The many chapters of 4eVeRRiVeR
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Hmm.. 4got to mention on my last blog entry tat I lost watever information on my hp, e most impt being e contact nos stored in e phone.. Hiaks.. really xianz diao.. so friends.. dun be surprised if I come asking for ur hp no.. And also gotta re-d/l ringtones, background picts and marking my calendar.. And tatz if I'll get e hp repaired for less than $50.. anything more and I'll spend time scouting for a new hp liaoz.. Really xianz diao ah..
Sunday, May 23, 2004
Wa.. 2day is another day e world is against me.. Woke up at 6.15am this morning coz meeting Xueli and Bran at Clementi mrt at 645.. Coz we r all participants of Big Walk.. But then I overshot my preparation time coz was trying to find e biggest pouch and then squeezing a shirt, a pair of berms and a body towel in e not-big-enuff pouch. Then when I approached e busstop, guess wat?
E bus had juz left.. Wao!
At 650 Diana msg me saying she juz woke up.. I msg back saying I still at e busstop outside my house.. So sama sama ah.. I msg Xueli and Bran to leave first and Geng Feng to meet em at City Hall. But somehow GF never receive my msg. And guess wat? My hp died! Think it had to do with e fact I tried to squeeze e hp into my bulging pouch.. Anywae when I took it out it was switched off and when I tried to resuscitate it, it only gave me a brief flicker of light b4 fading off into darkness once more. Later it wouldn't even giff me e encouraging flicker.. *tearful crying~ ni si de hao chan ah.. bei ya si e gan jue yi ding bu si heng shuang..
Anywae I realised I was totally on my own liaoz.. Realised how handicapped I was.. Wat deep impact hp had on our lives liaoz.. GF, Bran, Xueli, Diana couldn't contact me and e confusing fun began. GF called Diana after tat and instead go to kallang mrt w/o meeting Bran. Bran and Xueli took e freaking long shuttle bus there and it took quite a damn long while to eventually find em. Lucky my last msg was to Diana tat I'm meeting her at Kallang mrt at 7.40am so I managed to find her.. Then we went climbing a couple of fences and wait for GF at PA opp busstop. Interestingly I was climbing a Sentosa Tree yesterday also to retieve a volley ball stuck on e branches.. (Yeah Siwen~ wat monkeygod crap rite? )
After finding everyone, it was damn late liaoz ah.. We were at e starting pt and listen-to-this: we were deciding which direction to proceed.. Ha.. Tot we look like idoits when we were asking a policewoman for e directions. Anywae e general flow was now against us, coz e starting pt was e finishing pt and tat most of e big walkers were finishing e walk.. Suffice to say this morning is plain confusing..
And things weren't made any better with our guide GengFeng.. Apparently GF decided e scenery at Geylang lor 6 was so super nice tat he made us walk walk here and jalan jalan there back and forth at e junction. But thanx to him also we got walk our own 5km ah.. Finally we managed to get to our destination thanx to e 197 bus driver. We had lunch at Congress at Suntec and then we all went home coz Diana die die dun wanna watch shrek 2.. Even with GF offering to buy her 500g of Godiva chocolate.. Hiaks.. =)
And en I reached home and checked my hp warranty card.. And guess wat? It juz expired a mth ago.. E nearest nokia care shop was at IMM and guess wat? It was closed on sunday.. So I went to JP instead. And down there e receptionist kindly reminded me tat w/o warranty it will be $26 downright payment.. Replacements r additional charges.. I realised there r always things tat make a poor man poorer.. Argh!! Not forgetting e PA camp fee's $40, sentosa islander card's $15, troy's $6.50 and upcoming Shrek and spiderman and Harry Potter. Argh!!
After which I came home and bathed until I smelled juz like dove.. En was playing ps2 when phone rang.. Its mum, asking me to go buy dinner for my siblings coz they wun't be home tat early.. Argh!! So I went cycling again and got myself a nice manly smell.
Yupz yupz.. tatz abt all my misfortunates..
Saturday, May 22, 2004
Yesterday I would break e record if I slept 1/2hr earlier.. Coz I was again reading naruto, courtesy of Bran's collection, and en felt so super tired and slept at 9.30pm.. Abit early so I set my alarm intending to wake up at ten for AMI.. note 'intending'.. And if I had e time I would go download e 80 plus episodes of naruto anime and watch all of em but there was school and not much of other things else.. No point in complaining abt e special term again..
Went see Jacky Cheung's autograph session at West Mall yesterday also.. Juz for e fun of it since e mall is like 2 busstops away only.. Wa.. It was packed to e brim.. Reminded me of e time I went for e xiang shen session by ang mohs.. Anywae siwen, Bran and me took a nice spot on e 3rd floor, considering we only started waiting at 6.10pm, 50 min b4 his supposed entrance.. Then it was also damn farniee at e way e pple was squeezing their way thru e crowds as we watched from above.. Jacky was late by 25 min, en sang 2 cantonese songs and wave to audience for 10 min, then took a break for 15 min and then come back to stage and start signing autographs for his new album~ Life is like a dream..
2day was a slack day after school. Went home and finished Bran's collection, en played e onimusha3.. E anime was damn damn good and e story line was very good also.. An outstanding game, as Mr Jimmy Lee will say.. Takeshi was, no doubt, so shuai and sei.. Even in his animated form..
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Juz like we have diff flavours in food, we have diff flavours in life.. Shuan tian ku la.. Diff pple may like a flavour more than e others, but generally more pple like sweetness more than bitterness.. But even so we appreciate e presence of other tastes, be it bitter or sour or hot.. Coz they add colours to our food.. Without them we would only nue sweetness and not only e food will become bland but we wouldn't nue sweetness is actually a good taste coz there ain't other tastes to compare with.. So e point is, life flavours of xi nu ai le is e same.. thou ofcoz feeling sad or depressed is a damn negative feeling and sux big time but after it had passed, u'll look back and smile perhaps.. Its all these experiences and emotions tat make us wat we r today.. So whether its ur highest high or ur lowest low ( quote from Rob. M from Survivor), juz take everything in stride coz u will pull thru.. Time heals..
Ha Diana.. at least u got wake up at 1am.. I was reading spiderman bk 4 last nite till 9.10pm then I got super tired and slept till e next morning.. Didn't even brush teeth till e next morning.. Think I hadn't slept so early for a very very long time liaoz.. And for 10 hrs! Now tat'z a record high for me..
And we all learn something new everyday.. Today I learn tat green melon in thai sound e same as fuck you.
Monday, May 17, 2004
At e end of something good, sometimes u juz can't help but feel pangs of sadness coz moments of fun and laffter r ending.. I felt this when we were at e last nite in Penang, on e coach home and when e hols ended. A person has his ups and lows and 2nite I was actually feeling more of e latter.. Personal reasons which I couldn't indulge..
Was toking abt e subject of naivety.. Sometimes its really a bliss to be so damn naive and forget e cold, harsh world we r living in.. No matter how people look at u, e most impt thing is ofcoz juz be happy urself. Tatz y even if u r as poor as a beggar but if u r truely happy, u r so much better off than a datuk with 4 wives. And one type of pple r always so happy, always smiling.. E Down Syndrome children.. Althou cursed with a life-threatening disease, they r yet so happy in their own world, oblivious to e world ard em.. And en they r smiling and laffing till e end of days. How I envy em so..
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Hiaks.. Was telling Bran while we going home 2day abt how I would feel everyday during school since school reopened. Not including e sorry fact tat I had to drag my sorry ass from bed at 7am while e rest of NUS, NTU, NIE and med yr 1 students r probably still salivating from their dreams, we have a 5/1/2-wk, mon to fri being full days from 8.30- 5pm except for tue, which is from 8.30- 6pm.. But then this is part and parcel of any dentist-to-be so perhaps I shouldn't complain so much since all my seniors haff been thru it.
Anywae for e past 3 days my emotions will be like a regular menstrual cycle haha. I would get super hungry by 10am and lunch break is only 3 more hrs away. And after lunch I would get super sleepy and if its a lecture, I'll start salivating liaoz.. And then like ard 2-3pm I'll wish school will end soon so I can go home and rest and read naruto and play ps2. Argh..! So much to do and so little time.. Dun nue how many times I've said this b4.. Think this phrase will become my ko tou chan in months to come..
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Whoa.. E final tribal council of survivor all star was definitely.. interesting.. Lex and big Tom obviously gave a piece of their minds wat they think abt e scheming, lying, deal-breaking Rob. ( Kathy abit too thou she still voted 4 Rob eventually) And things got interesting also at reunion which began with a marriage proposal on air infront of millions of viewers worldwide. Then came Jerri's piece of her mind abt wat she feel abt survivor ah.. But we all knew already its a backstabbing, lying, cheating, friendships-breaking game. Anywae she was too pissed off and left at e next commercial break after she said her piece. Eh.. she should nue betta rite? Afterall this' e 2nd time she's taking part in survivor.. And no one's putting a gun to her head and forcing her to take part. Even if she's annoyed, she should be gracious enuff to juz stay until e show finished ah.. So damn rude to walk off half way.. Idiot bitch..
But Jeff Probst is damn charismatic ah.. Turned her outburst into a discussion topic and then when she left, he graciously said tat Jerri's a very nice and outspoken gal and everyone still liked her.. He's probably one of e impt reasons y survivor is such a popular reality tv shows.
Anywae sad Rupert neva got to win a car or $1m.. Think he will win e 2nd $1m from e viewers' voting thou, coz he's like so damn popular.. And he deserved to win since Pearls Islands.
Sunday, May 09, 2004
Wa.. 2day I'm totally shag out.. Went JB with my jc clique since noon.. Basically our outings mostly consist of eating good food, and in their defination, er.. not very cheap food.. Well.. It's not like we meet up often and therefore should enjoy a good meal when we met up.. Prob is.. I'm totally burned out ah.. My EZ link was left with a miserable $2 and then I spent my remaining S$52 purchasing e bus concession starting next mon.. Yess.. I'm starting school next mon.. One of e special previleges of being a dental student. Then I had RM 40 which was left over from Penang trip. But I was late and therefore punished to treat my 4 friends lunch.. Luckily Tim owed me S$20 so I got another much-needed RM 40.
Anywae we ate lunch at Season's Cafe restaurant at City Square and they compromised such tat I treat them e chicken wings can liaoz.. We ate until damn full so much so e gals eventually didn't order e desserts which looked so disgustingly delicious. Then we window-shopped abit and then decided to maybe catch a movie also.. Haha.. Tat was when I saw Yew Hao and his gf.. They were watching jiang hu aka glue at 4.30pm.. Anywae none of e movies suit our tastes and we continued window-shopping.. Then saw one gal walking ard with yami yogurt and we started hunting ard for e stall. We hunted for damn long lor.. Realised e entire shopping mall dun even haff one directory thingyee and found e information corner in a secluded spot.. The lady gave us directions and finally we hunt it down and ate some more.
Then we took cab to Jalan Stulang Lau Rd and shop some more at Duty Free mall. No $ to buy anything thou GK eventually got a pair of RM 98 bum equipment jeans. Then we went for seafood dinner and had a super duper heavy dinner complete with crabs, prawns, fried sotong gai (kids), huge stingray and sambal kangkong. Wa.. Almost couldn't finish and was going to play our infamous seven-up game~ whose objective is basically to force down unfinished food into unwilling mouths.
After dinner took cab back to City Square and shopped some more.. And finally bought wat was e best deal of this JB outing. RM 30 for 6 pieces of PS 2 games.. Wa..! Which work out to be RM 5 apiece and therefore less than S$2.50 apiece..! The shit thing is I'm starting school this coming mon..!! Argh..! How I wish I can say "School will juz haff to wait.."
Saturday, May 08, 2004
I'm in pure bliss.. Wa.. e joy of not putting up with e repeated countdowns to rebooting every other 2 min has escalated into full blown exhilaration. Feel so proud of myself now tat I've killed e idiot sasser worm. Come idiot worms..! Show me wat u r made of! Sars worm, bookworms, shit worms.. show me ur worth! I'm Yonghe e worm-killer! Muhahahaha!
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
2day's agenda was float building for e entire day and we were finally let off by e evil-doer Charles at 9 plus. Anywae FY had sometime to kill b4 reaching e JE MRT at 10.50pm to be picked up by her dad, so she suddenly suggested to come visit my place while we were on bus 963.
After they had tons of fun at my place, they were torn btw dawning over and leaving my place. Finally sense take over feelings and they reluctantly decided to leave. I suggested to Siwen tat we can cycle to her place instead and tat I'll collect my bike sometime later. She agreed enthusiastically.. much to my surprise.. Anywae we both cycled on e pavement (being safer) which was actually illegal.. No matter ah.. E TP usually turn a blind eye to this also. Since it was nite, human traffic was light and it made cycling very much smoother.
Anywae Siwen is a very safe cyclist ah.. At every traffic lights she'll alight from e bike and pushed e bike across e road. Good good.. I also cycled behind her most of e time so I could watch over her.. Anywae all was pretty smooth-sailing until towards e very last part of e journey when we were nearing her hill when an accident almost happened. She suddenly turned left towards a lamp post and remedied by turning right towards e road. Lucky she braked in time or e bike will go into e road liaoz. Lucky there was no car also. Or else if e driver see her run jun, he/she will also run jun and cause an indirect accident.. Anywae Siwen got a scratch on her leg from e sudden braking and then we pushed e bikes all e way for e rest of e journey up e hill also.
After passing her all her stuff and leaving e smaller bike at her place first, I rode e bike down e hill. My god.. It was damn steep and long and it felt so super good! The entire road ahead was void of cars but e main consideration was tat I'll reach e T-junction at e bottom of e hill at a super high speed and I had to slow myself considerably at quite a distance from e junction. Xianz.. if only I can go all e way without slowing, I bet e GPE will overcome e friction of atleast 1/2 e journey.. muhahaha.. Anywae I think I burned e brakes too coz e bike was going down damn fast and I had to held strong and long onto e brakes.
Nite cycling is always pleasant coz u get to enjoy e lighter car or human traffic and most importantly, e absence of sun. But 2nite thou it was short, e going-down-e-hill ride made it a new experience and so much more exciting.. I look forward to e day I'll retrieve e smaller bike and ride down e slope again..
Monday, May 03, 2004
This morning I was woken up by a sharp tickish pain into e side of my waist and opened my eyes to see e grinning, sinisteric face of Ying Ming. Ying Ming is my primary six tuition student and he is basically nothing but full of nonsense ah.. And my dad had let him into e house without waking me up first for e 2nd time.. Argh! Anywae I washed up quickly and started imparting my wisdom and knowledge to him.
Anywae halfway thru e lesson he took out his TBB, short for Turbo Bumber Bee. Its e king of yoyo, e one which cost more than $10 some yrs ago during yoyo craze. Anywae it was now on sale at 7-11 at a price of $5.50 and selling out fast. YM managed to get hold of one yesterday after visiting 3 7-11 stores and hence was damn proud of it. Since I was also pretty intrigued, I told him to perform his tricks b4 continuing e lesson. And boy.. He was good..! Stunts like loop e loop, ard e world, spaceship/ufo, rocket, elevator, rock-e-baby etc he performed and even offered to teach me. And since there's a teacher all too willing to teach me and I always love to learn new skills, I decided to invest by getting a TBB.. Alas.. After e lesson he rode my bike and we both cycled to e 7-11 store 2 streets away only to find I was not as lucky as YM.. He picked a proyo 2 for me instead, which cost $3. We en cycled back to my home and begun my first lesson on yoyo stunts. Subsequent lessons will be every sunday after tuition; fees? Go-song! Nil! Void! Chicken Egg!
Anywae u may think its farniee a 21 y-o guy still playing yoyo. If it make u feel any better treat it as I had a deprived childhood and wanna make up for it can? Anywae e stunts r damn stylo and amazing and tot it would be damn cool if I manage to master them. Moreover, its never too late to learn something you haff a passion for..
After e yoyoing lesson and trying to fix e idoit com (but to no avail), I joined e rest of e platoon at 3pm instead of e meeting time of 11am.. We played frisbee and volleyball.. Haha.. We had an interesting game of volleyballing in which we punched e ball ard and those who made a nonsense throw will kanna forfeit and do push ups. E no of push ups u do is also related to e no of throws completed. Here is e scoreboard which I've tabulated...
1st throw is a nonsense- 5 push ups
2-5 throws- 0 push ups
6-9 throws- 5 push ups
10-14 throws-10 push ups
15-20 t- 15 pu
21-25t- 21 pu
... And so on..
So e greater e no. of throws e ball had accumulated, e greater e forfeit and e greater e excitment.. Like when e ball had accumulated more than 20 throws, everyone will be damn scared.. Haha.. Wa.. E game was damn fun ah.. The greatest no of throws accumulated was 54 throws and our most worked-out guy was PC Lee.. An uncanny resemblence like YM.. full of nonsense with his nonsensical throws and kicks and headers.
Anywae saw actor Edmund Chen with his family while we were having dinner at e hawker centre opp Harbour Front.. Got kids, aunties and eldery pple but no Xiang Yun..
Sunday, May 02, 2004
When I woke at eight this morning I recieved an sms.. It was from Geng Feng saying, "yeah! I'm last to sleep! I won!".. Coz we were msning last nite competiting on who can stay up e longest.. I replied, "since I first to wake up, I'm 2nd!"
Yupz coz 2day I had a date with seniors for windsurfing. Wa.. today e wind got pretty strong 2wards e 2nd half of e surfing session and I was literally rescued by Boo, e manager of Sea Sports Club.. and a pretty cute name I must add.. Anywae e waves and e wind drifted our boards to e right of SSC down e coast past 2 waterbreakers, abt 1km away (while we were lazing/ lying on our boards.. ) When we woke up we found ourselves damn close to e sailing pple in their little sail boats and white sails. Since our sails r bright orange, u can visualise something like 4 red blood cells infringing upon e territory of a sea of white blood cells. 3 of e red blood cells decided to turn back but e most garang (and gundu) red blood cell chiong inside and wanna touch a sail board like nemo. Soon after I also started turning back towards SSC but got stuck in e midway of e journey. Kao.. e wind was coming straight directly from SSC, e exact direction I need to surf towards to. Since you can't surf towards e wind ( e no-go zone), you need to do a series of zig zag movements, which I tried but found myself repeatly stuck near to e coast at e same spot close to a anchored motor boat.. After numerous attempts, I lifted e sail and placed it upon e surfboard, intending to pedal with my arms all e way back to SSC. Usually this would work but e waves right now was against me and too strong.. I wasn't moving at all! Anywae I gave up and en tried more of e zig zag movements which earned me nothing except further exhaustion.
I knew in this kind of situation I could only be rescued by e tug boat, but e service wouldn't come cheap.. $10 if I wasn't wrong. But I nue Charlene was rescued once too and wasn't charged. So I kept my fingers crossed. Anywae after being stuck there for like 30-45 min? I saw e tug boat approaching from e distance. It was Boo. The first thing he said to me was tat he had seen a bright orange sail damn far away and was on his way to rescue tat when he saw mine even further off.. Err.. I was completely dumbfounded for words and only smile sheepishly and stupidly.. Good thing my sail was bright orange lor.. Anywae I got onto his motor boat and held on to e mast of e sail while he restarted e motor and returned back towards SSC.
Boo was my windsurfing instructor 1 yr ago.. So I decided to be nice and spare him e embarrassment by not telling him tat.. =) Anywae Boo was a nice guy actually and we tok abt e renovations, e new canteen and when e oil spills will start sweeping in. Eventually we reached e waters outside SSC where I dropped off and en he sped off again to save other poor souls.
I surfed a little longer with e sail embracing e strong wind but no longer daring to go further than e 1st breakwater. We all overshot by 1 hr but again no further charges were added. And my fingers weren't crossed in vain too..
Anywae e sun 2day was damn damn strong.. The sunrays were beating down like a fierce blizzard and not even layers of sun block could defend against tat.. And I felt my already dark skin darkened somemore when I was bathing after e surfing. Shit! And when I got home my mum exclaimed a remark which I had dun nue heard how many times b4- Wa Yonghe, wei shen mo bian de ze mo hei? But since she had said this so many times b4 I didn't take it to heart. Until during dinner en she started comparing me with moi dad and moi twin. My dad was e ulitmate dark skin chinese u can ever find.. Especially his forearms r damn dark.. If u think I'm black already, come see my dad. My mum was commenting I was going to approach his godly level and I was amazed to see she had a point there.. And en onto my twin. He was as dark as me in sec school as we were both in NPCC but now, he was like so.. snowwhite compared to me..! Wa.. Either he paled alot or I'd darkened alot over e yrs. Shit!
And later 2day I'm going to Sentosa for beach games with my platoon more.. Maybe I'll wear a cap, long sleeve shirt and pants, plus a poncho and carry another umbrella. Yup yupz..
