The Melancholic Friday

Somehow today doesn't feel like it's a friday.
in fact somehow i feel today's a bad day tho i din start e day feeling like this.
it was sometime in e evening when i started getting this whole today doesn't feel like a good day feel.

went to watch cinderel-lah w a fren. we were introduced by a mutual fren.
guess she's isn't too bad. nice pleasant girl. and i get e vibe she kinda likes me.
but i dun feel e same abt her.

on e other hand there's this other girl whom i guess i can say i quite like. we, too, were also introduced by mutual frens.
but somehow i get the vibe dat she doesn't feel e same.

it's kinda frustrating ain't it?
and i think, looking back, i'm always somehow not feeling e same abt the girls who liked me,
save for the one relationship but dat's something else altogether.

i know... i hear some of u saying 'y dun u go tell e girl u like dat u like her and see wad she says?'
but i shy la. i really suck at being able to broach a topic like dat.
i know i suck and damn no guts.

mayb, JUST mayb, dat's god's way of telling me to forget abt the girls?
hmmm... dilemma. dilemma. dilemma.

think i'll juz sleep this off and hopefully when i wake up, it'll all be good again.
BAH!! hate days like this.

p.s. if u know who are e girls i'm talking abt. good for u. if u dun, u can try asking me and i'll see if i'm in e right mood to tell u.

I Am Angry. Hear Me Roar!

Work is a complete mess.
sea trial is on wed and i've yet to start commissioning on this system which is having some problems.
and we're having all these troubles now only because everything got delayed.
the yard took their bloody own time to get my cables run n connected, took their time to prepare my hydraulic system.
i had planned to have started on this system last mon or tue and i din get to touch it until sat.
and now we've run into problems, they're working wo any sense of urgency to get it up n running so dat i can get it ready for sea trials.

and as if dat isn't a big enough problem, more problems have cropped up tonite.
and it's problems dat dun seem to make sense coz all the settings are correct and the wirings are correct. and it seems the problems might be caused by parts which we dun have spare in e sg office. PHUI!!!

i really hope this blows over soon coz i'm sooooo damn sick of it all.
cant wait for 19 nov to come quickly so dat i can leave all the workstuff behind until 2011.
18 more days to tahan. these 18 days are gona seem like 18 months.

ROOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

The Weekend Burnt

It's been quite an eventful couple of weeks.
been gng to the shipyard pretty much daily to commission a brand new system on this kiwi research vessel.
but some delays on the shipyard's part has resulted in me having to work thru this weekend so that my system is ready for sea trial by monday (hopefully).

so i'm hoping all goes on smoothly tmr n sunday.

in other news, justin n steph were married last sat at holy spirit church.
it's kinda strange how far this couple has come.
i can dare say i am one of the few ppl who knew both of them separately b4 they somehow got together.
and after years of dating each other, it's finally come to this.
and i'm happy for both of them :D

was asked to be e emcee w nat for the dinner.
was hoping to tell as many stories abt the couple but due to the schedule of the dinner, we only managed to tell 1 story abt each of them.

i think soon to come, i'll be the single dude who's always hanging out w the couples. lol.
actually u know wad, i'm ALREADY the single dude who's always hanging out w the couples. lol.
i think i'm at dat age where weddings are getting lesser but definitely hearing more news of frens being pregnant, giving birth, being pregnant again w their 2nd kid, baby showers and e whole lot.

and while on the topic of the babies, i recently went for michelle's son, isaac's full mth party.
and i met a fren from v v v long ago. the mid-90s is when i'll say.
we caught up a fair bit, staying at e party waaaaay longer than we had planned.
it's always nice to catch up w frens who u have lost touch w from long ago.

hopefully the throat will stay quiet over the next 2 days while i'm working.
been nursing a cough since last week. was much better, prolly to the point of being completely well. but suddenly a massive coughing bout last nite, made everything worse.
to e doctor i went this morning and got more meds. thankfully there was no phelgm so no antibiotics this time round. juz lozenges, cough mixture and some med to reduce the swelling from all dat coughing.

Poor Sick Lulu

Lulu is sick.
she's been having some steering problem over e last couple of weeks i guess.
gona b on leave tmr to bring her to e doc.

hopefully it isnt anything major dat will burn a hole in my pocket.
she needs a set of new tyres too. the current ones are balding and need changing already.

gona b up early to send her to e workshop and if they're gona take a while,
den i'm gona b cabbing down to wavehouse n clock some flo-riding hrs. den pick her up again.

really hope i dun get caught in peak hr traffic when travelling both ways.

fingers crossed and hope she comes out fine.

The Birthday Weekend

This yr's bday is DEFINITELY one of the quietest i've had in e last 2 yrs.
big bash 2yrs ago on my 30th,
awesome nite out at wala's last yr w approx $300 worth of drinks on e house
a zoo outing, a simple dinner at esmiralda and a nice sunday brunch.

it's free entry to e zoo if it's ur bday and u get a free icecream as well. u also get 10% discount off F&B and mechandise.

so to e zoo we went - ben, jacq n i. the rest couldn't make it :(
peter is in US.
mark had to work.
john had a rally and ewen n fel were helping him.

lovely weather on dat day tho - not much sun, no rain. nice weather to walk ard in e zoo.
fotos will b coming up in FB. so pls b patient :P

after zoo, it was dinner at esmiralda at orchard hotel.
for the longest time, everyone in church has gone to esmiralda one time or another.
but somehow everytime there's a dinner there, i'm travelling for work.
so sat was my first time dining there and it was most definitely yummilicious.
the meats are so fantastic, so juicy.

sunday's brunch was at Graze at rochester park.
it was e first time everyone else was eating there - ben, jacq, fel n ewen.
poor markie had to work again and john was busy in church.
had their signature cast iron pan which had bacon, sausage, potatoes, baked beans.
so awesome. yum.

it was juz a simple relaxed brunch, starting at 11am and we only left ard 2 or 2.30pm.
went home for a while to rest up and ard 5.15pm, i was headed to michy's place for house blessing.

she had just moved into her new home at bt panjang and friggy was there to do e hse blessing.
it's always nice to see friggy.

after blessing, it was dinner time and after dinner, we played more raving rabbids.
yes, we played e game too b4 e blessing.

went home w tired, achy arms but it was kinda well worth the fun.