2005!

Happy New Year to all~!
Hope this year brings many pleasant surprises to everyone. Most importantly, may everyone stay healthy and happy! And become more rich too.

2004 has been a fun and interesting year for me.
Hopefully this year will be the same, if not better.
Though half of it will be spent in camp.....

Yes. This is the year I serve my country Singapore. This is the year I begin to spend 2 years in a different environment and enjoy the company of strangers. This is the year I learn more about life, back to basics. This is the year I enlist into National Service.
Sucks totally, but i'm rather looking forward to ORD alraedy hahaha.

K. I welcomed this new year in a different manner yesterday.
I wasn't that interested in the countdown actually, much less join my sec sch classmates for a trip down to Sentosa, a place I didn't like to go.
But before the pleasant part, on the morning of new year's eve, I was working. And I fumbled a task. Didn't get anything completed at all, leaving me with some cases to be handed in on Monday. Hai.....
Since it was a half-day work, I decided to go to OG to buy cards for my friends. But looking around, I don't see any card that expresses much of their love for the new year. In the end I spent most of the time looking at toys. But I had already decided what to buy instead.
I left Chinatown and came back to Bendemeer for lunch. I ordered a Teh-O, yi Bei. Yes the same shit happened and the auntie reconfirmed the order: "Teh-O Peng ah." "No, Teh-O 1 Bei." The auntie came back with Teh-O Peng. And it tasted YUCKS.
After lunch I went home intending to take a good bloody nap, but ended up playing game.
Almost making me late for dinner at SKA. All of us of SKA waited and waited, and suddenly the organiser comes to us and says Bye. No food and then he's the one to inform people, but he's the first to leave.
So I left for PS at 8 to meet my sec sch classmates for DINNER. Bummer. I bought sparkling juice for the lads to consume at sentosa. And guess what 95% of them are late. I was hungry by then lor. So inconsiderate.
After dinner I went to buy a chicken, cold, and three bottles of juices. :o) healthy substitute for beer yah.
I spent the last night of 2004 at the Esplanade's far end, better known as River Ang Bao with Mindy and her friend. I actually wrote my new year resolution! Haha.
Will make it a point to fulfil them as much as possible.
Besides this, we were just relaxing by the shore, enjoying the sea breeze which turned too cold as time went by. At about 4+ we left to find fooooood. hahah. Ended up in Rezki since it's the only 24hr eatery I know of. We walked all the way from the river to the prata shop eh. By then was already 6+ and so tired and smelly. Didn't have much mood to enjoy the food, so I left quite some portion untouched. Waste money.....
And then, we went back to SKA, for a light nap! Haha cos will be meeting other friends at 11+am. But end up I only slept for an hour and was just lazing on the furnitures.
This outing was the worst ah. Supposed to meet at 11.30, but later changed to 11.45. I reached the meeting place a 11.50 and no one was even there. And the organiser was making her hair or something. Until 12 something then they arrived.
We went to PS for food. Wth. Almost had LJS again.
Then from there we went to Marina South. Lousy weather dunno fly what kite also. Spent most of the time in the arcade instead till 3+.
Then went to Mindy's uncle's place for food again. Food food food food food glorious food.
Until 6+ then we left.

My eyes were trying to shut by then already.
I've bathed, my hair is almost dried, I fell asleep twice while doing this blog, which is why the content is so bland.

damn it dun waste time already. Sleep!!!!!

Happy New year Lah.

The End of the World.....

I intended to play game but while digging my nose while waiting for the game to load I decided that the constant itch on my ass will disrupt my gameplay so instead I'm writing a blog.
(Try reading that without pausing. The wonders of commas.....)

But that's the not cause of the end of the world.

What?????

The end of the world?????

Yes, I believe in that. And all the events are making me more convinced that EOTW will be here very soon.
I feel very sorry for the tsunami victims. The current death toll has reached >60000 and it is believed to reach about 100000, equalising a fatal earthquake about 1000+ years ago. And this time was a 9.0 scale earthquake. Singapore is a really lucky small country. Now everyone knows what the little red dot on the map means. Mahatir u suck ass.

Hai.....
Let's see, this is the Water disaster. The Earth disaster is taking place since 9/11. Fire disasters are going on every now and then, but I think there was a very devastating one recently? Can't remember. Hmmm the economy crisis is still happening. Now left the 'Wood' catastrophe? Haha i'm thinking too much. But it's too much of a coincidence.

K i was very blur at work today. Hahaha too many offs are not that good eh. Come back only so many things to do and haven't done. So stressful and disorientated and disorganised and dis..
Such that I fell asleep at 4pm. For a SHORT while.

Ok actually now i'm now yahoo pool so my concentration has been diverted.

Haha i'm out of here.

Countdown to 2005.....

I don't really want to do a countdown, so let's just skip it.

Guess it's time to update about the happenings.

1. I didn't post Christmas-related pictures.
2. I didn't celebrate Christmas!

Thursday 23/12/2004
This was an exciting day for me. Though work was rather tough, and it always happens that more work comes in when the day is about to end. The company was 'released' 1 hr earlier to have a farewell dinner for 2 of my colleagues at some Fish and Oysters (?) restuarant opposite clarke quay mrt station. The food sucked, Fish and Co's much better. But it was free anyway so I had 3 glasses of beer as well. After which I rushed home, got changed, took my stuffs and went to ska smelling like beer. I taught. And training was rather fun though I went easy. And then, we're off to chalet, but I had another can of beer along the way. Oh dear.
We reached downtown east at about 10.30pm, and while the rest were busy queueing up to pay the entrance fees, i noticed the side gate was open, and walked right through it saving a precious dollar. Ska members took over the bbqing from Mindy's relatives, and that would be our dinner as well. It was fun. And I had two plastic cups of Vodka and a red wine. The food was rather good, but the company was better.
At 3am, I vomitted. All the food came off mercilessly. And following was blood, fresh gushes of blood.
I thought: "Shit i'm vomitting blood." And I recalled that the windpipe must have got some abrasions from the vomitting. But it wasn't that simple. Quite a lot of blood followed.
At 5am, my senior drove me to Changi General Hospital's A&E.
I was shivering from dehydration as I waited for the registration procedures to be completed. The nurse called, asked my condition and type jargon into the computer and I was to wait for a doctor to call me again. So he called. I was asked the same questions, and apart from that I received an anal probe. Yeah. That's the price to pay for getting myself in ugly shape. My senior and another fellow karateka was giggling away. Damn it.
Oh yes did I mention that I was on wheelchair all the while? hahaha.
I got wheeled up to my ward after more procedures.
Class B1 Ward dunno what Bed dunno what. Air-conditioned, 4-person room. Got TV, but it doesn't work. I was supposed to be in Class C, but the wards were full, so I got to stay in B for free until there's room in C. Nothing to be proud of anyway.

Friday 24/12/2004
It's already Christmas Eve, and I haven't been checked on. At about 10am, I got another anal probe.....
Then Mr Wong called. He sounded so anxious, omg what have i done. Ska ppl started coming to see me. But I felt tired.
Complications started when I couldn't get my parents to sign the consent for my scope. I had so badly wanted the scope to be over and done with asap, but i couldn't get them. Good thing the hospital was kind enough to allow my brother to sign the consent in place of them.
At 2pm, I was transported in my bed to the.....operating theatre? I felt like a fucking real patient. In the OT, I was told to drink a solution which was the anaesthetic and another doctor sprayed another anaesthetic in my throat and it felt numb very quickly. Soon I was told to turn sideways, but no more anal probes. The doctors covered my eyes and soon the scope was brought out. It went down into my throat without my knowing and approval. All I could remember of the scope was hearing them saying: "Don't swallow, don't swallow." I reckon I must have interrupted the passage of the scope, so I tried hard not to swallow my saliva. But it was difficult cos I began to lose control of my senses. I remember one more scope going down my throat, and if i'm not wrong, there were a total of 3. Last thing I remember was I burped and gagged a lot and probably vomitted again cos i think i saw some substance coming out of my mouth and then they were wiping my mouth and I was knocked out.
I woke up at about 4pm to see my brother still sitting beside my bed. Told him to get back to work. And I probably fell asleep again.
I woke up to see my father beside me. And it was almost time to change back to my original ward. So I did, but my father decided to put me in Class B2 instead.
About 1 hour later, I was wheeled to Ward 49 Bed 12A.
My condition was: too forceful vomitting, resulting in a tear in my oesophagus, causing the bleeding.
The solution: Clipping up the wound using the scope.
Sometime at 7+ I asked my father to go back. And I fell asleep once more.
Throughout the night I was woken up constantly for medicine, injections, blood pressure, temperature taking. My Christmas Eve was spent just like that.

Saturday 25/12/2004
I thought I could go home. I wanted to celebrate Christmas badly, and at night was my cousin's wedding dinner.
But I had to stay another day for observation. The doctors are good at lying.
This day I spent in bed resting my ass more than any others in my whole life.
Sometime in the afternoon my relatives and parents came from the tea ceremony.
By then my drip was off and I could have soft diet.
After the repremandings and rantings, they all left, and I went back to rest.
5pm, the ska people came. They bought me a very nice card, shirt and perfume. Haha. Also a box of 6 bars of Cadbury chocolates. :o)
We talked for sometime and they left at around 7 for a movie. boo hoo hoo I was to be alone during Christmas. I bathed and did a lot of reading and went to bed.
I kept waking up every two hours cos I was too excited about my discharge.

Today 26/12/2004
I woke up rather early to bathe and read. And walked around the hospital. I had two eggs and two toasts and a coffee for breadfirst costing me $2.50.
Oh yeah the patient's food sucks so bad that they are probably worse than NS food.
I finally received news that I can be discharged by two pm.
I was very happy.
My parents arrived, my brother followed up, and finally the nurse removed the needle in my arm and the stupid patient tag.
I was a normal person once again.
I came home to do some admin stuffs, and then watched Sammo Hung's Gui Da Gui. Hahaha.
And then I went to Ska.
I apologised to Mr. Wong.
I miss training.
I made everyone who knew worried.
I realised my folly.
I bought food for everyone who trained today. And all of us had a long talk till 10pm.
I went home, had dinner, took half my medicine, missed my Da Ge Da show, and am typing this blog.
I want to bathe and shit already.

Christmas wasn't that bad after all.

I repent.

And I shall not drink for a time at least until CNY.

Merry belated Christmas, and Happy New Year to all~