March

I met up with Mak the day before yesterday after work and we went to Pastamania for dinner. We talked about a lot of stuff, specifically about the fact that he was going away for 10 months to learn flying in Australia. It is cool to have a friend who's going to be a pilot, but 10 months is a very long time.

It's nice to have the feeling that there's someone who lives near by, that you can depend on and ask out for movies whenever it's convenient. Not to mention a buddy who does the adventurous stuff with me - Macritchie, 15km run to Sembawang Park and back etc. I guess I'm going to have to find someone to do all that crap with me once he goes away! Haha!

After dinner we played Daytona, and he won because I had some technical screw-up. I'm hoping for a rematch before he leaves, just get things straight! He can fly planes, but I can beat him at Daytona! After that he left to meet da-sao. Yeah, I've never seen him more blissful than he is now.

Congratulations dude!

His birthday's coming up too. Gotta start thinking of what to get him.

Chris' Party

I've been too stoned recently to come up with good blog entries. What you've been reading lately are sub-standard rants, along with photos. Editting them is a whole lot easier than constructing a pretty sentence. I am so screwed.

Anyway, a bunch of us met up at Kembangan MRT station on Saturday evening, somewhere I've never been before! Guo Fei, Terence, Shawn and I went to Cheers and there was a pathetic amount of alcohol for sale. We wanted to get some for Chris (which didn't turn out to be too brilliant an idea) as a present. We spotted a 7-11 at the CC, but it wasn't stocked with alcohol, because it was situated in a CC!

Bet you didn't know that!

Chris (who is going to Taiwan to learn hairstyling, thus the farewell party) picked us up at the bus stop in his Honda Accord. It was a quick drive to his place. I've been to private houses before and his is the biggest I've ever been in.



We went in to have dinner and the food was really good. The Taiwan sausage, fried rice and dumplings were some of the delightful things we had among the wide variety of dishes. We left enough space in our stomachs upon seeing the fondue machine. The dips that were available were the healthy strawberries and the sinfully sweet marshmallows.



A sight for chocolate-addicts, surely? I was tempted to kidnap the fondue machine back home for my personal use! It was certainly one of the many highlights of the evening. We couldn't stop ourselves from finishing almost everything, and had many "last" helpings.

Self-denial.

Anyway, we watched a bit of Star Wars in the living room and had our first taste of alcohol for the evening. There was a guy who was mixing the staggering varieties of alcohol available. It just so happened that he worked in Zouk as a bartender! It kicked off with some funny pink drink, which the four of us couldn't finish. We then had a shot of tequila each before going up to Chris' room, which was huge.

I need to be rich enough to get a house like that some day.

After browsing through a couple of old issues of Mens' Health, Chris offered us cards and we played Big 2. It's much less of a hassle as compared to mahjong, and requires more brains as compared to Blackjack. I'm surprised I didn't play it at all during CNY. We gambled - 10 cents a card!

In the midst of all the gambling...



Chris is an amazing host I tell you. I don't even know what this is called but after this baby, I was super high. It tasted really good with my favourite alcohol, Baileys Irish Cream, in it! I have no idea what the dangerous, dark, bottom-layer of liquid is. It's sweet but seductively poisonous. My camera tasted quite a bit of it as Terence spilled his over it! Thankfully, it's still functional, though I doubt it will be for much longer seeing how accident-prone it is!

To top it all off, Chris brought up Vodka lime that helped to sustain my 'high' for quite awhile. I think I was the noisiest and rowdiest (while playing cards, telling everyone off for not giving me a chance to throw my cards), which is just a little bit embarrassing, but I've known these guys for quite a long time already, so it doesn't matter!

Just one more for the alcohol list - we were offered Tequila Pop but I skipped that because I think it would've probably driven me to check myself in to rehab!



I won a little bit of money from the game (like 2 dollars), and we took this last group photo. Shawn and I were the most red in the face, but I think it's safe to say that the alcohol got us all high, and we had an amazing time.

Now I know why middle-aged uncles spend their spare time drinking and gambling.

Guo Fei, Chris' friend and I took a cab back home. And I called for the cab in exchange for Guo Fei finishing my Tequila Pop! Hilarious stuff.

Even after an hour and a half later whilst I was home in bed, I could still feel my heart pounding rapidly. I am such a lousy drinker.

Which just means that I can save money on alcohol.

(Forgive me for the crappy entry yet again!)

CNY Things

On Monday night (gosh I haven't been updating this blog in a really long time!), the class had an annual gathering at Ming Boon's house. We had this fantastic steamboat (as usual) but what was really great was the company. I realised that having them around is such a great thing - the jokes that came from knowing each other that well, and of course our "he xin nian" singing whenever someone said something scandalous just shows how much chemistry we have. It's really special to have a time for all of us to sit at the same table, have a meal, and talk.



Of course, after that we had the after-meal activities which include Mahjong and Blackjack. Overall, I lost money, but that's hardly the point. I had the most thrilling Blackjack session ever - I think I almost lost my voice after that! Yeah, it's kind of insane. I tried my hand at Mahjong for abit, which was okay (as in I didn't lose that much money!).



I can't wait to have another excuse for a class gathering. We don't do it often enough!

The next day I had work, but I managed to meet up with a couple of my army friends after that. Guo Fei, Samuel, and I made our way to Ivan's house from Causeway Point where Shawn (and of course Ivan) was already waiting! I was rather full from a dinner with Ryan, but since there was steamboat, we helped ourselves to it! Throughout most of that conversation they were discussing Warcraft, but I don't really mind because after knowing them for so long, I think they'd die if they didn't talk about it! Haha... After that we started playing Mahjong, and Shawn sort of helped me out and taught me stuff. I felt that I learnt a lot from this session! Can't wait for the next one! We left at about 3AM as all of us had to work the next day.

Yesterday a couple of us class peeps went to TWJ's 21st birthday chalet. More updates on that once the photos come in. I'm quite excited to be going to Chris' party today as well. And that would mark the end of a very busy week of entertaining!

CNY Day 01

All my cousins, along with my aunt and her Romanian husband!

Notes On A Scandal

This is a terribly scandalous movie.



The scandal actually starts off with art teacher Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett) getting involved with a sexual relationship with her student, Steven Connolly (Andrew Simpson). However, the bigger scandal is actually the schemes of Barbara Covett (Judi Dench). She notes them down in her little diary, and pastes golden stars in it as the schemes bear fruit. After another failed "friendship", she begins to plot to become Sheba's friend. She helps her keep the secret of her scandal from her family and the school, and becomes the only person left to give her support when the cat was let out of the bag.

We all love a scandal or two, but this one will have you chewing your nails off in the scene where Sheba discovers Barbara's diary. The intensity is so mind-blowing, it gave me a headache! It was much more thrilling than your average Hollywood action sequence. Watching Cate Blanchett in this is much more rewarding than that in Babel, where her portrayal throughout the movie was more or less that of a wounded woman facing death. In this, she experiences love with a minor, destructive friendship with a fellow colleague, nostalgia of her past life, frustration of bringing up a kid with Down's Syndrome and pain of betraying her husband.



If you thought Judi Dench's presence in Casino Royale was minimal but effective, be prepared to be arrested by her acting in this one. It's as if she leads a double life - a firm, experienced school teacher and that of a desperate, obsessive lesbian woman who's afraid of dying alone. She's so threatening I was trembling in my pants when she demanded that Sheba accompany her to her cat's death or she'd dish out some revenge.

Overall the movie's exploration of some very human themes push it a notch above your average Hollywood flick.

Lonelines, and the desperation that comes along with it, is something we can all relate to.

What You Make Of It

"Time is nothing
But what you make of it
Life has meaning
If only you reflect on it "



I went to Sentosa today and was dismayed at the state of the sky. Demoralising, I know. Nobody goes to Sentosa and expects it to look this cloudy. It's essential that when you're at the beach, the three main ingrediants that come into play must be present - the sun, sand and sea. Apparently one of them decided to go play hide-and-seek behind the clouds.



I decided to do a bit of phototaking since the beach looked kinda gloomy. My camera is by no means a DSLR, but I guess it did rather well with this on Macro mode. In other news, my family got a new camera as a gift. It's not as powerful as the cheapest ones on the market right now, but it's an improvement from mine! I tried to photograph the butterflies flying around, but I couldn't spot them in the photos I took! But seeing them flutter around randomly as if they were in a dance really lightened my mood.

After walking from Palawan to Siloso, I decided that I'd either chill out at Cafe del Mar or rent a bike for a ride on my regular route - to Tanjong Beach and back, followed by the Jungle Trail. I planted myself at CDM for awhile, but ran out of patience when no one offered to get me a drink. And by that time the sun, almost midway into the sky at 11AM, was scorching hot (better late than never). I went for a bike-ride instead. I was further pissed off by the crappy state of the bike. I should've been more choosy with it, and checked it thoroughly before riding off.

I grabbed a Pink Dolphin and some loose change from the 7-11 at Palawan to stash my belongings in the locker. I forgot to bring my mp3 player a long, and had to be contented with the sounds of nature instead.

Okay, it does sound like I didn't enjoy my trip much, but I guess it gave me something to do.



The jungle trail was as interesting as ever. The steep and winding trail and the sights of mainland calmed me. There was still a lot of things going through my mind, but it's hard to be totally engrossed in your troubles when you're trying to make sure the camera doesn't fall from your hands (there's no basket and I used the bottle-grasping thing after that) while you're keeping your balance on a rubbish bike!



I've had enough of being in solitude already. I'm keen to give Sentosa another go on Thursday, when there isn't so much on my mind. Is anyone game?

"Everytime I turn around the boys fighting over me
Everytime I step out the house they wanna fight over me
Is it cos I'm hot to death
And I'm so-so-so sexy
All the boys all the silly boys they wanna fight over me"

I now understand the appeal of Paris Hilton's album and why all unbiased reviewers had something nice to say about it. It's so silly and light-hearted that you can't help but laugh (along or at) when you hear it. It's the album that I'm currently listening to, although I understand that I'm a tad behind the times!

Better late than never eh?

Ouch

I feel the pain eating me up from the inside.

It's suffocating.

Funny, In The Rich Man's World

I'm surrounded by materialistic wants and even though I know life's not all about that I can't help but indulge in them. My pay's coming in today - I've waited 1.5 months for it! Today I can finally set aside money to give my parents and pay Colin for the Jolin Tsai tickets. I don't know if I'll have enough money left to spend for the rest of the month though. But I really don't care. After working relatively hard (at the very least I've to be standing to convert every minute into 10 cents) I finally get to see the hours on my time sheet become dollars in my bank account. It's all a game of numbers.

And unlike people who like to see big numbers in their bank accounts, I like to leave it with a 0 at the end of the month.

As I've tagged before on Mak's blog, "LOL - come on man, seriously. deep down, you ENJOY shopping. the fruits of ur labour... converting money to tangible stuff that you can enjoy. shiok."

I've got a lot of activities lined up in the next two weeks, guaranteed to use up at least half of what I've earned in the month. Tomorrow I'll be going to Sentosa (no, don't gasp, "Again?!") with Sidney, watching The Protege with Zhenhui and Shuming, breakfast with Ryan on Saturday, meet Mak on Thursday, TWJ's birthday on Friday and Chris' going-away party on Saturday.

I can't possibly start turning everyone down, can I? Which is why I once told someone that I've got enough on my hands, and I won't forge a friendship I can't live up to.

And I've probably already let down everyone on that list more than they deserve.

That's sidetracking a bit, but tonight, after work (9PM), I'll be meeting my army friends for a bit of retail therapy before going home. I'm blessed that they're always around.

Which actually means spending more money, and getting into the CNY spirit where everything has to be new is just a fucking great excuse to blow my pay away on things that I've always wanted but don't need.

Don't get me wrong, saving is a virtue and I've got plenty of things to save up for (not a new pair of Levi's dammit, Uni stuff!). But it's tough to slog without seeing any rewards in sight. Or so far away.

I suppose it's all about striking a balance, but I'm having a hard time finding it.

You're Being Watched

Over the past year I've been to many indoor and outdoor (especially) places that people are either too lazy to venture to, or haven't got the time to visit. Sometimes I really wonder why Singaporeans complain that there isn't anything to do in Singapore when there's plenty to discover! I've been to the Singapore Zoological Gardens, the Tree Top Walk at Macritchie, the National Library, East Coast Park...



... Singapore Botanic Gardens, the history room of The Cathay, the Airport in the dead of the night and Sentosa (which I've visited so many times, and am still in shock when anyone informs me that they haven't been there for a year or five). Yes. I'm constantly on the go and looking for new adventures on this tiny island, just to prove that you don't have to go overseas to do something exciting, or try something new.

Isn't it boring to merely laze around at home or visit mall after mall, or watch movie after movie during the weekends ?

And so on Saturday night I added another location to my list. It's been around for 10 years already and I've never been there in my life! I'm ashamed to say that I'm Singaporean, and you should be too if you haven't visited the place which won the Restroom Association (Singapore)'s Happy Toilet Award 2004!

I'm not kidding.

Amongst its various accolades, the night spot has also won the Singapore Tourism Awards' Leisure Attraction of the Year 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2004.

I'm milking the suspense for all it's worth, and I love experiencing something new because blogging about it makes the 28 bucks I spend even more worth it as I get to share/spend time writing about what I see! Writing's a leisure for me too.



Anyway, Ryan and I were greeted by the flames followed by the very famous logo of two eyes peering out from the dark. The Singapore Night Safari was out to impressed the very moment we set foot in it. From the seemingly random ticket booths to the very woody, outdoor furnishings, no stone was left unturned to give the visitor the feeling that they were about to be awed by the creatures of the night.



We took a couple of photos at the entrance. A couple of Japanese girls helped us to take a photo, but it didn't turn out good at all, as cute as they were while excitedly squealing "1,2,3!" before violently pressing the button on the camera. It's an extra 8 dollars for the tram ride, which lasted about 50 minutes but more on that later. The queue for the tram was repulsively long. We were shocked that so many people visited the night safari, and even more when the queue stretched so far that we couldn't see the end! We decided to make the most of our time and instead of waiting, we started on the various trails that took us to many animals.



And this is what you usually see. The one big difference between the Night Safari and the Zoo is that the Night Safari, being the newer attraction, puts the animals right where you can see them - if you're able to spot them! There aren't too many places for the animals to hide, and even if there were, you'd be able to see them. However the low lighting makes me appreciate how the animals' camouflage works for them. Ooh, and my shitty camera doesn't have ISO at all, so I haven't got that many photos to share. 9/10 of them turned out completely black. Even when I was only a glass wall away from the tiger.



Ryan was much better than I was at spotting them. Without him, I don't think I'd have seen anything much on the trail! Haha! Despite being a tad tired as I went there from work, I was in awe of the animals that were in the exhibits - how they were so energetic despite it being late at night and lacking in light. The otters were tremendously entertaining too - they were one of the few who weren't lazing around and buzzing with activity.

If you don't see the animals in the photos, you might want to turn up the brightness of your screen.



I was within touching distance of this bat, and two others while they hung upside down, oblivious to the humans that were gasping in amazement at being so close to such an animal! I heard one foreigner exclaim that he'd never thought that he'd come face to face with a bat and not have any barrier in between them. The success of its open zoo design is something to be proud of.

The next two things that we experienced were probably the highlights of the entire trip but there were limited opportunities for photography due to the lack of light and the animals not being particularly fond of being photographed with the flash.

The Creatures of the Night show played to a full house thrice that night, and we queued for half an hour just to get seats for the last one. The show presenters were excellent entertainers, getting the audience to respond to them (which was really tough when half of the crowd consisted of Singaporeans, who aren't the warmest people, aside from the kids) and left me in awe of their stage presence. We got to witness the eating habits of various animals and my favourite one has got to be the civet. I have no idea why this animal is lesser-known compared to the others because it's just as cute and fun-loving as say, cats. The animal was crawling around its keeper (literally from shoulder to his chest to his back, round and round and round) at 120km/h, hardly bothered about the 300-or-so strong crowd who was waiting for it to sniff the Korean girl's hands to find out in where the grape was placed!

Another highly entertaining moment was when we waited, holding our breaths for 3 minutes just for the "cat" (can't remember the animal's name!) to make its 2 metre leap upwards to get a piece of meat! It circled below it for sometimes, lost interest, walked away, got coaxed by the trainer, circled the meat again and just when we all thought it was going to make a jump, it went off again. The cycle repeated itself for quite sometime, but everyone in the audience was holding on to the hope that it would show us something amazing, and everyone clapped appreciatively when we got to witness the 2 metre jump!

After the show we went for the tram ride. It's kind of heart-wrenching to spend an entire 8 bucks on it, but my mentality changed as I got to see the animals in their natural habitat. There were 8 themes and each explored various settings, such as the Himalayan Foothills, Equatorial Africa and Nepalese River Valley. The docile animals were set free to roam, and even get in the way of the tram! The other not-so-friendly animals were safely out-of-reach but still within viewing distance. As for the tapir, it preferred to be heard and not seen, squealing loudly into the soundless night as we passed by. The sight of the night was probably the Bull Elephant Chawang standing alone, munching on grass. The lighting made it look as if he was on a pedestal, with the moon behind him. The guide was fantastic, lending enthusiasm and insights to the animals as we went along. Travelling through the different terrains spiced up the entire ride - the sounds of rolling logs, cracking of suspended bridge and splashing of "river" water are still fresh in my mind.

Not only had I enjoyed myself a lot, I felt that I had also learned more about the animals.

It's truly an experience not to be missed.

It's Not The End

And so after a crazy day in JB, I went back home to rest. In a last minute change of plans, Jie Yu decided that he was going to send David off, and messaged me accordingly.

I used to be bloody afraid of dogs, but for some reason I played with Junior. For the first time after knowing him for about 4 years already. I would usually run away and freak out when he started jumping around. I mean, I've always tried to be nice, but even on that day, he was growling at me! While I was doing some waiting, I called out to him and he came over to let me have a pat and scratched his tummy while he licked my fingers.

I don't understand why, as much as I like animals, I'm afraid of them.

It probably stems from the fact that I give them a lot of respect.

Jie Yu and I dragged outselves out of bed to make out way to the airport. By that time we were walking zombies slept most of the way on the bus ride there. It was a terribly irritating one, with the bus uncle chiding the school kids to move further back in so that more people could board. In the end the journy took twice the time, but luckily enough for us, David's flight got delayed!

A fine example of blessing in disguise.

We met Puay Leng at Terminal 2, grabbed something to eat from Crystal Jade (I think!) and then Angeline arrived after her little "Terminal 2 Amazing Race" and we made our way to Terminal 1 to look for David. He was without his phone and for a moment we were a mini-search party, and it was only on our second prowl that we found him!

Coincidentally enough we met Ahmad who was also sending his friend off to Perth, and we all had a chat. He's going into the same course as me! Gosh.



My camera was on low batt as we rushed to take a couple of photos. The guy who took it for us was bloody friendly.

Anyway, there's no point being too mushy here because I'm sure he's there having a lot of fun. It'd be great to hear from him soon. He just needs to set up his internet connection and get a desktop. Hope he hurries up - we're all waiting to hear from him!

Thomas and Guys

I had my off on Thursday morning, but I was pretty much wrecked from not having enough sleep. I always look like I don't have enough sleep. I have friends who come into the shop and tell me that I look tired and my eyes are always bloodshot and all.

And I wonder why I don't seem to have that healthy glow on my face any more!

Anyway, Wee Lee and I went to JB. Yeah, you heard me right! I wonder why I've never fully enjoyed the perks of living in the north till now. Travelling to JB is faster than going to Orchard Road! The only problem is that it requires a passport and the immigration officers are not impressed by how different I looked when I was in Sec 1 as compared to how I look now. I need to change the photo sometime soon.



We stopped at the coffee shop just after the customs for a meal. There was this thing that blocked out the sun, but was green in colour thus causing everyone to look like Ninja Turtles. I thought it looked pretty interesting so I took out my camera for a quick snap much to Wee Lee's dismay. He didn't want us to look like tourists! He's after all Malaysian - and there's no better guide because the waitress told us how much we had to pay - in Malay, and he understood!

After that we walked over to City Square, which was this new-ish shopping centre. I managed to grab one of those Taiwan fashion mags for half the price that it was sold in Singapore. I think I need to go over there more often to make the most of my money. The first place we visited was a hair salon called Thomas and Guys. WL was going to get his hair cut by the senior hairstylist, but she was so busy that we were actually told twice to come back half an hour later! We spent the time shopping and I was quite impressed with the fashion for guys over there, some of whom looked like they just stepped out from HK mag Milk.

We waited impatiently for close to two hours before we were attended to. While waiting outside, I actually commented that one of the hairstylists looked quite cool, and as fate would have it, he was the one who cut my hair! I asked for something short (because I love to shock). He made some small talk but what amazed me was that he could tell I was Singaporean (do I look that typical?), finished army, and am 20 years old. Come to think of it, he looks rather young himself! I stared into the mirror, only to see a pair of puffy eyes stare right back. I'm bad at making small talk. Most of the time I was just nodding and making some weird grunting noises in agreement. I promise to be more friendly the next time I go back.

He also suggested that I dyed my hair (my freaking short hair for S$44) because I have a lot of white hair. Anyone who has seen me recently will agree, and it's one of the things that I'm rather traumatised by. If I had bought enough money, I might've said yes, but I didn't. I did say that I would go back though (but probably for a haircut instead because Bernard volunteered to dye mine!), but I'd get him to dye my hair before I go into Uni. He also said something nice about my physique, and he might probably be PR-ing me, but he couldn't really say that if I looked like fuck right?

Everyone likes a compliment now and then.

As you can probably tell, I enjoyed the experience tremendously. Getting a good haircut (along with the short but relaxing shampoo session) is definitely in my list of pampering-myself activities.



The mall was well-decorated for CNY and I know that because I had time to explore while waiting for Wee Lee (who spent another hour and forty minutes in there, on top of the forty minutes we spent in there together). I swear the next time I'm going to bring much more money over there. I bought myself a new pair of shoes that my mother had been nagging me to buy for weeks. It's brown (because it's the in colour for shoes now), and I got it for S$25.

When Wee Lee had finished straightening out (literally) the last bits of his hair, we went to have dinner. We had planned to go to his place initially but due to the lack of funds after he bought this really cool BAPE jacket (something that Edison Chen was seen wearing quite a couple of times), we scrapped the idea, and went home really early. In fact, we got home by 7!



And the first thing I did was show my mom my new pair of shoes and take a couple million photos of my (new) hair. I liked it a lot and I think he did a great job. It was what I wanted - somehing short and easy to style. It's functionable enough for my active lifestyle, and not something that'll look like a mop if I don't do anything to it.



The back's longer than the front though, which is cool! Heck, I know I'm narcistic, but then again, it's much better to like yourself for your looks than it is to contemplate about getting plastic surgery. I see this ad when I take the train everyday, and I think it's nice for to be able to like yourself for how you look.

JKYH Top 20 (Four)

01. I'm Coming - Rain (+2) 2*

02. What Goes Around (Comes Around) - Justin Timberlake (-1) 4***
03. All Good Things (Come to an End) - Nelly Furtado (-1) 4
04. Fill My Little World/Never Be Lonely - The Feeling (2) 4
05. Sewn - The Feeling (NEW)
06. Catch You - Sophie Ellis Bextor (+13) 2
07. The Pieces Don't Fit Anymore - James Morrison (+5) 2
08. Break It Off - Sean Paul ft Rihanna (2) 3
09. Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani ft Akon (+7) 3
10. It Ends Tonight - All-American Rejects (-4) 4
11. Lithium - Evanescence (+2) 3
12. In My Bed - Rain (+8) 2
13. I Wanna Fuck You - Akon ft Snoop Dogg (-3) 4
14. Love You So - Natalie (-7) 4
15. Say It Right - Nelly Furtado (-10) 4
16. Can't Catch Tomorrow - Lostprophets (-7) 4
17. Dangerous - Ying Yang Twins (-6) 3
18. Land of a Thousand Words - Scissor Sisters (-3) 4
19. A Bad Dream - Keane (NEW)
20. All I Can Do - Chantel Kreviazuk (NEW)

The next chart will come sooner than you know it. Keep watching this space!

Going Away

David's going to Perth to study on Friday.

Mak's going to Australia (I don't know which city) to fly in the coming month.

Chris is going to Taiwan.

Shuming's going to Amsterdam soon.

It seems to me that everyone's going out of the country to get a different point of view and pursue something that's special and different from what we've been exposed to all this time. Given a chance I would want to, but everyone knows I'm dirt poor.

Well, by my standards.

But I'll miss them a lot. I guess that's the bad part.

And that's probably what this entry's about.

In situations like these you can only hope they come back with broader perspectives but still remain the same person they were. And have faith that time won't change what we've had. But that's really hard isn't it? People do change and move on - factors that are out of our control. I can only wish them well and to stay safe.

They'll be gone for a long time.

I demand a bottle of Bailey's Irish Cream from the DFS upon return to Singapore. That's all.

Cafe del Mar

I've been coming home late almost everyday recently, and I can't wait to be back home early tonight so I that I can rest!

On Friday night I met up with Jie Yu and he was in a very good mood. And that was infectious so we decided to have Village for dinner. We walked from Wisma to the Heeran at 930PM, and spent an hour plus chomping on various culinary goodies. I had an enjoyable time. We were both feeling bloated after that and decided to take a walk back to Orchard Road, and by luck, we caught the last train, without realising it. I can't believe how lucky we were.

Yesterday morning, I met Terence and we went to Sentosa!

I can't stop myself from going there.

We went to Palawan Beach before settling down at Siloso. We couldn't resist laying on the beach chairs of Cafe de Mar (yeah, the beach bar that I talked about last week), and before long, a waitress came to take our order. We weren't about to give up on our comfort and so we ordered various versions of iced coffee.



I was looking like a wreck on 5 hours of sleep, so I didn't feel like my usual cam-whorish self! My hair's in a mess. Haha... We laid there chatting, and looking at eye candy walk past. If we'd stayed on longer, we would've seen more of them! The place looked really inviting, and I think I'll be back sooner than expected!



Look at that! Perfect for a couple, or a couple of friends to chill out and enjoy the beach, without getting sand in your butt and actually laying on something that's soft and comfortable!



The sun was playing peek-a-boo with us. It was a rather cloudy morning, and I was just glad it didn't rain! It was quite relaxing while we were there, just that I constantly had to check what time it was in order to not be late for work!

I'm so stoned now all I can do is post pictures.

We had trouble deciding if we should go into the water and ended up wading a bit by the sea. Terence didn't want to get his pants wet, which is impossible while swimming unless he did it in his underwear... which I'm sure isn't the solution!



Before long we took our last photo and went to shower, feeling rather disappointed that we had to end our trip to Sentosa so early! The down-side to working in retail! Lunch was at Vivocity and the chicken rice there sucks. Don't have it. Ever. I'm referring to the one at B1. Yeah.

Another week ahead, and another week closer to going to Uni!

I can't wait.

Random Stuff

In addition to all the weird questions I get asked during work like, "Where's the toilet?" and "Do you guys sell Ipods?", I got asked another question (twice!) that I hadn't heard before. And I've been there for 3 months already!

I was standing innocently at the TV section when a lady came up to me, pointed at the 60" Bravia SXRD TV and asked earnestly, "What movie is this?".

And I got it from another family later in the day. I was more stunned than frustrated, because they were easy one-liner answers. That's Hollywood - brilliantly manufactured and intense action sequences. iRobot and Too Fast Too Furious - Tokyo Drift were the movies that were guilty of making Singaporeans hang around like they didn't have enough money to go to the cinemas.

There was this little kid who came up to me and used his cute pleading voice and went, "Gooooooooooooooooooooor, this game cannot play already!". And I restarted the PS2 and shifted through the options till it became alright again. Basically I was brimming with delight that he called me gor, because I do look younger than my age and being 20 isn't an adult yet, and the last think I want to hear is parents telling their kids to address me as uncle.

That did happen a couple of times, much to my disgust.

In other randome stuff, David Choi is pretty good. Although he readily admits to using too much of his throat, but I like his voice. Ooh, and speaking of good music, Sophie Ellis Bextor's Catch You is brilliant. I can't stop playing it. Ahhh... we do need the veterans in the business to show those noobs how it's done!

A shoutout to my army friends whom I went out for dinner at Crystal Jade with, followed by a 930PM screening of Babel at Lido and a comfortable cab ride home. You guys are high maintenance! But I enjoyed myself thoroughly - it was amazing hanging out with them.

Curiously enough, Kenneth has asked me to join his band. I don't know how serious he is but that's what he said when he dropped by on Tuesday. He said he's heard me sing in bunk a couple of times and thought I was alright. This, coming from the guy who undid my bootlace and took out that round thing in his desperate attempts to stop me from singing along to Franz Ferdinand
at the back of the minibus when we were having night driving!

We'll see how it goes. Should be interesting.