Monday, July 10, 2006

mc

ah i got a mc for myself today today. that's like the fisrt mc for me in well over a year, the last time being june last year. but being the cock that i am, i actually thought so much about the mc until i forgot to take the medicine. luckily it was only panadol and flu medicine.

well it helps me to get a breather. i think the persistent headaches are caused by 1 thing - dangerously low levels of sleep. wow i really owe myself lots and lots of sleep. i need 2 sleep alot more because even now i feel lethargic. at least the saving grace is that the world cup is over! another 4 more years in south africa, by then i'll be in university, hopefully being able to continue into the 4th year. anyways italy won! haha i slept through the match, only waking up to catch the score being 1-0 to france, then sleeping again. and just nice i woke up to see both teams getting ready to take penalties. wow imagine how much inportant hours of sleep i would have missed out if i actually stayed up. but the azzuris looked more calm then the french when taking penalties. you could just see it in their faces. i mean even trezeguet looked nervous. you could tell he was always gonna miss. so congrats to italy. and zidane wins the best player award even though he got sent off! if you ask me, that's pure madness.

and a shoutout to yan wen - yeah! yr azzuris won in e end. i guess yr sppt finally paid off. i still remember when we were in sec4, in 2002, you actually hung a small italy flag on your bag and went around with it. open display of loyalty. still can't beat fairus though, who actually sew a huge turkey flag (it was huge, it's around twice the size our flag that we hang outside our blocks). or rather i think his mum helped him sew. jus a simple crescent and a start against a red cloth. and i can't believe he actually brought to school and showed it to us and paraded it around, draping it on his back. personally i thought it was stupid, but hey at least they got 3rd place the last time round. haha, i guess the world cup makes us do the stupidest of things.

oh went to irma's bro's wedding yesterday. when with liza(who's supposed to be my date, but i think in the end i hooked up w/ fazlin more), rahman and julia(or juliana, more appopriately) and rizal and noriza. it was crazy. haha it was fun la just going out for a while after so long. and then we were discussing among us, who would get hitched first. i guess we were all unanimous in the matter. haha i think in a few years' time i'll just be attending quite a few weddings of my friends. haha it will just be an interesting experience.

i wonder when mine will come. ah i think i'll get that bmw 1st. chey! talk is cheap.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

headache

had a splitting headache the whole of yesterday night. and can you believe it, i fell asleep right after half time of yesterday's match. and missed all the 4 goals! dammit! errggh!so frustrating! and i can still feel some sort of a headache now. no idea why.

and i did something crazier last week. clubbed 2 nights in a row. 1st at zouk on wednesday night with my colleagues, then thursday night at MoS with hadi n liza. i think its crazy haha. burns a big hole in my pocket. and i think i won't go to MoS so soon. had a very bad impression of the place. oh and clare finally clubs! haha but she says she won't go again any time soon. damn! means my search for a female clubbing partner shall continue! haha. well at least if we wanna club next time we can hop on ismail's blue mitsubishi lancer! haha.

and my search for that elusive white belt is also eluding me. i've probably been to almost of the flash and splash shops, and the quiksilver and billabong shops. and the belts are so expensive! even a black belt from levi's is cheaper. is it worth buying a belt that is white on both sides so its reversible, when it costs $69.90? i seriously cannot accept the point of buying a belt that costs more expensive than all of my jeans. and i don't know why discounts don't apply to the belts. that just kinda sucks.

and this splitting headache is coming back. i can feel it. probably due to lack of sleep. and it's really irritating me. and i'm not really the kind of person that has prolonged headaches. this is really the 1st time ever. and i wonder why.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

dos

am still sick. still coughing up phlegm, and the mucus is still dripping. damn.

anyway this morning i was at ubin. i kinda swore i would never ever set foot on that island that is the cousin of tekong, but i did. thanks to army. had this cohesion thingy organised by my camp, where we had to walk around the island and find checkpoints, something like an amzing race. well ubin didnt really feel 'ubin-ny', as what i saw on tv. well, maybe i didn' relaly have a look at the real ubin.

anyway dad's got a weird fascination with clocks. like me with alice bands. or rather girls who wear them. anyways, yes, he has a weird fascination for clocks. he's always like buying new clocks, and just keeps shifting the clocks around the house. funny. i think we got all kinds of clocks in the house before. i think we're only short of an atomic clock, that's all.

and woo hoo! ENGLAND and BRAZIL are OUT! hell yeah! my predictions were spot on! but the semis are gonna like so hard to predict. i guess all 4 teams will just fight tooth and nail to get to the final. i mean, it's not like everyday you play in a world cup final you know.

that's why i think the togolese players are damn stupid. willing to boycott a world cup game just because their FA couldn't pay them what they demanded? hallo, it's Togo you know, not some oil rich country like Saudi Arabia where even oil flows out of your taps.

money makes the world go round. money is the root of all evil. no money no talk.

must everything really concern money?

Saturday, June 24, 2006

sick

ive just recovered from some mystery virus. i'm quite sure it's some sort of virus. because 1 by 1 my colleagues in camp is falling sick, and they all show somewhat similar mysterious symptoms. it was so weird. on thursday i was just lying in bed in camp and suddenly my nasal passage felt weird, my stomach churned like a grinder, and my head started to spin like a top. every now and then when i walked around, i just felt like sitting down.and yes, when i got home i really felt sick. i had a temperature then, so 100% confirmed - i was sick. but by friday i was ok.

managed to go out w/ hadi on friday afternoon. haha we caught scary movie 4 at cineleisure. all i can say is the movie is quite funny, because of the slapstick humour and the spoofs it contained. i was worried i wouldn't understand the movie because of the spoofs, but it was all right. but overall it was quite a forgettable movie, since you just laugh on the spot because of its slapstick nature. only 1 or 2 scenes were really really funny. carried on walking around, and somehow at night we just ended up clubbing at mos. in the smoove room. which was uber-packed, with guys. errgh. and the cage. it's so stupid. they should just remove it. 1 day another hillsborough disaster will jus occur i tell you.

watched the anugerah skrin finals? that's the first time i really watched the show. and guess what? the female winner was actually a former neighbour of mine. she's still living at same premises, it was my family that moved out. huda's same age as me, although i wasn't really close to her. but i remember during school holidays if i was bored i would go down to her house and play aorund with her siblings. and her i think. haha. but 1 thing about her that never changed is her voice. it's still the same. and the eyebrows? i dunno. didn't know she had the habit of playing with it.

oh and mum said something funny to me. she says akhmar, 1 of the female finalist in the show, actually used to help out her own mum sell minced meat at the marsiling wet market. probably she still does, i dunno. i think that's a real meteoric rise to stardom. mum's just always gotta tell me these kinda funny funny stories.

oh and holland qualified for the 2nd round! yeah! at least it gives me a longer time to put on that orange jersey of mine! haha. but they are up against portugal. that kinda sucks. but hopefully they'll coast through. but the world cup has been a phenomenal event. even in camp they've issued reminders, telling us not too be too engrossed in the world cup till we neglect our responsibilites. and my colleagues been betting and betting betting. suddenly everyone is just tuned in to the world cup. even mum.

but it's fun. every night the same things happen. we'll just quickly finish our work before the match starts, and all of us will just gather in 1 bunk and watch the match together. it's quite fun actually. i've never really watched a match with so many friends around me before. then we all can laugh or boo at the players together. it's real fun. but then none of us ever stays up awake all night and morning. haha. oh and i caught this on news. some major retail store said there was an 80% increase in the purchase of antennas. what funny news.

that said, how come channel 5 still dare advertise themselves as the official licenced broadcaster of the world cup? fuck they only screened the opening match and later on the semis onwards. tell me how official can that be if you only screen like 6 out of 64 matches. that's utterly pathetic.

Thursday, June 08, 2006

grind

i did another crazy thing today. or rather yesterday through today.

yes yes, i'm turning very wild. many have commented as such. i'm being frank. i'm not really the same old yusri anymore. i'm not the old yusri that everyone used to know. i've changed somewhat. not much, but i'm admit i'm getting wilder and crazier. but everything has its limits. so as far as i'm concerned i feel i still ahve control over myself, that i can still think straight and sensibly. personally, i feel. don't know about you people. the change in me might just turn people away from me. i hope not though.

as i was saying, before i was rudely interrupted by myself, i did a very crazy thing. i clubbed at zouk yet again and booked into camp in the morning and sorted out my things in camp. i think that is simply crazy. me, is, fad, les, bryan, zhiwei, hadi, liz went to phuture for some hip-hop clubbing. uber-packed! i ended up being squeezed every now and then. but very fun. haha the guys really go wild when we go clubbing. but the fights occurred frequently. it always spoils the night. and i managed to dance with this girl for a while. very very sweet and pretty. a chinese girl that looked malay. but alas no introduction was made by me, since i hate to shout at the top of my voice just to talk to someone. furthermore i was crazy at that time. just anyhow screaming out the songs that the dj spinned. it probably made the girl have a bad impression of me, as if i was drunk. hell, i'm a teetotaller for the record.

at 3 plus we had supper at river valley. after that me and is caught the first train to pasir ris. but i just couldn't sleep. in fact its 2pm+ now and i've yet to sleep. now i don't feel tired at all. but last nite i swear i had a complete workout. my body was kinda drenched. wow i felt damn lethargic thne, but now still ok. went back to camp to clean my table and sort things out.

so basically i had no sleep the whole night. but i'm still ok. for now. i better get some sleep before i owe myself more sleeping debts. and tomorrow my recruits are going to enlist. 3 days after the previous batch passed out. damn it. can't watch much of the world cup then. what to do? life has to go on anyway. and i'm still thinking thinking of that girl that i danced with. errghh and i couldn't even ask for her name.

anyway this clubbing thing. one day it will just have to stop for good. les is right. it's actually a total waste of time, or rather, it's as if you didn't do anything the whole night. one fine day it will jus stop when i get tired of it all. i know it's wrong, but i find it an interesting way to distress. rather then smoking? or smoking sheesha? or even down yourself in alcohol. i fidn clubbing really allows you to let loose and really laugh around with your friends. i know most will find it wrong. as i've said, i know some might just look down on me. if my mum finds out she'll just be crushed.

i can't keep lying forever. someday this nonsense will jus have to stop. it is all really aimless and unbeneficial. and i don't want to see myself as a failed child. because i'm not and never will be.

Sunday, May 28, 2006

the child

last weekend, or rather last saturday night, was spent watching a movie. FINALLY! broke my duck. haven't watched any since june 2005. pathetic. anyways i was supposed to catch paradise now, this story about palestinian suicide bombers. but the tickets got sold out so fast, we had settle for this french movie l'enfant (the child) at the cathay. well the cathay is still very deserted anyway. only 3 shops have started operations as far as i can remember. watched the movie eith fab,sarah and fazlin anyway. the movie had a particularly abrupt ending that i'm still bothered about.

anyway, yesterday i booked out late from camp. after camp met up with ismail, hang out at town for a while then i met up with hadi and liza. oh and shikin, and faaizah and syaza. back to the good old days man! it's like 7 years ( that's a damn long time to me) ago that we met for the first time as calssmates back in secondary school. and everyone's gone a long way since then. everyone's really changed man. it's just nice to just think about the funny things that we did and happened way back in those days gone by.

anways, here it comes, the great singapore sale! started it off by buying 3 agatha christie books from kinokuniya yesterday. 20% off storewide! better go get hold of those books you all really wanna to buy! i think i better take some off days to just go shopping! but now i'm still very very busy! it's been non-stop work for the past 2 months, and things are looking bleak anyway. so what a better to chase the stress away than to shop!

anyway yesterday i had a conversation with this stranger at kinokuniya, a malay man probably in his 40s. asked me for $2 for a ride home on the bus, i gave him only $1. apparently he thought i was a malay-chinese (which is probably the biggest joke shikin will ever hear of). but he went on to ask some questions:
the man: how come there's no malays here in the bookstore?
me: oh, no malays will ever come here actually.
the man: then what about you and me? aren't we malays?
me: i mean, very little malays will ever come here.
the man: see, that's why i didnt think you were a malay at first. because i thought here there were only the chinese and foreigners.
me: yea, there's alot of chinese around at this place.
the man: how come?
me: this is just not the place for malays to come. anyway many of them don't like to read i guess.

the conversation carried on to something else that i can't remember. told ismail later on and when we left kinokuniya and exited taka through the main door, and i saw soo many malays jus hanging around at the fountain area.

i mean, come on, no wonder we don't like to read! we always while the time away doing alot of nonsensical things that just to bring any benefits. me included. but i think there's always a line to draw.

some people are just too much. i'm talking to you, you slut.

Monday, May 15, 2006

cousin

ok so yesterday i went to my aunt's house to see the new cousin. the 1 that i didn't know i had. well the name's aiman. and he's still reddish. very cute though. i mean, aren't all babies cute? duh! so he's like 20 years my junior, so when he's happily serving the nation defending the motherland, i'll probably have kids of my own. haha.

so it was a small get-together. got to see my other cousins too. there's this 1 who's only 1 yr old, and she looks so chinese. but she's cute. at least she interacts. and smiles and gaggles when she's enjoying it. you know, some infants just have some sort of attitude problem, with that "don't even bother looking at me" look. like this other cousin i have. she's 2 years old by now, and yet i haven't seen her smile or talk. but apparently when none of us are around she's like any other child - the hyperactive sort.

oh. i didn't mention - the 3 cousins i just mentioned about, are all siblings. borne by the same aunt. plus 3 more siblings, who are slighytly grown up. and it all adds up to 6.

6??? to me its plain crazy. 6??? there's too many. 6 small young children in a household will just drive everyone mad. coupled with the financial issues. it's a tad too overboard. to me at least. oh well, at least now i have 11 cousins (i think) on the paternal side. the maternal side? heck, i can't even remember most of their names. some i don't even remember their faces. i can't put an exact figure to the number i have anyway. probably close to 20. i don't know. it's plain pathetic.

anyways managed to catch the fa cup final. first half at least. dad wouldn't hear of me staying around first to watch the match till the end. i thought pool were goners, but in the end they won. although the goals they conceded were kinda lame.

and today berita minggu came up with an article on clubbing. supposed to make me feel guilty? i just went to zouk on friday night, on vesak day. got scolded by my parents for coming home so very late. but didn't tell them where i went. that's madness. anyway i went with hadi n liz, and fadzry and his friends. was quite fun actually. they were playing hip hop and r&b. at least it's something i can identify with. that's why i had fun. real easy to let loose if you've got the right people around you.

but i'll probably have to curb my wild side anyway. just can't help it. i've changed abit, i admit. but some things still remain the same. i don't know. firstly i'm really on alot of pressure at work. sometimes i just want to scream out loud because work is really stressful. i need to let loose somehow. i'll go mad soon enough. i'm simply a ticking time bomb, just waiting to explode.

anytime now.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

ifc

ah. finally i'm back. had a stupid fieldcamp from last saturday till friday. got attacked like mad from the mosquitoes. stupid reclaimed land. by nightfall my face was disfigured beyond recognition. i was afraid my mum wouldn't recognise her only son when i got back. haha. but really, i don't remember ever getting attacked so badly before. my face had alot of bites from the mozzies. but now my skin itches like mad. my arms,hands and legs have small red marks that itch like mad. it's not heat rash, but its really irritating and itchy.

but throughout the seven days, i was quite tired. in fact i still am. although i did manage to make friends with the medic and the driver. i realised that shahril, the medic, had quite a few common things about us. haha. and darren, the driver, is really a very interesting guy. bascially i spent the day just talking cock to pass time with the two of them whenever i was bored.

so just now i was bored, so i decided to drop by fab's house to learn bass tabs. i hate to spend my saturday afternoons and evenings at home. that's the thing about my weekend. oh and i really hate my weekends burned in camp! haha. so i went all the way to bedok reservoir (i don't mind the distance, so long as i get to go out). played winning 11 first, and i got trashed 14-1 in 1 game! don;t ask me what happened, i'm completely clueless too! i took on barcelona, and fab took on manchester city. yet he managed to get fowler to score 13 goals (gasp!). haha i don't know how come the game was so one-sided. i'm baffled myself! then i watched sex is zero with fab. haha lame comedy, but quite funny. quite a number of sex scenes, but it wasn't really explicit. then after then we finally got to work with the guitars. though it didn't even last an hour.

i had an interesting conversation with mum just now, after i got back from camp. (obviously we didn't converse in english, let alone perfect written english)

mom: make yourself free this vesak day.
me: why?
mom: yr sis wants to go to aunt rita's house.
me: for what?
mom: she wants to see her newborn child, which we haven't gotten to see yet.
me: what? since when did she give birth????
mom: last month, around a month ago. its a boy.
me: so what's the name?

so mom told me the name. which i can't remember. haha. i'm so fucked up nowadays. but wait. i swear man i don't recall my aunt ever being pregnant AGAIN! its only like 3 months ago that i saw her, and i don't recall ever seeing her bloated stomach. and since when did she give birth??? how come i wasn't in the know??? damn it around a month ago i was mostly at home what! haha i'm really still surprised that i actually have a new baby boy cousin. whose name i can't remember.

i'm sop pathetic. totally man. fancy forgetting your new cousin's name. shit i really can't recall it. haha fucked up la yus.

Sunday, April 23, 2006

principles

i think i've just betrayed my own principles. shame on me! and to think the topic is about what i wrote on my previous articles.

what is it i'm talking about?

well, let me put it this way. last monday i went to arab street to err try that sheesha thingy. i know i know, some people feel it's considered smoking, some don't. some feel its not very dangerous, some feel its worst than smoking a few packs of cigarettes. so what't the truth actually?

actually it's worst than smoking. the flavours that comes in the sheesha actually masks the tobacco smell. what makes it worst than smoking cigarettes is the fact that one can smoke sheesha for hours at one go. and furthermore its pure tobacco that's invovled, so there's no filter.

so why did i try? i also don't know. the thing is as it is well documented, i am against SMOKING. i hate cigarrettes. i hate the smell, and the fact that is is detrimental to your health. it can be addictive. but the main factor that dissuades me against smoking is that it is a pointless habit that wastes money. but why did i go and try out sheesha? the only reason is that firstly it isn't addictive, and it doesn't have that distinct tobacco smell. and also i'm not saying it's value for money, but it isn.t really as expensive as cigarettes. but that isn't the main reason actually. it's just that sheesha tastes more pleasant than cigarettes actually.

so much for my anti-smoking stance. i'll guess i won't touch that thing anymore. for the record. after i was done with the sheesha session, my throat felt very sore and 2 days later i developed flu. haha i think my body is just not used to such things. so i better stop such nonsense. before i go out of control and become even wilder (i am very sure i've become so much crazier and wilder since enlistment), i better but a stop to it. haha. ( oh please don't divulge this to my parents! very important!)

anyway yesterday i followed my sec sch military band to national stadium. 2006 syf central judging band competition! i followed the bus from school to the stadium. it kidna reminded me of my days. as i stepped down from the bus, i could feel it. flashback to 2002. me as the section leader of my section. the pressure! the fear! was termendous. you could really feel it. it was a pressure cooker of an atmosphere.

it's really pressurising. millions(ok maybe a few thousand) turned up to watch. i remember last time, when i was part of the band. all the months of practices that we had, but only 1 show to show for all the effort put in. THAT show on the day itself. it will show how good or how bad, how well prepared we all were.

but yesterday. my band couldn't really come up with the goods. they got gold, but not good enough to proceed to the next round. the aftermath of it all also made me think back. i saw crying faces of everyone. i remember. flashback again to 2002. the heartbreak. hearing the annoucement that wasn't music to my ears. i did cry, but only 1 tear flowed. then i forced myself to stop. i knew many others would cry. but the heartbreak, i could feel it. that feeling sucks. you know, when you put in so much effort into something, yet u know it's never going to be good enough, because there is always something or someone so much better than you. i hate that feeling.

after the band comp i met up with fab and jj to catch the north london derby. about that robbie keane goal, i must say it is a sucky goal to concede. i feel that the goal is legitimate, but i'm just sore that they had to concede the goal THAT way. what luck. at this rate we won't qualify for the champion league then. damn. i guess winning the champions league itself is the only way i guess.

anyway the weather recently has been sucky. really blistering hot afternoons. followed by torrential rains, then humid weather to follow. it sucks. it doesn't help with the mood. and next weekend there's a class pool and karaoke session! damn it i'm confined again. and theres a outing to jb on the 9th, a tuesday. have they gone mad? its a WEEKDAY. obviously none of the guys aren't free. haha i think everyone needs alot of rescheduling. i myself need to reschedule alot of my own things. sigh.

Monday, April 10, 2006

sian

this is probably the shortest entry ever.

nowadays i just feel like screaming and running away from this place.

i just want to run away from it all.

and just keep running away, and never turn back.

but i'll probably have to face up to it anyway.

Thursday, April 06, 2006

ps

ok so tomorrow my recruits are enlisting. and it doesn't help that i'm a platoon sergeant now. it means more responsibilities. much more, actually. and i've been my name's been submitted for the gruelling platoon sergeant course. most likely i've to go back to those forests and train again. arrgh! life sucks. means i might just miss the champions league final, which hopefully arsenal will feature in and win it.

so last ssaturday had that chalet. actually it was 2 hotel rooms that were so small, it made our bunks back in tekong more comfortable. so squeezy! we ended up just stayig up the whole night through talknig nonsense, then i left in the morning around 6.30 am to go sleep at the southern most point of mainland asia. haha and everyone thought i just walked out on them. sorry, was just trying some peace and comfort. it was tiring entertaining nas, who was really drunk. or rather intoxicated. no i forgot the term. all i know he was just talking nonsense and a whole lot of bullshit the whole night. haha it's really funny when you see how someone's who drunk is like. they're really hilarious, making a complete fool out of themselves unknowingly. so i saw for myself was bacardi, smirnoff and chivas was.

they actually tried to get me to try smoking. my stand is always this - if i wanted to start smoking, i would have done it long ago. why wait till now? so i didn't. sutan practically got the rest to try it out abit, but i didn't. i'm simply not interested in smoking. why? it's like not beneficial to me anyway, and it's a waste of time anyway. even though he rolled one stick for me(they were smoking those diy cigarettes), i still declined.

so just now after a late lunch with ismail at bukit batok, i dropped by city chain, and got myself another watch! haha i mean it was on 50% discount, although the watch is an older model but i thought i got a deal for myself. an adidas(what else?) climacool watch costing me only $54.50! haha i think it's nice, althoguh i couldn't get the colour i wanted. but still, i've a new watch. so that makes it my 3rd purchase of watches within 10 months. is crazy!

and i think i might just get that new holland jersey. it looks very old school though, and the emblem is really very classic. retains an old charm about it. but still nice. i'm actually looking for an old soviet union adidas(what else?) jersey, that i saw someone wearing it in the mrt the other day. i thought it looked nice! 'cause that day i saw fairus wore the french version, and i checked it out, it costs around $59 only! but so far i've only managed to see only the french and the japanese version. errgh, the japanese one is really ugly, with the words 'NIPPON' scrawled behind. at least NEDERLAND would definitely look nicer. or DEUTSCHLAND.

so tomorrow all the things will start again. BORING! luckily i've a full establishment in my platoon, so i don't have to do much platoon duties. although tomorrow will be a very busy day. till then.

p.s. - i've finally changed my troublesome tagboard. do find time to fill it up yea! haha

Friday, March 31, 2006

ah

DAMN IT! i can't go to the bp gathering at east coast tomorrow! sorry guys, last minute changes man! i actually have a seperate gatheringat sentosa, which involves the permanent staff ogf my company. my superiors and officers will be there, and everyone is expected to arrive at 12 noon at harbourfront mrt! if not, will get punishment! i did think of going to east coast first thn go to sentosa then, but now looks like i'm faced with no choice. i mean, all my superiors are going, then there's a no show from yusri? it just can't happen. abit frustrating, 'cause i would have loved to go to east coast first. aargh, it's just too bad.

moving on, did you see THAT match? did you? if you didn't, wasted! arsenal vs juventus, that is! i booked in the night before 'cause i had duty the next day. watched the game with lyon in his bunk. haha he backed juventus to win, but after seeing non-existent displays from mutu, ibrahimovic and trezeguet it was a lost cause. when arsenal scored i practically screamed my head off in his face. at 3+ in the morning! what more, we were the only 2 pepole in the whole level. see? arsenal played such a wonderful passing game. the first goal was a beauty, fabregas basically PASSED the ball into the goal. did you see how buffon reacted? he DIDN'T! he just got rooted to the spot, probably in awe of how simple the goal he was about to concede seemed. right after the match ended i went to bathe and then reported for duty. didn't catch a wink the whole night!

the the morning after duty, i still managed to catch lyon vs milan. lyon was rooting for lyon(sounds weird doesn't it?) and me? same as him. but lyon disappointed me so much, i fell asleep towards the end of the match. BORING! me and lyon agreed if lyon made it through, he'd buy the jersey. same for me, if arsenal went through. though it looks more likely that i'll be the one buying.

yesterday night had a class birthday gathering. 30/03/2006, so as you can see there's a "30/03" in there, which was my class in jc. so ya, it's my class birthday apparently. might sound lame. so we celebrated it at swensens. was a small affair, only 8 people including me attended. so we left quite early, at around 10pm.

so tomorrow chalet at sentosa! though i'm abit sad i can't go east coast. haha i still can't understand why ALL the gatherings must happen during this period. within this 1 week period alone i have 4 different gatherings. FOUR! is no joke! i doubt anyone has like 4 gatherings within the space of a week. is crazy!

anyway till then.

p.s. - i'm terribly short on sleep man!

Sunday, March 26, 2006

406

yesterday my secondary school class, class 406 of 2002 had a small reunion. after 3 years in the wilderness, finally someone mooted the idea of having a class outing out of the blue. took me quite by surprise, since i never really kept in touch with most of them. heck but it was still quite a good thing. was quite fun actually.

although the sad thing was only 16 people turned up (12 guys n 4 gals!) well anyhoots, it was still great fun. finally i met again my classmates whom i haven't seen for 3 years...what a long time ago that was! there was me, fairus, hadi, ernest, tiong huang, roger, yiep soon, qihui, ben shih, jia da(or jd), you wei, heting. amanda, meiqi, yanwen and carine. wasted terrence couldn't be contacted. (i'll tell you guys about terrence some time in the future, and why he's so famous in my school) we dined at seoul garden at marina square. is no joke i tell you, per head we paid $26! that's so expensive! and they still dare to put up the sign "$5 will be charged for every 100gm of food wasted" huh? wow...blood-suckers man these people..but it's not like you get to meet up with them everyday right? haha..so i did have fun eating out.

you know somethings never change. 3 years have passed, but i realise some things will never change. the guys might have changed physically. qihui is as tall as me now, or even taller! jia da looks more massive, but not as tall as he used to be last time. i remember last time i had to crane my neck just to talk to him. haha. everyone's hairstyle kinda changed, save for yiep soon. but character-wise, more or less the same. fairus was still the same, so was ernest and qihui, still as playful as ever. kinda brings back the memories you know. secondary school days were fun times. sometimes i think about it and i can just laugh. we did alot of crazy things every single day.

after dinner we went up the esplanade roof. my first reaction was "err, are we in like some mini-malaysia or something?" holy lord, the place was awash with mats n minahs! uurrggh. irritating and simply annoying. i sat on the ledge that overlooked the ground floor, and meiqi kept pleading with me to get off the ledge. i was like, "it's not like i'm standing on the ledge or something!" so paranoid she was. but in the end we all settled for a corner somewhere on the roof. and we wasted the night away just talking, joking and fooling around. sometimes you just wanna laze around and talk, especially with friends you haven't seen in a long time. it's nice to laugh about the silly things that we all used to do in the past. it's actually just like yesterday that i was still in bp. bp was a fun place to be in. i doubt bp is fun anymore now.

so we did manage to take quite a few pictures. there's one shot of me about to pee in the urinal! haha. think i'll upload some on my photopages. won't have alot, since i don't have any cameras and i steal all from hadi and yan wen's photos! haha.

well next week theres 3 gatherings i'm having! is crazy! muy loco! there's a small class gathering on thursday night (weird day ain't it?) which i might go, and there is another gathering among my malay bp friends at east cost on saturday, then there's a chalet organised by my company for the perm staff. i have to be present since my colleagues and my superiors will be there, and it will be on saturday through to sunday. it's madness! coupled with a badminton game on tuesday, then the following day i hav e duty back in camp. is total madness! so hectic!

but i'm enjoying my rest period now. but it seems i'm having much of a rest, since the week is packed. and i feel lethargic nowadays, due to lack of sleep. oh and i watched csi on my pc yesterday, or rather this morning, after i got home from my class outing. cool man the show! one of the csi guys got kidnapped this time round. and the show was 1 and a half hours long, so it would probably be screened as two episodes or a 2 hour special on tv. but it was very good. to know 1 or your own being kidnapped, there was an added motivation to find him.

csi should be voted the best tv serial ever i guess. it's just so damn good.

Monday, March 20, 2006

now

nothing much happened over the weekend, surprisingly. for the 1st time in years i was home on a saturday night. nowadays i'm quite free since i've no recruits in camp, but no one else is free. so in the i always spend much of time at home.

though yesterday afternoon naim called me out for lunch with zuraimi and nura at pizza hut causeway point. dear old cousin just got a break from thailand and is back here for 1 week. (actually he's not my cousin, even if he is he's probably my 3rd cousin. ah confusing as it sounds, i'll throw some light on to it the next time i blog) so we spent around an hour just chatting over lunch. finally i could get to meet him. i haven't seen him since god knows when. probably the last time was the a level results day. that's like more the a YEAR ago. wow, it's that long.

and finally after twice bringing holland to the finals of the international cup and ending up as losers, on the third attempt i made it to the final, i won it! yeah! beat brazil along the way too, 2-1 in normal time! impressive achievement ok! haha. i'm talking about pro evolition soccer 4, the game khamsya installed for me when he fixed up my computer. or better known as winning eleven 8. i's the same actually. yeah finally i won something with hollland! haha. spent like 1 and half hours to win that trophy! i want to go and get that championship manager 5 or fottball manager 5, because i prefer to manage teams than actually playing the game on computer. and playing the game on the computer seriously hurts my fingers. but it's not like i have a ps2 or something.

anyways tomorrow naim's flying off to thailand again. most likely i'll take time off to send him off. probably i'll pillion ramli or something. changi airport's so far! he checking in at 11 am, meaning what, i've to get up by 7am? that's madness. okay i think i'll wanna try bring holland to the finals again later. why holland? cause i'm supporting them for the world cup this june. which by the way i hope to catch it even though i'll be in camp.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

party

it was party time! haha so i went to eunice's birthday party. but it was those kinda close-knit parties, not your wild kind. a party by the poolside actually. so at least it was nice to meet up with the classmates that i haven't seen for quite a while. and eunice looked kinda different from the last time we saw her. and the birthday cake!

the birthday cake! i thought my hello kitty cake that they bought for me, jerome and fab in 2004 was the ultimate. haha. anyway it was a barbie doll cake. basically its just this - imagine a pink cake that looks like a hill, then you plonk a real barbie doll (i mean an actual barbie doll) in to it, so the pink base becomes the flowing skirt for the doll. got that? so what we were eating was her skirt (to put it crudely). but i must say the cake wasn't that nice frankly, because it had sour berries in it. to top it all off, pink-coloured cream is simply disgusting. i hate pink. sorry eunice!

so on sunday i went out with sutan, nas, iman and sheikh to the IT show at suntec city. ran into sam,cs,darren and fadzry on the way. so weird. anyway as expected it was packed to the max there. i thought of getting those coloured earpieces for my creative player, but to wait in a queue that was at least 40m long just to buy a earpiece - you do the thought processing. so sutan bought that 30gb ipod mini is it? that video player worth $495. i think it was quite cheap. after that we walked over to bugis village and bugis junction.

and guess where i went last nite. to ZOUK! or rather phuture. (shhh kindly please not divulge this to my parents or you'll catch me next at the slaughterhouse!) hadi just got crazy idea to ask me out at night to go clubbing. actually we were supposed to head to Ministry of Sound, but decided to join lizzy and her friends at zouk. wow what an experience it was!

it was ladies' night and also retro night. i must confess the music played was mostly boring, firstly because i never really had a taste for retro songs, secondly i didnt know most of them. but heck. we reached there at 10 plus. so by 1130 the dance hall started to get packed. although the music wasn't really groovy or any of that sort that sort, but i kinda enjoyed jus shaking my body to the tune. no grinding around though haha. around 1230 or so the music kinda picked u. suddenly they played ghostbusters, it's my life by bon jovi, sweet child of mine by guns n roses, even rock dj by robbie williams (since when he's retro? but heck it was a good choice anyway).

but still me hadi and lizzy still concluded - retro night is just not for us. we should really go on thursday nites, where its hip hop n r&b night. where all the mats and minahs would come down and club. but i msut say it was quite an interesting experience clubbing last night. quite a number of eye candies too. although the clubbing was cut short, since hadi's dad kept calling. actually my mum was also calling me. so at around 1.15 am we left. so much for wanting to reach home latest by 3am. haha. but it was fun!

i wont go so soon again though. i think. it's too expensive. unless they have guy's nite. and the probability that happens is virtually zilch. see how. must go on thursday nights! and we need the GIRRRLLLSSSS! haha.( don't go telling on me ok!) haha. till then.

Thursday, March 09, 2006

shit

so my recruits passed out last last tuesday. so it marks the end of my 1st ever batch that i had undertaken. i'm still quite a greenhorn in quite alot of things, so i better buck up. and i'm planning to get a tv for the new office, as part of the reorganising of the office area. i actually thought about repainting the walls, because the shade of blue made the whole place look small and cramped. but the thought of just bringing in the paint and wasting so much time painting - forget it. all it needs is a rearrangement of the tables and abit of spring cleaning. alot of spring cleaning, actually.

so i woke up at 3.30am on wednesday morning to catch the barcelona-chelsea match in my office. the first half produced no goals and it was so boring. i fell asleep during the second half, only to wake just in time to catch lampard score a penalty that was unfairly and undeservedly awarded. damn! i missed ronaldinho's goal then!and the that whole morning later on i had diarrhoea.

i probably got food poisoning or something like that. that whole morning, i went to shit at least 5 times. and it wasn't even semi-solid or what, it was completely liquid in nature(sorry, i just hadf to talk about it here) simply disgusting. every half and hour or so my ass would just give way. and my bowels were liquid, and had the distinct colour similar to the winter melon drink(i'm serious!) simply disgusting. the whole morning i jus lay in bed up in the bunk groaning. i couldn't catch any sleep because the sensation kept coming and going. simply annoying.

i only managed to book out during lunchtime. my body was really weak by then. i still managed to go out in the afternoon though, but by nighttime i had fever. it was quite high. from diarrhoea to fever. that's just great. in fact even now i'm still not completely recovered from the fever. i feel better now but not 100% yet.

just now, for the 1st time ever, i ate at bedok corner. probablyknown to others as simpang bedok. i dunno. wes drove us there for lunch. i only had mee soto because i didn't have the appetite to eat solid food(the effects of diarrhoea+fever). bedok corner probably ranks among those famous hawker centres in singapore, like maxwel rd, adam rd, newton circus, lau pa sat and the lot. i might sound like a loser by admitting this - that i haven't been to ANY of these hawker centres before.

why? two reasons - 1) my family don't eat out often, 2) such places are so out of the way. get what i mean? i mean one goes out to walk around, and around such hawkers centres there's nowhere to to walk around after u've eaten. which is true. i don't even pass by any of such places on my way to where i want to go. theres no shopping centres near any of these hawker centres. unless you're a hardcore food taster or u have a car, it's really hard to patronise such places.

so saturday is eunice's birthday party. its supposed to start at 6pm. but the weird thing is that it has an end timing. 10pm. its so weird. i mean it's not wrong or anything, but it's just weird. i mean, i thought parties would just go on till everyone feel they've had enough. and the place is rather far flung, out of the way. its somewhere at the end of tanjong katong road. no buses reach there directly. i must figure out how to get there. it's quite tricky actually. oh well. till next time.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

new

so as you all can see for yourselves, i've done up the blog once again. actually it's still quite plain. but i think it's nice enough for my own eyes, don't know about you all though. i thought it would be nice to change things round a little, because it all gets too drab. i try to do things simple, especially when i'm never a mr. know-how. and when dealing with html configuration, i only know as much as i do know of how to build a rocket.

so my recruits are passing out in 2 days' time. after that it's the lull period, but i still have things to sort out. alot of things will be happening i guess.so far so good for my first batch. and i still have quite a number to go. nad last friday they had their 24km graduation route march. i must say i'm still very tired from that. it was a very harsh route

yesterday i went out with jj and fab. disastrous, to say the least. because it was an ill-prepared outing. so everything we did was rather unplanned and haphazard. but at least we did catch the first half of the fulham-arsenal game at chjimes. finally we see the return of the old arsenal that were once tagged as the invincibles.

you know why i like arsenal so much? it's because they have this ability to just stroke around the ball with so much flair, and at the end of it all one palyer will just have to pass the ball into the goal. there's so much ease in the way they play, and it was so easy for them to take apart all kinds of defences. in one sweeping move a defence will be ripped apart, and the goals will start coming. everything they did seemed so effortless. and for the record, emmanuel adebayor is probably the ugliest soccer player today, second only to luke chadwick i think.

correction, i think i should use the word 'fugliest'.

pay day is next friday, and i'm still thinking of what i really need to buy. i simply must get myself something. maybe that arsenal jersey. i can't resist the temptation. soon i shall buy it. and a digital camera? but that's too much. way out of my price range. maybe later in the year, but not now.

anybody knows where i can get cheap game cds? i'm getting bored at home man...i need the new cm5! anyone knows any lobangs?

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

eh

ok so i'm off today. in fact i haven't been at my company for a whole week. last mon-wed i was outfield attached out to another company, and thurs-fri i took off. today and tomorrow too. oh well, i must clear all my offs.

yesterday i went out to meridian shopping centre for lunch with tyan and jj. so we talked and talked. typical of us. i think we talked for close to 3 hours. sharing of views and reminiscing. i like to reminisce actually. usually i'll just recall back and dwell on those nice memories i've had. i haven't been alive for too long anyway, so there isn't uch to reminisce about. ah but its those little things that always mean alot to you. those things that will always bring a small smile to your face.

or those things that 'if only', but never was. i still regret some of those things. but they shall always stay as 'if only's. ah i guess the regrets will stick with me. sometimes i just can't help it.

is an arsenal jersey costing $90 worth it? seriously thinking of buying it. well, as of last week that is. or what about a $250 bass guitar set that comes with the amplifier, tuner, sling etc? i think its well worth the money. very very tempting. oh and an acoustic guitar as cheap as $38! how? so many things to dream of buying, so little money to even dream of purchasing.

anyone knows where i can get a whole set of whose line is it anyway's vcds? do reply!

Sunday, February 19, 2006

damn it

ok so my recruits have stumbled across my blog. damn it! haha. it's okay i guess, since i don't really ever talk much about things in camp, what more my recruits. (but that doesn't mean you guys can happily pass my address around to the others!) so heck. 1 of them is right anyway. i mostly talk about my thoughts or other things unrelated to camp.

anyway finally i've a new mp3 player! (some of you might know about my argument against having an mp3 player though!) i bought it 2nd hand actually from hadi for $250. it's a 6GB Creative Zen Micro player that's only a few months' old and still under warranty. 6Gb is huge to me, and it still has the FM radio function. and i can use it as a thumbdrive too. so i don't know about you guys, but i think i've got myself a good deal here. but i simply must find a pouch to store it because i'm sure 1 of these days i'll start dropping it and scratching it somehow. i think must buy 1 of those "venus flytrap" pouch thingy that i was telling hadi about that day. or a simple handphone will do. anything will suffice, so long as my mp3 player won't get scratched or damaged. i'm such a careless person.

yesterday i caught the liverpool man u clash at chjimes. as i expected, liverpool would win and by the slimmest of margins. and of course there weren't that many clear cut chances. we were actually watching it for free because 1 of the pubs had 3 huge screens showing the match. there were also alot of people crowding the area trying to get a view of the screens. it was an okay match actually, still not as exciting at the manchester derby i caught last month.

so eunice has invited the class to her birthday celebration thingy. okay it's been a very long while since i last met her, think it was in september. so its another class gathering next month. looking forward to it. oh and the present. the present. i'll dream 1 up then. but it's diffiult. and some have already find it weird.

i've done alot of thinking lately and i've realised that sometimes it's good not to get yourself too bothered about things. ignorance is really bliss.

Sunday, February 05, 2006

tired

i am extremely tired. why? came back home at 4 am last night. or rather this morning. i had a class gathering of sorts, and we had dinner at pizza hut, palyed abit of pool then went to kbox for a singing session. i know, it's catered more to the chinese people but hey, i did see a group of malays singing malay songs there. then again, i'm not really into malay songs.

but the crappy thing was that i had developed a sore throat during the pool session, so basically i had no voice by the time we were at kbox. so i didn't really enjoy the singing session, since my voice was clearly gone. the only song icould croak out reasonably well was oasis' stop crying your heart out. other than that, it was quite a disaster. and i took a taxi home, shared with jj. i thought i didn't get caught by my parents for coming home so late, but surprisingly my dad did point out that i reached home at 4am. which is surprising, since i was quite sure everyone was sleeping when i got home. oh well, at least i didn't get such a severe scolding.

i mean, it's not like everyday i go out to meet my friends (haha that's always my argument when i tell my mom why i always come home so late, which is true). i don't know. it's weird, but i think i'm getting more and more wild. well, don't worry, it's not like i've picked up smoking, drinking or gambling or that sort. but i don't know. it's as if i'm kinda changing. like those late nights out. like my dressing style. it's all very weird. don't know is it changes for the better or for worse. very weird.

but all i know now is my finances is on the brink of recession again. there's money coming out but none is coming in. luckily pay day is less than a week away, but still, i think it's not enough to avert the impending recession. and one more thing. i'm been marked down to be a future platoon sergeant. that kinda sucks i think, since i'm quite wet behind the ears still. i think it's too soon, but i don't think we'veall got much of a choice. but it doesn't mean i have extra pay!

damn, i'm still so lethargic and tired even though i woke up at 2 pm just now. i'm really short on sleep now. but it's gonna be a long week ahead. i wish i could take a break.

and the tagboard's spoilt again. damn it.