand what TH meant by benefits of the job wahahaha.. thx man. and thx to audrey for sat! haha.

can't think of anything else to blog now so.. l8r.

post sinfonia syndrome

2006-11-11T15:03:00.000+08:00

it is finished! sinfonia is finally over! all the hard work, blood sweat and tears didn't go down the drain i guess. though there were screwups, but i guess it wasn't too bad. could have been worse.

(above; during inferno, and ensemble group pic)
so, NOW WHAT? i'm just stoning at home now even though theres much to do; a 1200 essay which is 30% of my overall grade for an elective module, research for a few projects not done, and 2 tests to study for. omg. bah.

ABOUT TIME!

2006-10-30T20:17:00.000+08:00

those who watched the world cup match between italy and australia will know what i'm talking about when they see this! it still pisses me off when i think of it! sigh.

and also about time for an update heh.
it was a week full of birthdays last week and i spent mine watching death note after a great meal at MOF with some classmates.. =D and also in the week we had our band concert camp, in which we had sectionals and orchestra, plus a final run thru of a few songs like romantic charm. but it wasn't all for nothing; i had feedback that our percussion section had improved and so did my snare drum part =D but theres still a long way to go; other songs need improvement too! like my jupiter drums part. =/ anws anyone interested in the concert pls book ur free tickets from me asap. its on 10th nov (fri) at 7.30pm in nyp's auditorium. =D

e hype-up concert on hari raya was e 1st event we were working for indoor stadium and it was so crappy la. only don and drew and electrico were entertaining la. e idols all so boring and lame =/ but damn tired la whole day stand kns. next event will prolly be e notre dame thingy. hmmm.

on another note. ROONEY SCORED A HAT TRICK!! haha! after 8 games of not scoring he finally scored e 1st premiership hattrick and man u thrashed bolton 4-0 xD saha was so unselfish and gave ronaldo a tap-in. anws bolton's sway la, of all days to play man u it had to be that day. haha..

ok guess thats all for now. l8r!~

NB- 300th post! what took me so long! lols.

the after effects of baileys and jack daniels

2006-10-23T01:24:00.000+08:00

just got home from watching soccer and lots of drinking at shaun's place, and MAN U WON LIVERPOOL 2-0! haha that was one helluva exciting match! somehow ferdinand scored against liverpool again, his previous goal being the winner against liverpool in jan! not forgetting scholes playing his 500th game and scoring as well! pity rooney didn't score tho; his bday's on tues, a day before mine. heh. oh well. at least he shaved! LOL.

and the 1st week of school flew past. schoolwork seems okay so far, just that the projects are piling up already. but i'm getting more stressed out from the coming concert. after playing this certain song about a dozen times already, i suddenly find myself under pressure for that same song. argh.. and the additional stress no thanks to that so called SL who HAD to get dennis to make us change the sticking for a part both me and jh were used to already. and that part happens to be quite a fast one so adapting in such a short time is ridiculous! but at least i can finally say i can play pirates fully and properly now that i got a certain part cleared up with e laoshi's pinpointing. but there's still e orchestra songs! GOD! is this gonna be my first and LAST concert? i'm petrified, honestly. screwing up is NOT an option.

yesterday was friday the 13th?? omg! -.-

2006-10-15T01:04:00.000+08:00

YAY! got home from our "outing" today in time to watch the 2nd half, and apparently a more exciting half, in which man u won 3-1!~ solskjaer, vidic and saha (above) being the goalscorers! =)

well the outing was kinda disappointing; only jh being the latest addition to the group which went tanning. haha.. but still, BILLY BOMBERS ROCKS! haha it's my 2nd time there and still does not disappoint =D too bad i dint think of taking pics otherwise i could continue danial's little food discovery thingy =x

SO IS THERE WORK TML OR NOT??................ arghhhhhhh.

(insert appropriate title)

2006-10-13T00:15:00.000+08:00

its the last week of the hols!! nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!! sigh. how the hell did the last 6 weeks pass so fast?.. damn.

still. its true when they say "save the best for last". we're finally gonna have a proper perc outing! yay! i'm glad almost everyone can make it la.. soo looking forward to it! =D

the mini perc outing with shir and jiemin on tues was fun! we dint do much, just tanned and soaked a lil, but nonetheless i definitely enjoyed it.. oh there was this one incident which really got us laughing the whole day, but i'm lazy to type it out since both of them alr did =X so go over their blogs if u wanna know. "F*** U THE F IZZIT?" LOLS~ =X

and i got a lot of ppl to thank recently. haha.
THANKS JIEMIN for lending me goong wahahaha! currently at episode 10 =)
THANKS CHER for passing me ur old notes for my this coming sem! very much appreciated!
THANKS TIM for passing me all e prison break episodes! wahahaha!
and also thanks to those who've been showing lots of concern to me! u know who u are! =D

okay back to more GOONG while waiting for lost and bleach to dl!! xD

blessing in disguise?

2006-10-07T00:51:00.000+08:00

LOST SEASON 3 IS OUT! and the 1st episode was SO THRILLING! AHHH CAN'T WAIT FOR E NEXT EPISODE! likewise, same goes for PRISON BREAK! haha. shit la i watch too fast now have to wait for the next episode next week..

well. it's prolly my fault, but things have apparently escalated and i've prolly pissed some ppl off. but i'll have to say it might be for the best interests of the band since i can spend more time with my section and in particular, my juniors, so that well, at least they'd stay and in danial's case, join, with the main band and commit for the concert. esp now that our section's been cut down drastically following the "departures" of some old faithful members, we need everyone to stay AND come for pracs.. in fact, that's prolly why the year1s in the other sections never stayed. the seniors dun spend time with them and take them for granted. thankfully i've ensemble sessions in which my section gets to bond, but as for the other sections, i can't say the same. i could actually state this example: when the band president was trying to spend sometime with her section at kfc once, the rest were making a whole lot of noise making her feel guilty for not spending time with THEM instead. that incident really made me think bout it, but i guess it was kept at the back of my mind all this time until now when i just rmbed it.. and for the record, no names are mentioned above, so i'm not pointing fingers.

anws i'm grateful my juniors are actually gonna come for orchestra and the performance tml! my pleas weren't for nth in the end haha.. well hopefully i won't screw up e performance. =/

2 more weeks and the gates of hell open

2006-10-03T01:28:00.000+08:00

no i dint mean the seventh month, obviously. timetable for my final semester is out and i'm already dreading it. tues are the worst - 8-5 with a 1 hour break for lunch, and i'll have band at nite, AND i have a tutorial at 8 the next day -.- with 8 modules, HOW AM I GONNA SURVIVE?! jia lat. now i understand why ian decided to drop out. sigh.

we had our first ensemble with dennis today and i think it was awesome! definitely the right choice to replace isk. and he's somewhat more organised i think. he actually set aside sometime for theory, which, i seriously suck at. so what we did was to clap while counting! sounds easy? with a metronome, and having to squint at the book dennis was holding up, and having to count aloud while clapping, it was kinda hard for me haha. and i think his exercise was more strenuous so this would be more helpful in training my left arm which is really weak. anws i'm glad he actually got arnd reassigning some of the parts cos this helped to encourage ppl like danial to come for prac..

tml's gonna be quite a crazy day. will be packing the whole library with my other librarians jolene and richard and also with huimin.. hopefully we'll set everything properly so there won't be much problems in finding scores etc. good luck to us.

what if...

2006-09-29T01:10:00.000+08:00

i just saw the vid on teohui's blog and thoughts went thru my head and i thought i might as well type it out..
what if ian and allison hadn't pulled in me into nypso? then things would be sooo much more different! i would still be playing for church service instead of being just another church member and i wouldn't have to console myself whenever they mention anything about the wmc trip because i wouldn't care! but because i AM in nypso, i DO care. life would have been much straighter if i hadn't been coerced into joining the band by those 2 ppl WHO HAVE PS-ED ME!! damn it. then i wouldn't have to face all this shitty ppl, my shitty job, and having to take whatever blows the laoshi throws at me. I'M LOUSY K? there goes the "if only"s again. like "if only i had joined opss band back then.." and what not. ARGH. WHY'S MY LIFE SO SCREWED UP? since i belong to neither here nor there, wtf should i do then?!

was misled, thus misread

2006-09-29T00:50:00.000+08:00

i had possibly the worst night's sleep ever last night. i took surprisingly long to get to slp and kept waking up several times and the cycle kept repeating. i guess i've finally decided to just forget about it like how i did the 1st time. =)

the result of being "too free"

2006-09-25T01:31:00.000+08:00

it's half past one in the morning and i'm just laying back, chilling out to my playlist and in deep thoughts. i guess not having to go to work and just having NOTHING to do is reason enough for that. today's church service left me feeling like an alien to a church i've been attending ever since sec sch, maybe because of the fact that i spent most part of it with people who left eventually, leaving me all by my own. and now, i feel like leaving too. somewhere i can forget, start afresh, but still experience the same God, because, it really IS all about him no matter where u go isn't it? of course. whether u end up single all your life (so far) or not, it's all planned out by Him, isn't it? sigh. maybe it's just me to be so pessimistic about the whole bgr thing, but honestly i can never see myself being more than just a "friend" to someone of the opposite sex. sure, we can be GOOD friends (i have a few actually, and i treasure them greatly), but nothing more, cos i just know nothing good can come out of it. it's just me. or maybe i'm just afraid. of the almost inevitable ending. again. pessimism at it's best. who knows, maybe i'm just putting the blame on Him for this. i hate myself.

Gabrielle - Out of Reach
Knew the signs
Wasn't right
I was stupid for a while
Swept away by you
And now I feel like a fool
So confused,
My heart's bruised
Was I ever loved by you?

Out of reach, so far
I never had your heart
Out of reach,
Couldn't see
We were never
Meant to be

Catch myself
From despair
I could drown
If I stay here
Keeping busy everyday
I know I will be OK

But I was
So confused,
My heart's bruised
Was I ever loved by you?

Out of reach, so far
I never had your heart
Out of reach,
Couldn't see
We were never
Meant to be

So much hurt,
So much pain
Takes a while
To regain
What is lost inside
And I hope that in time,
You'll be out of my mind
And I'll be over you

But now I'm
So confused,
My heart's bruised
Was I ever loved by you?

Out of reach,
So far
I never had your heart
Out of reach,
Couldn't see
We were never
Meant to be

Out of reach,
So far
You never gave your heart
In my reach, I can see
There's a life out there
For me

beautiful song isn't it? gets to me everytime.

O.O

2006-09-24T21:57:00.000+08:00

haha. what a joke. a mahjong idiot got 72tai. meaning a multiplier of 72. dun ask me how that happened tho. xD

I WISH! haha.

2006-09-22T23:52:00.001+08:00

christopher kwok --

[noun]:

A person who has the ability to be invisible

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

a helluva beeee-zeeeee week part 2

2006-09-22T11:29:00.000+08:00

just got back from class chalet and i'm damn tired. not that we did much there, but i spent a whole morning playing playing monopoly with ian and timothy until i got totally bankrupt! damn mayfair. ended up slping for only 2 hours or so that day.

anws got back yesterday and went for band. somehow i managed to get thru el camino's tamborine part after being screwed on tues for the same part. but basically i was getting screwed for almost all e songs. bleah. i can't stand that mei gui song man! argh!

gonna catch the host later with marc and audrey! and then got ensemble practice! at last! i hope dennis will be a fun teacher just like isk was...

and i got e indoor stadium job and going for training next week! audrey and jiemin both got in too! =DD

wishing this hol won't be over so fast......

a helluva beeee-zeeeee week

2006-09-14T12:15:00.000+08:00

lets see. quite a fun week actually!
monday - supposed to have work but last min cancelled while i was accompanying audrey for the "interview" at amoy st.. then went to ang mo kio jalan jalan lols. fun!
tues - crazy busy work, and then band! and then belated celebrations for sam at kfc! fun!
weds - work! not so fun! spent the afternoon watching HOUSE! NICE!
today! (thurs) - seeing isk at airport before rushing to band for meeting. after band watching movie and ton-ing at macs! should be fun!
fri - work again! last day! wahahaha! still not so fun.
sat - phil youth concert! going with marc, jo, mf and william and sam to see huimin, nerak and hong ghee perform. fun!
sunday - imf ushering at german centre! wahahaha good pay! $$ xD

yeps quite a lousy post but i'm in a rush. haha.

a hard night's work

2006-09-04T00:20:00.000+08:00

and finally after almost a whole year, i'm back in the food business, as a waiter of course. this time the restaurant's called "acacia" and it's right smack in the middle of bishan park 2. it's got quite a nice scenary since it's surrounded by the park and a spa right next to it. however the food is quite pricey so be warned! and somehow the whole restaurant is run with only about 2-3 full timers for the service and 1 full timer for cooking. and 1 or 2 indian nationals for the cleaning but thats besides the point. how they managed these 4 years, dun ask me. their working system is slightly different from pasta cafe tho.. for example they dun have a computer system for keying in orders, so our hand writing has to be legible. of course there're more differences but i can't be bothered to list them. i still prefer pasta cafe tho. but one thing is that we didn't need to do any closing duties! i thought i'd have to mop or sweep like as in pasta cafe, but not in acacia. the boss does it himself! he seems to be a nice man, the lady boss half as nice and the other part timer a whole lot more blur than i was. the cook was nice too, making us (me and jo) some supper to let us try the food and also some fries! =D anws i guess we're kinda lucky it wasn't tooo busy, esp when it was hectic in the kitchen already with so many orders coming from the spa's side.
will be working tml night too but without jo this time so i'll see how it goes.. i'm BEAT! =x

the unexpected visit

2006-09-03T00:11:00.000+08:00

somehow, u only miss stuff once u've moved on into the future, isn't it? well i was with jo and she had to meet marcus who was in my alma mater (OP) so i thought, heck, why not, check out what's changed and all esp since they've repainted the whole school purple/maroon!! but i never quite expected myself to end up chatting up with my form tchr ms chang who was in charge of op's band and even ms mary who was having a npcc camp.. just being there in the canteen, reminiscenting and updating myself with the happenings in school, like how the old mr loh is FINALLY retiring next year.. damn i miss my sec 3/4 days and esp my mates.. i wanna relive those days again! but i know i never will.. sigh.

on another note, i got myself a job. waitering again! thanks to jo for the intro! we're starting tml already! w00ts! xD

a quickie.

2006-08-29T00:04:00.000+08:00

attachment's finally over! and some of us namely jolene, william, karen, peiyi and i celebrated at huimin's place from fri till sun with a mini bbq on sat! was fun and i really enjoyed it! and band's finally gonna resume tml! yay!!

just had my left little finger op and now it's all wrapped up and i'm on meds. the op went pretty well except when the doc dint give me enough LA and he had to literally JAB my palm THRICE to get the LA in. and dammit it was painful la. but other than that during the op all was good; the doc and his nurses were chatting about carl's jr and where to find the outlets so i told them. dint quite expect them to be that casual tho. anws i think it's healed well as i got to see for myself how i could bend my pinky alllll the way. yay. i even have the little wire that has been in me for the last year or so. however, i dun think i'm able to use my left hand much for the next few days. i couldn't even hold my drumsticks properly. damn. wat am i gonna play tml at band? triangle? aww man.

5 more days to FREEEEDOOM!!!

2006-08-20T20:18:00.000+08:00

theres so much i wanna blog, but my mind's messed up and totally disorganised..
in a flash, national day is over and i'll miss those times with cher and my 2 gd frens i made during the all e rehearsals and the actual day.. i guess i'm one of the lucky ones who got to see the fireworks this year from such a view, could u believe i was right BELOW the fireworks?! if not for the umbrellas provided, i'd be burnt! sigh good things come to an end wayyy too fast sometimes.

yesterday's sws percussion concert was totally awesome! i really regretted not videorecording their last piece which was soooo hilarious as it was a body percussion piece where they use their hands and feet to slap their body parts to make sounds.. i guess its a good experience for the section and i'm sure everyone enjoyed it! sad to say isk is leaving soon we'll all miss him.. i wonder who's gonna replace him to teach us.. but i'm glad my section's been great! LOVE YOU GUYS! i'm definitely gonna make sure we organise a section outing soon =)

ok almost time for EPL! FINALLY! haha its gonna be a great season! GOOOO MAN U!!! xDD

fireworks! yeah again.

2006-08-11T19:56:00.000+08:00

from the fireworks festival on national day's eve. er yeah sorry for being loud. i'm quite sure my voice can be heard a few times haha.

blokus!

2006-08-07T13:16:00.000+08:00

YAY! I CLEARED ALL PIECES FOR THE 1ST TIME!! =DD so fun! i'm really addicted now wahahaha! esp since e bosses are away... hehe! xD
if any of u're playing lemme know! my user is icecub3 and thats me on the top left corner!

i NEED to stop talking in my sleep. STAT!

2006-08-06T23:09:00.000+08:00

i dunno why but i'm suddenly having a craving for junk food. chips, chocolate, gassy drinks, the lot. hmmms. xD

anws the percussion chalet was fun! i'm glad most of the year 1s could make it, onli some couldn't. the swspe ppl were kinda nice, esp willy and dennis! but there could have been more interaction between e 2 ensembles tho.. haha. but the place really made me reminescent of the church youth camp 2 or 3 years back cos the chalet was exactly the same design, but not the one we used. but both ensembles took a walk arnd and explored the new walkways being built. it's gonna be a real cool place once its done up! anws we stayed up real late that night thanks to jasper's non-stop talking or rather, nagging. i think my theory about beer being more of a stimulant than a depressant, for at least, cos i was really energetic thru the night after just a third a can. haha. but i was the 1st to K.O. in e end at 4+ haha. real tired. and i also woke up last. oh and apparently i talked in my sleep again! omg!! yeah but onli affni heard. and she said i was mumbling. so i guess i dun talk in my sleep, i MUMBLE! wahahaha. but the board game one of the swspe members intro-ed us was really interesting and i guess ian and i got really sucked into it. it's called BLOKUS and their website allows u to play for free! haha so cool. gotta get the board game soon! more fun to play it hands on. anws i definitely enjoyed the chalet a lot and even more so, the company of my ensemble! =D guess the last time we'll be seeing isk will be at the swspe concert.. sigh. will ensemble pracs ever be the same with both teo hui and isk gone?...

long awaited update? ahaha.

2006-07-31T12:47:00.000+08:00

it's been 1 heck of a busy weekend so that's why this update took so long ok? if not for the fact that bosses are late today i wouldn't have time to type this out. anws.......

fri i went to regent sec concert with laoshi, huimin, meifen, jolene and william, and it was quite good actually, especially their 2nd half. the drummer girls rocked! i can't wait to meet them when we have the band exchange in sept or smth xD even laoshi nudged me pointing them out saying they were not bad and all. haha. and i think their sec1s were better than their seniors when they played a song in the 2nd half by themselves. and coincidentally i met isabel whom i didn't know was from regent, and houston and lincoln who were there to support an alumni player. i also saw 2 amb members from bfh but i guess they forgot me ba. anws after the concert we went arnd taking pictures at e merlion and esplanade.. just too bad my attachment had to end so late cos of e bosses grrrrr. one sad news was that the convenience store downstairs closed down! poor uncle. the rent went up. damn la no more snacks to buy for mid office hours. argh.

sat was ndp preview! and hell it was tiring la. no wx to crap with but instead i had cheryln for company! =D somehow she still joined in even tho she didn't come for the previous rehearsals haha. so for the whole day it was my 2 guy frenz from the prev weeks and her handling 1 giant sector. woooh! but it went ok i guess. left one more last time! hiosh!

woke up late on sunday lols. but just nice when i on my phone i got a call from huimin to help out at ntu alumni's performance which was in the middle of the new newton food centre! actually i wasn't really needed la. there was about 4 percussionists in total but somehow i still had parts to play, esp JUPITER! xP i just looooove that song man! and also got forced to play kinki kids which was sooo tiring (it was 16 beat all the way) that i switched to normal semi quavers in the middle. exhausting. how did teohui do it? haha remind me to ask him. and we also played sketches of spain, orpheus, pop in e spots, lyric waltz, ra-smth march, and can't take my eyes off u. and after the performance dinner was provided! woots the food was damn good la too bad the uncle didn't take us seriously when we ordered a 2nd stingray. danggg.

well that's all about it for my weekends. back to more mario. xD

TGIF! =D

2006-07-21T00:31:00.000+08:00

yay i'm sooo happy! finally gonna watch pirates with my crazy bunch of bandmates and i finally can have about 3 hours more slp. i had to wake up at 5 this morning cos we had to reach jurong by 7! omg. but the day passed by and finally we were let off. and instead of having to wake up at 5 again tml, i can slp till 8 cos the boss wants us to do the paperwork in e office. anws thats not the point.

this time, it's more marcus sake. ahahaha.
NO BAND UNTIL ATTACHMENT'S OVER! BOO! =( but sam suggested we met anws as if we had band in the bandroom itself haha. sounds good to me =D so today was the last prac for the next few wks and sadly my section had a lousy turn-out. lucky for me there was shirlyn, otherwise i'd be dead bored. but the songs were mostly ok; we played jupiter and pop in the spots! yay! cos that lobbie wasn't arnd i had to play drum set for both! XD and then came some others like praise jeruselam, czardas and the chinese romantic charm song. "HEY, HEY, HEY HEY!" ahahaha. what a weird song. but fun nonetheless. and we ended off with pirates! XDD damn i can't wait for tml, and i'm sure i'm not the onli one =DD supper was as usual, the whole gang at kfc (again) and somehow, i got "paired" with mf. wth la jolene! damn bo liao eh. but doesn't matter la.. i dun have to be attached to be happy! u guys are all i need =D

ndp fireworks!

2006-07-17T00:25:00.000+08:00

untitled

2006-07-13T01:08:00.000+08:00

COLDPLAY WAS AWESOME!! I SO DO NOT REGRET IT EVEN THO I WENT ALONE!! grace was sooo right about the lighting effects being totally cool and all.. THOSE WHO MISSED IT (hint hint shaun :P), TOO BAD! lols~ i did take some pics and a vid but posted them in my multiply so check it out over there..

was that on monday? omgwthbbq it's THURS already~! time flies eh. and tml the bosses are back. damnnnn. then again it doesn't make much difference. except we get to go off a lil earlier than usual. which is good! busy days to come next week! =(

argh. in a space of 2 days 2 good friends went abroad to study; teo hui to melbourne (EH U HOW OLD LIAO STILL STUDYING!!) and sakib to m'sia's monash, which leaves me to be e last of e "4reigners" left in s'pore since mico's still in cali and andre still somewhere in aust.. sigh. will miss u guys.

okok for samuel's sake, i'll blog more about band =P
I LIKE THE CURRENT SONGS!! CZARDAS AND DIABOLIQUE ARE DAMN NICEEEE!! haha even the chinese romantic charm song is nice la! at least compared to last year, i'm playing more snare parts! but i still can't get used to the traditional grip! need isk to teach again since i dint learn much on monday =/ which reminds me. i feel so under-appreciated!!~! that tooting SL so tooting useless can't frigging open e bandroom door when he's free and expect me to find him at blk Q and walk to the other end to open e room. knnbccb la!! if i chose not to come for that 1 hour wtf are e others gonna do? stay outside bandroom wait for nth ah! nb. tooting useless. ok. i feel better now. oh yea thanks to huimin for getting richard and jolene to help out in librarian duties~ i think they're great choices since i always see them arnd, esp that crab. lols.

anticipating band prac!!

if u're as bored as i am right now.

2006-07-10T13:10:00.000+08:00

Click to Play McDonalds

the spyware removers ARE the spyware. f*ck!

2006-07-03T22:42:00.000+08:00

sometimes we just hate the internet don't we. i don't know what happened and when, but now i'm facing an OUTBREAK!! dammit. which spyware remover can u trust?! the 1st one i installed created more problems! ARGHHHHHHHH.

band camp was fun! actually, the whole of last week was fun! except for the part where i go attachment. our performance was a lil screwy, but, who cares! and the band camp! if onli we had an extra night, but i guess everyone was tired from not enough sleep the previous night! lols. stupid jasper kept talking non stop until poor marcus couldn't slp lols. but anw we ended up staying over at karen's after hanging out in suntec, marina and clarke quay.. damn the bus ride was SO long, we had to stand for almost an hour! but it was fun anws lalala.

then came sunday and i had to go to school for the ndp briefing on an empty stomach and spent about 5-6 hours doing nth but attend a stupid talk and walk around the national stadium for nth. what a colossal waste of time! thankfully i had wx for company! well, not thruout but at least. its different this year tho. we're almost certainly going to be clowns keeping the spectators smiling by doing God-knows-what. last year was so much easier. ah well. billy bombers was the bomb! haha we ended up heading to marina (where i had BK like 21 hours ago) to have my 1st meal of the day. lols. my b52 burger and wx's chicken was seriously damn nice! and not forgetting e milkshakes! haha now i know what they say about billy bombers' milkshakes being the best. hahaha.

well now that funs' over, it's back to work and already tml till thurs we're packed with projects. actually the WHOLE month is packed with projects. i hate wearing formal. but will still go back band.. poor yunyue's alone doing e librarian stuff and i'm seemingly useless. arghhh. for the 16230137912073 time, why am i librarian again?

oh yah sectionals today was kinda fun, and isk is thinkin of getting us put up a percussion ensemble concert! cool! hope it goes well.

ahh well. oyster signing out.

australians might turn murderers after watching this.

2006-06-27T22:31:00.000+08:00

shame on you italians. *does the russell peters "you wan to eat/wtf" hand signal*

the bad and the ugly

2006-06-23T11:33:00.000+08:00

3rd week into attachment already. and yes time changes everything. including perceptions. 3 weeks and already things start to unravel. seems that the company has some history and quite a lot happened apparently. thanks to my colleague from church, i now see the light. people aren't always what they seem to be. i won't say who, since walls have ears, but some ppl can switch personalities in a split sec when u least expect it. on the outside and whats inside, a world of difference. lets just hope the next 9 weeks will go smoothly. but the advice i got "be careful" definitely will be something i'll bear in mind. one false move, thats all it'll take.

anyways this month has been their most peaceful one yet, with so few projects that the bosses have taken leave since yesterday for the week. but july's gonna get tough i think. more projects; less sleep (gotta wake up earlier than usual).

WE ARE HAVING OUR CONCERT ON JULY 14TH IN NYP AUDITORIUM AT 7.30PM. ADMISSION IS FREE SO BOOK UR TICKETS WITH ME ASAP! THIS CONCERT IS FEATURING THE PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE (in which i'm in of course) FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NYP HISTORY SO DON'T MISS IT! heh free publicity here XP.

RECENT NEWS JUST IN. CONCERT POSTPONED TO NOVEMBER.

alrighty, back to more freecell-ing. *yawns*

one b.e.a.u.tiful song.

2006-06-11T15:43:00.000+08:00

thanks to dennis for his sermon today and introing this really meaningful song.. read the words and just imagine...

Thank You

I dreamed I went to heaven
And you were there with me
We walked upon the streets of gold
Beside the crystal sea
We heard the angels singing
Then someone called your name
You turned and saw this young man
And he was smiling as he came
And he said friend you may not know me now
And then he said but wait
You used to teach my Sunday School
When I was only eight
And every week you would say a prayer
Before the class would start
And one day when you said that prayer
I asked Jesus in my heart

CHORUS
Thank you for giving to the Lord
I am a life that was changed
Thank you for giving to the Lord
I am so glad you gave

Then another man stood before you
And said remember the time
A missionary came to your church
And his pictures made you cry
You didn’t have much money
But you gave it anyway
Jesus took the gift you gave
And that’s why I’m here today

CHORUS (repeat)

One by one they came
Far as the eyes could see
Each life somehow touched
By your generosity
Little things that you had done
Sacrifices made
Unnoticed on the earth
In heaven now proclaimed

And I know that up in heaven
You’re not supposed to cry
But I am almost sure
There were tears in your eyes
As Jesus took your hand
And you stood before the Lord
He said, my child look around you
For great is your reward

work work

2006-06-08T12:56:00.000+08:00

balloon hat festival rocked!! i totally enjoyed the work there such that it didn't even feel like i was working but totally having fun!! broadrick concert band and anderson military band, i'll never forget you guys! that weekend was made especially special becos of those cute peeps! XD hopefully there will be another one next year!

on another note, attachment has just started. for some of us at least. now i think i know how clement feels haha. but e work given has been considerably easy and so far so good. i think other than the travelling distance, this work environment is quite perfect. why?
1. the people are nice; one of them is even in my church! but strangely i didn't recognise him =/
2. most of my colleagues here are christians! haha!
3. work is so far quite simple, maybe just a bit tiring and straining to the eye, but still quite easy.
4. there's quite a number of food stalls around with a food court right below the office and a coffee shop a block away. so variety of food isn't gonna be a problem for now. (the western food downstairs is sedap. seriously. and the beryani at the coffee shop is not bad too.)
5. there's actually a convenience store at the 1st floor. how convenient!
and basically these are the advantages of this workplace so far..

went to make new glasses yesterday. and had my eyes checked. apparently my left eye is really deteriorating quite badly as it's now 725 with 50 degrees astigmatism, while my right eye remains at 650. wth is happening! and the glasses cost 190. there goes my salary from BHF. oh wells. there's still the attachment salary! hehe.

NAPFA's tml!! and i'm already planning to fail. not that i can pass anyway -.- but my colleague says failing means entering NS earlier, AS WELL AS LEAVING EARLIER. and since we enter early to do the ippt training which isn't too bad, we don't have to stay the extra months to do the shit work at the end of NS. hah. sweeeet.

and sadly. VS IS CLOSING DOWN!! booohoooo! i'll miss all of you!! esp my PwH guys!..

3 weeks and STILL sick. wtf?

2006-05-27T19:24:00.000+08:00

smth's wrong with my immune system i swear. i have never had to wait more than 3 weeks to recover from a flu! i even had to go to e doc's twice in 2 weeks and the medicine is already finished but i'm still having the occasional fevers, persistant coughing and sorethroat. so now i'm waiting for e xray results hoping its not bronchitis or smth =/

on another note, i got home from band camp! hell i was stlil sick thruout but it was still quite fun, even tho it was just 1 day 1 night. i'm sure the year 1s will prolly feel more inclined to come for practises now they have made frens with each other and all. percussions and scl rocks! ahaha!

just like last year, i'm prolly gonna be helping out in ndp again with some same peeps like wx and cher and dee! and also ian introed me this world bank thingy where we're gonna be doing some paid work (muaahahahahaha) and the uniforms looked good! haha can't wait..

E3 stuff

2006-05-12T00:56:00.000+08:00

apparently E3 was one helluva event where so many cool stuff is released! check it out!
halo 3

some new console which allows total freehand control. just watch the vid. (thx to angel for the intro!)
with e xbox 360 and ps3 out, i'm sure theres more so go check it out!

one-day-late entry

2006-05-10T22:50:00.000+08:00

In school while i'm typin this into my n70. Damn bored. The past 2 weeks in fact have been so slack it's boring. Right now there's nth for me to do till it's time 2 feed e fishies. And cos e doc's here, i can't sleep. Actually i was tryin to sleep until she came in rather stealthily (or maybe i was deaf) and angel had to nudge *imitates msn vibration sound* me up.

Anws news are in tat ruud's leaving man u, like how beckham left. Sad but i guess he's prolly asking for it when he stormed off after being told he's gonna be left on e bench. But thank God e lads still won, and apparently rossi was as impressive as e previous match i saw him in. Good for him, i'll bet he's bound to go far with his abilities.

Doc's just left haha. Anw i hope band's gonna give me a 4th librarian. Ridiculous i know, FOUR librarians, but there's much work to do all e time, and eve isn't gonna be around anymore. At least yun yue's gd at it, otherwise i'm dead la. E lao shi oso dunno how to sympathize with me, giving me so much stress when i was e only librarian present at times. Not to mention some section leaders who should noe better. If this shit continues i'll threaten to quit. Then we'll make those sl(s) do e librarian duties to know wat it's like. Hah! Who's the sucker now? XD

wat i spend my 9-5s daily for.

2006-05-06T23:19:00.000+08:00

basically just me dechorionating the damn embryo. enjoy!

yeps. more to come.

pics from days of club crawl

2006-04-22T23:16:00.000+08:00

yeah i figured since i havent posted pics in a while, i might as well now.. we also took a vid of us practising for stinkin garbage but it wasn't that good =X but the quality was! wahahaha.. n70 rox la.

on another note, project's gettin on rather fine actually, and if not for that bothersome supervisor and the timings, i might like my project! we finalli did some real work this week after that supervisor finally decided to get her hands dirty and demonstrate. sheesh. it took her 6 weeks to do that? wtf. but yeah. dechorionating an embryo and taking a nice picture of it feels so damn satisfying, but crushing one can be even more demoralising too. apparently this project requires us to play "god", of course only when it comes to the embryos. =/

i'm christopher, the embryo murderer. now that's rather nice ring to it doesn't it? hoho.

just. killll meeee

2006-04-16T22:03:00.000+08:00

i've had this recurring fantasy that i could hire a hitman who'd take me out when i least expect it.

life really sucks. really. things (my phone, followed by my com, and then things at home like the fridge) screwing up on me, wrong decisions that i've made and regretted soo badly, i sooo badly want to turn back time. then again, if i could turn back time i think i wouldn't have to face these problems in the first place cos i'd prolly have made sure my parents didn't meet or smth. hahs. ok maybe thats a bit too evil.

i seriously chose the wrong project. i guess it was plain lack of foresight on my part but, i should have declined it in the very first place when i stepped into the tutorial room. or maybe i should have insisted on the OTHER project, the particular one in which i had much interest. or maybe i should have....

fuck. what's done is done. unless some miracle from heaven arrives, i have no choice but to get these next 6-7 weeks over and done with. life's a road with many obstacles. this is just one giant boulder. i bet there'll be plenty more even after these 6-7 weeks. but whatever the case, i gotta get through this 1st.

expenditure this month has definitely exceeded a grand, with stuff like my com repairs costing about 600, my n70, which i bought today for 350 after a plan upgrade and after trading in my 6600 for only 150 T.T!!, and also other stuff i had to buy which totalled about 150? damn i'm broke!!

school's reopening! to those who were having holidays of course, i nv had a holiday to begin with. anws club crawl's on tues and we're having our second percussion performance! i'm just worried i'll screw up cos we only finished learning on sat and i havent practised today! ahhhhh! i just hope my excuse letters will be enough for that damn bitch of a doctor. ppptueee. JOIN THE BAND PPL!!!!! xD

anws happy easter everyone! he lives! he lives! christ jesus lives today..

doctorates are getting more common than common sense

2006-03-29T23:49:00.000+08:00

i hate hate HATE tat supervisor of mine. if there's a female version to ngcheewei, she's it, except she somehow has a doctorate. wtf. but whew, presentation went pretty well, even though we dint rehearse or anything. but i think tat bitch's gonna mark me down for assessment, thinking i dun have enthusiasm and what-not in the assessment criteria. bleah. bye bye 15%.

other than that incident in e morning, things went pretty ok from then.. first me angel wei hong and jaryl went for lunch at pizza hut, when none of us had pizza and all of us got baked rice/pasta instead lols. but it was not too bad just a bit too cheeesy. but when i carried the ton of scores to e band room it wasn't open thanks to someone who HAD to take e key, and i had to waste an hour waiting. no biggie anw.

waited for ian and shakeila to finish their project parts before me and ian went for e percussion ensemble performance at vch, which, i had no idea at first, had too much strings. violin, viola, string bass etc etc. i expected more from e percussion but there was too much strings. esp the 1st piece where the solo violinist totally put me to sleep. and apparently sherrie who was there too also felt the same wahahaha. well it was a real coincidence we dint see each other at vch, but at subway at raffles city. but anws carmen suite was much better. more familiarity with it and also the strings were more tolerable, even pleasant at certain movements. shall find out the history of it soon!

oh yea. HAPPY 18TH BDAY EILEEN!! UR PREZZIE STILL WITH ME! hehs.

just dropping by.

2006-03-28T15:53:00.001+08:00

in school now just waiting for 4.30 to come when i came across this debate between muslims. quite interesting to see them debating each other instead of against christians or wadeva.

and other article i read some time ago. about how this alfgan named abdul rahman has converted to christianity and escaped death. for now at least. God bless the fella. anws go read. i gotta go feed the fishies. ciao.

i need a brrrreak.

2006-03-23T22:43:00.000+08:00

i think if not for the rest i had on sunday which was kinda accidental, i'd be real damn lethargic by now. everyday having to go to school for final year project (FYP) at what, 9.30 to 10 when it's supposed to be at 8.30 but then nobody really cares, and getting dismissed at 4.30 when it's supposed to be at 5, and THEN after that having stuff like percussion sectionals, band, packing scores (damn librarian work), band again, and german dance practices for the upcoming german expo. so usually when i get home it's already 9+ to 10+.

and for the first week for FYP, we were wasting time watching library movies and washing fish tanks and watching more movies on angel's lappie. since last week till now i watched minority report, transporter 1, transamerica, final destination 3, insomnia, and while packing scores, date movie which was as what clement had said in one of his posts, a total waste of time as it was full of lame crappy jokes and sorry assed singing. unless u're a lamer, dun watch it. anws like i was saying, i had THAT much time la. but not anymore i guess. tat moronic doctor we're under finally came to know about our existence and gave us the info we were needing to start the friggin project. what's the project u ask? top secret =X

but i'll tell u one thing that isn't. exam results are out. i somehow got my GPA up by 0.02. how comforting -.- but honestly, i have mr. micheal to thank for tat sole B for protein tech. otherwise i'd prolly be sulking over a drop in my GPA.

i think there's more stuff i was planning to blog but i'll add them if i rmb. but for now, i'm off to youtube~! bleach rocks! =D

my so-called holiday

2006-03-12T02:01:00.000+08:00

last sunday at dom's was a blast! we had a great time tats for sure, watching 3 movies in all and the super good bbq and drinks! and i slept at 3.30am++, to wake up at 6.30am! shiet i was so tired but had to go to school (or so i tot) at 8.30am sharp. turns out that i went early for nth. dammit.

tues to thurs was scl arts drama rehearsals and the drama itself all the way.. i'll have to say, it was a success! there was quite a large turnout! and everyone was saying it was good, even AK sent us an sms thanking us for putting it up and how it took his mind off work and all. THANK YOU all those who turned up, dom, rayson, arden and allison, not forgetting sanjeev and dee, wx and steph, and all those from mb! it wouldn't have been a success w/o you!

and then came band, from thurs nite till juz now about 8pm. am i tired or what. thurs was normal band prac but i was the only librarian so i had to pack the scores with some help from ppl with william and huimin. fri i was supposed to have zeeebrafish at 9.30 in the morn, but i overslpt and came school only for the band meeting.. and then just now we (6girls and me the only guy) went about packing scores and putting up the platforms! i'm not sure if its good but we'll see tues whether theres space for percussion! day ended with the few of us dining at kfc.

i'll bet i wont be turning up for DG tml. there's still teohui and jasper's concert SWS tml. i reallly wanna sleep in. like for 16hours at least. lols.

here my troubles begin..

2006-03-04T01:43:00.000+08:00

yeah exams are over. i regret not studying enough for some of those papers but thats that. kapuut. but nope, NO HOLIDAYS. yet at least. prolly until about a year later. omg. others get at least a week's break but my project is "special" and we start monday. hopefully i'll learn a thing or 2 at all from angeline. zebrafish and PCR wasn't exactly what i had in mind, but it'll do. it'll do.
and then after 3 months of this project, we embark for Ayer Rajah Crescent, where we'll be having our attachments. =DD and we have one of the best pays; $450/month! okok not "pay" but rather "allowance". works for me tho! hehe. and basically what it says we're doing there is assisting in health screening of sorts. possibly we might learn blood drawing. hoho. well i can't wait! in fact i even went to the extent of looking into google earth to see how the place looked like and how to get there etc etc.. and i dun even start till 5th june! lols.

final year project and attachment work aside, the school play's coming. damn i'm screwed. i wonder if anyone will BOTHER going to watch at all. hopefully not much cos i'll prolly screw up some parts. and i haven't memorised my script. WHY?? WHY OF ALL THE BLARDI SCL GUYS AM I MADE TO PLAY THE STUPID MALE LEAD?? sheeesh and the female lead's not exactly the one i had in mind either. and i've to propose to her. wtf. i'm screwed for the last year in nyp!! sigh. strangely i'm gonna be in the good friday drama too. gonna find out wad's it gonna be like tml. after the perc tuition =D

and sunday's gonna be a blast i hope. dom's having a bbq for the bday babies of the month at the same time a sleepover. of course sleep isn't gonna be smth most of them tat they'd be doing. the usual, mahjong, daidee, ps2, and what not.. thing is, i'm prolly gonna have to go to school from his place. =/

oh before i forget, just a review of a book i read and a movie i caught.
MAUS is kinda like a comic book but with a more serious side to it; it covers details of a jew in the time of Hitler. ALL the details. it's in 2 parts and i finished the 2nd one today. definitely recommended for side reading. thanks to ian for the intro.

for those who caught underworld and are currently at least 18 years old, GO CATCH UNDERWORLD EVOLUTION! 'nuff said really. it's good stuff! even tho i dint watch the 1st installment i still enjoyed it! hehe XD

ah well. the bed beckons. i need sleep.

where would i be w/o my mini

2006-02-19T22:09:00.000+08:00

Someone save me. That's what i'm thinking right now, sitting at e table at ezekiel's bday party, typing this into my phone and conversing with one of e most annoying guy i noe, or rather, regret knowing, J. Whahaha. Why am i doing this? Apparently there's no one else familiar around other than him and my bro. Bleah. But anw it's been a long day.. And i regret stepping out the door. Well at least i got to noe more guys from vs and had some share of fun.. But from yishun to bukit batok to jurong, and to pasir ris where i am now. About 2 hours of travel time down lol. if not for my mini, i'd die of boredom in the train. Met for lan in e morn which was fun, thrashing and getting thrashed. Lol. Sadly we didn't iceskate cos they had competitions going on, and not surprisingly my distant cousin's taking part and bumped into eileen there too. So we caught "the fog" and it was definitely the highlight of e day. Not exactly cos the movie was good; it was a lil exaggerated, but watching how some of them get freaked out was real hilarious. But i still wished we had the chance to iceskate.. Next time then!

4 months already? I NEED A JOB!

2006-02-15T01:15:00.000+08:00

i miss waitering. no i'm not kidding u arses. i was reading one of clement's recommended blogs waiterrant and it just sparked memories from within me. and thru tat blog i read an article by a food critic who became a waiter for a week, living thru the lows and highs of the job. very inspiring. then again waitering in the US and waitering here in SG is still diff. or at least in my case in pasta cafe. they get their tips, which can make up most their salaries in fact (if u read the above mentioned sources); we have to give almost all of it to the company. wtf? then again, they experience more shit. bah go read for urself and see, the life of a waiter (who STILL is one, not like me).

sidenote: happy vday all u good ppl! =D

and today's 3rd top played game is.....

2006-02-09T23:35:00.000+08:00

no seriously. are ppl that bored? lol~

xin nian kuai le! funs over, back to work!

2006-02-08T22:30:00.000+08:00

cny came and went. it was okay possibly better than previous years as my ang pao $$ finalli hit the $100 mark lol. pathetic i know. but somehow my uncles forgot that i was finally of age, not even bothering to offer my the usual can of heineken, so unlike previous years, when one even joked about getting me to finish a whole giant mug and slp overnite there. oh well. one thing that nv fails to be mentioned tho. "ah boy ah! so tall liao!! wat u eat ah why ur brothers still so short??" etc etc. sheeesh for the last time i dun play bball ok! its in da genes! (even tho both my parents are short XP)
pwh chalet was a blast~! finally got to meet ppl like sean and smork and 2 others from FBI.. and finaly got to check out escape. and, as i expected, there wasn't much. it even rained halfway. but the go-karting was funnn. and the viking ship too, tho i got a lil giddy after that one =/ but the company was great i guess, even tho they were a lil shy at first, but we're cool after some daidee and arcading wahahaha. hope to see them all again soon~
ok yeah like the title suggests, with cny over, gotta get back to work. somehow all the stress is accumulating at this point with reports, and projects, and of course, exams in just 2 weeks. help us God.
and it doesn't just stop at exams mind u. theres no holidays from what i heard, and we've to go for attachments immediately for 3 months, and then another 3 months doing out final year project. but the projects available seem kinda cool, like what we might end up doing in our future jobs. tiring sial.

2006-01-24T00:56:00.001+08:00

nyp percussions! top left: sal, ian, zhong huei, me, gai heng, clara, teo hui and affni. jasper's missing tho.

2006-01-24T00:56:00.000+08:00

us again~

the beginning of the end?

2006-01-22T23:46:00.003+08:00

and it's finalli OVER. open house i mean. but it's been a great 3 days, definitely unforgetable as we had our 1st percussion emsemble solo wooots! and all 3 days were awesome! next on the list, stinkin' garbage! and it's much harder la. we're gonna be performing that for the school concert i think XP anw for a preview watch this it's not bad either..
now that open hse's over, it's back to work i guess. exams are comin in a month or so, with a stupid project and reports to be done, and after that comes attachments. O.O well at least it beats going for lectures =X

and if u've noticed, the picture on top's been edited. pls comment on it i was struggling with microsoft photo editor (which sux) to get it done..

for all soccer fans. (of the skills not the cute players -_-)

2005-12-29T21:11:00.000+08:00