Saturday, October 02, 2004

I'm confused

Hmm actually it's not a big matter. In fact it's just a "Sesame Green Bean" matter that is not worth mentioning, but still, I shall talk about it.
Well, I was having breadfirst at Toa Payoh this morning with my parents. We couldn't decide where to eat (ArRrgh), so we walked around aimlessly until we finally settled down at this coffeeshop beside the library. The coffeeshop serves great food there, so go try it when you're free. Anyway we ordered our food and I decided to get drinks for Na Liang Ge Lao De. I went to the drinks counter and told the auntie: "Kopi San Bei".
"Orh, He De Ah?"
*paused for a moment, eyes narrowing.* "Ah".
I felt strange. Why did she even ask me whether I want them to be drank when I told her I wanted three cups of it. This has, seriously, occurred too many times. So after the meal and we went to the library. I got so disturbed by this question that I decided to go shit and at the same time ponder about it.
Maybe she wasn't wrong. Maybe it was my fault all along for misinterpreting her (and all others') question. Maybe she was asking whether I wanted to drink the coffee, or eat it.
Hmm.
I browsed through the library looking for books about martial arts. And was quite excited when I found them, so I started reading a few of them. I was disgusted with the materials. They were total crap. Those books were written for the sake of earning that little income enough to buy an XBox. One of them was lagi worst. The author was actually the original Mighty Morphin Power Ranger's Red Ranger (I was quite a fan of it during primary school. Come to think of it, this must be the longest running superaction heroes series for kids)! Omfg. I thought 'eh how come this bugger look so familiar'. Until I read the foreword and it told me that protecting the universe is his job. Knn. And the title of the book was Karate Warrior. Wow, you think, and I thought. The content inside featured Taekwondo. Wtf man. And there were so many pictures of himself smiling at you. But I can't blame him, the book was suited for kids. Kids wouldn't know to differentiate the two arts. Cool. Fuck you. So many other books, all designed for kids who know nothing about sexual intercourse. Truthfully speaking, I think i'm biased towards the Americans. They learn the art, and then change it totally to what they want and prefer and then spread it as Karate/Tkd/kungfu or whatever it is that they learnt. It's difficult enough to keep traditions, and yet there are so many selfish people like them.
So much for the bad books. I borrowed a book on Bruce Lee. A tribute jointly contributed by comic artists from hong kong, china and taiwan (no singapore?). It's an interesting book and I have yet to read half of it. Will finish it after exams and share it here. Hee.
Went to meet a friend to pass him notes to photocopy. See i'm a good student! Everyone borrows notes from me to zap, well not everyone but at least there were two. And I missed two buses home while talking to him. Actually one before I arrived at the bus stop, and one while talking to him. So Vicky had a painful time waiting for me to go Mustafa.
So we reached Mustafa at about 2.50? Bought something and went to his house to burn my project as well as charge my phone. After which he requested for me to help him solve a part of a game. ahhaahah. Took 2 hours to complete 3 missions cos his com was lagging from the graphics. Terrible. And then when I realised it was 6pm, I realised I haven't studied anything yet. So went home, booted the com, watched South Park, and had dinner. Then watched Tv until 9pm then went to bathe and started studying. Completed one chapter of ENAD. Little, but I would say I have understood the concepts fully. So that's enough for today hahahahah. I'm lazy.
And tomolo probably won't have time to study. ahahahahh how ah. I intended to really revise during this study week. but mon and tues prepare for presentation, wed ubin, thurs sports, fri school and karate. and today only one chapter. two subjects to study, how? and Alvin keep asking me to watch movies. you no need to study ah?
I'm starting to feel sleepy.....

Friday, October 01, 2004

I'm happy~!!!!!

hahaha. I'm in a good mood today!
But let's talk about the events in the morning first.
Ok. So I woke up at 9, no 8am to pee. And since I had intended to sleep late, I forced myself to sleep again until I got awoken by this son of a undercover agent Tan Alvin. In the end I decided to go to school and pass him notes since I had to go out to pay my monthly bills. I arrived at the school's center bus stop at 1.50pm, and saw TP's Fat Cat sleeping peacefully near the noticeboard. And because I haven't seen her for such a long time, I felt the urge to stroke her. So I gently tickled her head, and she nudged a little, and then buried her head under her paws. hahahaah so cute man! It would be good if I had a camera phone. Then I decided to let her continue with her sleep and hope she will wake up soon. Until this time Alvin still wasn't there. And then I received his sms telling me not to come down so early, he still at home. UI(CY(@)&F I was already waiting there lor you fucking ass. So I waited and looked at girls and hope the cat would wake up. Half an hour later she woke up, and I was about to play with her when this smart alec come and carried her all the way to the other end of the bus stop and placed her there. wtf man what's your point of doing that? Just because you have a girl beside you and you're doing this? Ugh. I fell asleep after this cos I was too lazy to walk over and also because a bunch of Malay people coming from TP went to sit there, did nothing for 10 minutes, and went back to TP. 15 minutes later Alvin arrived and we went to BUS for lunch. Auntie gave me extra Tau Geh and rice cos she was closing already. Happy! But the taugeh looked so dried and squashed.....
K then we went back to FYP lab to do what we were supposed to do. For me is actually nothing so I checked my school mail. And I received a reply for a lecturer whom I dedicated a Teacher's Day greeting to, saying that he appreciates it and hope we do our best for exams and have a good graduation. This is roughly what I wrote for him: "To: Beloved Mr Phua Yeow Cheong. I sincerely want to thank you for CHIONGING (I capitalised it) us in WBAD and ENAD. I really appreciate all the assignments (notice the order) and help you have given me and will always remember you for life. Enjoy your Teacher's Day and I will miss you (he was going for a reservist). Muahahaaha." Lots of sarcasm, though I really meant well. hehehe. Happy!
And then I played games for quite a while when I realised Kiyoshi will be coming soon so I might as well wait for him to burn our project. Not that burn, but, burn. And all the while SankaraRajulu Sundara Rajulu was in the lab evaluating the final FYP group. The sight of him disgusts me. Did I mention that I even saw him when I arrived at the bus stop? wth.
In the end the project wasn't burnt cos the writer couldn't be used. So I went home.
Packed my things and rushed down to get my hair cut. Yes I finally cut my hair! And it's nice! I like it. Happy! Don't look so scruffy and unkempt anymore, even though i'm really not. While parking my bicycle I noticed that the key for the lock was missing, and the lock itself was dangling like loose intestines. I wonder why. Lost the use of a lock just like that. Hmph. Anyway rushed down to SKA and was just in time to start the class for warming up. Ahhhh.....good old times. Been a week since I trained. In fact I didn't intend to train this two weeks. But I just miss training. Hmm...think I was a little too rushy with the warm up. Next time will do better. Anyway training rocked cos I felt so powerful, again!!!!! Happy! Though my groin area was cramp and hurt from the two consecutive days of exercise when I stretched it, I did most things pretty well! Happy! Then when it was time for bag-kicking, everyone was looking at me cos the whole dojo was 'pianging' from my kick! I even heard someone saying: "wah solid ah!". WOW. Happy! I think even my instructor was surprised to see me in this form after disappearing for so long cos he was also staring. AHahah it felt really great, but i'm a humble person, and didn't comment much on it lah. Which is why I can not hold it any longer and had to blog it out, cos i'm Happy! But at the same time I might have showed disrespect for some cos the holder was my assistant chief instructor's wife, and her hand was swinging like mad. But what to do, she's so much higher in status and rank than I am, so nobody can blame me. ahhaahaha. Feels bad though. And I wonder how long can I maintain in this form. Maybe I should disappear for another week and come back fresh and ready to go. Anyway I'm Happy!
Oh I also received the monthly $100 allowance! Happy! But it also means time to pay for monthly subscription fees. And I still owe the $150. So actually I have -$. Think I need push the plan to buy a new phone further. And I also want to colour my hair! No money. :o( And the hairdresser told me that I am experiencing hair loss. haha I also know. She also told me my hair will become a M shape from the front if I don't change my shampoo.
On top of the allowance I also received the confirmation letter of my trip to Sabah. Which means I will be away from 1st - 6th December to particate in the 10th Asia-Pacific Shitoryu Karate Championships. It's a big event. And i'm going to train hard for it. But my chief has put me in the category of <65kg. It'll be a big joke if I go there and get disqualified because im overweight, again. I'll also get fucked nicely in the ass. Well, 2 months left for me to do something to it.
It's a long post, cos I'm happy! ahjahjahahaha. I wish everyone happy too! It's the last day of SIP for most people. I bet they're happy!
Happy!

Thursday, September 30, 2004

What a wet day.....

It has been raining since dunno what time. It was already raining when I woke up at 8 to pee. And from then on there was a constant drizzle. So sian!!!!!
We went swimming anyway. And due to the rain (I assume), 6 out of 8 people were late. On a side note, one of them looked really gay. I was late, but I was waiting for a friend, otherwise I would have arrived right on time at 11am. Anyway the four of us early ones went to swim first. The water was so *brrrrrrrr* cooooldddd. We swam anyway. And after the first lap my muscles were aching already. ahahhaha. But I swam quite a few laps today, and played for more than half of the 2 hours. So much for the wet day. It was tiring, but fun. hee. And I might just have gotten a little sunburnt though the sun wasn't bright. ???
After that we went to eat the Qiu Lian Ban Mian. Let's see.....it has been at least six months since I last ate there. Ah the noodles is still tasty and healthy, and the chilli is still not that hot. I usually put the whole dish of chilli into the soup, and it will taste even better. I also bought two Goreng Pisang. It was hot, and heaty, but nevertheless nice. hahahahahah. And I felt bloated.
Then it continued to drizzle, and all of us were slightly drenched all the while.
After that we went to book a badminton court. Also very long never play already, think i've mentioned before in my previous blogs. There's really soooooo many things I haven't done for a long time. Anyway I realise I have become more cock-eyed than ever. I missed 6 out of 10 shots. wtf. And today I learnt that badminton is really just the flick of the wrist. I say this cos I observed a few adults play. They don't use their arm power much, they flick their wrists to generate power and the arms to control the direction and type of shot. Didn't get to put my observations to test cos I also fell asleep.
Then after that we had dinner at Boon Tong Kee. Didn't order their chicken though. Tried their a la carte dishes. Not actually try. Have tried before. So is erm.....nvm. I have been spending a lot of money this week alone. My $60 is almost depleted. :o(
We didn't know where to go after this. Intended to go a friend's house to play mahjong. haha, but plan cancelled. So went to another friend's house to play with his dogs. He bought a new puppy and it's so adorable. The Hokkiens would call it Eh Bui Teh. But it's not fat. And it bites. Got bitten by it many times, so curious and naughty and playful. haha. And the big one was quite restless today. I've got dog hair and saliva all over.
Ok actually nothing much interesting. Except that it's really a wet day for me.
And I think my left last finger is sprained, as well as my right leg. Hurts quite a bit. And now I feel sudden stings on my neck. Must have strained it in the pool. And it hurts. Everywhere hurts. My eyes hurt because I didn't use goggles. My ass hurts from the cycling yesterday.
And I haven't trimmed my hair yet.

Free Essay

Jady is fulfilling his promise to post his sec school's 'masterpieces'! Aren't you people excited? Well as mentioned before, I've only kept those compositions that was graded A, so, judge for yourselves~

A Lesson In Punctuality

I was once a person who was always late for any function. Due to this, my friends disliked going out with me, but after one final occasion, I have turned into an extremely punctual person.

Before that occasion, I would be late for outings for about fifteen to twenty minutes. By the time I meet my friends, they would have finished walking through half of the shopping centre, and so I would only join them for the next half and then go home early. This occasion, cured my latecoming habit totally. In fact now I am so afraid of being late, that I arrive at the meeting place half an hour earlier, even if the meeting place is at my void deck.


Recently, a new female student from another school enrolled in my school. She was the most beautiful and elegant girl I have ever met. Soon she became known as the school-belle, and even so she remained humble - a reflection of her personality. Also, because of her friendly nature, she quickly made a lot og friends. The boys were desperately dying to become her boyfriend, but she showed little interest in them.

Soon I found out from her friends that she had been eyeing me for a long time ever since she first saw me during her orientation week. I was stunned beyond words, such that I could not speak. Her friends told me that she wanted to become my friend, but was too shy to open her mouth and ask. I felt over the moon! A school-belle actually wanted to become my friend! I hid the joy from my friends, and acted as though I did not believe them. Little did I expect that they had brought her along.

Once our eyes met, it was the feeling of "love-at-first-sight". We introduced ourselves, and talked about our hobbies. I found out that we had a lot in common. I could not believe that we had so much to talk about during the first meeting, it was as though we had known each other before, and we were trying to catch up with the years of "lost communication". In the twinkling of an eye, we realised we had spoken for a few hours, and it was getting late. I sent her home and went back reluctantly.

It was a pity that she was not in my class, so we had little chance to see each other, but a few days later, we met. She wanted to date me. When I heard it, I was jubilant. Of course, I quickly agreed.

"Hey! I can't believe that she would actually date a freak like you!" one of my buddies blurted. It seemed that almost the whole school knew about it already. I could well understand why he said that.

On the day of the outing, I was playing games on my computer. I was so engrossed that I forgot to stop. When I finally stopped, I was only left with forty-five minutes to the time of the date. I rushed into the bathroom, but came out only half an hour later. I took my time drying my hair and putting on my nice clothes. Soon, I had only five minutes to reach a place which I would usually take fifteen minutes to reach.

I waited for the bus to arrive. When it came, I was already late for ten minutes. The bus "zoomed" off, and I reached my destination ten minutes later.

I saw her waiting, and stirring her cup of coffee. I quickly sat down and tried to explain. She was crying, and I felt so ungentlemanly to be letting a girl wait for so long on the first date. When she stopped crying she left the table without a word. I was heartbroken.

The next day in school, she refused to see me. Everyone supported her and I felt very miserable and lonely.

With a heart to changing the bad habit, I am now meeting my friends half an hour earlier. Who knows, one day she might realise my sincerity and forgive me.

I really regret being so unpunctual, and I have learnt my lesson.

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Hmm the story's made up in a frenzy, so there are loopholes. And compo's the best place to lie and say everything good about yourself, not here though.
:o)

Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Pulau Ubin half-day tour

:o)
Bad weather.
To be trekking on Pulau Ubin.
Dirty.
K let's see.....Today I went to P.Ubin with three friends. Woke up at 8.30 to get prepared. Brought along a 1.5 litre bottle of water, an extra shirt, an umbrella, bought a few bread, and a good mood. But it had to rain. Arrrrgggh.
Well met them at Changi Village at 11.10am. I was late. haha. Anyway we had our brunch there. I miss the food there. The hawker centre serves a variety of good food. Go there and try some if you can. The bus terminal is directly beside the hawker centre and there are only two buses: 2 and 29.
Next was the bumboat ride. $2 one way. It was an enjoyable 10mins ride which brought back a lot of memories.....I shall not go into that. So we reached Ubin, and dark clouds started to form. Wasted some time at the 'CBD' area. Nothing much has changed here. And the stage where I suppose is used for operas is still not used. In fact i've never seen it used everytime I was there. And there are still a lot of hungry dogs and cats. Anyway, they finally bought an umbrella and we rented two 2-seater bicycles and were off to explore Ubin with me as the 'tour-guide'. hehe.
So we cycled along some tracks. And there were a lot of uphill slopes to conquer. I had quite a hard time peddling my friend up. ahaha the thigh muscles are sooooo tight now. Anyway, the actual rural areas have changed tremendously. Not much animals were seen. And most people who used to live there have abandoned their homes. There was practically no life at all. There was this one place where the family reared many poultry, but when we visited them today, the animals were all gone cos they have been confiscated by the government. I inquired from the old woman and she told me that everything was gone. She looked frustrated and sad. I feel sorry for her. The things that had kept her company and feed her was all gone. Just imagine the effort put in to rear the poultry.....The families there have basically nothing to live for on that island already.
Anyway we visited quite many places. Like the Marina Country Club Resort, a sort of hidden Thai temple that i've never been to, many other temples, and other abandoned shops. Ubin has really nothing to see now. Probably made worst by the weather. But we had fun today and it's a good experience~ It's still a nice place to visit with your friends. We took a lot of photos and videos. ahah. If got chance i will upload them.
We left the island at 6+ to Tampines for dinner. ahahha so dirty and smelly. Had dinner at Ajisen Ramen. It's expensive. I had a Volcano Ramen set meal. Not bad lah, though i wasn't quite sure what I was eating. And i still prefer Crystal Jade's noodles.
K im tired and lazy to think of what else to write.
Swimming tomolo!

Bad hair day.....

Yes, it was a bad hair day for me. And yes, guys do have bad hair days. Especially for someone who worships their hair, but that's not me. I love my hair that's all. Well I was trying hard to make myself presentable for the presentation today, and the more I tried, the worse it turned out. I look fat in the long sleeves, which is my only one so it shows that my figure has turned fucked up. I didn't have a black pants, so I wore the usual pair that belongs to my brother. My ass was protruded like Sammo Hung's belly. Not that i'm ashamed of it, but it looks rather weird. And the belt I used didn't have the suitable hole to lock onto, so I had to tuck in my stomach to be able to lock the belt. The worst part was my hair. I intended to tidy it up with the styling cream. And instead of appearing neat I looked more messy than usual. Good thing not many people were around the places I went. I looked terrible. And it's time for me to trim my hair. Really.
For the presentation.....I think it was alright. but seems like I didn't do enough for my part. ahjahahahah. Orbi good. I expect to see a D in my result transcript. *proud*
My stomach's been feeling strange this evening. There's a sharp stinging feeling every now and then. If it gets any worse i'll need to pay the White people a visit.
Well tomolo i'll be going to P. Ubin, for a cycle around the island. Been many years since I last went there. The latest visit was to the so-called 'First Bungalow'. We actually camped in it for a night. The bungalow itself is actually very high-class considering the fact that it was built on Ubin. Can't really recall its story behind it, but anyway it was an abandoned house with some furnitures still intact. It had a fireplace as well, and of course cobwebs. Nice place. And one of the doors was painted RED. And locked tight, or rather sealed. We had a small bbq there and also did some fishing. I caught a pufferfish. ahhaaha. It feigned death. And the poor creature refused to be unhooked, so in no choice, I had to use my then widely-feared (i'm dreaming) TKD kicks to remove it. Actually I kicked it a lot of times because it was suspended and at the same time I felt sorry that I had to do that. Finally, I told the pufferfish to forgive me and volleyed it back to where it came from. By then it should have been dead for a few minutes already. All this were video-ed, and uploaded to my sec sch's online newletter website. But now dunno what happened to it already. And the teacher-in-charge and journalist had already left the school. Btw I was a reporter cum photographer myself, though I didn't contribute much. Well back to the bungalow; it was actually quite a nice place to stay, with a group of people of course. And it was fun. I also scalded my right arm by a kerosene lamp, and the scar still remains.
Hmm sec school life owns!

Monday, September 27, 2004

.....

The day didn't really turn out as I expected.
I was already not prepared for work, when I received a call at 8.10am telling me that I'm to get ready for work. K so ten minutes later I was down. And was driven to Lentor Loop at 9am. So we were thinking that there was only a few things to carry and everything should be done by 12pm. But we were so wrong because there were soooooooo many things and many of them were heavy. We made two trips to Punggol in total. And the house-owner was this Lao Chio who was a loaded lonely woman in heavy make-up and skimpy outfit. She go and leave her bag and everything in the room and locked it behind her. So we had to figure a way to lock-pick it, unfortunately, there wasn't the suitable tools around. In the end we broke the door knob and it finally opened after an hour. By then it was 4.30pm and I was tired like after three 2.4km runs and my hands swelled again and i was very dirty and i stink. It hurts so much that i couldn't do much, not even hold a pair of chopsticks properly. At least she treated us to jalan kayu's roti prata and we were paid $60. The prata was quite fragrant, though damn bloody small. Along the way back, our van nearly hit one stupid bugger. The light changed to red and he just dashed across the road. he escaped the first lane with a bus, then our van started to drive and naerly hit him but he was lucky, the third lane was a speeding car since it didnt had to stop for the light, and the left mirror hit that guy and he spun around. then he quickly ran to the other side of the road. fucked up guy. he must have tot the green man means go sideways and the red man go straight or something.
Finally, reached home, took a good bath, and cycled to ska. reach there i was perspiring already. and the beer has already started. but the food still wasn't there!!!!! so we waited for a while, and the food came. Dum Briyani, Sambal Prawns, Sotong with the black ink, good Dahl, and other side dishes. Man it was fantastic. A pity i ate too much food, otherwise i could have drank more. hahahaahah. so after the food we went into the black belt room to chill out. didnt drink much today lah. need to go sch tomolo at 9. and also because of work i sort of lost the mood. and i was already tired. but im still feeling sleepy now.
k my hands really hurt. gotta do some more report now.