Days of my Life

Okay! This is considered as old news, but SPEED had re-grouped.

And it was all Sharon and I can talk about yesterday, over MSN.

We both agreed that the 4 of them had become prettier, or shall I put it this way, possess a new kind of beauty. I don’t know about you, but some girls DO age gracefully.

I LUR-VE this song, Wake Me Up, the RAM RIDER Mix.

It’s kinda nostalgic to be listening to their songs again. That’s so Secondary School ( Sharon and I called it the Tanglin Years ) for me. I bet everyone’s first favorite was White Love before they moved on to other hits by them.

Oh My God! And that’s 12 years ago -_-”

Another favorite, Body and Soul…

And their new hit, S.P.D

Eriko and Hiroko are the main vocalists of the group. Sharon said that she love the new hit because it’s the only song which Hiroko didn’t scream, rather then sing.

Overall, Eriko is the chio-est and the most stylish =)

I may just get their Album once it’s out…

Somehow, Ming Yong had found my blog. And all along, I thought that only Maine, Ash and Sharon reads the shits which I’d posted in here. Haha…

His complain was the photos of him are too cui.

Which explain the revamp ———–>

Check it out~

(This is an entry from last year 30th May, which I’d posted wrongly under PAGE)

And I watched it yesterday at Golden Village, Tiong Bahru. When we knew that it’ll be this May last year, Cuiling and I made a pact to watch it together. We are huge fans of the series.

My first exposure was at Genki’s home in 1998, I think. Da Jie’s friend had lent her the first season, so happen I was at their home rotting away. I didn’t know what’s the show talking about then as it was all about ‘fuck’ and ’sex’.

And when I really want to watch it again, I found that the show is banned in Singapore. Downloading from the Internet is near impossible as I’m surviving on dial up 56K then. That dragged on to me finishing my Secondary education and getting my Diploma in the Poly.

My chance came when Maine who was working in Pionner then, asked me whether is there anything I want as she sort of has connection to get the pirated DVDs. Just for the record. One of the reason to why my Army Life is so colorful and ain’t boring is because of Sex and the City. My weekend is spent watching the DVDs.

This series later became one of Maine’s favorite and it became a craze in her company. I heard from her that quite a handful of people purchased the chiong copies too. Haha! Thanks to me!

And finally after close to 6 months… The movie hits the screen. Our long wait is over!

2 day before the big day, Cuiling had already went online to book the tickets. We narrowed down to 3 different locations, Plaza Singapura, VivoCity or Tiong Bahru. We chose Tiong Bahru is because the seats selection at the other 2 outlets kinda sucks. I’m not going to spend 2 hours in the theater, sitting at the corner sit and watching the movie looking sideway. Tiong Bahru is really ‘deserted’ which is a plus for us who really want to enjoy the show. As usual, the feeling is like ‘going back home’.

You know how some show (like Buffy/Charmed) sort of get boring after a few seasons? Sex and the City doesn’t! The ratings given by 8-days isn’t that good, and I was keeping my fingers very crossed. Turned out, the movie isn’t a disappointment. It brought me the laughters, ‘the Woo and the Ah’. I love it.

Yong Jie visited me today with his girlfriend, Xin Yu, and a box of Brands. That shall be my 3rd box and I haven’t even start on the 2 earlier boxes yet.

He’s my buddy from SISPEC, as what he told my mum, ” I used to sleep beside him!” What he meant was the bed next to me. The both of us used to wash the toilets together. And after a day out there, we will wash our uniform in the evening and we would pair up to wrench the uniforms dry, one taking each end. This was done, to save us strength as we were both too shagged out, from those pull-ups and excercises.

Look at him now-> Pursuing a degree in NTU and have a pretty girlfriend, who’s studying in NTU too.

Look at me now-> Still very single with a broken kneecap.

Good friends around me always seem to led a better life. Haha…

He was complaining to me about how he felt so cheated of $30. He was supposed to get $200 as he cleared his IPPT with a Silver. However he was only given $170 because his Safra Card was auto-renewed. I tried to console him that he can at least get better deals @ Carls Jr, but it seems like he don’t Carls Jr. Your all time favorite is not equal to your buddy all time favorite haha…

How I met his girlfriend is also quite abit of story…

After not meeting Yong Jie for like 2 whole years, he suddenly contacted me around end of November last year, asking me to Zouk. There’s this event and the girl he like be going was the actually the main reason. Therefore, I became the guy who accompanied his buddy to meet the girl that he like so he won’t feel awkward, kind of guy!

And look at them now, happily attached ( We had celebrated our 6th months anniversary just recently). I cheekily asked them whether have they explore the whole of Singapore already? To which they replied, “Mei you lah” in unison. Haha… How sweet~ They will be going to Zouk again on the 1st of December, just to celebrate their happy first year.

School re-opening coming August for them. Another major hole be burning in his pocket. He will have to fork out $130 for the Freshmen Orientation Camp, I reminded him about the $170 that he had got from IPPT.

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He replied,”No! I’d already spent $20 on that Brands for you! Plus the petrol fee for driving to fetch her ( looking at the girlfriend ) and coming down to meet you ( looking at me), plus the coupon and why the carpark here ain’t free parking on weekend?”

-_-”

As usual, that’s one of my good friends!

They always seem to be like the niao-est people in the world! lolz

For the first time in my life , I met up with 6 friends in a span of 7 hours.

3rd operation is on this Friday. Before I commence the ‘confinement’ period, I decided to meet with Chew Li and Patricia for lunch. Both of them are working around the CPF Building in Robinson Road. The Sakae Sushi outlet there is a favorite haunt of Chew Li and myself. I forget how the whole ‘love’ started, but if we were to meet up there, we will have that and also,have the standard order. Though not my favorite, I’ll always order Curry Katsu Don. And don’t ask me why… lolz… It’s those kind of things that you will do with no apparent reason, and it’s definitely not a case of some O.C.D.

I’m glad to see that she’s doing better. The radiant is back. I didn’t probe her on her love life, coz no news means good news to me. It’s also good to learn that her eldest sister is pregnant. Congratulations, Da Jie! Since she’s in the early stages, the sex of the baby is still unknown.

As usual, it’s her treat. She refused to take my money. Thanks Sis, I will treat you after I recover.

Since it’s just around the corner, I pop by Hui Ping’s workplace to say Hi. Name of the shop is Strangelets, NO. 87 @ Amoy Street.

… Don’t get me wrong, it’s not the 87th branch in Singapore but is refering to the unit number. The shop sells the quite a number of unique stuffs. Take this beetle which is on display in a glass jar. Ping told me that it’s actually a dead beetle with time pieces mechanism in it. True enough, I can see some of those gears at the back of it’s body.

Because I had to meet Frank Oh in town, I fled the scene after 10 minutes of loitering. It wasn’t part of the plan to meet up with Frank. However, he sms-ed me in the morning to initiate a meet up. It had been close to a year since I last saw him. The only contact is either via SMS, or over MSN.

I tried to get Desmond too, however that lad is under qurantine at home. I asked him whether is it because of an overseas trip. He said no and after a spectacular display of cursing and swearing ( IN CAPS ) over MSN, he told me that it’s because of an orientation camp he attended last week. Someone was tested positive which means those involved have to be qurantined.

Apart from that, I also asked him how are things with him and his girlfriend. And he replied, “You just have to ask me everytime don’t you?” I reminded him that this is part of ‘catching up’ and that it’s all in the package. Haha…

I did asked Lubin to come along. He’s only able to meet us around 6 pm, which I later found out it’s because he be watching Transformer 2 later, so he spent the afternoon re-watching part one for a refresher.

Still, it’s good to see old friends again. We went through Medic Course for 3 months together. Some of us went through thick and thin together. Haha…

Frank and I slacked around in Mcdonalds to catch up. After that we loitered around in town and finally ended up in Borders where Lubin came to find us. After I updated Lubin about that operation whereby they will put screw in this time, he said, “KL, your life is damn screwed up!”

Haha… trust him to come up with that!

Since his show is scheduled @ 7pm in The Cathay. We didn’t get a place to sit down for a chat. Instead we talked as we walked, from Borders till Plaza Singapura.

After that, I went to City Hall to meet with Ming Yong for dinner @ Carls Jr. It’s quite disappointing because they don’t have Beef Chilled Cheese Fries.  I guess it’s 2 months till I see you again, BCCF~

Ashley was being backstabbed by her supposing good friend. Don’t worry my friend! She’s the PROBLEM,  not you! 

That’s life! You gain friends and you lose friends.

What’s that saying again? Friends come and goes in life!

It had happened to me before. Therefore, I’d made a resolution to cherish those that are for here to stay. You know who you all are! I love you guys/gals~

I went for a review Thursday. My hope of at least halfway into the road of recovery was dashed when the doctor informed me that the fractures ain’t healing and I’ll have to undergo a 3rd operation. With that statement, he also meant that those physio session which I’d attended for the past 3 months had all gone down the drain. In other words, it’s back to Square 1 for me and I’m not even playing a happy game of Snakes and Ladders.

Question: How do you tell that a doctor be delivering bad news?

He will look at you,  glance through your  X-rays, and look at you, then at the X-rays again.

Question: How do you tell a doctor be delivering worst news?

When he look at the X-rays (again), and you ask him, “Is everything okay?”

He ‘replied’ you with a blank look like you are speaking in tongue, and depending on his age, if he’s young, he will go to the next room to, “Hi Dr blah blah, may I disturb you for a while, have to get an opinion!” Which by the way happen in my case.

A more experienced ( a more diplomatic term for someone who’s old ) doctor walked into the room, took a look at the X-rays, looked at me and dropped the bombshell on me.

Shit! It’s really depressing. The thought of going through the knife, the pain, the constipation, those painkillers which by the way ain’t good for you body, the ‘confinement’ period spent at home again is so overwhelming.

I called both M.Y and Maine to pour it out.

-_-” M.Y mentioned that it’s a good thing we went Mambo the night before.

-_-” Because I’d used up all my HL already = going into unpaid leave, Maine welcome me on board the ‘I’m Officially Jobless!’ wagon with open arms.

That night itself, I met up with Sharon, and Ah Tan for Dinner.

-_-” Sharon happily informed me that she had helped me broadcasted the news to both Kartina and Yingmei, and they had agreed to turn up on my birthday celebration with 3 jugs of Long Island Tea Milk.

The next day at work, I informed Ashley and Lisa.

-_-” After listening to my story, Ashley turned her face back to the computer screen and told me that she sucked in consoling! (Now that’s a good friend !!! )

-_-” Lisa said ‘Oh My God!” And not for the first time, she whispered to me , suggesting that I should sue. Her PR status is on the stake, so she don’t dare to fuck with the goverment body. LOLZ.

Well really, I seriously do have a bunch of interesting friends, don’t I?

Maine called to inform that she’s having constipation.

1) The bad news was it had been going on for a few days already,

2) and the good news was that she had finally managed to ‘cake’ it out.

3) The surprising news was it’s not a sudden attack but is a trend. She said and I quote, “I can go for a few days without shitting!” That was what she told me after I generously offered her my 2 bottles of unopened laxative, given to me  during my stay in NUH. I suggested that maybe that’s why she, especially her face’ looks kind of bloated at times. She said, “Fuck You!”

… Well, speaking of being truthful and honest to your good friends -_-”

She also said that the whole ‘ordeal’ was very painful and she felt like she had just been sodomized. Which led me to wonder, how in the world will she know how the ‘being sodomized’ sensation is?

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Not unless, she’s being…..

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NO!

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Ermm whatever it is Maine, I love you! Haha…

Gramps had passed away on the 2nd of April, the same day when I was discharged from the hospital. I was back at home then, when mum told me.

Only Small Aunt  (and of course the maid) was around in the hospital when she passed on.

Still, I think that this is the best for her, because it’s kinda hard to see her going through amputation after amputation, During her final weeks at home, she couldn’t even sit straight already. Even when she’s in a sitting position, she’d to bend her back. A hunch was formed due to then prolong awkard sitting position, When I visited her, I’d to bend down so that she coud see my face.

Unlike Grandpa’s case, it’s a closed coffin. Meaning no preservative injection was given, and no one could see her. I totally agreed with what Small Aunt had said, “If you really have the heart, you would already had visited when she was alive! And not when she’s lying in the coffin!”

True~

Ashley’s worst fear was confirmed by a GP on Friday, not the 13th, morning that she had really gotten Chicken Pox. Hallelujah~

On Thursday, she was getting all paranoid and uptight about those unknow spots which look like pimple, yet doesn’t look like pimple at the same time, popping  out around her hairline and her head. I asked her whether is it due to her not washing her hair.

… She showed me the finger and yelled ( at me ) that ‘I’d just washed my hair in the morning!’

The funny thing was despite that, we still went for KTV at Chevron. We had initially planned to go on Friday. However, so happen that the Service Level was doing good that our OTs got axed~ I took it as a sign from god that we should go K-ing.

Anyway, that lucky gal was given a 10 days MC = 10 days away from work.

Away from people who conveniently forget that they had yet to settle their bills for like the past 3 months and when the line was being temporary disrupted, will call in and scream ( Yes! You be surprise by how straight guys can scream ) at you for not having the courtesy to inform them that “Hi Sir, you didn’t pay so we gonna cut!”

Away from people from you-know-where calling in to ask/complain about their you-know-what. Shouldn’t they realised by now that there’s no free lunch in the world?

I just hate it when they start saying that times are bad, very difficult to get a job…etc. My all time favorite is when they see Chinese New Year just pass, very tight… Yar! What could be even tighter than my arse-hole? ( Okay I know I sound crude lolz )

Anyway, pros and cons. All jobs in the world will have their ‘fair share of complains’. I will suck it up and live with it thill I tender. Classified section in the Straits Times is currently my NBF~

Another night spend @ the funeral, doing my part for the ‘passed on’. (The word dead kinda sounds offensive ).

Funeral – A ‘not-looking-forward-to-event’ whereby relatives who seldom meet up with one another for the whole year, come together and do their part for the ‘passed on’.

…Or so that’s how I define the term funeral nowadays.

It’s one annual event (different people of course ) that I find myself attending ever since my father passed away a few years back. Kinda immune to it already.

This time round, it’s the funeral of Great-Gramps who passed away at 86. I can’t believed that it’s only last year whereby the same group of people met up and played our respective role for Great-Great-Gramps, whom passed away at 106 ( the one where I wore hot pink ). Great Gramps was still around then…

Anyway, send off is on Thursday. Thankfully, I’m on off. Will be able to attend.

Heard that Paternal Gramps ain’t doing so good. She’s on the ‘anytime soon’ list too.

So, it’s going to be ‘yet another funeral’

Maternal Great Grandma had passed away early morning. Just last night, mum was telling me that she might be ‘anytime’ now as she’s unable to eat and talk already.

My sleep was rudely interrupted by the ringing of my house phone around 7 am. Nowadays, I name these call as ‘heart-stopper’. Coz nobody in the right mind will call late at night or early in the morning.

Strangely, family members from my Paternal side seems to pass away late in the night and those from my Maternal side seems to pass away early in the morning.

So currently, it’s YET another funeral.

Damn it! I was so tempted to change and go meet Cuiling they all @ Double O earlier on. However, I shall ‘lun’ till Wednesday night, coz had already made plan with Lycan Lim ( aka Ming Yong) for Mambo @ Zouk. God! I missed their Long Island Tea and Malibu Pineapple.

So determined were we to go that the both of us had actually rejected Ming Jin’s offer to go Phuture last night. Haha… He had disappeared for quite sometime and suddenly ‘reappeared’ via a SMS on Thursday night, asking us to meet up for Phuture.

I quickly called M.Y for a confirmation that ‘I’m not seeing things’ and we both reached a decision whereby if he’s feeling sad over some issue and need us to be there (be it a shoulder to cry on or drink till silly ), we WILL be there to give our support.

Haha… turned out it’s because he haven’t been clubbing for quite a while, therefore the jio. We both decided to ‘fuck it’ and save the money cum energy till next Wednesday~

Mambo and Long Island Tea~ Here I come!

The dream of becoming a multi-millionaire is afterall, just a dream. That’s what Drina wrote in the ‘aftermath‘ email.

2 weeks ago, she had sent a mass email out, with the subject header ‘ Towards the 10 Million $ Dream ‘ to gather people who are interested in winning the Chinese New Year Big Ang Pau Toto. We are to chip in $10 each.

Good News~ We Won

Bad News~ Not the ultimate prize, but only a mere $90. Spilt among the whole lot of us.

We decided to spend it on food instead.

Had been quite some time since I last listen to the same song for like 5 times a day.

‘With You’ by Chris Brown

In 2005…

In 2009…

And it had been 4 years…

When the picture was taken back in 2005, the 3 of us were still in Ngee Ann? Finishing up our Final Year In House Project. Haha

Was complaining to Sharon that I’d yet to try the HOR FUN over at the ‘Chi Char’ stall over @ Choa Chu Kang, the one which we will always go whenever we hang out @ her place.

I’m so amazed by how one we were and still are currently. After a couple of SMSes and a phone call, we’d already made agreed to meet up for the HOR FUN. Haha… She managed to get Ying Mei too. Failed to get Kartina and Genki, both of whom have to slog their ass through work.

Still, the 4 of us had so much fun. AND the HOR FUN is so delicious, so much so that I’d 2 plates of it. Not only that, their fried rice is also very …*saliva dripping*.

Since I will have to pass by South View ( where Xiao Ge’s and Sharon’s love-loft is situated at) I shall make it a monthly affair to at least meet up once with them to have Hor Fun together.

As we were bitching and reminiscing the good old Secondary School Days, it suddenly dawned upon both Ying Mei and I that this album of Zhang Hui Mei, sort of played a huge part in quite a number of silly moments.

If I ain’t wrong, Ying Mei, Kartina, Jeslyn and myself has a copy it. It was because of her 牵手 that I bought the album. Over my growing up years, I came to love all the songs in this album. I can safetly say that this is one of the few albums which I’d bought, that I listened to every songs

This song  寂寞保龄球 is our ‘main theme’. Whenever it got to his part…

当爱情让我feel so boring,
我开始爱上打bowling.
让寂寞就像圆球,
滚动滚动,
滚出爱情的伤痛.
当爱情让我feel so boring,
我开始爱上打bowling.
让快乐就像球瓶和旋转的寂寞相撞.
我开始不堪一击,
独自一个人,
在吵闹的球馆里哭泣.

We will start acting as if we are really holding onto a bowling ball, walk for a while, and throw the ‘ball’ out. Haha…

In 2000, we started hanging out less, which Ying Mei claimed was due to a camping incident. I was astonished when she made that claim, as I’d honestly forgotten about it. My jaw dropped when she even told me that name of the camp. Haha… It goes to shows that all ladies have a memory of an elephant.

Since they are a year older then me, as I was preparing for my N levels, they were preparing for their ‘Os’. When I did eventually reached Secondary 5N, they had already graduated from Tanglin Secondary School.

I didn’t meet up with them during my Poly Phase. Each of us were busy with our own things. I was shocked and touched by the fact that they turned up during my father’s funeral in 2005.

Happy 12 years to our FRIENDSHIP! I love you all

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. Sadly, Selene ( Kate Beckinsale ) ain’t in this one. Or rather, she did make a cameo apperance of not more than 1 minute, during the ending part, which marks the beginning of  Underworld ( This is the prequel )

I told M.Y beforehand that the 8-days only gave it a 1.5 stars rating. However, we still go ahead with it as he’s a die-hard fan.

A bit of a history, he didn’t catch the first one when it hit the screen in 2003. He only watched it last year.

Me? I’m not that interested when I first watched it. It wasn’t till I saw the remaining Vampire Elder, Marcus ( You know? the one with wings flying around? ), in Underworld: Evolution, that I watched Underworld again. Haha… I was abit puzzled because I thought that there should be 3 elders. If Viktor was killed in the Underworld, and Marcus in Underworld: Evolution, where the fuck did the 3rd one go?

… She was actually killed in Underworld too. In the most un-memorable death. On board a train. I was like ‘HUH?’

The show definitely worth more than 1.5 stars rating. After coming out from the cinema, Ming Yong whispered to me, “Actually, I’m a Lycan!”

-____-” Lame. Haha…

Yeah~

Every pieces is fitting in nicely. The last major piece will depend on the number of people who had promised to come, will even bother to turn up or not.

The initial plan was Potluck. However, both Maine and I decided to scrap it as most of them will be coming straight from work, and bringing food to work can be quite a drag.

Maine checked online, and found out that ‘they’ ( I also don’t know who is she refering to ) only cater for BBQ and not steamboat. So it’s up to me to make it happen. I’ll be off on Friday anyway. Be getting the stuffs @ Sheng Siong.

… AND they better turn up, or else!!!

Maine surprised me at my workplace earlier on. She was supposed to drop by my home to pass me the steamboat set, however, there she was waiting for me at the carpark. And she even flash the headlights on me like I’m a whore. Haha… Happy for her that she has a car now! (You go gal )

Anyway, I’d told Ashley that I’ll be squeezing in a Gym session into my weekly schedule as, ‘I want to fit into a N.U.M. tight fitting gay t-shirt’ before I hit my 30s. lolz

Actually the main reason is to keep fit. And of course healthy!

Back to the main topic…

Let’s see… including me and Maine, there will be 9 person. Should I toss another round of fish plate?

Ashley took a very un-glam shot of me in the office.

I love to take off my shoes at every possible chance. It’s always good to air dry your feet. Haha…

Apparently, quite a handful of people say that I look like an Ah Beng. I’m like ‘no shit’. Which part of me looks like a C.A.B ? (Chao Ah Beng). I joked with Ash that we should have an ‘Ah Beng’ day, whereby we turned up to work wearing very Beng-Lian clothings. She told me that she don’t have those stuffs anymore.

” What about your platforms? ” I asked. It’s one of the necessities of the shorties ( Oops! Don’t kill me Ash ) back in those years. A long JPG wallet and a sharp pointed comb are also beng-lian must have.

I was surprised when she told me that she had threw them away and almost fell off my chair when she informed me that she will check with Khay to see if she’s a pair or not.