Woke up today and found myself rushing for my driving lesson. Still feel so damn tired, cuz didn't really slp much throughout the week. I met my instructor at Paya Lebar, den drove to Bishan and Ang Mo Kio, then to Toa Payoh to try some U-turn. Couldn't do quite alot of things with my left wrist down (anything which required me to turn left more than 1/2 round). Made lots of mistakes today, probably cuz I was still feeling damn sleepy. And following that, my instruction started to shout at me and created lots of pressure, and I made even more mistakes cuz of that. Never-ending cycle... Sianzz..

My lesson ended at Toa Payoh Central, and there were stll about 2+ hours before meeting Eddy. Walked around Toa Payoh, and only managed to waste half an hour at most. Feeling that I needed to do something more productive to waste my time, I took 145 all the way to Bugis juz to cut my hair, then walked towards City Hall MRT station via Suntec n CityLink. N guess wad. In the end I was 3 mins late. Eddy thought I would be VERY late and so he went up to the shopping centre above to walk, so in the end I was the one waiting for him. Waahhaa.. After meeting up with him, we went to the area around Peninsula Plaza to see if there was anything to buy for the upcoming cny, then went to some budget shops and 7-eleven to stock up on drinks so we could bring it to Marina South to drink while having our steamboat. There would be no way we were going to pay for the EXPENSIVE drinks there.

We went to Zheng Fa Huo Hai Xian for our steamboat. The place was so damn crowded with people. Luckily it was easy for us to find a table as there were more small tables available than big ones. The staff there were so busy that it took them quite some time to set up everything for us. In the end we even had to carry our own chairs. Anyway we saw this group of gals who screamed n screamed when one of the guys there dunked a jumping-live prawn into the boiling soup. So damn kaopei.. Could feel my eardrums going to shatter into a million fragments anything. After we settled down, we decided to take turns getting our food so we could look after our belongings. Eddy started the ball rolling, and soon we were bbqing and boiling funny stuff.

Contrary to the fact that we went to a live seafood steamboat restaurant, we actually ate more cooked food than bbq'ed or boiled stuff. We acquired 2 cups by making a single order of soyabean drinks, finishing the soyabean, then pouring our stocked Peelfresh juice into the cups under the table so the staff there would not see and confiscate our beloved Peelfresh. For the uncooked food, we actually only touched a small portion of it. Really had no idea of what happened to my appetite today - I surrendered quite early. Eddy didn't last long either. Who knows, they might have put some appeitite-supressants in the food to make us feel full so they can cut cost on their food. Or it might very well be due to the fact that we ate too much starchy or oily stuff. We sat there to tok cok for some time, and gave out our live seafood coupon as we did not redeemed it and did not want to waste it. The lucky 'winner' of that coupon was.. this angmoh guy sitting beside us, accompanied by a chinese couple. I went up to the angmoh and explained in english about wanting to give them the coupon and stuff like that, but he did not seemed to understand mi. I tried speaking to the couple instead, and they didn't understand mi as well. It was only after a while we discovered they were actually chinese nationals who sucked ass in their english language, even that angmoh.

After leaving the restaurant, we went to the arcade next door where I always play Ghost Squad wif Ron n Ro. The reason I went there - Ghost Squad, Para Para and Percussion Freaks again. I tried Ghost Squad with Eddy, and realized how much I need Aearon/Roland after we died in the first mission which was at level 1.. Actually I don't really know how time in the arcade managed to pass so fast. A game of Ghost Squad, Para Para and Percussion Freaks actually took us 1hrs and 45mins all the way from 8 till 9.45. Eddy would be having his ns duty tmr, so we didn't really want to stay there for long. After a long wait and my last game of Percussion Freaks, we went outside and *tried* to wait for the bus. After seeing how crowded each passing bus was, I decided to call my sister and ask her to send Eddy home.

My mum was with my sis when she came (and best part is.. she actually told my sis that I was in Marina Square when I was really in Marina Bay, and caused my sis to look around for me in Marina Square). After sending Eddy back to his hse, we met up wif my dad and went for dinner at Geylang. I was still too full to eat, so I juz sat there and watch them eat. My sis and dad drove home after that, and it was funny to see that my sis actually tried to overtake my dad and how they were trying to out-run each other the moment the traffic light turned green. My sis parked her car at the carpark next to my hse, then we took my dad's car to some temple in Changi, for wadever reason. I'm not a believer, but decided to go with them juz to have a look around. There was this piece of stone there which is said to display 4D numbers to ppl who stare at it.. Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, but my mum actually squatted there for 15 mins, trying very hard to 'see' the numbers. We went back to the car to wait for her, and went home after that.

Sianzz.. Gotta slp now.. tomorrow still need to wake up quite early.

This morning I was told to have a half day off from work. Was so glad cuz I was quite tired and could finally have some rest.

Initially decided to rest at home in the afternoon, but Ron sms'ed me and asked me if I want to go do some new-year shopping. I chose going out over staying at home, as always.

Met up with Ron at Bugis Parco, and walked around, looking for stuff to buy. I didn't have anything specific on my shopping list, so I juz bought as I shopped. Got a new Billabong wallet to replace the old 'Tough' wallet which was quite tattered, and bought a funky hot pad for my grandma as well.

Next we moved on to Bugis Village. The jeans selling in one of the shops were damn cheap - $18 for a pair. I didn't get any, however, cuz didn't really like the design. Got a T-shirt there which says 'God is busy. Can I help you?' with a devil's face after the line 'God is busy'. Main reason why I liked the shirt is cuz I'm actually tickled by the lame joke on the shirt itself.

We went back to the parking lot at Parco to get Ron's bike, and on the way out, the gate refused to open even though Ron had already paid his parking when coming in. We were trying to figure out wad to do when this stupid truck from behind came and pressurized Aearon, causing him to slot his cashcard into some weird reader and the crap ended up deducting $5+ from his cashcard. Wilson Parking system sux and cocks up. Can remember how Ron was cursing and swearing all the way from Bugis to Beach Road.

We bought a drink at Golden Mile Food Centre, then went up to look for Aearon's shoes. After that I tried going to Soh Brothers' to look for my waterproof pouch, but didn't manage to find one there. Thought I would leave Beach Road empty handed until I finally came across dis sports shop when we were about to leave. Tried my luck there, and managed to get what I want.. woohoo.. can go kayaking with my handphone liao.

Next we went to Suntec and I went to get some car-racing VCDs for my sis and for myself. Quite cheap, $25 for 3 pieces. Only thing is the damn thing is in jap with subtitle in chinese, and I can't read chinese. But who cares anyway, I juz wanna watch the cars.. Anyway I went to Nokia Care to try to get my N-Gage earpiece repaired/replaced, but they say my warranty does not cover it cuz the button on the earpiece is missing. Dammit.. Not like as if I took it out and threw it away on purpose.. Instead of buying an expensive N-Gage headset, I decided to try to get a cheap normal earphone instead. Got a decent Panasonic one for $13. We walked around to look for Ron's new year clothes, and went to the Esplanade after that, to look for some books at the library. I owe Aearon 100 pushups for losing the bet that the national library is at Esplanade =P

Ro, Guan n Andrew had reached Suntec a little while later, and we went back to Suntec, getting Ron's book at Sans Bookstore along the way. Saw a book entitled 'The Best Guide to Online Dating'.. wahahaha... all sorts of funny crap stuff, which might be 'useful' for Ro and mi..

After meeting up wif the rest at Carrefoure, we went for dinner, then to Tower Records for a little while, and finally to the arcade upstairs. Tried DDR with Ron, which I did very badly as usual. Later on we went to try out dis new machine called 'Martial Beat', whereby they play some music and have a martial arts demonstrator on the screen and u juz have to mimic what the demonstrator does. Ro pro in that wo!! We had a good laugh at how we play. Anyway dis gal came up to Ron and asked him to play DDR with her. Too bad the gal not chio.. Aearon play till he sweat so much, but we played another 2 games after that. Chose wrong song and wasted one coin.. damn.. We oso continued to try that Martial Beat thingy until 10+ then went outside to sit down, tok cok and make 'MTV's with my fone.. wahaha.. "Y got that *orgasm* look??" (quoted from Guan). Later on my sis came and fetch me and they went home.

My sis drove me to Kallang Mac to get some supper for my mum and for myself as well. I applied for some Macdonald membership thing, which gives 5 free burgers upon registration (if u fill in everything). Got some black pepper beef meal. Couldn't resist the temptation and finished mine on the car. Suddenly I realized that Ron's book was still with me, so I decided to go his house to pass it to him later. Brought the Macdonald meal home to my mum, took with me the singlet I'm supposed to pass to Ron, and took my sis's car to his house.

My sis n I still didn't feel like going home, so we decided to catch Seed of Chucky at Plaza Singapura. Reached PS quite early at 1.20 when the show was supposed to be at 1.55. Slacked around, stocked up on some snacks n drinks, then went into the cinema early.

Show was quite lame, but still got quite alot of funny parts (like Tiffany calling the 'Recovery Hotline' and crying over the fone). Still, I tink I would have enjoyed 'Aviator' better.

Finally felt tired after the show, so we decided to go home.

Today work ended early for mi cuz I was having ultrasound treatment in the afternoon. Decided to get Ron n Ro to meet up to play Ghost Squad. The damn ultrasound treatment took so damn long today, but can't really blame the therapist who was on attachment cuz I could tell she really wanted to get to know my condition better. And spent quite alot of time interviewing me. Anyway I was meeting Ro at Marina at 6 and I thought I was gonna be late, but managed to reach there on time. Still, Ro was the one waiting for me, as always. Got to ride in Ro's bike for the 1st time today, with a Hello Kitty sticker right in front of my face thruout the ride (pasted onto Ro's helmet.. wahhaha).

Ron came to meet us later on, and in the meantime we Ghosted quite a number of times, along with one round of Para Para. We played another couple of games after Ron came, and then left for Suntec.

For some weird reason, the time at Suntec seemed to have passed so damn fast. We onli visited a few shops, looked at some items n tried to do some new-year-window-shopping, but it was 9.15 soon, and most shops were starting to close. Wanted to get a new wallet initially, so decided to look around. Wallet Shop closed. OP closed. Think can forget about it. The only place still open was Carrefoure. Liwei called and asked me if I wanted to go Fisherman's Village, but I decided to get back to him after having dinner with Ron n Ro.

We went to have dinner at a kopitiam opposite You Tiao Da Wang at Geylang. Had prawn noodles. The guy taking the order was so damn fucked up. Trying to trick us into ordering the ones with the 'medium' prawns instead of 'regular' prawns, but didn't tell us that the price differs until after quite some while. His business strategy/gimmick failed. Wahaha. But I actually felt so stupid to order a plate of Orh Hiam from him for $8. Maybe I was juz too hungry.

After dinner, we decided to.. see kweis!! Some stupid china pros tried to humiliate me by making fun of my splinted hand when I rudely rejected her and walked away. And there were really some cannot-make-it ones, like one indian who's probably from Sri Lanka. Some of them were really chio though, and we thought abt dis stupid idea about giving them 30 bucks juz to take a pic of them. Of cuz, we were onli toking cock. Walked for a few rounds den went to You Tiao Da Wang for a 2nd round of food. Ordered beancurd, beancurd drinks n You Tiao n some carrot cake which seems more like omelette. Chitchat for quite some time there, then after footing the bill I realized it was already 12+, and Liwei and the rest were already in Fisherman's Village, and I was worried they might leave soon so I decided not to meet them.

Just some thoughts I'd like to share/vent on. Really dun understand y SAF has such a horrible culture. And why people would follow that culture. About being superficial, believing what can only be seen, and being overly-suspicious of ppl, not being sensitive to others' feelings, and having a bigger ego. Before I went NS, I already had this feeling that I'm won't be able to find someone worthy of being a true fren in NS. N so far I'm damn right. N SAF can eat my shit for using propaganda on ppl. Whoever succumbs to those propaganda is a fool.

Another 2 fucked up days at work.. N with some fucked up colleagues/superiors as well. Which makes me hate the army more n more by each passing day. Not like I don't hate the army enough.. I swear that I'm going to dump all my army equipment or anything SAF-related into the rubbish chute after my NS if I'm not liable for reservice. N I'll surely hate anyone who say any good things about SAF (not like SAF have ANY good thing at all to talk about, besides providing a credit card for use at polyclinics and hospitals). N I'll despise anyone who takes on an NS culture.

Work aside, I've made some changes to my blog. Now u can actually add/view comments to each entry in my blog. Hope u guys make use of it.

As expected, my skin is starting to peel real bad cuz of the sunburn. I predicted the peeling to begin on Tues nite. And now I'm proven right.

Lately I'm busy working on something to put up on my website. That's why I haven been writing much in my blog lately. Sorry abt dat, n stay tuned. Should be complete after this week. In the meantime I'll post the "rich" history of the handphones I've used, in chronological order.

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1. (1997) Some fucked up Motorola flip-fone. Not the 'Da Ge Da' though. I haven't discovered SMS back then. All I can say is dat the battery life sucks.
2. (1998) A fucked up Ericsson fone. Forgot the model, just remember that it's big n bulky. Battery life sucks too, and I ended up finishing the battery when I was in Europe for 2 weeks, and I forgot to bring my charger with me.
3. (1999) Finally, a not-so-fucked up Ericsson flip-fone. Single-line display only though. I had juz learned to use SMS then, and a single-line SMS is definitely not a leisure to use. School didn't allow handphones then, but I managed to smuggle it in occasionally without getting caught. Anyway I did some stupid modification and screwed the fone up totally.
4. (2000 - 2001) A much better Ericsson flip-fone. Model is T18 or T21 if I remember correctly. Finally, a multi-line display for my SMS needs. The fone had the sad ending of ending up in the hands of the thief who stole my entire pouch along wif the fone n my md player.
5. (2001 - 2002) Nokia 3310. My 1st Nokia fone, which was a bday gift from my sis. The games 'Snake II' and 'Space Impact' n 'Bantumi' were the onli games that could be played on the fone. However, I began to realize that the fone was damn resistant against impact.
6. (2003) Nokia 5210. Was so damn happy when my dad came to me one day and asked if I wanted the fone, cuz it was the exact fone I was aiming for. Shock, splash n dust resistant. Was quite fascinated by the WAP function, and used it to access ICQ.
7. (2003) Nokia 3530. Very similar to the 3310, except it was color-screen, could run Java applications, had MMS, and had polyphonic ringtones. I was aiming for 5100 then, but I juz couldn't resist the urge to join the color-fone community, so I bought this fone for the time being. Anyway, the fone was onli $34 with my Starhub MTVCode plan.
8. (2003 - 2004) Nokia 5100. One of my favorite fones. Basically an upgraded version of the 5210, with color screen, Java capability, radio, MMS n polyphonic ringtones. I bought an infrared port for my PC to transfer stuff into the fone, as well as write programs to run on the fone. Bought the camera headset juz so that I could have a 'camera' with me all the time, but was disappointed at the capture quality. But i still loved the fone so much that I decided not to trade it in after getting my next fone, so I gave the fone away.
9. (2004 - 2005) N-Gage. My first symbian-OS fone, which is really power-packed to the brim. The MP3 quality really rocks, and I installed lots of funny funny stuff like a Javascript-enabled web browser, a MSN messenger client, etc. In fact I can say that it doubles up as my 'portable computer'. The bulk and sidetalking of the fone juz can't bring down the fact dat dis is a great fone.
10. (2004 - 2005) Nokia 7610. Another symbian-OS fone, which I use together with my N-Gage. personally I still prefer N-Gage over dis fone, but at the same time attracted by the megapixel camera and newer OS version of this fone.

Was totally shagged out by yesterday's activities, so I refused to pull myself out of bed until 2.30pm. Basically did nothing for the entire afternoon, except surf abit of net and played abit of games.

Went Ron's hse in the evening, browsed around his MP3s while waiting for him to get prepared, and took his motorbike to Marina South to meet Ro, as usual on a typical Sunday evening. Played.. U should have guessed.. Ghost Squad, Para Para n Percussion Freaks. Stayed there till 11, before Ron n Ro sent mi home.

My sunburn really hurts like hell.. N my wrist seem to hurt more after the kayaking session yesterday. But have to enjoy myself while I can, cuz I dunno how long I won't be able to kayak after my operation.

Really can't stand having a disabled wrist. Should have told the doctor to let me go for the operation immediately instead of trying out physiotherapy =(..

Long Day

Had a REALLY long day today. Woke up at 10.30, n started rushing to pack my stuff for kayaking. It's been more than half a year since i've last kayaked, thanks to the organization i bear deep hatred for - SAF. I was supposed to meet Zhihong at the Changi Village market at 11.30, but i reached at 12 juz becuz i missed a bus n had to wait for like 20 mins for the next. Zhihong had finished his lunch by the time i reached there, n he was juz standing there waiting for me.

Without any delay, we made our way to Changi Sea Sports Club. Quite alot had changed there. First, the construction site opposite the club has turned into an empty patch of grass field. I noticed that the partitions in the bathroom has been demolished as well, replaced by a new open-concept style. Administration-wise, there's no longer a need to sign the log book, and the kayak number will be assigned to u when u make ur rental. N Zaik seems to have lost weight as well. Mingteck, though, still remains the same. Naggy as usual.. wahahah.. but still the great teacher down there.

Soon, we got all our stuff n set out to the canal behind the club to look for Mingteck n to let Zhihong practise his skills as well. For mi, I've somehow lost touch of my hand-rolls. Couldn't manage to do any until later on. Lost my hanging draw completely. Wonder how i'm going to go for my 4-star river n 5-star open-sea..

At around 2, we left our kayaks on the grass-patch n went back to the club to rest n chitchat for a while, only to be nagged at the moment we got back for leaving our kayaks there n not turning them around n stuff like that. Luckily Mingteck didn't see it or we're gonna get nagged at for the entire afternoon there. Aniwae, we went out to the sea. The waves were like damn huge as compared to when I last came. Talk abt tsunamis.. Maybe the huge waves are just the effects of the recent tsunami.

Despite my problematic wrist, I could still paddle rather quickly. Did stupid things like chasing the waves, just sitting there and watching Zhihong, n talking cock wif him at the same time. Some rough sand got into my kayak and throughout, I rubbed my heels against the sand a number of times and ended up with a bad blister. I was starting to feel the sunburn, though my eyes were still rather resilient against the sea-water. I suggested leaving early to avoid having to squeeze into a crowded bathroom with the trainees. We left shore at around 4.30, washed up our equipment n went to bathe. Good thing we managed to finish up before the trainees even started to stream in. Aniwae, I juz sat at the bench to feed the mosquitoes and wait for Zhihong to finish shitting. After feeding enuf mosquitoes, we went to the market to grab some food, and to check on the Choon Huat gals at the same time. We were disappointed - cuz they weren't around.

I took a bus n reached home at 6.45, hoping to get some rest before meeting Ron n Ro later on in the nite. However, Laibao suggested going out, so I was like 'ahh.. okay..' Can never resist the temptation to go out, walk walk, see stuff, n have fun. We met the same time and place as we did yesterday. 7.45 at Aljunied MRT platform. I quickly took a shit n rushed out once again. We went Orchard today. Initially I wanted to go to the Bloomington at Heeren's to get the ant's nest, but decided that spending $40 on an ant's nest isn't that worth it after all. Wanted to buy some other weird 'artifacts' (like the coin shrinker or anti-gravity top), but managed to resist the temptation to spend the $. In the end, spent more on eating at KFC, den Mac. But had to control my calorie intake liao cuz I've eaten very heavily for the past few days, so I decided to be more forgiving at Mac's n had a simple ice-cream cone. We walked around till 10.15, and I decided it was time to go meet Ron n Ro, so we headed for the MRT Station. Talked more cock as usual, before Laibao went off the train. Next stop - Changi Village (or Tanah Merah + bus).

Ron, Ro n Jayson were at sitting at Airfield Restaurant when I reached Changi Village. Could tell they've just gorged on a round of Tim Sum, judging from the empty Tim Sum containers on the table, as well as chilli-sauce-stained plates n empty cans of Jia Jia Liang Teh. Decided to abstain from anymore eating, but didn't manage to resist and ended up ordering some chicken paus, shrimp dumplings n hakka tofu in the end. Good ting got Ro help me finish off.. wahhaha.. We sat there, watched soccer, made comments about a lady who looked like a pig, n bio gals (n bapoks) till 12+ den went around to see bapoks. Spotted the one who scolded Gary the other time, but the angmoh-like one was hardly around. 1 round of walking + 3 rounds of driving around the circuit was enough, and we decided to go look for some place with pool or billiard. Went Tampines and the K-Pool over there seem to have closed. The one at Katong Shopping Centre seemed to have closed as well. In the end we went to Megapool. Jayson was driving us, and I must really have sucked at directing him.. 'turn left, turn right, turn left'.. Almost directed him into the wrong place a number of times. Miracle that we reached Megapool in the end.. Really miss that place, considering how long I've not been there for. Hope can go there pak pool with Eddy soon, juz like before. Aniwae we played a number of games till the place closed at 3, den Jayson drove mi and the rest home.

Now my whole body is aching. Going to get some rest now.