270 : Be prepared !

This is a 3m x .8m banner to be displayed at the CCA open house NEXT YEAR. I kinda like the yellowness to it. And speaking of yellow.... I WANT MY BANANAS !!!!!!!

269 : Kurisumasu Take 2008

Its kurisumasu once again ! Here's a recap of what i did 1 year back.

Yup! It was all about a student's life, design project submissions, hardcore partying, scouting, and participating in fun-filled japanese events. Gosh. One year passed by so fast ! Before i know it i'm gonna do another recap for next year kurisumasu.

Here's something for the record this year. I haven't got my hands on my outing photos yet, so gonna post a little something before i head back to my new home in a few hours.

P.S. Oh the blog gonna be 1 year old soon, so changed my banner a bit with some of my sketches.

268 : Optimism Part 1

I remembered about roughly 2 years ago, i had this exact same feeling of anxiety, guilt, fear and helplessness. Its mainly the helplessness feeling that annoys me the most. Lack of control of things around, not able to shit when you want to, being left in a situation in which makes you pinned against a corner, your breathing heavy and difficult.

And often than not, life is just like that, OUT OF CONTROL.

We struggle mindlessly, aimlessly like slugs with salt poured all over our bodies. Its depressing. Ahmi just is.

Something knowing too much is not that beneficial, makes you think thrice about things. Sure, its confirm plus chop we'll get to experience monstrous training and exercises, but i'm sure most of us can push beyond our limit among things, darou?

As i sit here in front of my PC, with YUI semi-acoustic melodies pumping through my speakers, i tried to picture myself in a near future, somewhere in camp, reading an interesting book, with the smell of warm coffee seething into my dust-free nostrils. Ah. Shiok.

I'll just need to look forward towards that vision, fake as it may be, but it'll get me through i hope. C'mon, what's the worst thing that can happen to me ? Losing a leg ? An arm ? Or maybe perhaps my ego as an ahmi kia.

Let me educate some of us not inside of the little things that we city people fail to appreciate.

-Home, may it be the food, the fridge, or the warm water you get to wash your ass with.
-Security, knowing enough walking out of your comfy home won't endanger yourself with being robbed or mugged.
-Family, knowing there's still some people who genuinely care for you...
-Water, clean water ! Refreshing and tasty clean water to drink and wash.
-Vending machines, one day when electricity comes to us only in history text books....well.. yeah
-mp3 players, mobile, or any other electronics... i'm so going to suffer from withdrawal symptoms in camp.

And the last one,
-TIME. Seriously, without free time ( as in nonobligatory periods of time ), there are so many things you can't do.

Hey ! Sure i make it sound as if i am deprived of everything, but at least i am serving the jinkangkor ahmi, and not in north korea or those other 3rd world country doing shit. I guess its time, we just step out of our comfort zone and embrace our hasher reality.

What's the worst thing that can happen... to us ?

267 : Iconic

Yeap, three smilies. That's where i am heading towards coming monday. I don't know whats worse, my posting, or the err... literal design of the pahlade square.

266 : Conversations with children

Its hard to pick a topic when you're trying striking some conversations, especially in those boring situations where the really old people just keep talking and nagging and talking and nagging till eternity or when ... never mind too rude to write it down here.

I used to always say, that we youngins got a canyon wide generation gap with the elderly and usually our parents. And its natural we have this fault at hand here, nobody's to blame, too. I realised, that it was only me, who was too naive, being the younger one to not open up and get to know better of the geezers.

And the real funny thing is, i feel generations apart when i talk to my younger cousins.How young you might ask ? 17 ? 16 ? 10 ? Yep, three of em, all girls. Or maybe its the gender thing. I dunno.

Buying gifts for these ladies are another pain in the arse. Seriously, as an almost full fledged baldie, i can tell you, we can't really be bothered with things regarded to gifting and giving that something special. There wasn't much reaction when i handed over the nice t-shirts i got for them, not that i was expecting one anyways.

Thinking back, when i was about their age. Approximately the time when i had my VERY FIRST blog post over here, i was nonchalant and shit at the age of 16/17. And now, i am 20 going for 21. 21. 21.....



21... Oh feck.


I asked my 10 year old cousin, where she would be in another 10 years time. As anticipated from every child, whenever a question that would never come into their mind hits them for the first time right in the head, the answer would be I DON'T KNOW. Convenient ain't it. I can't remember how i was like when i was 10. Still in primary school probably drooling over my table and wetting my textbooks in class, just MAYBE. I'm 20 and i'm still drooling in bed anyways. =X

No one bothered to bombard me with questions about life when i was young, i guess we just followed the flow until at one point during adolescence, you just knew, "Hey something is not right. This is not what i want." and then you will start thinking doing about things that you really wanted to do~

We should all start young at some point too. 10 years is a long time for many of us. For most of us, its roughly 15% of our life time, for the smokers and my smoking friends, thats about 40% if you're realllly lucky.

Be a life architect, draft a master plan (pun intended) of how you want to live, how you intended to become, dare to dream, even if its a nonsensical dream. Thats it ! Daring. People, including myself lack the balls to do things that crosses beyond their line of comfort. I really thing we should start young.

And whatever you had read above, was what i had told my cousin. She nodded, and gave me the i understand look (but i took it that all she understood were the effects of hitting 21 in another year's time).

When she becomes a big sister for her other cousins or auntie for her nephews (if i have kids or if i somehow adopt children from 3rd world country), i guess by then she'll understand. Well, 10 years IS a long time. And i thought 2 years in ahmi was a thorn in the kidneys already.

I ended our little 15 minute talk with my overly used "Growing up sucks eh?".



PS** Ahmi posting out tomorrow. My fate, for the next 1.5 years will take now pass thru the point of no return. I think.

265 : dummy gaynade

I sure hope blogger does not crash on me again for the umpteenth time in the past 15 minutes. I'm a fella with mighty amount of patience, I'm sure many would probably threw your itouch against your annoying little cousin squeaking next to ya while you're aimlessly to type this load of nonsense on that little screen of yours. Thankfully, from where I am seated in this starbucks cafe in suntec, you get to vent whatever clogged up frustrations on my venti sized cuppa, sipping sips after sips indoors with a crazy storm raging outside unseen by me eyes. Ok. The screen is really small and hard to type, perseverance.

Was supposed to have a meeting today (seems like there's meetings every single day since I became a PVT). Good stuff. Shopping, good food, liberty, and of course coffee. But well as fate had... no wait... I would say an expected turn of events and schedule crash, I found myself shopping aimlessly for belts as once again I felt as if i lost another inch round my waist again. I'll will skip the details about how the shopping went and go strait to the point. Boy, why aren't there any nice trendy belts out there in the market? Recession is kicking in faster than I thought.

I had a sudden urge to eat bananas when I walked passed carrefour awhile ago. So I went inside, thinking "hey, bananas would serve as a nice dessert!". I saw from afar as I approached the fruits area that they were selling dole's bananas. I had a pretty darn good experience with that brand of fruits in sunny island chalet. Once again, I got pumped with optimism as I approached the tasty bananas on sale. I was willing to fork out a buck or 2 for them, but bah, sure, they're bananas alright, and they sure are tiny and short, as if a retarded fruit peddler had thrown them into the dryer and set it to full auto. Recession!

Cut cost! Cut cut cut! Cut ka liao liao. Just glad they didn't cut the air conditioning here where I was sitting.

My cup's gotten cold again. History does repeat itself. And today I've made the same mistake of being overly optimistic about things, drawing assumptions like doodles on toilet paper. "hope" is a concept conceived by philosophers of the past, a concept i feel many of us cling too tightly for comfort and practicality. Reality is closer than you think.

I think I'll order another drink or something before I fall asleep typing this boring entry.

264 : Huh?! What's GEE PEE ?

Since most of us here, reading this rusty 1 yr old blog of mine since i moved to this url, are mostly ( MOSTLY ) between 12-24, you're either an old boy, a nice lady, or a hot-blooded teenager, in which i can't really be too bothered about as the younger are really... in every sense of the abbreviation, WTF. Well, no offense to the ones who are youthful yet pack some respect for the elderly.

And therefore, with the demographics, i can deduce that, the whole lot of ya, have no idea that, PEE-OH!-PEE, has since, a few months back, rebranded itself as GEE-PEE, graduation pahlaid. Same number of Es, less syllables, but more shit. Its really these kind of transition phases, you have to be bothered with yourself to correct others for the sake of Mother Singapore. Generations back, no one cared. *envy*

Yes! That's right! 12 is better than 11 which is curiously better than 1. Which means, i get to wear my cool t-shirts that doesn't say "Ahmi, the not-so-decisive-force-but-still-can-protect-the-country-somehow" shirts to sleep each night, well for the next 12 days at least. Optimism, that's the 一番大切な trait we short-haired men need to have right now.

My super supportive (note* sarcasm here for those who yet to know me all too well) mom came to my GEE-PEE with my super zai camera, as requested by me of course. If i didn't request anything, well, NOTHING would have happen, i would have taken the ferry back myself yesterday. Apparently, a zai camera required extreme skill to operate, as such, most of the shots taken yesterday were a total goner. I managed to salvage a few photos with my zai photoshopping skillz, but as the saying goes, "shit in, shit out".

So the best picture so far, untouched by my delicate photo editing skills was the above picture.


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Ok, fine it was edited with some words to hide the un-focus-ness of the poor shot. All of the shots were bad, i just didn't want my mom to read all these and feel bad herself. Where would you find such a wonderful son like me ? さあああああ～

263 : 5.5 day work week

Coming next Tuesday is my GeePee Parade ! That's the new term coined by the geezers high up there to revitalise the age old Pee-Oh-Pee Parade. Everyone's falling sick, cough flu, fever, mostly fever. I've got a nastly flu and twenty four clicks ain't a walk in the park, its a trek in the jungle with wild savage insects and monkeys and wild boars. But thats ok, we're allowed to bring in snicker bars and coffee this time round. Morale +50%.

Not that i want to complain about life, but more often than not, it seems super unfair for somethings, ok make it MOST of the things.

1. The other guys in the school one are having 5 day work weeks rather than 5.5 days, which means most of the time they get to go home on Friday nights. This might seem trivial, but people like me who wants to make a trip to the bank, or my own personal clinic will feel extraordinarily pissed. By the time, i got there on Saturday afternoon, they're closed. Which means i've skipped my personal insurance payment and medication by yet another week. The perk about bloggin on a sunday night means i am going back monday evening/afternoon, but nooooo, tomorrow is a public holidays. And if you're wondering, i did asked permission to leave earlier on saturday mornings/friday nights, but permission denied for ADMIN REASONS.

2. GeePee rehearsals was another thorn in the kidneys. I'm tanned like charcoal now on my arms and face, that sometimes, when i look into the mirror, i thought i turned Bangladeshi. But luckily i'm still putting on my ahmi clothes and i look less like a construction worker, and more garang. Well, since i am this tanned, i though i can save on the black coloured camou cream and maybe even use the savings to buy myself a happy meal or something tasty. If the sun could tan us green, that would be even more awesome, i could save MORE on green camou cream in which more of it are being used, and we'll look as cool as the hulk too. School two guys had 5 rehearsals while the other school had just only 3, so these guys over there looked more brown than black. I've always loved marching, but 5 under the sickening hot sun, is just OVERKILL. Seriously, is image THAT important ? Deterrence my ass.

3. I'm spending yet another lonely weekend at home, with the 4 walls echoing my thoughts and my frustrations. Sometimes, its really saddening. Most of the time, it could be serious fun. You could blast the hi-fi set, disturbing your neighbours and what not. You could record your own songs in the silence of the night without any worry of eavesdropping. I had trouble sleeping last night, after watching a scary movie with my polymates yesterday afternoon.

I dreamt that i got posted to artillery as some saikang god last week, but looking at my performance thus far, haix, should be expecting people to call me sarge next time le.

Too much typing and whining, my coffee's getting cold, shit. I've still got ironing, dishes, watering the plants, cleaning my room, sorting out my feel-good pack among the other 100+ sketches i've expected myself to do this weekend. And oh, i still got my audition to practice for coming week if i want to become a performer in the ahmi. Chances low, since i am combat fit and all, but having some optimism for once ain't bad after all.

OH NO !!! COFFEEEEE !

262 : 張信哲 - 別怕我傷心

title : 別怕我傷心
sing : 張信哲
lyrics : 張信哲
orig key : C#
play key: C (capo 1)

Am
好久沒有你的信　
Em
好久沒有人陪我談心
Am
懷念你柔情似水的眼睛　
G
是我天空最美麗的星星
C
異鄉的午夜特別冷清　
Am
一個男人和一顆熱切的心
F G Am
不知在遠方的你　是否能感應


Am
我從來不敢給你任何諾言　
Em
是因為我知道我們太年輕
Am
你追求的是一種浪漫感覺　
G
還是那不必負責任的熱情
C
心中的話到現在才對你表明　
Am
不知道你是否會因此而清醒
F G Am
讓身在遠方的我　不必為你擔心



G-C G Dm Am
一顆愛你的心　時時刻刻為你轉不停
C G Dm7 E
我的愛也曾經　深深溫暖你的心靈
F G Dm Am
你和他之間　是否已經有了真感情
F G Am
別隱瞞　對我說　別怕我傷心




8 more days to GP ! i can't wait to take my block leave and have a good holiday !

261 : Episode 3 - Nicks

I guess its true, you are what you eat. Everywhere you go, its the same for everyone. We just finished out shit test. Hopefully its smoother sailing from now on, no more 40mins sessions of kissing the floor and what not. God bless.

260 : Episode 03 - Cats and Dogs

So so much happened this week. So so much. Everytime we go out during civi time, time just go so fast when we're having fun. 3 days of life comes to an end in about 4 hrs time. Great. My psd-ing skill dropped a lot, can't remember as many short cuts and commands as i used to. Oh goodness. I guess everyone's got their own life, own shit, own happiness to take care of.

259 : Optimistic sheet.

Next week is FEEL "good" CAMP week. Why ? Cos' we're going to be treated like emperors. Meals are served and delivered to you by servants donned with emerald robes, and in addition snacks such as M and Ms are packaged into our daily lunch. Milo and tea to be served free flow at night.

We're going to become one with mother nature, a good break from the busy urban life, a short farewell to human creations such as concrete with only the trees and its leaves to shelter you from the sun and the moon. We get the privilege to skip showers, which had always been the dream of boys to men alike. The only shower and cleaning up we'll ever get is going be from the darked sky, when heavy droplets of precipitation embraces the dirtied faces and mud-stained body of ours.

What better way to toughen ourselves by fighting imaginary enemies. With the unique and distinctively powerful combination of determination, aggression and imagination, such training would mean the exact same result of fighting a real enemy in actual warfare, of course without getting risk being shot at.

In times of crisis, such as world destruction, uncontrolled global warming, meteorite strike, when living conditions are harsh as hell, or as cold as your branded refrigerator, we would be ever-ready to survive, and to endure the tough times ahead. Because the tough times won't be as tough as last time.


It'll be an AMAZING sausage party, a grand festival of man vs. imaginary man, an endless tug of war between endurance and the temptation to give up and drop out. Honestly, i can't wait to be part of the other 1628916 and counting men who are indeed real men, so real you could smell their biceps (and triceps) in your face.

Its gonna be super-licous baby.

258 : Episode 02 - Kare for Soldiers

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Most of the time, only half is true. But seeing other companies bringing in food such as cup noodles, oreos, potato chips, and some even brought in soda water, you just ain't satisfied with just butter crackers. Oh wells, its fate and karma they brought me into this place, lan lan suck thumb ba.

I should sketch the swimming pool, the mess hall, the bar ( YES there's a newly renovated bar with cheap beer, not for us though), and the canteen if i get the chance.

257 : Body on fire

Shack shack shack. The best years of my teens are of gone, and now i embrace this pitiful period of my 20s. Growing old, sucks.

That aside, with the small amount of time i have during weekends, you just gotta make most of it by going shopping ! Ahmi marney just came in, and i got myself a birthday present :

Oh yes, just gotta love the madness.

256 : Another one of those one liner cos' i aint got much time outside

The only person more fearful than your 25 year old sarge' is your 50 year old dental surgeon.

255 : My Stats are maxed out

In our fours we bleed and shout,
running around, in the heat of the morning sun.

Young men, brace yourself of the ride abound,
the pain, this training grinds you down.

Ego and pride, bid your goodbyes,
we wonder why, heart so empty now.

Break that sweat, we're told to do,
if we don't, we'll be kissing the ground.

There ain't a choice for us to make,
listen and follow, the only choice to take.

Yearning for the night to fall,
the sun yet even standing tall.

Weekends a jolly good delight,
families the ones, who will only treat you right.

The week, a long one ahead,
Pull it through ! Or we'll all be dead.

Three pitched roofs, would make a house cool down.
Single flat roofs, and it will be hot like siao.

We can be like them somehow,
return the favour in another twelve moon's round.

As we march down the alley in our fours,
carefully now, we shut ourselves down.

Switched off we had, its not that bad,
book in book out, thats all, we ever think about.

254 : 17 days and counting

Having just watched eagle eyes, the movie, well you just gotta realised, the internet ain't really a safe place to share information. Social networks, blogs, online accounts forums whatever all contain tiny bits of information about yourself. The gahments have got their eyes too, on the net, prowling under the shades of anonymous users, tracking and analysing each and every 1s and 0s, including this very sentence i am typing now. (and of course, someone out there with civil servant card would be laughing their ass off with my poor command and use of grammer)

The ahmi does not want you to write bad about them, thats for sure, image is super duper important to an organsation's function and operation. And i know too better about image and perception on things. I'm quite sure there would be some idiots out there who talk too much on the net and getting their ass whacked, but there's never been a strong motivation to go and read about how others think.

Just some quick reflections/whining/discovery at this red hot moment in time...

I've been told to be whining too much ( as seen from example above ), being too dependent on others and just being not man enough. I appear timid, always being too careful and too afraid to take risk and do things. Indifferent about things too, issues that really deserves attention, i simply turn and chuck them one side. Out of side out of mind. As far as this goes, i would like to admit, i am a timid guy.

Being inside ahmi proves this point to a whole new level in which i can now neither run, hide or simply dig a hole and shove my head into the pit. Its a crappy revelation kind of feeling. I had sub-consciously convinced myself, being the person who i am today, and still being accepted by other people was simply enough. ITS NOT.

Regimentation, not being in control and being controlled by others for some is a scary thing. Criticism, i take criticism too personally and often i don't feel too good about it.
Responsibility, itself is a burden and often than not i question is there truly a need for it. Holding up more responsibilities voluntarily to me sounds like digging your own grave (esp in the ahmi), and up till now i've been pushing things away, and haha karma strikes back at me, and now i'm the silly pratwooon IC ( ai si 要死）. Gosh i hate being pinpointed at things....

At this point in time, i'm quite amazed by the fact that, so many people had been through what i had gone through, and i feel that they're still doing well. Pok, Rui-ge, cockbite to name a few... They're still alive and happy i guess.

News just in another recruit just died again, third time this year, and another fellow brother from SP. And so far all those poor souls who lost their lives are from poly. Are we simply getting not enough exercise during our studies, thus not as zai as our JC counterparts ? Or is there something else ?

That aside, i need to put in effort in facing my fears and my severe lack of talent. Become stronger in the mind and body, and try not to kill myself in the process. The only motivation i am still desire life is to have some of my friends and family view and evaluate me different than what i am today. Hopefully everything will work out just fine.

Oh and what a wonderful way to celebrate the muslim holidays by raising the electricity prices. Thanks ar.

253 : Episode 01 - Conscription

From Kai's Web Comics

Read right to left !

This will be the last entry before 2 weeks of cold turkey. Looking forward to the great jungle outdoors, with palm trees, beautiful scenery along with the smell of delicious catered ahmi food. Been told to treat this time as '度假' by someone close. Well, come what may !

252 : Good buddies

A happy Wednesday lunch...

... in which i skipped because i felt like shaving my head...

...which spawned and inspired ugly (and happy) clones.

Buckle up recruits ! Exciting times ahead !

251 : More sketches !

I still remember i "koped" this piece of A3 paper from my studio neighbour when he wasn't looking.

This was from last year, when i was still learning how to sketch ( properly ). Lots of meaningless cross-hatchings, lots of strange lines here and there, but still i dare say it shares the spatial experience quite well. Ah, school projects, how i missed them now... Its all about experimentation and making stupid mistakes. Well, can say this sketch is one of my few few success.

Anyway, the sketch is fake one. Construction lines were generated using a 3D software from the model i built, adjust a view, printed over it, and drew some extra hand hatched lines to give it a more messy human touch.

250 : the last 10 days

So, whats keeping me busy for my last 10 days of freedom ? Here's a hint. If you know this place, where the picture below depict, well its a pretty big design project/competition going on.

Warning pictures are in super hi-res, wait awhile to load. Its a nice paranomic view i did consisting of many pictures stitched together.

Save it or click to enlarge...

Whoooo long...

Well, work is good to keep me busy, or should i, like most guys, enjoy fully their final hours clubbing, playing and chionging ?

249 : Angsek-ness goes on

Click or save the image above for hi-res.

Should function follow form ? Or shall be allow form to lead you blindly into a world of insanity ? Humans are weak, we aren't really suited for change, or rather, reluctant to change. We FEAR change. Instead of questioning generics and stepping out of that stupid fox hole, we suck it up and take things as it is. When was the last time you asked a question like "Why is the sky blue ?", why must we brush our teeth BEFORE breakfast instead of after. Why are TVs rectilinear ?

Either we're too busy or simply complacent. To quote the US senator Obama, "The time for change has come." =)

248 : Guess whoooo

One of those times, you think you're good at drawing, but honestly, nothing turns out right. So do you think i can sketch ? The lady ( yes its a lady ) is some celebrity. The one who guess correctly gets a single piece of plingles sour cream and onion. Of course, if no one can get it right, it simply means, I CAN'T SKETCH FOR NUTS.

And on another note, time pass when you're having fun. Been one week since i stopped work. And i manage to complete a few i wanted to complete games like MGS4 and FFTA2. Good stuff.

247 : YUI wallpaper 6

KISS. Keep it small and simple. Its the mascara and the lipstick that makes a lady a lady.

246 : What it takes to be me

Actually up till today, i've been really blur on what was going on 2 years back. Yup, its almost already been two years, wow time passes quickly, 20+ days to ahmi, and a little more i'm gonna turn 20.

And so, i ask myself, why why why why, but the true and correct way of approaching this situation is actually to not answer the question, but to accept it. And you might be thinking, what the heck am i typing about... But all that is in the past, and i shall not linger over it. In short, i guess its to suck it up and move on. Sometimes a kid needs to be smack in the face to tell him/her the hard way on a certain issue.

Ok well, i stopped work, killed some of my time these few days catching up on some gaming and some good friends, been sketching more often. Basically enjoying what i do most, in the expense of my precious time, and money.


I used to think (recently) perhaps i'm not working hard enough in my short life, perhaps, that's why there are more talented and skillful people out there. And perhaps thats why, how i'm like this today, trying to work harder, squeezing more time in a day compared to then, and hopefully one day become more of significant individual. Significant to what ? Myself of course.

In many ways i'm different from many people, my lifestyle, eating habits, likes and dislikes, fears and worries shape the way how i appear and appeal to other people. Maybe that's why i can't be always be in the good shoes of everyone else. Just so happens thats always a personality at the other end of the polarity.

Well, today's reflection is a bit of a big discovery. Though i always knew i don't want to be hated, and so i worked hard, holding back things to be said, or not, to be in the neutral side or the good side, but is it really working ? Trying too hard to be on the right side, sacrificing my individualism to blend in, is it worth it ?

I am here today, as me, because i know this is the result of the interactions i have between my close buddies friends and colleagues, and family. Maybe the me in 10 years time will see things much differently... am i right future me ?

245 : Thou shalt not speak my name

Its been 5 month plus plus since my days of a pathetic part timer to well, something more i guess. There's gonna be a farewell lunch tomorrow for me at work, as well as some stuff going on at night. Knowing that they (colleagues) will probably prepare some gift for me, though i really hope they don't cause i need to return that favour, well, guess i need to prepare something for them too.

Using recycled and things i don't need as usual =) I intend to market these babies as my new name card/paper weight and to mark my new join venture with some good buddies of mine. Spreading the seeds, thats the way man !

Its nothing impressive, but its something rather than going tomorrow empty handed. Why bench you ask ? Why indeed..... a good question. And good questions deserves to go unanswered. And yes, i do realise, my handwriting sucks big time since the dawn of time.

I'll be away on a short holiday again back to Malaysia.

244 : Spoilt for choice

When mummy called and told me to ask me to cook my own dinner the other day, well she did mention there was plenty of choices of noodles (instant) for me to cook. And here i go thinking hmm, ok great must be the usual 3 brands we buy all the time cos' there's not really much choice for us vegetarians. But oh boy, was i dead wrong.

"War times are imminent"

Basically the whole food shelve is stuffed with instant noodles. I'm not too sure whether we're inviting guess or me inviting friends next month to clear up all those food, because i'm damn sure i'm not gonna finish all that unhealthy food.

That aside, anyone figured this out yet? How does the water seem to appear to flow up the fountain ?

"N!ghtmoadsuX"

243 : 8.30-5.00pm

Human typology.

Look around your classroom, office, canteen, where ever you spend most of your time at, and look, stare hard and these people. Aren't they different ? Different from you ?

But yeah, we live, we eat, and most of all we sleep, and maybe most most of us all will leave for lunch at 12pm sharp. Humans, they are around everywhere anywhere, and as if they're there because they had to be there, or it simply just, happen.

Apparently, a recent discovery prompted me, "hey dude, things don't just happen dude, some factors instigate it, external unseen forces move things, too many things, and when the forces are too strong shit happens." Well, people congregate and stay for some reason i guess, and they leave when the shit happens.

At work, we see lots of people, different people. Though theres always a company slogan that says something along the line of "A united vision", people tends to stray, and boy i mean really STRAY from that vision.

I've never really thought about work. We work to earn money as a primary mean of survival, or to earn the ability to buy your kids happy meal weekly. Its come to my attention, yeah, we have many different needs. It all comes down to need. The list today will sort what i had thought of during my time in the toilet.

1. Money, to survive
2. Recognition, to climb up the social ladder
3. Experience, to understand shit before giving out the shit to others next time
4. Pass time, because they want to do something other than to watch k/j/hk drama at home 247
5. Money, to sustain their heavy expenditure lifestyle
6. School, compulsory internship to graduate or to sustain the industries' source of cheap cheap labour
7. Money, to pay debts. Or for some to serve bond due to scholarships. Sad isn't it
8. 洗黑钱, unlikely but its happening.

Well, from this we can see, yes, many people do have different reasons for working in the society. We're all too different, but from the list, in the perspective of an outside, we all share the same characteristic, ultimately its all for personal gain.

I'm no ghandi or mummy theresa, so i'm gonna hush up about this.


If anyone can find a someone who works for any other reason, do inform me.

242 : werk.live.pay your bills

As our director had quoted, what is work without fun and play ? We must have a work life balance. Live your life to the fullest ! Gym and exercise at least once a week ! As usual my work life is as busy as usual, 8am-8pm job then weekends tennis + play + participating in design competitions. Working hard not to get fired to pay my bills, and providing house allowance. Its all very very very life-like.

Right up, Kai's quick recap of the past 2 weeks !

We had a wonderful dinner at marythus maaandarine. Corporate DnD, scary shit, 800 people =X



Seated at a corner table with these wonderful people from werk. Intern to my right, seniors to my left.

Gaaarden Festival ! Free tickets from company, so went there during office hours to practice my photography skills. Boy, did i suck. No tripod in dark conditions = GG. Wonderful !

Though ahmi is only 2 months away, decided to cut my hair again right after gaaarden festival. 自拍万岁！ How wonderful of me !

Turns out me mother likes my new haircut, so she took a photo of it for me, how wonderful of her.

Today, there was a brief discussion with my colleagues that, how much of an uncle i was. I don't eat meat, i don't drink cold drinks, i now exercises regularly, i love kopi and health conscious i am now. Uncle ? Well, i guess i'm doing all this in the name of health, the KEY point is health, and the strange remark i got when i explained my point was "你还那么年轻". So i questioned them, "SO? What's wrong with starting young ?"

Curiously a good buddy just went to one of his old classmate's wake, and cause of death, cancer. 1 down, and he's only 20, sadly the cancer was detected late and well, 残念だな... Friends, go do a medical checkup now if you haven't, save yourself, don't wait for the government to act, we're busy deciding the future of singapore ( the land not the people, land worth more haha ).

If i am going to retire one day, no matter how long that day might take to come, i reckon i better not be retiring in a wheelchair.

241 : 巫启贤 - 悟

title : 悟
sing : 巫启贤
lyrics : 黄惠（supposedly with 言字旁）祯
orig/play key : D

D F#m
人群中悄悄离去
Bm F#m
怀着无奈几许
G Em7 A A7
喧嚣毫无眷恋的意义
D F#m
皮一身蓝蓝忧郁
Bm F#m
拖着恹恹步履
G Em7 A7
缓行到那苍森的丛影
Bm F#m G D
伫立荫晦浓绿 暗风吹过
G A7
拂动了将怠滞的细绪
G Em7 A A7
聚然间群虫飞惊 万木低絮
G A7 D
仿佛诉说恒古真谛
Bm F#m
每一个草丛里
G D
听到生命的跫音
G Em7 A7
年少段暂岂容挥霍去
Bm F#m
花开又复花落
G D
悟出生命的哲理
G A7 D
又何必对得失如此执迷


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Surprised i cannot find the lyrics of this song online, and so i took like half an hr just to type and look for all those chim chim words in this song... If you're not a mandarin native speaker and you can read and UNDERSTAND the above lyrics, i will humbly go down onto my knees and worship you.

Seriously how many of us out there use and can read "晦" which is a combination of 2 very basic words.....
Its hui3 by the way....

Been singing and playing this song a lot really, its great !

240 : One of those days

Quick sketch done in ben's house. 7 heads.

239 : Fast

Each week is just ticking away. looking back, half a month gone already, with some of the interns gone, more work just keep piling up on me, in which another 1 month from now, i'll be gone too.

Been more than a week since my last post. The only "free time" i got was either going out with friends for outings, or going out shopping with family ( we must always leave some time with family ).

I've been sticking with my "Werk, Live, Plae" guide to having a balanced life. But then, there's still something missing. True, i work to earn my keep, after work go out have a good dinner with friends or go jogging/gyming, then i spend my weekends errr... playing my games ? Like with these 3 rules all my time filled up.

Work - The office life that some people will never get used to. Some err, clowns i suppose, came knocking on our department door to promote the upcoming dinner and dance with free balloons.

LIVE - Going out alone for a nice cuppa coffee, only to realise no one to take care of your laptop when you wanna go pee.

PLAY - No, i don't mahjong, its an addictive evil game associated with old aunty uncle.

What about you guys ? Been having free time lately to do things for yourself ?

238 : Among other things in life

In view of the recent sentence of the guy who wanna get revenge using ahmi property, and today's straights dimes front cover statement of the judge who issued his sentence, i felt a teeny weeny bit of fear in regards to life itself.

One stupid stupid mistake, and half, or maybe a big portion of your life screwed. And you spend the rest of your life (whether you want it or not) serving your sentence, for your stupid mistakes, in hopes of one day, coming out again and be "normal".

At such an age, where being in a boy's home is too old, and in a jail too young, he, or rather WE are nowhere in society. Considered adults, well, look like an adult, but the mind barely mature enough, we're simply caught in the middle. 10 years is not a short time to be a time to make up for mistakes.....

Our society is not forgiving. All we need is one stupid mistake to screw it all up, which brings us to my question, i wonder how his mommy felt knowing her son is going to waste so much of his life. I feel truly sad for the parent.

Why do people want to have kids ? For some (parents), its investment, and thats purely my view and observation. Being the straightforward i am today, i popped the same question to my mother. Turns out, this time round, there wasn't an answer. Some answers that came straight to my mind were, parental (grandparents) pressure, family tradition of carrying on the genes and name, they like kids or want to experience parenthood, or maybe its just an accident =X.

In this recent accident of the guy who brought his pea shooter out to orchid road, i wondered if the mom regretted giving birth to this child. Of course in the very beginning they were sure and positive about raising their kids in a family (those typical parental thinking).

But really, as a parent, you are responsible for your child in each and EVERY aspect. For those married people who simply thinks "I want to experience childbirth, i want to be a parent, i want to bring my kid out and let him/her my shoulders on a jog around eastcoast park. ..etc... " Oh please don't. Bear in mind that very child grows on one day, albeit many many one day-s.

POINT IS, question your existence. Ask WHY we're here. WHY are we part of this system called society ? Why ? I'm not hinting anyone to be suicidal ( thats REALLY BAD please) , but the direct opposite, of why we must cherish life we had been given already, and that no matter what is a fact. Haha, for curiousity sake, dear readers, why are you here ?

237 : YUI wallpaper 5

Eh, the original image was really small. Wished i had a better resolution photo to work with. Back to my real life work =X.

236 : Vagrant Story Widescreen Wallpaper

Click to enlarge

Its quite an old game back in the days of the PS1. But the concept and style is top notched.
I simply stitched together some of the pictures i had from way back. If you like it, just say so. =)

235 : The A Bit Fake Rainbow

Since today is the last day for contest submission, here's my take on the theme of the .... look at the picture yourself.

The idea is that, being in love with the nice nice rainbows out there, and huge ass fountain jets. I decided to propose one for just this competition.

NICE RIGHT !?! 3 hours of mindless sketching and colouring in office. So what you think ? Got 童真 or not ?

234 : A Cappella (AR-CAR-PAIR-LAR)

A Cappella, not sure how that one came about, maybe some people were too poor to buy some proper instruments so they had to result to using their mouths, but thats not the point here. I guess somethings if people can put effort into the things they do, good things will come. Maybe one day i start singing classes, i will stop killing someone's ears, or something. I digress from today's intended entry.

Life's good so far i guess since landing back in sg. I haven't got time to blog about things recently due to some other new commitments, but i will still try to get thoughts and life updated on this outpost over here on the web. I had asked myself why i do such things, spending hours and end to do up a nice html site, flash galleries, stuff like that when i can do much better things like learning how to sing and dance.

Everyone is different, thats for sure. There's so many everyone in this whole world. We are just but a tiny spark, so tiny a spark its almost not worth mentioning in this dimension in which we exist. We may be just gone the next day or so, like a breeze, brrrr... And what do we left behind ? Our house ? Belongings ? Money? They are just physical. Words, thoughts, creations of the mind, thats worth more i feel.

So one day when i'm gone, i am leaving this blog as my legacy behind (hahahahaha, silly me). So hopefully next one who uses this blog space does so good shit to it. Or i am coming back to haunt the errr server ?

See see, i am just so scatterbrained.

One more point, seems my dear YUI is getting more popular by the day, so when is getting to the level of ayumi and utada ? I can't wait.

My first dinner with the guys at my department. Not cheap.

The mise.

The interior. POSH for 6th floor.

The food. ( i ate most of the veggies, pretty good too)

And we leave with our wallets empty ($38 per head buffet, ouch)

Sometimes, we stop and realize, "hey its pretty hard to get a view of a clear sky in sg huh."

My new wallet ! Branded =X RED =) Replacing my favourite 3 year old zipper spoilt + leather coming off from side old wallet given from a dear friend.

This afternoon i had a nap, and in that nap i had a dream.

"The boss wants to see you." signaled my taller guy colleague. And so i entered into the white room at the back.

The young men in his 30s then snapped from his table, "Ahem. Look out the window. See something ? "

There sat another young lady, in her 20s, waiting near the reception area, smiling.

And i knew for some reason, who she was.

233 : Quite some time already

It shows how i feel about the issue right now.
High res. Let it load to see what i mean.

232 : Slightly less than 3 months now...

2 weeks away, and my skills are getting a bit rusty already. Imagine 2 years... but i'm not going to let that happen. Well, working sure keeps me on my toes with my soft skills, but once the real deal comes, its another story all together.

As a quick summary of my trip, in which i would like share just a tiny bit, its gonna be photo time ! I've taken a total of 1000+ pictures during the past whole week in australia, 7 days, thats 140+ average pictures taken a day.

I've made a quick flash gallery, just take a quick peek with some captions over HERE.

That aside, its late, and theres work tomorrow, and i do not want to be late again for work last friday, not gonna get any good impressions from the rest if this goes on.

231 : Not a real holiday

Looking back, my holiday past week wasn't exactly a blast, but its got its good times and bad times. I'm kind of tanned right now, lips are peeling like sheet, and the hands and legs are really dry. Suddenly it feels good to be in a humid weather, for once.

There's just no free wifi service in sydney. NONE. Internet cafes are expensive and they got a bad environment there. Feels kind of detached for awhile, and boy do i miss my keyboard and mouse.

Lots of things we did over there, me mummy grandma. Too many things to show and tell. I'll just post up my personal write out done in my mp3 player over 2 occasions.

Lots of words and unspelled checked. Be warned.

How should I call this?

Just to let everyone know, I'm currently typing this junk in my hotel room somewhere in this eastern Australian city. We had seen the city sights from the morning tours, and most of the notable buildings in the district.

At this point of time, I'm incredibly amazed at the word correction or the built in spell checker in my touch. If only the real keyboard at home was this zai. And not curiously, zai is not inside their dictionary.

We are going up blue mountains tomorrow by coach. They think its going to be pretty cold up there, with the strong winds and all, so i'm think I'm going to wear my super thick coat and underwear.

Its quite freezing right now by Singapore standards. The aircon is not on, the windows are not open and boy its cold, no need sweater those type of cold, just needs some pants on that's all. Best part is that, its not even the start of proper winter season. Cool la.

Its 730pm right now, which means its 530pm in sg right now, super sleepy and tires from all those sight seeing and relentless ranting of my grandma complaining how expensive the things are after converting back to her home currency.

Oh great captain cook (the raffles of Sydney or something), please spare me of this torture of my last holiday in the next couple of years.


Typed on another occasion...

Another two day just went by. Not particularly tiring, but its one of those times, you feel nothing at all. Yay, saw the nice attractions then ok let's move on to the next one kind of thing. Something interesting to note Is that, for the first time in my life, I felt the power and use of a fire place.

The nights in Canberra are just damn cold. Wearing four layers was just not enough. As I type this, I'm on the coach from the capital back to harbour side Sydney. Two more hours to go on the motorway as they call it, not the usual expressway that we're used to call.

I got some really nice souvenir from some of the places I've went for everyone back at home. Honestly I think I just killed most of my savings for this trip. Haha, who cares? I've experienced some pretty nice breezes and temperatures here.

Speaking of temperatures, I look at the wild kangaroos along the road and really I wonder how they deal with the cold. I highly doubt their fur is thicker than my esprit jacket combined.

Its super early sunset at these parts of the world, 5 plus and the whole sky is black already. And our local time at home us like only three in the afternoon. And sadly to us Singaporean shopperholics, the shop closes early here, around seven evening. Their latest latest closing time for those late night shopping is at nine pm. At this point, I now know why hong kong was able to market and sell their shopping and eating city so well to tourist.

The tour guide mentioned some pretty interesting stuff along the way on the bus ride. Let me try to recall them.

The average income here is around 60,000 Australia dollars a year, that's around 7000 plus plus sing dollars a month. Anything below that will have a bit of a hard time to get by.

Those who cannot afford the city life style will need to move back to the inland countryside. Reasonable enough.

Cars here are quite cheap. With Singapore cars in existence or rather with the government in office, cars anywhere else would seem cheap. I digress.

People here cab start to learn to drive at 16 years if age. Three year provisional license after then another two years I think of putting your annoying letter L on your car before taking it off and owning a full license. Breaking the road law will impose a fine, quite a heavy one I may add, and 3 points off your license, out of the maximum original 12 points. With lost points, you need 3 years to get those points back per deduction.

We were introduced to six different Australia national songs, some quite well known such as waltzing Matilda and the rest, I have no damn idea. Well, the guide did explain word for word what the songs meant, and thinking back during secondary one, during some silly music festival contest in school, me and cb performed waltzing Matilda and got first among the other older students was quite amazing. I remembering practice singing it in the shower while I was still living near boon lay area, just behind the station. I think I still gave my purple music festival shirt from back then, that was around 7 years ago. I digress. Oh and I found it funny that the guide mentions his American father in law thought waltzing Matilda was being sung "let's sing together" for more than 29 years, cause when everyone was singing it, everyone was just drunk and happy and were just mumbling the words.

Another 159km to go. Just took 15 minutes to look outside my window at the stars. Its just so damn nice, that
I just realize how long I haven't been looking at the clear sky at night. As fat as i know, at home, its always cloudy. Here, just today we saw 3 rainbows within one hour. Slight showers and a blazing sun made it possible I guess.

You could really see lots of constellations here. But I can't find our favourite Orion in sight. I'm no astrologist, so yeah maybe they do not appear and say hi in this part if the world.

The bus is stopping for a quick toilet break, good for the ladies and grannies. My hands are still feeling cold at this period of time. The window panel beside me feels just like ice. Moving wind is just scarily cold.

Is there any country in the world with a steady temperature of 25 degrees Celsius? Cause that would be really nice. We spend too much energy keeping our bodies comfortable with air conditioning and heaters. Suddenly thinking about the fire place just made me feel stupid again.

At the national museum this afternoon, some other American students from some college approached me to ask about my hair. They are just a big younger than I am, and boy were they wild. I thought for awhile, hmm cultural differences? The other questions they asked me were equally daunting, where I from where j live what I think about their hair, what kind of contacts I am wearing why is gum banned in Singapore, what my MSN was, and whether they could come visit me back home in sg and loads more, all that within 2-3 minutes. I felt a bit insulted and wanted to tell them to aff off but granny was around and didn't want to leave a bad impression kids.

Great 80 more clicks to go. Hmm, I shan write a bit about my granny, my mother's mother. I know she's suffering from a serious mental illness called anxiety. We did tell her what she is going through, but no matter how her 4 daughters try to convince her to take things easy and just relax, the word anxiety or the teochew equal simply does not exist in her warped dictionary. I don't wanna whine too much about how I cannot stand the demanding and childish acts of hers. I think I will just state one example, the morning intercontinental breakfast at the hotel. Its a buffet and you're suppose not allowed to take extra food out of the eating premises. Well, she purposefully took 2 extra boxes of those cornflakes and put them on the table. When leaving for the tour, like a criminal, she looked around her table, made sure no one (except me) was looking at here and snugged then into her handbag. For awhile, I was shocked. I told her we'll get something to eat along the way, and there was no need steal. Her reasons was we paid well a good price to eat there, and we were just taking a share of the bargain (translating from mandarin) and the food us right fully ours. OK ... Then why check your surroundings just now? Before I could speak and ask, my mom gave the "shut up eat your food let it go" face. And so I did. The paymaster's always right.

To exact my mini revenge of irritant, when the tour guide was explaining how the first people got here from Britain due their convict acts, they get sent to the other side of earth to work off their conviction, I purposefully too translated it for her, emphasizing on parts like simple crimes like stealing bread in poor England because the people were so helpless. Well I guessed it pissed her off a bit but its all in the name if fun.

Oh gosh, I think I got mention before I get around 25% of her blood. Not good. There's loads more example i don't feel its too good to share. But yeah, for the count, loads more.

Just entered the leaking 2 lane under-sandstone tunnel back to Sydney city. 12 more clicks to go fast. The city view is nice at night, on a moving vehicle there's no way to really take good pictures of it.

Got this sudden urge to install some city building game, and play my Oblivion save game again. That's all for now.

230 : A real holiday ?

I've never really been on an OVERSEAS leisure trip with friends, so far its only exchange programmes and camping in some deserted country side. I've not even been to batam with friends. Maybe thats a good thing, so i won't get to become crazy and do really crazy stuff like everyone else.

So once again, i'm going for a leisure trip again ! With family AGAIN. Can't complain much, i'm paying half the fees needed to go only, and i've manage to get some unpaid leave off from work, and its a country i've never been before.

Will be gone for quite some time. So friends don't expect to contact me for dinner/movies/cycling/exercising/tennis/gaming for the next 2 weeks. I'll be hanging out with the jumpee animals which kicks harder than any human being can, maybe even enjoy a jug of beer or 2 with the animal family.

Its been 9 months since i last flew on a plane, how time passed. Fuel/food/daily essentials are shooting up so much. This is not good.

229 : Noriten

This is hilarious, once again looking at things of what i typed in the pass, its stupid and really funny. Funnily stupid.

My table. Ignore the free notebook on the table, i'm only using it because its free. Can feel the amount of work i'm doing now ?

Doing lecture slides is only the first part, then got to set up the lecture (meeting) room. Adjust calibrate the projector make tea set up laptops 4 days a week for the next 8-10 weeks. Tough being a part time lecturer. LOL.

Title page ! Less is more, sweet and simple.

Wanted to thank dominic-chan for his nice gesture of helping me buy my favourite throat killer from HK airport. We don't have these sizes here in SG, and its more expensive too. I'm donating 1 pack to my office to help my colleagues get more MC.

On monday we went to "yoU aRe Air !" to see the exhibit for the new marshtah plan. Though we already know a bit here and there the future of the country's scape, its tough imagining the whole thing. Say for example the above image for clehmentee central, its soooo fake la. Looks zai, but not really zai. We HAVE TO see the real thing in a few more years time.

Work sure is busy, well its better being busy then having to laze around all day wasting oxygen and money. We still need to eat (good) food and have a living. Do YUI know what i mean ?

228 : Honestly, how cold can it get ?

We're not going to the north pole or alaska, or greenland either. Its just a nice southern hemisphere city sydney. Its around 15-20 deg C over there now, so why the need to try to bring a 17" hand luggage to fit 3 sets of winter wear ?

Bear in mind being the only guy in the group, i have to carry most of the luggages and belongings, should i not have a say in whether we should pack light or not ? Being young (youngest also), they think you're naive, immature, well, maybe i am, but we're trained to think rationally not simply just following instructions and say "orh". I just can't understand how the old people think, even if i have a solid argument, they would just brush it aside, get upset about how disrespectful i am, and in the end, i lose.

I'm just going to shut my trap and "orh" from now on. Thats why i hate growing up. I can't imagine my kids going through the same shit i did. Poor kids.

227 : Excitement and motivation

Recently, a close friend asked me, what was my excitement in life. I couldn't answer that. I thought for a bit, then was stumped by a reality.

A reality that binds us within the X,Y,Z axis. This world we're in, the air we breathe, the food we need to eat just to get pass the day. Its irritating.

We work hard, but what for ? A bright and exciting future ? Start a family ? Spread your genes ? Studying hard to get recognized, and then what ? Good starting pay ? Your own business being you own boss ?

What's pushing you to live pass tomorrow ? Often than not, man are being motivated by desires, wants, most of the time superficial things, and these motivation pushes them hard. Poor people want to get rich, rich people want to be richer, richer people wants power. Are we all bounded by this irritating system ? For the tiny amount of lifespan we have, is this IT ?

Ask a kid from cambodia what he wants to be in the future, and most likely he would tell you a doctor or teacher or some other occupation the society deem as noble. How did they come close to this idea ? By growing up in poverty, the most obvious and direct route for them is to get out of the poverty circle, and lets say they're out already and running their own hospital/school, what next ? Continue to do the same thing until they breathe their last breath ?

We're bounded by fate as to where we're born and who our parents, society are like. And we live that life under these circumstances and restrictions, and that rail had already been set for our train of life to choo choo along.

Excitement about life ? Whats there to be excited about ? When i was studying, i looked forward to the holidays, when i was working, i look forward to my pay, and when i will be doing NS i should looking forward to booking out and stuff. And what's the BIGGER picture ? I'm not sure.

Just a little experiment to test my theory, i posted an interesting questions to whom i think would give me some response.

The question was " What would be the no. 1 thing that you would want to do right now ? "

Here's the breakdown of the reply :
(i'm using "him"s to keep gender out of the equation)

1 wanted to ask his ex gf out tomorrow but was not sure whether he wants to or not.
1 wanted to fly his own plane behind his own controls.
1 wanted to kill himself and not make people sad. ( i better be more careful when asking questions)
1 wanted to go to bed. ( sorry for disturbing you !)
1 wanted to skip army =X
1 wanted to end his army service and get his pink IC back immediately =X
1 wanted to talk to his gf from japan ( a call or something not too sure).
1 wanted to go overseas on a holiday with his family.
1 wanted to also go overseas to holiday.
1 wanted to get 1st class honors in university, get a job and then get married.
1 wanted to take a shower/bath.
1 wanted to find a good loan to go overseas studies and find a good uni which will accept his poor grades (tough.)
1 wanted to return his graduation robe ASAP because he can't do it on weekdays due to work
1 wanted to go out to chill somewhere but worries about his wallet
Some didn't bother to reply which is pretty ok. For those who did you're cool.

Its interesting to note that in my question, i did not state whether its a lifelong future future thing or a instantaneous need. Some answers were quite individual specific such as flying the plane and making a long distant call overseas to a loved one, but MOST answers, didn't we some point in our life would have that particular want and desire ?

After all, we're all the same but not quite. What's YOUR excitement and motivation in life ?

226 : 光阴似箭 light dark like ehlow

I made a record today, spent less than $1 on personal expenses. There's many ways to look at this, i looked at it such that, the direct deduction from my own wallet was from traveling to work today from home which is around 80 cents.

Lunch was on boss as i needed to give him a private lesson on the program. $3.

Teatime was yet again on my direct supervisor, he brought me down for tea and coffee and treated me because i think i looked very stress. I should get him something next time.

Tea time jolly. Yes i'm being paid for drinking high grade tea.

Dinner was on mom, because i went shopping with her to buy her students stuffed toys because they were well-behaved in class today. The kids were asked to write what they wanted on a piece of paper and to be handed to me mom, most of them (p1 and p2) wrote stuff like sweets and dogs and cats (stuffed ones), one smart GIRL wrote "PSP". I salute her.

On the way home from dinner. 3 lamebow so far in 3 days. This is one hugeassed rambo. Many people were simply stopping along the wrote and taking a picture/staring at it. Too bad my camera is craaap.

I should start buying 4D with all the saving up of money and lucky signs.

225 : Lameboh !

Today's a quick post with 2 pictures

Taken at An-new-ass open field there. Not sure it can be called a lameboh, leprechauns or rambo.

This one is a bit hard to spot. Taken on train during this morning's heavy rain. Its huge !

I hate being busy, you just seem to have less time for things like exercise, love, and blogging.

224 : 赢了咯 win liao lor

The bet paid off, i suck up my balls and approached the big guy, demanded, ok more like pleaded in a sorrowful manner, to have my pay raised to an acceptable standard ( market standard at least la). He looked at me, explained i am getting taxpayers money for my pay and i need to fully justify from my side why i deserve so much ( how much it was never mentioned). I left his table with a low low hope of the request getting through because, well the gahment is pretty stingy.

So one week later, after some emails with the HR dept from the big guy, HR CALLED ME AND APPROVED THE PAY RISE ! Big shock ! The "justification" they needed was simply my diploma cert or prove that i am awarded one and graduated. Lesson learned here is, i guess you need to just hold out, do some shit for a respectable amount of time, and approach the closest big guys and use their SEH to get the job done.

I gonna frame up my employment and salary letter in a nice golden acrylic box. So when i come out of NS and look for a job, i got bargaining power liao. Win liao. The bet paid off !

I starting my classes for my students (my colleagues and boss) at work next week friday to teach them the program. Will try to shake a bit more leg and feel shiok before i quit for enlistment.

Past week, chionging the poster for some event corporate thing. Its everywhere, but no on knows the genius behind it, only YOU know, haha for my sake.

Its the one on the left, taken outside the lift lobby of each floor for 32 floors. The one on the right is just ewwww.

Taken by me as observed in the lift. Huge A2 poster glossy paper, god bless the trees for this noble cause.

A3 sized poster found in HR department manager's cubicle while collecting my letter.

And a huge 1.8m high poster to grab people's attention for the donation drive. Can you see it ? And all are printed by me the super part timer.

Flaunting owari !