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Happy birthday sweet heart

2011-01-14T01:05:00.007+08:00

Orite, this is a pretty belated post.I celebrated the tickle monster's birthday just about 2 days ago. It was meant to be a simple affair really, how ever, as I was preparing for the day itself,ideas just poured in constantly thus, things got a little more interesting ..

The choices of places we dine at in particular was hand picked by me after a series of taste test and ambience checks , during the past few weeks.

On conclusion, a few places were listed out how ever, I picked , the oriole cafe bar , canelle the patisserie and the society bar out of the array ,as they were located more strategically according to my plan.

Lunch was at the oriole cafe bar which is located at somerset 313, just opposite brotzeit.We had fish and chips and Beef Cheek Tagliatelle here. Of which, I think the beef tagliatelle is simply awesome. The beef cheeks were tender and the red wine reduction sauce compliment those lovely pieces of protein so well together with the pasta that was cooked to perfection.

The fish and chips was a little ordinary I felt , even though its stated on lady iron chef as the best fish and chips in town. The tar tar sauce was uniquely fantastic though.

Besides the main course , we ordered a pot of floral tea. It is simply aromatic and tasty . Janice enjoys every sip of it and can't get enough of it actually.Being not the avid tea drinker, I must say, this pot of tea really intrigues me with its light body, yet strong aroma. The price tag for the above came to a blue color note with some change to spare for bubble tea=D For that , I felt it was worth while for the good food there.

Next stop, was to have the girl's birthday cake. Think of patisserie and desserts and just intuitively, chocolates would come into a girl's mind. Ay, maybe i'm a guy, thats why this year, her birthday cake was this marvellous matcha cake from canele patisserie at the basement of the paragon. I had a few mouthful of the cake only and I thought that this could probably be the best green tea cake I've ever ate in my life .Well, ask the girl , she'll probably say the same thing ,after all, she had almost the entire cake to herself .

I ordered two more macrons to go with the cake as a side treat for her.The macrons wasn't that fantastic I thought, maybe my sweet tooth was retracted due to the recent dental visits.

Dinner was at the society bar. The place had a great atmosphere actually, lights were dimmed , nice jazzy music and comfortable seats,they even had a candle light thing going on the table!As a romantic spot to have dinner was my main criterion for choosing a place to dine, I had to choose the Society bar. The food I must say wasn't really anything fantastic though. I had an angus beef burger and she had fennel sausages with mashed peas. I was disappointed when i cut thru my beef pattie to find it medium well done when I actually asked for a medium rare done-ness. I held on to my request to ask for a change because I'm quite certain,I'll make a scene if i do so, why spoil such a lovely day right?

On the other hand, the girl was struggling to down her poorly seasoned mashed peas and stale sausages. I belief that the sausages are meant to complement the mashed peas as they were rather salty , how ever, I felt that the cook could have done a better job with character of the dish.

Nonetheless, since it was a bar, we decided to gave them a chance for redemption and ordered a couple of cocktails as desserts. She had a snowball(she always does) , and I ordered a chocolate Martini. Yes, yes, some of you must be thinking why the hell is this grown man ordering a lady's drink, well here's it. Lady drinks are god damn tasty , period.

The snowball was nice as according to her , but i haven't really tried any of it, Again, she had everything to herself. Tsk , now you can see that girl friends are not exactly kind and sharing all the time.

The chocolate martini was splendid i felt. Alcohol level was light,too light for me but i guess its expected since its a ladies drink, and the sweetness was just nice for me. The chocolate smudge at the walls of the cocktail glass gave the drink an extra point for aesthetics and also adds on to the chocolatey taste . Thus, the drinks made up for the quality of the food they served us earlier on.

On three places that I've stated, I guess the one that really satisfy the most would probably be the canele the patisserie with its matcha cake. P.s ,its easy to come to this conclusion based on the look on the girl friend's face with every bite she takes with the matcha cake =D

Happy new year !!!!

2011-01-01T12:04:00.002+08:00

And the tickle monster is finally back!!!!! SO FREAKING HAPPY CAN!Its like the first voice i heard on the phone this year was from her the moment I woke up! YAY!!!!!!!

2 more days

2010-12-30T21:08:00.002+08:00

2 more days till she comes back. I really longed for her to be back, but funny.. why don't i feel that she felt the same way as me? Maybe i'm just being sensitive .

Ever felt this immense pressure building up in you, and when you're reaching breaking point, you feel like there is nothing at all? Just a constant melody of emptiness playing . Like you're not needed, wanted or loved.

Hmm, yep, the emo cell is active tonight.. it definitely is.

Day 16- Elated

2010-12-27T22:50:00.002+08:00

I feel super happy today .I think the main reason was because a sweet girl who is currently situated in UK talked to me on msn this morning the moment I woke up. That made my day, seriously...

Rest of the day was spent at ivens and doing some work. Had a jog and went to meet the secondary peeps for steam boat at calin's. Somehow, I really feel out of the loop.I think its unfair to pin the blame on anyone on this though. Period

The cold shower

2010-12-26T19:11:00.002+08:00

Back in the days NS, we don't have the luxury of a water heater in our showers and we have to bath with water that was rather "refreshing". Although it made me jumped around the first few times and all, I began to appreciate it more. I know that bathing in cold water is good for the body but I didn't know exactly, what it was good for . That is not until I did a search on the internet and here, is what i've found out.

The practice of taking cold showers in the morning is extraordinarily revitalizing and has been used therapeutically all over the world for thousands of years.

Gurudev Khar Khalsa, a Sat Nam Rasayan healer and Kundalini Yoga teacher in Los Angeles sent this information on the healing power of cold showers.

"Cold Water Massage Therapy is the one of the healthiest and inexpensive of therapies. Simply massage the body with almond oil before taking a shower. Shower in cold water until your body temperature rises and no longer feels cold, but toasty and warm. Make sure the bathroom is heated. Never get out of a cold shower into a cold room.

*** Please note: Cold showers should not be taken during a women's time of menstruation. A woman needs extra rest and gentleness during her menses. Taking a cold shower is too much for the reproductive system during menstruation. A lukewarm shower is recommended. Generally speaking, hot showers are not good as they tend to depress the various physiological systems of the body.

Cold showers have the following positive effects:

* Brings blood to the capillaries, therefore increasing circulation throughout the body.

* Cleans the circulatory system.

* Reduces blood pressure on internal organs.

* Provides flushing for the organs and provides a new supply of blood.

* Strengthens the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems.

* Contracts the muscles to eliminate toxins and poisonous wastes.

* Strengthens the mucous membranes, which help resist hay fever, allergies, colds, coughs.

Many health problems are reduced or even eliminated over time by providing proper circulation of the blood to the affected area using the cold shower massage.

"Ishnan" is the term used in the old days when people in India referred to cold showers (very cold showers). "Ishnan" is the point at which the body, by its own virtue, creates the temperature that it can beat off the coldness of the water. This happens when the capillaries open with the onset of the cold water. They close again during the course of the cold shower and it is at that point that all the blood rushes back to flush the organs and the glands. This process allows the glands to renew their secretions and "youth" (i.e. young glands) again returns to the body."

The information is extracted from earth clinic which is well known for many home based remedies and health solutions similar to the one above. So , why not switching of the heater, and refresh yourself with a cold shower . =)

Day 15- Lazing around...

2010-12-26T15:35:00.002+08:00

Ay, its a lazy sunday .. Feel like just lazing the day away.. I'm supposed to finished my POA assignment on cash flow statements but honestly, I haven't figured out what cash flow statements is. I'm gonna die.

Sad day for marcus.. His fish died. Hur, badly wounded fellow already actually.. oh well... maybe he'll consider getting another one soon enough.

The ticklemonster finally came online yesterday and I had the chance to talk to her.. Miss her so very much .. although she msg me at 530 am in the morning and I'm all smashed and all I didn't mind it at all. I dunno about the guys that were here though.. lol

day 13-here without you baby..

2010-12-24T22:12:00.002+08:00

Alas , its christmas eve, and i'm spending it yet again at home alone. Well, i've got my lappy, a bottle of wine and my babies to keep me company though. Sad case for some, but I guess, I've got to keep my chin up eh.

Marcus got his first betta from iven for free today. He is quite excited about it, kept asking me on betta care and all.. he even setup an account at arofanatics. Kids.

I feel old saying that actually. Maybe its just plain jealousy that all the KIDS now are at some count down party at home while this 22 year old man is staying at home sipping wine and using his lappy. Oh well, merry christmas everyone ,have a blast~

2010-12-24T21:12:00.001+08:00

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Julie & Julia - trailer

2010-12-23T13:18:00.000+08:00

I've got the DVD version of it if any of you are interested!=D

Day 12-Fly like a butterfly sting like a bee

2010-12-23T13:03:00.002+08:00

Now, I know its paranoia of me but I haven't heard a single word from the ticklemonster for 4 days and honestly, I'm freaking out. The news on the snow storm and everything else doesn't make me feel any better.Well, lets hope she is doing fine yea..

Spent the day tending after my fishes,doing work and all..watched Julie and Julia before I slept last night. Quite an interesting video actually. Reminds me that cooking for some one you love and eating food cooked by the person you love is a bliss. I'm also starting to watch Masterchef USA , very much influence by the best man to do so actually.. its actually, better then i thought. Really, go check it out if you haven't already..

Laser Caries Removal Technique

2010-12-22T19:28:00.000+08:00

amazing all these were happening in my mouth just moments ago..

Day 11- Becoming the better kisser

2010-12-22T19:06:00.002+08:00

Just got my dental check up today. Lotsa drilling and filling but i'm glad that I've got clean and healthy teeth now. Which also meant that I'll have a fresher breath , which makes me a better kisser=D well, we've to try it out don't we?

day 10- I miss you.. alot.. so very very much

2010-12-21T01:28:00.002+08:00

Day 10, received a mail from the ticklemonster. The contents made me guilty for my ignorance. I really hated myself as i read on. Shet..

Day 8-the sunday without you

2010-12-19T19:35:00.002+08:00

Hmm, I literally lazed the day away today. Change alil fish water here and there and thats about it. I'm supposed to be doing my assignment but i just can't get my ass down to do it. I'm either surfing the web or watching videos and all. I mean, its sunday right. why not just take a break. Hur...

The net book value lesson =D

2010-12-19T12:15:00.001+08:00

A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:

Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?

I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here.

I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above.

You might say that I'm greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York .

My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married?

I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you?

Among those I've dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit.

If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden ( ? ) , $250k annual income is not enough.

I'm here humbly to ask a few questions:

1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)

2) Which age group should I target?

3) Why most wives of the riches are only average-looking? I've met a few girls who don't have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys.

4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)

Ms. Pretty
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An awesome reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan:

Dear Ms. Pretty,

I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyse your situation as a professional investor.

My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I'm not wasting time here.

From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you.

The answer is very simple, so let me explain.

Put the details aside, what you're trying to do is an exchange of "beauty"and "money" : Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square.

However, there's a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason.

The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can't be prettier year after year.

Hence from the view point of economics,

I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It's not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worse 10 years later.

By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a "trading position".

If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term - same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or "leased".

Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you,but will not marry you.

I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income.This has better chance than finding a rich fool.

Hope this reply helps. If you are interested in "leasing" services, do contact me.

signed,
J.P. Morgan CEO

Adapted ..

luvin it =D

2010-12-18T23:19:00.001+08:00

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Day 7- Friends are the finest balm for the bruised soul

2010-12-18T22:38:00.002+08:00

1 week since she's been gone. I admit , I am still pretty down today. Was out with the fags.. had dim sum at taste paradize. Food is awesome there .. serious.. check out the pics...

Total bill came up to a 125 but i guess its quite worth the price. Though honestly, I don't think i can indulge in much of this extravagant any more.

Watched Tron after wards.

Gary suggested the show. I thought it was so so only,with the scientific sci fi plots and all, it kinda reminded me of the matrix.

Walked around marina to clark quay with ern and gary afterwards. Lou had to go to this wedding he dread. Poor lad, got to face his greatest fears. Don't understand why he is so afraid of losing..

That's all for now.. Out.

Day 6- you're the one that hurt me most..

2010-12-17T21:36:00.002+08:00

Breeze beach road with zhen yang and kah siong today. Both of them are super crazy about fiishing and asked me to bring introduce them to the various tackles suitable for fishing in singapore. Newbies like them always develop a deep pocket habit for spending on fishing items, of times, I feel they might be spending on unnecessary stuffs. Thus, I decided to be nice and help them out with choosing the correct stuffs.

hmm, dun really have anything nor in the mood to update anything now actually. Maybe i'm going to cycle.

out.

day 5 - an empty street,an empty house, a hole inside my heart

2010-12-16T20:08:00.003+08:00

As promised, more pictures of the fries, don't be mistaken by the blown up pictures, the fries are really damn small and I had to strain my macro lens to its max in order to take this few shots. cute aren't they. They're probably just over 24 hours old now. Still feeding of their yolk sac, in another 24 hours, they're mouth will be fully developed. That's when the feeding starts.

Hit the library today to do my work. Was worried about the fries so I cam back early to tend to them. Lucky they're all doing fine, was worried that the lack of parental care would cause the culture to crash.

Finally received a reply from tickle monster who is currently heading to paris now. Wish i was there to enjoy the scenery with her. Beautiful scenery with her, what else can be more magnificent then that? haha

They hatched!

2010-12-15T23:01:00.002+08:00

Hehe, to my surprise, a few of the kiddos hatched.. couldn't manage to grab a picture, they're too microscopic.. will try to get some tomorrow...

Day 4 - Every step I take , Every move I make, Every Single day, Everytime I pray .. I'll be missing you..

2010-12-15T19:50:00.002+08:00

Remember the notorious B.I.G ?? Biggie smalls, if you haven't got clue, save yourself and go watch the movie on his bibliography. Very good shit..

Ay, i'm still stuck in school doing up my assignment. Tsk, halve the day was spent revising my work inorder for me to start on my assignment . Tough times don't last , tough men do huh..

Speaking of which, a familiar figure popped out from the corner of my desk just moments ago. Yong chee heng. Haha, he was frantically searching for a lap top to edit his work and decided to randomly ask the first person he saw that has one. Who knows that he'd bump into me , such coincidence, tsk.

I'm suspecting the white spawn will not be successful again this time. I saw the nest dissipating this morning with the eggs scattered all around the place. I'm thinking that the male is not fertile , sad case, guess I'll need to acquire another specimen soon.

The school's library is extremely peaceful and quiet at night actually. Shows how much the students here appreciate the library. Well, I figured that I won't be able to concentrate at home any way, might as well sit my ass down snugged in a quiet corner in the library.

10 more days to Christmas, anybody out there without anything to do or any where to go yet?

2010-12-14T22:41:00.001+08:00

Mother of the spawn...skinny and eggless

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Day 3-Whites spawn again

2010-12-14T19:38:00.002+08:00

Yet again my fishes spawned today. Previously the eggs weren't fertilized so there wasn't any baby fishes. Hopefully, the dad's doing his job this time.

I'm working on yet another assignment again. Infront of my naggy friend, Mr Seah Chong Tuck who kept distracting me from my work. Nah, he's innocent, I'm actually totally clueless on my assignment and has been staring a blank screen ever since I switched on the laptop.

Had a bit of a scare just now regarding my modules exemptions.Called the student help desk already regarding the issue. They apparently made a mistake regarding my exemptions for my course. Hopefully things will get validated soon enough or else, I've to go through 3 years of studying in that wretched school.

Ay, tickle monster should have reached Uk by now. Hope she safe and sound. Ok, time for dinner, Seah is getting freaking irritating and impatient..

Day 2- Good bye my lover, I'll be missing you

2010-12-13T19:33:00.002+08:00

I had a hard time concentrating in class this morning with the nonsensical chatter from the bimbotic girls sitting right behind me together with the lack of sleep. Caffeine still managed to hold the front up a little,however, I feel that I'll get immune to it soon. The lecturer lost me halve way though as I allow my mind to wander else where.

Thoughts on expectations erupted again as I recall my friend's predicament.Thoughts on my life led me to think about the tickle monster, eventually.

In a few more hours she'll be on a flight towards the UK with her sisters . The song Goodbye My Lover by James blunt came up while I'm typing this post .While the room got engulfed in a melancholic atmosphere, I seek comfort from thinking about my assignment due tomorrow. Damn, too much unfinished business..

Day one -First day that i saw you, thought you were beautiful..

2010-12-12T13:30:00.003+08:00

School has been a rat race for me ever since it started. The 2 years spent in the Army was really detrimental to my academic intellect , picking up the pieces and moving along with school work was tough.

Alas, sweet liberation from National service was without doubt, delightful. School brings about a new form of freedom and I'm pretty comfortable with this life now.

I wonder though, where my limits would extend to this comfort. Patrick just told me he is quitting school first thing on Monday . Tough school and environment , and some personal issues caused him to reach this daunting settlement. He has always been a champ since primary school and I'm sure that this phase is only going to be a stepping stone for the greatness that is coming next for him.

However,I shuddered with the thought that I could jolly well reach his position as well. It will be such great turn of events that I can't imagine the conclusions that follow suit. I don't have my friend's tenacity to adapt and plan and execute his plans . I can't seem to garner confidence nor reassurance for the future that seems so bleak.

Ay,today marks another 2 weeks apart from the tickle monster. Well, it may seem minuscule as compared to the staggering 2 months (I know some peeps out there maintain long distance relationship and you might probably be laughing your air heads off now . I'll give it to you, because I can't imagine myself in your shoes) we had , how ever, I seem to be anticipating a draggy two weeks coming. Especially so when the 2 weeks is covering Christmas. Tsk, all well, enough of whining,time to hustle with my POA assignments and notes again.

Reciprocate

2010-04-25T00:55:00.003+08:00

'The usual, just one, the rest would make their order when they arrive.' I told eddy. He is a nice chap , smooth with his bar-tending and always engages his clients amicably.

'Here you go boss ' Eddy said after he sat the drink on the coaster in front of me.'Enjoy it=)'

'Thanks man' I said as I reached for my wallet' here you go '

'Oh,the tab has already been taken,by that lady over there' eddy ended of with a wink as he proceed to mix his next drink.'cheers mate'.

Strange,firstly, I've never been offered a drink by a woman before and I'm pretty sure I haven't engaged with any woman in the bar yet. The first thought that came to my mind was that eddy probably misunderstood the lady and gave the drink to the wrong guy. That wasn't the case when I lock on to a pair of eyes looking straight back at me.

Stage 1, an act of interest.

Stage 2, reciprocating act of interest.

Stage 3, approach.

It didn't took long for free drink lady to strut over after we exchanged smiles. She looks like a mix and judging from her build, I'm guessing she'll be in the modeling industry or making big bucks using the assets she possessed.

'Hey there' free drink lady said' I've seen you around this place often, I'm Hayley. '

'Thanks for the drink, I'm obligated, my name is Jaycee ' I replied, a little flabbergasted by her approach.

There was quite an awkward pause when all she did was smile at me and I'm feeling an inner vixen in her waiting to pounce on me. I've seen girls like that approach my mates and all, they have been known to be very domineering and initiated. They are normally cougars(term we give for slighter older woman) and their attention don't often last long. Well, this one fits the characteristics given to me from my mate's compilations just that she doesn't look close to a cougar to me. She'd probably just pass off slightly older then myself.

We went on with some light conversation over stuffs and more introductions. I began to loosen up and thought that I could use her for company while waiting for the mates who seem to be suffering from chronic lateness.

'So what are you doing after this? ' she popped that question haphazardly .

'I'm waiting for my mates to join me , for dinner. They're always this late for our meet ups.'

'Oh, why not you tell them that you're joining them for dinner, and we head to somewhere else' she said that as she closed in and held my hand. 'Its a little crowded and noisy here'

I was astounded from her advances, changing the mood of an innocent conversation. Well, I was probably naive then ,how innocent can the conversation get right, with such approaches.

'I don't think that would be possible , my mates are arriving soon' I pushed away ' I'm sorry'

Then Hayley saw that ring on my finger.

'Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you're attached' she said.

'Yea, its OK , I'm cool '

Things were feeling extremely awkward at this point of time now.

'You know' Hayley said as she leans over to whisper into my ear' she is one lucky girl'

I smiled upon hearing that.She left me after a friendly peck on the cheek and i watch her sauntered to the exit.

'You can't blame her for taking such initiative' eddy said while cleaning up the cups 'She used to be with a guy and you look very much like that fellow. Words say that he died in a car accident. Sad life I'd say, she probably still haven't gotten over him. '

Its melodramatic. I felt sorry for her . I was wondering if I could be the person to ease her pain even if its just a delusion.Probably, I shouldn't even have been appearing in front of her all this time.

My wants..

2010-04-18T22:54:00.004+08:00

Its said that we can never be satisfied with what we have, from basic needs to luxury items, men have always been pursuing the better lot.. Just take the stock markets for example, it just a reflection on how we are,the characteristics on how the market rotates around the various sectors, from commodities to necessities you'll always see those chart point upwards.

Just how much more do we actually need to be satisfied?A question was raised to an evangelist for Microsoft during a seminar that sat my ass in.The latter asked,"when will windows stop upgrading ?Its hard to keep up with the different versions every year!". Then he replied "That's simple,we'll stop when we receive no complains on the OS itself " . IMO, i don't see such a day coming at all.

So, while spending yet another unproductive day , I decided that I should come out with a list of my short term needs , so as justify for not doing anything at all for the whole day.Its more for my own reference in the future and you could probably refer to it and see similar wants . If that's so , we could discuss about that item in hope of getting something better out of it.=D

Items listed in chronological order the first being the first thing that came on my mind and hence forth..

1)Laptop-HP Pavilion Dv5 GBP519
2)Fluorescent Light for my room SGD 50.00
3)Desktop PC -Something with I7 core SGD 1.500
4)Paint for my bike-decided that pink is too gay SGD50.00
5)A better phone-ORD LO SGD500.00
6)Camera body-Canon 5d MII SGD 3,599.00
7)Lense- Sigma APO 70-300mm 4.5-5.6F SGD 350.00
8)Flash- Canon Speedlite 580 ExII SGD 899.00
9)G-shock watch-I want to forget about the times i spent with my indestructible army watch Sgd135.00
10)Rolex Watch -They say its a good investment SGD5000.00
11)Investment Portfolio-Yeap, thats the only way to get my first million SGD 5000.00
12)Small aquarium-I want to try breeding guppies SGD 50.00
13)Book-Secret of millionaire investor first Ed SGD50.00
14)Printer-Laser jet monochrome printer SGD150.00

Total amount: SGD19,371.00

Well, looks like the offer to solicit at changi village isn't that bad after all..Sigh, alot of chicken rice eating days to come=(

That's Boon Tong Kee's Chicken rice by the way,just to tempt=)

Share the roads, be the better person~

2010-04-01T00:22:00.006+08:00

The news of yet another cyclist being killed on the roads made me shudder as I zipped down the roads today. Though I'm cycling on a less frequent basis, I'm still very affected by this rise in numbers of accidents involving cyclist. Many of times I see is due to ignorant motorist and probably some very selfish individuals who refused to share the roads.

I wouldn't want to start taking stands between the motorist and the cyclist(least because I'm in the midst of getting my driving license XD), I believe we're all human and either of us would make errors and have the choice to be selfish or not while on the roads.

While cycling back from sentosa today, I witnessed yet another road rage that could turn ugly . This time it was between this female driver and this two other cyclist along the opposite traffic. Car was begrudged to give way, cyclist squeeze through, car deliberately cut in to squeeze the cyclist off the tracks , cyclist got pissed over takes the car from the right and screamed at the driver while displaying the third finger, driver let loose a clamorous wail on the horn just before I lost sight of the drama.

I feel utterly disappointed by how the cyclist reacted to the situation but I thought that I might just behaved the same when it comes to my own safety.Well,in any case, I thought that maybe , cycling just got a little more risky thanks to people like these. However, I contemplate that I'll be wrong and with this most recent road kill , be a turning point for people to improve on road safety. So people that might be reading my blog and if you happened to be drivers , PLEASE , try to be nice while on the road and give in to the people that is utilising a more eco friendly means of transport . Do the right thing, make a difference=)

After all, you don't wanna see this face appear on the newspaper right?

The lovely year I had ..

2010-03-28T23:59:00.002+08:00

Just about a year ago, I'ld say I was in a pretty screwed up state in my life. Things happening around me were pulling me down every single day back then and I wasn't a happy man , as many would have agreed. Thats until a particular individual decide to make a pit stop in my life...

This year with her around was probably one of the most meaningful,wonderful and care free year I've ever had in my life. ( I know, we all behave and say the same things when we're in a relationship, but thats how we're born to be like right?). Ay, things became so much different and again,Jc saw a major change in his life...
I'm grateful, for her presence, for her commitment, for her understanding ... Words can't express how grateful I am to who ever is up there pulling the strings with me and her...Ay, this one year I say.. was just totally... Awesome ... I wish for plenty and many of this years to come ... I can never have enough of awesome-ness...

Your lovely scars

2010-03-25T22:39:00.002+08:00

I remember those younger teenage days ,the days where i do lots of radical stuffs..The drive to skip meals just to save up money to buy a bicycle,the drive to participate in those road events and to make a fool out of ourselves,the ridiculous stunts we pull to woo some girl which always have us end up broken hearted, the times when we braced ourselves when cycling in a rainy weather, those time when we spammed the hand phone of some one to have joint conversation together even though we don't have any idea what we're talking about.

I've began to reminiscence on those times , after starring at my ceiling for sometime.Right, I'm having a few days off from work thus I've the luxury to stare at my ceiling ~

Maybe we all grew up....

That's what I thought.I believe that's the more definite answer we could ever get , but.. I thought again, I still wanna have that kind of drive, that kind of feeling but its something I can't do alone.

Then I thought about the people around me. They all seemed so far away now, every one is on an endless pursuit for their ideal lifestyle, fulfilling their own needs or probably,what they need to fulfil, that kinda left me thinking. Am I the only one still holding on to such immature thoughts?

I know eventually my turn will come to pursue what I NEED to pursue and I'm probably am able to come up with this crap now because I'm so freaking free.. however, if you think about it.. Isn't it a pity that we've lost them all..and all that's left is all these lovely scars that haunts you....

I'm finally back

2010-03-22T01:53:00.002+08:00

Finally, i get to have some decent blogging time to myself. I can't stand to blog while i have people behind me queing for the internet. Its like that in thailand when everyone shares that few terminals to use the internet.. Some insensitive bastards just don't understand what is privacy..

Oh well, I'm glad that its finally over!The satisfaction i get after accomplishing yet another big feat is overwhelming. Everyone on the flight back was so damn high. Right, ok i can't type much now.. my eyes are closing down on me.. Will update tml!~

ORD LO!

I miss singapore

2010-03-07T18:57:00.002+08:00

So, I've been in Thailand for 2 weeks now. For those of you who don't know , I'm stationed now in Thailand for my final exercise in my Ns life. After which, I will be done with ns and moving on to my next phase in life. That is something that I'm very much anticipating..

The weather in Thailand is significantly hot and dry. Its easily freaking 38 degrees on every other day and to tell the truth, I had a hard time adapting to the weather conditions and fell ill the first few days upon my arrival.How ever, the locals had their way to cope with the hot weather with ice cream and this brilliant blended ice drink that they seemed to have a never ending list of flavours added to it.

The missions I've been to so far were fairly manageable,with the fact that I've got added responsibilities and the men were getting harder to manage, i thought we did a rather commendable job so far. Now that we're done with all the training mission, its time for the real one next week. Finally, I'm going to jump on a foreign country =)

At this point of time I got to say Jc's rather home sick.

On the lunar 15Th of CNY my family had a gathering which i was not there. Zzz, its one of the few times i get to see relatives only once year and I miss some of them eh. Sadly, i was stuck in Thailand on an exercise that very night.. its irritating..

One of my secondary school friend left for Hk the other day for her studies. Ay, the sec school peeps had a gathering to send her off but again, i was stuck in Thailand. Sucks to be here at that point of time... Zzz, I was just talking to Jia pei the other night about how people are just moving on and how miserable my click less life is as compared to others. Comfortingly, she told me she still feels comfortable talking with me thus like I said, friends is something that requires quality.. in any case, I wish to hang out more with the peeps when I get back to sg.

Ok this part is gonna get cheesy ..

I can't emphasize on how much I miss my girl friend when I'm here. Even back in Sg, just one day without seeing each other calls for cheesy mushy messages already.. Even the most cheesiest of the mushiest messages we sent each other everyday when I'm here in Thailand isn't comforting at all. Just for example earlier when I was drinking the Milk tea rendition of the blended ice, I remember the times when we always drink bubble tea together.

Its kinda depressing actually with all this sadness piling up, but one thing is for sure, I'm halve way through this shit and I'm coming back really soon!~ hopefully, all goes well and ends well here.

Vexed

2010-02-07T21:32:00.004+08:00

Well,seems to be that no one is reading my blog already. That's good, i can rant here and have ppl reading it after its too late .

I've got no avenue to channel all my frustrations to any way~ Every one would

1)Not be bothered
2)Oppose my opinions
3)Don't understand what I'm trying to say
4)Cloud me more with their own problems.

Enough I say, I've decided to just vent everything up on my key board with my fingers.Its not making much difference but it just seem like the only thing I want to do now.

My frustrations can be summarized to three general vessels.

The girl, the family and work. Period

I know she'll not be happy if some one accidentally reads this and know why I'm so pissed so, I guess I'll skip this part.

Some girl in my family have been actively creating lots of trouble for all of us. Although I wish to display much ignorance to the situation, the force of it seemed too great to be avoided. The parents are like freaking out all over it when i feel that they should enforce some self responsibility into the latter since she is already so old. I don't understand why they have to allow themselves to dwindle in their frustrations and then vent it on innocent people in the house.It would only make us hate the girl even more,its a vicious cycle.

I hate my work , everybody knows it.I hate going back there . I love and miss my home constantly and I don't wish to leave it. However, i don't understand why I'm always asked to go back way earlier before i have to. Why can't i just enjoy that little more ? It will really make a difference you know.

Work sucks . Things are beginning to fall apart. Everyone can't be bothered in the company and if you're bothered, you get more responsibilities which you don't want to take and you get openly criticised for it. You get talked about by your colleagues and you get picked on by superiors who were asking the favour from you.Also, you find what you're doing pointless and meaningless yet you still have to do it. Need i say more?

Its happening, all these hate and frustrations are building up in me again. Nobody understands whats going on, nobody wishes to and nobody can. At this point of time, I'm just drowning in my own misery. Fuck,when will these things i hate stop revolving around...

Vexed

2010-02-07T21:32:00.001+08:00

Talk to Your Boyfriend So He'll Listen

2009-11-21T22:49:00.006+08:00

I've noticed how some of my female friends are always complaining about their bf being a dumb ass or just a plain o'jerk. Seriously, i don't think thats the case, they're probably just not catching the same frequency as you, thus displaying their dis interest, so here are a few tips to think about during lunch or so , that might change that perception.

Talk side by side

If you're broaching a potentially sticky subject (stuff like your wanting to get married, or his partying too much), avoid a face-to-face conversation. "Although it seems counterintuitive, insisting on eye contact while hashing out an issue can actually make the problem worse," says Scott Haltzman, M. D., co-author of The Secrets of Happily Married Women. Looking him directly in the eye can make him feel threatened—and when confronted, men instinctively kick into survival mode, triggering a fight-or-flight response. To put him at ease, talk to your boyfriend while you're doing something side by side—walking, driving, eating dinner together on the sofa.

Cut to the chase

According to a study recently published in the journal NeuroImage, the male brain interprets men's voices as speech and women's voices as music. That's why he can easily focus when one of his buddies drones on about some lame computer game, yet has to work overtime to concentrate on your bitch-of-a boss tale. To ensure that he hangs on your every word, make your point as quickly as possible. "Men want to get to the bare bones of the matter," Haltzman says. "So grab his attention by using direct statements such as 'Here's why I'm upset' or 'The bottom line is this.'"

Let him know you need to vent

When you're telling your guy about your backstabbing best friend and he looks confused, it's not because you're not explaining yourself clearly or he's slow on the uptake. Biological differences make men innate problem solvers; the furrowed brow indicates that his mind is scrambling to find a solution. "When a woman presents a man with a dilemma, he interprets this as a request to fix her problem, not to simply listen," Haltzman says. Clue him in by letting him know what you need before you make your point. Try prefacing your story with "I just really need to get this off my chest." By telling him what you expect up front, he'll know what to do and be able to give you what you really want: his ear.

Stroke his ego

If it seems like every time you ask him for a favor your words go in one ear and out the other, you may need to butter him up more. Men are brimming with testosterone, which makes them competitive, and compliments help them feel important and superior. Let's say he never hangs out with your friends. Feed his ego by saying something like "You're so funny! Actually, my friends could use some cheering up. Can you come out with us tonight?" The positive reinforcement will challenge him to rise to the occasion, and the vote of confidence will make him feel needed.

Well, this is quite an honest point of view on stuffs from a guy's perspective, to women who think we're complex, WE ARE THAT COMPLEX, so, do some home work yea . =)

The body world

2009-11-15T16:59:00.003+08:00

So, I've finally decided to make more efficient use of my weekend other then just developing fat cells this week, thus , I dragged myself to visit the latest and hottest exhibit in town...

The body world

For those who don't know what it is about, its actually an exhibition, displaying corpse, stripped layer by layer from their skin to their bones surgically, displaying the various human anatomy.

Interestingly enough, instead of feeling horrified with the displays i saw, I find myself scrutinizing at the different details of the human body with the occasional " ooh, i didn't know I have those...".

Perhaps, through this enriching session, I begin to appreciate my body more and at the same time, I gain awareness of how to take care of it. Of course, maybe I'm just intimidated by the abominations born from the various diseases out there.

Nonetheless, I salute the effort put in by the people who made these appalling sculptures. I couldn't imagine myself having the patience nor courage to work with corpse for so long, no, I'm not afraid of blood. If you haven't went for the show before , you should probably do, its really worth the 2000 cents you pay at the entrance.

By the way, ba gua , any one?=D

3 peace!

2009-11-08T12:44:00.004+08:00

God, how long has it been since i've actually blogged or rather,compose something literical. ever since blogger died on me some time back i didn't had a chance nor did i bother to write something. I know I might sound like a broken tape recorder with the next bunch of words but I'm still gonna say it,

I'm gonna try to blog more !

Right, thats one tick in the check box, now, what am I doing again?

Batam escape

2009-09-17T23:52:00.008+08:00

We needed to take a break. We needed to go a place where we don't understand the language and the food. We needed to go to a place where NS and ERP makes no sense. We needed to go somewhere where the mention of roti prata and hainanese chicken rice will be responded with puzzled looks. We needed to get out of Singapore.But we were 2 yet rich people who had only S$200 each to spend. So we went to Batam. The place where food is cheap, transport is cheap, hotel is cheap, massage is cheap and ah peks are dicks... I can't think of anything that is expensive there.

We we're not rich yet, so we took the ferry instead of a private jet. Its quite a relaxing 45min ride less the cramp on the shoulder due to an unexplained weight acting on it.
Food was aplenty on the little island and because its cheap, everything taste good ! I mean seriously, the food is really good.

What can go wrong with A & W's root beer float eh! We're craving for it so much that we had to get a mug the moment we arrive at Batam centre.

One of the greater perks for me at batam is that I felt so much richer when i got my hands to the rupiahs. Ay, look at these, glorious monetary digits .Ah, and did i mention that shopping at batam meant scoring lots of cheap brand inspired products too?
The hospitality of the people of Batam was up most pleasing . Our taxi driver in this case, waited for us every time we alighted at our destination. His friendly gesture really beat alot of service personnel in Singapore hands down . How ever, it kind of brings the paranoia part of me out when strangers start doing such nice things to me. =s

This is my Godzilla sized Malay masseuse(p.s. the one on the left, although they both looked Godzilla size) who speaks in a weird attempting to seduce voice. Despite her failed attempt , i would say that she did a pretty good job during the 2 hours session. Whats more, I spent only a mere 22 bucks for the oil therapy massage. Ay, i felt like a slut for being so cheap~

A new interest....

2009-08-30T15:14:00.004+08:00

I think i'm so gonna get a confirmed death sentence after this post..

Theres been a spike in interest in this certain activity that i've been watching people do and i've yet to do it. This sudden enthusiasm was secretly brought forward and almost materialising.Put a kayak , a Jc and some fishing equipment together, you've got kayak Fishing! Ta dah~

See how fun it is!? Its freaking cool right...paddle fish, paddle fish.. You'll get to work out , get a tan , look good and fish at the same time! How perfect could that even be? Fishing is always done in slacks and flip flops with a bunch of old fags smoking around me acting so pro. Input a kayak into it would make it way much cooler then it has even been.

Its also so easy to own one now because the kayaks are all compact and all so you wouldn't have to rent a space at the marina to park it there. There are like fold able ones that could be pack into bags and stored at home and all. How COOL is that !
For a minimal price of just around 2.6 K, you get to own a pretty neat kayak already! With paddles some more! How cool is that! Whats more, I've already found a kayak buddy,the trusty Ernest who actually thought its quite cool to kayak.I just have to persuade him that its worth the money to get one and off we go!

ok,i'm glad that i'm in camp protected by barb wires and soldiers holding guns while i type all these... p.s. i could get a double seater so we could go kayaking together!

A broken rod , a busted line, a fallen soul..

2009-08-02T18:12:00.005+08:00

You were so dear to me...
When ever i'm down , bored or just plain itching to fish, you are always there for me...
We shared many joyous moments together in the wilderness, as close to nature as it could be.
I still remember the first time i saw you, felt your tenderness, I knew you're the one....

You bring me many many many wonderful experiences and left great memories..

I'm sorry I pushed you to your limits..I should have known...

I don't know what I'm gonna do without you.. I won't forget you my friend...Rest in pieces buddy...

Thats actually..

quite a corny post ..

isn't it? XD

Don't taint me with ur purity and innocence

2009-07-26T15:32:00.003+08:00

No one told me it will be like this,
No one followed my trail,
No one consented,
No one thought of my consequences,
No one figured me out,
No one was there....

Life ain't a box of chocolates, its full of maggots and bacteria..

2009-07-25T01:23:00.004+08:00

There is this infinite black hole building up within myself. I wonder if i'll die young some times..Well jc, we've told you so~

From,

The infinite voices within

I'm starting to talk to myself...

2009-07-18T23:48:00.006+08:00

This is bad, this prolonged solitude and boredom has led me onto a path of self delusion and is wrecking my mental well being...

I can't find any one to rant to any more...

2009-07-18T22:40:00.000+08:00

.nuff said.

Peanut butter banana pancakes ..

2009-06-28T18:14:00.004+08:00

So, I'm back.

Hell isn't that bad after all =)I'm sure they don't sell booze there though..

The trip opened my vision alil wider, made me alil stronger . Ah, and did i mentioned, i lost like 7 kgs during the ordeal. The highest rate so far , come join my training peeps who wants to shed some weight =D

So I'm going to go for a very long walk soon. Sigh, i suspect that by the end of it, something very interesting would happen...

So, i had time off for the past couple of days. Sigh, i'm a pretty lonely person now. I hate nus, they robbed stuffs from me.Oh well, least I had some people to stt and whine to.

I had a good look at Ted for the first time. To my dear SBF, ted seems like a nice person. although i had the most akward conversation with him i think he'ld make it to the nice and sweet guy list( sth which doesn't include even me).

Caught up with Jy yesterday morning at the lake. Now that i'm back, he is flying off to thai land. Curses, its so hard to get a fishing kaki now adays.. This is what we've got ..

Very much wanted to watch transformers, but i just can't find the right time slot or people to watch with. I think its destined somehow that i either watch it alone or don't watch it at all. Sigh, i can't get to see MR megan fox in action.

Hmm... 41 days more until something good happens. Sigh, how am i gonna survive till then. Time to re summon my minions and get occupied...

2009-06-05T12:36:00.001+08:00

A little trip to hell

2009-06-05T10:55:00.006+08:00

Well well here I am on a typical Friday morning blogging . Tsk, in a few moments time I'll be out of earth and be sent to a land where the man in Singapore , detest the most. Due to the recent tightening of media security in my work, I can't really go into specific details of what I'm doing or what I am going to do. However, I'll drop discernible hints and perhaps you could pick it up.

So, In hours time I'll be sent of on a little "holiday" to no man's land . Sounds pretty cool huh, but on the contrary , it isn't . The temperature averages a whooping 38 degrees Celsius over there,hell on earth isn't just happening in story books any more.

The fact that I'm too cool a person makes heat my kryptonite. I've got heart stopping events happening before during the heat epidemic.Though worrying , I believe that every fall makes a man stronger, so don't worry the cool dude would last through the ordeal.

Its taxing not only physically though , deep within , something is going to be temporarily ripped away from me during this period.Despite the uncountable series of uncertainties,I certainly agree that things would turn out better if I could last through this period.

Some one mentioned that I'm like a Jet plane , I'm always moving too fast. I like that description though, which made me develop a fondness for the super hero FLASH recently =). Ay, when ever some one mentions that I'm too fast, I always imagine myself being a red crimson streak of light. Oh well, Jc is being over his head again .

Ever tried wine tasting? Its a culture of a high society I guess, or perhaps, a side path paved by an imminent alcoholic =) A good wine , i felt really depends on the essence that flow through the whole wine taste process. From the first taste, till the gentle yet engulfing swell in your mouth as the tongue twirl around the toxic in your mouth and the bitter yet sweet after taste when you gulp it down. Lately , after a visit to the wine cellar, there is one which caught my eye . Its amber red toxic looks devious yet alluring. The first taste was seemingly familiar yet it conjured up a pleasant swell as my let the liquid flow through the cavity. Surprisingly for a swell at such a calibre, it had a unique , gentle yet pleasant after taste. This bottle of wine is a keeper =) A fine companion and compliment , its composure and elegance falls into place like the missing pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. I'm pretty sure I made a right choice=)

Alittle sweetness in the misery

2009-04-19T19:40:00.002+08:00

Woots, was feeling nice to myself today so decided to whip up these.. Muahahahah... Torturous??=P

Goh Jun Chin and J C Goh

2009-04-05T11:56:00.002+08:00

This is how Goh Jun Chin looks like before..

This is how JC Goh Looks like now

Hmm, worlds apart?

Something bigger

2009-03-13T12:20:00.002+08:00

Finally, caught something bigger. Was so desperate that i was actually aiming smaller tomans with the L minnow.This huge mama must be pretty hungry to lunge at such a small lure. 4kgs of awesomeness.. Lol,zzz i need a lip grip ... Time for better hooks..

Chronicles of an air borne trooper:The recruit

2009-03-11T21:25:00.002+08:00

Beads of perspiration trickled down the eye brows, some getting into the eye as I mustered strength to remain in the push up position . Amidst the grunts and scream of pain, hundreds of us maintained that poise , while the loud hailer remained silent. All eyes focused on the person holding the loud hailer.

"Pain is temporary.. Glory is forever" the man whispered... through the loud hailer..

That spurred an unseen energy amongst the crowd , I felt this deep heat rushing down from the back of my skull flowing through the body as I continued pumping countless hundredth times of push up. I heard my comrades cries in pain, I screamed , desperate to out voice the pains in my arms. I could hardly keep my eyes open as beads of perspiration got into my eyes, then the whistle blew.

As I lay face down, cheek pressed on the tarmac, I struggled to capture my breath.I flipped onto my back trying to get a better posture for air to enter. As I looked at the clear morning sky from the edge of my eye, I saw an eagle , soaring freely across the sky. No matter the amount of pain I had within myself , I could have only but two words to console myself, For Honour and Glory.

The marriage

2009-03-10T22:24:00.001+08:00

When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you.She sat down and ate quietly.Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth.But I had to let her know what I was thinking - I want a divorce.
I raised the topic calmly.She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly - Why?I avoided her question.This made her angry.She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man!
That night, we didn’t talk to each other.She was weeping.I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage.But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Dew.I didn’t love her anymore.I just pitied her!
With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company.She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces.
The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me, had become a stranger.I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Dew so dearly.Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see.To me, her cry was actually a kind of release.The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now.
The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table.I didn’t have supper but went straight to bed and fell asleep soon because I was tired after an eventful day with Dew.When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing.I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again.
In the morning she presented her divorce conditions: she didn’t want anything from me, but needed a month’s notice before the divorce.She requested that in that one month we both struggle to live as normal a life as possible.Her reasons were simple: our son had his exams in a month’s time and she didn’t want to disrupt him with our broken marriage.This was agreeable to me.But she had something more, she asked me to recall how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day.She requested that everyday for the month’s duration I carry her out of our bedroom to the front door ever morning.I thought she was going crazy.Just to make our last days together bearable I accepted her odd request.
I told Dew about my wife’s divorce conditions…She laughed loudly and thought it was absurd.No matter what tricks she applies, she has to face the divorce, she said scornfully.
My wife and I hadn’t had any body contact since my divorce intention was explicitly expressed. So when I carried her out on the first day, we both appeared clumsy.Our son clapped behind us, daddy is holding mummy in his arms.His words brought me a sense of pain.From the bedroom to the sitting room, then to the door, I walked over ten meters with her in my arms.She closed her eyes and said softly; don’t tell our son about the divorce.I nodded, feeling somewhat upset.I put her down outside the door.She went to wait for the bus to work.I drove alone to the office.
On the second day, both of us acted much more easily.She leaned on my chest.I could smell the fragrance of her blouse.I realized that I hadn’t looked at this woman carefully for a long time…I realized she was not young any more.There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair was graying!Our marriage had taken its toll on her.For a minute, I wondered what I had done to her.
On the fourth day, when I lifted her up, I felt a sense of intimacy returning.This was the woman who had given ten years of her life to me.
On the fifth and sixth day, I realized that our sense of intimacy was growing again.I didn’t tell Dew about this.It became easier to carry her as the month slipped by.Perhaps the everyday workout made me stronger.
She was choosing what to wear one morning.She tried on quite a few dresses but could not find a suitable one.Then she sighed, all my dresses have grown bigger.I suddenly realized that she had grown so thin, that was the reason why I could carry her more easily.Suddenly it hit me… she had buried so much pain and bitterness in her heart.Subconsciously I reached out and touched her head.Our son came in at the moment and said, Dad, it’s time to carry mum out.To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an essential part of his life.My wife gestured to our son to come closer and hugged him tightly.I turned my face away because I was afraid I might change my mind at this last minute.I then held her in my arms, walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway. Her hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally.I held her body tightly; it was just like our wedding day.But her much lighter weight made me sad.
On the last day, when I held her in my arms I could hardly move a step.Our son had gone to school.I held her tightly and said, I hadn’t noticed that our life lacked intimacy.
I drove to office…. jumped out of the car swiftly without locking the door.I was afraid any delay would make me change my mind…I walked upstairs.Dew opened the door and I said to her, Sorry, Dew, I do not want the divorce anymore.She looked at me, astonished, and then touched my forehead.Do you have a fever? She said.I moved her hand off my head.Sorry, Dew, I said, I won’t divorce.My marriage life was boring probably because she and I didn’t value the details of our lives, not because we didn’t love each other any more.Now I realize that since I carried her into my home on our wedding day I am supposed to hold her until death do us apart.Dew seemed to suddenly wake up.She gave me a loud slap and then slammed the door and burst into tears.
I walked downstairs and drove away.At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a bouquet of flowers for my wife.The salesgirl asked me what to write on the card.I smiled and wrote - I’ll carry you out every morning until death do us apart.
That evening I arrived home, flowers in my hands, a smile on my face.I ran up stairs, only to find my wife in the bed - dead.
The small details of your lives are what really matter in a relationship.It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the bank, blah..blah..blah.These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves. So find time to be your spouse’s friend and do those little things for each other that build intimacy.

Adapted from Pz's blog(ps, stole it without ur permissionXD )

Happy birthday Hoe and Kok~

2009-03-08T23:04:00.003+08:00

Woots two of my friends just officially stepped into adult hood . Chong hoe and km.

I could still remember how we spent our time together as class mates during our secondary school days. In a blink of an eye its been 8 years already. Unbelievable how much this friendship had stretched.

Jeeze, this sudden reunion had made me looked back at the path I've took. After being through so much I realised that there isn't a better place to be at then with a bunch of friends just chilling. Some how i felt that the 2e1 batch are perhaps the best people I can count on to be around when i need a mate or company.
Even though we've got our differences and occasional disputes among each other I felt that every time we get together, every thing seems to be the same 8 years ago. Call it naive but I really feel at ease hanging around these bunch of people.

This week end would be perhaps the best week end I had in a long time.

Pinkie rocks

2009-03-08T21:23:00.002+08:00

Went fishing with Jy as usual on our Sunday morning routine. Ay, due to my carelessness , i left my reel at home and i only discovered the missing reel when we reached the spot. The spot requires plenty of tracking and was kinda pissed with myself. The earlier hour of the session then saw me running back to my place to get my reel but it was well paid off as i managed to catch my second jungle snake head with the pinkie lure again~

I think fishes are getting more and more hype now adays.XD

2009-03-01T18:58:00.003+08:00

July the 9th was the last post I've made in this blog. Its the 1st of march now in 2009, time sure flies . I could still remember the doubtful feelings days before my enlistment into the commando school. I didn't have any idea of what is going to happen in there. At this point of time, I couldn't believe I've achieved so much in my service term.

The first 2 months of my NS saw me being more enthusiastic and selfless as I step into the the school as a fresh recruit. It was the most gruelling part of my training because we're new and we're not accustomed to the regimental regulations in the army yet. Its the time where the instructors will grill the boys hard . High lights of my bmt I felt was the 8 days out field we had and our 24 km route march back for our pop and of course, donning the jungle hat , morphing us from commando sperms to commando fetus =)

I pushed myself throughout my BMT phase which resulted me in getting better gradings . That enabled me an entry into one of saf toughest courses . The commando leader course. The 3 months spent in the course was perplexing. I'm not joking, I've seen my course mate break down in the duration of the course, it was the longest 3 months of my life. I'm just glad that I pulled through the ordeal and am now a commando leader =)

We had our airborne training which was rather enjoyable as it was right after my leader course. "Since the commando leader course is the toughest course for nsf, the rest of the course would be nothing right? " was what one of the 3rd sergeant said during the first day in air borne school. For me , I consider the training standards rather acceptable , given the above fact. Whats more, it was during air borne that I'm able to get nights out every night . Probably one of the greatest obstacle during the course, or should i say for all commandos is to have the courage to jump of the air craft. Despite knowing the dangers of the jump, all of us still leaped off the air craft , be it pushed out or not. Sadly though, it is during the jumps that many of the trainees get their limbs injured and go out of course. Here's a clip on how it really is inside the air craft. Its exactly the same thing .

Its really an imprinting experience during my first jump as i still remembered I had flash backs on my child hood during the free fall.

After we graduated from airborne school we were were promoted to our current ranks now and had shifted to the first commando battalion . That's where all the commandos are. That's where I am at now , and that is where I will end my term as a commando . I'm almost halve way though my NS term and looking back at my doubts before I came into here, I'm pretty sure now that I've made the right choice=)

Well, these 8 months or so wasn't entirely spent on serving the nation. I had been fishing a lot . In fact, me and Jun yuan had almost a weekly fishing Sunday morning fishing going on for some time . Its just so convenient to fish for me as my camp is just beside the beach.

Oh well, so much so for the update. Hopefully , I'll return to posting on a more regular basis and in a less sloppy manner like this.

For honour and glory ☜|☞

2008-07-08T22:15:00.003+08:00

As my date to enlistment draws nearer, I just can't find enough time to write a decent blog post any more. Probably, this will be the last of Jc's blog post on this blog . If you noticed, I don't even have time to blog for the rest of my thailand trip. My time is spent going out with my mates ,fishing, going out with the girl and working too.The goal is to spend my remaining time before ns as fulfilling as possible and I guess I managed to fufill that already.

I think Ns would be significant milestone in my life as I think that it marks a conclusion to my teenage life and the beginning of adulthood for me. The thought of me with a shave head and rushing through the jungles of brunei with a rifle is still not exactly imaginable yet for myself. Probably after I'm done with the cdo training, I'll rid myself of this naive mindset and probably develop an ego to suit the experience .

I'm gonna miss the bunch of people who were always by my side during this confinement period .

Elly the girl I'm going to miss too much.

I know you've been tolerating my temperament and having not enough time to spend with you lately . Trust me even though I'm sad when I'm pissed and all, I'll feel worse when you become depressed over my emotion breakdowns. You are the person i can pour most of my true feelings to and probably, you are the person who have seen me in my worst state. If I Knew ns would come so soon I would have told you all these words slowly and dearly everyday. I've said perhaps for thousand of times , over the phone, text messages, in your face, on a card, on msn and probably through another person but I'm gonna say it to you for the first time on this blog as directly as this. I love you.

Ernest my would be best man for the wedding.

Fucker ,see la, fail napfa purposely la , extra 2 mths la.. Laugh at you~ what do you think you are trying to do when you said all those gay words at the bust stop the day before.. trying to make me cry is it! Well, I'ld give you credit for that, Its quite a good shot. Damn, I don't know what I'ld be if i don't get those not so advisable to listen to advices man. I'ld also say that although I seem to be ordering you around and treating you like shit... you are still my best candidate for the position of my best man eh .. and don't worry, I'll try to get a suitable bridesmaid accordingly to the preferences you gave me~!

The mates louis and GArY..

Don't ask me why you guys don't get the special privilege of being labeled as a category . Ay, from the talk cock sessions at fc 6 , to the disturbing the leader and dj pang session, I'ld miss all those man. Especially drinking sessions with gary talking shet after hes drunk and ernest rolling all over the place. Jeeze, don't worry dudes, after the pop .. we'll hang out together with the leader and dj pang and make fun of them ~

The peeps from the darlings..

Probably some of you wouldn't care about my state now, but ay, I still care about the bulk of you as i read through your blogs and rants about your daily life. Expressing concern would be luxury for me probably because i don't wanna make myself seem to be there only for awhile.. if thats the case , i rather not be there at all.. if you get what i mean. With that , probably i've drifted away from the hearts of you guys but I'm sure you guys would always remain close to my heart,, I'ld always feel at home when I'm hanging out with the bunch of you , even though we've not met for a long time.. haha so i guess, I'm leaving home again this time?

To miss Guo .. the zhi~

Lol, Aiya, where have you and i been la. i don't knw why I see online everyt ime i nvr go double click on you and talk to you la.. Probably Im' more busy browsing through my fishing kaki and watching youtube or something la. BUT , that don't make you less significant with contrast to them. Well, judging from everything, I guess you're doing fine ( as of 6/7/2008 10:44:36 PM) so ahah, all the best with you and you !BING~ jeeze, the name .. the name.. =/

To the people I've missed out..

I'm sorry there are jsut too many for me to type it all out, but I'll definitely remember all of you and the memories we had together. Too bad we could carve deeper ones...

Ay, with that I guess I'm pretty much ready to serve already. I think I'll make it a point to

serve my ns as happily as I could

move up to the rank as high as possible

spend enough time with the people i cared

do this shet for honour and glory.

All the best for me , and I'ld like to thank all the readers who had been reading this blog up till now .. the 516th post.. phew...

Pattaylicious

2008-06-23T00:55:00.006+08:00

For the first couple of days of the tour , I had my trusty Dslr with me until it ran out of battery on the second day. Due to my own carelessness I've forgotten to bring along my battery charger so I got to resort to Marcus's 2mp hand phone camera to capture graphics to sugar coat the logs. Luckily I've contacted some of the fellow photographers whom join us on this trip who were kind enough to spare me their photos for my blog post and for that ,I owe a big thank you to them. With that in mind, it would pretty much explain why the posts are coming in so slowly because I've got loads of compilation and editing to do , and the 2mp camera didn't produce photographs that i deemed nice so i had to put more work on photo shop to make up for it.

Well, that being that , I'll move on to today's post~!

Thailand is well known for their wide variety of food which are both delicious and very affordable.

Their flavours were often mainly sweet or spicy or both . Although most of their dishes are available already in Singapore , you could only get the most authentic dishes from the country it self.

The tour package includes our meals and its always extremely sumptuous. We were either eating buffet all the time or our meals would be often an over kill.For example, this is a typical lunch over at pattaya..

If you think thats it, you're so darn wrong. Thats only the main dish , the rest of the steamed fishes , mussels, clams, veges , tom yum soup practically left us hands tucked while eating the imbal mountain of food. As we're situated next to the beach, our meals consisted heavily on seafood based dishes.

How ever, with that in mind, the hotel we lodged in would always often us a change in variety of food for their buffets. The buffets was something that Me and Marcus would look forward to alot in Singapore before the Thailand trip due to our insatiable appetite , however, we kinda got turned off by the idea of unlimited food by the end of the trip. I actually got tired of getting up and down the table to get myself some juice at some point that I started using my water bottle instead.

Booze over at thailand is freaking cheap at about 1.20 sgd for a bottle . I fell in love with these particular brand SINGHA which taste so much better then the rest .

As we engaged in pretty much night activities there, I also had a fair range of energy drinks to do a taste test and so far , I find that this particular brand caught my eye.Muggers out there who needs an energy boost, this will be a good one.

Another thing that gave plus points to the tour's accommodation is that the tour guides always brings and encourage us to have spa and thai massage . The price of a spa package which includes a herbal sauna and steam sauna session as well as a jacuzzi session and a thai oil massage session cost 500 bath of which, we all get to have a package free as part of the tour . To add on, the price of a simple thai massage is roughly around 190 to 250 bath per hour session thus ,its not difficult to understand why the tour guide encourages us so much to go for the massage.

After this trip, I feel like an abominable piece of lard walking around the house. Geeze, time to train up~!

Prologue:The trip to pattaya

2008-06-21T00:45:00.003+08:00

June saw me in a more solemn light as my time to serve in NS draws nearer. The thought of the government robbing me of my life sucks . No matter how much I tried to be an optimist about Ns , I just couldn't take my head of the thought of the lack of freedom. My mum then suggested a trip to thailand before I go for Ns. Well, its been eons since I've went overseas with my family thus I thought this would be a good time.Perhaps the last time I could go with them till a very long time.

The trip was fun and I've made lots of friends and learnt a good wealth of knowledge from the trip . I'll continue blogging and posting more pictures of my trip through out the next few days so keep you eyes peeled ppl!

Remaining pictures from fatt the kelong

2008-05-12T01:40:00.006+08:00

I passed my cameras around the crew and some of the pictures they've took are simply too remarkable to be missed out . So here goes...

Freakish weather that broke out suddenly . Strong gales, rough seas, dark skies.. Looks menacing and something you won't get to experience in singapore.

Wei sheng preparing his bait . The both of them , wei sheng and ct had been diligently working hard and fishing through out the trip despite the fact they haven't really fished much before. Surprisingly they are both keen learners and the trip sparked the both of them to get their own fishing tackles.

Jy with his fanciful post which seemed to point to his Hershly kisses. Zzz, I'm so gonna stick with my MnMs...

This is actually emitted from the 1 meter long todak I caught. I got no idea what it was but its agreed by the fellows that its fish sperm. Well, at least its of the same color..

White spotted grouper. This is one of the pet fishes reared at the kelong, its supposed to be an endangered species and it fetches high prices in the market.

Doesn't this picture remind you of a scene in alien vs predator?

Mahjong is available at the kelong at a minimal rental fee of 15 rm per table. I don't understand why people go all the way to play mahjong there though. Probably it feels different playing mahjong under the stars..

The fish less nights.. Ay, this picture is indeed demoralising for all anglers i guess. Still rods, lined up against each other in the dark. ~ depressing...

Kai.. PLease do not do something like that to me if we happened to be in the same bunk at sotc..I'll freak man~!Booze was relatively cheap up north. This two bottles only cost around 20 odd rm , which is like a fraction the price you pay in Singapore for something like that..

My trust worthy and old tica stream star paired with my noodle rod for the todaks. Love the new red line =)
And this is the surf rod william gave it to me. Love its sexy sleekness and its light weight.. Yenkai, stretching his legs while sleeping and while doing that showing off his well grown pubic hair on the shins.. Soon, packing up for the journey back home. I'll be having appointments with him for the next couple of weeks for toman hunting.

And here we've come to the last pic of the whole series. Please be mentally prepared for the greatness of the picture.. here goes....

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The ultimate greatness .. from team singha beer.. we have Mr SCT winner of the 2008 sibu kelong beauty pageant~~~~~~~

Fatt the kelong.. part 2

2008-05-11T23:44:00.005+08:00

So , as I continued to fish for todaks, i realised that my puny little kunings aren't flying far enough out due to their petite build. In a desperate attempt, I used a palm sized kuning and I casted it out as far as possible.

Luckily, the wind was blowing towards the direction where i was casting, so it brought the bait furthur out. Satisfied with the distance I've casted, I placed my rod on my rod holder and let the current drift my bait out. Ernest was beside me and we're starting a conversation when line started flying out from my open bail . I held on to my trained composure as i waited for the fish to swallow the bait fish. After 30 seconds I decided that it was enough wait and I closed my bail and waited for the fish to make its final run and striked. The strike connected and the fish was on. Line was constantly pouring out of my reel as the nemesis on the other end charged off with its twin powered turbo engine at full blast. As i desperately tried to regain line into my barren spool,the lunch bell went off. Damn.bad timing.. Ernest although complaining that lunch is waiting stayed on to watch the fight and later on gave me support by helping me gaff the fish up. By the time the fish was nearer to the kelong, there was an incoming boat to the kelong. To make matters worst.. the fish swam towards the direction of the boat . I decided to take the chances and tighten my drag and forced the fish back to the correct course. Which it did. Soon, the todak came into the gaffing range for ernest to gaff it up . While on the way back to our ice box, ernest was saying that the fish is smaller then the rest and all. I didn't think so and i took out my measuring scale and measured.

It was a freaking 1 meter long todak and it weighed around 2 kg! Get a load of that. The todak frenzy continued as i landed more of the latter using the same method. All of them are liked sizes too. Soon complained that i should end the todak frenzy which eventually I did as i thought about the limited space we have in our ice boxes. I later regretted that decision though as I got to know that the crew wanted to bring more todaks back home.

Night came and we continued eging again. This time round, every body had a fair share of squid as each of us caught at least one squid. After which, the peeps began setting up the bq pit yk brought along.

Our determination to get big fishes at night at the kelong went to the drain . The fishes just won't bite our baits even with the fresh squid that was presented to them , we still yield no bites.It was all down to the wrong fishing season, current and just plain o' lack of luck I guess..

The night's catches for the squid section was pretty decent though, we ended up with more the 30 over squid . After degutting the fish, I've decided to end the night and turn in.

The following day saw jy waking me up early to fish. He went jigging and got himself some more bait fishes including some godzilla sized tambans . He even got a whiting. For my side I tried todaks again however , for some freakish reason, all our bait fishes died over night and I'm only left with the small one's Jy jigged up . I did managed to get a couple of small todaks though and that kinda summed up the whole trip.

The bunch of us were quite dissappointed with the catch rate though. The usual bjt peeps were hoping for bigger catches then what we have . For that, i express my apology because I didn't managed to fore see that the seasonal timing wasn't right for the big fishes to bite. Despite that, I hope all were able to enjoy the trip as much as I do , I felt that its one of my best fishing trips in terms of the company.Hopefully we'll get to fish together again soon.. lastly, tight lines~

Let these lyrics be my voice and relieve the pain that runs in my veins..

2008-05-08T15:04:00.002+08:00

This is one of my all time favourite song from one of my favourite bands.
Its nostalgic and I guess it'ld help me pass through this emotional period of my life.
I don't have and don't wanna to talk to any one about it...
Listen to my cries and my pain from the song..
Let these lyrics be my voice and relieve the pain that runs in my veins..

Fatt the kelong.. part 1

2008-05-08T12:48:00.011+08:00

With adequate planning, and a group of 7 enthuiasts,dawn of may 4th 2008 saw a bunch of people making their way to the Sibu island's on a fishing trip. Out of the the 4 kelongs , Ah fatt kelong was selected as our place of stay due to its large space and the fact that its the nearest to the open sea. Spirits were high and the strangers in the group soon became good friends who would look out for each other during the trip.

With our efficient driver , Mr wong, we had enough time to for break fast over at a humble ba kut teh stall over at kota tinggi and still reach the jetty 20 mins before the boat departs.We brought along heavy arsenal for the trip and it was quite a chore carrying it around.

After paying the jetty taxes, we hop on to the ah fatt kelong's ferry to the kelong itself. The water turned from jade green to a clear turquois color which heighten the mood of the group as many of us haven't seen such blue waters before in any of our fishing trips.

We reached the kelong at around 10 a.m and we immediately we setup our tackles for fishing . While a few of us started jigging for bait fishes, the rest were busy setting up our live well . We had a problem with the location of the ac supply due to fact that the wires to our pumps were too short. However, upon plenty of adjustment , we managed to get the pumps connected and we had a fully functional live well.

The kelong had this sign which reminds visitors to throw any unwanted fishes back into the sea. I think this is a good attempt to preserve the waters around the kelong . Hopefully, we can have something like that in singapore as well.

We didn't really caught any big fishes during the first day how ever, we did managed to get a nice bunch of bait fishes and seklahs in our live well. The seklah provided quite some entertainment on light tackle, pull too hard your lead line will break , don't pull hard enough, the fish will go for refuge into the kelong stilts, use too heavy a poundage for the lead line, the seklahs won't take your jig...

Soon night fall and we started eging . Squids were plentiful at the kelong and we could see packs of 6-10 squids swimming together hunting down small fishes and nai niu har(some kinda shrimp) . The bigger ones would be wary of our jigs however, the small ones would chase down the jigs like theres no tommorrow.

The fishes didn't really took our baits even though fresh squids were used. Some malaysian uncles there were telling us that we came at the wrong time of the year for big fishes. They suggested that the monsoon period would produce better catches at the kelong and furthur more, with the jelly fish infestation , it made it even harder to fish.

I didn't had any luck fishing for todaks the first day as there wasn't any current at the kelong, so , when i woke up the next day and saw that the jelly fishes are drifting at a more gradual speed, i set up my noodle rod and began fishing for todaks. I realise that the stronger currents are furthur away from the kelong and I need to cast furthur out that. The running float was a hindered the casting distance so i removed it from the rig and managed a better distance. Surprisingly, the todaks are not as keen to take tambans as kunings. Infact,the bait fishes around the kelong consisted of alot more kunings then tambans , probably thats why.

When every one rants to me ... who do i rant to ..

2008-05-02T23:55:00.002+08:00

I don't like how i feel now.

I can't define my feelings..

Its clear that I'm possessed with self centered and menacing perceptions..

I can't help it after being denied with my selfless attempts

I don't wanna create yet another situation..

I'm sorry if I wasn't what was expected.

I'm sorry I can't remain emotionless , I'm still human.

I'm sorry for the circumstances that I can't resolve.

I feel sorry for myself too.

This is not an attempt to strain the relationship but an attempt to clear my thoughts and unwind.

Please don't blame me for this or take this negatively...

I just want to rant and empty the bottle...

The skin cancer protectant

2008-04-28T22:14:00.004+08:00

So, i was complaining about how the sun is bringing forth an unwanted evolution in our skin colour to ernest every time we fished during the day. We seriously need to get ourselves protected from the harmful UV rays and sun block of any amount of spf doesn't seemed to work, so, while shopping around at beach road with my mum , I saw this.

Cool rite! It made me look like I'm gonna start throwing shurikens at people. This thing is also damn cheap la, its just 3.50 bucks . Its cheaper the the cheapest sun block i can find out there. Just don't be seen wearing this on board any public transport or so, you'll most likely end up replacing mas selamat.

Then while i was walking around more, I saw this damn sleek looking ranger cap. Which i think could make a god combination with the hood like this..

Not bad eh, the whole setup only cost me $7.50 =)

The record fish.

2008-04-27T19:27:00.004+08:00

So, it was just any ordinary daily session at bedok jetty . It wasn't that ordinary because the gal and her girl friend joined us in our weekly session. After weeks of absence, jy also finally made his appearance.

Our bait fishes were once again scarce for the day. This is the frustrating irony. When there are little bait fishes around, the big fishes around would be hungry, if there are plenty of bait fishes around the big fishes will just eat the bait fishes and feel full.

The weather was unrelenting with the sun scorching the tarmac ,creating an hell on earth effect at bedok jetty. While me and ernest were gawking at the rest for not wearing long sleeves, we are also the ones sweating like dogs with the long sleeves acting as mobile sauna suits.

The sauna mobile suits

The aims for todaks yield pathetically puny sized ones which kinda dampened the team's spirit. Combined with the lack of baits, it was indeed quite frustrating.

The sun got the better of them.

However, just as desperation got the better of us, the bait fishes were back! Yayness. I took the opportunity to teach the girl how to jig for tambans and unhook them. Well, heres a compliment, shes a quick learner and quite a lucky one too. She managed the tambans by herself and ernest called me over my cell to get my ass back as my rod was bending. The todak feeding frenzy came on and the team was getting hit after hits of todaks and spirits were high.

If you pay close attention, its actually the same fish caught below-_-

Soon, the action died down and it became the restless waiting game again. Suddenly, my noodle got an extremely huge take that had the uncles around the rod shouting and yelling, infact the rod almost dropped into the water(I need a rod holder). At the speed of light, I ran to my rod rescuing it from the menancing torrents and tightened my drag and gave it a light strike. From far,i could see the fish leaped out of the water . Its quite a big one as even though my drag setting was already quite high, it was still peeling line out of my spool.I had to ran up the jetty in order not to let the todak get under the jetty furthur up. That attracted alot of spectators and one of the uncle commented that i could join the olympics. The fish made its last run near the jetty and was finally subdued . As i swung the fish up on to the jetty the hook came off due to the weight of the fish.. Luckily it dropped onto the jetty and didn't fell back into the water. Think we seriously need to get a gaff soon or else we'll be losing to all our big catches.

68cm, 750grams. Its small compared to desT's catches.

That kinda concluded the day as we packed early and head home. My dad didn't have time to come fetch me back as usaul so i had to take the public transport back, which is a painstaking ordeal. Its totally like the journey to the west. Oh well, guess i'm too pampered by my dad.

Me and ern's noodle rod

This picture is supposed to enhanced the width of the todak.

The family!

Alas,bjt at 5 pm. Taken by Soon, extremely photoshopped by yours truly..

Psychotic fishing uncles

2008-04-10T22:00:00.003+08:00

I need sleep! I seriously need some sleep soon or else my blood shot eyes are gonna start bleeding. So, heres a quick one to update on what happened today.

Early this morning I woke up at 530 am to go fishing with sum and soon. I think we're getting more and more hard core as the weeks past and when we reached bedok jetty, it looked so barren and forlorn that we could literally cast where ever we want to cast.

The bait fishes were every where today so jigging for baits was easy, how ever , probably there was a change in tidal conditions or sorts, the bait fishes looks like baby godzillas and were alil too big for fishing. We soon got enough of bait and started fishing.

My noodle rod haven't got any takes on the new method I employed which I didn't anticipated for it to happen. My braided lines got tangled into a huge mess which in the end , i've got to sacrificed the mess up bunch and cut them away and rejoin the line. Now, that meant that I've got less line on my noodle rod now. I casted it out as per usual and soon enough, there was a strong pull and my line was like pouring out of my reel. When it was doing that , I was still slowly strolling over to my rod to pick it up when i suddenly realised that I'm left with little line on the reel which eventually got stripped of my reel, which means, the main line is on the verge of snapping .

Luckily, the main line didn't break and i got there just in time before the fish made another run. Sigh, just when things seemed alittle brighter for me, i reeled in the fish and found yet another tangled mess just before the fish, more line cut off. After the next todak, i decided to retire my noodle rod. Sigh,I need to do line shopping soon.

Having nothing else better to do, i decided to start jigging for bait fishes again. By this time i've a cable car set up for my surf rod which I just dropped an godzilla size tamban into the water with. As I was speaking to this Belgium lady about how big the fishes from Belgium are, my rod surf rod bent and almost fell off the jetty!The macik beside the rod was like BIG FISH BIG FISH!!!

Again I had the urge to stroll over again how ever, some one behind me shouted RUN LA( Malay accent way) and I sprinted. Note, i strewn my jigging rod on the floor where some one conveniently stepped on it later and broke my jigging hooks.Back to the fish on hand , when i reach for my rod it was already bending profusely and it suddenly stop, I thought i lost the fish when suddenly, it started its run again! It was damn exciting although seriously, the surf rod was an over kill for that fish . Every time the fish did an acrobatic stunt by leaping out of the water , the hearts of the people watching it skipped a beat.People started commenting on the type of fish it is and when finally, after a few minutes, the fish surfaced and I brought it out of the water..It was a queen fish! The feeling was just too slick when I look at my first queen fish, ay. That slickness feeling how ever was destroyed when i saw some one almost landing a queen fish about 4-5 times bigger then mine. Tsk~

One thing about bedok jetty is the amount of inconsiderate , cocky and selfish bastards on the jetty. There were plenty of squabbles going on at the jetty today with one involving this young man and this old man. Both of them are equally hot headed and they almost went into a fist fight. Hurling vulgarities with each other, just over some tangled fish lines and hooks is simply over board.Then there is homicidal fisherman who fishes all those bait fishes and just leave them to die on the floor. Which he kicks them down at the end of his killing fish and time session. What i've witness today is totally senseless and i'm seriously very disappointed with the people and size of my queen fish. Tsk, I guess thats what you get when you're fishing in Singapore i guess.

Whats the point of fishing when you want to fight and get angry over it?

Jc's Otak Otak

2008-04-04T20:54:00.015+08:00

We are delicious, eat us

Just the day before I came back with kilograms of fish meat from the catch at bedok jetty. Cooking the fish was also part of my agenda when I targeted the species and thus , to follow through with the plan , I went to the market with my mum to get the ingredients for the dish.

Summing up the ingredients

The dish I'm gonna make with the fillet is the familiar nonya snack, Otak otak. I've researched over the net looking at various recipe and decided that daz's recipe makes quite a good reference thus , using his ingredients as a guide, I came out with my own version of Otak Otak using todak fillet.

Spices galore

Since its a nonya cuisine, it has its flavour set on this few common spices you see in the picture. I ahd a hard time buying them as I only knew their 'christian' name not their chinese ones , so its more like a picture describing session at the market place this morning.

I think the most tedious part of the otak otak making process is the part where by you've gotto remove the seeds from the dried chilli. You've gotto soak them in hot water for around 10 mins for them to soften and then, use ur hands or a small tea spoon to scrape out the seeds and stalk inside . At the end of it, expect to feel your hands burning as the chilli works into your skin.

These things hurt

The lemon grass seems to play a big role in the ingredients as they some how, form the base of the whole otak otak binding the latter together after they cook. Unlike daz, I decided to dice my lemon grass before placing them into the blender so that their fibers won't be in very long strands.

Very good coconut cream and lemon grass

Another key ingredient i thought would be the laksa leaves. Woots, these fellows add alot of flavour even though in small amounts. I cook taste them exploding in my mouth when i bite down on my otak otak.

Of course, the must have compliment in a nonya dish would be the belacan . I think almost all nonya dishes use this ingredient to add flavour into their meals.

Belacan,the key ingredient

Combining all the ingredients together in the blender, add alittle water to the latter in order for the blender to work its magic. Blend till extremely smooth,my blender broke down halve way, so ay, its not as smooth as i wanted it to be but its still good.

Let it rip!

Next would be the todak fillet itself. I think the next time i do this again, i'll just pure todak fillet without bones from the stomach. I thought that the meat from the stomach would make alot of flavour to the otak and the bones were fine enough to be crushed and mixed into the mixture. It seemed alright when i was pounding the meat how ever,I felt the bones only after i eat them.

Sashimi??

Tsk, handling the otak paste and the banana leaf is yet another ordeal. Its hard to get it right at the first few otak otaks, which resulted in busted leaves and leaks, how ever, after a few more practice, I thought I'm making decent looking otak otaks already.

Put us into the oven quick!

I didn't have the luxury of a bbq pit in the house so i made use of my trusty oven and set the temperature to around 240 degrees on baking mode. The objective of cooking the otak otak would be to solidify the mixture. Once the otak otak becomes hard, its ready. How ever, you could leave it in there for a while more if you want a crispier version .

Ah.. we love sun tanning...

Well, here it is , Jc's otak otak,full of flavour, have to improve on its texture, well, I've got plenty of todak meat to experiment on since i've only used up one piece today . More to come more to come =)

Lunch for the missus

When times are bad, life looks grim and every thing becomes slim

2008-04-03T23:37:00.007+08:00

With the graduation I'm left with too much time and often, money consuming activities. So much so that due to my inability to secure a stable temporary job, I'm officially running low on cash. With the very little i had , its hard to find entertainment for myself. Driven by a spur of interest and enthusiasm, I went against all odds bought myself a noodle rod . The temptation took a better of me and my mum even called me a good for nothing at the end of the day.

Teal ultralight, I love it =)

Yet another reason why i love it , its korean.

Well, a noodle rod is basically a very long rod, which is extremely slim. The physics of the rod is such that , its thin and long , which makes it flex very easily. Which also in turn meant that the rod is great for absorbing any form of shock from the line . Well, i won't go into details for the description of the functionalities of the rod, we'll just leave it at the fact that it is a great rod and i love it.

My rod is long...

After researching the net for a series of methods to tie our rigs and knots, I've employed a form of rig which is able to carry out the capabilities of the noodle at its best. After giving my equipment a dry pre-run at home in my own bed room, I'm ready to go fishing.

Sample, not drawn to scale.

I called up Ernest and soon ning and jun yuan my usual fishos just a day before the trip and they are surprisingly keen on fishing the next day itself despite the sudden invitation. So after an evening of discussing and planning over the tele , we're set to meet next morning with soon driving us to the infamous bedok jetty.

Well, I'ld say its one of the best place to fish in town actually, after years of fishing by many anglers and usually nasty net casters the jetty itself is still very productive with bait fishes and sort. We reached the jetty at around 8 and as soon as we setup our tent and equipment , we're ready to fish.

Just 10 mins into fishing while i was still letting the current drift my float out my line shot out of my reel rapidly. It was a fish alright and as soon as i tightened my line and gave it strike, i could feel the fish at the other end went frenzied. My reel was screaming as it was letting out line and my bendy rod is bending like a bell curve, absolutely thrilling. Soon I've attracted a crowd and they all started surrounding me as I tackled the fish. After around 15 mins, the fish succumbed and it was brought up with the help of the friendly regulars .

Aiyo, look at that, that's happiness smeared all over the face.

Seriously, I think a measuring tape would be better.

Those 'jaws ' punch some 4 holes into my middle finger.

Soon with his trophy

Ernest with his pawn.

Its a Todak or other wise also known as a gar fish . My dad's friend complimented that it is actually a good eating fish which how ever is shunned by anglers due to the fact that it has plenty of bones in them. Well, it would actually make a good fish in a dish i've had in mind and researched on lately. The otak. Hopefully I can prepare some of these before jm's bbq on the 25th .

Daz's version, copyrighted to him.

As the day went on ,we're landing more and more todaks and at one point, we even ran out of bait for these chumps. Luckily Tambans (bait fishes) were abundant at the jetty and like spartan warriors , the three of us were jigging desperately for the latter.

Well, here it is the total catches of the day , which unfortunately , foolish me de gutted three of them before the final photo shoot.That makes alot of specimen to try out the above otak recipe, hope it'ld work out.

Little borats

2008-03-29T11:17:00.002+08:00

SO ,for the past few days I've found myself a part time job which i'm working together with Chong tuck. The Job scope revolves around ushering and back stage support for the SYF 2008 dance competitions. While Ct handles the ushering scene, I found myself providing right stage support on the back stage itself. Its a pretty neat job I'd say for myself. I get to experience the Little mellow drama unfolding behind the curtains when the lights dimmed out and best of all, I get to see their performances closer then any one else could.

So for the entire of this week , it was the Primary school Indian dance competition. As much as i'm overwhelmed by the distinct differences in fragrance , I'm as amazed by the choreography put up by this little borats.

From the ankle bangles to the seemingly seamless face paints to the ridiculously blinged up costumes , I feel that the Indian dance would outshine the rest of the forms of dances in the week to come in the form of their vibrancy. Well, probably I'm wrong and I do look forward to be proven the other way with the fact that I would anticipate every day of my work more then any one else.

A little clearer vision

2008-03-17T00:03:00.002+08:00

Well, its just slightly past 12 midnight and we're into the early minutes of 17th the march, my birth day.Well, the past year was a pretty hectic one i guess. The last year in any course of your study is always the most gruelling part of the whole ordeal i supposed, so people, forgive me if I've neglected any of you for the past year . Hmm, probably that sound just too hypocritical to any of you but i really mean it .

With the official graduation from Sp, I'm also grown passed my teenage years as i hit 20. Jeeze, i think birthdays are great for reflecting on the past , and now that I'm at it, I think its been such a long way through out my teenage years. Now that I'm here, I felt that I've learnt more, adopts a different perspective and of course, made plenty of new friends .

I think it was last year that I embraced failure worst then any time before during the time when My Fyp project failed on the day of the presentation. It was also this that made it one of the most memorable times where by I had friends to fall back on and to support me after the fall. Of course, it was also last year that i met this wonderful lady named Eleanor Tan Yi ling who gave me hope when every thing was in a nought and stayed by my side to listen to my day to day complaints and love me the same still after I end my un-controlled anger rampage.Whats more, she even baked me a birthday cake on her own!

Well, I've not much to say here any more , just a big THANK YOU to every one who celebrated my birthday for me , especially the stupid girl who made the effort to call all my class mates and organized this lovely bbq session , full of surprises, and the peeps who managed to rendezvous a handful to have a warm evening of steam boat at my place. Thank you thank you thank you, i feel like I'm at the Emmy's already. Happy birthday Jc boy~

Situations

2008-03-09T17:16:00.004+08:00

I believe in many times of my almost 20 years of life I've experienced situations whereby , an action is required to be performed by myself , how ever , I've got restrictions that clearly forbids me to commit .

To simply type it all out here would be rather, too vague of a description for this sensation I'm talking about. Its not the case that its just a rare phenomena that just disappears into the back of my head . However, it happens at such a rate and impact that carves itself into me such that I could still feel that very sense of awkwardness .

Maybe I'll give examples from part of my daily experiences , perhaps that would make a better sketch of the picture.

Now, take for example some one is throwing a surprise party for you and you are not supposed to know about it. Then some one , who misunderstood the information and come up to you and ask,"Hey, why didn't you invite him along?" Him is some one who i don't really know but i still know him only at the spot where by I've only seen him once. However , this him is a very good friend of the person asking you that question and it really meant a lot of if he was present. Now, this is the catch, you are not the organiser and you are not the one who is inviting people over to the party and now , you are flabbergasted with the question thrown at you. Him , don't know any one from the party except for me and the person asking me the question. OK, from an extrovert point of view, meeting strangers and all is something like a blessing. How ever, you do know that HIM is not an extrovert of a person at all and it will be hard to initiate a conversation without feeling bored. You want to reject your friend but you just couldn't find the right words. That's the feeling.

Probably it happens to you at work as well. Lets say you drew up this banner for a client and it has this tiger you got your inspiration from a water color painting which is worth a few zeros behind a certain amount. So, when your client open up that article she went hysterically laughing and say it looks like the logo for tiger balm.Your team mates were all dumbfounded and some made circles with their index finger around the side of their heads. She went on and asked her colleagues about the article and none of them agreed with her. You know you've done nothing wrong and your conscience tell you so. HOWEVER , your client then asked" Do you think you did a good job" After witnessing such display of emotions from her, what do you think was my reply. That's the feeling.

Now, what is this now. One of yet another defect of man kind again?

What to do

I can summarize life in three words, it goes on...

2008-03-07T22:48:00.005+08:00

How does that quote seems logical to you? Simplicity with so much depth and maturity to it , sweet.

The impression I first derive from the ads and previews is that it would be just some other ordinary love show that would be forgettable. However , having sat my ass down for the 1 and a halve hour proved me other wise.

It was a show made of twist, dramas and a light sense of humour between the dialogues. The use of the various quotes from nobles was a work of brilliance and creativity. I won't say that all the characters had carried the role well enough to leave a lasting impression but despite the fact of being out of the stage for such a long period of time, wong lin lin surprisingly played her role magnificently well.

This movie seriously brought much life for me back for the big screen and to think that this is an authentic piece of art produce locally , I just couldn't find any critics in my vocabulary (if any ) for this film.It is touching, I've got tear stains on my shirt for evidence to prove my point! Go watch it . =)

Meet Jj- The grape thief!

2008-03-03T22:27:00.005+08:00

This is JJ( Jun Jie) AKA Bee bee (note the similarity from the previous post) . At first glance he seems like any ordinary 1 year old out there so filled with innocence. How ever, I saw him performing acts which one would deemed queer , for a kid to do at such age. Hmm.

So JJ came over to my place this morning which seems like part of the ingredients to make today a great day. He came walking up to my room , bubbly and curious about what i was doing on my desk top. Fooled by his sweet looking face , i let him sat on my lap while i was doing my work and i opened a work document for him to type his gibberish rubbish in. It was something like this ,

ad asdfukfih4iadsjsdm,nhkl3rm;;=-

I decided that i wanted to do more work and leave him alone so i put him back on the floor and expected him to totter out of the room. Well, instead of doing that, he had to press the restart button on my cpu.

Since he is laughed so adorably after doing that , i decided not to chase him out of the room and let him play with my phone. Bad move.

HE started pressing the green button on my cell over and over again. Lucky he was just calling my mum who was at home then.That when I chased him out of my room into the living room where this basket of grapes my mum just washed laid. Then he started picking the grapes and throwing them around the hall looking like some eccentric.

Thats when the house warden came in and held him under her custody. This small kid causes trouble , big time. Cute ?

Bibi the silky terrier

2008-02-24T01:28:00.003+08:00

So one of my side jobs earlier this year was to have a few snap shots of this little dog which belongs to my aunt . A silky terrier by the name of Bibi. Tsk, i know its a cliche name , but ay , what to do , it runs in the family.

Haven't really been doing photo shoots for doggies before except for my late dog,. ah beng using the old digi cam. Tsk, well with the dslr , new possibilities with the photos are explored. In this series , I explored with bounce flash.

Ay, its all about the lighting and how you want light to enter into your sensor I feel , is what photography is about. Light capturing , I'd call it, with the camera as your magic wand to capture light.

Bibi was a very cooperative client whom remain seated when ever the camera is pointed at it .In fact , he is too obedient. I had to hide my camera away and take it out to take a candid shot of him in order for him to give me other poses.

Personally, i thought to myself that its very difficult to do indoor shoots without an external flash system. I had to struggle with the inbuilt flash system with a piece of card board to bounce of the light so that it won't be harsh . A $430 external flash would do a better job with that. Well, photography ain't called an expensive hobby to pursue for nothing i supposed.

Well, it was fun working with the pup during the hour session. It simply couldn't take his eyes of my camera unless food is presented in front of him. Simply lovable. Makes me reminiscence on ah beng though. I wonder where that faggot went to on its own but I'm pretty sure he should be doing fine.

Detail 8

2008-02-18T19:35:00.003+08:00

So , today I went for my vocational assessment at hendon SAF commando camp to allow the latter to further access whether I’m suitable for the unit or not. The location of the camp is irritatingly far. Smack in the middle of Loyang Avenue opposite Changi hospital, it made my butt cramp like I was having menstrual right after I alighted from the bus.

Well, being a commando is pretty neat stuff I felt. You get to keep in shape better than the rest of the units, you get to be honored by people and best off, you are paid to parachute =). That’s exactly what I told the officer interviewing me when he asked why I like to be in the battalion. While the whole atmosphere at the camp was pretty niche and all, we are treated to a grueling 11 hours of time spent in the camp mostly on waiting for our turn to be examined.

Assessment was based on several of physical and mental test and of course a test on our keenness to join the camp. Well, it’s just a series of test, which is pretty boring to me.

Well, if I’m in, that means that I've got to be going thru and fro from that camp for the next two years. Sigh, any one got any shorter bus route to suggest to me?

Whose fault is it?

2008-02-10T21:18:00.001+08:00

As he looked back at you with his menacing eyes, you see agony and hatred, you heart saw the painful experiences he went through reflecting on those tears trickling down his face. You began blaming yourself, for your inappropriate form of teachings and care for your son throughout the years that saw him mature. Ultimately, whose fault is it?

He was so tiny and fragile the first time you saw him and you began to develop this acute sense of preventing harm from coming his way. His lovely smiles etched in the back of your head replacing any form of stress or unpleasantness.

You know that you only wanted the best for your kid so you worked for those hard earned cash as a hawker in the day and taxi driver by night in order to fund your son for his education. You hired a maid and sent him to child care while you worked. He begins getting used seeing the shadow of you leaving the house early in the morning from the corner of his eyes while lying on the bed and getting the cold pat on the shoulder when he shows you that little star on the piece of paper. Your work persists and your temperament grew thin and nights without quarrelling with your wife were seldom. You began questioning yourself.

Your son's studies were compromised as he finds no pride in his work. Eyes perceived him as a delinquent who will grow into nothing more than an average Joe. His friends were of no good and soon he joined their legacy of doom. There was no one that could stop him or care about him as he finds no one to listen or look after his actions. He finds emptiness at home and took the streets till the day turns night. He began to question himself.

The days passed, your health deteriorates. The school sends you a letter complaining of your son's behavior in school. You got devoured by violence and turn it towards your own son as your temperaments gave fuel to your actions. It was just the cane at first then your weapon of choice changed to the belt and you simply used your fist for convenience the next time round. Your hearts aches more than the pain that was instilled in your child. You question yourself as you hurt him and yourself even more. Fatigue hits you as this nights of torments occur even more frequent then you can ever imagine.

Your son is confused. He turns to his friend for guidance. They don't even know what they want.
He smokes. He skips school. Just to find for his friends who became one of his main reason for living. The pain you instilled in him became numb and soon hatred. His hatred grew and got a better of him during his last birthday that you've long forgotten due to your multiple work shifts. As you held up your fist to deliver a punch to him for yet another mistake, he shoves you away and retaliates with a punch. His tears trickled down his face, he looked back at you with his menacing eyes, you see agony and hatred, you heart saw the painful experiences he has been through and you question, whose fault is it?

We learn more then those who succeed..

2008-02-05T15:20:00.000+08:00

Sorry for this long period of absence. Work was seriously the culprit of this prolonged drought from postings. Well, on a fine note, I've finished up all of my work and my final year project has dramatically came to a full stop.

The series of events that happened for my project was terribly devastating and heart wrenching. I guess in life , we all must fall in order to learn how to pick ourselves up and be stronger again.

We'll leave those melancholic thoughts aside, in this post, I'm gonna post about Pine apple tarts!

I've been itching to bake pine apple tarts for a very long time since I've got my oven and when elly said she loved pine apple tarts, i couldn't help but relieve my itch and bake the tarts. =)

As a prologue, i went online to browse through a few recipes and there was a plentiful of splendid recipes lying around the the net i tell you. Well, i especially liked this one from a baker's video blog.

Well, I'm not going to go into indepth details on how the tarts are made, most like , very basic ingredients that is all adopted from the web's concept.

Lets start of with the filling. I was skeptical about which pine apples i should choose when i found out that there is a variety to choose from. Well, i decided on the honey pine apples from thailand in the end and seriously, if you wanna do this, get the fruit vendor to peep the pine apple for you, it is much more entertaining and efficient to watch them do it then do it yourself.

Next would be to pulverize the pine apple. You can do this by grating , mincing or blending them in a food processor. For this case, Jc is a lazy person who believes in efficiency so i let my blender rip=)

For cooking the pine apple pulp, it'ld take a hell of a time. Why so you ask? We need to get almost all the liquid in the pulp out of the latter by vapourizing them. Seriously, a flame thrower would be good how ever, you can also do that by using your frying pan . Using a non stick pan would be ideal to ease the hassle of washing up, how ever, a normal would do fine too.

Pour the stuffs into the pan which is heated over with medium heat for around 5 mins and begin cooking . You'll find yourself so anxious that you'll constantly stir the mixture but , thats totally a waste of effort. Just let the mixture boil gently with the medium heat and give it a couple of stirs every 5-10 mins or so . If you don't want to dirty the stove , you could lid the wok. How ever, do cover it halve way so that the vapour can escape . This ordeal will take around an hour or so , and i strongly suggest you put more attention into the pulp at around the later 30 mins where the sauce begins to become thicken. This also meant that you should stir it more often to prevent burning.

Approximately at the 55th minute of so, the pulp will almost be thicken to an almost solid form to that of the thing that comes out of your in built disposal system (under normal circumstances please) . It will be good to add sugar or any sweetening agent at this point of time. Do not add any of those from the start as it will caramelize. Fold what is needed to be folded in and voila, you've got ur fillings done. Let it cool before working on them.

Next is the dough. This is the tricky part as you've got to get the proportions right. I suggest you follow that of those from the website. Get your flour and sugar in the mixing bowl and mix them well together. I suggest you use a whisk for this . Whisk some vanilla essence in the powder mixture. Then cut up the butter and mix them into the powder mixture. I suggest you do this with you hands, wash them of course( who knows how recent did you just clean your in-built disposal system).Keep kneading the mixture until they are consistent and voila, you've got ur dough.

I suggest you shape each of them to balls like what is shown in the pictures and it'ld make it easier to work with. do what ever shapes or design you want and place them on a piece of baking paper on the tray. Pre heat oven to around 190 or so (depending on how old your oven is ,older meant that it'ld need to be higher ). If you are making these tarts to suit a vegeterian's diet then end here and proceed with baking for 10 mins. If not, coat a layer of egg yolk on the top of the pastry and chuck them into the oven for baking. The end result should be splendid. =)

What?

2008-01-12T01:30:00.000+08:00

Ay seriously, now adays i'm wondering what the hell i'm doing. Every day seemed to be so yesterday or maybe it was so good it didn't happened at all. Maybe its stress from school. MAYBE. Arh fuck it, it must be. Time is passing so fast that I can't keep track of what ever i'm doing.

Now, luckily, I've got the blog to pen down what i've done so i could think of whats not done. Seriously, this malicious bug creeping in me is seriously crippling me. Its like my work is sluggish bla bla shet. No honey , its not you, I just need to start waking up my idea( this is quoted ) .

Ok updates . So recently me and Ernest is cooking up some nonsensical yet jolly good plans. That is to buy cartons of coke and packets and mentos and feed fat little boys with those and watch them explode and smother every one with their lard. yay.

Ok fine , no, we are not gonna do that shet. Kinda mindless. We're all mature and looking for things with better prospects and such now.. Ay, but just to keep the suspense going, I'll leave this one till the plan worked out.

Jeeze, crap.

The control freak

2008-01-10T15:41:00.000+08:00

He held on to his mobile so tightly , waiting for any form of reaction from it. He knew , that its life is over and every time he flips it open ,it will be just a blank black screen. The melody ringing inside of him manifested his soul, echoing submissive thoughts to the devil that was within him.

The sky turned grey and his heart felt like burnt ashes. The neurons and synapses around his eyes began reacting as what seemed like ideology became real. Black warmth embraced his fallen will and he felt helpless like the man he is.

He grimaced as pain came inwardly , the worst torment one could have.Losing sight, sound and sanity he walked amongst shadows. No one understood his feelings nor actions, as he continue holding onto his mobile so tightly.

Marcus's ride

2008-01-03T23:40:00.000+08:00

Previously i mentioned about talking about marcus's bike in the post. Well, his bike i'ld say is one of the best setup bike among the three of them. What to do , I can't resist to pamper my little bro with a smooth ride.

Of course , among the three, this bike would be the hardest and most time consuming bike for me to set up. The theme was black for the bike as I was going through a phase full of hate while thinking of the colors.

OF COURSE NOT, i wanted to give the bike alittle tinge of attitude thus , black. If you pay close attention, you could see that the coat is Matt coated, and jeeze i'm telling you, matt coat is super tough to do. I need 5 cans of spray and each coat like i said has to be applied onto it between1 hour intervals. See how time consuming it is?

Unlike the other two bikes, the technology on this bike is much more up to date then the other two bikes. V brakes, front suspensions , deore rear derailleur ,ceramic cranks.. what else can a 13 year old kid ask for from his bro for Christmas.

Well, in fact , the bike hasn't been completed yet as i've haven't added any designs onto it. So here is actually a concept i came out with from using photo shop. What do you guys think? I might be following up with the concept after i graduate. Woots. More bling!

I would like to Thank zai from veloroutes specially because he is the one who helped me out with alot of parts which i don't know how to install or repair. He also summarized the whole bike build by fine tuning every thing on it. Thus woots, a street like ride is done , totally awesome. P.s , i love picture descriptive essays as of now =)

The geek in the pink

2007-12-28T23:01:00.001+08:00

So for the entire monsoon season, I've been busy working with school work and all. What kept me seriously out of breath was these few projects I did up on the school's unwanted bikes. Tremendous efforts and time were being spent on accomplishing the projects of which two out of the three of them really had me on my heels. For almost every day I went to school straight to work on the bikes and after much cranking and tightening of bolts , I'm extremely relived that the bikes are finally ready and rolling .I'm so please that i want to document this entire process onto the blog.So first off , we'll start with my favourite out of the three. The Geek in the pink.

This was how it looked like before the paint job and all. In fact , this bike in the photo belongs to wee hou which was pretty much revamped already , the original geek in the pink looks much tattered and part less as compared to the one you are looking at now. I wished i had taken photos of the process but time wasn't keen on letting me do that as i got to complete the bikes before Christmas.

The first two weeks of the ordeal basically had me scourging the bike sheds for usable parts for the geek . I also stripped the parts and paint from the frame during that period of time. It was already two weeks before Christmas when i managed to do all of those.

Then I had to paint of the primer coat, the first coat of paint which prevents rust and all, on the frame and fork. It was a seriously taxing ordeal as i had to wrapped stuffs up and i hate the smell of the paint which eventually made me ill during the first coat. Lucky i bought a mask from daiso for the next round of coating.

Browsing the colour charts for the coloured paint, i decided that i should go on with pink as I'm giving the bike to my sister. Well, the idea was to add a little feminine touch to the bike but seriously, I like the bike so much now. Its grabbing attention every where i ride it to.

On the third week , Zj decided that he doesn't want to take his bike home from school and decided to give it out , thus i gladly stripped many of his parts and placed them onto the geek.His parts really gave the geek a good bling of red.

Painting the bikes requires a person to very patient and meticulous. Even after saturating my self with notes about painting frames from the web site, i still get mistakes such as tear drops and uneven coating. Resulting in a touch up, or even worst, I had to start the entire process again once when it was really bad.That seriously crippled my process as i needed the frame to be ready to be able to put the parts on. If not for the few sunny days before Christmas , the frame wouldn't dry and i won't be able to give the bike to my sis for Christmas.

Christmas eve's afternoon saw me mounting all the parts on to the bike . "From what seems nothing , to actually a very awesome looking bike"as quoted from what cheng ann (Sp adventurer's ex president) the bike was finally done up just after lunch .

The more I look at it , the more i'm falling in love with the geek in the pink. Its named after the song as I was cycling it back home when the Dj played the song over the radio. I'm glad wee hou helped me through out the bike stripping process which was the most painful . Then there was also cheng ann who helped me out during the bike mounting process , and I can't be more grateful to have sweetenor accompanying me through out eve without aircon and enduring my greasy hands and sweaty shirt for almost the entire month when i spent working on the bikes. Thanks hun for being understanding and supportive... One sweet ride done up, next up, marcus's bike ........

Soldier of fortune

2007-12-20T22:15:00.000+08:00

I am the soldier who holds a rifle and kick asses,

I am the soldier who kill to protect what i have,

I am the soldier who is fortunate to serve my country,

I am the solider who falls into the arms of my loved ones when i'm injured,

I am the solder who marches on day and night,

I am the soldier who has what its takes,

I am the the soldier of fortune.

-from what comes deep within the souljah.

Insomia leads to Utopia

2007-11-14T10:22:00.000+08:00

After hanging up on the phone at around 11pm last night i decided to hit the sack as this morning's class was pretty darn early. How ever , after countless attempts to try to sleep ; changing sleeping postures, counting sheeps and ships and all... I still couldn't sleep.

The culprit.

It was mentioned at some point of the phone conversation and my mind went auto pilot on the various forms a brownie could take and i ended up salivating on my pillow , feeling hungry and being deprived of my sleep. Tsk. This is worse then a hang over.The alarm clock went off for more then halve and hour until i pulled myself out of bed this morning.This is all because of BROWNIES!!!!YOU SWEET TASTING CHEWY LITTLE THINGS!!!

Club Politics, the stuffs they say behind the Cca booths

2007-11-13T21:36:00.000+08:00

So I took an early escape from school and jumped onto my bike right after I reached home.I'm feeling much better after about more then halve and year of not cycling as advised by the doc. The knee injury seemed to have gone away completely. Yay!~

Well, prior to the evening's session I called wee hou , one of the junior members of sp cyclists to join me on my little road trip. Wee hou is , lets say is a very critical kid and he had plenty of comments on the current management for Sp cyclists.After hearing all of his complains , made up of mostly explicit contents , I reflected on the whole point and purpose of the existence of the club.

I remembered when i was in Year 1 , I joined Sp cyclist with the thought of using the opportunity as a stepping stone to form and be part of a professional race team. Truth is , what i was told then, when i was at the booth , wasn't what I expected to get at this point of time.

I'm not disappointed , however , maybe because I realised that the whole idea i was harbouring then was pointless to start with. Then the benevolent or maybe some would say,nosey side of me would kick in and I question myself, what would the other members who are deprived of what they wanted feel?

Its not like every one has the same perception as I do and not every one would be so 'happy go lucky' like me.(well, you guys jolly well know why i quoted that phrase) There would be more people like Wee hou now whom is dissatisfied with the out come of being a member of a club, and feeling a sense of deceit. Wouldn't that make the whole 'the club is good for you' talk at the cca booth a scam?

Seriously,now i feel disgusted at my own club .Perhaps even at my self, for marketing the club so intensively that it involved misleading people's perception of the club. Well, I believe the club members who are reading this would know who I'm referring to particularly. Yes, to the particular person who holds the responsibility and power now, note, responsibility comes first before power. I hope you reflect on yourself and your lack of actions to lead .

Woots, cycling to ntu was fun especially when on lookers watch on in either disgust or awe us overtake the buses. Baby , i hope you like the surprise as a whole package, good luck and study hard for the coming exams eh. =)

Shweett...... SLURPS

2007-11-11T02:34:00.000+08:00

Woots, Finally pulling sometime off to slap on a new blog skin. Voila. Oh well, its actually derived from blogger , the template that is, I added some essence of mine to make the web look even more unique, i simply loved the white borders effects on the photos. Sweet. ARGH! hahaha , i'm loving it. Hope the fresh looks appeals to every one! ciao~

Immatrue

2007-11-05T20:18:00.000+08:00

Immature adj.
Not fully grown or developed.

Marked by or suggesting a lack of normal maturity: silly, immature behavior.

Today some one commented that the Guys from Poly are childish. Now people, poly mates or none poly mates,Guys and Gals ,this is yet another form of stereo typing people with the means of asking for a mob.

As far as I recall, I'm at least matured enough not to give stereo types like this because, we all know immaturity is a characteristic that is in every one of us.Seriously, answer me if you have to (ps . Its an Rhetorical question) , do you think that the degree of maturity of a person is of coherence with the form of education he is receiving?

Well, so much as to what i believe , at this point of time , as in our age, is that maturity is of an individualistic form of variance. I think that a person can choose to be mature or not, be it strutting around going all philosophical or sort. Period, I shall not start defining what i deem is mature of a person.

Poly mates , don't gloat, I'm not scoring one for the team or what , the whole point is to identify the lameness of the universe and eradicate irrational critics. Stereo typing is OK =) I always think that fat people don't like to do exercise =)

Napfa

2007-11-04T09:57:00.000+08:00

I just made a booking to take my NAPFA test 30 minutes ago on my school's web portal system. 4th of December.Then I realise, that I'm one month away from being graded and I'm now a halve mutated BLOB OF FAT! SHIT...I need to devise a 1 month training regime to pass Napfa.Immediately.

E learning week went by pretty fast , and there isn't much stuffs to be taken note of other then work and e-learning work. Well maybe I was just too lazy to blog every day , and that resulted in, a partial loss of memory as I took a longer time to record it down here. Woops.

CAs coming up, Enjoy Peeps~!

Contrasts

2007-10-28T22:54:00.002+08:00

How many times in life do we only remember some stuffs that we think is significant and forget about the stuffs that makes what ever it is significant?

So many times .

Like what the Mayor's advisor from the Simpson movie would say," We'll need 50 strong men and another 50 weak men to make the strong men look strong"

We need white men to make the black men look black , we need smart people to make the dumb people dumb, we need losers in order to have a winner, we need back stabbers to let us see who our friends are, we need love to have hate .

After some reflections on my own , i thought that the reason why I'm emoing so much every time is because I've been only remembering the times that i was sad. The things that made me sad . In fact, i sub consciously forget about the happy stuffs that made the sad stuffs look sad.

Maybe my level of autism is being brought to a higher level as I'm beginning to see things forming into a full circle. Every line that starts the circle will meet with the other end to form a full circle. Every step we take, will meet with what we deserve to be in.

There is just so many contrast in life that i think we mustn't forget . That may be the key in living a more balanced and enriched life .

The definition of a jerk

2007-10-22T22:17:00.000+08:00

I guess whats done is done and it can't be undone. I was being a very selfish and insensitive person. I misplaced your trust for me and threw you around like a toy. I know now I don't deserve to be a good friend nor the best man for you any more. I just want to tell you all these because i want you to know , that you are the very best friend I've ever had in my life. I don't think there is any one out there that can replace you and the amount of trust i had for you. I was being a total jerk to you when you were always there to give me advice on every thing in my life . Misplacing your trust is the last thing that i seriously want to do , I was being insensitive and i deserve to be hated. Perhaps I didn't showed any form of appreciation to you before that you've have taken notice of so want to thank you, for everything and I'm sorry...for the things that I've done...really sorry dude...

What is Jc up to again???

2007-10-17T14:50:00.000+08:00

Well, lately, I've been busy. As in FUCKING EXTREMELY STUCK UP TIED UP ....

Most of the time i had was spent doing project work and all. Usermanual, the new banner design, the new back drop , photo shoots .. ARGH! They are a terrible bunch of wicked shet. Muahahahahaha , but something sweet is happening. Its good

Oh well, I'm off for a debate now... Ciao peeps , miss all of you, who ever you are =)

Its easy to make Jc a happy man

2007-10-10T01:11:00.000+08:00

Argh, something good is happening!! This time, i think , I'll stay..

For sure..

Jeeze christ, since when was it did i do a proper update of myself . Light years! Well, I thought i do one now while i wait for my information for my work to load. Yes, I'm crampped once again, with gazillions of task to finish.Thats not gonna pull Jc down now though, something good motivates me! =)

Ay, Its easy to see that Jc is a cheer ful and happy person as of now. Even MY BLOG SKIN IS YELLOW! SO GAY!

I think I can get use of Ntu's dormotry, Jeeze, I;m actually satisfied with life without AIR CON! Jc's changed, thats for sure... Ay, like the song lyrics... DON'T LOOK BACK NOW..... ITS GONNA BE OK!

Woots, birds ,butterflies and bees, Here i come!

Jc will start being an ordinary man

2007-10-03T01:02:00.000+08:00

In this post. Jc attempts to be an ordinary man doing an ordinary thing writing an ordinary post.

OK, what makes Jc an ordinary man I asked..

Jc says:
what makes Jc an ordinary man
Jc says:
*repeats* question
Ernest says:
i thought you said russel peters make you an ordinary man rofl
Ernest says:
go get some girls la

Jc should get some girls as according to what some ernests would say. Sources to find girls would be , the tube(mrt ps. Louis came out with this ), the national library, the club.... or even.. you can check out ur friend's Girl friend .

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1.
of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
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plain or undistinguished: ordinary clothes.
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somewhat inferior or below average; mediocre.
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customary; usual; normal: We plan to do the ordinary things this weekend.
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Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. common, vulgar, or disreputable.
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(of officials) belonging to the regular staff or the fully recognized class. –noun
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something regular, customary, or usual.
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a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
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b.
honorable ordinary. —Idioms
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in ordinary, in regular service: a physician in ordinary to the king.
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out of the ordinary,
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exceptional; unusual: Having triplets is certainly out of the ordinary.
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Jc can start being oblivious to every thing that is happening around him. Thus , that makes Jc an ordinary man. To be mediocre. Just nice kinda Guy.

Thus , you know what? I don't care .

Ernest says:
to make jc an ordinary man, talk to the ordinary ernest

I'll go talk to ernest now.

Please embrace me closely ,with your shadows..

2007-09-30T23:53:00.000+08:00

Come one day we seek shelter from the blinding light under a shadow..

Come one night darkness falls and engulfs us as one...

Come one day some one brightens and removes your shadow..

Upon that day we shun and hate light for all else that follow...

Nobody takes photos of me except gary...

2007-09-25T00:57:00.000+08:00

One fine day , i was eating my spring roll and playing pokemon when gary decides to sneak up on me...

ITS THE GAY's BIRTHDAY !!!

Sheesh, i was telling him that he is now so past teenage butt sex days and can do some adult ass whooping . Happy birthday dude . Jeeze man, you should really zouk with us this wed , else i can't replace my guilt for not celebrating ur birthday .

Woots, I got a photo shoot going on for sai kong's dad, hope it'ld turn good. I realise that i've been taking pictures of things around me, recording almost every detail down , but ay, I haven't got pictures of me. So people ! Stalk me, take pictures of me.. and send it to me please.. do what gary did. Lol.

Just for the records, i'll leak out a photo that was taken during guys night ...

HERE~ we have our pig wanna be ern, rolling no the floor after quite some booze..

Ern, no matter what abomination , we'll love you all the same, be it something rolling on the floor, or served grilled with fries and coleslaw as sides.

Depressing night

2007-09-23T22:17:00.000+08:00

Jeeze, Its been such a depressing night the last night.I just went straight into emo mode once every thing settles down and i'm alone at home. NO dinner, no one but my hang over accompanied me. They say alcohol is a depressant, jeeze, it sure is. The music from my blog doesn't help~ argh.

Ay, the pursuit of assurance wasn't pleasant, nor was the enlightment of the truth...

Gokudo

2007-09-20T12:49:00.000+08:00

Sheesh, I broke yet another string on the guitar, makes me wanna change a guitar...

So i watched this jet li show with Miss chiang yesterday , after much decomposition at mercury . I thought it was quite a nice show though we missed the first 10 mins of the show. I kinda got my interest back for triads and secret society. The show inspired me to start taking pictures that symbolizes the Japanese gang Yakuza or the triads. Evilness blending with crimson ... mmhmm..

So we hit Chinese garden later on at night and woots, it was not totally awesome but it was quite a nice subtle feeling at the lanterns display. There were plenty of Chinese characters depicting the various lanterns there , and Jeeze, It was quite a challenge to understand all of them.

The dudes are back!!!

2007-09-18T01:43:00.000+08:00

Finally!!! THEY ARE BACK FROM AUSTRALIA!!! AGRH!!!!!!!!

Well, least i know they missed me pretty much too, I was catching up with ernest at king albert's mac and he was telling me all the wonderful stories that happened. It was pretty much interesting, especially when there is this new girl in the picture and , slurrp, the squabbles. Aww, they think of me even when they were at the jetty without fishing rods, like hur hur, what gives.

Arh, short post , lazy post, what ever, will post again when the mood comes back .. till then~

Sibu Island Escape

2007-09-15T12:56:00.000+08:00

A few weeks back Yen Kai gave me text message asking me to join him on a trip to the Sibu Islands for 3 days two nights.Well, at first i thought its gonna be one of those last minute planned trip which falls under the category of most likely cancelled . How ever , all went well after I managed to take a few days off in advance and last wed saw the bunch of us heading of to the kelong.

Well, Jy backed out so its left with me the only outsider and the Rp vball team. How ever, they were nice and friendly people and all, so they were quite a nice company.

The three days two nights was spent island hopping , snorkelling and fishing. It was one of those simple trips that can only be described by the photos you've took , and I'm being lazy , so PEEPS! HEAR ME NOW~ enjoy the pictures XD

Things that turn me off..

2007-09-07T22:41:00.000+08:00

Things i confirmed that will make me not like a girl when

1) You didn't call me to ask where i am and all and told me that you were there 1 hour earlier to wait for me.

2)You didn't slow me down and walk as fast as me and complain later

3) You didn't want to watch a show any more when we reach the cinema .

4) You took out a Stick to smoke infront of me and ask me if I wanted one. ( When you didn't told me that you smoke)

5) You answers a phone call in hokkien and starts speaking a very loud and rude manner

6) You fucking buy me lunch on the first date

7) You want me to meet your hokkien speaking friend when i have work like 30 mins later

8) You bring me around twit places and shops for twit clothings...

This will result in the following ..

1) My heart rate doesn't increase and i feel like dying when we hug..

2) I became digusted at the thought that our hearts are so closed to each other

3)I'll be seriously pissed with you

4) I will break up with you if you are my gf , and I'll not ever go out with you alone again.

5) I might even fucking hate you if you try anything funny at work.

ARGH, sucky day.

Yet another glamourous ending

2007-09-03T02:04:00.000+08:00

Sheesh,once upon a time, Jc gets an off day from work and I'm spending all my day cooped up at home , doing my FYP work. Totally , exhilarating.

Right , i'm not blaming any one , don't get any wrong ideas now . Its just that , a moment of laziness or peace seems so scarce now adays. Especially when i have the phuas chasing after me , giving me shit loads of work to do. OK, as you have already guessed, this paragraph and the next is so gonna be paragraphs full of complaints. Thanks dvd for the encouragement, appreciate that man.

Lets see ,I've been an accountant, a sales man , a secretary, a carpenter, a coolie , a office boy and as well as the human resource manager at serangoon broad way. Well, doesn't that make my job looks interesting with so many aspects falling into one. Fuck it, the phua is exploiting the very goods of me at a bargain of 6 bucks per hour. 6 bucks per hour for god's sake , and i'm being sucked out of my life just earning 6 bucks per hour. Seriously, if he haven't gave me these two days off, I'm so gonna quit the job and head straight to the ministry of manpower to lodge a complaint. Even better, if i'm eligible, i'll apply for child abuse as well.

x_x

So , lately, I've been skeptical abuot the things i do , the person i'll be with bla bla bla. The other day i was telling ernest about how difficult its going to be , to be able to find for the one person that suits you. Thats like , 1 out 6 billion people. Fuck it, I don't know how many zeros there are in a billion , but wth , we all know that is alot. Makes me wonder now , how am i gonna be so sure that i'm going to find for the one lady that i'll be with.

Well, like i said , I'm being skeptical at such a young age that is. Jeeze,its just one of the kinds of moments when you take a breather and take some time to do some reflection . I have been telling myself that i'm still young and don't have to bother and all.After watching the show , how i met your mother, it seriously hit me. What if I , JC the almighty, DIE A VIRGIN!?

Ok,I see that many might go ahead and think that i'm actually going in the direction of sexual deprivation . NO i'm not. Its just that , if i'm going to fuck some one, I wanna make it a good fuck , and I want that person to be the one.Jeeze, and how am i gonna fuck the one when its like 1/6 billion a chance that I'ld find the one to fuck. ARGH.

Ok , maybe i'm being too narrow minded about the probability.Maybe i should widen my scope, do something like 2/6 billion = 1/3 billion or sth. Equate it out , minus gays and lesbians, minus married woman, minus old woman, minus young girls... So hmm, maybe it'ld create more possibilities.

What gives, if there are good people, there must be bad people to make the good people look good. If there are 50 strong men , we must have 50 weak men to make the 50 strong men look strong. If there is 1 sucker who dies a virgin, there must be fucker who dies , not a virgin. Period.

Ok, maybe this is not a complain post after all, more like its base on totally illogical hypothesis and explanations. What, you like to differ?