CUT ME DOwn to size......

2007-08-26T01:22:00.000+08:00

Today saw one of the lowest points of my life in a pretty long while but i saw what true friendship really meant too.

I would like to thank a very close buddy of mine who took time off to have supper with me at kap, who saw me true my toughest times when i needed someone to listen, someone to whine to.

Thank you buddy :D

2007-08-19T22:22:00.000+08:00

My Last Week Of The Summer Break

The last week of my summer break and boy was it one of the best weeks that i had the whole summer.

Monday:

My white nike shoe is starting to fall apart and i figured that it was best to just use it for fencing from now on, meaning... ... NEW SHOES!!!

I went down to the "Famous Brands" shoe shop near school on a quest to find size 13 shoes. In the end, i left the store with a pair of brown, size 13 Puma Liga sneakers on sale at 60 bucks. Simple, nice and comfy.

I didn't expect to find my shoes so easily as told by previous experiences so i had loads of time on my hands that evening. So, i ended up roam around the area, walking to suntec (where i discovered a new doughnut factory branch) and back, before deciding to head down to union.

I don't usually go down to union on mondays as there are usually few people and so the decision to go down was spontaneous. Once i got there, i bumped into douglas and i realised that that decision was a damn lucky one because MAGNA GOPAL was dropping by union that night.

Fyi, Magna Gopal is one of the mega names in the world salsa scene.

Anyways, she had just attended the malaysina salsa festival 2007 and was stopping by singapore for the day. Most of us didn't know about it because she wanted to keep it low key and word of her arrival only got out that afternoon.

She arrived at 11plus and boy was she stellar!!!! I really like her style. Sharp, subtle but full of energy and style!!!! Her dances blew me away!!!

With big names right here at home n union, usually the best local dancers get to dance with dem first. People like tze yi, hai han and others. As for dancers like me, we usaully just stand by the side and watch.

Thus, i was REALLY LUCKY to get to dance with magna that night. It was the last salsa song of the night and i asked her for a dance!

It was very fun!!! Me being the noob that i am, didn't really have any spectacular moves or styling and so i just tried to have fun during the dance. Magna played along and it became really enjoyable. It wasn't flashy and stunning but i really had fun :D

Oki so now, i have danced with Susana Montero and Magna Gopal... ... who'll be next?lol

MAGNA GOPAL!!!!

Happy salsa dancers.

Wednesday:

I finally went clubbing after so many missed opportunities during the summer break. Seeing that it was going to be the last wednesday before school starts, when i'd have to bunker down and study, i decided to head down to phuture/zouk wif a couple of my ss friends.

It was real fun, i drank alot and it think it was one of the time when i got really high cos i dank quite a lot. I drank some at home, drank at ice cold where we met and drank at phuture. There, i had loads of long island tea, which was damn strong, a flaming lambo, and someother stuff...lol

Anyways, i'll try to describe the sensation of being damn high. My limbs kinda felt detached from myself and my consciousness was restricted to my head area and it felt like i was piloting myself from my head, sorta like a pilot piloting a gigantic robot from a cockpit in the head...lol

Needless to say, with alocohol, everything becomes fun, really fun and i enjoyed myself very much. Didn't really enjoy the hangover the next day though...lol

Cedric, Dawn and me

Smoky and surreal

Happy bunch of people

Thursay:

Went to school to reformat my laptop which was infected by some pesky virus through msn. I also met up with grace, the apparel vendor we are engaging for avfc 07 to look at the quality of the shirts.

That evening, i met up with corina, hai han and heather to get philbert a birthday gift and have dinner. As some of you might know, im not someone who warms up to new people easily and so i was quiet during the trip but at dinner, it got better as we started discussing about salsa.

We proceeded to union thereafter and celebrated philbert's birthday salsa style wif loads of dancing....

Saturday:

I met elaine to go and crash convocation 07 to support the fencers who were performing that day. It was a pretty impactful 20 seconds of fame for the fencers and i felt that the overall performance this year was good. The food sucked though...lol

After convo, xh n zr joined us and we headed down to ryan's house for his 21st birthday bbq celebration. Loads of nice food and drinks. I particularly liked the bbq stuffed sotong. SHIOK!!!

Thereafter, the fencers went down to St James for our back to school bash. Basically, it was our last chance to have fun as a team before school starts. We went to the boiler room first but switched to the power house as LuCY signed up for a membership and got us a free bottle of johnny walker's. THANKS CY!!!!

With that bottle, we drank and danced but soon switched back to the boiler as they were playing house at the power house but R n B at the boiler. It was fun to see all my team mates dancing and chilling. Yesh, even JIAN WEI was dancing....lol

Hopefully, the new freshies will be as fun as us and my aim for cca day is that by our next fencing clubbing outing, they'll be an equal number of guys and gals!!!! wahahahahahah.

Tipsy stupor

Fencers gone wild.

It has been a nice and slack 4 month summer break, with the highlight being the hk trip. I hope that the up coming school term will be smooth sailing, filled with fun and laughter and be as meaningful and memorable as ever.

2007-08-12T03:07:00.000+08:00

I kinda feel misunderstood all the time.

In all sorts of settings... social ones, meetings, everywhere... ...

Most of the time, i realise that my thoughts are kinda different from alot of people. I really don't know what to attribute it to. The way i think and my way of rationalizing things seems logical to me but most find it uncomprehensible.

Maybe it's my life experiences. Then again it could be the way the neurons in my brain are wired up. My opinons and answers that are logical, maybe different form the norm but still logical, always tend to be shut off by others.

It comes to a point where people just blatantly ask me to shut up without even trying to understand what im trying to say. It's really kinda sad. Has everyone become so narrow?

It makes me feel so much more alone, even when im around friends and people.

As if shutting me up is insufficient, i seem to be constantly dragged into jokes, poked at out of the blue and stuff. I know that most of the time it's without malice, all in the name of fun but it really gets out of hand at times, to the point that sometimes i just wish everyone would just shut the fuck up and leave me alone.

I do not know if im being overly sensitive and stuff but it really doesn't feel nice. I mean if im quiet, just leave me alone lah. As much as i smile and am funny and stuff, i still deserve a tad bit of space and dignity i guess.

.... ..... ..... ...... ....... .........

I really wish that there was someone who really understands me at times. Someone whom i can really relax with and let the true me out. Someone who wont judge me all the time. Someone who doesn't say that im a cock just because i do certain stuff. Someone whom i can call at the end of the day, whom i can always count on to chill out with on a saturday night. Someone nice... ...

Someone different like me... ...

2007-08-04T01:08:00.000+08:00

Aloha!!!! Here's a long overdue post.

Lotsa stuff happened, is happening and will happened during this few months.

Oki. I'll just tok about the happier stuff that happened yah.

6th HKUST INTERNATIONAL INVITATION TOURNAMENT 07

We went, we fought we conquered!!!! Yep, SMU won a total of 5 medals, men's individuals gold & bronze, men's team gold & silver, women's team gold!!!

SMU reigns in HK.

As for me, i really learned a lot. At HK, i was exposed to different styles of fencing. I was a real eye opener for me. Apparently, the standard was higher this year as compared to last year.

I was placed 7th for men's individuals of which im very proud of. It was a real tough fight.

I had my most memorable bout thus far. It was between me and this damn tall and lanky china fencer from tsing hua university. I was trailing pretty badly, around 8 -3, when he sort of rammed my balls. I got pretty pissed off and so after a short rest, i fought back real hard and managed to catch up before kicking his ass 15-13!!!!!

The part about this bout that i relished the most is that i proved a lot of people wrong. Before and during the bout, MANY people, myself included, thought that i would lose for sure but against all odds i proved them and myself wrong!!!! hahahahahaha

I live for moments like this...wahahahahaha

Anyways, i finally lost to the current 2nd place guy (former champion) and was placed 7th finally. That guy was really good and i have no regrets losing to him. I learned a lot from that match too...lol

As for men's team, i was in the silver team after losing to SMU team A in the finals. However, the highlight of the day was our semifinal match with the HKUST team which was placed 2nd last year and placed 3rd this year.

It was a nail bitting match with us playing catch up until the last bout where we equalised in the last minute and secured a razor thin victory on the last 4 seconds during the priority minute!!!!! Our hearts stopped at least 4 times with the 4 doubles scored during priority!!!! Still, we WON!!!!!! wahahahahaha

Nail bitting finish.

As for the final match with team A, we played catch up till we narrowed the gap to 2 points for the final bout but team A's anchor was too strong and we lost. Still, i really appreciated the efforts of the team and the good fights that team A gave us.

Men's epee silver team.

Presenting TEAM SMU!!!

My favourite picture of the tournament.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who made all these possible. The whole team for being the best that we can be and also for being there for me. The gals, especially xh n suan for putting up with my nonsense all the time and cheering me on during my memorable bout. Team B for being so supportitive for one another and putting up such good fights. Team A for being Team A. Coach for training us up from noobs at novices to what we are now. Coach's wife for helping us take videos during the tournament. Basically, i wanna thank EVERYONE!!!! THANK YOU ALL!!!!!

Enuff siad.

R&R was good too. Since it was my 4th time in hk, i suggested going to Macau. We took a ferry from HK there. It took about an hour.

I must say that Macau's really a nice place, with many nice colonial buildings, chapels and stuff. Really rustic, totally worth a day trip or two.

Postcard material

The Macau gang.

Macau had loads to offer but what took the cake was it's PORTUGUESE EGG TARTS!!!!

Little piece of heaven.

The crust was all sooooo crispy and chewy and the egg filling was of just the right sweetness and all so creamy, literally melting in your mouth!!!!! The tarts were pieces of pure bliss!!!

We visited the museum and it was there that i took my favourite picture of the trip!!!!

Young and his BIG cannon.

Till next year!!!!

SMU SOCIAL SCIENCE ORIENTATION CAMP 2007 (24 - 25/07/07)

It was quite a fun experience for me. I was part of the logistics team and we stayed over from the 23th onwards. We did all our logs preparation and stuff. I must say that the logs team are a fun bunch, really interesting combination of people to work with.

Anyway, i was the safety officer of the camp and for most of the camp, i was carrying my first aid kit and roaming around the activity areas, making sure that things were safe and dispensing plasters, panadols and fixing ankles...lol

I must say that i really enjoyed my job. It sorta feels really nice inside when i make others feel better. The knowledge of knowing that u made a difference is really priceless :)

The activity which i dreaded the most in terms of safety, the water bomb fight, turned out pretty well in the end with no injuries! I was relieved...lol

There was also alcohol abound during the camp, with me bringing an absolut apeach, wei quan bring a keg of heineken and a sheridan's and other people bringing other stuff.

I guess after this camp, most of the freshies will know me as the safety officer...hahahhaha

Overall, i must say that the camp was tons of laughter and fun mixed with a splash of alcohol plus minimal sleep....lol

AVFC 2007

Coming up next will be the AVFC 07... ... something which i personally dread and am still a bit sore about.

We are currently running into problems, problems which i anticipated and sounded off to no avail.

Haiz... ... :(

Oki i shall stop bitching and switch to a more positive mindset... ...

On a totally random note, dinner today sucked so bad that i puked!!!!!!!

Oh yah i'll be going for the Pesta Sukan tournament in a few hours time. Wish me luck!!!!

End.

2007-07-10T20:37:00.000+08:00

Dear friends,

Thanks for all the kind words and comments that you have showered me with. I really appreciate it. I'm hanging a smile on my face:)

A few more days to Hong Kong. I'm looking forwaard to tons of exciting fencing (hopefully we can bring back some medals too :p) and sizzling hot salsa action!!!!

I will definitely update u guys about my trip. Till then, cya :D

Warmest regards,

The one and only Young

2007-06-21T02:19:00.000+08:00

You noe the stuff that jokes are made up of.... I think im one of em.

I feel like a useless fat fuck.

I twisted my right ankle about a month ago on the stairs of tanjong pagar MRT drinking fucking green tea and guess wad... ... I TWISTED BOTH MY ANKLES AGAIN TODAY!!!!!

Damn lucky lah me... if only it was also the case with gals.

Fucking pissed with myself.

Busting 1 ankle is ok. Clumsy maybe. 2 in a night so fucking near to Hong Kong... ... PRICELESS... ...

The first one was legitimate. Busted it fencing... The second one was pure stupidity. Fucking missed a step on the stairs YET AGAIN... ...

Seriously.... im just A JOKE MAN!!!!!

Fucking useless fat slob who can't take care of himself.

Sometimes i really wished i was normal. Normal height, build, normal looks and charm. Normal love life and stuff.

Not some oversized barrel of lard with layers of blubber, bad hair, funny ears, lousy face, icessant irritation, uncultured boar with a non existent love life.

My grades are less than fantastic, my fencing's a joke, my salsa's just mediocre and even the swamp thing wouldn't want to date me.

FUCK

I even have to rant and whine like a fucking 9 year old girl on my blog.

Seriously man... ...

2007-06-14T19:12:00.000+08:00

Obviously by Mcfly... ...

Coz obviously she’s out of my league,

I’m wasting my time coz she’ll never be mine

And I know I never will be good enough for her

No no

Never will be good enough for her

My theme song since like forever... ...

Such a freakin cheery song for a really lousy situation.

I Like... lol

2007-06-06T01:56:00.000+08:00

You know those couples that always stand in the MRT, the shopping malls, basically everywhere... ... the ones the the guy basically resembles that hunched back traitorous thingy in 300 and the gal looks like some greek goddess out of a video game.

Most people will just sum up the guy with having either or both of two things.

One, a really deeeeeeeeeeeeep pocket, think grand canyon deep... ...

two, a gigantinormus bulge in his pants, himalayan ranges material... ...

Sometimes i wonder, could it be that the guy's just a real nice guy, plain and simple?

Go figure.

Kong was a real pleaser. He smsed namoi every night and even bought her flowers everytime they met.

2007-05-31T23:48:00.000+08:00

Ok, i've been tagged yet again, this time by sondha. Im supposed to tell u yet again, of 6 quirky facts about myself. here goes...

I was in a chior once. It was a long time ago in my first primary school, when i still sounded like the chip munks on helium.
I have tried bungy jumping before. It happened in new zealand and feels like commiting suicide without dying.
I have never gotten drunk before. High yes, pissed drunk no.
If you havent already know, im not the only child. I have a younger brother and a younger sister.
Even though i drink, i don't fancy beer. I mean it gives guys bellies.
I've actually gotten my swimming life saving levels 1,2 and 3 certification but they have long expired since 1996!

Ok, im done with the tagging.... ....

I have been told that im a lousy conversationalist and i believe so too. They say that all i talk about revolves around only 2 things... ...

No, not drugs and violence.... but salsa and fencing.

Apparently, this creeps up into every conversation that i have so much so that some of my friends are so sick of it that the air of exoticness and coolness once associated to these activities are now gone in my prescene.

What can i say.... thats sad....lol

It has been said that it is because of my incessant conversations of salsa and fencing are also the reasons why im still a single entity, always struggling to find company to watch movies (thats why sometimes i give up going to movies altogether).

People have told me that compared to the two, talking about the weather will make so much more intriguing and captivating conversational material. Im so sure i'd be that much more charming to chicks if i talked about how scorching hot our sun is, that how much it makes me perspire... or how round and bright the moon is, before i break out into my rendition of yue liang dai biao wo de xin.

What can i say... ... why do i behave the way that i do so, that leaves some in dismay...

Some say that the world is your oyster. I say it's my freaking buffet. When i say say buffet, think biiiiiiiiiig. Im not talking those continental or international buffets but those banquet style ma han quan xi!!!! I mean there are so many things to do in life, so many opportunities!

At buffets, most people stand at the start of the buffet table and pile their plates as they go along, forming moutain ranges on their plates, before heading back to their tables and gorging themselves to death. Some take a look around and home in on the most expensive stuff, regardless of taste whatsoever and stuff themselves.

Me, i do it differently. In this buffet of life, i choose to take small samples of as many thing as possible, savoring their every taste and texture. When i find the ones that really appeal and satisfy me, i'll then proceed back to take my fill of the stuff that truly matters.

I live to try new things. To date i've tried many things like bungy jumping, learning the piano, snorkelling, painting... ... and so much more. However, once i find something really close to my heart, i usually go all out and put my soul into it. Thats why at times, it takes a while for me to decide on stuff. To me, it's usually all or nothing. No such thing as half f**k.

Thats why, im always so passionate about the things i do. I'll put my heart and soul into a project or activity if and only if i am convinced about it. Thats also why at times, i can get a bit anal about stuff espcially if it truely matters to me.

I can safely say that when i take something seriously, it's for the long haul. I'm here to stay.

I know i have always been ranting that i want a summer fling and stuff. It's all bull. As much as i want to dream about it, i know that deep down inside, even if there was one infront of me now, i'll not go for her because i wouldn't be able to forgive myself. it's just not me i guess.

As much i would love to have a nice companion to go to the movies with, i see no point in changing it all the time. Thats why, contrary to the popular belief of getting in and out multiple relationships till you find the correct one, im still waiting for that special someone to come along.

It is true that it'll be uber hard to find someone nice who truly understands me, espcially the things that really matter to me like salsa and fencing. Dixi says that the chances of finding one that does one of the activity alone is like 1/100. Then again, once i find that special someone, wouldn't she be so special, one in a gazzillion, one that i'll truly treasure and never let go?

Im a neuron, all or nothing...

Anyways, back to the topic on salsa and fencing in conversations. I believe that besides the two, i do have other things to say. Even though i have barely lived for 2 decades and do not have a white and wispy beard, i believe that i do have ample interesting stories to share. Things like how a nice thank you made my day, the joy of knowing that i made a difference in people's lives and other stuff.

However, i feel that to truly relate to them, it really takes the right time, place, occasion and effort (which sad to say doesn't come along very often). You'll just have to know me better i guess.

Till then, enjoy the young that is all clownish and fun, making you laugh always.

Till then, I'm sticking to my guns. Salsa and fencing it shall still be.

2007-05-08T00:40:00.000+08:00

GRAH!!!!!!

Fencing training is becoming sooooo frustrating for me.

I'm being whacked up down left right center. A'int moving fast enuff. My movements have become slow and clumbersome, sort of like playing back in half speed lidat...

LIDAT HOW TO GO HK?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Feel like digging a hole and burying myself in it for awhile....... if only it helped.... :(

I think the problem is that i can't seem to focus. I havent been able to turn on the sort of mentality that i had during the novices when i actually got 3rd... It all seems so alien and faraway.

Just hope that i'll be able to find my footing within these 2 months. IT'll be nice if i could win something back... but the most important thing is that i just wanna be able to do my best with no regrets... ...

Time to rev up the ol' tank from the novices... ...

2007-04-29T15:13:00.000+08:00

Yay... Summer break summer break summer break... ...

First things first, i realised that i have been tagged by Wanying and im supposed to list down 6 quirky things about myself....hmm.... way too many. Where should i start?lol

1) I can break out dancing anywhere as long as there is GOOD music available. When i say anywhere i mean ANYWHERE!!! shopping centers, along the road... where ever... i just have happy feet i guess...hahaha

2) Chinese who do not know how to use chopsticks properly irritate me. I mean we invented chopsticks didn't we... ...

3) Under that gargantuan hide of mine lies a closet emo. I dig looooooooooong night time rides with my trusty zen neeon full of emo songs.

4) My right arm s longer than my left arm and it's pretty obvious when i wear long sleeve shirts. My take is that it was due to the fact that i broke my right arm before.

5) Despite my orgrish/ trollish/ orcish behaviour, i actually did chinese ink painting for a significant period of time previously. :)

6) At times, i keep repeating myself. Ask my friends. They know what i mean...hahahah

I've settled the tagging and i tag Sarah Wong shun kee and nisa n melissa chua if they actaully read this....hahahahah

~

Ok back to the post, since summer break has started about 2 weeks ago, lotsa stuff had been happening. Other than salsa, fencing, more salsa and more fencing, other stuff had actually took place.

Phuture with the ss peeps was fun to say the least, seeing people like justin and jason g dance was priceless....hahahahah. Sarah n melissa were chugging booze and winding n grinding the whole night long. Cach was apparently there too as shown in the photos but for some strange reason, i cant seem to remember her prescene at all hmm... ...

The KL trip with my fencing mates was great too. Lotsa good food and great booze...hahahaha. Xuehui went wild, suan was finally high and tried to be a guy and loads of other funny shit happened. The best is that most of it was CAUGHT ON VIDEO!!!!!wahahahahahahah.

Got into the exco for the fencing club too. My title hapens to be longest of all.... " Events and Marketing Director"...hahahahahahhaa. i'm expecting a lot of hard work but even more learning opportunities and fun.

... ...

With sooo much time on my hands, i like to think n reflect. Looking back, i realised that i haven't really changed much since long long ago. Certain quirks still remain, my innermost personality hasn't changed much and nicknames though diversified still point very much to the same thing.

I realised that im still the same awkward small boy that sood out like a sore thumb in sec sch and jc. The khaki shorts and blue long pants have long since gone but the person still remains.

The bluntness, tactlessness, clumsiness and occasional whininess still lingers.

Many life experiences since then have served to colour and maybe slighty dampen the image but as a whole the person still remains... ...

My rejection from NJC showed me not to take things for granted but my time in ACJC taught me that there are always 2 sides to every situation and all that matters is our mindset and perceptions. AC gave me a great bunch of friends. Friends that until now still hang out and eat cockles and drink beer at hawker centers in slippers and berms like uncles, bitching about life. You guys rock.

Army opened my eyes, made me more cynical and showed me what a wheelin and dealing world it is out there. However, army also showed me true friendship and showed me what i was capable of. Imagaine me as a medic, making people feel better...

My first year in smu did loads for me too. LTB made me look at the coporate and charity world differently. Gave me a few white hairs and sleepless nights too. More importantly, i learnt more about myself and got to know a group of wonderfully angelic people. life wouldn't be the same without them :)

SS widened my pespective on life as a whole and gave me another group of great friends. All of them never fail to make me smile and feel at home. I lurve dem to bits hahahahahahaha.

School aside, the heartaches that i had along the way served to numbify me. All the cognitive dissonance is slowly causing a generalised aversion to such stuff... ...

~

Yes. My life has been colouful but that small boy remains.

All of us are just like painings. When we are younger, our basic foundations are set, just like the the base outline of ink that make out the main features of the painintg.

Aswe get older, life experinces colour us but our innermost self from before still remains. In paintings, it's the same too. The subsequent layers of colour build upon the base layer of ink features.

If something big happened when we are young, our inner self gets kinda screwed. What happens next is that we grow and let life experiences colour and hopefully dampen, correct or even beautify the initial screw up. In paintings, with ink, there is no erasing mistakes or ctrl z. What's important too is the subsequent layers of pigments and colours.

If along the way, for both the person and the painting, shit happens, the colouring that we get screws up too. The end product becomes somthing that is highly scarred but abstract and unique at the same time. Taste for it has to be aquired and very specific.

Life is but a painting, a building up of colours upon a basic foundation.

Go figure.

On a totally irrelevant note, here's a picture that i took form kl. enjoy.

Zouk decided to diversify its business

2007-04-09T03:05:00.000+08:00

2007-03-04T03:29:00.000+08:00

Blogging hasbecome such a rarity for me nowadays cos imbeing swarmed with work in sch... tons of assignments, essays n project deadlines coming up. The main reason however, is because im lazy...wahahahahahha

Anyway, some of us ss guys n gals went down to IMPRESARIO 07, an open talent quest thingy organized by NTU. It was held at the Rock Auditorium Suntec city and apparently it was into its 15th year. Ah-Licia, Ahmad and Felicia, were into the finals and us ss peeps were there to support them. Our tickets costed 15bucks a piece.

I must say that Ah-Licia really did their thang and i was impressed as ever even though it was not the first time i had seen them perform. Hats off to them.... :D They won 2nd in their category btw but most of us feelthat they should have won... ...

However, i must say that the whole event was a fucking rip off, not worth my 15 bucks. No offence but the organisers, namely NTU, totally screwed up the whole thing and i was rather pissed off.

Firstly, it was supposed to be free seating but we were DIRECTED to our seats and werent allowed to save seats for our friends... like WTF do they noe wad the meaning of FREE SEATING? go check the freaking dictionary if you don't. Try www.dictionary.com.

In addition, the stage decorations was crap. Totally slapstick. The whole setup was so low classed and it seemed that no effort what so ever was put into it. It was so lousily done that it resembled those cheesy 50s TV production stages. Fucked up.

If the stage was bad, the mcees were worst. There were 2 mcs, 1 for english, the other for mandrin. Both of them sucked so bad. The way they carried themselves was so unprofessional,looking more like ah beng WANNABES more than anything else. Their sentences were full of syntax and pronunciation errors to say the least and it made me cringe the whole time i was there. Get a life man... ...

What totally ruined the whole thing was the quality of the contestants. Other than the 1 or 2 groups that did ok, the rest of the majority sucked real bad. PERIOD. Considering the fact that there were a few rounds of auditions and competitions, the finalist were worst than crap. If this is the best that NTU can offer, you guys should seriously just find a cliff and jump off... ...

Oh yah the event also started really late... ...

Seriously, this event was a huge let down. The fact that it was an open eent and the organisers charged 15 bucks per ticket made it even worst. For such a premium price, the public expects a certain standard and sad to say, it has failed miserably in delivering it.

Even though SMU has a lot of short comings, iam proud to say that we are still THE university to be in. Talk about event management and stuff, pick any off our internal school events we have held thus far and it would still have been better than this impresario 07. Talk about talent, just take a walk around SMU... ...

Anyway, the whole event got so bad that felix, wei quan and i left after the dance category and met up wif sarah and justin at the esplanade. It was there that we had our impromptu " Loh Hei" session...lol Essentially, we were searching for food at carrefour when we saw that there was ready made yu sheng on sale and so realising that CNY was not over yet, we decided to buy a box of it and some extra salmon before we headed down to meet sarah and justin.

In the end, we had our lou hei outside the esplanade at the harry's steak house outdoor dining area with 2jugs of tiger beer. A bunch of people having yu sheng and beer at the esplanade on a saturday night... ...How cool is that....lol

Salmon yu sheng... :D

Anyway, we didn noe all the traditional crap that people usually say when they lou hei so we invented our own phrases like gpa 4.3, 1.75m babe for young, A+ for bgs and other stuff....lol. It turned out to be pretty darn effective cos not long after we finished toasting and eating, there was this tall leggy babe that walked past our table...wahahahahahahah

We talked lotsa cock and made a hell lotta noise. When wefinished our beer and talked even more cock, we decided to head over to glutton's bay for supper. Our total score, 1 big plate of hokkien mee, 1 roti john and 1 plate of carrot cake.

Over supper, we talked even more shit. We literally talked about everything under the sun. Literally...lol the things we talked about....wahahahahahahhaha damn fun lah.....wahahahahahah. Oh well, i guess we are in ss for a reason...lol.

Well, all i can say is that you guys are the saving graces of my school life :p

BTW, i think i put on some weight during cny... ... this means that it's time to start salsaing and fencing more.....wahahahahahhaha

4 guys, a girl and a plate of salmon yu sheng with jugs of beer, at the esplanade, on a saturday night... ... what more can i ask for? lol

2007-02-14T00:23:00.000+08:00

I feel like a ... ...

Hermit Crab

A shy hermit crab that is. I find comfort in my shell, all nice small and cosy, away from a the dangers abound. Sometimes i really wanna come out of it but i guess im just shy. It takes a bit of coaxing and prodding b4 i take baby steps out of the shell.

Well another way could be drowning me in alcohol.... but den it wont be me any more...

There are really rare moments where i venture out alone... ... but i also keep my shell close by... ...

Push me too much, too much noise or loud flashes and i'll scamper back in real quick.

I really wanna emerge from my shell, i really do. Cept im scared and i don't know how. Maybe only time will tell.

I guess im just shy, awkward and shy.

... ... ... ... Im an awkward university student... ... .... ...

2007-02-08T01:53:00.000+08:00

Today, or rather yesterday was a great day for me... ...

First up, i was pleasantly distracted throughout my MRT right to school by this babe. She was nice looking but wad really turned me on was the aura she commanded man!!! She felt so confident and uninhibited... i was like woah... hahahahhahaha!!! Who says that taking public transport sucked...lol

Next up, i had a suprise marketing quizz which was OPEN BOOK!!!! hahahaha... i like.... lol

After marketing was psych which was geat because i was nicely surprised by my 1st mid term results... ... 53/60 which worked out to be 88%!!!! i knew i wouldn't fail but this definately exceeded my expectations... ....lol

Throughout most of the day, i was feelin rather happy and floaty.... piao piao ran....hahahah. I guess this was the result of oni 6 hrs of sleep and the pleasant mrt trip i had in the morning. You could say that i was quite high the whole day and it made the day even better...hahahah

After a boring internship talk in the evening, i went to chill at frujh wif wei quan before i took a spontaneous trip down to union.

Union was relatively empty but there were still people i could dance with. Once again, i was pleasantly distracted by one of de gals.... ...:p

It suddenly dawned upon me after some discussion wif corina that i seriously go GAGA over a certain look...hahahahah. Im totally smitten not by gals that look hot, but by gals wif soft and gentle features. They seriously look damn feminine. I'll be even more turned on if apart from their goody n nice side, they also can be raunchy and uninhibitied. Take not... uninhibited... NOT PROMISCUIOUS.... ....

Apparently, it's de korean look...hahahah... i don noe man....lol :D

2007-01-30T01:41:00.000+08:00

I was reading through my emails just now to filter away all my unwanted mails as my mail box was over the limit and guess wad...

.... .... ....

I saw my LTB emails all over again ~SHUDDERS~

All the bad memories coming bad to me once again... all the stress, the tension, disapointment, shock, despair, betrayal and hurt came flooding back. It was really a tough time for my team and it was personally very trying for me being the team leader and all... sobz....

BTW i got a B- for LTB in de end...lol

Anyways, im so glad that term 1 is over and i made really good friends... nisa, melissa, karen, mao, rishi, christina... ... come to think of it, they were WORTH all the ordeal and so much more. I still lurve u guys to bits man... even though i don get to see many of u nowadays... :(

I will never forget the fateful meeting we had at GO, the bitching and preparation of our defence at the tables outside Mr Tea, my stats mid terms followed bythe damage control meeting wif prof and that day we we told to terminate our csp...

All of us waited n waited n waited in that GSR... ...

Some of us cried, others hid under the table while the rest (me included...lol) tired to play it cool. I remembered hysterical laughter too. We were shocked. All of us we at a lost....soaking in the reality of the situation and realising that so much had happened during our first term in school ... ...

It was wierd in the sense that there was so much hurt and pain in the air but at the same time there was hope, comfort and peace (from the fact that the burden of the CSP was finally lifted of our shoulders) mixed in the atmosphere.

Then the healing started. Food, music from nisa's guitar and the singing.... ... all the highly charged emotions... ... I have never seen a bunch of people so close together, holding onto one another, pulling each other up. Each of us provided comfort to one another in ways that were so personal. I for one felt that we were finally one. We were a TEAM. Where tears of sadness once flowed, it became tears of relief and comfort. It was so heart warming.

We have learnt alot and will continue to learn about ourselves and the people around us in the following months, years and decades to come. Hopefully, we will always hold the lessons learnt from our LTB saga close to our hearts.

We have since moved on. Many of us doing well i suppose. However, to those who are curently facing problems and those who will be facing problems ( me included...lol ), always think of that fateful time in that particular GSR with this bunch of extraordinary people and find the strength and comfort that you once found there.

With that, from the bottom of my heart, I wish all you guys and gals an excellent term ahead (even though it's already like week 5...lol ) and sincerely thank and salute you TEAM HeArtAid!!! :D

Here's Young, former Team HeArtAid Team leader cum Public Relations Officer cum Team Clown cum rabid hamster cum whatever have u not signing off... :D

Team HeArtAid (minus the chiongstress christina as usual...hahahahaha)

2007-01-28T16:10:00.000+08:00

My first post in 2007!!!

Blogging has become a monthly affair for me. No more the usual once or twice a week. Guess im getting rather lazy...hohoho.

Anyways, almost a month into the new school term and i still feel aimless... Lotsa stuff has been happening in such a short period of time. Fist of all, i had that irritaing BOSS bidding problem. The whole thing started from last year when i missed my bid for RMSS by like 50+ cents!!!!! Oh well... ... Wad to do... suck thumb n take marketing lor....

Fast forward a bit, there was de NOVICES 07 at clementi sports hall... 2 memorable weekends burnt fencing...lol... Learnt a lot about myself. One point at a time. In de end, I managed to get 3rd for the individuals and 2nd for team. Could have done better but at least i have no regrets...hahaha. Anyways, this means that i will no longer be able to take part in novicces 08... damn.... hahahah.

I casted "blur" my lvl 6 skill...wahahah

Going bananas over a banana

We learnt from this tournament of a few secret hidden characters in our team. First up, we have the guai lan kia, aka the dancer. He specialises in psychological warfare, playing games with your mind until u cannot take it and give up. His special skills include, the jelly dance, the wriggly blade and the "YAY" war cry... ...

Master of mind control

Secondly, we have the chicken wing detective... Having spent time up meditating in bukit timah hill, she has developed a posture that involves tuckeing in her hands in such a way that resembles a chicken wing. Funny it may seem, it has stumped many opponents in a way few can understand. Coupled with an acceleration of burst speed that puts ferrari to shame, she is a force to be reckoned with... ...

Can you spot the chicken wing detective?

Next up, we have the SCREAMER!!!. Hailed form a distant land where it is truly asia, she has developed a special technique from all her wierd and bizzare experiences. After a freak accident whereby she was locked inside a KTV room with Tong Hua playing for 1, 256,953 times in a row, she developed a supernatural power that allowed her to control sound waves. Now, after many trials, she has perfected an attack that involves bombarding her opponent with a sonic sound wave rendering them disabled before she moves in for the kill. KTV anyone?lol

Booking her next KTV session

People have tried to describe him in many ways... ... train, brick wall, slegde hammer... ... When he attacks, none can stand in his way. Once he is reved up, he sends a surging mass so great that all that remains is but a trail of destruction. Friendly on the outside and lovable by all, many have called him the BFG. However when it comes down to the crunch, many tremble at his name and few survive his wrath to tell the tale for he is THE TANK.

All cute and cuddly

Many secret characters have yet to be unlocked so stay tunned to SMU fencing:) http://smufencing.blogspot.com/

On a different note, i felt that through this tournament, SMU fencing, the whole lot of us really started to bond as a true team. Whenever one of us was on the piste, the rest of us would be behind, cheering our lungs out. I sorta gave away a week's worth of participation points in school becos of that...wahahahahahah. When ever SMU scored a point, the rest of us cheered like mad. I was really touched by the whole team. I could really feel it when it was my turn to be on the piste. I could feel the euphoria of the team when i scored a point. I couldn't have done it without u guys. Thank you :D:D:D:D SMU fencing's final medal tally, Men's individual silver and bronze, men's team silver and women's team GOLD!!!! Well done all!!!

Grace, Honour, Perfection

2006-12-10T20:40:00.000+08:00

Here are some random pictures on a random 9th of december saturday that started with a random fencing outing... erm i mean tournament... at some random RJC... ...

My battle scarred mask

Wouldn't you be afraid too?

Cam whoring fencers

Some of the guys

Lunch

I do not know the aim of this picture

The tall dude in action

Zhen Rong literally pulling my leg

Using my level 6 skill, petrify, costing 145 mana that stuns the targeted creature for 180 seconds

... ... that continued at some random party called ZOUK OUT 2006 at some random place called siloso beach with some random people and lotsa random bikini babes that ended on another equally random 10th of december sunday... ...lol

Blinding lights at the trance stage

R&B area... I think... can't really remember... too much booze...lol

Sun's slowly creeping up... but i don't think it really matters to them

My favourite picture... ...

2006-12-06T11:09:00.000+08:00

~Happy birthday to me... happy birthday to me... happy birthday to me... ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME... ... ...~

2006-11-17T01:35:00.000+08:00

My friends said that im a butter toast with a sprinkle of sugar on top.

Simple, no frills but highly satisfying... ... :D

Crispy on the outside, soft, yummy and warm on the inside...

2006-11-06T00:59:00.000+08:00

It has been a long while since i updated my blog... Lotsa stuff has been happening in my life... SMU has been busy to say the least. All i can say that my freshman term 1 in smu will be one of the most unforgettable time of my varsity life!!!!

Anyways, here's a brief update and some nice pics...lol

Social science Halloweean party, Midnight Pulse... Hung out with the cool dudes and dudettes from my OG and more...wahahahahahaha

Darth Vader got his pretty light saber harrassed...lol

Halloween at Union was cool too... The most funny thing that happened was that i met the REAL Darth Vader there!!!wahahahahah.

Will the REAL Darth Vader please stand up?

He took some time off his busy sechdule conquering galaxies and slaying jedis to join us at union square and was so enraged by me and almost took my head off for impersonating him with a $7.95 mask and $9.90 plastic light saber from Toys R Us!!!!!!

Darth Vader VS his $17.oo made in china rip off, Darth Salsa

Anyways, I also meet other crazy characters. Jack Sparrow was there, Grim Reaper took time off from hell, the tooth fairy flew by and a sultry she devil came along to bring up the heat!!!

Captain Jack Sparrow was marooned once again... ...

Meet Joe Black

Vader figured that the tooth fairy must have been loaded, giving out all that cash for teeth...

I told you that Vader was a charmer...wahahahahah

All that was missing was a big hot tub for us to soak in... ahhhhhh

Btw, for all you folks out there, i have picked up.... .... FENCING!!!!! Woohoo!!! All the equipment costed me a bomb, a nuclear one at that...wahahahah. Time to take over the WORLD!!!! MUHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

Young terrorising at a location somewhere near you :)

Bungy jumping, chines ink painting, rock climbing, guitar playing, salsa dancing epee fencer

Oki thats all for now... Buaiz.... :D

2006-09-28T18:20:00.000+08:00

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2006-09-25T22:47:00.000+08:00

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(Your alter-ego is Young)

Your super-hero ability:

Communicate with squirrels in order to train them to fight like ninjas on your behalf

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2006-09-25T21:42:00.000+08:00

Woohoo... i just took my first former exam in about 3 freakin years!!! It was the socg midterms...lol

I felt that it was abit exciting and refreshing somehow...hahahahaha. It sorta reinforced the whole idea of being back in school and back on the track of life after 3 years of wearing green, eating out of green packets and staying in green places....lol.

Finally, i now have my life back :D

.... but i fear that soon it will be consumed by something else... ....

2006-09-19T13:29:00.000+08:00

Notice alot of my posts are on tuesdays around this time?

enuff said....

2006-09-12T14:48:00.000+08:00

Im being flame grilled in stats B class now...

sweet, succulent and 100% fat free poisson, uniform, expo, binomial and normal distribution man... ... topped with feshly chopped CDF and PDF and lined with loads of ginger masala tea...

Justin said something sotrue...

Last time before tvs, computers and porn was invented and guys till wore frilly wigs and ladies choked themselves with corssets... ..

LIFE WAS SO BORING PEOPLE EITHER HAD SEX OR DID MATHS... ... -_-!!!

Go figure... ...

2006-09-12T00:26:00.000+08:00

wheee... it has been a long time since i last posted...hahahah...

well uni has definately been daunting... stats b is like killing me...numbers duh... wad numbers.... all the nonsensical probability crap... wad PMF, Var(X), E(X)... ... might as well tok to me in jap or something.... maybe i might just understand u better....wahahaha

As if stats is not enuff, i have tons and tons of socg and posc readings. These are seriously no joke man... i fell asleep thrice trying to finish my posc readings and twice for my socg readings... enuff said..hahah

What takes the cake is..... LTB!!!! ~zheng zheng zheng~.... yesh... wad that was supposed to be a small-scale-get-it-done project is turning out to be some mega event of the year lah... negoitating wif PA, trying to get ben n jerry's to sponsor ice cream... i think soon, we'll be getting singapore idol down to perform also lah...wahahahahhaha

now, all im thinking is how good it'll look good on our resumes if we manage to pull it off lah... it'll be tough be WE CAN DO IT!!! I KNOW WE CAN!!! Im imagining all the cameras, flashes news crew and reporters now...wahahahahahah

on a brighter note, i took up a fencing clinic and FENCING IS DAMN FUN!!!! Poking and skewering pple is damn stress relieving u noe... sometimes violence is just the best medicine to a sucky week man...hahahah.

I have half a mind to join fencing now man... De only thing stopping me is the cost of the equipment and the commitment level cos they will be training for competition in jan.... and also if i join fencing den i don noe if i'll be able to join the salsa group in school. Not that im particularly keen in joining their performance team (cos i strongly believe that the essence of salsa is in it's socialbility, not in performance).... but i really do wanna help them out in some way....lol.

After all, salsa has and always will be a passion to me. No one seriously noes how it has benefitted me except me :p I guess i just need to take a short beak from salsa now... i'll return a new dancing machine man...wahahhahaha

Oh well... now it's back to the drudgery of work.... Stats lesson is up next....

Wow im so thrilled... ...

not

2006-09-06T00:16:00.000+08:00

A dash of salsa never fails to brighten up my day =D

2006-09-03T22:18:00.000+08:00

oki de part 3 of the salsa festival post is out... just scroll down..... .....

2006-09-03T02:02:00.000+08:00

Hi peeps.... it has been such a loooooong time since i posted anything on this blog of mine. I noe that im supposed to post the final installment of the salsa festival post but i really havent found the time:(

rest assured, that post is already in the works and i guess it'll be out soon.

School's been slightly overwhelming for me man...lol. I noe it has only been barely 2 weeks but now im already finding myself facing 4 projects, tons and tons of readings ( I have been reduced to reading on the train and on the bus...) and also neck deep in stats assignment.

Not to mention all the arty farty lingo used by the peeps in my courses.... grrrrr... why can't they just keep things short, simple and straight to the point? Alot of bloody wayang people in school too. Smarty pants and "participative" people who can't seem to just keep their mouths shut. All of them peeps just wanna attract the prof's attention. Do something stupid lah... take of yer shirt and do a monkey dance or something... that'll sure cause the prof to remember you and keep us entertained at the same time....wahahahha

oki... sorry for all the rantings and stuff.... More worrrrrk?..... Off i go den....

2006-08-22T18:44:00.000+08:00

It's like only the 2nd day of school and i can't believe that im actually studying.... Just finished 1 of my many assigned readings for sociology module while waiting for jwo...

i can't believe this man...

seriously...

2006-08-22T00:20:00.000+08:00

It feels so surreal to be studying in school yet again after more than 2 long years.... I feel so out of touch with things .... to be sitting in seminars, listening to profs and mugging after dat....

One things for sure though... after seeing how the students of smu are like... it's gonna be another 4 long years of BLOODY WAYANG!!!!!

2006-08-20T20:17:00.000+08:00

Malaysian Salsa Festival 2006 Part 3

Welcome back to cutmedowntosize.blogspot.com. Now, back to the 3rd and final installation of the malaysian salsa festival 2006 :)

Ahhhhh...

Day 3 was one of the most enjoyable days for me. The first half of the day was about the same as saturday. Wakey wakey, breakfast followed by a rush of work shops. In all, I took Son (which is another kinda dance) by Candice & Lautaro, Shines & Styling on 1 by jaime jesus & Liz, partner work on1 by them too and finally partnerwork on 1 by salsa sam... ...

Jaime and liz are cam whores too...hahahaha

1 with jaime and liz

Candice and Lautaro

As usual, i was racking my poor brain out trying to absorb as much as i could cos heck... i paid 414 bucks for this man...lol. The stuff that was thought was uniquely different. some of the moves were very challenging to lead... let alone follow...wahahahahaha. At least they were new stuff to me i guess...lol

Raymond playing ti cool with his ice cream in the frenzy

After the work shops, it was back to more camwhoring by the beach for jinn and me. Last day liao wad... must take more photos...wahahah. Spotted a couple of beach babes along the way too....hahahaha

Use colgate for sparkling pearly whites like ours...wahahahaha

Beach babe 1

Beach babe 2

After that, we split up and when about bumming our seperate ways. I went to play bridge with shirine and gang.

Yvonne the lawyer rocks at bridge ...

... however it's a different case for young....wahahahah

Bridge was a tad bit boring for us. Soon after, we went to check out the native wildlife and found this poor monkey chained to a volley ball net post. Being the nice human beings that we are, we decided to keep it compnay for a while...wahahahahahaha

Awww... cute lil' creature...

Dinner was soon after so i went back to change up. Dinner was 1 of the highlights of the day. Since it was the last night, the organisers made it extra special. There was a nice gateway, roaring campfire, nice tables with table cloths, free flow of syruped drinks... ...

We "delegates" came to discuss salsa politics?????

Roaring campfire?

Wonderful spread

To me, what totally took the cake was.... .... A FREAKIN GUPPY AT EVERY TABLE!!!!!! As part of an eleborate decoration, at the center of each table was a carved pineapple holding a cup of water with a guppy in it!!! Woah !!! I was so tickled by it man....hahahah. Should have played some lame game there and then and get the loser to gulp down the freakin guppy man...wahahaha.... The epitome of guppy sashimi man....lol

Nemo got lost again

Well after dinner, it was another round of cam whoring with many people that i could find. The JJ gang, ads gals, salsa sam... ...

JJ ROXS!!!

Bikini clad ADS Angels

Future salsa politicians?!?!?!

Salsa Sam de Man

The final night of performance was up next. It was stunning as usual but i felt that the appreciation session at the end was a tad bit long and whiny. No offense but I JUST WANNA DANCE MAN!!!!! wahahaha.

There was a choice for the singapore participants to either take a special sunday night bus back to sg so that they would not miss work the next day. The bus was supposed to reach sg by 7am. Shirely, jinn and a whole load of people were going off so it was a final round of cam whoring wif dem.

Some malaysian babe

Stunning Victoria

Gals from LADC

The fellowship

Gary all so merry

SB7 @ the 2006 Malaysian Salsa Festival

Social dancing that night was the BEST of all 3 nights for me. Why? Cos my skin grew freakingly thick and i actually got to dance with many big names like... ... LIL LIZ, CANDICE AND SUSANA MONTERO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lucky me =P like i said... being a little more thick skinned brings about many advantages..wahahahaha

Another malaysian babe
Shang hai hottie
I danced wif candice...

... and SUSANA MONTERO!!!! SQUEAL!!!!

I learned a lot about salsa that night. Many pros were ramming all their "turn patterns" from hell, squeezing in turn after turn after turn... ... As for me, i couldn't really match up with dem. However after observing for a while, i looked at the faces of the ladies and i realised one thing. They didn really looked like they were enjoying the dance.

It made me think. Salsa is so much more than bombastic turn patterns or spinning like a top. The most important thing is to enjoy your partner's company and live the moment of the dance... ... I noe that even till today, i still get carried away frequently. Rest assured, im making a conscious effort to improve:)

Anyways, since my room mates were gone, i spent a quiet and peacful last night all alone in cherating. Woke up the next mroning and crabbily took an 8 hour bus ride back to sg where a new chapter of my life was about to unfold... ...

My preciiiiiious.... ...

Sorry for such a late post. It has been almost a month since the festival. Blame it on my stats b assignment, sociology readings and other stuff all under the heading of school work. Nevertheless, i thank u guys for your patience. Hope u enjoyed this 3 part mini series...

2006-08-14T12:41:00.000+08:00

Malaysian Salsa Festival 2006 Part 2

Allo folks... Im back from my Freshman Team Building camp (aka orientation camp)... It was a fun 3D2N of sun sand and sea with kick ass company... wahahahaha... will blog about it soon when i get the photos and stuff..... but now, back to the salsa action!!!

Oki.... after the insanity of day 1, we turned in like super late. We actually intended to wake at about 8am but when my alarm went off, i just snoozed it and by the time we finally woke up, it was about an hour later.

We were late for the first workshop of the day, namely afro cuban by Gupson. So after the morning rituals of lai chuang and the fenzy of freshening up and gettin ready, we rushed down to join the workshop halfway.

Young looks like that at 9am in the morning

Afro cuban was interestingly refeshing but what really perked me up was.......... BREAKFAST!!!!! wahahahahaha :D. I must say that of al the meals at cherating, breakfast is always the BEST

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It is this first meal after maybe 6 to 8 hours of fasting during sleep that kickstarts your body's metabolism and when nutrients are most easily absorbed.

I love cherating's breakfast due to a few reasons. A, they provide fruit juice, milk, coffee and tea.... while you only get ice water for the rest of the meals. B, they serve a nice spread of food, stuff like bacon and eggs... i like:) C, the ambience is always all so relaxing and slow..... cos everyone just woke up... so its like chillllll brudder....... D, im always hungry by breakfast......wahahaha

Nice spread

They like breakfast too

However, what really perks up the breakfast..... is the OMELETTE STAND... and the adjacent roti prata/ chennai stand...wahahahahahah. This nice little corner of the restraunt has chefs serving up fresh omelettes. You can just tell them what sort of filling you want and they'll mix it all in and fry up your desired omelette right before your very eyes!!! Talk about custom made omelettes man... wahahahahahahha. If u just want plain egs for a sunny side up or maybe some scrambled eggs, they'll cook it up for you too. A pity that for they didn have cheese as part of their omellette filling though...... i really like some cheese with my eggs...hahahaha.

Cooking up a storm

After breakfast, it was chill out till 1pm when all the salsa workshops would begin. Jinn and shirely went to play beach volley ball with gary and some other guys. Me however was still woozy from a lack of sleep (I need my 10 hrs u noe...wahahahah). I decided to take things slow and soak in the beach.

It was great.... Strolling along the beach was soooooo relaxing. Soaking up vitamin D from the sun, feeling the cool sea breeze caressing you, having crystal clear water gently swirling around your ankles.... .... all while gingerly walking along miles of fine powdery white sand... ... None of the hustle and bustle of the city. All so serene and tranquil. I like...... ...... ahhhhhhhhh :)

My fav pic of the beach

Solitude

After the beach, i took a stroll around the resort complex just to get the blood pumping. Since it is a beah resort, the place also had a nice rustic touch to it all.

What's a beach resort without trees

Definately tropical... ...

At 1pm, after feelin all warm and fuzzy inside, the real action began. There were workshops from 1pm all the way till 5pm, ranging from street cha cha cha and rythm and music appreciation to intro to lifts and tricks.

4 hours of workshops aint no joke. It's down right tiring man.... rushing from workshop to another. In the end, i took introduction to dancing on 2 by suman, int partnerwork on 1 by Ashwin, adv partnerwork on 2 by Santo Rico and intro to lifts and tricks by Fasilito.

I learnt quite alot... but forgot even more...hahah... My puny brain was rather overloaded...hahah What i really enjoyed was the intro to lifts and tricks.... It was the first time i got to lift ladies up and tried to flip them over my back...hahahhahaha... freakin funny and tiring... I was successful for only 1 attempt when both of us weren't really thinking and during 1 try, the gal was stuck on my back....lol... Quite sorry that i dropped to ladies ... even though i managed to cushion 1 of their fall with my tummy.... hahahahah At this point of time, i'd like to thank the ladc gals fortheir kind patience and for trusting in me... hahahhaha..... I'll do better next time :)

Workshop frenzy...

After dinner, it was off to watch the performances again. It was good too... a maltitude of performances from diff countries. Candice and Lautaro from zurich, LADC exotic dance, Santo Rico from NY.... they all rocked...hahahahah

Candice and Lautaro

Gupson doing bachata

Jaime and Liz....

After the performances, it was another night of hot sweaty bodies dancing around to the grooviest salsa beats..... I met June and Jackson too.... took a pic cept my cam went wonkuy...hahahahah

Hot salsa action

Fuzzy pic with THE couple...wahahahaha

Oki... im off for lunch with joshua... stay tuned for the final installment of this 3 part mini seires...wahahahah :P

2006-08-08T13:36:00.000+08:00

Malaysian Salsa Festival 2006 Part 1

It was a BLAST!!! 4D3N of hardcore salsa... ... Malaysia's first international salsa festival and i was there :D!!! sretching from the 4th till the 7th of august at the beach side resorts of Impiana and Suria at sunny Cherating, it was a weekend end filled with international performances, workshops ranging from son( another kinda dance) to introduction to lifts, tricks and aerials and nightly salsa parties!!!

Yes i know that this set me back by $414.95 but IT WAS WORTH EVERY SINGLE CENT!!!!! Seriously no regrets going for it man....hahaha

Well here's a little bit of what went on during the festival. To those who didn't go, TOO BAD!!!!! wahahahahha

DAY 1

It started relatively early for me. The bus was scheduled to leave from neil road at 8am to JB where we would change onto another bus to head for sunny cherating. I met alot of union regulars there. It seemed that union square was goin to be transplanted to cherating...hahaha
Anyways, jinn and shirley were to be my room mates for this trip. I know that it was last minute but thanks for inviting me nevertheless:)

Young looks like that when he has to wake up at 6am in the morning to catch a 8am bus.

When we got onto the coach at JB bound for Cherating, we realised that there was something amiss. It seemed that the bus driver was a fan of jay chow. He was swerving the coach while constanly overtaking other hapless vehicles on the 2 laned road. Talk about intial D man...wahahaha. I guess i was lucky to be alive.

The driver was a closet Ah Beng.... Disco lights on the freakin coach?!?!?!?

Anways, it was a bloooooodddddyyy loooooonnnngggg ride. We left neil raod at about 8.30am and got to cherating at about 5pm!!! Freakin 8.5 hr ride!!!!!! along the way we had 3 rest stops cos our bladders were just that small...hahahaha

My retarded travel companion

Malaysia for you

Big green sleeping mass

When we got there, we were too late for the bachata worksop by gupson.... oh wells... We proceeded to walk around, bumped into even more familiar faces, cam whored abit and waited for dinner.

Beach side setting

Coconut trees and more coconut trees

The usual suspects

Orangey Joyce

Gary, nicole and me

We took a walk around the place to get orientated. I loved the nice beach and constant sea breeze.... Ahhhhhhhh... all so relaxing. Perfect setting to hold a salsa festival man...hahahah

Lazy beach side

Prestine beach

Crystal clear waters

Captain Young

Human tripod

Cool salseros

So who's seducing who?

Met salsa sam along the way and had a chat to chat up wif him. Apparently after our previous SALSA NUTS trip to kl, we left quite an impression. After we left, he said that a couple of events were named like salsa nuits lunch, salsa nuts this salsa nuts that. It seems that the phrase " Salsa nuts" was very catchy adn many parties of people started to use it. Well done guys :) We have left our mark...hahahahha Btw, throughout the rest of the days at cherating i was pleasantly suprised that some people actually remembered me from KL... awwww...hahahah

Salsa Sam!!! He's really a nice guy :)

Shirley and THE man

Since it was a beach side resort, all the meal settings were that of an exotic beach side theme. Overall, the food for the whole duration wasn't all that mindblowing but it wasn't that bad either. That night, we had a bbq buffet. Lotsa lamb, chicken, sausages, fishes and prawns.

Prewwwty lights to set the ambience

Firery pit...

... that produced these heap of glorious BBQed meat

JJ group settling down for dinner

Bryan looks happy... must have been the dinner...hahaha

1 interesting thing to not that other than breakfast, there was free flow of ice kachang for every meal. 4 days of ice kachang... shiok...hahaha

Jerry looks so happy becos of his seat is strategically close to the ice kachang stall

After dinner, it was of to watch the performances. The first night saw acts from En Motion, LADC ( i felt they did a great job. Good work guys!!!), Bailattelo Dance Academy from Switzerland, Paradizo Dance from new york and many others. These performances very highly energetic and awesome.... truely WORLD CLASS ones.... I was starting to get my money worth.

Gary and Nicole

LADC peeps

Aerial salsa

SB7 roxs!!!

After that, it was the first of the indoor dance party.... Music was piped from 11pm till around 3am. The music that was played was great!!! Very groovy indeed... So unlike the boring generic crap we get at union.... blah!@#!... We'll it was great, got to dance wif many babes of differing levels. I really enjoyed myself.

Getting it on

It's gettin hot in here

Ok, this will be all for now... Am too lazy to blog out the rest ( and the blog entry will be too long if i did anyways) ...hahhaha... Stay tuned for more exciting salsa action, babes and all, from the malaysian salsa festival!!!

2006-08-01T01:15:00.000+08:00

Danced with a damn HOT and SULTRY lady just now man...

I was like seriously turned on....WAHAHAHAHAHAHA :p

A pity that she almost RIPPED MY ARM OFF by grabbing my hands so freakingly tight....hahahahaha

Oh wells..... lol

2006-07-30T14:47:00.000+08:00

Social Science Orientation Camp 2006

What can i say? It was a crazy 2d1n man....lol. Hung out with a really the really cool group 2 aka "the Mafia Family". Yesh even though we weren't the most ra ra group, always ROCing, i dare said we were the most cool group, chilling out in style.... wahhahaha

From this camp, I learned that social science peeps were uberly wicked sick in their forfeits man!!! Whats singing, dancing and getting numbers when you have to perform insane tasks like stealing trophies, ask to see people's briefs or perform " Hard Gay... Hooo~" in every single room!!!!!

Anyways, here's a few phrases to hopefully sum up the camp. Food race achieved with $5.10, sess trophy challenge, visiting ROM at night, proposing to fellow team members and running around like Jack sparrow in PS on a freakingly busy FRIDAY night!!!, roti prata at 2+am, finishing a bottle of bailey's caramel ( courtesy of Cach... thanks babe) playing " big titties cow girl" till 4.30am, playing REAL LIFE GTA vice city, drug running, raiding the "police" of their weapons and selling them off at the black market, weapons smuggling, attempting to run a prostitution ring.... .... AND OVERALL GENDER CONFUSION!!!!!!!! WAHAHAHAHAHAH

After all these, i really wanna thank my fellow group mates. You guys were wonderful we should seriously chill out together next time man. I also wanna thank our dear facis deborah and david. These 2 are like the coolest facis around. No ra ra crap but always all so relac man...hahahaha Not to mention all so porn minded...hahahahaha.

Vice pride!!!!!

2006-07-23T17:51:00.000+08:00

The "Beach"

This week as one heck of a week for many of us. I met alot of new school mates, friends that i'd definately remember down the road.

During matriculation, around 150++ of us freshmen signed up to take part in a CIP project deceptively named " The Beach Party". A point to note is that throughout the whole 5 days, we never actually got to set foot anywhere near a beach nor get tanned under the sun...lol

Anyways the whole idea of this project was to us to create pieces of sand art and to sell it off to raise funds in lieu of racial harmony day. Thus, 3 days were allocated to us for planning and designing our pieces, 1 day to create dem and the last day to atempt to sell them off.

To me, this was some sort of my first "orientation" to smu. It was throught this 5 days of fun that i first got to noe fellow freshmen.

Day 1 was on tuesday, directly after matricualtion. I met up with jwo and andrew. We set around waiting to things to get going. It was here that i started my first attempt at socialising.....hahahahha

Well, i was hoping that i would be assigned into the same group as jwo and andrew but in the end they were in grp2 and i was in grp 10.... which wasnt such a bad thing cos i can tell u that GROUP 10 ROCKS man!!!!! wahahahha

At first i felt rather awkward cos it's been soooooooooooooo long since i was placed in such a foreign situation where i did not know anyone. Well, after the initial uneasiness, things started to get along quite well (well... i thought so...hahah) and after the 5 days, i think will be hard to ever forget every single on of them in the group.

Our group was loads of fun. I felt that we were one of the spunkiest groups of all. Somehow along the way throgh wadeva reason, the name spiky durian stuck with our group. Quite apt i must say. We possesed rather vibrant group dynamics and were also focused when it came down to work. As one, we were united and each of us fitted well in the group. Our spirits were constantly high and we even went about coordinating colours of our clothes...lol

Day 2, warm vibrant colours

Day 3, squeakingly white

On wednesday, day 2, we went to the esplanade to supposingly take photos for inspiration for our 2 art pieces. For us, it became more of a nice slow walk around session cos we had already decided on our designs on the 1st day (talk about efficiency man!).

We went about, shutter happy, snapping lotsa photos and irritating the hell outta others...lol. By lunch, we were back in school and started to draw our full sized replicates of our pictures and prepare for a presentation the next day.

The spiky durain at the esplanade

I volunteered to help out with the contents of the presentation. Boy it wasn't easy. It has been ages since i actually had to prepare a presentation (brains are left behind when one's in the army you know....lol). I felt so outta touch with tping and phrasing things out. Luckily, jolene and shilpa were around to settle most of the stuff!!!! hahahah. Along the way, jolene and i were also somehow volunteered by the rest to do the presenation the next day. haiz....lol

Day 3 was rather slack. The 2 main focuses of the day was the bout of presentations b all the groups of their projects and the recce to republic poly in preparation of friday.

What struck me the most that day was the presentations. I was shocked at the standards of presentations and the competiton among all the groups. Despite the fact that it was only a freakin CIP PROJECT and that no matter how well you did, you would only get 80 hours, various groups put up things like sketches, peoms, songs and complicated power point presentations!!! I was like wa de hell man.... ... Imagine if it was a school project and presentations counted for grades den wad? Invite celebrities down r? Or better still, invite steven spielberg to shoot a movie for you?

Anyways, since we were group 10 and thus was last in line, by the time it got to us, our project seemed unoriginal cos alot of other groups which shared fragments of our ideas would already have presented them.

For my presentation, i felt that i screwed up. Even though i had given lessons on first aid to company sized groups of NS men in army, giving a short presentation to a seminar sized room of freshmen felt so different and so much more scary.

I started out well enough but by the middle and end of the presentation, i was freezing up and starting to freak out, making blunders like chinese mosques and the likes...lol... I even almost knocked into jolene who was standing behind me during the presentation. Talk about checking blind spots man....wahahahahhaha. I think that things are gonna get worst cos in smu, it seems that presentations take place very frequently... zang zang zang....... shit...hahah

LAter that day, we headed down to republic poly and started to lobo yet again. We played games and did forfeits. Jolene was officiall our forfeit specialist, doin go forfeit after forfeit, dragging in quite guys one after another...lol... Jolene by the way is a fun loving, spontaneous and spunky lass to hang out with. Guys take note.... she's single too!!!! waahahha

Friday saw us at republic poly at 9am in the morning. We started work at 10am and ended at around 5+pm. We placed glue, scattered sand, drew stuff using fabric paint. All of us knew our roles and we were among the first groups to finish.

Eat durians for racial harmony

Ooooo... look at all the pretty colours

By nightfall, after the hoo haa of the mp coming to grace the event, the bulk of us went for dinner at causeway point and had a bout of trash talking. After that, jim and i headed back to republic poly for the night. Even though we weren't required to stay over, i managed to convince jim taht stayting over with dorothy and rachel would be fun and so that was wad we did...hahahah

Finally done!!!

Andrew was kind enuff to lend me his semi- acoustic guitar for the night and at first, my plan was to serenade everyone but in the end, i realised that there was a gao shou namely joel, present so i decided to save the serenading for sometime else...hahahah

In the end, we spent the night learning the basics of salsa as i attempted to teach dorothy, rachel, jim and si yang the basics of salsa. I tried teaching them the basic mambo, right turn and cross body lead. They were good and picked stuff up really quickly... by 1 plus am, i managed to dance resonably well wif rachel and dorothy....Am i a good teacher or wad....wahahahhahaha

Soon after, dorothy was hungry and we trooped in the wee hours to causeway point and back for food...ahahahah

I tried to sleep after that but due to the fact tha the facis and some of the freshies were playing drinking games wif newwater and were making a hell lota noise, i oni managed to drift to sleep wif the help of my zen neeon. I was bitterly cold as i wore shorts and swee hock's jacket was too small to cover my legs despite me trying out different positions. I drifted in and out of sleep throughout the night muttering.... f**king cold....hahaah

I woke up at around 8.45am on saturday. I was shivering like hell man...lol. The da went on with all the usual crap. What i enjoyeed the most was the drnking game that we played. It involved people, a deck of cards tons of bottles of new water and strong bladders...hahahahha. It was wickedly fun man...lol... Watching people haplessly down bottles after bottles of new water. Jolene lived up to her name again by gulping down tons of new water. I personally finished about 8...hahahahahha

At 3pm, it was home sweet home. I returned andrew's guitar and we packed up. We said our final few words to one another and said our good byes.

We started out as a group of strangers thrown together to complete a task but walked out together as closely bonded friends. This has been a wondeful journey for me. I'll never forget u guys man. Do say hi when we meet again in school!!! Till next time, ta ta :)

All smiles - GROUP 10!!!!!

2006-07-16T00:47:00.000+08:00

Lamb chops, whiskey and ice cream

Since it has been commented that young has been slacking away and not updating his blog for some time now, here's a little something for you guys to chew on.

This week saw many many things happening to dear ol' young. On wednesday, we were invited to sondha's place for a GREAT dinner gathering of sorts. There were lotsa people and even more food!!!

Talking about the food, it was pure sinful indulgence.... waahhahah. There was sondha's signature LAGSANE, drunken lamb chops ( Lamb chops that have been marinated in beer and red wine for 3 days!!!!), swedish meat balls, prawn paste chicken wings, dark chocolate mousse, fudgey brownies, dark chocolate ice cream from awfully chocolate, hageen daaz lychee ice cream drenched in absolut vanilla, cockburn's pot and late harvest white wine (courtesy of clarence:))!!!!! Talk about banquets man...wahahah

I seriously must say that sondha's a FANTASTICALLY DIVINE CHEF man!!!! Her dishes are seriously to die for. The tipsy lamb chops were all so tender and litterally bursting with flavour. Not to mention the rich lagsane and mousse. Seriously hotel standard man!!!!! wahahahahaahah!!!

Notice the lack of photos.... we wolfed down the chow too quickly...hahahah. THANKS FOR EVERYTHING SONDHA. YOU ROCK!!!!

After dinner and it's subsequent trash toking session, it was off to Phuture and zouk mambo night with the gang. It was packed.... literally to the brim. We were very lucky cos soon after we got in, it was full house.

We went to phuture first, got a drink and headed off to the dance floor. It was very very very very packed. We were constantly shoved, compacted and pushed around. We tried to hold our ground, sticking together in a circle formation to limited success. There was this particulary character that really got on my nerves. There was this small and pettite ah lian that was dancing behind me for quite a while. Despite been soooo puny in size, she kept trying to push and shove me from behind which was irritating to say the least. Even if she wanted me to pick her up or something a simple "hi" would surfice right....lol

From the rest of our ganga, it seemed that i can really " zhi high"... Get very high by myself. According to them, i was very high, bobbing and gyrating away to the music all by myself, despite us having little to drink and thus quite sober....lol. Well, i guess for me, being high boils down to the atmosphere and more importantly the music and not how much i drink. If there is soul shaking groovy music in the air, i can be lost in my own little world :D

After phuture, we took a stroll across to zouk. It was mambo night which meant retro music. What tickled me the most however, were the moves that came with the songs. There were throngs of people on the stages making different hand guestures that corresponded to the lyrics of the songs.

It was freakin funny. Really reminded me of para para and mass dances in school. The lao jiaos on the stages did it with so much confidence and gusto and the masses on the floor were trying to follow with varying degrees of success. Seriously machiam during orientation, the OGLs trying to lead the students in mass dance lidat....freakin funny...lol

Needless to say, it was babes galore. Tons of chio lians and hot gals alike in various degrees of undress. Lotsa skin and bare flesh. I saw a particular gal that was particularly good looking( to me at least :) ). She was wearing a white sphagetti top and jeans, clean cut face, tied up shoulder length hair. She was 1 of those para para leaders on the central stage. A pity that there was like an army of clubbers on the floor between me and her, rendering squeezing through almost impossible. Well, im not the "pick up gals" sorta guy anyways...lol. Saw a couple of familiar faces. People like jinn, elayne, xenbar gals, timothy... ...

thursday and friday was rather platonic.

Thursday night was spent at hard rock. Went for door to floor's free salsa lesson. Learnt a new turn pattern and shine from suman. Social dancing wasn't spectacular (guess i was still reeling from a lack of sleep from zouk) cept for a fun dance i had with bianca from xenbar. Freakin spunky and fun gal to dance wif. You go gal!!!

Friday saw me marking papers at sondha's mum tuition center. Finally, after like forever, i got a job :). Anyways, i was so tired the whole day that i skipped loco at ladc even though lionel was teaching free shines. Toppled and slept like a log upon touching my bed at home.

Saturday afternoon was spent practising salsa at a friend's place. After that, it was off to shop for stuff at orchard for me. Went to far east and got a hat and red tie:) Later at night, i met up with victor and jian at paradiz.

Victor cam whoring....

Young in a hat

At first we wanted to go to minds cafe to chill but it was full house and we trudged down to the cathy cos both of dem wanted to check it out. The place is still quite unoccupied and so we ended up at ben and jerry's. Victor being victor, was flirting blatantly with the female staff behind the counter...lol

Ben and Jerry's... Duh!!!

I must say that ben and jerry's offer many creative ice cream flavours with equally colourful names like "chunky munky", "phish food" and "dublin mudslide". They tasted quite alright but the prices weren't though...lol. It was like 4 bucks for a small cup sia!!!!! We settled with a mix and match ice cream, 3 scoops of different flavoured ice cream. We took "Gracia cherry", "New York Super Fudge" "and "Dublin Mudslide". Topped off with chocolate fudge, it was $8.60 + $2.00 (upsize for bigger scoops) = $10.60 of pure calory bliss...lol

Mmmmm... YUMMY!!!

2 guys, 1 bowl and 3 scoops of melting ice cream

FEEDING FRENZY!!!

Thats all so far. Esther's having her birthday party later. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ESTHER!!!! Thats all for now.... cya :P

2006-07-04T00:27:00.000+08:00

OH YAH AND I FORGOT TO ADD THANK YOU BIAODA!!!! FOR ALL DE HELP U HAVE GIVEN ME ALL THE TIME IN SALSA!!!!

(P.S. ALL THE WORDS ARE CAPPED AND BOLD....LOL)

2006-07-03T16:45:00.000+08:00

Merlion International Dancesport Championship 2006

Woah... what a journey it has been for all of us. Since the beginning of june, we have started preparing for it, building up to yesterday. It was definately a great experience. The times we shared, all the frustrations and make up...lol

All of us, no matter what placing, were winners in our own right. I believe all of us went home with our own personal lessons learnt and experiences gained. Well it was quite a feat for all of us to pull it of, considering that it was the first time they organised a salsa category in a traditional dancesport setting. All of us had no idea how we would be judged, what song would be played so basically, we just had to go there and just do it...

Elieen and clarence were placed 4th while shervonne and i were placed 3rd. I personally felt i could have done better but im still happy nevertheless...lol

Anyways, here's to the competition... ...

I woke up at 12pm. Didn't really have a good night's sleep which must have been due to anxiety i guess....lol Anyways, I had to go and get flowers for my partner to put in her hair so i called my mom who was at the market to help me. In de end, she got pink carnations and my kiasu grandma plucked like some other flowers from our house. When i finally got all of the flowers together, there were like red, purple, yellow, white and pink flowers!!! Machiam going to temple to offer flowers lidat...wahahahaha

We decided to meet at yishun mrt at 4pm. By 4.30, sondha, clarence and i had already finished eating at yoshinoya but elieen was nowhere to be found. Apparently, she was rushing down after getting her hair done (i must say her hair was not bad.... very sparkly...hahahahah)....

Upon elieen's arrival, we took off to orchird country club in a cab. By the time we got there, it was just after 5pm. We started to get changed and stuff. For the competition, i decided to keep it simple and decided to go wif a rolled up black shirt, black pants and a silver tie. I guess i looked pretty ok... until... .... .... THE MAKE UP WENT ON!!!!!... GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

One last look at young before the application of ghastly make up... lol

Let me tell you. Make up isnt meant for guys (normal straight heterosexual males... none of those metrosexual crap too) under normal circumstances. Only under very extreme and dire situations, should they be subjected to the torture of cosmetics.

The only thing that i have ever put on my face was yucky camo cream in the army. It came in 2 colours. Black and green. It felt uncomfortable putting green and black on my face. I thought that i was bad enuff to put on camo little did i noe that putting on make up would be worst...wahahah. CAmo came in 2 colours... make up came in like... a GAZILLION colours!!!!!! OMG!!!!

Slow painful torture

I went under the knives... erm brushes of elieen, sherv and sonn. They put alien stuff like foundation, blusher and lip gloss on my face.... It felt downright WIERD and GAY lah... !@#$!@$!... ... Anyways after the make over i turned out like this ...

ZHENG ZHENG ZHENG.... I hear screams already....

I seriously looked damn gay lor... My lips were like small pouty and red... EEEW....wahahahaha. Soon, i was melting away... literally... So was my make up...wahahahaha

Anyways, it seemed to me that salsa dancers (those at the competition at least), wore only 3 colours... red, silver and black....wahahahahaha. Like some sort of unwritten rule that says "Yer only a salsa dancer....... IF YOU WEAR RED,SILVER OR BLACK!" lol... Seriously like some sort of uniform lidat...wahahah.

Black and silver

Silver, black and red

Black and silver

Red, black and silver

Black, red and silver... you get my point...hahahah

Besides, we were way way way underdressed compared to the ball room dancers who came in all sorts of funky colours and eye catching costumes. We seriously looked rather shabby compared to them....lol

Anyways, we went in to watch den competiton and i must say that ballroom dancing is very different compared to salsa. All of dem are very stiff. Even for dances like jive and rock and roll which are supposed to be more energetic were stiff and not as impactful as salsa.

However, even having said so, i must say that i was very impressed by their poise, grace confidence, expression, body movement and feel. Even the kids were very nice to watch too... They were bubbling over with energy and oozing with cuteness...lol

Of all de dances, the 2 dances that i enjoyed de most were pase boble and tango. These two dances are very impactful and yet graceful at the same time. If the dancers managed to find that perfect balance of grace and energy ( many did...lol), the dance would be mind blowing..lol

Anways back to us... ... we were slowly getting pumped up with adrenalin. Soon, we reported to the event staff and got ready to enter the floor. We went round wishing each other luck, slapping each other on the back. By the time we were lining up to enter the floor, i could literally hear my heart beating....lol.

When we finally entered the floor, I started to feel very nervous. Everything started to tense up (think straight r...lol). All i could think of was "Oh shit.. oh shit.. oh shit...." ... wahahahah. My palms were sweaty and stuff... Really reminds me of that eminem song from 8 miles...lol

The music went on and we just started to move lor... I was so nervious that i think i screwed up abit...wahahah. It went much better during practice...hahahaha. I realised that my timing bwang abit and got a few mistakes...lol. Well no choice lor... just continue and try to do my best....

After the dance i asked sherv how it went. She said that she also blanked out and just followed me. Many of the rest felt de same too. I guess it's the stress of competition....lol

I was feelin glad that it was over but at the same time i was rather dissapointed that i screwed up. We went away and watched the rest of the competition with heavy hearts. We were fearing the worst.

After quite a while, we were called out to await our placing.It was really a moment of gloom for us all. Soon. they started to announce our placing... Name after name, couple after couple. As the placing went on, we felt more and more relieved. Soon 4th placing was announced.... IT WASN'T US!!!!! WE WERE 3RD!!!!!WAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I was so happy from screwing up and expecting the worst, we had gotten 3rd!!!! wad a relief!!!hahahah. We went to collect our medals wif glee. I was sooooooo happy when we stepped on the stands and had our photos taken!!!! What an experience!!!!! Yay!!! I was over the moon...wahahahahahaha!!!

Moment of glory... I was in estasy

The man that made it all possible for us

Great friend, loyal fan...lol

With the winning couple

At this moment in time, i'd like to sincerely thank the following who have walked with us and greatly helped us along on our journey. This award goes out to u guys too. You guys made it possible.

1) Dear ol' buddy jwo. Thanks so much for helping us logistically, providing us a nice cave to meditate in and for being such a great buddy, standing by me and listening to my rantings time and time again. You rock man!!!

2) Shervonne, partner in crime, for giving it all you've got even though u have studies to manage too. I couldn't ask for more....

3) Clarence, sondha and elieen, for listening to my nonsence and also giving us tips and pointers on how to improve. More importantly for being such great friends and standing by us all the way :D

4) My parents for putting up with my numerous late nights dancing!!!

5) Corina, for spending time givingus sound advice on how to sharpen our moves and getting our act together and helping us out in so many other ways.

6) Greg, Raymond and many other everyone else who have helped us with valuable advice, guidance and kind words.

7) Last but not the least, Jackson!!! for starting, guiding and grooming us along our salsa journey. You made it happen for us all! Thank you so much!!!

Oh wells, the salsa competition's finally over. Time to look for more trouble to get into...wahahahah

The pioneer batch of dancesport salsa dancers

2006-07-03T01:07:00.000+08:00

The salsa competition is finally over...

Im happy... ... that we got 3rd!!!! :)

i felt that we could have done better but still im happy...hahahahha.

Will blog about it soon...

Quick quick ... buy 0244 for 4D!!!

2006-06-26T01:48:00.000+08:00

Sun, Sand and Salsa

Ooo boy. It has been an eventful 2 days. Pants were torn, shoes were ripped and windscreens cracked.

The last training session saw us finalising and refining our moves. We also tried to add in some styling and stuff to limited succes. At our present standard, i guess we won't making fools of ourselves on the floor but our chances of winning.... .... i dare not say. I wish we had more time to train and practise but..... oh wells

Anyways, training was going on fine ( well at least i tot so...hahah) until... ... I tore/ burnt a hole in my pants!!!! ARGHHHHH!!!! Well, i was EXPERIMENTING (I stick by my stand that i was being EXPERIMENTAL and not playful...wahahaha) with a new move involving a slide. So i was sliding on the floor and it seemed that the friction between my pants and the floor generated so much heat a hole was ripped and burnt through my pants at the knee area. The worst part is that i really liked my pants and i had only wore it twice!!!! 46 bucks down the freakin drain... So sad :(

Saturday and sunday also saw a salsa event, namely Viva Sentosa which was held at.... TA DA sentosa at the islander club. Well, it was jointly organised by Jitterbugs and Sentosa. The highlights were perofrmances by jitterbugs and liquid silver, salsa lessons, 12 piece live band and last but not the least, an open salsa competition. Oh yah, there was social salsa too... lots of it...hahah.

The place was filled with hot sizzling bodies

Saturday saw the heats for the salsa competition. Competition was stiff, featuring the likes of Tzee, luther, bernad, just to name a few. We arrived at 7 plus, missing group1 of the solo competitors. Group 2 was great. It was generally entertaining.

However as the night grew on and more solo and group competitors went on, i realised something that irked me. It seemed that certain competitors from a certain dance school keep recycling and reusing the same chereography and... GASP... song for their routines. It eventually bored me to death. To make things worst, during the group competition, a team sent out from that certain dance school fumbled pretty badly. Of the 2 couples involved, 1 forgot the chereograpghy!!!! Wah lau... in the end, it looked really bad...

Between an average cherography and one with lotsa stunts but highly recycled and totally unoriginal, i choose the average one. If someone ate haagen daaz belduim chocolate ice cream everyday for a month, i think even potong red bean ice cream would taste heavenly...

Liquid silver company also gave a free salsa lesson, from which i learnt a new move, and also presented 2 performances. Their cowboy routine totally blew me away. It was the first time they perofrmed it in sg... or was it asia?.... and IT ROXED!!!!!!!! WOAH!!!! I loved it :D

Golden cowboy

The atmosphere was jovial, music was groovy, thanks to the excellent band and dj. Saw many familiar faces, danced with most of dem. Shirine and gang, corina, xiao xiang, erica, josee and many more.

A very familiar face

I got to dance with a TALL gal from xenbar called angie. She's really tall but apparently 1cm shorter than jinn or so he says. She was seriously not bad. Her follow was good and it was so nice not having to bend much doing turns...wahahahaha. I also managed to dance with one of the gals from liquid silver. It was great except for the fact that the track that was playing was cha cha thus rendering me outta beat...lol

Ahh...

Sunday was the finals for the competition. We met up at 4.45pm, had dinner and took a ride to sentosa in alan's car. It was then that we realised that there was this wicked looking CRACK on the bottom left hand corner on the windscreen. Alan went like " KA NI..." and stopped halfway...lol. He said there were ladies around....lol

We managed to catch some of the competitors which we missed on saturday. The overall standard was quite high. It was still quite enjoyable to watch the rest of the other routines for the second time. I also learnt that humour is a powerful tool in performances.

Liquid silver again put up 2 different pieces both of which were highly energetic and electrifying :)

However for me, the objective of the day was to catch the 12 piece band which was the first in singapore. I didn't regret coming down again for it man. It was worth the heat, humidity and the wait. The music was awesome!!! 12 piece band man!!! WOW!!!!

The dance floor was packed. Really packed. I did have a couple of dances but sat around most of the time. In the words of alan, " It's quite rare to see young sit around." Must've been the heat, fatigue of saturady and the lack of familiar faces. Oh wells, I guess i must have used up all my mana on saturday...lol

It was during this period of socialing when... ... eilieen tore her dance shoe!!! More accurately, someother lady managed to somehow catch her shoe's heel onto one of elieen's shoe straps and accidentally ripped it!!! I could almost hear elieen's heart being ripped to shreds when she was lamenting about it to us... Awww take it easy oki.

By the way there are no pictures cos i was too lazy to bring along my camera...

Generally, that concluded our eventful weekend of salsa. It seemed that we were dished a bout of bad luck but like wad i said, since we have already fallen into the deepest end of the gorge, things can only get better.

6 more days left till my turn at orchid country club. After seeing how high the level of salsa is in singapore and how tough the competition can be, I seriously wonder if im good enough man...hahahah

Oh wells, we'll wait and see.....hahahahah

2006-06-18T16:46:00.000+08:00

Leaning tower of wad???

Hmm... ... so what do people do to relax and chill after work, school or training? Catch a movie? Play LAN? Go shopping? Chill out at a nice bar or go chiong in a club?

For us, we .... .... BUILD TOWERS!!!!!! wahahahahaha

Leaning tower of Sakae..?!?!?!

Kong scales the tower to... ... get to that saucer of wasabi????

Anyways, training's a bitch. Tiring and energy sapping. Union after training seems more like a triathalon of sorts. Sorry gals... yesh all you sizzling hot ladies i danced with yesterday... My lead was crap. My bad... Paiseh r..... lol.

Anyways, have fun peeps.... :D

Budding architects

2006-06-16T00:39:00.000+08:00

The limit

By young's standard, the maximum length of time for salsa training is ... ... 2 hours. After 2 SOLID hours of spinning, open breaks and dips, burn out sets in, resulting in various symptoms like fatigue, hunger, trash talking, hallucinations and other less than desirable behaviours.... Anyways usually by then, my shirt starts to smell funny....wahahahaha

Burnout sets in... ...

Training for the competition so far has been... slow by steady? As of now, it has been termed " technically ok"... ... Definately not good enough. Hopefully by the time we compete it'll be " VISUALLY STUNNING"!!!! wahahahaha

Well, training is fun at times... especially after burnout has set in...hahaha. We'll be all like lying around on the floor, slouching on the chair, hiding in a corner... ... wadeva and just laze around, watch the world slowly pass by, chilling to great music provided by moi...hahahaha

Toking about music, i love my speakers. The speakers are compact and the only chunky thing is the subwoofer. The whole speaker set is compact enought to fit in my bag. It's a tad heavy but considering the superior sound quality it produces, it's woth it. My Zen neeon provides more den enough play time and 5 gigs of choices... Throw in disco lights and we can have our very own "Salsa Fiesta"...lol

Creative ROXS!!!

Anyways, we will continue to work on our routines and stuff... We'll definately give the competition a run for their money...wahahahahahaha

2006-06-10T01:25:00.000+08:00

The curve

Im watching the opening world cup 06 match as im typing this. Germany vs Coasta Rica. Im not much of a soccer fan but it just hapened to be on the tv so....lol Current score line is GER 3, CRC 1...

Anyways, i haven't been updating cos my life has been a bore. There hasn't been any alien abductions, union's covercharge is still 8 bucks from mon till thurs and i haven't developed X-ray vison or grew an extra arm.

Life has been platonic to say the least. Before i go on, i'ld like to wish sondha a belated birthday and joon a happy birthday... May both of yer dreams and wishes come through :)

Back to my life, the last week has been a downright boring. Monday went on as usual except for bachata lesson. Am so looking forward to dancing bachata, close contact leading, with mi mates at union. Problem is that by de time they place bacahta, my shirt would already be disgustingly wet...hahaha

Tuesday was normal. Slept till late, bummed around house and went down to union. It suxed... for me at least. Lack of space = constantly bumping into people = no nice moves = sucky dances... haiz

Wednesday was depressing cos of something. Don't ask me what. Didn't go down to union.

Thursday was gloomy too due to something related to wednesday but it turned out ok after a while, kinda like a silver lining.Union sucked too... I found de music a tad bit boring and i was a bit sick of my routine. My shirt smelled funny after a while too... sigh... Weel at lest i learnt a couple of new moves from greg and jeffery.

Friday was a bit better. Watched a new anime i bought. "Desert Punk". Seriously quite funny. Elieen treated clarence, jwo and i to cartel. 21st birthday treats. Thanks elieen:) LADC was quite sian cos there wasn't many people to dance with (think world cup) and i wasn't in the mood.

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I realised that my salsa follows closely to a sine curve. First it starts out real sucky then for some reason, like new moves or great partners, starts to improve slowly. I'll enjoy dancing more and more until it reaches a peak. Recently, it was the KL trip.

However, after a while at the top, my salsa starts to slip. I start to lose focus, my turn patterns become boring, and i don't enjoy my dances. I also start to pick on my dancing and find fault with my self. I'm at this stage right now.

Im getting bored of my own routines. I find my footwork screwed up no matter how hard i try to convince myself that it's ok. My focus and energy level seems to be ebbing away... ...

My salsa dancing seems bland to me now. I think it looks ugly and it sucks. I seem to have lost my flair... if i had any to start with... grumble grumble grumble

I need something or someone to give me a kick in de ass (figuratively oki.. pls dont come up to me in de middle of the street and kick my behind...lol). I need to get inspiration. With the competition just round the corner, i need it now more then ever.

I seriously need to get some " OMMPH!" back in salsa and my life...

Oh wells at least we are going shopping later for our competition wear. Time to buy new clothes and look nice :)

Btw, Germany won Coasta Rica 4 : 2.

2006-06-01T02:05:00.000+08:00

Watched X men 3 today... was not bad.

*GASP* i didn't manage to finish the popcorn or drink!!!

Why do i always seem to be 2 or 3 steps late in life??? Rain clouds and thunderstorms hovering above my head... .... ....

grumble grumble grumble.....

2006-05-30T01:50:00.000+08:00

I got abandoned at the dance floor for the first time... ... lol

2006-05-28T01:43:00.000+08:00

Black, White and Grey

Lately, something wierd has been happening. Whenever i go down to union, random strangers, people who i have never talked to or even seen before (in my memory at least...hahahah), have been coming up to me to say hi and stuff... one guy even told me something like "wah you come down very often ah.... saw u yesterday..."... ... ...

Damn... ... it seriously feels wierd lah. It seems that the whole world ( well at least the people who go down to union...lol) knows, or at least seen/ heard me... Imagine going to the toilet to pee and some random guy comes up to you and says "Hi".... ... Quite freaky i tell u...hahah. I don noe them but yet they know me....

Machiam a celebrity lidat.... sorry lah my skin a bit thick...hahahah. Maybe before long i'll be signing autographs and posing for photos man... Think " meet and greet sessions" ... ... " Come and meet Singapore's very own SALSA DANCING GIANT FREAK at union square!!! $25 cover charge inclusive of 3 drinks!!!! Special offer... ... open a bottle of Bailey's and get a limited edition LIFESIZE autographed poster of Young!!! * while stocks last "... .... why bailey's? cos dats one of my favourite drinks...wahahahahahahahahahahah

Anyways, enuff of my dreams of stardom, the topic of this post is about singing, dancing paintings... ... art as a whole :) Serious stuff.

On friday, i went for my merengue lesson at JJ. Been the ever wanting to learn student i have always been ( abit of BHBness here...hahahah), i asked jackson about my cross body lead and mistakes that i have made doing the cbl.

As a result, i was treated to a "come let's screw young" session (oki lah... maybe not that bad...lol)...hahahah. Not that im upset over it. Im actually thankful to jackson for it. I mean it's really kind of him to point out my mistakes and stuff and at least now, i'll be able to be more conscious about my cbl and hopefully in time to come correct it.

Btw, of all so many salsa dancers and instructors out there, i really take my hats of and totally RESPECT june and jackson. Going to the Domician (shit i sense a typo here) republic to learn salsa and reuda and bring it back to dear old singapore... ...You guys rock man!!!! Both of them are also sooooooooooooo nice and friendly!!!! OMG :) Plus their relaxed and dance friendly dance style, i think they are the ultimate FRIENDLY SALSA DANCERS!!!!!

The way they conduct lessons is also very clear and concise. They break down moves, lead and follow techniques very well!!! If you ask me, JJSalsaRengue is still the NO.1 salsa school in sg.... and no they did not pay me anything to say the above.... ( i wished they did though...wahahahahah) June and Jackson ... ...You guys are great :)

Anyways back to my CBL session, it seems that i do not give the lady enough space at imes and i tend to step back on 5, nstead of just replacing my foot. After repeated attempts, i still couldn't get it right and jackson put it down to habit. He even got a random student to do a cbl and he did it right. Oh wells, i just sux lah....hahahahah

Oh wells, i was pretty upset, as in not with jackson, but myself for not being able to even get a simple cross body lead right. I was deep in thought, storm clouds and stuff over my head. The word "habit" kept ringing in my head... But cannot be wad... i thought some people said i dance pretty well? (oki maybe only like 1 or 2...hahah).

Suddenly, it dawned upon me, bright lights and stuff...hahahah. I didnt start levitating though... I realised that what jackson said was right. Indeed, there was something wrong with my cbl... ... BUT... ... by HIS standards. Then again, by the standards of THOSE who felt that i did alright, my cbl was ok!!!!! Im not saying that my cbl is good, i mean i'll still keep in mind about the stuff that jackson pointed out to me, but at the same time, maybe my cbl isn't all that screwed up after all!!! It's a matter of preferences!!!! Even jackson said something like " ... there's no right or wrong... ... more importantly it's whether it works for you... ...."

I realised, im salsa, music, painting and art as a whole, there's no right or wrong. There's no clear black or white, only grey. Thats the beauty of it.

Take salsa for example. There are so many dance schools, so many instructors with all so many different styles. Some people are awed certain instructor's style over others. Does it mean that the rest all suck and are wrong? NO!

Recently, there's this negro from New York who came down to Union and hard rock. He had this very unique style of salsa that was very turn heavy on the ladies. He literally played the ladies like a top!!! Many of us guys were like.... woah.... that guy's good man... Elieen however went something like "So inconsiderate... turn the lady like that"

So does it mean that this guy is wrong and sucked becos of elieen? On the other hand, does this guy rock because me and some other guy think so? NO! It's all up to the individual who is looking and judging.

Same goes for music. Does heavy metal suck just because I cannot stand all the screaming and head banging? NO! Millions of meatl fans out there beg to differ. To me it does. Conversely does jazz rock just becos i like the smoothness and luvry dubby feeling i get outta it? Definately not... .. I know of people who would rather chew through their arms to get away rather than listen to jazz.

So, arts as a whole, is open to interpretation and judgement by the individual. There are no absolutes. Therefore, the challenge now, to the artist/dancer/musician, is to get more people to appreciate and like his style. More importantly, the challenge to the individual, people like me and you now, is to try and see the beauty in things. There is always beauty in many things. It's just that we are too blind to see it. SO from now on, whether it appeals to us or not, try to at least spare a brief moment to look past our own pa jiao ness and see the beauty of things. That to me, is the GREATNESS FEAT of all.

Ok, i'll stop here for now before this sounds like a thesis for some philosophy class.....wahahahah.

Btw, guys/gals/goldfish/hamsters/penguins who somehow managed to acquire an internet access and by some freak accident managed to stumble across this blog, please leave your heart felt comment for my previous post. Please help me to improve by giving me your comments oki. Im sure there are more than 3 people who read my blog right? Pretty please with whipped cream and cherry on top?......lol

:P

2006-05-25T00:58:00.000+08:00

My voice is turning rather low and husky now... ... Seems like the flu bug has decided to pay me a visit yet again...hahaha... must be the friendly staff, luxurious rooms and cheap rates...lol

Anyways, if i have dance with you lately and it was rather sucky, im sorry... it's de flu...hahahaha

I have a question to post to you guys... ...

How would you describe my dance style? What areas do you think i should improve on?

Please post your heart felt comments in the comments page and not on the tagboard.

Many thanks :D

2006-05-21T17:08:00.000+08:00

6 QUIRKINESS OF YOUNG

I have been tagged. Im supposed to state 6 quirky things about myself...wahahahahaha Young and sanity???!?!?! Do they even mix? lol where should i start?

1) My right hand is longer than my left. It's quite obvious especially when im wearing long sleeved shirts. Could be because i broke my right arm before so new bone grew at the fracture site... yadda yadda...

2) Im a sucker at times for collectable toys... :) Sometimes, when that inner child in me kicks in, suddenly the shiny die casted and painted plastic playthings appeal to me. My table is full of these plastic works of fantasy and i love them :)

3) I used to have a nickname in secondary school called " sneezing hamster". Sometimes when my nose acts up, i go into 5,6 or 7 sneeze combos. During these snnezing bouts, i try to stifle them so it sounds like i have a suppressor in my nose hence my friends said i sneezed like a hamster.

4) My right and left ears look different. Don't ask me why. I was just born like that....lol

5) I used to paint chinese ink landscape paintings. I was into chinese ink painting since ... ...forever? I started learning it when i was in primary school. I continued painting all the way through till JC. I have participated in several art exhibitions too. However i have stopped painting for a while. Will continue this path in due time.

6) I need to sleep like 10 hours a day to stay sane. I think that the amount of sleep needed is proportionate to size. Maybe that explains why i was mostly asleep in the 2 yrears of jc. From lectures to tutorials. Whenever i do not have enough sleep, all the wierdest things come out of me...hahah.... ask snu....lol

Oki. im done.

2006-05-16T00:32:00.000+08:00

I actually DANCED with STEPH SONG at union square just now!!!!! How lucky can i get man!!!!! Learn salsa, dance with celebraties!!!

WAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

OMG!!! I can't believe i actually danced with her... Squeal !!!

2006-05-15T16:29:00.000+08:00

I was told to write an introduction to SNU... well here goes... ...

Introduction to SalsaNutsUnite

SalsaNutsUnite, affectionately known as Snu (pronounced Snooo), was formed by a group of salsa lovers in 2005. We are essentially a group that attempts to discover and promote salsa and have fun along the way! Many of us started off salsa for various reasons but all of us have one thing in common. WE LOVE SALSA!!!

SNU definitely has humble beginnings. Some of us got to know each other from taking salsa lessons together. Others got acquainted with us at union square. After interacting with one another, we realized that since we were all in love with salsa, why not form a group and enjoy each other’s company?

Since that fateful night, we have grown. We now have members not only in Singapore but also members in Australia and across the causeway. We believe that there are no boundaries involved in salsa.

Our members hail from different dance schools. Thus, you can see and experience many different styles of dancing in our group. Members overseas add even more flavour to our melting pot by bringing back styles unique to their regions.

We have a very diverse mix of people. We have JC students, university undergraduates, future speech therapists, architects, pharmacists, members in the banking and finance fields, chemical engineers, secretaries, computer engineers, pre-school teachers, civil servants and even a violin teacher in our group!

With such a dynamic mix of people from all walks of life, we not only get to improve our salsa but also pick up important life skills and acquire a wider and more informed view of our society upon interaction with other members along the way.

Here at SNU, we learn about salsa through many ways. We dance regularly at popular salsa spots across Singapore like Union Square, LADC and Jitterbugs. We also visit various salsa events.At the recent Mosaic music festival 2006 at the Esplanade, we were the first to start salsaing behind the Nokia music station.

It’s through frequent social dancing that members get exposed to different styles and leads. We also get to know and interact with other members of the salsa community. These help us learn more about ourselves and help to fine-tune our individual dance styles.

Besides regular social dancing, SNU also embarks on “ Salsa Exploration” trips. Basically, we take trips to other countries and check out their local salsa scene. Needless to say, we have tons of fun.

In the day, we do the usual touristy stuff, checking out tourist attractions, soaking in the local scenery, indulging in native delicacies and going on shopping sprees. At night however, we hit the salsa clubs in the area and interact with local salseros. From this, we get to experience styles unique to the region, make friends and establish networks. All in all, we have lot of fun and get a chance to see what salsa is like to salseros overseas.

To date, we have visited Kuala Lumpur twice and definitely created quite a stir there. (http://forums.havanaestudio.com/viewtopic.php?t=37&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=42). We plan to visit places like Bangkok and Australia in the near future. More exotic destinations, yummy food, wonderful salsa and cheap shopping bargains await.

At SNU, we believe that balance is a very important aspect of life. One cannot have too much of a good thing. Other than salsaing, our members do other stuff together. We do things like watch movies, have dinners, find interesting places to chill out, hit the beach, roller blade and celebrate festivals like Chinese New Year and New Year Eve… … just to name a few. We like to live balanced lifestyles.

Enough said, if you think that you fit the bill of someone who likes to socialize, enjoys the company of great people and loves salsa, feel free to come up and get to know us better. Before you know it, you’ll be laughing along with us as we gorge on prata after a long night of salsaing at union square. J

SNU, WE ARE THE PARTY!

We ain't crazy... we're just NUTS!!!

2006-05-14T19:39:00.000+08:00

I know that i just came back from KL not long ago.....

BUT I WANNA TAKE A LONG TRIP TO SOMEWHERE NICE!!!!!!

ARGH!!!

I wanna go somewhere cool... somewhere that requires a plane ride... somewhere tranquil to sip coffee in the day... somewhere thats also happening at night... somewhere to just live the high life for a SHORT while... somewhere to knock back shots and get all silly with close friends... somewhere with breath taking scenery that makes me feel small... ... ... somewhere nice... ... ...

I wanna travel with good friends and close buddies. I miss seeing chio bus, drinking coffee and msning friends back home at the peak (HK was great with the guys =D).

I just wanna get away from it all... ... :)

2006-05-14T11:50:00.000+08:00

Here's a nice, well sorta nice smiley face for all you sad/unhappy/depressed people out there =D

Enjoy... ... hahahahahahah =p

Even mad serial killers smile too...lol

2006-05-14T01:19:00.000+08:00

Whatever... ...

I realised that "whatever" is a VERY POWERFUL word!!!! It's like a level 6 "finger of death" or "assasinate" skill to dota players, or a nuke to everyone else.

Whatever can be used in many many places. Verbally, it can be used to win any argument. Lets say you happen to most unluckily bump into george bush, osama or that fuddly old algebra teacher on the street 1 day. As usual, they will start preaching to you about WMDs in iraq, suicide bombing is benefical to the economy and (a+b)^2=a^2+2a+b^2. Being the normal sane people that we are, we will be unable to reason with them using common logic.

So upon exhausting all our precious brain juice in an attempt to convince them otherwise ( we could have jolly well used it to analayse the latest soccer results or predict next week's 4D numbers) and bring them back from the dark side( insert husky darth vader "luke i am your father" voice here) we might think that all is lost. However if we suddenly whip out the "whatever" nuke here and go like "Ah.... han nah.... oki oki... WHATEVER lah... ", we win:) The other party, be it bush, osama or the maths teacher will suddenly be lost for words to counter you. Greet any further rebuttals with even more "whatever"s and they will be stumped. The conversation will end in your favour, leaving them highly irritated and pissed off. Kinda like been stormbolted again and again till yer dead and having to wait for 60 secs to be revived or pay 1400 gold if yer level 25....lol
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Besides in conversation, "whatever" also applys in our thoughts and emotions. It's the most powerful tool we have against feelings like hurt, betrayal, depression and confusion.

Let's say you are feelin very depressed because your pet goldfish died, you feel damn hurt because your boy/girlfriend lied and cheated on you ( how dare he/she, so fat and ugly still dare to cheat on me) or maybe your boss is just a bitch and you feel damned f**ked up.

Despite like a total of 3Ls of jack daniels a day, US$ 12, 360.00 spent on retail therapy and 4 years spent up in the himalayans meditaing about the question of existance, you still cant get over your goldfish/ toopid partner/ bitch of a boss, what should u do?

You can adopt a "wahatever" attitude. Just psycho yerself. " Aiyah WHATEVER lah... ... So what if (insert senerio here)... ... Won't die one right... WHATEVER lor...." Just take things as they come and tell yourself WHATEVER. Eventually, you will feel numb. Numbeness is better that pain isnt it?lol The problem can't be solved anyways right? remember the 4 years eating raw radishes in the mountains?lol

After feeling numb to the whole situation for a period of time, eventually the pain will go away and normalacy will replace the numbness. Sure, your goldfish won't come back to life but at least you wont be sad anymore. You'll probably just go and buy guppies this time round....hahahaha. Problem solved=P

(p.s. just don't use it so often till you become numb to the whole world and life is a bitch and then we die)

So you see, WHATEVER is a very very powerfual and all mighty word/attitude. Remember... ... use it wisely when all else fails or... whatever lah.....hahahahah

Think you look better than me? Whatever man... ...

2006-05-07T23:54:00.000+08:00

10 reasons ( or excuses) on why i need a job

I need a job to... ...

01) pay for my union square fees
02) buy a new pair of dance shoes
03) finance further salsa classes
04) travel the world ( or at least to HK( i so wanna sip coffe at the peak) or thailand or somewhere nice) before uni starts
05) buy that ZARA jacket that i saw in KL and absolutely love
06) meet new people
07) kick start young's " Buy a BMW by 30" fund
08) stop my parents insacent nagging of me to get a job
09) get a new watch to replace my old "army" watch
10) wake up at 7am everyday......wahahahahah

Btw my application for relief teaching has just been approved... ... So i might just be popping by yer neighbourhood schools to scare da shit outta yer little brothers, sisters, nephews, niece, sons and daughters sometime soon...wahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

Terrorising little kids at a school near you.. ...

2006-05-03T13:07:00.000+08:00

Here's a little something that turned out from our KL trip :D
http://forums.havanaestudio.com/viewtopic.php?t=37&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=42

2006-05-02T14:40:00.000+08:00

Operation: SNU KL SALSA STORM (28/04/06 - 01/05/06)

KL was a BLAST!!! I really enjoyed myself and im sure all de rest of us did too. It was 2.5 days and 3 nights of great food, excellent shopping, bombastic dancing and OUT OF THIS WORLD COMPANY!!!!. :p This trip was also a jopurney of self discovery for many of us. I will never forget about the time we shared together. We definately left a great many deep impresions and foot prints for ourselves in KL. SNU U GUYS ROCK!!!!

Anyways, for all you poor souls that couldn't join us this time round, here's a little something to show u wad u guys missed out...wahahahahahaha... Damn, im evil.....

Young in all his evilness...wahahahah

DAY 1

We met up on the 28th at lavendar mrt at 1pm. Sondha had just stepped off her flight from aussieland at 4.30am but i guess nothing could stop her from the trip before us. Damn wa she hyper...hahahaha.

We had lunch at the army market and thereafter began scurrying to the departure point at golden mile complex. This time round as with the last, we decided to take a grassland coach up to kl. At 2.30pm, our long 6 hour ride up the north south highway to KL began.

Bags all falled in

Someone left his food untouched

Was the glutinous rice balls in peanut soup so good? Maybe Kai mincouldn't contain her excitement for the trip too...lol

I didn't managed to get much sleep the day before but neither did i get any on the ride up.lol. The ride was made shorter by the company of good friends. It was laughter galore as many of us caught up with each other. We talked about everything, discussed about life and planned for our later invasion of the KL salsa scene. We stopped briefly at a rest stop in between where we had food. I rnjoyed a gigantic chocolate ice cream but stopped there. I wanted to save the calories for KL....wahahahahaha. After that, we hit the road again... As night fell, young began DJing for the coach with his trusty ZEN NEEON mp3 player and cute white akira speakers... ...

All smiles... ...

The sistas

Jerry all so merry

Elieen caught unaware

Jwo wanted to lick the camera man... ewww

New akira ear phones....lol

Me with my jungle hat and something that looks suspiciously like sherv's hand hovering above it

Chocolate ice SCREM!!!!!

Rest stop

Say no to ... Porn?

We reached KL at about 9.15pm and trooped off to jul's apartment opposite Berjaya times square. There, there was the intial rush and mayhem to clean and spruce up the place abit before we setlled down for abit and got ready to leave for dinner and out first salsa location.

Frenzy

SNU shoe sale

We had dinner at this wannabe HK cha chan tang (tea house) that served lousy food at lousier price. The place was orangey (as in the colour... doh) and oriental themed. I didnt really enjoy the food...

We couldn't wait

Lookin good in my jungle hat

Rave party in the lift

The cool dudes

Cooler dudettes

Iced chocolate

Dinner place

Gwen enjoyed looney toons when she was younger

After dinner, it was off to SALSA HAVANA at the federal hotel!!!! Yippee!!! all of us were bursting wif energy. The atmosphere was electric, the people were excellent and the music was GROOVY!!! We had lotsa fun. At first, we attracted alot of stares as we looked like this big group of aliens invading earth. However, after awhile, after we were identified as singaporean salsa dancers, we were warmly accepted and merged into the crowd easily. We danced and danced and danced. I must say that the msian ladies were not bad. Most of them could follow my lead and a handful could pull of more complex turn patterns wif me. It was fun. I wore my jungle hat to dance but it was so warm and i was perspiring so much that i took it off after 2 dances...wahahahah

Groupy outside salsa havana

Cool young wif red hot wee meng

Lookin pretty in black

Shagged out

Jwo and sonn

Jane shaking it

Standing out in blue

Flashing their pearly whites

Yun Ping and me having a go

The msian guys had their fair share of sg ladies too. Our ladies were hot properties man.... hahaha. Guy after guy, song after song. U go gals.

Me with Emily

Frazzled Chris

I think that it is a universal trend that where u have salsa clubs, you will have a 24hr convenience store nearby. Like the budget salsa dancer i am, i got my drinks there and that was where i first met Sam, salsa sam!!!

Tired and contented

We left late that night and began a long march back to the apartment where we bunked down for the night. The queue for the toilet was long. I mean wad do u expect when 16 people shared 2 toilets?lol Sleeping arrangement also resembled sardines in a can. It was an interesting experience and sight. I couldn't really sleep. Sleeping bags are actually a toture instrument in disguise. When it works in tandem with a cold hard floor, it's worst...hahaha. My sleeping bag was too short and small for me. I felt like a piece of soft shell crab in sushi all wrapped up and stuff. It didnt help that jwo was practicing acrobatics in his sleeping bag all night and i was sandwiched by kai min sleeping on the matteress on the other side... lol. Boy was it a night...hahahaha.

Gigantic sardines

Jwo warming up for his acrobatic act later

DAY 2

It started of relatively earlier at 10pm. I can't really say i woke up cos i didnt really manage to fall asleep in the first place. Kai min and shirine left the house son after to head out to shop. I felt that the epitomise the typical singaporean shopperholic...wahahahah. By the time all of us left the aprtment, it was lunchtime so in the old time tested SNU way, we missed breakfast. We went to a humble shop somewhere nearby and had lunch. We had local food which honestly wasn't of much differnce to what we can find in singapore. I had shao rou fan ( roast pork rice).

The morning after carnage

BTS

Linking up

Off we go

This is my friend jwo... ...

After lunch, we split up to spend the afternoon. Clarence, jwo, sherv, sonn, elieen, jackson, wee meng and i went together. We decided to go and see the petronas twin towers and visit KLCC. Maybe it was the lack of sleep or the wanting to save money, we decided to take the monorail to klcc.

Monorail station

Ticket to...

... our ride

Sherv being flanked by 2 bodyguards

The twin towers from the monorail

The 21 and under club

I tell u, KL has many and i mean MANY funkily funny signs.lol

In the monorail station

Please jump of the ledge

"Can i have a HIV STD card please?"

Wowee!!!

We were sleep deprived and suffering from sleeping bag syndrome so during the whole day, we were all rather funny and looney and things we said were all so funny...hahaha. I developed 6 packs just from laughing out the whole day. it was great...lol

KLCC was a giant shopping center that sold the more high ended stuff. There were mainly shops like ZARA, MNG, U2, Top Shop, G2000 and others. It was like shopping at suntec. What really made my day was a berrylicious smoothie from New Zealand's Natural. It was fantastic. Soury and shiok!!!!

KLCC

Jwo playing it cool

Meet farmer young

Freak of nature wanted to eat up the gundam

I also saw a jacket that i really and absolutely lurved at ZARA. When i tried it on and stared at myself in the mirror, I was like WOAH!!! hahaha. It felt great and looked even better. Even jwo said that it looked fabulous from the back. Apity that i couldn't afford it cos it was like freakin RM600+++ ... sob sob... Guess i wont bee able to get my hands on it anytime soon. Well, at least now i have a goal to work towards. For the time being, i'll just have to settle wif a photo....lol

I want... ... ARGH!!!!

We also tried to take a tour up to the skybridge of the twin towers but tickets for the day were out. Awwww... In the end, we just had to be contented to take photos from the bottom.

Petronas Twin Towers

I feel dwarfed

After KLCC, we ttok the monorail back. Clarence and sherv decided to go back to the apartment to do god knows wad...lol while the rest of us went to get massages.

After searching for a while, we decided to to patronise a shop called Old Asia. It is near federal hotel and i must say that i looked very nice. The rest of the shops in the area looked way too sleazy for us. We went in and got ourselves a RM63 packaged which consisted of foot reflexology, back, neck, head, shoulders and hands massage. It lasted for 60 mins.

Tranquil setting

We were treated like VIPs

For the rest of us, it was heaven. It felt really great. I was feeling so refreshed and rejuvenated after it. For jwo however, it was an expensive 60 mins torture session...lol... Jwo's way too ticklish...hahahahahah.

shiok!!!

We got back to the apertment, chilled abit and prepared for dinner. Jul finally got to the apartment too. She was caught up at work so she could only join us on saturday. After all of us were back and ready, we went out for dinner.

All decked out in SNU gear

That dinner was the best meal of the trip to me. It was at the ship. It boasts that it serves the best steak in town... and i AGREE man!!! wahahahaha. This time around, we had lotsa great food. Jwo had seafood choere and he was enjoying it. We had 2 dozens of escargot this time around and all of us enjoyed it.

Ship in the city

Our looooooooong table

Picking our spoils

Full of youth and loving it

The highlight for me was my CARPET BAG STEAK!!!! it was beef steak stuffed with oysters cooked with oyster sauce, served with fries and fresh chopped vegatables. Man was it heavenly!!! The steak was thick, tender and juicy. The oysters stuffed inside were all so flavourful and full of freshness. The taste of the oysters blended sooooo well with the steak. I could have teared after taking that first bite.... yummmmm!!!! Coupled with the escargot and a cup of red wine... ... It was pure sinful indulgence...hahahaha

Shiny tools

French snails

The one and only carpet bag steak

Gluttony caught on film

After dinner, it was off to Little Havana. If u ask me, it looks abit sleazy. It's located in a more rundown part of town, quite scary to walk along the road at night if u ask me. It sits along Changkat Bukit Bintang.

Little havana in cool lime green

On the ground floor, it's a regular pub cum resturant. On the 2nd floor however, it's a big room with smooth flooring that acts as a dance floor. There was also a mini bar counter in a corner. With dim lights hanging from the tall ceiling and brown painted walls with a very little furniture, in the words of sondha, " it looks like a gambling den"...lol... Come to think of it, i can so picture several mahjong tables and roulette tables and people smoking cigars placing bets and all....lol. Well, i felt a bit doghy but it was this shaddiness that added to the whole cool feel...hahaha. It made the whole place feel like an uber secret underground salsa hangout where all the people who were there were like those cool players u always see in the movies...hahaha

Gambling den?

Anyways, we were there rather early at 9.30pm. It was still rather deserted and so we started dancing among ourselves. However as it grew later, the place really started to fill up. Since we wore our SNU shirts, we were soon identified to be the group from singapore and boy was it fun....

The funky salsa group from singapore

We had so much fun.... I danced and danced and danced. The msian ladies were quite alright. I managed to dance with many great ladies. Most of them could really shake it man... hahahaha. I really liked their body movements and stuff. Sizzlin. Some of them also looked real good...hahaha. Model material man...

Wee meng salsaing

Since we were identified as salsa dancers from singapore, many people wanted to dance wif us. The ladies were literally dragged off dance after dance. From them, it seemed that some of the msian guys were really good too. Elieen was blown away by the jap guy, sondha was charmed by iggy... ...

Jul being charmed by a Msian guy

I can see shirine

Us guys did pretty well too. I was busy dancing most of the time and didn't notice much but from eye witness accounts from kai min, sondha and elieen, there was this bunch of beer drinking ladies that sort off kept following me around and swooning all over me...hahaha. Whenever i shifted somewhere else to dance, they changed their positions too.. hahahah. I wonder if it was really true that i was actually attractive to those KL ladies or that they just had too much beer to drink lol. Anyways, this is the first time that stuff like this has happened to me before so yah... im flattered...lol

Getting on wif chris

Spinning and enjoying it

Random shot of the crowd

I dare say that all of the rest had lotsa fun too! The atmosphere was so jovial. Since we had different dance styles and stuff, many people wanted to dance wif us. Whenever i finished a dance wif a lady, they always had that "Oh My God" stunned look....hahaha... I hope it's in a good way though...lol

All of us having fun

Seng Wee was there

Jerry was happy

Young was spent after trying out... erm... dancing with... so many ladies

Halfway through the night, there was this dance called samba line dancing. basically, it's a group dance where people dance to the same 4 steps. Cool...hahahah

At the end of the night, everyone wanted a piece of SNU...lol. I was especially touched by Sam. They call him KL Salsa Sam and he has the legendary status in kl like what jackson in singapore has. Btw, he's a salsa instructor at Havana Estudio in KL and if your are interested, the webbie is www.havanaestudio.com. He actually came up to me and the rest of us to talk to us and thanked us for coming down to KL and spicing up the scene here, uping the tempo and stuff. He was soooo nice and sincere, shaking our hands and stuff. There was not even a hint of snobbishness or " im too cool for you" attitude. He was so down to earth. He definately won me over. We exchanged contacts and stuff and took photos with all of us. Thank you so much Sam, for making our KL trip that much nicer :)

SNU and Sam

Sam and SNU

Besides Sam, alot of other people wanted to take photos with us. There were so many cameras and flashes. I felt like a celebrity. Everyone was so welcoming and wanted to know us better. I felt that we must have left a real good impression. Thanks guys. SNU WE ROCK!!!!! wahahaha.

Emily took photos with us too

When we left, they even invited us to supper at a nearby makan place. I guess it's the same worldwide. Good salsa must be followed up with good food:)

This prata shop isn't located at tanjong pagar

All of left that night on a great note. Thank you Msian dancers for making our day :D

Young looks like that when he's tired but happy

We took a cab back because we were seriously too spent to trek back. After showering and stuff, most of us went to sleep. Sonn had to study and i couldn't sleep so we ended up talking about stuff. It was way interesting to see how people sleep man. hahaha. Jwo did his usually sleeping bag acrobatics stunts, clarence kept scratching his nose, wee meng and jerry practiced sychronised sleeping...lol. Anyways, sonn and i had a long chat till about 7am before deciding that it was time to sleep too..hahaha. Thanks for the chat sonn. It's really much appreciated.

DAY 3

I woke up at about 10.30am. Today, a couple of us were returning to singapore early. Kaimin, shirirne, jane and wee meng left today for singapore. By the time i woke up, most of dem were already half ready to leave.

Day 3 ... ... in the morning

After the usual morning bustle of freshening up, we left at around 11.30am skipping breakfast and heading straight for lunch SNU manner. We had lunch at this chicken buffet place at BTS. Wasn't that bad but i wasn't fanastic either. In this point of time, i gotta tell you that my dear old buddy jwo comes up with the wierdest nonsence all the time. Since i was seriously sleep deprived, i wasn't in the best of moods and was stoning badly. During lunch with jwo howver, he made me feel so much better with all his funny shit. Really left me rolling on the floor man. You rock jwo...wahahahah.

After lunch, we split up again. Today was more or less a shopping day. I had wanted to go to genting badly, to enjoy the weather, have a cup of coffee, just soak in the cool highland air and just watch the world go by for a while but no one was for the idea ( most of dem said that i should just go back to de apartment and turn down the air con. Jerry said that if i wanted mist, he'd just turn on the hot shower and open the door to let vapour out...lol) and since a 1 way cab fare up was RM80, i gave up as well. I went to get a cup of ice blended mocha frap from starbucks to fight the fatigue.

After that, we decided to crash the apartment for a while but when we got there, no one was home and we didn't have the key and so clarence, sherv, jwo and i headed to sungei wang plaza to shop. I was still feelin really stoned. Simce i was the only in the group with a handphone that sould roam, i was the signaller for the day. Anyways, we walked to sungei wang and bummed around until jerry called me and we took his car. He sent sherv and clarence back to the apartment while jwo and i headed off to lot 10 shopping center and resumed shopping.

By then, the caffine had started to kick in and i felt a tad bit better. At lot 100, we stumbled around abit and window shopped. I realised that using the toilets in msia was expensive. The toilet at lot 10 was RM0.30 per entry and they even gave u a coupon upon payment... ... Geez... im only going in to take a crap not to watch a movie or use a jacuzzi. What!!! 30cents and still got coupon.... (-_-!!!)

Present this coupon and receive a free massage as you take a crap

We went into Isetan where i bought an uber vintage style shirt. It is a yellow union bay shirt which is really retro... ... Think old time coal miners on R & R. Well, i found that i really matched my jeans and levi's sneaker so i bought it. The 70% discount of the RM75 price tag was also a great motivating factor.

After lot 10, we made our back to sungei wang as jwo wanted to buy clothes. We milled about, checking out lotsa shops. Sungei Wang is kinda like far east plaza with alot of street wear. However, not all of it is really good cos i felt that alot of the shops screamed ah beng all over. Nevertheless, we found many quirky and interesting shops. There was one shop that really tickled us. It was selling printed t shirts that had funny messages like " If i was a giraffe, i would be that bit taller"...lol

We also found a shop selling dragon beard candy and started to indulge ourselves. Each box of 8 pieces costs RM5. We had a total of 3 boxes between ourselves and spent a good whole box finding out how to eating it without spilling the crushed nuts in the candy. The trick is to first flip the candy over before picking it up gently... lol

Eat dragon beard candy for radiant skin like mine

Upon finishing our tour of sungei wang, we tried to head back to BTS as jwo wanted to get a pair of romp jeans. We were however lost and upon searching, realised that we had wandered into BB plaza from sungei wang as they were connected. After searching a while longer, we finally managed to find our way back to BTS. Jwo bought a romp shirt and we headed back to the apartment to chill.

Back at the apartment, we found sonn studying and clarence and sherv asleep. Jwo, sondha and i jut chilled, talking good ol' fashion crap and just enjoyed each other's company. Jwo also managed to catch up on some sleep. For me however, the caffine was working too well.

Jwo looks like this when he crashes on a couch

It was about 5 plus at that time. by 8 plus, the rest were back too. We all got ready and decided to head to china town area for some bbq fish for dinner.

All smiles as we head for dinner

China town is a really busy and bustling place at night. Lotsa roadside stores selling mouth watering food at reasonable prices. At that time, the effects of caffine had wore out and soon i was stoning yet again....hahaha

I am a white stone...

We had bbq sting ray, sotong, fried mushrooms, lala, bamboo clams and satay that came up to about RM80 plus. It was shiok!!! Really value for money. We also ordered our own ala carte dishes. I had mixed pig organ soup hor fan which was sedap:) There was also a busking band that was playing but i must say they wern't very good...lol

Chinatown in full glory

Looking for a place to chow down

Food...

... food...

... and more food

Yummylicious mixed pig organ souped hor fan for RM4.50

After dinner, the original plan was to go to Zouk but somehow due to some people, we ended up at Q bar at the westin... ... :( Well, I really wanted to go to zouk but wad to do? haiz... ... Anyways, I had 2 very good dances at Q bar. Both of the dances were with shervonne and sondha but the songs were not salsa but actually pop and slow rock numbers. The live band was playing and i must say they were very good, way better than the band at union square.

Geting comfy on the couch outside Q bar

Q bar on the inside

The music was great but what really irked me was the lack of space, lousy crowd and an overly egoistic dancer.

Dosen't young look happy to be at Q bar... ...not :(

First of all, the dance floor was very small, only had space for about 4 couples at most. Secondly, the crowd there was crap. It mainly consisted of toursit and expats whom mostly knew nothing about salsa. So when salsa was played, the non dancers crammed up the dance floor and just started to shake and gyrate tastelessly, wasting precious space. When eyeballed, they couldn't care less anyways.

If that wasn't enuff, there was this dancer that seriously rubbed me the wrong way. There was this big framed guy in blue that was apparently an instructor. According to sondha whom he danced wif, he couldn't lead very well and questioned her why so (becos she danced pretty well wif someone before that). Not only that, he repeatedly said in her face during dancin that he was an instructor (.... .... so what?!). Sorry to tell you this, it just dosen't cut it with singaporean ladies. He further pissed sondha of by blatantly pooping her into a chairleaving her a big blue black but guess wad... ... he just said it's ok and carried on. He also refused to dance wif sondha until she wore her slipper despite sondha explaining that her dance shoes were spoilt.

He also irritated the hell out of yun ping but bugging her to dance when she was smsing by herself. Gwen was also slightly disgusted as he maintained such close contact and did moves that literally wiped his sweat all over her that she had to go to the toilet to wash up after that. Yuck!!!

What really got me real pissed was the fact that he was seriously over egoistic. When i was standing there just tryong to rest and stuff, he came around and sussed us all to go and dance. Im like WHAT THE F***K man... ... Not only that, on the already crowded dance floor, he didn't care hoots about keeping to his space and proceeded to throw his partner around like rag dolls and take up hell lot of space, at his partner's demise too. Talk about dance etiquette. To think that he's a salsa instructor... ... Bloody ass hole. I was so pissed i went to 7-11 twice.

Someone pressed the wrong button and pissed young off badly

At about 2am, i got so pissed that i wanted to leave. I discussed with the rest and decided that we should go to zouk. Well, some of us decided to go back to the apartment. The rest of us took cabs down to zouk.

By the time we reached zouk, it was already very late. Zouk was closing at 3am and by the time we got in, it was 2.43am. grrrr... to think i got myself pissed off and missed out on zouk. At least we got FREE entry...lol. On the way in we say some people dragged a piss drunk lady out. Boy.. it isnt pretty to be drunk.

Singapore's finest export to Malaysia

Outside the happy land

We enjoyed the last 20 mins or so of the night. It was mambo night. The atmosphere was great. Pity the short time we had. I had a tequila shot for RM15.50. Jul, jwo, sonn and i were on the dance floor. I felt that it was way better than Q bar.

Slightly after 3am, the lights went on and they played one final song. That was when i had the best dance of the whole KL trip. Sonn and i decided to salsa to that final song, which was emotions by destiny's child. Although it was heavy on percussions and had no latin flavour to it wadsoeva, somehow the some felt sooooooand flowy. We danced in the zouk dance floor and i dare say that the good many people who saw us were impressed. Thanks sonn :)

Great friends

After that, we took cabs back to the apartment. We watched innocent steps and soon after, under the influence of tequila and lack of sleep, i was snoring...hahahahaha

DAY 4

The last day began at 10.30am. As usual, after the morning frenzy, jwo, clarence, sondha, sherv and i went downstairs to the prata shop to have our first breakfast in KL. The prata was so so to me but they were big. After 1 egg and 2 kosong, i was going to explode...hahaha.

Prata breakfast wif sonn...

... and jwo

After breakfast, it was back to sunei wang for last minute shopping. Nothing much except for a few toy shops that we passed by. We visited a comic shop where io bought 2 anime movies and jwo bought a soundtrack.

What tickled us the most was that jwo bought this coffin shaped portable mini ashtray that would pop open when u pressed a button. It was damn gothic looking. Jwo said that he planned to use it to scare the hell out of everyone and use it to keep sweets... hahahahah... jwo jwo jwo....lol. Pity i forgot to take photos of it...hahaha

The owner must be one bitter ah beng who speaks benglish...lol

We went back to the apartment 1 final time at 1.05 pm. Jul bought 3 skirts and elieen bought a blouse. We did our final packing and left our base camp at 1.15pm. Jerry was waiting for us in his merc E class and we dropped off our luggae in his car as he volunteered to send them to our departure point for us. We then walked to swiss garden hotel under the hot sun to await our ride home.

Trek to the pick up point

Too darn hot

Jwo contemplating before leaving KL

There was a bit of a mix up of coaches but in the end, we got tit sorted out and left on time. The trip was uneventful. I concussed as soon as i hit the head rest. However, when i woke up, i realised that the bus drivers were damn irritating. They were indians and started to play tamil music videos on the vcd player... ... bloody idiots.

Anyways, we talked cock as usaul along the trip back. We also discussed about salsa and the whole trip. The ride back was longer than expected as there was a massive jam along the highway or as jwo puts it "a sea of car butts"...lol

We reached sg at about 9.50pm, close to 10pm. Some of us dropped off at taman jurong and parted ways. Sondha took a cab to the airport to catch her 12 midnight flight, concluding our weekend salsa trip:)

Jul couldn't wait to get home

Preparing to disembark

I'd like to take this oppurtunity to thank alot of people. To jul, thanks sooooooo much for letting us crash your apartment which is right smack in the middle of town yet again. To elieen, thanks for helping us settle our bus ride and coordinating most of the stuff. To jwo and sonn, thanks for making my day and letting me discover so much about myself. To the rest of you guys, thanks for your great company, cooperation that made it such an enjoyable trip.

SNU, WE ARE THE PARTY!!!!! Till the next trip =D

Young couldn't bear to leave... ...

2006-04-25T16:46:00.000+08:00

ORD LOR!!!!!!

I finally got to see o'l pinky after the longest 2 years and 4 months of my life. It feels like i've been given my life back. :D

I'll like to thank lots of people, my family, friends and all the higher powers that have seen me pass through these evenful period. Thanks for giving me support and helping me make the right (well sometimes...) decisions when i was faced wif wierd and funny situations.

I'll like to say that i've also met a bunch of nice people who made my ns life what it was. I'd like to thank you, guys from BMT Ulysses platoon 3, SMM TSS, SMM P019 platoon one and mates from BCTC... ... You guys rock!!!

So ends another quriky 2 plus years of my life. I'll never forget the day i woke up for enlistment, that bloody long mrt ride to tekong, sending my parents off at tekong, firing a rifle for the first time, booking out on weekends, field camp, kiwi bombing, IV training at SMM, my hentai king buddy, Wednesday nights out,passing out as a medic, quirky incidents at bctc, the p-case thingy at iti duty, teaching fa and ibos at iti, covering igcs, exercise wallaby 05, that day of R & R... ... all so many things. It was definately a character building and also interestingly quirky time i had in the army.

If given a choice, i wouldnt wanna do it again but im proud to say that i have served my duties to our country and home.

Enuff said. Watch out world... ... HERE I COME!!!!!

2006-04-25T00:48:00.000+08:00

THE TIME HAS FINALLY COME!!!!! 25/04/06!!! I NEVER THOUGHT I'LL REACH THIS DAY BUT A FEW MORE HOURS REMAINING TILL I SEE OL' PINKY!!!!!! ORD LOR!!!!!!

2006-04-24T08:23:00.000+08:00

I've been dancin salsa for about 8 months now... ...

but... ...

i do not have that veil of mystery, an air of coolness or that hint of flashiness...

not even a tad bit of sexiness nor grace usually associated with salsa...

so if i don look or feel like a salsa dancer...

What am i? lol

2006-04-23T12:20:00.000+08:00

THE FLOOR IS ON FIRE!!!!

Yesterday was a great day of fun-filled eye opening dances. The gang of us, clarence, jwo, kaimin, sherv and her frens and me went down to suntec to watch the matinee.

We met at about 2.30pm all hyped up outside the venue. We paid $48 bucks, special student price thanks to shirine and kaimin, for the 1 hr show. I must say that at first, when i walked in, i wasn't expecting much out of it but... ... when i left after the show was over, I WAS BLOWN AWAY!!!!!

Entering the venue

This was the first time that i went to suntec to watch such a mega performance. Basically, the venue is big... really big!!! Lotsa chairs ans stuff. Really reminded me of having lectures back in school :P

Overaged students getting ready for that boring 3 hr physics lecture...lol

Wad can i say? It was a 1 hour dance extrvaganza with nice flashy moves and stunning costumes... ...

The show started of wif the vocalist singing the opening theme and dancers streaming onto the stage from the audience area!!! That really got the crowd moving cos all of us were so excited to be within such close contact wif the dancers... ... even if it was only for that brief 3 seconds or so...lol

Swing it baby... SWING IT!!!

During that 1 hour matinee, we were treated to a mix of different dances. First up, there was the opening dance, then some ballroom, waltz and all.

It looks so surreal

OH MY!!!! Of the whole show, i like the ballroom routine the best!!! First of all, the stage was transformed into something out of a fairtyle... ... It was all starry and elegant. The stage was alos basked in tranquil blue light, with mist being occasional pumped to create that all so dreamy and romantic effect. The dancers were clad in graceful ballroom numbers. All of them except the lead couple wore masks... ... think zoro kind...

I enjoyed the dance soooooo much!!! The dancers were soooooooo graceful to say the least. They litterally glided around. Their postures were so rigid (cos it's ballroom) but when they came together, the overall picture ooze nothing or rigidty and stuffiness but instead it felt so romantic and sensitive.

I felt that the lead couple was exceptional good. Even from so far away, i could feel the closeness, the chemistry and the sweetness between them. They felt so imitate so loving... awwww. They totally brought out the whole mood of the dance. Whenever the tone of the music changed sinister or sad, they also did a good just in portraying the emotion of the dance. I never thought that i would like ballroom dancing before but after that splendid performance, i might just give it a chance in future... lol

Dreamy, romantic and blue...

Next up, there was an interesting transition from ballroom to a dance which i couldnt really identify. It was definately a modern dance. The music was heavy on electronic sounds and heavy on the percussions. After the show, we were trying to identify the type of dance when i suggested that it was trance. This left jwo, clarence and sherv bursting out in laughter. I wonder why...lol

Trance?

There was also a jive, swing and lindy hop number. It screamed america 1950s all over. Loud colourful costumes, bright vegas like backdrop and cheery american music. The dancers delivered it very energetically. This dance smouldered the whole venue with an air of cheekiness and innocent mischief. I could literally taste the naughtiness in the air. It was so infectiously uplifting. I like...hahahahahahahahahaha.

Vegas anyone?

Ding ding ding... I can hear the slot machines ringing... ...

That more or less wrapped up our 1 hr saturday matinee. I stepped in not expecting much but i left feeling that it was too short...hahahahaha.

Young was hungry for more....

After stepping outside, we realised that if we wanted to watch the full show that night, we could do so wif a top up of 20 bucks. At first i didnt want to watch cos the rest of the guys didnt want to. Jwo had dance practice, clarence and sherv wanted to go down to union and kaimin had dinner. I then left suntec for my final I4 lesson at jj. It was then that liu jun called me and asked if i wanted to watch the full show tonight. I met liu jun at the matinee by the way. She is a dancer too and the matinee really left her in such a big appetite for more dance which only the full show could whet. It seems that her dance mates didn t want to watch it too. Anyways, since i was also interested inwatching he full thing, we went ahead and paid the 20 bucks.

The lesson at jj was frustrating yet again...hahahahah. Well, the harder the challenge, the greater i'll feel when i accomplish it. So it's goin to be practice, practice and more practice for me....lol.

Anyways, since it's the last lesson at jj, im contemplating whether to go to ladc or jitterbugs to continue taking up lessons... hmm... any opinions from anyone about this?lol

After lesson, i hurried down to meet liu jun at suntec to watch the full show. I met douglas at suntec too. He was going to watch the show too. It seemed that he paid 111 bucks for it though. I felt so lucky to be only paying 68bucks for the full thing even after the top up....hahahah.

Anyways, dinner was an on the go event, we me spending 3 bucks on an auntie anne's preztel dog, 2 bucks for a mac donalds double cheese burger and a 2.50 medium auntie anne's lemondae to wash it all down.

By the time we got in, it was about 8.05pm. The show had not started yet and so we found our seats and started talking cock...hahah. We tried cam whoring abit but somehow, the pictures didnt turn out right... sob sob... Im so sorry liu jun. Next time i'll bring my konica minolta digicam instead oki...lol

The ONLY 1 that survived

Waiting for the lecturer

Basically, the show went on as per in the afternoon. It was like watching it over again till the rest interval. Even then, i was still enchanted by the ball room number. SO NICE!!!!!...hahaha.

I met alot of peoples from unionsquare at the show too. Tiara was ushering, i saw val at her seat, i saw gibson, i met gary... lotsa people...hahahha. During the 20 mins rest interval, i also saw this freakin tall gal. Man... she was almost as tall as me man. 1.8 plus i think.... Quite slim too....woah...hahahahah

After the interval, we were further treated to various other dances like the argentinian tango, drool... i wanna learn it too...hahah, more modern dance, some latin dances, the spanish flamenco, some english ball room dances and many more. It was SPECTACULAR!!!!!

In this point of time, i must say that i didnt take many more photos, cos i was way too captivated by the happenings on stage and also becos i was using the puny vga camera on my L7 so the photos wouldnt turn out very nice anyway...lol. So, if u guys want better coverage of events and nice pics, you know wad to do r ~ hint hint~...hahah...

Anyways, some people were very irritating, using flash to take photos in the show. It's so irritaing man. It's like yer so into the mood and dance on stage whenthe bugger behind you decides to whip out his cam and flash. I mean wad the hell right.... Dont they know that since it's so dark and the stage is far a way, the flash will just ruin his photo anyway?... ... For goodness sake, turn of the flash and use night mode or something lah...... GRRRRRRRRRR...

The whole show lasted for about 2 hours. More groovy music, great dancers, flashy outfits and spectacular sets. I was left gasping for more...hahahaha. One thing was for sure. It was great. It was at total of 68 bucks well spent :D.

The final dance set

I also realised one thing. Most of the dancers were tall, quite tall. Even the ladies too. Anyways, after the show, The dancers stayed behind to autograph cds. Didnt get the cd so i didnt get any autographs. I did try to get a photo though...hahaha.

Stars of the night

As a whole, it was an unforgetabble night. Great music, better dances, nice company. Who could ask for more...lol.

Burned the floor they did. The roof's on fire too....hahaha

The roof was sizzling too

2006-04-19T01:36:00.000+08:00

Horror of horrors!!!!! im starting to get BORED of my own salsa routine!!!!! AHHHHHH!!!! Im running out of moves and it seems that my turn patterns are starting to feel all de same.... OH NO!!!! I think i can probably dance the same way blind folded....

Now, i think i'll have to consciously remind myself to tweak my routine and change some stuff. It aint easy especially since i've sort of gotten used to my own style. It feels like im trying to reinvent the wheel.

Guess wad, to think that im gonna finish I4 and im still dancing this way is..... HORRENDOUS!!!!!! Worst of all, I4 is ending soon, 1 more lesson left and im still dancing like crap. Damn it feels like i didnt improve much at all.... My vocab of moves still feel so limited. Im seriously gettin sian of doing the same things over and over again..... bleh

I guess i'll have to leech of jwo, wei ming and the rest. See wad they can impart to me. People, if yer reading this and feel that you can teach me something new, PLEASE DO SO!!!!! i'll be soooo grateful to you man....hahahhah

Anyways, just a question to all u guys out there, wad sorta chocolate do you like? As for me, i like dark, mildly sweet chocolate. The darker the better. Somehow dark chocolate brings out the rich flavour of the cocoa better than milk or white chocolate. Milk and white chocolate just taste sweet and thats it....lol..

Feel free to leave comments on the tag board or on the blog entry:)

2006-04-18T00:04:00.000+08:00

Grey's Anatomy

I simply love watching grey's anatomy. I think that it is one of the best shows ever...lol

I guess my habit of watching grey's anatomy started off during my sad days doing duty on mondays in camp...lol. During monday duty, i'll always shower before 11pm, in that creepy medical center toilet, do my final round of checking de medical center, making sure that i locked all the rooms and stuff, before i finally plonk myself down on the front desk chair or lie on the strecther to watch grey's. Usually, my ambulance driver would either be watching it too or doing his own stuff on the net using de med ctr's com.

When watching grey's in de med ctr, i especially felt very intriuged about the stuff goin on in the show cos ... well i am in a MEDICAL CENTER right...lol I'd also silently thank my lucky stars that i havent had to respond to major accidents like RTAs and stuff like dat. I mean how's ONE bloody medic and ONE ambulance driver gonna be able to handle such major stuff right....lol. In grey's there was a whole freakin hospital to attend to such stuff...lol. Well, even after praying and stuff, i must say that i still had my fair share of funny and interesting cases to attend to throught my NS life though...lol

Besides praying that i wouldnt have to handle stuff that would be over my head, i would also wish that the night would then also past smoothly without people calling the medical center in the middle of the night, be they patients, nosy DOs or other worldy beings for that matter...hahaha. Well at least till i finish watching scrubs which is aired after grey's...hahahah.

Anyways, grey's anatomy is so nice to watch because of a few factors. Firstly, it's a medical show and i find medical stuff interesting. Pity though that i will never be a doctor but i guess it's better for me cos i think i wouldnt be able to take the stress of seeing human suffering.

Even as a medic, it can be so stressful when attending to cases especially when yer alone and out in the field. Since you are the highest authority in terms of medical knowledge out there, people rest all their faith and you can see that they trust you soooooo much to make the right decisions and make them feel better. You can see it from their eyes that they view you to be some kind of miracle worker of sorts but in actual fact, you are only a mere mortal just like them. Thus, the pressure to do the right thing and make the right decisions is so great. You just don wanna screw up and cost a fellow human being more pain and worst still, his life. I will never and can never forget the time that i had to made a decision to IV a poor chap during training. I was under sooooo much pressure to perform especially since there were so many officers crowding around me.... brrr... luckily, i managed to get it in the end...hahaha (p.s. never underestimate the power of a "thank you". It may be the simplest gesture but trust me, it can really make someone's day...=D)

Secondly, Grey's anatomy is more than a simple medical drama. It talks about alot of human issues like hate, fear, friendship and many other faccets of life. It talks about the lives of a few intern surgeons in a hospital and how they deal and go about their emotions and interpersonal realtionship issues in the course of their work. Many of these issues actually touch close to my heart and will do so to you because i guess many of us face the same problems in our everyday lives at work, in school or at home. I especially like the narration and thoughts that they pose to viewers. These little gems of wisdom reflect upon the issues being raised in the show. I find that most of them are all so true. Many of them are really quote worthy and i simply love the fact that they are simple and yet straight to the point. I really love them :)

Finally, i find that grey's anatomy is a much watch because even with all the heavy and serious topics that the show brings up, the producers still manage to infuse alot of witty humour and light moments into the show. They did a good job in delivering deep messages in a manner which does not dampen the show into a boring crap or use too much goofiness which might have cpoilt all the meaning and turned it into a ra ra show. I congratulate the producers in finding that perfect balance. A job well done indeed.

I must say that i am not much of a tv person but my monday nights are never complete without Grey's Anatomy. It's aired on channel 5 every monday at 11pm. Go watch it it if you can....

I'll leave you with a quote from the show. It's taken form the latest episode which i just watched a while ago. Thank you so much noel, for finding out the exact quote for me cos i couldnt catch it word for word from the tv... ...

"As surgeons we have to be in the know. But as human beings, sometimes it's better to stay in the dark, 'cause in the dark there may be fear, but there's also hope..."

If all doctors were so good looking (the gals, not the guys nor that fat lady u idiot...lol), i would sign on as a medic and volunteer to send casualties to hospitals everyday...hahahahah

2006-04-16T23:17:00.000+08:00

The run

Woah... wad a crappy week it has been. Finally, it has come to an end:)

Am truly looking forward to a brand new week, my ORD date ( 9 more days!!!), the completion of the SNU shirts and also the much anticipated KL trip!!! i just can't wait :D

Oh wells, a while a go, i went for a run around my neighbourhood, more precisely, along the jurong canal. Nothing special about it. Just felt that the weather WAS inviting and i just felt like running...hahahaha. I realised that i had never loboed 1 whole day and gave myself so much alone time for the whole of last week..hahaha

When i went down to the park to start my warm up and stuff, it suddenly started to DRIZZLE!!!! Wad de hell!!!! hahahaha talk about erratic weather man. It has been raining so much these few days like some pipe had just burst somewhere up there.....hahaha.

Well, most normal sane people would most probably just abolish the idea of outdoor activities, let alone running, at the sight of impending rain. I weighed my options. A, i could just walk a few steps back to the lift and go home, take a nice warm bath and dinner followed by some nice sunday chill out time or B, continue with my warm up and run, risking being caught in a heavy rain in the middle of my run and risk catching a cold and stuff...hahaha. I pondered over it for a second and went ahead with option B. Maybe i wasnt thinking at all but i really felt like running....hahahaha.... talk about determination man... wads a few rain drops....lol

After my warm up, i started my run admist the falling rain. It wasnt that heavy so i didnt really care much about it. As i jogged ( or panted) my way along my route, i realised one thing. It seemed that evety thing seemed so much more serene.... .... Everything seemed extra calm, extra cool. Life sorta slowed down.

There wasn't the usual couples cuddling one another along the benches or the congregations of youngsters hanging out chilling, the occasional guy or gal just walking along yakking away on their mobiles or that mom or dad dragging their kid along. It seemed that the drizzle was like a huge imaginary blanket that covered the whole of the neighbourhood, urging some to take things slow and others to just go and sleep.

Other than a couple of equally crazy fitness fanatics that were jogging too and the few solitary hardcore fishing fanatics clsd in rain coats (i really wonder if they actually caught any fish from the canal, would they dare to eat it?) huddling along the canal waiting for a bite on their lines, there was no sign of life. Everything seemed all so tranquil.... ...

To me, it was the perfect way to end a crazy week. Some nice, relaxing (oki maybe not that relaxing since i was running...hahah), peaceful alone time for myself to clear my head, think about the week that has passed and also to look forward to a brand new week ahead... ...

Sometimes, i wonder wad drives me to do crazy things like running in the rain...hahahaha

I might just catch that cold now...lol :P

2006-04-13T01:27:00.000+08:00

~Where do unspoken thoughts go... ... into the crab nebulsa~

Yesh, it's nebulSa... not a typo. A friend of mine gave me this quote. It had several layers of meanings and i guess it is open to different interpretations i guess.

A nice quote nevertheless :P

I'm not an astrofreak wadsoeva.. but i must say that the crab nebula does look nice

2006-04-11T23:15:00.000+08:00

Guess wad i found when i ran "cutmedowntosize" through yahoo...

http://www.myspace.com/cutmedowntosize

2006-04-11T21:03:00.000+08:00

Metallic menace

Screw ups, foul ups, cock ups, snags, f**k ups... ... all the same. I hate them all but it seems to be all i get the past few days... ...

Even blogger is starting to become all wonky and stuff... ...Rawr!!!

Becareful... ... be very careful... cos i bite. When i do, i bite HARD... ...

Young stepped on a screw

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The only thing that is really getting me going now is the fact that im going to ORD in 2yrs? no... 1 yr? noooo... 6 months? not really... 3 months? ahahaha... no.... .... .....

I have a grand total of 2 MORE WEEKS before i kiss my ALL SO MAGNIFICENT PINK FREAKIN IC!!!!!!! YAY!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

I wont miss u 11B..... bleh...wahahahahah

On a lighter note, i finally got backmy L7 which broke down on sat. DAmn irritating cos it bought it less than a mth ago. Well at lest i don have to chug my old nokia phone around anymore.

Erm... bears like to shop at HMV too?

2006-04-09T18:14:00.000+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!!!!!!

Mum looking so happy with her mango cake from secret recipe =p

2006-04-09T02:12:00.000+08:00

Today was a tiring day....lol.... don ask me why.

Maybe it was jamming wif jerry. He's damn good on the drums btw.

Den again it could be that third trip we took down to queensway to try and settle the printing. Well, at least we got the process rolling. Hope it keeps on moving. Seriously quite sian already. So many screw ups and stuff. It's so hard to please everyone... ... lets just hope it'll go smoothly from now on.... :)

I4 lesson was frustrating to say the least... ... Today's move was definately not intended for tall people. Had a really hard time trying to execute and follow through the whole routine. Keep telling myself that being challenged is good though. At least after all the struggling and trying, i'll be able to dance better. Yep and at least it shows that I4 is value for money. No point paying good money if the moves are simple and well... ... it is I4 right...lol. Practice makes perfect i guess.

Dancing at union wasn't spectacular too. Was too tired. Somehow i didn't seem to be able to focus at all. I was somehow seriously distracted. Seem rather distraught and lost on the floor. Tried out today's move but... ... My lead sucked big time too... Maybe this is wad they call dancer's block...hahahahah...Guess it was was the convergence of all the negativity of the day. Oh wells... ... all of us have our days i guess...hahahah

Feelining all so spent now... ...

enuff of saturday. I realised that John Mayer's " your body is a wonderland" is a cheeky yet tastefully done song. Nice cheery tune and sensual mischevious lyrics....hahahaha. Go check it out.

=D

2006-04-08T01:25:00.000+08:00

The return of the tall dark shadow...

Today, or yesterday if you to take into account that im writing this after 12, was the day that i had MY MOST EXHUASTING DANCE UP TO DATE!!!! wahahahahaha!!!!

Anyway, the day started out quite normal as every other day. Woke up to LUNCH at 12.30 ( i can think of so many names now that will want to hunt me down for that...wahahahah), hauled my lazy ass around the house abit before i left home at 3+.

Took a long long bus ride (198) down to queensway to settle some stuff for the SNU shirts... Well, sometimes i just lurve long solitary bus and train rides and walks.

With my trusty zen neeon, these long and slow rides become time to think about stuff. Just staring out into the changing scenery with different songs being popped into your head. These songs totally affect my mood. Sometimes, i just get this " hmm... i just feel like im in a movie" feeling. I like to be around people and i love company but i can never imgaine life without these precious moments of solitary self relfectionish alone time. Yesh... maybe im just wierd...wahahahah.

Back to queensway and the shirts, it seems harder than i thought it would be to get it all rolled out. Sigh.... guess i'll just try my best and hopefully we'll be able to get them in time for our kl trip.

After queensway, i headed down to orchard far east to get my hair cut at pointers. Now, my hair is short cropped and i like it that way. The cut was rather funny cos the hairdressers were yakking away in cantonese between themselves. Seriously loads of crap. The best part was, they didnt noe that i knew how to speak cantonese too!!! wahahahahah!!! i was seriously trying to keep a straight face throughout my hair cut...lol..

Upon leaving pointers, I realised that i was still way too early. It was 5.30 but i was supposed to meet the gang at 7.30. Decided to take a slow walk down orchard road to plaza sing. Along the way, there were many surveyors ( those pesky people that keep stopping you and ask you to take surveys). Well, i put on my earphones and let my zen entertain me along the way. I felt like a sheep trying to dodge numerous preying wolves. Talk about a big sheep...hahahah. I felt like so exposed..hahaha like everyone of them was like staring at me cos im like so hard to miss...hahahah.

Surprisingly, i was only stopped twice along the way. I think listening to earphones and constantly putting on a " come near me and i'll break yer pesky pen into 2 and stomp on the broken pieces until they become even smaller pieces" helped..... wahahahahahhah...

Eventually met up wif the gang and had ajisen ramen for dinner. Black pepper beef ramen was nice but i liked the soft shell crab better. Soft shell crab is like THE food lor...hahahaha. It ranks like in the top 10 out of my list of young's top 137 favourite dishes...waahahaha. Unlike normal crab where you have to like crack the shell open and painstakingly dig for the precious few morsels of meat while geting your hands all greasy and dirty, you can just take up whole pieces of golden fried soft shell crab in tasty batter, with shells and all, place it in your mouth and start chewing. Besides, i find that it tastes great,maybe even better than normal chilli or butter crabs!!!! Talk about hassle free delicacy....hahahah. Mmmmmm wad's life without soft shell crabs man...hahahahahah

After our satisfying dinner, we went down to ladc for an equally satisfying night of salsa!!! (for me at least...lol) Somehow, i found that there were more people this time around compared to last week. Not a bad thing considering the fact that most of them were pros... I counted at least 2 instructors (excluding ladc ones) from calienta and enmotion. As mentioned before, the music was good and so were the ladies...hahahahah

This was when, i had MY MOST EXHUASTING DANCE UP TO DATE!!!! (in a good way that is) wahahahahahah. There was this particular lady whom i guess was from enmotion cos she came with gary whom i danced wif. She wore a black dress with no specs. I was very impressed by her when she made an appearance with gary. She could really move man. My jaw dropped when she and gary were dancing.

I was so utterly impressed by her that i made up my mind to dance wif her. Well i knew that she was definately way way better than me but who cares...lol... This is young we're toking about here...hahahahah.

Well, later that night, i managed to grab hold of her for a dance. Almost imediately, i felt that i sort of bit off more than i could chew.....hahahahahahah...

For starters, boy can she REALLY GROOVE MAN!!!!!! All the isolation, styling and drop dead sexy moves!!!! WOAH!!!!! I was like OMG... shit i better do something too man!!!! I mean got to pei he a bit right... cannot machiam a block of wood lidat wad...hahahah No matter wad i also I4 2nd lesson standard liao wad....hahahahahah

So, i started to go into a frenzy of fancy footwork and threw in some body movement which lasted throughout the whole song.

Besides that, i realised she gave a hell lot of tension. I have never encountered a lady who gave sooooo much tension, even more than grace!!!! Thus, i had to return alot of tension too!!! It somehow felt like i was wrestling wif her!!! It was that much tension. However, i found out from some of the onlookers after the dance that it didnt really seem like there was much tension between us. Oh wells...hahahahah

Well, she could really follow very well. I could lead her into most of the stuff that i wanted to do but since we were dancing to a really fast track, i din have enuff time to pull off the more fanciful turn patterns. However, apparently there was this time that i tried to make her do multiple spins which looked quite forceful cos i didn really prep her very well. She still managed to do it wif much effort but it seemed that after that she was rather pissed and actually stared at me. I didn really notice it during the dance but elieen and jean or alan pointed it out to me after dance....lol

Well, if your are reading this, i'll apologise. Im sorry... Well sometimes i find a gal that can really spin very well get so caught up by that fact that i just start spinning and spinning the lady. I just get too caught up in the dance i guess...lol I'll keep in mind to prep the lady better from now on:)

As a whole, other than that unpleasant multiple spin, i would say that the dance was still pretty smooth and look relatively good.( I asked the rest who say us before i came to this conclusion...lol) Mostly due to that ladies movement and styling. On my side, at least the foot work and movement didnt look too bad...hahahaha.

That dance left both of us utterly exhausted (for me at least...hahah). Immediately after saying thanks and stuff, i was so tired that i half stumbled my way to the nearest fan that i could find to cool down. I didn even manage to ask for her name....wahahahah. Even after a good 3 mins in
front of the fan, i was still so wet that i decide to change into my spare t shirt that i always bring along when salsaing in case i perspire too much. hahahahaha.

Thank you lady in black sooo much!!! i really appreciate that dance :p

Being a lil' thick skin works sometimes.....hahahahahah =P

2006-04-03T21:07:00.000+08:00

Melody of life

Yoz folks, today, i'm gonna talk about music. Yesh... music music music.

Music plays a very important role in my life. If i were to compare my life to a cup of water, music would be the colouring, the flavour, the fizz... ... the stuff that transforms that cup of water into a nice refreshing bitter sweet cup of beverage. To all you alcoholics out there (btw u noe who u r, don't drink so much), in other words, music would be the tonic to my gin, the coke to my whiskey or if u like it cold and hard, the ice cubes to my vodka.

Music gives my life its flavour. It brings out my mood. When im happy, i listen to feel good songs. Uplifting notes, easy beats, bubble gum lyrics. No angry rythms, deep dark lyrics or wailing solos. Life all around seems to smile with the songs. Nothing seems to get me down. Missed a bus or train? so wad.... more time to smell the roses and stuff.... or so says the songs:)

When i feel down and out, tough day at work, sucky bosses or jackassed people around. The songs in my world start to change. Spiteful lyrics, fast demanding rythms and beats, loud deafening electric guits... ... Think papa roach last resort or everenescene going under and bring me to life. (However, i must say i do not like all the rubbish nigger ganster raps. Too much vulgarities and all about decadance..... bleh!) Such songs brings out the anger in me. Adds fuel to the fire. Suddenly everything starts to pick a fight with me. Even the innocent cat crossing my path seems to do it on purpose to slow me down.

When life seems to turn its face the other way and things start to fall apart leaving down and depressed, songs like stand by me by oasis starts playing in my zen neon. " Stand by me, nobody knows the way its gonna be..." Songs seems to suggest a cry for help, a yearning of someone to be there, a hope for a warm embrace of sorts. Wailing guitars, draggy vocals. " i tear my heart open, i sew myself shut. My weakness is that i care too much..." taken from a song called scars. You start to notice things that seem to be missing in life. " Where are the flowers in the trees? Are they too as sad as me?"

Jazzy tunes, mandarin love ballads and english love songs go on in my earphones when im in a lurvvy dubby mood (which rarely happens nowadays :( ). Nice sentimental tunes, meaningful lyrics. Soulful steel acoustic strings coupled with bright and yet meaningful vocals. Trumpets and double bass in nice slow french jazz. " Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars..." "Stars shining bright above u.... night breezes seem to whisper i love you... birds singing in the scygamore tree.... dream a little dream of me..." I still remember one of the best dates i ever had happened at this jazz bar called jazz @ southbridge. The mood, the jazz music, my date, our drinks... ... everything just seemed to fall in place :).

I also listen to ballads when i feel outta love and heartbroken. These ballads are more of heartbreak songs and songs of unreciprocated feelings. Fan yi chen's i believe, Guang liang's tong hua, Tao ze's pu tong peng you and ai hen jian dan... the list goes on. Somehow you suddenly pay special attention to the lyrics and start crying deep in yer heart. Bus and train rides seem to take extra long. Clingy couples nearby add to the torture. sigh...... The intensity of the heartache you have seems to rise and fall with the songs and you desperately wish someone could just come along and give you a nice warm hug and tell you that things will be fine. "... there are many things that i would like to say to you but i don't know how..."

Yesh music brings out the life in us for it is the sound track to our movie of life.

This brings me to why i learnt to play the guitar. Since music brings out my life, making music amplifies it. To me, playing on my guitar is a way to express myself. When im happy, i play cheery tunes like qing fei de yi. Late at night when my whole family is asleep and im alone on the couch and start thinking about the stars, fate love and life, i quietly pick up my guitar and pluck songs like when u say nothing at all or qing tian. Sometimes even the occasional fly me to the moon. Down and out, i jam songs like creep or just go wild and make dreadful noises on my 6 stringed fren.

Making music serves as an outlet to vent my emotions. Be it happy, sad, angry, in love or out of love and many other funny undescribable feelsings that get washed up in the whirlwind of thoughts and emotions inside of me. To me, strumming and squealing ( a pity that i cant sing for nuts...lol) songs on my guitar is a more subtle, soulful and expressive way of picking up a loud hailer and screaming my feelings out loud. It's more constructive in a sense too. Well it sure beats reaching out for that bottle of vodka, whiskey, ginn or bourbon and drinking myself silly. At least my liver wont suffer for my heartache right? :p .

My guitar teacher asked me wad was my favourite guitar song today. I told him wonderwall by oasis. He said something like " Wah you so backdated are... Nowadays youngsters... ...". Deep down in my heart, i replied "because it fits my mood right now."

So wad kind of music are you in the mood for tonight?

2006-04-02T15:49:00.000+08:00

I hereby declare that WONDERWALL by oasis is my favourite song of the moment. I have been strumming and singing it for like the 1,376,892th time now...lol... it's a great song. However when i stsrt to sing (or squeal) it, my nose will msyteriously start to itch.... hmm... i wonder why....hahahahahhahah. Btw can any kind sould enlighten me on wads a wonderwall?

2006-04-02T01:13:00.000+08:00

Cos lately... ...

Before i start, i'll just like to say i suddenly feel free (the freedom kind not the lobo kind....lol). Don't ask me why though...lol

Well, after a few fridays of recceing, i have finally decided. My friday salsa nights will be spent at LADC from now on. Before i go on, i'll present to you some stuff i found out about friday nights at different places.

First stop, Xen bar. There, you will be hearing crickets chirp and see dust balls rolling around. Why so? Cos i highly doubt there will be anyone around. I mean xen bar looks more like a movie set for some horror movie rather than a place for social dancing. Wad were they thinking man? So dark and deserted, i'll applaud any brave soul who goes there alone on friday nights hoping to find a dance partner. Good luck chump.... I think, it'll be better for them to just serve green tea and invite people to come down, sit in a circle, join hands, meditate and get in touch with their inner selves....lol... i think dat'll work...hahahahahahah

Next stop, union square. Located in amara shopping center, on the second floor above BK, it is the most packed ( really really packed.. think sardines in a tin) salsa dance place on fridays. Fridays is ladies night and so gals not only get in free but also get free drinks and get high in the process. Anyways, where u have hot and bothered ladies in skimpy short skirts and revealing halter tops, you will naturally have guys, lotsa them, all waiting and hoping to have a feel.... ahahahahahah. Think bees buzzing to honey, or to others houseflies to trash. Somemore with amara hotel just 30 secs walk away... *ahem*....lol

Anyways, since union square is so packed and full people, of which many don salsa or sux at it and take up space, it leaves us people who really like to salsa with no space at all to enjoy our dance. Coupled with a 15 bucks cover charge for guys, a ceriously cmi band and many highly dubious characters lurking around, i guess i'll give union on fridays a miss too. However, if i suddenly feel the urge and need for bare skin, i may just discreetly drop by before the cover charge sets in....wahahahahahahah :p

On fridays, jitterbugs opens its dance studio on friday nights for salsa fiesta. Ok. It's starts at 9 plus and ends at about 11 plus. Jitterbugs is located at mellinia walk(i tink i spelt it wrongly but... wth). So a suggestion for people going in groups would be to meet up and have dinner in marina square first. Young recommends Fins if you guys crave for affordable seafood :P.

First of all, the crowd there is..... average i guess. Most of the people available to dance are from the previous class but there are a few gems hidden amongst the whole bunch of people and a few union regulars around. The studio is sapcious enuff. I didnt really had to bother much about space and stuff. There is more than ample space to to execute complicated moves. The wooden flooring is also decent enough... well i mean it's a dance studio right......hahahahaha. A tad bit too slippery for my liking but i guess it's passable. I also liked the lighting there. It isnt dark and gloomy like most places and i can actually see my partner's face, zits and all...hahahahahah The music is pretty ok too.... the mix of music is rather modern i guess and certainly has that groove factor. What i didn't really like about jitterbugs was that the place was rather stuffy. The air con wasn't spectacular and for such a big space, there were only 3 fans of which 1 was spoilt. As you might already know, i tend to perspire alot when i dance so temperature control and ventilation is of the upmost importance to me. Other than the fans, i didn't really dig the 5 dollars cover charge. What!!!! 5 bucks for access to the studio and a water dispenser!!!!!! u must be kidding right!!!!!!

So, i guess you'll find me in jitterbugs on fridays if i decide to spend a quiet night and just go down wif the gang and just practice our moves and stuff:)

Ok... finally, we have LADC!!!! Located near clarke quay mrt and a stone throw away from clarkequay where all the action is (MOS and other clubs), LADC opens its studios on fridays for loco nights. It also starts at 9 plus till 11 plus or later.

Wad can i say? I think it ROXS!!!!! hahaha... Other than the fact that the place is a bit hard to find, i don really have anything else to pick against it....lol. There was space... lotsa space in fact because they open both their studios instead of just one. It was rather dim but they had a few cool lookin shaded lamps around which transformed the place into something like a uber hip and smooth party. I love the lamps.... seriously..hahaha. The place was very cool (temperature wise). There were quite a few fans lying around and the sir con was turned up. After each dance, i could pick and choose a fan that i fancied and blatanly stand in front of it to dry off :D. So, i guess i can actually just survive the whole night with just one shirt...lol.

What really blew me away was the music and people. The music was REALLY GREAT!!!! It had the ommph factor. Modern latin beats witha a few hip hoppish tracks and one or two bachata tracks. You'll constantly go like..." oooo nice song... shit i wanna dance..." and scurry off to find a partner throughout the night. It gets 10 outta 10 for groovines man!!!!

The mix of people there is execellent too. Yes u have your fair share of students but there were alot of pros there too. Jwo pointed out that the performers usually clustered on the left and right side of the big mirror in the center. Boy can they dance...hahahahahha even the students can actually follow quite well. I danced wif this sweet lookin gal (cant really see her face though... abit too dim...hahahahah) whom i think shld be in intermediate level and i found that she could follow quite well despite the occasional oops and hahas...lol. Yesh the people there rocked.

THE BESTEST PART OF LADC WAS THAT IT WAS FREE!!!!!!!! NO COVER CHARGE WAD SO EVA!!!!! Ideal for the budget salsa dancer like me...hahahahahahahah

I guess from now on if you start to find this big tall shadow lurking around in LADC on fridays nights, it'll most probably be me. Just come up, say hi and we'll start SALSAING!!!!!

:P

2006-03-27T00:49:00.000+08:00

The book

The object in question

Allo folks i haven't been updating for a while. Somehow i haven't been in the mood to blog lately. It could be becos the stars aren't aligned properly or something lidat. Then agian, maybe the lazy bug has caught up with me....lol

Anyways, be it in your office cubicle, common room in yer camp, computer room in school or using your laptop in starbucks or cooffee bean, i hope that this blog has and will continue to brighten up your day or at least keep u entertained for that 5.23 mins spent reading it.:)

Anyways, for some freak reason of nature that i will never comprehend, i suddenly chanced upon my good ol' "book of thoughts" today that i had misplaced and figured was lost to the world forever.

Actually it's just an acjc exercise book that used to be a gp article review book that was soon converted to a chem then maths book but finally ended up as a book for mi classmates and i from sb7 to vandalise and draw or write nonscene to keep ourselves entertained during lectures....lol

Original intention

Inside, besides all the rubbish, i actually found various valuable stuff worth keeping inside. I found several collection worthy artworks among the pages including a cartoon man drawn by jinn, a female manga character beautifully done by ming hui, a pen sketch of the acjc main building done by mi from the sports complex on 8/5/03 (or so it says here), some chim lit(which i still don understand...lol) that christabel wrote and many other doodles and phrases/ lines, courtesy of some of mi other mates. Best of all, i found some peoms(or things that attempt to resemble peoms.... i was a sci student mind u...hahah) that i had actually come up wif:)

Results of a lecture room full of bored SB7 students with too much time on their hands...lol

Ming's uber kawaii manga character

Flower shirt, afro hairdo and way too much liquid paper marks... it screams jinn all over

Bel's take on chimology lit... i guess we should just stick to being sci students...haha

Well, this book sure brings back memories... I guess jc was still fun after all. All the afternoons spent at sig park squashing (we were soooo into squash...hahahah), swimming (they still call me sea monster), jaquzzing, tennising and having food at the nearby market or "failure" coffeeshop (i call it failure coffeeshop cos i used to always go there and brood over stuff (usually becaused i failed some test in school...lol) during my time in tchs. i ALWAYS eat the duck rice wif braised nuts there...lol). Walking along orchard in our blue collared white shirts and blue pants school uniform was quite AA too...hahahahaha

Even mugging was kinda fun in a wierd way. We would meet up and study at places like woodlands library (jwo me n vic will then head to causeway pt for pasta mania during lunch), JE library wif jinn and sometimes orchard library. If i wanted to study alone, i usually went to IMM's Bk and occupy a couch seat with a drink and my discman. Most of the time we would end up talking (or whispering) about latest songs (vic would insist that jay chou was better compared to david tao whom i prefer) and movies and other wad have we nots after studying for an hour or so and end up checking the other babes also studying in the vicinity.wahahaha. Yesh, studying in jc was still kinda fun i guess.....lol

Well, to end of, here's a peom , or something that hopefully resembles a peom, that i'd like to share. I used to write such stuff in jc when i wanted to clear my mind or was just dead bored.

Damp

Never the radiance of the sun

or the tinge of light

but ever the touch of calm

under the soulful moon

With the song of the evening glow

and the words of the morning dew

but never the chorus of the damn sunrise

nor the tune of the passing shine

Rest one

Cool one

Calm one

by: young

My take of the school forever immortalised on paper.

2006-03-23T00:55:00.000+08:00

Failure.... or is it?

They say that failure is bad. All of us must aim to succed in wadeva we do. Failure is NEVER an option. Our society prohibits us to fail. Take our education system for example. Failure to perform in tests and exams would entail negative consequences like remedial, extra lessons, detention... ... and retests till the student pass. Further failure ACADEMICALLY would result in going to places like EM3, ITE while success would bring one to places of fame and prestige like JC and universitites. Oxford, harvard, MIT, LSE ... ...

Or is it?

I believe that success is good and mistakes are bad most of the time. However there are times when making mistakes is good. Take salsa for example. Through my mistakes, i've come up with new moves. Through my failures, i've learnt new things.

Take today for example, i went down to XEN where sherv and clarence were having lessons. I went down cos i had made a mistake dancing with jul yesterday at union but i realised that the mistake actually had potiential to become a new move. Thus, i went down to XEN to trial and error to try and convert the mistake into a new move. Well, in the end a new move did surface:) ( the move is a tad bit hard to execute and the lady has to be able to follow well... but if it's pulled of nicely, it's damn nice!!!!)

At this point, i would like to sincerely thank SHERVONNE for all her kind and patient support. Up to date i think i have came up with about 2 to 3 new moves and numerous turn patterns with her. Thanks for lending me yer arms, legs and putting up wif all the giddiness and stuff. If not your yer occasional nudges in the right direction when i was having dancer's block and constant tolerance of awkward positions, I wouldnt have been able to come up with new stuff and improve as a whole. One day, we'll like wow the salsa world wif all de flashy stuff. Think of the camera flashes, limos and groupies. WE'LL RULE THE SALSA WORLD!!!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH... oops....lol

Back to failure, there's an old chinese saying "Shi bai nai shi chen gong zi mu". Rougley translated, it means " Failure is the mother of all successes". I find it to be quite true. Making mistakes is one thing. If it's done in isolation, it is definately negative. However if one follows it up by learning from the mistakes we make, then that is converting neagativity into something constructive. Make most out of our mistakes. Now dat's what we should aim to do:)

I know that this picture is like totally opposite to wad im saying but i just had to put it in.. ...lol

On a different note, Je sens le genre de confondu maintenant. Pas le * l'égratignure dirige * "huh ?" le genre de confondu mais plus du * prend la promenade longue dans le parc, dévisager au ciel et méditer de ce que je veut* le genre de confondu.. .. Soupir.. Oh wells... ....

And you wonder why i like to stare at the sky... ...

2006-03-19T15:25:00.000+08:00

WAD A NIGHT

Yesterday, 18/03/06 was a GREAT night of salsa. Mosaic was going on at the esplanade and it was salsa fiesta yestterday. Basically, they invited great latin bands like afro cuban allstars to perform latin numbers and strut their stuff. Since it was supposed to be salsa fiesta, there were alot of salsa numbers been played.

The music was FABULOUS. It's different from what we always get in union due to various factors. Firstly, the most important one is that the bands that were on stage at the mosiac were FULL BANDS inclusive of 2 percussionists at the least, a bassit, a lead guitar and a keyboardist. At union, the "band" isn't really quite as full, with only 1 percussionist, a vocalist and a keyboardist. BLEAH!!!! Secondly, i must say the acts at mosiac were far more proficient in their performance skills as compared to those at union. I mean those people are interantional artists!!!

Thus, the music was very soulful and had lotsa depth. We could really feel the passion simmering and inevitable saw booties shaking from dancers and non dancers alike:) The ambience was excellent!!!

Anyways, after having meeting up and having dinner at BK ( clarence and elieen decided to have kfc instead), we reached the nokia music station at around 8pm. We were rather disappointed cos i was supposed to be salsa fiesta but they did not provide us with a proper area to dance. We were like "wad de hell!!!!". Salsa Inca went on soon after we arrived. The first number they played was a salsa song. I was lamenting to alan that it was such a waste cause the music was great but we had no place to dance!!!!

After the first song, i decided that not to dance with such great music was a waste. It's like paying good money to buy a pint of Hagen Daaz ( or ben and jerry's) and leaving it to melt in the sun!!! So, upon hearing that the second number was also a salsa song, i asked jul if she wanted to dance. Despite the uneven floor and the lack of proper footwear (she was wearing slippers), she was game for it. Thus, we started dancing on the open space behing the nokia music station.

For me, it was the HIGHLIGHT OF THE NIGHT!!!! Since it was impromptu act of impulse, we WERE THE FIRST COUPLE OF THE NIGHT TO SALSA IN FULL VIEW OF THE PUBLIC!!!! Initially when we just started dancing, there we just a few people who stopped to look but into the middle and end of the dance, a CROWD of people had gathered!!!

Throughout the dance, there were lotsa opened jaws, lotsa camera flashes and i think i also saw a couple of video cams. Upon seeing that we had become the object of interest for soooo many people, i started to feel rather intimidated. My legs started to quiver a bit but i guess that since there was a lot of body movement and that my legs very in constant motion, no one saw it. Hahahahaha. I was also started to feel tensed as so many people were actually scrutinising us!!! Throughout the whole dance, what i did was to clear my mind of the surroundings and focused most of my attention on my partner. All i could think of was not to make any hideous mistakes and to make us look as good as humanly possible. It was not an easy feat given the less than ideal floor condition.

When the music finally ended and we stopped, there was a roaring appluase!!! It was then that i realised that well, we actually managed to pull it off:) Hearing the applause and knowing that we did well was an exhilarating experience!!! I realised that knowing how to salsa and daring to do so in public are two differnt things and im happy to say that jul and i DARED to do it and DID it...wahahahahahahah. After the crowd dispersed and we were walking away, someone even walked up to jul to thank her and told her that she danced well. A group of guys even asked jul to take a photo with them!!! Wad can i say? It was definately a job well done and if given a choice, i would choose to do it again!!!!!

Anyways, soon after, the gang realised what had happened and were also in awe. Soon, the band went for a break and when the second set started, SNU became the party. We started dancing in the same area again and an even bigger crowd gathered to watch. True, there was also a reuda group sharing the spotlight but i guess we drew more attention cause we had more couples and our members danced with each of our own individual styles and flairs. I must say we did an excellent job. Soon after when more dancers realised what was happening and that the was actually a dance floor ( started by ju, me and the rest of the gang), more and more couples stepped out to dance. It was lotsa fun!!!

At about 9.50pm, the band played their last number and left. We proceeded to another performance area to the left where another band was playing and started dancing yet again. This continued all the way to 11 when we proceeded back to the nokia music station to catch the afro-cuban allstars jamming where we danced again..lol...

It was defiantely a night of great music, great friends and good dances.

After the whole event ended, we went down to the makan sutra glutoon square to have supper. The food wasn't great and the drink store had run out of ice. The kaya toast they sold was cold. Oh well.... At least we managed to come to a concensus about our KL trip accomodation.

SNU, WE ARE THE PARTY!!!!!!!

2006-03-16T01:22:00.000+08:00

De song...

Allo peeps. As of now, here's a sample breakdown of my life.

1) wake up at 12pm to 2pm
2) search for LUNCH
3) play first game of DOTA
4) Freshen up ( shower and stuff)
5a) Go for function or appointment (if any)
b) if there isn't anything on, play guitar, DOTA or anything else to keep me occupied.
6) go for a run if i feel like it
7) source for dinner
8) watch tv or dota or msn or just nua
9) sleep at about 2 or 3 am

Yesh.... ifinally have time on my hands to literally ROT at home. I have never had soooooo much sleep before :) I have so much time at home that im discovering things i never knew like, erm.... the phone on my desk is actuallya Wiscom model: 846 and that there are a total of 24 buttons on it.wahahahahaha

However, things are starting to get a tad boring for me. Especially since my PC just died today, even after repeated attempts to revive it by banging on it and switching the power on and off ( somehow i couldn't locate the site to initiate CPR), this means that i can no longer PLAY DOTA!!!!! OMG!!! Thats like 2 out of the 7 activities listed above.Sigh...Hmm... maybe thats why i've started to lenghten my running route so that it takes up more time. And you thought that it was so that i could increase my stamina...hahahaha

Anyways, i was browsing on the internet today when i came across the lyrics to a song that i used to and still play on my guitar. A bit depressing but i guess many of us can actually relate to especially me since im a cave troll living in a erm... HDB flat...lol. This song is a rather old song by Radiohead called "Creep".

"Creep"

When you were here before

Couldn't look you in the eye

You're just like an angel

Your skin makes me cry

You float like a feather

In a beautiful world

I wish I was special

You're so f**king special

But I 'm a creep

I 'm a weirdo

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here

I don't care if it hurts

I want to have control

I want a perfect body

I want a perfect soul

I want you to notice

When I'm not around

You're so f**king special

I wish I was special

But I'm a creep

I'm a weirdo

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here

She's running out again

She's running out

She run, run, run run run

Whatever makes you happy

Whatever you want

You're so f**king special

I wish I was special

But I'm a creep

I'm a weirdo

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here

I don't belong here...

Leaves you wondering doesn't it. Just a word of advice, do not listen to this song when yer depressed or unhappy.

Btw, i just got a new Motorola L7 today :)

The L7 is so slim that i can keep them in my wallet with the rest of my cards. Ok i was kidding...lol

2006-03-12T02:47:00.000+08:00

Thanks so much guys.... .... for making me feel like a TARGET BOARD....lol. Now i noe how the poor ol' figure 11 in the 100m and 300m range feel. Wad can i say? Ouch?lol... Hahahahaha... Well then again, thanks for pointing out my mistakes and all of yer wondeful comments. I'll keep them in mind. :)

Being a target board ain't so bad after all.

2006-03-10T01:33:00.000+08:00

2 days on...

Allo folks... it has been 2 ( or 3 since im like writing this at 1.34am) days since my leave started. Suddenly, i have sooooooo much time on my hands. So if any of you out there has any activities to take part in, please give me a buzz, drop me a line or if you happen to be stuck like in the sahara desert or something, send me a smoke signal. Anything will do. Be it watching a movie, salsaing, shopping, jamming, watching grass grow or counting the number of leaves in the tree, if im awake ( cos i need my 14 hours of beauty sleep:) ) i'll happily join you.

Anyways, on wed, i decided to go down to SMU and meet up wif esther and her gang. Hmm, going back to an educational institution brought back many thoughts. Well, the plan was that esther would give me a tour of the school but it seemed that there weren't many interesting places in school. I guess schools are all the same. Lecture rooms (or in SMU's case seminar rooms), project rooms, white washed walls, lockers, more lecture rooms... ... you get the picture. An interesting point to note was that there was actually a wee bit of greenery in the school, consisting of a small open grass patch and a few pitiful trees. No landscape japanese zen gardens and stuff. Hmm... i wonder where do SMU couples go to take romantic strolls and whisper sweet nothings into each other's ears. Then again, maybe they just head straight to the point and proceed to the nearby hotel rendevous and carlton hotel to do their thang....WAHAHAHAHAHHAH... oops...lol

Jang jang jang...

Spent a good half an hour or so with esther and her gang in a project room where terry was busy *cough* copying *cough* an assignment while the gals were i dunno... watching grey's anatomy and surfing the net??? Well, coming from them, it seems that uni life is a bitch. Sorta like sec sch and jc. Lotsa work, assignments, projects and competiton. Stress seems to be the order of the day. Seems like evryone's out to outdo each other, much like in all de reality shows (think survivor, the apprentice... ...). Lotsa mugging, late nights and drudgery. Shit!!! i tot uni was supposed to be fun!!! The last stop to enjoy and have fun before we head out to the all so cruel world... ... Well, wad can i say? Hopefully i'll be able to psycho myself to enjoy uni in future. At least there are babes there :)

At 5, i joined them for their salsa lesson to c wad it was like. It was conducted in the dance studio which was located in the school gym. Upon entry into the gym, i suddenly became self conscious. I do noe that im far from being in shape. Seeing all the sports jocks gyming, shaping and toning their muscles and what have they nots, sure struck a raw nerve. Memories of gym in jc, which was more often then not of poor ol' barrel of lard, aka me' helplessly trying towhip myself into shape admist a concentration of much masculinity and brawn ( aka school canoeist and sports players) showing of their muscle power on the other gym machines. Sigh... i uess nothing much has changed.

Anyways, the lesson was so so i guess. The only thing i felt was lacking was the complexity of the moves. The lesson was actually of the 2nd intermediate level out of a total of 3 levels but i felt the moves that were taught were a tad bit easy. Other than that, i guess the rest was fine.

After lesson, i headed down to parklane and then to plaza sg. Went to check out guitars and guitar lessons. At parklane, i found a place that charged 40 bucks per hour for individual lessons and im considering whether to take it up. I also found a shop at the basement that was building a jamming studio. Surprisingly, i found a new dance school called joseph and josphine dance creative if i remembered correctly. It seems that they are teaching ballroom and latin dances.

At ps, i went to the yamaha shop. Met an old school mate who was back in sg on a break from studying overseas. Chatted with him and his collegues about guitars when for the first time, they led me into the sacred room!!!!

Ok. At yamaha, the cheaper to mid range of guitars (200 to about 700 bucks) are left outside for people to try on freely. However, the good stuff (900 ++++++ dollars) are all locked away ina display room for obvious reasons. Most of those inside are hand crafted ones.

So inside the room, i was offered a $970 acoustic guitar to try on. I guess it was one of the cheaper ones in the room but i was BLOWN AWAY!!!! Playing it was truly orgasmic!!!! The sound was crystal clear and had sooooo much depth. I could literrally feel the sound!!!! Thank you guys so much for letting me into that wondeful room :).

Btw, just a tot. yamaha manufactures amd sells things from tuning forks, pianos and guitars to motorbikes. What's next? Cup noodles?lol Musical cup noodles would be cool. Imagine, whenever you start pourinf hot water into the cup to cook the noodles, a song will be played. The end of the song would signal that your noodles have been coocked and is ready for consumption. If the water you add is too hot, the tempo of the song will increase. If it's too cold, the song will be played slower. Cool right. They could have various genre of musical noodles. From pop to rock to jazz. Imagine hearing maroon 5 or oasis while waiting for your noodles to be done. Celia Cruz - La Vida Es Un Carnaval would be even better!!! Besides, they could even tie down with various artists to promote special events. Think "James Blunt collectors edition" musical cup noodles.lol

Maybe they'll make musical cup noodles in future

After my foray into guitars, i went to xenbar at about 9.30 to try and squeeze in a few dances with clarence's intermidiate classmates. I wasn't very much sucessful. Those people mostly, actually ALL promptly left after class. Shervonne had a history test to study for the next day while clarence had to reach camp early too so they had to leave early at about 10.15. Seeing no point in staying too, i left with them. In the end, i paid 7 bucks for half an hour wif clarence, shervonne and an angmoh lady. It was an expensive half hour but atleast the dances i had were still ok. Shervonne can dance pretty well i must say. Quality beats quantity anytime. As usual, the place was dark, resembling my bedroom at night. Well, at least Emma was nice... ...

2006-03-07T13:04:00.000+08:00

Civilian Conversion Course... ...

Yay!!!! Finally, my life is starting to turn for the better. The smell of liberation hangs thickly in the air. I feel like a catepillar in the final stages of metamorphasis in my cocoon waiting to burst out to greet the world ( or a mosquito in the final moments before emerging from my puapa to go around and suck blood and spread terror through aedes....wahahahaha), and meet other fellow insects like houseflies, bees and spiders?lol. Hopefully, i wouldn't be caught by some stupid kid and be fed to his obese fat cat or preserved and made into some ornament hanging on the wall... yikes!!! lol

Benny asked himself when he would shed his green and fly.

Yup, im starting to clear leave/off and whatever have i nots. If all goes well, today would be the last day that i'll ever be seen wearing that ugly dirty green brown and black uniform and listen to obviously retarded people that can be found infecting our army. " Yes sir", "No sir".... Blah wadever man...No more waking up at like 6 in the morning to catch 198 or 157 to jp to catch yet another bus to work. No more sucky SFI food. No more magically searing arrows and waiting for last parade at 5.15pm.

Anyways, once you reach the bottom, there's no way else except to go up. The end of this dreadful signals a start of a more beautiful one. I hearby decree the start of my CIVILIAN CONVERSION COURSE!!!

In this course, soon to be civilians will learn the fine art of being a true blue(or pink) member of the civilised world. They will slowly unlearn barbaric ways that have being force fed to them in the last 2 plus years.

Modern cavemen and their toys... ...

Here is a sample of modules that they will be exposed to.

1) Learn that green is not meant to make hiding in trees easier but should be employed correctly to make a fashion statement.
2) Realise that trees, grass and vegetation do not translate into public toilets anymore.
3) Vulgarities like cb, knn, f u do not make one sound more macho but makes you sound stupid.
4) Waking up from like 4 to 7am in the mornings is actually inhuman.
5) SFI really produces sucky food.
6) Brawn is good but brains is better.
7) There is no such word as marshaller.
8) Marshal is the correct word to use.
9) Area cleaning is meant to be subcontracted to cleaning companies.
10) Regimentation like foot drill is counterproductive. Creativity is what moves the world.
11) Make love not war!!! :)

There are a total of over 254 modules to choose from and to gradute, soon to be civilians got to pass a total of modules ranging from 40 to 75 depending on the individual's duration of service, in a period starting from the time they clear leave till they ord.

The collection of their pink IC signifys the passing out of the course and the ceremony after that is up to the individual's wimp and fancy....lol

Anyways, to commemorate the start of my CCC, i went to get a new pair of specs!!!

The new frame... Notice de bling bling?

Well, it seems that my old pair of specs, after withstanding 2+ years of harsh climate and abuse, was failing me. It had turned from its original black colour to silver due to the flaking of the paint and the lenses now resemble a cat's scratch board...lol

One last look at old specy... we'll miss you... ... NOT!!!! wahahaha

My funky new half rimmed specs with grey sides costed me a total of 160 bucks but it's money well spent. From now on, i guess i'll not be known as the really tall guy but... .... the really tall guy with FUNKY SPECS!!!! wahahahahaha.

Hmm.... i swear i could hear gals flocking towards me.

Well, with this pair of specs, i'll defiantely take the civilised world by storm upon gradutation form the CCC!!! WAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

All out to take the world by storm

2006-02-26T14:10:00.000+08:00

Scary shit

First of all... ... I'll like to wish jinn a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! This old friend of mine has turned 21!!! Good luck in whatever you do man. Stay funky and jinnish always :)

Ok, back to the topic. After trashing jinn's house for his bday, many rounds of mahjong and knocking back strange concoctions consisting of jim bean, bombay sapphire, absolut vodka, smirnoff, ice lemon tea, florida's natural cranberry and grapefruit juice and coke plus the xbox and watch honey dvd, i went home at about 7.15am. Had one egg onion and two plain pratas( prata is the ULTIMATE breakfast food....wahahahah), 2 siew mais and an icced milo for breakfast at the coffeeshop near my house before i went home, bathed and crashed my bed.

The aircon was 23 degrees and before long, i started dreaming... ... .... ...

I was leaving this district of homes where all of them were low rise shop houses and strangely resembled those old malaysian townslol. Met jwo and we took a bus. It was a long ride and we talked lotsa shit which i can't remember. The bus actually passed funny places like a draw bridge and an industrial estate before it reached its destiantion.

Along the way, i took out a phone, some D600i. It was a uber thin uber stylish flip phone so much so that after flipping it so many times throughout the dream, the joint became loose. Must say, the phone seriously looked nice.wahahahah

Anyways, it seemed that the destination was a foreign university which looked rather run downed and eerie. Upon entering the university, i asked a female whom i think i met on the bus and seemed to be my buddy throughout the whole dream. I can't remember her face but i think she was good looking. Anyways, we had a conversation and somehow it seemed that this was to be my university for the next few months as SMU was undergoing some major reconstruction thingy. WTH!!!! school fees so expensive still give us rubbish like this.

I appeared next in some equally old and gloomy lecture room and attended some lessons on econs, GP, history and maths i think. Boring stuff. Can't really remember much except i was given lotsa assignments which i seriously couldn't do. I mainly just stuffed them all into my bag and left.

I left school and went home. I woke up briefly as my brother was blasting music from my laptop but promptly fell asleep again.

In the next scene, i was on my way to school again on the bus talking to my goregous female buddy. Suddenly, she told me that i actually had to finish all my assignments because the deadlines were today. She also said it was important as they would seriously affect my overall grades.

I totally freaked out!!! When i reached school, i started throwing everything out from my bag. I was doing this sitting on the floor in the middle of a common hallway. Teachers were walking by and i was making such a huge mess. In the pile of files and papers that i dug out, there were old acjc timetables, army cartoons, old lecture notes, the assignments and other crap. I tried to sort them out and arrange them properly. A teacher then stopped to talk to me. She vaguely reminded me of shirine.

Anyways, i realised that i had lots to do and little time left... ... ... ...

I was totally freaked out and then i woke up.

Shit man. University is still months away but the horrors have begun....

2006-02-25T01:17:00.000+08:00

Solving this mystery will be hard... ...

First of all, MY UNDERSTUDY ARRIVED TODAY!!!! He has a cute neame called Chen Chen :) (i'm not making it up. It's seriously his name) He seems alright so far. Gotta observe him for a while longer to really judge him though. It feels so good. After so freakingly loooonnnng, it is really time for me to kiss the army good bye.... GOOD LUCK TO U MAN CHEN CHEN!!!! I'M GOING!!!! DON'T MISS ME!!!!!MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH (It's supposed to be evil laughter....lol) Life sure gets better by the day :)

The gang(well most of it) went down to Xenbar to check it out today. Well, as before, i felt the place a tad bit too quiet and moody for a salsa bar. First of all, when we got there at 9, lessons were still going on and we only got to use the floor at about 9.30.

Secondly, the place was rather dim. This poses a many problems, one of which was that shervonne couldn't really see me when we were dancing. It seems that my maroon coloured U2 shirt blended a bit too well with the surrounding darkness and camouflaged me too effectively...wahahahaha. What can i say... ... Green is so passe. Should suggest to the army to change their unforms to shades of red and brown. Urban warfare mah. Wearing green would only make the troops stand out from the surroundings like erm... i donnuo... ... durians among a crate of bananas?lol

Besides that, the dance floor was too small for my liking and elieen found it too slippery. There was no live band. Music came from a bunch of CDs. Worst still, being a friday night, there was sadly not many people in the bar. We basically conquered the dance floor. Other than a couple who were practicing their chero routine, no one else came onto the dance floor.... :( Talk about salsa being a social thing....

Anyways, i came to realise a mystery about my salsa today. ( Actually i was told about it before but till now i haven't been able to solve it, hence a msytery.) It seems that 80... no more like 93.275% of the ladies that danced with me find it very taxing and jia lat. Logically, if the lady in the couple finds it taxing and stressful to dance, the dance should not turn out nice. However, from the feedback from the people watching my routines, i gather that my dances are still PRESENTABLE (take note... i didn't say good) enough.

Most of the ladies end up disorientated and dizzy after dancing with me. Many swore not to dance with me again. Some chose to keep a safety distance of 2m away from me whenever i was around. The last i heard, union even contemplated about posting "Dancing with Young prohibited" signs at the door...lol

At first, it seemed that i spun ladies around too much. Well, i acknowledged that fact cause previously, as my vocab of moves was pitiful (not that it is much better now), i resorted to spinning the ladies a bit to zealously i guess to pass the songs' air time when i ran out of moves. Now, upon learning a few more turn patterns and routines, i consciously try to execute varying turn patterns and moves to fill up the songs rather than spin the ladies. However, this dosen't seem to be working as ladies still complain that the world passes in a blur when dancing with me and it feels more like a workout than a dance routine.

Next, came another problem was pointed out to me. It seemed that when leading some moves, my timing went haywire. I tink it boils down to a few other issues. One, it can be blamed on my relatively lack of skill. Thus, upon execution of certain moves, my timing screws up. Sorry gals, my fault. Im still trying to rectify it. Two, it seems that sometimes, i give pre tension as in i lead 1 or 2 beats earlier. This problem arose because when i dance with certain ladies who may not be in tuned with me or are not advanced to read my leads, they seem to not be able to complete moves in time. Thus, to counter that problem , i came up with the idea to lead them earlier to give them more time to finish the moves. I am also consciously trying to kick this bad habit.

Lately, i was also alerted to the possibility that my footwork could be too fanciful. This posed a problem to my partner who might become lost upon trying to use my foot work to follow the song. Well, all i can say is, this is individual styling. This is what makes dancing with different people fun as you get to experience each person's uniquenes and quirkiness.

Upon being alerted to my shortcomings and given a raincheck, i have tried to correctt the errors and mistakes during dacncing. Nowadays, i stick to the timing and execute moves more precisely. I do not torture ladies by spinning them too much but my footwork is still fancy. The thing is, ladies still find it hard to dance with me and still find it rather taxing and tiring. I have tried to identify and solve highlighted problems to the best of my abilities and so im in a fix right now.

Solving this mystery will definately be hard... ...

Macy's salsa career was shortlived... ...

2006-02-19T21:34:00.000+08:00

Diamonds last forever... ... Or so they say...

Nothing lasts forever. No your ball point pen, your OP shirt, your Tiffany and Co ring, your table, your chair, your Toshiba laptop, your freakin Ipod.... .... nothing.

It feels like when a group of friends decide to head down to their usual hang out one day, hmm.... lets give an example... ... union square??? Ok so you guys have like been going they to chill, to piss, to do all sorta stuff like forever. One day, you head down (like for the 1 234 407th time) and you find the place closed down and a "For Rent" sign hanging there.

Yes, it sure feels that way.

Something that everyone thought was perfect, comforting, everlasting and would always be there suddenly fell apart.

It's scary.

X(

However, after all things that have happened, DO NOT DESPAIR!!!

Lemme tell u a story. I used to have this black digital cum analog hybrid adidas sports watch. I think i stunned it form my brother when he started wearing his timberland watch...lol. Anyways, this watch acompanied me through the worst days of my army life. I wore it on my enlistment day when i was seperated from my parents. I wore it when i was repeated tekaned my my sergeants and pc (but guess wad.... im ording soon:)). I wore it when I was soaking wet in field camp, crawling on all fours through the mud, shivering in the cold at night in a leaking basha. I went through a lot with it. I grew attached to it and it sorta became part of me. Without it, i actually felt funny.

Then one fine day, my watch suddenly died. I a moment of clumsiness at buona vista mrt, i forgot how long my arms yer and accidentally smashed my hand with watch against a pillar. My seemingly indestructable watch cracked. The lcd be came a rainbow of clours, the minute hand fell off.

I was quite disturbed. Blamed myself for wad happened. That moment of folly. You may think it's a joke that one could actually feel sad over a watch but it's true. I really liked that watch. I was sad for a while but after that incident guess wad. Im now wearing a spankingly silver metal casio watch :). It looks great both as a sports and a casual watch. I really like it. It costed me $70 bucks and was de last piece at the time i bought it. Not that i don't think about the old black adidas watch, but i guess i've moved on.

What im trying to say is, the hardest part is letting go and do not blame yourself for what that has happened. Be it good or bad, things happen for a reason.

I was shattered when i failed my higher chinese for o lvls. Coming from a premium chinese school in sg, it was a disgrace and i was extremely dejected. Furthermore, i was kicked out from NJC after first 3months and thrown into ACJC. Imagine the pain, fear and sadness i felt at that time. I thought the whole world was trying to make a joke out of me. I actually cried.

However, looking back, the whole episode though seemed like the end of the world at that time actually was a good thing for me. If i hadn't failed my higher chinese, been kicked out of NJC into ACJC, i wouldn't have known all the good friends and shared all the happy moments. I dare say now that i feel lucky to have been kicked out of NJC :).

See, things happen for a reason. It's just that we can't see it at that point of time. The world is so magical thanks to the many msyteries and unsolved questions. Try to take thing in your stride. Friends and family are there for a reason.

The hardest part is letting go. It's easier said than done. However after you do so, it unlocks endless possiblities. For every end comes many new beginnings. Such is the beauty of life. For every broken toy comes the opportunity of even nicer ones. For every failed business venture comes the chance for an even more sucessful one. For every broken dancing shoe comes an opportunity to get even nicer ones. For every failed relationship comes a chance that someone better will sweep you off your feet. In the case of my broken watch, it led to an even nicer one.

Another thing is, try not to blame yourself for things that have happened. It's not all your fault. It takes two hands to clap, two people to salsa and O2, fuel and heat to start a forest fire. It's hard to fully pin the blame on anyone party cos of the many factors involved. Don't carry the full burden upon yourself. In the case of my watch, it could have been my clumsiness but then again it could have been that the watch was inherently faulty and chose that precise moment to give up and then u can even blame the architect of the station for placing a pillar there in the first place or the fact that maybe the stars aren't aligned properly at that time...lol...

When things happened, we will be sad nevertheless. What we must do is to take it all in stride, get over the hurt asap, let go and move on. The possibilities are boundless.

When things go wrong and your world suddenly seems so unforgiving, lonely and dark, remember that... ...

It's on the darkest of nights that we see the brightest of stars... ...

(P.S. in case you might be wondering, i didn't take the above quote from anywhere. I came up with it:) )

It's on the darkest of nights that we see the brightest of stars... ...

2006-02-10T22:21:00.000+08:00

... ...I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems, got to open my eyes to everything... ...

Well, this happened a few months back but the issue suddenly hit me today:) Remember the small blue dream catcher that i bought from JB a while back? Well, i decided that i would make a great accessory for the brown leather bag i bought frm HK:). With the bracelet that i bought from Shenzhen which i also put on my bag, i was trying to achieve that weathered, native woodlandish look for my bag...hahahahaha

Anyways, one day, a friend of my asked me why the hell did i attach a dream catcher to my bag... dream catchers are supposed to be hung in the bed room near the bed so as to catch warm, nice and fuzzy dreams and filter out the dark scary nightmares...lol.

Well, i thought for a while and gave him an answer that since i was sleeping perpatually most of the time (especially when im in camp wearing my green pjs...wahahahahaha), the dream catcher was to aid me in my frequent day dreaming rountine cause i seem to get weird and scary dreams in camp.

The dream catcher held up well for a month or so. I enjoyed stroking the 3 feathers on it. However during one stormy day, i was caught in a rain on my way home. I did not melt even though we know that rain is slightly acidic but to my horror, one of the feathers on my precious dream catcherbroke off as i stroked it!!! It seemed that the rain caused the threads to tighten and on apply additional pressure, the string securing the feather broke off... ...

Ok... back to 10/02/06 23:01... ... It seems clear to me. The incident sends a very important message... ... IT'S TIME TO STOP DREAMING ALL THE TIME AND WAKE UP YOUNG!!! The timing is pretty apt too. Since the rigours of the A levels, I have been dreaming, bumming and slacking my way through the last 2 plus yearsin NS (Trust me its a natural process for all guys in the army...lol). Now that im due to leave it very very soon, it's time to stop slacking, to stop hibernating in the mess all the time and start pulling up my socks to prepare to work yet again. Nap time's over. Uni's gonna be a bitch ( budden again many of them sassy bitches are actually good lookin...wahahahahaha). Time to work for my future. Whether im gonna like rule the world and make salsa the international dance or end up working at BP pumping petrol for ferraris and lexuses for peanuts when im 52 gonna depend on the next few formative years... ...

I also realised something else. In life, it's all about BALANCE. The world is a cold dark place. Lotsa hard and sharp edges and dressed in gloomy sad colours. Unhappy things happen everyday. Bombings and killings show up all the time. Tell me when was the lst time someone actually gave you a sincere smile or a nice passionate kiss?

Dreaming and living in self delusion on the other hand, makes the world look rosy and warm. It paints the world in warm pastel colours. Hot pink, lavender blue, sun kiss yellow.... Suddenly everything seems bright and cheery. Rough edges are replaced with warm embraces. Birds start chirping in the trees and flowers start to bloom like in those old disney cartoons... ...

Be too pragmatic and live life for the sake of earning your next meal and risk turning bitter and pessimistic. Stay too dreamy all the time and you'll probably live in yer own world and find yourself chasing imaginary butterflies and building castles in the air.

Yesh. We must always try to seek balance in whatever we do. The yin and yang thingy should balance. When you eat 5g of meat, you must eat like 15g of vegetables (sounds funny but...????). When you spend 8bucks to ge into union, always remember to earn 8 bucks back. Whenyou use 10 bales of kleenex toilet paper, try to grow back 10 trees...wahahahahaha

If you found that the above is all crap, just remember... ... It's all about BALANCE.

(p.s. there are no funny pictures and captions in this post as it is supposed to be a serious soul searching entry. Likewise you don't see the PM flashing sunday life cartoons during his speeches in parliment right...hahahahaha)

2006-02-08T15:32:00.000+08:00

Office therapy

I think photocopying stuff is theraputic. Anyways, i just started to plan my leave forecast today and guess wad... ... 20 more working days till i clear leave!!!!! Time to hang up the ol' Gotex boots and kiss the yucky SFI food goodbye...wahahaha. I won't be missing the army man...hahaha,,,

Back to photocopying, I was arrowed to photocopy some stuff today. A few files of stuff at that. So upon receving my mission, i carried the stuff and marched down to the ORDerly room where the darn machine was located.

I took out the stuff from the files, dumped the whole pile of crap onto the tray and pressed the green magic button. Lo and behold, the machine hungrily swallowed up the stack of paper page by page and spat out the original copy somewhere else.

Seeing it happen felt wierdly pleasant and relaxing. Somehow it felt like force feeding someone you hate while he trys to feebly spit out the stuff you fed him.... Wahahaha!!!! talk about power and revenge. I can just imagine myself with a whip lashing out at the poor photocopier ... ... "Eat faster!!! AND SPIT IT OUT EVEN FASTER U BUCKET OF BOLTS!!!!!!!WAHAHAHAHAHAHAH" You should see me with the shredding machine......lol

Oh yah... besides spitting out the original, the photocopier also produced copies. Which is rather cool. Some copiers produce colour copies but the one i had produced only black and white copies.

If only copiers could zap out other stuff other than papers... ... Imagine... ... just pool some money and buy a ferrari or porsche then zap out a few more!!! Cars for everyone. Or maybe a Jessica Alba or Sayuri in every house. Better still... ... Free I Pod Nanos for everyone!!! Free food, free houses, FREE EVERYTHING!!!!!! Wahahaha... who needs economics to solve the problem of limited resouces but unlimited wants!!!

Early attempt at human cloning

Back to the topic, if you do not have access to a photocopier, you can always accidentally drag your rival's tie into the shredder, staple someone else's copy of FHM together or toss paper clips at your irritating next cubicle collegue. Worst come to worst, you can always use a marker to draw obscene pictures on your boss's table during lunch break and try to convince everyone that it was the secretary's pet goldfish that did it. (p.s. if you actually manage to do that, please teach me how to do so too....lol)

To think that work actually sucks...hahahahaha

Goldie the artistic goldfish

2006-02-01T12:56:00.000+08:00

Red, the colour for prosperity

Went to watch memoirs of a geisha with jian and vic 2 days back. The show starred big names like Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li and Michelle Yeo. All i can say about the movie is... in the book, Nobu has only 1 arm but in the movie, he has 2...lol

Yesterday, i visited an old teacher of mine. He's now 35 with 2 daughters, the elder one being 4 this year. I knew him since , erm... about 10 years ago?!?!?! From my form teacher in pri 4, he has now risen to become a HOD of science. Congrats man. Indeed, many moons, stars, planets and what so ever have passed....lol I sincerely thank you for the years of kind and patient teaching you have bestowed upon me. Without you, i'm sure i wouldn't be who i am now.

After reminisciening about the past with my dear teacher, i headed down to East Coast Park to meet the rest of the gang for a roller blading session. It was then that i found out that roller blading equals hard knocks, grazed skins and many ouches. The last time i roller bladed was almost 10 plus years ago when i was still small enough to find shoes that fit in BATA (now, i don't even stop to look at bata cos my feet are too freakin big....hahaha). Thus, it was a challenge for me to even get up and stumble around with my blades on.

After renting the blades which was freakin expensive ( $10 for the 1st hr, $7 for subsequent hrs), i was forced to stumble around for a while before i managed to devise a way to propel myself forward. I was still having problems balancing and shifting my weight so for every few steps forward, i would lose balance and become a mass of flailing limbs before i got back my balance and continued a few meters forward.

The plan was to blade down towards the direction of fort road where Jul lived to link up with her. Thus, the public got a glimpse of something that resembled a floundering giant turtlish elephant on wheels stumbling along the east coast park. Miraculously, on the way to fort road, i didn't fall at all. I was however beckoned into an attractive lamp post and a tree called me to it...lol

This is not an actual photo. Animals do not roller blade.

However, on the way back, i got to know that blading is a dangerous sport, especially for people 1.93m in height. I guess tall people have high CGs so it's harder for them to balance and they also fall harder. I fell twice and grazed both my elbows drawing blood. At least blood is red which is the colour for prosperity. Since the blood oozed out from me does it mean im oozing with prosperity?lol

The first mishap happened when jean fell and blocked the road. As i was following close behind, i could not stopin time and thus fell over her and crumpled into a heap. Damn, i forgot to follow the no tail gating rule especially behing newbies. Then again, jean did not display her P plate.lol

The second fall happened when i lost balance and fell on my back. Upon further investigation, clarence and i agreed that it was because of a pair of babes that past us. It was the same pair that caused clarenece to fall a while before me.

I think that in future, when my friends go blading, i'll join them ... ... on a bike....wahahaha. Its so much safer with 2 brakes and also much faster. I'll then be able to ride infront of them and make faces at them...hahahahah.

After blading, Clarence and i went down to union. It was supposed to be beginners night and the plan was to go down and scout out a few good looking beginners and give them pointers and stuff to help them improve and recruit them into SNU. Talk about long term investment...hahahahhaha. Instead, we found out that it was more like " beginners 10 years ago night". Allt he instructors and pros were down there that night. Suddenly, it seemed that we were the beginners...hahahaha. Upon further interaction, super mario was coming down to union so the whole salsa world was there that night to see him.

So we waited and waited. He finally appeared at about 11.37pm. He's big, really BIG. BIGGER DEN ME!!! I saw him dance half a dance before i hurriedly left union and ran to the MRT station where i barely caught the last train.

Oh wells, so much for watching mario.

2006-01-29T14:26:00.000+08:00

~HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR TO ALL~

May all the guys grow taller, darker and more handsome,

May all the gals become fairer, chioer and more supermodel like,

May all the aunties and uncles buying 4D and toto strike it big,

May BK and Mac's give out more coupons for food,

May the auntie selling ice kachang give me 3 instead of 2 attap seeds,

May bus 157 and 198 come more frequently in the morning,

May i be able to clear leave in peace and get more off... ...

Enuff of crapping, here's me wishing all you folks and yer loved ones good health, abundant wealth and more importantly, HAPPINESS IN THE NEW YEAR!!!!

Christmas and CNY gone all wonky... ... but at least its nice...lol