Tak Boleh Tahan!

just back from malay ca test. gonna buang this one bad man sheesh our dear encik aziz was xiao onz enough to make sure everyone seats at least one seat apart. and there goes my chances of copying from lichun, though i'm not sure if that would've helped much, bleahz.

going to zouk tonight most probably...gonna throw my ultra tired mass into the merciless dancefloor!

Another Busy Morning

hey ho, i'm up blogging early today again. i think my biological clock has set itself to the 10am timeslot liao so that i can even wake without my handphone alarm. got lots of fyp work to do, then i'll haveta stop at around 3pm so i can study my malay. hopefully the test won't be too difficult.

having abit of a tummyache this morning though i have no idea what i could've eaten wrong. or maybe its cuz i haven't eaten at all. i've been to the toilet once liao. it's irritating when you can't shit in your favourite cubicle cuz the toilet's being washed, so havta walk a little more to the other fourth level toilet to shit.

the other toilet is much nicer actually, having been renovated a few months ago. the tiles are really clean, the floor's not slippery and even the protective plastic on its metallic flush hasn't been ripped out yet. but still i'd rather shit in my old toilet. last cubicle. the squatting throne. its hard to explain, but perhaps thats where my comfort zone for toilets is.

i've also added the candy girl's blog (yay, you blog too!) and mark's scrabble saga just for everyone's convenience. no point in me always directing people who dunno mark to his site. john's also started his darts saga. haha. i guess everyone's got a story to tell don't they? maybe i ought to write about something too?

i've been so busy with my fyp this week that i haven't had time to do the daily chores in my room.the room's in quite a mess, the floor's starting to feel dirty again, the clothes haven't been washed for awhile and i've been neglecting my fish tank abit.

the bitch is getting really huge, 6"?. i can't find a catfish or prawn anymore(they must be hidiing really really well) since i bought a packet of both just last week. the new plants i bought are quite nice but one of them is growing so fast that several stalks have grown out of my tank already. will probably trim them when i have the time. the other plant seems to be merry and pippin's (my two french snails) favourite veg. they hang around it all day and chew on it. in fact if you look closely enough you can see the trail of chewy they left on the stems. tsk tsk. i can't find crabby, haven't seen him since last friday, might be hiding somewhere (hope the bitch hasn't gotten to him yet).

i miss squishie.

oh well time to slog again...

Caught!

argh. i never thought it would happen but it did. mark and i were caught using the src pool just now. haha. its funny cuz the security guard actually climbed over the locked gates the exactly way we did just to sneak up on us. he was so sneaky neither of us heard him. i had just gotten into the pool and swam a lap while mark was still taking off his clothes. tough luck. the mat-yo-yo of a security guard though was nice enough to let us off the hook (they're always this nice when you start speaking ot them mat-rocker style). si-beh xiao-onz.

still struggling withthe fyp data analysis...

Tired Tired

at the cad/cam lab again. had brunch with mark at canteen a just now, i'm getting sick from having had to eat there so often, but the chicken katsu was good today.

was so tired last night i fell asleep before i had wanted to. ended up missing the supper i asked guoxin to buy for me (sorry beth!). the good thing is i learnt that shengyong ate up beth's duck noodles and my mee pok. paid guoxin anyway for his trouble, was feeling kinda bad making him buy then never eat.

malay test tommorrow. will only begin to study tom afternoon. hopefully thats enough time and hopefully that gorgeous chio bu who sits beside me during lesson will actually have studied and will write in larger fonts during the test.

the whole period since i came back from dinner yesterday i spent touching up on my experimental data. its a bitchy tedious process of data manipulation and filtration. so disgustingly taxing. i think my eyesight's failing me from all that staring into the computer screen. they feel real heavy and soggy and coupled with the little sleep i'm unacustomed to, i'm developing eye bags for one of the rare times in my life (god i'm ugly!). i also have to squint quite alot these days, i don't think my myopia's gotten worse, but the astic ('sat how its spelt?) is definitely worsening, as if it ain't bad enough. these days even with my glasses on the lights in the night glare in larger glowrings than before. waiting to start hallucinating...

oh well hopefully things'll improve come friday when we go cheong (meeting this week's quota), this time we've planned to go newsroom bar. gotta remember to drink less alcohol, i still have a six-pack in my fridge. i don't feel awfully stressed, but there's alot of work to do and its gotta be done somehow so i find myself overly busy with things i'd rather not do, and neglecting the things that i want to concentrate on. but hey, i wouldn't be living life if things were all that perfect init?

back to the fluids mechanics lab...

It's A Rainy Day

goodness can't remember how many times i almost slipped and fell since i came to school in the morning. i think i ought to change my slippers soon before the frictionless base kills me.

its my hrm tutorial now but since foo chek teck is so bloody longwinded and full of self-praise (i thought i was bad), i decided to blog an entry before i go for it.

spent almost the whole damn day holed up in the fluids mechanics lab slogging through the rest of my fyp experiments. i 've managed to complete the rotational sets for the 1 degree in and out rotational plates so i'm left with 4 more plates to go. but in order to complete so much today i didn't do data analysis for the results i got since i figured i can bring it back to my room computer to do tonight. okie i've decided also to ditch the name xiao ding dang for my dumb machine. i don't wanna call it anything lah. argh. as long as she treats me well for the next few days, whatever she wants me to call her i'll call...usually it's just a simple "oi!".

i actually went for a prescribed lecture just now of which i managed to keep awake by first, writing an entry into my journal, and then trying to finish up what's left of big fish (i'm at hte part where he buys the town of specter!). the clean tech pe lectures are so boring and dead that half the class is usually asleep by the half-hour mark. xianz. could've been doing my fyp instead if not for the attendance-taking.

okie i'm off to hrm tutorial now and then malay class afterthat. hopefully i won't slip and kill myself on the way.

The Busiest Week

hmm, i'm up quite early today, preparing to face what might be the busiest week of this semester.

my fyp 1st draft is supposed to be due next tuesday (though my sup only needs the first few chapters first) but i've still got the rest of my experiments to do as well and i haven't even begun typing my report (hopefully today's the day) . got a malay ca test on wednesday which i ought to start stuying for as well, not sure if i can rely on lichun for answers. got a clean tech project due next week as well, though i don't even know what i'm supposed to do with the project, but i've already missed a quiz once so if i cock this one up i might end up failing this pe (time to study)

its time to really start doing something academically constructive.

ChinaBlack Part Deux

i can't believe i ended up in chinablack for the 2nd night in three days. this time it was jinde who wanted to go, so i brought him there. we had intended to go watch soccer but apparently the candy girl asked him to go there to chill so i accomodated...before that he had to go back to my place to change into my bro's jeans since he was wearing shorts.

it's free entry on saturday nights and drinks are at $3 a glass and $10 a jug. dirt cheap. the crowd was abit too young for my liking (very army) and music was hip-hop/r&b (which i'm not really into). so we had a jug of vodka 7-up and a mug of tiger each and stood at a table by the side of the dancefloor almost the entire time. we were there watching the young things go by. and since we're both attached there wasn't much interest in picking any nubiles (there weren't that many anyway), so gyrating to the music was the order of the day...it's jinde's first time to the club and i think he enjoyed tonight quite abit.

we left the club around 1+ and adjorned to simpang bedok for supper with the candy girl. nice of her to meet up with us so late. i was really hungry and actually managed a whole chicken pita kebab and two otahs while jinde just had a roti john (which he didn't even finish). we talked quite alot, among which i still couldn't help insulting her boyfriend (as always) and can't believe that she not only said i'm gonna end up marrying late (hmph), and that i'm a lousier boyfriend than she's a lousy girlfriend (the cheek!)! we left around 0345 lidat, walked her back before taking the taxi back in opposite directions. abit late i must say. but eventful nonetheless since i managed to catch up with two good buds in one single night (killed two birds with one stone).

dunno how the hell i'm gonna wake up tomorrow though.

Eastern Sea Breeze

it feels great to be back home after such a long time (didn't go home last weekend). there's nothing like the serenity and calmness of the marine parade - siglap area. this is the perfect place to bring up the children and grow old.

anyway i just got dragged to parkway by val to eat ya kun kaya toast just now. it's the first time i've tried it. it's awfully expensive at $3.50 for 4 slices of bread, 1/2 boiled eggs and tea. val likes it alot. i think the breads too crispy for my liking while the tea tastes weird. the eggs are big (bigger than kopitiam fare)and tasty though. each time i come back to the east i feel like i haven't missed much of a beat in the weekend bustle (maybe that's cuz i've been coming back ONLY on weekends for 6 years now). things here are still so familiar friendly and calm.

the funny thing about the east is that the course of time has hardly changed the environment and culture of this place. sure there're renovations and construction occasionally but essentially these changes hardly affect the impression of the place i've spent my childhood in. alot of old buildings and schools and other facilities still pepper the entire katong-marine parade-siglap-east coast area as though a fond reminder of all that i grew up with. maybe we're lucky this place was helmed by our brudder ct goh so upgrades and renovations are always so competent and efficient. but still, i sure as hell wouldn't trade this place for any other in singapore.

that said, perhaps we each have our preferences as to where we'd rather live in (which tends to be where we grew up in due to familiarity). the other day a very close friend revealed that she's never even heard of parkway parade before. i was shocked and not to mention appalled. how on earth can a singaporean not know this place?!! (got people so damn bloody suah koo wan meh?). then she pointed out that i didn't know the new 40-storey hdbs were in toa payoh, her hometown, so now we're even (no fair!).

also, today i did something really constructive at home. my room's toilet bowl flushing system broke down a few days ago, so my brother and i spent the better part of the afternoon repairing the flush mechanism. it felt great to help out (finally, after so long) and it was also great brother-bonding time with my bro. he's grown so big now sometimes i have to pause awhile just to see how big he's grown (i mean he's bigger and heavier than me!). and now he's taking muay-thai (kickboxing) lessons during his free time away from the army (i'm so dead if i ever tried anything funny on him), go bro!

okie all this eastern rambling is kinda making me hungry for reasons i know not why...

One Day Gone

wow. i can't believe i actually got by one whole day without blogging. i remembered the closest i got to blogging yesterday was after slogging for fyp i went over to the cad/cam lab but the moment i logged in the staff said the lab was closing liao. so there.

chinablack that night turned out to be quite an interesting night actually (okie so i was wrong). the night didn't look good when we got there though, there were so few people in the club that we kept making snide sarcastic jokes about having had to queue for hours just to squeeze into the club. i mean it was so bad the whole club only had one couch area filled (that was by mulian john mark and beth) when i went in. but as the night wore on and the drinks started flowing, we got high enough to neglect the emptiness of the place and dwelled in our own confines playing cai quan (guess numbers), and the place slowly but surely filled up. i think everyone had a bit too much to drink that night so it ended with a snippet of shows to watch.

a crap load of people were quite pissed out. maxine was crying alot (wonder why). wee teck was crying alot (wonder why). everyone was really high since drinks came to a near free-flow toward the end. everyone was puking left right and centre. i do remember fbt kevin in particular, protesting that he wasn't drunk, even though there was a one-inch string of drool dangling on the left corner of his mouth and i had to help him wiped it off while agreeing that he wasn't drunk. hmm. i thought it was really fun somehow...maybe in my usual warped sense, there was an egoistic feeling of empowerment whenever everyone around me was high or drunk while i was sober, so maybe that was it. felt quite bad about brudder john since he didn't have his 42 brudders with him but he did look quite high as he drank quite alot too.

its hard to get into specifics about alot of what went on that night and i'm abit too lazy to narrate everything that i saw. but in all i thought it was a night where peoples' inner-consciousness were peeled out by the ravaging effects of alcohol and whether elaborate or subtle, their actions displayed alot of the manifestations of what really was on the back of their minds. it is true that alcohol has a way of exposing the only truth that the hardened and layered shell of a man's heart will never reveal.

enough of chinablack.

john has started his own blogsite! it's quite funny when you read john's blogs while pretending as though he were narrating what he wrote to your ears. maybe it was just me but i was laughing in front of the computer while reading his blogs and my mom thought i was a nut! anyway, i like his xiao-wan-zi and i got a bitch of my own too. and its really funny to describe it when you give it a female name. so from now on, i will call mine xiao-ding-dang (i can't think of anything liao).

it's a bloody lazy saturday today and i spent a solid hour reading the papers just now. wonder what's in store for the rest of today...

Haiz...

haiz...

i just got kicked out of my cheong taxi group haha. so now i'm stuck here until guoxin gets back so that i can take the cab together with him and zix. which means that i can't join the rest for dinner in town, which also means that i gotta have dinner alone since guoxin went out for dinner. xianz. but oh well, i've asked him to get me fried rice so i'll probably be eating first before i go down.

i got a feeling the bash isn't gonna be too fun cuz alot of people arn't going, but oh well lets hope i'm wrong. meanwhile the slowcoach of a reader me is trying to finish up big fish! haha