Curfew

If I am going to do better this semester, I should set myself a curfew, a sleeping curfew to be exact. I think I will set it at 1am for now I'll try hard to follow it so that I can wake up in time for the frickin-hell-inhumanly-timed 8am lectures.

Went to meet Jay and her friends, ok they are my friends as well so we went to meet our friends for a late night coffee/tea/talk crap session. Ended up in Holland V and something .. worth mentioning happened. The shop was called Essential Brew or Brews.. anyway if you want to sit upstairs you have to remove your footwear and the place is designed in such a way that.. ok this might be incorrect but the first thing that came to my mind was this looked like ...
1. An opium den
2. "Traditional" Japanese living room

I should try to explain myself further.. when I went upstairs the first thing I saw was this guy with long hair, his fringe was all over his face, it was almost covering his eyes and he was slouching so low against the wall he was almost horizontal. I almost thought I saw an imaginary opium pipe in his mouth but ok I was hallucinating or something.. wahaha!

The furniture was all meant to create a cosier environment in my opinion although it would inconvenient ladies in skirts in general like J for that night. Basically you sit on the floor, they give you a cushion to rest your butt on and the table is also a low table so it roughly resembles the "traditional" Japanese living room I suppose.

But that's not the highlight, apparently after some time our friend Sia noticed with her.. acute sense of smell that someone around us had a case of .. tadah! Athlete's foot! Ok lah, it was just a "horrigible" smell.. gross! Did I mention I had the honour of catching a small whiff of the posionous, odourous vapour emanating from some other guy/gal's beautiful "10 digits"? Somehow Sia has a really good sense of smell (unfortunate in this case though) so she detected that the foul, acrid smell was drifting from.. A GIRL! GAH!!!

Ok, and supposing that she's right about that, the girl was apparently dressed to kill.. her clothes were semi-translucent or something like that, I didn't get much of a look though because she was behind me and.. facing her would mean facing the odour too.. wahaha! Well that would be a total turn-off for her date for that night or her friends.. gross!

To help fellow readers with their stinko foot problems, may I recommend some nice products to take good care of your feet...

1. The almighty PUMICE STONE, you can get it from Watson's I suppose or Body Shop for that matter. Its a godsend for anyone who wants... to remove dead skin and gross stuff from their feet. I don't have a foot fetish or anything but the feeling of freshly, clean n squeakily scrubbed soles is really quite shiok. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, its just an abrasive stone that you scrub against your feet, damn shiok. Highly recommended for all humans!~

2. Foot scrubs, available as a gel like substance, packaging is similar to facial wash types. Supposedly after using them your feet feels smooth and soft but I tried my sister's once and I didn't like it because it left an oily feeling on it. Oh well she told me she soaps off the oily feeling and its shiok but I didn't try it again..

3. Foot powder. In my opinion, SAF foot powder doesn't help, using baby powder like the Kodomo brand (my favourite) really gives your feet a smooth feeling. Just don't fall down! Don't use Snake powder on areas of your anatomy where you are going to sweat by the way, because from past experience a vile odour will result from mixture of sweat + snake powder. Its just like sweat and perfume don't mix..

Right, Professor Footy gotta go and rest now for tomorrow Quantum mechanics lecture where I will attempt to increase the strength of lecture group to 3! Namely, the lecturer A/Prof Dagomir Kazlikowski, "Ah Zhuai", and myself.

Oh, to the Sleepy Walrus, hope you find luck in love(you prolly heard this 12395123 times already..) but well, I'm sure the wait will be worth it. Keep in contact!

Should I or should I not?

Just wondering whether I should join a CCA club for the fun of it, because PM Lee said that education isn't only about academic results which I totally agree with. Partly also because I bumped into my former BSO (not the evil one..) Chen Zhihao and he's in the rock climbing club or whatever you call it. Not that I'm starting to miss getting lost in Pulau Besar already but well at least its better than joining a whole CCA alone?

Heard that they gather on Thursdays and Saturdays to "climb rocks" or rather those walls... sounds interesting man anyone wants to join or not? Hehe.. anyway Zhihao's blog is linked from mine Zeus' Garden

Oh and I must proclaim I am the ultimate "bag destroyer".. The birthday gift that BFSW, Jay and JL gave me, which was 2 bags, one of which was a nice Jack Wolfskin bag was damaged or rather one of the straps snapped somehow while i was at engineering faculty. Thankfully I was on the way home.. in the end, we went back to Queensway to see if the bag could somehow be repaired or not but the shop owner decided to let me choose another bag. That was a free 1 for 1 exchange which was quite generous of him I thought...

I picked another Jack Wolfskin bag which I thought was quite nice and I used it for some time but due to the weird "cutting" and design of the bag I found out that actually although the bag is quite big, you can't really stuff a lot of things inside it compared to the older bag. So I think because we went for a number of trips to Malaysia and the like.. I had to stuff my luggage into it and in the end the bag gradually suffered small holes, cracks, scratches, tears.. etc

Argh.. so now the bag has 2 ... holes, 1 is the one with the zipper, the other one runs exactly parallel to the zipper *wtf...* and that means, even if I zip up the bag, there is an equally big gaping hole where i can just reach in and take my stuff. Gah!!! Now I have to use either the ..

1. "adolescent" billabong bag that the army guys gave me which is super useful + functional (has a laptop compartment?
2. or the other sling bag which also has a weird cutting but looks nice although it has low capacity..

Maybe I'll shop for a new bag soon :(

Friendster..

An old friend or rather, old classmate has requested to add me to his friends' list. Well well, I don't know why but I haven't approved it yet, maybe knowing that he is still waiting for me to approve him gives me a sense of ..? Is there a word for this? Haha, maybe its that I can deprive him the pleasure or whatever that I am added into his list. Duh.. or its the pleasure that when I log into Friendster I will always see .. "Oooo some new guy wants to add me into his list"

-_- whatever the case, I'll add him a couple of days later for no particular reason. Haha!

Just bought my n-th pair of Giordano jeans, I just realised that most, if not all of my jeans are from the bleddy kap-poh brand. Maybe I'll splurge on my first pair of Levi's jeans .. soon.

Just now I was telling J over dinner... the Christmas performance we (read: IVAN) put up during our army days, the one where he chased himself on the stage. Haha, too bad my pathetic memory has robbed me of the entire storyline... I only remember something about line-laying, a present from Santa (the wire cutter..) and majority of my memory was confused with Ivan's "round-the-mulberry-bush".

Haha.. we got a bleddy 1 day off for that man.. so frickin simple! WAHAHA trust me to think of such stuuuuppppiiidd ideas and still get handsomely rewarded. *song*

Oh.. yes! Yes aww Yes!!!

The feeling of squishing that irritating acne/pimple or whatever thing finally is really really damned shiok I tell you. Its because this silly pimple has been bothering me for days or rather weeks and this bloody oyster simply refuses to spit out the "pearl" inside.. I'm sure most of you guys have experienced this at some point of time.

Listening to Kevin Kern now while drinking Magnolia fresh milk, ahh really super shiok right now I can't stop grinning, yayee!

On the other hand, listening to PM Lee's speech, he has declared a 5 day week for civil servants, schools and army camps. @!)#(&)&$!@ what the.. ok lah to comfort myself I have already thought of this scenario...

Friday night..

Signal platoon "Oh book out loe, sibeh song ah!!! Woohoo can go home and bathe hot water liao!"

Uncle Nick "Eh HQ company fall in for briefing first, tomorrow Saturday nobody in camp so automatically everyone will have 1 more guard duty... and the first guard duty goes to... "

CPL Elmer "Day guards .. CPL TS Lee and CPL BW Soh!"

Me and Beng muttering "Elmer you GY kia.."

Elmer " Complex guards .. PC Lee and Chen Jianwen"

PC proceeds to stand up and show his 99% violence/hardcore/vulgarities ...

Just as Ivan/Henry proceed to sigh in relief...

Elmer "SGAD duty will be covered by Ivan and Henry.."

*CHIBABOOM... TERBABOOM...!!!*

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Isn't ORD so much better? wahaha

Olympics loss

Awww.. we didn't even come close to getting a bronze medal in the end, poor Li Jiawei she made a lot of mistakes in her match against the very defensive Korean player. I could see that she was using the red surface for all her forehand smashes and her black surface for her backhand, if you noticed, the red surface was the one that had a "pimple" texture so it would render the powerful underspin from the Korean less effective.

At the point that I noticed, our fellow Singaporean was getting all her smashes in but after a while she seemed to lose steam and it wasn't long before she faltered into oblivion zzz. Hai~Ren msg-ed me soon after that expressing general disappointment and sadness (read: deep contempt and hatred for both North and South Koreans..)
Wahaha ok lah that's an exaggeration la!

I've resumed reading the book that Henry gave me and its really very interesting but I always read it only when I have totally 0 things to do .. or else I will play GB or something like that. The last time I read it was on Saturday on the way to her house she's Jay by the way. So on the way to Jay's house I was taking 187 and this uncle sits down beside me and I just start reading my book happily until the blardy irritating random uncle (IRU) started to take of his shoes and oh-so-kindly put his around-the-world-in-80-years feet up on the seats opposite us! Wah biang I don't mean to disrespect him or what but seats are for PEOPLE! Not for your feet you arse! Needless to say I immediately felt like getting a hacksaw for obvious reasons but all I did was to give him my dirtiest look but of course being the brainless arse that he is, he still don't get it and continue to happily exhibit his very fine specimen.

Grr.. totally spoiled my bus ride luckily that arse moved to another seat once the other side was empty and yes.. he did the same thing. Jesus.. how many gross people can you meet in this world? Fricking unlucky that common people have such selfish mindsets.. :(

On a brighter note, ... er.. my sister didn't wash the car but topped up the petrol. Yayee.. she had better, I'd rather wash the car than top up the petrol .. lol! Bear with it scooby.. you'll get your shower.. soon?

Back!

From nothing in particular, its been quite a long week at least for me.. seems like everytime I want to blog there are a million and one things better to do... well.. blame it on the lazy libra horoscope?

As for the big fat lie that I told my parents, it isn't actually a very serious life or death issue or .. like cheating their money of sorts, its a big lie in another dimension.. oh man my mind is so full of linear algebra stuff.. and I still don't know anything about it. In any case thanks for your concern Beng and JK.. :p I'm alright (duh..)

Recently met up with one of my friends and found out that he is currently having a hard time dealing with problems in his life. We went for a drive and yeah I learnt a lot about what has happened, and because of what has happened, what sacrifices he has had to make etc. Well friend I'll be there for you if you need help and try to look on the bright side of life! I'm sure things will turn out better in due time, things can only get that bad~?

Reading Henry's (aka Wind) blog, really brought back memories of the good ol' days.. NOT. To me if NS could be summed up in a line it would be.. been there, done that, your turn. Something like that I reckon but actually its much more than that, especially with the friendships that have been forged, ties that have been closely knitted, bunks and platoons that have bonded.. wait a minute am I starting to talk like LTC Lai already? Haha..

I do recall some moments that are etched in my mind forever, images of Chun Kiat setting up the command tentage with Sgt. Sunny barking orders, along with Kangwei and various other signallers. That was the very first outfield in a unit that I went to and I was a total newbie at that time. I could see pearls of sweat trickling down from Chun Kiat's cheeks, starting from somewhere obscured by his helmet and then rolling down to his chin before finally hitting the long grass beneath him. *drip* Yes and then Chun Kiat gave me a "sian ji bua/welcome-to-the-shithole-club" look.

The worst outfield I went to, don't even remind me.. grr! I was in the line team with Muthu, Jason贼神 and Ganesan看医生 together with Sgt. Willis and.. tadah! KELVIN LIM! We were basically idling in the army 3-tonner(truck) when the ever-so-popular BSO came up to find us. Already I was kinda scared of him because I had already heard quite a lot of stories about him from GX/Fruchee(who was my army buddy in the end, I stole him from Ducky hahha!)
So the irritating bugger gave us a task to do which is to lay a line (similar to telephone lines) and do various tiebacks the way we were taught at SOS (School Of Signals). Before me was Ganesan and being the blur bugger that he was both at SOS as well as 42 SAR(our present unit at that time), he naturally did quite a lot of mistakes and was fully rectified by BSO who taught him to get hs rifle out of the way before doing anything.

Now it was my turn and I turned around to grab my rifle from the rifle rack but my HQ36 rifle was not there so I started to panic and by then BSO was shouting and pressuring me "Hey TS, where is your bloody rifle? Taking your own sweet time right? Nevermind..." All you readers have got to understand that he bellowed this out in the most sarcastic manner possible and this only served to wreck my nerves even more being a "xin jiao" (new bird) where National Service in the army was concerned..
By then Ganesan had already climbed up onto the tonner and then he said something like "eh TS I took your rifle.."

Alright so I just grabbed mine from him and jumped down the tonner but BSO immediately shot me the dirtiest look I've ever seen and he proceeded to accuse me of.. "secretly exchanging rifles with Ganesan, trying to keep it out of his view" I swear I wanted to kick his balls and ram them back into his body with my precious HQ36 at that point of time. "The 2 of you go back and take 1 extra.." That was how I got my very first extra guard duty in the "oh-so-guns-ablazing-fugging-glorious-SAF" My comments? "pp... ppphhhuuuiii!

Bad days

I guess the lie that I told to my parents.. really came true.. sigh~ Why do bad days last forever..?

LSM 1302 starts tomorrow, see you in lecture Hai~Ren..

Back to school

Its the sickening feeling again, in the library now with lots of foreign students who are attacking the notes/books/notebooks with vigour worthy of a red bull...

The Quantum Mechanics lectures are getting really absurd, the rules of the kets/bras are totally senseless to me, and there is a new girl in the lecture group who is in Jingkai's words "zhuai..."
Laughs at every joke, answers all the questions, listens eagerly blah blah blah.. somehow she seems too smart for her own good but maybe I shouldn't judge too soon~

All thanks to CO, now I really feel like pontang-ing the first lab session because I already know what exactly we are gonna do later on, except for minor admin stuff that might come up or the recording of results etc.. meanwhile I shall read up a little on my newly bought textbooks, namely Mathematical methods in the physical sciences and Introduction to Quantum Mechanics.. did I mention they add up to a cool $75? @#($)&!@%#)(*&^*

Poor hammy

Hammy the hamster seems to suffer from some sort of ailment that prevents him from walking normally, he can't keep his balance and even I also felt a bit sad looking at him in this state..

Still kind of unused to this semester especially with this killer timetable, I'm quite sure I will start to skip some random 8am lectures.. even if I do attend I don't know if I can even dig in what the lecturer is gonna say with bleary eyes and an empty stomach.. :(
Coupled with the experimental physics module, this semester promises to be the worst one yet .. already the lecturer for Maths methods has remarked that the "ta pow" rate for that module is quite high so I'm quite sure I'm one of those that's going down if I slack at all.. Arghh

Might be getting a new handphone too due to some complicated chain of events that involve my sister's bf going to US to study. Before I end my short short post, thanks to Beng in advance for his notes! Getting tired already.. bloody 8am lectures..

Uh uh uh ...

Yes it has begun, the 3rd semester but come to think of it, assuming I'm gonna get the hell out of NUS in 3 years time then this is almost 50% there already.. listening to this morning's lecture was already tremendously .. uninteresting at best. Thank goodness the lecturer has a sense of humour though.

The killer was the timetable for Experimental Physics, twice a week you gotta go for 3 hour lab sessions not to mention you got to prepare by reading up the relevant topics and lab manuals which are commonly 20 pages long and such. There's still the lab report that you need to hand up thankfully with a "deadline" of 3 weeks which actually makes not much difference considering the 3 weeks you are moving on to the next experiment.. God!

Yes and I should go and start reading them now.. sigh!

Gawd..

Did I just mention 4 days ago that school is starting in 4 days time? Gah!
Singapore Idol proved to be.. a total laughing session.. I think its weird to laugh at fellow Singaporeans because you might just bump into them on the streets and just start sniggering uncontrollably.

Today was movie marathon, first off was Shrek 2, then Zoolander ( Don't even think of watching it), and then 13 going on 30. All movies were of fabulous quality and came from a .. secret source haha!

Funny, I didn't even think about blogging about National Day till I read other people's blogs.. maybe it has gotten too silly and bo liao.. the whole notion of a "nation". Must have been the readings from SSA2211 in my first semester that has deleted away all nationalism in me.. haha!

Normalisation condition..

Ahaha not that I want to say, but my first lecture tomorrow already includes this so I happened to read about it and yeah, refresh my memory for a while. Already the stuff inside sounds cheem, do I hear a collective sigh?

Went to watch the fireworks yesterday as well and boy, was it crowded. In the end I thought it was quite a nice display of fireworks but the human traffic there was obnoxious. After that we boarded bus 97 before the loop so we silly-ly sat in the bus and the loop took like 1 hour... -_-
Even walking the loop might have taken a shorter time as we found out. Luckily there was plenty of on-board entertainment to help us kill time.. the TIGER SHOW!!!

At Suntec this young couple who couldn't be more than 18 or 19 boarded the bus and came upstairs and took a seat which was relatively in front. Then the guy "nicknamed Tiger" started to comb the girl's (Kitty) hair which started to freak both of us out who were seated about 5 or 6 seats behind them. What came to my mind was the scene from "The Ring" where the Japanese lady combs her jet black, straight and silky hair in the mirror and looks directly at you. Spooky..

After a while Tiger starts attacking Kitty and oh my god that idiot isn't like giving her anything like small pecks or whatever he's giving her those super duper wet + passionate kiss lor! Wah lau.. -_- So yeah for the large part of the 1 hour we were looking at Tiger attacking Kitty relentlessly .. After the loop, when more people boarded the bus, it seemed like Tiger would finally realise they weren't in a Hotel 81 room but rather on a bus... but we were proven wrong again by our "young and horny" Tiger who simply found Kitty totally irresistable.. Hahaha!

Tiger continued to smooch her all the way from the Esplanade to Jurong Interchange... not continually lah of course.. small breaks included giving Kitty hug-of-deaths and more hairdressing sessions~ Oh man but kudos to him for entertaining the whole bus though...

The Notebook

Haven't read the novel before by Nicholas Sparks but the movie was quite nice in my opinion as most adapted-from-books movies are. I remember seeing it as a favourite book inside JL's friendster so decided to catch it. First time I've watched a "more romantic" movie anyway but in any case it is worth the money lah.

That's all for now... sore throat so I want to drink more water now. Byee

Incredulous, outrageous..

I was .. mortified when I saw the traffic conditions at Geylang a few days ago at night. Given the number of people eating there and the number of popular eateries opening there, the number of parking lots are just way too little for most of the general public. Drove around from Lorong 29 all the way till Lorong 1 and still could not see a parking spot, even the double yellow lines were fully parked. After countless rounds we still could not find a parking lot or find the 永和豆浆油条 so after some time I called my sister and she told me it was at Lorong 9. I looked at the road sign nearest to us and it said Lorong 19..

-_- "'

Moral of the story is, you can try your luck parking along Geylang road itself but if you find that its taking way too long I suggest you park somewhere further and take a long walk instead. Hehe, as to where I actually parked it was Guillemard Crescent but its quite far away. Have fun exploring.

I have a nice masterplan too hehe, that is to go cycling at ECP or blading or kayaking until its late then you rent a bicycle and cycle to Geylang via Fort Road which is actually quite near. (Remember the AHM route?) So, there won't be parking lot woes anymore but of course gotta take care of the bicycles and have to cycle back as well, obviously the even better plan would be to get a chalet!

Damned, why am I talking about all these when school's starting in 4 days time?

Correction..

It's been a fricking long day.. sigh I'd like to dedicate a song to myself. Bad days by Space.
If only BFSW was around she would suan me again and go "hur hur"

...

That's my mood right now.

Today was a damned long day, starting at 10am my dad woke me up without much effort because they were making such a din already. Then we went over to the old flat and started shifting tons of rubbish out including old books, my primary school recorder, old motherboards and even 2 surround speakers. The king sized bed in my parents' room would prove to be the bulkiest and heaviest and tiring-est piece of crap to ever lug to my present house though.

I was supposed to paint the house for the early afternoon so that I would be free to meet her for much of the evening but now all hopes have been dashed, or rather crushed. Now I am the bangladeshi worker doing lots of sai gang.

Sickening day.

Good grief

Some .. winner really hai~ren this time round... Just read the front page of today's Straits Times and you will know. How unfortunate for all the people affected just because of 1 driver's act. Period...

Happy Birthday!!!

To my Ah Ma!!!! May she be blessed with good health and.. good health haha..