random emotions

The recent happenings

2009-02-07T03:11:00.000-08:00

Alot has happened, okay in army. No more spec for me, service medic am I. Pes C am I. Just finished the service medic course am waiting for the combat phase to end before getting posted out.

Pictures of Pictures of the day when i got my leg hair shaved.

Fortunately, my leg hair is growing again... I missed being hairy :P

Double dating is a fun thing hehe

Guess the bottle by my side really screws the artistic sense of the picture. oh well

Who says having a girlfriend means that it will hit you hard on ur pockets. Dun believe those lies. 80 cents for the bottle of water, 1 dollar for the juice, 4 dollars for the chicken and $2.50 for the fries. A total of 8 bucks for a couple ... sounds pretty good... but thats not all, we were dining at esplanade =X , plus live band playing for us and eating under the night sky. Good deal eh?

Can't you see that we are really enjoying our food? Hehe

Oh yeah!! good stuff...

Priceless
Not only are the 2 of us doing it, look wei jie and dennis too. So sweet.

Not smiling here coz our stomachs are smiling.

I like this impromtu shot.

An impromptu photo , looks like wei jie is stalking cherissa. haha. Guess that was all for the 3rd of Jan.

New year's eve was definately memorable for me this year!

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On a different occasion.

Taking random shots after dinner.

My dear, you can't compare your height to the lamp post la... you will be shorter for sure.

This is what happens after you had a main course from Kenny rogers.

Food-art at kenny rogers.

She can't even smile when she is eating.. SEE that is how good kenny roger's food is.

As for me, i can smile, as you know, i have a higher treshold to control my temptations.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, SPASTIC FACES!!!

Well well well month of december..

2008-12-07T17:48:00.001-08:00

Well.. I have finally found my other piece. REMEMBER REMEMBER THIS DAY 26th of october... (Nick then watches 'V for Vendetta' and starts prancing around like the main lead actor in the movie).. haha.. Words cannot describe the joy and happiness that I am feeling even right now although its been more than a month already. Well, love has its ways on creeping into our lives. nuff said. So much i wanna say about her, after all, this is a public blog... heh heh.. not gonna tell everyone abt out private lives.. haha...
I like this FOTO of u haha... so act cool. haha

Well when 2 become one.. well unglam, den unglam together...

And some photos taken on the farewell dinner for my brother... Enlisting to army on 3rd dec. or should i say .. enlisted.. haha

At bobby robino's grilled ribs restaurant

Ben and Jerry's ice cream for the finale

This is the kind of expression one would give if your eating a $13.90 ICE CREAM.. CRAZILY EXPENSIVE.. but who cares.. i didn't pay for it =X hahhahaha

I'm laughing coz i ate ben and jerry's ice cream.. feeling high ... must be the endorphins... and my mom paid for it .. and she still looks cheerful after paying for my ice cream.. so YEAH!! =X

Retardation

Retardation with the christmas tree

Family FOTO after a lovely dinner at bobby's rib place... Can't u see our stomach is smiling

Non-retardation pic.

Love you mom, flying to Taiwan to work for the next 2 year... God has been good to us. In the credit crisis, most people would lost their jobs, but my mom had the opportunity to be deployed in Taiwan for work. Although i may have dropped out of BSLC, who cares man... Guess God has a reason for everything that happens....

you tickle my socks

2008-09-15T10:40:00.000-07:00

Ok, Cherissa, what can i say? Your unglam hahahhahahaha. but nice okay. =D

Incident 1 : At the library. Caught Cherissa wearing the same jacket as the person behind her.

Incident 2 : The picture below shows her pointing to the moon. Apparently she thought the moon was the sun.

Conversation went something like that...

Me: wow the moon is really round tonight hor? (pointing at the moon)

cherissa: wait! thats the moon? not the sun ? (giving me a confused look, then starts looking around, then came to realise that it was not the sun after all)

Haircut :D

2008-09-15T10:29:00.001-07:00

Let me introduce you to my handsome friend kenneth. Well the above picture was taken before the haircut.
Getting ready for the haircut
In the process
The shampooing

the final product :D

Looks different?
Why am i posting this? haha.. partially cause i am bored and i happen to find these pictures lying around in my computer:D

The days before NS

2008-09-15T09:32:00.000-07:00

The very day before our enlistment. The most worthless $10 ben and I spent.
Before.
After.

Spent e day with cong and ben. Met leonard and josh for breakfast the very next day and woolah.. i'm in.
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Its 1:06 am ... in the midst of my block leave. I vividly remembered the days i had fun with my poly mates.
The days when ben was just retarded

The days when kim loong just doze the day away.

Not forgetting the rock climbing!

Kim loong, as usual, looking defeated.

Alex at his best

Not forgetting yi cong(was to lazy to blog abt this haha, usually i have no time to waste time, but since i have some time to waste, i shall waste my time here), now everytime i'm with him, there is always something stupid which is bound to happen. For this instance, we found a yellow monkey in the middle of the taka. It was quite strange as we don't remember any shop selling any yellow monkeys, so we came to e conclusion that some kid dropped it. Anyway, the yellow monkey does seem to blend with his dressing, making him look FREAKY. Apparently he isn't shy at all about carrying the yellow monkey with him and into the boutiques.

Well, shoppers were like looking at him thinking 'That dude is a WIERD FREAK!'
But cong is totally comfortable with that :D
Well , the ironic thing was that after we returned the yellow monkey to the reception @ taka (Even the receptionist was like giving him the "your a WIERD FREAK!" look). We headed back to Novena and to our surprise, there was a shop selling the very same stuffed toy we picked up. Not only that, it comes in green, red, orange, yellow and blue. :D

All the pictures above, pictures which capture the fun we had, the times we shared, the bond we had, its the pictures which captures our youth. If you could turn back time, would you? I would.

10 days block leave... what do i do?

2008-09-14T10:36:00.001-07:00

Its 1.38am in the morning, pretty bored, guess what I came across?

www.yearbookyourself.com

I thought it was quite cool. It can transform your pictures into the 1950s.... man speak of retro man.. wakakakaka

Finally POP from BMT!

2008-09-09T20:38:00.000-07:00

VIPER COY! (the one behind)

Finally the day of POP has arrived. Many of us have waited for this day. The last day in BMT was a tiring day for many of us. We got up at 2.30am that morning, prepared our field pack for our 24 click road march. Most of us had less than 5 hours of sleep, but we were too happy, knowing that we were gonna pop that very afternoon. After we finished our 24 click many of us were really shagged and feeling exhausted. I've never felt exhaustion before in my life, pretty much an experience for me. Even the platoon's 3rd best, told me that he wanted to give up during the last 2 clicks of the 24 click. It was quite something. Anyway, after the 24 click it was not the end of the day, we had to change our uniforms and polish our boots in the outfield, which was really tiring, having the sun shining on you, sweating as you change and feeling exhausted at the same time. But I think everyone hold on, POP was just an interval away. Then our OC gave us some motivational talk afew minutes before our parade and woo la... we were in. Some soldiers were like swaying and I think a few fainted. Anyway, I think everyone is just as happy as I am, FINALLY POP!!!

The parade

My mom and I
Our parents were told to come forward to place e jockey caps for us. well, my mom wanted to have a fast game in taking a picture of me, but pretty much ended up gathering my platoon mates nearby to have a shot taken.

My mom, being the very very last person on the parade ground and probably the last person to take the picture on the parade ground.
My field camp buddie!

My other bed buddie!!

My commanders, 3rd sgt tamidzi, 3rd sgt khairul, 3rd sgt wei chao and followed by 2lt william.

Thoughts

2008-08-30T18:04:00.001-07:00

Its 9.06am, I've just had like 5 hours of sleep. Time has never been so precious to me before. As i sit before my computer, i reflect on the time spent. Question is, was it worth it?

Many at times, we take our parents for granted.

Your mom goes to work each day to fight a tough battle at work. After a long tiring day, she comes home.

Your mom takes the time to cook dinner for you, yet you tell her, 'Mom, I'm not eating at home, I'm meeting my friends for dinner' and you go on thinking on what a nag she is.

Your mom asks you to take a shower and you shout at her, thinking that she is such a nag.

As you watch your TV, your mom takes your dirty laundry and washes them for you even after going through a tiring day , because she loves you.

Yet you don't realise her love, and you take it as your own outright entitlement.

When your mom has no time on her way back home to buy you the pastry you made her promise to get you.

You get angry at her. She reasons out. yet she keeps quiet and gives in. Cause she loves you.

When you are sick, she leaves her work earlier to bring you to the clinic.

She pays for the bills. She asks how your feeling. She carries the medicine for you. Flags a cab and brings you back home to the doorstep. Cause she cares for you.

When you get better, you don't even remember her care and effort she took.

She gives you pocket money and asks if you have enough to spend.

You compare to your friends whom are getting more. You argue with your mom why you should get more money from her.

She tries her best to give you the best in life. She pays for the bills. She buys the fancy clothes you want.

Yet You ask for more.

As you go to sleep each night. She hangs the laundry. She washes the dishes. She locks the windows and doors. She comes to check if your tuck asleep. Yet you don't realise it.

How many of us are guilty of not treating our parents the way they deserve to be treated?

Have you told her straight, you love her? Have you spared a thought each day and commend her? Have you wondered how she felt each time you shouted back at her?

It may not be the same for each of us, cause our parents are different.

But one thing in common, they are a reflection of a superior being in this world, in which some would call 'Daddy God'. Question is, 'are we loving them the way they deserve to be loved?'

National service

2008-08-23T11:12:00.000-07:00

My last service with my cell group as a civilian

Thank you guys for the card!

The day before i enlisted, i had my hair cut short.

Its the 7th week of my BMT phase already, alot has happened. my enlistee frens had our hair cut short before enlisting a day before.Well my family (ben, mel and mom) sent me off. I had mixed feelings. I met leonard and josh that morning for my last breakfast as a civilian. It was quite a dramatic and emotional experience which i still won't forget. Was on the ferry to the terminal, had the "FANTASTIC" lunch they prepared. had no appetite to eat, but wasn't so for my family... my brother had finished every grain of rice on his plate.

Well time flies... so many things have happened in army. Events like Field camp, SIT test, my first 6 click road march, booking back in to do guard duty on my book out day.

There were fun times in there, and really memorable. 2 more weeks to POP, i can't believe it, 7 weeks flew past just like that.

I realised that after any guy whom goes to army, he will maximise his time to its best.

Finally i can blog about my thailand trip

2008-06-29T10:54:00.000-07:00

Finally i've recieved the thailand trip FOTOS! muhahahhaha.... anyway This post is gonna be unique, post, well coz its gonna start from the ending to the beginning to the end. (i uploaded it in a wrong chronological order, and am lazy to readjust everything).

Sad-departure

Well, what more can i say, the love seems to get a little physical . especially jiayi and kim loong

A beginning of a "beautiful friendship"

At the airport
Ben's look alike

Drinks at the bar at the night market
Cheap drinks, cheap food, lets party!

Ben in his greens

Notice our glasses? Looking cool ain't we? I know i'm handsome
yo doug! donuts fer my hommie?

Upon emarkment of the enchanted night market
Shell station by day, Restautrant by night

Jia yi being jia yi
We do have our fun times, especially in bed
Our dorm
MBK
Me

crab sticks
The usual dinner we eat

Yum, appealing isn't it
When your hungry, you'll have the same look

Spotted for digging nose
The streets of bangkok

Jia yi with the typical china man face

rac and kim
ben
wow, jy really is a fast learner, guess he managed to pick up e wicked ways of being gay
Men massaging men? tts pretty gay.. but thats a norm there i guess

A & W yeah!
waffles with a "generous" serving of vanilla ice-cream
restaurants and more restaurants
the lobby of our motel
We're pretty dazzled by the trains

Reaching the hotel lobby safe and sound

Exciting taxi rides with guys on ur laps.

Our hotel "Takeanap" hotel

The taxi rides, were rather interesting, squeezing 5 guys at the back

Its like 3 am, we didn't have much sleep, but the trip was all that matters!

At the budget terminal

It was a fantastic trip, words cannot describe the experiences we had and it was indeed something memorable. I'm sure everyone loved and treasure each moment we had together on the trip. Till then.

My Diving trip to tioman

2008-06-28T09:00:00.001-07:00

Once again, the mighty spartan is back, to blog about his trip to tioman, Malaysia (Truly asia). Well, i have to admit, i was pretty much excited even before the trip started, haha, i went wiki-ing tioman. Guess what i found out, its suppose to be the top 10 most beautiful places in the world according to TIMES magazine(How reliable? i dunno) . Anyway after the trip, yes i can say its really beautiful, except that we were greeted with cow shit every morning, LITERALLY. well thats cause, we stayed in these huts (which was due to unforseen circumstances, coz all their NICE-resorts were booked, so we had to settle for that. :( despite the poor conditions, battling with a scorpian in my toilet, showering with cold water(i mean REALLY cold), sleeping on a bed with crappy springs (and getting poked by the springs in the middle of the night) and many more, IT WAS STILL FANTASTIC, cause the food, the frens, and of course THE DIVE!!! ZOMG. IT MADE UP for it.... view of the beach from one of the "hawkers"
Jiayi and aloysious

the beautiful waters
haha, aparently this fish which looks like a pomfret kept following us around the dive, it was damn cute la.
The legendary seal team 6 (jia yi, alex, nicolette, choon hong, aloysious and myself)

A bunch of half naked guys and 1 girl
sharks, i can't recall this dudes name, lets call him choon hong 2, for obvious reasons. well on the trip he had so much similarties with choon hong, so much so that on the last day, choon hong even mistook his bag for his. They looked alike, have the same bad boy seh, skinny and tall, talk alike, same style etc. u get the picture dun u.

The legendary seal team 6 in their BCD and other gears

Haha, everyone is distracted, well thats cause the bottom of the sea bed was littered with sea urchins (incase you have no idea wads an sea urchin, well its something like a black soccer ball with spikes, and i really mean spikes, really long spikes), it was indeed freaky, after all, we managed to get our photos taken under water, haha, they won't call us seal team 6 for nothing right?

The curious "pomfret" (actually its not a pomfret, its really much larger than a pomfret, i'm just calling it a pomfret cause i dunno what to call it)

The shagged out seal team 6 after 3 dives
Our dive masters leading us on.
The errie eel hiding under a rock.

alex and his gf , well for them to get down to the bottom is really a miracle. For alex, he has a major problem equalizing, so much so that he even started nose-bleeding, while his gf had problems getting down (either too light or too heavy) , not forgetting equalizing problems as well haha..

Ready to lock and load.
aloysious with the, 'i can't wait to get into the water' look

Alex: what cha looking at? i'm ain't no dog, i'm ur cat.. meow!
somehow this picture looks abit wrong, i think i'll leave the captions out
Your probably looking at the underwater "Bedok central" . I dunno about you, but i have this werid fetish, well i get this urge to push people off the ledge and into the sea when they sit like how he sits..

alex and this old man
me, jiayi and nicolette
the ball to the top of the sea
i have no idea what this is

looks like we're playing billi-ban-ja underwater
The dive instructor, oh yeah.. speaking of that, in the diving hierarchy, the dive instructor is of greater level as compared to a dive master. But i think a dive master sounds way cooler than a dive instructor. It sounds like a jedi master and we are probably the young padawans... zomg, i shall take my advance diving cert to become the jedi warrior i was born to be!Half the time under water we have no idea what the other guy is saying,

usually a conversation using handsignals goes something like that under water:

GuyA: Decent (means going down to the bottom of the sea bed)

Guy B : okay

Guy A: I need you to grab this line

Guy B: okay

Guy A: I need you to remove and wash your goggles.

Guy B : okay

*guy B starts doing some random thing and starts pointing at a random fish

*Guy A looks

Guy A: !?!

GuyB: ????

Guy A: ???? wth u doing?

Guy B: ???
Guy A: Remove your goggles !
Guy B: okay
*guy B starts pointing at another fish behind guy A

Guy A: wth u doing?!

Guy B: ????

Guy a: ????

Well, thats all, on our way back to mainland by taking the speed boat :(

Trip to genting

2008-06-18T22:04:00.001-07:00

Okay.. let me begin by saying, THIS WAS MY FIRST TIME TO GENTING :P :P

haha, okay i know i'm pretty noob, anyway when we reached the top of mountain (our destination) I thought i was in some european country except that it was dominated by asians...the weather was great.... for my skin hahahha... basically the top was so cloudy, that you can't even see the top of the hotel
Well a view of the hotel from the theme park

haha on our first day , we went to the kbox in genting... MAN ... .. i gotta tell you.... it was so FUN....

that i fell asleep

haha.. thats cause i had like 2 hours of sleep thats all... just realised, i'm a person whom can go without food, BUT not without sleep..

Just a few snip snaps here and there on the trip

okay, i'm not gonna go into all the details and all.. but i'd wanna highlight something which happened on our last day in genting... it was another usual breakfast at starbucks(not that we are like super rich or what, but the food in genting is so expensive that it makes eating at starbucks and coffee bean an affordable option) .

It went something like this ... i was having my tasty shepards pie, peace and quiet, suddenly, jessica and tian hock started laughing at me... i was thinking to myself, 'u siao ah.. mad fellers' then jessica pointed to my right... to my surprise... man... i saw this ironic stuffed animal (a bear)... well.. it somewhats resembles er...er.. me??

Man.. the miniture me :D

ecoli any1?

2008-06-11T08:54:00.000-07:00

I just realised, i still have my E.coli with me.. just incase your wondering wth it is... well its a sort of bacteria... haha... now that i've graduated... i think i can let the cat outta bag... well okay... i helped myself (stole) the bacteria from the lab during fyp. btw, i did it for a better cause not because i'm a theif.. hehe... if my fyp supervisor found it in the fridge .. he would have marked us down.. so yeah...well haha... thats becoz during the fyp.. we opened a wrong valve containing a different organism and it eventually lead to countless problems .. and of course we sent it back for warranty (in case u guys didnt know.. bacterias do HAVE warranties from ATCC) , yes of course my lectuerer was pissed.. but little did he know that we actually opened a wrong bottle.. hehe.. so this was actually the one WE WERE SUPPOSE to open...

and if u see the background... u realised its @ hardwarezone.com.sg. :X

trying to sell the bacteria online... and get some spare cash back $$ :P (u didnt believe this did u? why would i sell it? my memories of fyp ... i'll guess i'll keep it for meomory sake :) )

I want more FUN BEFORE NS!!

2008-05-21T07:10:00.000-07:00

Haha.. just in case some of u think i've died-ed... no i've not die-ed yet... infact, i've been having really alot of fun for the past one month...

Just a quick update, i've graduated like duh~~ .. working at WDA as a admin asst.. pays alright.. haha.. alothought these pics are not even a fraction of the fun captured but never the less this is all i have as i'm not really a cam whore ..

Let me go thru the pics with u ads

**FYI the pics are not uploaded in chronological order, however it depicts the events which happened recently in my life :P

was in thailand with my poly frens.. was definately a heck of a trip.. DEFINATELY the BEST and not the LAST ....haha.. an experience i won't exchange for anything else haha... anyway... as u can see.. i think thats the pads they sell in thailand.. in which they call it 'downy' , in laymans terms, means a retard.. its so ironic haha.. i pity the girl doing that advertisement for the company..

thats ben's thai look-a-like

Rachel cam whoring, with kimmy and his umpa lumpa (inside joke)

sad camera. i know u can't see it. but anyways, its suppose to be an egg (Sunny side up) on the wall.. just in the season for EASTER (Literally) ...

hehe... starbucks selling the UGLIER curry puff... and the UGLY curry puff...
oh among wad happened... i dislocated my shoulder.. AS I KNOW MANY PPL will never believe wad i say.. i have to take a picture of myself in the hospital with the arm sling around my neck... btw u might think its funny.. but HELL NO... it was the MOST painful EXPERIENCE i EVER HAVE ... imagine taking a baseball bat ( dun get ahead of me) , den beating ur shoulder, REPEATEDLY!! .... yeah something like that.. no wait.. that feeling times a thousand...

Infact, they put me to sleep, gave me 3 shots of morphine, and anesthesia ( counted from 100 back to 0) .. can't really recall. but i knocked off around 70 i think.. the next moment.. i was like omg.. my arm.. its repaired... sweet!

oh.. ignore this.. i was just emoing..

As i've said, NEVER my last trip.. haha i organised another trip with 3 other frens to malaysia..

As u read the newspaper daily.. SOARING rice prices .. etc. when we were in malaysia .. we felt OTHERWISE... food was DIRT CHEAP... haha... a usual dinner at a seafood eateries along east coast in singapore would cost us like $10-$20 , but haha we spent like $5 / pax SGD .. lol...

Not to mention, as we are enlisting in JUNE/JULY (most of us, except QUEK, lol no hard feelings) we bought our undies from malaysia.. haha cheaper .. damn.. we are so cheapskate.. haha

Leonard, a disgrace to all arsenal fans ....

back to the thai trip... (just in case ur wondering why i'm jumping here and there... no i didn't its just that i uploaded all the pics at one shot.. and its all over the place.. hahha... so yeah.. i'm just explaining as i scroll down lol) .. btw my middle names, Broke back.... :P slurps!
i guess ben missed touching me.. btw just incase ur wondering why i have a tissue in my mouth.. unfortunately .. haha my fren knocked into me .. and i was bleeding thru out.. came back to singapore black lips.. yes i know my lips are thick and it was black after that..

a memory to remember

walking to meet wang jia as she came back from china .. so i thought the long stroll by MYSELF to raffles city from my workplace... and it dawned upon me the beauty of the durian... beautiful sunset so i just had to take out my niffty little camera!!

i had to take a shot of myself with the beautfiul durian

the shy WJ...

my gawd.. shes prettier now... thank gawd for good hair stylist in china.. i'm so tempted to upload her BEFORE pics.. but i shall be a nice guy and not ruin her reputation lol..

well was with yi cong and cedric going to clarke quay for some drinks .. and heh heh.. we didnt know there were chinese statues along the route.. it just turn us on and i dunno... we lost control... we just had to TOUCH these china men.... i mean statues.. pls dun haf any gay implications.. coz its ur mind playing tricks with ya

Thats another day with yicong and inch and wei chen at zouk.

We called that day the 'RANDOM DAY' literally.

coz everything happend randomly...
1.yi cong phoned me RANDOMLY to chill at his place with inch
2. i RANDOMLY bought some fruit juice from cold storage and brought a barcadi and went to his place to mix
3.we (inch, me and cong) RANDOMLY decided to watch harold and kumar 2
4. We RANDOMLY decided to go clubbing at zouk for no reason (to meet up with cong and his OCS butties) (btw it was a wed and i had work the next day and it was SO RANDOM, like we sat at mac.. den yi cong asked... WANT TO GO CLUBBING LIKE NOW, 11pm.. den we were like in home clothes in TOWN)
4. Another RANDOM thing which happned which i could not recall

A nice pic of singapore , a speck of randomness :D