Birthday Celebration (Part 4)

I’m back for an update. While I’m at work of course haha. Reason why is because I self-declared a 10 minutes break for myself after slogging hard at work as usual haha.

Anyway, celebrated my bdae with the poly peeps at Simei’s Melleo. I think it’s the cheapest place we went to celebrate birthdays so far haha, cause the food cost only like 5 bucks? Besides, I got surprised with a birthday cake but I was smart enough to notice before the surprise haha.

Got a bag as a present which of course I heavily hinted to them what I want haha and I like it alot!, looks like a crumpler bag but it’s actually from mini toons haha. Went to DTE to play pool till like 11 before leaving for home and another week of boring work haha.

Still thinking whether should I get a keyboard or a DSLR. I have a passion for both and although I have  much higher chance to utilise the keyboard, there’s no space for it in my room anymore as my sis’s school stuff is enough to make my room look like a tsunami just passed through. Furthermore, I do not have a recording device to record down my songs so it would kinda be like a piano to me.

ON the other hand, I love photography, or rather, I have a growing interest in photography haha. If you noticed I love taking pictures of food and scenery, but my lousy digicam always churns out poor quality pics without the flash. But my chances of using it often is very very low, considering that I have work everyday and even if I start school, it’s hard to lug that big junk everywhere I go. Weekends are also taken up by church so I’ll probably have little time to go take pictures. Maybe when there’s no cg on sunday haha.

Maybe I should just use the cash and splurge it on shopping! That would be a great idea! haha, that’s to worry later…

Last celebration tommorow with the cuzzies, but not before ending this post with a family photo haha.

Beer makes my tipsy

I seriously have a low threshold for anything alcoholic. I remember my virgin trip to a pub a few years ago I was on the verge of confessing all the secrets which remains strongly bolted in my heart just from sipping a few mouthfuls of beer. I always wanted to be the person who can drink and drink without feeling tipsy or worse, get drunk, but I don’t think I can be that kind of person seriously lol.

Anyway, went for a drink with friends at Freeze pub at Tanjong Pagar and the sad thing is no chivas martel or vodka, only beer. I seriously hate the taste of beer because I think it tastes bitter, at least for local beer. I love german beer though, still can’t forget the silky smooth taste flowing down from ur tongue down ur throat without even making you feel like u just drank a glass of gassy beer. And it’s sweet too.

I think I might want to invest in a guitar too. These few days there are many melodies that came to my head while I’m outside travelling and I know it’s from God. They may not sound like an instant hit but I’m sure with enough dedication to improving the song I can bring it to complete fruition.

Damn, and I’m still thinking of getting that D90 DSLR.

Birthday Celebration (Part 2 + 3)

FIRST OF ALL I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO WISHED ME HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!

My phone has been ringing non stop for the entire day it sounded like it got a virus or something. Thanks for all the birthday wishes through msn, phone, sms, facebook LOL, but mostly it’s sms la.

Time to update on the previous celebration I had with the CG, had a surprise there as I wasn’t expecting them to celebrate my birthday as according to HX, how can I be so dumb to believe that!, yeah, caught off guard but that feeling was good, to be surprised that is, and not having ur hair messed up like a durian.

Went to have dinner at Blu Jazz Cafe at Bugis later on with some of the cg members and had a great time fellowshipping and camwhoring. However, I do not have a collage for the pics as the pics are taken with jiawen’s cam.

Seesha was the next activity and it was the virgin experience for hx fabian and sean! Everyone was desperately trying to blow smoke and create smoke out of their mouth after inhaling the air from the tube and it was miserable at the start but after seeing the great seesha guru working the tube, they caught on to my chakra quickly and the whole place became smoky ahha.

Less words, more pics.

Since today was the actual day, what’s more appropriate than to celebrate with my family. It’s been quite long that we gathered together as a family and today was the best day to do it!

Went to Sushi Tei for dinner. Ordered food like I’ve haven eaten for 60 years and for the first time I don’t have to worry about the price or think for 100 minutes before deciding to pick up an expensive looking plate colour because Mom’s treating!

Went to shop after that but sadly couldn’t find any delectable purchases for me to prey on, even my ever trustworthy Muji have failed on me today.

3 celebrations down, 2 more to go! before I can finally put my bank account to rest.

Birthday Celebration (Part 1)

I just had a wonderful Friday night celebrating my birthday and Colin’s birthday!, thanks to the army peeps who made it possible and helped to plan this, like jm who cancelled his group project meeting just to celebrate this special occasion and the rest who helped to reserve seats, or at least try cause we didn’t get the seats at breeks lol.

Wonderful company, catching up, listening to funny stories and camwhoring was usual with this bunch of crazy peeps!, just want to say thanks to them for the presents too, love the water bottle and the wrist bracelet!, not gonna blog too much now, quite tired, need to catch some eye.

But photos as always haha. The first collage is me camwhoring at work due to boredom during lunch break.

Second pic is group photo!

Too bad Benson and DY wasn’t free to make it =( And Samuel’s flown to the US too =(

JYA MATTE!

Train Terror

I am officially traumatised by all the haggard looking old men with balding white hair right now.
I was on the train back home from lakeside and as usual, I aimed the 2 seater seat at the corner of the compartment. There was an old man sitting opposite me who looked very unkempt and dirty and the moment I sat down, he kept looking at me with this lecherous or murderous look.

I thought it was just normal to look as I was wearing nice clothes and look good (SO BHB HAHA) but it was unusual. Usually people will just look at me for a few seconds before looking away but this old man kept staring at me with his red swollen eyes for half the right from Lakeside to Boonlay.

I begin to feel weird and scared at the same time because this is the first time someone looked at me for so damn long and also never blinking an eye with that disgusting look, I started to think this is a scene out of Ju-On 4. I stole glances at him while pretending to look around to see if he’s still staring at me and true enough, he really continued to stare at me.

Halfway through the right, I saw him reaching his hand into one of his pocket AND THEN….

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HE TOOK OUT A PEN KNIFE AND STARTED CARVING HIS FINGERNAILS WITH IT.

He did that while at the same time staring at me. I was so FREAKED OUT I wanted to jump out of my clothes and run away even if that means I would be in my birthday suit but who wouldn’t be scared in a situation like that.

WORSE THING is I couldn’t go because I don’t want to alert him or make him to something weird like dash at me or something with the knife so I just have to painfully pretend nothing happened, while counting down to the next stop.

Finally I couldn’t take it any longer and decided to pretend to look for the train map to see the train directions. Thankfully that creepy old man did not follow me if not I would definitely take a cab home.

Even after the train started to turn back and assuming the old man was gone, I was still shaken by that experience and did not dare to sleep on the way back. Everytime I close my eyes I would see a scenario whereby I hear his black and rough toe nails scratching against the floor as he slowly make his away towards me and I will feel something cold and slimy dripping on my pants only to open my eyes and see him grinning at me with rotten gums and dripping green slime on me and holding on to his pen knife in the other hand.

Thank God for the 3 Japanese girls on the train to distract me from that horrible incident.

Speaking of Japanese, I’m so amazed and inspired by their fashion and I just wanted to post a photo I made describing some of the cool styles I’ve seen. I shall aim to look like that too!

SO NICE RIGHT.

Beauty Killed The Beast

I’m tired now so I’m just gonna post a photo.

Soundtrack of your life

Okie! I’m back to blog. I’m seriously bored just now so I decided to embark on a little mini project which to create my own album cover LOL. This is called pulling the vision from the supernatural to the natural ok!

As such, what’s an album if there’s no songs in it LOL. I compiled a list of songs that summarizes my working life. Enjoy.

1. ALARM
2. A Long Train Ride feat. POS (People Of Singapore)
3. The Great Seat Rush feat. DJ Kiasu
4. Slumber
5. Slumber II
6. Good Morning Coffee feat. Miss Nescafe
7. The Youtube, the blog and the office camera
8. Little Miss Naggy Boss
9. Time is Ticking Tick Tock Tick Tock
10. Potential Slacking Song
11. The Great Seat Rush feat. Working Adults
12. Slumber III

How’s that for my tracklist? Sounds Good?

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Broke And Broker

I’m blogging from my work once again, as there are lesser and lesser things for me to check out on the web other than reading blogs and doing online window shopping lol.

In a blink of an eye we have finally stepped into the doors of September. It feels that time really just flown past us without us noticing it, and usually people are too absorbed in their own life that they might fail to see the truly important things that matters to them.

This is also the month of my birthday and as like any other birthdays, I felt apprenhension as well as joy. I’m quite an insecure person therefore every birthday to me is like a reflection that tells me how I have grown over the past 1 year and what have I achieved. There is also the fear of people that you assume you are close to that doesn’t celebrate your birthday or worse, forget all about it.

I know that birthdays are supposed to be a joyous occasion where people delight in but to me I kinda dread it because it’s like a mirror that reveals the somewhat true nature of the people we treat as good friends or assume as. As such, I fear the fact that my worse fears might actually come true, like for example a friend whom you have treated as a good friend or considered as a good friend did not wish you, or celebrate with you. Or a group of friends that you felt was a part of you did not bother that it’s your birthday and make the effort to make it a special one.

What I mean by saying above as the true nature of friends is that there are different levels of friendship. There’s the most general type of friendship which is hi-bye friends. Followed by casual friends and then moving on to close friends and best friends. And sometimes we might misjudge and place the wrong value on the wrong people. Like somebody who you think is your close friend might actually only be a hi-bye friend, and thus, you will get hurt when the test of friendship comes your way, like when a particular group of friend or a single friend have seperated ways from you and both parties have moved to different chapters of their life, having different schedules and commitments.

It takes effort to maintain friendships when convenience is definitely not part of the vocabulary and even harder to find friends who will be there for you when you need help and truly care about you.

It’s easy to make mistakes in identifying in who your real friends are especially in places like schools or places where you have no choice but to be in the same environment together with friends. Afterall, no effort is required in organising the meeting as eventually you and your friends will meet in the same lecture theatre or tutorial room, and also hangout together as everyone have the same lunchbreak hours. Everything is convenient and you just have to go with the flow.

I have of course experienced this, singing twice a week at kbox after school, watching movies, playing pool, overnight gaming sessions on the weekend with people whom I call friends until I realise that they are just casual hi-bye friends that I just happen to be with due to convenience. As such, I have almost lost a group of friends whose friendships stood the test of time until now. And I thank God for enlightening me before I lose everything. I’m glad I am still nurturing strong friendship with those friends who gave me a chance and did not give up on me. And from what I’ve heard, that group of people that I party with the most in poly seems to be drifting further and further apart. The steps of the righteous is indeed ordered by the Lord and he salvaged my situation.

No doubt when this happens it hurts. It hurts because all the time and effort you sowed into that friendship have came for naught. Going back to birthdays, haha, I just want to thank God that I have put all these failed friendships behind me and is now happily moving on, and also that I have stable groups of people that I feel confident in.

Enough of all this friendship theories, on to shopping.

If there’s ever a list of the top 10 impulsive shoppers in Singapore, I’ll probably be in the top 3. Been busy revamping my wardrobe by shopping. Spent alot of money this month on buying tops. I think I’m addicted to retail therapy. To console myself, I tell myself that these are needs and not wants haha.

I have the impulse to go grab tees from Pull and Bear now. Ciao.

And I’m Not Running Away

Just came back from an eventful weekend. First up was recording songs at Ben’s house. It was great fun as I have not jammed for a very long time. There was a little twist as well because I took over the role of the vocalist and I wasn’t sure how my voice would turn out recorded haha. But everything was fine and the quality was good. Can’t wait for the next time.

Sat was a busy day for me as usual. Teaching in the mornings, rushing to cg in the afternoon and for this saturday I need to go to Clarke Quay to spend one last moment with Thomas and Ivan, who is leaving the company for greener pastures. Even though I had only been in the company for a short 3 months, but somehow I feel kinda sad and melancholic during the dinner. Talking about dinner, it was very good, the food was splendid but I was kinda controlling my diet so as not to eat so much and lots of photos are being taken as well, just now me, I’m not very popular when it comes to taking photos haha.

Drinks followed after that and I gulped down 2 glasses of Vodka and 1 Gin tonic. Throughout the entire night I felt tipsy and drowsy. My voice deepened, eyes swelled and face was flushed red. Felt like I was on the verge of getting drunk so I stopped drinking. I wanted to leave at 11pm in order to catch the last train but was persuaded to stay until 2.30am by Serene. So me, esther and sherlynn was kinda in our own world till we left.

Which resulted in my oversleeping for service. . Thank God I did not have a severe headache and was able to be clear headed. Went out for a shopping session as my pay just came in and I seriously caused such insurmountable damage to my bank account it’s equivalent to a scale of 9 on the richter scale. Went to meet the cousins for dinner at Yuki Yaki after that and I definitely need to detox for a 100 days to get all that charcoal and cholesterol out of my system. Can’t wait for us to meet up again and also in december when David is back from aussie and we can have our overnight camping trip at east coast park! Like we hang out there in the good old days.

On a more serious note, there was an issue being brought up during cg this week about love and unity. I can sense the uneasiness during the talk but I also at the same time felt that it came at the right time and it was necessary to get that into our heads. However, I also heard comments about people wanting to transfer cg or change church.

My immediate reaction was that I feel that these people are running away from the problem. Why do I say that? Because I am guilty of doing that too, and to be frank, it’s not the first time. Of all the times I have backslided from church, it’s because of the exact same problem and I realised that this problem won’t be solved unless the people who are involved, the cg that is formed by these people have the DESIRE out of their own WILLING heart to solve this problem.

I don’t believe in passing some cg law or rule that the members must follow like talk to a member that you are not close to or dislike at least twice a week or coming out with an action plan to tackle the problem. All these are just methods. But what use are these methods and means for when the heart is not willing? In fact, it will turn rebellious and things will turn for the worse.

Back to running away from the problem, I also realised that the people involved are the same old people that I have been in the cg with at some point of time or another when I came to church until now. Therefore, the problem will always exist because the same old people are still having the same old mentality, still having the same attitude and behaviour. It happened in my second cg, third cg and then now.

And as a cg, I personally feel that the members shouldn’t be running away by doing things like transferring cg or changing church or for worse, backslide. What we should do is to band together and work things out, and to have the desire to want to change things for the better. Only then will things start to be together. I personally am trying to be more accepting and loving towards people that I don’t know. Or when I want to spend time with people in the cg, I don’t just get people that I am close to, I try to ask people who are not that close to join in for a movie or something.

Only when we step out of our own comfortable little exclusive group and integrate the other members of the cg before things will start to get better. If not, things will just stay the same no matter how many times the problem is being addressed and history will once again repeat itself.

PS: This are all just my own personal views and if it offended anyone, please don’t flame me! >_<

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