Monday, December 31, 2007

First up

Happy New Year to everybody


Didn't send out the smses of new year greeting cause a)the lines are congested, b)I'll wish you when I see you and c)I'm lazy. Also, smsing greetings just ain't that sincere don't you think? Like a mass message sent out to everyone in your contact list. Especially when the message is reused from a xmas message you received 6 days ago, right daryl?

Ok so everyone is making new year resolutions. While I've never really made resolutions, or should I say, never kept them, I thought this would be a good time to write out some of my resolutions for the coming year of 2008(also this was requested or I would not have done it).

1) Get a good paying job after semester ends while waiting for NS
2) Save money from unnecessary expense
3) Pamper my Dear/Little Miss Fussy much more
4) Try not to link points number 2 and 3 together ;)
5) Do well in ICAs
6) Go for a holiday before NS, either with friends or family or maybe even with dear
7) Win more soccer matches
8) Say words which haven't been said
9) Show 2 fingers to Chan Teck Chwee

And thats about all. I wanted to add in burn NYP after graduation but figured resolutions were meant to be realistic goals for us to try and achieve. Right then, its quite late and I really need some sleep now. I had a most sumptuous home cooked baked pasta meal just now and the large portion which I had is making very sleepy. Hope you all had a great New Year, as well as a great New Year's Eve countdown, wherever you were counting down. I know I did. But it wasn't the New Year you see. It was something else which made these 2 days wonderful. And I wasn't counting down to the New Year. Not gonna tell you what.

Ok then, i'm off to bed then.......

Ps: Thanks once again to Aunty Joyce for sending me home on New Year's early morning!

Friday, December 28, 2007

Evening all. Its a quiet 9.22pm now, the house is silent, punctuated by the occasional meowing of a certain black and white cat. I am alone, typing this entry out, when there are projects to be done. Quality Management and Destination & Attractions Management projects. Not very interesting things to do, but things which need to be done nonetheless. I'm not in the healthiest state right now. A cough and sore throat is my main bane though I do feel a fever creeping up on me.

Oh christmas joy and its merry ways, ye who always had its methods to seduce my tastebuds and coerce me to succumb to the evil that is gluttony. 10 days of palate revelry and 4 months of the good ol workout is vanishes to oblivion. What of the dreaded test then? Is it not coming soon? The one they call NAPFA? How can this man, who has ravished and delighted his gastric juices be able to pass this test which many have failed?

Righto, anyway I'll have to once again wish a happy birthday to 2 people on my blog. Ahmad Pepe and Emo Daniel. First up Emo Daniel, whom I term as such cause firstly, he can be found emoing over a certain girl who bears a resemblance to Felicia from the Darkstalkers cartoon and secondly I know quite a few Daniels and I need such prefixes to identify which one is which. Anyway, Happy birthday to him and hope he grows a bit manlier and more confident. A good way to start is to wear his birthday present to school. Yep, wear your birthday present to school for lecture and it'll do you a world of good. Cause if you can do that, you'll realise that fear will not play such a big part anymore. Go ponder what I mean if at first glance you don't understand.

Secondly, Ahmad Pepe Farid. One of my best friends since Secondary School. Often teased bout his weight(though he has Safary to bear the bulk of these jokes now) and his numerous failed attempts at chasing girls. Again and again he plays host to us whenever we need a place to lepak, though that may be to his damned advantage actually, but still its a mighty rum thing to do nonetheless. We surprised him at his house at a unearthly time of 2 f*kin am yesterday which left me absolutely pooped today. Waited with Wan at his house for him for over 3 bloody hours, though I had a lively yet emo(?) conversation peppered with lots of crass and dirty humor with Wan. But I digress, after all this paragraph is supposed to be about the Pepe. Anyway, happy birthday to Ahmad, first of all, hope you grow slimmer.NS will help, I just hope you don't get asked to do too many push ups cause Adam's not there to help. You know what I mean. Secondly, have I seen you before? is one of the worst pick up lines ever. I know you know that but I just wanna reinforce it again just in case. Finally, hope your love life picks up, but you've gotta stop being so chummy with every girl you meet you know. They'll then just treat you like a friend or a brother and you'll will get nowhere.

Ok then, I'm off to bed now. Its 11:05 on my computer screen and seeing as how someone has not messaged yet, I'm assuming that curfew timing has been broken. A bit sad this, especially IF an innocent party has to pay for this breakage. Haha you'll get what I mean. Now, I'm feeling really really unwell so ta ta, hope you had a Merry Christmas and I do not know if I'll be blogging anytime from now till next year so in advance, just in case........Happy New Year to all!


How many special people change
How many lives are living strange
Where were you while I was getting high?

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

As I sit here waiting for Windows Live Messenger to finish reinstalling, I start cursing the people who created computer viruses for no other reason than to irritate and vex innocent users of the Internet. I'm not quite sure how the hell this virus came about, though I think it stemmed from a careless accepting of a file on msn from I forgot who. Ok main point though, is that computer viruses are real pain in the asses and the people who spend time from their sorry lives creating them ought to be kidnapped and forced to watch repeat episodes of "My Sassy Neighbour".

Now I'm not slagging off people who actually enjoy the show "My Sassy Neighbour"(MSN), just that to watch it over and over again is a bit too much don't you think? Let me see, hmm......why does this scenario sound so very familiar? Oh right, TV mobile is doing precisely that to us! You know, whenever you take a bus with TV mobile on it, there's a very high chance that there will be an episode of MSN showing, and chances are it the episode where there is a case of vandalism by 3 young girls, around the age of 8-11. Then they'll frame and bully boys in the neighbourhood, extort them for money, and eventually they'll get caught by a TV crew who was lying in wait for them all along and had quite obviously nothing better to do.

Of course Patricia Mok will play a part in devising the plan to catch the 3 girls who have barely reached puberty, enlisting the help of several other neighbours and a whole TV crew as part of her grand masterplan. Man, those adults are real enthusiastic about stopping these atrocities. Just look at the amount of effort needed just to catch them in the act and stop them from drawing some cartoons on the wall.

Okay, I know I'm being slightly harsh here but gosh, when you've had to endure countless times of watching the same rubbish over and over again such that you'll even know what they're going to say next, you'll be as sore as me over this matter. I think its worse for me since I'm used to good comedies, like Friends, Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond, Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Whose Line is it anyway and even Family Guy. All of which, are either not shown on channel 5 or shown very late. What do we get nowadays instead? My Sassy Neighbour, Maggi and Me, the Noose, 80s rewind etc. What the hell happened to the quality of scriptwriters in Singapore? Where classics such as Under one roof and to a certain extent Phua Chu Kang had quality scripts and quality jokes. What we get on TV nowadays are total rubbish, where even watching repeats of Mr. Bean is funnier than our comedies. There's just no spice anymore, no tongue-in-cheek humor, no well thought out jokes or scenarios. What we get are comedies with actors and actresses being made to look weird and using "funny" names. That's their main selling point. Honestly. Just look at the comedies I have singled out as being horrible. *Cringe*

Anyway, on to other things now. Won a soccer match on Sunday 2-0, in a game which we were clearly supposed to be the underdogs. The opposition was made up of veterans, several of whom were ex-national players and that team plays regularly too. Yes, you might argue they're old already, but my team is also generally a old team too. We only have 5-6 young players and out of those 5-6, only 3 has relatively regular match experience. In short, we were expected to lose the game, but we came up on top. The world of football is so unpredictable and exciting. I rarely lose my calm demeanour but when playing or watching football, I become a entirely different and crazy person. You won't EVER see me in that state, unless you watch soccer with me, or go to the Arsenal Club, where I'll literally jump up and down and boogey all around whenever Arsenal scores(something which happens regularly).

Its been a pretty long post already, its a cold Thursday, I woke up prematurely early for project meeting and I'm quite sleepy. So what does this add up to? We're near the end of this blog post. Of course, we all know I'll add something on even though I have said I'm done with the post. That's my style.

You know how certain factors can affect certain things and feelings? Was in Starbucks with Wan and Ahmad yesterday, when Wan decided that the counter girl was pretty cute, chubby but cute and I forced him to go up to her and get her number. He did and was successful though you have no idea how much effort I had to spend in persuading him to go through with it, while that blob of greentea-raspberry drinker Ahmad sat around and did nothing much to help in convincing. But that's not exactly the main point. What is important was the conversation preceding that. How we got to that topic I ain't sure, but it was a good insightful conversation. That topic made me realise that there were things that had to be clarified, things I needed to answer, not to them but to myself. I couldn't bring myself to directly say what it was to them so using my, a-hem, superb grasp of the English Language, I managed to manoeuvre and handle the topic delicately without anyone suspecting anything(I think). Of course now when that greentea-raspberry drinking blob reads this, he'll understand. Anyway, its funny how things work. Certain factors can affect certain things and feelings. If you don't really understand the whole of the last paragraph, then good, just keep it that way. Ignore it completely.

Righto, off for a nap now. And may Arsenal kick Sp*rs arse badly this Saturday. Very very badly. In that vein of thought, I'll embed the following video I first saw on Shawn's blog, which I found was pretty good. Especially if you're a diehard Arsenal fan or Tottenham Hater. Enjoy and have a good weekend people!




I fell through the ice
Without a warning or a reason
It's a treason
With no answer

Friday, December 14, 2007

Finally decided to blog a proper entry after a long while. Didn't really have the time nor the energy to churn out anything the past few days.

Anyways, its the 2 week term break now but with the tons of projects yet to be completed it doesn't really feel like it. I know some of us have to go to school almost everyday during these 2 weeks just to do projects and their schedule is packed with projects. Myself, there ARE plans afoot for my projects, just that I'm kinda lucky 4 out of 5 members in my group are attached, resulting in a conflict of schedules, therefore most of us will be on our own doing our part.

But wouldn't it be nice to have a holiday with no projects nor work to worry about? Even though we make take time off to really relax, most of us still worry with work and projects. You know, sometimes its good to be lazy. Don't be so hardworking all the time. In fact, there's a song by Oasis titled "The Importance Of Being Idle", which I wholeheartedly agree with. Haha maybe its just that I spend almost half the time idling(with little miss fussy) while the other half is spent dreaming about idling(with little miss fussy). But many of you people out there don't know how to just sit back and really relax. Especially us young adults. You know whats the key word? YOUNG. We're young, we have no real burdens to bear, lets really kick back and enjoy ourselves while we still can, before we have to face the working world and all its office politics, pressing deadlines, boring paperwork and praba-like bosses who will hold countless meetings to discuss the importance of quality.

So in view of this, I have 3 lines of wisdom for all of you.

1) Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off 'til the day after tomorrow
2) When in doubt, do nothing, there is always tomorrow
3) Imagination is much more important than knowledge

Right then, on to something else. These past few days have been so damned tiring for me. Really lacking some good proper sleep due to family matters and my eyes have been puffy and lifeless these few days. In fact, I had to rush out my retail report on Wednesday night from 11pm to 4am in the morning, when the previous night I had no sleep at all. Those of you who know me will be thinking that its no problem for me since writing reports are considered my forte(and it is) but when my mind is functioning as well as Odie on morphine(or some might liken this state of mind to Darylism), then you know you've got another thing coming. So sad to say, I'm quite sure Brenda will be given a nasty shock when she reads my 4 page retail report and I'll have to brace myself for a potential earful when I return to school. Whether I'll give a shite about what she says will be another matter altogether though.

The month of december sees 4 friends of mine celebrating their birthdays. Seeing as how I didn't have the time/forgot to wish them properly, I'll wish them all a Happy Belated birthday here. They are:

Dec 6--> Jun Rui
Dec 7--> Sean Poondeh oooohhhhh GG IMBA don't-talk-to-me-please
Dec 11(?)--> Joe
Dec 14--> Gomes Ashley Joel

Didn't wish Jun Rui cause Mel told me she lost her phone so couldn't SMS and I didn't have the time anyway to wish her personally. Sean Poondeh oooohhhhh GG IMBA etc. I did wish, but quite late, at around 11pm. Sorry man, mind was on other matters. Joe I totally forgot when his birthday was till yesterday, damn pai seh. And Gomes Ashley Joel went overseas for a holiday in India, Bangalore to get connected with his roots and trace some ancestral family tree there. We all know that's untrue but its what I'll like to believe.

So happy belated birthday to you guys and gal!

Anyway its a long entry, and I'm sure this is quite enough reading material for my little miss fussy(LMF). Will be going to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks on Monday, then the dunno what name emporium on Tuesday. Don't think I'll be catching Warlords after all, newspaper reviews didn't really rave too much about it so I won't be wasting any money on it. Ok then, that's about it so I'll bid you all a good weekend. There's new family guy episodes for me to watch and I can't wait to immerse myself in the low brow humor of the show once again.


Cause I'm with you
And you're with me
There's lots and lots for us to see
And lots and lots for us to do
She's electric
Cause i'm electric too!

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Just a short post. I'm so tired that I can't even believe I'm actually using precious time to type this out.

No rest for me till the end of Friday. Busy with family matters as well as ICAs.

Well, actually thats about all. An update of whats been going on. Not very interesting eh?

Oh just one more thing I need to say

Which is....

I'm enjoying every precious moment I spend with my little miss fussy......!

Sunday, December 2, 2007

The end of November

Owning a PSP seems to be the latest trend. Ben finally bought his PSP last Friday, leaving me as the only one without a PSP/DS Lite. And I have made it a point to ensure it stays that way. 1 PSP costs on average $400 all in with the Memory Card etc. and thats just too much an amount for me to spend. Sure its a good way to pass the time when you're on the train or the bus or in Praba's lecture but still that money could be put to much much better use. Like buying your parents dinner. Or buying your girlfriend a gift. Or sending Quality Management lecturers for "How to add excitement to your life" self help courses.

Much has been made about me keeping my hair longer than usual. Most of it negative though. Actually I do concede that I should at least trim the back cause when I last cut it, it was cut for it to be spiky and not for it to be long so it just doesn't really suit. So should I cut it short again? Or trim it? Or just leave it? Hmm.....what do you think?

I'm not really that comfortable blogging out here in the living room. My parents are out here watching television, thus explaining my rather clean language for this post. My dad seems to be intent on talking to me about the liverpool vs bolton game occuring now, not realising that I have absolutely no interest in 2 boring teams play each other. But still my dad will rambe on and on about how good torres is and how lousy crouch is(like I didn't know that already). Kinda distracting me from this post. Why then, am I not using my laptop to blog so I can blog privately in my room? For the very simple reason my laptop's graphic card has gone haywire, where literally up is down and red is white. Hopefully repairing my laptop won't be too much of a hassle.

Took some test for fun which was on Facebook. You know, the test which tell you more about yourself. Yes, I do take these tests. Out of boredom more than anything actually. Anyway here are the results.

Your view on yourself:
You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You are a true romantic. When you are in love, you will do anything and everything to keep your love true.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person. And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you might that person.

The seriousness of your love:
You are very serious about relationships and aren't interested in wasting time with people you don't really like. If you meet the right person, you will fall deeply and beautifully in love.

Your views on education:
Education is less important than the real world out there, away from the classroom. Deep inside you want to start working, earning money and living on your own.

The right job for you:
You have plenty of dream jobs but have little chance of doing any of them if you don't focus on something in particular. You need to choose something and go for it to be happy and achieve success.

How do you view success:
You are confident that you will be successful in your chosen career and nothing will stop you from trying.

What are you most afraid of:
You are afraid of things that you cannot control. Sometimes you show your anger to cover up how you feel.

Who is your true self:
You are full of energy and confidence. You are unpredictable, with moods changing as quickly as an ocean. You might occasionally be calm and still, but never for long.

Kinda accurate for me I feel. In fact very accurate for most parts. Anyway I'm off to bed now. Sleepy and tired and I realised nothing beats having a good solid 8 hours sleep. Sleeping 5 hours then napping for another 3 hours just ain't the same. Don't think will be blogging that regularly anymore till my laptop's repaired. And its time for me to get a new pair of spectacles too. Nothing extravagant, something simple. Definitely a pair which costs lesser than $300 though ;).

The beginning of something new