The many chapters of 4eVeRRiVeR
Sunday, October 31, 2004
Betcha u'll raise more than a eyebrow when u hear this.. $106 for a 5D4N trip to LANGKAWI!! Free and easy and if u want e snorkelling package for a whole day, it'll be ard $150! Kaoz.. Tecksoon.. Can't believe ur ears rite? Its by coach thou, and since its almost touching e borders of thailand where e rioters haff so much fun, it'll take like 10-12 hr of freaking fun bus ride! Too bad I'm too poor to take a plane.. Even so.. Kaoz! its super dirt cheap ah.. Itz like if can go langkawi 3 times for e price of 1 by plane..
But there r risks as well.. If u realise, most of e travel agencies do not offer coaches to e island.. And this particular travel agency is weird in many ways..
1) The malay guy we were toking to, apparently e boss, was based in Langkawi and was in Singapore for e first time.
2) His helper dun nue shit abt e packages.. Wonder wat he's there for..
3) His office is in geylang!! Coz we were at e Malaysian travel fair in suntec city browsing thru e booths..
4) After sunday he'll return to Langkawi liaoz leaving us to settle with his the other singaporean agent in Geylang. No idea how he looked like ah.. Maybe a Dick, Tom or Hairy. Or Hairy tommy dick. =~0
5) The transaction was done with juz a receipt, no computers to register e dates of departure, our particulars, etc..
6) Our receipt is e very first one from his receipts book.
7) Futher enquires can be done over emailing..
Yupz.. Sound not very assuring rite? But en again big and well known agencies like Gunung would have higher middleman fees even if it should haff coach-ride to langkawi. And since e deposit is only $100, I guess we can play with e fire abit.. Still lets not forget abt all e phony furniture companies at furniture fairs with their phony promises to deliver e goods.. lotz of pple lost like hundreds or thousands of $ ah.. Tuff luck..
Guess we all feel its too good a deal to be true ah.. So we shall see who is e loser in e end.. Either we r conned or he is conned ah..
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Ah.. Had another satisfying game juz now.. whack e poor team upside down.. And also remembered our dear Jon was giffing a demonstration to e class today, trying to convert non-dota pple and teaching em how to install, run and play dota! Muhahaha..
Hiaks.. Dun nue when this state of bliss will remain.. We gotta a wk with 7 tests coming up on e 3rd wk of november- if I'm correct, and tat will be a period of hell.. Kaoz.. think can puke blood en..
Contributed by my friend Tecksoon.. Think Xueli, Siwen, Bran and those who like sketching and guessing will like it.. http://www.isketch.net/
Had a interesting DOTA game juz now ah.. And wat makes a game interesting is where there r no quitters and en both parties r of more or less equal standards so its challenging ah.. And I guess we r halfway btw noob-pro level, coz I still dun nue all e items and heros and their skills available. Zhi bi zhi zi bai zhan bai shen.. Its a very intellectual game ah.. And I say it again: its a INTELLECTUAL game to those who r not convinced. And let me also assure u tat games like this also teach us things like teamwork.. I dare say we won juz now coz its becoz of teamwork and tat they r walking individually, giffing us free kills! Cool.. Pats on e shoulders for Stan, Jon, Bran and e handsome Yonghe. Welldone!
Shan't say much now.. Gotta another game coming along..
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Ha.. Got a harrowing experience early in e morning today..
This morning as usual I ate breakfast, bathed and got dressed. But en we had a pharmaco tutorial at 8.30pm and I decided to spend 15 min of spare time on it juz b4 leaving my house. And so I went to e living room's dining table to do e tutorial since my 2 brothers r still sleeping. I was sitting facing e windows with my back towards e living room ah..
And en.. suddenly I saw a black figure moving to behind me from e corner of my eye. I didn't think much of it en since I was concentrating on my tut, thinking he was probably my dad or my brother. But I wasn't thinking tat my dad had left for work and my 2 bros r sound asleep...
And e black figure remained stationary behind me.. And I got worried since any living human being is unlikely to stay stationary or not making any sounds for so long..
And so I turned my head and...
there's nothing..
Eerie man I tell u..
But I convinced myself tat's probably my eyes making mistakes..
And I continued to do my work again..
2 min again I saw e black figure again from e corner of my eye.. This time it was zooming across e living room. And ofcoz I turned my head immediately and...
Its a small, brown kitten ah.. Wa.. damn cute I tell u.. And so instinctively I went to close e main door first to prevent it from escaping so I could play with it 4 awhile.. It turned out to be a rather superfluous move which I'll explain y later. And so I chased it all over e living room coz it was very shy and when I finally cornered it and lift a gentle, loving and caring palm to it, it actually tried to claw me and snap off my fingers with its ferocious fangs! Kaoz.. But en its still a kitten and its keratin claws and enamel teeth r not well developed yet.. Think its pretty scared of strangers ah.. Sensing its fanatic heartbeat in my palm when I lifted up e poor, frightened creature, and being a super kind soul I opened e door and placed it outside e house beyond e metal grills. And guess wat? It took a look at me and actually ran back into e house! Kaoz.. Guess my house is too comfortable liaoz..
I wouldn't haff mind letting it run ard e house abit and en soon my bros would wake up and feed and take good care of it.. But en its a big NO NO for my mum ah.. If she find a cat in e house she'll probably scream at all of us to chase it away immediately. And en also I was running late liaoz.. Time was 7.45am, e time by which I should be at e busstop waiting for e bus ah.. So I went on a 2nd round chasing after e cat again and finally upon catching it, got hold of my bag and files and left e house. I closed e wooden door of coz and placed e kitten at e flat's staircase..
And so e morning episode ended.. Pretty cool for a kitten to run into a flat 12 storeys high ah.. Then it was running and hiding under e tables, chairs and bikes which I have had difficulty getting access to it also.. There's even this time when it jumped onto e sofa and walking on e papers and making e nice rustling sound.. Ah.. e joys of keeping a pet ah..
But tats e morning episode.. Juz now when I came home, I was suprised to find e wooden door still closed. And when I got in, my mum quickly shouted at me to close e door ah.. Kaoz! My mum en informed me e kitten ran back into e house twice ah.. And e time when she returned from work and while she was opening e door, e kitten ran straight inside! She got e shock of her life ah.. haha..
Hiaks.. E kitten loved our house liaoz ah.. Am wondering if e cat will run into e house if I opened e door now.. haha..
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Ah.. Have had a most gluttonacious wkend.. Saturday afternoon was spent at JB city square with high tea at seasons cafe and en while we were searching for e yumi yogurt stall, we found e famous rotiboy stall which had made e papers recently.. And boy, after queuing to place our orders, we still haff to wait for 15 min for e buns to be made.. And juz like e only stall in Singapore, it sells only 1 type of bread- rotiboy buns.. And boy was e bun delicious! It was crispy at thin crust on top which giffs it abit of coffee taste and e rest of e bun was simply super soft and e whole bite is simply delicious! It originated from Mexico and it seemed super oily coz its wrapping paper bag was stained with oil. But amazingly it didn't taste oily at all. No wonder its such a hit in Singapore.. At RM 1.50 a piece compared to S$1.20 in Singapore, and tat it was quite big and very filling, it was a very good buy. We would haff ordered more if not for we were quite full liaoz and dinner was only 1 hr away.
And come dinner we went to da ma hua yuan and ate a sumptuous meal of crabs, clayfish, froggie legs, etc.. Simply filling especially since Qi gave me 3/4 of her rice and KL gave me 1/2 of hers. Well, our family really eat alot alot of rice one.. Habit passed down by my dad and his dad and his dad's dad, etc..
And after e meal we rushed back to citysquare for----- bet u wun't believe this----- neoprints!! Kaoz.. Its like e neoprints craze is history, juz like bubble tea, but e gals wanna uphold e clique's tradition of taking neoprints and so we took--- behold this--- 3 rounds of neoprinting from e newest machine yet which cost RM20 per round. To me personally I felt it was a waste of $ ah, but since 2 outta e 5 r for it, 2 outta e 5 r against it and e last guy being more sympathetic to e gals' cause, we were forced to plant our faces for e camera with GK's face literally forced against e camera.. Haha.. Atleast e process of taking e neoprints was fun ah..
And en took e newest bus sevice 160 home, which links woodlands causeway to western HDB areas like choa chu kang, bukit batok and jurong east interchange.. Simply cool but en it was raining and I missed my stop and so it wasn't very cool.. End up I was chasing after this last bus 178 like mad which was also a testimony to my now-ok joints. Yeah!
Finally reached home, bathed and en Bran came and picked me up.. Yupz e super duper lucky Xueli had 3 hunky guys on her bed tat nite k.. Haha.. Actually we were looking thru e pictures ah.. Which includes Siwen's sec school look and en also making evil comments on some pple who r more.. well-rounded.. Haha..
Speaking of roundedness, I saw this wedding pict of a well-rounded groom and his even-more-rounded bride juz now.. Coz 2day we were celebrating our grandma's birthday and e restaurant we intended to go to was fully booked by e couple.. End up we had to make our way to another eating place in Jurong West. All thanx to our most-calculative-and-stingy er jiu ma who was too lazy to book 3 tables ah.. Amazing she was present today actually.. To those who already nue, yes.. she's e aunt who won-- behold-- $1,000,000 from toto grand prize.. But en she became a super snob coz she's scared her relatives will borrow $ from her.. So she and her family stopped coming for chinese new year gatherings and e likes by going overseas for holidays everytime.. But anyway tat'z not e main story.. Back to e couple.. R they together becoz of true love, or becoz they found solace and company to keep emselves outta their lonelihood? I would like to think its e former but I couldn't help e tinging sensation tat it could be e latter reason.. Afterall there's e ultimate of buying a bribe from vietnam or china for e lonely old men.. Kaoz.. Always felt tat marriage was e most sacred thing of all..
Thursday, October 21, 2004
2day is e 21st day after e very 1st day I saw a rheumatologist and took 3 blood tests. And hence today is e day of results. Again e appointment was at 3.30pm so I had to slip out of e lab and went to nearby clinic D which is about 100m away.. I registered and got a waiting no. and en e nurse told me it would take abt 1/2 hr to c e doctor. Yeah..! I rush back to e lab and cut some more of e 24 onlay prep. 40 min later I went back and e number had skipped me.. It was my fault ah, for being 10 min late.. I saw e nurse again and she told me she juz let e patient in.. So I took my own initiative to go back do labwork for another 15 min.. And after which I returned and finally saw e doc at 4.35pm. Amazing e specialist had changed gender and name.. Kaoz.. Shouldn't one's specialist be e same thru' out life until one party dies? Anywae she told me e results ah.. Which r......................... Pretty good!
Apparently e blood tests show tat thou some of e stuff in my blood r still higher than original but lower than b4 and tat e ANA which I had tested positive had came out negative.. Pls dun ask me abt wat stuff in e blood or ANA r.. And since I'm not IT savvy I wun't bother to look up from e net. This brought us to conclusion: Since right now all my joints r ok and e bloodtests and x-rays r pretty ok, e doc told me I'm pretty ok.. But she and probably her colleagues weren't very sure how rheumatoid arthritis would manifest in a young man like me so I need to come back for review which is 3 months later.. Until en if I can still run and jump like a monkey, I need not make a earlier appointment.. And hey.. No more prescription of medicine too.. Thou I also never ate e medicine they issued me 3 wks ago..
And so tat made my day.. Betcha e worst day in lab wouldn't even dampen my mood.. Yeah!
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Yup.. RPD is over liaoz and we r waiting for GF to finish d/ling his battlenet updates.. And so me and Jon r updating our blogs first.. And here's some advertisement for Jon's blog.. http://impacted48.blogspot.com/
For those who haff seen wat u all tot haff seen, e truth is not wat u all tot is true..
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Been really super slack abt e upcoming sat rpd (removal partial denture) test.. I nue coz even my slacker counterpart Diana already started yesterday.. Kaoz.. After this sat Hillary Thiam will hate me even more liaoz.. Ha..
Anywae actually wanted to start mugging this afternoon since school ended at 12pm. I was waiting at e busstop waiting for bus 963 to go home, after Weisong and Xueli had left earlier on their bus. Then I recieved an sms from GF. And so we took 963 and dropped off e very next stop and made our way to ginza for DOTA.
Tat took 2 hr and en he left to find his gf and me to find my way home..
Back home I washed up and started mugging.. But dun nue y rpd seemed so super xianz and after 1/2 hr fighting with e monsters of zee, I gave in.. I was woken in e middle of e sleep by a call from Jingli asking abt e time we r meeting for our line dinner and e ringing of my alarm clock which I switched it off.
And e next thing I realised next was 5.50pm on e clock.. Kaoz.. E line dinner was 6.30pm ah and tat reminded me of e line dinner I have had last year when I was e latest.. Hiaks..
Anywae I reached there at 6.45pm, which was not too bad since Jasmine was on e same train as me and Jingli reached at 7pm..
Reached home at 10pm and switched on e tv and this laptop.. Bill won e apprentice and chose his chicago hotel assignment.. And think its finally abt time I started mugging liaoz..
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Hiaks.. Kenneth who juz read my blog say tat its farniee.. But I assure u tat itz actually quite serious ah.. She is really pissed off.. I had went to find her after school also but her pms is still in full bloom. And Bran who was waiting outside e room for me decided to stay outside e room haha.. Think he could probably hear e distinct tone of exasperation in my voice.. Hiaks hiaks hiaks..
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Poor June.. Think she's haffing a super duper pms today.. Went to return my dentatus set at e end of lab session but on reaching e storeroom, she close e door liaoz and refuse to open it again.. Kaoz..
Then after lunch at 2pm, e staff still haffn't return from their lunch break.. So I proceed to audit for patho lect.. At 3pm, I returned to e store and tried to return my dentatus ah, which I've been dragging along all these while. But then she started mumbling, "ni nen heng huai dan.. x2, x3, x2.." I apologised for being late but apparently she wasn't very upset abt this but rather on e fact tat she was scolded while she was being nice and helping our class. After a long time I managed to persuade her to say wat was our mistakes, and she said tat it was coz m requested e class to send their dentatus to her during perio lect and so she kanna scolded. Then she say its not her job in e first place to be incharge of e dentatus sets and tat she still haffn't claim $$ from e class for placing e dentatus sets in her store. I ask her who is supposed to be in charge then but she say, "wo bu dong, ni wen ni meng de class rep".. I was really quite exasperated toking to her ah.. Then she carried on to say if e dentatus sets r still left in her store until next mon, she'll throw all of them away. And tat since she haffn't confirm e signing in of e dentatus sets, so e class will be billed e price of 17 sets. Tatz abt $1000 plus per set x17.
Then she say she'll bring e matter up to e dean and Prof Chew.. The thing is.. after she had said for so freaking long time, I still haffn't had a slight clue wat was actually happening. Juz tat she was pissed and buay song and wanted to scold anyone she can scold. Hiaks.. Anywae she wouldn't collect my set also coz she want e whole class to collect em back.. I dun't nue wat she want ah..
Nvm.. I shall be nice and hope her pms will be over soon..
Spent abt $6 on friday on dota, $7+ on saturday on dota and $10 on sunday on dota. Then decided to make a betta investment and so spent $58 today on e original frozen throne battle chest. Yeah.. Now I can quit going to lan shop for battlenet n play whenever I like at home.. Tat is if my twin is not using e net and playing his dota ah.. Urgh.. Shouldn't it be time for my bro to fix up e router yet?
Saturday, October 09, 2004
And so it was over.. And am so delighted ah.. No more tests for e rest of erm.. dun nue? There's a toopid test on removal partial denture on next sat requested by Hillary Thiam but since it was not counted in CA, wo deng ben bu da ta fang zai yang li.. Come on.. After mugging e books for > 3 wks, I deserve atleast a 6 wk break ah..
Yup.. Looking 4ward to more lan gaming 2morrow and sunday.
And so glad I was 100% compensated by e student wellness centre.. Collected e repayments for my bloodtest bill + xray bill = $71 2day.. Felt abit richer finally..
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Been abit distracted lately during mugging even thou I dun't think I can finish mugging.. Perhaps its becoz I can finally c e light at e end of e tunnel which I'll reach on friday, 3.30pm. Tat's e end of our fourth test.. And tatz byebye to antacids and harlow to scourge bone fletcher and sentinel crystal maiden.. And also Bran's naruto episodes 88-102. And also Doom 3 which I haffn't installed yet.. So much to do.. So little time..
To e hell with rheumatoid arthristis..! So long as my fingers, eyes and brain r coordinating properly, and I got my frozenthrone-crazy gang of friends- Jon, GengFeng, Wenkai, Chin Koon and YewChong, I'm happy ah.. Definitely..
