yeah as the title states i could be in new zealand now, but i chose not to go..........y might u ask? well i'll explain.......a bunch of my frens from msu, my company, from the same armour batch as me in ATI (armour training institute), [aka the people who i trained with to become armour specialists] flew off to New Zealand jus earlier in the evening yesterday.......i went to the airport to send them off.....well they went to NZ as part of some training their platoon is going to have......so onli their platoon ppl from our company(specialists, officer, and men and some other volunteers and some forced to go) and the 3 sir ppl and some 21 sa ppl and other support personnel are going for this......i think they will have some combined forces live firing same as wad we had in wallaby.....well now onto y i chose not to go even though i could have been with them, even tho i probably wont have much to do there except keep clearing all the shit work for them lol.......in ns we call this termed as "sai kang".....and jus enjoying myself for about onli 2 weeks, the last time we all can "chiong" together overseas (and potentially locally until we ord) as a same cohord, it would be quite memorable i must say.......and a part of me really doesnt mind to go there and experience wad new zealand is like, after all its free, saf is paying for ur almost-holiday-like trip, y not rite? in fact when i recently told my dad dat i was not going to new zealand, even he told me i should have gone, but i had already more or less made up my mind dat the negatives outweigh the plus points of enjoying the camaraderie of a few frens i've grown closer to since coming to msu......wad could be so bad as to deter me from going to such a fine trip? well quite abit, push and pull factors here and there.......firstly all the regular officers from our company are going, meaning there is no one to be in charge of the ppl left behind except the pcs who are from our batch so almost no government lol, relax life onli lol, everyday can go swim,gym,play pool or use the comm in the mess, play sports or all of the above if i have the time and energy lol.......well another reason i dun wanna go is also because of the regulars as well.......hmm my oc is actually a very nice guy, very kind and like quite easy to go to him for requests and stuff like dat so like nothing to say about him la......well the problems lie with my 2ic and my csm haiz........welll how about a little profile on the both of them?2ic- likes to hunt them and reptiles and drink their soup cos he says its good for the constituition -- they are cold-blooded, they keep warm even though they live in warm places
- ippt gold somehow (but its like way easier at his age)
- father of 4 (he likes to brag this irrelevant fact somehow, so wad?)
- likes to pluck durians from sungei gedong road there (now its banned)
- hasnt got his liscence yet despite his age
- always illegally takes our company driver's rovers, gp cars or ford everests to drive so dat he can chalk up his mileage of 7000km for his conversion to civi license
- got his license suspended or sumtin or got a scolding from the CO of transport hub west for shooting past a red light on a public road (haha loser)
- half the time doesnt know wads going on in the company, and yet wants to stick his shit head in matters (but at least he does work), end up getting scolded by our oc heh
- insists on really ridiculous things at times
- sometimes fraks u for nothing
- jus another boot-licking, ass-covering shit head regular in the army
- insists his way is always rite sometimes
- doesnt value his hairstyle cos its always crew cut
csm- likes to scold ppl with knn and frak
- fraks ppl for nothing alot of the times
- likes to ask our poor company cq to da pao alot of fruits from the cookhouse for him to bring home to juice (gian peng aka miserly)
- jus another boot-licking, ass-covering shit head regular in the army
- insists his way is always rite, and i mean ALWAYS, even if its walking a certain way and stuff, yes its dat ridiculous....
- doesnt value his hairstyle cos its always crew cut
- never really listens to u unless u are there to lick his boots aka do his shitwork for him
- a real slacker who never does any work, he makes us poor nsf do the work for him
- looks like a bastard goldfish
- is a sacarstic jackass (when u anger him)
- no point arguing with him cos u'll jus get fraked and then forced to do it his way
haha ok dats enough profile on both of them la........even though there seem to be more points for my 2ic, my frens still feel dat he is betta to work with than csm even though he gets in the way alot of the time, the one thing is dat he does his job (no matter how poorly and how old-skool soldier his thinking is)........csm doesnt does his job and all he noes is dat he is always rite, never wrong in any way, i hate this kinda thinking......well sometimes i hate 2ic too but at least he listens at times and he is willing to take suggestions and explanations in getting away from doing certain things when ur involved in other things (when ur actually slacking away but he doesnt havta noe dat....) BUT csm however never listens to u, arguing ur case to him is like jus asking for a good fraking then going on with ur life and end up doing things his way in the end.......so i try as hard as possible not to have any contact with csm or to do things with him.......nowadays i dun even want to see him or vice versa, cos nothing good comes when either him or 2ic is around......so we the old specs always do the disappearing act when they appear, i guess we've refined our skill over time already heh.......well yeah back to the main point on y i dun wanna go becos of them........well before the time i could call recently, which is our company lull period so they dun really bother about us, plus they were preparing to go nz anyway........yeah before dat, there was one period of time i was getting aimed by both of them la, getting fraked for nothing alot of the time, esp during the time in wallaby lol......walao i damn emo then lol.......but thank God for frens who were under the same platoon as i was in, they helped me manage alot of tough situations and helped me by either talking to me or helping me in some of my duties lol, really thankful for them, i guess it was there when i really built real camaraderie with the specialists of my batch, esp jia wei, jeremy, jeremiah ng, wee kiat....yeah it was the five of us alot of the times even bathing times, meal times together and stuff.......cos the other half of our company supposy platoon were armour converted infantry specs so onli like 5 of us were purely from armour and stuff like dat, dat was wad made us stay together alot of the times, and looking back at it i enjoyed times with them alot......now a few of them have moved out of support platoon ready, some no more in charge of vehicles like wee kiat and jeremiah ng, then jia wei became the ps of another fighting platoon, plat 1......so now left jeremy and i......well i must say dat i now noe jeremy alot betta than in ati cos we talk more and go out together more as well......coincedentally jeremy and i (and qin en) are not going to new zealand lol, qin en and i chose not to go but jeremy couldnt go cos of his passport but today he was also having 2nd thots of wanting to go in the first place haha........back to me being aimed at......meaning 2ic and csm will jus pick on me for the very very small things dat other ppl commit as well but somehow im like the onli one being scolded for it and i hate dat lol.......worst is when i cannot explain my case to them lol.......sometimes its not as dat i want to be the one sticking out but its like sometimes the situation and things happening make me have to choose a different path than the norm.......OR sometimes i jus really cant see y ppl cant be more flexible lol, y must they all jus go and do the same thing jus becos other ppl are doing it? its like so brainless to me la......so i jus out of curiousity try another way.......like dat oso got wrong meh? what the crap, im jus trying to find a betta way to do things.......some of my batch specs think and say dat im a stunt man, its not dat i want to be, can u blame me for all this cos the way i was brought up or the way i think is different? i tell u now no one, NO ONE wants to be a stuntman or labelled one even..........wad with all dat mindless following, being in ns in itself already kills ur brain cells cos even when u book out, when ppl say things considered normal to civilian life without ns, u think of ns terms......cant think of any now but a small example is like things are beyond ur control and stuff the first thing an ns personnel thinks about it the word suck thumb..........haiz all this wastage of our time and singapore's resources in brain-washing us to be mindless soldiers in a system dat works best onli for those on top but never for those on the ground or near bottom like us specialists, seeing the quality of regulars serving our army like 2ic and csm, i cant help but wish for betta, younger regular soldiers taking over their places, willing to change their ways and stuff like dat but until ord dat is like wishful thinking lol,(if not units like ours are jus another set of useless pawns with no purpose in war and wad not) oh wells so i jus havta bear with for another 104 or 103 more days till i get my pink IC again haiz......sometimes how i wish i was an officer in commandos or sumtin with more pride cos even tho im armour trained (its a pride in itself) but my unit msu like so chui, all pride is lost la(despite us not having to do guard duty, no canteen duty for c.o.s. , no need to do SOC ever again amongst other benefits).........wishful thinking again on my part..........yeah so i dun wanna go to new zealand cos of them, wad for man? if i go i would be going there to enjoy myself and not get aimed at by 2ic and csm, for nothing get arrows for sai kang and for nothing set myself up for extra duties and wad not (if they still exist)......wad for? might as well enjoy myself in singapore not doing much of anything, enjoying this whole week off and stuff like dat......well the ppl from my batch did ask me to go chiong with them for the last time, and i really wanted to do dat but this con alone is too great a deterence so i chose not to go on this.......moreover this fat ass specialist from my same batch dat i really hate, chin boon is going, or forced to go..........i dunno wad happened between me and him, y he suddenly become so fraked up towards me......mayb he was always this way or worst in poly i heard from jeremy who knew him since then.........he is a very sacarstic fellow dat likes to suck up to superiors or those in power, stepping and backstabbing others to get wad he wants and where he wants to go.......its not exactly private dat alot of ppl really hate him, perhaps more than 2ic or even the bastard csm.......chin boon like to suck up to csm, talking to him alot and saying things dat trash others or wad if its wad csm wants to hear.......hate is a strong word to use but i am really almost on the verge of jus throwing caution to the wind and jus give him a very very good whacking of his life, land him in hospital and mayb land myself serving db, having a black record........hmm db, having a black record and stuff is not really anything any nsf or ns man even thinks about but im almost willing to get all dat if i can jus whack him into hospital or mayb even killing him.......haiz i must have killed him countless times over in my mind, i really cannot fathom y would such a person exist, like he jus shoots his mouth talking absolutely stinging rubbish jus for the fun of it it seems, one of these days somebody should stop him from shooting his mouth without giving much of a second thot to it, whenever i think about the fraked up things he has said to me or within my earshot, i boil up with enough anger to give my freedom away and give him the greatest beating he so deserves since the day he was born.......BUT thank God for a thing called rational thinking, i dun want time in db, and a black record, no matter how tempting it is to whack him half to dead or full to it with my bare hands alone, he is not worth my time and the record against my name.......fraking fat blob of fats.....well i thank God oso for the date of my ORD coming nearer and nearer before his.....soon the bearing with all the shitty life with him and 2ic and csm will be over and i will be a free man again, until then then i think about whacking him, if i still remember he exists at all in the first place lol.......so there another reason, its like 0428hrs now, wed, 280109, i havta go sleep, damn shagged.........well another reason y i dun wanna go is more a pull factor back in singapore heh....well cos as i said all the regulars are going and stuff, dat means almost no one to govern us so we can more or less do wad we want in singapore until they all come back cos the pcs dun really bother about us......so finally we're getting a taste of wad specialists in bmt experience all the time......we're living like kings, we do wad we want when we want yayy.......needless to say the last reason is the most obvious, the ppl staying behind get to enjoy more of their chinese new year cos the lot flew off on the 2nd day of the lunar new year ma, so some of them haven finished visiting and stuff, not to mention the feeling of u going to chiong while others are slacking the week off and stuff.......it sucks la basically speaking but wad to do, SUCK THUMB lol......wad else can ppl do but tell u to suck thumb? who's going to pity u for example when ur stuck with duty jus waiting in the office doing nothing till about 10pm for ppl to come back from some crap parade and end up missing ur own family reunion dinner? (it happened to me this year and i jus feel damn bummed about it)......but oh wells its over ready, onli thing is dat this sunday i havta go back to open the office earlier lol.....or mayb not, see if i can work something out la......sians......but yeah anyway this week i (and all the rest of the company who stayed behind in singapore) am (are) on leave, 2 days off from oc, besides the 2 days of public hols i think, then the rest is forced us to clear one lol......so now we're all on leave/off lol while the others are probably unpacking and getting used to new zealand's ultra cold weather i heard, but saf indented the thermal wear for them plus they all bring their own stuff to keep warm and stuff so shouldnt be dat bad la, freezing half to death at nite and burning hot in the day in aust should have been lesson enough for them heh.....well as an ending note the ppl leaving for new zealand all were very emo at spending time overseas during the bulk of the lunar new year, as well as coming back onli on valentine's day for those ppl attached......well not to gloat at them being emo or wad la, but i never realised the feeling of sending ppl going overseas off was so nice, esp when ur the ones not going, the feeling is jus different, esp so for us from the same company and yet are staying behind in singapore for a relaxed life heh.......but still i wish them all the best in their time over there, dat there wont be any incidents or accidents and dat they will not have much sai kang to do and stuff heh.......meanwhile i (we all) will continue to enjoy our freedom to do wad we want while we all can heh.....i damn tired now, going to bathe and sleep, i bought berms earlier today heh.....quite nice $15 from bugis street, spent quite awhile searching for it, including checking out many shops with jeremy, qin en and wee kiat when he hadnt left yet.....its mainly white with very thin lines or patterns, next time i will wear it out or for yf dat kinda thing....jeremy might be selling me his brown berms if he can find lol.....dats all for tonite and for now heh.....my bed my bed here i enthusiastically come!!!ET: rite extra terrestrial, still ur nickname will stick and stay there for a very long while....
xiao en: haha random meh? u were talking about being wordy ma haha.....haha dats good to hear.....mayb i always have alot to say cos i take awhile to update heh....sometimes longer than at different times.....haha dun photos have captions to describe them too? hurhur....one kind of ......O.O......i like to eat niu rou heh......haha hopefully it'll be soon yeah.....erhm no problem, at least ur talking about different things, not spamming so its fine.......
1st Jan 2009, first day of the niu yearwell i realised from the buffet day before yesterday (or rather ages ago from now) dat there were quite a few places to walk in novena square 2, not to mention i saw some shop named warouku japanese pasta.....which sold the squid ink pasta, i was jus dying to try lol since titus told me i should try it......i finally got the chance to meet up with snow white one on one.....and i really had a great time jus talking to my best fren personally, asking him personal questions, getting to noe y he is seemingly always so busy......before eating we went to this shop dat was mainly closed for their stock taking, i jus walked in cos i wanted to buy a GREEN towel, those kind dat is very absorbant and very easy to dry dat kind.......actually the shop was closed but they allowed me to make my purchase cos it was jus one item, and they had already finished their stock taking so wells thank God dat i managed to get the towel i've been longing to buy even tho the shop seemed closed until new year comes lol.......well back to the food, andrew got bigger quantities of food as compared to mine even tho we paid the same price for our meals........cos i ordered the squid ink pasta and andrew ordered some mix thingy which had soup and wad not lol.......we tried each other's food, his was jus ok la.....mine wasnt dat fabulous oso la.......but it definitely made my teeth and lips black lol, squid ink ma......but it was fun, wanted to take a picture of my teeth being black but i guess the black faded rather quickly when ur eating food, i onli have food evidence dat my teeth was slightly black not totally.........after eating andrew insisted on paying for my meal for some reason, i tried to pay but he wouldnt let me, very nice of him to treat me, i feel quite blessed.....i would treat him to something next time lol....after dat we walked around novena square 2 and velocity lol......not bad la quite a few things to see there......and in square 2, there were levels dat sold specifically japanese stuff and another level for exclusively korean merchandise.......i treated andrew to ice cream from some shop in square 2..........after dat we left there for our own homes.....photos of our food uploaded on facebook ready......2nd Jan 2009haha still not really used to typing out 2009 lol, 2008 oso i guess.....but i guess dats jus due to me not blogging dat regularly la i guess....well will try to blog more regularly......hmm oh ya today i met titus around lunch time at bugis junction lol, as usual i was slightly late, mayb a few minutes, cos i left the house late due to using the comm, its the one thing dat i can spend hours on and after dat find out dat i have actually not really accomplished much, it gets kinda depressing actually......but yeah my home comm got quite a few stuff inside, specific for my use la, like utorrent, meddling with the virus scanning program, sorting songs and putting them in my mp3 player, converting existing movies i have to be able to put into my mp3 player (one thing i really hate to do, cos it wastes time and all, i regret buying this mp3 player but since i've already bought it and it serves its purpose, jus live with it lol, no point crying over spilt milk.......) etc, well yes there is alot of things to do on my home comm.......mm yes back to the meet up with titus.....this is the day dat he set aside for me lol cos since he got back i already hounded him alot of times to set aside a day to meet up one on one......so he set aside today, the 2nd of jan....can u imagine how many meet ups he must have had? something like 5 buffets since he came back.....he told me when we did meet up.....but wad i mean is dat he is so busy meeting up with ppl since he got back dat the only dat i can spend alone with him is today lol......he was back for about a month or so lol......sometimes i feel dat he is closer to more of his skool frens dat almost to the point dat i dun feel im dat close to him anymore, in some ways like i've lost a good fren i grew up with for many years of my life........i guess im not the onli one who feels this la, i noe this, many ppl feel like their losing their frens when they havta 'share' their frens or even best frens with other frens whom u may not be as close to......this kinda thing happens alot in church, yf and mayb all other social settings.......still dunno how really to handle this kinda situation, one way is to suck thumb and somehow watch the frenship fade as u become less important in dat person's life, feeling dat there's nothing u can do to help the situation.......the other option is trying ur best to get back ur frens in whatever means possible.......i guess personally im not very good at the 2nd option......there have been a few frens whom i was relatively close to before, but slowly we have faded in importance in each others' lives and we probably know as much about each other now as when we first became frens, its like going back to the forming, storming phase of friendship again, even tho we have been thru dat ages before.....i dunno how to stop this thing from happening, i can onli but stand by and watch big-eyed and bewildered and confused, watching this happen haiz.......BUT haha somehow talking with titus after so long (i didnt talk to him much online or wad not after he had left for overseas cos of clashing time zones, lack of free time from either side), i felt dat he still values the frenship with me, even though we dunno wad has been going on in each other's lives since we last saw each other........well he onli knows dat i went to australia to train, had a horrible time there etc, the major things la.......hmm jus catching up with him was a nice way to spend the afternoon........we ate at the temp hawker centre at bugis, there was alot of variety in terms of food......we ate simple hawker fare and we enjoyed it, we ordered about 2 local dishes each and we shared among ourselves.....we were stuffed after dat.....anyway we talked about our lives and how it was going, our brothers and how they were doing......i managed to find out abit about wad amos is going thru in army (of course some things i wont share here cos to respect his privacy and mayb the confidence dat titus had in telling me), well i hope i can be an encouragement to amos even after i ORD cos the times in army is actually not as easy to get by as u think.....more on the actual struggles guys face in army next time, nearer or after my ORD or a few days from now heh........well after our food we walked around bugis market, looking at berms, there are really alot of shops there selling alot of berms dat bear similar patterns and designs, i was so spoilt for choice dat i didnt buy any from there cos there are jus so many shops, pricing all around the same prices one so i decided to wait until i get a 2nd opinion on which shop is good heh.....well after walking around we decided to catch the movie ipman cause there was still time before titus's next meeting with another fren, titus jus decided he wanted to treat me to the movie, quite a pleasant suprise hmm, i feel quite blessed......when he went to buy the tics i had to plant a bomb hmm dat resulted in us getting into the cinema slightly late, the show had already started, about 4 or 5 mins into the show, we missed the very first fight scene but thankfully we could still catch the gist of the show.......it was a very visuall captivating show.......all the fighting moves and stuff, i like it alot! makes me want to learn wing chun fist sometime, really im serious about learning, if i can find the place dat teaches the authentic kung fu, and they are not involved in ancestral worship and stuff like dat, cos its sorta against christianity and all......well but even if i learn, honestly speaking i might be tempted to use it more on my fren i cant stand in army, beating the living day lights out of him lol.......but i think its good to learn for self-defence la, like imagine someone try to mug u or sumtin then u jus own the guy upside down heh.......all this part of some boyhood fantasy heh.....it would be impressive if u jus turned the tables instead of being owned almost all of the time.........well after dat great movie, we went to shop abit more for awhile at bugis parco junction there, we went into this shop which i saw from the escalator as we were going up to the cinema, selling designer tees........it was quite abit more than i would normally pay for a shirt i must say......it was like $35 for one piece and like $59.50 for 2.......i took quite awhile with the help of titus deciding on which 2 shirts to get cos i wanted quite a few.....about 5 if i can remember correctly........well end up i bought 2, one of which i will wear at chinese niu year heh.....the other one i wore (which titus picked for me) on one of the sundays and i booked in wearing it before and alot of ppl said it was nice.....quite happy heh......the other one is nicer, yellow with a gradient of colour......next time ask me to show u lol......then we went to another shop selling berms but the prices were more ex, and it was more or less the same designs lol......but one thing i noticed at this shop was the black matted pull-over vest, jus the thing i was looking for! but its like $40 or so, abit ex leh, by the way the berms were selling for about $35 or so.....as compared to $15 or less at bugis market.....haiz, price differences dats the main thing in shopping i found out hurhur......hmm after all dat titus had to rush off to meet another fren so we parted ways lol..........but yeah it was good to finally be able to meet up with my 2 best frens ever over a relaxed meal and afternoon of talking, wad a nice way to start the new year............
xiaoen: haha thanks for tagging, change back to ur "i love u, daddy" blogskin.....haha i hav patience mayb but my memory is not dat good la......i had abit of help from the reminders i put in my phone calendar dat i haven deleted yet......haha i see, (this is for grace, xiao en to reply on) do u think i talk too much? i jus have alot of thoughts about alot of things hmm......hahah u mean u actually have non-word posts? hahah.....haha happy niu year to u too......haha if i'm not wrong dong dong chiang is not a good thing to wish ppl, in the hokkien context i think, but dun worry, non offence taken.......
ET: rite ur not spamming anymore, who would believe u? esp when u used 4 tags to say wad u could in 1 or 2 tags haha.....nothing wrong with spamming la, my tag board hardly got ppl tagging anyway, but dun overdo it, it'll get irritating to see all nonsense on my tagboard....... hurhur ur birthday is boxing day? ok next time if i see u then i will box u too k? erhm i cant haven forgotten to put it in if i didnt even noe in the first place rite?
(sidenote, yes i noe im still blogging about past events but its like something i must get done first then i can start blogging about present events, hopefully i can be done soon)now, pretend its 24th of Dec 2008, yes caroling at food for thought, how smart.....o_Ohmm i woke up 'today' at about 6 plus i think (if i remember correctly), jus nice to get ready to go out everything....so i grabbed my guitar, which still had the carols chords and lyrics inside the guitar bag.....and made my way there to bugis from my house......i kinda got abit lost cos it was my 2nd time getting to food for thought besides my 21st brithday dinner which was spent there.......anyway i thot i was late but apparently when i reached they had jus ordered dinner......i thot cos i was late i wont be joining for dinner, i dinno they were having dinner at food for thought itself.....it was a more expensive meal than i expected but oh wells of late i've been allowing myself all these little indulgences, esp cos i was on a rather long block leave and all......so meeting up with peeps and spending at least 10 plus inclusive of the extra 17% gst & service charge at some places......then some places like $35.20 total per person, makes me feel super broke.....i had at least 4 or 5 10+ meals at different places, with different ppl.....well i'll say more on dat later......was quite suprised to see small pockets of ppl from different social circles jus gathering at the table, like i was not suprised to see nat and ruth there, cos their boss was the one who asked (er hem ordered, no la) them to bring their frens to carol there.....then some ppl from the normal i-dunno-wad-to-call-this-group clique, david chua, yan wei, priscilla (of cos she's another bennett jamir wad haha) and by association penuel as musician.....then zach and i musicians cos nat and ruth called us......i was abit suprised to see lizzy and lucy there from my ag, and even more suprising was lynette and melinda......nice and rare mix of ppl getting together which is nice, it jus breaks all the so-called social norms.....
oh ya back to caroling at food for thought.......dinner was good food as usual as wad u can expect from there heh....anyway after dat, nat, zac and i went to back door entrance of FFT (the one leading to the nearby toilet) to practice the carols.....wa zach is one kind of best lol......he comes for caroling and he brings a guitar with the last string still snapped, he didnt bring any pick or tuner to tune his guitar, one kind of what i'd call unprepared la.....anyway i felt more relieved when i heard penuel was coming to play as well, even more relieved when he actually came jus in time......if he didnt come at all, i might have jus died at some songs, as i always say its not dat i cant play adequately well enough but i jus dun have the confidence for certain songs.......ah wells since penuel was the more pro one he played by himself nearer the counter top tables then zach and i played at the end of the cafe at our tables where we sat....its really a tight squeeze cos the food for thought walking space is not really very big lol......if u have visited the cafe before or jus peered in thru the glass window, u can probably tell the shop space is not a very big one, but i guess it contributes to its warm atmosphere.......erhm caroling went well i guess, we played a few songs (which we did abit late, like one beat or mayb half off or sumtin like dat but its ok, guess nobody noticed it) then we opened it to the guests in the cafe......the most heart pounding and i'd say nervous part of the caroling......good thing they chose the more familiar and more common songs ......so we had a blast playing carols la, but i think the gloria song and another song zach and i jus didnt play cos penuel was playing qithout the chordsheet we had so he was jus playing on a diff note or sumtin so we got owned on dat particular song lol........but we went totally crazy on one song la, i think it was joy to the world or sumtin, cant really remember the name of the song....the chord change was quite mad and i strummed a variation to the normal pattern and i really had loads of fun playing dat song, it was a guitar high man, dunno how to explain it but im always very happy when i can play the guitar well, all glory be to God.....had a blast.......when we were done, we were very kindly treated to i think 2 plates worth of 3 or 4 types of cakes sold at FFT from the boss himself and lemon tea as well for each of us there (of course we all shared 2 plates worth of cakes, not like we had 2 plates each, i think they will go broke if they jus gave out 2 plates of cakes to each of us lol....very nice of him and did i mention the cakes are really good too heh.....i should/could be a food critique next time (well mayb.....career option mayb? hmm i'd havta think about it.......)well, im glad we managed to bring the meaning of christmas to random ppl we dont even know and hopefully they were touched deeply by the message of christmas......there was mainly this group of frens celebrating their fren's 21st birthday, haha hope dat was memorable for him too, i think its a 21st to remember......well so we were going off and while we were walking to the mrt, david, yan wei and nat were singing christmas carols in harmony and trying out the various pitches a song could have, quite interesting la but i was kinda immersed in my own thots abit, thinking about my kite, if i should let it go......hmm on a sidenote, melinda and i will be going to haji lane sometime to check out stuff, and eat prawn mee there, melinda says its good....whoo i might jus spend a fortune there heh, never been there before......
25th December 2008! CHRISTmas service 1030am!hmm one of the christmas services dat my mom rarely attends but this (last) year she went, as expected i woke up pretty late from sleeping late again i think, think i slept at 5 plus the nite before......then i woke at about 940 thereabouts, it was 10 before u knew it, by the time my mom and i got ready.......andrew had already left much earlier by bus, john stayed home cos he was apparently 'to tired'......so for the first time i paid for the cab to church on my own accord......normally my dad does the paying, esp when we're going to church on sundays......but anyway it was really madness after the christmas service, with everybody going around finding the specific person they wanna give gifts to......i tried it myself, its quite mad, even with me giving out like onli 30+ this year.......its quite hilarious, cos as u set out to look for a certain person A, u find another person B u wanna give to and like calling dat person B to wait for awhile while u search for his/her gift then after giving to B u see A walking to some other place, then as u are chasing A u see C and then ask them to wait and stuff like dat heh......mad rush la, so many ppl dat u hardly see in bishan come back as CEOs (christmas, easter onli heh).......well i received quite abit of stuff from quite a few ppl, some ppl more unexpected than others.....i noe its rather late but i jus wanna say a thank u to all those who gave me gifts even those who gave me super late (ar hem tan rachel) and also the ppl who gave me little chocolates and stuff as well as al those ppl i managed to exchange handshakes with......hmm after all the rush it was lunch and then back home i guess, cant remember anything else.......(pictures of all my christmas presents will be on facebook!)26th Dec 2008haha actually i dun quite remember wad happened on dat day leh.....it was quite awhile ago.......hmm i jus noe dat i didnt get much rest on dat day (as well)......think i went to play badminton at bishan or did i? cant rmb....
27th Dec 2008well its the day of the 87ers gathering dat we have been so eagerly awaiting lol......we were talking abit about it (or rather they were talking about it, i jus happened to hear about it, im not dat close to any of the main ppl in the year 87, the onli ppl i noe well are my very best of buds Andrew White Tan and Titus BOSS Seah heh)....well so it finally happened, it finally became real when the other sarah tan (clair's sister, not bee hui, the one we normally see around the pa stuff in bishan) came back form overseas (i cant remember from where now heh oops).....then we had our long awaited gathering.....mayboo is a genius lol, one kind of rich la, she chose the place i think and sorta had the help of ale to organise the whole thing lol.........guess wad mayboo chose a place called Hokkaido Japanese Restaurant all the way at the rather dead Turf City.....one kind of far, and not onli dat the price of the meal there is like $35.20 per person! for buffet la nonetheless but even then? its like super ex.......even the rich lucas and titus had to borrow some money from me cos i jus drew $50 before going there.....still the price was much steeper than we all expected......oh wells but we made up for it with all the fun we had eating and talking nonsense, doing nonsense heh......
andrew had already ate a tim sum buffet earlier at lunch so he was the onli 'ala carte' at the table of 16 heh (yeah dats how many 87ers turned up whee)......it was quite hilarious cos we kept making fun of his ala carte tag which they put at his place, made him take photos with it and his fried rice he ordered lol......but anyway we gave andrew quite abit of food we wanted to finish so we could get rid of the plates and stuff, and andrew as always wad very funny la, he had to wait until the waiters or waitresses were out of sight before he would pop the food into his mouth very quickly, jus like a small boy doing sumtin wrong lol......so funny, oh wells dats my childhood best fren for u........hmm some other fun parts was playing with the pea pods we ordered for fun [oh ya as expected for buffets we jus ordered whatever lol, and after awhile watever food came we jus ate lol, regardless of whether we did order it or not.......so i guess we ended eating alot of the food other ppl (from the other half of the table i mean) ordered and vice-versa.....] well well the pods, heh it was fun cos i think lucas started it by saying dat u could pop the peas to shoot at somebody if u pressed hard enough, soon a bunch of us were trying dat haha........titus managed to slip 1 into andrew's hot tea and about 2 into sarah's tea before he got caught by runner heh.....titus the madman eventually ate the pea in andrew's tea heh......lol......titus also ate the 'cooked' sashimi he threw into andrew's tea lol, cos andrew's tea was hot rite so the sashimi got 3/4 cooked lol......disgusting stuff but oh wells we're jus having fun......sarah exacted her rarraness by popping a few peas into titus''s tea.......so he had to dig them out to eat using his chopsticks (they didnt provide us with spoons lol), check out lucas's pictures on facebook to find out more.......then another highlight was the stuffing of one of the tou fus dat we couldnt finish with loads of wasabe! whee haha dat was the most hilarious thing of the nite heh......nicklaus, reuben they all flipped the tou fu around and stuffed wasabe underneath lol, meaning wasabe was stuffed like the filling of the toufu lol.......we wanted to make ying quan eat it but we failed.......the other sarah tan almost ate it but mabel spoilt out plans.....it would have been very hilarious to see her reaction if she had eaten it lol........mabel guessed there was sumtin wrong when we all kept quiet for once and all happened to look in the other sarah tan's direction lol......oh wells it might have turned rather nasty if she really ate it anyway......but it was fun while it lasted.........after dat lucas and a few others went on to some place nearby to turf city for supper......andrew fetched bee hui, titus, mabel home......i was in his car as well but i dropped off near his house to take a bus home myself from there.........28th Dec 2008hmm dat was a sunday so jus like any other sunday perhaps (oh ya melinda jacked herself twice cos she didnt believe the 28th was jasmine's birthday when i told her so, she had to ask jasmine herself TWICE heh onli to realise she jacked herself, heh genius, oh i remember now......it was the last sunday of the year and the little children across the levels had their open sunday thing......its this thing where they all gather together and then sing songs, have fun among other things......basically it means no lessons for them lol......the children were told to sing the song starting with "on the first day of christmas, my true love sent to me......" oh haha i rmb the song, its the 12 days of christmas lol....hmm if i remember correctly it was jeremie biancherie's (oops cant rember how to spell his last name, sumtin like dat la) farewell dinner after dat at june's place i think, i made my way there after playing a fantastic game of floorball........stopped at the wrong bus stop then i had to walk back lol.....anyway when i got there, most of the rest had already started cooking....so i went to the front garage thingy to start fire, im a arsonist heh.....with little tips from linus, li and i set up 2 fires and june let us use the cheater method, which was the ultra hot flame gun or whatever its called, its run on gas then the flame is uber hot dat kind, super cool like a mini flame thrower.....we used dat to heat up some of the bigger pieces of coal, i got burnt quite a few times starting and keeping the fire going cos the ambers from the fire jus jump out of the pit sometimes.....but thankfully it wasnt serious at all......we had a great time cooking and eating heh......there was pork chops, chicken wings, the wantons which sarah, ruth, lizzy, rachel and lucas deep fried (some came out as jus having the wanton skins onli, like empty wantons, how wanton [hurhur bad joke]) {they were trying to eat the one dat they personally hand wrapped lol and taking pictures with it....heh} and of course not to mention the UBER NICE BEEF ROASTED TO PERFECTION by our dear host, june low herself and david heng, not too much seasoning and spices and no marinate at all! jus the pure succulent juices of the tender beef!! specially ordered in a huge chunk, woah my mouth is starting to water at the mention of it, i wanna eat dat kinda beef again but i heard its ex lol....my stomach calls for it argh!!!! oh yeah one more thing i must mention is the french method of keeping the fire going.....haha they are mad la.....well see the ppl we were organising this farewell for were jeremie and john and end up they were the ones helping to not let the fire burn out heh.......their method is crazy lol.....on the ambering coals they jus heap more charcoal onto it and then they jus fan crazily literally until the fire jus comes out lol, gives another meaning totally to fanning the fire (out).......oh wells u havta be there to noe wad i mean la, the frenchmen are quite mad but apparently their method worked heh.....dats all to a fun and funny nite......we 21 yr olds played at the swing and see-saws too......well the ppl dat were there were david, li (for some time), june and justin low, aunty lily, mabel, ruth, sarah, lizzy, rachel, kin yip, aarlyn, lucas, joey and clarence popped by later, tim sng, chris, ale and qing yuan, of course the 2 frenchmen john and jeremie and lastly myself......wished i could have enjoyed myself more cos sometimes i tend to feel abit left out even though its sucha big group, cos like i wont get to talk to much ppl im closer to and then i would jus be around thinking my own thots or jus sticking around when others have conversations while im actually not really a part of the conversation per se, tho i appear to be heh (im quite good at making impressions dat im enjoying myself)......sometimes i wonder if i should jus quit this ag im in cos of feelings like this but i thank God dat time and again He provides ppl, sometimes random ppl to somehow encourage me to continue going for the ag cos the ag is not a setting jus for social interaction, and i do thank God for lizzy (of course andrew and titus no need to say la but when they around onli lol) for time and again encouraging me with little notelets here and there that she is always there for me if i need someone to talk to as well as assure me dat i'm one of her best frens in the ag (still), guess little things like dat really mean alot and i cant be thankful enough for her...........29th Dec 2008hmm today nothing much, jus wake up late and then go for the suopposed lao beijing xiao long bao buffet.....which was about $10 plus so not dat bad......aiya wad a disappointment lol, when we got there we found out it was not onli a xiao long bao buffet, there were other tim sum and like we could onli order like 2 baskets of xiao long bao at once......cos they would either run out of xiao long bao or they wouldnt be able to make it fast enough for our (and all the guest's) consumption lol i guess, but how i wish i can jus pay $10 plus for unlimited xiao long baos, and good ones of course not the inferior ones dat the skin breaks or it doesnt have soup in it or sumtin la, u noe jus basic standards......the lao beijing ones were not too bad, considering the mass ordering.....we ate alot as expected of any other normal buffets........lucas and titus loved the custard paos for some reason......they oso had like mini squid (the red ones), some scallob looking thing, oh ya noodles (i whacked like all 5 types of the noodles, so i tried every noodle thing on the menu, they came in very small bowls to it was jus appetisers but of course it seemed more jialat to finish it whe ur already full heh, im not a dan fu who is a bottomless pit for food), oh ya we ordered 2 plates of everything on the very short menu.......including shrimp dumplings or sumtin......then for the last part we had one whole plate of the shrimp dumplings (dat i ordered heh) dat no one wanted to finish unless forced to heh.....so to make things more fun, we played the game "zhong ji mi ma" aka the number in the middle literally translated into english lol......then someone would set the number, then the rest play lol......quite exciting, esp when we up the stakes the next time u got it.....i think angsty boy chris got it the worst cos he kept getting the number, hence having to eat more and more dumplings at a go each time.....haha besides chris i think ryan, lucas, titus, charlie (kenneth heng) and the bottomless pit dan fu had to eat their punishment/rewards worth.......haha....but we did great lol......we finished everything dat was brought to the table......and we had lots of fun......jus spending time with frens in sucha relaxed way was a very nice way to spend the day......we also joked about going up this ladder inside the restaurant and throwing xiao long baos at the customers and running around the top to evade the police who would probably come if one of us did really climb up heh......good times, i really enjoyed myself this time.....after dat we each went our separate ways, lucy and chris went on a date heh to watch australia haha, quite a comedian couple heh, one is so feminine inclined and the other is all angst and intenseness heh.....haha funny........30th Dec 2008hmm yet another day of meeting up with the ag (yes my holidays was pretty packed with ag related stuff lol).....we played badminton in the morning, this i remember suddenly cos i remeber i was out quite early in the morning and dat i had almost lost my phone on the bus on the way to badminton........i met shuan siang on the way to bishan stadium to play there......then i remember i didnt put my phone into my pocket but still as i was going down i checked my pocket and found it wasnt there, did a quick check at the seat and found nothing so i thot mayb i had jus slipped it into my bag, there wasnt time to check my bag on the bus so i got down with ss at the bus stop near to bishan stadium onli to find to my dismay dat i had not slipped my phone into my bag......i was sure i left it on the bus somehow then.......i ran all the way back to the interchange to find my phone but to no avail again, i even searched the bus but couldnt find it at all.....so sad.....this very kind lady of a bus interchange manager (or sth like dat) helped me give a call to my handphone to see if anyone had turned it off.....well to my suprise and delight, she called thru to my phone! and another kind lady had picked it up on the bus which i later found out dat she found it cos her son had also lost his own phone there, my phone had slipped deep into the gap between the seats....wow it really was a miracle dat i got my phone back......i started panicking at first when i lost it, then i gave up and jus ask God to help me recover it if it was His will and i really thank Him for it.....well i arranged to meet the kind lady who picked up my phone near the bishan stadium bus stop dat i had alighted at.....by the time i got there i was already sweating a lil bit cos of all the running around and panicking......but thank God once again He helped me to recover my phone which would have been lost otherwise.........after badminton and lunch above the interchange, i must say the beef rice there is really quite good, anything beef is quite tempting to me......then i went to sleep in the library with ruth while lucas went to penuel's house to bathe.......i was jus damn shagged, didnt want to do anything except sleep lol cause i was having headache, from lack of sleep i guess.......ruth also slept for some reason or another......after dat we packed into lucas's ride to fetch sarah and the cake (oh the cream cheese cake dat she "made with mabel", well mabel did little bits of the cake, like the biscuit crust base of the cake and she added condensed milk to the cream cheese heh.......the kind dat my mom always make cos she noes i like it, the cake was nice but its expensive to make.......hmm our ag organised this gathering at pitstop (sumtin like settlers or wad those kinda gaming cafes) in farewell of chris, titus and yi ling who were going back to ireland and london (i think its onli these 2 countries).....as well as the belated 21st birthday celebrations of kin yip and charlie (aka kenneth heng, for growing his horn out to mature stage....hahaha....kk private joke).....as well as supposedly for the january babies which i think didnt come at all if i remember correctly......we had alot of fun playing halle gali or sumtin like dat, the one dat u havta count the number of fruits and if any of them are five of a kind, then u ring the bell lol.......then some of them played new games which i never saw before......as expected they have a wide variety of games........we played bang and lucas kept getting killed by everyone first heh......haha guess he was a hot target heh.....quite fun....i should go and buy bang some time......and mayb halle gali jus for fun....welll next time if i see it when i go out heh........31st Dec 2008blogging on the the year of 2008 is ending soon please be patient heh........hmm i was supposed to have dinner with andrew onli today but i got stood up again lol cos dat white head mixed up the dates and he thot our ag dinner thing was today but actually it was yesterday la, our faults oso la, didnt msg him to remind him.....i think today his excuse (it was his last day of work ma) was cos he needed to hand over the reponsibilites at his job, forever busy one la snow whiteness, it jus seems like he is always busying himself with something or another.....oh wells i cant remember wad i was doing in the morning (if i was even awake in the first place) as well as in the afternoon, my memory fails me....well i onli noe i cycled to gardens at nite for the watchnite service....i went there quite early, at about 7pm or so like dat cos lucas told me the day before we were having dinner the next day (today).....so when i got there, i msged ruth, who was also talking about it the day before, then she tell me she is still at home lol, by the way her home is at chua chu kang or so lol.....then i msged lucas, he told me he at toa payoh eating durians with rachel and sarah lol....i was like o_O i kenna bluff lol....then lucas drove them to meet me and accompany me eat dinner lol......oh ya somehow ruth asked shuan siang to call me cos they were going for dinner too hmm? y she did dat i oso dunno.....oh wells anyway they came from david chua's place....i did overhear bits and pieces about ppl going to david's place from ruth but since im not from dat i-dunno-what-to-call-this-group group, and since i didnt get invited then i didnt go lol....erhm anyway we had a great time at dinner, lucas ate kang kong with rachel (one of the few times he actually eat vegetable).....jus talking nonsense and laughing mostly at sarah and all her wierd grunts, doing handsigns to represent the manly sarah, the bimbotic rachel, and lucas's was the mix of both heh......wells after dat we went back to church, i drove on my bike of course.......after i had reached church, i showered and changed, and waiting for them so dat we could go into the sanctuary together but they all jus wanted to hang around in the clubhouse cos they didnt want to go for the sharing at 9pm.....i were slightly late, probably 930pm or so, so i didnt want to walk into the sanctuary and disrupt the sharing or wad.....i jus waited outside, away from view, waiting and delibrating if i should go in, straining to hear the things being said....well then elsie, timmy, cindy and timmy's sister, joanna from the christmas outreach musical came and then they went in after awhile.....i decided to go into the creche area to jus listen to the sharing, without disturbing much ppl.....i must say im really grateful dat i went for the sharing even tho i didnt go for all of it....i heard about how the Lord help uncle michael find a job within just a month of getting retrenched at his age is really quite a miracle....plus he shared he got to do some things dat he couldnt have done if not for the 'break'......i didnt even noe he lost his job lol.....and a few other things from the sharing dat God is good, all the time.....all the time, God is good.......(on another side note i saw uncle lawrence's 2 daughters who are really cute, the elder daughter made her younger sister push her in some plastic container with wheels at the bottom....wad a cute sight heh).....well then after dat was watch nite.....it was good, but i kept feeling the after effects of not having enough sleep, head ache, esp during the msg part and mop head thot i was scratching my head lol.......well bennett sat next to the jamir sisters haha bennett jamir!! i like to tease the jamir sisters on dat heh....after watch nite it was quite a frenzy again, everyone wishing u happy new year all dat haha....its one of those times when ppl jus shake ur hand heartily and merily and everyone is like wishing the same thing.......kinda nice in some ways....cos like normally if u jus stick out ur hand to someone or someone jus sticks his/her hand out to u, u'll still shake it but like u'll feel like "errr, o k...." as u shake it kinda thing......we should be more friendly to everyone i guess, more of the time........after wishing almost everyone i could, and ppl were all leaving for home, getting rides from ppl's parents homes, going for supper etc, i changed out of my black tee with a vest over it and long black jeans and shoes back into my cycling attire and i cycled home lol......tiring la but ok, at least better than troubling someone to fetch me home.......well dats the end to 2008 i guess, the new year awaits (even tho im blogging this in 2009, the new year still awaits, things like ORD and stuff heh), well hope u've enjoyed this update of the past heh......
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