Happiness! What a fulfilling day...

ahh i'm kinda tired now from all the excitement i had today but i guess it's worth it. it has been a very eventful and fulfilling day. let me start from the top

i woke up early because i had to reach CDC by 8am for my e-trial test subsequently followed by my BTT (yes, finally). the first time i did the e-trial i got 88% so the screened flashed "FAILED". i was stunned. luckily it was just the e-trial. after that, i tried another paper and passed. i finished quite fast so after doing some last minute reading up i went to the toilet. it's quite hard to find toilets where you have to pay 10cents to enter but you can still find them at CDC (they are so cheapo). ok, at least they are well-maintained. after that i went to do the actual BTT. i passed! yay! so i can start having practical lessons. after that i took a bus to bedok then took the MRT to tampines because...

it's the grand opening of th Uniqlo store today! it was soooooooooooo crowded. when i just got to the newly opened trampines 1, i looked high and low for the shop but to no avail. eventually i finally found it. it's at level 2 in case you wanted to know. they've got quite a wide range of clothes but the stuff for guys is not as varied as compared to the stuff for girls. really a lot of stuff for girls. i picked out a few items and headed to the fitting room. the queue was unbelieably slow. i waited around 40minutes to try on my clothes. i'd say the service is quite good though. they had a person who would help you get sizes if the piece you tried on doesn't fit right. well, by the time i got to the cashier it's about the near-end of lunch hour which meant that office people would have gone back and and hungry aunties would be having lunch so the queue at the cashier was temporarily shorter than usual (it was all the way from the cashier till the entrance) so i managed to pay in around 15minutes of queue-ing. i'll admit that currently it's a little overhyped and i hope things normalize soon. if not everyone will be wearing the same thing. phew~ after that i rushed back to office.

meh work is as usual. nothing much special but some colleagues got pretty excited when they saw me with the uniqlo pastic bag and wanted to see the catalogue i brought back. after work we headed over to RE to submit our timesheets (they better pay us on time this time round). after that i grabbed a quick dinner and headed down to the gym.

oh ya, before we left orchard and me heading to the gym, there was quite a commotion at orchard road. there was some topless chinese guy like walking in the middle of the busy road. then he got into a quarrel with some indian man and the TP and police came to restrain him. but surprisingly (or rather disappointingly) they didn't try to arrest him but tried to get him into a cab (which he refused to get in) which they just randomly flagged to stop(poor taxi driver. wasted his time waiting and he might have to fetch the crazy guy) . i think he's a little off his rockers. many people were speculating what happened. some guy beside me said "must be he fell out of the taxi". duh, no, don't anyhow assume can? so i made an even more exaggerated comment like "oh i think just now the man fell off Tangs leh". the worse thing is, the person on my other side heard me say this and actually considered it as a possibility. he said (to his friend) "people say he fell off the building leh. hmm...but if he fell he should be injured hor?" in a genuinely confused tone. *facepalm* singaporeans, other than standing around and watching "free shows", please use your brain a bit and not speculate/assume too much?

at the gym i whacked my shoulders and biceps today. wah damn tired.

which leaves me where i am right now. mentally kinda drained, physically also pretty tired. (forgot to mention bank account also kind of drained) well, like i said it's been an action-packed and very fulfilling day so i don't really mind.

hmmm...on another random note, i realized that those facial wash with "soap-free" formulas are a bit too acidic for me and tend to irritate my skin. i guess i have to stick to the "got soap" type.

okok, tired. going to sleep soon. so, until next time, cya and good night!

Back! With some ranting to be done...

hi! i'm back after a long hiatus! what have i been up to? well, busy with life.

my job mainly attributed to my lack of time to update this page. the pay is slightly lower than my previous job (end of last year) but the work is not as dry and boring. i get to talk to people occasionally instead of just archiving documents. my colleagues are an interesting bunch, with some more "interesting" than others. we really don't mean to be nasty to anyone but sometimes......certain people bug us. a lot.

things also seem to be going well at the gym. i think the training has been helping. guess i got a little stronger? but i'm still pretty weak. also getting to know more friends at the gym which is a good thing. definitely makes it more enjoyable (and safer) to train. hmm...i think i kind of hurt my wrist this week. it hurts when i bend it. hope it gets better soon. i really enjoy my time with them. hope we don't drift apart after uni starts.

sigh, but not everything has been going smooth. recently somebody i'm close to (and meet practically everyday) was having some mood swing of sorts. the person seems troubled but when i ask what's wrong the person will say "nothing" or "just tired". then when talk also give me attitude. in front of other people still pretend to be a bit more normal, but when it's just two of us, sometimes totally just give black face, don't talk, play with handphone. it's very agonizing for me. i'm not sure what's going through this person's mind, so i won't know how to help and i just endured this person's antics. but ok, being the kind of friend i am, i just take it as lightly as i can and try to keep the good spirits up. then after this person's computer got fixed, the person suddenly became more cheerful. (don't tell me the computer was the cause of all the emo-ness, moodiness, mood swings, bad attitude and such...) ok, that's good. i also feel happy for this person.

today was also another disappointment. i suddenly had a very strong urge to go club. (i haven't gone for months) so i started asking my friends. and i got rejected. i practically asked everyone i know. primary school friends, secondary school, jc, ns, gym. but nope. some were busy. some were kind of interested but i just couldn't find more people from that group. some just got home and were tired. some just turned me down flatly. i mean maybe it's the activity? but probably not because the same thing happens whenever i try to ask people out. dinner, movie, or whatever. i'm sure some of you had received my random messages and calls. do i really have anyone to count on? when people ask me to go out, i'm usually "on". even when i say "see first" which usually means "no, i'm not going to be there" for most people, there's still a high chance i will still go. so how come when i try to get people to go out, people generally don't want to go out with me? am i such a big turn off? as evidence that this is not the first time, please read my post from december as evidence that similar cases have happened. maybe i should just give up.

another disappointing thing i realized. the person (who's supposed to be back to normal now) does not seem keen on trying to make any effort when i tried to discuss my problems. the person keeps giving half-hearted comments which aren't very constructive and just say for the sake of saying. i thought i could discuss my frustrations with this person and be understood. but i'm not sure why. this person has changed? i have changed? don't seem to understand each other anymore. what's going on?

another person i was talking to said it would be better when i find a girlfriend. yup. i think so too. i think i'm the kind who likes having someone to spend time with. i don't think i'll mind if she's a little sticky (as long as she can give me a little personal time like gym time). the sad thing is, where am i supposed to find? don't know why i'm so picky also. and so far everytime i tried, i will get rejected. (maybe it's just my fate to get rejected by girls and by my friends?)

going on austrailia trip soon. i really really wanted to go tokyo instead but well, someone in the group just went japan recently and didn't really seemed keen. being the kind of complying person i am, just went along even though i'd really love to go japan with the money instead (i don't mind going for a shorter trip). at first we started with 5 ppl. then slowly left with 3 ppl. i knew that if i pulled out the trip would've probably been cancelled. well now we managed to get 1 more person not from the original group. it's a self-funded trip so i'm going to be very very very broke.

maybe i'm just too complying for my own good? because i don't want other people to be disappointed, i just want them to be happy, sometimes i just overlook my own interests. then when i look back, sometimes i will regret and ask myself why am i so foolish. so am i supposed to say "no"? because of my complying quality, some people might see me as "without a mind of my own" or "unable to make decisions". i guess it's a turn off for girls huh? but normally when i voice out my opinions like when i say "i'd prefer not to eat fast food" people will say i'm very picky and hard to please. can someone please explain which is it? i seriously hope people aren't just putting the blame on me because it's convenient to do so. i'm a simple guy and i'll just take it that i'm in the wrong most of the time. please don't abuse me. because when i realize that i've been played...........i'll flip. and it will get nasty.

i'm still in a state of confusion but as i go i'd like to share a song somebody just shared with me. it's a very nice song (and the singer is very pretty). enjoy and bye!

Happy CNY! May good fortune befall on you!

it's the first day of CNY! i'm sure all of you are looking foward to the goodies and the ang paos. well, i'm not going out yet and my my relatives won't be arriving yet so i'm just sitting here listening to some trance and chilling out while waiting for lunch.

good news! i've found a job! come wednesday i'll be starting work at my new workplace. hope the people will be nice and everything will turn out well. so what has happened to my to-do list? i'm proud to say i managed to do most of the things i've mentioned. let's go through item by item!

1) apply for my BTT at the kovan branch office of the driving centre
this one is not done. haha.

2) change my old bank passbook for a new one (because the old one is all filled up)
yup, check. got my new passbook from the centrepoint branch

3) get whey protein and a shaker (probably going down to the TSW warehouse at toa payoh. save on delivery charges)
went down all the way to the ulu warehouse. the customer service was pretty good. in the end the guy managed to convince me to get this



got the strawberry flavoured one. tastes pretty much like strawberry milkshake. yummy. it's a promo item so i got it at a discounted price and got freebies! like this t-shirt



honestly it's a bit big la. and also this



shaker. also got a free issue of DXL magazine.

4) get a new wallet and some more uhh....inner wear (probably from robinsons)
did get the stuff but not from robinson's though. ended up buying undies from BHG and got the wallet from Taka. i won't be showing any undies but here's some shots of my wallet.







it was on sale so i managed to get it at less than $100. woot~

5) get new gym gear (since there's a sale and i have discount coupon)
surprisingly got it at robinson's because they were having 30% off nike stuff. heh heh.



just a very basic singlet. nothing too fancy.

i think i mentioned this earlier but there isn't much of a chinese new year mood this year so i didn't get down to getting new shoes and everything. i only managed to get one t-shirt after browsing through shops in bugis and walking from one end of town to the other. (from far east to wheelock to wisma to taka to paragon to heeren to cine to centrepoint to PS to the cathay)



it just seems like clothes nowadays either look unappealing to me or just plain overpriced. sigh~

BREAKING NEWS: omg...my fridge just broke down....where to find a place to buy a new fridge today??!!! even if the place is open what are the chances that they are going to deliver now?? of all days.............

okok. in order to salvage the situation we are going to have a steamboat lunch now. be right back.

~~~~ Interlude ~~~~

yup i'm back. just bought a pack of ice from downstairs to keep the remaining stuff chilled longer. probably going down to courts later to get a new fridge.

during chinese new year there will be a lot of fengshui masters who will give readings for the different zodiac signs and such. my personal stand is that it's ok to listen but just don't take it too seriously. especially for the bad things. let's say the prediction is that you will have bad luck in love for the year and you have that mentality in your mind of course nothing good is going to come out of it. it will be a self-fufilling prophecy. it's all in the mind i'd say.

hmm...i'm wondering... i think i should relook at how i do my training and pick up as much from my friends in the gym as possible. need to adjust in order to become stronger. think i'm still quite weak. sometimes it's good to go back to the basics. maybe i can try to have a more focused goal?

oh ya! my new workplace is ok with casual wear (like jeans and tee) for office attire! a good excuse to get more tops. but feel like getting some simple ones. how's topman? cotton on? i'll go have a look after CNY. is there such a thing as post CNY sale? won't be much of a problem since i work in town now. buahahaha

got to run now. byebye~~ have a happy chinese new year!

Making the most of the situation! My to do list...

it's been another week of staying at home and applying for jobs online to no avail. okok, maybe i didn't really stay at home the entire week but in essence it felt like a pretty long week. being jobless and having to stay at home eventually gets to you. i somehow i felt pretty emo last night. It's the compound kind of problem of not having a job leading to not having any mood to shop and the nmnhnblm part of me starts acting up. sigh sigh. but eventually i got over it and decided there are some things i ought to do during this period of waiting for a job offer. but, before that, how about briefly touching on how i spent my day?

well i woke up as usual and surfed my usual forums. after lunch i got quite emo but a friend on the forum suggested i should just go to gym (which i was planning to anyway) and work my emo-ness away. well i guess it kinda worked. did some running and focused mainly on my core today. met some of my gym buddies. the thing is the gym plays class 95 and the theme they had for this weekend is hits from the 80's. as you can imagine mambo hits such as "together forever", "venus" and "don't you want me" started popping up. my natural mambo instinct was to start dancing mambo but fortunately there was enough sanity in me to stop myself from doing so and embarassing myself in the gym. haha. it was hard but i survived. lmao. after that went to meet ed at amk and we played jubeat at the arcade. it's really good for destressing. had dinner then went back for more. managed to get a few more S's. heh heh.

oh yeah, i realized something about songs in the 80's. apparently the hottest words to use in lyrics from that time are "yeah~", "baby" and "c'mon". haha. just a random comment.

okok, time to get to the to do list. as mentioned i hope to accomplish these tasks before i start my new job. so here goes:
1) apply for my BTT at the kovan branch office of the driving centre
2) change my old bank passbook for a new one (because the old one is all filled up)
3) get whey protein and a shaker (probably going down to the TSW warehouse at toa payoh. save on delivery charges)
4) get a new wallet and some more uhh....inner wear (probably from robinsons)
5) get new gym gear (since there's a sale and i have discount coupon)

besides this maybe i'll try to squeeze in a session of swimming between my gym schedule. probably visit the arcade to play jubeat and level up. and i'll continue looking for a job.

okok, time to go now. so until next time, bye bye~

Uneventful...*Cough Cough*

alll i can say is that i managed to survive the first full week of unemployment. somehow being unemployed totally kills the shopping mood. what is happening to me? chinese new year is like only 2 weeks away! and i haven't even bought anything. totally can't feel the cny mood this year.

been down with the flu bug from wednesday to friday so i was pretty much out of any gym action. it has been an extremely boring and uneventful week. no new episode of gundam 00 this week, no manga releases from weekly shounen jump like bleach or naruto or reborn or psyren, heroes is on break till february, ugly betty returns only next week. sheesh. i wonder how i survived the past week. well, ed found a temp job so helping him find his office wear did help a bit. (his first office job so we had to start from scratch.) well, the good thing is that a lot of girls are in the cny shopping mood so we got quite a bit of eye candy to look at. heh heh.

most of my time spent at home was spent looking for jobs on websites and in the classified ads or surfing forums like hardwarezone.com . hmmm...is asking for my previous pay too much? i really don't know. i really hope to find a job by this week. hmm...i will probably be needing a haircut by next week before cny. see how lor. since the salon i usually go to is so close to the gym and considering i go there thrice a week.

yawnz~ hardwarezone is so lag at this time....sigh~ bored~ been thinking abt some stuff. ok la, until next time. bye bye~

New year, new beginnings! Retrospection and expectations

hmmm...before we get to the more chunky part let's start the post with something more light-hearted?

let's have a look at my last kills for 2008.

took a walk around town the other day because of all the year end sales going around hoping to get some steals. got this tee from zara. saw it a while ago but wanted to wait till it got on sale which it did. yay!

then i went to fox and saw that the tees were going at 30% off. managed to pick out 2 tees with rather simple designs, but the cutting is pretty comfy. then before i went to pay, the salesperson i could get an additional 15% off if i paid using a dbs credit/debit card. woohoo~

went for countdown yesterday with ed at zouk. we tried to get company but the girls wanted to have their own little gathering at shuyi's house and we were pretty set on going because it happens to be mambo nite.but never mind, in the end we saw quite a few of our friends there. the dancing started around 11plus with mostly random songs with a few mambo hits here and there. surprisingly the crowd isn't THAT bad as expected. we counted down and the dancing continued. it got to a point where the music totally didn't match our taste so we went over to phuture for a while. when we got to phuture the music is pretty ok but the crowd was horrible. it was mostly young bengs and lians there. we got ourselves some drinks and went back to zouk. we chilled out at for a while until the mambo hits starting playing at around 3.30am? that's when the real deal got going. the mambo regulars who were looking damn bored on the podium suddenly burst into life and the "synchronized dancing" started. we were moving our bodies and doing hand signs all the way till 6.15am when the lights came on. it was fun but really tiring. i came home, took a shower and concussed until 3pm.

after last night i have come to make 3 conclusions:

1) drinking sucks. and it is possible to have fun in the club without drinking alcohol (especially if it's mambo) but do try to stay hydrated

2) 80% of the girls that club are either too chui (cannot make it) or too old. the other 20% come with their boyfriends. so, never go to a club and hope to find a decent(-looking) girl.

3) beware of drunk OLs who might try to take advantage of you (don't ask.)

ok after all the fun and excitement, it's time to get to some serious stuff.

honestly, 2008 wasn't that bad of a year. for most of the year i was in the army. went to taiwan for an overseas exercise. got introduced to a new church. came out of army. went on holiday. got a job. made some pretty great friends along the way.

well, there were emo and sucky times too. like how my current predicament has made me think a lot recently. the company decided to fix headcount because of the financial situation so they are letting all the temps go. yup that means as of now, i'm jobless (again). i got pretty distressed when i heard this. no more income? is this the end for me and my newly befriended colleagues? i have to stay at home looking for a job and just stone again? and now i have to compete for jobs with those who ORD-ed in december? i'm back at square one? the feeling of sliding back was terrible. after days of mulling around, a flash of insight hit me. i'm not exactly back at square one. the one month plus of working wasn't for nothing. there were things i've gained without knowing. i've made some money. i've gained some job experience. i've got to know some gym buddies. and i've probably gained many other things i don't know yet.

oh well, so i guess i'm back to looking for a decent paying job. i've contacted job agencies and just gotta wait and hope they will contact me soon as i continue to plow through the classified ads. actually i think it won't be that bad since the all the students have to get back to school so any positions they were holding would be open.

i have high expectations for what is to come this year. hopefully i'll find a temp job that i'll like so i can earn some money before uni and to keep me occupied lest i might just go crazy staying at home. hopefully i'll manage to meet someone this year when the time is right. hopefully i'll enjoy myself at the university when it starts in august. and i'm looking foward to meet more people as i go through the various phases in my life.

well, that's all the time i have for now. until next time then. bye bye~

Jingle bells~ Pre-christmas outing!

haha i wanted to do a post on my zoukout experience but my friend hasn't sent me the photos and i didn't get much on my camera so i guess that will have to wait. in the meantime, i'll do a feature on last night! it's some kind of tradition for the few of us since secondary school times to have a christmas outing. doens't have to be exactly on christmas day but ya you get the idea. alright let's start form the top.

ok, yesterday was my dad's birthday so i took him out for breakfast, or rather brunch. it wasn't anything fancy but i guess it's the thought that counts? hee hee. after that i went to hit the gym at hougang. ran on the treadmill and did some training with jac when he came (my colleague and my new gym buddy. haha). aching all over by the time we were done. (for some reason my lats are still aching.) went home to shower before heading down to raffles city.

so i managed to reach raffles city early. (trust me, this doesn't happen very often. lmao.) when everyone (except shuyi who was late) arrived, we went into our dinner destination: shokudo food bazaar. honestly i'd say the food is a little pricey (especially the drinks) but the quality still ok la. (at least it's more edible than the shokudo pasta at cineleisure) we waited for shuyi before we went to get our food, so by the time we got our stuff we were obviously famished. the girls left us in awe when they ordered hordes of food (i think they ate more than us guys). when they saw our faces, they said something like "it's christmas. it's ok to eat more once in a while" wow, ok.

something more interesting about the place than the food and the seating areas with different themes were the people who cleared the dishes. they were like ninjas. nope i don't mean they dressed like ninjas but they are sure trained like ninjas. they lurked in the shadows when we are eating and once you finish, *poof*, they appear and ask if they could clear your dishes almost instantly. we came to the conclusion that this is part of the restaurant's strategy to make you lose track of how much you've eaten so you'll order more food than you know it. smart right? anyway, after we finished our food, we decided to hang around a bit more to camwhore.

alright, it's time to finally show some faces on this blog so people won't say it looks like a blogshop anymore. haha. so here goes! (warning! large pictures!)


that's momo with his oyakodon (rice with chicken and egg)


aileen showing off her 自拍 skills.


hungry simin (i'll have to say it's a very nice shot by ed)


the girls


the guys


guess who won?

haha. so after feeling all stuffed we went to have a look at the christmas tree outside raffles city.



then we walked over to the esplanade. they had some of those white balls which you could write your new year wishes so we shared one. they will put the balls into the river so u can see hundreds of white balls floating on the singapore river when they are done. quite a wonderous sight i can imagine.


writing on the ball with shuyi


my new year wish. do pardon my poor grammar (or lack thereof. lol)

after that, we went over to cafe cartel because it was after 9pm and the cakes were at 50% off (such sinful indulgence. gotta work extra hard at the gym tomorrow)


waiting for the cakes to be served


ed going in for the kill!


trying to look like i don't like cakes (who am i kidding?)


mmmmmmmmmmm.......

then we did our usual christmas gift exchange. the girls unwrapped their presents with lots of anticipation as usual. after that we had one more surprise!
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there's one for everyone! supposed to put it on your keys.





and finally.....a group photo!


yup so that's how we spent our sunday evening.

whoa it's getting late. gotta work and gym tomorrow. hope to update soon. until then, bye~