Friday, June 30, 2006
i'm really sorry i haven't been updating regularly.. have been so damn lazy...
well on monday...
i came for 3 lectures and skipped my tutorial cos i was in no damn mood to go for class. reason being, baby was being sent to the hospital because of his infection, and well.. for some other personal reasons. so i ended up following jean to town. and i must say that really cheered me up.
after that i followed jean to khatib for her dental appointment... because i was going over to baby's place to see him.. he was given 5 days mc and was going home that night. her dental appointment ended promptly so jean and alex walked me to his block. sadly, my hp batt died. so i was uncontactable. had to use jean's phone to call him. they left shortly after, leaving me to wait for him at the void deck alone...
he came after.. and i decided to stay for the night. ;)
tuesday...
i stayed at his place again. heh.
wednesday...
went to school for training... swam 44 laps. an achievement for me. my target was actually 40. i finished the 40 and waited for mel... since she was the only one left swimming, i decided to swim with her to complete her 40 and ended up swimming 44. x)
unfortunately, a lot of them got cramps and yulong cut his forehead. =/
after training, we had dinner at fc5, got a birthday cake for yulong cos his birthday was on the next day... yea. the cut came as a birthday gift. hahas. after that, me, jk, kian tat and mel went to town to catch a movie. went to cine.. but the timings weren't favourable. so we took a bus down to PS to watch "just my luck". quite a cool show. heh. made me realise some things.
went home that night feeling angry and furious. shall not elaborate.
thursday...
the effect lasted till the morning so i just skipped the whole day of lessons. i actually wanted to attend lessons but i got too late for my morning class i just didn't go.
i was so hungry that baby decided to buy lunch for me... meanwhile, i finished studying my basic theory. so when he came, we had lunch together and then he tested me on what i've studied. and of cos... i nailed it. =)
mom asked him to have dinner before going back. man. i like it when he's at my place. cos my mom will want to cook dinner and she'll cook a lot! she hasn't been cooking for quite some time already.
after that we went back to his place and i stayed over again.
that's all for the week. swimming tomorrow, probably tutoring my cousin and urm... training on sunday. that's about it i guess. ;)
*yawns. school stinks.
Sunday, June 25, 2006
today would actually be the most memorable day i had... well... it was pretty much the follow up from yesterday.
jk came over to my place in the evening.. but before that i went over to my gramps with my cousin, melissa to get her asthma puff and also to visit my grandma for a bit. and since he was early, i told him to pop by my gramps' place to visit her... so he came... hahas. and before he came, my uncle came. so yeah. it was hilarious. my uncle, as usual, would offer drinks to us.. i managed to reject the drink but he couldn't get away... so my uncle poured him a whiskey soda. hahahas... and after he finished, offered to pour him more. totally hilarious.
after some time, we left cos we wanted to go running before it turned too dark... my cuz joined us for the run and so did my brother after convincing him to. at first we were running along fine... until my cousin started getting breathless... i had to follow her since she has asthma and i was worried that she would get an attack. justin and jk went ahead 1st...
soon we caught up with them.. and justin by then had already burnt out.. so we left my cousin and justin together and we went ahead. gosh. my stamina was so bad man! that's cos i haven't been exercising for sometime. i seemed to have lost it. danngs. i made several stops and i was practically suffering in pain... =/ din run much that night.
after i got home, baby went out to get my bro and cousin.. but only to realise that they were already at home. hahahahs. but he din mind cos he wanted to run more anyways.
had a shower and then a rushed dinner cos i had to go to work. called a cab.. my mom came along as well cos she wanted to go and buy some stuff at toa payoh. went early cos my mom was afraid that the shop would have closed by then. walked with them for a bit then they followed me up to the office. did what i had to do and left...
while waiting for a cab at the taxi stand, my mom and jk were taking turns to tell jokes. hahas. we had a laughing good time. =) my mom laughed her lungs out man. we got so sick of waiting for cabs that we decided to call.. and even still, it wasn't easy to get a cab. but eventually we did. some people in the queue gave up as well...
my mom asked him to stay over.. cos she promised to cook him herbal chicken but she didnt have enough time to cook it for dinner.. so if he stayed over, we can have it for supper. so he stayed.. yayy!!
the next day, they went to church without me.. i went over to his place... and then took a ride from his parents to the hospital since they were also headed to ttsh to visit his great grandma. after they got out of the lift at level 5, i proceeded to level 8 to visit my grandma. she looked so much better already. so glad... she looked terrible the last time i saw her.
shortly after, baby messaged me to say that his parents wanted to come up to visit my grandma. hahas. but they were too paiseh cos they din bring anything. told them to come up and they din have to bring anything. it was the thought that counts.
and then the most hilarious moment came... when both our parents met. hahahas. it was damn awkward at first. but then it got damn funny. his parents are hokkien speaking while my mom is teochew. well.. if you din know, hokkien and teochew sounds a lot alike except for some variations of some words. it was so funny. like he said, it's like a chicken and a duck communicating with each other. and guess what? the funny thing is that they seem to understand each other and they went non-stop talking for 1hr!!! OMG.. we were just laughing in the background. and they talked like they knew each other for donkey years. hahahahas. funny.
after that his mom offered to send us to town since my mom and i wanted to go there to buy stuff at the popular in orchard mrt. so before we left, we went down to visit his great grandma... awww man... it's heart wrenching to see the state she's in. she's 99 yrs old and uncommunicative already. danngs. =//
baby followed us cos my dad wanted to take us all out for dinner that night. ;) steamboat and crab! weeeee.... awww man.. i ate so bloody much. dinner ended at bout... 8+ . so we decided to go walk around since both me and my brothers wanted to buy some stuff as well. after that we dropped my mom and brothers home and my dad sent him back to camp.
what a wonderful day.... xD
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
hahas. i had a blast at my 18th birthday party. i wanna thank all you guys for making it possible. just that there were some spoilers at the party but it's all fine. wish there was less puking so i didnt have to worry too much and just enjoy myself. why din you guys just get my drunk! TSK.
anyways, i'll post the pics of my party up as soon as possible yeah? =) i've been clubbing ever since i turned 18 lah. dbl O on thurs night and MoS on sat night. hahas. it was fun though we went in small numbers. =))
sadly... benny benassi was quite a disappointment. =/ our expectations were so high... but... he wasnt that great that night. the climax was just for a short while and then it went on a downslide... my fave song of his, satisfaction, went on for a short while only. and that sucked. =( waited so long for it lahh.
hahas. that aside, i love MoS! OMG. that was my first time there and i seriously loved that place. the fave 3 places in the whole entire club is 54, smoove and PURE! omg.. it's lovely man! hahahas. i wish i could just book the whole club... even sections of it would be good. but then i would have a hard time deciding which section to book. hahahs. wonderful place to club. a diverse mix of music and wonderful ambience for you to immerse yourself in. INDULGENCE man! all for the price of one. terrific!
ok. i shall stop here for now cos i need to get going. gonna go over to my cousin's place to tutor her in maths. =) uncle's coming over to fetch me but im not even bathed yet. I STINK. muahahahahas. bye for now.
i'm a party animal. MUAHAHAHAHHAS. and i'm lovin' it.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
as promised to certain people.. and for those still having a hard time thinking of what to get me.. here are some of the things that i've always been wanting to get.
1) guess perfume
2) new urban male bag (for your rough idea, my fav colours are purple, orange, blue and colours near that. basically. anything that looks good)
3) adidas jacket (or basically a nice presentable jacket)
4) board shorts (size 10)
5) bikinis
6) oakleys (if you're feeling rich)
7) num tshirts
8) flesh imp tshirts
9) roxy tshirts
10) more havaianas slippers. (i've got the black/white and plum/green)
11) a casio sea pathfinder watch
12) neilpryde rashguards (you can never have enough)
13) a nice leather belt (kinda need one. the one old's tearing apart)
14) books:
- the world is flat by thomas l. friedman
- freakonomics by stevin d. levitt
- winning; the ultimate business how-to book by jack welch & suzy welch
- the devil wears prada by lauren weisberger
a couple more which i forgot.
15) so far that's that. will post again.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
i'm sorry i haven't been updating my blog regularly. a lot has been happening of late... just finished running the 1st batch of Basic Sailing Course (BSC) and it went pretty well i must say.
details of BSC1st day:
as the lazy students of SP, always "tu-ing", they dilly-dallied and many were late... SOOOO.... they weren't let off so easily... the usual push-ups, they had to do. whilst waiting for the latecomers to arrive, i brought a couple of guys over to the Republic of Singapore Yacht Club (RSYC), which is just next to Poly Marina (PM), to bring over the simulator. damn was it heavy, but it was good training for the guys. after which, briefing began and that marked the beginning of their BSC. oh and their instructor was tiong jin (TJ).
so the 1st day was mainly on theory and practising on the simulator... other than that, they did their capsize drill and a BIT of sailing... they were lucky in a sense that they train with us on sundays and we have already taught them a bit about sailing. this time round it was tp perfect it and make sure they know everything...
many of them came back a bit... "traumatised" and "scared" i must say.. a couple of black faces.. hahas. i reckon they din think they'd get that much shouting while they were out there. poor guys. hahas. i think i've spoilt you guys too much. TJ is not the fiercest YET.
and aren't you all lucky i bought you pizza? tsktsk. BE HAPPY LAH.
day 2:
anyways, though some were "traumatised", i still had full attendance for the 2nd day. i reckon if you paid for something, you might as well just finished it eh? ;)
and so they were unlucky this time round... there was heavy rain so they couldn't launch. so they had early lunch.. after lunch, the rain subsided and so they launched. it was cold and drizzling... it kinda dampened their moods but the course had to carry on nevertheless.it was tough on TJ as well cos the winds were really shifty... and the rain was just retarded lah. ruining everything. they were so unlucky... had they had good weather and winds, they could have learnt much much much more and done much much much better.
TJ decided to try to do their manoverboard drill but.... to no avail... there just wasn't sufficient wind. when there was zero wind, he decided to wrap up the day and head back to shore. there was simply no learning value. letting them drift out there was just gonna kill their spirits and make them nauseous. hahas. (you're not supposed to get sea sick!) just kidding.
so they washed up, had a shower, debriefed and went home. xD end of day 2.
day 3:
jun khee met me at clementi... we bought lunch for them and took a cab in... good weather... good winds... full attendance! weeeeee! ;) waited for them to recover... jun khee wanted to sail so he went ahead to rig up the laser. hahas. my muscles were all aching i simply couldnt lift the boat off the rack. so he had no choice but to wait for them to return to seek help. hahahas. i felt useless seriously. so they got back at bout 2pm... had their lunch and then at about 2.45pm, they headed out again...
boy had they improved by leaps and bounds. just that some of them still needed quite a bit of work... but from here i could already spot those who had some potential... it may still be a bit too early... but i'll be looking out. so guys! keep up the good work... train hard! i'll be watching you!. hahahas.
we had a mini race.. many of them couldnt understand. but what the heck. they managed to sail the course and that was what's most important for them. =) i'm pretty satisfied with their results except for some people which i wouldn't mention names.
i got to sail too of cos! hahahas. took over the laser. danngs. the winds were pretty light and i was hiking out like crazy already! hahahas. jun khee was having it easy lah. he sat on the boat and it went flat. hahahas. that's what weight can help you do while sailing a laser. oh yes. a laser is an olympic class.. the optimum weight is from 75kg-85kg or even heavier. i'm far from the lowest of the range so yeah. imagine the amount of work i had to put in. ;) a laser radial, the one i usually sail, its optimum weight is 65kg. hahahas. not even there yet. so yeah. gotta train real hard.
TJ had a go at sailing the laser too. hahas. that was after he gave his instructions. he made them follow his boat as well. on the overall, all of us had fun. took some photos as well.. waiting for them to send it to me... then i can post it up.
-end of BSC-
so now.. it's back to e-learning work and looking forward the the pulau ubin trip on sat, training on sun (with half of them being able to sail already) and next week's bsc! yayy!
