oh man

there really is something very wrong with the water coming out from the showers in KE. The last time i remember taking a bath in water which smelled that bad was while i was in the army. We were in some boatshed in the northwest of singapore. There were no shower facilities in that place so we built a makeshift showering area out in the open... haha.. We used the fire hose as the shower head, twisting the hose so that the water didn't gush out but instead it spread out over a large area.

So after spending an hour making the shower place, we just rushed in to take a shower. At first the water didn't have any weird smell, but after like 15 mins, it started to smell like it was sewage water. really stinked man... since it was dark, we collected a bottle of water and brought it back to our sleeping area. The water was so cloudy, it looked like mudwater but white-ish... but that didn't stop us from taking our showers. you just have to hold your breath while you're under the water and had to make sure that you didn't accidentally swallow the water.

Well, i think the water in KE really smells that bad.. am i the only one who notices it?

license to be grumpy

yes... i think i have every right to be grumpy whenever i want. gillian left 3 days ago... so here's a list of stuff that really irritates me. pls don't take any offense ya.

women drivers, taxi drivers, women taxi drivers, drivers-who-stay-in-lane-1-at-70km/h, people who refuse to give way, people who think their mercedes' and BMW's are damn big fucks, the funny smell of the shower water in hall, my inability to do my tutorials, 8am lectures on thursday and friday, not having enough $$, people who are LATE and also how i have just forgotten all the things i wanted to say.

my current "video" collection consists of 10 seasons of friends, season 1&2 of that 70's show, 1st season of the x-files, season 1&2 of top gear, season 1 of Johnny Bravo, ER season 7, all scary movies and other assorted movies. Going to watch that 70's show now...

daryl's party

yeap.. this is a week old, but anyway i promised to put up the photos :)




The Guys



Irritating ornamental plant



*smilez*



In our birthday party suits



Odd one out



I hid his shoe behind the pond



Ideas for patrick's house



Booze



Booze



More booze but none for me...

witching hour

well, 12am isn't exactly the witching hour here in NUS. Things have been going well here in NUS. My 2nd week started with a scare. I thought i had a math tutorial on monday so rushed back to my room on sunday night to complete the tutorial. Unfortunately i had forgotten that tutorials didn't start till the 3rd week. Such dissappointment... Oh how eagerly i was hoping to go for my first tutorial. That week was quite good due to the lack of tutorials and my 5th module. So spent quite a large amount of time with who else but gillian. We made pineapple tarts on tuesday and wednesday and i can't remember what happened on thursday. Friday was daryl's party which i must say was quite fun. Played "circle of death". Imagine elton john singing the song while he was drunk. haha... that was great. The food at tay's place was simply awesome man! I loved the salmon :) Happy 21st dude.

Saturday was some eurasian association thing at the EA house. All 3 of us got awards but it's not difficult to get something looking at the standard. And the top eurasian student was a girl from arts with a 2nd upper from NUS. See what i mean. You mean no one even managed to get a first class? Ok, so it may be freaking impossible to get it but i guess it shows the standards of the eurasian community. Somehow the girl looked familliar though (she kept staring at me, which doesn't happen often so i was wondering where the hell did i see her before, owing to my excellent memory of faces and names). Even gillian said we've seen her before. But she has already graduated so kinda thinking where i could have met her before. Then was gillian's party. Glad that some people made it down. Thanks guys. You don't know how worried gillian was that no one was going to come. I must stop driving to parties! Drinking punch and soft drinks isn't very fun i tell you. Next time i'm going to stay over at whoever's-having-a-party's house. Pics of the past few events will be posted soon, including those of zam's party.

Today wasn't too bad. Went for my math tutorial, the one which i thought i had last week. My tutor is a grad student! Was quite surprised when i saw him walk through the door. Like the guy i was sitting with also thought that he was a student and wondering what the hell he was doing, taking the marker and like walking towards the board.

I have unfortunately been selected as the class rep for my critical thinking tutorial. I thought the teacher was just joking in the last tutorial. But now... I've been identified and at least people will know my name. Not sure whether i know theirs yet though. Work is piling up and i'm a bit behind. Wonder why...

72 hours left till gillian flies off... I think my heart is going to be ripped out. Just let me die in terminal 1 ok guys?

Malaysia Photos

yes.. time for an update... to all my millions of fans, i am sorry for the lack of updates... hahahha... been pretty busy with school. getting used to the stuff i need to do and trying to not look so lost all the time... haha... still adjusting... surprised that my brains still work after being in storage for 2 years... anyway, since the last post, i went to malaysia over the national day weekend with my family and gillian. then came back on national day and been in school all the time. so here's some photos... :)



Lunch in Malacca: We stayed at my uncle's apartment for the day and had lunch at this peranakan place. We always go there for lunch and the chendol... which is simply fantabulous.



Gillian in malacca



Us in seafood heaven: Another place that we always make sure we go to. The seafood there is just wonderful. Considering that all the food is caught in the river just behind the place.



Happy happy happy



Cheap females :D



Us in our uncle's apartment



Ladies fingers from my grandma's garden



On beach in Port Dickson: The hotel we stayed in is in the background



I let her win that time



Done by my sister... haha



Us and irish cousins, Ross and Luke: Trashed them in pool.. hahah



Cutest cousin anyone could want; Wesley



Hotel in Background



Me



Gill and me



Goodbye malaysia.... see you next year :D

well, I'll post the next time i get photos from zam's farewell party yesterday

NUS Flag Day

Still feeling a bit tired from yesterday... Yup, i was flagging yesterday... Got a msg from amelia on monday at 8pm telling me that i had to go for the flag day and report at 4am the next day or else i might get expelled!! haha... what a shock! So went to hall and collected the 3rd last tin!!! should have been a bit later.. haha... spent my first night in hall... i need another fan and a pail... it's can get warm because the fan keeps on rotating... but i was only sleeping... heh... so went to sleep at 12 and woke up at 4am to screaming seniors getting everyone to wake up... amelia knocked on my door... what a sight at 4am in the morning.... hehe... so feeling very lonely and all, got ready and was in the dining hall at 0430... fortunately i found my neighbour, vincent and we sat together... and then met bao lai(from whiskey bmt coy) so the three of us (3 is a prime number) decided on our gameplan for the whole day... haha... Left hall at 0500 and reached CCK around 6... asking for donations at 6 in the morning isn't a good idea... people were mostly rushing off to work and of course the first thing in the morning that you would LOVE to see would be sickening flag day people...

sneaked off with vincent for breakfast but unfortunately was discovered by our gung-ho team leader sean who is quite a nice person anyway... haha... so much for slacking.... at around 7ish people from other halls (Sheares) and camps (engin) came and took over our place! bloody bastards... so with a quarter of the donations coming in, sean decided to redeploy the 2 of us... haha... he told us to go to this market... but sadly we got lost on the way... so while taking a short rest at the bus stop, vincent and i saw this sign which indicated another shopping centre was NEARBY! we walked there and fortunately it wasn't discovered by anyone yet... wonder why?? haha... so spent about 3 hours there trying to collect donations... and it turned out quite ok... went back to lot 1 since no one was at the shopping centre anymore and stood around hoping that someone would put shiny metallic discs into my tin... we noticed that the people who were more likely to donate were the malay people :) and small children... i got a lot of small kids donating to me... another fun thing that we observed were the many things people do to not donate. Ok maybe you know already but yesterday was the first time i was doing flag day (considering i always get my CIP hours from scouts)... there's the handphone method, the disease method and the invisible man method... haha

i'm sure everyone knows the handphone method... just as you approach the person, whip out your phone to check for mysterious messages or missed calls... maybe it's just that you like to lock and unlock your keypad... or that you would like to show off your phone to me... which i think mine still looks better... haha

the disease method... pretend to sneeze and reach into your pocket for a tissue when i approach you... or walk really fast away from me like i have leprosy... vincent and i had some fun harassing people who tried that... we just continued following them for like 20 metres... that got some stares though... haha...

and of course, how can you donate if you can't see me right? i mean that floating tin can must be dangerous or something... but you just wonder what the hell is keeping it in mid air and how it automatically moves in front of you... the wonders of technology...

ahaha.... we're all guilty of these... but it was fun doing flag day yesterday... not the actual collecting money bits, but making friends with vincent and bao lai... and getting to know some people whom vincent and i refer to as "that china guy", "that china girl", "those 2 malaysian guys" and sean... i think some of you know how terrible i am at names... i can't believe it myself.. i can recognise your face but just can't remember your name... maybe it's not worth remembering in the first place... you maggot... haha

hopefully i'm doing enough modules this sem... along with the preallocated 15MC's from engin, i bidded for another thing which i can't remember... but the ain factors why i chose that module-which-i-can't-remember was the exam date and that it starts at 12pm... haha... and the last day of exams would be on my birthday!!! yay! not too bad lah.. considering i couldn't do anything about it.

i wish i could tell you what really happened yesterday but too many people read this... doesn't it get frustrating sometimes when you want to tell something to someone but you don't have anyone or you're afraid of what people might think of you once you tell them about it... it's not necessarily a bad thing... that's why people smile and lie... haha...

and i feel like just pointing out the obvious sometimes... how the fuck can you not know what i'm trying to do? (this is the part where i stop talking because too many people read this) arrgh!!! it's really frustrating... i want to say something, tell someone everything but i can't... i should get a diary... or maybe another board where i can rant everything... *turns into the hulk* it's clobbering time... ooops :)