oH RigHT!

creep

2007-04-22T18:11:00.000+08:00

heard this on 987 and has been spinning in my head for the passed few hours.

When you were here before
Couldnt look you in the eye
Youre just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
And I wish I was special
Youre so fuckin special

But Im a creep, Im a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I dont belong here.

I dont care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When Im not around
Youre so fuckin special
I wish I was special

But Im a creep, Im a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I dont belong here.

Shes running out again,
Shes running out
Shes run run run running out...

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
Youre so fuckin special
I wish I was special...

But Im a creep, Im a weirdo,
What the hell am I doing here?
I dont belong here.
I dont belong here.

reminds me of stan cos i have a version of him singing this. the good old times. kinda miss the carefree days..

miffy-ed muffins

2007-04-21T22:41:00.000+08:00

got back from dinner with my rockin' dad cos he rocks, i cant wait to see his finished project in sentosa in maybe another two months? haha.. my muffin sister cos she bought my fav muffin though it should be me who's getting her prezzie for bday. my coffee mom, she knows i need it badly.. and the brother in law, okay, he helped in getting the muffins..

cos its my sis's bday next week!! she wont be reading, forget it..

ROCKS!

okay, some long due pics

team steamboat, courtesy of mr hee..

the noobs

not so nooby noobs

it has been more than an occasion that we wore the same thing.. haha..

team pic since last june race

ktv after dinner was a blast! xiao can made me laugh till i drop dead okay.. more to come during hols!!

on the 3rd of april,

we caught this

the chandelier was actually the prop..

more nice props.. of the theatre
nice nice...

tts abt it.

up next, pe on monday!!

a boring entry

2007-04-17T00:12:00.000+08:00

i actually went back home over the weekends since syl was going back too. so i got a ride back. a pretty cool phantom she has. had some mom's cooking and they definitely made my whole trip back worthwhile.
i also received a lil someting from flora who's still in korea! she got me the very cool-skinny tie i wanted but isnt sold in sg. thanks babe! it really made my day and i hope u're having fun over there. talk to you soon, i need you to help me get something from japan.. haha :/

wanted to stay home to study till friday but decided to call that off cos i got glued to the tv and bed. caught guess3, subsequently last samurai and wadnot. weeped at last samurai AGAIN. nice nice movie.

1st paper this friday. CONTROL. i really wanna do louis phee justice by doing well. he's a great tutor.. haha alvin and i are his fans. we were always looking forward to thurs cos its control's tutorial. but nono, definitely not going into mechatronics or systems cos they're hell stuff to study.

i'm still waiting for alicia's mail to inform me of anything that could probably happen in nyc. but hey, ms fel and i have already decided to pop by hongkong this summer!! :D:D anyone wanna join?

back to lead compensator :(

exciting exams

2007-04-12T00:57:00.000+08:00

nothing's up lately except endless of studying to do.. but pretty good this time round cos i'm doing it with jo, alvin and ben in the library, seeing the db pple ard at the same time.. weekends with y, huili, syl and others. its really funny how hard we try to catch the library at its opening hours so we dun leech for a cubicle seat but it just doesnt happen.. studying has really gotten much much better after tasting ia.

changes to the trip after pm, suppose to visit alicia at nyc. but something happened. so i may not be going afterall. still pending and am waiting for a reply. or maybe i should just do relative visitng at melb. or i should just stay in sg. if thats the case, then there's really nothing to look forward to after the exams :(

i feel like getting a tongue piercing but i think its gonna hurt so much i'm gonna faint on the spot.. haha.. okay, i think its the exams stress.

i hope my laundry is done.

the Music of the night

2007-04-04T00:16:00.000+08:00

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA WAS A BLAST!

bridge and nothing

2007-04-01T23:16:00.000+08:00

after the last report and presentation, i should then finally start to study and catchup with tonnes of work. its frightening how they scream you out of your bed, leach onto you, sucking all the blood u needed to stay alive and sane. and its yet another 13th week of the semester and the one that passed at such ridiculous speed i could hardly remember what i did. or was the passed 13 weeks so pointless and not worth remembering. perhaps.

have been insanely busy with the bridge that would probably rupture at the end of the day and cad lab is my new home. but i guess the busy-so-u-think-less trick doesnt quite work for me. a lot has been running thru my mind and i'm so freaking tired.

alright i think i'll camp at kw's room today to get the drawings done up.

Burnz Day

2007-03-30T00:59:00.000+08:00

the title cos its yet another thursday and thursdays are 'burnz day'.. but i didnt get 'burnz' today cos i'm seriously falling sick, all thanks to the workload which adds to the late nights and more heaty food since chocolate is the only thing that could relieve my stress now. but i have nice pple who buys me liang cha, so, YAY!!

i guess my bridge will fail still, after all the hardwork. but there's nothign more i can do except to get the drawings done up, since submission is next monday! holyshit!

okay, actually.. i dunno what more i wanna say though i really have a thousand of things on my mind earlier.

oh did i tell u, nelson, my lab tech said i'll die of cancer? cos i'm always lack of oxygen and eventually all my good cells will start to dysfunction and i dunno how but it made sense to me when he said, that i'll get cancer in future. wow, what a thing to look forward to!

on a lighter note, next tue, Phantom of the opera! lets hope this raoul is able to make me less a fan of phantom and more a fan of raoul.. but i doubt so.. haha..

i'm craving for tau huay now. the geylang one.

okay, i cant stand it. the bed is calling for me. and i'm easily tempted. and this is another senseless post. and yes, i'll be grounded at cad lab tmr:(

goodnite!

Rain

2007-03-26T22:53:00.000+08:00

Take a photograph,
It'll be the last,
Not a dollar or a crowd could ever keep me here,

I don't have a past
I just have a chance,
Not a family or honest plea remains to say,

Rain rain go away,
Come again another day,
All the world is waiting for the sun.

Is it you I want,
Or just the notion
Of a heart to wrap around so I can find my way around

Safe to say from here,
Your getting closer now,
We are never sad cause we are not allowed to be

Rain rain go away,
Come again another day,
All the world is waiting for the sun.

Rain rain go away,
Come again another day,
All the world is waiting for the sun.

To lie here under you,
Is all that I could ever do,
To lie here under you is all,

Rain rain go away,
Come again another day,
All the world is waiting for the sun.

catch up

2007-03-12T00:43:00.000+08:00

these pics go all the way back since i got back.. since i finally feel like uploading them.. haha

eid meetup and wala with some db pple

an annual meetup with these pple before flo left for korea..

more pics of us and the later ones at dbl o.. ok, this is funny. 6 is suppose to be the exact pic of 7 without flash. i took 6 first and i was like, 'eh, how come so black? cannot see a thing..(seriously, no pun intended)' then zam said, 'becos we're black!!' and laughed. hee.. my excolleagues at traders.. very very fun pple.. they're from the cafe and my intention was to steal food from the kitchen.. haha

more meetups before she really left.. and ah hee's place on chu-san. my 2 vice-caps..

wala on one of the fridays

ll in her big big picnic who cldnt wait to sleep that night.. and jny and i at zhook last wed ;)

2007-03-01T13:30:00.000+08:00

i've been in such a foul mood i cannot explain and i'm not even pms-ing.. RARRRR!!!

i really am suppose to study more this week. i dunno whats wrong. really. tues was the worst. thankgod syl asked me out for dinner if not i'd have rot and decompose to bones at home. dinner at prego with ben, syl and shit. it was good cos the talk was so relaxing.

i trained on wed w/o warming up and so i'm aching like hell now. then was studying with lili and huili at starbucks. good that we did cos it was raining and i would be sleeping instead if i had gone home. then was zouk at night.

i guess i'm too old for zoook. the young crowd turned me off, totally. and phuture was phucking crowded as usual. and they should really start up a division inside the club, like, this section for pple who wants to dance enjoy music, and this section for pple who wnats to hook up each other in the club. cos its fucking annoying when u're trying to dance to your fav song and then this guy dancing so close to u and touching u from behind. or seeing girls with weirder than weird dress sense trying to toss their boobs or butts to the cute guy beside. worse if he's not even cute. *puke.. and after u're done hooking up with each other and getting hot. come on find a room! dun do it THERE..

bumped into a few pple, fel, terr and company and jiaxi, yl and company. stayed with jx and guys, so they did make me feel better abt the whole despite-it-was-raining-trip.. okay, it really wasnt so bad..

okay, this post is pointless. i wanna watch a very very depressing movie, so i can let out my tears..

but i needa do assignment at ll's..

untitled

2007-02-25T22:11:00.000+08:00

lets see, i did pretty amazing stuff last week with a really bad temper. for those who had to suffer, i apologise.

i spring cleaned my hall room last wed. i guess i was bored and didnt feel like studying.. so all the dust had to go, even those on the window grill and air con. but i'm leaving the immaculately clean room to collect new dust once again.. yay.. what joy..

thurs was fucking hilarious. kw, jo and i were ultimte gamblers. we played cards and mahjong to fill up the day of 3 tutorials and 5 lects (all cores) so it was how amazing i managed to stay awake. and the freaking fact tat i won money.. haha.. okay, i'm not so suay afterall..

wala on fri was filled with a lot of u2, john mayer songs and it got quite boring after a while. the ride to/back seemed forever, poor ll had to do it.

and for the first time in 3 years. i got the wrong time for training. whoa!
caught dreamgirls, it was quite good, beyonce was gorgeous and jennifer hudson really has the voice. i love the 'and i am telling you i'm not going' that she sang and of cos beyonce's listen..

may i catchup with work next week....

Listen

Listen,
To the song here in my heart
A melody I've start
But can't complete

Listen, to the sound from deep within
It's only beginning
To find release

Oh,
the time has come
for my dreams to be heard
They will not be pushed aside and turned
Into your own
all cause you won't
Listen....

[Chorus]
Listen,
I am alone at a crossroads
I'm not at home, in my own home
And I tried and tried
To say whats on my mind
You should have known
Oh,
Now I'm done believing you
You don't know what I'm feeling
I'm more than what, you made of me
I followed the voice
you gave to me
But now I gotta find, my own..

You should have listened
There is someone here inside
Someone I'd thought had died
So long ago

Ohh I'm free now and my dreams to be heard
They will not be pushed aside or worse
Into your own
All cause you won't
Listen...

[Chorus]

I don't know where I belong
But I'll be moving on
If you don't....
If you won't....

LISTEN!!!...
To the song here in my heart
A melody I've start
But I will complete

Oh,
Now I'm done believing you
You don't know what I'm feeling
I'm more than what, you made of me
I followed the voice, you think you gave to me
But now I gotta find, my own..
my ownn...

have some hope

2007-02-21T16:47:00.000+08:00

caught up with an old friend last night. it was good. everything spilled out since the past 7 months and deep down inside, we know we still care. it was such a truthful talk, we could've gone on till the dawn breaks. haha.

anyway she set me thinking abt something. do you think that pple live and build relationship with other pple cos we're just making use of each other? why are friends friends? why are there bfs/gfs? is it really cos we truly love each other so much?
or is it cos we need someone to be there? to eat dinner with/ someone to hang out with when we're bored?
or is it to show that you're popular when u have a 1072 friends on ur freindster and that you can get the hottest girl/guy in sch?
or is it cos you wanna feel a sense of belonging when everyone seems to have their own clique?

its like why God created Eve for Adam, cos he was lonely. isnt it?

actually, i don't agree, but i didnt have a strong enough pt to stand with. for me, i dun need someone to eat dinner with, to walk with me, to do anything for me. i could've done it all on my own. things can be simple, with no intentions if u want it to be.

Almond-ous CNY!

2007-02-19T01:16:00.000+08:00

its the CNY again! a time for glorious FOOD and MONEY!

holiday mood sets in pretty early this time and hence work aside. am guilty abt it actually, but wad the hell, its CNY!

i spent these times busy catching up with flo since she's gonna be gone for a while. i hate to see pple leave, esp those who i'm very very attached to. she knows me so darn well i'm sometimes terrified. and am i not right that everyone starts leaving you as you get older?

on a lighter note, i find joy spending time with family and my books as i havent been reading since sch started. and yes, cleaning up the hse..

gawd, i finished that 1kg of almonds all on my own. isnt that incredible!

2007-02-07T00:42:00.000+08:00

you said you'd catch me when i fall..

you lied..

Depression

2007-02-05T22:31:00.000+08:00

msn has been a bitch lately and it gets worse when i'm doing project discussion. wtf. i had a bad hair day, it spoilt my day and lab wasnt interesting enough to cheer me up with sunita and sucky lab mates ard.. days are getting senseless and useless..

*ok, there's a blackout in my hall. wtf.

running away really isnt a cowardy act to do. why live in misery when death is so simple, so near... how many has the courage to press a shiny sharp blade to your veins and slice them open? to hold a gun in ur hand and allow that metal capsule to pierce through ur skull? to let the blood and life flow out without crying out for help, without trying to stop the effluvia of life? i do not.

why put on a brave front, when ur true face can be covered with sacred scar done by the acid. it is just a moment of pain. if i am to stand on the rooftop looking down at the people passing by, hoping to experience wind speeding by my face, would u let me? or would u wrap ur fingers ard my neck and squeeze the breath out of my lungs, and watch my body struggle for just 5 seconds?

or would u stay, when all people walks out of me?

isn't living such a painful thing?

i told u its gonna last for a few days.

Exhaustion or Non-being?

2007-02-05T00:38:00.000+08:00

i was so exhausted for the whole week i slept the whole sunday away, but somehow i was awoken to the world later in the afternoon in a pile of notes and research, realising i need to do somethign called lab report. it didnt terrify me, cos i'm so used to waking up with a thousand and one things to be done on mind. i was then navigated to the kitchen for food, and i found BAH KWA and PEPSI. only then i was truly awake. i havent been running due to the rotten foot, but the food intake a day still matches up to a cow.. oh well, what the heck!

something interesting happened yesday. i went to cut my hair at suntec, only been there with can once like maybe a year ago? but i just sat and kpo-ed ard i rem. and.. the lady who did treatment for me actually rems me. how cool? i didnt believe her and insisted she rems wrongly but she was right in the end. ha.. would u've?

other than that and the 5 movies i caught in a week, my life's sooo boring i cant stand it anymore. i needa make it more happening next week. so get me involved in anything other than dyanmic and control, vibrations, heattransfer and design.. even my pe readings rock.. shit..

i'm not movie crazy, 3 were for my pe. and if u havent catch blood diamond and babel, u should. i caught both over the weekends and they have to get me into depression for at least the next few days. what has the world become? or rather, has always been? we're so blessed, arent we? i really really wanna do something to help. but fuck, i dunno how..

oh wtf, i realised sg's soccer rocks.. haha..

The Highlight

2007-01-29T22:15:00.000+08:00

this pic below would complete the tokyo collection

the best thing to see in tokyo has to be this.

i love the way the tower glows in the sky of darkness. it TOUCHED me. and i'm looking forward to see eiffel tower which this follows after. ;) sponsor me, anyone?

yup.. i'm just looking forward to those trips planned after pm.. and the year end to sydney, cos i cant wait to skydive... wanna follow?

Tokyo pics

2007-01-29T00:33:00.000+08:00

alrighty, all these was taken a month ago.. but still..
i feel that i'm kinda promoting japan.. haha but its good, its really a nice place, i like it a lot..

thats day 1 in asakusa where the huge temple is.. and akihabara where all the coolest and cheapest gadgets are..

and thats day 2 at shinjuku.. time square, the biggest takashimaya..

and thats how buildings in tokyo cluster themselves.. too complicated for me...

and this is day3 at hakone where we were suppose to catch mt fuji. but we were unlucky, it was cloudy that day so we caught clouds.. it was suppose to be so near and huge right in front of ur eyes.. too bad..

and we went back to shinjuku for its xmas lightings at night.

and thats day 4 at tokyo station and the imperial palace..

thats ginza where all the designers stuff are.. its really cool, cos its like a whole street of buildings like, one building, 8 stories of gucci and then another lv, another hermes and stuff.. and they actually have products that is only sold there.. u cant find it in say, gucci elsewhere..

shibuya, the shopping paradise.. and the busiest junction in tokyo. it has like this amt of pple every time it turns green. where do all the pple come from, i'm still wondering.. and this is taken on a weekday afternoon.. can u see me in 7 and 9? haha

the next day at tsukiji market.. woke up pretty early to catch them handling fishes of my size and had the freshest sushi ever

odaiba. the famous rainbow bridge and statue of liberty..

toyota showroom

harajuku and cosplay

the first day to disneysea

i like disneysea. its very romantic. haha..

the next day at disneyland

i hope alicia gets her internship in tokyo this time so i can drop by with free accomodation ;) i'm missing her quite badly.:/ ok, i'm gonna email her to tell her that.. haha
bb

Grayness

2007-01-21T23:53:00.000+08:00

its the damn-god-its-monday syndrome again. which sucks cos i did pretty much jackshit the whole weekend. my productivity declines to negative six billion when i'm home. on the other hand, it was good time spent with family and friends.. ok, i'll work it out, somehow..

I'm tired. the weekend trainings had drained me. i'm a pretty useless puppet with loose joints now, i cant really feel myself. but it has gotten better cos i'm more or less decided to stay on, so i must feel less inbetween, notinthepicture, lethargic and whatever.. which in other words is to try to be more enthu abt trainings. the word is TRY. its kinda weird cos i'm a senior right, but i feel i know nuts abt this team. everything is becoming quite foreign.. the very sad thing is, nobody is really putting in effort and i'm not bothered enough to do something.

anyway... i was thinking, how do one always know what do u truly want? and how sure are you that, that is what u truly want? is there anyone who knows the answer, or maybe there's a formula to work out the answer or any other way?

since everything that was explained in life was never black or white, was never right or wrong, was neither yin nor yang, when everything was just gray, who could be sure enough of anything?

i'm always mired in gray, totally powerless and helpless. its a drowning color and i'm drowning in it. there are things u miss, u want, in life, times when ur heart says yes but ur mind says no, so who is to follow? sad to say we'll eventually follow the gray. it manipulates what we are. we're just puppets, didnt i say that earlier? we're filled, yet hollow. we're full yet empty. we're manipulated in a way that smiles and laughs are only a button away, how convenient. and parties of glorious indiscernible gray where we mingle and mix and socialize and chat and pretend and laugh and cry and dance the night away in gray.

07!

2007-01-17T11:28:00.000+08:00

Hello and Hapy 07! it has been a while and things have been good as they are for me. catching up with all the folks since i got back. adjusting back to the good old lifestyle, things changed but very much stayed the same. sch has started and so has training.

the reverse culture shock wasnt too difficult. i was feeling very divided, as though i'm looking at sg as an outsider. back to all the singlish, the complains, criticism and all.. but well, i'm afterall a sgporean, so its not difficult to adjust. but i guess i need more time on food. the very sweet can drinks and oily food. but hey, the prices just stare at you with the proudest beam, telling u to get them at no pain.. i love that..

on the other hand, i'm very much a POOR STUDENT so i need someone to FEED ME. i'm thinking of getting a tuition kid, but i hate kids and i dun like routines, so SHOOT ME!! :( let me think of a way out..

sch started and i'm pretty much trapped in hall all over again. hoping to move my fat ass to 13, so mr president of 13 please get back to me quick. :( hrm.. i guess sch changed the most. besides the very packed canteen, its the pple that are gone for me. some graduated, some ia-ing. no more late nights with the dboaters or osts. more with the eid pple and lecture notes.. good and bad.. okay, it says, i should really start working hard this sem. and so, i'm expecting a more hardworking and happier suat this year! ;)

okay, i'm still feeling very unsettled abt trainings. i cant explain. ok, its shit, lets not talk abt it.

i needa go lunch.. bye

Hokkaido Trip

2007-01-15T20:52:00.000+08:00

The long due pics i took in Hokkaido..

The haneda airport.. we're taking ana to hokkaido..

there's self check in, since its a domestic airport.. how cool haha..

and this is sapporo station. the main city in hokkaido..

snowy snowy.. some former government place..

man at work.. hahaha..

the sapporo tower.. which looks really lousy as compared to tokyo tower..

the famous hokkaido crab

the fish market

the famous hokkaido ramen which rocks!! haha.. i dun mind a second bowl, seriously..

the frozen river

one of those parks

some of the xmas lightings.. there were more but it was freezing so i didnt take much of them..

can u imagine just waking up and saw this outside the window.. i didnt even feel like going out...

on our way to the hokkaido shrine.. the only river we saw surviving..

the passed away bicycles

hokkaido univeristy and yes, i'm from engin, i'm the nerd..

their tutorial rooms

lect theatre

canteen

library

i tried shoveling, oh god, spare me...

at jozenkei.. this very famous place for natural scenery and onsen..
the hot foot bath..

some HUGE waterfall which the map told us..

snowman!

my hand froze and thawed when the water started to evaporate.. it was hell.. nv do it please..

the tourist info person told us of this MAGNIFICENT bridge.. haha.. okay la, it was not bad...

oh this is the skiing place!!! really beautiful

when i'm on one of them too..

of cos the beginners..

this really nice guy taught me a lil of skiing.. i was so touched i wanted to cry. haha

the hokkaido shrine

we went to zoo too.. this is cool cos this time we see the tropical animals in cages

and snow camels

polar bears and peguins outdoor.. haha..

the chocolate factory where i got my shiroi koibito..

this reminds me of the secret of chamber, harry potter..

hot chocolate cups

okay, the correct name is ishiya chocolate factory

love eating ice cream there cos the ice cream wont melt!

some night scenery on a mt top

haha.. eat this!

the next day to otaru.. doesnt this looks scary?

check the price to airport from here.. :(

xmas theme glass.. the art of glass blowing.. really nice.. i wanna go venice :(

okay, this place is real desserted and its on top of a cliff.. near the sea... i almost died there.. another place that the tourist info person suggested that we should go.. so its called the i-advise-you-to-go-place. sometimes we really need to decipher a lil what others advise..

holy cow! there isnt a single soul okay!

hoho the famous canal at otaru..

caught some koreans filming there..

the musical box paradise.. i bought 2 too!! haha

the kawaii soft toy shop

and off we went back to shin-chitose airport in hokkaido and back to tokyo.. alrighty.. i'll do the tokyo pics another day...

The farewell in Hiroshima

2007-01-15T20:46:00.000+08:00

Some of the nice pple in my company...

And they had a farewell lunch for us interns

Some other pics of my work place

Suncourt Tokaichi. my very nice and clean dorm..

And the xmas decos in hiroshima with some of my friends i made there.. Theres jackie, risa and hino..

Back

2006-12-22T11:47:00.000+08:00

hello people, i'm back in sg.

the train was delayed to narita so we had no time to shop and rushed everywhere. transitted at bangkok's NEW airport and it still sucks. i hope i'll nv step into thailand again. SG's airport rocks!

well, the familiarity of everything ard and the smell everywhere. i'm all prepared for the reverse culture shock.. the cheap 2.50 qiu lian ban mian i had last night for supper. but i'm not used to the thai rice i had on the plane yesterday and evreything seems real oily.. heaven and earth green tea sucks after u had the japan green tea. luckily i bought some green tea back.. haha

the weather isnt as bad as i thought. i dun really feel very very hot.. so its good. but i'm exhausted and my feet swollen. i think i walked too much in tokyo.. but still, call me out!! haha.. my no. still the same. so yea, text or ring me! and if u're in my present list, u'll get something from japan.. haa..

okay i'm tired again. and i hate unpacking.. but its definitely better than trying to squeeze things into the tiny lugguage.. oh guess what! they didnt charge me for the extra weight!! haha.. lala..

last night in japan

2006-12-21T02:00:00.000+08:00

its 3am now and i needa wake up at 4 to catch the train to narita airport, so i shouldnt sleep. and i'm not done with packing. lets pray that i dun exceed the luggage limit too much tmr, if someone can calculate my luck tmr..

i'd be able to use my phone again tmr so i charged my phone and went thru the msges. i rem wad happened few months back and why did i applied for the oia. and i think tonight if my objective was met. wad was learnt? was it worth the money i spent altogther? haha.. the experience was definitely good. and it did opened up a path i think i can go further. the japs are real nice pple. i learnt a lil jap language, though still not good. i have better make up skill now but still not good enough to do it on the train with one hand holding the mirror. i made friends from diff countries, didnt manage to make sg friends though, except alfie. i bought shitload of stuff, useful and useless. i had the freshest sashimi ever. one of those best chocolates too. i saw snow for the first time in my life. i know that thai airway sucks. i learnt about automobile. i can give u a history of fo*rd now. i learnt to have better tolerance, even better than before. i eat eggplants and onions now. i know how does it feels when ur toes defreeze. i'm a better map reader than before. and the list goes on..

so much was gained. what can be the answer? we'll see..

okay just share with u something i found out.

jap guys vs sg guys

jap guys shop. sg guys dun.
jap guys dresses up and respect fashion. sg guys dun.
jap guys walk with you or behind you. sg guys walk ahead of u and wait for u to catch up.
jap guys hold ur bag for you. sg guys care nothing abt wad is in ur hands.
jap guys look away only when u finished talking. sg guys talks and nv listen to start of with. and look somewhere when talking to you as though u're the maid.
jap guys push the supermarket trolley, sg guys walk into the supermarket first. who cares abt trolley.
the japs are considerate. sg guys on the tv damn loud when u're trying to get some sleep.
japs in general nv criticize. they praise the good ones but they dun comment on the bads. sg guys walk on the street and tell you how ugly and fat is that girl when the first thing to do is to get a mirror.

let me give you an example.

i wanted to send things back the other time so i needed a box. there were many used dhl boxes in the office so i was thinking of getting one back. and i needa take the train and walk back carrying that box. sasaki saw me choosing some boxes and he asked. he was like, are you sure u wanna do that? i have some boxes i can bring it to you if you want so you dun have to carry it. then fujieda was like, ya get sasaki to bring back for you. dun do it. its not nice for a young girl to carry a box and walk along the street.. the next day, sasaki drove down to suncourt with a few boxes for me to choose and apologised again and again for being 5 mins late. guess what, one of the sg guy told me to bring a box back for him.

you get what i mean?

oh well, am generalizing, so dun get offended if you are a sg guy reading this. the fact is u cannot deny that u're guilty of at least one of the above. haha

ok, i'm hungry i wanna go cook soup..

cya back in sg!

Disney

2006-12-19T00:00:00.000+08:00

tokyo is a crazy city. and i really mean crazy. there're so many pple everywhere!! and this place called shibuya, famous for the busiest cross junction in front of the station. we actually sat at starbucks from 2nd storey looking down the junction at how busy pple spend their day, praying that i wont be one of them in future and to count my blessings from now on.. shopping was crazy too but i'm really controlling my spendings, just not too good at it for the longest time i know.. this 109 building in shibuya has to be the best shopping mall i've been to in 21 years. yea if u're thinking of 109 hot chicks, that's it. its kinda a building catered for them but u know what, these 109 chicks are real hot! they're definitely not what u see on tv which tries to uglify them for whatever reasons i do not know. they do have dark skins and slim with tiny skirts and boots, nice even makeup, a lil exaggerated but they look real HOT! i could actually buy at least one piece of something from every shop but i tried to control right, so of course i didnt. they have real nice stuff. and yea there're ard 10 shops one level and 7-9 levels in all which i couldnt finish in two days. but its okay. my yens are flying away. i couldnt do much.. i can foresee a lot of time at home when i get back since i'm broke and i'll be grounded by daddy. let me get him at shinjuku on wed before i go back.. :/

today was out at disneysea and it'll be disneyland tmr. angie is leaving tmr and i'm still stuck in this expensive place. its sucking all my money away.. okok enough..

caught the morning crowd today while taking the jr to disney. it was crazy. alfie was right abt the squeezing in so badly that the train conductor or wadever u call him to push u in so the doors can close. most cabins have no seats too so to save space.. i couldnt even fall when the train jerked hard cos there was really no room for u to fall.. haha. i just lied down on another person. it was really hilarous..

ok, back to disneysea. it was good. and definitely a good place for couples. very romantic place. gondolas ride, fireworks, fire-and-water-spirits-fall-in-love show and wadnot.. its one of those perfect pat tor places la... i felt so lonely.. hahaha.. oh well, i'll survive..

thats all for today.. more details with pics when i'm back..

2006-12-12T21:57:00.001+08:00

HAPPY 21ST LEFTSIDE!!!!

LOVE YA.

right

Hokkaido

2006-12-12T21:07:00.000+08:00

better late than never. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIANA!!! may all your wishes and dreams come true. am so sorry i'm always not ard on ur bday cos i was either in penang or japan. but i believe u had a great time! ;) so how was inhaling helium??? ;D did u save some helium for me?? heh..

much happened since the last. i left fo*rd and hiroshima on wednesday and went on a short but tiring trip in hokkaido.. it was freezing ard -6 to 1 deg, went really low at night, so we had to end our day like 6pm.. snow was beautiful of cos. but walking in the snow was real shitty. we had lousy shoes so walking on ice became a real challenge. we'd slid ard and got laughed at by pple. my toes froze totally i thought they could breakoff without me feeling.. then the defreezing felt worse than a bitch. it was crazy.. but well, great experience still.. and guess what! eating ice cream is damn cool. you dun have to worry abt it melting. u can take the longest time ever to finish ur ice cream and then feel warm after that!! haha..
the other best thing is to visit a CHOCOLATE FACTORY!!! how cool is that! i wish i could stay there forever. hrm, i'm considering working in a chocolate factory in future, like packing and eating at the same time. or some expert in chocolate tasting.. omg, i still cant get over it, can u imagine living in a world of chocolate, with everything ard u made of chocolates!! ahhhh... the outside of factory looked damn cool, very much like charlie and the chocolate factory.. colourful buildings and the aroma fly pass from time to time, you dun get sick of that smell.. ahhh.. melt! and of cos how could i resist the temptation at the gift shops for chocolates! hee ;)
skiing was good too. it really wasnt at first cos i kept falling but after like 3 hrs of falling and learning the right way to get up so u dun stumble further, i managed to master braking on my own and met a real nice guy who taught me more.. it was all good, good winter sport, didnt feel cold at all though it was -5 deg and didnt pespire too ;D
pics will come when i get back sg

tokyo trip started today. angie is here with me!! it has been long since i talked to 'friends'.. haha but she's sleeping now cos she took night flight. yea! we're going shopping tmr!!! suat control ur spendings!!! CONTROL!!!

ok i should sleep too, i havent recover from skiing, its worse than stand row.. and i have the worst bruise i ever have in my whole life.. am aching still..

ok bb!

check urself if u think the whole world is wrong

Bye Hiroshima

2006-12-06T11:49:00.000+08:00

alrighty, a quick one.
i wanted to write abt the whole ia thing but i have no time. so just a brief one on yesterday.
farewell lunch was good.. and we went phototaking with all the colleagues. it was all good. i didnt cry of cos. parting is part of life. well, changes is inevitable, change is the only constant rem. everyone needs to move on with life.. photos when i'm back in sg!

but guess wad, i weeped and weeped at umizaru-the limit of love yesterday in the movie theater... ah gosh.. i'm gonna buy the dvd releasing on 20 dec.. just in time ;) so i can watch it again and again to catch those that i missed out cos i couldnt really understand the whole movie cos its in jap right.haha.. but i was so happy they're together eventually.. ahhhh.. sweet.. ;D

then we met risa and went for buffet, the one we wanted to go always but full. we took no chance this time, we made reservation.. haha.. good the cheese bibimbap was yummy!! and then we took purikura again. show u all soon..

okay. no time, i'm gonna do last min packing.

bye hiroshima!

2006-12-01T22:59:00.000+08:00

we had our exit orientation and we're all ready to go!!

had my presentation today too and all the big bosses turned up. i guess its the first time i present outside school? right, it has to be right... it feels totally different.. well, it wasnt bad cos i rehearsed many times but the q&a kinda shot me dead. mark, the chief engineer asked something abt the exterior design vs car performance but the question was confusing i couldnt understand and no one came to help me. they sat and watched me die in silence... how evil... then makihara, the program manager shot me with the air con system in j97. fuck how the hell would i know?? good thing shige stood up for me this time.. ah well, its okay, its not graded anyway.. its really crazy cos u're just a noob and u're presenting to a bunch of professionals of knowledge/experiences way off u can imagine.. u dunno what they're thinking about, u dunno what kinda questions they'll ask.. u cant read their mind.. i feel so small, i feel so useless. ah fuck..

its okayyyyy... its overrrrrr...

right, went for korean cuisine today with jackie. i had bibimbap, like finally... wanted to go to this restaurant for some bbq and stuff buffet but it was full, again.. it's the 2nd time we tried our luck.. still no luck apparently... but the bibimbap was good!! lala.. and we went to take purikura which are actually wad we call neo prints.. 'neoprints' is the brand rem... the actually thing is called purikura.. haha.. it was amazing, 3 stories full of machines.. gawd, u can just stay in there forever.. and then we met others and had a 2nd dinner.. haha shhhh.. we went to the indian rest and had nan.. i had a huge nan with 6deg curry.. which was very much localized cos the curry was sweet and not the authentic indian curry.. still, it was spicy.. walked a bit and went for hagaan daz.. i was too full i threw away half of the ice cream and i crowned jackie the winner cos she finished everything.. and yea, me? throwing away ice cream? it's so not going to happen again..

went to check out wads on screen and gosh did i tell u i was hooked onto this movie, umizaru? there's a umizaru the movie, followed by a 11 episodes drama, umizaru revolution and then finally umizaru- the limit of love. its on screen!!! i'm going to watch it on tuesday!! lala.. i'll try to understand, there's no subtitle, so yea.. hope i do.. and i'm in love with hideaki ito.. haha..

DONE!

2006-11-28T15:29:00.000+08:00

hello, i was real busy with report the past week but i'm DONE I'M DONE I'M DONE!!! its almost the end of IA. and i'm leaving hiroshima next wed!!! busy with packing and stuff. and i'll be back in sg real soon!! haha.. give me ur last orders if u want anything from japan yea!! then again, from previous post, no ps3 pls!

good day today i had bah kwa, courtesy of hama-san from thailand.. it'll be good to have some chicken rice.. haha.. and i help shiva, an indian engineer here planned his one day tour in sg cos he's transiting. and i helped paste paper at the window so more insulation and the two poor ladies at the window wont feel so cold.. but i doubt it'll help.. haha and i tried to beautify my ppt slides a lil for this thurs, but i'm really in no mood to do so.. and guess what!! i received a MODEL OF J97U, the pickup i was showing u, as an appreciation for all team members of this program!! haha.. although its just a pickup truck of this lousy brand, but u know its the first time i'm receiving a model of what i was working on.. so i'm really excited!!

i have been taking a lot of pics as memories of hiroshima. so i'll post them whenever i can.. i'll so miss my 1.2kSGD rent room with practically everything and a big bed. photos soon..

till my next post.. maybe i'll be in sg by then..

2006-11-28T13:08:00.000+08:00

hey pple i'll very much want to help u guys buy the latest ps3 that is already released here at such a cheap price!!! i'd have gotten for myself if i could. but it is completely sold out and the waiting list is till march next year!! i really cant do much.. so.... STOP ASKING ME BUY PS3!!!!

2006-11-22T15:07:00.000+08:00

From: Tan XXXX XXX (Assoc Prof)
Sent: Tue 11/21/2006 5:12 PM
To: #ANG SUAT WEI#
Subject: RE: IA Logbook writeup 2

Dear Suat Wei,

I received your logbook writeup. Some of the materials can be further elaborated in your IA report. I hope to receive your report before December 5th.

Can you check with your company supervisor whether he has faxed in the IA assessment form?

Recently, I sent in my To*yota A*ltis car for 60,000 km servicing. They found that the brake had worn off and needs to replace. After the servicing, I found that the steering wheel vibrates each time I pressed hard on the brake. What do you think could be the likely cause of the problem? I have yet to bring back the service center for further checking. I am not sure whether your exposure to the car engineering during these few months at For*d can help to answer the question.

Your last day of attachment at Fo*rd is December 9. But it is entirely between you and the company if you decide to stay on at For*d until the school term starts next year.

If you have any query, you may email me.

Regards,
Tan XXXX XXX

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Sir,
I will check with my company supervisor and inform you of the IA assessment form tomorrow.

As what I had learnt from my co-workers, I think that the the vibration is caused by the old rotor and the new changed brake pads. When the brake system was worn off and brought to service, the brake pads should be changed and the rotor grinded so that they will fit well again. In this case, it is likely that the pads were changed but nothing was done to the rotor, hence causing vibration to the steering wheel. You can either bring the rotor for grinding or just leave it because after some time the new pads will be worn to fit the rotor again.

However, this is just my guess, I hope it helps.

My last day with Ford is on the 9 December, I am not extending my stay here.

Thank You.

Regards
Suatwei

hello, do i look like a mechanic to u??

She's alive!!!

2006-11-12T21:56:00.000+08:00

dun worry i'm not dead... i'm just too lazy to blog.. i'm either doing work, presentation, report or i'm out with jackie or i'm watching dvds.. haha i'm seeing jackie everyday since wed.. lets seee..

we went out on wed to this izakaya place. izakaya is traditional eating place with low tables and seating on mats on tatami mats.. they usually have free flow of drinks/beer and thats the attractive part for the japs.. alex's friends came visit her frm melbourne so we went out, this bunch of teachers who're teaching english in hiroshima, i know them thru jackie.. so jackie's from canada, alex melbourne, heather from california, alex's friends are from melbourne too.. with koya and a few japs as hosts.. had a great time, yes drinking.. i've been drinking a lot.. its not good. the drink was sweet and i couldnt taste the alcohol content so i drank it like juice. only when i got out to the cold cold air i felt blood gushing to my brain and i almost collapse, it was bad..

went over jackie's place for dinner on thurs. she fed me real good food. she cooked curry and vegs and more fruits. i only had to provide the rice. and she's really one of those who can keep up with my stomach's capacity.. whenever we meet we'll sure eat.. bad bad... we watched this jap movie and i'm hooked onto it.. its call Umizaru. i dunno if u have it back in sg.. but it seems really popular over here. so i borrowed the followup drama from her and i'm still in it.. learning jap at the same time.. ;)

friday was out with her again, for ktv. and i'm determined to learn my first jap song before i go back.. its in hiragana and kanji right. so i've to read real fast. lets see how long i'll take to learn that song.. and we sang chinese songs too. the only sad thing is that chinese mvs are all weird pple with weird sceneries like our english songs in sg's ktvs.. only the jap mvs are those with real singers and the real mvs. i dunno abt sg's jap songs.
i was really nv a fan of jap singers and artists. i only know takuya kimura from smap and ayumi hamasaki ( i dun think anyone will not know these two), takeshi kaneshiro (cos he's a chinese) and a few popular ones. was nv a fan of dramas too. jap fashion didnt appeal to me much either.. but now i guess its just the influence cos i'm all surrounded by them all, it'll be gone for sure when i return.. till then i'm determine to learn my first jap song..

sat was freaking cold. 8 deg in hiroshima.. and we had to stand outside starbucks to meet all pple.. met up with miran from uk, morgan from scotland, brian fron san fran, jus from uk too and malini from canada.. jackie and i were trying to imitate how miran speaks cos she has real strong uk accent which makes english sounds so classy and serious, so even if she tells a joke its so serious and not funny.. haha.. and i could not understand 90% of what morgan was talking cos scotland accent was real bad.. it was really really bad.. david butler was right when he told us abt scotland english in class.. okay i really wanted to bring my camera but i kinda lost it. its in the room but i dunno where.. haha till i find it okay...

not productive this week i'll be better next week..
bb

Bbq at Seno Park!!

2006-11-07T22:36:00.000+08:00

Decided to go to this company outing real last min, good that we all had fun. There was good food, nice people and had fun with frisbee again. i thinkkk frisbee is originated from japan.. haha i dunno, just a guess. i've been playing a lot of frisbee here..

1-9: us, brian turner and family, hashimoto and copied daughter, francesco and hot wife and kugimoto and wife and indian from sy's dept, the food, really nice park, so thats frisbee again, us after the game and the sunset was wad i really wanted to take.

the food was food, had the usual meat, snacks and learnt great japstyle bbq ideas, like bbqing cabbage, galic and onion. dun they just love vegs.. haha.. and ox's tongue, which was only chewy when i got to know it was ox's tongue and i stopped from then on. the indian guy brought along authentic indian green curry and good stuff.. i ate so much and was so full but had fun after that with frisbee and ball with francesco and cea who're real good at it.

after that at night we popped by molly malones for some drinks. it was all good. enjoyed myself before the work-scene came all over again on sunday.

ya i'm still in it. till then...

HallowEen PArty at GsPot!!

2006-11-07T21:34:00.000+08:00

Alright, this is long overdue. But still, HAppy Halloween!! :D Had a blast @ Gspot, party thrown by Chucky. We had games and of cos food and boozE!! Went down with few frisbee people while the others hanged out at Chinatown for another party!
Nori in beer mug and Yuri and I were witches, we were twins that night! Tomoko as clown and Piro as leopard i suppose who painted his shirt himself. Oh and Akiko as shark.. Oh, dun spill that beer!
There was a prezzie or forfeit game i forgot what term chucky used. So piro had to kiss a guy and there goes nori and him.. They seem to enjoyed it though.. haha and nori had to drink a shot of tobasco. tomoko had to get smashed by cream.. i was happily taking pic with aikiko's sis, who's a baby behind mama and the bumble bee who i dunno who it was but had a great time with her.

And met kim there who i thought i would lost contact with, she's the starbucks mug, really low budget but well, its creative. niro and his mask gift. That's akiko in shark suit again and chucky the man himself, no, the moo himself.. haha..

it was hilarious when we walked on the street with all jap eyes starring at us and the mumbling halloween or something. the 7-11 guy played along with super loud greeting and saluting to us.. we should celebrate halloween when i get back, but its alwys the exams..

Let me whine...

2006-11-02T16:52:00.000+08:00

boohoo.. let me take a break from the endless work i have on hand. shige told me only this week that i had to do a presentation for my IA end of this month which means i have one more big project to do. and i dunno if i'm doing right by suggesting something that i've always wanted to do as my project, which is to compare 3 same model vehicles in terms of specs and how the changes of each contribute to a better model. Of course he said good good, go ahead. But now that i come to think of it, i may not have time to finish my research..

Besides that big big presentation which i really want to do well, i'm still receiving endless of work from the big 4 managers and my ia report which is still stuck at page 3? ok, i'm at page 8 now. all thanks to the pollen allergy i got last night, i get to stay home after paying the hospital a visit. double boooo.. fucking 150 bucks for telling me, should be cold which causes your windpipe to swell up, resulting in breathing difficulties, slight fever, diarrhea and swollen eyes. and then prescribing those weird sachets of white powders which dont seem to work for me. :( she also said, you, weak immune system, malnutrition, overworked. take a rest and eat more vitamins.. i wish i could..

and so i woke up late this morning, washed the dishes from last night cos jackie came over for dinner, did my laundry, went to the supermarket to get more nutrition food and was tired again. to my horror later, i found a HUGE beatle like thing in my room. i used to fight twice and managed to smash them, but i'm feeling weak today so i cried mommy.. wang xiao xie came to my rescue, knowing i'm down with pollen allergy, she boiled water in pail so i get more moisture in the air.. its good, at least someone knows i'm almost dead. then came knocking on my door again to check if i'm still alive. and i had to work out my ia report with my mind still at office.. how sucky. the weather is cold and i hate it.

Let's talk about something other than food...

2006-10-29T19:12:00.000+08:00

i realised how disgustingly food was mentioned in all my previous entries so perhaps i should exclude them on this... well, dinner just now was... haha.. right, i'll spare you..

work has been busy, that explains how time passed so fast for me i cant tell what i was up to. basically i get work from 4 people, who are shige- my sup, mouin- my sup's boss, nakano from marketing and kobs from program. it wouldnt be that bad if work was constantly given to me, so i can manage what and when. of cos the 4 of them do not discuss among themselves like, hey i'm going to give her work this week, so maybe you shouldnt cos she'll be busy. so i get bombed with work and deadlines were pressing. its not good. i should have started on my ia report like anyone else and i havent. i should have started on the project so i could finish it before my ia report submission and i havent. it sucks. work sucks. life sucks.

its weird how many people want to finish studying soon to work like some of my cousin brats who cant wait to work straight after their o's. how could anyone like working so much? if i am loaded like richie rich, i wouldnt want to land my foot in a building called the office. some call that a purpose in life, a meaningful one. thats bull. you can jolly well spend your life helping the poor in cambodia, travelling around visiting nice places, spend your whole time eating all the food in the world, doing something u're really good at or you enjoy doing. its the $$ that we're all working for. and yes, money does makes the world goes round. we're just puppets. how sad.

on a lighter note, halloween party on sat was a blast! i had fun fun fun.. lalala.. i was choosing from many many outfits in my mind, so many i couldnt decide on which but i was toiled so i had no time to shop and i end up grabbing a witch suit from tokyuhands. i'll post pics soon, i believe they can tell more than i do now.. wait till i'm feeling less lazy k :/

frisbee today was okay. only 6 turned up so we had to run more. and its getting cold, my muscles cant get warmed up. wad to do... :( oh and jackie was asking me where i stay after the game. i stopped asking people where they stay though its a good way to strike a conversation but after the people start telling me where and then they go, so you know where? i always, eh no.. so whats the point of asking? you get what i mean? but i'm glad jackie asked cos we found out we stay on the same street, literally same street, or same road. its less than 100m away? hahaha.. good so i can see more time hanging with her.. i can like just pop over at 1am when i cant sleep or when i have good food to share.. cool!

desmond was saying he heard i'm partying a lot here? haha i dun man.. its boring here. i very much wanna go back already. its good back there. just that the weather sucks. hai.. should be back in sg on the 21st dec. i'm counting down already... start planning for parties!!!

Royce chocolates

2006-10-25T19:04:00.000+08:00

God kinda figured i'll get torn apart today so He gave me royce chocolates at 9 bucks that could easily costs up to 20 in sg to shut my tear glands and then turn me into a rock so i dun feel. if i could be a mutant, i wanna have power to cease pain. perhaps too much to ask for, okay, i wanna be able to petrify pple hahahahahah!!! you irritating ass! i can turn u into a rock and smash you with hammer!! WAHAHAHAH!!!

okay i was talking about.... CHOCOLATES!!! my fav food on earth. yea there was this hokkaido fair at office today and yes, royce is from hokkaido!! so i bought royce choclates!!! CHOCOLATE MAKES ME HAPPY!!! YUMMMEEEE!!!! so if i'm nice enough i'll try to get chocolates for you all when i pop by hokkaido in dec. hokkaido food rocks man! i couldnt stop sampling at the fair.. yummm... 'goodo'!

anyway selemat hari raya puasa everyone! a lil late though.. i celebrated it too. it was a self claimed holiday, i called shige at 830am to tell him, i'm ehhh joto not feeling well ne. can i take a day off ne? he said ok ok.. rest and take care! woohoo!!! and i continued to sleep till the sun burnt my ass and went shopping!! wanted to meet jackie and shannon to shop for halloween's custome but a salesgirl couldnt let me off, so i ended up spending 10000 bucks there! goodnesss... haha yen la.. but still.. i'm a poor student.. dun hit on me:(

How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And doesn't care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.
-Emily Dickinson

petrify me.

Busy with...

2006-10-21T22:42:00.000+08:00

should be at club now with sasaki. but i'm really tired. from shopping today.. haha! or maybe i dun really like clubbing after all.. maybe.. who knows..

shopping was fulfilling today.. damn shiok, i even forgo afternoon jap class for shopping! but it sucks when u get into the fitting room and realise how fat u are when you try on clothes. lets check wad's new, a necklace, a pair of boots, 2 bags, some muji stuff, some hair clips, accessories la.. oh and a dictionary.. haha i finally got a jap-eng dictionary, on the 2nd last month here. haa.. cos i always wanted a eng-jap and jap-eng dictionary but couldnt find. its usually just one way.. no clothes for suat cos i look like a lump of shit like i said, and most clothes they sell now are not suitable for the hot and humid sg.. either way, its good, i spend less.. wad am i talking. i mean, NO! ITS NOT GOOD I LOOK LIKE SHIT! ahhh...

work has been busy. but am coping well. have been more busy planning for tokyo trip. we've decided to pop by hokkaido too after ia, though its not on the way... and it can be exp to go there. but i'm in japan already, soooo we should right.. and its definitely cheaper to go from here than from sg. was choosing between korea's seoul or hokkaido. but maybe seoul will come in nov or not at all. seoul would be more troublesome cos we'll have to change to korea money, wadever u call that, to unable to communicate with the locals and eat weird food. i'm just not a fan of kimchi.. moreover, it'll be damn cool to go hokkaido in winter!!! its already snowing in hokkaido now!!! so we'll get to ski and snowboard for sure.. but i'm afraid i'll leave my hand, or my nose there, you know... scared it'll be too cold for me to take.. tsk.. we'll probably rent a car in hokkaido to travel ard. then it'll be like amazing race!! haha i'll be reading the map and cursing away then darren on the wheel totally annoyed by me.. hurhur.. i can imagine that already..

after hokkaido will be back to tokyo and will be looking for alfie. angie is thinking of joining me in tokyo.. haha the shopping queen! so if anyone wants to join her, let her or me know la.. it'll be a 8/9 days in tokyo. which will cost a bomb if i dont have free accomodation, so thanks there, alfie! i'm planning the tokyo trip and darren's planning the hokkaido. so yup, i was busy planning all these while..

am still too full to sleep. had yakiniku buffet just now! am so dead...

2006-10-18T20:10:00.000+08:00

alrighty.. they've been bugging me, so maybe its time to unveil them.. hurhur.. here you are..

the climb of mt misen at miyajima.

look like some gu zhuang scene right.. haha can add in some huang mei tiao at the bridge..

on the way up

note the change

they are maple leaves. but not those big ones you see on tv.. small ones but still nice..

not very high up. we took one hour to reach the summit.. the weather was really good..

the coming down was super annoying. we wanted to try another route which was a total horror. i fell thrice and cut my hand.. and the cut still hurts like a bitch now.. rarrr..

but this kinda made me smile on the way back :)

some other random photos..

so cute right. how could you bear to eat them..

my jap dad, me and sasaki. guess how old is my dad...

me and my jap dad or mr yummy

2006-10-16T22:16:00.000+08:00

THEY'RE COMING!!!! MARCH 07!!!

what are you waiting for??????

FOOD... again..

2006-10-15T00:44:00.000+08:00

everyone has been asking me to weigh myself and check how much weight i've put on. and not to check if i've put on weight. thats for sure, no one's in doubt... :/ but i'm happy eating and eating.. lalala.. enjoying the divineness of the authentic japanese food and snacks.. how often do you get to do that? all the meiji products u find in singapore and more that u've nv seen and thought they nv exist? i've find lotte's and the pocky-brand's product just as awesome over here, so meiji has lost its no1 status. how abt the calbee potato chips? the japanese crackers? the chocolates? the very thin biscuits? the very nice packaged petite cakes? the endless green tea products? the tori karage? the katsu curry? the tempura? the different types of croquette? the udon u'll nv be able to find in sg? the ramen? the soba? the sashimi? the sushis? the yakitori? the okonomiyaki? the teppanyaki? the mos burger? how can u resist? i'm no God.

so for all your curiousity, i went to weigh myself, very reluctantly. i've gained back the 2 kgs i've lost in summer in august. so good shit i'm back to square1. congratulations :) more to come i predict.. lets see...

just came back from ian's for great food again. it was a sg-food-in-jap dinner. he cooked chicken rice, bah kut teh, curry chicken and herb chicken. which was not totally fantastic but enough to kill the cravings. though i really wish for some thomson prata and milo dinosaur, geylang's soya milk and doughstick and maxwell's chicken rice. hrm ya thats all, i'm not greedy :) i've decided to be nice so i bought ice cream and made chocolate fondue for them. which was successful, yeah! i've mastered another thing i could do for potluck. lets potluck more when i get back in sg!! oh realised ian can do cheese fondue, so i'll learn from him real soon, and if i'm nice enough, i'll do it for that stupid-dumbass-unfaithful lingli who still hasnt reply my email, cos she's the only one who i know is crazy over cheese like me..

good day today, i attended the morning and afternoon jap classes. it'll be better if the ah tiong kid beside me at afternoon class wasnt such a son of a bitch. i always try to act like i cannot understand chinese cos i dun wanna associate myself with the ah tiongs here, its a whole bunch of them, they're like pests, everywhere in the world.. afterwich, shopped a bit againnn.. and then frisbee, havent join them for a long time its good to go again, cos the weather is really good.. :) and chucky is inviting me to halloween party at his place!!! i love ghostly events!! hurhur.. ideas ideas.. what should i go in? hrm.. bloody doll? oh! chucky should be chucky in childs play.. haha.. he'll punch me for that.. :/

climbing mountain tmr.. and thanks to God and Eve, i wanna shout out loud again PERIOD SUCKS!!!

白色风车

2006-10-11T18:46:00.000+08:00

i was listening to jay chou's new album and am hooked onto this song.. 白色风车.

白色的风筝
安静的纯真
真实的感觉
梦境般遥远
甜甜的海水
复杂的眼泪
看你傻笑着
握住我的手
梦希望没有尽头
我们走到这就好
因为我不想太快走完这幸福
很可惜没有祝福
但爱你并不孤独
不会再让你哭
我陪你走到最后
能不能不要回头
你紧紧地抱住我
说你不需要承诺
你说我若一个人会比较自由
我不懂你说什么
反正不会松手
我陪你走到最后
能不能别想太多
会不会手牵着手
晚一点再到尽头
你说不该再相见只为了瞬间
谢谢你让我听见
因为我在等待永远

how sweet, yet melancholic.. it sounds more depressing to me.. perhaps becos i'm the pathetic depressed bitch.. anything that comes to me sounds so depressing.. i wanna be apathetic!!! so i dun cry listening to songs like that, so i dun get pissed off with m, so i'll curse and swear less.. but i still wanna be able to laugh hysterically and go crazy when i'm suppose to be.. its a scar it's there to stay.. i'll prolly not touch it ever again, even it has healed. becos i know it's bound to hurt again.. its okay u dunno what.. i'm going to sleep. tired.

The Geek Speaks

2006-10-08T16:04:00.000+08:00

2 more seconds and i'll get down to work and laundry.
roar...
went for a tofu course dinner friday after work with all the engineers. to celebrate launch of the 2 vehicles next week. it was a whopping 70 bucks. but i got to enjoy the benefit of an intern:)
Benefit of an intern no 27: Boss will subsidise the unnecessary
ahha!
Darren paid 70 bucks to eat raw pufferfish the other time, mine was 70 bucks for TOFU CAN OR NOT!!! or 'beancurd' if it makes it sound more classy and worth it.
Food was good of course. they included tofu in all the dishes from appetizer to dessert. Others were all kind of vegs, mushrooms and a lil sashimi and beef, rice and udon. Of course unlimited beer to go along. The japs cant do without beer, they'll prolly die.. drank with them, cos its not polite to say no, and anyone who wants to fill up your glass with beer, you'll have to finish whatever is inside the glass first, even if its 8/10 full.. so everyone drank a lot.

it was a very old jap house, with a beautiful garden. talked more to my jap dad. he's the exterior body manager. can also call him mr yummy cos his family name is oishi, and it means delicious in jap.. haha.. a real nice funky guy who looks 15 years younger than his age. i guess you need to be really happy and young at heart and he is..

popped by a bar owned by dad's friend after dinner with him and sasaki. to drink and chat somemore. it was his own kept whisky, with sherry wine taste. really nice, i had it mixed with only water. he bought cakes in super kawaii cups for me. i was too full so i shared with the people there. but brought back the cups as souvenirs. had a really nice time with them. felt loved. and i think its good someone is able to make u feel this way when u're away alone in a foreign country. good! :D

Woke up for jap class on sat morning. cant believe it after drinking so much the night before. walked around town, found new nice places to shop. sat at a cafe for nice pastries and coffee with a book. walked somemore stopped by to listen to a band. its good. walking alone on the street, no one hurries you, you go wherever you like and dun have to accomodate. and in a weather like that. its almost perfect. though something is lacking but i think its not impt enough to go figure out what is it.

found a new place i could drop by from the net. so i went today. realised that other than a huge cinema there's nothing much. a lil disappointed but well.. its okay. i needa come back and get some uncomplete work left on friday done up. and i need help!! i hate stats! its such a bitch.. i've forgotten the formula of standard deviation.. haha.. STATS is CRAP!

some good shit: i've got a harvard singlet, courtesy of hulk from tj. arigatogozaimashita!! haha and i've fulfilled my cravings for nachos with hot cheeze and more mister donuts. I've finished all the food in my room and 10th of the month is coming which means i can stock up food again!! i've kinda figured out why i'm eating so much. maybe becos the weather is turning cold so i need energy from food to burn fats to keep warm. or. God wants me to think of food that makes me happy so i dun overanalyse things and get angry with bastards and bitches ard me.. :/

saw this pair of autumn dunks i like, i'm afraid it'll be too thick for sg.. hrm.. i actually forgot how the weather is like in sg haha.. i hope the haze disappear real soon, for u guys!! miss you guys there!!

Bbq at kobs's

2006-10-03T18:54:00.000+08:00

show you ard...

at the door

the very high tech kitchen. the appliances i mean..
paper thrash bag means can only throw burnable stuff on monday and thurs every week..
i'm becoming more environmental friendly.. ah hem..

the electrical stove.. damn high tech.. a press, the buttons will turn and hide inside haha

toilet.. haha.. and the toilet has electrical seat warmer installed

the recre room beside the hall

the hall
the floor has warmer installed underneath so when it turns winter, WE CAN ALL GO HIS HOUSE AGAIN!! haha

cooking time.. m trying to act he-knows again.. sigh. i hope they dun think all sgporeans are like that

eh.. caught red-handed

join me!! haha.. give me all the chao ta parts!!! yum..

oh this is the game.. future batter and pitcher

i looked like i love kids.. haha.. look only..

actually this is wad i really feel like doing to them

this is quite cute though

hurhur..

talking to kimura. about. work. quite sad he's leaving to aat again. he was only back for 2 weeks.. he's really nice to talk to i wish he's my sup instead.. capable and funny guy

kimura and family.. father and son, copy desu ka?

haha.. he introduced his wife as the 'old gf' which literally sounds right.. so we laughed. then he introduced me as his 'new gf'. *faints*

kobs and tatsu and kimura and wife

happy family(s)!!

okay.. thats all!!

Ian's bday party!

2006-10-03T18:48:00.000+08:00

went to a yaki niku place for dinner! it was good but the quantity was too lil.. boo

yea right i'm eating againnnnn

them after work and i after work and gym.. that explains..

okay realised there isnt a lot of pics..
just one bonus pic, to reward you for being such good readers/audiences :)

cheers!

Bbq at Kobs's!

2006-10-01T19:41:00.000+08:00

right, just one quick one before i go to bed.. though i can feel my tummy exploding in no time! I ATE SO MUCH FOOD!!! i guess i ate 7 days worth of food at one go!! i'm so dead i'm going to start dieting.. seriously i am... okay!

went over kobs house for bbq this morning. arrived too early, his wife was still cleaning up the place so we just sticked ard and played with his boy. his very nicely decorated house, too good to be true. it isnt very big, something like our semi-d but 2 stories.. but should be very big already for japan. it was along mid mountain so the air and view was awesome!! the way he did his house very american style, big kitchen and a garden for some small veg plantation, nice blend with a recre room with tatami mat and traditional jap windows beside the hall..

so after kimura and his family arrived we started the FEAST!! there's no better word than a FEAST! we had GREAT FOOD!! kobs prepared some american-style drumlets, which was finger-licking good. and bbq-ed mochi.. its combi of two types of jap rice, beat them into sticky-chewy-like and them bbq them!! yumyum.. i love the chao ta parts. they gave all the chaota parts to me!! HAHA!! kimura came with home-made rice wrapped beancurd skin. the sweetness was just right. those you find at supermarket and sg suck la... this was so yummy i gobbled down 4!! next, the main dish, steak!! it was medium rare done. the redness in between, so juicy and tender with the outer layer tasty and lil crispy. i thought i could die after it.. haha.. then came marcus's yong tau foo.. i suggested him to cook this cos it was really good, i must say.. had two servings and the others love it too!! ian did chicken rice. which was good too, just that rice was a lil screwed cos he forgot to add a packet of something. they LOVE the chicken though but only kobs could take the spiciness of the chilli.. the servings were huge and crazy. the japs eat really lil you see.. they were totally surprised by how much we can eat. esp me! cos i'm a girl wad. but who the hell says girls should eat lesser?? i'll burn him alive.. LOL.

thought thats all!! NONO!!! dessert time!!! kimura brought along HUGE cream puffs and cheesecakes!!! the cream puffs were like the size of big mac in sg!!! and the cream inside was so thick!! i was really full but giving up that is the wrongest thing u can ever do.. the puffs were slightly toasted as well so the outside's so crispy, i would say crunchy and the cold cold cream melts at ur tastebuds.. heavenly!!~ the cheesecake was not as good, but it was good enough for me to finish it. :/

sat around talked to those adults, as though i'm one.. oh ya, i am huh! i'm 21 already. but still went crazy with the kids after that. i was obssessed with the tv game kimura's son, masashi brought over. its damn cool! it's a baseball game. there's a sensor you put on the floor, so the pitcher in the game will throw the ball towards u and u bat the ball back, the sensor will feel ur swing.. i missed almost everyball so i thought the sensor was faulty apparently it worked really well when masashi was playing so i suck la i know. if 2 players, another person can be the pitcher, there's also a ball with sensors inside which determines how much force in throwing that ball.. cool right.

afterwich we played cards and munched on more cookies and snacks. then the kids went crazy with all the piggy backing. i swung kimura's daughter so hard she almost flew away.. haha.. i wished i was the kid for a moment.. oh well.. but that doesnt make me like kids more. and i'm so not going to have kids in future. not unless i have a good enough reason i can convince myself with.. haha

ok enough i'm tired and full. and i'm suffering from nose leaking.. should be the run in singlet and shorts at 18 deg yesterday.

okay check out the new love

new redesigned ipod nano. its gorgeous. but i wont buy it la.. dun worry mom! for the 2gig one its ard 250 here. 4gig, its selling at ard 310 here. so let me know if u want.. totally worth buying. i wont get this i'm actually thinking of ipod video 30 gig. its only ard 410 here. are you kidding?? i'm so not.. haha!!

Pringles makes me high

2006-09-29T20:22:00.000+08:00

texas bbq flavour.. the new addiction..hoho

i needed rest so badly. it was such a hectic week i almost puke into the pc screen. i finished the whole bag of coffee sweets from those noobs to stay awake or when i needed something to perk me up from those endless excel sheets.. stan was still complaining i was too slow with the dvps, but wtf. i didnt bother to explain, wads the point anyway.. so am finally done with all the work. but its not the end. cos there'll be endless of reviewing to do, they're only the first draft, u get the picture? i really hate it when i'm not able to produce the best work i could cos i have so many things on hand. i cant cross the guilt in me for not putting in enough effort. virgos are perfectionist, havent u got that? hur hur..

oh, i did a small survey for a small part of one of the assignments. to ask sg drivers about their preferences and priorites and about the coolant, engine oil and brake fluid they're using. so guess what's the result. ard 80% go for the exterior design and good fuel economy when buying car. ard 60% look into the interior comfort. so who cares about the accel, steering, handling and braking. none chose quietness. tsktsk.. and why are all the vehicle engineers emphasizing so much on the latter? its really weird... cos wad if the exterior rocks and engine and materials sucks?? :/
and from this survey, i adore my dad even more than ever. i think my dad is sen. he knows everything!!! hahahah.. its nv wrong to ask him. he could even explain to me what does the term 5w20 (name of engine oil) means. and he knows wad's inside coolant, and not just the 'green green' thing. and the sulfur in diesel causes air pollution. and the list goes on... he's just so wise, and i wanna be like that too... ;)

okay, enuff said. cos its the WEEKENDS again!!! muuuu-acks!! i'm kissing the weekends!! love love... i'll prolly sleep today and tomorrow away and have endless of chocolates and watch endless of porns to relax myself. wait, does porn makes u relax?? haha.. then sunday's american style bbq at kobs's place!!! kimura's joining us too!!! yahoooo!! yea american-style means meat, meat and more meat!!! i'm going to eat the weekend away.. yum yum..

Earthquake

2006-09-26T21:44:00.000+08:00

Guess what! there was an earthquake this morning!!! i thought i was dreaming.. haha.. my bed was shaking it kinda woke me up, but i was still half asleep. then i was like, 'wtf must be some dream again' then i continue to sleep. then it shook again. it lasted for only like 1-2 seconds each time. but there were about 5 times. i woke up and 'omg this is not a dream!' anyway it was time for work..

He's the man!

2006-09-25T23:25:00.000+08:00

catch rasull!!! i know him!! we performed on the same stage before haha.. of course he was some guest performer la.. Hoho.. i was actually from the band.. cant believe it right.. anyway. this is rasull, his speciality is oboe, the 3rd instrument he's playing in the video and he's damn good at it. cos oboe isnt easy to play well, and there's usually only 1 oboe player in the whole band. i tried learning for half to one year but still cannot play it well... oh i used to play the clarinet. the 2nd instrument he's playing. it has a very warm sound.. played for 4 years.. ahhh those days...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmI1S3Qk-9s

catch other related videos like the ruby pan's and hossan leong's.. its damn funny!! ;)

Carpe Diem

2006-09-24T12:19:00.000+08:00

A Psalm of Life

TELL me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!--
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nothing would be lost if you decide the way it is. like what i've decided to get myself as a bday present. a 'carpe diem' on the left. its latin, the direct translation is to 'seize the days'. or a phrase that says to 'eat, drink and be merry. for tomorrow we die'. its nice and lovely. i love it ;)

was telling mom and dad about my plan for the future. yes i actually do make plans once in a while. and of course, it includes them though i seem such a spoilt brat i'm going to abandon in the future... mom liked my idea and dad wants to think about it. i guess they realised i've grown up a lil, no longer the cry baby i used to be.. hoho.. i was a cry baby i admit. so wad! to be able to cry is a blessing and u have to agree with me.

got my hair done. it is good i reckon. got it at a reasonable price cos i had coupon. just trimmed a lil. might get a loud one before i go back sg. its not too nice to carry a big doodoo head to work right. talking about work, i get damn sad on sunday evenings.. cos it means work tmr!! siannnnn...

hey catch the banquet and forbidden city if u can! i wont miss it if i'm in sg!! :(

ok i wanna go read the book i bought that day.. i'm feeling so disorganized, my organiser in the office!! AHHHH!!!

Unpile me

2006-09-23T00:25:00.000+08:00

i'm suffocating under those huge chunks of work. the bosses havent been kind enough to me:( and that includes my tutor back in the good ol' sg. i'll probably kill myself on monday if i can't take it anymore... so first i'll enjoy the weekends.. :) havent you got the how-precious-are-weekends principle?

thought i could go out for a run under the warm warm sun, but the wind pierces me right into the bones, i had to uturn back for good.. boo! threadmill is a good investment for places like that, you definitely do not need one in sg la!!! though i used to have one :/

lets see.. oh i received a card bday card from phoenix!! with messages from beloved cici, ben, teddy, nic, yufen, joyce, xiaohong, xx, lili, sumz and jas laoshi. i'm cocooned with love!! aww!! of course parcel of FOOD from left, love, shit, ham and emily, and a card and dvds from flora, jny, xj and po!!! nv expect so much things from sg, my mom would prolly send some necessities and FOOD again as well.. lalala.

talking about FOOD. i dun understand what has gone wrong with my digestive system!! i'm feeling hungry ALL THE TIME! even straight after lunch or dinner, i could still munch on cereals and crackers!!! and guess what! chocolate has become my staple food now!!! how!!! i dun wanna feel fats oozing out of the pants, feeling my butt gets in the way when i squeeze through the door. i would love for my boobs to grow bigger though, they're always the last to receive nutrition, sigh.. they're just retarded.

plans plans are meant to be spoilt right.. hoho.. i'll forgo round1 today and opt for shopping!!! needa get a bday gift and a haircut today!! wish me luck for the haircut!! haha no la, iwont risk qb house. i'm this timid lil mouse who nv fails to get caught by the cat. cos i'm just too suayyy..

i'm still thinking of the 3 reports and 1 review i needa submit next week. sighhhh..

ok later. i promise. i have too much to tell..

Aftermath

2006-09-18T14:30:00.000+08:00

the typhoon last night.. check the news
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/231066/1/.html

.....

no call this morning so i had to go work. couldnt ride cos i left my bike near workplace on friday as i took ian's car back. thank god its still in good shape. walked to the train station and realised the trains are not operating!!! due to typhoon they say.. so i decided to walk to work!! hahaha.. started ard 850 and reached the office 1015! not so bad the weather was nice to walk. just a lil strong wind, but definitely not typhoon. as i walked i realised the aftermath of the typhoon. leaves all over. bicyles and even motorbikes toppled like dominos.. dustbin rolling on the floor. couldnt help to laugh non stop. a pretty interesting sight. wanted to take pics but i didnt have my camera with me.. haha.. i told u how bad it was last night.. jialats

Typhoon

2006-09-17T23:29:00.000+08:00

i could hear the wind howl and my windows shaking in the room. i looked out and saw trees swinging front and back as though the dj's spinning some rock music and the trees are swinging to it. how SCARY!!! i opened my door and try to stand out. i could not. i actually felt terrified. of wind. how weird. how we used to say the wind's so strong and we could get blown away. those were crap. you could feel the strong wind but u know it is definitely not strong to bring u anywhere. but this time i actually felt it. if i'm going to step out and let go of the handle. i dunno where will i be the next min. haha no la, but i think i'll be a few meters away. i may sound exaggerated but seriously am not. my heart's still pumping damn hard now. omg. i should go to bed. and press something against my chest. i think my bicycle is gone. cos i left it near office in the open, didnt ride it back on friday. shucks.

the 21st

2006-09-17T19:58:00.000+08:00

us at marios for dinner!
thats tatsu, m, kt, sy, ian, darren and me!

and stanley!

its always fun with this guy ard!

the very cosy restuarant!

waiting for seats at hagaan

drink in!! cut cake first!!

me and stan again! check out the cake! it was beautiful. i couldnt bear to cut it

cheers!! gan bai!

the left over cake, still quite nice right

they bought elmo for me!! haha

me and mr pretty boy! he's not too sober already..

and we sure know how to destroy his wedding plan coming march.. hurhur

the crazy night with singing. and how tortured is tatsu

and eh u know wad..

everyone was too tired. so the last photo before they go...

yea this is wad i received all the way form SG!!!

i'm eating!!!!! yummmmmmmeeeeeee

2006-09-17T19:10:00.000+08:00

here are some pics at miyajima. its a tourist attraction in hiroshima. wanted to go during autumn when leaves turn yellow but since kt's sis and bro came to visit him and they wanted to go, so we went along too. will go again maybe next month.. hee:)

this is the ke's family.. haha keteng, kexian and kecheng

of cos miyajima has its own historical value and culture. it was said that this island does not allow any birth or death. dunno how true is it. i read it from the net..

the gate behind us is famous cos it was build right in the middle of the sea. usually gates like that are found outside a shrine in japan

this is my wall paper now..

we actually went to watch a baseball match sometime mid august. when will you ever get to watch a baseball match right.. haha. check it out.

it was carp vs tiger. carp is the hiroshima team and tiger is osaka team.

the baseball field

how we look after work. damn shag face

whenever a team reaches the 7th game, all supporters will release a balloon each to celebrate.. there're total of 10 games.

toyo*ta plant tour.. visited the show room

harrier with to*yota's hybrid engines.

yes this is it.

rx*350

is*350. check the very low skirting.

the interior looks sporty yet luxurious

the back. 2 exhausts is very common over here.

The Birth Day

2006-09-17T16:50:00.000+08:00

Yes, if it makes me an adult. yesterday was it. it was not the most happening day i had the past year but definitely a day to remember, a 6mths to remember in nihon. :) slept the day away. could've gone sajio to test drive with the guys, but it doesnt make sense if i'm to go somewhere without the other interns cos they wanted to go snowboarding in the day becos of me. somehow it didnt make its way la so the day was wasted. well its okay, i believe they'll go test drive again if ian's really getting that volvo and stanley rx8. and tatsu just gotten his focus!! it was a pretty cool car i thought

met up with the 4 other interns and ian and tatsu, glad that stanley came along too. he was damn entertaining last night. and definitely too entertaining for lisi... haha she's gonna kill me for that! i'll go back to that later. so we had dinner at marios, an italian restaurant for pizzas and pasta. all time favourite cheese pizza!! yummeee!!! it was a very country-like place. sitting on the top floor having cool fresh air blowing into the restaurant. stanley actually wanted to bring me to a host bar after dinner, which was a totally crazy idea! why would i pay a guy to drink with me? it should be the other way round.. hurhur!! wanted to try out some drinking places but decided to drink in instead! which means in my room! had hagaan dazz for dessert before that!! strawberry and hazelnut ice cream... slurpslurpslurp.. am eating tooooo good!!! fatfatfat!!! haha but i'm going to forgive myself for this week.. i'll hit the gym more next week.. yes i actually found the company gym hee

so we bought malibu with pineapple juice and a dozen of beers over together with chips and salsa..malibu's white rum together with pineapple juice. a sweet drink for girls.. maybe i can buy that back at dfs. can let the girls try it. and it was PARTY TIME!! it was crazy we drank a bit and got a lil high. stan played with my laptop without me knowing, so he started talking to lisi on msn. he was like telling her i'm with 6 guys in the room drinking having fun or something like that.. which freaked her out! am so sorry, made u guys worry. ting had to call my apartment to check if i was okay. and sy was saying i have really sweet friends. awWW!!! i know i know i know...

later at night, stan played on his sgd 20k guitar for us. when we melt totally into his singing and the music. then darren played on his keyboard with us singing. it was damn fun.. cos we were all talking nonsensically and laughing hysterically. i have some videos. post it up soon:)

oh right. collected the parcel. was thinking it must be the team la.. haha so it was left, ham, love, shit and emily!!! love them to bits!!! hoho and it was all FOOD inside!! guess i've been complaining too much abt how i much i miss sg's food! the subway cookies were still edible. i finished them in a few mins!!! hahaha.. the paper has successfully soaked up all the oil in the cookies.. so the cookies became a lil hard, but still i had love in it!! ;)

the weather forecast says there's typhoon today. so my door and windows are tight. it is cold though my temp in the room's at 25. the outside's probably 18. shivers. we're all praying the typhoon will blow the office away so we dun have to go work tmr. or maybe the typhoon will last till monday and i hope to receive a call when i'm sleeping telling me work's cancelled. wad are the chances. haha

Satisfaction

2006-09-14T12:44:00.000+08:00

i actually have nothing to do at the moment. i cant believe it. haha!! finally done with my logbook!! lala.. it was great accomplishment, *thumb thumb* so proud of myself!!! its 17 pages man, i believe my bullshiting skills has reached a certain standard not many are able to achieve. i accept disciples though;)

it feels like a friday and i love fridays!! not that i have no work given to me just that i finished them all already!! shige actually gave me work yesterday at 12pm and told me the due is on friday, guess wad, i finished and handed over to him at 4pm yesterday. and i like it when he says 'good job!' and then smile to me. u know he's a really eccentric person. stanley always complains to me abt him. i have yet to really sit down with him and talk about anything or have meal or wadsoever. if we see each other outside at lunch, he will not smile to you and just walk pass like a stranger, i didnt know he's like that so i tried to smile initially, imagine how dumb i looked. totally retarded! and i wont do it again la, he'll think i'm a brown nose. ha.. i got to learn the term 'brown nose' here, its how u kiss ur boss's dirty ass and hence stain ur nose. ha!

ok work aside. missed the meeting with mya yesterday. and he didnt reply my mail. may be gone with the winddddd.. actually i dun even know if i still want that job. i'm enjoying bumming ard now. hee;) the weather has turned cold, its finally autumn!! its ard 20 degrees on avg, can get really cold when it rains. but there's sun today and i love weather like that. cool yet sunny. see if it gets too cold for a jog after work. i wanna knock off at 5 today!! havent been able to do so lately.. whee!!

ok. later..

spare me

2006-09-09T18:57:00.000+08:00

fuckyouassholegoddamnyoufuckerhowdareyoustealmybikeiwasonlyawayfor 5minsinto711andyoucocksuckeractuallyhasthefuckinggutstostealmylaopok bikeibelieveyouaretoofuckingdesperatenomatterwhatihopeyoufucktodeath andgetstrikebylightningsinceitisrainingnowohijustcantbelievesuchafucker actuallyexistinthepeacefulhiroshima andyououghttodieofafuckingtragicdeath. RARRRRRRR!!!!!!
ok, my bike got stolen. i thought its only a short while into the 7-11 so didnt bother to lock my bike and for god's sake i havent been locking my bike very much cos this goddamn city has such nice pple nobody steals. i was wrong!!! the last resort is to get a new bike, i'm still thinking of a way out..

we always do something or say something we regret, dont we? like how i wish i didnt go frisbee just now or i shouldve cooked instead of getting my dinner at 7-11. or you may then blame god, why did the rain stopped and i went frisbee or why couldnt god just be nicer to me so no one steals my bike. wads the point. i dunno. i guess we just want someone to be responsible for any fucked up incident.

and this applies to work too right? i see pple pushing blame onto other pple everyday. anyway, work has been crazy, its the last month before launch. everyone has been rushing ard like busy bees. nobody leaves the office at 5pm. and i couldnt get my mind off work even when i sleep. i guess once we get attached to something/someone, we just cant stop thinking about it right. at least for me. have been working till ard 7. and hence my late dinner. i think i'm falling sick though i've been eating well cos my sugardaddy cooks for me. haha. but i think he passed those germs to me too.. pray for my health.

i'm learning to be more selfish. cos i've been meeting pple like that and i dun wanna be different. like how many are able to play with no strings attached. outta the 5 sgporeans i meet here, 3 are like that. so what say u? i say thats a characteristic of sgporeans. for me, i want things to be simple. but pple judge me otherwise. maybe my looks has deceived them, or maybe they see the potential in me. haha i'll learn i'll learn..

so.. the big hoohaa about the death of steve irwin. i thought he'll get eaten by a croc than to be stung by a stingray. ha.. ok i rem i was asking darren at the aquarium in osaka. how would a stingray react when get provoked since it's mouth is so not meant to bite. he told me they'll sting and i was like, then shouldnt we just cut off the tail first before it really stings like how teeth of some kept sharks are being plucked out.. they should've heed my advice.. HAHA!

i'm still thinking of how to get to work on monday. i can walk to town, thats hatchobori here. like our orchard road. so thats fine. but my work place is in tuas.. i need to ride....

plant tour

2006-09-01T20:40:00.000+08:00

hello! i'm back from bantianwu, i like the food there, its cheap and yummie! slurppp.. hee u can see that i'm eating A LOT, can't u? wait for a big fat pig's return in dec!!! and this'll only get worse cos the weather is turning colder, i need food to warm myself up.. yea and i need someone to feed me cos i'm going broke at the rate i'm eating!! my sugardaddy's not back yet:( boo...

any how... thought today's to*yota plant tour's just another chance to get away from the desk to slack! didnt expect it to be a totally fucking awesome trip!!! you should know toyo*ta's actually the same company as lex*us's company right. so it meansssss.. I WENT FOR LE*XUS plant tour too!!!!! MY FAV RX and IS SERIES!!!! the whole 8 hours of travelling was definitely worthwhile.

first we went to the showroom. it was AWWWWWW GAWDDDDD!!! u just wanna stay there forever!! latest rx*350, es*350, is*350!!!! i didnt had so much urge to want to learn driving and get a car... 3.5L engine for all.. sat in.. test the steering, all the features, interior seats', console's material, flooring, doors. now i do know a lil about wad to look out for when buying a car, so please hire me as ur advisor!!! i beg u i need the money to get one of these cars.. i can analyse you the engines, chassis, exterior, interior wadever shit you wanna know... arghhhh, JUST HIRE ME! or u may need a maid to clean ur house, clear ur dog's shit!! do drop me a email plssss... bleah..

okay back to the showroom, the rx is my all time fav, but i think 350 didnt differ from 300/330 a lot. es.. i'm not a fan of es though.. and is*350, normal 5 pax sedan with fucking 3.5L!!! how mad is that!! can u imagine the output!!! the lines the design, the speedometer and steering's damn cool, i just cannot understand why is it still automatic.. the way the body's design, it should be manual so it can go damn fast!!! awww melt melt melt...

then was into the plant, really nice environment, well organized and very employee friendly. i witnessed integration of to*yota's har*rier, land klu*ger and le*xus rx*330!! damn cool!!! do you know it actually takes only ard 20 hours to finish manufacturing a car from metal sheets? its less than a day! and they can produce ard 1800 a day! arent they just earning big bucks? but the designing, choosing, following up will take years la.. haha like now other dept's actually working on 08's cars already.. so a launch only happens in a few years and i actually get to witness one, am so lucky la.. this october is the launch of the 2 vehicles we're working on.. hope everything goes well.. lalala.. thats why they've been too busy to be bothered with me.. hurhur..

ok wanna go for a jog.. bye

;D

2006-08-29T09:05:00.000+08:00

kept falling asleep on the com. so shitty esp when he needs it ASAP. in caps somemore.. all that dumbass's fault to call me from sg, 3am to ask me to wake up and pee!!! WTF!! haha... could hardly sleep after that. but not so bad, good day today. mr yummy talked to me in the morning which kinda made my day.. he said he'll bring me out someday!! whee!!! haha.. he was definitely one of the best looking ard 10 years ago.. told u my office all ojisan la, except the guy who sits beside me who smokes every half an hour. but he's damn cool, he has a set of turntables at home.. i'll check it out one day.. :)

have been a healthier person as compared to the last month. i've been jogging as often as i can. found a gym nearby but its a whopping 600 bucks plus enrolment for 3 months:( probably get a dumbell at diamond tmr.. joined chucky and piro for frisbee the last sunday.. was damn fun and they're really good at it.. met a lot other pple as well.. just one bunch of foreigners getting together every weekend, i'll be joining them more often, they'll be good company:D

oh ya pple, the electronic goods are cheaper here. if u all wanna get stuff and not in a hurry to get it, meaning u'll only get them in dec can inform me.. things like camera, video cam, ipod, psp, hard drive or anything, i can help u check first. according to them, its more advanced and cheaper, so why not yea?

to*yota plant tour this friday, another chance to slack.. hohoho.. talking to alicia online, its good practice for my english cos she doesnt understand those singlish..
ok, back to bonnet and radiator grill.. bye

space world at hakata

2006-08-27T01:20:00.000+08:00

last but not least we went to space world at hakata

these 2 roller coasters were the most frightening!! i must be mad to take that... u think the first was more scary? actually the 2nd one's more scary.. i couldnt even scream.. i tried to scream but the voice couldnt come out.. it's really high high uppp.. took so long to get up there... and it was so fast, i could feel my face twisted.. haha.. ok i think i was really mad..

a video of the first one.. its called the zaturn..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqpkN3bZYF0

Nara and back to Osaka

2006-08-27T00:57:00.000+08:00

nara was only half a day.. it was really nothing..

deers were all around

and ard u if u have food

the temple with the bigbig buddha

here it is

it is said that if u can squeeze through this tiny hole, u'll get enlightenment

had a hard time but yea i'm enlightened!!!!

it was a lot of walking on paths like that.. haha pose!!

back to osaka.. shopped a bit.. passed by this cosplay shop
i picked the easiest to wear.. haha

no pics allowed so we had to take in the dressing room

went up to the floating garden observatory
sunset, not fantastic cos there were thick clouds.. boo

caught this couple up there.. the guy was proposing!!!!
so romantic!!!

pop the qn!

so gan dong!!! fetch me a tissue... haha
went up to them and congratulated them!! so kpo right us..

bored waiting for the rain to stop

kobe

2006-08-26T23:38:00.000+08:00

we visited the rokko island, the longest suspension bridge and the harbour port in kobe..

we had to take a huge cable car up the rokko mt.. up to abt 700m from the ground.. its a lil cooler up there. we visited the pasture

sheeps were all over

kiss ur ass

up on the hill

next was a playland on the same rokko mt..

totally sian diao.. the bumper car..

played with artificial snow...

and go cart..
wanted to include a video in of the gocart in here but youtube isnt too friendly to me. so i'll do it when i can alright.. the gocart's actually a offroad gocart. so it was on sand on really bumpy road.. it was fun:D

next was the suspension bridge

can u see i'm terrified! if i fall back you'll nv see me again..

the wind is so strong.. i'm almost blown away.. haha

chinatown

the port tower and dunno wad... damn nice architect..

sit by the river and enjoy the breeze

kyoto..

2006-08-26T23:05:00.000+08:00

visited 2 very famous shrines and gion street in kyoto

the first one we went to

they say the place looks like the village naruto lives in.. so we decided to run like naruto.. haha

2nd shrine

overwhelming

this shrine's actually famous for praying for your love life
so this is it..

wash ur hands with that

beautiful scenery

and this love stone! there're 2 of it, 9m apart. so u have to touch one close your eyes and try to walk to another one safely. if u meet any obstacles which u're very likely to, it means u'll meet obstacles in ur love life too. cos there're actually a lot of pple walking ard there. and if u cannot walk straight or overshoot, u'll probably not hit the stone which means u'll likely not meet ur future husband/wife. yup.. aiya its up to you to believe la..

of course i did, bumped into a few pple on the way but managed to hit the other stone.. haha. darren was damn good, he waited till there were less pple then he walked so fast he hit the other stone without bumping into anyone.. haha
m missed the stone and almost fell down the stairs..:/

hey got potential or not!! haha

gion street aka geisha street

this is the most popular brothel, wrong, geisha house on gion street.. they're all inside.. i wanna go in too:(

one step further but really cant go beyond here. we've checked out the price. its usually a package, a meal with them performing to you is ard 200 bucks each! omg!

and so we waited.... u know although its the geisha street.. they dont walk ard on the street.. rarrr

the place the practice, just in case u cannot read chinese

and their classes

so finally... we saw this lady walking across the road in really nice kimono, with a guy looking filthy rich walking behind her, prob her client. then we ran after her followed her to the house in the first pic. so she must be a geisha from there. everyone was trying to peep in and take photos. so i guess the 'mamasan' got irritated and asked her to come out for us to take pictures.. cool right.. we were damn lucky..

then finally i asked her if i could take a pic wit her.. and here you are..

afterwhich everyone wanted to take pic with her.. phew..

I WANT BEN AND JERRYS!!!!! RARRRRR

2006-08-26T00:04:00.001+08:00

i'm so lazy.. shucks.. i wanna zzz.. continue the pics tmr.. tired. have been sleeping too late.. RARRR..

nobody eat black sesame, soya ice cream one la!!!

I WANT BEN AND JERRYSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

RARRR

Universal Studio Japan

2006-08-25T23:42:00.000+08:00

welcome

and how to miss out this globe!!!

i love mr brown!!

spiderman has to be the best ride!!! sorry man didnt take pic of the ride i was enjoying myself.. haha..

check out the queue.. its like that x3 or 4 okay.. we queued 1.5 hrs for spiderman and 2 hrs for terminator.. ohh faints!

some of the nice cool things u see inside

institute of future technology.. haha

caught ernie and the orange thing, i-dunno-the-name on the street..

they were dancing on the street..

i love shrek.. a beauty-and-the-beast film but it ended that the beauty became a beast too instead the other way round..

in the store

oh i love this visor but dont think i can wear it anywhere else:(

other places..

peter pan show..

enter the land of oz with me;D

meet them

walk me down the yellow brick road

and meet scarecrow with a big big kiss!!

they insist i'm the wicked witch in there:(

at night

and one last one before i go

some of the rides were good. spiderman was the best, we didnt get the express pass which would cost another 70 bucks, so we had to queue, plenty advices if u're going there.. like which ride not to take cos its total waste of time, which restaurants not to visit and stuff.. the queueing time is crazy so u'll need the whole day. we reached there 830am and left at 9pm.. totally exhausted.. but its definitely worth it.. hee:)

osaka!

2006-08-25T22:15:00.001+08:00

right! osaka first. 3 days. but i'll seperate the usj in another entry:)
welcome to osaka!:)

first day nothing much. reached and hanged ard. went shopping.
check out issey miyake's autumn wear 06!!!!! if only i can afford:(

took the first ferris wheel in the trip.. red one, its nice called the hep5. able to see the osaka city

caught a band on the bridge.. they sing so well they have fans!! haha they're really good..

had ICE CREAM!! catch ur saliva! haha

next day we headed to the famous aquarium, its like our underwater world.

do you know who clown fish reminds me of? left u guess.. haha

i love manta rays!!! its so cool..

all time fav!:)

catch this dead at kushinbo hahahaha

took the 2nd ferris wheel of the trip.. one of the world largest.. or it claims to be

views from the ferris wheel

they were breathtaking.. uhhhhhhhhh

as we walked along near the port

live band again. sit ard, listen to good music, enjoy the breeze, read a book.. ahhhhhh

finally reached a shopping mall

figure out wad they're signing.. COCK

had buffet.. check out the food..

check out the food on the table

fried corner

sushi corner

salad bar

dessert bar

diy ice kacang

my fav!!

us and if possible check out the view outside.. its awesome! haha

and some pics of the place we stayed in

2006-08-25T22:00:00.000+08:00

my room

brush your teeth

do ur business

and shower inside.. no pics allowed.. haha

interesting pics of the Japan Railway

2006-08-25T20:17:00.000+08:00

since we took a lot of jr for the trip.. show u something we see everyday.. haha

basically i means fan no air con..

it actually says.. if u're being molested, TAKE OUT YOUR COURAGE AND SHOUT IT OUT! i thought its quite dumb la

toil away

2006-08-22T12:24:00.000+08:00

have been piled up with shitload of work. sorry for not updating man.. actually i wouldnt be that busy if i didnt ask for them.. its like i try to finish a one week work in 2 days, and then ask for more.. it is to keep myself busy la so i have less time for myself, love the lil breaks in between when pple start msn-ing me while i'm close to pulling my hair when i cant get things done.. oh ya, mya replied my mail, interview next next week cos the american boss's not ard, well see how it goes.

i'm officially broke, after the osaka trip.. we've been eating so well i put on so much weight even my bra's tight.. haha.. eeewww all the fats... yuck! osaka pics will come sometime later when i'm done with my work.. the trip was quite good.. except the place we stayed in was terrible.. its a budget place la.. ard 25 sg per night.. so there shouldnt be anything i can complain.. this tiny room with practically nothing except mattress and 2 hangers. tatami mat stinks like shit when it gets damn humid. all my clothes and bag smell of that.. it was a common toilet, shared by both sexes. so when i was brushing my teeth i had this guy peeing beside me.. wtf! haha common bathroom also but they have different time slots to shower. and there's curfew, so we cant return too late.. haha i just love suncourt... i believe i'll miss suncourt when i get back to hall life again.. oh suncourt is the place i'm staying now in hiroshima..

best thing in osaka wad other than usj. tell u more abt it with the pics later on.. i spent a lot there.. getting souvenirs and stuff, its like god knows when u're going back again.. kyoto was damn good.. the shrines are very interesting and nice.. all the pics we took have such nice scenery they can be made into postcards. then we caught one geisha along gion street. i'm simply in love with geishas.. they're so gorgeous!!!! next day was at kobe which is by the sea so the wind was so strong i could feel i was about to be blown away.. haha.. nice structures and architect in kobe.. pics will tell them all.. nara was nothing much, visited the biggest buddha in japan, drew a lot.. LOL.. sat at space world was a lil disappointing.. there was slight typhoon in the morning so most roller coasters didnt operate, we were damn sian loh.. zaturn, the roller coaster that was comes down 89 degrees to the ground and titan that was so high i couldnt feel my heart anymore.. luckily manage to catch them in the afternoon when the weather got better.. the whole trip was damn tiring.. we had to walk a lot under the sun and at 36 degrees.. my feet now has tan of my birks instead of the slipper tan i had for 2 years while dbting.. we only had ard 5 hrs of sleep everyday.. it was madness.. company, was okay.. think the sun did fan up some hot-temper including myself, i shouted at darren once i felt so bad. m got snapped at more than thousand times at during the trip. we actually try to be nice cos i came up with this pt system whoever snap at him the most would have to treat drinks.. i was close to becoming the winner.. haha.. met some pple who travelled alone along the way.. this indian guy and a few ang mohs..

yea ok needa go back to work..

2006-08-11T21:13:00.000+08:00

how long have you not taken neoprints? hahaha.. we took cos alicia wanted to and there's no neoprint machine in us.

goto san took me at the garage when we went to check out the prototype cars.. haha..

some pics before the osaka's pics come

2006-08-11T20:22:00.000+08:00

farewell for alicia at this yaki niku place..

tatsu's hse.. ladder up to his bed.. its a one room thing so it looks kinda small. and thats alicia..

bbq!!! at tatsu's hse.. looks damn delicious right

celebrated darren's bday at newyorks

okonomiyaki!! hurry hurry i'm waiting

yummeee

i love the thing i'm wearing though i have no idea who wears that.. haha

the armour knights wear for war

we played fireworks. celebrated kt's bday

i just love the fireworks here

some race pics

some people i miss terribly.. haha

grocery day

2006-08-10T20:07:00.000+08:00

hello.its thurs again. did i tell u thurs is a grocery day? cos supermarket has frozen food at half price and 20-30 percent off on other stuff. so its always damn crowded esp just after work. and becos of that i had a sumptous dinner tonight:)*satisfied* yummee

went shopping to do someone a favour also to send in my cv to the bar. i think mya doesnt really like me so he may not give me the job. are you thinking mya's a lady? then u're my friend. cos i was thinking that too, and being the very tactless ian, he actually said, 'oh, u're mya? i thought mya's a lady.'' and he gave him the wtf look.. ya i'll give that look too if i'm him.. yaaaaaa WTF!

ok back to shopping, was suppose to help ian get his sis a bag cos he couldnt knock off before the stores close. but went shopping on for own instead!! hoho.. and i saw this fucking cool shades. its 25500 yen.. i'm thinking.. ya divide by 70 if u need the conversion. and the 2 hats and 1 cap i saw that day:/ i always think if i leave the store and i still think of it more than 3 times i'll go back and get it. but it seems that i have to increase from 3 times to 300 times :( wadever it is i'm still excited to find the top few levels of parco a heavenly shopping place.. they have hot stuff there.. u know its actually the summer sales now though summer isnt quite ending yet and they didnt really help bring the price down, but its still the sale everyone looks forward to.. haha autumn clothes are coming out, trenchcoats and boots.. awwwww!!!!
autumn is probably just one month, october.

stanley has gone back msia. tatsu has left for tokyo, back home. ian's going aat to work then back to sg for hols tmr morning. the whole world is in aat the office is so empty. others like shige is on leave for this whole week. so sian.. sanpat's going back thailand too.. haha we're going osaka, so thats fair. i'm so gonna leave after lunch if i have nothing to do tmr...

ciao

HATS-week!!!

2006-08-08T20:34:00.000+08:00

i've decided slacking is so not cool. so besides working for Mr Henry Fo*rd junior in the day, i'll try out part-timing at this irish bar near my place. its a way to prevent myself from becoming a begger on the street and a lonesome pervert in the room. HAHA. the pay is good la. heh.. thank god you are not able to see what a scrimper i am over here. that day we were shopping at marina hop, i saw this really nice hat, i almost couldnt resist the temptation.. the same night, i talked to my mom at night on msn and told her about the hat. she told me to buy it if i really like it then i told her i feel like applying for instep again and she said no immediately. no to the hat i mean, cos she knows i'm telling her abt instep and not asking her abt it.. yea anyway who's interested in applying instep msn me right, can apply together:) esp ll and jo, think about it, it'll be fun:D

have been window shopping these 2 days after work, since there's nothing to do in the room.. eh not exactly, i worked ot on monday cos kobs wanted the job done. yea i call m's boss kobayashi kobs and it sounds like corpse, cos he's the weirdo boss who chose weirdo pple to work for him.. haha.. oh anyway did i tell you that actually m applied for my place but they chose me? haha am so lucky right, i think they must be regreting now.. HAha

i saw another hat today and i liked it a lot:(

ya as i was saying, i'm going osaka this fri/sat. depends on the train schedule. with the rest of the 4 of us. am not having a fantastic time with them 4 la, i enjoy talking to tatsu and ian more.. so ya i wonder if i'll enjoy the trip.. we're going osaka's universal studio of cos, the castle malls and malls. kyoto, shrines and shrines and this geisha street at night. yea i'm finally seeing geishas, its like the most exciting thing abt this trip. kobe, one of the biggest ferris wheel in the world. nara, biggest buddha in the world and finally fukuoka, world scariest roller coaster, heard amazing race went before.. HAHA! yea i dunno the details, they're doing the planning. and thats why i'm fretful. cos m has been screwing things up, kt always losing his way, sy's super tu.. only darren's clear of what he's doing. ya wadever. i'll get excited when time comes la..

bah.

2006-08-05T20:39:00.000+08:00

i saw wang xiao jie cleaning up alicia's room when i went out this morning. i looked into the room.. ahh, she's gone! and i thought, someone who could be quite dear to you in the past one month, who u've never mean to treasure till she's gone. then i think again, oh well, people come and go in life and i walked away. if one day i ever visit virgina.. yes i agree absence makes the heart grow fonder, but thats only the initial part i feel, there'll be this stage you pass after that when you realise you do not need that someone in your life, you'll be pretty fine without her/him, and then u realise 'she/he is just a passerby'. You've successfully reached that stage, congratulations!

2006-08-05T00:50:00.000+08:00

Ian told me wad maeda san told him abt me, said i looked really sian at work cos kimura isnt ard. ya, come to think of it i think he caught me surfing net most of the time.. haha then he asked me what do i plan to achieve after these 5 months. i was dumbfounded.. i realised i havent thought of it. it was just a getaway for me i thought i realised how dumb and childish i was.. ok i'll think about it.. He said something i'll keep in mind.. Dont let things happen on you. Go and make things happen.. How cool is that!

2006-08-05T00:31:00.000+08:00

I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete

Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches of it looking at me?
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?

Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

And if you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?

Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

And if you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
So why don't we go

This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?

2006-08-02T22:23:00.000+08:00

i'm beginning to like this city more and more... i like the people i like the accessibility i'm beginning to like my work, my colleagues are talking to me more, they even ask me out this friday though i'm still thinking if i should go cos they're going drinking and i dun really drink:( i like the clean city, the so blue sky, the food, basically there's nothing that i dont really not like, cept the expensiveness, but i think at least its proportional to the quality, so its okay..

alicia is going back virginia on friday, i'll miss her.. i think i'm damn lucky to meet all the nice people here. ian, tatsu, alicia, stanley, and other colleagues like sakata and kishimoto, kimura also.. i had my first conversation practice with sakata and kishimoto last night.. haha, i was so exhausted after it, too much for my brain to absorb..

ok cool. left has gone mambo.. i also wanna go:( we wanted to go to this club last sun, its called the chinatown which claims to be the largest and most happening ard town. it turned out to be really sleazy and small.. its nothing as compared to our zouk, let alone mos.. nvm i'm just gonna be a super good girl and not club for these5 months:/ haha i realised i'm gg to osaka next weekend, excited but afraid things screw up la.. tell u more abt it..

ok i'm gg to sleep with my bedtime book..
goodnite..

dun let wad i predicted come true.. if u know u're going to be sick of the whole thing soon, tell me

third weekend

2006-07-30T00:41:00.000+08:00

just came back from dinner at tatsuaki's hse. yea we kinda self-invited ourselves over to have jap style bbq.. haha, it could be called teppanyaki i think.. the food was awesome! we had beef, pork, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, eggplants, peppers, sliced turkey and so on. the jap way of doing it is to cook fry them without marinating it at all. and with no oil cos the meat itself has fats that becomes oil. so basically just place the meat on top when the plate is hot then sprinkle some pepper and salt on top and you're done! if u prefer sauce u can just pour it over the meat. its so easy right. love the way ian taught us to eat eggplant, i dont usually eat eggplant and in future i'll only eat it this way. it is to fry it first then add the sauce and when its soft add cheese on top then wait for the cheese to melt! bring it into your mouth and u'll melt too.. haha! yup then we had ice cream puff. cool stuff in his lil apartment. he studied interior design and architect so just imagine his hse. i took pics of it though.. show u next time

i skipped my jap class again:( i couldnt wake up this morning... haha

btw, we went to eat last night too! haha.. with sakata san and kishimoto san.. the two lao rens with kt and m. we went this restaurant in this hotel for some authentic jap food. and the first time i had sashimi in japan! it was sooo fresh. nothing in singapore can be compared to wad we had. i had yellowtail, which was so thick and sweet. it sucked when i had in singapore, there's a fishy smell.. besides that we had fresh salmon tuna octopus shrimp and even horse meat. omg.. haha freaking good stuff! then the usual yaki udon, cha fan, curry and those karage and katsu and whatever u can think of.. after which we went ktv!! yeah u heard me right. there're actually chinese songs. the only different thing is that we were given tamborines, clappers and those shakers. so you can have fun with them while singing! cool jap technology applied at the choosing of songs. there's this lil screen on table where u can choose your songs while the others choose from the big screen under the video screen. so cool! and even jap uncles can sing so well! of course, nv to forget sake and choya to go along! :)

ok i'm tired. goign diamond city again tmr to shop. then alicia says wanna hang out tmr night. see how it goes. bye world

2006-07-29T11:53:00.000+08:00

i'm feeling lost again. guide me.. i know you can..

2006-07-25T21:33:00.000+08:00

nic, this is for you! haha

hiroshima castle

make a wish.. saw this on tv before?

caught this on the way to niyoshi, the place where we do the test drive, some rural place, but its real nice

i thought i saw this on tv before too! two storey bridge? haha for cars

fireworks that night

and caught this couple there. who look really nice in kimono and yukata..

biggest firework fan

2006-07-22T23:37:00.000+08:00

i wasn't a fan of fireworks but after today, I AM!!! woohoo!!! lalalalala.. they're so BIG and close to you.. BIG is not the right word. THEY WERE HUGEEEEEE, ENORMOUS, GIGANTIC!!! i took videos of it. will post up soon okay.

anyway today the test drive was fun.. it felt more like a roller coaster ride to me:/ i felt like vomitting after all the rides. and you know wad, the dumbest thing is not to have a vehicle license when you work in a vehicle company. i could have to chance to drive those prototype cars, if i keep pestering them la. but... i don't! hahaha
morning was speed test. the track has 4 lanes. lane 1 is the normal lane, then lane 2 is slightly tilt, lane 3 even more, and lane 4 is almost perpendicular to lane 1 already.. you know, it curls up.. haha.. lane 4's for really high speed, but you could drive there at ard 150kph already. yup and so we did at most 180kph only. and changing lanes, drifting and wadnot. i could hear my bfast screaming for way out from the mouth.. then was lunch, thank god i only had sandwich, if not sure puke by the end of the day, that'll be so paiseh.. afternoon was only diffent surfaces of roads. bumps, coarse surface, gravel surface, bends so on. the bends were the most horrible, going thru sharp bends at 100kph is no joke. i got flung ard in my seat, for once i felt the importance of a safety belt.. haha but m.bill was saying this is nothing, should try the msia off-course test. it's going from big rocks to rocks. thru the river of water level at waist and so on.. more for jeeps, SUVs la. haha but it was a superb experience though the waiting time was like nv ending. cos have to let all the big bosses go first. they were doing serious business, testing the suspension, steering, handling, wheels, noise, engine so on. i know nuts. all i wanted was to have fun.. haha

anyway i really dunno how much i'll be mark for spilling out confidentials like that. i hope i didnt tell too much i shouldnt.

ok so tired. the bed is so tempting. bye

the FIREWORKS festival

2006-07-21T21:40:00.000+08:00

first and foremost! HAPPY belatedBIRTHDAY JOANNE!!!! :):) may all your wishes and dreams come true!! can't celebrate with you on the most impt 21st:( you take care okay:) stay happy always:D

this whole week has been a crazy week. had 2 reports to submit and yea finally done with them, though one was thrown back to me today and i have to redo:/ but i cant be bothered man.. cos kimura says wad they asked me to do was crap. so he talked to the big boss and they reassigned me tasks:) but still i think i better redo it, its only right right.. anyway kimura's really nice. too bad he's not my direct sup cos he constantly needs to fly to and back thailand, so he cant take care of me.. see, he's so capable right, they need him everywhere. he also brought the last batch of interns to strawberry farms and invited them to his house... where to find such a nice and capable sup? i wish ahhhh

tomorrow is the DAY of FIREWORKS!! if u watch jap dramas, they'll have this festival whereby everyone will dress in kimonos and then invite your love ones to go watch fireworks with you. its like a 2nd vday.. yup, tmr is the day for hiroshima! its going to be damn crowded but it's a must go event right! go there and boo all the couples! haha.. the fireworks going to be 1 hr long and about 8000 of them!!! cool right! they say they have 13000 in osaka! cool shite man!

so am going to rush from work back to suncourt and then rush to that place to chop a nice place. oh btw, the monday that just passed was a public hol so we had to make up tmr:( where got like that one???? wth!!! but luckily am going for evaluation test drive tmr.. cool right! there's going to be speed test that i missed at aat. i'm not sitting at the back this time, i'll be at the front seat! i predict it'll go at really high speed. hoho.. am so lucky i know.. but i cant share with u all cos i cant take pics in there. :/

actually there're a lot of amazing stuff i experience at work but i cant take them down for you to see:( so i can only try to describe to you with my very limited vocab..:(

anyway the obon trip's more or less planned.. mid of august we'll have a one week hol, the obon festival. so we're going to osaka and kyoto and nara and wherever. yup..

ok. catcha okay

more more picssss

2006-07-17T19:48:00.000+08:00

thats hiroshima castle that we barged in at night.. haha

check out mos burger!!! they have onion rings..

hahahaha

this fucking rock melon costs 3980 yen, divide by 70, diy

my new friend at jap class!! her name is dung... hahahahahahah but its pronounce as zung..:/

the first shrine we went to. their shrines are really beautiful

check out my pretty legs!! haha.. this was in round1

some of the games in round1. the ball will fly up so u'll try to hit it to the 1-9 boards in front..

another game, this one, the machine will shoot balls out, u're suppose to catch it the baseball way then throw it back and hit the 1-9 boards..

me and darren completed this!! haha

and this!!

Mr Pretty boy, Tatsuaki and sister.. they're so pretty, arent they.. omg

these are the pple i always hang out with.. ian, marcus, kt, kim, alicia, tatsu's sis, me, shiyun, darren and tatsu

me and ms pretty!

updAting

2006-07-17T00:11:00.000+08:00

ok i think u guys will have problem loading the page cos thats quite a lot of pics.. anyway.. thats only part of them i've more to show.. so.. wait for these pics to be pushed down so i can load more ok:)

nothing much, its a long weekend cos monday's a holiday! hoho.. yesterday was jap class in the morning.. anyway kt, sy and darren went to their level 1 while me and marcus were at the beginners class.. so i went to make friend with this vietnam girl who stayed her whole life in germany, she's gorgeous.. haha show u pic again. lesson was ok.. got homework somemore.. haha..

then we had buffet lunch and arcade at round1. round 1's a 10 storey arcade place. which is damn cool... haha and by paying 1000 yen ard 14 sg. u can play from 7 to 9 floor unlimited for 3 hours. ya so we went and we completed the 7th and half or 8th storey. omg.. so funnnnn.. we're going again next weekend! lala. ya i completed time crisis and vampire something.. damn cool.. cos everytime u die just press continue.. haha

night was dinner with tatsu, his sis, ian, alicia, kim and the 5 of us.. was fun and we took lots of pictures.. then was just hanging out at alicia's room talking..

today woke up late so we hanged ard hindori cos it was raining and then to hiroshima castle, and this shrine in there.. its really beautiful... took tonnes of pics. show u again.. ok
needa go. bye

more pics

2006-07-16T23:59:00.000+08:00

thats the shinkensen aka bullet train that we all know.. so cool right.. how streamline it is

another type of shinkensen

random pic of hiroshima

random boy on the street. they're so cute! haha

food that we eat here. thats hamburger steak.. on plate with only chopsticks:(

hondori street! pretty right.. its like orchard road

taken on the first day of work. it is to remind me that i have something to tell u! okay, here goes. how much is a set of passport size pics of 4 in sg? 6 or 8 bucks! its 20 bucks for 2 pieces here! omg! faints...

another something we eat everyday.. its mixed rice with raw egg and croquette

i thought the guy is going to suffocate anytime.. haha

yes, this is where i work

the 5 of us at Gutsu

found a nice place when we cycled on our bikes

pic time!!

2006-07-16T23:46:00.000+08:00

some sweet pple who came to send me off

when we arrived at thailand

kt, its thailand, must understand!

check out our luggages.. 100 over kg in all

where we visited the plant..

were all tired and bored, waiting for plane to fukuoka

finally!!! we're in japan!

their exit sign is on the floor.. haha

2006-07-15T01:34:00.000+08:00

to you
ok wtf, i got cut off like that.:( anyway may not have internet connection over the weekends. we wont know if that dumbass will on his internet or not. alicia says usually not. ya talked to her a while ago only.. so i got to know only a while ago okay.. ok i'm going to sleep already! goodnite! anyway i mean what i say la, when i say i wont, i wont. okay.

update

2006-07-14T14:20:00.000+08:00

other than the assignment i was given, work's quite slack.. most of the time was just attending meetings and reading reports. and the wonderful thing is they don't expect you to understand their meetings, just try to catch as much as you can, if not its fine.. haha. but they have meetings like how often u go to the toilet in office.. i attended meetings at 930-945, then 1010-1030, then 1030-1130. cool right. then 1150's lunch till ard 1. and we can go off from 5 onwards, but no one leaves here la, except us interns. oh well, ian said if u intend to get a job here in future, u'll prob want to leave after your boss leaves, if not just leave punctually at 5. heck care la!

anyway i've been wearing shirt and pants and nike sneakers to work. i think i rock la! total fashion disaster, but its so comfortable i don't care. alicia wears slippers to work loh, damnit. haha.. anyway there's really no one to impress over here. (plus my options are closed) unless u're in love with pretty boys like tatsu san. haha. show u his pic one of these days when i'm free to upload pics. he looks like those comic characters with really sharp features.. haha.

oh we finally bought our bicycles yesterday so we cycled to work today, which turned out to be a horror for me! haha i fell from the bike! gotto brush up riding skills man.. oh btw, if u're thinking we're wearing shirt pants and its kinda weird to cycle, all pple here do that, some even with coat. haha and those bicycle with basket at the front.. it rocks right! like auntie in sg but totally fine over here, its practical la..

its really convenient to ride over here cos our apartment's ard 15 mins walk from town so yup might as well.. and we'll have more eating places to go for meals, though i think i'll be magie-mee-ing these few days cos i overspent quite a bit.. u wont want to know how much, its a lot for a week.. besides that, we get to explore more places, all u need is a map in hand.. haha and.... can exercise a bit la, if not i'll nua like shite.. hey no, i sprinted 4-bus-stops-dist yesterday just to catch the bicycle shop before 7pm, take cab very ex here laaaa.. FAINTS! the shops here close at 7 or 8 pm.. damn early! to consider that they dun even knock off at 5pm? they have no life man.. and there isnt any clubs or any place to drink okay, even starbucks closes at 8pm. SO BORING! i just msn my night away most of the time.. haha..

oh but we're potlucking tonight! i'm going to cook meat in egg. haha.. just a simple one la.. after that, meeting ian and tatsu san and his sister.. since tatsu san is such a pretty boy, i'll want to see how pretty is his sis! lalala.. i have jap lesson tmr morning and then arcade!!! yahoo, and then u're back!

2006-07-12T23:12:00.000+08:00

the toilet bulb fuse on me, i showered in the dark. the internet person didnt let me apply internet cos i have no cell phone, my sup didnt let me off till 6 and i couldnt catch the bicycle shop cos it closes at 7. the supermarket was on 30% off but i was in no mood to buy anything.. you werent ard to hear me out, i'm feeling lost..

baby不要再哭泣
这一幕多么熟悉
紧握着你的手彼此都舍不得分离
每一次想开口但不如保持安静
给我一分钟专心
好好欣赏你的美
幸福搭配悲伤
痛是在我心交叉
挫折的眼泪不能测试爱的重量
付出的爱收不回
还欠你的我不能给
别把我心也带走去跟随

每一次和你分开
深深的被你打败
每一次放弃你的温柔
痛苦难以释怀

每一次和你分开
每一次kiss you goodbye
爱情的滋味此刻我终于最明白

但欠你的我不能给
我才明白爱最真实的滋味
我终于明白

coffee-time

2006-07-12T07:49:00.000+08:00

ohaiyo!
its 845 now, am in office, not everyone's here yet. the time to report and leave is quite flexible over here. anyway i have a meeting at 9 later.. haha, i'll probably not understand what the hell cos it'll be in jap, unless kumiro sit beside me and explain word by word. work's quite stress, yesterday was the second day and i was thrown a problem to solve, my deadline is next wed. goodness. they just told me there's this problem with the car that was just launch and its not selling, told me to think of a way to solve that problem, give a soln by next wed. cool right! i'm so afraid to come work now.. i'm having quite a hard time at work. omg..

nobody is responsible for anything, nobody has to.. anyway i believe am going to have fun over here.. they were thinking of going to snowboard someday at the mountain tops.. that's gg to cost a bomb.. but its a must go right..

to you. its okay la. take ur time. u have 5 months to decide. just tell me early if its a no.

okay, feeling so sleepy, take ur coffee okay!

first day of work

2006-07-10T22:30:00.000+08:00

'ello you guys there!! how've u guys been man? had a fuckin' long day at work?

haha.. just came back from dinner with the other 4 of us and alicia, ian and tatsu-san. alicia is an intern from america who's my neighbour, stays just right next door! ian's an ex-ntu intern, he's working full time here now. ahh how boring, i wouldnt want to work here for long.. :/ and tatsu's another colleague, who's very close to ian, so we thought he should just come along.. yea, its kinda a get together for the young people since the pple working there has an average of age 46, haha thats what tatsu said.. anyway, he's a real small size pretty boy, who just came from tokyo, so he's new to hiroshima too.. he's really funny, couldnt spare us from laughter the whole time at dinner.. he speaks really well english, as compared to the rest, so his trick is whenever he does something that a jap norm wont do, he'll just say sorry in english, it solves everything! ian does that as well.. you know you'll just forgive foreigners for being silly.. haha.. yup they brought us out for dinner at Gutsu, the food's good, this is like the first good meal we had la, and they're not too ex.. the cheese pizza's damn good! courtesy of ian.. haha

anyway guess what ian drives? he's driving a mx-5! omg can! cool black 2 seater convertible, quite awesome! you'll get stuck to the seat when he drives. he was speeding man cos there isnt really traffic police around in hiroshima, pple obey rules, ya he's exceptional. tatsu had a hard time catching him. anyway, they taught us where to get cheap and good stuff and food. ian was advicing we should cook and cycle to work everyday so we save up and spend them over the weekends.. haha we may be going to this 3 storeys tall arcade center to play for full 3 hours unlimited for only 1000 yen (abt 14 bucks sg) with the 3 of them.. hoho.. cool shite!

anyway first day at work was crap! we went to the nissei midori building thinking thats our work place but the fact is we only report there for our 1st day of work. then we went to do our alien pass and bank account. walked all the way, my feet were rotting already.. we walk alot here cos transport's really expensive. its about 2 bucks to take bus anywhere, even if its just one stop. sg's 60 cents can or not! yup then we realised me keteng and marcus were supposed to go to the maz*da's building which isnt in town where nissei is. our actual work place is so far, we have to take streetcar aka bus-in-sg then jr aka mrt-in-sg then walk. mind you, my feet were rotting already! omg! and there place has no escalator okay, everywhere's stairs!!! then we got lost at jr cos they're really confusing, it was only 4 stops but we took more than an hour.. haha.. we reached maz*da building and enter through their show room.. it was fucking cool! but we cant take pics in there, its prohibited.. that time at the plant in thailand also.. if not i can show u guys :(

okay we then report to hr and all we did was to learn to log into the intranet, we were given usernames and passwords like in nt*u, so we learnt it in like 2 secs? we didnt even get to see our sups cos they were all at meetings.. and we have to wait till 7 for their meetings to end? so the hr person said we could go.. yup, thats was all i did for my first day.. haha.. then we took jr back again but we walked back from jr station back to tokaichi, yea i walked bare-footed, i couldnt take it anymore. cos if we take streetcar i couldnt go barefoot, so the guys walked with me.. haha.. poor feet, they're red and swollen now, i'm going to wear shoes to work tmr, bo chappppppp la... haha

ok, i've got meeting tmr at 830! cool shite right.. tatsu is coming to pick us then send us to the ymca building for the meeting! yea. dun have to wake up so early:))

oh, got my add.. follow this if u wanna send anything over:)

5-12, Tokaichimachi, Naka-ku,
room no. 305
Hiroshima city
Hiroshima
zip code: 730-0806

u can call me if u want to, call at night or weekends. my time here is 1 hr ahead sg.
81(country code)-82-293-7338 then u'll hear someone talking and press 305
but dont have to call la, waste money, can talk on msn:)

ok tired from all the walking.. gotto sleep since nobody is online. nite!:)

I"M IN JAPAN!!!

2006-07-08T20:40:00.000+08:00

BIG BIG HELLO FROM HIROSHIMA!!!!!!!! i'm still living and kicking!!! yeah! am tapping on someone's wireless in the place we're staying, so its very unstable. wait till we get our alien id on monday then we're able to apply internet, so for now.... yup, anyway i cant use my phone cos japan uses cdma and not gsm so cannot find any network using the phones we're using:(

kissed goodbye to sg on friday morning, afterwhich was a crazy schedule. flight was delayed so we had to rush. left our baggages at the airport but were still carrying one tonne of valuables wherever we go, and i was so afraid i'll be rob, was carrying ard 5k sg dollars ard.. visited the aat plant in thailand, somewhere further than bangkok. but the long journey was definitely worthwhile. i saw one pool of for*d's and maz*da's cars and pickups everywhere. we actually see how cars came about from metal pieces, which was TOTALLY AMAZING!!! and then we went through some qc tests with the engineer there.. haha it was fun man.. like sitting in the car then we had to drive up sharp humps, small humps, big humps, tall humps, and up a very steep slope, almost 60 degrees and then down, braking in between to see if the brakes working well, and this track for them to try turns, u'll hear what u hear in initial d.. exhaust check and stuff.. they were cool stuff, totally awesome, its like one in a lifetime experience? omg..

then we took a lot of pics at thai airport while waiting for our flight to fukuoka.. after that was just zzz all the way.. slept a lot in fact but cant seem to get rid that tireness. reached fukuoka airport this morning in a daze, met another engineer we were introduced to at aat who happened to be on the same plane as us, so he helped us get cabs and bought tics for us for the bullet train, japanese are real nice pple!:) then sent us off... it was this part that exhausted me the most, we had to carry our luggages up and down everywhere, anyway my luggages weigh up to 30.8 kg, not including the one with my valuables and laptop.. haha keteng was the winner, he had 39.8 with him.. :/

we were given rooms we cant pick on anymore la.. there's everything!! and its so clean and spacious.. my bed's a lil bigger than the super single.. can sleep 3 pple la! haha.. photos next time okay:) rested for a while then we went out for dinner. okay, who says hiroshima's not that ex. omg, an average bento on the street costs us ard s$7? the restaurants at sogo, one don costs ard sg$25 which consists of rice and the main dish la, like can a jap food? omg! we can get one full set with fruits in sg.. sigh.. wanted to have a good meal, cos we havent been eating well, all the meals on plane and whatnot.. but $$ doesnt allow man.. :( btw, the bento i had wasnt fantatic la.. but its still better than an average bento we have in sg:/

haha we're going to recee the route to work tmr and then walk ard.. okay, wait for my next entry okay:)

oh can someone tell my mom i'm safe? haha i cant call her, i'll go buy phone card tmr, waiting for the obasan to tell me where to get cheap phone cards.. hee..
time diff, one hour ahead sg
weather, like sg, but when it rains, the cold wind pierces thru ur skin man.. and its raining now.. my aircon's at 27degrees..haaha

insanity!!

2006-06-30T23:18:00.000+08:00

today was a damn fucking lousy day. even cosy bay decided to sing me 'bad day' while we rowed passed. i feel like killing myself ahhhhhHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! i feel like drowning myself in boiling water. i feel like cutting myself up take out all intestines and heart and then sell them. i feel like going into dynasty warrior and be guanyu holding that big knife killing whoever comes 1m near me. i feel like cursing and swearing whoever comes in my sight... ROARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

ok i dont la. i just feel like slapping someone. hahaha

have been insanely busy these few days. days passed by so quickly i don't rem what had happened. let me check my calender! hang on..

oh monday we had dim sum buffet with the eid pple! damn shiok! ate one tonne of dim sumsssssss!!! i'm so gonna miss chinese food! :(:( send me in one month's time to address i'll give u later okay!

celebrated can's bday on thursday!!! lala love the time spent together. anyway we caught 'havoc' and it was awesome! it leaves u an oh-god-wad-has-happened-to-the-society thinking when u walked out of the theatre. it says the boredom of 5 american kids became deaths of other innocents.. i love the way this film shows reality, the ugly side of the society. what has pursing for money and fame of parents results in the disgusting way of kids these days seek plain joy.. the superficiality in human beings.

friday was a lousy day. its ending soon:) argentina vs germany? i'll go for argentina!:)

sat and sun will be two cool shite days cos they're when PHOENIX ROARSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

okay, goodnite world!

another day with phoenix

2006-06-24T01:22:00.000+08:00

i felt we did pretty good sets today. a training not wasted. ok no training's wasted la, just how much is gained. its training like that u feel everyone loves the team so much, u feel being part of the team, u feel u're going to miss rowing and all the girls when u're away. sigh...
after a good run today, we did good sets, after which we had good food! haha ting bought us muffins and bananas from dunno who and all the 100plus and h2os... lalala...
and ben is like so happy today! cos she doesnt have to cox for pm!! yeah! i could feel her joy in her strokes when i sat behind her:):) ben is someone who i always feel for la. sometimes she doesnt need to say a thing, a pat from her, a line of encouragement, u'll want to push urself doubly hard just for her.. the kiddos know nuts about all these.. :/ of course, all the laorens yufen, nic and can.. u know i loveeee sitting in front of yufen, you know she'll always be there to give support and remind u to 'take a dip in' and everything.. haha.. i love nic's 'seven'. her 'seven' contains aggression, power, strength, sweet thing always there when things go wrong:)) can for her shouting and f-ing me in boat, watching me row, spotting my mistakes, nv give up on me, pushing me at gym and everything la, its beyond what i can write here.. haha

ok latest news, i need to wear formal to work. arghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! i dun even have a single blouse in my wardrobe ok.. and visa is not here yet so we MAY not be able to leave by 7th! yahooooo! google!!
goodnite!

screammmm

2006-06-21T15:48:00.000+08:00

these 2 weeks gotto be 2 goddamn busy weeks. i have tonnes of things to prepare before i leave!!! showed ll the list of stuff and she almost went crazy. i just realised that i had to do this medical check before the 13th this month and praise me, i forgot totally about it. mom screamed at me again and again for untidyness i set in, creating this chaotic scene in a war film at home.. haha its actually how perfect those war films imitates my room! :/

yesday was a superb day fulfilling my aspiration. yes! as tais-tais. met ll for SHOPPING and TEA and MORE SHOPPING and DINNER!!! bought this pair of shoes for work! that is like within my budget, if i have no worries about money, i'd have bought this pair with salmon skin as the body, they're wooo, breathtaking.. haha.. but seriously i have yet to ask wad do we wear for work. ah that'll come later la.. mom told me to get lots of sweaters if not i'll probably freeze there and not able to come back whole.. but where on earth do u find sweaters now during the summer season? it was a crazy search..
then was food food food, see we're all excited already! had souffle at bakerzin.. melts in ur mouth, the mixture of the cold icecream and hot foam-like-sponge in ur mouth.. AHHHHHHH!!! madness! it was better than the warm chocolate cake. haha.

oh shit mom is throwing my things already.. can u hear her scream? OMG! gotto run..

i wish

2006-06-20T12:29:00.000+08:00

i wish i have the ability to read people's mind so i can stop guessing
i wish i have the power to stop things from going wrong
i wish i'm a sensitive and tactful freak who knows what to do when
i wish i'm a doctor who cures carpal tunnel syndrome
i wish i study medicine so i know what can be done
i wish i have supernatural power i can cease all pain, including heartache
i wish i wish i wish...
i wish june race is over
i wish i can get the strokes he wants
i wish i'm as strong as ber
i wish at a snap of my fingers my things are neatly in place
i wish i dont have to get busy cos of japan
i wish i dont have to worry about money
i wish i have more time
is it too much to wish for?

an end to EID

2006-06-16T14:07:00.000+08:00

heyhey!! did i tell u we got 1ST for our eid?? haha for transportation category only la. but still...!! pics pics pics!!!

our group with d.butler

the booth and sandmodel. all our hardwork!!

directional sensor by the abnn and the abs clan! haha

obviously the judges are impressed!:)

the prize

this is more practical :):)

tearing and clearing already...

after dinner at brewerks!!

hoho!! 5 weeks of fun has ended! all our hardwork! 3 cheers for our eid group!
5 weeks of work.-$700. prize in return- $1400. experience- priceless :):)

over the weekend...

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am having a hell time with fever and flu and cough and the constant nagging from mom that says i dont know how to take care of myself. i did try to take panadols and clarinase before seeing the doc just that they didnt work. :/ ahh well, it must be the weather on sat and sunday. perhaps the not-enough-sleep chipped in too.

only till last thur did we realised that we had a shitload of unfinished work for eid, forgot totally about the deco of the booth. and then it was rush rush rush for time. fri we worked from 10-9pm, sat from 9-6pm and sun 9-3pm. but i skipped the sat's and sun's due to training. thank god they were quite tolerant, though i think one or two made noise about it. its always like that wad, u cant make everyone happy :/

sat night was already set aside for miaox's and chye's bday celebration :/ went tao's for miaox's. oh the food's damn good man. you should try it someday! i love the fruit tea, its simply heavenly :) its sooooo sweet, u can fly after drinking it.. hahaha then was chilling out session at esplanade where hh share hers with us.. lala happy for her:)

dragged myself to dxo after that to attend chye's. i was sure too late to catch them sober. shaun, mao, jiaxi and chye were way too high to realise i was even there la. just as i wanted to leave, chye was puking already, so i had to stay to take care of them.. ahhhhh.. there was this time chye almost puked on me and pushed him away so hard that he fell onto the floor. haha but i dont think he can rem it was me, so ya, dont worry.. hee:) the music was not bad, just when ivan and the rest and me thought we could leave the drunkards alone outside and enjoy ourselves, this other friend of theirs started dancing on a table near the dancefloor when she wasnt in a right mind already, the next moment she fell and started bleeding la. so we called it a day.. good thing it ended early la, so i didnt die so badly on sun's training :/

but the weather on sunday's was enough to kill. should have felt it coming la. slept the whole time away at can's place while they were doing the tshirt. :/

okay, i'm tired already. i cant leave my bed for more than 2 hrs. its like ur cordless phone. i need to go charge up again. later...