old habits die hard

hmm.. seems like even in america i just will dawdle around till its past midnight before i eventually decide to sleep.. -_-

after international dinner tonite(which coincidentally served chocolate fondue as well... haha), went to HILC to play some long-forgotten table soccer.. hmmz.. still remember the days where I would declare war on xiao-didi at the mess and attempt to snatch a win from him.. very nearly did.. haha

and now it's back to the computer for more dawdling.. =) aniwez, really wanna thank God for guiding me through the whole orientation process now, helping me understand the complex courses credits thing and yeah, generally placing me in good stead to start school(hopefully) even though I was pretty much quite blur at the start. now just need to pay school fees and I'm all ready! hehe..

school's around the corner le.. must start sleeping earlier. i hope. =)

update

PREPARE's started.. meeting lotsa new people, doing quite alot of stuff.. hmm, though having a slight bridge withdrawal.. haha

it's really amazing sometimes when you sorta realise you're playing bowling with people from venezuela, canada and hong kong and then texas hold' em poker with koreans, canadians and the likes.. somewhat really international with a capital I.

somethings I dun quite get though, like why some singaporeans code-switch and start slanging once they've arrived @ US.. hmm.. am I sub-consciously doing that as well? does that make me more understood? i dunno.. hmm..

my room's getting done up le.. it's like my own little bachelor's pad, albeit tad pathetic in the entertainment department.. =) but i like it, it's minimalistic and practical and STILL neat. so yeah, hope to maintain that. wanted to take photos but I'm darn lazy. =)

had talks regarding stuff like PE.. wah.. i really hope i can take one PE module per semester man.. so many things I wanna accomplish - horseriding, skiing, tennis, scubea diving, ice hockey, ballroom dancing(hee) the list goes on.. hmm.. THIS is what I came to cornell for man.. haha. oh yeah. and the studies. dunno how it'd be.. hope I can cope bah. =)

zzz

Day 3, NYC to Ithaca

didn't have much time considering the airport scare and my mum hyperventilating over the additional time needed for the tighter security.. so we sorrta reached the airport @ 2.45pm when our flight was scheduled to fly at 6.00pm... -_-

meaning I bummed around in the transit area for like 2 1/2hrs. thankfully i had a trusted book with me to take up the time.

well aniwez, it was to the UN building today for a short excursion where we saw famous statues with deep meanings but sigh.. who actually will abide by such things man.. hmmz.. din have much time to visit, so went to grab a bite at a roadside bistro which served yummy crepes!


My half-eaten crepe with garlic potatoes.. Yummy!


Had choc fondue after that! They gave much larger servings of chocolate as compared to Haagen Daaz, but the fruits given was pretty miserable.. =(

Ithaca we headed next via a teensy weensy plane that had like only 10 rows of seats.. how quaint! Take off was a marvellous experience cos it gave us a breathtaking view of NYC, identifying the unmistakeable Empire State Building and the perculiarly angular Central Park. and so that was it of NYC.. now to bumsville(haha)

i think it's retribution for me laughing at liksin over the ulu-ness of Sengkang.. OMG. Ithaca is like BLEAK. I went down to the Commons(i guess somewhat like the heart of the city) and wow.. it felt like some dilapidated old wreck of a town with crumbling restaurants and like ZILCH entertainment.

oh my... bring me home!! even the supposed visitor's center looked positively like a ghost manor with cobwebs all around. and yeah.. it was closed. I was so disappointed I gave up taking pictures and so yeah.. that's abt it le..

one more day till school starts.. hmm.. looks like its just the trees, the books and the people. haha.. might NOT be too bad. i hope.

Day 2, NYC

i realised something. parents DUN get the meaning of sleeping late. even though they are damn tired or what. haha, they seem to have a maximal limit of how late they can sleep to, somewhere along the lines of 7+.. sighz.. oh well

i realised america's really obsessed about big. BIG buildings, BIG portions, BIG statues.. BIG is beautiful to them.. but not to me lor.. haha! big means i cant properly take pictures of beautiful architecture and awesome sculptures, big means i can't finish all my food, and BIG means we have to walk ALOT. sigh

today my resolve was sorely tested and yeah.. I fell to the temptations of Godiva's Dark Caramel Chocolixir.. WAH.. IT'S DAMN GOOD!!! the people somehow mix it much better and with the added caramel chocolate taste, wah i nearly swooned with my first sip. it really feels like dreams and liquid chocolate mixed together!! haha


YUM!! and seriously, i was destined to drink it. cos i JUST could not escape the clutches of Godiva. Godiva was at the World Financial Center, Godiva was at Bloomingdales, Godiva was at Rockerfeller Center, Godiva was at Macy's.. EVERYWHERE!!

haha.. so liksin u wan me to send u the empty cup? haha.. kk i better stop tempting people. aniwez, Day 2 was more on like on a trail of American History pretty much like the show "National Treasure", as we went from 911 Ground Zero(a complete waste of time considering it's just a gaping absence of building amidst all the buildings), to City Hall, to NYSE, Trinty Church and so on.. the buildings are majestic, awesome and just wow..



City Hall and Ground Zero Site


had better luck with regards to food today as breakfast was the traditional american deal of bacon, cheese and egg on a roll(i dun get the american slang.. sigh) which was YUMMY!! lunch was taken at some chinese restaurant @ Chinatown whilst dinner was a delicious burger @ Macy's.. haha..not much ketchup this time round.



Oh.. and I managed to catch Carrie Underwood's performance for CBS Daily Show just outside the apple shop! she's really chio lor! haha.. quite amazed i could get quite close and take pics.. and yeah.. her voice IS good. it's like crisp and flawless one.. haha.. the pics are for u gy.. haha




NYSE, Winter Garden @ WFC, Trinity Church


Oh yeah and the trip to Macy's was really pretty fun.. it's like Linken's paradise bah.. haha.. the store is big, I spent like 1hr+ and couldnt finish the first 3 levels.. haha.. and i dunno.. are SGD$76.80 levi's jeans cheap? haha.. resisting the urge to buy first.. also spotted the project runway winning design by Angela on sale at INC.. it's not that nice lor.. haha

that's abt it.. today's more about waiting to go Ithaca le.. stupid airport security's been ramped up.. -_- ciao!

Day 1, NYC

writing this damn early in the morning @ the hotel cos I got awoken by my parents and also cos the sun rises horrifically early here so by now it's like 3 hrs+ of daylight le. -_-

first impressions of NYC? hmm.. the bad first lah.. I MISS JAPAN! haha.. where's all the nifty grocery shops that sell all sorts of cheap food and nice confectionery? where's the brightly lit malls and idiot-proof layouts, as well as loads and loads of different restaurants serving a whole host of exquisite and delicious food?

hmmz.. if there's one thing I really wanna complain in NYC.. it's the FOOD. basically since wednesday I've been trying my best to get different food, and you'd think eating teriyaki chicken at a gourmet cafe @ rockerfeller center, then fish filet at Bloomingdales, cheese steak @ a local diner would mean variety. but no such luck man. problem in USA is that everything is served in such humongous portions and just laden with mountains of fries and salads that yeah.. after awhile everything tastes the same. the main course gets the same fate cos all the meats are in huge chunks which ultimately compensates for the taste, meaning you add loads of ketchup and then of course.. everything tastes the same. -_-

so i've been having ketchup meat with (uggh!) tasteless lettuce and oily fries for every meal. =( I've some grouse with the salad as well.. WHAT is NYC's obsession with all these greeny greeny stuff that they would actually consider that a completel meal!? eww man..

kk.. the bleak things aside, NYC is FUN!!! visited alot of places and was gathering an arsenal of photos and names to namedrop(haha!) and its just fun to see all your reality-tv stories, book-described locations and favourite brands all literred across the well-known avenues of Park Ave, Madison Ave, Lexington Ave and so on.. cool man!


view outta my hotel window.. skyscrapers galore!


Abercrombie and Fitch mainstore!! my mom hated it cos it was dark, with the music booming and she complained the clothes were ridiculously expensive for pieces of rag-like clothing -_-.. parents.. aniwez it feels kinda like the NUM predecessor lor.. like the salespeople and bouncers and all good-looking babes and hunks.. haha.. then TRUMP TOWER just opposite..


Inside Trump Tower.. when u get fired u walked out shame-faced from these doorways.. and hey.. there's Godiva @ Trump Tower!!


More Godiva goodness! wah.. liksin and xf drooling le mah? haha.. and they got chocolixir at every store lor.. hmpf!


more shopping goodness! the biggest disney store, the famous SAKS 5th Ave, that sells like Miu Miu, Jimmy Choo, Prada bags side by side.. WAH, the NBC store @ Rockerfeller center with merchandise of Fear Factor and Days of Our Lives(that's for u Linken!)



Rockerfeller center!! I wish it was winter.. then the eating place below the golden statue would be a skating rink!!



Visitng MoMA in the afternoon.. it just feels so unreal to see ultra-famous works from Dali, Miro, Picasso, Monet, Matisse, Gaugin so close to you for you to savour and salivate over.. wah.. ultimate art high lor.. loved the room-spanning Waterlilies by Monet and was mainly head-scratching through alot of Picasso's works.. that guy has issues man.. haha


more shops! Apple shop with the ultra-classy cool glass elevator as well as zoo-themed FAO Schwarz(some toy store)


aniwez i was darn tired after the whole thing cos we basically WALKED to all these places and didn't quite rest.. quite amazed by my parents also that they managed to follow along the whole way.. wah.. really NYC is just BIG.. and everything else seems to follow suit and upsize itself whether it is the meals, the salads, the shops or the buildings..

hmm.. kk.. gotta grab breakfast and headout le.. ciao!

jet-lagged

woo hoo! i'm at New York New York! haha... reached hotel at around 8.00pm, where the sun still hadn't set, then went finding some cheap dinner and now just stoning in front of the computer, sucking someone's network yet again (oops)

haha.. boh bian lah.. the insane hotel charges usd$9.95 per day for usage of wireless.. honestly damn turn off lor. aniwez this is a short entry cos I'm darn darn jet-lagged.. gonna hit the bed asap.

just wanted to REALLY REALLY thank everyone who took the time to wake up and send me off @ the airport yesterday.. wah.. really touched by your cards, gifts (yeah.. THANKS jack for the surprising Godiva chocolates.. hehe.. liksin jealous le mah?) and yeah.. was quite stunned and supremely touched by the number of dsta peeps that took the time to come send me off.. haha.. guess that's the benefit of leaving early rite? but yeah.. thanks thanks!!

kk i gonna go sleep le.. tired le.. bb!

great leap forward

i'm emotionally pretty confused tonight, being the last nite in Singapore le.. it's a mixture of regret at not being able to spend more time in Singapore with frens, anticipation of going overseas mixed with slight apprehension/fear of the unknown and having to adapt to a radically new change in my life.

looking back, sometimes I think I've quite lost my rationale for wanting to go overseas so desperately during JC time le.. think it was a combination of wanting to do liberal arts as well as just the prestige of going overseas and experiencing winter, the great outdoors and so on.. now, when reality settles, I'm actually pretty scared. it's a great leap outta my comfort zone, outta my overreliance from my oft-paranoid parents, outta the circle of friends I have built up through the years, outta the 7 months of holiday and fun... I have a feeling it ain't gonna be easy adjusting, but well think it would do me a helluva good being more independent, being self-sufficient, and just "growing" up.

haha.. so maybe this was what I needed. whatever it is, there's no time for backing out le.. everything's been set into motion le, and I barely have time to sit my last 410 trip back home, to eat chunks of satay and fried rice amidst the sweltering heat at joshua's party, to get squeezed in the mrt train back home, to spot all the NUS students wearing that blue flag day shirt today and consciously avoiding them(haha)..

it's really happening. heck, i can't blog le.. msn flooded tonite. forget it. =)

sleeping optional

actually quite in panic mode le.. scrambling to buy the last few stuff and just getting everything prepped before going there..

this weekend produced my first 36hr non-sleeping stint with zh's bday chalet then church, then going out for my last LAN session. wah.. i was spouting absolute rubbish during fellowship, sorrta like going

Qn: What qualities are most important in friends?
Me: Alive (everyone rolls eyes)
Girl Proceeds to Answer: Oh.. must be loyal, faithful
Me: Then get a dog lor..

yah.. i was pretty -out- by then. but got an adrenaline rush during LAN and grasp one victory away from edwin and alvin, even though it is painfully obvious to see that edwin's daily late nite sessions have benefitted him immensely. oh well.. screw dota. =)

had lotsa fun @ zh's chalet playing bridge, german bridge, big2 and the likes.. damn fun playing bridge with liksin, darren, daniel cos yeah.. the intellectuality was THERE(haha) hence very fun gameplay and bids.. well, mostly. =) will really miss such late night sessions of carefree and fun le..

have been like having those insane second thoughts about going overseas these few days after imagining what things I will be missing in Spore and just generally hearing abt the hall life, orientation and activities @ local varsities from my cousin, liksin, derui and so on.. HAIZ.. one can't have all things good rite?

final days are here. bags packed. farewells being said. it's really happening le.

food fest

err.. for those i slightly misinformed.. (hee)

i'm departing on 9 AUG on SQ22 (Terminal 2) @ 11.10AM.

err.. meaning those who wanna kindly come and send me off,(and slightly waste ur public holiday time) do come at about 9.30AM bah.. hee

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went out with alvin and co for like my farewell meal and was er.. very pleasantly surprised that we were going to Soup Restaurant @ DFS and also that I was getting a treat! wah.. thanks alot guys!! that really was nice and heartfelt! =)

had a sumptuous delicious meal of sanshui chicken and the other famous dishes there whilst enjoying the view of orchard road.. of course alvin was (hehe) priding himself for having made such a wonderful choise of location and complainly slightly matronly that we were eating too much western... haha.. thanks alvin!

then went walking around for dessert and finally settled at Bakerzin. honestly i've always wandered past Bakerzin looking longingly at the mouth-watering desserts as well as admiring the cool light decor but never dared to enter cause of the exorbitant prices.. decided today it was now or never le.. so went to try..

the verdict? the photographer for the menu should be given some award man.. i dunno, but to me, most of the desserts looked better than they tasted lah.. or maybe it was my continuous stomach bloatedness problem(sianz) but it was pretty blah lah.. maybe it was the high expectations due to the price and the photos.. haha.. though mine was still pretty yummy! haha.. good choice.. =)

save my bank account

i just don't get where all my money's getting flushed to. i've like completely stopped buying clothes and the likes, been trying to scrimp by going to hawker centers to eat and so on, otherwise hiding at home if there ain't any activities.. and STILL my bank account is like massively haemorrahging.

nowadays my shopping is like completely utilitarian. like i dun buy unless it's rationally a damn useful buy and so on and yet I can't stop the bleed. like there was once my bank account was at a healthy 4-digit sum and like I had no worries with regards to eating and spending at more ex places.. and now I'm scurrying like mad to scrimp and save and yet my money keeps disappearing. sigh.

kinda regret all the dumb impulse buys in Thailand and Taiwan as well as the shopping that I did with LK. LK was a terribly bad influence with regards to shopping for stuff with his whole act-high-class schting and his whole spoilt-bitch Paris Hilton wannabe act. sigh..

oh well.. financial woes aside.. life's been pretty fun still. went NUS today to find alvin to go book-shopping at the NUS co-op.. saw a whole bunch of diff frens there cos it was matriculation day for them as well. darn cool but I kinda din achieve anything for the trip cos there were like n books on my list that were available. met xiao didi who (gasp!) went to dye his hair to a complete brown and wah.. look like some ang-moh little boy le.. haha.. both of us were damn lost walking around the NUS compound trying to find the IT co-op or something.. little boy wander astray le..

nite was spent with GY, Clement and Sunny at one of my fav places - minds cafe! wah i think I've quite played most of the games le and know the shop assitants quite well le.. haha.. think he's darn amused by us also cos we always wanna get the damn noisy games and just bitch and create an uproar over the games. wah i kinda will miss these sessions also le.. esp the afternoon session where you could play non-stop for 4hrs+ with free flow of drinks and then pay only 6 bucks. and then u also get the undivided attention of the assistants to explain games to you since you're the only people there..

seriously a little sad that my 7 months or so of holidays is gonna end soon.. a little unsettled actually cos now I'm in like a sortta transition phase towards becoming the more muggerish serious me... but seriously i will miss traipsing down orchard road on weekdays and just enjoying paying everything at cheaper prices and shopping without the horrendous crowds. kinda will miss mixing up weekends and weekdays and preferring to go out on weekdays cos less crowd. movie tickets so much cheaper. it's really gonna end le.. haiz

having fun

wah.. lot'sa stuff happened this week.. resulting in a pretty tired-out and peniless frank at the end of the week, still craving irrationally for godiva's chocolixir that liksin tempted me upon.. (another reason for me not to take drugs or anything slightly addictive.. i'm horrendously obsessive compulsive.. once I'm hooked, I'm screwed.. hehe)

went nite cycling on weds nite which turned out to be pretty much an excuse to traipse around in the east trying to find nice eateries in the middle of the night. pretty eventful non-food wise too cos like liksin's back tire kena punctured halfway, then dan fell foul to a pothole along the way and kena ankle twist finally zy flew off his bike in spectacular style when he jam brake too suddenly.. (hmm i see some pattern.. all the KKK kena-ed)

went up to Changi V, where to xf's disappointment no one remotely indecent or wierd accosted her or whatsoever(hehe), ate Nasi Lemak there before heading to Simpang Bedok for roti prata where I learnt for the first time in my life there were stuff called tissue prata and what boom prata and so on. wow. i musta been missing out quite a bit when I was young. sleeping or just bumming my life away eh..

this spate of "self-awareness" of one's stupidity continued on as I asked stupid question after stupid question ranging from the harmless "why's simpang bedok called simpang bedok" to the rofl question when I asked about some function on Lik sin's dslr camera. haiz. dun ask.

aniwez, it was real cool to just speed down lanes normally bustling with cars, especially near the Padang area, and it was also quite a trip down memory lane for me as we passed places like Laguna Park(remembered mom bringing me to the doctor's there), National Stadium KFC(where I burnt saturday after saturday settling NDP'05) and so on so forth. took real cool pictures along the way too like on the "break-up" bridge as I named it(cos TCS artistes love to use that spot to coo sweet-nothings then suddenly confront reality and breakup..-_-)

then today was another sailing expedition aimed to fully utilise our skills gained during the 3 day course last week. yah and justify the cost. first part of the day was pretty much abject misery where we were fried mercilessly on our boats whilst the sail couldn't even muster much of a flutter whatsoever. luckily the cost of rental was slightly justified with a good afternoon wind and some semblance of a gale though I never could fully hike out. along the way people kept commenting they saw jellyfishes, seasnakes and dead fishes aplenty.. dunno if they're lying or what but whatever it is.. hmm I'm glad the sea I saw was pretty much still like a mirror or filled with rotting bottles and wood debris. which is damn alrite on my account. =)

haha.. then had fun trying to corner liksin in and then board his boat and capsize him. weihong's ill fated first attempt landed him in between the boats which left me to do the job. haha.. really quite fun lah. it's like childish stuff that you don't get to do anymore when you start realising your age and start turning your nose against such horseplay. dunno when that'll be.. guess it better be soon considering I'm starting to realise how darn childish I am at times.. but hey.. there's value in being childish.. haha.. the world seems a little nicer and more innocent.

wah I just crapped alot. can talk alot more too like about my "field trip" to Sengkang(haha.. xf too bad u couldn't come).. Sengkang's like town planning masterclass man.. it's so well layed out, tidy and straight but somehow that somewhat robs it of any flavour that it might possess, making it somewhat too rigid and sanitized.. haha

kk. i stop talking rubbish. gonna sleep le.. ciao

photo-entry!!

Sailing!

applying suntan lotion (quite to no avail), dry simulation of how to sail



me trying it out as well, preparing to launch our colourful boats




sailing then eating... shiok!! food was yummy!



more food!!!



pass le! all certified sailors liao!



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Ice Skating!

on the ice!




skating, being lame, being camera-shy(hehe), playing about



acting "dao"



liksin looks weird as usual..





past few days have really been a blast... had loads of fun and really really enjoyed the remaining(eh-hm) days I have left in Singapore.. actually wanna accomplish loads more but well.. time's running out for me..

tired out

so it ends.. sailing for 3 days in a row has been pretty exhausting but thoroughly worth the money and effort.. went on an expedition today after a really simple test involving travelling upwind and downwind and picking up lifejackets from the ocean.. went to loyang as well as coney island and had friendly races along the way as we tried to catch each others wind or just push each others sail outta the way..

so yeah.. more sailing anyone? love the adrenaline rush and exhilaration when the boat picks up speed and you just zip across the water hiking out whilst pulling the mainsheet tightly in..

aniwez, rushed to celebrate LK's bday after that @ the glasshouse where we sent a dedication in to the musician there for Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" for Linken Jolie-Pitt's birthday.. haha.. quite funny really how one person can persist in acting so ditzy and "celebratory"... after that he was made to stand on a chair in the middle of the restaurant and like wave a sparkler around whilst we sang a bday song for him.. kinda really paiseh for him but real cool. must say the staff at Fish'n'Co are real nice and sporting despite being so busy scurrying around.

one thing I've realised is that people really do change through the experiences in army. some become cynical, some more adventurous and daring, some feel it's like it's a rite of adulthood... issit truly for the better or worse? I can't comment, neither do I want to comment, cos I've changed too and I kinda understand some reasons behind some people's changes.. things will never be the same again though sometimes I kinda selfishly wish it would.. oh well, that's life for u I guess...

aniwez.. 10+ more days before I leave the sunny shores of Singapore le.. it's like scarily near now that I think of it.. got tons of things not quite done(though i might be scaring myself). NYC.. i'll be seeing u soon!

the boom is your greatest enemy

nothing beats the feeling of zipping through the waters, hiking out nearly completely,(i scared mah) and then hearing the humming sound as your sailboat literally flies over the water..

hmm.. having a slight case of vertigo still as though i'm still sheeting in the sail and having my boat keel whilst I struggle to balance it. my laptop seems to be sliding away from me and I'm sub consciously "hiking" back against my chair... haha

FUN!

past two days have been really fun besides the occasional nasty encounter with the boom which somewhat has an uncanny affinity for our heads.. ouch man.. for me i was initially pretty skeptical of being able to enjoy myself and so on cos I kinda suck @ psychomotor stuff and scared whole day capsize... but hey.. after realising that it is darn simple to right your boat back if u capsize, and finding the breeze so comfortable when you sail fast, wah.. i must say it's worth it man...

another fun part is the gastronomical treats that I've been introduced to thanks to the "experienced" easterners of Haoxiang, ZY, WeiHong and so on.. which makes me feel as though I have quite ill-treated my stomach for the past 20 years.. like no real good s'pore food one..haha

one more day left.. hope can really look and feel pro whilst manuevering the boat instead of my current clumsy motions whilst ducking as the boom sweeps past and my yelps when the strong wind comes and keels my boat as I struggle to stay in control.. oh yah.. also hope can like tack and gyb correctly and end up in the correct direction without spinning too much and just completely lose my bearings..

quite tired and quite burnt.. waiting for next day le..

disclaimer

if your posts on my tagboard have disappeared, you sorrta know why.

i said it before last time, and I'd just say it once more. I don't take kindly to people leaving comments anonymously, be it ill or good-natured comments.

ultimately, this is MY blog. sorry if i'm being such a mediawhore or that I'm such a dictator but this is my space. you wanna blather rubbish about me, do it on your own blog or something. if u wanna post something here, then dun be such a coward and leave your name. leaving a fictitious name or pretending to be me and posting similarly is a stinking thing to do and will result in a prompt deletion of your tag once I discover it.

the claws can come out. but not on my blog. Afterall, I'm still Switzerland afterall. hehe.. =)

back to chinese

i have that sick feeling in my stomach.

omg.. i cannot imagine writing even one paragraph of chinese words let alone one whole chinese essay for AP in Cornell sia!! even reading chinese now makes me slightly squirmish and uncomfortable.. sian sian sian!!!

i need some c lit brains le.. or go read some c lit books le.. haiz.. so sad!

aniwez, fate stay night was cool. watched the whole thing within one day.. hehe, and honestly sometimes i'm getting SICK of the underdog story. It's like the underdog almost always wins already, so it becomes such a contradiction. and plus the protagonist in this case is a honest WIMP that cannot get past the fact that he is in a war and a war has casualties. that guy intends to win but not kill his opponents.. -_- damn naive.

haha.. so i'm not the idealist. i'm the cynicist.

but what i like about the anime is the amount of thought the writers put in to construct the story and make all the layers and background stories connect. everyone isn't purely evil or good, and what makes them is their history and what happens to them. loved the sideline story of Caster, as well as how Sakura became connected to the whole story.

hmm.. if u dunno what I'm talking about then go watch it lor.. it's worth it lah i tink.

brain rotting

hmm.. seems like i have utterly tired myself out these few days.. first with the non-stop badminton playing to physically exhaust myself out, and now with the mentally frustrating yet surprisingly addictive mindbenders @ this webbie...

OMG.. serious.. by the time u reach lvl 30+, you are literally fighting and trudging through every single puzzle and each one really strains your mental ability.. so yeah.. I've stopped @ lvl 40. DAMN DAMN tired. whole thing has made me grouchy and grumpy for the past few hours as I struggle to make rubbish coherent.. hmmz

aniwez watched Pirates today despite many pple's good intentions/warnings that the show kinda sucked. honestly, yeah i sorrta agree. was talking rubbish to liksin and just BEGGING for the damn movie to end as it droned and dragged on and on. serious this movie. has. no. plot. and no direction to boot. it's like meeting some old friends and just having a casual chitchat. yeah i had that distinct feel

aniwez i kept suaning liksin over his staying @ sengkang which to me is honestly some ulu-ated destination with forests aplenty and nothing much else in sight. haha.. just like how I told Fred Malaysia might as well annex majority of the northern part of Singapore since it is so ulu. oh well.. there has to be some areas called the surburbs and yeah.. some areas fit the bill.. but kinda would have wished surburbs was somewhat like meadows and pastureland you see overseas and not unsightly industrial dumps and clumps of forestland you see so often as you travel past Woodlands, Admiralty and so on...

so yeah, liksin, sorry lah.. I haven't been to SengKang cos it's EVEN more uluated.. so that's my impression of it lor.. hehe

think i just crapped a whole load of rubbish. oh well. signs of my brain unable to take the stress le.. better sleep soon

marathon day

phew.. friday flew by amidst the marathon badminton session, dangerous blading and a sumptuous dinner @ Marina Bay (though honestly I ain't too keen on cooking my own food and well, get sputtered in the face with butter..hehe)

funny thing was I was so darn high during the dinner.. like as thought I was feeding off the adrenaline from the constant activities throughout the day.. blading @ ECP was darn shiok cos I was the only the blader amongst the other cyclist so I kept "hitching" a ride on their bikes, which made for a fast and less-strenuous journey.. kept harassing a hapless couple that we spotted at the jetty cuddling by cycling darn near them and talking loudly etc.. hehe..

yah so dinner I was a bit er.. talkative (a bit is quite an understatement - i dunno what has gone wrong with me le!!) but aniwez had loads of fun trying out lik sin's "gourmet" recipes and witnessing xf's sadistic behavior by dumping semi-alive prawns head first into the scalding soup and watching them squirm.. sad man


Lik Sin wierdly eyeing Wan Jing's bowl, WJ, me, and Jaya eating her "McChicken"..


butter sputtering everywhere, Lik Sin's clumps of golden mushrooms flooding the entire steamboat.. -_-


most(eh-hmm) of the Barker watch.. some people pang seh us last minute -_-


yum! LS's gourmet creation along with Jaya's failed attempt of grilled satay-sauce cucumber...

so recuperating at home today with an assortment of aches.. haiz =)