My First...

Got pulled over on the pie this morning by the traffic police on my way to the office...
apparently it was coz i din slow down/ stop when i was coming in from the slip road.

so after some bargaining, the cop gave a warning...
guess it was some kind of an experience...
sitting in the cab and watching things happen...

was kinda worried dat the cabbie got pulled over
coz i wasn't wearing my seatbelt... haha.

so yea... the first time i got pulled over by the traffic police...
scary... even tho i'm not the driver...

on another note, i'm kinda getting pissed w my bro.
he's going to the states in like a week's time but he doesn't seem concerned or
anxious abt his preparation.

his laptop is being delivered today... but instead of staying home to receive it and making sure it's ok,
he's out meeting his fren coz he/she/it can only make it tonite.
it juz seems to me he's juz waiting for everyone to tell him wat to do or how to do.

he cant seem to even take care of himself...
he's been having this cough and he's been told to lay off the cold drinks, fried and spicy food and chicken.
but he's happily eating and drinking everything he shdn't.
now i'm kinda having second thoughts abt supporting him to go to the states for his internship.
but guess mayb this trip will be a good time for him to learn to be independent and to start using his brain a little more.

i know i shd help him out since he's my bro... but i also dun wana spoonfeed him coz he's gona b alone over there for a year
and he cant possibly be calling home and asking for help.

oh well... enough of him...

went to the office to "visit"my manager. been told i'll be leaving for a job in thailand sometime next week... probably leaving on tue.
but i hope it'll b like wed or thur.
coz wana catch forbidden chestnuts leh... esp since i know for sure i'll b missing hossan leong's multiple personalities disorder.

oh shit !!
juz realized dat if i'm leaving on the 9th...
i'll be missing the last 2 tap classes. shit man...
feels like i kinda wasted a bit of my money... coz out of 8 classes i will have missed 4.
so not worth the money... pray for me dat i'll leave on the 11th...
i wana leave on the 11th...
i wana leave on the 11th...
i wana leave on the 11th...

and since i wun b ard in jan to celebrate ppl's birthday... here's wishing you all a happy birthday!!

jan bday ppl (in chronological order):
fel, rachel, nigel, leslie, mark...

and to jody as well... but his bday's in feb... but i wun b ard also...
so happy birthday in advance...

den again... i juz realized dat these ppl dun really read my blog...
hahahaha... but oh wells...

wat i have written, i have written...

okie... gona go off now... see u all soon...

happy new year!
and if u've got a new year resolution, may u have the determination to go through w it...
wat's mine?
hmmm...

guess it could b to save more money.

cheerios!!

Heavy Sinful Things

Went to candy empire on wed to buy stuff for my christmas goodie bags which i'm giving out this year.

happily picked out chocs and stuff to make abt 60 goodie bags...

brought it the cashier. the whole lot weighed in at 2.634 kg.
and at $3.80/ 100gms, the total damn was a whopping $100.

i was stunned for a while looking at the final price. so i did a double check on my hp calculator.
and e amt was correct.

so paid for the heavy chocs and met up w my frens from finexis at parkview square.
and the timing couldn't have been better coz the building was having a tenants' nite so there was free food and drinks at the lobby.
so got free dinner... hehehe...

spent thur morning and early afternoon packing my goodie bags...
realized dat 60 seems to be damn a lot, i only made 50.
partly also coz due to a miscalculation on my part,
i din have enough ingredients for 60 goodie bags.

but think it's still quite a lot.

kinda looking forward to christmas.

went to check out Next at holland v for a haircut.
tho it's my most expensive haircut @ $35. i think the treatment i get there is so very much different from the other places i've been.

the scalp massage lasted a good 10mins i think...
u get a choice of orange, coke or iced tea for ur drink.
u get to sit in nice armchairs as opposed to the salon kind of seats we often see.

plus i got a free bottle of au de parfum... but i think dat's like their christmas gift for their clients.
i sound like damn cheapskate hor...

but no choice leh. 2 months of staying in sg, with no offshore allowance to boost my income for the month, have to b a little frugal.

later tonite gona spend money again liao... dinner w stefette, justin, tweebo and apu.
den off to duno where to celebrate cheryl's birthday.

note to stefette and tweebo:
i is not saying i dun want to spend time w u all hor.
esp tweebo... always so sensitive one... always think i angry...
i look like the angry type of person meh?!

think sat is gona b a nice stay home day...
ok... mayb i'll go get a nice mani. hehe. must look good ma.

bought a vest from guess. gona try to pull off the prep school, geeky look...
we'll see how it goes on sunday when i go for midnight mass...

okie den... see u all soon...
enjoy ur christmas... and dun forget to spread god's love to everyone ard you.
coz he gave his life for love of u and me.

Wet, Wet, Wet

It was a very wet day yesterday...
raining since the morning and lasting all through the nite.
and to cap it all off, I woke up to a blackout in the house.

called singapore power to check and was told dat the town council is working on the power outage.

so juz stayed home and waited for the power to come back on.
duno for how long the power was out. hope nothing in the fridge goes bad.

power is now back on for abt an hr now... everything seems to b working fine.

and looking out of the window, i saw a glimmer of hope... dat e rain might want to take a break.



have a good day, everyone.

Hainanese Adventure

5 days in hainan,

the holiday was quite alrite...
but it was a good time to relax, slow things down and spend bonding time w my frens.

first thing we noticed was how cooling hainan was upon arrival at the airport.
and tho it looked like it was threatening to rain, it never did.
after a couple of days, we realized dat the sun shines from abt 10am-3pm.
after 3pm, the clouds start to come in and it looks like the sun is preparing to set.

we started our holiday on the 2nd day with a trip to
万泉河 for a river drifting adventure.
had thought dat it was some river rafting thingy like u see on tv.
so din bring my camera along. but it turned out to b a not so scary ride.
and there were v nice views of the mountains.

but the travelling to and from the place was horrid.
it was a terrible, bumpy, boring 4hr drive to the destination and another 3.5hrs
back to the hotel. dat was the killer.

so much so we din wana go out v far the next day.
so we all juz chilled at the beach dat was juz rite outside the hotel.
being the suaku dat i am coz i've not travelled much,
it was quite a sight to see nice big waves crashing in towards the beach.

so spent almost the whole afternoon, lounging in the sun,
and swimming over the waves.

den we all went to the town area to have dinner at kfc... hehe...
for some of us, at dat point in time, it was the best meal of the holiday...
coz the food somehow din go down well w them...

after dat, it was juz walking ard to see if there's anything worth shopping for.
it turned out dat the local teas are really nice.

so the last day was spent trying more tea and buying tea.
and dat was also the day john and mark found this really nice place for dinner.
it is a little more upper class than most of the eateries ard.
but all u needed was to be decently properly dressed.
i.e. covered shoes and collared tees at least.

so 4 of us went there for dinner - mark, john, ivan and i.
it was like a western food coffee house kinda place.
food was quite good. and we ordered like quite a lot...
and in the end, we only paid like RMB80 each, including tips.
and service was quite good too.

and sometimes when we couldn't express wat we wanted to say in chinese properly,
but the staff could understand us still, you can see dat the staff were trying to
suppress their laughter.

but it was a good meal nonetheless.

slept for like abt 30mins, den it was e long trip back home.
4 hrs on the bus and another 4 hrs on the plane.

poor mark didn't get to eat his hainanese chicken rice while over there.
he ordered it for dinner at the coffee place.
but somehow the order was missed and by the time we realized
dat the order was missed, we were all too full to eat anymore so we cancelled it.

den we found dat there was chicken rice at the airport, thinking dat we might b able to eat it after we checked in, we checked in first.
only to discover dat we cant get to the chicken rice place.

so the first thing we did when we reached singapore?
go to t2 foodcourt and have chicken rice...
actually we wanted to go to soup kitchen but they were closed.

so ends my simple holiday in hainan.

next holiday: diving and holidaying at koh samui.
*slurp*

p.s. fotos of the holiday can b found here.
(link will be up once i've uploaded my fotos)

Parking Pontianak

Saw this from hossan leong's blog.
bloody funny man...
think those who watched 'the little shop of horrors' will find this a little funnier.

enjoy... :)