Surfing In The Rain

A wet monday morning it is today.
and while on the way to the shipyard to do REAL work, it started to rain and it looked like it was gona pour like crazy.
made a detour to west coast mac's to wait out the rain.

and so here i am, sitting at mac's, logged in to wireless@sg, facebooking and blogging and chatting on msn.

this rain looks like it's not gona stop for the next couple of hours. i hope to get a spot where there's a power socket in like 2hrs coz i've only got 2hrs of laptop juice left.

guess dat's all the rambling i've got for now... time to go play pet society and word challenge :P
so for those of u in the office and struggling to stay awake coz of the rain, WAKE UP!
and for those of u mugging at home and also struggling, 加油!
and for those of u lucky-ass ppl who are juz bumming at home, HAVE FUN!

how i wish i am home rite now, den i can juz game on my xbox :(

From Swedish Meatballs In An English Pub To Grilled Meats To Playing In A Band To Jap Buffet To More Band To An Immobile Left Hand

It has been a most busy weekend.
thursday post work hours were spent at 'The Old Brown Shoe' with jarrod n michelle.
the shoe is opened by one of jarrod's colleague in rj.

nice little pub w a nice english feel to it, except dat the music's not too englishy.
started w a half pint of guiness. quite alrite... still not a fan of stout.
den came the food we ordered... good stuff i tell u.
we had their fish n chips, pork sausages, swedish meatballs, their shoe burger and scotch egg.
i think dat was it.
the fish was fantastic - the batter was crispy and the fish was soft.
the swedish meatballs were shiokness - even better than the ones u get from ikea.
there's even mushrooms in the sauce.
the burger was good and filling.
but the egg was a little cold, but still not too bad.

apparently, every wed nite is pub quiz nite where everyone pays a little fee of say $5 to form a huge pot. and the winning team takes it all.
jarrod says he has a group of colleagues, among which is jamie reeves, wins the quiz every time.
after dat, michelle had to go home so jarrod came over to my place to play guitar hero world tour.
we played for a while den he left.

friday nite was spent having dinner w the friday gang of tress, apu, stefette and justin.
adel joined us as well... dinner was at grill-out@ sunset. still quite the same as the last time i went w the churchies.
food not bad, but service still not dat good.
after dinner, we all went to my place to world tour some more...
played for abt 2 hrs, den we changed to mj.
played till 4am i think... and i din win or lose. BAH!

sat was dinner at ikoi@ miramar hotel. we were celebrating jacq's and alex's birthdays.
but b4 we left for dinner, ben, jacq, mark n fel came over to world tour a little coz no one was doing anything from 5-ish till dinner time@8pm.
dinner was a ala carte buffet, so we juz had the food coming - sashimi, tempura, saba, shishamo, chawanmushi, handrolls,
more tempura, more sashimi.
the food was fantastic... and we kept getting complimentary food from the chef.
oh.. i almost forgot abt the most fantastic birthday rice cake the restaurant made for the birthday girls.
it was juz rice covered in roe at the sides. simple but good.

and after dinner, it was more world tour but not at my place.
it was at ewen's but it meant i had to disconnect my xbox and pack up the drums.
took us 1/2hr to pack everything get to ewen's place but it was all good when we had everything set up and ready to go.
played till abt 2plus, 3am and pack everything back.
we needed abt 3 ppl to carry everything. 2 guys to carry the box which the drums is packed in.
along w the guitars slung behind. and 1 more person to carry the console.

woke up today w a strained left thumb. can hardly move it. and the area near the wrist to the base of the thumb was slightly swollen.
so i went to see the doc for meds.
need to work tom lor. cannot afford to take mc. well... not for the next couple of the weeks at least.

going out for dinner later w the family. eugene's bday tom.
and den it's poker at john's after i drive everyone home!
i wana win money to pay for my chips! HUAT AH!!

havent got any pics for any of the nites... waiting for ppl to load n tag...
so check out fb for peektures k?

I speaketh no Tagalog but I can ROAR!

It's been 5 days since arriving on monday.
the first few days were busy, with my day starting ard 7.30 and ending only ard 7.30.
staying at batangas country club.
sounds nice but it's damn ulu. there's nothing ard.
so no nights out to a bar and dat kind of thing after work.
dinner is usually at the resort's cafe.

but we ended slightly earlier last nite. was back at the hotel before 7pm.
so bruno (colleague i'm here w) and i went out for dinner.
dinner was at batangas largest mall - SM City Mall.
but it still pales in comparison w wad we've got in sg...
and when i reached there, i realized i've been there b4 last year when i was working in batangas with my prev company.

so dropped by dickies and bought a couple more berms.
and thank god, i had some "education" from apu.
coz them americans and i guess filipinos dun call them berms. they're called shorts.
so when i went into the store and asked to see the berms, the staff had dat blur look.
quick thinking me, asked to see the shorts and there they were - them berms.
and my waist has expanded. DAMN!
cannot fit into the size 30 ones... finally bought size 32 berms.

after dinner, bruno n i went to a couple of nearby bars for beers.
first one was juz outside the mall. so we went in n sat down. after a beer and a couple of songs by the live band,
we went on to another bar abt 3mins away.
there was also a live band there. the band was much younger and not as good as the earlier one.
after another round of beers, we left the place, looking for another bar w a live band.
but there was none.

so we hopped onto a tricycle which is basically a motorbike w a sidecar, and told the driver to bring us to a bar w a live band.
the guy brought us to this part of town which had a couple of bars ard. we went into tavern queen.
coz dat was the only one w a live band or at least we could see they had a band. another round of drinks and a much better band to listen to.
once dat's all done, we headed back to the hotel.

today din start out good - it was raining like shit. i so wanted to sleep in but couldn't.
got a vessel to go to. so dragged myself out of bed and out of the room when i heard dat the rain has somehow gotten smaller.
good thing once i was onboard the vessel, i was relaxing a fair bit coz the hardware bit's done and
now bruno is working on fine-tuning the system.
so i spent the day playing old dos games i had downloaded a while ago. kekeke...
if u're old enough, u'll prob recognise the game - quest for glory 1.

so after playing for a while, i changed game.
this time it's the grand-daddy of the EA NBA Live series - Lakers vs Celtics.
despite having not played the game in like eons, i still managed to win my first game.
but i was playing as the Lakers when Magic Johnson was still in the team.

ended a little late and so dinner is once again at the cafe - Manggo Grill and Cafe.
tom is gona b my last day of work. i suspect it will end really late... but it's ok.
coz every hour worked tom is considered as OT :D which means X hours @ $24/hr.
and it's probably gona b at least 10hrs.

den it's back to manila at 9am on sunday morning, reaching the airport ard noon and checking in for my flight at 2.20pm.

but i juz got news dat my other colleague who is kinda following me for this project i'm working on in sg,
dat he re-ran a cable which he tot was wrong but wasn't.
ROAR!!
he's always not checking his drawings and other documents properly.
so i've gota correct his mistake when i get back.
and the dumb boy din tell my boss he's got stuff to do on the vessel when he was told to follow another guy.
so he only went onboard today and got done some of the stuff i had told him to do before i left.
ROAR!!
cant wait for him to get his own project and b rid of him.
i know i sound evil but he really irritates the hell out of me.
and of all the people in the office, only he has managed to irritate me DAT much.
i duno y also. he da champ lor.

ok la... enough ranting liao.
time to go sleep soon.
catch u all when i get home!! cant wait!!
see ya! nites!!