My Birthday ( Part 1 )

Hmm... have not been blogging for sometime ah ... Busy man!!! Busy with so many things.... shall talk abt my birthday ....

Hee ... met sormui on last Sunday. One day before my bday. She say she wanted to take me to eat dim sum buffet. I love buffets. U can eat and eat and eat...... thats like paradise, simply delightful. We went to China Square. There is this Chinese resturant there that has this dim sum buffet or rather high tea I think. It starts at 3 ends at 5. We got there JUST in the nick of time. We arrived in a cab, haha…. Sormui forgot to bring her Ezlink card lah… then late because have to go back home to get it. Blur blur one….. : P
After we put down our things, we hurried over to join the growing queue to get our dim sums. Talk abt variety man ….it had everything that dim sum should have……except the xiao long pau. For the first round, we both filled our tray with food. The magical thing abt dim sum is, you can stack up those “longs” hence u can imagine how much we took. The table for 2 we had had barely enough space to put all those stuff we took!!! Haahaa… we had siew mai, har gao, ma tai gou, some fried prawn, charsiew paus…………
We took like sometime to finish it. Then sormui, with having eaten the last siewmai, hurriedly got up and drag me to take more food. Hhahaa she is still chewing her siewmai while queueing up for the next round!!!! That was rather hilarious. After the 3rd round we were really quite full. Time check : its 4.20. hmmm so 2 hours to eat buffet dim sum is more than enough. We were really eating quite slowly by then, trying to stuff the remaining stuff that we “overtook” into our inflated stomachs. Here are some pics of the dim sum….


Round 1 : yummy!!! :P


Round 2 !!!!!

After the dim sum, we walked out of the resturant, feeling very satisfied, not to mention FULL!!! Later we walked to Boat Quay. Along the way, sormui jus refused to tell mi where are we headed. Later I found out that we are going to the Jazz Pub that I always mention to her. Hmmm how nice of her to remember J .
As it was quite early, we stop by at the Coffee Bean beside it for a drink. She tried to pull some surprise by asking mi to go check what time the pub opens then slipped my present into my bag. However, I came back later, put my stuff back into the bag and somehow never noticed the present. She got this really constipated look on her face. As I was wondering what was happening she suddenly burst out: “ WAH!!!! SO OBVIOUS ALREADY U NEVER SEE….. HEARTATTACK AH !!!!!!!” which made me quite stunned. What thing what thing???????? Orh………. Opps ….. how can I missed that……???? Opps stun failed :P sorry lah…..
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After some guesswork, my present turns out to be a wallet. A nice black Pierre Cardin wallet. Open it and surprise!!! There is a picture of the both of us – the one we took at the millennia walk fountains, in it. A nice personal touch… THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!! J


My bday present !!!


This is the picture inside ...

Think before u ask......

haahaa got this from an email. Think its pretty amusing... some are quite true...others well......

13 things he hates about people:

People who point at their wrist while asking for the time....I know here my watch is pal, where the fuck is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.

When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Fucking right! What good is a cake if you can't eat it?

When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the fuck would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they?

When people say while watching a film "did you see that?". No tosser, I paid 10 quid to come to the cinema and stare at the fucking floor.

People who ask "Can I ask you a question?. Didn't really give me a choice there, did you sunshine?

When something is 'new and improved!'. Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

When people say "life is short". What the fuck?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever fucking does!! What can you do that's longer?

When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?. If the bus came would I be standing here, Knob head?

People who say things like 'My eyes aren't what they used to be'. So what did they used to be? ears, Wellington boots?

When you're eating something and someone asks 'Is that nice?' No it's really revolting - I always eat stuff I hate.

People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that's an image I really didn't need.

McDonalds staff who pretend they don't understand you if you don't insert the 'Mc' before the item you are ordering..... It has to be a McChicken Burger, just a Chicken Burger gets blank looks. Well I'll have a McStraw and jam it in your McEyes you fucking McTosser.

Everything`s seemed to be spoiling on me.

My phone spoilt on me today. It refused to respond to any shit i pressed on its keypad. What the HeLL manz !!! So damn pissed.... and it must happened when i need to reply messages lo..... The 4 in 1 printer back home also spoil (my sis spoilt it ), my notebook screen also spoiling......... everything electronic gadget i am using seemed to be either faulty or partially faulty ..... AND IT ALWAYS SPOILS 1 OR 2 MONTHS AFTER THE WARRANTY IS OVER LOH!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck man!!!!
So basically today i am jus driving my dad`s car up and down Singapore. First from NUS to home to pick up that damned printer, then to orchard to fixed the printer and buy myself a new phone. The repairs for the printer cost $198!!!!! Damn shit!!! but what to do ? This printer cost 600 plus ....cannot say throw away also ...no choice! Repair lah ....$##%^#$
Bought the Samsung X430 for only $48 with a 2 yr plan. My FIRST flip phone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Basically i jus upgraded my existing singtel plan. Initially set my eyes on the sony erricsson K700i but that will cost $498 and i am only just a damn poor student. Anyways, a phone is jus to make phone calls, i think have the camera, bluetooth, whatever fanciful shit inside also no use. After awhile also will get sianz, and it will jus be another phone. Quite happy with the phone that i got. Its cheap, what do u expect? Only complain is that the sms system SUCKS............maybe i am jus not used to it, but i find that the nokia one is better.

Fireworks.... wishes flows with the river.....

Went with sormui to watch fireworks today. The last Sunday of the three for the fireworks festival. I was pretty fearful of coming again at first but later was very glad to found the place alot alot less crowded that the week before. I nearly died there last week!!! It was so crowded that there were ppl stepping on my feet!!!! The fireworks this week was nice :) much nicer than last week`s. There were basically more variety in terms of colours and patterns. This time, we managed to get a better view, and much closer to the fireworks as well as the booms when the fireworks goes off were very much louder. There was the smell of the gunpowder as well. There was this crazy guy behind us.... he just keeps on WAHing ......making exxagerated WAhs.....comments....basically jus trying to attract attention. Eh.... ShutUP!!!!! dude.....

Later, went to coffee bean to have cheesecake. Hey, I love cheesecake now!!!!! I used to hate it!!!! but i still hate CHEESE.....esp those powdered form that u sprinkle onto yur pizza to make it into some piece of SHIT. BUT now !!!! I LOVE CHEESE CAKE ....yummy. Then we had tis bottle of espirit drink and had this idea of writing our wishes into a piece of paper, insert it into the bottle then throw it out into the river. wah ....littering rite.... : P The Wishes we wrote....some were pretty nonsensical, with alot of silly cartoons and stuff like that.... then realised that the paper too big ...cannot fit into the bottle. ( Aiyah ... we greedy lah .... can ??? ) Later brought it up to the bridge, trying to look inconspicious...... Look right.....Look left..... Check again.... take a deep breathe.... and throw/dropped it into the Singapore River. hahahaha... dunno if it works ...but certainly hope that it will come true though. What an idea!! i would never have thought of it.....

Now, our wishes are flowing with the river.... hopefully some wish fairy will pick it up :)

Genki Sushi.....NUS

Recently, Genki Sushi opened at NUS. The resturant is rather large and it offers 20% discount off the total bill. There is this so called master chef there too. However, i think he shld be called Master "Kao Bei" chef. Everytime he makes a sushi, he would yell out the name of that disk at the top of his voice, in a tone that resembles the war cry a kungfu master makes before executing a move. Talk abt " Garangness " in the kitchen. Then every few mins or so he will be yelling at the top of his voice something like... " Hao Chi bu Hao Chi " with the strong Jap accent. It means tasty or not tasty in chinese. But the sushi there is not particularly tasty..... in fact, the sashimi there don`t taste very fresh, in fact it taste rather stale.
The other day I went there with all my previous hallmates....." Gathering of the Devils". There was Engkiat, Eugene and Rayner. We ordered the Big party sushi set ( its $42 ) and some other small sushi plates that passes thru the converyer belt. We waited rather long for the party set to arrive, feeling very impatient coz we were all so damn hungry. When it finally came, we were a little disappointed coz the ingredients they used to make it was not very fresh. After we finished everything, Rayner noticed that there was a fly that flew into his cup. Then we had this evil idea to put the fly into the sushi and complain. ok ok .... i admit that that was very mean of us.. :(
Anyway, it so happened that it was the manager that he complained to. Its soo funny, coz Rayner was like pretending to look damn pissed, telling the manager that there was this fly lah, the sushi not fresh lah, then wait very long lah.... The manager was like.... okok sorry sorry we are very sorry abt this....then he said, " Ok this party set is free for u all and would u like some ice cream? Its on the house. " Then he hurried over and brought us 4 hagendaz Ice cream. I was like ....WOW....... is this for real??!?!?!?! Muahahahahaha...... Then Engkiat says that maybe we shld carry some flies with us for future gatherings. Evil.......evil........hehheh.......
Anyway the entire meal which is suppose to cos us like 50 plus is now free. Not bad. But i think they gave in to us so readily coz they just opened and they don`t wanna affect their reputation. Anyway, such bad rep travels and spread fast among the students. Hahaha....for shaking their heads now....... don`t accused us for being evil liao lah ....we felt baaadd..... really lah ...haha :P

I`m so muddleheaded

I`m forever so muddle headed...... always forgetting things, misplacing things, getting lost, getting myself into freak accidents!!!!!! What the hell is WRONG with me man ?!!??!!?!? First i woke up today at 8am thinking that my lecture starts at 9. So there i was, happily making my morn tea, getting ready for my morn bath, watching channel news asia.... Then all of a sudden, Weiling called me, asking me if i am coming to lecture anot. I was thinking, WAH this weiling was reallie kiasu man ...lecture starts at 9 then so early call liao ....must be thinking of not going to lecture rite?! BUT it turns out that, the lecture actually starts at 8 am and i was LATE!!!! i checked my clock ...opps 8.20 am .....cannot bathe liao....gtg..........rush rush rush rush .....(actually no lah .....was taking my own sweet time ...by the time i got there it was already 8.40 and the lecture ended in the next 5 mins. What a blunder man!!! And this is not the first time..............imagined what would happen if this is exam time! GROAN~~~~
The first week of sem3 ????? SIANzzzzzzzz.......... my printer jus stopped working on me due to ( what i found out later...) software problems....so i was made to sit thru almost the entire week of lectures without my lecture notes. What a drag....why did i even bother to go in the first place!!!

Back in Nus, Semester 3 .........

Sem 3 of my Nus jus started. It`s pretty amusing to see those freshies walking ard the campus looking very lost. :) Which also reminds me that i am in Yr 2 liao ....hai........ Those introduction lectures were pretty boring , but they gave us a preview of what is to come....sigh .....its not gonna be easy man. This is gonna be yet another struggling, many late nights, semester in torturious Engine Fac. I will miss my sleep. Moved into hall, despite cleaning it again and again ...somehow i feel that its still dirty. Why ah ???? I always feel itchy when i stay in it for long .... And it gets dusty very easily..... I HATE dust !!!! I will get rashes and sneeze all over..... There are lotsa creepy crawlers ard tooo .....that day ...when i was using the com, a moth flew in from outside and collided with my forehead. What a shock i had !!!!! Yucks.... And there was this beetle that flew in when i was watching TV with sormui also... This time i lived in a single room in Old Kent Ridge hall. From the outside, it looked as though i was haunted. However, after checking out the interior, it was pretty well furnished. And GUESS WHAT???? its facing north.....so i dun get the sun shining directly into my room at anytime of the day. The room i had last sem in RH is facing the West!!! So every late afternoon it was like a furnace. It was so damn hot that i dun even feel like staying in the room, so i`m really happy with my hall now. I tried to make it more cosy though.... with air fresherners..... and a TV. Think what it lacks is some human company. So sianz man, everyone here seemed to jus closed and locked their doors. Feels all alone living down here with no sense of community living. Turning into a hermit soon..........

LOst, loST annnnd LOST !!!!!!!

Went to watch the fireworks again at the esplanade with sor mui. It was DAMN ( read DaaaAAAmMN) crowded. People everywhere. When we finally squeeze our way to esplanade, it was worst. Everybody was squeezed together. There was no breathing space!!! Finally when the fireworks came on there were cheers and screams. Everyone was so excited, not to mentioned squashed. However despite several extremely IRRITATING and INCONSIDERATE teenagers.......... the crowd was generally orderly and trying to accomodate each other. Only those damn teenagers were pushing ard, talking damn LOUDLY, walking with a swollen crotch......... KIDS ah .......deserved to be slapped ah!!!!
After the fireworks display ( act last week`s was nicer ) silly me had this silly idea of walking to kallang via the riverside park and.............it leads to disaster!!!!! It`s possible to walk there....only problem is that it is damn FAR. Halfway we gave up, exited the park and found out that we were in the middle of nowhere. In some cross junction of some expressway. Tried to hail a cab for 1 hour without success. Helpless, we reentered the park again and tried to find out way to kallang. Alot of the routes have changed due to the nicole highway collaspe. Help!!! we were damn losT!!! After abt 1 hour, we finally arrived at Kallang stadium and managed to hail a cab there. The Diver is not sure how to get to CCK and he got LOST !!!!!!!! AGAIN!!!!! Its always me to get lost here get lost there......... sometimes i think that i am too much also. Absent minded and muddle headed. All these while joey din even complain. So grateful to u for being so understanding :)

clutching on the glimmer of hope

Went to another vet today to get a 2nd opinion. He told us that the cancer is not a confirm case and that it is only a suspected one from the blood test results. Hmmm .... he is a very much more experienced vet and we sorta believed what he said more. The other vet potrayed herself as inconfident and inconclusive. The 2nd vet went on to say that David`s liver is failing and that he has only a small chance of surviving. They put him on drip to inject some glucose and amino acids into his body to give him energy and nutrients. After the drip, it became slightly more alert. Currently, he is now under intensive medication and living with a no solid foods diet. My dad cooks porridge with some chicken liver for him and he ate it hungrily. Guess that he has been hungry all the while, its just that he cannot digest his dog biscuits well and often vomits them out. He also must go for daily drips at the vet until he recovers. Now there is a glimmer of hope for him and we are all holding dearly to it..........

And his days are numbered................

The vet called this morning with bad news on the line. They said that David had cancer liver cancer and it has reached the final stages. The lumps on his body were swollen lymph nodes. They asked if we want to put it down to lessen his sufferings. I cannot bring myself to make any decision. Yes he is suffering, but i know that he is happy at home and with us right now. Even if the days are number, i got a feeling that he wants to stay around at home and with us until his time. I cannot bring myself to say that we shall put it to sleep. He will be so disappointed with us if we do that. He starts to drink water now but still doesn`t eat anything. It tries to sleep but always not for long. I think he is too much in pain to sleep, or maybe doesn`t want to sleep at all. Though painful, he still walks around the house limping around. Thats how active my dog is ....... he just cannot sits still. His face is more swollen today. He used to have a very porportionate face and everybody that sees him calls him a very handsome dog. Now he is such a sorry sight. My only hope now is that he will spend his remaining time with us happy and loved.

My dog is very sick :(

I feel so drained, so tired today. My dog is very sick. Its 11 years old, it`s old enough to be a grandpa. I have had him with me since i was 11. When he first came he was only 6 weeks old, very small, very curious and playful. My sister named him david, but its a human`s name. So we got him another name, that is vacuum. However he prefers the name david, so he is always david to us. We have had a good 11 years with him. He is smart and very playful. He loves poking his nose around, he loves outings. When he was young, he was very very active, always finding opportunity to sneak out of the house to play. He got lost once but we found him back. He quitely become notorious among my neighbours as he would run ard in the corridor and even sometimes into their houses looking for ppl to play with him. Its quite a sight with my dog running as fast as it could with me and my sister after it trying to stop him by pouncing on him. Years passed, it lost it`s sight due to cataract. However it is still active for its age. Partially blind, he sniffs its way ard the house. Sometimes when it is excited, it runs ard and bangs into furniture with a loud tud!!! With age his taste for food changes as well, no longer does he like beef, he now likes to eat oranges, apples and certain vegetable. It has turned vegetarian...hmmmmm ???
Recently we brought him to stay at the pet hotel, as my mother is going overseas for holiday. When he came back, he was a sorry sight. He is a shadow of his old self, sitting quietly hunched in one corner. When we tried to talk to it, it jus sat there head down, looking at u. It feels so heartbreaking. His face is lumpy and he has lumps on his legs as well. He walks in a very painful manner, inch by inch, all the while with his head hanging low. We brought it to the vet. They did an x-ray and a blood test on it. They said that they will tell us the results the next day. When he came back he seemed to be slightly better. However it still doesn`t eat or drink. He still looks to be in pain, but its happy to be home again. He must have been really homesick when he was staying at the pet hotel. His eyes have a lot of dried deposits around, so i guess it must have been crying alot. I really hope that his will be fine. Dogs can live up till 15 years, some even up to 18. Please, please don`t let it leave us so soon.......

Tired!!!!!!!!!

i typed an entry into this post but somehow upon hitting the publish button everthing jus disappeared. Whatever the hell happened to the text??? It`s abt going to sentosa via cable car to play golf and later to Shiyu`s house to stay over together with WX and Derrick. Tired manz...... Lazy to type everything again so jus leave it.

Brotherhood

Watched brotherhood today. Hmmmm interesting to see the Korean War from the korean`s perspective instead of the usual American one. Guess most of the koreans at the war front on either side during that time were unwilling conscripts being drafted to fight a war which idealism in which it is being fought upon was unknown or little known to them. War is really such a terrible thing i guess. Those conscripts at the war front, most of them also did not really know what they are fighting for. I do realised something to, when it comes to war, soldiers don`t fight for their country, they fight to protect their love ones, their wives and families that are in danger, their comrades fighting side by side with them. That is their motivation for fighting on. I mean, when u see people dying around u, bullets whizzing pass your head, who the hell gives a damn on what politics, what idealism, what medaks, what country???????? ( Opps.... national day coming ah .... ) U just want to survive today and tomorrow and the day after... For this movie, its kinda touching how much this guy can do for his brother. Great movie i must say, just ignore the exagerating parts like him charging towards an MG with little fire support. hmmmmm........... movies will always be movies. In real life, gung ho also must gung ho smartly .....charging straight towards the enemy can only mean a bullet ridden body and a war medal. So if all these are for real, who are the really brave one? The selfless ones? I guess no one can tell unless one is thrown into the battlefield

Pancake flipper

Tried a hand at making pancakes today. It was a rather terrible experience i guess. First i couldn`t find the measuring cylinder to guage how much water i need to add to the powdered stuff from the " Pancake Mix, just add water " box. So in the end i just put everything in a jug and just estimate the water needed. I think, i think it turned out right coz after battering it is smooth. So i found a pan, added a tat too much oil on it and it ended up sizzling. And when i pour the pancake mix on it, it started sizzling everywhere, splurting oil and and everything all over the place. I was soooo damn panic man ....off the fire and stand far away from that all the hell break loose pan..... holding that wooden cooking ladel like a mad man, hoping to defend myself from whatever the hell gonna break loose. Later i learned that i shouldn`t put so much oil and that i only need to on a small fire to cook and not the largest flame i got earlier!!!!!!!! I thought the bigger the flame the faster it cooks mah ......... no wonder my first few pancakes all " chao tar " ( badly burnt black ) It looks like leather from an old rotting wallet :( After making many failed pancakes ( some are flower shaped, some black, some raw, some jus a mess of dunno what ), I finally got one right. Erm...... at least its almost golden brown ( Bronze dark brown to be exact ) and it`s ROUND!!!!!! U know how damn difficult it is to make your goddamn pancake round????? YES.......ROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hmm....not bad ....first attempt ...no fire, no explosions, no fatality, no disasters! : ) When i am finally done, took alot of washing up as every little thing seems to like to stick to the pan.
Later i brought it to sormui and showed her my great masterpiece, the round pancake. Erm......think it took some difficulty to actually eat it. hahahah... erm .......act honestly speaking i think i make one got no taste eh ...........

Moral of the story ????????? save the trouble and just go Mcdonalds before 11am and order hotcakes : )

American Pie

I am simply in love with this song " American Pie " by Don Mclean. Yes this song is originally written by him, NOT madonna. It is written in memory of Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash in 2nd Feburary 1959 due to a snowstorm. The same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly also took the lives of Richie Valens ("La Bamba") and The Big Bopper ("Chantilly Lace"). Since all three were so prominent at the time, February 3, 1959 became known as "The Day The Music Died". Its a song with rather sad lyrics...............


A long, long time ago I can still remember how that music used to make me smile and I knew if I had my chance that I could make those people dance and maybe they'd be happy for a while but February made me shiver with every paper I delivered, bad news on the door step, I couldn't take one more step, I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride but something touched me deep inside, the day, the music, died. So...

CHORUS
Bye, bye Miss American Pie drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry an them good ol' boys were drinkin whiskey and rye singin this will be the day that I die, this will be the day that I die.

Did you write the book of love and do you have faith in God above, if the bible tells you so, and do you believe in rock n' roll, can music save your mortal soul and can you teach me how to dance real slow? Well I know that you're in love with him cuz I saw you dancin in the gym you both kicked off your shoes and I dig those rhythm and blues. I was a lonely teenage bronkin buck with a pink carnation and a pick up truck but I knew I was out of luck, the day, the music, died. I started singin...

Chorus

Now for ten years we've been on our own and moss grows fat on a rollin stone but that's not how it used to be, when the jester sang for the king and queen in a coat he borrowed from James Dean and a voice that came from you and me, oh and while the king was looking down, the jester stole his thorny crown the courtroom was adjourned, no verdict was returned, and while Lenin read a book on Marx, the quartet practiced in the park and we sang dirges in the dark, the day, the music, died. We were singin...

Chorus

Helter Skelter in a summer swelter the birds flew off with a fallout shelter, eight miles high and fallin fast, its the land that falled on the grass the players tried for a forward pass with the jester on the sidelines in a cast, now the half-time air was sweet perfume while the sergeants played a marching tune we all got up to dance oh but we never got the chance oh as the players tried to take the field the marching band refused to yield do you recall what was revealed, the day, the music, died. We started singin...

Chorus

Oh and there we were all in one place, a generation lost in space with no time left to start again, so come on, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack Flash sat on a candle stick because fire is the devils only friend, oh and as I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage, no angel born in hell could break that satan's spell and as the planes climbed high into the night to light the sacrificial right I saw satan laughing with delight, the day, the music, died. He was singin...

Chorus

I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news but she just smiled and turned away, I went down to the sacred store where I'd heard the music years before but the man there said the music wouldn't play and in the streets the children screamed, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed but not a word was spoken, the church bells all were broken and the three men I admire most, the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, they caught the last train for the coast, the day, the music, died, and they were singin...

Chorus

They were singin... Bye, bye Miss American Pie drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry an them good ol' boys were drinkin whiskey and rye singin this will be the day that I die.