V for Vendetta, W for W-W-W-WICKED SICK

better post, b4 get lazy again...

SAT

great fun day... arranged with jas the night before whether wanted DotA on sat, but we weren't too sure whether got ppl coming not...

actually on sat morn itself then we started calling, but got great response! finally got to play the match i missed that thursday...

played 2 rounds before soccer... 1st round me kev n jas... pretty gd team i think... jas sandking, v. strong, got beyond godlike streak..... me meanwhile, played as a peter crouch role, stunning n setting up kills, but cannot finish myself... : ( oh well, impt is team wins!

2nd game, wasn't finished, i got Lion a intel hero i nev used before... gd character, managed to get all the kills n a killing spree before everyone quit...

lunched with jas at white sands....

soccer played 2 halves.... the weather was cloudy n windy.... juz the way i like it... 1st half played v.v. poorly... 2nd half better a little... it's the position i think... can't play as last man..

hav to play a ji siao role..haha, my class would b proud... think i play best with chee kong behind me, so not so worried if make a mistake....

love to play with the guys.... not like elsewhere, dun hav to worry bout ego's n politics.... juz open honest fun...

went home to bathe a bit, then met chee kong, ql, wq n pei yi at tamp mac for the liverpool match... didn't noe they showed matches there, but it was really cool... big LCD or Plasma tv... nice atmosphere..... n the match was pretty exciting too...

aft the match, we played one more round of DotA, this time me n ql vs ck n wq.... played a gd game, with ql owning the late game...took a late bus back... nice to walk by urself at night...

The quiet street while waiting for the bus to tamp...
xpect to see a panda coloured Toyota Trueno to drift across the corner...

SUN

saw mariliene while at church.. not so unexpected.... seldom suprised to meet ppl outside anymore... xcept one time jas at the bus interchange...

aft that me n jeremy, (the indonesian boy pri3, who staying with us), went arcade.... i payed 3 bucks, but enjoyed 5 rounds, caus i challenged a guy n won twice, once in the dry n once in the wet... lucky he was a normal guy, not some punk, or a small kid with lots of money... shook hands, gd clean match...

did i mention winning feels pretty gd...

went grandma's house, met my aunt who is also my boss at acer.... and... she's gonna kill me if i go work for late tml! its 1 am, so night!

-Taken at airport
-It's not juz any 4WD, it's a quattro!
-Audi Quattro revolusionised rallying in the 1980's by introducing 4wd and turbo chargers into cars
-It won the first championship the year it was introduced

-original 1988 audi quattro
-as the german designer said himself, "at that time, i give a shit for the car's looks"
-tt explains the looks
-then again, looks dun win rallies

God save the queen

actually this queen thing is pretty long ago... last week actually... i'm a backdated-bloggger...lazy... juz too lazy...last friday to b exact...

basically what we did whole day is, dress up, shirt tie n black pants... then we came to schl n each of us were put in charge of another schl, mostly sec schl's , ITE n the other Poly's...

the other poly's were dressed v. informally, t-shirt n jeans, n like were v. siao in front of the camera's...

on the other hand, my group got the ITE students.... at first we tot they were some JC caus of their blazer n all...suprisingly they were pretty quiet bunch... i overheard one of them saying that the ITE purposely chose those quiet students to go....haha...

reaching the new national library, we stood by the side of the entrance for a couple of hours, a real waste of time... in my head i was thinkin, like " who does she think she is, the queen???".. yes she is my boy...

there was this v. chio s'pore sportswoman, her face looked v. familiar, dressed in heels n the red team s'pore jacket... but quite dao... also, i heard frm my fren that the only reason tt she is here, is caus she not gd enuff to qualify for the Commonwealth games...zz... next time if got her name i'll post it here..

what we were therefore is basically 1 thing... to add a crowd for the cameras... u see the flags ppl wave on tv whenever there is a major foreign guest? the flags are given out by the organisers... so, juz bout everything u see on the "news" is staged publicity...

no wonder mum always said :"dun blive everything u see on the tv"...


after the visit, had lunch and went to Esplanade for a committee meeting for CYA... the details r quite hush hush, but there was a voting system, n somehow i got voted joint head of PR... huh... imagine tt...

then it was off to airport yet again for CYA duty proper... hmm... 1st day for the 5th batch... they weren't the only one stressed up... i was too... i got the sorta taste of like unexpected parenthood thrust onto you...

Wednesday Night Fever

never really did watch tt show... saturday night fever... all i rmbr of it is a skinny John Travolta in a black leather jacket, shaking his bum to "Staying Alive" song by the Bee Gees... yikes...

nope, wednesday night fever is a lot worse than listening to the Bee-Gees, (although both will give u a thumping headache)...

wednesday morn...went to the Acer HQ in jurong together with my classmate daniel n dennis hoe, to recieve briefing for our job... dennis was half an hour late, and his phone was dead.....

bla bla bla..... training over, the 3 of us with a new NP guy went to boon lay for lunch... y would we go so far, u might ask? well for east siders, there's only one reason to go there... ARCADE... yep, after so much dota the last few weeks or months, me n daniel were really missing the arcade...

with only $3... i played 6 games, broke 2 lap times and beat 2 opponents.... woot... in great form.... i guess for initial D, u shldn't try too hard, or study the course too much, unlike DotA... juz go with ur instincts i guess...

at home, i tried to prepare for the dota match the next day by practicing a bit, but dunno y kept feeling so sleepy n dizzy....

sleepy n dizzy yes, but i couldn't get any gd sleep that night... kept on tossing around, caus i felt v. warm n my throat was dry.......

it was a WEDNESDAY NIGHT FEVER...

next morning my alarm rang to go for the match at kembangan, but all i could feel was that i was super giddy..... the sensation is like... everything around you is moving at hyper speed... very scary, but not the first time i got this sensation..... actually i more scared is fever high until got permanent brain damage...

High Flyer

Inuyasha frm comics connection

Kizzy, our crazy dog( yup, makes me look sane)

Mon

juz when i finally tot i had a 1 day break, i'm being called up to be an audience for the press conference of NYAA photo competition... well smth like tt...

it was at the top floor of the new National Library, n the view frm there is way cool... a near 360 degree view of the town area, including suntec, esplanade, and juz about everybody's houses...

even the toilets got this great open air view... great, i learnt wat living the good life means...

it means u can piss, 100+ metres in the air, and still feel secure in the fact tt Newpaper will not take pictures of u... (read: newpaper recently took pics of a flasher in hdb room)




after hanging around a bit, some minister ( forgot his name, so nooob) and the British High Commissioner came in to give out the prizes... the winner of the competition were 1 guy n 1 gal, both from... u-guessed-it SP (i'm wondering are we the only one's who took part?)

supposed to be some 3500 ppl submitted photos and like a 1/4 million ppl went online to vote...
hmm... both the guy n the gal, looked like well, model students... looks qutie ok. feels- well im not gay, or pervert... they looked like those giordano models ya noe? or campus superstar kinda ppl..

they provided food there, but the food was... well... v. iffy.... the only thing i knew how to consume was the orange juice... i tried this cup of yellow, orange, green thingy, some kinda vegetable, n nearly threw up over the expensive carpet.... tasted horrible, ginger with tomato or smth... i think, too much money does things to ur head...

after that me n one guy went back to pasir ris, eat at Magic Wok, n slack a bit at library...haven't done tt for long time... slacking i mean... heh, first week of hols more like hell week.....

Tue


spoke with Christina, Sarah's sis, think ya'll noe her better than me... she said she saw me taking 358 back frm white sands yest...

haven't spoken to her since.... the good old gunbound days... bout 3 year back le.... now tt's long...


once again back to Bugis in late afternoon... this time for check up with SIA engg...

Raffles Hospital... free check up... cool... sporean's love anyth that has the name raffles on it...

easiest bit was the colour blindness test... during height n weight, was expecting the nurse to tell me to eat more, but nth...

during ex-ray, the rather young radiologsit told me to "take of ur shirt", again expecting tt phrase, but nth...

conclusion? crystal was here before me... (<-- hope u get it) no offense hor... hearing test was the toughest... they put u in this tiny but thick walled cubicle, stick on monster earphones, lock u in, then..... nothing... all quiet... slowly but surely, u can hear tiny squeaking noises, n ur supposed to click this controller when u hear a sound... the sounds r... soft to say the least, but being bred on a diet of jay chou songs n frequent conversations with my rather soft-spoken hamster, it wasn't too tough... juz click click click whenever u hear anyth... hey, i even got a souvenir when i got back, i got to keep my X-ray! cool... i've got it over my Shaman King posters at home now... haha, tml no rest... once again, go JURONG for briefing on acer... ZZzz... nights!

Busy Busy Little Bee

this hols so far hav been... busy like s*** to say the least.... funearls, (still dunno how to spell), CYA training, SIA engg interview, work, bla bla.... in 9 days so far only got 1 day off with nth to do....

killer routine for a slacker like me... i'm not like my sis, who is probably gonna b the shaun of her class or smth... everyday got smth or other, then always nev study....

talking bout the SIA interview... it went off pretty badly... arrived early at the Cargo Complex area, had to change passes n stuff... then had to b escorted through this huge labryinth like building.... the size of like.. umm... can't think of anything this size...

the length we walked is like double from one end of suntec to the other, stacked 10 stories high at least.... saw a few plane hangars n stuff, but overall the place got a very warehousey, industrial feel... definetly not my 1st choice of work place.... hate warehouses...

came to this small white office area, named the human resource room... ppl there look v. sian and all... can't imagine working there in future... tt's y i say working sux...

afterh hour plus wait, invited into a small room, to b interview by a pregnant woman n an older man, hu is v. like a lecturer.... they start off by asking me to introduce myself n stuf.... then ask me damn a lot of v. diff questions....

eg. "since u say u like planes so much and noe so much" tell me how a plane flies..... i like wtf... i nev say i noe so much, only that i like, anyway, how plane flies is wat ppl spend years studying in university...

more qn like : where do you think SIA engineering is headed in the future? (if i m a fortune teller, i woulda gotten myself a winning ticket le... this kinda qn, u ask ur boss la...)

the woman especially, was a real bitch...n i dun say tt lightly, throughout the interview, she gav the damn sian look to me, whenever she was looking at me at all... also she always ask qn, then giv a scornful look when i ans, like i'm an idiot or wat..... eff off la...

they guy was better, but his still keep trying like a bit to discourage me..... saying ur too young to decide... this is the real thing bla bla bal....

at the end they gav this killer IQ test, smth like wei qiangs petal in a rose qn, but 25 of them in 30 mins...

i knew i did quite badly, but dun really care le... even if i got the scholarship, not sure if i wanna b bonded to such ppl for 5 years...

finish my job, but tml gotta go for CYA stuff, smth to do with the queen, n tue SIA health checkup....

Alone in a crowd

anyone here rmbr Titanic? the scene where Rose wanna commit suicide, caus she say smth about how she feel so alone even though she's rich n got a lot of ppl around her?

no? nev mind... parents probably didn't bring ya caus they didn't want u to watch ppl making out in a vintage car on board a sinking ship...

anyway, working in the IT SHOW for the last 3 days, n seeing so many ppl giv me that experiecne, except the suicide part... jumping off the top floor of the convention centre n lending on the X box 360 booth wouldn't b a healthy sight for the kids playing there...

the best way to drive a person crazy or juz stone him out, is to make him giv out flyers... for 9 hours... wonder if they do that in Abu Gharib? giving out flyers is bad bad bad, psychologically n mentally...

ppl dun treat u as a person, n u dun treat them as ppl... v. hard to xplain...
everyone looks alike after a while, chio, ugly, fat , thin, dun make a difference to u... juz wanna get home...unless u've done it before...time crawls to a standstill, stretching to eternity...

giving out flyers aint such a simple affair as sticking ur hand out either... i sppsd to control the rate of giving out, to make sure they last through the entire IT SHOW... wats more, got different catalogue, supposed to giv to diff ppl... like Plasma TV's dun giv to small kids n such... easy to say, but wat do ya do when a kid's got both paws on the paper n won't let go?

conditions pretty bad too... piles of cardboard boxes, n piles of torn paper lining the sides of the halls... ppl shouting n grabbign stuff... more like a seen frm hurricane katrina or slums in sum african country then s'proe you'd think...

on the bright side though i learnt tt... liverpool fans r much more then any other clubs.... sure u see 1 or 2 man u or ac milan fans once a while... but liverpool fans r like whoa! super a lot.... all sorts of jersey's tt u nev even dreamed of... green and white? candy instead of carlsberg? which alternate dimension did these liverpools come frm?

5th Squad

actually the title shld b called 5th Batch, after the batch we're training at the airport, but, i tot 5th squad sounded cooler...so there...

Monday

Met up with the rest of the seniors frm 4th batch, n we spent the day with the CSO's, following the 5th batch as they went about their training.... later took them around for a short trip around terminal 1...

On the way back, boarded teh same bus as one of the trainer CSO's, Ana Maria, she bit intimidating but no choice, got to gather my courage n tok to her.... tok bit bout Mp3 players n stuff... quite relieved when she dropped at the edge of pasir ris there...

met jas at white sands for lunch, he showed me his notebook thingy for the first time, quite cool, looks v. much like a lap top.... later he came over to see the dog, then went to the gym with him...

stamina really sux... ran pretty slow, yet barely managed to complete 1 km.... besides tt though, realised going gym pretty fun... no one was there, so no one else looking, n the room quite small too...

TUE

no CYA today, juz slack at home..... Dennis called, said he wanted to pick up some notes.... he came with his rather big fren jonathan who also going SP... both of them happen to know my claassmate Shum Wai... spore's pretty small...

recieved the e-mail frm SIA engineering, have a interview on thursday...

Wed

wanted to stay at home today as well, but the guys needed some help so went for training too...

more fun today i think, whole day was basically juz pure mentoring, which means no lectures frm the CSO's or anything, juz going in our groups n familiarising ourselves... also, went out in small groups today, me n mindzi, with 4 juniors with us... much prefer small groups, easier to talk to ppl i feel...

tt Marcus was in my grp... actually he not so bad... pretty pro, caus he worked at SATS before as well...

highlight of the day was lunch... we had it at the Fish & Co in the airport... actually was a bit reluctant, caus v. ex, but since everyone wanted to go, so i tagged along....

there we were served by several interesting staff.... one guy was the manager i think, he made those alcoholic cocktails or wateva, tossing the colouful bottles around.... pretty neat to watch...he asked us what we did in the airport.... always hav trouble answering tt one...

everyone besides me ordered fish n chips, but most ordered New York fish n chips.... i joked tt New York fish n chips had a flag or smth stuck in them, n when the dishes arrived, true enough, tt's wat it was...

best part was, our water was refilled by this super-super-cute waitress, got a cute dog at home, but she's much cuter... she looked smth like ms seah, but much nicer n funnier... when it came time to pay the bills, our reciept didn't match wat we thought was the price of the food... so we counted a lot of times...

she joked "one of you're muz stay back n help the cook wash dishes liao... our cook will be glad to have you...". damn... i shld hav volunteered, then can stay there longer...

after we left the restraunt, me n my fren suddenly tok bout the waitress at the same time... we decided to ask another guy to get the no. for us.... later found out, she didn't want to giv to him... she wanted us to go ourselves...

tot bout it of the rest of the day, but decided to come back sum other time.... juz hope she still there...

Delayed Reaction

Friday's last paper was thermofluids, the only paper i can say was relatively easy..... either this term's exams is harder than last terms or i've slacked in standard... met crystal in the morn when we alighted at dover...

after the paper, went with my class to Dhoby Gauht for DotA.... played 3 matches in total.... my team got owned all 3 times... sian... haha...

met wq at 6 at raffles city, n we walked to suntec to see the World Cup there... along the way saw lot of TP n IJ ppl, including Jieying n Daphne...

the world cup thing was.... allright, but not terribly interesting to me... juz saw some Xbox n displays n took a pic with the cup.... i think going to see a world cup match would b much more exciting to me then, juz standing next to it...

oh then i saw lorraine at the city link on the way back to city hall mrt...

then he went home as i went to an Grand-Aunty's funeral at Bedok....zzz been going to a lot of these recently...found out also tt my hamster, the blonde one, died after living with us for like 3-4 years..... super long life.... think most of u who have been 2 my house noe it...

it's the one who daryl claimed, ate his Amaths book n chinese sou che...mayb someone shld inform him...

SAT

soccer at pasir ris for me aft a long while.... pretty gd fun i think.... nev been exercising...jas scored a lot alot tt day n was the usual ppl to turn up...

after got home n had a shower, realised no one else at home, n hav no food, so met ql n went to S11 for dinner....

when i finished eating bout 10+, but both of us itching for DotA so went ahead to raiders with wq n played 2 games....

by tt time was bout 1145 liaoz... me n ql rushed to the interchange b4 all the buses left... luckily still got bus 3..... reached back bout 1245...

was greeted by a small little dog with a tiny tongue n pretty cute face when i entered the door...... my sis had finally bought the dog, frm her fren after discussing for a long time...