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i just got home from a minor shopping trip. i went out alone to buy jeans. oh they were having a sale. no wrong, in fact everyone's having a sale nowadays! so i had to just take advantage of them, so i bought 2 pairs of levis jeans for a combined grand total of $108.

i suppose i'm quite cheapskate, but i mean, the more recent n newer models are so expensive! 1 pair can cost up to $139 (which is so much more thn the 2 pairs that i've just bought!). i can't just simply blow $139 on a pair of jeans, it's utter madness. so i guess i got myself a good deal (though it still can't beat my $40 levis jeans that i bought from seiyu bugis junction a few years ago!)

yesterday i went jamming with fab jj and jimmy. as if i can play anything actually. i'm trying to learn how to play the bass actually, although when we jam i do sometimes pick up the drumsticks and just whack the hell out of the drumset, even thought i've no previous learning experience of drumming. see, that tells you how amatuer the 4 of us are. we aren't good yet because we amateurish and we don't get together often. but i'm now actually just trying to get a good grasp of playing the bass. but for more effective learning, i simply have to get hold of 1 of them to practise. yesterday my poor little index finger got so tired very easily because i wasn't used to pucking thick strings on the bass, which is thicker n stiffer then the acoustic guitars i practise on.

but buying a bass? that's crazy too. i mean firstly the money problem. secondly, and electric bass needs a different amplifier of its own so thats anther point to note. thirdly, what's the point of buying a bass? i mean you can play only bass, and not like the normal guitar, where you can -lay all sorts of things on it, even bass. but if i do want to master the bass, i just can't simply buy a normal guitar. furthermore it's not like we are gonna be the next electrico or ronin, hence why bother buying a bass? so how?

anyway after 2 hours of jamming we went to have dinner, then headed down to chijmes to catch the manchester derby on tv. i'm glad i caught it because it was quite an exciting match. what was more satisfying was that man united came out as complete losers after the match. they lost the plot completely through the well-taken goals from man city. and the last goal was scored by robbie fowler, the one-time england's most natural finisher. i still don't understand what they mean by being a 'natural finisher'. you mean those who've been scoring more goals all their life are faking it or just acting the scoring out? i still can't understand it one bit. how do you look natural while scoring? i mean surely it HAS to be natural for strikers to score, since their main job is to score anyway.

ah soon i've to book in anyway. tomorrow i'm on duty again. like last saturday. and last saturday i nearly died of boredom. just imagine sitting in the office manning the phone for say nearly 12 hours with nothing to accompany you except the radio? i got so bored i actually sent in a song request to perfect 10, but i completely forgot to dedicate it to anyone. probably those who tuned in to perfec 10 at 8+ at night would have caught it. i was the bugger who requested for blink 182's feeling this. haha the funny thing is not even 10 minutes after i sent in the sms, the dj read it out already. haha it was all so funny i laughed. this is what happens to someone who goes mad due to extreme boredom.

and the next 2 weeks are busy days in camp. in fact i'm confined in camp next week. means i'll have to give the class outing the miss, if it's still on anyway. but i think it will be a poor turnout. and fort minor's coming to singapore to perform on 1st march! haha i've never been to any such concerts my whole life, and i feel like i want to give it a try! not say i'm a huge fort minor fan anyway, but i think it would be good to just escape from the monotony of life in camp and go catch a night concert! haha we'll see how it goes then. till then, ciao!