Memories
When I mooted the idea about the Guys going on a holiday together, frankly speaking I thought in my heart that chances are it wouldn't work out, as we frankly have a very high level of inertia and indecisiveness (witness our subconscious circle forming when we have our outings) but in the end it worked out alright. It was a great 8 days with nick adrian fabian murugan and junseng. We sure took away a lot of memories and funny incidences from our trip. I don't really want to post a blow by blow account of what happened, so I'll just write a few phrases on the more interesting stuff that happened.
Budget terminal's kopitiam
Electronic scanning of passport ala MRT gantry
"Tiger airways is proud to get you to your destination ahead of schedule... Again!"
Mangled names (tai yang)
Everyone is named Frederick from now on
Wearing jeans to board a boat is a bad idea
BBQ barracuda
Railay Viewpoint Bunk, err sorry Hotel
Fisherman and Healthy breakfast
Writing ORD Loh! in the sand
Standing on a tombolo with the sea water to your knees
"Help! The fish are ruthless! They're molesting me!"
Coastal formations that were a geographer's dream
Placid tom yam goong
Boat rides in the dark
Kayaking around the mangrove regions
Runaway crabs
Pineapple bonanza
Monkeys doing it like on the discovery channel
Loanshark "All of you give me 500 baht now!"
Tomcats
Cliffsman
Lack of hot Scandinavian babes
Climbing without shirt and slippers to reach the viewpoint
Having to carry our luggage across a silt filed beach at low tide, losing footwear as a result
I hereby categorically deny that we went for a massage
12 hour bus ride to Bangkok on VIP bus
Watching bootleg version of Rob-B-hood on the bus
Ammonia smell in the bus
Dinner in 20 mins at the stop point
Reaching Bangkok at 0430H
Unexpected pick up
Pink cabs
No ESPN in the hotel room
Random mandarin MTVs
Discovery Channel
Shopping at MBK
Shopping at the weekend market
Shopping at Baiyoke
Shopping at MBK again
Shopping at MBK yet again
"I hate shopping! Wah you guys are like girls man.. 5 days straight shopping!"
3500 baht for dinner....Ouch
"Thai girl show?"
Jewel boxes cascading down
"Student! No money! 3000 baht!"
Under the big zidane poster
Going to the "Palace"
"Sexy lady?"
"If you find a Norwich jersey, I would buy it for you."
"Newcastle jersey?" *smirk* "Newcastle small team! Whole Bangkok no have jersey! You want Chelsea jersey?"
Eating at A&W
Will add more if I remember. I need to see the photos to remember some events. And for what it's worth, I think the Krabi portion was more happening than the Bangkok portion, so Guys let's do another sea sand sun trip soon!
Monday, November 27, 2006
Friday, November 24, 2006
Bazaar
I know I should be doing a post on my holiday to Thailand, even more so as there were many funny and memorable experiences, but that has to be put on the back-burner for a while. As I type this I'm surrounded with cardboard boxes and loads of stuff which I dug out from my cupboards and wonder what on earth are they. My maid just managed to dig up a set of SCDF uniform which I have no idea how it got into my house as my dad and I were both army for our NS.
Anyway, as I loathe to bring over everything to my new house, I'm posting a list of stuff I don't want anymore and if you see something you like, holler on the tagboard. Or it becomes some relative's Christmas present.
1) CDs Westlife: Westlife & Coast to coast & Swear it again single, N Sync: No strings attached, Backstreet boys: Millenium & Black and blue, MAX 4, NOW 4, yang guang xi lie 3 (some mediacorp artistes singing theme songs to dramas)
2) Discman pouch
3) Heel cups
4) Fencing lead
5) Books
6) Test tubes (left over from my JC times)
Will post a more detailed list once I sort out the clutter...
I know I should be doing a post on my holiday to Thailand, even more so as there were many funny and memorable experiences, but that has to be put on the back-burner for a while. As I type this I'm surrounded with cardboard boxes and loads of stuff which I dug out from my cupboards and wonder what on earth are they. My maid just managed to dig up a set of SCDF uniform which I have no idea how it got into my house as my dad and I were both army for our NS.
Anyway, as I loathe to bring over everything to my new house, I'm posting a list of stuff I don't want anymore and if you see something you like, holler on the tagboard. Or it becomes some relative's Christmas present.
1) CDs Westlife: Westlife & Coast to coast & Swear it again single, N Sync: No strings attached, Backstreet boys: Millenium & Black and blue, MAX 4, NOW 4, yang guang xi lie 3 (some mediacorp artistes singing theme songs to dramas)
2) Discman pouch
3) Heel cups
4) Fencing lead
5) Books
6) Test tubes (left over from my JC times)
Will post a more detailed list once I sort out the clutter...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
All change on the home front
It's 1:22 am in the morning, I just woke up from a 3 hour "nap" from 8 to 11 pm, now I'm quite wide awake. Finished the preliminary packing for my Thailand trip, will add in the other stuff like charger and toiletries when I'm done with them tomorrow.
Would have used the computer earlier, but my brother was using it, so I went to channel surf. HBO was showing In Good Company, and there was a scene in it where Scarlett Johansson (who plays a college student of 18) "invites" the guy to her dorm room to check it out. Right. Only in Hollywood.
Anyway, for those who still don't know and care, I'm flying off to Thailand (specifically Krabi then Bangkok) for a holiday from the 14th to the 22nd, in other words I'm flying off tomorrow. Last call for anything from Thailand.
It's been a strange few days. Strange in that I'm neither extremely happy or sad. It's more of a strange (there's the word again) sense of ambivalence. Like when I got my pink IC. I guess the trouble I had to go through to get my clearance signed sort of eroded the excitement of getting it finally, but when that sticker was pasted over my green card a feeling of "finally" came over me. It's more of a sense of "where did the 2 years go?". Then I know that this is the new chapter of my life, the one which I had been pining for a long time, but now that it is here, seems very alien and weird to me.
Also, I'm going to move house soon, probably in the first week of December. I've visited the new house a few times already, and it's coming along nicely. I get my own room for the first time in 20 years of my life. Still, it's very troublesome to move plus I've been packing up my stuff into boxes to be shifted over. In the process, I dug up lots of interesting stuff, like my sec 3 final year exam which I overshot the word limit by a lot (ego at work there), some old stuff like photos, stuff I wrote, journal entries in my now hopeless mandarin which I had to do for my JC chinese teacher who loved to ask sharon and only sharon questions, econs s notes and old econs s essays where the teacher will write some scathing comments about my essay, and many more.
Really, where did the years go? It wasn't too long ago I was mugging furiously for my A's, living each day for the day, then when it was all over, the euphoria of freedom was tempered by the sense of impending change, before it began to the background music of shaving razors and the feeling of a cold unfeeling blades on my head.
But rather than looking back, I prefer to look forward. Looking back once in a while is nice and gives you that warm fuzzy feeling especially when you're alone in the middle of the night, but looking forward gives you the buzz of new experiences.
Will update when I return. Till then, all the best for those taking O's and A's! It'll end soon...
It's 1:22 am in the morning, I just woke up from a 3 hour "nap" from 8 to 11 pm, now I'm quite wide awake. Finished the preliminary packing for my Thailand trip, will add in the other stuff like charger and toiletries when I'm done with them tomorrow.
Would have used the computer earlier, but my brother was using it, so I went to channel surf. HBO was showing In Good Company, and there was a scene in it where Scarlett Johansson (who plays a college student of 18) "invites" the guy to her dorm room to check it out. Right. Only in Hollywood.
Anyway, for those who still don't know and care, I'm flying off to Thailand (specifically Krabi then Bangkok) for a holiday from the 14th to the 22nd, in other words I'm flying off tomorrow. Last call for anything from Thailand.
It's been a strange few days. Strange in that I'm neither extremely happy or sad. It's more of a strange (there's the word again) sense of ambivalence. Like when I got my pink IC. I guess the trouble I had to go through to get my clearance signed sort of eroded the excitement of getting it finally, but when that sticker was pasted over my green card a feeling of "finally" came over me. It's more of a sense of "where did the 2 years go?". Then I know that this is the new chapter of my life, the one which I had been pining for a long time, but now that it is here, seems very alien and weird to me.
Also, I'm going to move house soon, probably in the first week of December. I've visited the new house a few times already, and it's coming along nicely. I get my own room for the first time in 20 years of my life. Still, it's very troublesome to move plus I've been packing up my stuff into boxes to be shifted over. In the process, I dug up lots of interesting stuff, like my sec 3 final year exam which I overshot the word limit by a lot (ego at work there), some old stuff like photos, stuff I wrote, journal entries in my now hopeless mandarin which I had to do for my JC chinese teacher who loved to ask sharon and only sharon questions, econs s notes and old econs s essays where the teacher will write some scathing comments about my essay, and many more.
Really, where did the years go? It wasn't too long ago I was mugging furiously for my A's, living each day for the day, then when it was all over, the euphoria of freedom was tempered by the sense of impending change, before it began to the background music of shaving razors and the feeling of a cold unfeeling blades on my head.
But rather than looking back, I prefer to look forward. Looking back once in a while is nice and gives you that warm fuzzy feeling especially when you're alone in the middle of the night, but looking forward gives you the buzz of new experiences.
Will update when I return. Till then, all the best for those taking O's and A's! It'll end soon...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Happy :)
It seems that this place has seen a mini revival of sorts. Thanks to all the Tanglin Sec people who came to visit this crappy place, nothing much here to crow about right?
As my title suggests, I'm happy. Why so? Let me list the reasons so:
1) Final Fantasy XII. The main reason why I haven't been online much. The reason why I have been sleeping at 3 the last few nights. So far 30 hours of my life have been sacrificed playing it and I think I'm barely 1/4 into the main plot. The game is just brilliant. I could go on and on about how great it is, but I suggest you should go get a copy and go play it yourself. Here's to more playing till the wee hours of the morning.
2) Manchester United. Probably the only thing I would switch off my playstation for. The class of 2006 are playing the best football I have watched Man Utd play for the good part of 3 years since the previous championship winning season. The back four is solid, no more goofing around, the midfield exciting, the attack ruthless and swift. I watched slack jawed as Man Utd made mockery of bolton's home "fortress" a week ago. And finally, I get great pleasure from watching football, such poetry in motion again.
3) I'm leaving the "Organisation". Enough said. I waited 1 year and 10 months for this day.
4) Thailand trip. Will be away in Krabi/Bangkok from 14th Nov to the 22nd Nov. The land of smiles and cheap t-shirts here I come! If you want me to get anything for you on your behalf, leave a tag and I'll see if I can get it for you. Looking forward for a deserved break with good friends.
5) Mahjong. Well this is true only if you win, but yeah I think I've more or less become addicted to this game cum social activity.
6) Events over the last month. Thanks to my new "job", I've been meeting interesting people, nice change from the "Organisation". Hope I can do well in my "job" and keep it.
As I swig this nice cup of milo bailey's, I can afford myself a smile. Here's to many more happy days!
P.S Ok Guys who defaced my tagboard with the chiobu86? Own up now! :)
It seems that this place has seen a mini revival of sorts. Thanks to all the Tanglin Sec people who came to visit this crappy place, nothing much here to crow about right?
As my title suggests, I'm happy. Why so? Let me list the reasons so:
1) Final Fantasy XII. The main reason why I haven't been online much. The reason why I have been sleeping at 3 the last few nights. So far 30 hours of my life have been sacrificed playing it and I think I'm barely 1/4 into the main plot. The game is just brilliant. I could go on and on about how great it is, but I suggest you should go get a copy and go play it yourself. Here's to more playing till the wee hours of the morning.
2) Manchester United. Probably the only thing I would switch off my playstation for. The class of 2006 are playing the best football I have watched Man Utd play for the good part of 3 years since the previous championship winning season. The back four is solid, no more goofing around, the midfield exciting, the attack ruthless and swift. I watched slack jawed as Man Utd made mockery of bolton's home "fortress" a week ago. And finally, I get great pleasure from watching football, such poetry in motion again.
3) I'm leaving the "Organisation". Enough said. I waited 1 year and 10 months for this day.
4) Thailand trip. Will be away in Krabi/Bangkok from 14th Nov to the 22nd Nov. The land of smiles and cheap t-shirts here I come! If you want me to get anything for you on your behalf, leave a tag and I'll see if I can get it for you. Looking forward for a deserved break with good friends.
5) Mahjong. Well this is true only if you win, but yeah I think I've more or less become addicted to this game cum social activity.
6) Events over the last month. Thanks to my new "job", I've been meeting interesting people, nice change from the "Organisation". Hope I can do well in my "job" and keep it.
As I swig this nice cup of milo bailey's, I can afford myself a smile. Here's to many more happy days!
P.S Ok Guys who defaced my tagboard with the chiobu86? Own up now! :)
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