saturday night fever

taking a day off today.

i've started work attachment in company's join-venture wafer fab plant since last monday. it's in woodlands.

woodlands! which means it takes 1.5 hrs to get there, which includes 2 bus rides, and half an hour train journey. half an hour putting life at risk of suicide bombers...

anyway, at least i could put that on hold till next week. i'm going back to kl later at 5pm for my brother's wedding ceremony.

now that's what i'm worried about now. the wedding dinner this saturday night. i'll have my own-made video presentation bout my brother's and his wife's life journey on display during the ceremony which i heard includes VIPs.

naturally my father kind of freaked out a bit, asking me to show this video to him and the mc, beforehand.

my mum on the other hand, think that the bride's part is too long. well, that's understandable, considering she never mentioned her new daughter-in-law by name, and always refer her family as 'the other side'.

i've done my job, now waiting for the reaction. just like when ppl like stephen spielberg finished making his movies and waiting for the public ratings. exactly the same.

now lightly surfing the internet to see if ebay or yahoo auction carry nice stuff for my new home, which i'll move in next weekend. already bid on this sony tv console which sells only $20, which is cheaper even than the transportation fee.

actually, i'm quite amused by what ppl sell there sometimes. ok that i got to see proper sofa, or dining table on bid, but clothes hangar?? even if it goes for S1, it's still ridiculuous..

as ridiculuous as seeing bayshore park sea-view condo selling $700K there.

people.


...ed

down

i'm sick.

i think this is the first time in 2005 that i have fever. it came out of a sudden last night when i started shivering like it was sub-zero temperature outside.

took a cab to toa payoh clinic, and sure enough, my temperature was 38.9C. but the best thing is, i got mc for today! so another day of resting.

i'm feeling better now but still weak. i just have to see how i'm progressing to ensure this is not dengue related.

while at home, i've started to work on this video presentation i have to make for my brother's wedding, which is in 2 weeks time. nothing much, just kind of completed the introduction part.

somehow it feels harder this time. i guess it must be the pressure of making sth that would be viewed by the whole wedding dinner guests. it's a bit like a debut to me...

CY came by just now to let me try some vegetarian food from the temple. well it's nice to have someone making efforts just for you. i'm blessed.

ok, i'm a bit tired now. is it me or typing does consume lots of energy?


...ed

emotional highway

ok i'm supposed to iron my clothes now but that can wait.

i hate ironing clothes, i tend to make lines where i'm not supposed to, and get all sweaty from the heat. i hate hanging clothes too but at least that i can see hope. i bought this new toshiba washing machine with super-spin-dry function last friday at harvey norman suntec. i mean, super spin dry! surely they're on the right track to inventing washing mashine that completely dry clothes, right??

there's no tennis tonight, wimbledon has this stupid rule of not playing on sunday. here we are sitting comfortably at home on sunday night, and they chose to play on busy weekdays instead. well at least there's no justine and nadal to watch now. i was quite bumped up when they lost last week. serena and henman lost too so you see, at least it had not been an entirely wasted week.

so i got all the rest i needed today. except of course, the hanging and ironing. especially after a tiring day yesterday when i went to jb with CY.

it just stopped raining when we took the ride yesterday so the weather was gloomy. there was this motorbike vs car accidents shortly before we reached the customs. the car dented, the bike was upside down and there was a covered body by the roadside. not a preferable sight if you ask me.

the queue was longer at the checkpoint as it was noon, and all these m'sian going back home after half day work. i'm always fascinated by these motorists. here we could see the true ugly nature of our people. they would cramp each other to occupy every little inch their bikes could get into, hon thoughtlessly, choke you with their exhausts and forget courtesy, that's just not in their road dictionary.

after consuming as much carbon monoxide, we headed down the grand hyatt for lunch. upss, not lunch, but high tea. high tea! the only time we have in the weekends to come and have proper meal, and they arranged buffet lunch for weekdays only. big surprise?? not really, by now i kind of accepted the fact that the world stops operating normally on weekends.

so before we knew it, it's almost monday again. i still have not figured out this particular work assignment, still have no clear ideas where or even what will our team building event planned for in a month time be and still a long way to go coaching this new colleague attached to me. i'm getting closer to freak out now.

just received a call from my parents. my father asked why i'm not calling home recently. that was not too good, wasn't it? i don't know why, it's not that i don't intend to call, but when i see the clock, it's either too early, or too late to call. it's almost like the most suitable time just skip, disappear or sth.

my parents gave updates on my younger brother's wedding which is coming soon in a month time. apparently my other siblings already getting their new clothes ready for the event. they planned on wearing golden colour. me? i probably just don in this cream coloured clothes i first wore in 2001. doesn't matter. the wedding dinner will probably be dark anyway so ppl may not notice. hey, i don't even know my sister in-laws' name yet!

which think about it, it's a bit rude, don't you think? not that i care, the chance is i'll only see them once a year or sth like that, but still i feel a bit hurt. just because i live over 300km apart i'm non-entity?

oh i feel depressed now. which should mainly be because of it's sunday night. it's all because of the workloads i have to face tomorrow. no other reason. who cares about that sister in-law?

or maybe because i still have those clothes to iron now. yes that's it!


...ed

academy fantasia rocks

i think i've been infected.

seriously. i know everybody's been talking bout it for some time now but i always thought that it's no big deal. it's like a whole another world's affair, no significance to me at all.

who knows that eventually i've become one of them? that just shows that nobody's really immune from anything. one mistake all it takes and you'd be addicted faster than you can say 'AF3'.

yeah, now i'm an Academy Fantasia fan. come to think bout it, i started being hooked to american idol in their 3rd season also...

gosh, does that mean i'm 2 years behind the crowd??

anyway, i'm not missing anything again. i'm gonna rout for amylea and mawi. amylea looks passionate and she has this r&b vibe around her. mawi is such a raw performer with a crispy clear forceful voice and i think has this most sincere personality among the guys.

i like marsha too, i think she in some way is like a malaysian version of krisdayanti. kefli is cute but i'm not really enjoying his performance last week. idayu has nice soulful voice but i'm not really crazy over her image.

the rest, ermm not very memorable. please take out aidil, he can't sing and i hate how he tried to look handsome all the time on the stage. my friend said he's a playboy, and i was convinced when i saw he was the only one trying to hug elizza as a consolation after she was booted out. that was so inappropriate. i mean, this is malaysia, not america.

ok i think my sweat has dried up, i better go and take shower. no more headache too after i popped in this miracle cure called panadol. i know it's not good for the liver blah blah blah, but when i have headache, i dun realy care bout anything else.

well you know, except maybe AF3...


...ed

riverwild

as i walked by the river on my way home just now, i couldn't help scanning over the calm dirty water. call me crazy and maybe sick too, but somewhere deep inside my mind i was thinking what if i somehow spot a severed head gloating by the water? as far as i had known, the police has yet to retrieve the head of the chopped up body found by the kallang river yesterday.

that was not the first time. i mean, i've always hoping to be the one who spot things out. like sometimes, when i saw a place flew by, i was thinking what if shortly after, the plane eventually made to hit some famous buildings? i'd be able to tell the news at 9 that i was innocently looking out my window when i somehow spot the doomed plane at 5.17pm...

or when i admired the night starry sky, i secretly hope that i'd see some new planets, or even alien spaceship, and i'd be known as the one who spotted the mars attack...

i know it's almost impossible, but hey, a guy can dream, can't he? everybody loves to be center of attraction, to be the one who's above everybody else. it's only normal.

besides, it's entirely unexpected world that we are living in now. who knows when will the big tsunami hits, or when the united nations will deceive china and accept japan into the security council? i myself was confident that they'd convicted michael jackson..

by all means, and it might not be me.. but i sincerely hope that they'd recovered the missing head of the poor girl soon....



...ed

oral fixation vol-1

as the appointed chairman, i called for the team building committee for a meeting this afternoon. as the previous one had the ppl did nothing but stare at each other, this time i called the big boss in as well. how was that?? i let him handled the meeting. after all, this whole team building thingy was his stupid-not-to-mention-meaningless idea anyway...

so my suggestion of having a normal lunch out but jumble up the whole seating arrangement (to get ppl to mix outside their comfort zone), went down the drain. just as i expected. urrghh.. i was already having fun with my colleagues over tea break, setting up unpopular ppl with the bosses. the big boss mentioned this other dept was considering a cruise or sth. wow..like we could plan a cruise with only $20 budget per head. cruise on 'sampan' more like...

last alternative, bbq in east coast. hmm..simple. could just buy ready-marrinated bbq stuff and book the pits. the only problem? have to come up with sth in between to extend the overall function to 3 hrs or so. games maybe...not sth physical though coz it's probably hot in the afternoon, and ppl would get all dirty and it's not like we could take a dip into the sea. need a good MC too...hmmm...

ahh worry bout that later.

tompok just called regarding our trip to bangkok this sept. seems like ages away but i already booked my flight over air asia yesterday. it was so convenient, this whole book on the net thing. we decided to stay in baiyoke sky hotel, but planned to book the room only end of this month. i'm quite excited over this actually, just that this other japanese lady will tag along with us. first, things would go somewhat formal when she's around, and secondly, my japanese is horrible now, it takes a lot of effort to converse naturally, and i'm..ermmm not so energetic lately.

hearing shakira's new album, fijacion oral vol-1 now, and it's in spanish. i was quite surprised hearing her first single 'la tortura' just now coz i heard 2 men's voices when she's supposed to be duetting with this other guy in this song. not that great song. maybe her second single 'no' is better off. we'll see....



...ed

great sale not so great body

came back from town. had been lazying on bed whole morning and figured i could use a bit of sunlight. well, not really, i hate the sunlight but maybe just the fresh air. god knows my room felt a bit stuffy as it has been shut from outside air more then 24 hrs.

the great spore sale is still on, in its 2nd or 3rd week i'm not sure. looked some kitchen stuff in tangs if there was anything appropriate for my new house kitchen. the fork and spoon sets were cheap, but looked a bit small. there was cake mixer with a bowl which was only 28 dollars. the tefal frying pan was pretty nice and cheap too. anyway, didn't buy any as i didn't feel like carrying them all back today. plus, i figured i should look at other places first, and came back some other times.

then i looked for some antioxidants. i may be overreacting, but i did feel my age recently, so think some damage control would be appropriate. on the bus i saw this kid with a glowing youth complexion and i got all jealous. seriously. on the way to robinson, i saw this book on detoxifying with the backside introduction that reads...

'do you look in the mirror and wonder where that fresh, taut-skinned youth has gone? do you suck on coffee after coffee all day long, yet feel irritable and exhausted?'

those lines were so me! i swear it was like a sign from heaven or sth. so i ended up buying this book (it was only $3.80!), then commuted to toa payoh and bought this amalaki antioxidants (10% discount). almost tempted to purchase skin purifying and cholesterol reduction pills too but thought i better not get carried away.

then i looked at my watch and it showed 6pm, and i thought it would be nice to watch 'friends' in my room and catch a brief nap. i felt a drag to continue exploring things in toa payoh courts store. another sign of aging perhaps? i'm so worn out...

anyway, maybe it was just a lack of exercise. i didn't join the last thursday badminton session, and it had been while since i last pay tennis on saturdays. jogging? i could not remember when i last did it. i really need to start on my physical work out once i moved to my new house next month. it could be like my new life motto or sth..a new house and a new life..or some sorts..

ok think i'll continue with 'friends', and maybe a nap....



...ed

inferiority complex

still waiting for nadal vs puerto in french open final...

the match should be after the women double final, so i'm having this roland garros website live scoreboard on my desktop to track the current progress...

so far so good. h-hardenne won yesterday against pierce, and if nadal wins tonight, it'll be all perfect.

gosh, i so want nadal to win, especially after he beat roger yesterday (haha take that, federer-worshippers!) i'm already feeling excited, nervous and petrified, all at once now, i might just need oxygen tank by my side later while watching.

met this guy who's a tennis fan as well from the chatroom this morning, apparently staying nearby me. i was excited to finally having someone to talk tennis to, but however the conv didn't get too far and kinda stopped half way.

duh..i bet he was having another conversation at the same time, and that just took off. he looks kinda cute though so partly because i was kinda having fits myself too.

it's the same old problem. i always feel inferior by someone who i think better off than me. this guy's young, good looking, and could play tennis! i'm so envious.

put him beside me and i'll have inferiority complex.

i really need to work on this.

the final still has yet to start. i just did some excercise with my torso roller in front of the tv. i hate this little lump i have in my lower abs, i really need to start doing the sit-ups everyday just like last time.

feeling good bout my body will give me less inferiority complex problem, especially since i plan to utilize the swimming pool in my new house to its full extent.

i could also learn how to swim!



...ed

sweet victory

i'm so happy.

we won the intra-dept badminton tournament yesterday. i partnered this vietnamese guy in semi-final and crushed our opponent doubles to go 2-0 and made way to the final.

one of them was a girl though, but hey they got 7 points handicap, so it's not like i was being ungentlement or anything. we won fair and square.

didn't get to play in final as I was in the 3rd line-up and my team already clinched victory from the first 2 doubles.

so it was a great evening. even better when i watched nadal annihilated gasquet in french open tennis 3rd round match off super sports. and venus lost and sounded like a loser!!

woke up late this morning. it's very hot outside. very. waiting for CY to return from JB and maybe we'll take a stroll in orchard later. in the malls i mean. the great spore sale has just started yesterday...


...ed

one step further

and so the american idol 4 has ended.

i was quite dissappointed in the finals just now. yeah i rooted for carrie but even i thought her performance was only ok.

bo? ermm..i don't like this guy. so he's a rockers, the first one in the idols, but still i can't appreciate that deep voice.

i was hoping for some electrifying performance. man, fantasia last year was superb. i actually gave her a standing ovation together with the judges after her performance.

this year was, urghhh..let's just say i don't care who wins it this time. ok maybe carrie. and that's only because she's such a doll...

ok. today i went to see the mortgage lawyer in toa payoh with my agent after work. a lawyer! i've never met a lawyer before. ok i have, but he's my friend, and i've never see him in session anyway..

this mortgage lawyer, julia was on the phone when we arrived. i tell you, her voice was loud, and she talked pretty fast with various technical terms that i didn't have a clue about, so i started to get a bit nervous.

it was such a relief my gouse agent was there, so i was kinda like celebrity. my agent answered all the questions and then explained all the procedures to me when all i could do was being dumb-strucked by the highway conversations and the low cut of the lawyer's dress.

signed couple of cpf release papers and now just have to wait early july to settle, some property tax or sth like that..

then, payment time. my hand was trembling writing off a cheque of 30 over thousands, i almost couldn't spell the numbers properly. Dollars thirty thousand and six hundred only.

now trying hard not to think of the depleted state of my bank account, i mean, compared to previously...

urgghh..

i better go and watch the remaining french open match today on super sports, keeping in mind that by the time wimbledon starts, i would be watching from my new 42 inch plasma flat screen tv in my new condo unit.


...ed

shagged

another badminton practise after work.

this time we played in hougang badminton hall. i think i played ok, but maybe not enough to ensure my place in our main doubles.

the tournament will be this friday. i think i started losing it since our practise game last week, so now i think this guy, mike stands more chance to be in top 2 doubles.

which is probably ok with me, since it's easier being underdog. no stress. my ball still somehow always ended up half court despite all the energy i put, but at least i think i managed to kind of flicked it over just above the net in return instead of giving high ball.

anyway, we haven't work out our final strategic line-up yet, i just hope they won't decide to put me with a girl or sth.

i should work on tonight the abstract for technical paper we planned to submit tomorrow but ended up watching sharapova vs linetskaya french open 1st round match on sport channel.

(sharapova won btw. urrghh..i was hoping she'd lose then we could hear her usual tired remark of 'i'm ok, i'm only 18...')

oh well, can always work on it tomorrow first thing in the morning when my brain is fresh and at its full capability. no point rushing it now, frankly i don't feel like thinking at all.

i don't even feel like writing this entry further, so...


...ed


"if there's one spark of hope left in my grasp,i'll hold it with both hands.
it's worth the risk of burning to have a second chance"

unwind on the death star

sometimes i just don't understand ppl.

some of them are just plain mean. here i am minding my own business, and out of nowhere i got insult thrown to my face.

to my post comment.

it's not like i'm complaining or anything, but it's amusing these ppl sometimes don't realize their own shortcome.

i mean, keep on blaming your own physical appearance, when the fact is your attitude doesn't seem to be better either. the chance is that boy isn't gonna like you any better even if you look like one of those creatures in planet kamino.

try do that to george bush, and he'll direct his death star laser to your country faster than you click the "send comment" button.

yup. i was surprised reading yesterday's news. bush just gave green light to US air force to go ahead with space weapon program.

funny that coincides with the release of revenge of the sith, which by the way, ended when the emperor overlooking the built of death star.

i should say the world we're living in is about to get more ermm... dramatic.

assuming the death star takes about 16 years to complete (from luke was born to when part-4 takes off), i still have plenty of time to carry on with my life.

went off to orchard robinson's courts this afternoon, surveying things to equipt my new house with.

i so want that 42 inch samsung LCD tv to be in my living room, just that one of my friend recently asked whether it's worth it to spend more than one month pay to buy just a tv. now i'm considering whether it's too..well..luxury to have one.

plus the fact that i only turn on the tv to watch tennis, sumo, desperate housewives and american idol. and also, you know, fann wong's drama series if any..

but some time in my life, i ought to enjoy these thing, don't i? i mean, i don't want to get old and have cataract in my eyes before i decided i want to have this.

also i cannot believe how expensive furnitures are nowadays. it's almost a rip off. yeah they are italian design, but still, they're rectangular-ish, wooden and brown. what's the difference??

courts is having further 5% off for today and tomorrow. i always hate stores that do this short time and notice discount. i swear that just makes ppl not thinking rationally before buying.

and they mentioned credit card installment pay like it does not involve money at all. like you can get the stuff without paying..forever.

i guess those are the arts of business. what do i know? i just want to direct my death star weapon to them after i got my things and decided to put them on installment...


...ed

the last war

i want to join the dark side. seriously. somebody plz direct me to lord sidious!

it was such a thrill watching the last star wars show last night. you know, part when darth vader rose from the operation table with that famous star wars tunes in background, made me feel like standing up and hail our new king...

except audience in singapore were so boring. they watched the show as if watching water drips from a pipe. no emotion. nada.

some of them even brought their 7 year-old daughter. duh..as if that kid understand what the force is all about. unless it was the mother actually wanted to see and couldn't leave their children at home...

i heard that chancellor palpatine was actually portraying george bush in a way. how he used the republic senate in the name of democracy to give him license to destroy his enemies for sake of peace.

hmmm...now that's a thought.

today i was like a celebrity in the office. everybody kept on asking me bout the show. so i just replied, 'it was ok, the scenes were breathtaking, the light-saber duels were electrifying, but i think the dialogues were to shallow'.

actually i got that from online review.

so it's the end of star wars saga. sigh.

unless..you know, if my boss were actually a sith lord and would try to lure me to the..ermm..what organisation could i join in the office?? oh yeah...the technical member committee...

that'd be cool!


...ed

my first property ladder

it's already over working hrs and i'm still in the office. waiting to leave later so i can directly make trip to balestier shaw cinema to see star wars episode 3 revenge of the sith at 15 past 8.

i'm so excited over this. first, the fact that this is the last and potentially the greatest star wars episodes ever, and the fact that i beat so many ppl in getting the first day ticket (my colleagues so envy me, haha!) and also the fact that it's a night-out with CY.

poor CY, the new company squeezes every bit of efforts from their employees, so CY has been going home past 9 everyday. this just proves the saying that we should avoid employment at 3 companies, japanese, taiwan and singapore local companies, 'coz over there, employment means no life.

for me, life has been crazy the past few days. our test department secretary, katherine, overheard my conversation with st francis agent at office elevator lobby, so she introduced me to another agent, her friend, michael.

michael contacted me last sunday and we went and see condo units in simei. i ended up making a second view on one of the units at night, then decided on taking another unit the next day and signed the papers as early as monday night beside the condo pool.

so i'm now the proud owner of melville park condo in simei.yaaayy!!

i've not informed my current housemate yet, waiting for all the procedures to complete. plus, i wouldn't want him move out earlier than i plan to as i'd end up paying more for the current house rental.

in between viewing condos, dropped by buddhist charity events in front of taka in orchard over the weekends. CY was helping selling roti prata on the saturday (which was a mistake 'coz who'd buy roti prata at that time of day and that kind of place?) and mee siam on sunday (which was better). taufik the singapore idol even made live performance there on saturday night, so i got to see him up close. he was ok, just like on tv.

ok it's almost time to go.

may the force be with us!

...ed

friday the 13th

ok my update.

actually i have nothing to boast about. i have not invented anything new, or save anybody's life..neither have i found AIDS drug, or found osama bin laden...

just plain everyday's life.

except now i can boast that i have one of the latest (not to mention the coolest) handphone in town.

it's samsung E720 with slick design, bluetooth, megapixel flash camera and mp3.

god, i'm such a sucker for good handphones. i can go jello. i'm like imelda, just that instead of shoes, i collect phones. well not exactly collect, coz i sold my old ones, but you get the idea...

and i'm still loyal to samsung ever since i converted from nokia. samsung mobile is way cooler. just check the screen and the polyphonic sounds.

plus, their customer service officers are angels. just now i called them to ask where can i buy leather cover for my new handphones, and they picked up at the 2nd ringtones. i mean, they don't even have '..for english, please press 1' crap.

now i can walk around in town in peace 'coz in case i come across fann wong shopping in taka or sth, i can always snap her with my megapixel handphone camera, hehe..

though mind you i'm a bit less of her fan now, since she showed her true colors in beautiful life. how ugly things had turn in this series. we're getting like one dead character per episodes. such an easy and lazy way to end a story.

CY is coming over tonight, after quite awhile. i got the cheese fries in my rice cooker for a surprise later, as we the stupid KFC we went in the other time didn't serve this. CY adores cheese fries, and it gives me chance to get a bit cheesy.


...ed

dumb and dumber

my forehead is throbbing like crazy.

god, i don't even know what happened. i was playing tennis on office rooftop just now and was chasing this ball near my body, tried to flick it and somehow the racket found my forehead instead.

i hit my own head with a tennis racket.

i mean, how stupid does that sound?? and i must say the swell between my eyebrows made a nice affect to the clumsiness who i am...

not to mention the whole impossibility of it. it's like driving a car and run yourself with it. this should be almost impossible.

went to medical center at the office and asked for some ice and antiseptic. the doctor was under the impression i was playing doubles and my partner hit me, which could made whole lots more sense.

not a great start of the day. well, i better go back home and maybe continue sleep, hoping the weather won't be so hot to hibernate for the rest of the day. i'm feeling a bit dizzy now, but this must be because i slept at 3am last night watching nadal vs stepanek match and woke up dutifully 7.30am to play tennis myself.

maybe i'll go to the cafeteria first and check whether they have food ready yet, keeping a close watch-out so i won't bump anything on my way there...


...ed

beautiful illusions

it's 10pm and i just saw (what else) beautiful illusions...

you know, i've always hated the part when they showed clips of next episode after the ending song, 'coz i didn't understand a thing! they must have not done the subtitles yet or sth, so i'd see clips of ppl arguing (or so it seemed) or someone telling some news etc, and i wouldn't have a clue what was it all about.

well, guess i have to wait till tomorrow. better be home on time as i noticed my housemate switched off my tv/video power when i got back today. it got me all irritated. i mean, resetting the video clock is one thing, what if i ended up having vegetarian buffet dinner at quality hotel just now?

as if switching off those things can compensate even 5 minutes of electricity his aircond consumes...

for once tonight, i'm not too troubled by the house thingy as previous nights. today i cancelled the 2nd appointment to view the st francis unit few hours before lunch break. kinda decided that condo might not be good for long term investment, or even re-sale in the future if, you know, i were to work in m'sia or sth...

so seems like i'm gonna stuck in this rented unit for some time more, putting off plans to buy 42-inch LCD tv and set up my own home theather and worse, having someone who always bring strangers home at night.

to make myself feel better now that i won't have this spore unit, i've almost decided to buy this condo in kl instead. they're supposed to be designer units and good location-wise, though that 99 leasehold is a bit turn-off.

this 99-lease hold concept is so wrong. why would ppl spend thousands of dollars just to buy sth that will have to be returned sometime in the future? that's so not buying but renting. work it out, if the unit is 300K, it's like renting off ~250 bucks per month. the advert should instead read 'condominium unit for rent with 99 years contract'. see if got ppl buy...

these property thingy is so troublesome. when i consult somebody, they'd tell me it depends on where i want to stay permanently. duh... as if i know that myself.

i wish i could make up my mind on this. i don't even know what i want. i wish there is a sign or sth... that says i should spend my life at this country, or apply and work at that company, or even let what be my eventual sexual orientation....

the one thing i'm sure of, is that the kl trip last labour-day weekend was fun. we occupied 2 suites at istana hotel and spent time loosen-up.

yeah we didn't get to go karaoke, or bowling, and also i should have checked some properties for sale there, and yeah, the time square sara cosmetic shop saleslady was a bitch and tupai2 restaurant was out of our reach, but nevertheless, the whole trip was a strike.

how i long we could meet again in the future. just hope it won't be just one of my beautiful illusions...



...ed

when the wrong one loves you right

it has been, ermmm i don't know, about week and a half? ..since i last met CY.

i was thinking that we'd have more free time after HP dept shutdown but no, those countless interviews has been very time consuming...

it's harder even to meet up now.

like yesterday, we only managed to meet for a short dinner at whampoa market. i was feeling a bit down because of this whole thing, and it hardly cheered me up. when i was asked why i looked kinda gloomy, i blamed it on the weather.

it's easy to blame everything on recent out-of-hand-hot weather. after all, couldn't blame CY, as i must understand that huge effort might be needed to land a job nowadays.

but i couldn't help it sometimes when the heart sings a different tune from the mind. still i really hope someone remembers that today is our one-year anniversary.

how i hope good thing will surface up too when i see that saint francis apartment unit today during lunch time break.

i called a different agent yesterday as the previous agent was uncontactable and they did not return my sms so i assumed they were not very keen. i mean, they did mention that they would call me in few days time but surely they would have to keep themselves contactable??

however, they called me just minutes after i talked with the new agent, so affectively now i have 2 agents handling that saint francis unit for me. but as my colleague said, they are just 'tools' so i guess it's ok.

now that i have the possibility of climbing my first property ladder, i must keep my expenditures sensible enough.

yesterday at company's bazaar sale beside the cafeteria. i bought half a kg of raw honey for 15 dollars, which should be totally acceptable. everybody knows honey is good for health, and surely i shouldn't trade health over anything. it will be good for my gastric too.

then i bought a pilates ball for just 15 dollars, which was a total bargain. i mean, outside is selling like 65 dollars, so i was actually saving money. i'm thinking to convert one of my 2 bedrooms in my new apartment to an exercise room cum meditation/ prayer hall, and this ball is silver so it will totally match any color of the wall.

now i'm still considering whether to buy this expensive antioxidant pills. heard that it can cure muscles ache and join pains, which i have most of the times, and most importantly it will help retain my youth.

anyway, i should look at the apartment first. i'm so upbeat about this actually. planning the decoration and design of my own place is fun, though that means i'll have to seriously cut down my oversea trip after this.

although i must say going kl whis coming long weekends staying at hotel istana suites does not go in sync with my current plan, but hey, friendship is as important to me too!

my mum was like, 'you're coming back and stay in a hotel?' which for me it was a pretty hard tone. all along i went back kl and stayed at home so i hardly met my kl friends, let alone ventured night life. so i just explained to her that this would be a reunion, which is actually true, except this reunion only consists like 5 ppl.

but hey, i'm in my late 20s and about to climb my first property ladder, so surely i can afford to enjoy some freedom in kl...


...ed

the force within

urghh...is it me or it's very HOT recently?? i feel like stripping all the time at home.

monthly wise, it's almost summer for nothern hemisphere and i guess somehow s'pore is no acception, except from winter to summer like normal seasonal countries, ours is summer to 'more summer'...

anyway, i'm following barcelona open seat godo tennis final, nadal vs ferrero live score off the net now. that starhub overpaid sports channel doesn't even show replay telecast, which sucks.

instead, they are showing US clay court c'ship. who wants to see those crappy americans on clay anyway?? it's french open tune up games for goodness sake!

in background checking this private apartment for sale in st francis using s'pore street directory. price wise, still ok, managable range and location wise, superb. i just have to see the place to ensure everythings good, and CY offered to check the feng shui.

imagine i turn up at the place introducing CY, 'pls meet the feng-shui master'. haha!!

it'll be nice having place of my own, though at this point i won't put much hope yet. everytime my lunch kaki discussed about renovations for their hdbs, i just resorted to get busy playing with ice in my kopi beng.

that, i hope, will change soon.

gosh i think i have a bit of headache. must be from staying indoor too long in this sauna-like place watching the last three star wars movies. bought them off gramaphone yesterday because like everybody else, i'm starting to get excited over upcoming revenge of the sith finale.

nevermind the 90 dollars spent, i'm sure that was such an investment. after all, there are all classic movies. with all those special effects, i would prefer the original best quality dvds anyway.

~wait till i get my own house and my own home theater system set-up.

having read the revenge of the sith book and found out how anakin turned to the dark side, i felt myself supporting darth vader in every battles they fought in the last 3 episodes. not luke, not leia.

let's face it, i'll turn into the dark side too if i were anakin. so who can blame him? it pissed me off seeing the end of returm of jedi. why must every story ends with the supposedly good ones prevail??

look at swordsman 3 - the east is red movie, tung fang pu pai was the last man standing. no, the last woman standing. i so adored that ending i remembered watching it in cinema several times after school.

ok this headache is getting worse. i think i better stop staring at the screen, except u know, occasionally checking the live scores.

*may the force be with us this coming weekend!*


...ed

whooping four figured sum

gosh i almost fainted when i looked at this month's electricity bills.

i was so worried how my emotionally-unstable housemate would react seeing that extra digit in overall sum.

i mean, for a person that freaked out when i reminded him on monthly rent, sudden spike in utility bills isn't the best thing in the world to inform him to.

thus, it was no wonder i stared at the paper like 5 minutes in front of the mail box trying to make sense out of it, finding possible explanation on the sudden surge.

oh no my housemate just went into his room after staring at the bills for awhile without saying a word (mind u, the silence might not be of any abnormal indication as we seldom talk to each other anyway).

should i go to the kitchen and check whether our knife is still there?

oh he's knocking on my room door...

...

just to give me a cheque.

cheque for the current month bills, plus the internet fee, plus the bills. two third of the bills.

i tried to reason on extra money he was trying to pay for the bills, but he said he used most of the electricity and not to worry bout it. i wanted to argue further but found myself silenced with the remark.

'coz it wasn't that nice the last time we argued.

well i guess, maybe he's not bad a person after all. i've seen his dark side before, but i've just been reminded of his other side as well just now.

gosh i must remember to stop calling him names.


...ed